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Chapter 12: 1st Mission

"TERIYAKI! Get you're Teriyaki chicken right here! It's all dipped in Teriyaki!" the advertising salesman said with fresh steaming Teriyaki chicken sizzling on the grill.

The mysterious brown-cloaked man with his hat on which hid his face went up to the stand and laid a couple of dollars there. "Give me two.." He said.

The salesman looked at his customer for a minute or two until he realized. "OH MY GOD! You're-you're…." He took all of his Teriyaki and gave it to him. "Here! Take it all! Take it all!"

The brown-cloaked man smirked.

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"Gabey-chan! Wake up! Wake up!"

Gabe stirred and opened her arms. As she focused her vision, she realized it was Mika and another soldier from the military. She sat up from her bed. "Ooh… my head… it hurts…" She turned to Mika. "What happened?"

Mika twiddled her fingers. "You got drunk at the Karaoke Bar…"

"Well, one thing's for sure… I am NOT drinking again…" Gabe clutched her head waiting for her throbbing headache to be gone.

"Uhm… Mrs. Mustang…"

Gabe glared at the Soldier. "What do you want?"

"Elric.. the Colonel.. wanted to see you.."

Gabe stiffly stood up and walked over to the door with Mika behind.

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"Well, look at you, Mustang. All grown up, a State Alchemist like you're daddy! And already you have you're first mission!" Ed laughed.

"And look at you Elric, taking my dad's seat acting as big as can be. Tell me.. do you really feel any bigger?" Gabe sarcastically remarked.

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING MICROSCOPIC THAT YOU'LL TAKE A GERM AND KILL IT WITH WINDEX?"

"Geez, Colonel… settle down…" Mika said.

Ed relaxed. "Anyway, you heard of Shou Tucker… the Sewing Life Alchemist?"

"Yeah… got arrested some reason 20 years ago and was executed…"

"Well, since then… the Investigation Department have been going into.. or playing with his research. They managed to make some Chimeras by forming two animals with it…. But seems that they both overpowered them and escaped. Of course, we can tell that you ran with our first chimera…"

"So, what do you want me to do?"

"Well, it's easy. Catch and destroy the chimera!"

Gabe blinked. "You mean.. after all that hard work putting into it?"

"Naw. It's a bit too dangerous for Central and the military doesn't wanna take any chances." Ed leaned back on his spinning chair.

"Ah…"

"I expect a full report before the end of this week.. do I make myself clear?"

"Don't worry, Colonel! I'll make sure that NO ONE gets hurt!" Mika cheered.

"That's nice.." Ed started pushing them out the door. "Buh-bye!" He slammed the door in front of their faces.

SILENCE.

"Well… we better start on the Wild Goose Chase now…" Gabe and Mika left.

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Ed walked over to his desk and looked at the mission details. "Nina…."

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"Man, we've been searching for 3 hours lately and we haven't gotten a clue where that chimera is!" Mika whined. "AND MY FEET HURT!"

"I don't know what gave them the idea to make you join the military.." Gabe said.

Before Mika could answer, Gabe silenced her. "That was a sarcastic remark. You weren't suppose to answer.."

"Oh…"

Suddenly, police cars zoomed passed them and sharply made a turn to the next block.

"Come on.. they may have a lead into the Chimera…" Gabe ran up ahead.

"WAIT FOR MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Mika ran up catching up to her.

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Finally, Gabe and Mika reached the police's destination. It was an average Food Market Store crowded by many people chattering among themselves wondering what have happened at the scene of the crime. Many of the newscast tried to get in, but many police officers tried to keep them out.

Gabe and Mika worked their way into the crowd until the reached the Caution Tape. "Geez… the food market looks totaled…" Mika commented.

"Yup. Probably that chimera did it.." Gabe started to go under the caution tape. "Anyway, let's go investigate.."

"AND WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?"

Gabe and Mika looked up to see a young woman with blonde hair and glasses.

"Uuuh… who are you?" asked Mika.

"Who do you think I am? I'm the inspector of this joint! And this crime scene is for authorized personnel ONLY!" She spat shoving her badge in front of Mika's face.

"But, ma'am… we're in the military.." Mika pointed out. She pointed to Gabe. "And she's a State Alchemist…"

"Uhm yeah… here's my silver clock…" Gabe gave the young inspector the silver clock.

The Inspector squinted her eyes. "How do I know it's not a fake?"

Gabe and Mika hesitated. "Uuuuhhh…."

"YOU TWO, GIVE ME YOU'RE NAMES!" The Inspector demanded.

"I'm Mika Reki.." Mika introduced.

"And I'm Gabriella Mustang…" Gabe said.

The Inspector froze and stared at Gabriella. "I'm sorry… did you say Gabriella – Mustang?"

"Uh… yeh…" Gabe replied.

The inspector flung her arms around Gabriella and gave her a BIG hug. "OOOH, GABRIELLA! It's good to see you again!"

"What? What the—" Gabe tried to struggle out of the Inspector's embrace. "LET GO!"

The Inspector stepped away from Gabriella and dramatic tears rolled down her eyes. "You don't remember me… after all these years?"

Gabe sweat dropped.

"Oh, come on! It's me! Elicia Hughes! The daughter of Gracia Hughes!"

Gabe was shocked. "Elicia? When did you become Inspector?"

"Well, I went to college and made it into the police academy and worked my way up as Inspector.. Not bad eh?" She boasted.

Mika and Gabe sweat dropped.

