Metallic Hearts -FullMetal Alchemist- Episode 5: The Man With The Mechanical Arm

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Edward: 11 Alphonse and Lita: 10

Al stood infront of a food stand, looking at the buns.

Al: "Let's see." Ed dialed the number on a near by phone. You leaned back against the telephone pole as Ed awaited the answer on the other line.

Roy on phone: "Sorry for keeping you waiting." Ed stiffened up.

Ed: "Is this Lieutenant Colonel Roy Mustang? I are Edward Elric ..."

Roy: "Are? You don't need to be nervous."

Ed: "Yes. I will be riding the 9:20 heading for Central City."

Roy: "Roger that." A woman with short blonde hair handed Mustang the train schedule.

Roy: "No, wait. There's a train before that isn't there?"

Ed: "Yes, but it's about to leave."

Roy: "Get on that one."

You: "But, why?"

Roy: "Just get on it!" Ed hung up and you two rushed towards the departing train.

Ed: "Al! Come! Hurry!" Al grabbed the bag of food and rushed towards the two of you. Roy: "Let's test their luck."

FullMetal Alchemist- - -

Ed: "I don't understand this Mustang." Ed was sitting there eating a bun.

Ed: "I wonder what kinda person he is." A small girl with short brown hair and brown eyes peeked her head over the seat. Al looked up and waved. She ducked as if she were scared. Ed looked behind him to see who Al was waving to.

Al: "Lita, am I scary?" You looked at him as if he were crazy.

You: "Give me a break. You're kindness in a can."

Girl: "Hey, there's a weird person."

Al: "Weird?"

Mom: "Marin, no. Be quiet."

Marin: "But it's funny. He's wearing armor on a train. He must really like armor a lot." Ed growled and stood ontop of the seat and looked over at the rest of the train."

Ed: "Oh, um ... We're not suspicious people or anything." Ed sunk down into the seat. You could hear giggles and you looked behind you to see the girl called Marin waving at Al and smiling.

You: "See, Al. She likes you, right?" Marin nodded. She looked down and noticed a bit of Ed's auto-mail showing.

Ed: "Cooler then skin, huh?" Marin nodded again.

Mom: "Come now, Marin. You've bothered them enough." You looked at each other and smiled.

Further In The Train - - -

A woman with two kids sat on the train seat. The two kids laid on their Mom asleep.

General Hakuro: "Looks like they got tired from moving around so much."

Officer: "Yes, I'm glad that the vacation went smoothly. General Hakuro"

Hakuro: "I heard that it wasn't very safe in the East, but I guess it wasn't that dangerous." The two laughed. Outside the door, Warrant Officer Falmon, and another guard stood guard.

Falmon: "Hear that? The higher-ups are so easygoing. By the way, where is Major Hughes."

Sentinel: "Sir! He is currently contacting Lieutenant Colonel Mustang about the case."

Falmon: "That case?"

Sentinel: "Huh?"

Falmon: "I hope you're right."

Hughes: "Well, my wife has gotten more beautiful since she got pregnant. How should I say this ... She's like an Angel that had descended to Earth." Mustang slammed down the phone.

Hughes: "Huh? Lousy phones, cutting off my conversations. I can't do anything from in here."

Falmon: "You're the one we can't do anything with. I'll need to go on patrol again to feel safe."

Hughes: "Hello?"

Falmon: "Oh well ..."

Hughes: "What will I do if she has the baby tomorrow?"

Mustang: "Hughes. I've heard that story 50 times already. If you're going to talk to me about that, don't call me ... call your wife."

Hughes: "I did. A little while ago ..."

Mustang: "Then don't ask me!" Second Lieutenant Hawkeye picked up a different phone.

Hawkeye: "Pardon my intrusion. Major, let me give you a bit of feminine advise. A baby won't be born in just five months!" The train went under a tunnel.

Hughes: "What? What did you say? I can't hear very well with this phone."

With Falmon - - -

Falmon eyes swept across the train seats for anything suspicious. He stopped as he looked at al looking out the window.

