"Good day." Midnight whispered, passing Edward, who sat with his brother at a local shop, taking a break, after running around town, and fixing a lot of the people's 'crap'.
The message held more meaning then just 'good day.' It was a sign that Scar was near, and looking for him. Boy, Midnight's ears come in handy with spying, sharp shooting, tracking, and for knowing when a person is lying; because of the speed up heartbeat.
The boys were to leave two minutes after the message but were stopped by Riza and Roy in his car, that Riza was driving, clamming he was a crazy driver for the one swerve when fallowing Berry The Chopper's body.
"This isn't like you Fullmetal." he said to Edward as the window rolled down.
"Colonel?" Ed asked hearing his name being called by the older solder. "Even if midnight did heal you shouldn't you still be in the recovery room?" he asked and Roy replied with a boring 'probably' before letting Ed continue. He leaned onto the car, back first, and lowered to Mustang's back seat window. "I heard about Havoc. Knowing Dr. Marco,-"
"Wait" Roy interrupted Ed with a raze of his hand. "We're drawing attention." He continued. "Get in." he demanded. The two boys got in Ed up front with Riza and Al in the back with a squashed Colonel. "On second thought, let's get out…" he said breathlessly. And they quickly drove to an ally way and began to talk outside the car.
"I'm sure you know Scar is back in town." Roy started. "So what's with the showboating trying to get him to find you?" he asked.
"Yeah that's exotically what I want. I need to face him and you can't talk me out of it." He said back shaking his hair out of his face a bit.
"That's ridiculous!" Roy shouted at the younger male as Riza, who was standing guard, flinched at the outburst. "Did you forget how he tore you apart in east city?!" he questioned more.
"Oh~" Edward dragged it out making a fake rough and dumb voice. "Sounds like the CL's scared of big bad Scar!" he teased. "I'm not surprised considering how useless you were agents him." He said adding a retarded giggle.
"Hey, that wasn't my flat it was raining that day!" he shouted back as unknowns to them a dark figure was coming down the alleyway from behind them.
"Well was it raining when you got beat up and sent to the hospital?" Ed continued tormenting his friends 'father' as she walked up from behind them not saying a word until her presence was known and they were unknowingly content with her by them. "You're still useless!" Ed added the last taunt like a cheery to an ice cream.
"Has anyone noticed I'm here?" midnight asked standing slightly beside Riza wile remaining somewhat behind her causing the female to jump.
"I'm still upset that you quit the military." she said a little angrily. "So why is 'this' important?" Riza asked.
"I kind of am a pre-danger." She shrugged.
"Uh, CL?" Riza said turning to the arguing two and the concerned bystander.
"What LT?" Roy asked calming down enough to not to sound angry.
"Hi!" midnight stated plainly.
"When did you get here?" Al asked.
"Not too long ago." She stated back
"And that means" Ed stated.
"Looks like he got your invitation." Roy stated.
"What's wrong CL.? It's not raining but you're soaking." Ed stated somewhat frightened himself.
In the alleyway stud none other than Scar. Riza pulled out her gun and aimed it at him. "No Riza!" midnight threw her arm in front of the gun and Riza retracted it because of the albino's arm.
"What? Why?" Riza asked.
"I'm trying out the Cl.'s sport and I think I might be able to get some fish." Ed said as Scar made the first attack, making a burst of destruction come their way as Ed ran forward to attack and Alphonse made a wall to block the attack and keep all the others safe.
"Brother's using himself as bait to bring out the Homunculi." Al stated once safe from the ongoing attacks. "He's a sacrifice to them after all they can't a ford to let him die."
"That's crazy!" Roy exclaimed. "And you dragged my daughter into this?" he asked.
"We don't want anyone else to be hurt or die." Al stated. "We're using Midnight to help keep Scar at bay more, so East city won't happen again."
"Using Edie was the only thing we could do." Midnight stated in defense.
"What are you going to do if Scar gets shot by MPs before they show?" Roy asked when he noticed Midnight pull out her gun.
"But you've stopped things like that before, Dad." Midnight stated as she scaled the single story wall like it was nothing, and to her; it was. Riza in the back ground watched amazed and shocked but keeping a straight face as her head followed the girl up the wall.
"So I take orders from you now?" Roy asked looking for her then noticing she had climbed the wall and looked up to her owling form. She smiled sleepily. "You be careful, and share what you get!" he shouted at her figure that was removing it's self from the wall and sight. He knew that was the look she gives when she's going to do it any way.
"Yes, sir!" Al answered for her as he opened a door in the wall for himself to join his brother's fighting. Midnight did a good job of making it look like she was trying to hit him so he'd back up.
"Fuery's radio house isn't far away let's head there." She heard Roy state as Riza gave a 'yes sir.' the two walked away.
"I'm almost out!" midnight called but truthfully she was only about a one forth done. It was a lie but she will need some for when helping out ling.
"Get out of here!" Ed called back and she did she ran to where she remembered the wall to be and once she found it she used it as her guide she entered a tall building and quickly ran to the stairs. Mid-way through she started to hear some voices.
