Ready Player One: The adventures of Jack

Chapter Five

GoldDragonZ: Hey guys, this is the fifth chapter in my Adventures of Jack story. You know what to do. ;)

The Nebuchadnezzar touched down on the rocky planet. There was nothing surrounding them but sandy cliffs and blue sky. The High Five plus Gadanza and Tom took out their best weapons and checked their surroundings. There seemed to be nothing there to threaten them for the time being.

"Where's Jack?" Art3mis asked Gadanza and Tom.

"He'll be here." Gadanza said.

And then they noticed the alien spaceship from Independence Day and the TIE Interceptor coming down to rest really close to them. Lynx and Tridosk came out of their ships.

"You guys saved us." Tridosk said to the High Five and their friends.

"I admit you guys and shown me at least that you're not completely noobs." Lynx said. "But we are in competition with each other. If I see the egg first, I will take it."

"That's fine, but you can't escape it." Art3mis responded. "We have your back no matter what. You're an awesome player."

"Yeah, we don't have to be against each other." Parzival said. "We can see this through."

"If you need anything to be fixed, I'm here." Aech said.

"I don't know about Lynx, but I think we would be better together." Tridosk said. "I don't have other people backing me."

"Do what you want," Lynx said. "I'm going now."

And with that, Lynx turned around and began walking away. He took to the air by firing up his leg thrusters.

"I need Ammunition." Tridosk told the High Five. "Do you guys have any to spare?"

"Of course." Art3mis said, "What type of gun do you have?"

"I have a Beretta 93R." Tridosk answered. "It's the one used-"

"By Robocop!" Parzival said. "Nice man."

"Thanks," Tridosk said. "I loved that movie."

"Okay so I have six 50 round magazines for your weapon." Art3mis told their new ally. "Tell me if you need more."

"Thank you so much." Tridosk said.

Everyone looked into their ammunition of their weapons. And then, they started hearing a loud buzzing. They looked up to see a drop ship on approach. It was carrying two jeep-like vehicles. The ship touched down, and let go the two jeeps that were attached to the back. The ship took off again, and set down several meters away to give room for the jeeps to start driving. Jack hopped out of the cockpit with his assault rifle/shotgun/grenade launcher combination. He walked up to the group of players.

"Hey guys." Jack said. "Who's this?"

"Oh yeah, I forgot." Tridosk said. "My name in the OASIS is Tridosk. I'm partners with Lynx."

"Where is he?" Jack asked.

"He went up ahead." Daito said. "He doesn't like working with others."

"He tried killing us before." Art3mis told Tridosk and the others. "He really wants this Easter eggs for himself. What's with the jeeps?"

"I scanned this world." Jack explained. "It seems to be dead, but there is a metal structure just over that ridge there."

"That's where Lynx was heading." Shoto said.

"Then that's where we should start looking for the next Easter egg." Jack said.

Parzival, Art3mis, Shoto, Daito and Aech took the first Jeep while Jack, Gadanza, Tridosk and Tom took the other one. They drove over a hill and drove quickly passed the dunes and cliffs to either side of them. And then they started hearing the sound of battling. Someone was firing a weapon at enemies that were screeching and snarling. The jeeps came around a corner and they could see Lynx hovering in the sky, shooting down at the entrance of the metal structure. Alien bugs were at the entrance, crawling over the dead, trying to jump and grab Lynx, who continued firing at them. Everyone piled out of their jeeps and started firing their weapons into the group of insects. Jack launched grenades which exploded, sending blood and entrails everywhere. Lynx pulled out missile launchers and began firing rockets that could take out tanks. The alien creatures ran in different directions, as some burned. Tom took out his Ghost Rider Motorcycle and started driving around the area, shooting various aliens with a Mac-10 in his right hand. His flaming wheels burnt aliens alive as he ran several over. Jack activated his jetpack and flew to Art3mis who was back to back with Parzival.

"We need to get to the structure." He pleaded. "Give me your hands guys!"

