Alright peeps, here is the second chapter. Hope you enjoy!
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Chapter 2: Ishbal Massacre
"Whoa, what was that?" you asked as you turned in the direction where you hear an explosion and see smoke some 21 blocks away. You started running in that direction to see if anybody needed any assistance.
Back with the three males
"Brother…where do we go now?" Al asked Ed as they were standing by some restaurant.
"I don't know, but for now, let's just keep some distance from the guy with the sunglasses." Ed replied. Then a black dog started barking toward the street. There were three military convoy trucks filled with soldiers moving to some location.
"Ma'am, do you have a back door we could us?" Ed asked the waitress kindly. Once they left through the back door of the restaurant, they started walking in the ally's of town. Ed and Al started talking about how they couldn't take Marcoh to Eastern Command. When they came out of the ally, they came across some kids playing in the mud.
Meanwhile
Col. Mustang and his gang were looking in the remains of where Armstrong and Scar had battled. They were digging around trying to look for any of the two, when Second Lieutenant Heymans Breda and Master Sergeant Kain Fuery found The Strong Arm Alchemist and called the Col., who was currently talking to Second Lieutenant Jean Havoc.
"Come on, talk to me Maj., what happened? " Col. Mustang asked his hurt subordinate. Then Lieutenant Colonel Maes Hughes slips on the ladder when he enters the crater in the ground.
"Close call. This in turning into a real mess." the Lt. Col. said.
"Where's Grand?" Havoc voiced.
"We found him down the road, let's just say, there's gana be some promotions unless the Brigadier General can survive having his brains turned to hamburger meat." Hughes says looking rather disgusted by that scene.
"But, he was the Brigadier General. He was an expert in hand-to-hand combat. Wasn't he? Fuery asks.
All Hughes did was shrug and then he nods over to Mustang so they can talk a little more privately.
"Scars M.O." Hughes tells Mustang, when Armstrong interrupts him.
"That man, he's an Ishbalan. I'm sure of it, I saw his red eyes." he says in a pained and tried voice.
"Just stay down, your hurt." Hughes tells him as he looks in his direction.
"Do you know where Lt. Col. (l/n) is?" Mustang asked a little worried.
"We spilt-up to see if we could find the Elrics, and I'm sorry Lt. Col. you sent me with direct orders and I failed… The brown skin and red eyes, I'm sure of it, I even confronted him about his god." Armstrong adds.
"Well, well, there's a decent break in the case, Hughes. Now we now why he's killing us." Mustang says to Hughes a little disturbed by the information that was just given to him. You finally made it to the crater and jumped in.
"Lt. Col. I'm sorry sir, but I still haven't found FullMetal." you say a little depressed from your failed mission, as you salute.
"It's alright, just keep looking." Hughes tells you.
"Armstrong are you alright?" you asked as you moved closer to him.
"Yes, I'll be alright sir. Just need a little rest." he replies.
"Alright, just rest then, ok." you tell him as you get up and start making your way out of the giant hole in the ground.
"Lt. Col." Mustang says as he gets your attention.
"Sir." you said as you made your way to the latter to where Hughes and Mustang were standing and saluted him.
"Be care, alright." Mustang tells you as he puts his hand on your shoulder, in a fatherly way.
"Watch your back and if you run into the Scarred man, be extra careful." Hughes adds in.
"Don't worry, sirs. I will." you salute as Mustang removes his hand and you climbed backup the latter.
Back to the three
Marcoh started to explain that the Ishbal War was really a massacre, and how it started. He explained to them about where they lived, their religion, and their views on alchemy. And what he and Grand were talking about.
While explaining some kid had to go and get hurt. The kid thanked the doctor, once Marcoh finished treating his ankle. When Marcoh started talking about the other doctors. Then how the military only let a hand-full of Ishbalan's live.
When Ed suggested that Marcoh should hind in their hometown of Resembool with the Rockbells, Marcoh said he couldn't, and freaked out and ran. The Elric's started to case after him.
With Scar
Scar was confronted by a group of soldiers with pointed guns at him. He put his hand to the ground and sent an attack at them. Before he had a chance to walk away, Col. Mustang shot a bullet into the air, succeeding in getting Scar's attention.
"That's far enough." Mustang tells him.
"Col. Mustang, wait." First Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye says, trying to get her superior officer's attention.
"Col. Mustang. The Flame Alchemist, Roy Mustang?" Scar questions as he turns around to face him.
"The one and only." Roy answers, then he tosses the gun to Hawkeye.
"I'm awfully sorry about your grievances, but no one hurts my men." the Col. replies as he gets ready to snap his fingers.
"Yet another soul that's left god's path, your death will be swift" Scar tells him as he fully confronts Mustang.
"Brave enough to confront the Flame Alchemist, are we?" Roy answers by bringing his hand up. Scar making the first move to attack when suddenly, Riza drop kicks Mustang and starts shooting at Scar.
"That's no way to get promoted Hawkeye!" Mustang tells his subordinate, from his sitting position on the ground.
"Don't worry sir, I just saved your life. Your fire attacks are no good in the rain." Hawkeye replies calmly, while the Col. Just looks pale and shocked as Havoc agrees with her.
Scar puts his hand on the side of a house and Hawkeye commands the soldiers to open fire on him, but he still managed to escape.
"Breda, go to the train station. Wait for FullMetal." Roy commands.
