Chapter 9 - Blast From The Past
(A time manipulation with a little fantasy. Starring Altair, Ezio and OC) Altair and Ezio belong to Ubisoft and the Rest are my OC's.
The jets computer turned on and a familiar voice came over the speakers "Is everything alright in there?" Lightning asked. The jet was being brought back up to the surface, Redstriker took her seat at the front of the plane again.
"Yes, we're fine."
"What the hell happened?" He replied annoyed. "Do you realize how hard and time consuming it was to find you? Why on earth would you shut off the lines of communication!" His voice echoed as he yelled.
Once the jet was on the carrier, the planes cargo door opened to the ground. She was greeted by Lightning and the Captain, both didn't look happy. "Don't give me that look." She looked at Lightning and shook hands with the captain.
"I trust you'll have explanation for this? I found it quiet alarming to get a distress call from you." The captain asked holding his hands behind his back.
"Yes, I'll explain in your office. Please have my plane serviced and my guests attended too." Redstriker followed the Captain to the door.
Ezio looked back at Altair, who decided to remain on the plane. He looked around and was amazed at how big the ship was, the plane beside theirs looked similar, Black body with yellow trimming instead of red. He figured it was probably Lightning's. He looked off into the distance but all he could see was water in all directions. It was windy, causing his Assassins jacket to flap and the ship to sway in the waves. He walked over to the edge of the ship and looked down at the water, The ship was as tall as most of the buildings he would jump off of. He took a closer look at the plane and was surprised to see no damage. He wonder how that could be possible with how violently the plane shook when they were under attack.
Three hours later Redstriker and Lightning both landed in Italy without any problems, they had to go sign some papers before returning to their planes. They found themselves a hotel room to stay in for the night and left the next morning heading towards Monteriggioni.
Redstriker was driving in front followed by Lightning. They were a hour away from their destination. "Do you have a plan, once we get there?" Ezio asked Redstriker.
"It's your home town, I was thinking of doing some sight seeing first to see if there is any information about the vault. Unless you have a better idea in mind?"
"I think we should try the exit tunnel first. I find it unlikely that my sister would have made sure it was in working order when she had it rebuilt and if it is in working order then using it would probably be difficult with who ever is running it right now." He looked out the window. "I don't think I have ever seen so much snow in Italy before."
"They had a snow storm two days ago." She looked in her review mirror. "What the hell?" She saw four Italian police cars trying to pull them over. "This can't be good."
"What's going on?" Altair ask looking out the back window.
"I don't know." She pulled her car over and Lightning did the same. She watched them approach Lightning's car first, their hands on their guns. "This isn't looking good. What ever happens just remain silent and do as they ask." She watched as Lightning stepped out of his car and they hand cuffed him behind his back.
"Why don't we just kill them? I can easily take on all eight of them." Altair stated.
"It doesn't work that way here! If you fight them it will just make things worse later." She text something from her phone. "Unless I tell you to fight, please just do as they say and remain silent." The officer came over, tapped on the glass motioning for them to step out of the car. She rolled down her window slightly. "Can I help you officer?
"Step out of the car with your hands behind your head." The officer said. The other officers each stood in front of the two back doors.
"I have the right to know why we are being arrested." She asked while getting out of the car and did as asked. She saw the Assassins reluctantly follow her lead.
"For suspicious behaviour. You have the right to remain silent, anything you say, can and will be used against you in a court of law."
Some hours later they escorted Redstriker to the cell. She was surprised and happy to see that Lightning and the others where in the same cell across from hers. She watched the guard lock the door. She took a seat on the bench and sighed.
"What the hell was that about?" Lightning said annoyed.
"They accused you of drug trafficking too?" Redstriker said and saw him nodded. "Yea, now they have a warrant to search the cars and planes."
"What?" Lightning pushed himself off the wall he was leaning on and faced her.
"That's what I said." She smirked. "Something doesn't seem right here. First the attack and now this? Seems to big of a coincidence."
"How are we getting out of this mess? They refused to let me make a phone call." Lightning took a seat on the bench next to Altair who was sitting on the floor resting his arms on his knees.
"I was able to message Stinger and Hunter before they came to my car, they should have us out by tonight." Redstriker leaned her back on the wall.
