GW: Here's the final part of Mission I. Enjoy!
Mission One, Part Two
AKA: Don't Stand in the Way of Demon Kids and Their Dreams
"You idiots!?" the woman screeched as she kicked Edward, Alphonse, and Iris down, freaking out the members of the CPIS. She had brown hair wrapped in dreadlocks, purple eyes, and wore a white jacket over a black top and pants, sandals, and had the Flamel insignia over her chest. This was Izumi Curtis, Wrath and Samara's 'mommy' and Ed, Al, and Iris' teacher.
"How dare you go and make my children upset!?" Izumi shouted at her students. As the CPIS members watched in fear with Izumi continuing her scolding, Wrath and Sam were sitting on a couch watching this scene with a bit of amusement while a large, scary-looking man watched. This man was Sig, Izumi's husband. Kira noted that Hero and Samara kept staring at each other with a bit of malice and pain. In fact, she remembered when the team had first arrived to the Curtis' how Hero was talking to Samara privately before joining the group. What does this all mean? Kira was puzzled, so she tried not to think about it.
"T-teacher, please don't be angry!" Al stammered, barely avoiding Izumi's kick. "Wrath, do something."
Wrath then sighed, "Mommy, its okay. They didn't make me and Sam upset. It was some blue-faced freak named Drakken."
Izumi stopped as she calmed down. "Oh…sorry, you three." The alchemists just groaned in pain.
"So, Mrs. Curtis; your, er, children are seeking the Stone. But why?" Hal asked politely, so as not to incur Izumi's wrath.
"I'd like to know myself," Izumi glared at her 'kids' who shook in fear a bit. "Why the hell were you two doing a stupid thing to find the Stone!?"
Samara swallowed nervously and said, "Well…because, I want to use the Stone's power to regain my human self."
Everyone was surprised. "Well, I can see why you want to look human," Double D coughed awkwardly. "But you do realize you can never become a full human, right?"
Samara paused as she nodded. "I know; I was a demon in my former life before I was killed. Even if I can't become fully normal, I'd like to at least look the part." Wrath looked down as well, but said nothing.
Samara then pleaded with Hal, "So, can you please help me and Wrath get the Stone? You need to stop Drakken anyways, so we can help." Samara then looked down when she caught Hero glancing at her a bit darkly.
Hal thought for a moment before sighing, "Well, I guess we can use two more newbies." The Homunculus and demon girl smiled as Eddy groaned, "Great, more freaks."
"Eddy!" Makie snapped as Kaede slapped Eddy on the head. "Plus, Calvin, Hobbes, Kira, and Feral will have training buddies," Hal added with a smirk at the four recruits.
"Group hug, newbies!" Hobbes shouted in joy as he wrapped the kids and female tiger in a hug. "Hobbes, you're crushing our lungs," Calvin coughed as the tiger let them go.
"Now then, we have to come up with a way to stop Drakken," Uryu said solemnly as he pushed his glasses up.
"I say we just barge in his lair and kick the crap out of him," Kanda shrugged as Konata, Edward, Iris, Eddy, Kon, and Calvin said in agreement, "We go for that idea!"
"But Drakken will be expecting it though," Tsukasa argued. "Yeah, but he is pretty incompetent already, so we can easily fool him," Kagami argued back.
"Alright, it's settled," Hal nodded. "Here's the plan: Calvin, Kira, their tigers, Wrath, Sam, Hero, Ichigo and his crew, the Alchemists, and I will infiltrate Drakken's lair while everyone else wait in the van until I call you for backup, which we probably won't need."
"My husband and I will come, too," Izumi said as Sig joined his wife's side. "You can't stop us."
Hal nodded. "Everyone got the plan?" Everyone in the room nodded as Hal smirked, "Alright, move out!"
Meanwhile, at Drakken's lair, the blue scientist himself was speaking to someone in the shadows. There were a few of them, too, staring coldly at the slightly nervous scientist.
"You see, I got the Stone for you all. Now, where's my cut of the bargain?" Drakken demanded, yelping a bit as one of them growled hungrily at him.