Jack stowed his weapon on the back of his jet pack and grabbed Art3mis and Parzival, flying above the hoard of insects that snapped up at them.

"Yo Bro!" Jack screamed.

"Dude I'm like standing right beside you." Tankor said.

They usually played in the same room because it had enough space for them to run on the tracks that went different directions in the real world.

"Can you guys come meet us here at this world that I am on?" Jack asked.

"No can do, big bro." Tankor said. "As soon as you and your friends landed on it, it disappeared. Whoever designed it only wants the three people who received the Easter eggs to be there. The rest of us can't know what you are up against."

"Shit." Jack swore. "Alright, fine. I'll tell you about it after we win."

Jack looked through his inventory and pulled out a bubble shield. He went to the entrance of the structure, touched down, and activated the shield.

"Artemis." Jack said. "Can you operate a mini-gun?"

"Yeah, but what good is that?" She asked.

"You can keep those bugs out while I get to the Easter egg. Whatever I win, I will share with everyone."

"What if it's not for everyone?" Parzival asked skeptically.

"We need backup." Jack said, leaving the two players to find the rest of their group.

The shield seemed to be holding for now. Jack found that the other players were on the high ground, shooting their weapons to the closest aliens. Tom was driving around, shooting and running aliens over.

"Guys, get to that structure over there with the Bubble shield." Jack told his allies. "Computer, launch weak missiles on the aliens that we are facing."

The Tensa Zangetsu acknowledged Jack's request, and as he and his allies made it to the structure, missiles rained down on the spider like beasts that were trying to kill them. They made it behind the bubble shield just in time as fire roasted all of the aliens. In the meantime, Art3mis was firing at the aliens using the mini-gun that Jack had given her. Parzival was using an assault rifle of his own to cover his friends as they made their approach to the structure. They all made it to the shield.

"Get in there." Art3mis said to Jack. "You need to see what Lynx is doing."

"Roger that." Jack said as he went into the inner chamber.

"You should go there as well, Artemis." Shoto said. "We will cover you with whatever weapons we have."

"I'm going in as well." Tridosk said. "Lynx is my friend and he might need me."

"Alright let's go." Jack said.

Art3mis gave Parzival the mini-gun and gave him 500 bullets. Art3mis, Jack and Tridosk made their way deeper into the structure. They could hear battle going on in the chamber itself. Lynx was firing his mini-gun at a creature that had many limbs that resembled scythes. It screeched in frustration as it tried attacking him. The chamber itself was really small. Jack aimed his grenade launcher/assault rifle/shotgun at the creature and launched a grenade at it. Art3mis pulled out a grenade launcher and shot it at the creature. Tridosk fired his Robocop handgun at the creature as well. Lynx pulled out Tank missiles and shot several at the creature as well. Its legs were blown off its body. It screeched as the Easter egg hunters continued firing at it, killing it.

"What the fuck are you guys doing here?" Lynx seethed. "I had it."

"We're here for the Easter egg." Jack told him. "We are here to claim it, same as you. To be honest, I bend the rules, like how you do it. I'm not going to claim that I am better than you, but there are people who are better than us. They follow the rules."

"So what?" Lynx scoffed. "I'm not going to stop what I'm doing."

"As part of the High Five, and the winners of the Easter egg," Art3mis chimed in, "We have the ability to strip you of your profile on the OASIS server. Either work with us, or we'll delete you."

"You guys are all full of shit." Lynx told them. "Fine, I'll share the egg."

Lynx landed close to the creature which was smoking from several charred parts of its body and bullet holes. They went deeper into the chamber and found a room to the back of it. Inside was the final Easter egg. Anorak was not there. A massive creature was holding the egg. The creature looked like a huge spider-like creature similar to the creatures that they had all fought outside the structure.

"Hold on Lynx." Jack said. "Something's not right."

"Yeah, you're here." Lynx said as he walked right over to the egg.