Falmon: 'How suspicious'

Roy: "You can stop now Hughes. We've confirmed we're not being tapped. Have you found any suspicious O's or P's?"

Hughes: "No. Actually that's what I would like to say, but there are more people then expected on the train. If we include the people in the private rooms ..." a phone next to him rang. Hughes picked it up.

Hughes: "What is it?"

Falmon: "I found someone!"

Hughes: "Found?"

Falmon: "I found someone very suspicious!"

Hughes: "What?"

Falmon: "He's this guy in this huge suit of armored suit ..."

Hughes: "Armor?" Roy started laughing on the other line.

Roy: "That guy is fine. There should be to others with him. A short blond and a cute red haired girl."

Falmon: "Short guy, cute girl?" You laid your head on Ed's shoulder and he smiled and laid his head on yours. Falmon ran towards you.

Falmon: "Yes! There is one. He's really small." Ed shot up making you hit your head on his cheek.

Ed: "Who did you call a shorty that has to be looked at through a magnifying glass to actually be seen!"

Falmon: "No, um ... I wasn't the one who said it." Two guys in black pulled out their guns and pointed them at Falmon. Who had his gun pointed at one of them. The one behind him hit Falmon upside the head with the butt of his gun.

Gunman: "Be quiet! Everyone, raise both of your hands." You glared at the men as one of them looked at you. He walked over to you and took your chin his hand.

Gunman 2: "Raise your hands, beautiful. Or say hello to a bullet." You heard Ed let out a low growl but you all raised you're hands non the less.

With Hakuro - - - -

Two men with guns kicked the door open to General Hakuro's room. The officer pulled out his gun but on of the men took out a machine gun and shot at the officer. The officer fell to the floor clutching his shoulder. Hakuro looked up at the men.

Hakuro: "You ..." A man with long black hair tied back in a ponytail and an eye patch walked by.

: "Hello, General Hakuro." Hughes heard the whole indecent

Roy: "Hey, Hughes! What is it! Did something happen?" Hughes set the phone down lightly so the men did not hear him. A man broke into the switchboard.

Man: "Let Bald know we've secured the radio communicator. And that it looked like no one was using it." Roy and Hawkeye waited by the phone, for word from Hughes.

Hawkeye: "Is it them?" The phone rang and Roy picked it up."

Secretary: "General Hakuro on the train to Central City has a message to Central Command. Its an emergency"

Roy: "Connect them."

Hakuro: "It's me. Lieutenant Colonel? Is that you, Lieutenant Colonel Mustang?" Bald took the phone away from Hakuro.

Bald: "I am Bald, form the Blue Brigade, the front-line fighters form the East Liberation. The train is under our control now."

Roy: "What are your demands?"

Bald: "Don't play dumb. This morning the connections to one of our members suddenly ceased. It was someone that was supposed to send you a statement."

Roy: "What are you talking about?"

Bald: "Very well. Bring our leader in the Eighth Prison to Central Station. I will trade the hostages for him."

Roy: "Very well. But in exchange, do not kill anyone. Otherwise ..." The phone line went dead.

Hawkeye: "Was that okay? We have the statement here. If the General finds out, we will be responsible ..."

Roy: "It's okay. We just have to settle this incident. I already took the necessary steps."

Bald: "What is Mustang thinking. If he screws up, consider you and every passenger dead." The men were patting everyone down when the gunman looked up at you. He smirked and walked over to you.

Break - - - -

Al: "Brother ..." Al whispered as the man set his hands on your sides and moved them down slowly.

Ed: "Yeah ..."

Gunman: "You two ..." Ed had a scared look on his face and he pointed behind the man. They looked behind them then looked back. Ed jumped up and slammed his knee into the guys face. You jumped onto Al's shoulders your back were to the man and you flipped backwards so you landed right on the other gunman.

Man: "Hey, what are you going to do now? What if the others members come to get revenge?"

Man 2: "Yes. If you hadn't resisted, maybe we could have gotten to Central City safely"

Man: "Yes."

Al: "What should we do?"

Ed: "What?" The man you took out pointed his gun at Marin. Al jumped up and pushed him back to the ground.

