It was Friday afternoon at the local high school where the students were in their seats listening to their teacher's boring lecture. One student in particular was occupied with the clock waiting for class to end. He was sixteen years old with green eyes and green spiked hair. His attire included sneakers, jeans, and a green shirt covered by a red vest. He was about ready to completely zone out, until the school bell rang, and the students bolted from the desks and out the classroom.

The boy was at his locker grabbing his bag, as a student passed him bye, “Have a good weekend, Spike!”

“Thanks, you too!' the boy Spike called out to the student, as his voice started narrating.

“That's me; Spike Ddraig, sixteen years old and have no clue what I want to do with my life,” Spike left the school and started walking through town, “But it's alright. There's nothing presently I'm interested in becoming. All I care about right now is being the best there is in the place I wish to rule. Where is it you ask? Well, let me tell you a little story.”

Spike had gone to a junkyard, where he snuck into a secret cave area that was set up like his personal man cave. He had a mini fridge set up, some lights, pictures and newspaper articles on a cork board all relating to the game Eden. He stepped on an omnidirectional treadmill, put some special gloves on, and finally dawned a pair of VR goggles. Through Spike's vision he saw himself inside a virtual world.

“Many years ago, a brilliant game designer named Micro Software had the idea of a world where people can escape the harsh realities of the living world and go to someplace where they can be more than what they are. He called it Eden, because it was a Paradise. The game was a super success and led to him making billions if not trillions of dollars. He had so much money he started his own company to promote Eden. All over the world people of all ages would go to Eden for their own reasons, fun, pleasure, action, adventure, anything.”

The world of Eden was massive with so many different types of worlds both real and fictional, “The cool thing about Eden is where the limits of reality is your own imagination. You can do anything, go anywhere, like surf an awesome wave in Hawaii, skateboard down the pyramids, even climb Mt. Everest with your favorite fictional characters.”

Inside Eden, Spike's avatar character appeared at what looked like the Grand Central Terminal. His avatar was a human sized purple dragon with a green underbelly, spiked spines, and wings. His attire included black boots, blue shorts, a black vest, and purple cap that was backwards. Spike watched as other avatars were arriving and departing to and from other places located in Eden.

“Welcome to Game Central Station; the meeting place where all avatars arrive to when they come to Eden. It has multiple portals leading to so many other different worlds and levels. And the avatars range from everything. People's avatars can be tall, short, beautiful, sexy, hideous, scary, different sex, different species, cartoon, live action, anything. It's all your call. You pick and even redesign how you want your avatar to be. That dragon there is me. In the world of Eden I'm known as Shenron, and it's customary not to reveal your true name to other avatars for safety issues, unless of course you already know each other in the real world.”

“Except for eating sleeping, and bathroom breaks whatever they want to do, they do it here. Make friends, have fun, even channeling anger through activities.”

Spike looked around before picking a portal and stepped through it. He found himself in the world of Wonderland, where other game characters were having fun or partaking in activities like flamingo croquet, a caucus race, or having tea parties.

The dragon avatar walked around watching the other avatars have fun, until he heard someone, “Oh, my gosh! It's the Rainbooms!” Spike stopped upon hearing that and saw several avatars rushing to a spot. Curiously, he flew up and sat atop a tall mushroom. He looked down and saw the avatars gathering around seven specific characters who all appeared to be teenage girls with pony ears and their hairs extended to look like ponytails. They were all dressed as superheroes.

The first girl had a purple body, purple eyes covered by glasses, violet hair with purple and pink streaks done up in a ponytail, a necklace with a star image, and had an F-cup bust.

The second girl had a body white as snow, long elegantly curled purple hair, blue eyes, a necklace with a diamond image, and had a G-cup bust.

The third had an orange body, blonde hair in a ponytail that was covered by a stetson hat, green eyes, a necklace with an apple image, and had an F-cup bust.

The fourth girl had a pink body, big poofy pink hair, light blue eyes, wore a necklace with a balloon image, and had an E-cup bust.

The fifth girl had pegasus wings on her back, a yellow body, long pale pink hair, cyan eyes, wore a necklace with a butterfly image, and had an E-cup bust.

