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Chapter 2: Homunculus Revealed
We headed back to central after Kat gave us hints on where we can find the Elric brothers. We ran to the central base into Roy's office.
"Where's Fullmetal and his brother?!" I asked breathing heavily.
"There in the central library," Roy replied.
We ran to the central library. Then my brother and I saw the Elric brothers. I kicked Fullmetal out of the building. Alpen did the same. My brother flew down on him, knocking Alphonse down. I grabbed Fullmetal's braid and threw him up. I unleashed many lightning bolts. Fullmetal managed to dodge all of them.
"What are you doing?" Fullmetal asked.
"Fighting. What else?" I responded.
Fullmetal grunted. He clapped his hand and hit the floor. The ground started shaking. A spike came out of the ground. I managed to dodge it but by a hair. I noticed a small amount of blood dropping from my cheek. The attack grazed me. I did heard Fullmetal lost his alchemy after the fight with Dwarf in the Flask but regained it after traveling somewhere. I started laughing.
"What's so funny?" Fullmetal asked.
"This is getting fun," I said.
Fullmetal clapped his hand again and the ground beneath his feet extended high in the air. He smirked. I smirked as well. I started running on the extended ground. Kat taught me to run on walls back at the academy. When I reached the top, I destroyed the extended rock. Fullmetal was now falling 50 feet in the air with me. We started exchanging punches while we were falling to the ground. When we successfully landed on the ground, I formed a lightning disc in my hand. I threw at Fullmetal. He tried blocking it with his automail leg. From his shin down, the automail was cut off.
"Damn it! Now Winry's going to kill me!" Fullmetal yelled.
From the ground, Fullmetal formed a sword out of earth. I clicked my hand and a lightning blade manifested into my hand. We clashed our swords. We did that multiple times. Then my blade cut his sword. I spun around, with my sword, and wounded Fullmetal's stomach. My blade that was made out of electricity disappeared. The blonde shorty grabbed his automail which was cut off and repaired it with alchemy.
Alpen was running to Alphonse. Alpen grinned. He suddenly appeared right in front of Alphonse. He gave a direct punch at Alphonse's face. He released his full homunculus powers.
"You can teleport?" Alphonse asked.
"It's called increasing your speed," Alpen explained.
Alpen's real ability was to increase a part of his ability and in return he has to decrease another one of his ability. Like if he increases his speed, his strength gets decreased or maybe if he increased his hearing, his sight would be lowered. It's just like equivalent exchange. Alpen grabbed his sword and struck Alphonse's stomach. Blood started gushing out of his stomach. He screamed out of pain. Edward was looking at this and got angry. He had to focus his battle with me though. Alphonse clapped against the wall of the central building. Several bricks were being shot at Alpen. Alpen dodged all of them. While he was distracted, Alphonse was about to punch him in the face. My brother increased his endurance ability. He took the blow but there was no sign of damaged.
"Crap! If that was a second later, he would've damaged my skin and see my healing powers. In other words, he would've find out I'm a homunculus," Alpen thought.
I wondered why the central military wasn't stopping our fight.
"ENOUGH!" Fullmetal yelled.
He headed towards me straight. He had a hard fist ready. I was ready to take the hit. I was smiling. Suddenly, I fell to my knees. I started screaming in pain while holding my head. Fullmetal was right there about to hit me.
"JET!" Alpen yelled while leaping in front of me.
Fullmetal's punch went right through his stomach. Fullmetal was terrified at what he did. He didn't mean to do it. Blood dripped out of my brother's mouth. He quickly pulled Fullmetal's hand out of his stomach. Red light appeared at Alpen's stomach. His stomach was healing. The Elric brothers were surprised. Alpen ignored them and turned around. He started shaking me.
"Jet! Why now?!" Alpen asked.
When my middle finger was taken away, I was pretty sure something else was taken away. It ended up being a part of my brain. Every month, my brain loses control of my body and I suffer as if I die. The Elric brothers were confused. They didn't know if my brother was bad or good. A group of officers surrounded the Elric brothers, my brother, and me. Everything was so blurry but I can make out military officers capturing my brother. The next thing I knew, I woke up in a hospital.
"Really Colonel! He's your student?!" Fullmetal said surprised.
"For the last time, it's Fuhrer," Roy said. He looked at me. "He's up."
"WHERE'S ALPEN!" I yelled rising up from the bed.
"He's safe..." Roy said.
"No he's not! You knew this whole time didn't you?!" I yelled again.
Roy sighed. "I fought enough homunculus to know," Roy said.
