One Week later

The young woman glanced around furtively as she walked down the dimly lit alleyway. Personally she didn't really want to be there, but it was the one way to get to her apartment…She'd heard that terrible things could happen in this place.

Envy, Wrath and Pride sat at the top of one of the buildings watching the young woman walking down the alleyway.

"Bad choice, choosing tonight of all times, to go out for a stroll," snickered Envy.

He loved this newest mission. In order to draw the military's attention away from what they were planning, Father had ordered them to distract the military, in any way possible.

They didn't really have to distract the higher-ups, because most of them were to dumb to notice what was going on, even if it was right in front of their face, but that General Mustang was a tricky one.

It had been Wrath's idea to go on a human killing spree, and Envy chose the criteria of their victims, to give the General a stronger urge to find the killer.

"She looks scared," noted Pride, scratching his arm.

"Well of course she does, all humans look scared. Right before they die that is…" smiled Envy. That wasn't really true. There were some humans that didn't get those pathetic looks on their faces when faced with death. Actually, some faced it laughing their heads off, but then again, those people were crazy.

"Two of you, shut up," growled Wrath, officiously, "Next time, I won't let you tag along if you keep this up…" he sniffed.

Envy shot him a murderous glare. The stupid eye-patch brat had gotten really stuck up ever since he became Fuhrer. Just because he looked older, didn't mean that he was. In fact, next to Pride, he was one of the youngest.

Suddenly, Wrath was gone, leaving Envy and Pride sitting on the roof tops. There was a scream and then gunshots.

"Oh...bummer…it was a trap…" sighed Envy, looking down at the alleyway. A smile suddenly broke out on his face. Pride seemed to notice it.

"What? You know these people?"

"State Alchemists. Ones we already know," smiled Envy maliciously.

The trap had succeeded…barely. The bait, the headquarter building's front door secretary lay dead on the floor, a few metres from where the ex-Fuhrer stood.

"You used a real woman this time. Possibly because your usual bait is unavailable?" asked the Homunculus.

"Shut up!" growled Mustang, understanding the allusions to Edward completely.

During the Barry the Chopper fan investigation, Mustang had forced Fullmetal to dress up as a woman in an attempt to capture the culprit. The ploy had worked magnificently, although Mustang had paid for it dearly with the next day's morning tea. Hot sauce, instead of milk…

"King Bradley…or should I call you Wrath?" said Alphonse, stepping forward.

The eye-patched man looked to the boy.

"So you know what I am? And you're both still alive…To believe such an excellent Human sacrifice wasted himself on the two of you is beyond me…" he started to say, when a feather flew into his eye. Scarlet, moved out from behind Mustang.

"Shut up and bring it on. I'm tired of listening to you talk…" drawled Scarlet.

So that's what the feathers were for…thought Mustang surprised.

"It appears that I am outnumbered. Perhaps we should even them out a bit…Envy! Pride!" he shouted. Nothing happened and no one came.

"Envy! Pride? GUYS? This is no time for jokes!" roared the ex-Fuhrer.

Unfortunately for Wrath, the State Alchemists knew an opportunity when they saw one. There was a small explosion, and purple smoke covered the area, flames popping up everywhere, and spikes coming out from the floor and walls.

"It'll take more than that to kill me!" said Wrath, as his flesh regenerated around him.

"Do you know why they call me the Scarlet Alchemist?" he heard the girl's voice say.

"It's because, the places I go to tend to be blood red after I leave…" she said as he exploded.

Mustang saw it clearly. The feather she had thrown into the Homunculi's eye had acted as a relay for the transmutation circle she had drawn with her foot. But he had a rough idea that she could do a great deal more than that…

He exploded, just as she had expected him to. But what his remains were surprised her. She saw a shining red stone amidst the bloody remains of the Homunculus. She bolted forward towards it. She had to destroy that, if she didn't he would come back and she would most likely not get a chance to do this…. Clapping her hands as she ran towards the creature coming out of the stone, she slammed her hands down on the ex-Fuhrer's face.

There was an explosion, and an intense white light enveloped the entire city block.

"Holy shit!" exclaimed Envy, shielding his eyes. Pride didn't seem to mind the light, and simply watched.

"That girl…" he heard Edward Elric's voice say, "She killed him…" he whispered as the light died down.

"Scarlet-san! Scarlet-san? Are you alright?" shouted Alphonse Elric's voice down below.

"What do we do now?" asked Pride, "Envy?"

The green-haired Homunculus was shaken. There had never been anyone before who could kill a Homunculus so easily, other than Father. The usual way had been to kill one until all the lives of the Philosopher's stone were used up, which was by no means an easy feat.

"Envy?" he heard Edward's voice ask. An idea came into the purple-eyed teenager.

"We say hi…"he grinned sinisterly.

"Scarlet, just what did you do?" asked Mustang, in stunned shock. The girl was on her hands and knees out of breath, and breathing hard.

"I…I…" she started to say, when she suddenly doubled over and vomited blood.

"Scarlet!" shouted Alphonse putting a hand on her back. The girl clutched at her stomach with dry racking coughs.

"Crap…" she managed to croak out, before vomiting again.

"Why hello there, little missie!" drawled an all too familiar voice, "I'm afraid I don't have the pleasure of your acquaintance yet," grinned the palm tree like, green haired, gender confused, shape shifting Homunculus, Envy.

"Envy!" roared Alphonse angrily. He had an unsettled score with that guy. Suddenly, his mind turned to a blank fuzz, his eyes not believing what they saw.

"Nii…san…" he whispered softly, staring at the spitting image of his older brother staring back at him.

"NII-SAN!" he shouted, running towards him. The General suddenly grabbed him from behind and held him tight.

"Al, NO! That isn't Fullmetal! That isn't Ed!" he shouted, trying to restrain the boy.

"NII-SAN! NII-SAN!" screeched Alphonse Elric, desperately to the emotionless image of his beloved brother.

"Envy, what are we doing?" asked the Edward look-alike in a bored tone, "Wrath's dead. Father's going to be furious," he said, completely ignoring the General, Alphonse and Scarlet.

"What did you do to him?" demanded Mustang, holding Alphonse back.

"We remade him," said Envy simply, "He's perfect now."

"Nii-san…" pleaded Alphonse weakly.

"Who are these people anyway?" asked the blonde Homunculus, pointing at them.

Alphonse broke into tears at that. Envy ignored both Pride and Alphonse, instead had all his attention focused on Scarlet.

"Why…You'd be that Dolan brat!" said Envy peering closely at her, "Those nosy reporters' kid…" he grinned.

"Were you the one who killed them?" she said hoarsely.

Envy didn't answer the girl's question, instead turned to the Edward Homunculus.

"Let's go Pride," he said.

"Shouldn't we kill them?" asked Pride, "That girl killed Wrath. Shouldn't we get rid of them?"

"Nii-san…"sobbed Al softly.

"You know, funny as that would be, we're not going to. Why?" said Envy grinning, "Because I don't feel like it," he said finishing his own sentence.

"Let's go Pride," he said jumping up a building. What had been the Fullmetal Alchemist followed suit, and vanished into the night.