"This is sector 3 MP patrol!" They said. She pulled her left ear from her hair that was binding them down flat as- even thought she was blind- she looked out the window just to make sure. "We're currently engaged with Scar! Requesting back up!" but Scar was not even near sector 3. Midnight felt up her ear and noticed her radio ear piece was on. "Hey what are you doing? Hea! Haaaaaaa!"
It was a small gold cylinder with no inside and it didn't have a small stud part of the earing it was full and if it was removed it would leave a rectangular hole in her ear. On it was a small black string off the bottom edge and a tassel worked as secret radio receptor. The ear piece was the speaker. Fuery made it for her. It's connected to his radio house so it has an off switch but when his radio house is being used at all it turns on and won't turn off until the radio giving the signal dose. If she pressed a small switch at the top of the earing then she could easily radio in to them. She can hear all that was going on. She could even hear central command answer back but in exchange- "ohh~, this is fun LT!" she get s everything said. "Now on to sector 17!"
"Scar's in sector 17! We need help! Ahhhhhhaaahahah!"
'Gezz, Roy's way too good at this.' The albino thought to herself.
"No, scar's been spotted in sector 8. He's- he's- oh, gawed!"
'Yep, way too good.'
Suddenly she felt the presence of two Homunculi and started up the stairs again at an even faster speed. An explosion went off and midnight looked out the window to see a few streets down a hole was in the roof and the feeling was coming from there. Midnight turning down central's radio and the first radio to furey's radio house she started to go down the stairs instead and hopefully she could get to them fast enough. The roof top fight didn't stay in one place however. Midnight came to a stop when she felt Ling and Lan-Fan's heart beats right before her.
"Ling, Lan-fan, you okay?" she asked as he exited his crouch from jumping out a two story window.
"Fine." He stated brushing her off almost. "Let's go!" he said getting up and running.
"I have to check in." Midnight stated as she went to grab her ear piece. "Mom, Dad, meat me were the brothers are I need a ride to the old slave house, the one outside town."
"Good idea!" Roy stated through the radio. "That's my girl for you!" he gushed somewhat like maze used to. "LT., go back them up." He stated talking the ear phones off but midnight could still slightly hear him.
"Yes sir." She heard clearly from the second radio wave coming from the radio house witch she forgot to turn down.
"LT.," she heard Roy say cattishly in the head phones. "Don't let anyone follow you."
"Yes sir." She heard Riza in the background. "If anything happens I'll contact you." She stated as the door in the room opened.
"Yeah." Roy stated plainly trying to radio in something else. The door closed and for a moment the radio was somewhat silent.
"And don't go out on the battlefield this time, sir." Riza stated as she came back in just for that reason.
"I know, I know." Roy sighed annoyed that she was still going on about how his help had to be a secret; along with the names the two called the girl listening in on their conversation.
Midnight and Ling ran for quite a ways Lan-fan dangling over Ling's shoulder. Midnight listened in the radio but kept up with Ling easily. "He's relentless!" Ling nearly yelled frustrated that he noticed gluttony up on one of the roof tops nearby. He made to run down an ally, and midnight tried to stop him but failed because she was distracted with panting from the long run.
She's an albino and therefore is weak, it doesn't help that mutation takes a lot out of you. It takes years to recover, and frankly she didn't have time to before entering the military. She was running out of energy quick. "Oh no," Ling said as he found what was at the end of the ally. "Are we trapped?" he asked more to himself then anyone but midnight answered any way.
"No not yet." She stated as she ran back the other way Ling in tow just making it past gluttony. They continued to run and Lan-Fan's heart beat began to pick up as she started to awake from passing out.
"My left arm." She stated.
"What's wrong?" Ling asked refusing to stop running.
"Your arm has no pulse it's lost to you now if you don't get it removed it'll just stay paralyzed." Midnight stated slowing her run and trying to say each word clearly as she tried to look Lan-Fan somewhat in the eyes.
"Young Lord." She stated somewhat loudly. "I'm leaving a trail." She said as she noticed the blood dripping from her body. "I'm useless to you now." She stated.
"Lan-Fan don't worry I can help a bit!" Midnight stated. "You won't have your entire arm back but it will still be useful; the same with my side of the deal." She continued.
"No you can't burden yourself with me." she argued. "Keep a better eye one him for me." Lan-Fan said as she pulled a kunai out of her sleeve.
"Lan-Fan what are you planning?" Ling yelled back to her.
"Without his people there is no king, but with no king there is no people." She said as she brought the kunai closer to her skin. "You have to live for the sake of our clan." She added as midnight grabbed hold of the kunai and was trying to pull it away from the injured girl.
"No I won't leave you! Think about Kazen!" Ling argued back still on the run. "He loves you and you love him you can't leave him for something like this! We'll make it Lan-Fan!"
"There are a lot of other thing that you can leave behind Ling." Midnight stated as she aimed the kunai and stopped trying to fight her.
"Lan-fan, no!" Ling yelled but it was too late metal made contact with skin.
Ling stopped and flesh hit the ground.
