Steel Knight Episode 1
I know the start is a little rocky, but I promise that if you continue reading it will get MUCH better. :D
Place: Central City, Amestris
Date: October 12, 1938
Time: 8:40pm
BOOM!
It had been two weeks sense the first attack. The first couple had been warnings; abandoned or empty buildings throughout the city had seemingly been spontaneously exploding. Then, a grocery store, a movie house, a hat shop and a military building had all exploded. In total the casualties numbered 73, and the death count was at 43 and rising. The entire capital had begun to panic. Finally, after such a devastating loss of life the men behind the attacks had been found, and a very unique team of specialists had been dispatched. Currently they were sitting on top of a small apartment building right outside of Central Command - watching a group of suspicious men below them. They had been following one of the goons all day and at last he had lead them to the rest of the group.
Erix squinted his bright blue eyes as he observed the men below him with his binoculars.
"There are six thugs down there ,"he reported. "Most of them have guns - automatic pistols from the looks of it. The one without any weapons seems to be our guy. Tall, muscular build, early 40s, bald - yep that's our man. It seems that he's drawing something on the ground."
Ellis sighed deeply and cradled her forehead. Her bleach blonde bangs falling in front of her eyes.
"It's a transmutation circle, moron." She whispered harshly.
Erix snorted indignantly. "Hey, at least I'm not the one who put a big hole in our apartment wall, antagonized our land lady and got us kicked out!"
"That was an accident! Besides that cranky old hag for a land lady had it coming, and you know it!" Barked the insulted fourteen year old. "Be quiet, I can't hear what they're saying - and enough with the binoculars!"
Erix ran his long lightly tanned fingers through his naturally dirty-blonde hair. Looking up from his perch on the edge of the rooftop he smiled hypocritically at his younger sister - they were only one year apart, but there was definitely a large gap between the two siblings maturity levels(In his mind that is).
"But that makes it feel more like an espionage mission!" He explained now ugusting his rectangular shaped spectacles that framed his face.
"This coming from the guy wearing the purple blazer." scoffed his hazel eyed brother Gilbert. Erix was about to protect his choice in attire when Gene placed a firm, yet gentle hand over his cousin's mouth keeping him silent.
"Erix, please be quiet for a minute," begged his younger cousin. Gene was only nine years old but he was smart, and could tell if this carried on the bad guy would get away. Besides for being the youngest, Gene also didn't look much like his cousins. They were all a nice pleasant skin tone. Not white, but not tan either. His skin was very pale and much softer. He was also shorter than they were at his age - even Ellis. His hair was jet black and his face round. All of these qualities he had inherited from his Xingese mother. The only trait he shared with his father's side of the family physically was his eye color. Just like his dad, uncle, and Ellis he too had golden eyes.
"Alright, enough chit chat. Let's get to work," ordered Ellis in agreement, realizing she would never be able to get anything done with their babbling. Ellis ordered Gil and Gene to cover one end of the alley while she and Erix would be on the other end. They were not to act until they got her signal. The two youngest boys quietly hurried through the darkness to where they had to be. As Ellis and Erix positioned themselves in an undisclosed position in the shadows near the bad guys at last their conversations became clear.
"Hey boss, asked one of Gregor Mac's redneck goons. "When we done and get to blow this place sky high like all of them other buildings?"
Gregor put the finishing touches on his array and stood up, a diabolical smile on his face.
"My friend, we are finished and now so is Amestris..."
Suddenly a bright light of a transmutation could be seen for a split second a few yards away and a swirl of throwing knives zoomed past their heads – one cutting Gregor Mac's cheek.
"So, it was you. Your the one who bombed those buildings – hurt all those innocent people, and now you plan on blowing up Central Command." said solemnly what seemed to be the voice of a young boy.
The villains spun in the direction of the voice to see who the owner was. Gregor Mac raised a bushy black eyebrow at what seemed to be a young boy with short bleach blonde hair and fiery golden eyes. The child began to stride toward them. He was wearing a jet black coat that went down just below his hips, and matching fedora.
"What a child?" The leader of the group demanded vulgarly.
"I'm not a child, I'm a State Alchemist." the kid gloated.
"The military is making children it's dogs? How sick."
"Why did you kill all those people?" Asked the child angrily, ignoring the man's question. Ellis could tolerate many things, but not senseless violence.
"Simple, it's the first baby steps to ushering in an era of greatness," he replied. "In order for him to become ruler of all, Amestris must fall. It is destined!"
"Your nuts," She deemed him. "Besides, nothing is a good excuse for murdering innocent people!"
Ellis clapped her hands together, then lunged for the ground near her feet, as she touched the ground alchemical lights appeared. The goons pulled out there pistols, ready to fire when a teenage boy in a purple blazer – his face painted green – charged at them, whacking their weapons out of their grasp with a frying pan and soup spoon. Ellis attacked them too with the stone club she had just transmuted.
