(Disclaimer: I do not own Fullmetal Alchemist or Kamen Rider OOO. They both belong to their respective owners. I just own this idea which might become a story and my OC. Please enjoy.)
The Masked Alchemist
-Children of god who dwell on the earth, there is no salvation without prayer and faith. The sun god, Leto, will illuminate thy path. Behold! The lord hath descended from his heavenly throne to save thee from all thy sins. For I am thy father, I am the emissary of the sun god…-
"A religious broadcast on the radio?"
"'Emissary of the sun god'? The heck is that?"
"I've never heard of this 'Leto' before."
"Well, this is a different land. There are a lot of things that are different from home."
The café owner just blinked before speaking. "Uh, not to sound rude or anything, but are you four street performers or something?"
The four in question, with one spewing out their drink, turned to the café owner.
The first was a short, blond haired man with golden eyes, a red coat over black clothes, and white gloves.
The second was a man in a suit of armor as his eyes seemed to glow.
The third looked a little like the first and a bit younger except his hair was a bit more on the pale side as it was styled in a wild fashion, the spiky tips colored red. He wore a black jacket, the right sleeve being half red, over a red shirt, black pants, and boots.
The last person seemed older than the blonds. He had baby blue eyes and from his hair to his appearance, one would have mistaken him for Shinn Asuka from Gundam Seed Destiny. He wore a brown poncho over a black shirt, brown cargo pants, and dark brown traveling boots.
"Now just a minute, pops!" The first blond said. "What is it about the four of us that makes you think we're street performers!?"
"Well, I mean, what else can you be?"
"We're travelers of sort." Said the Shinn look-alike.
"I haven't seen your faces around here." The café owner pointed out. "You four on a trip or something?"
"Something like that." The second blond man said before he went back to eating his popsicle.
"We're trying to track something down." The first blond said as he finished his meal. "By the way, what's this broadcast?"
"You've never heard of Father Cornello?"
"…Who?"
"Father Cornello, the sun god Leto's emissary." The café owner said as the people started to talk.
"Never heard of him." The Shinn look-alike said for the rest of them.
"You're kidding, right?"
"He's the founder of the Church of Leto. He can work miracles!"
"He's a wonderful man who came to this town a few years ago and showed us all the way to god."
"Yeah, he's amazing!"
"The things he does are real miracles! It's the work of god!"
"…You guys aren't listening, are you?" The café owner asked to the four.
"Nope."
"We're agnostic."
"Thanks for the meal." the first blond said as he got up. "Come on guys, let's go."
"Okay." Said the armored man before he got up, accidently bumping his head on the ceiling, causing the radio on the roof to fall over and brake. "Oops."
"Hey! Could you please be more careful, sir?" The café owner said. "Frankly, you shouldn't be walking around wearing that suit."
"It's just a radio." The second blond man said. "You can just get a new one."
"Look kid, I'm not exactly made out of money."
"My bad, sorry." The armored man said, kneeling down to gather the pieces of the radio. "Don't worry, I'll fix it."
"You think you can fix that? It's completely trashed."
"Just sit back and watch." The Shinn look-alike said as the armored man started to draw a circle around the trashed radio.
"Okay, all set." The armored man said before he crossed his arms and then…
*FLASH!*
"What the!?" The café owner cried out in surprise as a bit of dust blinded him. When it subsided, it reveled to him a newly fixed radio, as if it hadn't fallen off it in the first place.
"How's that?" The first blond man asked.
"Th-That's amazing!?" The café owner couldn't believe his eyes. "Can you work miracles too!?"
"Miracles?" The second blond man said. "It's nothing, but simple alchemy."
"We're alchemists." The armored man said.
"The big guy here and me are the Elric Brothers." The first blond man said, gesturing to him and his armored brother. "I'm sure you've heard of us."
"The Elric Brothers?"
"Hey! I've heard of you guys!"
"They say the older brother is a State Alchemist called the 'Fullmetal Alchemist,' Edward Elric."
"But who are you two?" One man asked the other two.
"I'm Ankh. Just Ankh." The second blond man said.
