Disclaimer: Hahaha, I own FMA!!! oh, sue me!! nah, just kidding, but it's nice to escape into your fantasies once in a while, ne?

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Okay, this is Chsapter 2. I'm so sorry for the OOCness

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She could feel the bullet dig through her shoulder, which became a mess of blood and flesh.

'What a pathetic aim' she thought to herself.

She pulled the trigger, shooting the man who had shot her.

"Damn" she muttered to herself. "I got hit"

With one arm clasped on her shoulder, she kept firing the gun, all the while trying to calm herself down. Her knees were starting to get weak, and her aim was getting worse. All she managed to hit with the last two shots was a wall and the ground.

She frowned. There seemed to be a significantly less number of opponents.

Her troops had practically raided every house; every building in that section.

She squinted her eyes, she saw something in the distance. A transmutation effect.

"Lieutenant Hawkeye!!" Havoc called, noticing that Hawkeye seemed to be spacing out.

The transmutation effect was seen through a window of a house. It was a regular house, it looked just like the rest.

His dark skin clashed harshly with his yellowish hair.

"Retreat" she told Havoc, though it seemed like a whisper.

"N-nani?"

"RETREAT!!" she screamed, unconciously pointing her gun at him.

"B-but, what do you mean by---"

"I said, retreat, dammit" Hawkeye hissed. "Go back to the camp and call for back up"

"Hawkeye - dono, there are less opponents, that means we're winning"

"That thing" Hawkeye pointed to that house wherein she saw the transmutation effect. "Is gonna blow up". Some of her men were still in that house.

"This entire section is going to blow up, they're heading northward since their men over there are losing" Hawkeye theorized, but she was sure it was true.

The northern part of Saramin was where the poorer ones stayed; and according to their spies, only the people of that certain area will be the ones to fight in that area, and that the people in the northern part of Saramin seemed weaker than the rest.

"Not many can be seen ahead, there should be an underground passage" Havoc commented, still chewing on that toothpick of his.

"Not for long" Hawkeye frowned. That would be demolished along with everything else in this section.

"Hurry up, Havoc!" she ordered. "Retreat and call for back up, then wait until i give you further instructions" (note, the commanders did have those headphones on)

"Hai!"

Hawkeye began to run in that house wherein she saw the transmutation effect. It wasn't hard for her to find the underground passage, the door to it was left open. She knew it was left open intentionally. They only had a few more seconds to run.

"L-Lieutenant!" the officers who were searching the house instinctively followed her.

"If you're going to come running with me, at least be fast!" she told them. They were trailing behind her as she ran down the wooden staircase they had built.

There was only one passageway. Hawkeye could actually hear the concrete falling appart behind her, and the explosions from above. She had to keep going, she had to follow them. She had to locate their specific location. The specific location of their leader.

She could hear the screeches of the men who had followed her; some of them were caught by the falling concrete. She didn't have time to look back

Light. She saw light up ahead.

"Hurry up" she ordered to the few men left trailing behind her.

"H-hai" was the answer, accompanied by panting and gasping.

Hawkeye looked closely at the distance. She could see the light spillling out from the corners of the metal door.

She stopped running and gasped. The metal door was locked. No way was it left open. She couldn't open it, not by breaking it down or by shooting it.

"L-Lieutenant Hawkeye-dono" one of the men gasped.

Hawkeye froze; the entire passageway was going to collapse over them.

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Right outside the door, he stood there. A man of vile intentions, with a soul poisoned by greed and hate. He was known as Denzerou Muri. (Or in Jap style, Muri Denzerou. it's a random name i picked up) There was a flicker in his yellow eyes when he smiled.

"Gomen ne" he was smiling as he visualized whoever from the military who was trying to follow them get crushed a thousand pounds of concrete. "But i don't want to be caught just yet"

His dark skin clashed well with his dark brown hair. He snickered at the inanity of the military officers to follow them unarmed. He lighted a cigarette and sighed as he heard the concrete fall and faint yelps through the heavy metal door.

A transmutation effect.

"What the--" he gasped. There was a transmutation effect. The heavy metal door had a crack in the middle of it, and that slowly started to spread until the door broke.

The last part of the passageway stood fine; the concrete had obviously fallen but was immediately repaired...by Alchemy.

Riza Hawkeye knelt on the floor, blood dripping from her forehead. A great deal of her energy was drained. She was coughing out blood. She she stared at the two transmutation circles she quickly drew on two pillars with her blood.

