Disclaimer: I don't own Hagaren, but I DO own this Fic! D
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Edward was on his fifth helping of soup. Riza knew he had quite an appetite, so she talked the cook into making a bit extra. Ed piled the noodles into his mouth.
Riza looked a bit disgusted. "Well, anyway, how do you plan to pull this off?"
A smirk came upon Roy's face, but it only flashed there for a second once he had realized that his plan wouldn't work. "Well, I was thinking of having Ed chloroform the guards...But that won't work. Ed has forgotten the chemical components.
"Perhaps you could do it?" Riza suggested.
Roy looked up at her in disbeleif. "And how am I supposed to...Riza, go lok up the chemicle components to chloroforn and bring them to me!"
After she came back, she placed down a cup of water and a bar of soap. "Sir, upon investigation, chloroform is caused by the reation of Hypochlorite (NaOCI) and Acetone (CH3COCH3)"
"And what may I ask is the water and soap for?" Questioned Mustang with an amused smile.
"Tap water in the cup contains water which includes Sodium Hypochlorite. The soap contains Triclosan, which reacts with the chlorine in the tap water to form chloroform. I do believe that this is an alternative to Acetone."
Edward looked up from his bowl, noodles hanging out of his mouth. "What the hell did you just say?"
"Forget it, you wouldn't understand..." Roy sighed. He hated knowing that all these things that were being said, it just seemed like Ed should know. After all, he WAS a prodigy.
There was a knock on the door, followed by a familiar voice. "General Mustang! We have something that needs your attention! Bring Edward as well, he'll be rather useful!"
Before Roy could say anything, the footsteps began fading. Roy groaned as he put his head in his hands. "This can't be happening..."
Ed looked up again and just stared. "Edward..."
"We can't bring him! Once they see that he can't preform Alchemy, they'll know something is up!"
Hughes stood up immediatly. "And it's not like we can just replace him...But what if he called in sick?"
Roy sighed. "Hughes, be serious. He can't be THAT sick if he came in with us!" He looked at the door for a moment before getting up.
Riza looked up at him in shock. "What are you going to do, sir?"
"I'll think about that when the time comes. FullMetal!" Roy shook his head when Ed jumped and knocked over the bowl. "Hughes, clean that up. FullMetal, we're going. Just keep your mouth shut unless you are ordered otherwise." Ed nodded and began following Mustang out the door.
As the door shut, Riza fell back onto the couch. "I hope he knows what he's doing..."
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They stopped at a strange complex. The Fuhrer turned around. "Alright, I've heard that some pretty strange stuff has been happening around here. Be on your guard. Let's go." With that, everyone present followed the Fuhrer into the complex.
After looking around a bit, Roy stopped. "Isn't this the power plant?"
The Fuhrer stopped. "Yes Roy, it is. Now can we continue?" He never waited for an answer, and continued walking. "One of the reactors here stopped outputting energy."
"Just one? Then why are we-" Roy began, before being interrupted.
"It is one of the big ones. I need you and FullMetal to restart it. I'm no Alchemist, so I don't know how." After a few silent moments, they arrived on the top floor. It was pretty dark due to the lack of lighting. The Fuhrer pointed to the unlit cylinder on the other side of the room. "It appears that the array has been smudged, and none of us know what array was used."
Roy looked at the cylinder carefully. "And you want FullMetal to reassemble the array."
"Exactly. And by the looks of it, this wasn't done too long ago. We believe a person smudged it. You are here in the event that anyone is still here. You may toast them as you like." The Fuhrer turned around and began leaving. He stopped when he noticed a red mark on Edward's skin. It was barely visible under that huge red coat.
As he stared at Edward curiously, Roy frowned at him. "What, is there something wrong sir?"
"No, nothing at all." Countered the Fuhrer as he continued to leave.
After he was gone, Roy and Ed went over to the smudged array. Ed looked at it intently. "What does this array do?"
Roy looked closer at it. "I believe it starts a chain reaction in the molecules and continuously create energy." Ed looked like he was completely lost. "Well shit. That is why you're here. But you don't understand this now. If the Fuhrer finds out, he'll think something is up."
After looking at the array for almost five minutes, Edward got up. "Well, don't all these glass thingies have arrays in them? Maybe if we look at the array in one that works, we'll know how to fix this one."
Roy got up and motioned Ed to follow. They went to the floor below and walked up to one of the cylinders. "Why have us do it if it were this simple? There must be something more..."
After looking the array over several times, they went back upstairs. That was when Edward noticed. "R-Roy! That array!" Ed refused to go near it.
Roy looked at it, then back to Ed. "What about it? It's messed up, we need to fix it."
Ed got closer and touched the smudged material with his finger. After inspecting it, he immediately wiped it on the floor. He got up and walked to the darker corner of the room. After searching through some big boxes, he almost screamed. He immediately ran back over to Roy. "This is not the array that was downstairs!" He threw his arms around Roy and shuddered. He knew what this array was.
After looking at it, Roy noticed that it contained the symbol on the back of Ed's coat. "What's wrong?" Roy was not there when Ed had killed Greed. He had never seen this array before.
"Someone is trying...to kill me?"
Roy shot his eyes back to Ed. "What do you mean?"
Ed let go of Roy and tried smudging the array, but once he touched it, it activated. He screamed. What was the bigger problem was that the original array had not been smudged, but was drawn over. Since he accidentally activated one array, it automatically activated the other. The electricity was coarsing through his body, and he felt horribly weak. And what was that? Did he just see something in the corner of the room move? This can't be good...
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Sorry for the lack of updates, I've gotten really lazy. This wasn't what I'd planned on happening, but it still fits in with what I had planned later, so it's all good. I think I'll add chapter names, too. Yeah, I think I'll do that.
BTW, cookies for anyone who can guess what the hell is going on!
(And also, that chloroform thing is true, so don't try it!)