The Blade Alchemist: The War
Infiltration
Jess POV
Fu and I ran, using the woods as cover, until we got to the edge of the city. I changed back to human form and put on a shirt, while Fu just put on a trench coat. "Listen up, we'll stay together as long as we can. Our job is to stay alert as to what that Mustang character is doing." Fu explained to me and I nodded. "For now, we'll stay under the guise of a grandfather and granddaughter sight seeing. Don't do anything to give us away." he continued. "Got it. Let me know when to give the guys info. I can track them down by scent." Fu nodded, and we walked towards the city.
We didn't even walk twenty feet down the street, and we could already see that Mustang was hard at work. There were troops and MP's all over the place, and citizens were panicking like madmen. "Well, I see that Mustang don't wait for no one." I quietly stated. "This is going to make things hard. The police and MP's may stop us, so be ready to run at any moment if they discover us." Fu warned. We continued walking for a while, looking at everything that was going on.
"With things going crazy like this, I don't know if Ed and the others can even get in." I stated again. Then, I saw a familiar face standing by a car in the road. It was Major Armstrong, and he would recognize me right away. I gave Fus coat a slight tug on the sleeve and rocked my head slightly towards the alley. We both calmly walked into it and stopped. "That's Major Armstrong, the big guy by the car. He'll see me right away, so we need to take a different route." I warned and Fu nodded.
"You go through the alley to the other side of the block and wait there. I'm going to walk by him and see if I hear anything. I'll pick you back up on the other side." I nodded and started walking down the alley as he walked down the street towards the Major. I got to the other end and hid behind some trash cans to wait on Fu. I waited about twenty minuets until I heard him. "Wolf." I peeked around the cans, saw him, and walked up to him. We continued to walk down the street and Fu whispered to me.
"I didn't hear anything on Mustang, but apparently a General named Armstrong has killed another General named Gardner." I silently gasped and looked at him with my head forward. " 'General' Armstrong is here!?" I whispered and Fu nodded. "I don't know this person. Who is it?" he asked. "She's the commanding officer of Fort Briggs up in the north. Why in the world is she here?" Fu shook his head. "I don't know, but things are going a little too fast. We need to move quickly." Fu answered and I nodded. We continued to walk through the streets.
Drake POV
Getting into the city was close to impossible, there were soldiers everywhere. We ran from alley to alley, avoiding them as much as we could. Until we ran into a small group, but Lan Fan hit them with one of her gas bombs. While they were choking on the gas, we ran up and knocked them out. We tied them up and hid them behind some trash cans. After about ten more minuets, we found the entrance that Scar told us about. However, it was heavily guards by at least a platoon of men.
"Well, so much for going that way. Now we have no choice but to use the third lab." Ed stated. "Yeah, but we still have to worry about those guards." I reminded. "Yeah. And if there guarding some random place like this, what do you think they'll have at the lab?" Gerso asked and Ed turned to us. "Well we don't have the time to wonder anything. Lets get there and figure it out when we get there." We all nodded and started for the lab.
It took us a while because of all the soldiers, but we finally got to the lab entrance. We hid in the bushes across the street and saw that there were eight guards. "Well, you guessed it Gerso." I reminded. "Eight of them, and in the open too. This is not going to be easy." Zampano stated. Yet another bright idea came to my head. "Ed, come with me. Everyone else, stay here and keep hidden. Scar, stay right where you are and don't move." They all nodded as I drew my sword and Ed made his arm sword.
We both jumped out of the bushes and ran to the guards. "Soldiers, help us!" I yelled to them and Ed pulled out his watch. We got to the soldiers and faked exhausted panting. "We're State Alchemists, we need your help!" Ed told the guards and they looked at the watch. "You're State Alchemists!?" one asked and we nodded. "We need your help! Scar is trying to kill us!" I said and pointed to the bushes where Scar was standing next to a tree with a shocked look. "Hey! He's on the wanted list! You, freeze!" one yelled and they all pulled their guns.
Me and Ed grinned, then turned around and smacked all of the guards in the back of the heads, knocking them out. "Come on! Lets go!" Ed yelled to the group. They came out of the bushes and ran up to us. "Nice work guys!" Gerso commented. Hohenheim just looked at the downed soldiers. "Forget about your wife being the mean one, Drake. What you two just did was worse." I glared at him. "We got past them, didn't we? Now come on." We all ran inside the building and followed Ed down the halls.
