First fanfic... Ever... please not too much hate... feedback would be nice, though. I will try to upload ever week Friday at the earliest and Sunday at the latest, unless *shutters* life... Gets in the way.

Hope you enjoy

Chapter 1- Head's Full of Painful Thoughts

(Edward's POV)

"Ed! Ed!"

'Stop yelling Al, my head already hurts and I'm not even up yet...what could I have already done...'

"COME BACK! BRING HIM BACK!"

'Im not going anywhere Al, I'm still in bed...right?'

"LET ME GO! ED! ED, I WILL FIND YOU!"

'Why do I feel something pulling... never mind that. What was Al saying... I'm too tired for this.'

"Ed..."

'My head is spinning, why do I feel so sick and tired today, at least, Al's stopped yelling at me...' A cold floor is beneath his head, as ed comes to realise where he is... Or isn't, he shoots his eyes open, but only to close them due to the bright fluorescent lights. Ed attempts to get up but is stopped by three things...

One his throbbing head,

Two his automail is missing

And three a chain connected to his remaining limbs. Ed hears footsteps from the other side of the room and forces his eyes to focus faster to the light.

"Your up... Boy."

It was a tall, thin man, that would be no bigger than a broomstick if it wore not for his large brown coat that covered most of his body. His face was long and emotionless, he looked to be smart as he stopped out of Ed's reach. Ed then remembered Al...

"Where is Al! You bastards what did you do to him! If you even..." Ed was cut off by blue sparks and an explosion of pain where the chain connect with his skin.

"Now, now, no need to interrupt me." The man spoke calmly for the situation. "As I was saying... Would you like me to call you, boy..." Ed said nothing but looked at the man with disgust. Ed felt more pain, now reaching further up his limbs. "Answer me boy when I speak to you!..." The man still talking calmly, but loader. Several seconds with still no response, more pain ruptured from the chains, now reaching his outer cheats. Ed struggled for breath as the pain caused his chest to tighten. "If you answer my questions," He kneeled. "I may answer some of yours... Boy..."

Edward was hesitant to say anything but he managed to mutter "Ed..." Too much of his disgust of the man and his 'questions'.

"See," he stood again, "that wasn't that bad was it. Now, Ed, you are a very lucky one. You have been assigned to me." He points to himself, seeming very self-absorbed, Ed realised that most of his speech were matched with movement. "Now like I have said we just need to answer each other's questions and no one gets hurt. By no one I mean you." Poking Ed in the nose. At this point, Ed remembered he was on the floor and attempted to move, but failed due to the pain still in his limbs. "Now you can call me Joe, Ed. Ok. Now to the real questions..." He pulls from his coat a slip of paper and glasses. "Let us begin, Ed my boy."

"Why me..." Ed trailed off as Joe became too close to his face, Ed moved back but was on the floor and couldn't go any further. Joe then started to walk away but stopped at something that Ed was unable to see due to the lights. Ed assumed it was a table.

"You need rest first, you really put up a fight... Time to rest, Eddie my boy..." He trailed off as he turned around with a needle.

"Wait-wait-wait-wait! No way get that away from me!" Joe moved closer, the young alchemist moved as far as he could go. His arm was grabbed and he pinned Ed to the ground. He was surprisingly strong. He was right Ed was tired and he couldn't put up much a fight as the needle is put into his arm. Ed attempts to kick the man as he stands but missed due to the drug quickly kicking in. Ed's world slowly spun and his vision began to go black as he is forced into rest.

(Roy's POV)

Roy leaped into his car eagerly, to get away from his office, it was full of paperwork and the only reason he could go home was because Hawkeye ordered him too... With a gun. 'You can't say no to that women, she just uses her gun to tell me off and I can't do anything to resist her. She is like a nanny with a gun, and I'm a child putting their hand in the candy jar, again...' His thoughts trailed off as he sees Al running down the street pursued by three men with guns and what looked like alchemy gloves and tattoos of some sort. "AL!" Roy had stopped his car and signalled Al to get into the still running car.

"Colonel! HELP! E..." His voice cut off by gun shots and the ping off his suit. As soon as Al put one boot in the car Roy moved the car as the men began to shoot at the car itself. Unlike Al he wasn't bulletproof, Al swung his armour into the car as they flow off.

"AL! Who the hell were they!" Roy looked behind to see if they followed, they attempted by foot by quickly failed. He glanced at Al has moved his site to the road. "What's wrong Al?" He had a panicked look and he was stuttering, struggling to produce words. "Slow down, breath, breath Alphonse... Now, slowly," eyes still locked on the road " what happened and who were they."

"... Ed... They... They... I couldn't do..."

"Calm down..."

"They took Ed, they knocked him out and tried to do the same to me, of course failing but they still got him!" His voice going up an octave. "I don't know where they took him... What if they..." Al started to panic again, looking back to where he was picked up and back to Roy, "I don't know what to do!"

"Look let's go back to HQ and collect ourselves ok." No response from Al not even a noise. "Ok, Al..."

Al managed to mumble out a "Mhm" much to his disgust of not being able to save his nii-san*.

(Al's POV)

Roy and Al burst through the doors of his office, still full of his team and papers.

"I TOLD YOU TO GO HOME!" Riza wailed at Roy pulling out her gun.

Al began to panic trying to explain Riza the situation "Wait, he... Ed... He's... Please..." Al just spat a bunch of words he hopes helped.

"Team! Almost an Hour ago, Edward Elric was kidnapped by unnamed perpetrates!" Al sighed as he was hopeless and he needed to rely on others.

Without another word, they began to work. Hawkeye grabbed Al almost instantly and asked him questions. "Were you with Ed?... How many were there?... What direction did they go?... Can you describe them to me?... "

Al stuttered once again, trying to calm down and answer her questions, knowing panicking wouldn't help nii san. "I was with Ed... Um, I think there were six of them maybe eight... They went east or South... I think..."

"You need to be sure Al..."

"I'm sure they went east."

nii-san - Brother (in Japanese)

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it's what Al calls Ed in Japanese, all the time. Watch any subbed episode and Al will say it