Disclaimer: I own neither Doctor Who nor Fullmetal Alchemist, just the idea for this crossover.


Pride was right in his thinking that they kept him under 24 hour lighting. Their reasoning was that all the attacks had happened in the dark, so naturally he should be kept well-lit. They weren't fooling anybody with that excuse, but for a four year old Selim, it easily sated him.

"Fools," he thought to himself, "They think that I haven't learnt? Leaving me alone was their biggest mistake, but then, what can you expect of such useless creatures. I suppose they think the killings will stop here. I am the culprit, after all. But I wonder what they will do when they start again, only this time worse."

Sat in his State appointed room, Selim had naught to do but read fairy tale books, and this time they were the real deal. But inside his head he was scheming, reviewing his work. There were no faults, no slip-ups that could endanger his work. Pride didn't do mistakes.

This new form of darkness was alive, and held no attachment to him, it was free to roam, to devour, it it would be when it had hatched. Using alchemy, Pride had given life to minuscule, soulless beings, using a similar creating method to the one that created him. Except there was no need for containers in this incidence. Only a tree to spawn in, to leach life from to get them started. And with such a large mansion at his disposal, Pride had access to many a tree.

1 week, maybe two before they started hatching? These beings were to be born with instruction to spread and kill many, but freeing him was their primary objective. Although he knew that he had left no traces, once the authorities discovered his Mother's disappearance, he would be taken into custody under one preface or another, so he was well prepare for the inevitable. But were the humans?


Mustang had called together another meeting of the State Alchemists after Selim's custodial 'imprisonment', but the numbers since the first meeting two weeks ago had been seriously depleted. The murder total had been increased to 432 people, as well as 73 reported missing persons. Most of the alchemists were too scared to take part in an investigation with such a great risk placed on their own lives.

It was now him, two new recruits who were only here as part of their initiation mission, and one solitary alchemist who Had a strange form of ID - a small wallet-style brown case with the State Alchemist symbol on it and his official alchemist title - The Doctor. Mustang assumed he was specialised in healing alchemy with a name like that.

"Alright, if we continue working on the theory that someone is trying to create a philosophers stone, then we need to scout out people who would have access to the information on how to create one. Very few people know that a philosopher's stone needs human lives, and even fewer would know the exact formulas for creating one. It would seem obvious to suspect those who have a previous involvement in this, but all those who worked towards using a philosopher's or creating one have been permanently detained or otherwise eliminated. It would seem that we need a new line of suspects, ones who haven't previously been under the government's watch."

"Ah, well, yes, it would seem that way," The Doctor piped up, "But are we really going to say that there is no one who could have done this who has done something similar before? And while we're at it, isn't it a bit presumptuous to say that it is just one person. To commit murders on such a large scale, surely they are working in a group?"

Mustang narrowed his eyes at this. Come to think of it, he wasn't sure he remembered him being at the original meeting. Couple that with his strange identification, and the fact that he wasn't in military uniform, he wasn't even sure that this guy was in the military at all. But if he wasn't, mustang knew that it would be more beneficially to him to hide his suspicions, at least for now.

"It is a possibility, however it would be hard for so many people to be working on this and have none of them caught. It would also be possible to have pre-positioned ready to go off and be activated from a long distance away, and have them made so that they would disappear before being discovered," Mustang explained calmly, "This was one of the topics for discussion at our first meeting. I am surprised you don't remember, Doctor."

"How silly of me, it must have slipped my mind," The Doctor withdrew, clearly not liking how Mustang had shot him down so quickly.

"Try to be more careful, we wouldn't want anything else slipping," Mustang said, staring him down as he did so. It seemed that with this man, revealing that you knew he was a fake was more effective than lying low. He decided that he would let him be for now, but he wasn't going to let him go without letting him know that he was being watched.

"I think we've done enough at this meeting," He sighed with exasperation, "I want you each to try and find circles that would be suitable for multiple long-range transmutations by Monday. You are dismissed." The 3 men began to leave, but before he could reach the door, Mustang's hand clamped around The Doctor's shoulder.

"If anything else slips your mind, I would advise you to have a better response ready, Doctor. It would be very harmful to the investigation if I could not trust all our members.

"I won't let anything else slip, you can be sure of it," The Doctor said as Mustang released his hand, letting him walk off down the corridors of Central Command.

"I'll know when you do," Mustang spoke ominously to himself. Turning to address Hawkeye, who had been on guard duty outside the meeting room, he was greeted with the usual salute.

"I would like you to get Breda and the others to start a surveillance watch on him. We can't allow any loose ends in this investigation. There have already been enough lives lost."

"Yes, sir," Hawkeye said, "I will get right on it."


In a tree in the Bradley house estate, there was a very faint tearing sound emanating from within it. If anyone had been looking, they would have noticed that the tree had an extra shadow.