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Kristian schaefer walks out from his ancient studies company reaching his car opening its door going inside and a hidden blade suddenly reaches his throat from behind by the hand of desmond miles the cloak hooded

" If you make noise i wouldn't hesitate cutting your throat " he says

" I thought the church abandoned this way " with nervous sound

" The tomb of Minerva " he replies

" Minerva ? who is she ? a greek god " making fun of the mysterious figure who made his hidden blade closer to schaefer's throat

" Get me its location, if you don't i will send you to her "

" Be careful from what you promise " the sweat all over his face

" I'll pay you a visit soon Schaefer, hopefully next time you change your words "

the mysterious figure leaves the car which made kristian takes his breath taking his glasses out squeezing his eyes

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Father vincent walks into the church hands in his pockets, he enters to his room where he find mother superion standing near the balcony then she looks at him

" We never heard of the sister warriors you've sent " she tells him

" Really ? " he wonders taking two steps inside, mother superion does the same saying

" We have enemies on every side who wants to bury us, generally speaking...not only the ocs, which mean i'm going to lead my own team to find those whom you've sent to scout for you "

" I've sent them to see if there's anything that might our enemies use against us " he encounters then continues " If you do it, we will lose more members "

" I better save them sooner rather than getting their corpse " she pass him

" But... "

she cuts him

" You advise them, but i'm the top command ...and that's a rule areala have put, not even the pope himself can change "

she walk out of the room spotting beatrice who commanded her

" Beatrice, call them....as for the new one, this is will be her first mission " Beatrice obeys the order by a nod in her head

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Desmond Miles sits into a garden that the assassins meet each other in, sean hastings wears a hat and visible glasses with a grey jacket staring at big ben tower

" I went to one of warren's shit heads and i got good info from them " he start speaking

" And ? " Desmond bewilders

" He told me that warren meets with some cult leader and his followers consider him as the christ or something "

Desmond curiosity reach a higher level

" Name ? "

the man who wears glasses replies back

" I'll get it soon "

" what about clay "

" We will rescue him when the time is right "

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Warren vidic pass from two scientists at abstergo reaching his room sitting on the chair opening the laptop in front of him, then he sees a news about a member of abstergo found dead, then he delve into the article to read that a hooded was witnessed by neighbours, which made warren shocked giving him the motivation to move to a room has the animus and near the device melanie sits on her desk with headphone on her head reading in the screen about altair

" Melanie... " he called her but she was playing music

he comes close and wastes no words hitting the the table which made her jump removing the headphone

" Mr. Vidic....sorry i didn't hear you, but i was reading something about that altair guy "

Warren " Fine, but let's hurry up with subject 16, get him up now "

Melanie " Right away "

she goes to subject 16 room that's next to her to find him doing push ups and shirtless as well " We need you now in the animus " she asks

he stops, then takes his shirt to wear it " How about picking up a date after i get out of here ? guess that's a good idea isn't it ? "

he walks outside the room to see warren which made him say

" You again old man ? i have no doubt that i'll make you regret every decision you made "

Warren smirks

" I doubt it Mr. Kaczmarek "

he mocks warren

" I'll see about that when i burn your grave and erase you out of history "

he sits on the chair and close his eyes with the animus opened, melanie goes back where she was sitting putting her hand on another PC which connected to the animus, warren reach her saying to her

" Make sure that he have no effects "

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group of sister warriors gearing up themselves while beatrice is present with ava who's new to the group

" The pistol suits your hand " she suggest to her

" Thanks for the suggestion "

" Anytime ava " she smirks

Beatrice, Ava and their group go to their truck, ava sits near beatrice who'll drive, at the back of the truck the sister warriors sits there waiting to arrive to their destination,
" I guess we're going to have trouble by having a rookie with us " lilith says

Shotgun mary looks at her despising her words

" Remember when you first joined The Ocs....you didn't have good skills "

Lilith replies with careless tone
" And you were afraid once upon a time "

" All of us had a weak point and became a better versions of ourselves "

Camila interfer 

" This mission will tell us something about her, we have to wait and see "

" Camila got a point " mary says

ava tells beatrice

" Why they didn't send a signal for us to help them "

Beatrice replies

" We will figure that out "

" I hope they are not dead "

" They have a brave leader in the team, so don't worry "

" But it was a wrong move from father vincent to sent them alone with no backup team, the worst thing is we don't have their exact location "

