Chapter 2: We're taking a Detour

Before I go any further into my adventure, I guess I should give a lengthy explanation of who I am. My name is Helushka Gekgek, but I'm just called Hamish, and I am an Assassin. I was born in the Caribbean islands to a large family of natives. I had four brothers and two sisters and two loving parents, but one day I was lost in the markets. I had no idea what to do and I stood in the crowds crying until a woman, named Kazumi Tochigi, came and decided she would take me into her fold. There I was brought into the Assassins and I trained, now I stand with a toll of 157 kills and the role of eliminating Templar influence from Assassin hotspots. I am of the age of 22 now, I have a Native American complexion and stand at 6'3" with an Athletic body type.

So after my short bio and physical listings I believe I should return to the story.

I sat in an airplane, watching out my window into the skies below, we currently were flying over Morocco on our flight to Paris, and it won't be much until we're flying over Spain. I sat in coach, hoping to help conceal myself after eliminating Carlos in Chile. I wore my hood over my head to further stay anonymous, I knew nothing of my fellow passengers. A man in a business suit holding a briefcase in his lap was who sat next to me. Whatever the contents of that briefcase must be very important if he found the need to hold it with him on the flight.

The effects of finishing my water had begun to take effect on me and I was in needing of the toilet. Quickly not thinking much of it I stood up and begun to slide between the seat in front of me and the man's knees.

"Excuse me" I said politely.

As soon as I began to walk through the aisle I heard him opening his briefcase, secrets are secrets I guess. I now had finished walking through the aisle and was going to make the turnoff to the lavatory as the airlock and parachute hooks were next to me. The parachutes were for emergency sakes but there weren't enough for everyone which confused me.

BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG!

Flicks of light began to leave dints across the walls of the plane, I looked to my side and saw down the aisle the suited man began to fire off an SMG he had retrieved from his suitcase. An Abstergo agent, should've known they'd chase me. Luckily for me as I shielded my face the rocking of the plane kept his aim off and the shots he fired off flew by. Though I had not been shot I was panicking, I had nowhere to go…except down.

In a quick moment I set my crazy idea to work. I jumped to the side and spun quickly grabbing a parachute from the hook and then as I spun I kicked out my leg and unlocked the airlock. Now with my back facing opposite of it the gunmen continued to attempt to shoot me. I flung back me elbow, parachute in hand, and knocked the door open. The suction from the air flew me out and before I knew it I was watching an airliner fly by me as I flicked through the wind falling down to the desert below.

As I fell I turned, the booming wind smacking against me. I flicked the parachute over my back and continued to fall.

WHOOSH!

I pulled the parachute and now began to slowly lose my speed but still I fell quite quickly. Before me I saw I was incoming on a tree.

"Shit…fuck…no!" I screamed, kicking out my legs before coming in impact with the tree.

BOOM!

The darkness began to flood with light, the swaying of my body I began to feel. I looked out, blinded by the sudden flood. In time my surroundings began to reveal themselves. I was hanging from a tree entangled with my parachute, my body swayed like a piñata and my head felt heavy. I let out a sigh, knowing it was now a long road to Paris.

CRACK!

The branch crack and I fell, crushing the shrub below me and being smothered by my parachute's embrace. I kicked it off of me and then dropped the backpack and stood up, surveying the endless desert. I believed I was on the border of Morocco and Algeria.

"Ugh shit" I moan, hanging my head.

Suddenly I heard the beating of wind and dust began to accumulate as the noise became ever more present. I look up and see a helicopter landing in overhead.

"Oh thank god!" I exclaim.

The helicopter began to flick the desert dust across the skies as it landed. The side door opened and an assassin revealed themselves. It was a male assassin, his hood down, of Spanish complexion, no older than 24.

"Hola amigo!" He greets me.

"Hi" I reply, getting his hand to be helped into the helicopter.

"You are the famous Helushka Gekgek, no?" He asks, beginning to close the door of the helicopter.

"Yes, who would you be?"

"Ramirez Belmonte, pleased to meet you" he says, taking a small bow with his head.

"What brings you out this far?" I ask, as the helicopter begins to take flight.

"You, as you probably are already aware of, are a highly treasured member of the Brotherhood, and being stationed in Spain I came out to rescue you" He explains.

"This soon?" I ask, not buying it.

He takes a seat and looks up to me "You're beacon has been in this exact spot for 6 hours".

"I guess I wasn't very good at landing" I joke, taking a seat myself.

"Though, I do have a catch for busting my ass coming out to the Moroccan desert" He begins.

"That being?" I ask.

"Felix Chavez has been spreading Templar control over the city of Algeciras, where I am stationed. I heard you were heading to Paris, so I thought when you were passing through Spain if you could help me eliminate Felix" He explains.

"How are your current proceedings in Algeciras?" I ask.

"Not well, we have only eliminated 3 of Felix's 9 lieutenants and have already lost a fellow Brother, Lorenzo De Leon" He hangs his head.

"I suppose I could help, the Templars plans in Paris allow for 3 month window anyways" I accept.

"Great, we shall be landing at the Algeciras Hideout in 6 hours" He answers.

"Wonderful" I sarcastically moan.

"Wakey, wakey, Hamish" Ramirez's voice said, whilst I felt my body being slightly shaken.

I open my eyes to see Ramirez, the windows now showed the sign of night as he gripped the handle of the door.

"We've arrived" he informs me.

