Mass Exodus
Mass Exodus is a memory in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
Description
Ezio listens to Minerva in the Vault at Il Vaticano. He is confused when she says that he anchors the one to whom the warning is intended.
Afterwards, he and Mario successfully escape the Vatican.
Dialogue
- Minerva: It is done. The message is delivered. We are gone now from this world. All of us. We can do no more. The rest is up to you... Desmond.
- Ezio: What? Who is Desmond? I don't understand! Please, wait! I have so many questions!
Minerva vanishes, leaving Ezio in the Vault. He walks out and notices that Rodrigo Borgia is gone, his robes abandoned on the floor. The Staff is still standing in place adjacent to the Vault. Ezio attempts to remove it, but it quickly sinks beneath the earth. The room spins and sinks mechanically. Mario Auditore appears at the edge of the newly-created pit, above Ezio.
- Mario: Better in the hands of the earth than in the hands of man.
- Ezio: Uncle?
- Mario What can I say? We sent a single man against an entire army! I was worried! Quick, climb up. We have to get out of here.
Ezio climbs out of the pit.
- Ezio: You would not believe the things I have seen, Mario.
- Mario: Then be sure to stay alive that I might hear of them.
- Ezio: I expect opposition.
- Mario: And I expect the Borgia to mourn the loss of many lives tonight.
They return to the Capella Sistina where the priests had regained consciousness.
- Priest 1: Che cosa fate ‘qui? (What are you doing here?)
- Priest 2: Assassini! God will see you pay for your crimes!
- Priest 3: You have desecrated the sanctity of this holy place!
- Ezio: You condemn what you do not understand!
- Mario: We must go, Ezio. Now!
They proceed towards the courtyard.
- Mario: Did Rodrigo manage to hurt you?
- Ezio: Barely. My armor blunted his attack.
They enter the courtyard and see a gathering of Cardinals. The college of Cardinals can be heard in the background, chanting.
- Cardinal: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God, and the shield of faith, wherewith you shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Ezio and Mario reach the door, and Mario unsheathes his sword. As they open the door, a group of Borgia guards attack them.
- Mario: Be ready to fight.
- Ezio: What are you doing?!
- Mario: Saving you, from the looks of things.
Both engage in combat, killing simultaneously.
- Ezio: Not bad for an old man.
- Mario: Agreed! You still have some skill.
- Ezio: Bouna questa. (Good one.)
They make their way to the rooftops, killing every guard following them, until they reach a tower at the banks of the Tiber River. Ezio takes the Apple and hesitates to throw it into the water.
- Mario: This decision is yours alone to make. Only do so quickly.
- Give it to me. You can do with it as you will later.
- Ezio: Bene. (Good.)
- Mario: Jump!
Mario performs a Leap of Faith into the Tiber, and Ezio follows suit.
Outcome
Ezio and Mario successfully escape Rome and safely return to Monteriggioni with the Apple.
Gallery
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Ezio before leaving the Vault. -
Ezio discovers Rodrigo's disappearance.
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Ezio trying to retrieve the Staff. -
Ezio and Mario make their way past the priests.
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Cardinals gathered in the courtyard. -
Ezio fighting the guards outside the Vatican.
