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A/N: Please read the note at the bottom, thank you. (Bows)

Chapter 9: Rescue

Ed looked at the building holding the Ishbalians with disgust. This wasn't right. The military had captured women and children just to draw out Scar. They even took his fiancé and were trying to force information out of her.

What he wouldn't give to slug the idiot who came up with this plan. It was wrong, cruel, evil, and downright vial. If only he could help them and not be caught at it. He would love to see the faces of the other alchemists when they went to torment Lila and find her not there.

He looked back to see Al pulling a book from inside his armor. "Man, this armor is annoying, you could fit people inside me, and I'm still a kid."

Click.

A devious smile formed on Ed's face as a plan came to mind.

Central, near prison

Scar slid down a wall to sit on the cold ground. He was so tired. His arm hurt like hell's fire was burning in it. The pain had given him a headache that wouldn't go away, and he had been walking for what felt like forever. But he hadn't stopped once in fear that, if he did stop, Lila would be dead when he got there.

All he had wanted when he was younger was to live happily with Lila and his siblings. Now, it was just a dream that was out of his reach like the stars in the night sky. They forever teased him, twinkling brightly, giving him hope of something that would never come true.

He reached for his locket and opened it, looking down at the two pictures. Lila, him, Kim, his brother, all of them were smiling, unaware that two would be dead. Forever smiling, frozen in time, unaware of the horror of the future.

He closed it with a soft click, and stood up slowly.

"I knew I'd find you here," a voice said cheerfully.

Scar turned around to face Ed and Al, smirking at him in a cheerful way.

"So, come to save your wife, or is she still your fiancé, or just girlfriend?"

Scar lowered his arms, and glared at the two. "This is none of your business, leave."

Ed sighed dramatically, leaning against the wall. "I don't know, they've got the women and children in there locked up pretty tight, you need to get in by stealth."

Scar looked at him, already knowing what the young alchemist was getting at. Ed would help get him inside, and they'd use Al's empty body to transport some outside.

"What do you want?"

"Nothing, I just really don't like what they are doing just to catch you. But if you say so. You lay off the killings, mainly stop it, most that are left didn't do anything that involved the massacre. You do that, and I'll help set everyone free, and cover it up."

Scar glared at him. The foolish child, telling him to stop when the military wouldn't stop even after his people had suffered so much. "You find a way to stop these attacks on my people and I'll agree."

Ed held out his human arm. "Agreed."

Scar shook it. "Now, what do you have planned?"

With Lila

Lila yawned as she curled up under the thin covers. It was night, her fourth there. Every day, twice a day, they questioned her, trying everything to get her to talk. So far, she had remained silent, but it was getting really annoying being asked the same thing over and over again.

Rick and Leo were already fast asleep on the top bunk. They fell asleep an hour ago. It was eleven now.

She had just closed her eyes when something hit her in the head. It felt like a small pebble. Blinking as she sat up, she rubbed her head where the pebble had hit. Her eyes wondered to the window that led outside. A shadowy face was there.

"Scar," she whispered, rushing over. "I knew you'd come."

Scar nodded, reaching in and wiping away the tears that were spilling out of his fiancé's eyes. "Get Rick and Leo up, and tell them to stay silent."

Lila nodded and raced over to the two boys, shaking them awake.

Ed was, at this moment, walking away from the computer room, having fixed up the computers so they showed the cells with the Ishbalian prisoners same as always.

"Now what," asked Lila once she got the boys up?

"Stand back." A flash of blue light momentarily lit the dark cell. The group appreciated the howling winds, growling thunder, flashing lightning, and pounding rain at the moment, as it covered their escape.

A hole appeared in the wall, just large enough for the three to squeeze out.

At once, Lila dive-bombed Scar, hugging him tightly, and hiding her tearstained face in his shirt.

The four boys were gagging, and snickering, pointing at the two adults and their happy little exchange.

"Come on, let's get the rest," Ed said after a moment. He squeezed through the hole, and made one after the other, till he reached the last cell. One by one, women and children squeezed through the holes and out the last one.

"Is that everyone," Al asked, looking around as Ed closed up the hole?

There were a few scattered yeses, and some nods.

"This way," Ed called quietly, leading the group towards the docks, where a ship stood moored. A few Ishbalian men stood on the deck, waving as they drew nearer.

"Ok, everyone on, and hurry," Ed said, helping a young girl onto the boat.

Al looked up and down the street, and nodded. "Still safe."

"This was a lot easier then my last escape," Scar whispered to Lila as he helped her on board.

Then again, Ed and Al hadn't been helping him, and he had the cameras watching him.

Soon, everyone was on board, and ready to shove off.

"Good luck, and remember our deal," Ed reminded Scar, shaking his hand.

"Good luck," Al called.

"Thank you very much," Lila said, bowing her head in respect.

Ed smiled and Al rubbed his metal head. "It was nothing, glad to help. Good luck with… whatever you two are, fiancés, boyfriend/girlfriend, whatever!"

"Fiancés," Lila giggled hugging Scar, who was keeping his face strait.

"See you again one day," the two called as the boat began to move.

Under the cloak of darkness, the group of Ishbalians snuck out of Central, and into the country. They were off towards the mountains, where a large settlement of their people was.

"I still think that escape was boring," Leo muttered. "If those military dogs had come, I'd kick them in the shins, and then slam them to the ground! POW! Then I'd knock them out with a flying kick! WHAM!"

"And I'd send them flying into the jail with a helicopter kick," exclaimed Rick, kicking imaginary soldiers. "Then POW! WHAM! I'd knock their heads together and send them crying home to their mommy's."

"I'd knock more out," Leo stated.

"Oh yeah," challenged the younger boy.

The two siblings glared at each other before continuing explaining what they'd do if the soldiers had come.

Lila smiled, and shook her head at the two as they attacked imaginary soldiers. She didn't mind the quiet escape. It wouldn't be quiet once the morning came. She hoped those two young boys could handle everything and get out of it without getting in trouble.

"So what next," Lila asked, sitting down next to Scar, and putting her head on his shoulder?

Scar looked up at the sky. It had stopped raining, and the clouds were gone, leaving a clear dark sky. The stars looked so much brighter tonight, so much closer. He let a small smile form and put an arm around Lila. "Who knows?"

Lila looked up at the starry sky as well and smiled as she saw a shooting star. She thought about making a wish, but what did she need? With a sigh of content, Lila closed her eyes, and leaned into Scar's hold. She had just what she needed.

And they lived happily ever after together.

WRONG! Sadly, I can't write this, for it is not my duty to weave together sweet, overly romantic happy endings like this. It is my duty to write the events that happened as they happened. And sadly, this is not the way the story ends… well, sadly for Scar, and everyone else, cause I'm still torturing them, good for you guys, cause this story is still going!

A/N: As most who've read the story know, I actually go much farther than chapter 9. But my sisters and I reviewed the story and decided to save those parts for a sequel later on. So this is the end of THIS story.

Sequel will be up when I feel like it, which may be a while cause school gonna start and I want to write more chapters first.