(Altair and Ezio belong to Ubisoft)
(the rest are my OC)
I was watching fear factor for the first time again in years with a friend of mine. He had just taken a break from playing assassins creed 2 and I had mentioned how funny it would be to see the assassins attempting their hand at fear factor.
Keeping that in mind we started laughing at the challenges the contestants had to do and thought about how the assassins would react to them.
The following challenges were really what they had to do and could be a little GRUESOME, so be warned and enjoy. The episode aired on January 9th 2012, so if you can find it or have seen it, you can picture them playing it lol.
(A time manipulation with a little fantasy. Starring Altair, Ezio and OC.)
Altair and Ezio sat in chairs next to each other while two ladies added a white power to their faces, it was to ensure their faces wouldn't appear so red when they were on t.v. 15 minutes till the show they called Fear Factor would begin. Altair sat annoyed in the chair, he couldn't believe he was stuck doing this. Ezio had to open his mouth about how fearless the Assassin were to the children. One thing lead to another and now they represented Striker National on this show. He had refused to do it at first but he was accused of being afraid and then stupidly agreed to this none sense. Redstriker just had to make one call and they had been accepted onto the show. He rolled his eyes when he saw Ezio flirting with the girls. The ladies then left to tend to the other contestants.
"Liven up, Altair. It's not everyday you get to be on t.v." Ezio said casually.
"You do realize we are breaking the creed by exposing ourselves instead of remaining in the shadows."
Ezio chuckled. "Exposing ourselves to what? Ever since we came here, we been stuck in the villa doing nothing and I for one will enjoy the time away from the twins." He shifted in his seat. "Plus how hard can this game really be? We fear nothing and we can win 50,000 dollars."
"Someone could recognise us." Altair sighed.
"Who would recognise us? Other then Redstriker's family of course. Stop being so paranoid." Ezio shrugged off the glare he was recieving.
They now stood in front of the camera's, Joe Rogan Introduced the show and the contestants. There were four teams, Them, another team of two guys, one team with two girls and the last team one girl, one guy. "Welcome to another episode of Fear Factor. Here you will witness four teams stare fear in the eye for a chance to win 50,000 dollars. They will have to endure three rounds of extreme challenges. One will test your strength limit, one your mental limit and the last your endurance limit, so lets begin!"
The curtain dropped to reveal there first challenge. Altair violently cursed in his head, out of all things it had to be a challenge like that. He suppressed the instant urge to walk out immediately, if it wasn't for that fact that millions of people would later see this, he would have.
Joe Rogan continued. "This is the first challenge, one member will have there hands tied in the cage that will be slowly lowered into the water, there they will have to hold their breath till their partner can cut the rope and helps screw off the wing nuts to open the cage door. They will then have to swim out of the pool to reach the rope and each pull off a flag to stop the clock. The team that does it the fastest will get to pick the order the team go in for tomorrows challenge." They were allowed a few minutes to discuss a strategy.
Ezio looking over at the challenge and laughed. "So which one of us is going into the c...Ugh!" Altair had grab his collar.
"I swear, I'm going to kill you for this!" He hissed.
"What? Why?" He asked confused.
Altair let go of him and looked to the floor, after a moment he crossed his arms. "I...can't swim." There was more to that but he would truly have to kill Ezio if he were to find out why he was afraid of water.
"What? How can you not know how to swim?"
"I lived in the desert! There was never a reason or a chance to learn." Altair let out a sigh of frustration.
Ezio looked back to the challenge and thought for a few minute. "Well, I don't want to have to forfeit" He rubbed his chin. "Ah! I got it. This is what we'll do. You'll sit in the cage while I'll swim out and cut the rope. You'll then start taking off the top wing nuts and I'll work on the bottom. Sound like an idea?
"You forget the part where I can't swim."
"Oh right..." He gave it a little more thought. "Well you could always push yourself off the cage, it should be enough to get you to the edge of the pool and if it doesn't I can help you the rest of the way."
Altair let out a snort. He thought about it as he looked at the challenge, the idea seemed sound enough but he was worried the memories of his past would consume him. It was eerily too similar to The Trial by Drowning. He didn't have many options, to quit without trying would make him look like coward and then try to explain it would be even harder. He would have to give it a try and hope that if either of them failed it would be Ezio. "Fine."