And then the floor opened up beneath him. Lynx was experienced and was expecting something to happen, so he activated the repulsors in his boots and flew up into the chamber. Tridosk was left at the entrance to the chamber as Jack offered Art3mis his hand. He flew up using a jet pack, and he swung Art3mis around. In the meanwhile, Lynx went for the Easter egg. Art3mis shot passed him and slammed into the creature. She grabbed the egg at the same time Lynx reached for it. They both grabbed and held on as the creature that was holding the egg came to life. It shrugged them off. Art3mis grabbed hold of Lynx so that she would not fall to her death. Jack came up beside them.

"You seek the egg?" The creature asked. "You must answer these questions. What was the movie where two friends created a woman of their dreams using a ritual that does not really exist? Why would this be important?"

"The movie is probably Weird Science." Art3mis began. "The woman would represent the OASIS. The two friends would be Morrow and Halliday. This was their dream. Like all women, this may have driven them apart."

"You are right." The creature said. "You three have successfully retrieved the final Easter egg."

"I found it first." Lynx said. "It should be mine."

"I answered the questions." Art3mis said. "It should be mine."

"Where is Anorak?" Jack asked the creature. "Maybe he can decide who wins the egg?"

"You three have successfully defeated every obstacle to get to the egg." The creature said in a voice that sounded like two glass bottles rubbing against each other. "Therefore all three of you may have the egg. This had little to do with Anorak and belongs solely to the OASIS. The first Easter egg, you won unlimited ammunition. With the second egg, you won a boost of speed for all of your vehicles. The final egg is eternal life. Like Anorak, your three Avatars will live on in the OASIS. Plus as an added bonus, you and your vehicles will no longer receive damage by other players. There is one more challenge, however. "

"What's that?" Jack asked.

"You have to try and get the egg from me." The creature said, and with that it started crawling on the wall of the chamber.

Lynx opened up by shooting his mini-gun at the creature, not caring if he destroyed the egg of anything else for that matter. By Lynx shooting, he had shrugged Art3mis off of his body. Jack swooped down and grabbed her, pulling her up close to his body. The creature placed the egg into its mouth and started spouting web from the bottom of its body. It tried wrapping up Lynx as he was the only being trying to fight her at the moment.

"Artemis." Jack said into her ear. "On the count of three, I'm going to swing you onto the creature. Can you get my sword, or any other weapon that can kill it?"

"You mean like a knife or something?" She asked.

"Yeah," Jack replied. "You need something that can kill it or knock it out."

"Got it," Art3mis said as she got ready and pulled out a device; a laser sword from the Halo franchise.

Jack waited until the spider-like being was fully involved with Lynx and then he flung Art3mis at it. At the last minute, Art3mis activated the sword and plunged it into the body of the creature. The creature squealed and Art3mis pulled the egg from its maw. The three players had worked well together, and as such, the egg started floating away from Art3mis' grasp. It turned into three eggs, and floated to each of the three players. Now, the challenge was complete. Jack, Art3mis and Lynx had won the Easter eggs and received Unlimited Ammunition, Increase Speed for their Vehicles, and Immortality in the OASIS. They exited the chamber with Tridosk in tow. They met their friends at the entrance to the chamber. The bubble shield was still erected. Also, it seemed that as soon as they retrieved the egg, the creatures outside the structure dissolved into nothing.

"How did it go?" Aech asked Art3mis, Jack, and Lynx.

"We won the eggs." Art3mis replied. "We won immortality. We will be like Anorak in the OASIS, and probably will represent different Easter eggs that will be made available in the future, or at least I think that's how it will work. No one can kill us either."

"Was it Halliday who created these new Easter eggs?" Parzival asked.

"I'm not sure." Jack said. "It could be his partner."

"Easter eggs like these are probably common place within video games." Lynx said. "It doesn't matter who designed it, I will be the one to retrieve them all."

With that, Lynx pulled out his alien spaceship from Independence Day and beckoned Tridosk to follow him.