"Who are they?" Ezio inquired. He sat cross legged on the other bench.
"My brothers, Stinger is the head officer at Striker National and Hunter is the corporations lawyer. They have gotten me off of death row before, so I'm not worried."
Altair looked up. "Why where you sent to be executed?"
She chuckled, "Long story. Is this the first time you guys have been ever arrested?"
"To willingly be captured yes. I find it amusing how some things don't change by much." Altair stretched.
Ezio laughed. "I bet your talking about the cell, right?" He saw him nod.
"What was it like to be in a captured in your time?" Redstriker asked.
"I was only captured once, when I was a novice. I don't remember how long I was imprison for, but I was able to escape on my own. I remember being in a small room chained to the floor, I was stuck in a sitting position not being able to move much. There were no lights, no windows, and it was cold and damp." Altair looked at the sandwich they were given an hour ago. "Being feed was rare and most of the time you would rather starve to death then eat what they gave you." He had tossed the sandwich over to Redstriker cell because she motioned to do so.
"Things didn't change much in my era, I was captured twice. Once on purpose to kill my target and the second time... Well, let's just say I stop heavily drinking after that day. I spend a week hanging from my wrists, my feet barely touched the floor. It was also cold and damp with no windows but there was a torch for light. I wouldn't dare eat that Templar garbage they tried feeding me. I watched one person in the cell in front of me turn mad. He foamed at the mouth as he ranted and raved about anything that came to mind after eating what they gave him."
"Some things really don't change, there are still places today that will treat you like that." She reflected as she ate the sandwich.
"What's with the dog collars we are forced to wear?" Ezio asked while trying to adjust it.
"They are called a Power Suppressor, since it's impossible to tell if someone has an ability, they place one on everybody as safety precaution." Lightning informed.
Altair started adjusting it around his neck, amused at the idea of it being able to suppress abilities. He tried to switch into Eagle Vision and was surprised to find out he couldn't.
It was three in the morning when they were finally released, four when they carefully inspected the cars and five when they found another hotel to stay at. Later that afternoon Redstriker stood over the hood of her car looking at a map with the others. "This was only meant to be a three day trip." She said frustrated. "Lightning, I want you to head back to the airport and make sure our planes haven't been tampered with. Ezio, Altair and I will go to Monteriggioni and see about the vault." She looked at her phone before putting it back away. "I'll call you when we get there and if I don't call you three hours after that. It's safe to assume we ran into more trouble.
An hour later Ezio had brought them to the entrance of the tunnel he used to escape the villa when it was under attack. The snow was deep making it harder to get there, the cave looked to still be in one piece. Redstriker had given them each three white rods and entered the cave followed by the others, when it got to dark she had cracked one of the rods and it began to glow bright. She watched Ezio take the lead again, after sometime they reached a large room with water that was frozen over. Ezio stopped suddenly. "What's wrong?" She asked.
"Some ones been here before." He said looking around.
"How can you tell?" She held out the rods to give more light.
"The bridges are all down, I wouldn't have left it this easy to get back into the vault."
She frowned. "Let's be extra careful then, there might be traps." She hopped down onto the ice and walked to the other side. "If we're lucky, we might be able to figure out who was here last."
Altair jumped down after Redstriker, He slipped as soon as his feet touched the ice, having him land on his stomach that knocked the air out of him. He heard Ezio burst into laughter as he glared at him before rubbed his hand over the clear cold ground. "What is this?"
Redstriker had looked back. "It's ice, it can by slippery."
Altair was able to get back on his feet. "I'll keep that in mind..." He walked to where she was without slipping again.
Ezio jumped down and landed fine, he walked over to were they were. "It's not that slip...Ow!" Ezio landed on his back and laid there.
"You were saying Ezio?" Altair smirked.
They had made it to the vault to see it in ruins. The status were all in pieces scattered all over the floor, most he could no longer recognise. Ezio walked over to what used to be Altairs Statue. "The Codex pages are no longer here." He said disappointed. He started to look around for any clues.
Redstriker was disappointed to see the state the room was in, whoever was here before them had used jackhammers to destroy everything. She looked back at Ezio and was concerned to see the look on his face. He looked shocked with his mouth gaping open. "Ezio, what's wrong?"