Ezio and Altair watched as the team that were both girls failed miserably. The one that was in charge of cutting the ropes had panicked 43 seconds in and quit in fear for her friend. The next group was the man and woman, the woman was having a difficult time cutting the rope as well and it was the guy that had quit after spending a little over a minute under water. It was now their turn. Altair was filled with dread as he sat on his knees, his wrists already bound to the cage. He looked over to the other side of the pool were Ezio stood holding wire cutters waiting for the clock to start. He glared at him, he was going to pay for this one way or another. He repeated the creed and what he had to do over and over again in his head. This kept him focused and made it harder for the memories to come. The clock started and Ezio dove into the pool, Altair could see him swimming towards him, by the time Ezio had cut the first rope the water was up to his stomach. He was just able to reach the wing nuts and started loosening them to the best of his ability for that moment. When Ezio cut the other rope the water was up to his chest. Altair was able to get three of the ten wing nuts off by the time Ezio started to help. Altair took a deep breath and was fully submerged in the water. The urge to panic was strong, but at lest this time there was task at hand and he wasn't so helpless like the first time. His hands weren't tied to the cage anymore and Ezio was there trying to free him. Right now there was five more wing nuts to get off before the cage door could open freeing him from the watery prison. He watched Ezio go up for air before returning to help, he felt his lungs start to burn but there was only three left to undo. The last two were more difficult to undo because both couldn't turn at the same time, so Altair watched in agony as Ezio undid the last one. Finally the door was open and he pushed himself off the cage like Ezio suggested. Lucky he was right, it was enough to get him to the edge as he gasped for air and hauled himself out of the pool. Ezio had grabbed the first flag before Altair grabbed the other stopping the clock. Joe Rogan sounded impressed, giving them a time of 1:43. Unfortunately the last team was able to beat their score with a 1:35. This left just them and the team of two guys for tomorrows challenge, the other team getting to decide who would go first.
Altair and Ezio went back to the room they had been giving for the competition. Altair flopped on the bed laying on his back. He was relieved to be in warm dry cloths as he laid there. Ezio had taken a seat in the chair and turned on the t.v. "I still can't believe those guys beat us." Ezio said irritated.
"We were at a disadvantage, they're trained life guards, so of course they would be able to swim faster." Either way, as long as the next challenges had nothing to do with water he could handle anything they throw at him.
The next afternoon Ezio and Altair, and the other team stood in the middle of a parking lot waiting for Joe Rogan to arrive. Suddenly they heard screeching of tires and saw a truck swerving this way and that before stopping in front of them. The truck was black and had stickers of bugs all over it. Altair heard the other team groan in agony and wondered why. Joe Rogan stepped out of the truck. "Welcome to your next challenge, You'll be eating a choice of two things. One being the Madagascar hissing cockroach or the Hedge Grasshopper from Australia. You will also have to eat these rat hair biscuits and maggots in a blood sauce soup, you'll have 15 minutes to eat everything. Now because there is only two teams left no one will be eliminated, so the first team to eat everything the fastest will win an extra 5000 dollars and be able to choose who goes first in tomorrows challenge." Again they where allowed a few minutes to discuss.
Altair was amused to see the other team looking rather ill. Eating bugs was no big deal to him, it was often his only source of food while travelling between cities. He had never drank blood before though, so that would be an interesting experience. He chuckled as he looked over to Ezio and noticed he looked rather ill as well. "Are you alright Ezio? You look like you're going to be sick."
"How can you not be? That's disgusting."
"You've never eaten bugs before?" Altair inquired.
"I'm a noble, why on earth would I ever need to eat bugs for?"
Altair had chuckled. "We'll eat the one with the grasshoppers then and you'll have to help to the best of your ability, I'd suggest you eat the biscuits."
