Sorry it took me decades to update this stupid boring fic of mine. Anyway, here's a relief, humourous chapter that you guys may enjoy! Slight OOC.

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Family

Chapter 15: Basketball

After months of studying and working hard for the entrance exams, Roy finally reclaimed his title as a state alchemist; dog of the military. His next goal, to become Fuhrer from the ground to the sky-up. This time, he had to work twice as hard and climb even faster.

Roy, walking through the park, in the cold morning with a steaming hot coffee paused to take a drink. "Can't believe Fullmetal is the Colonel…" he muttered.

"HEY! MR. FLAME ALCHEMIST MUSTANG, SIR!"

Roy turned around and saw Mia running towards him waving her arms in the air so he could catch site of her.

"Oh, it's you…" he mumbled. "What brings you here early in the morning?"

"Well, it just so happens that I was walking around the park until I saw you!" she chirped.

"Riiight.." Mustang nodded. "Where's Gabriella anyhow?"

"You mean, Gabriella?"

"Uhm… yea?"

"No clue."

Roy rolled his eyes.

"I really haven't seen her yesterday….." Mia said.

Roy shrugged. "Oh well.."

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Ed jumped out of a bush like a little ninja and landed in front of Mia and Roy. "SO! I FOUND YOU!" he laughed victoriously.

Silence. Mia and Roy stared at Ed.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU LOOKING AT?"

Roy sighed and shrugged. "I can't believe you got promoted all the way to Colonel.." he said sarcastically.

"SAY THAT TO MY FACE YOU POMPOUS!"

"Edward! There you are!"

Al, Winry, and the little baby in Winry's arms appeared behind Edward. "Where were you? Leaving all of a sudden, YOU HAD ME WORRIED!" Winry hit Ed with a wrench, the pain tingled down his spine. "OOOOUCH!"

"So, you brought the family, too.. what a surprise…"

"UNBELIEVABLE! Mustang! You're alive?" Al said astonishingly.

"Yes. The one and only…" Roy said.

Edward spat in Roy's face. "LOOK YOU COLONEL BASTARD! I HAVE A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU!"

"I think you have forgotten that you're the Colonel bastard and not me."

Ed steamed. "THAT'S IT! WE'RE FIGHTING! RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!"

A tumble weed rolled by.

Roy smirked. "So, you as a Colonel, are going to destroy public property just to battle another State Alchemist such as myself. That doesn't seem very wise, don't you think?"

"Grrr.." Ed shook his fist on anger. "FINE! We'll do this old-fashion style!"

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"Basketball?" Roy looked up at the worn out basketball hoop. "We're playing basketball?"

Mia scratched her cheek. "Isn't basketball for taller people?"

Ed shook his fist in anger. "Look, we're going to play a fair clean game of basketball, alright?"

Roy glanced at Ed. "Why are we doing this again?" he asked sarcastically.

Fullmetal snapped. "SHUT UP!" he turned to Winry, his son, and Alphonse. "Are you in or not?"

"I'll play.." Al suggested.

"Me, too! I've always wanted to see Kai shoot his first hoop!" Winry squealed as she held her baby up high, up and down. Ed rolled his eyes. "Fine… LET'S BEGIN! Al, Kai, and Winry are on my team and you and Mia are on the other team." Ed said. "You got that?"

"Heey! 4 against 2; UNFAIR!" Mia whined.

Roy threw his jacket aside. "Doesn't matter. Let's just get this over with."

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Winry held the ball in the middle of the court, with Roy and Edward on opposite sides of the ball/court. "Ready?" she said. Then, she threw the ball up in the air.

"I GOT IT! I GOT IT!" Ed jumped up to reach the ball but Roy passed it to Mia with flying colors.

"Whee!" Mia caught the ball in midair and started running towards the hoop. This is a cinch! I'm going to do a slam-dunk! She thought to herself. Before she could throw the ball, she crashed into Al who suddenly popped up in front of her.

Mia fell back rubbing her face. "Ow.." she croaked. Al looked down at her. "Sorry…"

The ball started rolling slowly at Roy's feet. Roy smirked and took his hands out of his pockets and reached out for the ball. "This'll be a—OOF!" Ed jumped on top of Roy's back, snatched the ball, and ran off to do a 2-pointer.

Elrics: 2

Mustangs: 0

Mustang twitched as he spit out some dirt from the side of his mouth. "That does it.." he mumbled.

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Everyone got into their positions and Mia passed the ball to Roy. Mustang strolled about the court calmly dribbling the ball at a heavy pace.

Roy looked around, scanning his opponents. Hmm… I should find a way to pass Al to break his defenses… and Winry I'm not even worried about. Wait a minute, where's Ed—

Ed dashed from behind Roy and stole the ball. "HA HA! YOU SNOOZE! YOU LOSE!"

