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Kimbley turns up. You know there's bound to be action when he's around. He goes psycho!

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Prank after Prank for revenge of a Prank

Chapter 8

The next few weeks passed with many a disaster.

There were several rounds of pranks for vengeance over, first, the 'Mustang wants to hear your family history, Armstrong' incident and then revenge for the revenge after Mustang pulled a prank on Maes, Denny Brosh and Maria Ross.

Mustang's retaliation to the 'Armstrong incident', as it had been so colourfully dubbed, was to lock Maes in a room without his photos and lock Brosh and Ross in there with him. He almost let Brosh and Ross out after a few minutes thinking it too cruel, but he didn't. Instead every 10 minutes after the first two hours, he slid one photo under the door and made them endure Maes' stories. They were eventually released by Cassie, who overpowered Roy and had him knocked out in a corner.

Brosh and Ross decided it was in their best interest not to try and strike back lest they be forced to stay locked in a room for 10 hours with Maes again.

Maes struck back with buckets of water falling off the top of doors and onto Roy. It was very effective. Maes never left one in the same place on the same day and because of this, all of the officers learned to look at the top of doors before opening them. Maes did this for nine days, setting up ten bucket traps a day. He was going to go for ten days but stopped after it backfired on the last one on the ninth day.

He'd decided to add some semi-permanent flame red hair dye to the mixture this time knowing that it would dye Roy's hair red for about two or three weeks. It did work. Unfortunately, the intended person was not the recipient of the bucket full of hair dye. It got one Riza Hawkeye instead.

Maes had bolted and ceased the bucket on door pranks.

Roy retaliated with his own bucket prank. He got Maes with a few buckets of custard to test it out first and then decided to try a bucket of paint. He set the prank up on Maes' office door and hid where he could see the door but couldn't be seen. A red-haired Riza watched as well, somewhat eager to see Maes get pranked for dying her hair red. It hadn't even begun to fade.

Sadly, this prank also backfired and got an unsuspecting Cassandra Michaels instead of the intended Maes Hughes.

Cassie ended up with blue all through her hair, all over her uniform and all over her face. When she came to work the next day her uniform was clean. Her hair, however, was still almost entirely blue and there were several splotches of blue on her skin. She was not in a good mood at all that day, or for the next few days after that either.

Maes got revenge for the custard buckets by pushing Roy into a very small, open supply closet and locking him in. What he didn't realise however, was that Riza was standing in front of Roy when Maes pushed him in. Easy to say, that closet got many odd looks and blushes throughout the day when people walked by and heard a lot of movement coming from it, as well as a male and female voice.

The two were finally set free when Havoc opened the door the next day, recognizing the voices and hearing them calling out things like 'Let us out!' and 'Whoever lets us out gets a pay raise!'.

Roy's revenge was to shove Maes into the Women's locker room. Poor Cassie was the only one in there at the time and was also in the middle of getting dressed.

Many shrieks and screams of terror were heard from the locker room. Someone pounding on the door could also be heard as well as many explosions.

When a young female recruit opened the door a few hours later to go take a shower after a long day of training, she found a completely stunned and charred Maes Hughes on the floor just behind the door. Patches of his uniform were missing obviously having been burnt or destroyed by some other similar method. The young woman just backed out of the room, deciding to shower at home.

Then came the prank that ended it all. Somehow, both men came up with the same prank. They decided to go back to the buckets, but this time they were not to be filled with something as simple as water, custard, hair dye or paint. Oh no, this time they were filled with eggs.

This prank would've been brilliant had it not backfired.

Roy and Maes were each walking towards their own office not wanting to be around when their prank went off when they met along the way.

"But wait," they both said "If you're here, then that means… OH NO!"

"AHHHHH!" came two screams from two directions.

"Uh oh," both men whimpered.

Two very pissed off women rounded the corners on either end of the hall. Both had egg shells and egg splattered all over them. Riza's hair was still mostly red and Cassie still had some blue streaked through her hair.

"Superior officer or not...!" Cassie yelled as she pulled her gloves off, her eyes full of rage and fury.

"You two are dead!" Riza finished, pulling her guns out. Her eyes burned with the same rage as Cassie's.

The two men screamed a very shrill, girly, unbecoming of men of their status scream as they hugged each other in fear, seperated and took off down the only other hall.

Cassie and Riza were right on their tail firing bullets at them and blowing things up as they went. If they caught Maes and Roy, they were dead.

They chased Maes and Roy all around Central HQ attempting to and actually hurting them. Not one single person even tried to help the two men.

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The Fuhrer stepped out of his office to head home. He locked the door behind him and turned to leave when he heard thundering footsteps coming his way. Accompanying those footsteps were wails and screams of fear and terror, gunshots and the sound of explosions.

A few seconds later, Lieutenant Colonel Mustang and Major Hughes bolted past him without a second glance. Without a first one either. They were the source of the screams, but that didn't explain the gunshots or explosions. Then, just as he thought this, Major Michaels and Second Lieutenant Hawkeye ran past, obviously chasing the aforementioned men. They didn't see him either. The two women were the source of the other sounds.

It was obvious to the Fuhrer that the two women were going to kill their superior officers if they caught them by the look in their eyes. He didn't dare interrupt. He was well aware of the pranks and their backfirings.

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Everyone at Central HQ knew that it was Maes and Roy that had been setting up the pranks the entire time, they'd also heard about or seen them getting chased. Something that everyone noticed was that after the 'catch n kill' incident, the pranks ceased.

R&R puh-leeze!