"Woowa!" The teenagers chanted like Kung Fu masters as they smacked them silly.
In the confusion of the battle Gregor Mac made a dash for it. He was tailed closely however by the child in the red coat. He was slowly gaining ground however, until he reached the end of the alley way. His escape path was blocked by a skinny eight foot tall man in a trench coat and menacing helmet. Mac hesitated for a bit before charging toward the taller man. With a wild yell he put all his force into a punch aimed at the man's midsection, only to be caught off guard when his fist collided with nothing but air and the man split in half – revealing that it had just been two young boys, one on the others shoulders.
"Wha-" He mouthed in confusion. Gene, the boy who had been the upper half of the body threw off the coat (still wearing the metal helmet though) reached into a pouch attached to his gray shorts and expertly chucked kunai in his direction – causing Gregor to get bloody gashes on his arms and legs.
"Why you little-" he began as he spotted an incoming speck of blonde hair in his peripheral vision.
"HAAAA!" Ellis screamed as she slammed her club downward onto the man, but he caught hold of her arm midair and tossed her aside; ripping off her sleeve and knocking her hat off in the process. Now without any material covering the arm, Gregor Mac could see that it was no limb of flesh and bone, but auto-mail.
"An auto-mail arm - and you transmuted without the use of a circle – wait that means your the SteelKnight Alchemist!
The child pulled off the ruined coat. "You got that right she smirked; putting her fedora back on her brow as she stood up.
"Well, nice try little boy." he mocked; not realizing he had the kid's gender mixed up.
Ellis got to her feet. Her entire body fuming with rage, eye brows twitching.
"Youdanmblindmuscleboundmole! I'm a FEMALE!" She spassed.
"Oh." he said nonchalantly.
A giant sweat drop formed on the man's and the two younger boys' brows.
"Now you've done it." guffawed Gil. "Now she's gonna DESTROY you."
With a mighty warriors cry Ellis once again charged at the man. In a split second, Gregor Mac threw something hard to the ground – a bright light blinding the three children.
"Flash bomb!" cried Gene.
When the light died away Gregor Mac was gone.
"Oh, that's just great." sarcastically boomed Gilbert, eying his older sister. "He's gone."
Ellis frowned. "Well, you could have done something other than stand there and watch, like i don't know - grab him."
"He couldn't have gotten far," Gene reasoned.
Ellis nodded in agreement and was about to dash away in the direction the criminal had likely headed when she was caught by the arm by Gilbert.
"What about his accomplices," he pointed out. Directing there attention over to the pile of bodies they saw Gregor's comrades beaten and bruised, with Erix sitting cross legged atop them – sketching something down in his journal.
"Gene, you'll come with me," Ellis ordered. Then to her brother Gil she commanded, " You go get some MPs to arrest those guys before they wake up - if they wake up that is."
With a nod of obedience from both boys they headed out in their respected ways.
It didn't take long for the youngsters to spot the man they had been fighting. Ellis slapped her hands together, transmuting a part of her auto-mail arm into a sword-like thing. Meanwhile Gene reached into his pouch and pulled out more Kunai and some chalk.
"GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Gene demanded the civilians crowding the streets as he flung his weapons. Cutting through the air like a hot knife through butter – the kunai raced toward their victim. Mac screamed in pain as the five, razor sharp, Xingese weapons pierced his fleshy back – blood seeping from the wounds. He didn't have the time to pull them out though. The moment he had spun around to see where the knives had come from he was face to face with Ellis's automail's razor sharp blade that just hardly missed the tip of his nose. Immediately the terrorist was back on the defensive and the two were dueling it out. Ellis toyed with the antagonist - trying to buy her cousin enough time. With record breaking speed Gene began to draw up an transmutation circle. Gene's circle's were like no one else's. They were a mixture of both alchemy and alchestry. A product of his dual ethnic diversity. Civilians, now realizing a fight had broken out panicked and fled for shelter in nearby buildings.
"NOW!" Shouted the young half Xingese boy. Alchemical lights lit up his array and also appeared on the villain's back as his clothes transmuted into a full body restraint suit.
"What the devil? How?" gasped he as he fell to the ground face first with a thud.
Ellis undid the transmutation of her automail, returning it to normal. Gene got up and walked over to study his handiwork.
"How the hell did you do this kid? Tell me!" Pressed the captured criminal.
Gene, flustered and a bit, smiled uncomfortably as he spoke. "W-well," the nine year old mumbled. "It's something my parent's taught me." Then with more confidence added, "I can't tell you what it is though because your evil and will use it to hurt people, so there!"
Gene pulled the metal helmet off and stuck his tongue out, making the raspberry noise.
"Oh, we better got those Kunai out of his back." Noted Ellis. "You don't have many left, right?"
"Um – ah - um I don't - feel..."began Gene in a soft, sickly like voice all of a sudden.
