"Another sweet relaxing day" William said out loud as he lays dawn on his comfy bed watching TV while drinking some delicious freshly squeezed oranges.
William is now comparing the vastly different in living environment from his past. In the past he is always hiding like rat with the fear of be being discovered that constantly plagued him.
He has to like in a shabby rundawn apartment and being constantly vigilant of his every action. Like a criminal trying to evade authorities.
He has to watch each and every corner for every single detail that seems out of place, because that one detail could mean the difference between life and death.
Like even the guy at the convenient store or the guy at the hot dog stand he has to be careful around them. He has to constantly thinking 'if there was always a hot dog stand there?' 'If he's the same guy?' 'if he's acting any differently then usual'even a twitch in his eye could possibly be a sign that 'they're' on to him.
He has to be observant of the actions of everyone he makes contact to because they might be secretly be watching him.
There's no telling that the hot dog stand guy would whisper something to his earpiece once he's not looking.
He has to be weary around camers also as even the slightest slip could give away his identity.
'They're watching. Always watching.' William remembers he constantly tells himself that in the past.
Well that's in the past now as in the past few months he has deffected to the 'enemy' and is now enjoying a life of luxury.
Now now don't go complaining he joins the dark side or anything.
You see the world isn't black and white. There's no true bad guys and in turn true good guys too.
It's all just perspective and subjective, morality is malleable that changes through times and places.
Take his previous affiliation the Brotherhood of Assassinsfor example, previously he was thought from birth that the Assassins were the good guys that is trying to stop the evil Templars, but is that really it?
Think about it clearly.
In the Brotherhood once your born you're trained into the perfect assassin to fight a secret war. You have no choice, no say on the matter. You're born an assassin and die an assassin.
Now look at the Templars, they approach like minded influential figures and ASKED them if they want to join the club.
Now then let's look on another matter. What are they fighting for?
The Brotherhood is fighting to stop the Templars! Whatever they're doing.
Suffice to say their whole existence is to prevent the Templars from achieving their goals, besides that they have nothing!
Oh and don't don't say that they're doing it for 'humanity' after they're done with exterminating the Templars what is their goal?
Nothing! That's what their goal is after exterminating the Templars.
They don't have any goals for humanity as a whole, all they want is the extermination of the Templar order because they don't like them.
Now what is the Templar's goal? That is to build a new capitalist world order. Basically world domination.
World Domination? Sounds evil doesn't it?
But you see, thinking about it a bit more carefully world domination is not actually good or evil for that matter.
Take the Romans for example, they're responsible for bringing civilisation to Europe. Their roads spans across Europe and lasts thousands of years. At the peak nearly 1 out of every 4 people in the world lives with in their boundaries.
You know it's like hearing the fact that 1 out of 7 people is Chinese in the world right now, but greater.
Of course the all great nations has a dark side as they've crushed countless other nations, tribes and civilisation to built Rome.
They also have slavery but to be fair most world at that time also have slaves, so it would be unfair to criticise only them and not the others also. As a side note that most of the slaves during Romans times are actually white people from the defeated 'Barbarians' mostly Celts and Germans they conquered.
Well that's what happens when a superior civilisation meets a lesser civilisation.
The Aztec did it with the primitive jungle tribesmens that surrounds them. They ended up sacrificed on blood rituals on top of pyramids.
The mongols did it to the Chinese (the Chinese at that time were in a decline) when they conquered China. Suffice to say Genghis Kahn has over a million descendants in the world and let's leave it at that.
Getting a bit sidetracked there but conquering and making it a single nation is not a bad thing.
Besides that the Templars actually wants to subtly and covertly control the world from the shadows. Using economy and technology as a primary leverage and not violence..
The Assassins on the other hand just... assassinate. Basically 'I don't like you, I kill you' after all 'deadman speaks no shit'. It's easier to kill and shut them up, then to convince people.
Especially since the other team is actually doing something to the betterment of mankind and not just all talk.