The sounds of a fight rang from above them as they got closer to the energy made by the dumb brute they decided to go after. The cry of the Elric brother was heard as Gluttony was kicked into the spot they needed for their attack. Ling shot from the sewers as midnight helped the armless girl lean onto the wall and followed in suit after Ling.
"Ling?" Ed asked as Ling was midair and in full attack mode. He wasn't letting them get away with this without some pain.
Ling came down and landed on the fattie's shoulders. He shoved a boom down his neck and yelled to the others. "Run!" he called as he removed the sword from his mouth; his wrapping sheath used on Lan-Fan's shoulder to stop the bleeding.
Everyone backed away and Ling jumped off into the air. For a split moment gluttony looked happy; like he had just been feed something, something not half bad. Then came the boom which blew his top half to pieces. Blood splattered every were but soon the body pieces dissipated into the wind, blood along with it. The biggest part of the body was starting to remake itself, in this order: First the bones, then the muscles, and then skin.
"Ed, make me some strong wire." Ling stated and Ed ran off to do so using the train tracks that were nearby. "Your overly quick regenerative abilities are working badly for you this time." Ling stated as he stingingly wrapped the wire around the growing body. "That's what's holding you down, Hu?" ling asked tying it off and holding the extra wire. "I have you now glountny!"
Midnight stopped to listen in to the heart beat coming from the body she has to leave behind in the sewers. "I've out witted you, monster." She stated talking about the thing Midnight helped her pull, even with lings contestant 'no!' s. midnight's mind wandered for a second. It wandered to that dog they had tied the girls arm to. She wondered if Wrath found the stray alright if the dog was even living by now she hoped one day she could return the favor.
The sound of a gun going off brought midnight wandering thoughts back to earth. The gun was hand made from random parts the military didn't miss when they took them without asking. Hawkeye's gun got the side of Scar's leg but most missed or only skinned him seeing how he was considered fast and she was far away he had some reaction time.
The tell tail sounds of Hawkeye's car screeching to a sideways halt told midnight that it was time to load it up and run. Sadly with Scar still here she couldn't go back to get Lan-Fan. She whispered a good bye to the girl below where she guarded just in case.
"Throw him in Ling Mom'll get us out of here and to a safe place!" Midnight called as she ran quickly passed the two brothers to her right and the scared man to her left.
"Hu?" she heard Ed nearly gasp as she saw him piece together that the lady with glasses long hair and familiar face was none other than Hawkeye. "Ah!" the brothers screamed out in unison freaked out about how she looked so different yet so the same.
Ling picked up gluttony with some struggle at first but midnight jumped into the car and helped with what little strength she had. Throwing the fat guy into the back ling hopped in standing between the immortal and the front seats feet on the floor boards.
"Ling ouch." Midnight stated as he looked her way and the body fat was pushing her into the corner. Ling leaned over and pulled her out from under the fats and lifted her curling body over the front seats and he let go plopping her down into place almost like it was rehearsed a thousands of times.
Riza went to start her stalled engine again after midnight was pulled out from under the immortal being. "Hold on Haw-"but Ed was cut short on his streams of questions that could be summed up in 'how did you know?', and, 'why?'
"Shh!" she demanded silence loudly so he could hear her over the light distance between them. Ed looked surprised at the action but let it drop as she started the car and made to escape. She made a large u turn and almost started to fish tail it but calmed down the car's erratic actions quickly.
"What?" al started to ask. "Wait!" he shouted but Ed stopped him with a quick call of his shortened name. Shouts and orders became louder as military started to poor in surrounding scar and 'save' the Fullmetal alchemist.
"Its okay, the are on the way now; we don't know them." Ed stated it as a matter of fact convincing his little brother to think the same. "The colonel may be a bipolar kid trapped in an adult, but we can trust him, and he'll give us the loyalty to his word." Ed continued ending the option to do anything else. "For now-"Ed said as she ran and attacked scar making him fight back with another destroy the ground trick. "We're going to catch Scar!" he said and jumped back to avoid the defense scar made.
That was the last she could hear of their battle as she turned back to the reality that she was in. "I've heard about you from my commander and my daughter, Ling Yao." Hawkeye stated making conversation for the first time to the young prince. "we're on our way to a an old house outside town that's where we found your new friend, my daughter." she stated giving a quick glance at Midnight who smiled a bit even if it was slightly sad she wanted to give her mother some comfort.
"Wait I have a friend! We need to pick her up!" Ling said leaning over to make sure the driving lady heard him.
"Eh?!" she asked glancing up a bit surprised. "I don't think we have time." She stated.
"Please she could be dead by now we have to hurry!" he argued.
"Midnight?" Riza asked not bothering to glance at her.
"If Ling and I move quick enough then there's a man hole a few streets back and over two we might be able to before they have time to block that place off." Midnight stated.
"Then let's get there quicker than them." Riza stated and shifted gears to go even faster. Running red lights and cutting off cars. It came as quickly as it went but the sent was vile.
'Wrath' Midnight thought to herself. 'You have to die one day, but I want it to be by my hands.' She growled internally.
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