Requiescat In Pace

by datdamnface

Rating: teen
Tags: Adventure, Tragedy, Crossover, Sad
Length: 3540

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted

Where other men blindly follow the truth,

You must remember, nothing is real.

Where other men are limited, by morality or law remember

Everything is permitted

We work in the dark to serve the light. We are assassins

Nothing is true, everything is permitted

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2012-01-02 23:20:15 UTC

[error] Sequence 6

(If you don't understand; remember at the start of brotherhood? with the sequence 9 thing popping up? It's like that)

"No Please! Let me through! Please! I need to see them! Don't do this princess! I beg of you don't do this!" Screamed Rainbow Dash as the guards surged forward to block her from sight.

Everypony in ponyville had attended the public hanging of Scotaloo and Spitfire, for reasons of 'high treason agains the royal ensemble'.

"Mommy! Please help!" Shouted Scootaloo as she struggled against the ropes binding her two front hooves. Spitfire was crying silently as the guards tied the noose around her neck. After some struggling, the guard finally managed to wrap the noose around her too.

Everypony was silent and stoic, nopony wanted to see a little filly die but it was princess law, so they all had to abide. Some cried, still others were quiet.

Ezio looked on this sight with growing fury. He knew that nobody should ever have to suffer this, nopony should ever have to see their family killed before their eyes. Images flashed in his head of his own families demise. He moved through the crowd until he was at the forefront. Eagerly he awaited the moment when he would spring into action.

"Ahem" Spoke Mayor Mare, "Scotaloo and Spitfire Dash; you have been tried and convicted of high treason by her Majesty Queen Celesetia the 3rd." She stopped for a minute. Everypony knew that those were trumped up charges, the real reason was that the Queen wanted to humiliate Rainbow after she beat her in a race, performing the fabled 'sonic rainboom'.

"Mommy please!" Said Scotaloo tears streaming down her face as the guard made his way over to the lever holding up the trapdoor underneath them.

"I'm coming baby! Celestia dammit lemme go!" She screamed at the guards impassively holding her back. There was nothing she could do. She watched as the head executioner made his ways slowly, deliberately towards the only thing keeping her family from the jaws of death.

Ezio knew the time was coming. He checked his pistols; they clicked satisfyingly. He would have to have perfect aim if he was to pull this off.

The guard made his way over. Suddenly mourning trumpets sounded. Ezio knew it was his time. The guard pulled the lever.

Ezio reared back onto his hindlegs and shot both pistols, cutting the ropes as the two mares descended. They would have had their necks broken if it wasn't for the stranger's act of selflessness. Ezio lunged for the nearest guard and extended his hidden blades, driving deep into the guards neck. Before the royal guard had time to react, Ezio had turned around and shot a fast acting poison dart into another guard just a few feet away reaching for his mallet. It hit him in the eye. As he started screaming the singer started singing.

deep in the ocean, dead and cast away. My innocence is burned, in flame.

Ezio spun around barely missing a guard who had taken the initiative and had swung his rapier. As the guard withdrew, Ezio lunged forward, driving his sword deep into the guards right shoulder. The guard screamed and reared back on his hindlegs. Ezio took this opportunity to get right underneath the stallion and slice upwards, cutting the guards jugular open.

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]A million miles from home I'm walking ahead.

I'm frozen to the bones, I am a soldier on my own, I don't know the way.

I'm riding up the heights, of shame.

The royal guards began shifting into high gear. Ezio shouted as he drove his hidden blades into an unwary guards spine. "Rainbow! Take your family and run! Now!" Rainbow Dash snapped out of her stupor and ran towards her wife and foal, scooping up Scotaloo on her back. Spitfire was shouting encouragement and was battling off some of the guards with hard bucks to the faces. They ran as soon as Scotaloo was secure. The hanging platform was now a scene of madness, citizens screaming and scurrying to get out of the way of the battle. Ezio ducked, very narrowly missing an axe as it whistled over his head. Acting quickly, he took out his short sword and thrust it into the guards exposed underside. He pulled out viscously and grabbed a nearby guard who was beginning to swing his axe in a downward arch. He grabbed the guards left front hoof and twisted, the stallion reared up on his hindlegs like Ezio expected. He quickly got behind the stallion's still reared form and directed him into an oncoming thrust from a mallet from his peer. Ezio felt the blow through the stallion as it hit his pony shield.

The guards were beginning to surround Ezio now, they began pouring in from all directions.

I'm waiting for the call, the hand on the chest. I'm ready for the fight.

And fate.

