Author's Note-I am back! …Sorry for the delay, things have been complicated over here… -sigh- Anyways, thankies to Mikomi and Kisike for helping me write this, and Ash the Twisted for beta reading. –nodnod- As for the disclaimer, I don't own FullMetal Alchemist, nor do I own Theo, Maeva, Tsuki, Ezra, Ash, and Kiteay. I only own Abby. Now, enjoy the chapter!


Theo walked in, looking around. At this point, Abby began to twitch, her green eyes opening slightly.

Maeva walked over to a table and looked up at Theo. "Put her down... Before she wakes up."

Theo nodded and laid her down on the table. Abby could hear them, though faintly. She felt too weak to move, at least, right now. What are they doing now...? she wondered quietly. "What are you doing to me…?"

Maeva reached over Abby and strapped her onto the table with various straps and buckles. She tightened the straps and locked the buckles.

Maeva looked down at Abby and smiled. "Nothing, dear... Yet."

She frowned a bit, her eyes clouded with confusion. Her mind was still slightly hazy, trying to clear up. She tried moving slightly but found that she couldn't. "What the...?"

Maeva looked down at her, still smiling. "Don't try to move dear, I might have to make the straps tighter," she warned.

"Straps...?" She tried looking up, but her head felt heavy. It fell back to the table. C'mon, you've got to clear your head. Think of a way out of this! she thought. Right..straps...so she just had to slip out of them somehow...

Maeva reached under the table and picked up two small bars. "Theo, would you kindly press that button over there?"

Wait.. She thought, looking over at Theo, who was walking over to the button. I'm a shapeshifter...right... Nearly subconsciously, her body began to shrink, her ankles and wrists becoming easy to slip from the bonds. Looking like a small child, she began to sit up and slip off the table, but ended up tripping. She quickly jumped to her feet and began stumbling towards the door. Her green eyes caught a silver glint on the counter next to the door. A scalpel…?

Maeva quickly picked Abby up and looked back at Theo. "Quickly!"

As soon as Abby was touched, she began to shapeshift to a much bigger form, one of at least six feet with an athletic figure. It would be harder to hold onto. Theo looked over and pushed the button as Abby started to pull away again. "Let go..!" Abby protested.

Maeva quickly touched Abby's arm with the stick as electrical energy began to flow through the tip of it. "Stay still!"

Abby's emerald eyes widened as she stiffened and gasped, her face going pale. Maeva pressed the bar harder against Abby's arm, holding onto her, feeling the electricity flow through her body. Abby twitched and jerked involuntarily, her vision beginning to blur.

Abby closed her eyes trying to hold back tears and biting back a yell. As she bit her lip, she could faintly taste blood. Her heart raced and she was starting to find it hard to breath. Her knees buckled and hit the floor hard. Her very cells seemed to be tingling. It reminded her…reminded her of the DNA and cell structure modifications Doctor Lewis had done to her. Those painful damned operations and experiments that stretched over six months, practically done every day. Theo stood off to the side, watching in amusement and thinking of when he'd be doing this to his own victim.

Maeva took the stick away from her arm and readjusted her grip on Abby. "Are you ready to be a good little girl, now?"

"Sc-screw you..." Abby managed to grind out, not opening her eyes to stop any possible tears.

Maeva smiled, and moved the stick towards Abby's cheek. "Are you sure you want to be bad mouthing me, young lady?"

She opened her eyes slightly and winced, then closed them again slightly. "Do what you wish; I don't care," she whispered harshly.

Maeva glared at her and put the stick down, then slammed her onto the table, holding the stick up. "Maybe we need some more voltage."

"Just try it…and you can't use anything against me, either. Everything's been taken from me…" Abby whispered.

Maeva smiled. "I hardly believe that's true. We could pull out your file. We were hired to make your worst dreams come true, Abby. We intend to do what we're paid for." She reached under the table and pulled out another stick and put it to the tip of the other. The two sticks sparked with electricity.

She closed her eyes and winced, a faint whimper managing to escape her lips. She bit her lip. No. No weakness, no fear. She wouldn't give them the pleasure of her suffering. She remembered the scalpel, their only hope. It was so close and yet so far. If only she could get it to Edward, he could free all of them. But how would she get to it…? And that's when an idea came to mind…

Theo watched, then smirked. "I think she's broken," he said, crossing his arms and nodding.

"..." Abby remained silent. Instead she merely looked away and didn't reply.

Maeva narrowed her eyes slightly at Abby and touched the twin sticks to her arms. A cry escaped Abby and she whimpered again, a tear clinging to the corner of one of her eyes.

Maeva pulled them back and glanced up at Theo. "Then let's make her show it."

Theo raised an eyebrow. "How?"

Maeva smirked. "Pain always brings out the worst in people." Her cold eyes looked up at him, a pleasure shimmering in the blue of her iris. "So let's bring out her worst."

"Careful. We wouldn't want to kill her," Theo said. "She's a good specimen for more experiments, after all. We wouldn't want that to be wasted, at least. Besides, I think I've got a new experiment in mind that I could use her in…"

"Please, enough. I'll stop.." Abby whispered.

Maeva raised an eyebrow and held the twin sticks in front of her face, touching them together, the spark reflecting off her icy blue eyes as she watched Abby.

The redhead winced and whimpered, clenching her fists as she seemed to recoil.

Maeva glanced up at Theo. The man shrugged in response. "She seems to be expressing the same reactions as Ash, now..." He nodded with satisfaction. "I think she'll be behaving from now on..." He smirked.

