"Emile, take out the trash" A voice rang out from the corridor.

"Why should I?" I yelled back.

"It's your turn and if you don't agree, I'll be the one to tell Jimmy all of this" The voice shouted in return to my statement.

"Fine, I'll freaking do it" I huffed in annoyance before getting up from my beanbag chair.

I got out of my room and found a massive load of trash in the living room from what I could see in my vision, there were tons of cracked glass, spilled orange juice, half-eaten apples, crumbled balls of paper rolling around in the wind left by the open window, empty candy wrappers, a plastic water bottle that was half filled with Coca-Cola. For some strange reason, all of us just enjoyed causing a gigantic mess in our hideout and it would become a game for which one of us could pick all of it the fastest. And this time it was my turn to pick all of it up and clean the living room. It was a total mess and I hated cleaning the entire room-how was it fair for one person to clean up eight people's mess. To be fair to them, they hated doing this job whenever it was their turn to clean all of this mess so I really couldn't complain much. I walked back to my room and pulled out some clean rags and some cleaning detergent before returning to the living room and starting to wipe away all of the spilled juices. The rags were amazing for doing this type of cleaning and they perfectly absorbed the spilt orange juice and some other mixture Ross decided to play around with. I placed the now dirty rags in the wash that was in this exact room before throwing all of the scrunched up papers and other junk into the bin. A simple job but honestly annoying to say the least. I cracked my back before returning back to my room. My room was just a normal room that you would expect from a modern room, the wallpaper was a nice shade of yellow and blue, I had a curved computer running, a bookshelf hanging next to one of the walls, my collection of different rubix cubes across the ages I have been alive for, a fidget spinner on my desk, my OASIS rig hanging from the ceiling waiting for use and finally my bed. My bed was pretty big and it was very fluffy and comfy. I decorated it to look more futuristic and cool like you would expect. I also added some LED lights to the desk and the bed to feel more to my tone. Everyone else was in the OASIS most likely gaining some more cash or just killing some IOI for fun. Ever since IOI crumbled to dust after the legend Parzival collected the golden easter egg and gained administrator powers, most gunters had no idea what to do with their lives and most of them just decided in ridding the entire OASIS of the remaining IOI but some just settled for some PVP and didn't really care anymore for this world. Us however, we used this time to create more of a name for ourselves and be different to the many normal OASIS players. I reached up to the little red lever and my OASIS rig fell out and I catched it with my two hands before taking off my glasses and placing the rig right onto my head. Yes, I need glasses to see. Not my fault, just blame my genes and nothing else. I blinked and found a little box right in front of my eyes saying I needed the password in order to log in to my avatar.

I read out in the tone that I recorded my own password, "The Rubix Cube is one's best friend"

A new message popped up right in front of me that read:

