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"Who the heck is this guy!" Ed said as he rose a fourth wall from the paved road beneath his feet between the brothers and the man with a scar on his face. Not that this wall did them anymore good than the last three. The fourth wall exploded in a shower of dust as the man continued to run after them.
"You might as well stop running, Fullmetal. All the readers know how this ends." The man said as he ran full speed after them, white sparks moving along his arm from the bastardized alchemy that he had just used. It was a frightening thing, going against the laws of equivalent exchange, as far as Ed could tell; creating nothing out of something.
"Ed, look out! He broke the fourth wall!" Al shouted in panic.
"I noticed!" Ed shouted back as he ran as fast as he could down a flight of stairs. He was running into a problem he hated to admit... he was small. His shorter legs weren't meant to our run men who were twice his size, and his automail leg was starting to ache.
But as he reached the bottom of the second flight of stairs, Scar jumped down from the top, landing with a heavy thud, startling Ed who fell backwards onto his ass, looking up with frightened eyes at this murder who had come to kill him for reasons he didn't understand and with alchemy he was still trying to wrap him mind around.
"You alchemists who have gone against the divine, may your soul be purged with this arm." Scar said as he looked down at Ed through his shades. The Fullmetal Alchemist was too scared to even move as he wondered what kind of damage the man's alchemy could do to a human body.
But right as the man reached down to grab onto Ed's head, Al shoved him out of the way so that the hand wrapped around his metal arm. There was an explosion of heat as the fingers touched the metal, but Al's arm remained intact. Something that seemed to confuse the man, or perhaps it just annoyed him.
Ed blinked, it was a clue, something that his mind could focus on as it rebooted from the scare. The arm wasn't all powerful, it had to be set in line with what material he was trying to destroy. Theories and possibilities started to run through his head. Heat, it used heat. So how did that fit into it? If the heat was enough to blast through stone, then why didn't it even cause Al's metal to be misshapen? Unless the heat was a byproduct and not the means.
"Ed, get up!" Al shouted and he grabbed his brother and pulled him to his feet as they took a few steps away from the man and ran into a long alley. But before they could get out the other end, sparks ran across the wall and the other side of the alley was blocked as the building to their right collapsed down onto the path.
"Can't run this way anymore." Ed said turning back to the man. He was starting to regain his cool. "Guess we are going to have to fight then." He said lowering himself into a stance.
"Just be careful of that arm." Al said as he got ready to fight too.
"You don't have to tell me that!" Ed shouted before running forward. He did a faint, trying to draw out the man's arm so that his center of gravity would be thrown forward, and when Scar obliged, he pulled back before trying to sweep the feet out from under the scar faced man.
But Scar was not thrown off balance, as quickly followed up his attack on Ed who blocked his deadly arm with his own metallic one. Ed winced as a wave of vibrations went through the metal muscles in his automail arm and up into his real muscles and hit his nerves. But the automail itself didn't break, only the clothes that covered it shattered into pieces as the vibrations hit. Scar looked surprised when he saw the metal, not having expected the automail.
Ed throw a kick at Scar's face with his metal foot, though the man quickly side stepped it with the practiced ease of a skilled fighter. Though it did give Ed enough time to pull away while Al rushed in to try to put in a few jabs on the killer.
Again, Scar artfully dodged before reaching up with his alchemic arm and slapping Al's hip. This time though, instead of just releasing a few lines of steam, the metal body exploded into shards around were Al had been hit.
"Al!" Ed shouted in panic, as the suit of arm fell to the ground, revealing an hollow inside. Ed could just see the blood seal inside of the armor, it was still intact. That was good.
"What is this?" Scar said in shock as he stared at Al. "You alchemists. Do you have no respect for the ways of god? To create something as unnatural as this, a mockery of his creations." Scar started to move towards the empty shell.
"Stay away from him!" Ed shouted running forward as he clapped his hands together, using his alchemy to reshape his automail's arm plate into a blade.
Scar reached up with his normal arm, grabbing onto the wrist of the attacking arm. Then he brought up the alchemic arm and placed it against the elbow of the arm. Ed's nerves screamed as the arm shattered into a million pieces. Ed collapsed to his knees as as the pain momentarily overwhelmed him.
"Any last words before I send you to mean your maker?" Scar said as he stood over Edward Elric, prepared to finish his life.
"Ed, run!" Al shouted as loud as he could, trying to move, only to have his body fall apart a little more.
Ed looked up at the man. He had no more alchemy, no more way to fight to protect his younger brother. So he did the only thing he could do. "Please, just leave my brother out of this. Just kill me, and leave him alone." Ed said, looking almost at peace with himself.
It was enough to give Scar pause. "...I will." The man said as Al shouted for his brother to stop being an idiot and to just run.
But before Scar could lower his arm a gun shot sounded, and Scar's glasses flew off his head with a small trickle of blood from a bullet that grazed across the side of his head. They all turned to see Hawkeye standing in the mouth of the alleyway with a gun raised, Danny behind her beside her car. "That was a warning shot. Step away from the Fullmetal, or the next one won't miss." Scar turned towards them, his eyes now revealed. The dark red eyes spoke chapters about what was going on. "An Ishvalan?" Hawkeye said in shock.
While the lieutenant was distracted by his eyes, he throw his arm out towards the wall beside him, causing an pulse of alchemy to go through it and destabilize the stones in the building beside Hawkeye.
Danny stood there in shock as the stones began to fall down on Hawkeye's head. The quantity was to much for her to hope to get out of uninjured and there wasn't enough time to dodge.
He had to do something. He had to save her. His hands clapped together, prepared to do alchemy, only to realize he had no idea how to stop it.
He wasn't close enough to use normal alchemy on the stones, and though Alkahestry was able to be performed at a distance, you needed to have a sort of lightning rod to gid the energy or else it would just dissipate before it ever reached its target. He couldn't just put up a wall to protect her, there just wasn't enough time.
Danny's mind was drawing a blank as he just gathered more and more of the Dragon's Pulse into his hands which began to give off a green glow from the alchemic energy that was being stored within them. Time seemed to slow down as the stones got closer and closer to the lieutenant's head. Finally Danny just throw out his hands, hoping that enough of the energy would get their for his alchemy to work, forgetting that he hadn't even came up with a process for the reaction.
"Hawkeye!" He shouted as the energy is his hands shot up towards the falling stones, the force of the discharge throwing him backwards several feet back into the car with enough force to leave a dent in the metal as the green light flew through the air, crashing into the segment of wall above the lieutenant, pushing the entire thing away from her.
Scar's power can destroy anything, including the fourth wall. Though is all seriousness, I am going to actual be assigning a scientific explanation to Scar's arm, which I feel like they failed to do in the show.
So how many of you saw Danny doing that coming? He will basically be having to learn to use the Dragon's Pulse the way Danny in the show used his ghost powers.
Next thing I will have to do is have a bunch of crazy formerly homeless cripples hooked up to Philosopher's stones as part of an artificial sacrifices project that Father wanted to use encase he couldn't get enough alchemists, some of whom get loose. The first of course being a mad man who is obsessed with his old job of moving boxes around in warehouses.