What did the assassins did all this time? Well... they killed influential people throughout history, potentially destabilising entire regions. With all the internal power struggle and seeing the internal turmoil, foreign powers would decide put their hands on the situation adding more chaos into the matter.
Like what happened with Rome.
Yes, assassin were responsible for Rome's fragmentation. They orchestrated Julius Caesar assassination which lead to Rome splitting into 2 and with a divided Rome, the barbarians invaded which lead to Rome's fall plunging Europe into the dark ages.
Fine work you did there.
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Well all that ancient history aside, William's primarily reason is not because of these idea logical crap. While they did play a part but his primary reason is that the assassins are one the losing end and nobody wants to be on the losing end.
Especially he didn't choose to be an assassin, he was born a assassin facility therefore he's destined to be an assassin and to be indoctrinated into a caused he doesn't believe in and is expected to even die for it.
Well William is not going to have any of that so one day he to his chances and approached a known Abstergo employee to turn himself.
The Templars were skeptical at first but with his cooperation and time he eventually became an important asset.
He helped bust a few assassin nests and is now helping them finding artefacts with the usage of the animus.
In turn for his cooperation he is given great luxury and comfort, that he would other wise be only dreaming about had home stuck with the assassins.
So back to the present William is laying on his watching TV, when suddenly the alarms rang off signaling there are intruders in the facility.
'They're on to me' William thought as he quickly gets up from his bed and quickly finds anything laying around that could be used as a weapon, but before he could find one the doors busts open.
This startled William as he was very much unprepared.
Fortunately it's the assassins as the one that came through the door is a one of the security guards in the facility called Ted.
"Sir we're getting attacked we've got to get you out of here" he said before he starts leading William through the complex hallways of the facility.
The facility he's staying at serving as game company as front. Using the animus to make a game Virtual Reality game.
'Quite an interesting concept' as William wonders off when pass a hallway filled with mannequins dress in 18th century clothing.
'Undoubtedly characters in the game.' William thought.
As they were passing by one of the hooded figures however suddenly came alive as he suddenly stabbed Ted to death with the hidden at his wrist.
He the quickly turns to face William and starts attacking him.
William quickly reacted to the assassin and quickly grabs hold of his arm with the hidden that's coming his way, William pulls him closer to himself breaking the enemy's balance.
He then proceeded turns and lifts up the assassin through his back to above his head, then finally smashing the assassin's head first to the ground killing the assassin in the process.
'Seems like my skills are still there' William thought before he hears footsteps from the distance.
'Judging by the sound of their footsteps and the lack off coming from their gears, they're not the Abstergo's security team' William thought as it's pretty much unlikely for him to fight a whole team of assassins by himself in a hallway no less.
It might be possible in the past when people were still using swords and flintlocks, but in the modern era with prominence of automatic weapons such things are pretty much legends of the past.
It might be possible if he was fighting people inferior to him but he's dealing with assassins not Templar grunts. He's fighting in a hallway no less and they' most like armed with automatic weapons.
They're not going to miss in a hallway.
Then he hears noises coming from the ear piece assassin that ambushed him.
"Have you dealt with the traitor yet? Honestly I wish you could quit messing around in theses missions..." it's the voice of a woman and she's lecturing the now dead assassin about his antics.
"Anyway we're coming your way with the artefacts and we've rigged this to blow up... are you there?" She asked as he's been very silent all this time but of course since the guy is dead nobody answered her.
"Great he turned off his coms again" she said that with a mild irritation in her voice before a voice in the background said "told ya should stop lecturing him, happens every time"
Then it divulge into a back and fort squabbling.
'This is bad they're coming here fast, but fortunately from the voices in the communications there seems to be around 2 of them' William thought deeply trying to find away out of this.
He can't go back as the ways leads deeper into the facility... which is according to the exchange just now is rigged to explode.
The places is in lockdown with metal shutters closed at major access points as in the case of intruders.
'Well this sucks' William complained.
Ted his guide that was leading him to safety is dead, which leaves...
Well they have to have an escape route as part of their mission is to retrieve the 'artefacts' or peaces of Eden as the Templars calls it.