Maeva nodded and lowered the sticks. "Go ahead and turn down the voltage." Theo nodded and walked over to the machine, turning the voltage down. He was pleased at the pained whimpers coming from the shrinking and twitching girl that lay on the table. There wasn't any more pleasurable sound than the ones of a newly broken spirit.

Maeva took her whip out of her lab coat and picked Abby up. "Are we ready to go back now, Abby, dear?"

"I can walk..." Abby said weakly, going back into normal form that continued to twitch just slightly and breaking away. She tried staggering to the door, but lost her balance and nearly collapsed, only keeping herself from falling down entirely by grabbing onto the counter.

Maeva laughed and followed her. "Whatever you say, dear." She glanced back at Theo. "I'll take her back to the lab..."

Theo nodded and started setting up for his next experiment. Abby weakly stood again and stumbled out, heading back to the prison room.

Maeva followed closely behind her. She opened the handle of the whip and pressed the button, then smirked as the whip buzzed with the electricity. Her cold eyes looked down at Abby. The redhead whimpered and quickened her pace a bit. Maeva smiled as they approached the room. "Such a good girl..."

Abby winced inwardly. Both her body and her pride were in a world of hurt.

But at least now she had the scalpel.


Ezra stood up as the door opened. "Abby?.!"

Ed looked up as Abby walked back into her cage and collapsed. "Abby!" he exclaimed.

Tsuki sat up and looked over, frowning with concern. She hated to see the others being treated like animals, but what all could they do?

Maeva smirked as she looked at the concern in the others' eyes. Ezra glared up at her, and all but growled, "What the hell'd you do?.!"

Ed glared at Maeva as well, growling. "You sick, twisted witch! She didn't do anything!"

Maeva turned to him and smirked. "Well, Edward, if you keep yelling, I could just as easily do it to you." Ed could only glare daggers at her in response. The scientist turned to look at Ezra. "It's not like it's not already planned for him." Her eyes went back to Ed. "But you're not getting your little trinket." She smirked.

Ed blinked. "Trinket? You mean my automail..?"

Maeva glanced at the blonde, giving Ezra a glare. "I mean whatever little trinket Ezra was planning on picking up for you."

"Dammit…!" Ed growled.

Ezra glared. Maeva walked over to Ezra, giving him a pouty look. "Now, now, little Ezra, don't give me that look." She put the whip through the bars and touched it to his jaw. The whip sparked then continued to buzz, sending electricity through him.

Ezra winced and pulled back.

"Stupid hag!"

"Leave them alone!" Ed shouted.

Maeva looked up at Ed and didn't say anything, just looked, her eyes staring straight at him. Ed glared back with equal intensity, his amber eyes glowering back defiantly.

Ezra suddenly reached forward and grabbed her whip, but instantly regretted it. The electricity shot through his arms, but he kept his grip on it, wincing slightly, grinding his teeth. If I can get it...

Maeva looked over at Ezra, breaking her stare at Ed and shoved the whip into his stomach, sending another bolt through his whole body. She smirked as his eyes clouded over and his grip loosened. She pulled the whip out of the bars and smiled at him. "Dear, dear, Ezra. It doesn't work that way."

Ezra merely looked up at her, holding his stomach before falling down onto his knees, gasping for breath. "St-Stupid h-hag..."

"Ezra!" Ed exclaimed. His hold tightened around the bar he had been gripping and he glared at Maeva.

Ezra glanced over at Ed. "I'm fine." He looked back at Maeva. "Go play with your stupid whore toy somewhere else. We want no part of it." He stood again, taking a deep breath as he glared at Maeva, almost daring her to stick the whip into the cage again.

"Ezra, that's enough. Don't keep giving her reason to hurt you..." Abby said in a dull, quiet voice as she sat up and leaned her back against the bars. In other words, don't get yourself killed or taken away before she leaves so we can escape before something happens to Edward…

Ezra glared at Abby. "You shouldn't give in to her so easily! She can't kill us! And whatever doesn't kill us only makes us stronger."

Maeva smiled and walked over to the counter. "I think Ezra needs a time out." She pressed a button on the keypad on the wall above the one of the tables.

Ezra's eyes widened in surprise as his cage gave a sudden shuddering lurch. He looked around as the cage began to lower itself into the ground. "What the..."

Ed's eyes widened. Abby straightened and looked over as well, her green eyes wide and suddenly somewhat alert. Idiot…! she thought.

"What are you doing?.!" Ed demanded to the scientist.

Maeva smiled and walked over, the whip hanging at her side. "There comes times when I get tired of hearing Ezra's little mouth. This is merely a new feature. The cage will go all the way down and floor will close over him. He'll be left in pitch black darkness until he's ready to come out."

Ezra glared up at her as the cage continued to lower. "I'll get you for this you-" He was cut off as the cage lowered completely down and the floor shut over him.

Ed couldn't believe these people… This place was insane...

Author's Note-Once again, sorry for taking so long. Thanks for all the reviews so far! More reviews lead to faster updates! –grins and nods- Now, to respond to the latest…

Kayizzle-Aiiie! Don't land on meee! –ducks for cover-

Taiyoukai-Okibi- Yeah, they took the watch away, too. Everything from his automail to his everyday clothes was taken. Heh, I was wondering how well this fanfic would turn out since I'd never seen the idea done before. Glad you like it. –smile-

Pichu172B-Heh. Well, don't worry. Colonel Bastard ish going to make an appearance after a couple more chapters, chapters, though his first won't exactly be a large one… -grins and sweatdrops- But don't think I'm going to leave him out; he'll be getting involved soon enough. –nodnod-

Ash the Twisted-Thankies! I'll have the next chapter sent in quite soon. –nodnod-