The Whydah's Secret
The Whydah's Secret was a virtual representation of one of Alonzo Batilla's genetic memories, relived by a research analyst at Abstergo Entertainment through the Animus Omega.[1]
Description
Having prevented Francis Hume's Royal Navy-backed assassination attempt on Samuel Bellamy, Alonzo planned to use Laurens Prins' naval route to ambush the slaver.
Dialogue
Alonzo sailed the Wanderer beside Bellamy's larger ship Sultana and called to him from the helm.
- Alonzo: Sam! It is high time we pursue our most prized target!... Laurens Prins!
- Bellamy: His ship... the Whydah... is a true fortress, and fast... we'll have to proceed with care.
- Alonzo: I guess those friends of yours will try to stop us... even with the British captain dead!
- Bellamy: Aye, they will!... So let us be careful!
- Alonzo: Show me the way...
Alonzo followed Bellamy, curving around small islands and other ships until Jumao saw Le Postillon ahead taking mortar fire from a lighthouse.
- Jumao: Alonzo! La Buse is under attack!...
- Alonzo: He will not endure this for long!... We have to help him!
- Bellamy: I cannot risk it!... The Whydah will put too much distance between us!
- Alonzo: Sail after our prize, Sam!... We will meet you in time, I promise!
Bellamy left to hunt the Whydah. Alonzo weaved through mortar fire to aid La Buse. At his approach, La Buse sailed to safety while Alonzo aimed to neutralize the mortar.
- Jumao: We've made it, Alonzo!... Now shoot the men operating the mortars at the top of the lighthouse!
Using a swivel gun, Alonzo shot the mortar's five operators, taking incoming fire as he did so.
- La Buse: Thank you, my friend!
- Alonzo: I thought you'd be halfway around the world...
- La Buse: Those dogs tracked me down and drove me into an ambush!... I had to leave my gold behind!
- Alonzo: Your loss is our gain... Sam and I are after the Whydah, the fastest ship in the West Indies! He's chasing her now!... But we'd capture her more easily if the three of us worked together!
- La Buse: One last prize... destiny put you in my path, boy!
- Alonzo: And destiny does not wait!... We have to catch Bellamy before he reaches our prize!
They raced to join Bellamy, after which the pirates held council.
- Bellamy: A new ally for our operation?... You tasted blood in the water, shark?
- La Buse: I have no taste for your jests, Sam!... What is your plan?
- Bellamy: We have to be cautious... Trust me, Prins will flee as soon as he sees our black flags!
- Alonzo: Then, we set an ambush... I will chase Prins... and drive him right into our trap!
- Bellamy: It will work if you force him into that passage... but let no other ship detect your presence!
Alonzo avoided the first group of ships, setting Prins down the ambush route.
- Jumao: Continue the chase, captain!... The Whydah is falling for our ruse!
Alonzo dodged the next set of ships, securing Prins into the trap.
- Jumao: The Whydah is cornered, captain! Wait for our allies... and this prize is ours!
- Alonzo: I am not one for idleness, Jumao!... I've waited for this my entire life!
Alonzo engaged the Whydah in combat.
- Jumao: Do not sink her, Alonzo... we'll lose her precious cargo!
Alonzo severely damaged the Whydah.
- Prins: I give up, you scoundrels!... Do not destroy my beautiful ship!
- Alonzo: This ship is no longer yours, slaver!
When the pirates boarded the Whydah, Prins threatened revenge.
- Prins: The people who hired me will not be deterred by a gang of pirates... They'll soon be after you!
- Bellamy: Where is it?... Where is the Fragment?
- Prins: Do not lay hands on it... this... thing is not of our making, it is... it is cursed!
- Bellamy: Men like you are our only curse, Prins!... Let's search the hold, friends!... Follow me!
In the hold, Bellamy searched for the Fragment.
- Alonzo: Have you found it, Sam?... Have you found our bounty?!
- Bellamy: I have it... at last! In this chest!... The Fragment of Eden!
- Alonzo: ...A fragment of Eden?
- Bellamy: A device with a mind of its own... strong enough to bend wills and shape destinies!
