He Caused the Truth

It was done, complete. I had finished it.

A chimera that spoke the human tongue was sitting at my feet.

"Hee hee." I laughed. At the cost of my sanity, and my family...I had made my dream...it was perfect...

The door creaked, and I knew that they had arrived. The Elrics.

"Come on in, boys."

I felt that their eyes were on my back...or on the Chimera Transmutation Circles around the room.

"I told you I'd let you see." I said. I knew...I knew that I was crazy...

I moved aside so that they could see it, and I said, "It's a perfect version. A Chimera that knows the human tongue."

I turned the my Chimera, and I bent down to speak to her. "Listen dear, this is your friend Edward."

"Edward...friend..." said my Chimera. Genius! I am a genius! Heh ha ha ha ha!

"Yes!" I said. "That's very good!"

"Very...good..." repeated my Chimera.

"Unbelievable!" said Alphonse Elric. "It really can talk!"

"I'll have no problem getting the funding now." said I. "I can't believe I didn't see it before, the other one was to old to adapt."

"Edward...my friend." said my Chimera...my own family...

"Yeah." said Edward Elric, bending down to see my Chimera. "That's right."

My Chimera grabbed Edward's State Alchemist's pocket watch and then dropped it. "Edward...why does it...hurt here?"

"Brother?" said Alphonse.

"So, Tucker." said Edward

"Something wrong?" I asked. Have you figured it out, Edward? I wonder...do I hope that you will?

"When was the first time you made one of these...human-speaking Chimeras?" Edward asked. Will your knowledge of this incident...free me? Or will it condemn me?

"I thought I told you." said I "It's been two years now."

"And..." Edward continued. "When exactly did your wife leave you?"

"Two years ago, why?"

"And any of those letters that Nina wrote...did any of them ever reach her?" I felt his glare, now.

"What are you getting at?" I asked. Although I already knew. Knew...knew that he knew.

"Tell me this. Where have Alexander and Nina gone to?" He...is one smart boy.

Alphonse gasped.

"I hate prodigies like you, Ed." I said. "Too damn perceptive."

Edward grabbed me and pushed my body against the wall.

"Brother!" cried Alphonse

"This guy used his own wife, Al!" yelled Edward.

"And...and this time?" asked Alphonse

"His daughter! And his dog...he transmuted them into that...thing!" Edward's voice never faltered and Alphonse gasped again.

"An easy process when you use people, RIGHT?"

"Why are you getting so upset, Edward?" I cried. "It's the nature of scientific process. Animal testing, experimentation, trial and error! All advancements have...a price."

"Shut up!" replied Edward, yelling again "I'm not gonna let you rationalize this, you monster! That was your own family, damn it! You've been toying with people's lives!"

"Toying with lives?" I laughed in his face. "What? Like you arm and leg there? Or your brother's body, or trying to bring your mother back? That's toying, isn't it? You don't really think your any different from me, do you Ed?"

Edward punched me, making some blood come out of my nose. I just laughed again...laughed like the maniac I knew that I was.

"Why, Mr. Tucker?" asked Alphonse, holding Edward's arm. "The whole point was to pass the assessment and continue your way of life. But now your family's gone. What life is left?"

"That's the funny thing, I didn't have a reason." I said, my face a blank and nose bleeding. "I fully understood that no matter what I did my life would be ruined. So I chose science to see if I could."

"What kind of man..." started Edward, his bangs hiding his eyes from my view.

"When you have the power to do something, it's hard not to try. Isn't that what we agreed on, Edward? Aren't we so much alike?" As I asked him this, I felt the hate pouring from him.

"No!" he yelled, looking as if he might cry at any time. But wasn't he too strong for that?

"Sure, part of me did it for respect and this house, just like you party did it for your mother. But there's more. You're desperate to put your mind to use, Ed. To see what you're capable of, to put the world under your fingers. That's the essence of Alchemy. You did it for knowledge. Control. And above all, you did it just to prove you can." I felt his next blow for sure. Although the pain was...was...it was something...it had more force than the previous one.

"You're wrong!" he yelled at me, clenching his fists. "Alchemy isn't meant to be...I'm not like...you!"

"I'm not!" he punched me again.

"I'm not!" The punches no longer hurt. My heart...why didn't it hurt?

"I'm not!" he yelled again, and then he punched me one, two, three, four more times...

"Brother, you'll kill him!" Alphonse...what a good boy...coming to my rescue...

My Chimera grabbed Edward's coat.

"No, big brother." she said...I couldn't tell...was she sad?

Edward bent down and put his hand on my Chimera's head.

"Nina," he said. "I want you to bear with me, okay? This may hurt."

He placed his hands together, ready to transmute.

"What are you doing?" exclaimed Alphonse. "You're not planning to split them up, are you? You don't know how!"

I laughed and said, "The chimera is a perfect transmutation, fused to the core. There's no way to separate them now. Careful. You'll Just do to them what you did to your mother."

Edward dropped his hands too his side.

My chimera walked over to Edward, and looked up at him.

"You promised you'd come play with me." she said.

"I know..." said Alphonse, patting my Chimera.

Iron-Blood Alchemist, Brigadier General Grand came in at that moment, followed by four other soldiers.

"Assaulting army personal, what the hell's going on here?" exclaimed Grand.

"Spare me sir." said Edward. "He used his own daughter."

I smiled.

Thank you...Edward Elric.

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Author's Note: And so I finally got this one up. Well...soon I'll probably be able to get the next one up...and until then...please R&R! Also, thanks to Lonely Lord's suggestion, I may include the POVs of Scar and Grand...but they won't be as long, considering that they cannot include the beginning part.

Well, thank you for your time reading my story, and if you have reviewed...thank you even more.

Yet again, please R&R!