"Oh, don't worry, blue man. You'll get your reward," a young and smug, feminine-like voice said. "You did a marvelous job, Dr. Drakken," a smooth female voice commented as a creepy voice chuckled as drool came out of the laugher's mouth.
"Boss!" Drakken turned to see one of his cronies come up to him. "It's Hanson and his crew! They're attacking us with two freak kids screaming they want the Stone."
Drakken frowned. "Drat. Oh, well, I'll just gloat at them." He turned to his co-horts and asked, "Care to watch?"
A man's voice said as though he were smirking, "Nah. We'll just stand on the sidelines."
"Suit yourselves," Drakken shrugged as he and his crony took off, leaving the shadowed figures alone.
"I really hate that man," an older man's voice growled. "Patience," another woman's voice said smoothly. "Let's just see if this Stone Drakken has is real or not."
Meanwhile, the CPIS members were raising hell at the lair. Hal and Hero were swiping away villains left and right as Wrath merged Ed's arm with a gun he stole from a henchman and blasted his enemies.
Samara, Calvin, Kira, and the tigers were surrounded by henchmen as one of them chuckled, "End of the line, kiddies."
"Don't look," Sam told her new comrades as she glared at the man intensely. Suddenly, he fell over dead with a shocked look on his face. "Cool," Calvin and Kira said in awe as the tigers looked frazzled.
"You little-!" the henchmen growled as they tried attacking Sam, but were cut off as Hobbes and Feral bit into their fleshes and the two kids imagined alien-catching guns as they captured the villains in nets. "Alright!" the recruits cheered as Sam smiled a bit. Drakken saw this and sent more villains out to take care of the heroes. "Of all the days for Shego to take a vacation," Drakken groaned.
With Ichigo and Chad, they were taking down henchmen left with Ichigo using his zanpaku-to and Chad using his strength. "This reminds me of how we took down those thugs from our school days," Ichigo smirked as Chad punched a guy out. "Remember?"
"How can I forget?" Chad said as Ichigo dealt a blow.
Orihime and Rukia were cornered by two baddies as one of the villains said, "Hey, we don't want to go rough on you pretty girls, but we have to."
"Don't take us lightly," Rukia said seriously as she pulled out her zanpaku-to and swung it at the villain. Even though her swipes missed, she gave a good kick to the guy's stomach, knocking the wind out of him.
The other guy aimed his gun at Orihime and smirked. She merely smiled as she said cheerfully, "You might not want to do that."
"Why? Are you gonna hurt me?" the villain laughed. "Nope, he is," Orihime pointed. The villain barely had time to see who was behind him as Ichigo KOed the dude into a coma. "You okay?" Ichigo asked the girls. Rukia nodded as Orihime blushed a bit as she nodded as well. Uryu was shooting his Quincy arrows, but ran out as he was surrounded. "End of the line, four-eyes!"
"Get away fro him!" a demonic voice snarled as the villains turned to see someone dresses in a cape. "W-who are you?" one of the henchmen said in fear.
The cape was thrown back as it revealed a scary bear with vampire fangs. He replied darkly, "You worst nightmare!" The baddies screamed like girls as they ran away.
Kon laughed as he revealed his usual form. "Thanks, Kon," Uryu thanked. "No problem," the bear shrugged.
With the alchemists, Edward and Iris were kicking butt as Ed punched the villains with his metal arm and kicked them with his metal leg. "Remember the pain," Ed smirked as a villain snarled, "The hell?! You're just a stupid runt!"
Edward went demonic as he grabbed the insulter and swung him around, ranting, "YOU THINK YOU'RE FUNNY!? CALL ME A MOUSE, CALL ME A BEAN, BUT I'M NOT SMALL!!!"
As Ed released the villain into the air, Iris sighed, "Ed, he didn't say that." That's when she was grabbed from behind by a bad guy as he said, "Got ya,' girly. Ready for pain?"
That's when he was lifted into the air and was face to face with a peeved-looking Alphonse, who said threatingly, "Guys who threaten girls should be taught a lesson." The armor head-butted with the henchman as Al asked Iris, "You okay, Iris?"
She responded by punching a villain in the face, saying, "I feel great." With Izumi and Sig, they were just kicking ass. "This is too easy," Izumi sighed as her husband knocked out a few guys.