"It was awesome playing with you guys." Tridosk said as he pulled out his TIE Interceptor.

The two players took off from the world.

"Okay so we helped you win." Tom said. "I think you owe us something."

"How does that work?" Aech asked. "Jack got the Easter egg as well."

"Then think of this as a favour." Gadanza said. "We'll be part of your clan, and we'll win you more money to buy things with if you do this for us."

"What do you have in mind?" Parzival asked.

"Our friend in the Real World does not have an OASIS Console." Jack added. "We want him to play with us. If I give you my eggs, would you give us a console?"

Parzival's eyes widened as he heard Jack's proposition.

"It's tempting, but you won the eggs fair and square." Aech said. "But, it might be possible for you to share the eggs with us in the same way Parzival did with the egg that Halliday had left us to find. I'm going to analyze Artemis' eggs and let you know."

"Okay, so I'll be back online tomorrow." Jack replied. "I'll see you guys then."


Mark Patel pulled off his headset, and squeezed the bridge of his nose. It had been a long day going to school and then playing on the OASIS. He needed a break. He looked beside him and saw that his brother Rodney was sitting on their couch with his OASIS headset on his face. He was talking to someone. Mark decided to turn off his console and head into the kitchen for something to eat. He saw that his sister was home.

"Hey Mark." She said.

"Hey Alex." He responded. "How was school?"

"It was good." She replied. "We learned about the HMS Bounty and the mutiny that happened on the ship."

"I remember reading that book." Mark said. "It was good."

"Yeah, we have a book report to do on that book." She said. "It's due Monday."

"If you need help, just ask." Mark said.

"No I'm good." She replied.

Alexandra and Mark ate together, and then Rodney came into the kitchen almost as they finished. They made coffee or tea for each other and sat down together to talk to each other. Parzival and the rest of the High Five were right; everyone needed to live in the real world. Mark and his family knew this, so they enjoyed spending time with each other and not be on the OASIS all the time. As they finished, they went to do their homework.


Vladislav ripped his headset off his face, swearing in Russian. Three people had achieved the impossible. They had achieved the Easter eggs that were hidden from other players. Vlad was happy that he had achieved it, but he had wanted to be the only person to achieve the eggs. He had to share what he had with Tridosk/Lewis Rogers because Lewis was his best friend, but as for the High Five and the other allies including Jack; he wanted nothing more than to crush them. Now that Jack and Art3mis had the Easter egg of Immortality, there would be no way he could threaten them. He could threaten their friends, however. Maybe that was the key. Threaten their friends if they did not give up their eggs to him. He needed to think this over; would they even want to meet him again after what had happened? Whatever the case, he needed to think it over. He turned off his console and walked over to his bed, and fell down onto the soft mattress. He picked up his cellphone and set the alarm and then drifted into peaceful oblivion.


Jack was online again later that night. He walked through the Tensa Zangetsu and entered the Vault. This was where he kept his most prized positions in the OASIS. He made his way past shelves of items that he collected. He had a Dragon Shaped Jade-Coloured statue that when used created a shield over the entire ship. It was inactive. He passed several suits of armour that he had used in the past. None of them were up to the standard that his current suit possessed but were meant to be a reminder of adventures that he had with his friends. He passed other items that were collectibles. There were statues, spells locked up in boxes, and even weapons. In the middle of the ship was a special table. Jack had won the first key for the first Easter egg when Halliday had died and let the whole world know about it. He had saved the table for the Easter egg, and now had three to put on it. He sighed. He was now the most complete player in the OASIS. He had a ship filled with items, unlimited ammunition, a boost in vehicle speed, and now immortality. He made his way back to the bridge of his ship and sat on the Captain's chair. He put in special coordinates and the ship's thrusters came online. All systems were green for GO. He entered a new world that held the random Chat rooms that needed special codes to get in.

