"Colonel!"

"Colonel, over here!"

They have entered the lost city under Amestris, Roy and lieutenant Riza Hawkeye thread their way carefully through the mountain of rubble and stone bricks, three days ago; strange flying 'birds' with mechanical engines flew out of this place carrying hundreds of armored soldiers and laid a siege on Central Amestris. They flew out from a large golden gate, or so as described by the Elric brothers, sadly when the siege ended, the two boys too went over to the other side. The older Elric ordered him to destroy the gate from this side while they will put an end of the gate on the other side, but, if he does; the boys would never be able to return to this world any longer. Is that what they really wanted? To leave their home town, where they had adventures and journeys together; what about the people who cared about them? Are they able to just leave it all here?

The colonel set foot on a clearing without rocks and dust; he spun around and extended an arm to the lieutenant who was threading behind him. They exchanged glances with each other and she accepted his offer without much question, the two soldiers made their way to a group of other military men who was also doing on-site research.

"Colonel! Over here, over here!" He heard the voice again, it sounded familiar. He received a nudge on the elbow which traced back to the lieutenant who directed his gaze to a small campfire over to the far right, where a small figure was, and he seemed to be waving; in good spirits in their direction.

Roy squinted and when he realized who it was, he sprinted towards the young solider, the lieutenant followed hurriedly behind him, she knew who it was. And Roy addressed him when he was close enough, "Fuery Kain!" True enough, the subordinate whom he had not met in a year grinned joyfully, "You remembered me, it has been such a long time, how are you?" The lieutenant had just finally caught up to him; she gave Kain a swift smile and addressed Roy, "Colonel, it is time to destroy the gate." The colonel looked at the young solider whom he once called his pawn pieces of his favorite chess game, he seemed to have shrunk quite a lot, and carries many injuries. Roy gaze travelled down to Kain's arm when he noticed it was bandaged, "What happened to your arm?"

Kain threw him a frightened look, but shook it off soon after, "It is nothing much, just a scratch…" but his voice trailed away at the glare Roy was giving him. "Is it the general?" Roy asked casually, even though Kain's expression and the similar injury which was carried by the lieutenant gave away the answer. Kain peered around them, and when noticing that no one else would hear about it, he nodded subtlety. A frown formed upon Roy's forehead, he was about to say something when kain cut into his thoughts, "Colonel, please, it is really time to destroy that gate." He glanced at kain and back to the lieutenant, who was staring into another direction; it was obvious that he did not want to talk about it. Roy gave a curt nod; "I understand" he allowed the lieutenant to show him the way, but he kept a corner of his eyes on kain. What did that mad man do to all of them, they were strong individual soldiers I had cared about but now, they are all injured and weakened…

"Colonel, here it is." They had been walking for a while now; kain was already out of sight. He pulled away from his thoughts, and focused on his surroundings. They are in the middle of a wide open area, and right in front, it was a magnificent golden gate. The entry to another world, Roy thought quietly to himself. He etched closer to the edge of the gate and peered in, it was a colorful swirl and a strong force that seemed as though it was pulling him in. Roy closed his eyes and backed away, he looked sideways at the lieutenant who was studying the engravings around the gate. She too, backed away and came to his side, "Colonel, please go ahead." Roy tugged his white gloves and went as close as he could to the portal, "Edward and Alphonse Elric, our wishes will always be with you. We will see each other someday, take care." He whispered into the gate, he blinked once, "SNAP" red orange bots of flame ignited from his gloves, it made contact with the gate. The structure began to spark, Roy backed away and he came to Riza side and grabbed her hands; he pulled her away quickly. He heard a sizzle as they jumped behind some solid looking rock rubble. And when they did, flame explosions echoed all around them. Roy covered her ears and used his body to shield her.

"Colonel! We have to run now!" she shouted over the flames, Roy nodded and pointed to an exit where they are going to run to. Another explosion erupted behind them, and that was a sign to move. The two, ran zig zag through the falling rubble with the ground was shaking vigorously it was hard to keep balance. Roy held on to her hand as they moved quickly through the collapsing city. His flame must have been too strong, Roy dodged a falling rock and went through the passage way with the lieutenant with him, and they did not stop running. And they saw it, the exit, as they run through it; the passage behind them began to fall.

They had returned to where the men had set up camp, some of them stood up in order to see what was wrong and others peered in their direction. "The cave is going to collapse! Evacuate NOW!" Roy shouted over the din, some of the men understood the message and scrabbled from the exit in an orderly manner.

But that was when, someone shouted over the noise and screams; "Man down here!" Roy peered in that direction quickly and turned back to the lady in front of him, he made the decision very very quickly.

"Okay, lieutenant, go up with the rest of them." He gave an order to a higher ranking officer, but they should not really bother now, it does not matter however he did notice the distain on her face. "I need save that person, so you have to go first okay?"

"Colonel, I can come with you…"

"No, it is too dangerous. Go NOW!" he shouted and he released her hands; now parts of the city was caving in and some of the pillars were falling. He turned his back on her and started sprinting in that direction where the man who had fallen was.

"Col..Colonel!" She called, but the military men were pushing her backwards out of the lost city.

Roy thread back through the rubble when he saw a solider beckoning him over, he managed to reach him without problem, when he arrived at his side, the man could only talk with think hurried breath, "Lieutenant, Kain. He is still in there." Roy took a while to figure out, since when did kain become a lieutenant?

But that was not to think now, he instructed the young man to leave with his troops, and when he was out of sight, he began his descent, the rubble were falling even faster and sandy putrid dust fell from the ceiling. "Kain! Kain where are you?" he called over the chaos. He prayed that his young subordinate is still somewhere alive.

"Kain! Kain! Fuery Kain!" he shouted, no answer, his feet was on fire, and the bubbling feeling in his gut began to rise. Where could he be? Between his worries, he heard someone calling in the distance away. It was no imagination, Roy nearly fell on his way towards to the direction of the voice, and he saw him trapped under pieces of wood and moderate sized rubble.

"Kain, are you alright? Can you move?" The young solider nodded wearily, how long have they been in here, how long more does it take for the city to collapse on them, they had no time, really no time at all.

Roy removed the rubble with slight difficulty and tried lifting the wooden planks up, but they were too heavy. He panted painfully hard; he tried a second time when the first wooden plank was carried away with a little bit more easily, his gaze landed on the second person who was helping him with the wood. The two exchanged glances, "What are you doing here? I thought I told you to run." The dark eyes stared at the almond colored ones, "it seemed that you needed my help." She replied simply, and the two lifted the second plank. They threw it to the sides, "you should have ran away, it is dangerous here." Riza shook her head, "I am fine, and lets' just get kain and get out of here before the whole city crush us into pancakes."

Roy slumped to the wall and Riza slid to the ground… they had managed to make it out before the passage way cave it, and kain too; thankfully had no serious injuries. The ambulance closed the doors and they turned a corner with high speed, Roy panted deeply and Riza breathing deeply, the two sat on the ground and stared blankly…

It was five to ten minutes later when Roy broke the silence, "I think we have to head back to central now, the general would want to hear a report on this event… it is going to be big trouble…" Riza looked up and blinked, "Yeah, it is not going to be pretty…"

Back in the office, news had travelled to the general's ears. "What! The lost city collapsed? How? Roy Mustang and his flame alchemy? ARGH, that's it, put down the phone now!" The general threw the talking device of the telephone on his desk and crunched back into his velvet chair. "This Mustang may be a very irritating fly that may need to be erased…soon"