Ready Player: START (Parzival x Reader)

No no no Game no Life

"This," Art3mis looked through her inventory and pulled out a bomb. She pulled out the pin and threw it at the group of IOI members. There was a loud bang and the area started to collapse and mayhem ensued, but in that mayhem, you took that opportunity to run to a convenient barrier of rubble to shoot the IOI members.

"How are we going to take out their respawn points?" you asked Sho as the two of you shot down sixers with every bullet. The place was alight with different colored lights and deadly projectiles were flying everywhere. IOI had an endless supply of people, you had to take out the source.

"Explode it?" he questioned as he continued to shoot down people.

You ducked down and looked through your inventory for some kind of grenade, "got one!" Swiftly, you threw the small object towards one of the portals, hoping that it wouldn't go through it. There was another bang and a flash of light, and after peering over the rubble, you were pleased to see it had shattered. "That's the way to go," you nodded.

You glanced over to your right to see Parzival and Art3mis doing nothing and just sitting and staring at each other, "a little help would be nice."

"Give me a sec (g/l)," Parzival waved and you rolled your eyes before shooting more

Sixers, "get out of IOI and meet us at River South."

Your eyes widened, you know where that is. "Wade, no." Art3mis shook her head.

"You will forgive me for this, I promise." He told her.

"No no no no no no!" you looked over again to see Parzival with his gun pointed at the air in front of him where a pile of coins had gathered.

"You shot her?" you questioned with a tilt of your head.

"It had to be done," he responded. You shrugged, you didn't care.

"We're all out of grenades," you told him as you shot people left and right, "it's the only thing that'll take down the portals. Parzival nodded and looked through his inventory before pulling out a specific type of grenade.

"Holy hand grenade!" Sho gasped, "how much did that cost?"

"Less," Parzival responded as he pulled out the pin and threw it into the crowd of sixers, "than it's gonna cost them." The three of you ducked down as far as you could and you covered your ears as there was a blast that shook the whole building, but after that, it was quiet.

"Brilliant," you breathed as the three of you emerged from your shelter and ran through the dimly lit building and the rubble to get to your goal.

"I hope she's doing okay," you heard Parzival mumble under his breath.

"Who?" you asked, though you had a feeling you already knew who it was.

"Arty."

"Oh my God!" you exploded, "you can't take your mind off of her for a second can you! When are you going to get it through your thick skull that you only like her because her avatar is hot!"

"Woah, woah, woah (g/t) what happened?" his blue eyes were wide with concern and he had his hands waving towards you as if that would help calm you down.

"Art3mis. Samantha. Punk princess. Whatever you call her. She's what happened!" you spat bitterly.

"What?" he was bewildered as he looked at your fuming form, "I don't understand?"

"To quote Aech, since I couldn't say it any better myself, she's hacked your heart to get to your head!"

"What makes you say that? Listen, (g/t), we've really got to go-"