Disclaimer: I don't own FMA Chapter 10: Release the Beast
He had been paralyzed with fear at the sight of all those dead people being eaten by the clockwork creatures, he hadn't felt fear since... since the Gate.
He remembered the crying, HIS crying, he remembered the Gate Creatures and their broad, toothy smiles, he remembered that woman placing his tiny body at the Gate and then the swarm of little shadow hands dragging him in.
Wrath shook himself out of his remembrance, I'm a homunculus! I'm better than those stupid humans, so why am I acting like one? Why am I even helping this Winry girl? She's the girlfriend of that bastard Edward, I should let her die! No... I-I can't, I don't know why, but I feel like I should help her; what is happening to me?
Wrath looked around, desperately looking for something to transmute his arm into, there was a crash and Winry's screaming got louder, then his eyes landed on the fire axe; it was sharp and deadly-looking, it was perfect.
He transmuted the axe and his arm, resulting in his arm becoming a fleshy tentacle with an axe handle worming its way out of the skin, Wrath ran to the location of the screams and found Winry and Gluttony being menaced by at least 20 creatures, Gluttony was shielding her from their harpoons and had already taken at least 5 to his body; with a bellow Wrath launched himself at the throng.
He beheaded two of the beasts and disemboweled a third before they could react, but they were far from helpless against his onslaught and Wrath found himself dodging and parrying the blades of the creatures, each one were almost atr Pride's level and they began to draw blood from him, Wrath saw Gluttony charge them and bring one down, then three more, Winry looked paralyzed by fear; Stupid girl can't even defend herself thought Wrath contemptuously, one of the creatures saw an opening and took it, Wrath felt pain coarse through his stomach as the thing eviscerated him.
He looked up and saw that the thing was the creature he had disemboweled, Wrath saw the other non-eaten creatures that had been killed rise up.
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Winry saw the tide of the fight begin to turn in the creatures favor, she knew that she had to do something, but what? She wasn't as good a fighter as either of her superhuman companions, who were fighting a battle they wouldn't win against creatures that couldn't die, what did she have to offer?
It was when she saw one of the creatures go down clutching several severed and dripping tubes that she realized what she could do.
"Gluttony!" she called, he turned towards her while using his massive hands to fend the blades and harpoons of the creatures, "Go for those tubes on their necks and backs!", Winry had a theory that the fluid in the tubes was a major component to their bodies, like blood; Gluttony seemed to have heard her, because he nodded at her and bit into a cluster of tubes on the neck of one, her theory was confirmed when it went down, wheezing and spluttering as black fluid sprayed from the tubes, it took awhile for it to die, but it DID die.
She told Wrath the same thing, for a minute he looked like he was going to question her, but instead he sliced through the tubes on ones back, it went down in a mini geyser of fluid.
She felt both prideful and happy at her accomplishment: she could lead.
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Gluttony obeyed Winry's instructions and bit into the tubes, the fluid in them tasted as sweet as honey to him and he craved more; he grabbed another and drained the tubes, then he grabbed another and another and another until there were only about 3 left, but those 3 didn't last too long when they fought Wrath, as Gluttony watched his brother kill the last creature he felt a sin outside of his voracity bloom in him; pride.
Little brother did so well, I'm glad that he's helping us, maybe he'll be nicer to me afterwards, like Lust... or Winry.
Gluttony liked Winry, not in the way Lust or Greed liked people though, he liked her as something he hadn't had in awhile: a friend.
He hoped she could be his friend too.
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The Master saw the carnage through the eyes of his creations and let out a roar.
How dare those pathetic beings kill his creations! He had made 40 of them in preparation of this day and now half of them were gone!
He could make more, but that would take a while, in the meantime he needed to find something that would destroy those filthy beings.
He walked found the Professor and asked him to release Subject 221, the Professor barely had an inch of flesh on his face that wasn't mutilated or enhanced with machinery, but his hesitation was strong enough for Him to smell it, 'Do it of your own will Professor or I will force you to do it, he won't hurt me and you should know that.", the Professor nodded, took out a key ring and began to jog towards the cell block where all of his failed experiments were kept.
He could smell Subject 221 before he could see him; 221 carried a rank and feral stench with him, the door was unlocked and The Master entered, the Professor stayed as far away from 221 as he could.
"Listen up 221, I'm going to let you go, but you must do something for me, you must find the people who stand in my way and kill them." He put his hands to 221's mutated head and transferred the mental images of his enemies into his mind, then he clasped his hands and said, "I am going to rename you, I doubt that you like those silly numbers, you shall have command of my remaining forces so I will call you... The Captain."
The Captain's maw stretched in a grin and his purple eyes glinted with the kind of sadistic glee that only the evil get. Author's Note: If you review I will give you TWO cyber pizzas... with stuffed crust ;]