Assassin's Creed: Ashes

by Kinecelefan

Phoenix never did have a good work ethic, so how could he pass up the opportunity to forget his janitorial work and be the first to play an awesome video game? Once he starts playing, however, this video game turns out to be more than expected, when he finds himself stepping into the body of the character, a member of an order of assassins, Savastian.

1. Prologue

Phoenix never thought he would be degraded to this. Granted, he knew that he would most likely never be considerably successful, but really, a janitor? It never crossed his mind when considering career choices. He supposed someone had to do it, but honestly... why him? I don't get paid enough for this... He thought with a sigh, lazily shifting most of his weight to his cart as he pushed it. The Abstergo Industries building Phoenix worked in was rather large, and it was tiring pushing a mop up and down the floors of hundreds of rooms. As Phoenix turned his cart towards the next room, the door automatically slid open. I guess nobody's home, Phoenix thought. Most of the doors in the building were automatic, but remained sealed when the rooms were in use. This was the first time this door had opened since Phoenix had started working at Abstergo. He pushed the cart into the room, and was surprised to find the room extremely clean. He could just barely detect the scent of bleach. What did they do in here, kill someone? Phoenix thought, sarcastically. He was about to leave, when out of the corner of his eye, something grabbed his attention. What the hell? Is that a... space bed? He wondered, looking the machine over. It was about seven feet long by two feet wide, and had several flashing disks running down the top, each smaller than the last. They looked a bit like the circular LED lights Phoenix sometimes saw in the lighting sections of hardware stores, but only the smallest disk was comparable in size. The machine was somewhat rippled, seemingly designed to comfortably fit a human body.

On the other side of the machine, Phoenix could see what looked like a small computer monitor- probably some kind of control system. Phoenix glanced around, making sure he was truely alone, then slid into the machine. As soon he rested his head on the plexiglass over the largest disk, he heard an unexpected sound, like a car window sliding down. The source of the sound then presented itself; a curved sheet of glass, extending over his face from the left side of his head. When the glass reached the other side of his head, a white Abstergo logo appeared, and the ceiling faded into a pixely dark blue void. Oh my god, what is this? Some sort of computer? Phoenix thought, off-guard. Then, everything faded to white.