The sixth girl who also had pegasus wings along with an athletic build had a light blue body, her hair was like a rainbow, scarlet eyes, a necklace with a lightning bolt image, and an E-cup bust.

The final girl had an amber body, red and blonde mixed hair, cyan eyes, a necklace with a sun image, and had an F-cup bust.

The avatars were swarming the seven with praises, “You girls are the best!”

“You're so popular!”

“I wish my avatar could be as good as yours!”

Spike watched the girls being praised, while bearing a blush across his face as he looked at how beautiful they were.

“The Rainbooms. This team of girls have got a reputation around Eden as the team you don't ever wanna mess with. Because they'll mess you up bad. In this world they're known as Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Sunset Shimmer. Whoever they are in the real world, I hope they're as gorgeous as they are here. I hope. You might say I got a crush on them, but can you blame me? And I'm not the only one. I'd notice so many guys try to get close to them, but for some reason they always get turned down. I assume the girls are just playing hard to get just to keep their admirers coming back. But man, what I wouldn't give to have just a moment to speak to them.”

Suddenly the mushroom Spike was atop broke in the middle and toppled with Spike landing on the ground with a thud. The other avatars noticed and laughed at the poor dragon, only for the Rainbooms to push through them and rush over to see how he was.

“Oh, my stars, are you ok?” Rarity asked in concern.

“You're not hurt are you?” Fluttershy asked in equal concern.

“That was a nasty lookin' fall.” Applejack noted in a country accent.

“But it was an impressive one.” Rainbow chuckled, only to get elbowed by Sunset who spoke.

“Not the time.”

“Luckily you didn't go full splat.” Pinkie said.

“Are you alright?” Twilight asked Spike.

“Yeah I'm fine. I-” Spike stopped when he saw the girls were all surrounding him with their busts just inches away from his face. He couldn't muster up anymore words, and could feel himself sweating in the real world. He panicked and quickly got up before running like hell trying not to look back.

“Who was that?” Fluttershy asked in confusion.

“Better check avatar stats,” Twilight waved her hand and a journal appeared before her. She opened it and started skimming through the status' of many avatars before stopping on the dragon boy, “Here he is. Shenron. The dragon warrior.”

“No way. That guy?” Rainbow asked.

“Why'd he just run away like that?” Fluttershy wondered.

“I don't know, but maybe we should keep an eye out for him.” Twilight said, as she looked out into the distance the dragon warrior ran off too.

Spike popped out of Wonderland's portal and was back in Game Central Station, “Dammit!” he cursed, “My first chance to make a good impression and I choke!” he started walking, “Who am I kidding, they probably would've thought I was loser anyway.”

He walked through another portal and appeared in a shop where digital avatar shopkeepers were selling merch to the other players, “This is where players can get power ups, new clothing, weapons, accessories, and more. Of course to purchase you need the right amount of coins which you can obtain through several mini games, battles, or steal from others. But the real good stuff called artifacts are located in various worlds and can be founded and acquired in so many ways. It's a real fight to get what you want, and sometimes it'll cost you a lot more should you fail.”

“You have a health bar that keeps growing the stronger your avatar levels up, but that bar can drop depending on the amount of damage you take. When you leave the game and come back your health is restored, but if your health drops all the way you're dead. You can come back to life and all, but everything you've worked for, all the costumes, money, weapons, artifacts are lost to you, and whoever takes you out is welcomed to help themselves. People spend so much time in Eden, losing your shit, really means losing your shit in the real world. You gotta be smart, strong, and resourceful if you wanna survive.”

Spike seeing there was currently nothing new he could currently afford at the moment, and anything he could afford he already had. So he left. He walked through the station again determining where to go next.