He then pulls open the door and I look out onto the bustling city, full of foreigners and tradesman coming from the seas outside. I stand up and begin to look further out onto the city, it had been 2 months for me to track down Antonio and Carlos and kill them in the rural places they had stationed themselves, therefore it had been 2 months since I'd seen the city.

This being my first time in Spain I was not fluent with the language therefore I would have to be around Ramirez to understand much of the people. We step out onto the rooftop we had landed on and the pilot steps out from the cockpit of the plane.

"He-lush-ka…right?" the pilot asks me.

"Yes, Helushka Gegek" I respond.

"It's an honour to meet you, I'm Edmond Blaise, at your service" He bows his head.

"A Frenchman, I see, what brings you to Spain?" I ask.

"I was requested to be your ally on your mission in Paris, therefore I came out to Spain to assist you in your preoccupation when Ramirez had told me of his plans" He explains.

"I see, so I expect you will be joining us?" I ask.

"Oui" He says, in his French language.

"Do not mind Edmond, he is a brilliant minded person and will assist us in locating the lieutenants of Felix" Ramirez informs me.

"What happened to your past researcher?" I ask.

"That would be Lorenzo" Ramirez explains.

"I see, being your first fatality I would've expected he be on the frontlines" I say.

"Yes, I know why you would think so. The Templar are seeking to discover our hiding and rid us of the city so they can spread their blasphemy further into the city, this city is said to be the current home of a shard of Eden" Ramirez tells.

"Are we aware of who is in possession of this shard of Eden?" I ask.

"No, but if we do not act fast, the Templars will" Ramirez says.

"What is my first assignment?" I ask.

"I wish for you to go with Cid and eliminate Marco Durante in the police station on Calle Rio" Ramirez commands.

"Police station? What's he up to?" I ask.

"He is a senior office and lieutenant of Master Templar Felix, there he is secretly corrupting the force and accessing their database to locate the owner of the shard of Eden and also to locate Assassins" Ramirez explains.

"I see he is of demanding importance, I'll be on it right away" I reply.

I stand in an alleyway between a warehouse and the police station, the dark alleyway allows for me to conceal myself as an officer currently patrols the sidewalk. I reach into my ear piece to contact Cid.

"Cid, where are you located?" I whisper into the mic.

"Warehouse roof, just as you asked" He replies.

"Good, I'll be sneaking into the bathroom soon enough I'll contact you when I'm moving into the next room" I instruct.

I then move and climb onto a dumpster, it slightly creaking as I do so. I then grab the vent seal above me and slowly remove it and place it down on the dumpster before climbing my away up and manoeuvring into the ventilation system.

I climb through the vents over the bathroom waiting to reach an opening. I quickly find the grate leading down into a lavatory, there is an officer zipping up his pants and turning to make his way out of the stall. Before he can though I drop down from the vents and tackle him to the ground. Quickly piercing his neck with the hidden blade.

I hear the sounds of a faucet running water and the humming of a police officer. I unlock the stall door and slightly peer out of the opened door and see an officer washing his hands. I slowly creep out into the open and crouch up behind the officer.

Time to strike.

I stand and grab the back of the officer's head. Grasping his hair tightly as I prepare to make my move.

"lo que el-" he shouts.

I slam his head into the sink and hold him down as he begins to gargle, suffocating from the water. I then pull his head from the sink and he takes a gasp as he retrieves air. I then slam his face into the mirror causing it to shatter and causing him to bleed onto the wall. I then flex my wrist causing my blade to extend out into the back of his skull, finishing him off. I pull back my hand and retract my blade as his corpse falls to the ground.

I then turn and make my way to the bathroom door.

"Okay Cid, I'm about to exit the bathroom" I contact Cid.

"Okay, what now?" Cid asks.

"I want you to leap out onto the police station's roof, there I want you to wait until following orders" I instruct him.

After that I open the door and see an officer standing by the stair case. I roll out behind a trash can so right under his nose. There, by the trash can, I reach my hand back and grab a scrunched can and hold it in front of my face.

I then throw it out to the wall past me and it makes a cling noise when it strikes the wall.

"Huh?" the officer exclaims, beginning to move towards the noise.

As he comes closer I extended my blade waiting, as soon as I see the shine of his shoe I jump out and impale the blade into his gut and throw him to the side making my way to the staircase. There I was only one door away from Marco's office.

I crouched by a filing cabinet and poked my eye out to see two officers, both equipped in body armour and SMGs.

"Marco dijo que esta noche se mueve a realizar una operación" One of the guards says to the other.

"Sí, pero creo que su ocupada con su búsqueda" replies the other.

"Cid" I say into my earpiece.

"Yeah?" he replies.

"I want you to create a distraction, fire your pistol" I order.

BANG!

"¿Qué carajo" One guard exclaims, both facing the staircase to the upper floor.

I move out, now with both not facing me I can strike. I pounce on the first one silenty covering his mouth and stabbing his spine with my hidden blade and then droping his body, then quickly moving on the other and grabbed his throat and impaling his back and throwing him to the ground.

"Good job Cid, I'm moving in on Marco now" I contact Cid.

I then open the door to Marco's office and look inside, no one. The roo mis dark with only light being given from the monitors. I move forward into the room trying to look for Marco.

"Mirando para mí?" I hear.

Quickly I turn and are greeted by a the handle of a pistol. It smacks across my face, causing me to fall back into the darkness.