Mia tried to run after Ed but Al, with his big body and all, kept on blocking her

Roy quickly ran up in front of Ed, blocking him from the hoop. "Heh, how do you think you're going to get pass me, pipsqueak?"

Ed growled. "WHO ARE YOU CALLING SHORT?" He dropped the basketball and started chasing Roy around furiously.

Suddenly, a thought struck Mia and Al. "WHO HAS THE BALL?"

Roy and Ed stopped chasing each other.

"I don't.." Roy said.

"Me neither…" Ed also replied.

Mia and Roy turned to the opposing basketball hoop. "oh, no…"

Winry with the little baby riding on her piggy-back picked up the ball that rolled up to her feet. She handed it to the baby as they started to shoot the hoop – slowly.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Roy and Mia ran after Winry as fast as they can.

Too late. Whoosh! The baby already made the little mini hoop shot. Roy and Mia tripped flat-down on their faces.

"hey, Ed, did you see that! Kai's first shot!" she laughed at Ed.

Ed held the baby up high. "Good job!"

Frustrated in progressing towards their utter defeat, Roy and Mia huddled plotting.

"Wah! There's too many Elrics! We need another team player!" Mia whined aloud.

"I know," Mustang said in an utterly low tone. "But who?"

"Hey, guys…."

Mustang and Mia perked up to see Gabriella bouncing the basketball in her hand. "What are you doing?" she asked.

Roy frowned quite frustrated. "Playing a game….. that's what…" A thought struck him. "Hey, Gabe, how would you like to play the game with us?"

Gabriella glared at her father as if it was obvious she didn't want to. "Why?"

"Oh, I dunno.." Roy pondered. "How about beating the Elrics and raising our pride as a family? You game?"

Gabe smirked. "Cool. I game."

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"HA HA! Looks like Mustang got a new team player!" Ed scoffed. "I guess I'll have to push you flat on your face as well!"

Roy and Gabe glared.

Winry held the ball as, once again, Roy and Ed went face to face on the opposite sides of the ball. "ready….. GO!" She threw the ball high up in the air. Roy, once again as well, caught the ball.

"HEY MUSTANG! Look, a girl in a miniskirt!"

"Where?"

Caught off-guard, Ed took this chance to snatch the ball from Roy. Pissed off, Roy started running after him.

Al then came running in front of Roy, playing defense. "Hey, Mia!" Roy yelled.

"Right here!" She chirped as she jumped on top of Al trying to take off his helmet.

"NO! NOOO! NOT THE HELMET! NOT THE HELMET!" Al cried frantically trying to keep it on.

"Come on! You can't wear this stupid tin-can armour forever!"

Ed, about to shoot the ball, was interrupted with a distressed call from Alphonse. "BROTHER HELLLLPPP!"

Ed turned around to see Alphonse getting, in his perspective, glomped by Mia.

"TAKE IT OFF!" she yelled.

"NEVERRR!"

"I'm comin' Al!" Ed dropped the ball and started running after Al.

Al, struggling to get Mia off his armour, continued to cry. "GET OFF!"

Mia, finally got the helmet out, but realized that Al had nothing in his armor except a couple of kittens that jumped out. "EEEK!" startled, she frantically passed the helmet to Roy.

"GIVE AL BACK HIS HELMET!" Ed demanded trying to reach the helmet Roy held over his head.

"How are you going to get it back, pipsqueak?"

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SHORT!"

While Ed was trying to get Al's helmet back from Roy, Mia trying to keep sane after seeing Al's secret, Al trying to find his lost beloved kittens, and Winry and her little baby watching everyone go crazy; Gabriella took the opportunity of the insanity to make a basketball shot.

"GIVE IT!GIVEITGIVEITGIVEIT!" Ed demanded.

Roy jerked his head towards Gabe. "You should pay more attention to the game…"

"Wuh?"

Edward turned to see Gabriella about to make a shot. "NOOO!"

Whoosh!

Gabriella made a beautiful shot, and a 3 pointer as well. Winry and Kai applaused.

After a couple of plays, the Mustangs made 10 more shots while the Elrics remained with 4.

"CHEATER! CHEATERCHEATERCHEATER!" Ed screeched. "THAT'S A FOWL!"

"Well, too bad. We're the winners, you're the losers. That's all there is to it." Roy said calmly with his handsome smirk plastered on his face.

"GAAAHHHH!" Ed steamed and transmuted his auto mail arm into a sword. "That's it! We're settling this, once and for all!"

"You wanna fight? Bring it on!" Roy adjusted his gloves.

"DUCK AND COVER!" Al, Winry along with Kai, Mia, and Gabriella went and hid.

BOOM! SMASH! KABOOM!

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Hehehehe.. basketball… very funny. Sorry for the slow update. Writer's Block.

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