As Ellis pulled out the last of the Kunai from Mac's back, Gene began coughing up blood.
"Crap! Not again!"
Place: Somewhere inside Central Command, Amestris
Date: October 12, 1938
Time: 9:40pm
Ellis, Erix and Gil all sat on the sofa in Lt Col Bren Boing(age 26) - The Lightning Alchemist's office. Gene, being tired and hungry had fallen fast asleep on the reclining chair parallel them. At his desk sat The Lt Col himself, his best friend and trusted subordinate, 1st Lt Selim Bradly(age 23), leaned on the wall behind him.
"If your interested in knowing the guy you caught is named Gregor Mac, he is an Amestrian born citizen, and amateur alchemist who happens to hate this county and wants it to be conquered by Drachma."
"Yeah, I read the report, if you must know." huffed the strong headed tomboy.
"Why'd he hate Amestris so much?" pondered Erix thoughtfully.
"Who knows, who cares,"blurted Gilbert.
"By the way,"added Boing. "Congratulations Steel, you really stole the spotlight this time," smiled the Lt. Col as he snickered at his own cleverness.
"Geez, it was no big deal BB," retorted Ellis.
"Don't call me that." nagged her superior.
"I'll call you what I want!" She snapped back. "And for the record I didn't even want to do that shit for ya. You keep giving us all these missions to do, and I never seem to get to do what I became a State Alchemist for!"
The Lt Col just shrugged, knowing all too well what she meant. "Your good at it though."
"Huh," huffed Erix. "You just want us to do your work for you!"
Selim laughed, "Your right. This guy at first may seem like an upstanding gentleman, but in reality he's a useless, lazy bum."
"Is that how you talk to your superior officer?" the Lt Col asked, pissed.
"No, that's just how I talk to you." The other smiled triumphantly.
Boing glared at his friend.
"In all seriousness though," Selim continued, "You all just saved Central Command from whatever that fiend had been hatching. Good Work."
Suddenly the doors to the office opened and in walked none other than the star reporter for the Central News, wife to the Lt Col, and expectant mother, Elicia Hughes Boing(age 28).
"Sweet Heart!" Cheered the eccentric wife/reporter.
The flustered and confused man stood as his woman briskly trotted over to his side, planting a soft tender kiss on the corner of his mouth.
Gilbert stuck his tongue out in disgust. "Bleck!"
"Elicia, what are you doing here?"
The mother-to-be pushed a lock of her husband's blood red hair out of his lime green eyes, and winked at him playfully.
"I just wanted to come pick you up from work. I thought you would be done by now. Your son, Maes and I were getting lonely."
The young father smiled at the thought of his three year old son. "Sorry Love, but I have to work really late tonight." He apologized.
"Ooh, we'll miss you though." she pretended to pout then gasped, "I know, in order to cheer up Maes I'll bring home some house guests."
Elicia turned on her heals and pointed at the group of youngsters. "They'll do."
"WHAT!" Exclaimed her spouse.
Erix shrugged, "Sure."
"No thanks," the other two on the sofa denied her.
"You four have no where to stay tonight sense you got kicked out of your apartment, and poor Gene is already asleep, you have no choice."
"Hey, who told you that?" wondered aloud Ellis.
Elicia smiled knowingly, "Oh,"she hummed. "A little birdie told me."
Selim began to whistle suspiciously.
"It was you wasn't it," Bren pointed a condemning finger at him.
Selim, shrugged, "Guilty as charge."
"It's getting late, let's go!" exclaimed the five month pregnant lady, as she grabbed Ellis and Gil by the collars of there shirts and began to drag them out the door.
"Erix, be a dear and carry Gene for me."
With a heavy sigh of dread the Lt Col watched helplessly as the figures grew smaller and smaller in the distance.
"You know," teased Selim, "I've been kind of lonely myself lately. Can I sleep over at your house too?"
Bren Boing glared at his comrade.
"I hate you."
Fun Talk:
Gregor Mac - "An automail arm - and you transmuted without the use of a circle – wait that means your the Steel Knight Alchemist! HA HA TITLE DROP, I CALL IT! lol
Ellis - "Shut up you minor character!"
Gil - "I hate introductions there so boring!"
Fun Facts:
On September 18 1931 is considered by historians to be the day World War 2 began. On that day Japan seized Manchuria, a province of China. Japan launched an all-out invasion of China in 1937 and by the end of next year controlled most of its ports and industrial cities.
Today in History:
On October 12, 1940 Hitler begins operation-Seelowe (invasion of England)
On October 12, 2010 Florencio Avalos, the first of 33 miners trapped underground in the 2010 Copiapo mining accident is rescued from the mine
Words from the author(me)
Thanks for Reading this Fan Fic I made up. I've put a lot of thought into it. Those of you who are also fans of my story The Safest Place – a Danny Phantom fanfic – do not fear for I will be updating soon! Also, I would love it if everyone who read this would review!