Access Granted

Welcome back to the OASIS, Relenter01

A few bright flashes enveloped my eyes before they vanished and I found myself standing in the middle of the war room of our shared guild. The OASIS would always leave the user in wherever they logged out of the OASIS from so I ended up standing randomly in the guild base. Jimmy and Wesley founded this clan together and they invited me and the rest of my friends to be in their clan and I accepted. At first when it was just created, we were given a base that was as big as an apartment room. It was extremely hard to expand our base and to buy furniture but somehow Wesley and Marvin managed to snag a lot of new furniture such as beanbags, cushions, sofas, lamps, tables, chairs and other furniture that I'm too lazy to list out. Ross, during his clan raiding sessions, managed to steal a bunch of enchanted weapons and guns from Mass Effect; Marvin bought from his own credits weapon and armor racks for extra decoration. Me? I just spent my own credits to improve our defences for clan raids and to expand our little apartment room. At this current moment, our clan had a size of a big village and we had steel walls that surrounded our base. We had six different rooms, each was a different room for a different purpose and one of them was just our break room. I walked right out of the war room and towards the break room where I left my gear right at. The break room suddenly appeared right out of my eyes because I wasn't paying attention and I spotted all of my gear lying on my own beanbag. The break room was coloured a camo green and brown on the walls, a few silver banners hanging from the ceiling, Jimmy's pet wolf sleeping in her dog pen, a fox head attached to one of the walls, some gumball machines and more sleep eggs that could rotate if you pushed it slightly allowing for some stupid pranks that Danny would play out at me obviously. Some pillows were placed everywhere in a mess and dubstep music was playing at low volume due to Jimmy's wolf sleeping. If she woke up… someone was going to die. Her name was Seprenta and Jimmy named her based on a female snake that he was forced to kill on a Jumanji quest that he did for the extra experience. Her fur was a nice shade of grey and white; her eyes were a dim yellow. Seprenta wasn't the only pet that our clan owned to be honest with you. Ross had four little kittens that slept in his room inside the OASIS, Wesley had a raven that he used for sending emails and other messages to our partner guilds and Jonathan had a tiny mechanical dinosaur that shot lasers that did basically nothing. Sorry to say but it is true if I wasn't lying. I had none. I know, how disappointing. I never had the urge to capture a pet from the animal kingdom that appeared right after IOI failed to gain the crystal key like us. It just felt wrong for me to gain one. Danny was right now in Pokemon land trying to catch a Pikachu or something and Adrian was in the ocean catching fish for his aquarium that he forced me to buy[I lost almost half of my entire credit balance on the exact day]. Ever since the OASIS was free of IOI influence, dozens of new worlds started to pop up like wildfire and the land of Transformers was generated for the entire public to experience and do battle with. I bet you a thousand credits that Parzival added these to increase the widespread feeling of the OASIS when it first came out. Parzival also updated the levelling system and increased the max level cap to be at a gigantic number of two hundred. Jimmy was busy doing spam levelling across the galaxy of Star Wars and right now, his level stood at a kind of big number of eighty. I was just a level of fifty-five and was nowhere close to his sharp accuracy and skill with ranged weapons but something I could be proud of is that he was terrible at using a melee weapon. If I gave him a lightsaber that could kill any seventy levelled avatars, he wouldn't be able to kill even one or deflect any bullets. I could do that without a heartbeat and it was no problem if they spammed us with machine gun bullets. My hand just automatically deflected all of them and they surrendered all of their credits to me. A total badass, I know. I picked up my gear that was lying on my beanbag and all of the gear was instantly transferred to my inventory. I opened up my inventory and equipped my knight armor I gained from a Skyrim quest and the best part was that the armor was enchanted with a large health bonus so I gained a bonus of five hundred to my current health making me a tank when it came to battling enemy avatars in Planet Doom. I equipped my glove which was an artifact that I managed to gain from the most recent artifact hunt. The glove allowed me to create a bunch of explosions at wherever I aimed at with my right hand, high level explosion would ring out and credits would pile up towards my account. The glove had a cooldown of a week but the damage that came with it made up for the long wait. On my left hand, I had a silver ring that was enchanted to give me abnormal deflecting skills to the point of being a true jedi even though I wasn't playing as a fake Luke Skywalker or a Darth Vader. I owned a double bladed longsword that was buffed with a +5 so it was the strongest it could be, well, at the moment. It was made of pure crystal and it cost a crap ton of my fortune inside the virtual world of the OASIS. Anyways, I pulled my crap together and headed for our launchpad that contained all of our vehicles and ships that we managed to gain over the years. Our launchpad was designed to be a just come and go kind of idea, it was the shape of a rectangle and multiple cars were normally placed across the different plots that we designated for all of our own cars. Right now, all of my friends have driven off all of their cars and ships for wherever they were doing and it was only my car that was still lying in my parking spot ready to be driven. I owned an sharp race car from the old twenty first century and it was one of those Lamborghini Veneno. I upgraded the car to be able to transform the car tires like in the old 80's movie called Back To The Future, have little rotating laser turrets on the sharp edges of the car, a rotating three barrelled laser cannons on the to of the cockpit, quadruple boosters and a stronger car engine, an artificial intelligence that controlled the engines and autopilot of the car, machine guns on the car doors and a rocket thrusters on the back of the car alongside the quadruple boosters. I flicked my finger in a 'up' motion and the right door opened up like the door of the DeLorean. Smoke erupted out because of a smoke generator I placed inside in a hidden spot so it would be like a epic movie scene. I ducked down and sat back down in the leather chair-the door closed up immediately and my AI activated immediately.

"Welcome Relenter01, where do you want to go today?" My AI said in his robotic male voice.

"I'll choose later, give me a second" I said to my vehicle AI.

I opened out my inventory and swiped the screen, the screen turned into a map and my friends were in a bookmark tab right on the right sign of the screen.

