Copyrights: I do not own (though don't I wish) Fullmetal Alchemist in any way nor any or the characters, places, or story associated with it. However all new characters, places, and story ideas are property of the author of this fic (namely me). If you in any way feel the need to use my ideas, character, etc. just ask and I'll happily say yes if you make sure to give a nod in my direction when using them. Like they say, "imitation is the highest form of flattery."
Setting: The time this takes place is where a year or so is missing from the series between the episodes Be Thou For The People and the mini arc in Leor
Prolog: Ed is sent on a military errand, to a crumbling city in the far east of Amestris to deal with a gang that has been terrorizing the citizens there. Once there he gets in a confrontation with the infamous "Boulder Gang." When we enter the scene an abandoned building has already been destroyed as a result of the conflict and the "Boulder Gang" is currently hiding in the rubble.
Chapter 1: Who You Calling A Little… iGirl/i?
"Please come out before you force me to get rough," a singsong voice chirps through the dust of a failing town.
"Brother don't hurt them too much or the Colonel will be angry with you," a soft echoing voice pleaded.
"Yeah, yeah, I know Al, but I can't let them get away either or I'll never hear the end of it from that smart ass," the first voice replied mockingly. Then raising his voice he adds, "besides if they'd just give themselves up there'll be no reason for any further damage to be caused over this."
"Like hell we'd give ourselves up to the puny likes of you," a harsh voice calls out of the rubble of what was an abandoned building. "The Boulder Gang couldn't possibly be defeated by a shrimpy little girl like you."
"Ut-oh, Ed please go easy on them," Al tried to reason with his older brother's fury, but Ed was already too far gone for any amount of reasoning. He sighs before adding, "Now they're in for it."
"WHO YOU CALLIN' A," Ed screamed as he claps his hands together before slamming his hands on the ground, "TINY, LITTLE GIRL JUST BECAUSE," a huge cannon appears from the ground where his hands hit, "NO MALE COULD POSSIBLY BE," the cannon fires at the rubble, "AS SMALL AS I AM," though doesn't do much more damage than to crush the already destroyed building into smaller pieces.
"Easy Ed they never said all of that," Al attempted to sooth his brother's temper. "Though calling you a girl because of you lack of height is a new one for me too."
"Haha, you missed girly," the harsh voice once again called tauntingly from the rubble.
"Stop calling me a girl," Ed fumed, "My name is Edward, Edward Elric, also known as the Fullmetal Alchemist."
"Don't play games with us bitch we know all about you from our people in Central, " calls out the harsh voice, now rising from his hiding place in the debris. He was a burly man with brown crew cut hair, dark eyes, and a slightly muscular physique that matched his harsh tone nicely. When he spoke again continued to dig his own grave, " We know you're that little girl State Alchemist that captured our leader and had him imprisoned. So now we get to have our revenge." And with that he pulled out his gun and ran blinded by rage at the person who called himself Edward, followed by four of his underlings.
"Why do they always choose to do things the hard way," mumbled Ed, while once again clapping his hands together though this time turning his fake, metal, right arm into a sword. "Have it your way Boris," then with a speed that belittled his stature, easily disarmed all the renegades. "Now that you've forced me to bust all your weapons up, let's call it quits," he asked almost pleasantly.
The four lesser men immediately put up their hands in defeat, but their boss, Boris on the other hand was not so easily deterred. "You may have impressed my men with your little trick but I won't give up so quickly; not until I've had my revenge for you imprisoning our leader," and at that moment boulders and debris from the building came flying from all directions at Ed.
"Great how'd I manage to get into this mess," Ed thought as he became extremely hard pressed to avoid becoming squashed by the oncoming rocks. What Ed had failed to notice while listening to Boris' speech was him reaching down to touch a circle that had been etched on one of the nearby pieces of building rubble, resulting in a mass transmutation of all the rubble within the immediate vicinity.
"Damn there's no end to them," Ed thinks as he continues to dodge one boulder after another.
"Ed it's the rock, he's controlling them from the one with the transmutation circle on it," Al yells to Ed in a helping though still slightly panicked voice.
Ed looked around to find that Al was right; Boris was still standing in the same place as before, with a look of pure enjoyment on his face from watching his opponent's dance to avoid his attacks, his hand still resting on the rock to his left with the circle on it. "It won't be long now, soon the twerp will become exhausted and then… Splat," Boris thought cheerfully, a grin flickering on his corrupt face.
"I'll cut through that circle then this little party will be over," Ed thinks then begins calculating his course of action to get there. He begins moving purposely through the raining rocks toward Boris, each dodge moving him a little closer.
"This will end it," Boris shouts as he sends the largest rock yet hurling toward Ed hoping to turn him into jelly, but he failed to notice two very important things. Number one was his enemy was so close now that if the huge rock fell it would squish them both and number two was that the kid's walking tin can had managed to sneak around to his right side. So in failing to notice these critical things he failed to predict his opponent's next move and therefore sealed his own fate.
"Show's over Boris," Ed yells as he lunges straight at him throwing them both out of the boulder's site of impact. The force or Ed's "dodge" sends Boris flying 5 feet to the right landing at Al's feet, on a circle he had drawn in the dirt.
"End of the line," Al half mocks as he touches the edge of the circle Boris is now laying on, causing four barred walls to spring up around him. "I'd be getting real used to places like that if I were you, Boris."
"Damn you," Boris cursed before blacking out.
As for Ed, he rolled into a perfect tumble stopping about 8 or so feet away on his rear end, leaving the boulder to crush the other one with the transmutation circle on it and putting an end to Boris' attacks.
"Ouch! Remind me not to do that again next time," Ed complains, as he stands while rubbing a hand over his now sore behind.
"Well it was either that or end up as jam on toast," Al laughed while walking toward his "injured" brother.
"Haha, very funny," Ed replied sarcastically, "but you're right I would've been Toast had you not pointed out the source. I had completely failed to notice Boris activate that circle."
"You're too careless, that's how you end up getting caught in situations like this. I'm sure your behind would appreciate it if you paid more attention to these things, they might be more avoidable."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever we got through it in the end didn't we?"
"Yep mission complete and now…" Al began.
"We leave it up to the local authorities to take these scumbags into custody," Ed interjected.
"But shouldn't that be your job seeing as the mission to stop the Boulder Gang was yours as a State Alchemist."
"Yep and we stopped them, that's good enough for me and seeing as the cleanup isn't part of my job description, we're takin' the next train outta this dump," Ed replied casually as he begins to walk toward the station.
"Brother, always shirking responsibility," Al thinks before following Ed as the local officers move in to bag their capture.