Roy's eyes scanned over the report as his men turned concerned looks towards each other.

"Chief's on to something," Havoc murmured going to his desk and getting his pistol ready. The others followed suit and readied themselves to follow the trail that Mustang seemed to pick up. At lunch Havoc had recognized the name of the park from driving Mustang home from time to time and also knew that Hawkeye being the dutiful bodyguard she was, would check in on the boss on a fairly regular basis. When he had put two and two together he told the men to head back to the office to bring the report to Mustang's attention, just in case it had anything to do with her.

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Riza didn't realize she had drifted off to sleep when she woke with a sudden noise. She had sat down against the wall across from the doorway to size up the man guarding the room and she must have let her condition get the best of her. 'I could've missed an opportunity,' she chastised herself. Shaking herself out of her sleepiness she looked up and noticed a rather large man coming into the room. 'This must be the man himself,' she braced herself for another round of questioning.

"So, Boss says that you're a stubborn one, eh girlie?" Bruno sounded like every bit of the giant he turned out to be when he stood face to face with Riza in the center of the room. His deep voice reverberated off the walls of the room, and startled the still sleepy lieutenant. She was becoming a bit alarmed at her inability to stay focused and attentive as her sniper training should have conditioned her for, but at the moment she had to try to figure out a way around this brute.

"Your boss doesn't know jack," was the best she could come up with. The sinking feeling about Bruno set in even harder as he gave a devilish grin and tried to come closer to her. She managed to dodge his first attempt to grab her by backing up, but it wasn't a wise idea to move so fast. Her head began to swim as she tried to force her body into submission. He laughed at her attempts at evasion. 'Probably not a good sign,' she thought to herself as she steadied herself against one of the walls. He came at her again with a speed she hadn't expected out of a man so large and couldn't make her legs cooperate fast enough to get away. He hadn't even tried to lay a hand on her that time so much as throw his entire body into her, slamming her against the wall.

Somehow she prevented her head from colliding with the concrete of the wall, but that was as far as her luck held. The big brute had her pinned against the wall and was breathing down her neck. Carefully Bruno worked a hand down to her shoulder and entertained himself by slowly following her arm down to her hand, watching her reaction as he touched her. He could tell she was pissed off, she had begun to breath harder and gritted her teeth in a fruitless attempt to struggle free of his grasp. The man was just too big for the half conscious woman, half his size to have any effect on.

"Do you know why they send me in after girls like you?" He crooned in her ear. The only answer he received being a snort and an attempted jab with her elbow into his side. He laughed as he jerked her arm and used his raw strength to twist it painfully behind her back. Riza couldn't help but to cry out at the sharp pain. For the first time in a long time she felt helpless, and the constant pain in her head threatened to combine with the new pain of her arm being damn near dislocated to overwhelm her completely.

She could hear a commotion as the other men must've entered the room to watch Bruno work. The 'boss man' walked over to her, getting right in her face with his smug smile and asked her once again, "Are you so sure that you didn't know Col. Mustang before the war? I could save you from Bruno if you just answer. Really it's very simple." He didn't seem to have any intention of stopping the big brute from having his fun and was more amused by seeing the fury in her eyes when he asked his ridiculous question.

"I told you I didn't," she reminded him. He chuckled at her stubbornness and addressed the man holding her.

"You know Bruno," the Boss said standing upright to talk to the large man. "I hear there is some interesting artwork on Ms. Hawkeye's back. How about you get around to finding out what it is. We'll be back in a few minutes." The man shot her another smug look as he walked out of the room, and Bruno was more than happy to start his task.

'How did he know!' Riza truly began to worry about the validity of Roy's claims that these men were far more dangerous than the usual thugs they dealt with. Unfortunately Bruno didn't give her a whole lot of time to dwell on past conversations as he stepped back and with a swift shove, threw her towards the ugly mattress. Due to her lack of coordination she lost her balance and fell on it as her attempts of catching herself failed. She knew she had to act quick, and rolled off of the filthy thing before Bruno came crashing down where she would have been. The spinning not helping matters at all she only managed to avoid enough of his free falling mass to not get trapped underneath the hulking body. But as she tried to regain her footing to put distance between them, his huge hand easily wrapped around her leg and yanked.

