I do not own anything. All content is based off of "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood" all rights (copyrights) go to the producers. This is inspired by the song "Great Locomotive Chase" by Robert W. Smith. Apparently it was something that actually happened in the civil war. All rights reserved and used with no consent.

Summary: Roy is now a General. The military, which has been loosing trains like crazy in Briggs. Roy can become Fuhrer if he can solve the problem, and the plan is being prepared, except for one problem. They need a sniper as good as Riza Hawkeye. Roy won't let Hawkeye switch teams. What will Hawkeye do?

Chapter 5:

Riza wakes up and sits up quickly, expecting to still be in the ditch she fell into. She sat up, attempting to be ready and alert, for her vision to swim. Around her was all the all around brightness and whiteness of a hospital.

A nurse turned around and spotted her, "Miss, you can't get up like that yet! You must get back down!"
Riza's head swam but she forced herself to focus. Miss? Why aren't they addressing me as Lieutenant General?

A middle aged man hurries in as Riza's vision blurs even more. The nurse turns to her again, "Miss, your family is here!"

Family? Who is this imposter?Riza quickly jumps off the bed and to her feet. She attempted to get ready and into position to kick him in the crotch if the imposter got too close, but when she leaned back on her right leg, it didn't support her weight and pain shot up her leg and she felt herself falling. Pain in her ribs, pain in her leg, and then she seemed to register pain pain fogged up her brain. She had no strength to catch herself from falling.

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Riza woke up again once again to the bright lighting. A man sat beside her bed with a confused look on his face.

"Who are you, you imposter?"she glared from her spot, knowing she was probably in no condition to move.

"I'd like to ask the same of you,"the man retorted. "Why does your identification say Riza Hawkeye? That is impossible!"

"You have no right to tell me it is impossible for me to be named what you I am named,"Riza hissed back.

The man eyed her up and down. "Our mountainous town is small. I couldn't have possibly missed you. Berthold's family died a long time ago. We lost contact with all of them all at once. We were told his wife died so we assumed they all died."

Riza's eyes widened. That was her father's name. From when Riza could remember, he never mentioned family. When Riza had brought letters to him after her mother's death, he had told her not to read them and quite simply burned them.

Her eyes softened. Any relative of her obsessed father was quite unfortunate. To even be related to him, for blood relations often made people care about them, and that... caring about Berthold Hawkeye was a hard thing on any person indeed. Riza knew that well, being his daughter.

"I am sorry. He told me to burn all the letters after my mother died. He got obsessed with work. He never mentioned a family,"Riza answered slowly and cautiously.

The man slowly looked her up and down. "My father has been hoping against hope for contact once again... I will ask for a DNA test to be done... I don't suppose you have money either, considering the state they found you in. Probably a burglar of some sort. But you don't know how his eyes lit up when he heard that there was a 'Hawkeye' in the hospital. I will pay for your bills for his sake."

He got up and started walking out.

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A week later, Riza hobbles after the man in crutches out of the hospital. She is bound in loose clothing he brought for her.

"I can't believe the DNA test came out positive... My name is Steve Hawkeye. Berthold was my brother,"he introduced himself and then quickly added, "be careful on those crutches, the ice is slippery around here. You don't seem like somebody who's used to the climate of the Briggs Mountains."

Riza's understanding of her past changed. So this whole time he didn't contact his family? Why? Was mother's death so bad that he shunned even his family?

They trudge through the snow for about twenty minutes. Off the path are clusters of log cabins, with about three feet of snow everywhere off the crude dirt pathway which was also quite crudely shoveled.

Finally he turned and led Riza into a particularly big cluster. Unlike all the other clusters, there was one slightly larger stone house. Steve turned around to face Riza, "Welcome to the Hawkeye cluster of homes. Come. Dad lives in the biggest one. We all go there for each meal because it keeps him happy that he gets to see his family in between all this alchemy research."

Hawkeye frowned. Her grandfather had the ability to do alchemy as well? If father's family was all here, why'd he move to the rural more southern part of Amestris?Riza cursed herself internally. She should've shunned her curiousity and demanded to return to the army. She was in no state to fight although she had retained her pistol and holder as well as the knives in her boots. But there was no way to prove she was of military personel because she was in all black for the mission. This could be a capture or ambush, or a kidnapping for money. She hadn't seen anyone so far.

Riza eyed the cabins all around her. If this really was an ambush then she was probably already surrounded. Her best option for now was probably to comply. She followed Steve into the stone house, still cautiously analyzing her surroundings.

A/N: Haven't written in a while, kind of rusty and short. Sorry. Hope at least somebody enjoyed this.