"And I'm Haru Yamamoto."
(Time Skip)
"You think this is the room?" I asked as the four of us stood in front of double doors.
"Let's see…" Ed said until the door creaked open wide. "Hmph. I guess that means 'Come in.'"
We stepped inside the dark room. Once were a few feet away, the door behind us slammed shut as torches started to light up.
"Welcome to the Church of Leto." Turning we saw Cornello himself walking down the stairs. "Did you four come here to hear me preach?"
"Yeah, by all means teach us." Ed said. "Like about how you use your lame Alchemy to deceive your followers!"
"I'm not sure what you mean." Cornello said, playing innocent. "Please don't confuse my miracles with Alchemy.
I mentally scoffed. No matter how you look at it, it's Alchemy. I would have said something, but I'm gonna let Ed handle this one.
"If you saw for yourself you'd believe-"
"Yeah, I've seen it all." Ed interrupted. "But what I couldn't figure out was how you were able to do transmutations that go against the laws."
"That's why I'm telling you it's not Alchemy-"
Ed interrupted him again. "And then it came to me. The Philosopher's Stone. That's how you do it, isn't it?" I saw it, a twitch. "Like maybe, just maybe, it's that ring of yours."
Again, a twitch. Jackpot.
"Heh, the government get's their money's worth out of you, don't they? I guess you saw through the whole thing." Cornello said as he abandoned the innocent look as he raised up his ringed finger. "Correct! The Philosopher's Stone, the legendary catalyst, the amplifier of all Alchemical processes. With this, I can conjure anything at the minimum price for the maximum result!"
"Jackpot." I said.
"How long I've searched for that!" Ed said.
"What's with the jealous look in your eye?" Cornello said. "What do you four want the stone for? Money? Honor?"
"Please, like we use the Philosopher's Stone for simples like that." Ankh said. "What about you? What do you get out of founding this phony religion? If its money you want, you can make as much as you want with that stone."
"It's not about the money." Cornello said. "Well, I do want money, but I can get that with almost no effort in the form of donations from my flock. What I really want are followers who will happily give their lives up for me. Imagine it! An invincible army of fanatics with no fear of death! Soon I'll have more than enough people! Just watch! Within a few years time this entire nation will be mine! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"I don't really care about that so let's move on." Ed said, diffusing the situation very quickly.
"What!? Don't belittle my ambition by saying you 'don't care'! You'd better care! You're a member of the military, after all!"
"To be honest, I could care less about my country, or the military." Ed said. "I'll be blunt. Give us the Philosopher's Stone! If you do that, then we'll stay quiet about the scam you've been pulling on everybody."
Of course, I knew Ed was lying. Once we got the stone, he'll be going out and telling everyone the news.
"How dare you try to bargain with me!" Cornello said. "You are fools if you think my followers would listen to the words of outsiders! The people of this town love me! They think my words come from god! No matter how much noise you make, no matter what evidence you have, they'll never listen to you! Those idiots will believe anything I say! I've completely fooled them! WAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
'What an idiot.' I thought before I started to clap, making Cornello stop laughing. "Wow! You are smart! Thanks for telling us that." I then gave Al a look who saw it and began removing his chest plate. "You're right, Cornello. Your followers would never listen to a word we say. But…" Al then finished taking off his chest plate and set it down to reveal Rose within his armor. "What about her words?"
"R-Rose!?" Cornello said, surprised. "What is the meaning of this!?"
"Father! Is everything you said just now true!?" Rose asked, getting out of Al. "Were you fooling us this whole time!? Your miracles aren't real? The power of god can't grant my wish? You can't bring my darling back from the dead!?"
Cornello seemed conflicted before he started to calm down. "It's true, I am not god's emissary, but with this stone, it may be possible to transmute living beings, something which so many Alchemist have tried and failed. Rose, I will resurrect your loved one!"
"Don't listen to him, Rose!" Al said, having put his chest back on.
"Rose, be a good girl and come here." Cornello said.
"If you go, you can never come back!" Ed said.
"What's the matter? You belong with us."
"Girl, don't be stupid!" Ankh said.
