Chapter 3: Religion & Humility

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-DDS LOADING-

There was no way that after what I saw that I was going to stay away from the machine. After collecting myself I plugged myself back into the DDS and right back into the cold blue white void. Before loading the world, I decided to check the memory set, there were more memories on the system.

Did that mean the hacker added more 'extras' in those memories? Well no matter. Once I finish the set I'll report the hacking to the security tech. There is no way that I'd spend any time with that psycho Otso.

-DDS LOADED-

I was Giovanni once again. I was starting to like the kid. He may have been five but I was starting to realize he was pretty clever. His questions and his bravery were interesting to observe. Still, I doubted that Abstergo wanted to use these memories for entertainment purposes. Not my problem though.

My job is to synchronize to the memories and make it easier to watch and produce them. Nothing more nothing less.

I was in the courtyard and there was the guards standing guard outside the villa. The servants were working frantically. Someone important was coming huh? I wonder who.

Suddenly Giovanni took off into a sprint heading inside the building. As I watched him head deeper into the villa Giovanni started to think.

Nonno is going to let me play with the Apple today! He says it is not a toy, but I think it is a toy. It glows. It makes noises. Sometimes it talks to me like Consus does.

What. The pope was leaving his awesome castle thing to return here. To let Giovanni play with an apple?

An apple? Well I'm pretty sure it's not an actual apple. It's probably an accessory that Giovanni thinks is magic. Whatever let's do this.

Giovanni walked into Rodrigo Borgia's room and I saw the apple.

That was no apple. That was some metal ball. That glowed lightly in the light. The strange lines covering it were the most confusing. They seemed to have a pattern with no pattern.

Giovanni ran up, hugged his Nonno, ready to start his lesson. It glowed and I felt like if I had all the power in the world.

The fuck is this thing?

Nonno asks me about Consus. He asks if he can talk to him. Consus is not here. He does not play when Nonno is around.

Why was the Pope interested in an imaginary friend? What was the point of these questions?

Nonno asks if the Apple is speaking. It is. He asks what it is saying. It says COME CLOSER. It says CLEAR YOUR MIND. Nonno asks me to pick it up.

Giovanni walks up giddily toward the apple. A single prompt appears in the air.

Press X to activate the Apple.

Activating it I immediately realized why he wanted Giovanni to use this thing.

The room was warping around the two of them.

I pick up the Apple. The room looks funny. The walls are bending. Eyes slowly open themselves along the wall. It looks like they are breathing. Nonno yells for me to stop! He is scared. I put the Apple down and he apologizes.

He asks me to take the Apple again. To make a bird. I ask what he means. He tells me again. Make a bird.

Press X and hold R2 to create a bird.

I think about a bird. An eagle! I see a bird's shadow on the wall. It's not right. I think harder. It begins to fly!

What the fuck is going on?

Seriously! I know this is the memory of a child, but all of this can't be some hallucination of a child.

Nonno cheers as my eagle flies around the library! He sees it too! I begin to laugh and it disappears. Nonno writes in his book and tells me we have done enough for today. I put the apple down and walk out of the room.

The cinematic ends and I have control of Giovanni again.

I guess I should continue on with the memories. I was going to have some questions for Abstergo. I wonder if I was going to get any answers. I head to his room and I reach his closet I'm suddenly put in a void with multiple outfits for the five year old.

Seriously? Next you'll tell me I'll have to pay with my actual money too.

I decide on the Borgia cloak and head towards the marker leading to the next mission. I reach the courtyard and I see Micheletto Corella standing in the courtyard grinning like a sociopath.

Fucking Balls.

Papà has asked his friend Micheletto to teach me today. I do not like him. He is mean. He does not like me either, even though I am nice.

I activated the mission and got ready for a beat down. Then I notice the optional objective at the bottom corner of the simulation.

Strike Micheletto once.

Jesus, this was not going to be fun.

Micheletto asks me if I know where to kick somebody. I tell him I would kick somebody in the knee. He says a knee hurts, but there is a better place that hurts more, even for a woman. I ask him if he has ever kicked a woman and he says he has kicked many!

Micheletto pushes me to the ground and tells me to get up! I try to stand, but he steps on me! He tells me that I will be dead before I reach ten. He says he is wasting his time!

I push Giovanni off the ground and put as much distance between myself and that psycho. I bum rush the fucker and strike him with Giovanni's fist.

Hah! 100% sync fucker!

Then Micheletto pimp slapped me down to the ground. And returns his foot onto Giovanni's back.

I bite his ankle! He picks me up by my shirt and holds me over his head! I cry for my Papà, but nobody answers! Micheletto tells me biting is good if somebody is holding you, but asks me what I'll do when he smashes out my teeth. I beg him not to smash out my teeth!

He pretends to throw me at the wall, but stops. He asks me if I wet my pants. I tell him I did not.

Micheletto asks if I have learned anything. I tell him no, but I am lying. I have learned to hate him.

Yeah you're not the only one with that feeling kid.

I see the 100 sync circle appear next to the ended memory and I sigh. I decided to call it I night. I saw no other hacking attempts in the area, so maybe that was a one off. Hopefully.

-EXITING DDS-

I sighed and stretched out. Getting up I walked out of my room only to have my arm grabbed and slammed against the wall.

Holding my arm was Otso Berg.

With a glare he spoke, "We should have a word about the memories you just saw"

This was not going to be fun.