The Tensa Zangetsu came close to one in particular. Aech's chat room was there, and Jack made his way to the main hangar and found that his robot crew were almost finished repairing his X-wing. However, it was not finished yet. He needed to fly down to the chat room. He looked around and saw another ship that he could use. He saw a spaceship that he had won in a game of chance. It was a one person craft called the BTA Fighter from the film Enemy Mine which was released in 1985. Jack hopped in and fired it up. He liked this craft because it was pretty quick. He had modified it and took away its weapons. It only had a shield program that deflected energy bolts, bullets, and flames that other players might shoot at it. With the boost in speed from the Easter egg that he won, it was the perfect ship to go to and from certain places just like Aech's chat room.

He landed the ship outside the entrance to the chat room. He disembarked from the ship and he knocked on the door. Aech answered it.

"Hey Jack." Aech said. "Welcome to my chat room, The Basement, or as some people call it, the Garage."

"Thanks Aech." Jack said. "Any luck analyzing the Easter eggs?"

"The coding for the eggs is really specific." Aech said as she ushered Jack into the chat room. "I've been analyzing it for some time now and cannot find any way to share the eggs this time. It seems only you, Artemis and Lynx have the abilities that the eggs grant. No one else can have them."

"Well that sucks." Jack said. "I was hoping that we could share the eggs with our friends."

"You can drive vehicles with them, you can give them ammunition, but I don't know how immortality will work out for you."

"Thanks Aech. Where's the rest of the High Five?"

"Parzival and Artemis are spending time with each other off of the OASIS. Shoto and Daito are off playing somewhere else. Why?"

"No reason, I just thought they would be here."

"Parzival and Artemis love each other. They would rather spend time with each other than spend their time in here."

"Oh okay. I wish I could find someone like that."

"Maybe you will. I think it might be time to expand our clan. Would you and your friends like to be part of our clan?"

"I would like to, but I'm not sure about the rest of my friends. I'm going to have to talk to them about it."

"Of course, take your time."

"Alright. So do you need help with anything?"

"No I'm fine. Now about the console for your friend; I believe we can send one to his house."

"Really? I would really appreciate it."

"No worries."

With that, Jack gave Aech Justin's address in the real world so that Aech and the High Five could send him a console for the OASIS. Justin Rihaz would be receiving an opportunity to join the OASIS. Jack could not be happier.


Mark, Tom, and John met at Justin's house a few days later. They had learned that the High Five sent Justin a console with the Headset. He had found the package on his doorstep and quickly called his friends to celebrate. He was reluctant to be sure but he had to admit that he could not wait to play with his friends. He had to make his own Avatar to join the game. He started by selecting the type of Avatar he wanted to play as. He chose to play as a six feet, five inches tall Caucasian male with shoulder length dark brown hair and a scruffy beard. He wore black boots, chain mail, black pants, and a green shirt over his chain mail. He also chose a long sword as his primary melee weapon. He chose an M14 as his primary weapon. Now he needed to compete in different games to collect coins to buy more items and level up. He chose the name Arathorn, Son of Anamon. Mark gave Justin the coordinates for his ship Tensa Zangetsu and the code to enter into it. Mark allowed Justin access to his vehicles so that he could race to earn coins. He allowed him access to weapons as well. There were also maps to different places in the OASIS. He could go dancing. He could play different games. He could talk to people who lived in other countries. He could learn other languages from teachers who were online. It was overwhelming. He could do everything and anything. It was like being on the internet. He input his credentials such as his driver's licence, and his student identification. The OASIS opened up different applications that he could access according to his age and what people his age was accessing. He was the oldest of the group and was eighteen years old since his birthday was in January and it was April currently. The rest of his friends were seventeen years old and had birthdays in the summer and fall.

"Thank you guys so much." Justin told his friends. "We'll be great together."

"I have something else to tell you guys." Mark said. "I gave it some thought and was wondering if we could become a clan. Maybe even join the High Five."

"Would they want to?" John asked.

"We worked well together to get the Easter eggs." Mark said. "I don't see why they wouldn't like to come together."

