Chapter 9- Altair and The Xbox of Eden
Thanks again for the idea, anabel the lady shark!
Altair had seen the Xbox 360 and had been interested in it for a while, especially after he had seen Desmond play it once. It was… completely different from everything else he'd seen. He pieced together the facts.
1) It allowed you to control small creatures and people.
2) It showed strange, other worldly creatures and places.
3) It caused people (Or at least Desmond) to have varying emotions. (Happiness at some sort of victory, anger at a loss, etc.)
It was clearly a piece of Eden, or it was, at least, powered by a piece of Eden. Now, as he sat over it, he decided that it was the later. All he had to do was get the piece of Eden and then... Well, he'd figure out something to do with it later. First he had to open the Xbox, which he knew would be potentially dangerous. Most objects guarding pieces of Eden were. He took a knife out from one of the many weapons caches hidden in his outfit, and carefully began to pry apart the system.
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Desmond came in later to find Altair sitting in front of a halved 360, slowly but surely making his way through all the different pieces. "This goes here… this comes off like this…"
Desmond's expression was one of complete shock and confusion. "No, bad Assassin!" Was all he could think to say before rushing over and pulling Altair away from the mangled system. Altair struggled, easily breaking free, and used his famous death glare of death on Desmond, who ignored it and gestured wildly to the Xbox. "What were you thinking? No wait, you don't think, you're Altair! It's perfectly fine to destroy the Xbox!"
Altair glare increased in deadliness. "It is the…" he picked the word Desmond had used to name the system. "Xbox of Eden." He finished confidently, and then frowned when Desmond snickered. "What's so funny?"
Desmond grinned in a corny sort of way. "You're an idiot."
"Excuse me?" His expression went from a frown to a ticked-off, slightly more subtle way of saying 'You're going to die.'
Desmond snickered again. "That's no more a piece of Eden than I am."
Altair frowned again. "What?"
"It's called a game system, it's an electronic, not a mystical artifact."
"…What?" He repeated. Desmond sighed slightly, shrugging off the laughter so he could go into 'teach the ancient assassin mode.' He was wondering if there was any chance of getting the Xbox to work again, and decided that it would need a professional, if there was any hope of repairing it at all. "Alright, there's this stuff called electricity, which is really, REALLY important in this day and age, and it powers just about everything. Anything you think can't be explained is usually electric."
"So… everything is 'electric'?"
"Just about."
"I'll need to think about this. Oh, and you may want to give Ezio more lessons on the toaster."
"Why?" Desmond asked, suddenly on alert. Altair just shrugged and walked towards his room with a pondering look on his face. This time was certainly different from his. Desmond went to look at the Toaster and then find Ezio.
