A/N: Hey guys. It's me. I'm back. Well you can clearly tell that and-….Oh dear.
Ed: What?
Chameleon52: RUN!
Ed: Huh? AAAHHHHH! *Gets trampled by the rush of angry readers that are trying to kill Chameleon52 for the lack of updates*
Chameleon52: I'M SORRY! *Runs*
Roy: *Walks out and looks at trampled Ed* Chameleon52 doesn't own us. Nor does she pay our medical fees. Now shout outs to the reviewers.
So I'd like to say thank you all for reading and enjoying this story it means a lot to me. I'd like to say that I am EXTREMELY SORRY for the lack of updating. Really I feel horrible and I PROMISE I will try harder to update more since that's what most of you had to say. So I'd like to thank my reviewers of last chapter for getting me back on here and updating. This chapter is dedicated to awesomenaruto, DaChloeZ, White Hair and Violet Eyes, ShadowAlchemist503, cookies5529, shinigami hime, Wolfia Thunderas, and Akanye. Now let's get to it!
Missions That Cross The Line
Chapter 11
"What do you mean you 'never made that call'?" Winry demanded. "I mean that I didn't call Fullmetal and ask him to meet me and if I did I wouldn't have him leave Al behind." Roy said. "So what are you saying Colonel?" Al asked. "I'm saying someone is setting us up." Roy said. He then glanced both ways down the hall before entering the room and shutting the door. "Look first someone made this to appear as if I hurt Winry. Then we were led to Envy and now Ed's missing right after a phone call from someone pretending to be me. I think it's pretty obvious what's going on here." He glanced back and forth between Winry and Alphonse. "Someone's playing games with us." He concluded. "Great." Winry said falling onto the couch. "Now all we need to know is who's doing it, why, and where Ed is. Easy right?" Al and Roy looked at each other and sighed. Winry groaned and closed her eyes. "This is never going to be easy."
Edward woke with a start. Wherever he was, was pitch black and he got the feeling that he was in a very small room and from glancing around he realized there were no windows and probably one door located behind him. He tried to stand but found he was trapped in the chair he had been seated in. The blonde alchemist tried to get his arms free when he realized he was missing his automail arm. "What the hell..?" He mumbled. Ed started struggling to remember what had happened. He got the call from Roy and started heading down to Headquarters. He thought it was weird he requested Al stay behind but his reason made enough sense.
What happened next? He thought angrily to himself. He didn't remember getting into a fight or any other kind of struggle. Wait. I remember something… I was almost at HQ and I tripped over something… Then someone helped me up. Ed however couldn't remember a face. He remembered a voice though but not any words. Just a familiar voice talking to him before being overcome by a strange and uncomfortable feeling. And that was it.
Before Ed could think anymore the bright, harsh lights in the room came on, basically blinding him. He clenched his eyes shut and put his head down. "Well look who's awake." He heard someone say along with footsteps entering the room and stopping in front of him. "Hm. So do the lights hurt or are you trying to pretend you're still asleep?" The person asked. Something about their voice was familiar too but something else about it made Ed think he was better off with his eyes closed. He felt breath on his face and realized they were leaning closer to him. Examining him. Ed turned his head away and flinched, trying to move. "Oh so you are awake you just don't want to see your old friend. Hmph." The person pulled away from Ed's face and started pacing the room. Ed kept shifting in his chair. He dared to open his eyes but kept his head down. His ponytail was gone so his hair concealed his face completely.
Something about the persons voice and presence caused a knot to form in Ed's stomach and his spine to tingle. Every footstep they took made him a little more uncomfortable, as if they were slowly driving him mad just by being in the room with him. It was then Ed became apparent of just how hot the lights felt burning onto his skin and felt sweat forming on the back of his neck.
This is really bad. He thought. The person's footsteps stopped beside him. "You know this could go over a lot faster and a lot easier if you would just look up. Not that I don't enjoy watching you squirm a little. It's kind of adorable." The person began pacing in front of him again. "Not that you weren't always adorable but you know," They stopped directly in front of him and kneeled down so their face was inches from the alchemists. "Watching people be tortured and slowly driven mad, by their own hand at that. It's amazing. Don't you think so?"
Ed couldn't take it anymore. "Stop!" He yelled. The person abruptly stood. "So. You can speak." They taunted. Ed clenched his eyes shut again. "Who are you? What are you doing? Where am I?" Ed started firing questions. "Well Edward I'm not sure I want to converse with someone who won't even look at me." Ed was beyond the point of being scared and he hated that feeling. He opened his eyes and through his head up to look at his tormentor.
He regretted it. The second he looked into those familiar eyes and put a face to the voice he felt his body go rigid. He realized that was the same voice from his earlier recollection. Through his shocked and scared state he managed to speak. "YOU?!"
"Roy what are we even doing?" Winry asked, pacing his office. Havoc took his cigarette out of his mouth. "She makes a good point Boss we've already been through all of the Chiefs enemies." Roy groaned. "I'm aware and this is clearly an opponent Fullmetal hasn't dealt with before or in a long time but by now the Homunculi know someone's after him too. They could be waiting for them to do the dirty work for them or trying to kill them before they kill Ed. We pissed off Envy and they know we're preoccupied and that Ed's weak right about now." He explained his reasoning. "Are you saying now we have even more to worry about?" Winry asked. Roy nodded and Winry groaned before falling onto one of the office chairs.
"Where do we go from here?" Al asked trying to move things along. "We keep searching. Not much else we can do." Roy said. "But how? Where?" Winry asked. Just then Riza rushed into the room. "Colonel you might want to come check this out." Roy glanced up. "Do we have a hit?" He asked. "More like a warning." She said. Everyone looked at her in mild shock and she walked across the room and handed Roy a large envelope. The Colonel tore it open and pulled out its contents and leafed through them.
"This is some sick shit." He stated getting to his feet. "What? What is it?" Winry and Al asked rushing over. Roy let the papers fall to his desk revealing they were photos. Winry and Al each picked one up. "Is this…Ed?" They asked. There were pictures of Ed sitting limp in a chair that he was bound to by what appeared to be steel and chains. There was one showing a leather gag over his mouth and a blindfold. Another was of the remains of his automail arm. "What…the…oh my gosh…"Winry kept mumbling in horror. Roy was glaring down at his desk when he suddenly looked at Winry. "There's something written on the back of that one." He said pointing to the photo in her hands. She flipped it over and looked at the two words someone had scrawled across the back.
Tick tock.