Ezio felt an arrow narrowly miss his left shoulder as he sidestepped a guards attempt to thrust with a short dagger forwards. He saw the marksman stallion notch another arrow. Not waiting for him to do so, Ezio reached back into his belt and pulled out a throwing knife, flinging the small blade towards the fighter. It sailed through the air and found it's mark. The stallion screamed and died as it pierced his forehead. As quickly as he fell, another markstallion took his place.

Merda

Ezio cursed as he knew he was being surrounded. He secret weapon then and there. He took out the apple of eden and focused all of his concentration into the glowing golden ball. It sent out a massive disorienting shockwave. Right then and there stallions began falling left and right. Some just died while others began spouting gibberish. He took the opportunity to sneak away via sewer system. He sighed. "Mission accomplished." He said to himself.

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Desmond heard voices.

"He's going into a comma! Quickly! Get me the 50 cc of Adrenaline." One voice shouted, his voice gruff and unfamiliar.

"Are you nuts? That's going to kill him!" Shouted another distinctively familiar voice.

"It's our best chance! Get him the adrenaline! Go!" Shouted an achingly familiar female voice.

Desmond's mind couldn't handle it.

"He's slipping! Hurry!" Shouted the first male voice.

"Wait, let him! He's managed to unlock a deeper memory! Something stored deep in the back of Ezio's unconsciousness." Shouted another females voice. It sounded tomboyish.

"If we let him slip again we may never see him again!" Said the first female. Desmond felt himself slowly being overcome with sleep.

"Well anyway, we've lost him. It's up to god now." Said the second male voice. Growing distant.

Desmond slept.

Sequence 1

"Rebecca! What's happening?" Asked a voice with a slight englishman's lilt.

"I dunno Shaun! The Animus is...oh my god." The female's voice suddenly stopped.

"What? What's wrong with Desmond? What's happening in there?" Asked the male's voice again.

"It..it looks like a repressed memory from Ezio....whoa whoa whoa. what the hell? Where did this come from?" Her voice took on a note of urgency and concern.

"For god's sake Rebecca what is happening in there?" The exasperated male asked again.

"It's a section of memory in Ezio's subconscious I dunno how the animus stumbled onto this but it looks like it's related to subject 16. My god it's like the animus is going into...I don't know what's happening. Sweet jesus."

"Earth to Rebecca! Come in Rebecca! what is happening in there?" Asked the englishman again."

The woman named Rebecca sighed. "Okay I'll put into normal terms, the Animus has completely gone into lockdown mode." She finished with a heavy note in her voice.

"What does that even mean?!? I thought Desmond snapped out of it!" Shouted the Englishman.

"He did! Although something's gone wrong inside the Animus's main data frame. Goddamit some sort of emergency program called 'Project Celestia' is- oh my god," She finished her voice going down in tone drastically.

"Rebecca? Talk to me what's happening in there?!? What is happening to Desmond?" Pleaded the Englishman.

"Not what's happening to Desmond, what's happening to Ezio. It seems like the Animus is forcefully integrating a memory left behind my subject 16.

"Oh shit Desmond! Shaun get me 30cc of adrenaline and stabilizer's Desmond's going into shock!"

The voices grew faint again.

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Ezio Auditore Da Firenze woke up in in a small clearing within a forest, all around him he could hear wildlife screeching and calling as a gentle breeze ruffled the trees above him. "Ugh, what happened?" He called to no one in particular putting a hand to the back of his head. Everything seemed.....bigger. He got to his feet unsteadily as he surveyed his surroundings, currently he was in a rocky clearing in a dark forest. "Well this is a good start." He muttered to himself as he started walking around in circles, he stopped as he noticed the sound of hoof fall, he stopped for a minute and put down his leg. "That's strange" he muttered as he put down another leg and....another leg? He quickly looked down and instantly regretted it.

"Merda Santa" he shouted as he beheld hooves instead of hands and feet. "How did this happen? What happened?" He wondered out loud as he tested out his new found limbs, walking around in a circle to get used to the feeling. After a good 30 minutes of walking he decided to try out his tools. "Let's see here, ah!" He exclaimed as he flexed his shoulder and the hooked blade extended, it was attached to the inside of his front legs, the blade was just short enough to conceal even when fully extended but not large enough to hinder him while walking or running. "Speaking of running" he murmured as he ran at a nearby tree, jumping and using his front legs to run up a bit more before extending his right front hoof and hooking the blade into the bark. "There we go!" He shouted in glee as he used the stuck blade as an anchor to pull himself up. He scaled the tree, placing hoof over hoof until he was at the top. "Hmm...there appears to be a town over there." He looked around from his vantage point until he saw it in the horizon. It looked like a moderately small settlement but by now the master assassin had learned to take nothing for granted.

