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Drabble the Eighteenth: 5th Lab: Defeated

Scar and Alphonse stood less than ten feet from the way out of the hall, but the way was very thoroughly blocked by two people; one a tall and beautiful black haired woman, the other a round, almost gorilla-like fat creature. Scar knew them, knew them all too well; his ribcage gave a small twinge of remembered pain. Alphonse stared, his tone a mixture of curiosity and slight fear, "You are…"

Scar interrupted, glaring at the woman. She…her face…it wasn't possible, it couldn't be possible…she was dead, she had been dead for nearly twenty years…"You…why do you have that face? Did niisan…succeed?"

She gave him a slightly confused look that also managed to be condescending, "What are you talking about?"

"Can I eat them?" the fat one grinned and drooled, showing a wide mouth full of teeth. Scar's eyes widened slightly, 'Eat…?'

"The armored one will be bad for your stomach," the woman cautioned the fat one in an almost motherly way, but other than that offered no protest at all towards the idea of her companion eating two humans. Scar almost took an instinctive step backwards; he was attempting to hold back the small feeling of fear that had begun to grow in him.

The fat one grinned wider, its voice eager, "I'll do my best!"

"Homunculus…" Scar glared at them; they weren't human at all. Soulless shells created by alchemy…they were an even worse abomination than Alphonse.

At Scar's statement, Alphonse looked up, startled, "Homunculus? Wait, are they…?" he was interrupted by the fat one rushing towards him. Before Scar could do anything, the boy was smashed into the wall. But Scar had bigger problems to worry about now.

"Too slow!" the woman smirked as she slashed at his right arm; he only barely moved in time to avoid losing it altogether, but the coat's sleeve had been destroyed by the woman's claws. Before he could even move, the fat one swung one of its tree-trunk arms into his stomach, sending him flying to slam into the wall. He recovered just in time to block another swing, and managed to send it flying down the hall; a massive cloud of dust rose when it landed, and Scar lost sight of it. He was caught by surprise when the creature burst out of the dust to his side, and only managed to block one time before being sent flying into the wall once more. He didn't have time to get back on his feet, didn't have time to do anything but take a single sharp intake of breath as the creature raced towards him with a massive grin on its face. It slammed into him with enough force to knock him through the wall and about ten feet into the room beyond…so much pain…he was halfway over the edge of a massive hole in the stone floor, and he saw it coming slowly towards him. He tried to push himself up off the ground, blind terror banishing all rational thought; he had to get up…had to get away…it was going to eat him…had to get up…had to get up…get…up…

Everything went black.

A/N: Poor Scar-san…that must have been absolutely terrifying, not being able to get up and run/fight when something that had threatened to eat him was coming towards him. And if you'll all remember, he actually had a nightmare about it later, so…yeah. Obviously it was a really scary experience. Anywho, next comes the fun part that I get to make up: how exactly Scar got to where Ed and Al were. Yaaaaay!