Ed: "Are you okay?"

Mom: "Yes." Ed let out a sigh of relief.

Ed: "Sorry. We'll do something about it. Let's go, Al."

Al: "Okay."

Falmon: "Hey, you three." Falmon crawled out from one of the seats. You ran over and untied him.

Falmon: "I am ashamed. Who are you three?"

You: "Just some plain Alchemists."

Falmon: "What? Is that so? I'm Falmon, a Warrant Officer."

Ed: "A military personnel? You don't look like one." Falmon laughed.

Falmon: "There's a reason I'm dressed like this."

Al: "What?"

Falmon: "In the front car, there is ..."

Ed: "So the culprits are after ..." Falmon nodded.

You: "They got so many people involved in this ..." Ed stood up.

Ed: "Lita ... We're going above. You go from below with Falmon."

Al: "What? Okay."

On The Trains Roof - - - -

You and Ed stood side by side on top of the train. The wind whipped your hair around as Ed gripped onto your hand. You both began to run down the length of the train. Two of the men that was under Bald's command picked up the phone.

Gunman: "What is it?"

Gunman 3: "Help! Come quick!"

Gunman: "It's from the rear cars. Something's wrong." The second gunman walked over and opened the door. Al stood on the other side. The gunman got scared and shot at Al.

Al: "You shouldn't fire." The bullets bounced off his steel armor and one hit the gunman in the leg. He screamed in pain.

Al: "I was going to warn you that the bullets were going to ricochet ..."

Gunman: "What wrong!" The gunman screamed and shot at Al. Another bullet hit the man and he fell to the ground in pain. Al let out a long sigh.

With Bald - - -

Gunman: "Hey, Bald. We've lost communication with the rear cars."

Gunman 2: "What's going on?"

Bald: "Just as I thought, they were prepared for this."

Hakuro: "Give it up. Surrender and let the passengers go. It means that things wont go your way that easily." The gunman beside Bald shot at Hakuro and took off a piece of his ear.

Wife: "Honey!"

Bald: "I'm the only one who will be giving orders around here, General. Check the entire train again. Check out the outside of the cars as well!"

With You and Ed - - -

As you and Ed were walking along the train a tree branch came flying towards you. You and Ed were smacked in the face with the branch and you flew backwards. Just as you were about to fall to your death you were caught. You looked up and blinked.

Hughes: "Hey, are you two okay? I'm suprised that you two came out here."

You: "Oh, sure ..."

Hughes: "I'm Hughes. You are Edward Elric and Lita Nitro, right?"

Ed: "What? Yes ..."

Hughes: "I've heard about you from Lieutenant Colonel Mustang."

Ed: "What? From the Lieutenant Colonel?"

Hughes: "Yeah. Now, cooperate with me. We're done with the pulmonary research here."

Ed: "What?"

Two gunman stood guard over the coalmen in the lower hatches. Ed hung upside down from the window and stuck his tongue out at the man. He stuck his head back up before the man looked over.

Gunman: "What is it?" Hughes snuck through the opposite window, he slipped a small dagger from up his sleeve and stuck it through the gunman's hand.

Gunman 2: "Who are you?" You swung through and kicked the gunman in the back of the head. The two coal men growled and punched them both in the face. Another gunman opened a hatch and looked up on the top of the train. He saw Ed climbing up the side railing, you right behind him.

Gunman: "I found them. Eat lead." He aimed his gun at Ed's head. He ducked just before the bullet hit just where his eyes was.

Hughes: "You okay?" He also had to duck when a bullet came at him. Ed pulled out a piece of chalk and handed it to you. You drew the Transmutation Circle on the train wall and he used his Alchemy to make an iron canon.

Gunman: "What the ..." The canon ball slammed right into his face and he fell back through the upper hatch.

Hughes: "Amazing!"

Coalman: "Hey! Don't mess with that tender, it's the train's life!"

You: "Sorry! Tender?" You smirked as you got an idea. The gunman that was hit with the canon sat on the floor as he rubbed his head.

Gunman: "This isn't good, Bald. There's someone monstrous up there."

