Gluttony looked at her in fear, "But... But... Horribly painful!" Gluttony covered his head and did the only thing he could, since he was sitting on a bed he grab the sheet and hid under them in hopes the humans would lose interest.
"You know if your trying to hide in isn't working too well." Roy said raising a brow.
"Not here no more..." Gluttony replied.
Roy couldn't believe how childish this homunculus was acting. Roy was very irritated, even more so thinking that one day he'd have to work with this fellow.
"Stop acting like a child and get out here!" Roy commanded.
Gluttony slowly popped his head out from under the blankets and frowned.
Riza didn't think this was going to work well unless they could think of a way to convince Gluttony to listen. So she thought for a few minutes and came up with a pretty good idea based on the information she had received previously from Dr.Smith (which was now Gluttony official family doctor) and Winry. "Ok Gluttony I'll tell you something"
Gluttony seemed to pay attention to her.
"So this is what I can do. We can give you medicine that will help you sleep during the initial surgery. You understand that?", Riza asked.
Gluttony nodded so Riza continued. "If we do that you'll only feel a little bit of pain after the surgery. No horrible pain. And I'll make you a promise: If you let us do the surgery and after the medicine is all weared off. I'll make sure the nurse gets you a very big meal in return for being good. How does that sound"
Gluttony got excited, the thought of food made any pains or worry slip his mind. "Oh yes"
Roy looked at Riza and rose a brow at her. This wasn't like her at all. He tap of her shoulder."Could we speak for a moment in private, Colonel"
Riza blinked a few times. "Of course..." she and Roy walked outside the room.
"Since when do you cave in on anyone lets alone a soldier-in-training?" Roy ask his voice raised slightly.
Riza responded. "I didn't "cave in" I just met a need I knew this soldier couldn't refuse. We need to understand Gluttony isn't a typical soldier. He has a child like intellect mix with savage animal like instincts. The important thing in this situation is to get him surgery so he can someday soon walk, run and jump. Then we can begin to act like soldiers towards him"
"And I'm suppose to have some child like monster soldier as a co-worker. What's going to happen in General Hakuro comes to see him and he does something... horrible animal like or childish? He'll make an fool out of..." Roy stopped himself there, he knew it would make a fool out of Hawkeye however he also knew the deal that she had no choice but to have the homunculus under her command.
"I'm already aware of that, Coporal, I just have to keep hope that I'll be able to train him well enough to maintain an adult like composier during meetings or other events within the presence of high rank officers..and you are showing considerable interest in the homunculus and matters regarding him. Would you like to help me in his training once he's recovered?", Riza asked.
"Of course I would, can't have the little monster eating out of base and home." He laughed.
Riza smiled and saluted him. "Then I'll appoint you Second-in-command of the homunculi project along with Major Armstrong." She then returned to Gluttony's room.
"Ok, this is all we'll need." Doctor Smith said, holding up a needle. Riza looked at it as did everyone else in the room.
Armstrong folded his arms, "Have you ever put any creature like this asleep before?" He then looked at Gluttony, the homunculus seemed to be giving him a blank stare, probably confussed if 'creature' was refering to him or another.
"Well, as you all know Gluttony is the first homunculus to ever be brought into the military's care. So I've never medicated someone like this before. This injection contains a very balanced mix of relaxents and a mild animal tranquilizer. Generally I wouldn't put something like this into anything other than a large chimera or animal however Gluttony is physically resemblant to a very human like chimera so this should be good. Maybe a bit heavy but unlike a human it shouldn't cause any damage." The doctor signal to Gluttony to lay down so he did. "Alright, now once you feel a prick on your arm I want you to lay there and relax for me. Don't try to get up"
Gluttony wasn't fully understanding of this so once he got injected he layed up for a second. Suddenly he felt strange, like nothing he felt before. He would have done something but suddenly everything went black.Riza observe Gluttony lay up after he got injected. She went to tell him to lay down but she notice Gluttony eyes went large then he just suddenly flopped over. Riza never saw something like that happen before, she didn't think the drugs could affect him that quickly. "Is he alright?"
The doctor walk over and looked, he place a towel over Gluttony's face. "My my, medication sure hits you hard." He chuckled lightly. "Oh no worries, he shouldn't have sit up like that, it made his circulation run faster so the medication came into affect quicker...Also be careful when you move him, his eyes aren't shut tightly so you risk damaging them, make sure this towel stays over like this." He straighten Gluttony up a bit. "Alright, he's ready to be moved." So slowly Armstrong and Mustang lifted Gluttony and moved him onto a strecher. All they need to do now was move him a few meters to the operating room where Winry and Rose were already set up.
Finally it was time to give Gluttony back his ability to stand straight, and with that the ability to help the military.