Ezio arrives at the barracks to discuss plans to take out the Baron de Valios, with Bartolomeo. However, in the middle of their conversation, the French mount an assault on the barracks and Bartolomeo an Ezio defend it. Upon fending off the French attack, it is revealed that the Baron has kidnapped Bartolomeo's wife, Pantasilea, and was using her to secure Bartolomeo's surrender. Ezio and Bartolomeo then ride off to inspect the French camp.
Dialogue
As Ezio walks through the front gate of the Barracks, Bartolomeo draws his sword and turns around.
Bartolomeo:Who goes there?
Ezio: Salve (Hello) to you too.
Bartolomeo: Ezio! I was expecting my wife. (Sheathes his sword.)
Ezio: Somehow, that does not surprise me.
Ezio notices an injured Mercenary being aided by two others. He seems to have injured his leg, as he walks with a limp.
Bartolomeo: The French puttane (whores) have us under pressure.
Ezio: Tell me about their general, this Baron de Valois.Bartolomeo welcomes Ezio
Bartolomeo:Cesare persuaded King Louis to lend him an entire army to defeat me. I'm flattered.
Ezio: Where can I find him?
Bartolomeo: It's only a matter of time before I have Valois by the throat. We have them in retreat.
A bullet hits the barracks wall, mere feet from Ezio and Bartolomeo.
Ezio:They seem to be getting closer.
Bartolomeo: The situation is under control--
A mercenary comes running from the west side gates.
Mercenary: (shouting) Close the gates!!
Bartolomeo: Bene. (Good.) So maybe I could use a little help.
The French army begin their advance. Bartolomeo and his men fight the French while Ezio works his way to the gate levers.
Bartolomeo: Ezio, shut the gates!
Ezio arrives at a lever, but finds it surrounded by many French invaders. Ezio begins to eliminate the French between him and the lever.
Bartolomeo: They're coming from the other side!
Bartolomeo:Defend the other entrance!
Ezio tries to help Bartolomeo, but is still preoccupied with the French soldiers around him.
Ezio fights his way through yet another wave of French to get to the final lever.
Bartolomeo: The other entrance!
Ezio shuts the last gate and eliminates the remaining French soldiers inside the Barracks.
Mercenary: The Baron de Valois signals from the field!
Octavian de Valois sits on his horse at the bottom of the hill that the Barracks is built upon, surrounded by French troops and banners. Ezio, Bartolomeo, and the remaining Mercenaries stand behind one of the closed gates to speak with Octavian from afar.
File:Gatekeeper1.jpgOctavian mocks Bartolomeo.Octavian: Bonjour, général d'Alviano. Êtes-vous prêt à vous rendre? (Are you ready to surrender?)
Bartolomeo: Why don't you come closer and say that?
Octavian: You must learn how to speak French. It would mask your barbaric sensibilities.
Bartolomeo: Perhaps you could teach me, and I would instruct you in fighting, since you seem to do so little of it!
Octavian: As amusing as this parley has been, I'd like your unconditional surrender before sunrise.
Bartolomeo: Hah! My lady Bianca will whisper it in your ear.
Octavian: I believe another lady might object to that.
A French soldier comes forward, holding Pantasilea Baglioni, Bartolomeo's wife, hostage.
Pantasilea: Mio marito vi ammazzerà tutti! (My husband is going to murder all of you!)
Bartolomeo: You steal a man's wife and then go hide inside a fortress? (gesturing toward his genitals) Nothing hangs between your thighs. In fact, there is a hole there so deep it 'reaches into the maledetto inferno (fucking underworld)!
Ezio: What good are you to her dead? We will regroup and fight through the gates as we did at the Arsenale.
Bartolomeo: The entrance is thicker with Frenchmen than the streets of Paris.
Ezio: So we will climb the battlements.
Bartolomeo: They cannot be scaled. (with a defeated tone) Pantasilea would know what to do. Maybe this is the end. I enter at dawn bearing gifts and hope that coward spares her life.File:ACBSP 2011-04-10 19-24-25-29.pngBartolomeo taunts the French at the gates.
Ezio: Perché non ci ho pensato prima? (Why didn't I think of it before?)
Bartolomeo: What did I say?
Ezio: Call your men back to the barracks. I will explain there.
Bartolomeo: You better have something good. (To his men) Fall back!
Bartolomeo, Ezio and the Mercenaries fall back to the Barracks.
Outcome
Ezio successfully defended the Barracks, without taking any damage. After he sees the Baron's fortress, Ezio came up with a plan to rescue Pantasilea.
Trivia
To achieve full synchronization the player shouldn't take any damage.
If the player does not close any gates, an infinite resource of French troops will enter the fray when others die, resulting in a 'survival' mode. Whilst doing this, the player can play around with new moves and test the mettle of their Apprentices during combat with an endless time limit and enemy count.
Strangely enough, if in this memory you shut the gate on a French soldier so that he is right next to the gate and that is the last French soldier left, if you get Bartelomeo next to the gate he will oddly start throwing stones at the gate as to aim at the French soldier.
Even though Ezio and Bartolomeo are both Assassins and would easily be able to scale the stone gate of the fortress, Bartolomeo still comments that "they cannot be scaled" because his men are unable to freerun, being only trained as mercenaries.
