Colombus, Ohio. 2045. Your world was in rubble, metal, flashing lights and, of course, the IOI. The people who wanted something big but had no idea how to get it. This big thing was The Oasis, set up by James Halliday in 2025. But, since nobody know...
I rolled away from my desk, stretching after sitting at it for 2 hours to finish my art homework. I looked around my messy room, my book stand nearly toppling over and my bed piled with clothes that I couldn't be bothered to put away. I heard a blip from my headset, telling me that I had a notification from the Oasis. I hoped it was Parzival. I've had a crush on him since I met him a year ago, but never had the strength to tell him, with fear of rejection.
I stood up and walked over to my gear hanging from wires from the ceiling. After pulling on my gloves and chest strap, I checked my headset for any dust or scratches. Once I found nothing, I pulled it on. The Oasis intro came up in front of me, so I tapped it and landed in front of a glass building were a tall blossom tree stood in the middle. My old avatar was on, so I changed it to my favourite one.
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I opened the message tab at the bottom of my screen, finding a blue dot by Parzival's name, which said that he wanted to video call. I did a small happy dance then pressed accept.
"Hey (g/l), how's it going?" He said, his blue eyes glistening in the bright lights. "Not bad to be honest, I just had to do art homework for 2 hours, but that wasn't as bad as doing math" I said, chuckling at my own joke. He laughed along with me. "Hey, is that a new avatar outfit? Looks badass" he said, the corner of his mouth raising up slightly. "Thanks Z, yeah, I just felt like I needed to change it. The old one was getting a bit plain." He noticed the avatar change. I blushed a little. "Ok, well you need to get down to the race. It starts in 15 mins" he said, before jumping into a portal." "Ok, coming" I replied. Shutting down the call, I entered the portal.
Cars revved up their engines, checking if they needed fuel. More cars grew from the ground as people set up their spaces. I saw Aech and Parzival at the front. "Hey guys, what's up" I said, pulling down my hood to let my (h/c) hair fall over my shoulders. "Nothing much, (g/l). Woah, nice avatar" Aech said, giving me a fist bump. "Yeah, looks better in person than it did on call" My silver and blue haired crush said with a pink color forming on his cheeks and nose. "You're not catching feelings are you? Or are you just jealous of this masterpiece?" I said cheekily, twirling around so my cape flowed around. Parzival cleared his throat "N-no" he said adjusting his denim jacket with the gold sword painted on the back. "Hey, I saved you two spaces" Aech exclaimed, pointing at the spaces next to his gigantic monster truck. "Sweet" Parzival said, tapping on his left shoulder and bringing up his inventory. "Sorry guys. Gotta go to the back" he said walking backwards and taking away his inventory. "So you can skim for loose coins? That's just sad, man" Aech said, climbing up the steps of his truck, while I got onto my black and silver motorbike. "Fuels low" Parzival shouted back at us, turning round and throwing his mini car into his space.
I placed my matching black helmet on my head and pulled the visor down. "First to the key!" I heard Parzival say from the back. "First to the egg!" Me and Aech replied. I heard a single firework being shot from the torch above us and it fell to the start line, signalling t was time to race. I shot off before Aech and weived around cars and even jumped over one. The familiar sound of a call came through. "Are you guys seeing this?" Parzival questioned with wide eyes. "Yeah I see it. That's adage's bike from Nakuru!" Aech responded. I narrowly missed the train that tipped over behind me. "Ah I love that bike. Great tyre finishings" I said, staring in my wing mirror on the side of my bike and at the commotion behind me. "No, not the bike, forget the bike. The girl! I think it's Art3mis!" Parzival responded, gaining up on her. "The Art3mis?! The sixer fixer?" I questioned, doubting that it was her as she hasn't done a race like this in years. "I've seen all her walk through's, her twitch streams... it's her... it's definitely her..."he said, sounding star struck. I wished he sounded like that when he first met me.
We jumped over a massive ramp, over the water and to the other side. Tyres screeched and cars tipped over, fire spursing out underneath them. A lorry came out in front of me and I leant underneath it, skimming the coins in front of me to get more fuel. She skimmed underneath it as well, following up behind me. In my mirror I saw Parzival open his car, grab the coins and close his car again.
Wrecking balls swung from left right and centre. I dodged past them and cars that got crushed. I leapt over a pit in the middle of the road and Parzival drove up beside me. "It's definitely her right? You're not playing some trick on me" I said, glaring back and forth from his car to the road. I had been a fan of Art3mis for years so I had to make sure that it was actually her. IOI players splattered across the gravel, the coins bouncing on the ground. "It definitely is. Remember when she tried to get out of the last jump of the last video she did? Well there's a dent on the back of her bike near the wheel, it must of been where she bumped it with the iron rod." I looked at the back of her bike. "Omg.. you're right!" I said, smiling. Parzival skidded across the ground, picking up more coins for fuel. I looked up at the T-Rex, picking up cars and flinging them to the side. Luckily, my bike was small and agile, so I raced underneath it's legs before it even had a chance to know what was going on. I noticed Art3mis stopping at the side, and drove on, accelerating so I wizzed past some more cars. The T-Rex bit a piece out of Aech's truck, but he carried on like nothing had happened.
Now the big challenge was gaining up towards us. King Kong stood looming over us on the famous tower, before crashing down onto the ground. I swerved to move out of the way, when King Kong knocked a water tower out of the way. Water came spilling out over the ground. He suddenly fell down onto the road, crushing it into the ground below. I changed my path and followed the crash, watching Aech take his wheel off and skid to the edge. I zoomed over it, with Art3mis and Parzival gaining up behind me. "Go go go! Get there come on!" Aech said in supportiveness. They both sped past me and went straight towards the finish line before Kong stopped them. "Balls" I heard Parzival say, before he noticed me gaining towards a small ramp over Kong. "She's not going to make it" He said to Art3mis, who stopped next to him.
"Bail! Bail out! Bail!" He said with flailing arms. He grabbed me by the arm and we spun around in the air, rolling over each other before stopping with me hunched over him. I looked up and saw Kong grab my bike and chuck it down on the track. "Sorry (g/t), you wouldn't have made it." He rested his hands on my hips lightly before I saw how we were positioned. I leapt up, took my helmet off and chucked it at his gut. "I had it. Thanks Z" I said, walking over to my bike. "Man, I loved that bike" I said, still breathing heavily. "She was a beaut" Art3mis exclaimed, agreeing with me. "You wouldn't have survived that (g/l). Did you see what Kong did to your bike?" Z said, gesturing to my crushed bike. "You're right. At least Aech can fix it." "Damn" Art3mis said, breathing heavily as well.
———————— Hi! So I found a way to watch it without paying for it (no, it's not pirating, dw) I'm just going to find some clips on YouTube. That way the plot will be more accurate, as well as the lines.