"AND.. I recently became engaged to my fiancé…. Wanna see pictures?" Elicia shoved a picture of her and her boyfriend in Gabe's face.

Gabe almost choked. "Holy cra—"

Mika whispered in her ear. "Psst, psst, hey Gabe, do you know this guy?"

Gabe replied whispering back. "Yeh.. he's Major Ralph Conner.. I had to fight him to become a State Alchemist…"

Elicia put the picture in her pocket. "Not bad, eh? Isn't he handsome? Just the other day, he got into a fight with another State Alchemist and broke his arm…" She tightened his fist. "If I ever find that State Alchemist one day, I'll be sure to break every bone in his body and beat it up like crap…"

Gabe sweat dropped. "Well.. I hope you find him someday…"

"Anyway.. do you know what happened here?" Mika asked.

"Well.. eye witnesses say that a big creature broke into this store and messed it up. Then he fled down the street. The officers are trying to chase it already. Luckily, no one was seriously hurt. The only injuries we've gotten is a guy with a broken leg."

"Hmm… maybe it's that chimera.." Gabe thought.

"Do you mind if we investigate, too?"

Elicia laughed. "Investigate? Are you kidding? You can screw the entire place up for all I care!"

Gabe grinned. "Thanks Elicia.."

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"Ooh.. I'm tired… and sooo hungry…" Mika moaned.

"And it's getting cloudy, too.. I hope it doesn't rain.." Gabe mumbled. "Hey, Mika… let's just call it a day and try to find it tomorrow…."

Mika collapsed and sat along the curb. "Good call.."

"AAAAAAAGH! Let's get out of here!" A bunch of gang members ran out the alleyway screaming for their lives. Gabriella and Mika exchanged looks and went in front of the alleyway entrance to see what was the problem. Mika looked behind to see the hooligans almost out of the end of the block. "I wonder what's with those guys?"

"MIKA! Look out!" Gabe pushed Mika out of the way to dodge a giant monster leaping out of the alleyway.

"Oh my god! That's the chimera?" Mika exclaimed. Gabe nodded.

The giant chimera moved slowly closer and closer to them. Gabe got up and put on her ignition gloves. Mika just stood up.

Gabe snapped her fingers a made a giant explosion, but out of the dust and debris.. the monster was still walking closer to them. Mika took out a couple of knives. "My turn!" She chirped. She took a giant step closer to the chimera. "Come and get it you ugly butt-monkey!"

The chimera swiped his paw at Mika but she immediately disappeared and was right behind the chimera. "Ha ha! Too slow!" She taunted. The chimera continued to try and hit Mika with it's paw but Mika would always disappear and reappear someone else.

"Damn. She's fast…" Gabe whispered to herself as she watched Mika toy with the Chimera.

"TAKE THIS!" Mika ran up the chimera's back and did a giant effective kick on the top of its head and leaped back to Gabe's side.

"Tee hee! That was fun!" Mika cheered.

"Let's finish it off.." Gabe was about to snap her fingers but the chimera shot out a giant beam at them, in which they dodged ungracefully.

The Chimera fled into the dark alley. Mika and Gabe started to chase it.

"This chimera is fast!" Mika commented. "AND MY FEET HURT!"

"That's your problem.. not mine.." Gabe commented coldly.

The two finally reached a fork. "Gah! Which way do we go!" Mika paniced.

"You go to the left! I go to the right! Scream when you run into the chimera!" Gabe and Mika went their separate ways.

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Gabe walked slowly through the littered, dark alley. She could hear the chimera breathing heavily. She knew she was close. "Come out, come out, wherever you are.."

She stopped. The chimera's breath. It was so close. But where was it? He wasn't to the left, right, forward, or in the rear of her.. meaning…

Slowly, she looked up and saw the chimera's big yellow eyes. "MIKA!" She yelled. The chimera collapsed but Gabriella quickly did a dodge roll to avoid becoming like a pancake. "MIKA! God dammit! Where are you?"

Gabriella could here Mika's voice faintly in the distance. "Gabe! I'm lost! I don't know where I'm suppose to go!"

She cursed under her breath. "Son of a—" The chimera shot out a energy beam from it's mouth but Gabriella slid back a couple of yards still on her feet. "Die.." She snapped her fingers and did a couple of explosions. No effect. The chimera swiftly hit Gabriella with its paw against the wall. She slowly stood up about to snap her fingers, but she realized she wasn't wearing the ignition glove. "What the?" Gabe looked down at the floor and saw her glove 5 yards away from her.

Gabe was about to snap her fingers again with her other remaining hand but the chimera, again, hit her with it's paw and she hit her head against the wall, collapsing on the ground.

Her head was pounding, and her vision was blurry. She started to have dizzy spells allover. "Is this.. the end?"

The chimera opened it's mouth with large sharp teeth. It was about to engulf Gabriella, until suddenly the brown cloaked man with the other ignition glove jumped in front of the chimera. He snapped his fingers and exploded the monster from the inside. He shielded Gabriella from the flying guts allover.

As soon as the raining guts were allover, the mysterious brown-cloaked man shook the almost unconscious Gabriella back and forth. "Gabriella! Wake up! Answer me!"

She didn't reply. All she did was close her eyes and wanted to have a long sleep.

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You guys suck! I didn't get any reviews at all! WAAAAAAAAAHHH!

Ed: (pats Jaz's back) Calm down Jasmine-chan….. you still have 44 reviews in total..

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