Riza landed on her belly as her feet were literally swept out from under her. Bruno was having himself a grand time playing cat and mouse with her, and she was quickly running out of ideas as to how to avoid him. She heard him make some comment about liking to play rough, and she had no doubt that this man didn't have the capacity to lie about something like that. The man didn't bother dragging her back to the mattress and instead chose to get up and sit on her to keep her pinned to the ground. As he began to try and find a way around her sweater and shirt, she felt panic set in. She could not let him find it. She summoned the fleeting strength she had and started thrashing about with everything she had left.

She was getting tired, and the big lug on top of her was making it even harder to breathe and she didn't really know what she was trying to accomplish by flailing. Bruno had managed to get her sweater tugged up and was working on getting her shirt untucked. She didn't have the time for being helpless. Suddenly her foot caught on the tripod that the light was attached to and she took her chance to stop Bruno. With a swift motion Riza pulled the stand towards them and hoped that it would fall on Bruno. It didn't do anything. 'Shit,' she hooked her legs underneath it again knowing that this would be her last chance before the big guy caught on to her. The light came toppling down just as he finally yanked the back of her shirt out, the top heavy stand falling directly towards them.

With a startled grunt Bruno turned to see what the noise was and was met with a hot, bright light in his face. Riza kept her face to the floor as the bulb shattered on contact with the big man's head and plunged the room into darkness. As the man became more concerned about the hot glass that now covered his face, he sprang up in pain screaming profanities at her. She took the chance to take a deep breath and get up off the floor. The broken glass covering it stuck in her hands as she pushed herself up, but she ignored the pain and began to look something to take Bruno out with. As she moved around she literally tripped over the answer, the damn light stand. Bruno heard the commotion she made falling back to the ground and began coming towards her growling unsavory threats. However to her advantage the darkness of the room made her hard to locate, and it gave her the time she needed to get up and get a grip on the stand. Knowing he was only a breath away she started swinging, as hard as she could manage, low hoping to hit the brute where it hurt.

A yelp of pain let her know she had hit her mark, and she heard a thud as the man went to his knees. Using the sound of his whining to locate his face she took another swing with the stand and luck was with her again as the whining ceased and with another thud his body hit the floor. The force of the hit tore the stand from her grip as it went skidding into the darkness of the room, but at that point she didn't care. She was sure the man wasn't getting up anytime soon. She couldn't hear him breathe, and she hoped that he had landed on his face and would choke to death before he woke up.

Riza looked around to no avail. The room was completely dark, and she couldn't see a thing. Knowing that at least one of the men was just outside the door and probably heard the commotion, she wanted to find the door and be prepared to take him out whenever he did come in. As quickly as she could manage, she put her hands out in front of her and shuffled forward. The room wasn't that big and she knew she'd hit a wall sooner or later.

Just as she thought the man outside came knocking on the door to check on things.

"Hey Bruno, everything all right in there? You're not getting too rough with her are ya?" he yelled through the door. Silence greeted him the man's laughter at his own commentary subsided. "Hey Bruno?" His voice entirely void of laughter as he realized something wasn't right.

Riza steeled her nerves and prepared to take the man by surprise.

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Roy's eyes widened as he read the kidnapping report. A man taking his dog out for a late night walk around 00:35 reported hearing a commotion in the park as he walked by. From about a block away he claimed to have seen a woman go through the small grove of trees that were in the center of the park where he lost sight of her. When the man came closer to the park he reported seeing a man 'come from out of nowhere' and disappear into the trees as well. He heard a sound similar to a glass bottle breaking open and then nothing after that. Later that morning the same man walked his dog to the park again and decided to walk his dog through the trees. The man made the report after finding a broken bottle of chloroform thrown to the side of the pathway and realized he hadn't witnessed a late night rendezvous. The report was filed at 08:30 this morning.