Since her father passed away, she had sworn to her soul that she would never use Alchemy again.She never even came close to being half as good as her father, anyway.

She wasn't good enough, and she hated herself for that.

She wasn't even good enough to save her subordinates.

The falling concrete though, was the main cause on why the door had cracked and was now broken.

"An A-alchemist?" Denzerou was shocked.

She coughed out more blood on the floor.

'Shit' she thought. Her eyes were wide in fear. The three remaining men who had followed her had been crushed nad were most probably dead. She was gasping for breath.

This was followed by loud laughter.

"1st Lieutant Riza Hawkeye, daughter of an alchemist great, who would have known that she had bothered to learn something as complex as alchemy?" he said in an almost taunting manner.

"Saramin, 23rd sector, Shiouin Street" she muttered the herself, hopefully praying that the microphone still worked. Probability is that it was crushed.

The Denzerou guy looked behind him. "Oh?" he asked. "You were able to identify a place just by looking at one landmark?"

Hawkeye didn't answer him. She was still kneeling, with her eyes staring straight down to the floor.

"Something as complex as alchemy" she coughed, looking up to him. "Should not be used in such a wasteful manner"

"How is it wasteful, then?" he asked, with a little smile on his face

"All this chaos" she coughed "All these lives gone, what good does it bring you?"

"Every life lost," he answered her, almost immediately. "Is a symbol of my desire to avenge my sister, who was raped and then killed by some military officers. I complained and sued, but ended up going to jail"

"But that doesn't give you the right to kill these people" she hissed, despite the fact that she could see him pointing his gun at her.

'Move' she ordered herself. Her gun was in her hand. 'Shoot him' she ordered herself. 'Shoot him, now!'.

"Do you think i care about that?" he laughed. "My sister was raped, and she complained. Instead of at least being given compensation, she was murdered. It was obviously a murder, but the investigators insisted that it was purely an accident"

'Pick up the damn gun!' Hawkeye was practically screaming inside, but her heart refused to follow.

"And you choose to take this out on the entire military government, without even talking to the officers sent here, the ones who tried to settle this rebellion" Even her voice was trailing off.

She grasped her gun and gave a little smile. Her troops were coming. Somehow, she could feel it.

She pushed herself up, trying to stand.

"I told you, i don't care about that" he said. "She was given a horrible death, and nothing else can reverse that. If i don't avenge her, i'll never be able to look her in the eye"

Hawkeye grasped her gun. "You don't need to. She'll be in heaven, you'll be in hell"

Hawkeye narrowed her eyes, shunning out all the tingling pain and corrected her aim. This was good, they were loosing. She could hear her troops outside. They should be coming in any minute now.

Denzerou gave a small smile.

He was still smiling?

'1' Hawkeye breathed to herself. '2'. It was better if she counted down. 'th---'

"I didn't mention it," he said. "But when nee-san died, she was pregnant"

Truth and Shock blinded Hawkeye, numbifying all her movements. Everything seemed to be in a blur. Her Emotions were out of control now.

The last thing she could remember was the pain of the three bullets which hit her; two hitting her chest, one on her stomach.

She didn't think. She didn't dare think. Her heart froze.

She fell to the ground, trembling in both pain and fear.

She failed to protect. She failed.

"L-Lieutenant Hawkeye - dono!" a subordinate exclaimed after he and some other people appeared by the door.

"Freeze" a tall, dark haired man appeared by the door. "Put down your gun". He was threatening to set the entire city ablaze.

Denzerou looked behind him, seeing the man's hard expression.

"Gomen ne, nee-san" he sighed. "But i had to do it for you". Denzerou took his gone and pressed the cold metal against his head, pulling the trigger a second after.

Hawkeye layed there on the floor, seeing Denzerou's lifeless body on the ground, covered in blood.

Slowly, Hawkeye raised a hand and placed it on her stomach, feeling the blood and the wounds.

'What did i do?' she asked herself, shaking with pain. 'What did i do? I was too selfish, too selfish'

She could hear her subordinates in a state of chaos, but that didn't matter to her at that moment. Her eyes were slowly closing, leaving the situation behind.

"1st Lieutenant Hawkeye!" she recognized his voice. There was no mistaking Colonel Mustang's voice.

"I'm sorry" she whispered.

"Lietuenant Hawkeye!!"

"Riza..."

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Okay that was Chsapter 2 down.

I'll be putting in Chaptser 3 in a while.

I'm too lazy to read through it, so i'm not sure how it turned out.

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