Hello again, this is Chapter 5. It isn't really long, so I decided to hold off posting it until I was nearly done with chapter 6. So chapter 6 just needs to be read by my beta.

Missing you was mainly written to give better insight to Dennis "The Mercury Alchemist". Like why he's doing what he's doing and what his personality is like. It was also written to show a little more on the situation Al is in.

Enjoy

Chapter 5 - Missing you

The door to the basement opened and two Alchemist lackeys rushed in, heading towards the huge suit of armor sitting in the far corner. Both Alchemist were caring a sheet of metal. Once reaching the youngest Elric, one of the Alchemist took hold of Al's arm placing it against the wall, while the second alchemist placed one sheet of metal over his wrists. With a free hand the second alchemist processed in drawing a transmutation circle on the metal, when activated it changed the metal into a shackle which bound Al to the structure. This sequence of events was mimicked on Al's other arm, the end result was a completely bound Alphonse. Life returned to the youngest Elric and he started to struggle against the shackles.

"Let me go" Alphonse began "What do you want with me? Why are you doing this?"

The lackeys remind quiet while Al ranted. A few moments later Dennis the Mercury Alchemist walked into the room with a tray of food, upon seeing Al he knew that this wasn't Fullmetal, the prodigy boy that everyone talked about. Giving his lackeys a deadly look, he dismissed them. Once they were clear out of hearing range he sat down the tray of food.

"Here, I thought you might be hungry kid." Alphonse looked at him in confusion. The man wasn't a very strong looking man, in fact he looked rather slim

"What do you want from me? Please let me go? I'm not the Fullmetal Alchemist. I'm not even a state…" Al began but was cut off by Dennis.

"I see that now. My men were mistaken and I apologies for that, but I cant just let you go either" Dennis looked to be a caring man, a smart man "Letting you go is to risky, sorry kid" Al's gazed turned to the floor, he had hoped he could reason with the man in charge, convince him he wasn't the Fullmetal Alchemist and maybe they would allow him to leave, but he was wrong.

Al started wondering what they wanted his brother anyways. Of course his brother was famous but anyone that came looking for him always wanted his talent and his skills for some purpose. Al assumed this man was no different from the others. Al looked up to meet the mans gaze.

"The Fullmetal Alchemist is a kid like me, right? What would you want with a kid?" Al asked playing dumb. He wasn't sure if the man knew about him being the brother of the infamous Alchemist or not but he was going to try and get as much information out of this man as possible.

The older man nodded "Yes, he is a child. The military accepted him at the age of 12. I hear he is very talented and he can use Alchemy without a transmutation circle" Dennis said. "We are trying to recruit powerful Alchemists with the intention of causing a rebellion against the military. Since State Alchemist are better trained then civilian Alchemist, I've decided to make mine a winning team. " The man had a distant look on his face and he rambled on "Yes get as many State Alchemist as I can. The military wont stand a chance against us. Pass me up for promotions will they" Dennis laughed and it echoed though the basement. The caring side of the man seemed to slip away. "I'll show them" Al could see the anger in his eyes, the sheer passion for destruction 'He's a State Alchemist too?' Al thought

"What if the recruited State Alchemist don't want to help you, they know about your plans then, so I'm sure you cant let them go?" Al questioned.

'It's apparent that the man has been planning this for a long time. I haven't heard about any murders, so what happened to the Alchemist that didn't want to follow the plan?' Al thought.

"If they don't want to join our cause, we just …make them" there was an evil look in Dennis's eyes. The look of a man who has been pushed to his breaking point. The look of a man who's lost all self control.

Al suddenly felt hope slipping away. Dennis headed for the basement door "Please let me go" Al cried "I want to go home" He struggled against the restraints but it was no good they wouldn't break.

Dennis opened the door and turned to Al with the same destructive look on his face "I cant let you go, Elric. You're going to be the bait. You're going to be the one to lure your brother the Fullmetal Alchemist here." With that Dennis was out the door and slammed it shut. Al whimpered 'So he knew who I was after all' Alphonse thought to himself. He leaned his head to the side attempting to look out the basement window. It was dark now and the blackness seemed to blend with his mood, he knew that his brother would come looking for him and now he wished that he wouldn't. 'There has to be a way out of here' he thought 'only if I can get out of these shackles.' Al's mind drifted as his spirit weakened and exhaustion set in.