Roy had never been more relieved that his men were late in getting the paperwork that morning. If they had taken it on time, this report would've waited until tomorrow. The timing in the report and the location were just too coincidental for his liking. The Colonel had barely barked orders at them when he tore out of the office over towards the Investigations building to rally Hughes and a few other detectives into looking further into the report. This was what his intuition had been warning him about, he'd have to remember to really give that petty officer a promotion when all was said and done, but for now he knew he had to act.

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The door opened slowly and Riza realized she had the good luck to on the backside of it, and her luck improved when the first thing she saw come through the door was a gun. The man was confused by the darkness of the room and stopped to call out for Bruno again. The next sound he made was a cry of pain as Riza slammed the door against the man's arm causing him to pull the trigger on the gun. The bullet slammed into the wall harmlessly as she brought her fist down on his hand to force him to release the gun. The man jerked his arm out of the doorway with a startled cry and Riza took the chance to lunge for the gun he dropped. Finding it easily, the light from the hallway sparkled off of the polished metal, she grabbed it and turned towards the door. Once again it was obvious these men hadn't done their homework as the man tried to re enter the room with the now armed sniper, he never knew what happened. His body fell through the doorway and landed with an unempathetic thud as she scurried out of the way.

She gathered herself and stepped out in the hallway making a mental list of the men between her and Roy. Two down, that should make three to go according to the files… but she only remembered hearing two other men in the building today. She berated herself for not remembering things clearly when she first got here, but it is a little difficult to concentrate when one is only partially conscious. She popped the clip out of the gun to check her ammunition. She still had 11 rounds to go. Satisfied she re-loaded the gun and stealthily made her way down the hall to find the others.

She heard the noise of a chair sliding against the floor coming from a room just down the hall. Flattening herself against the wall she waited to see if anyone came out. After a moment of holding her breath all she heard was some things being shuffled around and a man humming to himself, but it seemed that he had no intention of coming out. She moved away from the wall and carefully made her way to the doorway. Peering in she saw one of her captors making himself a sandwich. She was tempted to shoot him outright but didn't know if anyone else was nearby to hear. As long as she had the element of surprise she could ensure the tide turning in her favor and getting out of this place in one piece. She slipped into the room unheard and briefly glanced around to check her surroundings. Thankfully no one else was there.

She moved just to the side of the door so that no one would see her if anyone happened to pass by. Aiming the gun at the back of the man's head she cleared her throat to get his attention. The man clearly not expecting company dropped the slice of bread he had been buttering and tightened his grip on the knife in his other hand. Slowly he turned to see who it was and laughed when he saw her. It wasn't until he fully turned around that he noticed she had him in the sights of a pistol.

"Now what's the big idea miss? Didn't like the way Bruno treated you?" He threw his hands up in the air as if the gesture of vulnerability would help him.

"Who else is here?" Riza spat out, never wavering in her aim although her body was so very tired.

"Why, you're still up for a party?" the man replied with a smirk and a wink. Clearly he just didn't know when to shut up.

If it wouldn't have been too much noise she'd have shot him in the groin to show her disapproval of his lewd comment. "I'm much better at shooting than asking questions, if you don't answer then I don't need to waste my time with you." She cocked the gun to emphasize her point.

The smile effectively wiped off the man's face he stammered out the names of the two other men she suspected were still there and where she could expect to find them. As thanks for his cooperation she shot him between the eyes and turned to leave before his body slumped against the counter he had been standing by. She needed to make sure none of these bastards lived to hurt Roy later on down the line and the more of them she got rid of on her way back to him the better.

She headed out of the room in search of the last two men. It wasn't long before she heard a man in the main room laughing at something on the television that was turned up way too loud. It bothered her that she couldn't really tell where the man was amid all the noise the tv caused, and as she prepared to scout the room she felt a cold steel barrel on her neck.

"Don't move lieutenant."