The whole building shook violently for a moment.
A man reached out to save his favorite mug from falling off the desk, "Well, that was odd. I didn't think the east was prone to earthquakes." With a look at his female companion, he went back to work.
"Mustang!" Havoc shouted as he skidded to a halt in front of the door, "Quick! Something just attacked headquaters!"
The Brigadier General was on his feet instantly, heading for the door, "What is it?"
"I don't know, sir, but it's big, REALLY big, and red." Havoc fell into step with his long time friend and boss, flanking him on the left as Hawkeye kept pace on the right, gun loaded and ready. "It appeared out of no-where and crashed into the storage buildings. Currently, it's not moving."
"I doubt we'd be lucky enough that it died." Mustang mused, "You said it came out of nowhere?"
"Yes, sir! Saw it myself. A black hole opened up and this...thing came barrelling through. It didn't even slow down when it hit the building."
"Casualties?"
"None so far. Most of that area is empty at this time of day. There were a few people injured, and there are some trapped in side. When I left, evacuations were already underway."
"Good." The man pulled on his gloves as the intruder came into sight, "Hawkeye, go help with the evacuations. If you see anything suspicious, shoot it." She snapped a salute and headed around the back of the building. Mustang warily looked at the large red cables in front of him. He had a feeling he wasn't going to like finding out what they were. As he continued to watch the still form he spoke to the man who came up beside him, "So much for a peaceful visit, Armstrong. Looks like I might need your help for this one."
"Think nothing of it, my friend." Armstrong flexed his sizable arms, limbering up, "I could use a good workout."
Havoc made a noise from next to Mustang as he adjusted the field binoculars he was using.
"What is it, Havoc?"
"A person sir. Looks like one of cleaning staff. She's hurt, and I think she's coming around..." A loud piercing scream could be heard. "Uh, yeah. I think she just saw big red."
"You think?" Mustang cursed as the big red...thing...slowly got up, "Shit, I think she woke it up. What the hell IS that?" The large cables moved, lazily whipping into the air as the thing turned around. As Mustang got his team in position to distract the monstrosity he realized that they were tails. The monster turned and glared down at the injured woman, "Havoc, as soon as you can, get her out of here."
"Yes sir!"
"Shut UP!"The monster's shout only caused the woman to scream louder. It's head shot forward and Mustang rushed into action, snapping his fingers and sending a blaze of flame between the woman and her attacker. As the monster's large head swung about Armstrong slammed it with a pillar of earth, sending it stumbling. It's tails lashed as it fell and they rushed it. The gunfire had no apparent effect at the monster bared it's very sharp teeth at them and growled, causing the ground to rumble.
It got to it's feet and towered over them. Mustang realized that they had gotten to close as a drop of drool splattered on one of the soldier's head. He gave the man credit, he kept firing his gun, for all the good it was doing. With another snap of his fingers he sent a well aimed stream of flame at the beast's head.
"Damn it, it's laughing at me!" Mustang growled, "Armstrong!"
"On it, sir!" A bolder easily the size of a baby elephant was sent flying, slamming into the foul creature's nose. "Take that!"
Mustang saw a blurr of red come at them from above as the beast snarled, "INCOMING!" He shouted as the tail hurtled down on them. He knew it was too late as he prepared to send a wall of flame at the beast.
The tail stopped close enough for his to reach out and touch it. The monster looked at the building it at destroyed, a strange whine coming from it's cavernous mouth. As it stumbled back Havoc used the momentary distraction to get to the woman, throwing himself in front of her as the creature's head whipped around to watch him.
Mustang rushed towards the beast even as it retreated, Armstrong hot on his heels. Using a move they hadn't done since the Ishbalan war, Armstrong sent Mustang up towards the monster's face on a wave of rocks. The monster rolled it's blood-red eyes as it brought up a paw to swipe him away. The flame alchemist was expecting this, and rolled off the side of the wave as it continued and slammed into the belly of the beast.
There was a crunching noise as the wall of earth raised the creature up on it's back legs for a second before collapsing under the weight. The thing shook it's head, as if confused as it stumbled.
"He's dead. My father's dead!" it growled out. It took a shaky step forward before collapsing on the ground, nose a scant inches from Armstrong and Mustang.
As the creature opened it's eyes, Mustang heard Hawkeye coming up fast behind him. The Beast growled, monstrous tails swishing ominously behind it. He, Armstrong, and Hawkeye prepared to launch another attack. The growling stopped, and the monster looked down at it's arm, which Mustang realized was well situated to crush them. As he cursed his foolishness, the red creature looked back to it's tails for a moment.
"Great, it's toying with us." He grumbled, even more pissed then he had been. His two companions grunted their agreement of his assessment as the creature's eyes found them again. Slowly it's head swung back around until they were staring it right in the eyes. It's massive maw opened, and Mustang could have sworn he heard Ed's voice laughing about how he got eaten by a big red dog-thing.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAA!"the monster shrieked. Clutching his head in pain, at first Mustang thought he was imagining things.
"Armstrong, Look!"
"I see it, sir! This horrible creature is shrinking!"
The beast shrunk rapidly now, soon becoming man-sized. It's tails started to bull back into the body and the fur peeled off as the overall shape changed. The bleeding body continued to scream, clutching it's head as pink skin formed and spread across it's shuddering form. Blond hair quickly replaced the last patch of blood red fur. Red eyes turned blue as they stared at something behind Mustang.
He idly realized the creature, boy, no homunculus, was staring at the building it had destroyed. It didn't stop him from snapping his figures, incinerating the boy, silencing him.
Chapter 2 done! Chapter 3 underway. No worries, Naruto isn't dead. We all know it takes A LOT more to kill him. R&R please.