" We have a clue where they headed in the first place, once we arrive there we will look for them "

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Kristian inside arq tech waiting for the elevator to meet jillian salvius who stood next to him

" Lucky you, it seems that you're leading your own company now " she smirks

" You have a minute to speak in private ? " he asks Jillian who enters the elevator

" Sure " she told him

" We better talk in private "

they get out of the elevator jillian opens the door reaching her chair and schaefer sits opposite to her

" Did you send him ? " he tells her

Jillian wonders

" Who ? "

" Don't play dumb with me "

" I have no interests in sending mercenaries "

" If it wasn't you....then who done it ? " he wonders

" have you heard about the murder of Vuldemore ? "

" Yeah, this morning "

" I guess the one who came to you is an assassin "

" Does they still exists ? "

" The assassins order exists, beside there's ongoing war between them against templars and on the other side, we have the ocs who are trying to figure out what's going on "

" Guess areala left something to them "

" They need time to find it, because it's lost and what lost will be found "

" If you stumbled upon it, would you give it to them ? "

" No doubt "

" If i was you i'd ask for money or sell it to the black market but before i do, i try to figure out what it has "

" And that's why we have our own separate ways "

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The truck arrives in a valley where they gets out beatrice and ava walks next to each other, beatrice looks on her way carrying her rifle and walks down while her team is behind her, mary Yells " Over here " all of them went to her

beatrice said

" What is it mary ? "

"this man body seems like was here yesterday "

" Let's keep going " beatrice says with spark of hope inside her to find her sisters

beatrice points her rifle forward walks continuously until she and her team found a mercenary in front of them holding a rifle against beatrice his eyes focused on them, camila appears near him tranquilizing him making him drop to the ground, beatrice and ava lift him and put him beside a cave, then beatrice ask camila bottle of water that Camila gives to her, she opens it and throw it him, he freaked out and she pushed him back putting a knife near to his neck

" Make wrong move and i will finish you "

A furious looks on his eyes

" okay " he tells her

" have you seen any nuns here ? "

" Why the nuns would preach here ? " he makes fun of her

" yeah that's so funny " she nods then she hits him hard on his face telling him " If my sisters dies, so your team, if you want to save yourself and your team you must cooperate "

he coughs

" Fine, alright, there's punch of ladies with guns which we faced and we're tracking them "

" why are you tracking them ? and who you working for ? "

" We are hired by someone in a higher class and he payes us good money, which that person asked us to find areala's letter "

" Who is that person ? "

" My boss knows "

beatrice goes tough in the knife making a little blood comes out from his neck, which made him reply fast

" I swear "

"Can you lead us to your boss ? "

" they're having a camp not far from here "

beatrice moves the knife

" okay lead us to it, but if you do something wrong, the consequences are clear to you "

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In museum which there's a crowd and desmond stands in front of the mona lisa painting, Lin a chinese woman wearing a jacket with hat she tells him

" One of your ancestors knew the person who drew this masterpiece, he helped him a lot "

" And in his last days kept your ancestor in his house "

" It's a risk to meet in a museum "

" We leave no trace behind us when we go to our separate ways, why you wanted to meet me ? "

the chinese lady gives a little paper to him

which contains the following

" This night at arq-tech, we need you "

he replies

" Why ? "

" it's important, don't be late " she told him the last words in chinese then walked away from him disappearing between the crowd, desmond kept thinking of the importance of their meeting

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Jillian in a room where a drawings of her child was on the wall trying to understand them in depth, then she look on the right seeing the ark she built for her son who disappeared once its portal was open, she picks her phone and write a message

(did he agree ?)

Lin text her back

(We have to wait, but let's have faith he did...)

jillian kept bewildering of his potential refuse to help and she looks back on the machine then a member of her company enters the room which made jillian look on her

" Lily ? " she said

Lily comes close

" Ms salvius, there's a reporter wants to meet you "

Jillian

" Tell them to go away "

" But it's about..."