A lightbulb suddenly lights up above his head as he smiles mischievously.
'This better works or I'm dead anyway' He thought to himself as he quickly undresses the dead assassin's costume and puts it on.
He then examines attaches the hidden blades to his wrist, he tested the blade extending and retracting for a bit, getting a better feel of the blades that he hadn't touched for so long.
Since it's in the modern era he also retrieves the gun along with its ammo. Suffice to say the gun the Assassin carries is the Magpul FMG9, being an assassin concealed carry is a major thing.
He of course didn't forget to wrap his face and neck with bandages. The bandages he retrieved from the dead assassin, every assassin pretty much carries bandages due to the dangers of the occupation duh.
He didn't forget to smear blood on them to pretend that he got injured in the neck or law as to explain why he can't talk.
Finally he disposes the bodies by dumping them all in a janitor's room.
With all done now what William plans to do is to pretend to be the dead assassin to get out of the base that is rigged to explode, after escaping from the base then he would kill his the unsuspecting assassins from the back and then go to another Templar base.
What? Go back with the assassins?
Ridiculous! He betrayed them already and they already sent an assassin to kill him! If he goes back with them which they would undoubtedly discovered that he's not the dead assassin, he's dead.
Besides he like the luxurious like that the Templars provides.
Anyway he waited for a bit before he finally see 2 figures coming towards him.
They of course are not dressed as ridiculous as he is, they're just wearing normal clothes with hoodies on.
They seems to be carrying gold objects.
As they get closer the object in their hands gets clearer, it the peace's of Eden he had help the Templar get.
William pretended to be tightening the bloody soggy bandages around his neck as they gets near him.
As the gets closer they slowed dawn, suffice to say they could imagine what had happened from a single glance at the environment.
Him wearing costume from the 18th century (he's wearing the governor's outfit from AC4), with the rows mannequins at the around wearing similar clothing and there was a particular spot with a mannequin missing.
The blood stains on the floor and 2 blood trails seemingly made from bleeding bodies to a janitor's room and finally him clenching to his neck trying to bandage the wound.
The woman walks up to William thinking he's the dead assassin and it seems she wanted to give him a peace of her mind saying something like "that's what you get for screwing around!" But she held it in and just sighs.
She before she regains composure and asked "has the target been eliminated?"
William then just gave her a dead stare that seems says "really?" Before he points at the blood trail leading to the janitor room.
William at this is preying that he got the personality right.
She didn't say anything anymore as she continues on forward, leading the way to the exit.
At this time the second assassin tossed him a golden sword telling him.
"catch"
William catches the sword or other wise known as the sword of Eden, he examines it fro a bit before placing it on his hip.
The Templars would undoubtedly want their peaces of Eden back.
"Your ganna get it when we gets back" the guy said before he runs ahead.
William frowns slightly at the unprofessionalism of these assassins thinking 'it seems that the assassins are really driven to the corner by sending out unprepared recruits'
William naturally fallows them out of the base.
It didn't take long before they're out of the base before the woman suddenly stops right at near at the end of the tunnel leading out.
She turns around and asked "alright we've played the charade looks long enough, who are you?"
The guy who was in front seems to be startled as he has no idea that William was an imposter.
As he was turning around to look at William but before he could do that his head is already flying in the air.
William had wanted to do it at a more timing of his choosing and his targets unsuspecting but since his cover is blown, it forced him to act now.
He pulled out the Eden sword chopped the head of the assassin in front of him before proceeding forward to face off with the woman.
William swings his sword again aiming to kill her but she instinctively stretch out her hand trying to block the attack.
Now she would have died instantly but you see she's holding another piece of Eden.
So she blocks the attack and it seems that 2 pieces of Eden is hitting each other created a resonance effect.
As flash of lights up the world and blinds William for a few good seconds.
He slowly regains his sight back and soon finds himself in a completely different place.
—-story end——
For some strange reason I think I'm the first person to depict the Assassins are not the good guys as they're depicted in the game.
Once again I've come up with a narrative that's completely new and doesn't necessarily contradict to the lore.
So what do you guys think?