"I...Don't understand what I'm seeing... There were around a dozen people down here. They are all wearing similar looking clothing with a weird head mask."
"What are you talking about?" She asked confused.
"He has Eagle Vision." Altair stated.
"What?" She was even more confused.
"It's an ability that give me the power to see things, like hidden objects and people that were once here." He walked around then stopped suddenly. "What the hell?" He took a few steps back.
"What do you see now?" Redstriker asked rather curious.
"I see...Me?" He said confused. He followed the ghostly apparition to the top of the stairs. The others had followed after him, he ran his hand over the wall.
"What did you mean you saw yourself?" She asked.
"I saw what looked to be an older me, I must have been in my late 40s maybe 50s when I returned here. There's a triangle with nine smaller triangles in it, with the numbers 1419, 1420, and 1421 written in it, I wonder why I did that?"
"Something to think about later, our three hours are running out and Lightning will be worried." She said and headed out the way they came, the other followed after her.
Redstriker paused just before the entrance of the cave and held out her hands to stop the others from moving forward. She quickly moved to the side of the cave and crouched down. She removed her two guns from their holsters on her legs. "Did you see something out there?" Altair ask from behind her, he could just see heavy snow falling.
"My instincts are telling me there is more then just snow out there, but I have no way of knowing." She was frustrated at the idea of being cornered if she was right. She saw Ezio crouch down beside her and a thought came to mind. "Would your Eagle Vision be able to see if any ones out there?" She looked into Ezio eyes and was surprised to see them turning a golden color.
"Your instincts were right, I can see at lest ten people hiding be hide the trees from my vantage point, probably more." He face became more serous. "They are also armed, I can see swords as well as guns like yours."
Altair had gone into Eagle Vision as well but could only see small glimpses of red. "Eagle Vision must evolve in later generations."
"Swords?" She said confused. "That's kind of strange." They remained silent for a few minutes as she thought of a plan. "No time like they present I suppose." She handed one of her guns to Ezio. She watched him examined it. "Aim and pull the trigger to shoot. There are 20 rounds in the cartage, when empty slid the top back and pull out the cartridge and place the new one there. Slid the top back to continue. Expect a loud bang and the gun to kick back if your not prepared for it so hold it tight." She demonstrated as she explained. "Always try and remained covered. If they manage to shoot you, it will hurt like nothing you have ever experienced I bet." She handed Ezio one of the two cartridges and gave Altair one along with the other gun. She crept closer to the entrance to get a better look.
"Wait. What are you going to use?" Ezio asked in a quiet tone and looked at her as if she was insane to go out there unarmed.
"I have my sword, my fire abilities and Lightnings speed to help me kill and defend myself against whoever is out there." She looked back to see him confused. It dawned on her that his never seen her use her powers yet. "I'll have to explain all that to you later, right now we have people to deal with. I'll run out there and set as many as I can see on fire, you'll both have to kill as many as you can." She saw them nod and took off out of the cave as fast as she could.
At the corner of her eyes she saw two of them behind the first two trees she passed, she jumped and spun facing them. Holding out her hands she sent two flaming darts into there helmet vizors that covered the top half of there face. They dropped to the ground with their mouths gapping open, as she ran she heard multiple gun shots going off in all directions, a few she felt pass throw her hair.
She saw two more guys and dropped them to their knees, she turned to see one of them pointing a gun at her, she braced herself to be shot but he suddenly tilled his head up as his vizor shattered and fell to the snowy ground. Someone shot him before he could kill her, she took cover behind a tree as the sides splinted from the heavy gun fire aimed at her direction.
She summoned her sword and it materialized in her hand in a puff of flames, the swords metal it's self glowed hot with fire. When the sound stopped she took that opportunity to dart out from behind the tree and did a 360 spin sending a huge wave of fire in all directions before taking cover behind another tree from the next round of gun fire. She heard screams of panic and darted in that direction killed three more with her fiery darts.
Something hit her in the back and began wrapping her arms to her chest and down to her legs. She struggled to get it off and cried out in pain as it began to shock her, her sword vanished as it fell from her grip. She dropped to her knees before landing on her chest. She looked on furiously as the lower half of a person can into her vision and was chuckling.