I clicked the little microphone button on the search bar, "Find Th0_Lup4s"

Th0_Lup4s was the avatar name of my friend Jimmy, he based it on his obsession with his wolves and all that. The avatar name was actually just pronounced 'The Lupus' and the random numbers was just because he wanted it to seem really cool and just because the original name was already token. It was basically impossible to get a name without any numbers just because someone in this dying society was using it and their avatar was just for shopping. You know how annoying it is when some old lady sitting in the middle of nowhere in this world and had no idea how to do player versus player took my cool name that I wanted to use and the person who wasn't using it was just using it to do shopping and other lady stuff. My name was luckily not being used by someone else so I snagged it before some other random fat dude could take it and do some stupid shit with it. My map flickered and the servers were scanning before the map started to zoom in straight into the planet known as Planet Doom, Planet Doom was a burning red and black planet and from an outside perspective, you could see massive explosions ring everywhere. The map scrolled through and zoomed in until I could have a clear view of him fighting off some drones that was attacking every single avatar on Planet Doom. The planet was a massive place for any person who wanted to gain credits and some nice items for their own personal use and it was a PVP zone so killing was totally possible. Jimmy was right now hiding under one of the barricades and was preparing a grenade to throw out. Red and green lasers were being shot and somehow the lasers didn't even touch a single inch of him. He threw the grenade and a few silent moments of gunfire and dying screams before a loud boom rang out. A loud cloud of red and black erupted out and crackling of electricity sparked out into the battlegrounds below.

I turned back to my vehicle, "Set course to Sector One, activate autopilot"

"Autopilot activated. Setting course to Sector One. Sector One found. Engine starting up" The robotic voice returned once again.

The Lamborghini Veneno started to rumble like a horse running across mountains and the engine fired up before the car started to lift up. The tires flipped ninety degrees and light blue rocket fire came out of the tires, the back boosters shot out fire and the Lamborghini started to charge right through hyperspace. My race car had a engine that was powered by tons of high tier energy suppliers so it had the power to drive through space with the effect around my race car that seemed like I was on the Millennial Falcon travelling through hyperspace. Using quick maths I learned[these is the only times that you need quick maths], I calculated and estimated that the trip would take a solid ten minutes so I pulled out my vision of Jimmy killing robots back in front of my vision. Now, he was shooting multiple robots with explosive arrows on his enchanted bow. His bow was called the multiplier and it was one of the artifacts he gained from a battle on the exact planet that he was fighting on right now. The bow was one of those bows from the game called World Of Warcraft and it glowed light green constantly. It was a super high tier bow that could notch ten arrows in one swing and the best part? When the arrows fired, they would multiply four times so every arrow that was fired, four arrows would come out of that one arrow meaning every release of the drawstring could shot out forty arrows. It was super duper rigged because the OASIS had no limits when it came to item balancing so this kind of weapon was totally allowed. Parzival allowed it so people just went with it. He fired it at the incoming drones and the entire wave was destroyed in one blow shaking the area around him causing new trenches to be created and other avatars to fall down all noob like. I glanced over more closely and looked at his avatar, he had chose his avatar to be a hybrid of a gigantic wolf and a normal human. Instead of a normal human head, he chose in the avatar creator menu to have a wolf head. His wolf head had fur that was colored bright white like a snowy wolf, he had bright silver eyes and he had a long snout. He was wearing light glass armor from the game named Skyrim and on his back was folded silver ghostly wings. The wings weren't an artifact I assure you. They were a new model that was being sold in the OASIS malls and they were expensive to the bone. Seventy five thousand credits for one pair so basically no one had them. Jimmy couldn't help it though. I remember him bragging about it to all of us and Ross nearly chopped his head straight off. It had the power to fly for unlimited amounts of time and this battle on Planet Doom was to get me a pair too. They came with about two hundred different models and they ranged from angel wings to wings that were made of pure fire. I'm not kidding.

I opened a audio call to him and he picked up, "Yo Jimmy, what up?"

"Nothing much" Explosion rang into my ears. "Just trying to gain a big amount of credits and a new artifact"

I coughed, "Bro, you don't need help? You seem to be in a tight spot"

Jimmy sighed, "Isn't that supposed to be normal"

I laughed, "Your right"

"I'm getting close to the artifact, the enemy robots are getting stronger the further I go but they aren't the worst NPC that I have faced" Jimmy reported. "How about you? Where are you heading to right now?"

