Chapter 9
Omega looked around Roy Mustang's room grimly. Blood, paper, furniture tossed around, bullets. He sifted through the books and papers while Emily rearranged the furniture.
"Military records," Omega said shortly as he held up some papers.
"I wonder what happened in here," Emily said as she looked around the room, unsure of what to do that would be useful.
"It says here that an Ishbal War happened because a soldier of ours shot an Ishbalan child," Omega said. "I guess this military has bad habits. This could be one of them."
Emily nodded. "It's possible, but... why would they shoot a child?"
"I don't have a clue, but whoever did it won't get any sympathy from me," Omega growled as he set the book on Mustang's desk.
"H-help," someone moaned.
Omega spun around, pulling out his pistol and slowly making his way to the door.
"Emily, can you give me Blue Violet? It's a special gun and I may need its power sometime," Omega said.
"Oh... sure," Emily said as they swapped guns.
Omega slowly stepped out of the room and pointed his gun at the head of someone who was slowly crawling out the door.
"Identification, soldier," Omega ordered.
The person, a girl, stared at Omega with a half-crazed look. Omega quickly ran over to her and analyzed her.
"They took him," the girl gasped.
"They took who?" Omega asked, but he had a very good idea of who she was talking about.
"Mustang. They took Mustang," the girl said as she tried to get up.
"No, no, no," Omega said quickly as he forced her into a sitting position. "What's your name and rank?"
"Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye," the girl said as she clutched her leg.
"All right," Omega said calmly. "Emily, go get a medic. Now, Riza. Who took Mustang?"
"They took him." Riza took a quick breath as Emily left. "The humonculi."
"You stay here," Omega said as he got up and readied Blue Violet. "If they're still here, we're in trouble."
"Maybe, maybe not," someone said from a dark corridor. "Maybe... there's more dangerous monkeys than you originally thought."
Omega spun around the corner and aimed, trying to pierce through the darkness to identify the target.
"Show yourself!" Omega snapped.
"Then come and get me, boy!" a man yelled as he rammed Omega into the wall.
Omega stumbled, his vision blurry and uncoordinated.
"Bow down to the monkeys!" the man howled as Omega blindly shot and as the man's fist connected with Omega's skull, flinging Omega back into the wall.
"Enough with the stupid monkeys!" Omega yelled, his senses returning.
"I only said it..." The man groaned as Omega kicked the man in the stomach. "Twice!"
"You're not going to say it again!" Omega yelled as he grabbed the man's collar and flung the man over Omega's back. "'Cause you'll be dead!"
"Never! The monkeys will rule!" the man yelled as he tackled Omega and started to hack at Omega's face with his fingernails.
"Stop it!" Omega yelled as he grabbed the man's wrists and quickly spun around from under the man till he was on top of him. "Now tell me what you're doing!" Omega yelled as he twisted the man's arm.
"The monkeys! The monkeys!" the man screamed as he desperately tried to claw Omega's hand away.
"ENOUGH OF THE MONKEYS!" Omega yelled as he snatched Blue Violet up and shot the man.
"Comrade down!" more people howled as they poured down the halls.
"Blast!" Omega said as he ran back to Riza, now with Emily by her side. "Emily! More of them are here! Grab Riza and go!"
"What about you?" Emily asked, whimpering slightly.
"I can take care of some insane maniacs," Omega said as he pulled out a scythe that was attached to his belt. He had forgotten about that one.
Emily dragged Riza out of the building into the cool night air as Omega stayed inside, the doors closing behind him.
"Probably bullet-proof since this is a military organization," Omega muttered as the people tumbled over the railings and towards him. He smirked. "Now this is where the fun begins! No mercy!"
He dashed into the midst of the crowd, hacking them with relatively simple moves until all of them lay dead on the ground. He unlocked the doors and walked out back to Emily and Riza.
"What in the world is wrong with those people," Omega muttered.
"Omega!" Riza exclaimed, clutching at his collar and dragging him down next to her. "Find Mustang!"
"Riza? Stay with me!" Omega ordered, but Riza soon slipped into unconsciousness.
Omega groaned and picked her up. He walked into the building, Emily following a little warily.
"Omega? Why are we going back in?" she asked.
"I want answers," Omega growled. "The ones inside the building are insane, but the people outside are fine as far as I can tell. I want to find out what's making them act this way."
Omega set Riza down and looked out a nearby window, resting his arm on the frame.
"This just gets better and better," he groaned quietly.