Jillian cuts lily

" About my search of the compatibility of religion and science, that's on hold....don't tell them that, but tell them i am busy at the moment and i will make no interviews until i finish my job "

Lily

" As you wish "

lily gets out and walked down the stairs to tell the reporter

" She's not available at the moment Ms Lawrence "

" I see, thanks "

" No problem "

lawrence a reporter that's famously known for her works in exposing certain companies, cults and politicians, her intention was to make an interview and understand her character better which it didn't happen

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Beatrice pointing a rifle on the man's back which he leads them to the camp

" we're near " he tells her

" If it's a trap, blame yourself later "

" I don't plan traps, i am just a soldier "

" speaking of which, why didn't you call your team ? "

" I wanted to take the action hero route "

" and you failed so badly, you need to train hard....if you get out of here alive " they arrive at the camp that trucks and soldiers can be spotted,

" tell us everything about your mission " beatrice asks

" they're going down there to the forrest, to track the nuns and only god knows what our boss is planing to do "

beatrice takes her telescope to look closely, then she sees that one of the team meets the leader which she understand that he commanded him to order his team to move forward, beatrice moves her telescope away

she says " Let's follow their trail, but let us be careful "

beatrice moves but lilith stops her

" What about him ? "

Beatrice gazes at him who don't care what happens next

" I don't think he cares for his team "

Lilith

" he's playing a role bea "

mary finish it by cutting his throat which made both of beatrice and lilith surprised,

" There's no time to waste " mary says

beatrice, lilith and ava looks at each others then they move tracking the mercenaries hiding between areas that nobody can spot them, both the mercenaries and the sister warriors reach the forest holding their weapons waiting for whatever comes to them, ava pointing her pistol forward, beatrice does the same with her rifle forward, mercenaries was 20, and beatrice team is 15, suddenly a smoke bomb was thrown into the ground, their leader yells

" Get back "

they run far from the grenade which got exploded, beatrice and the team took cover, the team leader expose his head and luckily a bullet was shot on the tree instead that made him takes cover and command his team to start shooting, they obey him with their first loss is one of them is taken down, beatrice take a look telling her team

" they're our sisters "

beatrice shoots a mercenary ambushing them from both sides, their leader orders them to separate and then meet at the camp, they do as he told and sister warriors bullet followed them, ava sprints and takes down 2 soldiers, a member shoot a bullet she dodged, he push her hands away that held a pistol to shot, in the meantime she kicked him dropping him to the ground then shot him to the head, 5 of their members died and others fled back to the camp, Beatrice reached dora the brave leader who has a long history with the previous halo bearer and shotgun mary

" I'm happy to see you again" they shake hands together

" It's good to see you bea " she continues

" the new member done a good job "

ava stood near them

" we need to head back to our trucks, they might give a call to their commander "

Beatrice " She's right "

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Desmond enters a bar and two men and woman was sitting there, he head toward a door where leads to a basement, taking the stairs down seeing lucy stillman on a couch, he moves his hoodie, then she tells him

" No one followed you...right ? "

" If i noticed, i'd have fun with them somewhere else "

She smirks

" Anything new ? "

Desmond sits near her

" I'm close to find minerva's tomb, shaun is investigating about a cult leader that warren meets, and my father wants to meet me at arq-tech "

She sits near to him putting her hand on his shoulders

" For what ? "

He put his hand on his head

" he sent me lin, he couldn't meet me....because if he shows up abstergo would catch him "

" What about clay ? "

Desmond looks at her

" I've got to wait for shaun instructions lucy "

" Clay life is in danger "

" You have my promise that i will rescue him "

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The truck comes back to the church with the return of the sister warriors, father vincent and Mother superion
welcomed them warmly outside

" What took you so long ? " mother superion asks

" Why you didn't make a call in the first place " father vincent wonders

Dora shows them the broken device then says

" We were also ambushed by mercenaries " she take from her bag the letter of areala that has the picture of areala and other mysterious figures to them, that get them to more questions than answers

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In meeting room and 5 people sits there, william miles in the front of the table sitting waiting patiently,

" What took him soo long ? " Jillian asks

he looks at jillian

" he will come "

the door gets opened by his son which made him happy to see him again after a long separation

" Told you " he winks to jillian,

Desmond grabs the chair and sits on it

" What do you want ? "

William tells his son

" She better talk herself "

desmond got confused

" I guess you know me already..."

desmond cuts her by saying

" I know you ms. salvius, but what do you want exactly from me ? so i can maybe help you "

Jillian replies back " I made that device which connects us directly to the unknown god, a portal was opened which my child went there and then it closed "

Desmond shrugs " And....what am i supposed to do ? "

Jillian " We know your experience and i want you to enter there and try to find me my child  "

Desmond isn't sure of whether he can do it or not after the previous manipulation of juno

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