Soon, Drakken's entire henchmen were either knocked down or AWOL as Wrath shouted, "Where's Drakken!?"
"Right here, brat," Drakken laughed as he held the Stone and a machine gun. "Now, it's time to say good-night!" Drakken used the Stone's power to morph the gun to his hand and he began firing at the CPIS.
"Duck and cover!" Hal ordered as the heroes ran for cover. Sam and Wrath peeked from behind a piece of machinery as they nodded to each other before darting out towards Drakken. "No!" Izumi shouted before coughing out blood. "Izumi," Sig said in concern as he went to her.
Drakken aimed at the demon kids, but was too slow as they tackled him to the ground. "Give us the Stone," Sam commanded. Unknown to the three, they were on a transmutation circle as the shadowed figures watched in darkness. "If Drakken does this right, we can send that traitor back to the Gate where he belongs," the smug, feminine voice sneered as the creepy, child-like voice giggled madly.
Drakken managed to get up as he moved out of the transmutation circle and said snidely, "You want the Stone so badly? Take it!" When Wrath was about to use his alchemy, the scientist tossed the Stone at the demon kids.
"Wrath, get out of there; it's going to be an alchemic reaction!" Edward shouted, but it was too late as the Stone came into contact with Wrath and the transmutation circle was activated.
The demon kids screamed in pain as Izumi tried running to them. "Wrath, Samara!" she cried, but Sig held her back.
That's when the alchemic reaction struck back as the whole place lit up in a purple light and there was a mini-explosion that made the building shake.
"Crap; the alchemy's too strong for this dump. This place is gonna collapse!" Hal shouted. "Collapse!?" Drakken said in shock. "The Homunculi never told me about explosions when I agreed to help them!"
"Homunculi!?" the CPIS and the Curtis' gasped, looking at Drakken. They didn't have time to ask other questions as rubble began to fall on them. "Run!" Hero ordered as everyone ran out of the building, including the shadowed people.
The CPIS watched as the building collapsed in. After the destruction was done, the heroes could see the henchmen's bodies lying under the rubble. Drakken or the demon kids couldn't be found.
"Dammit, that blue-freak got away," Ichigo spat. "Don't worry about that now; we have to find Wrath and Samara," Rukia said.
"Over…here," Samara called weakly. The gang rushed to the two kids, who were lying near the transmutation circle. Even though the rubble didn't crush them, Wrath was bleeding from where Ed's arm and leg used to be.
"Sam, what happen-Whoa!" Kon and the rest gasped as Samara lifted her head. She was no longer a corpse, but a fairly pretty girl with pale skin with dark brown hair that nearly covered her light blue eyes. "You have to help Wrath, please," she begged.
"Little ones, tell me what happened," Izumi asked her 'children' as Wrath flinched in pain, saying, "When…Drakken activated the transmutation circle, we were taken to the Gate."
"The Truth?" Edward and Iris gasped. Wrath continued in pain, "I noticed Samara was gone, and knew that the Gate took her. I screamed at it to give her back…so I sacrificed Edward's arm and leg. The Gate took me back inside as it took the limbs and I pulled…Samara out." "I got my human form back…from the Gate," Sam said in an unsure manner. "But I still have demon powers, I can feel the power inside me."
Orihime turned to Rukia and asked, "Rukia, can I have some of your robe, please." Rukia looked confused, but pulled some of her robe off and handed it to Orihime. The orange-haired girl went to Wrath and tied the cloth to Wrath bleeding wounds. She then used her healing powers to seal up the open wounds as Wrath looked at her. "Sorry, I can't replace your limbs or Edward's, but I can at least stop you from bleeding to death."
"Great, my arm and leg are gone and we didn't get the Stone," Edward sighed as Al and Iris comforted the tiny alchemist.
"On the brightside, I won't use your limbs anymore for alchemy," Wrath smirked as he was helped up by Izumi and Sig.
"Sam," Hero said to the demon girl firmly. Sam looked afraid for a bit, but smiled as Hero smiled back gently, "I'm glad you got your human look back." Sam nodded, "Thanks."