We walked for about five minuets until Ed stopped near a wall. "Found it!" He clapped his hands and made a door from the wall. We opened it to reveal a set of stairs going down. "You just amaze me, Ed" I stated. "Glad I impress you. Now hurry up." We walked down the stairs to the bottom and the hall split two ways. "Well, I guess we split up here." Darius blatantly stated. "Duh, you think. You seem to have the 'intelligence' of a gorilla too." I retorted and everyone chuckled.
We spent the next couple of minuets discussing who was going which way. We finally decided that Hohenheim and Lan Fan would go right, while the rest went left. "You two be careful, especially you Lan Fan. Your arm is still healing, so don't push yourself." Ed reminded her and she gave a look of agitation. "You keep in mind about what I said, Drake." Hohenheim reminded me and I nodded. "I will. Thanks." We went our separate ways and began walking down the long hallway.
Jess POV
Fu had sent me to go find Drake and the others to let them know about the situation. I followed their scent to some building with guards out front, some on the ground, some waking up. "Yup. They definitely went this way. And there's no way I'm getting past them. I best get back to Fu" I mumbled, then ran away to get back with Fu. I followed his scent to a small alley not far from where I left him. "Well?" he asked. "They went in through the lab, but there are a lot of guards there. I cant get to the guys. Learn anything else?"
"Yes. Mustang has kidnapped the Fuhrers wife, and they're holding her hostage at the radio station. They're sending troops there now. And we have a problem." I looked at him with a raised brow. "What?" He looked to the street. "I sense a strong presence of chi from a man moving to that large building." I looked to where he was looking, at Central Command. "Can you guess who it is?" I asked and he shook his head. "No. What about you? Can you smell him from here?" I tried smelling the air, and I could smell him. "I can, and it's familiar. Very familiar. But I cant quite place it. I may have fought him before." Fu looked at me.
"We'll worry about him later. Right now we need to keep listening around for more on whats going on." I nodded and we left the alley walking down the street. "Excuse me miss, sir." We turned around to see a soldier behind us and we slightly froze. "Yes?" I answered. "You look familiar. Who are you miss?" Uh oh. Not good. "Oh my name is Wendy and this is my grandfather-in-law Henry. I'm getting married next week and he brought me here to do some shopping and get to know each other." I said in a cheery voice.
The soldier studied us closely. "Shopping? During an uprising?" Shit! Uhhh… "Uprising!? We heard it was a small prison break!" Please buy it. Please buy it. "Prison break? No miss, there is an uprising in the city! You two get out of here and get to safety, now!" We both nodded and quickly walked away. "Whew. That was too damn close." I stated and Fu turned to me. "Not bad. Not bad at all. But we got lucky. We should stay in the alleys from now on." I nodded and we ducked into the alley once we got out of the soldiers view.
We walked a few minuets more and Fu looked at me. "Whats wrong?" I turned to him. "That mans smell. I know it from somewhere, but I can't think of it. I know that I did fight him before. I don't think we can ignore it anymore." Fu looked at me concerned and nodded. "Alright. Lets head that way and check it out." We walked from alley to alley towards the familiar scent. I know that I've fought him before. But where?"
Drake POV
We continued to walk down the hallway and it was starting to get darker. "Ed, how much further do you think it is?" I asked. "Don't know. I've never been down here. If I remember what the Lieutenant told me back in the hospital, it shouldn't.." He was stopped when we all heard hundreds of high pitched, soul piercing screams echoing through the halls. "What the hell is that!?" I asked as the screams continued. "I don't know. And it don't sound good!" Ed answered. "I've got a bad feeling about this." Darius added.
The screams suddenly stopped, and we all stood there frozen with a slight fear. "Ed, I think we may be in trouble soon." I stated. "Yeah. I think you're right about that. Lets keep moving." We continued to walk down the hall until we saw light up ahead. We turned the corner to find ourselves in a very large room with a large door on the other side. At the base of the door was the remains of some kind of body. "Who is this?" Gerso asked. "Number 66, Barry the Chopper. One of the fifth lab guardians." Ed answered then walked over to the door.
He tried to force it open, but it wouldn't budge. Scar stepped forward. "Stand back." He got ready to blast the door with his arm, but the door suddenly opened. "Well, that solves that problem." I commented and stepped forward next to Ed. "Yeah. Lets g...AHHHHH!" We all froze in shock as dozens of pale, white, human….things ran through the door, right at us."