- Alonzo: ...We could use it!... Become the kings of the seas!
- Bellamy: That is what my enemies would do... corrupt its purpose to secure power! Spread a form of slavery that is more insidious than the trafficking of humans... but just as evil!
- La Buse: Your enemies?... Those men who attacked us at every turn?!
- Bellamy: Yes. They are Templars... Men working from the shadows to gain control of the world.
- La Buse: They are bound to catch up with us... If you want this artifact secured... we have to go!
- Bellamy: I will sail faster aboard the Whydah! But I won't be able to fight back...
- Alonzo: We'll be your escort, Sam... You'll be safe with us!
A storm grew while Alonzo and La Buse escorted Bellamy. Hume appeared again on the horizon.
- Hume: You will never escape with our relic, Assassins! Your pathetic little fleet is no match for my King George... the jewel of the Royal Navy!
- Alonzo: How could this be?... I saw him die!
- La Buse: He has a Man O' War, Alonzo!... The mightiest of all ships!
- Alonzo: The three of us can overpower him!
- La Buse: The Whydah is too damaged... we are alone in this fight, my friend!
- Alonzo: So I'm your friend, now?
La Buse put Le Postillon at Hume's guns, taking heavy damage shielding the Wanderer. Alonzo carefully fired his cannons around La Buse, but to little effect on King George. Jumao saw another ship nearing.
- Jumao: Captain! Another ship is joining the battle!
La Buse let Hume pass him as Edward Thatch sailed Queen Anne's Revenge the opposite way and fired a broadside into King George, severely damaging it.
- Thatch: Are you fighting this leviathan all alone, boys?
- La Buse: I can't hold any longer!... You need to fight for me!
- Thatch: My cannons have already crippled this beast... Shoot the weak sections and she'll soon be coral!
- Alonzo: I will end it!... This time, I'll make sure he won't rise from the dead!
- Hume: You cannot defeat me!... I will bring an end to all piracy!
Despite Hume's boast, Alonzo used a swivel gun to shoot King George's weak points, sinking it.
- Alonzo: Good riddance... I thought he'd never die!
- Thatch: We all die, boy!... Our only freedom is to meet the reaper on our own terms!
- Alonzo: Thank you... What is your name?
- Thatch: You'll find out soon enough!... Farewell, boy!
Thatch sailed away.
- Bellamy: You rescue me yet again, Alonzo!... I am forever in your debt!
- Alonzo: My friends hold no debts to me!
- Bellamy: Maybe you should take this treasure... it will be safer in the hands of a real pirate.
- Alonzo: You'd trust me with it?... A soulless man like me?
- Bellamy: The Templars will not relent!... They will chase me to the ends of the earth...
- Alonzo: ...so we should lead them on a wild goose chase...
- Bellamy: ...while you will secure our treasure!... There's no time to waste... I have to leave now! Farewell, my friends! We'll meet again... if Neptune allows it!
Bellamy fled on the Whydah.
- La Buse: I will assist you, Alonzo. I know how to hide this... cumbersome... treasure!
- Alonzo: ...What is your plan?
- La Buse: I have devised a trick so clever that no one will ever be able to figure it out...
- Alonzo: Tell me what it is!
- La Buse: All in due time, my impatient friend... All in due time.
Outcome
Alonzo rescued La Buse from mortar fire before they joined Bellamy in ambushing Laurens Prins, claiming the Whydah and the Fragment of Eden for themselves. Alonzo and La Buse escorted Bellamy away until Francis Hume attacked, aiming to take the artifact. They fought back until Edward Thatch intervened and helped sink Hume's ship. Entrusting Alonzo with the Fragment, Bellamy used himself as a decoy for the Templars while La Buse offered to help hide it.
References
Assassin's Creed: Pirates memories
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| Main memories | |
| Prologue - A Legend is Born - The Prince of Pirates - The Treasure Fleet - On the Hunt - The Whydah's Secret - The Pirate Republic - La Boca del Diablo - Among Pirates - The Merchant King - The Way Out | |
| Appendix memories | |
| A Rich Bounty - The Fort - The White Whale - Blockade | |
| Mystery delivery memories | |
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