Gunman 2: "Bald! All the other connections have also ceased. They were talking about some armored guy ..."

Bald: "Calm yourselves!" A little speaker that looked like Ed appeared in the door.

Ed: "Testing. Testing. Can you hear me, everyone from the criminal group?"

Gunman 2: "What's ... that?"

Ed: "Hey! How dare you threaten everyone! Release the hostages!"

Bald: "Are you the guy that Mustang sent? If you interfere, I'll kill the hostages one by one."

Ed: "Oh? Looks like you're full of determination. Then ..." Something popped out of the door.

Gunman 2: "A water pipe?"

Ed: "Hostages. Please take cover!"

Bald: "What...?" Water rushed out to greet the 3 men. The water rushed through the entire car and poured out the windows. Al grabbed onto the copper door.

Al: "Here it goes." He opened the door to be pushed back by water. The three gunmen were pushed through the car and to the end. Al pushed his fists together.

Al: "Welcome." Bald got onto his hands and knees sopping wet.

Hughes: "Okay, don't move. You are the leader, correct?" Bald moved towards him and Hughes threw his dagger at Bald. It hit him in the arm but bounced off. He pointed his arm at Hughes and bullets flew towards him. Hughes fell to the ground and clutched his bloody shoulder.

Bald: "What's wrong? Come out."

Hughes: "Damn it." Bald smirked at him.

Bald: "Before I kill the General, I'll kill you."

You: "Wait!" Bald looked up to see you coming down him and you flipped out of the way and Ed grabbed onto his hands. Ed's auto-mail hand was clutched onto Bald's auto-mailic arm.

Ed: "An auto-mail buddy, eh?"

Bald: "Two kids? The military uses kids now?"

Ed: "Sorry for being a kid, but I'm not being used."

Bald: "Kid, let me tell you something. I was in the military a long time ago. When I was there, I wanted to equip myself with something better. But the military didn't like that. They feared the fact that I was going to become stronger. After I received the surgery to get this, they threw me away. That's way ... That's why ... I plan to destroy the military! You understand right? If you have that arm, you must have wished the same thing I did. You wished to become stronger then everyone."

Ed: "I don't understand at all. Don't compare my arm ... to your cheap arm!" Ed crushed Bald's arm with his hand. Bald turned around just to get 'Chick-Kicked' right under the chin. Al came up behind you and punched him square in the chin. He landed with a slam onto the train compartment floor. Ed sighed and winked at you giving you a thumbs up. Al and you smiled and gave him the thumbs up. Hughes smiled at you.

Hughes: "Really ... That was quite nice.

Central City - - -

All the gunmen and Bald were tied up and sat infront of the train.

Roy: "Do not kill anyone. That is what I told you. Looks like you listened to me, even if it was against your will." Bald jut smirked.

Bald: "You're Mustang?" A knife stuck out from his auto-mail arm and cut the ropes. Bald jumped up and tried to lunge on Mustang. Mustang just snapped and Bald was engulfed in flames.

You: "Woah ..." Bald sat there on his knees. Smoke pouring from his skin.

Roy: "I went easy on you. That shouldn't have effected your body as much as it seems. I am Roy Mustang. My rank is Lieutenant Colonel. And I am the Flame Alchemist. Remember that."

Ed: "He's Mustang?" You growled and ran up to him.

You: "You bastard! You put us on that train knowing about this didn't you?"

Roy: "We didn't know everything. By the way, I have good news for you. The General has heard of your accomplishment. And he will be giving the three of you special permission to take the State Alchemy exam."

Ed: "Special? You told us to take it, that's why we..."

Roy: "There is no way children can take an official military exam. See? Aren't you glad I made you take this train?" Roy walked over and set his hand on your shoulder.

Roy: "It's your choice whether you take the test or not."

You: "Of course we will."

Al: "Looks like we were playing right into their hands. But it can't be helped. We still lack power."

Marin: "There he is! Over here!" Marin and her Mom were on the departing gate.

Al: "Marin!"

Marin: "Big brothers! Thank you!" You all smiled and waved back, thankful that you could make a difference.