"Okay, so next time we're on the OASIS, let's ask them." John said. "We can tell them about Justin."

"Yeah, I'll tell you about the Tensa Zangetsu when we're in the OASIS, Justin." Mark told his friend. "It's my chat room that I created."

"Nice." Justin said. "It's like the ship from Toonami right?"

"It's something like that yeah." Mark said. "It's filled with my prized positions that I have on the OASIS."

"Yeah, we go there sometimes just to fix our cars and stuff." Tom said. "Mark can fix anything."

"Almost anything," Mark told his friend. "I have robots on my ship that can fix things. I got them as a prize from a game I won a long time ago."

"Since you guys are over here, did you guys want to look at a movie or something?" Justin asked. "I have The Boondock Saints."

"I haven't watched that movie in a long time." John said.

"Yeah I'm in." Tom said.

"Let's do it." Mark agreed.

And so the four friends decided to watch a movie together.


Lynx/Vladislav went over it in his head. To get to the second egg, the other players used a clan of more than twenty people and the fire power of a big ship that Vlad had never seen before, which was the Tensa Zangetsu. It had used two Mac rounds to penetrate his shield. Vladislav had no idea that something like that existed before in the OASIS. He had no idea what to do about it. Did it belong to Art3mis or Jack_100292402? If it did belong to one of them, then it was possible that it had unlimited ammunition. It did not matter anymore as there were no more Easter eggs to obtain for the time being. Vladislav decided to just let it go and hack into the OASIS. He fixed his massive proton cannon and wrote codes that would make his vehicles impervious to damage. He analyzed his Easter eggs, and hacked into them. He needed a way to defeat his enemies. He saw that Jack_100292402 and Art3mis were his competitors and needed to be destroyed. He created a special revolver handgun that fired six rounds. He had unlimited ammo, and this gun was important. With it, he could destroy Jack_100292402 and Art3mis. Being immortals, they may let their guard down and not wear shields or armour anymore. Surely they would not come up with a way to destroy him. Their naiveté would get the best of them. The High Five had taken all of the Easter eggs that the OASIS had to offer them. They kept winning and it seemed that they would not be sharing with anyone else. Vladislav wanted to win. He wanted to be the only one. This seemed to be the only way. He also did not run this past Lewis/Tridosk as Lewis seemed to be in their league as well. He would let Lewis know eventually, but as for now, Vladislav was on his own.


Mark was at another person's house as they were doing homework together. There was no time to go on the OASIS today as they had an assignment to do in English class. They needed to come up with a story and portray it in written format with some pictures as well. Not being artistically inclined, Mark was having a hard time with it, but he was counting on the other person to help him through it. This person was also a friend and had a profile on the OASIS. He was part of the Master Chief Clan who followed the Halo franchise as Halo had spawned many sequels and several prequels. This person's name was David Miranda. On the OASIS, he was known as Alpha Wolf Master Chief and they wore a blue version of Master Chief's armour from Halo 5. They were a perfectionist, so for their project everything had to be measured out. Each panel of the story needed to be drawn with precise lines. David was a heavyset person and girls did not find him attractive. However, game players complimented him on how much of a professional he was when taking care of other players by sniping them many meters away. He was one of the best, and hated losing a lot.

They also had another partner but she had work that day at a coffee shop. Her portion would be sent to their emails whenever she was ready to send it. Her name was Krystle Levesque. She also had a profile on the OASIS as Princess Melody of Ajax. She was not a fighter and received coins by beating challenges like painting, drawing or creating something really special. She spoke to other players about their lives and loved children as well. She was a bit of a tomboy, and was not that attractive in the real world. Her figure was blocky and not quite that curvy. Her boyfriend was a tall and lanky Caucasian male who excelled at Basketball. He played sports games on the OASIS as well. His name was Scott Michaels. His name on the OASIS was Sc0tt_M!cha3l5. He normally sat with Krystle and her friends, but liked to also smoke weed with other males in their grade. They all went to the same High School of course. No one besides the High Five, Lynx/Vladislav, Tridosk/Lewis, John/Gadanza, and Tom knew about the three Easter eggs. Mark thought that it might be necessary to make sure that no one else knew about the eggs unless they were told by Morrow or someone of high authority. There was still the question on how did Lynx and the High Five become aware of each other and the Easter eggs. Mark was happy that he had achieved them and became known to the heroes of the OASIS as someone who could help them.