The other team had decided to go first. They had picked the cockroaches and gagged often, after 15 minutes they couldn't finish everything. It was now their turn. Ezio suppressed a gag as he looked at the live grasshoppers move around the table with the maggots swimming in the bowl of blood. He looked over to Altair and was surprised to see the amused look on his face, he had never seem the man smile before. The clock began and he watched Altair effortlessly pick up two grasshoppers and started eating them. Ezio looked at the biscuits, he focused his mind on something else so he wouldn't gag at the idea he was eating rat hair. He looked over to Altair again who had finished at lest half of the grasshoppers and was starting to toss them behind his back and catch them in his mouth. Not wanting to be shown up by Altair, he picked up the maggot blood soup and tried to down it in shot, but half way throw he gagged and couldn't finish it. Altair had finished off the grasshoppers by then and had laughed at Ezio. He watched Altair pick up the rest of the soup and being to drink it. He was happy to see that Altair wasn't enjoying it as much as he was eating the grasshoppers. In the end, they had won because they were able to finish everything before the time ran out. It had only taken them seven minutes.
Back at the hotel, Altair relaxed on the bed. "That was easy, how is eating bugs considered something to fear?"
"I don't think it's fear but more of disgust, I know I'll..." He trailed off, remembering what he ate and it was no longer willing to agree with him. He rushed into the bathroom to throw up, he saw the blood and maggots and was horrified. "Oh god! Their still alive!" He shouted before throwing up again. He came out of the bathroom and leaned on the door way, wiping his mouth. "I still can't believe you're able to stomach that."
"Well in my time the assassins weren't known to have money on them. So we often had to hunt or steal for our food between travelling. When on a mission the rafiqs would supply us with food and any money we happened to make would be given to the master. I wouldn't want to drink the blood again, I have tasted enough of my own blood, let alone to be willing to drink it."
Today they stood on a race track. Joe Rogan begun explaining the challenge. "Welcome to your last challenge! Today one of you will win the 50,000 dollars! The task is simple, one member will have to drive the car as close as they can to the back of the bus. The other will have to retrieve the 13 flags, one at a time from the car and bringing them back to the bus. First one to do this the fastest, wins!" Altair and Ezio had agreed to let the other team go first.
"So how are we pulling off this one? Neither of us can drive." Altair folded his arms as he watched.
"I can drive." Ezio stated.
Altair had frowned. "How do you know how to drive? Redstriker told us to stay away form the cars till she had time to teach us."
"Well I have driven horse drawn carriages before and I been playing those racing games against Jack so I have a good idea how it works, Right pedals the gas, the one on the left is the brakes and D is for drive." Ezio looked eager to test out the real thing.
"Are you crazy? That's a game, not the real thing."
"Would you rather forfeit then or let us try our luck?" Ezio had shrugged. "You'd be better at jumping between the bus and the car, your much lighter then I am so it give you a speed advantage."
"With my luck your going to kill me with the car."
"You'll be wearing a harness, so it will be hard for me to run you over." Ezio laughed. "We made it this far we might as well try."
The other team had finished it with a time to beat of 2:34 minutes. Altair stood on the back of the bus as it started moving, seeing Ezio jerking the car and swerving roughly didn't inspire much confidence but by the time the clock started ezio was close enough for him to make the first jump. He landed hard on the hood of the car, getting his balance was difficult at first. He made his way to the three flags at the back of the car, grab one flag and went back to the hood. He jumped onto the bus, then placed the flag on a hook. He did this over and over, and became a lot faster at it, there was five left that Ezio would have to hand to him. Driving and handing him the flag made Ezio steering a little rough, he came close to falling off the car at one point. It was the last one and Ezio had bumped into the bus causing him to loss his balance again, he was just able to leap onto the bus and hooked in the last flag.
Both teams stood next to another waiting for the results. Altair didn't care who won, he was just happy this non sense was over and done with. "The time to beat was 2:34, the winner gets to walk away with 50,000 dollars! Your time was..." Joe Rogan paused for effect. "2:13, Striker National's the winner!" Ezio had cheered and Altair was some what surprised, he didn't expect to really win.
After signing some papers, they were on their way back to Striker National. Shadow was the only one available to pick them up, it was going to be a three hour drive. "You know, you and me make a pretty good team. We should do stuff like that more often, makes for a good training experience."
"Ezio, if you ever put me through something like that again, I'll kill you." Altair stated in all seriousness.