Suddenly he heard the all too familiar screech of a hawk as it landed upon a nearby jutting rock formation just a few feet from his position. "Ahh my old friend, even in new lands you guide me." He smirked as the hawk screeched again while circling the outcropping. Knowing the routine, he quickly jumped down from his place on the tree, ducking into a roll to avoid fall damage. As soon as he pulled out of his roll he full out ran towards the outcropping and jumped off, splaying his front legs for a moment and then angling them into a diver's position as he rapidly descended. He looked down only to see that there was no haystack around.

Catzo!

He mentally cursed as he plummeted to his doom, suddenly a horse pulling a hay cart ran right through his path of descent, fast enough to get into the target zone but slow enough to safely make it. He closed his eyes and sighed in relief as he felt his body fall into the soft mattress, muffling the sound of his drop and saving him from certain doom.

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Ezio had decided to take a nap as the cart trundled along it's path. By now the master assassin had developed a light sleeping method; awake in a lucid state as to keep an ear out for any enemies but unconscious enough to regenerate lost energy. He felt himself awakening as the white noise usually following crowds picked up. He shifted around in the haystack, shoving away a couple strands he made a small aperture within the stack. Small enough to go unnoticed yet big enough to give the view considerable viewing.

From what he saw the town was filled with ponies. Talking, walking, intelligent ponies. Ezio rapidly blinked and smacked his face. "Damn and I was hoping I was lucid." He muttered as he jumped out and into a nearby group of ponies, too engrossed in conversation to notice the strange stallion next to them.

"Did you hear about the zebras in the west? I heard they're putting up an awfully big fight!" Pipped a cream colored mare next to Ezio, he kept his head low as he tried his hardest to blend. "Yes I know! It won't do them any good though, the Equestrian Army is huge! And it's just a matter of time until they surrender." Spoke a mint green mare opposite from Ezio, she sighed as she finished. "You know Equestria used to be such a peaceful land. That was until Solaris took over." She finished, her voice dripping with venom.

Ezio quickly slipped away from the group of 6. "Okay so this place is called Equestria. Now how did I get here?" Murmured the assassin as he sauntered through the promenade, nudging bystanders out of the way as he took in his surroundings.

"I'd better scope out the surroundings." He thought as he looked up at a large decoratively colored building. He quickly spotted a hawk circling the top dome shaped structure, a tell-tale sign. He quickly glanced from side to side to see if there were any other buildings taller than that one, spotting none he cursed his luck and walked around it.

"Now what the hell type structure could that be?" He thought as he eyed it curiously. It reminded him of a cottage the way the wooden planks were evident through the buildings stucco. He made a circle around the building, a sign caught his attention as he completed his reconnaissance. "Sugarcube corner aye? What a strange name." He grunted as he scaled a nearby stack of crates, afterwards leaping upwards and using the hooked blade as a launching mechanism. He made quick work of scaling the building and found himself confronted with the tower. He paused for a moment to regain his breath.

"I'm getting too old for this." He grumbled as he jumped up, intent on concurring the towering obstacle before him.

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"It keeps saying 'error protocol 6 active'." Said the annoyed female again.

"What does that even mean?" He heard footsteps as the englishmen approached.

"Rebecca, Shaun, any news on Desmond?" Asked a new voice it sounded slightly nasally  but oldened with age. It seemed so familiar.

"Nothing Bill...I don't know what happened...it's like the Animus is completely rebooting or something, I can't access any of the achieves at all! Although it appears that Desmond is fine. His heart rate is steady....about 84 BPMs." Spoke the Rebecca woman again, her voice sounded preoccupied.

"Is there anything we can do to fix this?" Spoke the man named Bill, he sounded vaguely concerned but very preoccupied.

"Nothing at the moment, all we can do is wait and watch. Although I am getting increased brain activity from him. Wait that probably means Desmond can hear us!" She shouted her voice suddenly uplifting.

"He still showing signs of comatose though so I doubt that he's much help. I agree with you on one point though, all we can do is wait and watch." Bill said again.

Desmond felt himself slip back into unconsciousness.

Sequence 2

[tapping sounds] "....I don't get it...it....where have I heard that name before? Celestia?" Said Rebecca's brooding voice.

"Hmm.......Celestia...Celestia......Rebecca, can we see the memory in progress?" Asked Shaun.

