Here's the next chapter, sorry it took so long; I was lazy and busy with other stuff. I don't own fma. Plz read, rate, and review.

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The world around me flew past in a spin of color, my breathing remained rather normal but I found myself creating oxygen and glucose as energy in order to increase my speed. It worked, and the two strange boys were now several blocks behind me.

The screaming continued in breadth as I arrived at my destination, immediately ending all energy formation, and completely halting the movement of my feet. My eyes widened as a misplaced foot proved my mistake.

The concrete was coming up fast, and I instinctively fell into a roll, scraping my knees, hand, and a small spot above my eye. I slowly opened my eyes and the world stopped spinning, it seemed I had a knack for putting myself in embarrassing situations.

Three people were staring at me: a soldier with blonde hair and green eyes, a large tanned man in sunglasses with strange markings on his arms, and a girl who looked almost exactly like me.

I ignored the first too and stared wide eyed at the clone as the other girl mirrored my expression. She was standing on the roof of one of the buildings and wore a long dark cloak, her black hair in a long braid down her back.

I stared at her, and everyone else stared at me in silence; until two pounding footsteps pulled everyone's attention to a short blonde kid and a suit of armor. There was another long moment of silence as everyone seemed too startled to make any moves.

At least until sunglass-man grabbed the head of the soldier in the hand of his tattooed arm and there was a bright light. The clone jerked her head down and stared at him, the energy the man formed fading instantaneously and a spurt of energy filling my own body.

More shocked silence as the sunglass-man looked at his hand and then at her in confusion and the soldier clutched his head in terror.

"Leave him alone," the clone commanded, leaping off the roof gracefully and starting towards him.

Sunglass-man took off running and no one chased him.

I scrambled to my feet, took one last look at the clone and took off running, pushing past the boys who tried to grab me, apparently splitting up (the short kid chasing me). I was too disoriented to force energy into my legs, to out of breath to keep running, and becoming increasingly weak and fatigued.

Finally I came to a stop in front of a large brick building, before I heard a sound and found myself staring at a group of uniformed soldiers; a few pointing their guns, the rest appearing to prepare to use alchemy.

"No…problem…here," I managed between gasping breaths. A gun was cocked by a blonde woman and a tall Xing-looking man looked ready to snap his fingers. Smiling slightly I made a small wave.

A certain annoying short boy ran up, "she did something, she stopped scar's decomposition."

I shook my head wildly and waved my hands in front of my face, "that wasn't me, that was the clone."

"Clone?" The boy gave me a weird look.

I nodded vigorously, "she was wearing some cloak, I swear I don't even know how she did it. It was the exact opposite of…" I trailed off …of me…

The wall behind me faded suddenly, and two arms grabbed me and pulled me through. The woman fired and I instantly thought of the wall closing up. The task was completed with only one detoured bullet whizzing a foot from my head.

I ripped away from the captor and glared at my identical, "ok, clone; are you the good twin or the evil?"

The girl shrugged, "name's D."

I smirked, "mine's C."

"Let me guess," She laughed, "its short for creation."

I nodded, "And yours destruction."

Her smirk faded, "How much energy do you have?"

I shrugged, but giving her a questioning look, "how do you know how mine works."

"Because I'm a genius."

"Some," I blushed at having used a good amount of my saved energy just running to sunglass-man's location.

"good," she paused a moment and appeared deep in thought. The sound of approaching footsteps echoed around us.

I glanced at the opening and prepared to close it, when D grabbed my arm to stop me and made a motion with her finger, pointing down and shushed me.

The ground beneath us faded and I tumbled into the darkness, twisting my ankle and wacking my head, elbow, and butt on the ground as we landed in a heap on dirt ten feet from the surface.

"Close the surface!" She appeared to have landed without injury. I glanced up, and the whole hole above us was refilled, open till about a foot above our current position.

She sighed in relief, and I vaguely heard the sound of footsteps above us, someone barking orders. Both of us, sat in silence for what felt like hours before the footsteps hurried away and there was a long silence above us.

"That was close," I laughed, cut off by D's finger shoved in my front of my face in a symbol for silence. Her eyes flashed angrily in the darkness. I blushed and leaned against the rock walls, rubbing my sore ankle, using my remaining energy to fix the stretched muscle.

It was a long time in complete darkness before D shifted to face me. I couldn't make out her face in the darkness, and there was a long pause where I merely stared at the spot I guessed her eyes to be.

"Make some damn light already."

I quirked an eyebrow, silently wishing she could see my expression, "how?"

"Photons."

"Photons?"

"yeah," D said as she once more shifted and then let out a sigh.

I looked around the darkness wondering how I was supposed to make them, unlike other objects I'd created; I'd never seen what a photon looked like. Wasn't it a theory anyway? How did D know that I wasn't supposed to create energy waves or something instead? Either way I had no idea how to do it, and ended up just looking around continually as D began to tap her fingers impatiently.

"Any time now, I'm not going to live forever."

There was another long silence before I replied, "I don't know how to do it, why don't you just open up the hole again."

D groaned, "It's not that simple, we can't just come out of where we went in."

"But it's the perfect plan!" I shouted, "They'll never expect it!"

D let out another groan, "trust me, we're going to tunnel out of here. Now make some light."

There was a pause, and finally I just imagined what our encampment must look like when doused in light and opened my eyes to find that nothing had changed.

"Soon would be good."

"I'm trying!"

After a couple more failed attempts I gave up, "what do photons look like?"

"Dunno, round I guess, multi-colored, energy-emitting, etcetera, etcetera."

"Very vivid description, D."

"Thank you."

I wondered whether that was a sarcastic reply to my sarcastic remark, or D was oblivious to cynicism. Slowly D made movements, I assumed were an attempt to stand. Something brushed against the 'ceiling'.

"Guess we're doing this blind," D muttered under her breath as she felt around the walls. "Hey C, do you remember which way the wall you made was when we fell?"

I shook my head, but stopped when I realized D couldn't see my response, "no, we sort of tumbled around it could be in any direction for all we know."

D made what sounded like someone banging their head on the wall, "This is useless."

"I guess the only way out is up."

D was silent a moment, "when I open this tunnel up, create a ladder immediately, got it?"

"Yeah."

The dirt above us faded from existence and I covered my eyes as the bright lights blinded me.

"C!"

"I know, ladder." I opened my eyes slowly, ghosts of the sun still daunting my vision. I stared up at the wall and willed a ladder to appear. It immediately did so.

D, already standing, hurried up the ladder with me not far behind. We stood at the top and I turned to the hole and it closed up, then turned to D and stepped away from her. "Ok I want an explanation now, who are you and why do you look like me?"

"Not now, let's worry about getting too…" she paused and looked around her in thought.

"I don't think you thought this through very well, D."

"Shut-up."