A little action, more humorous than anything. Serious action in two 2 chapters! Review and it'll get to you quicker!
Disclaimer: I've said it before and I'll say it again... NOT MINE!mutters Though I wish it was.
Firecracker
ARMSTRONG ATTACKS!
Chapter 7
The next few days passed uneventfully… until the day Major Armstrong returned.
Apparently, Armstrong needed to see Hughes for some unknown reason.
When he walked into the office he saw Cassie casually leaning on Major Hughes' desk while talking to the owner of the desk.
Everyone in the room turned to the door when they heard it fly open and hit the wall. All but Cassie jumped/flinched when they saw who was at the door.
Major Armstrong's ever present sparkles multiplied when he saw the new Major.
"Ah, welcome, Major!" he practically bellowed as he moved towards the unsuspecting red-haired green-eyed Major.
"Uh, hello, Major. I-I'm Major Michaels, the 'Firecracker' alchemist," Cassie said, stuttering a bit. She was intimidated by the sparkling Major moving towards her, his arms spread wide.
"Ah! The great decoder and alchemist, Firecracker! One of the military's finest!" Armstrong continued towards Cassie, who now had a fair idea of what was about to happen.
"Thank you for the compliment, Major. But I'm not that great!" Cassie half-shouted desperately, beginning to sweat. She didn't need this, it was only 10am.
"Ah, so modest! And polite!"
Armstrong, the 'Strongarm' alchemist (A/N: Am I the only one who's noticed that Armstrong and Strongarm are the same name, except backwards?), stopped in front of Cassie and pulled her into a bone-crunching hug. Cassie's feet were about 3 feet off the ground due to the extreme height difference.
Maes could swear he could hear the poor woman's bones cracking from the extreme pressure being exerted on them by Major Armstrong's hug.
Everyone had suffered one of Armstrong's hugs at least two or three times, some people had suffered more, so Maes and his subordinates all knew how painful it was.
When Cassie was pulled into the hug, all of the air in her lungs was forced out with a muffled (Armstrong's chest was in the way) 'Oof!'.
She managed to get her head away from his chest and tried to breath, but it was pretty much useless, she just couldn't get enough oxygen.
The last thing she saw before she was engulfed in darkness, were Armstrong's sparkles. Forever more would she be afraid of sparkles.
Armstrong finally released the poor woman, but she fell to the floor having out about 10 seconds previous.
Denny Brosh and Maria Ross quickly shooed Armstrong from the room saying that Lieutenant Colonel Mustang wanted to hear his family history. Upon hearing this, any concern he had for the woman he had accidentally knocked out instantly vanished.
20 seconds later, Cassie woke up.
Slowly, but surely, consciousness returned to Cassie.
What had happened to leave her unconscious, she wondered silently.
Suddenly her eyes shot open as she remembered.
Armstrong had happened that's what, she realised.
"Ow," she muttered, then more loudly (and worriedly) "Where is he?"
"Don't worry," Brosh said. Cassie could see his face as he, Maes and Ross were kneeling next to her with their faces above her.
"We managed to get rid of Major Mega-muscles," Ross finished for Brosh. She smiled empathetically. She too had been on the receiving end of one of those hugs before.
The three of them helped Cassie sit up.
"We would've warned you," Hughes started with a serious face "But we didn't expect him to do that. By the way, try to avoid giving Armstrong an excuse to hug you and more importantly, flex his muscles at you."
"Why?" Cassie asked.
"It ain't pretty. It's actually kinda scary," a male voice called from the other side of the room.
"Oh, okay."
Cassie got up and they all went back to work.
And believe it or not, this all happened in less than a minute.
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Next Chapter: Prank after Prank for revenge of a Prank
Buckets, Hair dye, eggs, a locker room and much more. What could go wrong?
I'll let ya wonder.