I'M BACK BITCHES! Hope you enjoy this chapter!
The entire stadium was filled with onlookers and Izuku felt a little bit overwhelmed by the sheer number of people around him. But then, bakugou was called up to make a speech before the games began. And then after his very presumptuous claim to win. The first event was revealed to be a obstacle course.
Everyone readied themselves for the race to begin, Carter could be seen standing in a rather normal position. Then the race began.
The exit quickly clogged up, but Carter just hopped over the mass of students. Jumping from person to person landing on people's shoulders and leaping to the next. He quickly found himself outside the vomitorium (that is what the big hallways in stadiums are called) he was trailing behind the rest of 1-A, then Mineta got pounded by a robot. But carter ignored it and continued running. He had noticed that Todoroki had frozen a GIANT damn robot. And still did not stop to gawk. While under the frozen automaton he heard the sound of steel scraping together, thus he hauled ass through the giant's legs. He barely made it out before the thing crashed down.
"shit" carter mumbled under his breath.
As he continued to trail Todoroki, he eventually got to the rocky, cliff-like section. Without stopping he leapt off the cliff to the right of a steel cable. Mid-air, he activated his hook blade, and caught the steel cabe. He sped down the length of the cable like it were a zip-line. Eventually he reach the end of the cable, and then he pulled himself up, and leapt off the wire and grabbed the edge of the stone pillar in the middle of the fake pulled himself up and continued on, running across the metal wires as he came to them.
"WOW! Looks like we have a nimble young hero here everyone! Todoroki and Carter are Neck-n-neck!" Present Mic boomed over the announcement
'Hmm, this will be fun' carter thought to himself as he swept across the canyon. By the time he was nearing the end, he saw Todoroki sliding across his wire. Carter raised his right hand and fired his hidden gun, shattering the ice on todorki's cable, causing him to nearly fall off, and leaving him hanging on to the wire, fuming with anger at the cheap move carter just pulled.
Carter finally finished the obstacle section and ran down the track until he came across the minefield. He stopped for a moment activating his eagle vision to see the glowing gold spots littering the ground, he then began running through the minefield after hearing todoroki approaching behind him.
"LOOK HERE FOLKS! We got a brave contestant here. But how long will he last in the minefield?" Present Mic announced
Carter began to hear explosions going off behind him. Eventually seeing bakugou and todoroki approaching fast behind him. But, he had finally reached the entrance back into the stadium when he heard a MUCH louder explosion, he snapped back to see Midoriya flying through the air. 'Guess it's time to throw it' he thought to himself. He then casually walked to the left side of the stadium entrance, and leaned against the wall waiting for the rest of the students to catch up.
"WHA!? What is happening!? Carter has just, stopped! Is he throwing the race? Seriously what is he doing!" Present Mic yelled over the speakers
When izuku, and a lot of other UA students zipped past him, carter resumed the race. But, he was slowly walking instead of running!?
Once everyone had made it inside the stadium, and had been gathered to learn of the next event, carted shouted, "I FORFEIT!"
"What?" Midnight replied
"I said i quit. I am leaving" he clarified
"Are you sure" Midnight asked
"Yes, I have more important matter to deal with." Carter finished
This was met with a LOT of boo-ing from the crowd, one guy even managed to yell above the loud crowd, "You little piece of crap! How could you denounce the festival, when you have no authori-"
*BANG-Pting!*
The stadium silenced itself, because carter had just fired his hidden gun at the heckler, hitting his metal seat, goin between his legs and hitting the chair dead center. This left the man in utter shock.
"I have personal matters to tend to. Besides, I do not care to be your entertainment, nor your sidekick." Carter shouted
"now , may i leave mis, midnight?" Carter asked the pro hero once more.
"Fine, i'll allow it!" she proclaimed, before Carter made his way back to the waiting rooms.
(LATER)
Carter made his way to the locker room, and took time to quickly change into his assassin uniform. Then he felt his sense flare up, causing him to reeth back in pain. He finally opened his eyes, to see that he was using his sense. Off behind a wall of lockers was a slight gold shimmer. As he walked around the wall of lockers, he saw that the slits in the locker door were shimmering gold. He managed to break the lock and open the locker. He threw out the clothing that was half-blocking the part of the locker that was glowing. His sense finally deactivated and he noticed the small square of metal that was screwed on to the back of the locker's inside. He used his hidden blade to unscrew the metal plate.
Behind it, he found a familiar shape. It was a small assassin symbol with a skull inside of it. He took a moment to recall what he was supposed to do to activate the mechanism. Then, he remembered when he went through the Ezio Auditore files, that he was supposed to pull up on the skull. Thus, he did so, causing the symbol on the wall to break apart, and reform upside-down. Then, the room shook slightly, before the floor tile below the locker, dropped slightly and slid open.
"Huh" carter sounded, as he stared down the dark hole in the floor. He decided, that this was a happy little suprise. 'This could be the entrance to the First Civilization vault, FINALLY' he thought to himself.
He carefully climbed down the small hole in the floor, giddy to the possibility of finding the piece of eden, after so many memories in the animus, he would finally get to interact with a PoE in REAL LIFE. when he got to where he could barely see, he stopped and activated his eagle sense. looking down the hole further to see a opening about 15 feet below his current position.
He made his way to the opening, and dropped down to the larger room. Rolling as he landed, he was hit by a sudden blast of warm air.
The room was only visible with his eagle vision, or a flashlight, and to avoid further strain on his skull, he pulled out his cell-phone and turned on the flashlight. He aimed the light around until he found a large stone statue of a futile-era japanese assassin. He recognized the assassin, only after seeing the ornate chest armor. Specifically, the large assassin's crest with a circle in the center of it, and sun-like rays beaming from the circle.