I got up. I raised my fingers up. Roy did the same. He was about to click it until he immediately stopped. Fullmetal and Alphonse came to stop me until I did the same to them too.
"I can control the nerves of your body. Your brain sends an electrical shock to your nerves. I can stop it and manipulate it," I explained.
I clicked my fingers and everyone in the room got blown by a shock wave.
A few more officers came in. I shocked them. Then Roy's main body guard came in holding a pistol.
"Stop!" yelled the woman.
"Riza Hawkeye..." I said.
I electrocuted her as well. I headed to central. I had a feeling they would be keeping him there. One by one, guards would come at me trying to shoot me and one by one I damaged them badly. I headed to the room where they study humans. I found Alpen there badly wounded. Scientists were holding knives. I started controlling the nerves of the scientists who were studying him. My hands rose up. It clicked and I was in control of them. I made them grab the medical knives and stab themselves. Alpen looked like he was about to die. The Elric brothers barged in. Alpen slowly turned his head to me.
"Let me get it so I can cure you! I'll find out the secrets how to cure a homunculus!" I yelled.
"Don't use it..." Alpen said. "Bring Fullmetal here..." Alpen said. Fullmetal came next to Alpen. Alpen gave him a present box. "Fullmetal... no, Edward Elric... sorry for all the trouble," Alpen said smiling.
Edward opened the box. His expression changed. There was a bottle of milk inside. Alphonse was holding in his laugh inside.
"ARE YOU CALLING ME A SUPER ULTRA SHORT BEAN?!" Edward asked.
"Yes... yes I am," Alpen replied.
I held my brother's hand. His body was turning into particles. At that time, my little twin brother died.
"I will get you back... homunculus Hero," I whispered.
Military officers surrounded me. I felt like I was hopeless. They took me in prison.
I was in special handcuffs so I can't try to create alchemy. My eyes were burning with fury. Alphonse came to my cell.
"I'm sorry," Alphonse said.
"There's nothing to be sorry for. The military should be apologizing. I will kill every single one of the military officers," I told him.
"You don't have to. Do you think your brother would want this?" Alphonse asked.
"I guess not," I said.
"The thing that can cure him... is it the philosopher's stone?" Alphonse asked.
"No. A philosopher's stone cannot cure another philosopher's stone. What I'm talking about is much more evil," I explained.
"Well, what is it?" Alphonse asked another question.
"... Pandora's box," I said.
"Pandora's box? I haven't heard of that before," Alphonse said.
"It holds all of the evil secrets, and evil alchemy, in the world. Not many can survive after peeking in the box and those who do, turn evil," I said.
"That's the more reason you shouldn't use it!" Alphonse said.
"When I was young, I made a sin... a taboo. I wanted to turn my whole body into alchemy so I can control any element I wish to. It failed. Instead I got a homunculus brother, named Hero. I also received the rarest... no, the impossible element lightning. I lost a part of my brain as well. If I can get Pandora's box I can fix everything. Of course, I do have a plan to resist the evil that can consume me," I explained.
"Oh yeah?! What is it?" Alphonse asked eagerly.
"TO NOT TURN EVIL!" I laughed. Alphonse made a face that said, so disappointing. "Just joking. The box is located deep inside Xing. That country has many medical alchemists. If I can learn a rare skill, maybe enhance it with the philosopher's stone, I can resist the evil."
"But the philosopher's stone IS evil!" Alphonse said.
"No it isn't. It's just an unjust way to create the stone, which I'm not going to do. I need to find someone who has a philosopher's stone," I said.
"Lin can help us! He's the emperor of Xing! He has a stone!" Alphonse said. "But we can't just bust you out of here. It wouldn't be right."
I smiled. "Do those idiots think I only rely on alchemy?" I said.
I started flexing my arms. Then I pulled my hands away from each other and boom, the handcuffs broke. I walked towards the bars and I stretched it. Alphonse was surprised. The alarms started ringing.
"I'll get my brother so we can help you," Alphonse said.
"No! I don't want a shorty helping out. It's either you or no one," I told Alphonse.
Alphonse made a decision. He nodded.
-The Lunar Alchemist-
Last time on The Lunar Alchemist:
Alpen applied for the military. After passing the test, Alpen and Jet went to search for their ultimate goal. To defeat the Elric Brothers. Instead, they ended up at their old's friend academy. After a few months, they began their search again.
Next time on The Lunar Alchemist:
Alphonse and Jet run into Kat. They join together to pass the desert that separates Amestris and Xing. They run into Alphonse's former enemy and another friend. Who could these people be? Find out in the next chapter of The Lunar Alchemist.
Chapter 3: Xerxes