"Huh? But how do you now where he's headed?" Breda questions.
"Isn't it obvious, he's shielding Marcoh." Mustang tells him.
Back with Ed
"Marcoh, wait!" Ed yells to the now resting doctor.
"It's your call, we don't have to go if you don't want to, we're not trying to steal your research." Ed tells him.
"No Ed, there are other reasons I can't go. I'm a stained man." Marcoh says to him.
Then out of no where they hear gun shots and they look up. They see Scar jump down from one of the roofs on the left side. He lands right in-between Ed, Al, and Marcoh. Al goes and grabs Scar with his right hand to stop him, when Scar turns around and tells him…
"I have an attack made just for you!" he yells at Al and hits him with his right hand and blows the right part of Al's suit of armor.
"AL!" Ed yells, afraid that he might lose his little brother. Ed goes to attack Scar, but Scar manages to dodge all of Ed's attack with ease. He then goes for another punch, but Scar grabs his right fist. He then proceeds to blow his automail arm.
"BROOOTHER! NO! Get up and run, get out of here!" Al yells desperately, from his position on the ground. Ed stays on the ground while Scar walks up to him.
Scar then sticks out his right hand and puts it on Edward's head.
When suddenly a big dog comes out of nowhere, and jumps up and bites Scar's extended arm and pushes him out of the way with the rest of its body. Succeeding in removing Scar's deadly arm away from FullMetal. When the dog's teeth made contact with Scar's arm, the array started to glow.
"What the…" Ed was lost at what he saw. Not that he wasn't grateful for what happened.
Scar's arm was bleeding a little from the bite marks left on his arm. The dog jumped in front of Ed, tail up in the air making itself look more treating, and started growling at the tall man. That's when Scar realized something, this was no normal dog, it was a chimera.
"You're a…..agh!" Scar was cut off by Marcoh, who was using a red stone to cause a reaction with Scar's array. He went to attack him, but was unable to when Marcoh threw the stone at his hand. When his hand made contact, it absorbed the stone and caused Scar a great deal of pain.
Scar made a run for it, but was cut off by Mustang and some of his soldiers. That's when Scar slammed his hand onto the ground and made another creator to escape through the sewer system. When the smoke cleared Mustang, Havoc, and Hawkeye were looking at the destruction that was left.
"Nice mess… is it over yet." Lt. Col. Hughes replies in a cheery voice that came from out of nowhere, with Maj. Armstrong standing behind him.
"You know, you can help since your here." Mustang replies in an annoyed sounding voice.
"Layoff, I'm as normal as they come. This is a contest of freaks, what do you want me to do? Fire my sling-shot at'em." replies Hughes.
Fuery goes to see if Al needed any assistance, when he notice Al's suit of armor has no body inside. He's surprised to say the least. Mustang notices and tells Hawkeye to take crowd control.
Ed then goes over to Al to see if he was ok. Alphonse decides to give Ed a piece of his mind for not running away when he told him to and punches him by using his right arm. He continues to yell at Ed, when his arm decides to fall off the rest of his upper body.
"We're really falling apart at the scenes. Everybody that sees us, probably thinks we're a joke." Ed says looking ashamed. That's when the dog goes over to them to see how they were.
"I guess I owe you one boy." Ed replies to the dog.
'What, oh hell no. He didn't just called me a boy! Dude, and they think I'm a dog. Hell no!' Thought the "dog" and growled at him for mistaking her for a him.
"Whoa, sorry girl." The dog made a sound and nodded, meaning that it was ok. Then the dog made its way toward the Col. and the Lt. Col. That's when Ed and Al noticed that it had an automail left arm and leg.
When the dog arrived it looked like it saluted them, by lifting its right arm.
"Good work, you did what you could." Mustang told her, as he was bent down so he could whisper in her ear.
"Alright Lt. Col., you could go and change back." he told you. With that said she then proceeded to salute him and Hughes, and took one final look at them and of Edward and Alphonse, and then ran off to find a secluded area.
"Col., the Furhur's secretary has arrived." Hawkeye comes up to Mustang from where she was.
"Oh really, and what does she want?" Mustang turns to face her.
"I have orders to take Marcoh and put him under Furhur Bradley's custody…He assures you that the Doctor will not come to harm." she tells Mustang in a calm voice.
"But… Yes of course." Mustang replies. After all there's not much he can do, since it's the Furhur.
"Marcoh…Don't." Ed tells the doctor, hoping he could change his mind.
"It's like I told you Ed, I can't go with you…Your hometown is a place where I can never be welcomed." Marcoh replies in a saddened voice.
"Why not?" Ed questions him.
"The two doctors that we executed in Ishbal… There names were Rockbell." he answers saddly, Roy also looked pained from the memory. Ed looks at him with a surprised face then he looks away, towards Al. When Marcoh starts to walk away, he drops a little crumpled ball in-between Edward and Alphonse.
"Let's get going sir." the secretary tells Marcoh as he makes his way into the car.
"Brother, I think I just heard moms voice." Al says to Ed, as he looks in the direction that Marcoh went.
"Come on Al, you just had a brush with death. Don't go unstable on me now." Ed replies to his younger brother, as he is still looking down.
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Well, other then that, I hope you like it, review please. Peace!
Key : this is the abbreviations I'll be using. I don't know if these r the 1's they use. Col. - ColonelLt. Col. - Lieutenant Colonel Maj. - Major