Return to Abstergo

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Return to Abstergo== Return to Abstergo was the third and final expedition by Desmond Miles from the Grand Temple, in 2012.

Description

Desmond learned that his father had been captured by Abstergo, and set off for Rome to rescue him.

Dialogue

Desmond was called out of the Animus by Rebecca, who had some bad news for him.

• Rebecca: Something's happened, Desmond... Abstergo has  your dad.
• Desmond: Where?
• Shaun: Italy. Same place they were holding you.
• Desmond: What are you two waiting for? Let's go.
• Rebecca: There's more.

Desmond, Shaun and Rebecca watched a message from Warren Vidic.

• Warren: Hello again, Mister Miles. I hope this message finds you well - or as well as it can, all things considered... It appears we now each have something the other desires. I propose a trade. Bring me the Apple and I'll return your father to you no worse for the wear. Should you refuse, he will still be returned, albeit much worse for the wear. I assume you'd like to avoid an unpleasant outcome.

Desmond, Shaun and Rebecca drove to the Abstergo Headquarters in Rome.

• Desmond: I always knew it would come to this - just not so soon. I wonder if Abstergo even knows what's about to happen... And has this been part of their plan all along? Maybe they want the world to end. To see it all burned away. Then they'd have their new world - ripe for the reshaping... We talked about looking for another power source. Leaving him there. That's probably what he'd want. For us to finish the mission. But I can't. It's hard enough taking a life - but letting one be taken... knowing there was something I could do about it. Not a chance. Might be I'm risking my life - risking all our lives to save an asshole. But what else am I supposed to do? That asshole is my dad...

Desmond walked into the Abstergo Headquarters, listening to Rebecca through an earpiece.

• Rebecca: They're probably holding your father on the upper levels. Same place they kept you. There's an elevator bank down the hall. Try not to let them see you.
• Desmond: They know I'm here, Rebecca. There's no way they don't.
• Shaun: This... this was a bad idea.

Desmond walked down the hall to the elevator bank, but was stopped by two guards.

• Guard: Hand over your weapons and come with me, sir.
• Desmond: I can show myself in, but thanks for the offer.
• Warren: I'd rather this not turn ugly, Mister Miles.
• Desmond: Then let me through.
• Warren: Subdue the subject, please.

Four guards attacked Desmond, but Desmond killed them and made his way to an elevator at the end of the hall.

• Rebecca: Fourth floor.

However, the elevator stopped before Desmond could reach the fourth floor.

• Warren: Well, I see you've learned absolutely nothing since you left us. Walking into an elevator in the middle of a hostile environment. Really?
• Desmond: Where's my father?
• Warren: You'll see him soon enough. Now be a good boy and wait for security to fetch you.
• Rebecca: You're gonna have to climb the rest of the way.

Desmond climbed out of the elevator and up the elevator shaft to the fourth floor. There, he encountered three more Abstergo guards, but managed to kill them.

• Rebecca: Your dad could be anywhere, Desmond. I'm sorry but I just don't know where he is.
• Desmond: That's okay. I do...

Desmond made his way through the building. He encountered several more guards, but killed them all and moved on, until he reached the Animus Project laboratory and encountered Daniel Cross.

• Daniel: Give me the Apple.

Daniel shot at Desmond, who hid behind an Animus.

• Daniel: Let's not draw this out. You've got nowhere to go and I've got a gun. Speaking of which... It's the 21st century and you're still running around with only a tiny knife for protection? It's stupid. Alright Desmond. Game's over.

But before he could shoot Desmond, Daniel began to suffer from the Bleeding Effect.

• Daniel: Not now... Not... now... (In Russian) There is still work to be done. Niet! [No!] Get out!
• Desmond: What the hell was that?

Daniel fled the laboratory and Desmond pursued him to a room with a large window.

• Daniel: Get out! Get ouut! Get ouuuut!

Daniel leapt out through a window onto one of a network of girders above the Animus Training Facility, and Desmond followed him.

• Warren: Enough is enough Mister Miles. I invited you here in the spirit of cooperation. But you've responded to my hospitality with only violence. I had hoped we might preserve you and further study your memories. But you're not worth the trouble. I hereby authorize the use of deadly force. Kill the bastard! And then bring me the Apple!

Desmond eventually caught up with Daniel Cross and assassinated him, taking his gun and heading to another elevator.

• Rebecca: Fifth floor.

The elevator arrived at the fifth floor and Desmond stepped out.

• Rebecca: Vidic's office is up ahead.]

Desmond fought his way through many waves of guards to the antechamber of Vidic's office.

• Warren: You... You killed him... Daniel was like a son to me... A sickly son, perhaps... But one full of promise... He accomplished so much... and so well. And now you've taken him from me! From us! Like the Apple. Like Lucy. We want to help the world, Desmond. To save it from itself! But you keep getting in the way. All our hard work, ruined. You're a fanatic. All your kind. Maintaining the erroneous belief that WE are evil. That the work WE do is wrong. We ENRICH lives here. We SAVE and TRANSFORM them. But you... You just keep taking and taking what isn't yours!

The doors to Vidic's office were opened by his secretary, and Desmond confronted Warren.

• Desmond: Dad!
• Warren: Not so fast, Mister Miles. In case you hadn't noticed, I'm the one calling the shots. Now give me the Apple.
• Desmond: You want it? Fine. Here it is.

Desmond raised the Apple, but instead of giving it to Vidic he manipulated the security guard nearest to him. The guard raised his gun, and Warren began to plead.

• Warren: Wait. No.

But the guard, under the influence of the Apple, shot Vidic and killed him, before turning the gun on himself. Desmond then used the Apple to control every other guard in the room, manipulating them all into shooting themselves. Desmond then freed his father, who was tied to a chair.

• William: You never should have come here. You put everything on the line - for, what? So you could rescue your father?
• Desmond: Yeah.

The two embraced, then Desmond took another power source from Vidic's desk, and the Apple, and escorted William out of Abstergo. As he walked past the many guards waiting to confront him, he used the power of the Apple to kill them or to make them flee. Eventually, William and Desmond left the Abstergo facility, and returned to the Grand Temple.

Outcome

Desmond killed both Daniel Cross and Warren Vidic, rescued his father and returned to the Grand Temple with the final power source.