A/N: I want to apologize if the last chapter seemed out of place I spent the last few days going over it and well needless to say countless hours going through and changing things at least it certainly felt that way. I guess I should probably stop rambling on for a bit.

Disclaimer: I am legally obligated to say that I do not own the rights or characters of either Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, or Worm and that they belong to Hiromu Arakawa and Wildbow respectively.

When Can I Start?

I arrived at the meeting place about five minutes late, I imagine that if he could he would be wearing an annoyed expression coupled with a fierce glare, I guess I'm lucky that Coil is much more patient and stable then the thinker Accord is rumored to be.

Coil was so kind as to provide the information he already stated in his briefing, obviously more for my benefit than that of anyone else present. Regent wore an expression of exaggerated boredom, while Bitch scowled in annoyance at having to sit through this briefing a second time in less than a twenty-minute span.

I was finally in the company of the people that would prove extremely valuable to my goal. After a brief set of introductions on the Undersiders parts more out of courtesy than actual respect, I returned it in full.

The man clad in motorcycle leather was Grue, he gave a brief explanation and demonstration of his powers when asked.

Regent lead with a brief and sarcastic comment, before trying to trip me up with his power.

Tattletale claimed to be a psychic, which wasn't entirely true and proceeded to try to prove she was the smartest one in the room, which only served to grate at the patience that Coil was showing today.

The woman in the fur-collared jacket called herself Bitch and her power was less than subtle if anything else, she was quick and to the point, seeming uncomfortable explaining something that was inherently obvious to herself.

The Bug manipulator wore a dark colored outfit and goggles with bright yellow lenses, I saw 'her' as I was later corrected by tattletale the night Lung destroyed my first Hideout in the Bay.

I felt weird, but it was still important to remind her that suicide by cape and extreme recklessness would not be tolerated if it either needlessly endangered herself or others, that was going to be a fun conversation.

I did not really need much in terms of introduction but still felt maybe a brief demonstration of my power as a show of trust would prove my intentions and currently loyalties.

I started by showing off my extremely powerful regeneration, in a simple way I asked to borrow the blade Skitter had on her. Then I held out my right arm and cleaved right through it earning a brief look of concern from the Bug manipulator and Grue.

Coil was unphased, Tattletale probably guessed, Regent didn't really care, and Bitch had her attention elsewhere.

Then with a brief flash of red electricity the wound healed in a matter of seconds.

To drive the point home I demonstrated on various other body parts this property.

Following that I showed off an example of superhuman strength probably a brute four or five rating, ignoring the application of my armor of course, to help determine my position during combat.

Grue would be a mid range and disable our foes by blinding the members of their ranks.

Tattletale would assist in real-time as relaying information and head of communications.

'Yes the job she was born for telling people things they didn't know, how fitting after all'.

Regent didn't need more than line of sight but was thrilled at the prospect of tasering some poor thug and running off if it proved to be too difficult. He lacked actual combat training, but loved his taser-scepter hybrid so.

Bitch would help launch an ambush and act as breaker, give us an entrance by tearing a hole in the wall with her dogs and act as a distraction. She would also act as mobility and offer a way out of the battlefield quickly if things went awry.

Coil had some of his unpowered mooks set up in snipers nests as far as a few blocks and two to three stories up.

Now with all of that taken care of, powers noted to help plan the roles each of us would take and how we would act in terms of combat settled.

I would be a front-lines combatant or skirmisher, because I can take endless abuse ignoring the fact I have absurdly strong armor and regeneration, as well as practically endless stamina. That makes me pretty happy with this start of a plan we had developed. By 'we' I meant Coil and Tattletale.

My target was Bakuda, even if it wasn't in the immediate future the first chance I had after my role was done, which was coincidentally suppressing powered combatants either Oni-Lee or Lung if need be.

I was going to beat her senseless for all the needless death and wasting the next five hideouts I had selected before allying myself with Coil. Yes if and when I got my hands on her she was as good as dead.

I thought with an odd out of character chuckle which only seemed to worry my team mates.

"Hey I don't mean to interrupt you Coil but I was under the impression we would be talking about pay?" I said without a hint of reservation in my voice.

"Of course." Coil stated

"WELL then How much is my time worth to you?" I asked

-Coil's Perspective of negotiations-

Then several minutes of back and forth over the amount for services to be rendered ensued. Greed didn't know much, but he sure as hell was a good negotiator or at least as good as one can be when dealing with a man who cheats as much as Coil did.

After several discrete splits and realizing much to his horror that Greed was a blank spot of sorts, while maybe not a blank but he couldn't accurately model him even with his information.

Little did Coil know he was lacking several key pieces of information that would currently render making an accurate model for some situations involving Greed difficult, while not impossible it was vague at best.

He knew that at some point this greed character would have to be made an non-issue eventually, but for the time being his powers were incredibly useful to his goals.

He knew that the man he was dealing with wanted money, for god sake he called himself Greed. His monologue back at Somer's Rock did little to prove otherwise.

The report his substitute and representative had given included a transcript of the events that transpired at the rock.

On top of the initial report tattletale gave during his debut fight with Lung and the indirect rescue of the undersiders as a result of his actions. Including a few vague impressions of the man.

The phrasing of most of it showed that yes Greed while a useful ally would at some point in time prove to be an inconvenience to his own plans for Brockton Bay.

"Money."

"Sex."

"Woman."

"Status."

"Power."

"I want only the finer things in life."

So he felt confident in the fact he could easily pay the man off with any amount of money and do so with an incredible amount of ease with his own access to a sickening amount of resources.

so with this in mind negotiations concluded, Greed would be taking five thousand now upfront and ten thousand after the task was settled.

Back to Greed's perspective-

'What a pushover, if I had kept it up I probably could have gotten more out of him.'

Well I guess with that done all I had to do was equip my ultimate shield.