"I'm the only one who can grant your wish. Think about your darling."
"Rose!" I said, but somehow, I knew it was futile.
"Come to me, Rose!"
A moment of silence then took over and after what seemed like hours, Rose…went towards Cornello.
"Stupid girl." Ankh said as Ed and I sighed in annoyance.
"I'm so sorry, you guys." Rose said. "But this is…the only choice I can make."
"Do you really believe that?" I asked, but she didn't answer.
"You truly are a good child." Cornello said as he went over to a lever and pushed it down. "Well then, how about we educate these heathens who dare threaten the future of our faith."
There was the sound of some hidden door opening and from the shadows was a lion, but the lower half of it was that of a lizard. And soon, two more appeared from the shadows, surrounding us.
"The Philosopher's Stone is truly incredible. It can create new life like this." Cornello said. "Have you four ever seen a chimera?"
"We've seen worse." I said as I dug my hand into my pockets. "Hey, Ed, these guys look like they're gonna be tough to play with empty handed."
"Way ahead of you." Ed said before he clapped his hands and slammed them to the ground. With a spark of alchemical light and a single transmutation of the floor, Ed soon had a spear as tall as he was.
"You made a weapon from the floor without using a transmutation circle!?" Cornello said, surprised. "So I guess you deserve the title of State Alchemist after all. But that still won't be enough!"
The first chimera attacked fast. Ed went to block, but the chimera's claws were sharper than I thought as they easily sliced through Ed's spear and sliced his leg.
"Shit!"
"Haha! How do you like the taste of claws that can cut through iron?"
"Edward!" Rose cried out in worry.
"Just kidding." Ed smirked as the chimera's claws snapped.
"What!?"
And in one swift motion, Ed kicked the chimera away as a view of Ed's Auto-Mail leg was shown.
"Sorry, but these are custom made."
Cornello gritted his teeth before shouting, "If your claws won't work, then just bite him to death!"
The chimera got up and attacked again. Without even thinking, Ed raised his right arm as the chimera bit it. It started to chew on his arm, but soon found that his teeth weren't sinking into his arm.
"What's the matter, kitty? Taste bad?" Ed asked before he knocked it out with a strong kick, knocking a few teeth out in the process.
"Wha…Wha?" Rose had a confused look as to why Ed was fine after taking those attacks.
"Look at me, Rose." Ed said as he began to rip off his coat. "This is what happens when you use Alchemy on humans. This is what happens to sinners who trespass on god's domain!" With one final pull, Ed showed off his right Auto-Mail arm.
"Auto-Mail…I see now." Cornello said. "I always wondered why a mere brat like you had a fearsome alias like Fullmetal, but now I know. Look at him, Rose! He and his brother have dared to do what is forbidden to do by Alchemists. The unspeakable crime of Human Transmutation! They've committed the worst possible sin!"
"Why don't you stop talking and fight me like a man." Ed said. "I'll show you that there's no comparison between us!"
"H-How…" Rose looked absolutely horror struck and who could blame her. I was pretty shocked myself when I first found out. Hell, even Ankh was a bit surprised.
"You want to tell her?" I asked Al who nodded.
"No point in hiding it." Al said before he started to explain. "Big brother and I were just kids back then. Our mother had died from illness a long time ago. She was kind, the kindest person in the world. All we wanted was just to see her smile again so we never had any doubts about doing it. Even if it meant breaking the Laws of Alchemy. That was the only reason why we were studying Alchemy after all…But the resurrection failed. My brother had lost his leg and my whole body was 'taken.' I lost consciousness after that. The next thing I saw when I opened my eyes was this armor body and a sea of blood. Even after the horrible injury of losing his left leg, my older brother exchanged his right arm for my soul and put it in this armor."
"The two of us tried to resurrect one person and this is what happened." Ed said. "Look at me real closely, Rose. This is what it takes to raise the dead. Are you prepared to make that sacrifice!?"
Rose just flinched back as Cornello started laughing.
"Hahaha! And you call yourself a State Alchemist! Don't make me laugh!"