“And I’m sure you're wondering is there any other point to all this? Is coming to Eden just so people can escape the real world? The answer is no. Micro Software reigns as King of the entire world of Eden. His Avatar resides in his castle in the Realm of Magic. His Avatar Starswirl the Bearded is regarded as the most powerful sorcerer ever. He made it so whomever can defeat him and take over his castle would become the new King. That is what so many are aiming for, to dethrone the creator and become the new ruler. At least until someone else comes along and knocks them off the throne, even Starswirl could retake it should he ever be dethroned. So many gamers have lost everything trying to defeat him and have to work their way back up again. But yeah it's my dream to take the throne and become King of Eden. And one day I will. But until then I just have to keep leveling up and getting stronger so that my dream can become a reality.”

Spike walked through another portal and was at the Ink and Paint Club. He took a seat at a table, “I wonder who's performing today?” he asked himself, before noticing the show was about to begin. A spotlight shined on stage, and he saw a sexy leg stick out from behind a curtain.

It opened up to reveal a sexy woman. Her eyes were moderate opal surrounded by eyeliner and her hair was colored light orchidish gray with moderate purple streaks and done up in a long ponytail falling down her back. Her attire included purple knee high boots, a purple skirt held up by a chain belt, a purple shirt with a sweetheart neckline underneath a magenta colored rocker's jacket with a high collar and diamonds around the edges and the end of her sleeves, along with additional bracelets. Around her neck was a choker necklace with opal blue stones. Covering her face was a transparent black veil that covered her face. It's wasn't able to hide her face but almost made it impossible to see any more features. To Spike the cherry on top for this woman was her impressive bust.

“Countess Coloratura.” Spike gasped, as said Countess began singing beautifully.

The woman strut across the stage while singing as a band was playing slow seductive jazzy music in the background. The countess walked down the runway, before stepping off giving flirtatious looks to several avatars who were swooned. Coloratura started getting closer to Spike who was too awestruck to even move.

The pop star plopped into Spike's lap and tickled his chin a little while pressing the side of her bust against his chest. Spike tried to keep himself together, as Coloratura smiled seductively before getting off his lap and strutted around him, while laying a hand on his shoulder and dragging it across his back and onto his other shoulder. She stepped back onto the stage and finished her performance as the curtain closed on her.

The avatars cheered, whistled, and applauded on her performance, while Spike panted, “Ok, overall this turned out to be ok,” he suddenly heard his cellphone ring, and he answered it, “Hello?”

“Spike, where the hell are you? Dinner's going to be ready soon!” came a loud voice from the receiving end.

“Sorry, Ember, I'll be right there!” Spike called, as he removed his goggles in the real world, while in Eden, his avatar disappeared. Spike placed his VR Goggles and Gloves away, before grabbing his bag and headed for home.

Soon enough Spike was sitting at a dinner table two two more girls. One girl who was nineteen, and another girl who was his age. Spike looked around seeing an empty seat.

“Uncle Torch ain't joining us tonight, Ember?” he asked the older girl who had dark blue hair and red eyes and was wearing sneakers, jeans, and a blue hoody.

“You know, dad. He's always busy when you least expect it.” Ember answered.

The second girl who was wearing sandals, orange pants, a red shirt, and had moderate cerise colored hair and cyan colored eyes spoke up, “Oh, well more for us.”

“Careful, Smolder. Don't want to lose your figure.” Ember teased.

“Oh, shut up, sis.” Smolder grumbled, as she ate.

Spike smiled as he looked around at the two bickering sisters, as he narrated, “Ember and Smolder are my two cousins. I've been living with them and my Uncle Torch since my parents passed away in a car crash when I was five. It's not so bad. Torch runs the local bar called the Dragon's den. It's a busy job and often keeps him from coming home. But he does it to provide for us, and he cares for the three of us deeply. Even though he tries not to show too much of it to maintain a tough guy persona to his buddies.”

After dinner, Spike washed up and went to his room to sleep. As he laid in bed he thought about what happened today, “I actually got to speak to the Rainbooms, even if it was an awkward first encounter. But they'll probably forget all about me come tomorrow.” and with that he drifted off to sleep knowing tomorrow was going to be another boring day until he would return to Eden.

Author's Note

I'll be honest. I've read and watched Ready Player One so much along with other virtual game like shows I just had to make this. It'll have plenty of references to other worlds and characters like Ready Player One for a heads up.

Rainboom vectors owned by WhalePornoz