

The next morning, things go terribly wrong. Despite all this, Ezio seems content that his adventure is over, hands the apple off to Mario and sleeps with Caterina. Machiavelli scolds at Ezio for not having killed Rodrigo Borgia and that the Borgia family will strike back, which causes Machiavelli to leave for Rome. He meets with his mother, sister, Mario, Niccolo Machiavelli and Caterina Sforza on what to do with the apple. Desmond re-enters the Animus to find clues to where the Apple of Eden may be.Įzio returns to his family mansion. They arrive at Ezio's villa in the hopes of locating the other pieces of Eden before Abstergo finds them. The game flashes to 2012 where Desmond, Lucy and the gang are on the run from Abstergo. Right before escaping though, Ezio hesitates to get rid of the apple so no one will ever be able to harness its power but decides not to. Mario arrives and together they escape the Vatican. Ezio attempts to take the Papal staff that retracts into the ground, and he is left with only the Apple of Eden. He returns to where he had left the Pope who has since escaped. Despite having many questions, she disappears and Ezio is left bewildered. Ezio is in a vault beneath the Vatican speaking to Minerva. The game flashes back to where Assassin's Creed II ended.

As he attempts to stab the condottieri in the neck, Cesare pushes him off and the memory, known as sequence 9, goes out of synch. The game opens with Ezio running on a battlefield and gripping Cesare Borgia. Ezio travels to Rome to establish the Assassin Order, and to bring the Templar order to their knees once and for all. After a surprise attack on Monteriggioni, the Templar grandmaster, Cesare kills Mario as he invites Ezio to Rome, with the Apple of Eden lost to them, and the villa in ruins. This time around, Ezio will encounter a powerful condottieri, Cesare Borgia. The story is a continuation of the Assassin’s Creed II storyline following Ezio Auditore Da Firenze, the Master Assassin, as he travels to the city of Rome in order to recruit and train the Brotherhood of assassins.
