Enigma
By: Ominae
Rating: T
Disclaimer:
All characters/events of the various Assassin's Creed games/official comics/movies are under the copyright of Ubisoft and the various writers/directors who wrote the comics/movies. All characters/events of the Persona series are under the copyright of Atlus.
Summary:
Crossover between the Assassin's Creed and Persona series. Warren Vidic investigates what happened in Denver when Daniel Cross is left as the only survivor. The strangest word he heard is "Persona". What is this "Persona" thing Daniel mentions to Vidic? Takes places after Persona 4/Golden, but before the first Assassin's Creed game.
NOTE:
This is a what if scenario if Cross got traumatized due to something else related to the wider Megaten 'verse aside from the bleeding episode he had. The story specifically starts a week after the incident at Denver International Airport.
Chapter 1:
October 2011
Abstergo Industries Italian Headquarters
Rome, Italy
Warren Vidic, one of AI's many scientists and the man in charge of the company's research department, had just been summoned for an important meeting. Vidic noted that the e-mail was marked URGENT that he had to cancel a meeting with an AI scientist over the progress of conceptualizing improvements for their Animus machine.
What the hell went wrong with Denver? Dammit, it was suppose to be a simple job.
After a few minutes of walking from one of the unused conference rooms to the building's medical wing. A couple of armed AI guards were present, serving as protection for whoever was inside.
"Sir..." The guards stood at attention.
"As you were gentlemen." Vidic walked pass by them. "I'm about to get busy."
Vidic was greeted by Dr. Sung and a pissed Daniel Cross, who was currently confined to his bed on her orders to the wing's medical staff.
"What happened?" Vidic asked the Assassin traitor turned Templar when he grabbed a nearby plastic chair.
Daniel simply huffed, refusing to speak.
"Did he say anything to you, Doctor?" Vidic asked Sung if she knew anything.
"If I did, I would have mentioned it to you a while ago."
"Come on." Vidic said when he looked at Daniel, trying to plead with him."You need to tell us what happened in Denver."
The blond Templar agent gritted his teeth.
"What happened in Denver? If you don't speak, the Inner Sanctum will hold you accountable for refusing to speak up."
"Like I told her..." Daniel gritted his teeth when he spoke. "A lot of shitty things happened there."
"I need the specifics, Daniel." Vidic was getting tired of the agent's refusal to provide the details.
Daniel stayed silent again.
"DANIEL!"
Daniel sighed and leaned back on his pillow. "I... I can't remember what happened. Even if I wanted to, it's mostly a blank."
"Doctor?" Vidic asked Sung for her medical opinion.
"This is most likely selective amnesia." Sung answered before she explained the specifics to the bearded man. "It's when someone can't remember events that already happened in their life. In this case, Daniel can't remember what took place in our Denver facility."
The scientist was silent to reflect on the doctor's answer. I suppose the only way to get whatever memories Daniel can't remember is to slowly dig it out of his mind. We may as well try it.
"Doctor Sung." Vidic faced her again. "Do you know someone in the wing who's has expertise in hypnosis?"
Daniel raised an eyebrow when he heard from the white-haired man, wondering why he needs to speak to someone with a specialty in hypnosis.
A few minutes later, Daniel appeared to be resting well in his bed. Sung thanked a male nurse of Caucasian origin with brown hair for helping her out.
The nurse approached Daniel's bed and spoke to him. "Daniel. Daniel, can you hear me?"
"Is it working?" Vidic asked the nurse after the latter checked on his condition.
"Yes, sir. You can talk to him now. Just be sure to ask him one question at a time."
"Why is that?"
"In his current state, he may not be able to process multiple questions at once. It's just a precaution."
"I understand."
Vidic nodded and stared at the resting Templar.
"Daniel, I need to ask you about what happened in Denver. Can you do that?"
After a few seconds of silence, Daniel slowly nodded.
"It's okay now, sir." The nurse advised Vidic. "If you got a question in mind, now's the time."
"Alright." Vidic nodded when he heard the nurse out. "Daniel, I need to walk me through what you remember back in Denver. Don't rush it. Take it slow and easy."
Daniel nodded.
"Okay, Daniel. What's the first thing you remembered when got to Denver?"
Daniel began to speak, recalling what he knew from the deep recesses of his memories.
"I went there to meet with the liaison officer. He told me that he got reports of some intruder in the underground facility."
An intruder?
Vidic was curious to see what kind of intruder. He then pressed the question. "Do you know what kind of intruder?"
Daniel shook his head. "I wasn't sure. The report was kinda vague on it. But I decided to help them out while I was there."
"Go on."
"A day later, I was helping doing the rounds for the facility as production for the satellite was underway when I got a report from security that a potential intruder was spotted."
Vidic wanted to know more about the intruder. "Do you know who it was?"
Daniel shook his head again.
"Daniel." The nurse reached out to Daniel. "You don't have to rush. Just lie back and think carefully, okay?"
"Okay." Daniel replied. "I'll try."
Vidic and Sung waited for a minute or two to let Daniel recall the event/s from his memories.
"I..." Daniel hesitated for a bit before he continued. "I saw someone there."
"Can you recall who it was?"
"I'm not sure. All I can remember is that the person looked young."
"A young assassin, Dr. Vidic?" Sung asked the scientist.
Vidic pondered on the doctor's question. "Most likely. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case."
"Sir." The nurse spoke to Vidic. "You can still ask him another question or two. Just remember what I told you about asking them all at once a while ago."
"I understand." Vidic nodded. Let me ask this to him.
"Daniel. The next question I'm going to ask will require you to think carefully regarding the intruder's appearance. Can you do that?"
"Yeah. I can."
"All right. Just take your time."
"But before I go on, there's something else I need to say."
Vidic nodded. "Go on."
"That person... shouted a word. Said something like Persona or something."
Sung was startled to hear what Daniel had to say. "Persona?"
Vidic shrugged his shoulders.
"And do you recall the person who did that?"
"I think so..."
Vidic nodded. At least we're getting somewhere.
"The person..."
Chapter 1 END
PS - This is officially my 100th fic story uploaded in FF dot net. Been a lot of history that I had with this site when I first uploaded my story in 2005. Had some good and bad times in the process of working with my stories.
I do like to thank the various writers who helped me out and my current/former reviewers for contributing their thoughts/input with most of the my stories present on this website. And I do wish to continue writing fanfics for as long as my brain/time/willpower/whatever allows me to do so.
Like I mentioned in disclaimer, this is a test fic to see if more readers would like to see an Assassin's Creed/Persona story, especially since I'm working on one that happens to be Persona 4/Golden, but crossed over with the AC 'verse. Hopefully it can garner some interests from the readers on the site. I previously did a oneshot that Narukami is an Assassin prior to being sent to Yasoinaba.
Depending on what happened, I plan to expand that to have a sequel.
The idea for this story is for who Daniel confronted in Denver. Depending on who it is, it can range from the serious to the super hilarious. I'll concentrate the story on P4/Golden, just like what I mentioned at the start in case people don't know.
I hope you guys like the story and/or the story idea. Leave me a review and let me know what you think of it.
And it seems I decided to break my rules of not having more than three fics being written. I punch myself in the face for that since I was getting a bit antsy on writing a fic crossover between AC/Persona.
Currently I'm still writing "Peacekeepers", "Hostage Rescue" and "Crisis" alongside this (partially). So in case you guys were able to read them, feel free to leave a review as well.