"Sector one, I'm going to go into the Star Wars Galaxy and do some shooting around. Maybe I can get some good loot while I'm at it"

"Nice, I'll be returning back to base in around a hour so tell everyone else to return back including you Emile. I have some business I need to discuss with all of you" He dismissed the chat.

A large bump shook the car and I looked straight up to find myself stranded in the middle of nowhere inside the Star Wars Galaxy, I could see some planets but not many ships floating around. This was odd to say the least, the Star Wars Galaxy was almost always full of ships battling each other so it was usually a gigantic war site where you could win or lose everything you have worked so hard for. Suddenly a large blast of a red beam fired right on the right side of my car, more lasers followed and ships began to appear seemingly out of nowhere. The controls forced a barrel roll to the right and I had to manually activate all of the weapons because my system was too weak to have auto fire on my weapons. Well partly because the input system wasn't a super high tier power source so I had limits to what I could do. I clicked a glowing red button on the driving wheel and I could hear the rumbling on the machine guns heating up and the lasers turning straight on. On the top of my cockpit, I could feel the rotating three barrel turret rotate to behind me and fire gigantic blasts of lasers all the way back. The other turrets I have installed were busy spam firing at the other ships that were firing at me and I was engaged in a full out war. I looked out at the windows and recognized some vehicles that aren't NPC's but actual vehicles that real life avatars in this world bought. Nevertheless, they still continued to attack me so I responded by attacking them back once again. The inside of the car was starting to grow in heat so I clicked on the little blue button next to the button, it was my air conditioning on and off switch that I placed due to the massive heat that would envelop the car if I didn't turn on the cooling system. A gigantic blast of cold air continued to shoot out in massive blasts and the car wasn't as hot as before. With the heat out of the way, I could focus more on shooting the enemy battleships that just blind firing hoping for a clean hit. I turned off the autopilot of the car but not the autofire since I didn't want to just manually click buttons if I wanted to shoot at things; I rolled the car to the left just in time for me to dodge a blast that would have destroyed the cockpit straight through. Normal logic still applied in the OASIS so I couldn't breathe forever inside the empty void of space unless I had a car that could supply oxygen or I had a oxygen generator equipped on my avatar which I don't own. I did some cool acrobatics with my car dodging lasers and firing all the way back. My turrets easily destroyed the ships that were attacking, well, at least the NPC ones, the player modified vehicles were more tricky because they had higher grade weaponry and they actually had the power to improvise and retreat if necessary. I dodged most of the hits but one of the lasers touched my engine slowing down the rate at how fast I could dodge all of the lasers. Originally I planned to add an invisible force field generator on the car so I would have more protection but turns out the power supply couldn't handle the energy needed to run the force field and the generator exploded. Kind of a bad move on my part. I looked over at the time and found that forty minutes have passed and I have a broken engine that could slow down my speed of how fast I could return to base in time.

"Set course to Lupreta" I mumbled before closing my eyes.

Lupreta was our clan name, it was the name that Jimmy suggested once again partly because of his obsession of wolves but also because it sounded like a legit planet that someone could visit. It was located in Sector 6 and was on a planet also called Lupreta. When you create a clan, you immediately get an apartment sized room but you also get your own planet. It was a player versus player planet so we had to be careful for intruders but most of the time, no one would be so stupid to charge right into enemy guild territory by themselves and try to raid their items. Danny could do it though. He had abnormal ninja skills and he was basically invisible to find unless you squinted at two dim eyes or if he messed up and knocked over a bush. My engine was in rough shape and I could basically hear the engine crying in pain. Silently I made a prayer that it would hold up and I didn't need to call Wesley to push my car over the border, that would be terribly embarrassing to say the least. I arrived all the way back to Lupreta with a destroyed engine and found everyone already walking in to the break room. I swiped my door open and I front flipped three times in the air before landing perfectly on the floor with my Lamborghini Veneno slowly descending back to the parking lot or you could call it the launch pad. I had some new gravity boots I stole from some sort of bloke in the now player versus player zone that was the planet of Ludus. They allowed me to take no fall damage so I could do total ninja dodges in the air and front flips without harming my health bar and risking killing my own avatar trying to be cool. I walked right back in and found them sitting with their weapons out and a tense atmosphere reaching my head and burning my bones. What was going on? There was blood on the floor for some odd reason and it didn't seem good at all.