"Shut up! You're just a third rate hack who can't do anything without the stone!"
"I see, I see, so that's why you two want the Philosopher's Stone. If you used this, you might be able to transmute humans for real."
"Don't get the wrong idea, baldy!" Ed said. "We just want the stone in order to get our original bodies back. Besides, we still don't know if it'll even be able to do that."
"Father, we'll ask you again. Give us the stone before you get hurt." Al said.
"Hehe, fools. In case you've forgotten, I still have two chimeras left!" Cornello said as he pointed his cane at me and Ankh. "If I can't defeat you two, then I'll just take care of your friends first! Get them!"
Following his orders like good little pets, the last two chimeras pounced at us. I dodged the one attacking me while Ankh just raised his arm as the chimera attacking him bit it.
"Ha! Fool! Your arm will be shredded to pieces!" Cornello said.
"That's what you think!" Ankh said before he kicked the chimera off of him, showing off his arm for the first time.
"What the hell!?" Cornello said as Rose gasped at the sight of Ankh's arm.
Gone was the normal forearm and in place was that of a red and green demonic-like arm with wings at the top.
"It's not that easy to bite into a Greeed's skin."
"What the!? What's with your arm!?" Cornello asked.
"Heh, like I tell you." Ankh said before he took out three Medals. One was red with the image of a hawk. The second was yellow with the image of a tiger head. And the last was green with the image of a grasshopper. "Haru!"
I ducked under my attacking Chimera and quickly caught the thrown Core Medals that were thrown at me. I then took out a rectangular object, the OOO Driver, and placed it on my waist, a belt soon materializing before I inserted the Medals into their respective slots, turned it diagonal, and grabbed the O-Scanner before scanning the Medals.
"Henshin!"
TAKA!
TORA!
BATTA!
Soon, I was surrounded by spinning colored Medals which accompanied the transformation. Taka at the top, Tora in the middle, and Batta at the bottom.
Ta-To-Ba! TaToBa Ta-To-Ba!
The three images then combined into one large crest which flew backwards and into my chest, materializing armor.
The helmet was mainly black, save for the red face plate which looked like a hawk with its wings spread out in flight. On my forehead and acting as the hawk's beak was a red crystal and the head lens were green eyepieces. Running from my chin and down to my neck was a red line that connected to the top portion of the image on my chest. The torso armor had rounded shoulders that had yellow lines on them. The yellow lines ran down my arms and into the yellow gauntlets. Lastly, the legs were minimally covered with segmented green armor not unlike that of a grasshopper's legs, connected by green lines to the lower section of the crest.
"What the…What in the world!?" Cornello's expression looked to be that of a gaping fish. Rose had a similar expression.
I looked behind me and it seems that my chimera was looking to go for another round. Just by willing it, the Tora emblem flashed yellow before the Tora Claws unfolded themselves.
"Alright kitty, let's see who's got the tougher claws." I said, challenging the chimera to come at me which it did. When it was close enough, I struck fast and soon, the chimera crashed to the ground as blood started to flow out. "Guess I win."
"Hmph. Show off." Ankh said before he dodged his attacking chimera and grabbed its neck. The beast struggled to get free, but one snapping sound later, it went limp as Ankh dropped the chimera to the floor.
"Wha-Wha-Wha-What is this!?" Rose asked as she pointed at me and Ankh. "What's wrong with your arm!? And where did that suit come from!?"
"Wait a minute." Cornello said as he looked at me up and down. "The head of a hawk, the arms of a tiger, and the legs of a grasshopper…Now I see! I thought the rumors were just plain silly myths and fantasy stories, but they were, in fact, real. You're that wandering Alchemist that's been appearing from time to time. You're what everyone calls the Human Chimera. You're the Masked Alchemist!"
"I prefer the name Kamen Rider OOO, thank you very much."
And done! There you have it people, another idea of mine! I had a hard time deciding on what to do, but in the end, I decided to pair OOO with Fullmetal Alchemist. Hope you all enjoyed this. I can tell Haru and Ed will get along just fine. Until then, this has been Ashbel Longhart, signing out.