"Tōkai Okosama" Carter mumbled the assassin's name. He knew the dead man's name because of the japanese brotherhood's founder, who wore the same gear as the statue depicted. But, he also knew the name, because of how the order's records stated how the japan brotherhood's founder wore the japanese assassin's crest proudly on his armor.
"Heh… you had pride in the order. But that showing of the crest was eventually your downfall…" carter quietly spoke to himself
"Rule 2: hide in plain sight. Kinda hard to do that with that big target on your best-plate…" Carter finished his thought, and approached the statue. He noticed the large stone tomb that lay at the feet of the statue, and he saw another small assassin's crest with a skull, on the broad side of the tomb. He bent down, and activated the mechanism, and stood back as the room shook slightly.
Then the lid of the tomb moved back slightly, accented with a loud *CLANK*
Carter stepped up to the tomb and pushed it further back. He shined his cell phone flashlight into the stone box, showing the mummified body, two old katanas in their sheaths, several small wooden boxes, a sizable number of loose japanese coins of varying metals from the futile era of japan's history.
But, what really caught Carter's eyes was the largest wooden box inside the stone coffin. The one that had a faint glow of golden light beaming from inside of it.
Carter picked it up and opened it, holding his phone in his left hand, opening the box with his right. He was met with a small black cube-like object, that had numerous lines and dots all over it. The glow of deep yellowish gold light emanating from them.
Carter knew this wasn't a PoE, but he also knew that if it was here, then it must be vital to accessing the vault. So, he put it in one of his spare pouches, and closed the stone coffin. After he got back to the small vertical shaft (NOT LIKE THAT! What are you? Five years old?), he realized how useless his grappling hook would be, in trying to get back up to the locker room.
*sigh* "shit... Please tell me there is another way out of this place." Carter said aloud, to break the silence of the room, and to try and drown out the sound of his own breathing with his voice. He then activated his eagle vision, and darted his gaze around the room, eventually he found a glowing circle off in a far corner of the, mostly, empty room. He approached it and pressed his right hand to it, pushing it into the wall. This activated a unseen lock, causing the wall to *CLANK* and shift on a hinge in it's center. Carter walked over to the left side of the hinged secret door, and used his whole body to turn the wall further. The moment he got it far enough around to open a human sized opening into the secret corridor behind it. Then, he darted inside the newly uncovered corridor. Swiftly turning his cell phone flashlight on and lightening his way forward. The underground tunnel was going up at a semi-steep angle towards the surface, and Carter ran up this tunnel for what seemed like an eternity.
Eventually he came to a small, square, one foot high, raised section in the ceiling. But the most important part, was that the edges of the raised ceiling had gaps with light shining between them. He then realized, 'this must be a floor tile inside a room of the stadium!' immediately after this realization, he pushed up on the tile, heaving it out of the floor, and throwing it off to the side. He then pulled himself out of the underground corridor. He took a short break to catch his breath, and once he did so, he stood up and found that he was in waiting room 2 of the stadium. He exited the room and re-adjusted his focus to the task he was supposed to be doing in the first place. 'Oh fuck! I still need to find that damn abstergo spy! FUCK!...' his thoughts were silenced so that he could actually get to work, he made his way up to the upper section of the stadiums bleachers, sneaking out to the seats. He had managed to avoid sight as he climbed up on top of the stadium's semi-roofing, only jutting out to cover the seats. He stayed low enough to avoid sight from any of the onlookers, but still get a good view of the whole festival.
It was then, that he activated his sense AGAIN, but he was met with a wave of bottled up pain from over-using the sense.
"AAAGH!" He shouted rolling side-to-side from the headache-like pain.
He finally got his thoughts collected. His breathing was now heavy and strained.
"God damn it carter… how are you gonna be an assassin if you can even fucking use your own damned head… im a damned failure if I just lay here are wallow in pain-" he then rolled himself back onto his stomach and regained his composure the best he could, activating his eagle vision once more.
He scanned the stadium for the templar he was told to eliminate, but he could hardly see much in the sea of blue. After three minutes of searching the crowds, he was losing hope that he had still got the spy inside the festival crowds.
But, then he took another long look at the seats directly below his current position, and he finally found the god damned, son of a bitch.
He deactivated his eagle vision and slid down to the back of the roof, and climbed down to the top of the bleachers. He slowly sneaked down to the templar in his seat. He dropped his hood for a moment to blend in, and avoid people seeing his trademarked pointed-hood. When he finally got behind the templar informant.
Eventually, Carter activated his hidden poison-blade, and waited for the moment to take out the bastard. That moment came when something caused the entire mass of people around them to stand up and cheer. Both carter, and the spy were the only ones still sitting down. he took the opening without hesitation. He drove the blade into the man's neck, this did two things. First, it poisoned the target. Second, it punctured his windpipe, preventing him from calling out for help.
Carter whispered into the mans ear, "Requiesce in pace"
Carter swiped the man's wallet and his satchel, and then carter slipped out of the seats and back inside the stadium. When he finally made it to the locker room, he was met by three unknown UA students from the business course.
"Hey, who are you! Did you trash our friend's locker! Wait aren't you a-" *POP-Pfffffffff* the room filled with smoke and Carter fled back to the nearest waiting room.
When he entered the room, and closed the door behind him, he turned around and leaned against the door. Eyes closed, and out of breath, he began to laugh quietly.
"Hehehehe-"
"Carter?" a lone feminine voice asked. Causing him to spring to a defensive stance, hidden blade out. But he recognized the person sitting in front of him…
"Uraraka?..."
(TBC!...)
Sorry for the wait, but I have been far to lazy recently, i hope you all can forgive my procrastination! :(
I have no excuse. Please hold on until I can write the next chapter! Again so sorry for my lack of updates.
