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Kids

Chapter 1: Locked up

" BAM!" Luietenant Colonel Maes Hughes slammed the door behind him in one swift movement. His rectangular glasses shimmered by the small light which was swinging back and forth from the ceiling in the middle of the small, enclosed room.

Colonel Roy Mustang, First Luietenant Riza Hawkeye , Second Luietenant Jean Havoc, 2nd Luietenant Heyemens Breda, Master Sargent Kain Fuery and Warrant Officer Vato Falman stood in the back of the room, their arms folded across their chests. Edward and Alphonse Elric, however, were tied up to chairs; rope coiled around their body's, or in Alphonse's case, armour.

" Why are we here exactly, Hughes?" Ed asked, paranoid, squirming in his chair.

" Calm down, shorty." said Havoc cooly from the back of the room. Ed glared at Havoc, turning his head to meet his eyes. He sat silently for a moment, then-

" WHO ARE YOU CALLING SO SMALL THAT A TINNIE WENNIE MONICULE WITH A SMALL PET MOUSE ARE BIGGER THAN I AM?" Edwarm hollared, moving frantically in his seat. Havoc just looked at Ed, unimpressed.

" Jeez, kid..." he murmured, his cigarette hanging loosly from out the side of his mouth " I didn'y say that much..."

" Well, Hughes?" Ed demanded, brushing himself off from his temper tantrum. Hughes just ignored Ed's comment and put his hands on his hips proudly and smiled with a look of satisfaction on his face. "Well, looks like that's everyone! Super!" he exclaimed, looking around the room. The other just looked at Hughes blankly and gave each other shifty looks.

" Oh! One more thing! I almost forgot..." he said, rubbing his hands through his hair. " We might have some... disagreements throughout today, so just to be safe, some of you will be asked to remove some of your belongings..." the others looked at Hughes, confused.

He moved over to Roy. " Roy..." he murmured, looking at his best friend over his glasses. " Gloves...give me your gloves." Roy looked agast and slightly stepped away from Hughes. " Why? What the hell do you need my gloves for!" he asked, cupping his hands together and pulling them close to him. " Roy... SOMEONE'S GONNA GET BLOWN UP IF YOU HAVE THOSE THINGS!" and with that, Hughes snatched Roy's hands and pulled his gloves off his fingertips while Roy just stood there, looking at his friend in disgust.

Hughes then stepped over to face Riza. "Gun..." Riza looked at him with an unimpressed look on her face and rolled her eyes as she pulled her gun out of her pocket " Fine..." she murmured, handing the gun over to Hughes.

Hughes looked at Havoc straight in the eye. "Jean, hand them over." he said, annoyed. Havoc slightly frowned and raised one eyebrow "What are you going on about, Hugh-"

"These things!" fumed Hughes, swiping Havoc's cigarette from right out of his mouth, he began ripping it to shred and threw it onto the floor " This is a small enclosed space, you're gong to smoke the place out... and there are children here!" He said, pointing at Ed and Al.

"Hey! I'm not a kid!" came the faint complaining from Ed in the backround.

" And you," Hughes said, turning to face Ed. Once Hughes turned aroud, Havoc gave a small shrug of his shoulders and reched in his pocket to get another cigarette...

" You!" Hughes pointed his finger in Ed's face " Give me your arm, NOW!" Ed just pouted and looked at Hughes, his eyes narrowed.

" I CAN'T MOVE MY FLIPPIN' ARMS, LET ALONE TAKE THEM OFF!" Ed hollared, flinging his arms and legs wildly about. Hughes slightly stepped back " watch where you're flinging those things..." Hughes murmured, referring to Ed's limbs.

" What do you need it for, anyways?" Ed said, taking a deep sigh.

" Without that metal arm of yours, you can't do alchemy..." Hughes smirked. Ed frowned " I can't move. And if I did that, Winry will kill me. NOW GET TO THE POINT!" Hughes frowned and stepped back in surprise.

" Hughes..." Roy said darkly " Whay are we here?" he asked sternly, which caught Hughes' attention.

" So, " began Hughes, with a smile " You want to know why I wacked you all over the head with a hammer, dragged you around the building, threw you all in potato sacs, brought you in here and tied Ed and Al up to chairs?"

" YES!" said everyone in the room at the same time. Hughes looked down at the ground and turned to face Ed and Al.

"..."

" I wanted to tell Ed and Al a story!" exlaimed Hughes. The others stared blankly at Hughes and either did a deep sigh or burried their head in their hands.

" What kind of story?" Al asked curiously. The others gave Al a strange look.

" We-ll..." Hughes began, with a huge smile on his face. " It a story about us when we were kids!"

Roy glared at Hughes from the back " Don't you dare tell them, Maes..." he murmured looking at him darkly.

"Calm down, Roy..." Riza murmured from the back.

" You mean that you guys were actually kids?" Ed asked in astonishment. He found it unimaginible that the workers of the military could possibly of been little innocent (or not so innocent) children one day...

" Of corse we were kids!" said Feury, speaking up.

" Believe it or not, Edward," began Riza " people grown up..."

" Yes. From a young baby to a young infant to-" began Falman, sounding very intellegent.

" Don't get all logical, Vato..." said Breda, annoyed.

Ed looked down at the ropes wrapped around him, he cluched his fist tightly. " I have things to do, you know..." he said angrily. " I have a brother that I have to restore and you want me to listen to a story about when you guys were idiot kids!"

The others glared at Ed and stood silent.

" Well I want to har the story!" exclaimed Al to Hughes.

Hughes smiled brightly. Ed put his head in his hands and rubbed his forehead. Hughes came to the front of the room and spoke loudly.

" It all started like this..."

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