PRESIDENT SNOW MEETING

President Snow stood on the balcony of his mansion staring out at the city. He was vaguely aware of Effie and RACMOR entering the balcony with him.

"Thank you for coming" President Snow said as he turned around "As you know I have something to discuss with you. First RACMOR what were you thinking of dressing Thomas as a video game character? That seems a bit too rebellious for my taste."

"I just wanted to make it exciting President Snow" RACMOR said "You know my allegiances lie only with you."

"Yes I do" President Snow said. "And that is why I am issuing you a warning. Never do anything rebellious again."

"Yes President Snow", RACMOR said.

"You are dismissed", President Snow said. RACMOR nodded and walked away.

"Effie", President Snow said more sternly "Why did you let a member of the Flynn family enter the games?"

"I was just trying to get rid of at least one member of their family in a manner that would make none suspicious." Effie said. "Our goal is to completely exterminate them but it was a start."

"I know that is our goal" President Snow said "But the flynns may still have the ability to manipulate code! If Thomas Flynn discovers what he can do in the arena this could be the end of us all."

"No Flynn had the power of code since we confiscated it from the users all those years ago." Effie said.

"But he may" President Snow said "If this does not work out like you think it would…" President snow threw his disk at one of his servants. The servant de-rezzed and almost immediately came back to life due to a command President Snow typed in the code.

"I understand" Effie said. She turned and left.

TRAINING DAY 1

Thomas woke up in the morning to a onerous voice coming from hidden speakers saying that tributes are to report for training at eight thirty every day. He glanced at his clock which said seven o clock. Realizing that he still had time to eat, Thomas ordered some breakfast and leisurely ate while reading a book. At eight twenty five Thomas ran into the elevator and took it down to the first floor. The training room was not like he had seen it the previous day.

Multiple training stations were set up with instructors standing next to them.

A member of the PANEM corps taped a piece of paper saying Combatant 24 on his back as he stood in line with the other tributes. As soon as all the tributes arrived the training instructor walked in front of the line and started talking. "Welcome" the head training instructor said "I am ALTA and I am here to help you win the hunger games. In the next few weeks after training 23 of you will die one will live. 30% from dehydration 10% from thirst 50% from starvation. Hunger can kill as easy as a knife. Just because you enter the code does not mean that you cannot die.." ATLA lectured them for the next 20 minutes then commanded them to begin going from station to station.

Thomas immediately headed towards the light sword fighting station made of a sword fighting ring and a cart full of glowing swords. "Welcome to my station." the training instructor said, "Most people consider the Light Sword useless in comparison to the disk or baton so my station is usually empty but I'm glad you decided to come." The instructor tossed Thomas a light sword and grabbed one himself.

"This is a very helpful move that I am about to teach you" the instructor said "It disarms the opponent and slashes off their hand. This move normally ends the battle without killing your opponent but leaving them incapacitated." The instructor made a swift upwards slash with his sword and Thomas copied. "Do that move five times." The instructor said. Thomas did.

"Next I shall teach you the basic thrust" Thomases instructor said. He did this move multiple times with his sword and Thomas copied.

"Thrust at me" The instructor commanded. Thomas did and his instructor slammed his sword into Thomas, knocking the flat of the blade in his face and making him fall over.

"What was that?" Thomas asked getting up.

"The heavy slam", the instructor said, "Instead of normally blocking you slam the blade into your opponents sword knocking it out of their hand and into their body." Thomas practiced this move and as the week went by he learned many others in addition to survival tactics, identity disk combat, baton fighting and hand to hand combat.