"Yeah of course just let me bring it up now." She replied.

[tapping noises]

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Ezio continued to clime the dome, placing hoof over hoof and occasionally hook over hoof. "MMf! Almost there." He said to himself as he saw the clear blue skye beginning to replace the brown and walls of the building.

The vantage point was like any other, it was a rough triangular structure supported by a small arch attached to the building. Ezio shimmied his way over to the vantage point and took a low standing position.

"Oh merda." He said in quiet awe as he took in his surroundings. The lands surrounding him were completely new. He could see farmland off to his right, apple trees and tilled earth dotted the hills. To his left he saw a road leading to a forest in the distance. Facing forward he saw a small city of houses and houses and shops as well as a long road leading to a great expanse of forest and nothingness. He also noticed a small city of cloud hovering just outside the rows of houses and shops, it looked like it was a floating city.

"Oh my god." A voice reverberated through the simulation. Spoke the englishman in an almost hushed voice.

"What? Shaun what is it?" Asked Rebecca.

"How is this possible?! He...he...he oh sweet mother of god." Spoke Shaun, from the strain in his voice Desmond guessed that the man was freaking out.

"SHAUN! What...is it." Roared Rebecca silencing Shaun.

"Ahem well...how do I phrase this? Oh man oh man.......Rebecca.....Ezio is in a show called My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic." The englishman's tone was low as if he was trying to calm a wild beast.

Desmond heard Rebecca laugh. "Okay...Okay...that was funny....but seriously where is he and are those.....horses?!?" She asked completely oblivious to Shaun's statement.

"Rebecca believe me I find it hard that this is even possible but right now Desmond is going through a memory, a memory either the Animus is forcefully integrating or a memory Ezio repressed but I can tell that he is in Equestria.

"Wait a minute Shaun Equestria? Hold on a second......are you a brony?" She asked, Desmond heard the evil mirth in her voice.

"What? No! Of...of course I'm not a brony don't be silly!" Desmond could tell he was panicking.

"Of course! Hey Bill guess what? Shaun's a brony!" She called out, Desmond could hear footsteps and laughter.

"Well now isn't that quite the surprise? Anyway what have you two found?" Bill's tone switched from laughing to serious.

"Well Shaun says that Ezio is in Equestria." Desmond could tell that Rebecca was still laughing.

"Okay shut up this is serious, I would know Ponyville anywhere on the map. See here! Right now Ezio is on a building called Sugarcube corner!" Shaun spoke with excitement bubbling through his voice.

"Alright alright settle down brony, we believe you. Anyway your 'insight' could come in handy if your right." Spoke Rebecca putting particular emphasize on 'insight'.

"Oh ha ha very funny Rebecca, I don't make fun of you when you watch Powerpuff Girls now do I?" He spoke in a condescening voice.

"Oh I know you did not go there!" He heard crashing and banging quickly accompanied by a yelp of pain.

"Alright settle down you two! Let's just keep our eyes out for any further development." Shouted Bill over the din of a fight.

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Ezio stayed above the town for a little while longer before taking the leap of faith. He plummeted down into a haystack a few inches away from the storefront. "Hmmm...I may need to find some new allies." He muttered to himself as he made his way through the crowds.

"I can help." Spoke a woman's voice off to his left. He looked around with his peripheral vision before spotting a cloaked mare keeping perfect time with him.

"Who might you be?" He spoke in a hushed tone. She looked into his eyes, he saw her for the first time. She had azure blue eyes and from what he could tell of the strands of hair and skin showing through the patched grey cloak, he could tell she was pink all over. "My name is Pinkamena Diane Pie, and your's is Ezio Auditore Da Firenze am I correct?" She asked moving closer until they were side by side.

Ezio felt growing apprehension in his belly as he chose his next words carefully. "And what if I am?" His tone dropped dangerously as he intended on scaring the mare away. He felt his outfit bristle as the mare bumped him.

"I have just given you an invitation to a 'party' attend it and all your questions will be answered." She said, during the whole conversation the two had kept their eyes straight ahead minus that one time. Ezio turned to look at the mare but as he did, he found nothing in her place. "strange" he thought as he concentrated on using his eagle vision to try and spy the pink mare.

What he found instead was something completely different. Invisible to the naked eye, the Assassin's signal hung over the main banner announcing Sugarcube corner. He felt his eyes widen as a smile formed upon his face.

Even in strange lands the Assassin's were prevalent in the background.

He shook his head as he chuckled. "Even here." He said as he walked away, his destination unknown.