"Let's go back to HQ and introduce our newest member to some good automail mechanics," Hal smirked as the team went back into a waiting van and drove off.
Drakken, with a charred outfit on, stumbled through his wrecked lair with the bodies of his henchmen lying around him. "Great, what do I do now!?" Drakken snapped when suddenly the shadow figures who worked with the scientist stepped over to him. Although they were different, they had two things in common: their violet eyes and a red tattoo of a snake eating its tail on parts of their tail. These were creatures like Wrath: the rest of the Seven Homunculi, Wrath's old associates.
"You…you tried to set me up!" Drakken snapped at his cohorts. "You tried to kill me!"
"Bravo, Holmes," the smug, feminine voice, who was the shape-shifter Envy, clapped sarcastically. "You figured it out."
"But I thought we were teammates!" A beautiful woman, who was the lancer named Lust, chuckled coldly, "Please, you're so naïve to think we'd work for a third-class villain like you."
"Indeed," the older man, known as Fuhrer King Bradley to his country but Pride to his companions. Another woman, the water-user Sloth, added, "Even villains are wise to steer clear of us, for we'll just kill them in the end."
"Why you-!" Drakken seethed, but was interrupted by a man with shark teeth. This was the Ultimate Shield, Greed. "Hey, hey; chill out, buddy. You really should have seen this coming."
The last one, the fat one named Gluttony, said childishly, "Lust, can I eat the blue-man now?"
"Don't leave a single hair," Lust told her charge, who laughed creepily. Drakken could only trip over his own feet and watch in horror as Gluttony chomped down on the scientist.
As the rest of the Homunculi watched in disgust, Pride commented, "I haven't seen Gluttony enjoy himself since he ate Dante."
Sloth nodded. "Well, we lost the Stone and failed to get rid of Wrath and that pesky CPIS agency."
"Don't worry; there will be other chances," Lust said as she patted Gluttony on the head after he was done feasting. "Envy, go call the Minor Sins and tell them to prepare for Phase 2 of our operation."
Envy smirked as he said, "Really? What should I say?" Greed retorted, "Just tell them to raise some hell and to have fun in doing so. We'll meet you back at base."
Envy shrugged as he walked to a phone booth as the Homunculi took off.
"Thanks for having a celebration for us," Samara said politely as the gang had leftover cake and ice cream from Calvin, Kira, and the tiger's first party.
"Hurray for new friends!" Konata said as she hiccupped after drinking some punch.
"How are you feeling, Wrath?" Izumi, who she and Sig decided to join in the party, asked as Wrath came towards the group with a pleased Winry and Bunnie behind him. In place of the missing limbs, Wrath now had sturdy-looking automail.
"I feel pretty good, even if the surgery was painful," the Homunculus replied cheerfully as he tested his new automail arm. "How do you feel, Sammie?"
"Don't call me that," Samara snapped playfully. She had changed out of her drab dress and now wore a long-sleeved light grey striped shirt under a sleeveless dark grey sweater, black jeans, and white and black sneakers. "And I feel pretty good as well." Izumi hugged her children and told them, "I'm very proud of you both. Even if you almost got killed and had me worried sick."
"Mom, you're embarrassing us!" Wrath and Sam groaned as the CPIS members laughed. Hal then said seriously, "Still, what Drakken said about the Homunculi disturbs me. Wrath, are you positive that you are the only Homunculus in ToonCity."
Wrath sighed. "I thought so. But, since they don't contact with me anymore, I have no idea if they're here or not."
"Well, the next time they strike, or whatever else attacks, we'll be ready for them!" Calvin said as he stuck his hand out. Kira and the tigers got the idea and placed their hands on Calvin's as the whole agency members, the newly recruited Wrath and Sam, and even the Curtis,' placed their hands on top of each other. They released their hands in the air and shouted happily.
Sam: Yay, I'm human-looking again!
GW: Alright, so the team as some new members to their arsenal. As for the rest of the Homunculi, you won't be seeing them again as much until later in the series...
Pride: How dare you!? That kind of talk destroys people's hopes and dreams!
GW: Prid,e you're too old for hopes and dreams. Anyways, next chapter will be a request from Iron-Mantis. Read, review, and suggest 'til next time.