Emika Chen is a bounty hunter. She makes her money by catching illegal Warcross players that the police don’t have time to catch. When she’s low on cash and only days away from being evicted from her apartment, she decides to pull a hack. Emika takes a risk trying to nab one of the power ups in the Warcross Championships. Only she accidently glitches herself into the game. Everyone is in a frenzy wondering how Emika Chen hacked in, and she’s convinced she’s going to be arrested. In a shocking turn of events, she gets a call from Hideo Tanaka, Warcross’s famed creator. She’s offered the opportunity of a lifetime with a paycheck of a lifetime, but too soon she begins to discover a plot threatening all of Warcross.