Chapter 3: Reflected Heat
It was 6:34 in the morning and Hank woke up scared mainly by how disturbing the thing that Ed and Al created. Suddenly, Hank had a burst of adrenaline, picked up his weapons and picked up Ed then threw him out the window. He jumped through that window and started running incredibly fast towards the main headquarters for the military and spotted one of the people spying on Ed and Al but kept running toward the headquarters and soon broke through the doors and even bulldozed Alex Louise Armstrong.
He went to a random room and found Roy Mustang about to leave the room. Hank remembered the man from his dream as one of the people responsible of the genocide he witnessed. Hank charged full throttle and started striking the Colonel. Mustang got hit by three punches but dodged the last two. He started to snap his fingers and caused mini explosions in the room. Hank dodged all the flame attacks and got out his five-sevens and started firing while having to stagger by how many flames he had to evade. Mustang was hit three times in his abdomen and two shots on each of his arms. Hank then grabbed Mustang's desk and threw it at the colonel but missed by about six centimeters.
Soon Armstrong broke through the door and grabbed some of the debris and started punching it toward Hank. Hank dodged all the debris being punched at him and shot Armstrong in one of the ribs and pulled out his dragon sword and started to charge at Mustang. Mustang barely evaded the stab but got a cut on the left side of his chest. Hank continued making slashes and kept cutting Mustang and soon Hank grabbed Roy Mustang and tossed him out the window. He was receiving heavy fire from other people in blue overcoats and decided to dive out the window and landed on Roy. He decided to retreat and try to track down the spies that were following him earlier and continued running. While Hank was running, one of his kneecaps was shot by Riza Hawkeye. He decided to keep running and ignore the pain as he kept moving. He realized that this was incredibly cowardly and in order to regain honor, decided to run back to the headquarters. He went through the window and started fighting Armstrong.
Each exchanged punches and hitting their designated areas. He started getting tired of this and hit one of Armstrong's pressure points and knocked him out, then he resumed with Mustang who snapped his fingers yet again and formed a huge fire that could have consumed him. Hank decided to keep evading and giving blows to Mustang's body would be his best strategy...if there wasn't forty soldiers shooting at him. He decided to take care of the latter and pulled out his sword then started slashing bodies and deflecting bullets. He pulled out and reloaded one of his five-sevens and started shooting at the enemies until it was just him and Mustang. "Why are you after me?" Mustang asked Hank but got no answer. Hank reloaded his other five seven, turned around and shot Riza in the chest and she was knocked out. Mustang, thinking that she was killed, was in a fit of rage. He began summoning a fire wall when Hank kept firing his five sevens. When Hank had to reload, Mustang let out a very powerful force of fire attacks at Hank. Mustang was even more angered when he saw that Hank either evaded or reflected the attacks with his sword. Mustang created a fire force so powerful that it forced Hank to go through the wall and it made Mustang pass out due to his injuries and using too much power.
Hank began running through the city again but, as he continued running, his adrenaline began to decline and he started thinking clearly again. "What, have I done? Why did I do that? How many people have I killed now?" All Hank could do was question to himself over what he had done. He decided to make his way into an abandoned inn and decided to sneak into one of the rooms to take shelter while everyone else would be looking for him.
Five Hours Later
Hank looked out his window and realized he had to lie low and try find out why he had that uncontrollable rampage. He took off his trench coat and head raps and then replaced his goggles with black shades, his ninja mask with a grey scarf and put on a fedora and went out to go to a train station to go somewhere else for a change. He looked at the map and decided to go to the Northern city to seek refuge and escape from any other alchemist who he might be forced to kill again. Hank went to the train station and waited with his fob watch counting the time, but he didn't know he was already being watched by a state alchemist and was followed into the train which Hank had hitched.
In Nevada
Sanford and Deimos were in possession with the same material that Hank's dragon sword was made out of and they started the teleporter and Sanford got inside the kiosk. Deimos set the timer on an eight second delay and went to the kiosk with Sanford and they waited while Sanford asked a question, "Do you really think this could work?"
"I hope so, we need to get Hank out of wherever he is or he might have destroyed the entirety of where he is," Deimos responded full of fright. The teleporter went off and Sanford and Deimos went to Amestris and they were right next to a flower shop and they noticed a lot of people wearing blue overcoats. Soon they realized a crime scene was put in the plaza of the city and they decided to investigate. Sanford found Mustang sitting next to a window and asked him a question.
"Oi, what happened in this place?" The man was silent for a while and answered.
"There was a man in complete black who charged through the doors and went straight into my office and started fighting me. He fought as if he was possessed, he was able to deflect and dodge my flame alchemy without any problem, he was able to lift my desk without any strain, and he even beat Col. Armstrong in a fist fight."
Sanford and Deimos were confused as to who was Armstrong but they knew it was Hank who went on another rampage. They knew they needed to find Hank.
"God damn it Sanford, how the hell are we supposed to find a ninja whose best feat is speed?" Deimos asked his partner. "Where should we look first?"
"I suggest any bars and ask where-"
"I do believe that Hank isn't you right now," Deimos interrupted.
"He probably went to another place so he couldn't be found too quickly," Sanford told Deimos while they were walking towards a restaurant.
They realized that they didn't have any money and went to a bank and tried to find out what the currency was in this foreign country, and it was cenz. It confused the two friends as they opened an account and took a loan of one-thousand-five-hundred cenz. These went to the same restaurant and ordered a meal. As they were eating, Deimos noticed a short blond kid being followed by someone wearing a suit of armor. This made the two laugh uncontrollably and caught the attention of everyone near them, including Ed and Al. Soon, Sanford just couldn't hold it and stated, "I can't believe that little runt could be in charge of someone strong enough to break through the building!" This of course, pissed off Ed as he ran up to the two and started doing his alchemy and created a spear but Deimos retaliated and disarmed Ed.
"They can't be, are these two siblings of Hank?" Ed asked and it caused Sanford and Deimos to ask questions.
"Do you know where this Hank is? We need to find him or he might destroy the place," Deimos told Ed.
"The last time we saw him was this morning, he threw Ed out the window and jumped out and ran off as if something had scared him." Al responded.
"Do you know what could have scared him?" Sanford asked.
"No not really, I mean he was paranoid for a while but nothing that could scare him," Ed answered.
"Well let's go find him," Deimos told the newly formed group. They decided to leave the restaurant and started their search for Hank J. Wimbleton.