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The car ride to the old Dennis residence wasn't to long. Ed spent most of the time looking at passing scenery. Mustang and Hughes talked a little about the case at hand but then nothing else was said. Havoc, who had been persuaded by Hughes to drive, looked in his rear view mirror at the three in the back. He didn't dare bring up a conversation. From the looks of things everyone was either warn out, pissed or PMSing and he didn't care be lit on fire, battered with auto-mail or worse drug into Hughes ceremonial rants about his daughter. No sir Havoc knew when to keep his mouth shut.

A few moments later and they arrived at the destination, stopping the car Havoc turned around. "Okie Dokie were here" He stated. "Thank you for traveling the havoc express." He jokingly tried to lighten the mood, but no one seemed to be paying attention. 'What a bunch of grumps' he thought as his passengers unloaded themselves from the vehicle.

The military had set up lights around the house that were brighter then the sun, or at least it seemed that way. A soldier ran up to Hughes quickly updating him on a few things that happened since he was gone. Apparently they found a secret room in the house, containing files stolen from Headquarters. The files were of State Alchemist. Mustang and Ed, who had been lagging behind, finally caught up to Hughes. The soldier saluted Mustang and returned to his duties. "Has something happened?" Mustang questioned, looking at the troubled expression on his friends face. "Nothing that wasn't to be expected" Hughes answered. He turned swiftly and pointed at a van in the driveway. "This van was rented 3 days ago. It was paid for in cash, and was supposed to be returned that night." Hughes began explaining "I talked to the man who helped fill out the paper work. He said the man who rented the van looked worried about something. I asked about the mans appearance, but all he could remember was the man had dark hair and was very slim." Pausing for a brief second he continued. "Were pretty sure that the man in fact was Dennis Wilson. Although the name he gave was different." As Hughes went on Ed started looking around but not moving away from the older men. Hughes's military team had the back door of the van open and something inside caught Ed's eye. The blonde slowly made his way to the vehicle and Mustang noticed. He held out his hand to Hughes, gesturing for him to be quiet.

"Fullmetal, where are you going?" Mustang called out, but got no reply. Both of the older men watch in curiosity.

Ed reached into the van and pulled out a brown paper bag from under the seat. Opening it, Ed removed the contents. Golden eyes opened wide in horror, causing Mustang and Hughes to rush over to him. "What is it Ed?" Hughes called out.

"Al." Ed stuttered. As the other two reached him, Mustang grabbed the object out of his hands. Glancing down at the label. It was a prescription bottle, with the name 'Edward Elric printed on it. It was the medicine that Al had gotten a refill for. Mustang looked up to see Ed was bolting into the house.

"Al…" Ed shouted. "Al, answer me." he ran all over the house, up the stairs and back down, until he found himself at the front door again. A few of the nearby soldiers stopped to watch Ed, others continued with their work. Ed was now standing on the porch out of breath. Hughes walked over to the blonde boy. "I'm sorry Ed, we searched the house thoroughly. Al isn't here."

So that's the end of chapter 5. Hope you guys liked it. I will be posting chapter 6 soon, as said earlier. Poor Al, don't you guys feel sorry for him. I'm evil I know putting him through all that but still THANKS FOR READING.

Replying to reviews

So I think I'll take this time to pick out a few reviews people gave and reply to them seeing that I have a little bit of time.

gemini: omg that is really good jumps on u wow please update update update.
becomes your stalker

-- Thanks for reading. Oh I got a stalker never had one before, hope you're the nice kind. No breaking into my house and stealing my personal stuff.

Crazyanimefreak15: Poor Ed. pops out of nowhere and gives Ed a hug
Ed: WHAT THE HELL? WHERE'D YOU COME FROM?
Me: I don't know. I just thought you needed a hug. Good luck. disappears leaving a very scared Ed Good luck with the next chapter! Update soon, please!

-- Thanks for the luck I need it. Maybe you should just kidnap Ed then no one would ever mess with him. I'm sure you'd protect him right…

Kay: Poor Edo mustang is such a jurk -throws punches at the air- i'll beat him up if he doesn't leave edo alone. amazing story so far hurry and update i want to know what happeneds next kk

-- Be careful when attempting to beat up Mustang, you might end you charcoal. Thank you for reviewing.

ArYuNvius: update b/c i luv ur fic, u should try and make a long chapter...that would rock!

--I'll work on that I promise. My place is like grand central station, someone's always coming and going. I'm glad you like the fic. Its my first chapter fic. My first story was a one-shot.

Ok that's all for now for those who didn't get replied to I apologize, and please continue to read. Thanks.

Adios…