"So after we're finished, did you want to log in to the OASIS and play for a bit?" David asked Mark.

"I don't have my console on me." Mark said. "You can go ahead if you want."

"I have my sister's console if you want to use it." David said.

"Yeah, but her console does not have the information that I saved on my console." Mark said. "There are things on my console that I saved, like my spaceship, my weapons, my avatar and other stuff."

"You can log in to a temporary profile." David pleaded. "Come on man, I want to face you."

"Yeah okay, as long as we get this done first." Mark said.

"Yes." David said.

They took an hour to sketch out their pictures and the script that was supposed to go with the drawings. They logged into the OASIS. David and Mark took David's sister's console, headset and treadmill like device from her room and took them to the basement where they were going to log in. They logged into the OASIS and Mark picked a random Avatar as a guest. He chose a sci-fi avatar with armour similar to Spartan Mjolnir Powered Assault Armor. He chose a Caucasian male loadout as well. The avatar was six feet seven inches tall. David looked into his inventory to see what weapons he could give Mark.

"What type of weapon do you usually use?" David asked Mark.

"I usually use a sword for the melee weapon and a combo machine gun, grenade launcher," Mark told David. "But any assault rifle will be okay."

"Alright." David said. "I will let you use three weapons; an assault rifle, my twelve gage shotgun, and a pack of grenades."

"Okay, thanks." Mark said.

And then they loaded a map to play against each other on. There were three structures combined with a platform. There were three levels to each structure, a basement, a midlevel where they came to do battle and a top level where they could take positions to snipe each other out. There were certain positions where they could retrieve ammunition and more grenades.

"Ready?" The computer said.

"Ready." David said.

"Let's go." Mark said.

"Countdown to slayer match in five, four, three, two, one, slayer," The computer said.

They emerged on the map across from each other in the basement of two structures. They took the stairs up to the middle floor. David took the extra staircase up to the third floor of the structure as Mark ran to the opposite structure.

TSEER!

A sniper rifle rang out. Mark fell to his knees, his shields going down. He looked all around him and looked to his left at the third structure. He pulled out his assault rifle but was taken out by a second shot from a sniper rifle.

"Boom, Headshot!" David said with glee.

Mark's Avatar died and he respawned in the same place as before. He changed tactics and ran to the top of his structure. He looked out and saw David moving to the middle of the platform to Mark's body and started tea-bagging it. Mark threw a grenade and jumped. The grenade exploded close to David's position. Mark used the opportunity to start shooting with his shotgun. Mark threw another grenade and used his assault rifle to detonate it in mid-air. He started shooting once more at David, who ducked, dodged and rolled away from the middle of the area. David pulled out a missile launcher and fired it at Mark.

"Damn it." Mark seethed as David laughed.

Mark respawned and then his cellphone began to ring. They had to pause the game as Mark answered it.

"Hello, Mark?" said Krystle. "I finished my shift, should I come over to David's so that we can work on the assignment?"

"Hey Dave, it is Krystle." Mark told David. "She wants to know if she should come over so we can continue doing the assignment."

"I guess so." David said, "Let's play a little more until she gets here."

"Hey Krystle." Mark said. "Dave said you can come over any time. We'll be here."

"Okay, see you guys soon." Krystle said, and with that she hung up.

"I'm going to kill you." Mark said as he put on the headset once more and entered the OASIS to fight David once more.

GoldDragonZ: That'll be it for now. Please feel free to read and review if you like or hate it.