Genesis

Chapter 4: Genesis

Ugh, my head is killing me. But it's a good reminder of what had occurred the previous night. That was definitely, hands down one of the craziest nights in my life. Most of my crazy nights usually took place in good old, party city New Marais. But here I am in Venice, Italy in 1486, and my world had been rocked until it couldn't be rocked anymore. Well for now at least.

When I woke up and I opened my eyes, I found myself in the middle of nowhere, everything was dark and void of everything Italian.

And I'm floating.

This is not what I meant when I said I wanted to fly.

"Where the hell am I?"

" Over here."

A male voice called out to me but I couldn't see where he was.

" Hello. They call me Subject Sixteen. Listen. You alone have experienced firsthand what our world truly is. You are a walking example. I don't have much time. There are some things I need to show you. You, we have been lied to this whole time. Everything we know, everything we've been brought up to believe, it's all wrong."

"Wait, what do you mean?" I responded.

" I will lay out the pieces for you. But it's up to you put the pieces together. You have to see the truth. Before it's too late."

Zeke has always been badgering me about conspiracy theories. Though most of them sounded believable I always pushed them aside. But for someone else, someone who doesn't even seem to exist to bring it up again unfortunately peaks my interest. I should be skeptical, but my interest and curiosity have been poked well. Might as well indulge.

"Okay, I guess I'll give this a try."

" You-u don't have a choice. I have to show you whether you want to know or not. You have to see, you have to know that your work, our work is not done, far from it."

"I get it." This must be serious.

" In the beginning. Genesis." He began. Everything began to fade out. Flashing images soon filled up my vision. They moved too quickly for my mind to fully comprehend. But there were some images I was able to make out. The ray sphere, the RFI; Kessler, the explosion in Empire City…

" Genesis…"

~IF~AC~

Zeke P.O.V.

Cole activated the RFI somewhere near the church so his body should still be there. Hopefully. I don't fully understand everything about the RFI. All I know that it killed anyone with the conduit gene, active or dormant, and cured anyone who had the plague or carried the virus. The RFI could burn the body too for all I know.

When I got to the church, I found some lingering militia soldiers huddled together. Some of the soldiers fought on our side but some still weren't on our side. I put a hand on my gun just in case they were looking for a showdown.

They turned around and faced me.

"He's around the back." One of them solemnly spoke.

"Thank you." Upon closer inspection, I realized why they were huddled together. They were paying their respects to a fellow soldier.

"He had the plague, he had it real bad. But when the beast came around, in a spectacle I thought I'd never see, he flew into the air. When he came back down, he landed with a right smack."

I walked closer to the dead body and saw that he died with his jaw dropped and his eyes wide open.

That's one of the worst ways to die.

Without another thought questioning it, I walked over to the body and knelt down beside him. I lifted my hand and closed his eyes, finally putting him at peace.

"Rest in peace brother."I spoke.

I stood back up and smiled softly at the other militia soldiers, who were on the verge of tears.

"Thanks Zeke."

"Not a problem"

Now why in the actual hell did I do that?

~IF~AC~

When I reached the back of the church, I spotted Cole's body in the distance along with Kuo's. As I got closer, I noticed that they both looked peculiar. They were both stiff as a board instead of the usual limpness that most lifeless bodies had.

I made my way to Kuo's body. I noticed she had drying tears on her face. She died crying.

Poor gal.

But something else caught my attention. She was moving. Her chest rose and fell. She was breathing.

She's alive.

Well if she's alive then that means…

I quickly made my way to Cole and watched him closely. His chest rose and fell. He's breathing.

Well butter me up and call me toast, Cole MacGrath is still alive. Man I wish I could get me some powers so I could give death the middle finger on a regular basis. The citizens of New Marais are going to be glad to hear this.

But wait a second. If Cole and Kuo are still alive, that means the RFI didn't kill conduits. Conduits are still alive. Or was their gene just removed? If the gene was active, was it made dormant?

It seems like Kuo and Cole are far from waking up so I guess I have to wait for them to wake up to find out.

I should probably bring them take them somewhere cozy where they can rest up. I ran to the front of the church to get my truck. As I ran by, I encountered the militia soldiers I ran into earlier. They looked at me with sympathy in their eyes. But it wasn't needed.

I smiled widely at them. They thought I was smiling to hide my sadness. With great pride and joy and tears threatening to leave my eyes, I muttered two simple words.

"He's alive."

~IF~AC~

I brought my truck around and placed Cole's and Kuo's unconscious bodies in the trunk. I also grabbed the RFI, can't leave stuff like that just hanging around. I drove off into the streets and as I drove by, many people stopped and gasped. They spotted the bodies in the trunk.

Now they think I recently flew out of the cuckoo's nest.

I ignored them and kept driving. Knowing this city, all will be forgotten with the right amount of alcohol. I kept driving until I reached an apartment building. A little while back, I rented an apartment as a safe place in case things went south. And they almost did. It'll be a safe and quiet enough place to keep Cole and Kuo until they wake up.

I carried them both on my shoulders into the building and nodded my head in greeting at the bewildered doorman. I took the elevator to the fifth floor. After a short walk, I reached my apartment and somehow managed to get my key to open the door and go inside. Once inside, I carried Kuo to the bedroom and and set her down gently on the bed. I placed the RFI on the living room table and I set Cole down on one of the couches. I still couldn't believe that he's alive.

Once I set him down, his head lulled to the side a bit. Something on his head caught my attention. There were these little blue, glowing lines and circles, all connected on the side of his head. They pulsed repeatedly. Is that a sign that he still has his powers?

When I walked over to Kuo, she had the same markings but they were very faint, very hard to see, all made harder with her pale skin. Her hands were always cold and her arms always exhausted some cooling winds. But they seemed to have stopped. When I touched her forehead, she was still cool the touch.

Well I can't decide here. I'm going to have to wait patiently and see. Man that's annoying.

I returned to the living room, grabbed the T.V. remote and sat on the couch that Cole wasn't occupying. I channel surfed until I decided on watching the news.

President Navarro had been apparently impeached and the new president, former vice president, Michael Conney was being sworn in. After the swearing in, he went to make his speech.

" As your new president, I promise to undo the damage that had been done by our former incompetent president. President Navarro single-handedly brought this country to its downfall. The allegations against him are staggering. But, I'm going off on a tangent and letting my anger get the best of me. People of America, something good has been watching over us. It's something that has prevented our country from completely falling apart. And it's this."

He lifted his hands and made a cross.

" This will be your savior America. I promise. The road to recovery is going to be challenging. But I will be there to guide you to once again bring this country back to an age of order and stability."

The crowd broke into cheers and applause.

I don't like him. Something about him seems off. And what was with that 'cross' he made? That really did not look like the Jesus Cross that's so well known. Something seems fishy about him. I just can't put my finger on it.

Cole stirred a bit and muttered something I wasn't able to catch.

Glad someone agrees with me.

~IF~AC~

" They were mainly heroes. But do you see? Do you see how the lineage is and always has been disrupted. The web of history traps the good and the evil take what is not theirs!"

What do you think is going on here? =D

I thought adding in Subject Sixteen into this could shake things up and give a more prominent reason for Cole to be heavily associated with Ezio and the Assassins. Plus it expands this series a little more rather than making each chapter dedicated to missions from specific sequences. Get ready folks, these are going to be mind blowing. I'm getting a notebook full of these =3

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