Another chapter, yay! It will be switching off between Ed and Roy [although Roy's chapters may be taken by Riza at some points!].

Disclaimer: I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist.

Roy Mustang looked up from his desk after hearing someone walk up to it. He saw Colonel Elizabeth "Riza" Hawkeye standing in front of it, a folder in her hand. "Another missing person report, sir." she said, placing the envelope on his desk. Roy opened it, revealing a picture of a man and the name Colonel John Karn across the top. He looked just a couple years older then Mustang himself. "He was last seen at Joey's Drinks bar, just like the rest of them. Apparently he left with a black-cloaked man, and was not seen again." Hawkeye reported, knowing Roy wouldn't read the full report, as much as she wished he would.

"If they are all at the same damn bar, then why haven't we caught them yet?" Roy growled. This was the eighth missing person this month, and now the responsibilities are being pushed to Roy's team when other teams had been incompetent. "Hawkeye, go get Breda and Havoc." he ordered.

"Yes, sir."

She left to fulfill her duty and came back with two men trailing behind her. One was a tall blond with a cigarette dangling out of his mouth. "Hey, Brigadier General Mustang! Wow, still getting used to that. Can I call you Brig Gen Must instead?" Lieutenant Jean Havoc asked.

"No, you may not." Roy said, giving Havoc a glare. "I have a mission for you two, since no one else seems to be taking the initiative with this case. You three are going on stakeout, starting tomorrow."

"Sure, boss." the other larger man, Lieutenant Heymans Breda, said with boredom in his tone.

"Uh, boss." Havoc started. "I have a problem. You see, there is this girl I just met and she said I didn't even have to pay for dinner, so can we start the day after?" he said. Havoc enjoyed going on dates, even though he usually wasn't successful in getting women, or keeping the ones he did get eventually "get."

Roy, looking more and more frustrated by the moment said, "No." and left it at that, noticing a very disappointed look from Havoc. "Oh, and you are all going in disguise, so you can't tell anyone what you are doing. Got it?" he was still looking at Havoc as he said this, specifically warning him he would be toast -literally- if he told.

The three subordinates nodded and returned to their appropriate desks to continue working. Roy rested his chin on the backs of his hand, deep in thought. All the reports said the missing men were in the bar before their disappearance, and left with a cloaked man -or women,- and weren't seen again. It sounded like these officers were going willingly to Roy. They all had one thing in common: no family. The relatives of the victim were either extremely distant or dead, and by all natural causes or explainable accidents. This left out the possibility of murder charges on the enemy.

"Sir?" he blinked out of his daze. "You look like you are concentrating quite hard. What are you thinking?" Riza said simply. She was his most devoted subordinate, and his strictest too. Usually she didn't show much care to what he was thinking about, but with such a strange case she may have been thinking the same thing. Roy explained his thoughts and was right, she had been thinking similarly. "Their captors couldn't have any real hostages to use against the victims, assuming a select few had any girlfriends or boyfriends." she said.

"Right, but is there something else kidnappers could lure a soldier in with?" Mustang said curiously, even though Hawkeye was probably as clueless as him.

Turns out, she wasn't. "An idea?" she asked openly. "Recently there have been a couple protests against the government, especially after the Promised Day when no one was really sure what happened, and trust dwindled. Of course, this led to some not trusting the government much, as expected."

"Right, but nothing to the extent of Liore or the Ishvalans." replied Roy. "Are you suggesting there is something bigger?"

"Yes, sir." she said. "With so many soldiers missing, they must be gaining in numbers. And we only know of soldiers missing, there could be civilians missing as well." the Colonel hinted.

"Look into other missing persons." Mustang ordered, responded by a nod from Riza, and his loyal partner left the room.

Hours later, Riza walked back into the office, an extremely stuffed folder in her hands which she placed on Roy's desk with a thud!

"Apparently there are many more people missing then we thought," Roy said, his eyes widening as he flipped through the stack.

"Yes, sir. But there is two similarities between most of these and the missing soldiers." Riza said, taking a sheet of paper with a young woman on it. "First of all, a couple of them were last seen at either Joey's Drinks, or another bar, Eli's Pub. If they weren't last seen in either places, then they usually had no "last seen" because no one recalled when they had seen them, if ever."

"And the second thing?" Roy asked.

"Like our soldiers, all the families of the victims are gone." Hawkeye said. Roy also picked up a report, one with an older man on it, and noticed he was last seen at Joey's, and like Riza had said, his family was gone.

"Colonel Hawkeye? With so many missing people why hasn't the military taken more action?" Roy growled, putting his hand to his face in frustration.

"Well, General, they have no one to care they are gone." Riza responded, continuing to look over more reports, despite the fact she had already done that before showing them to Roy. Mustang looked to her, a thought forming in his head. No one to care they were gone?

"Thank you, Hawkeye." he said simply. "Tomorrow, you, Havoc, and Breda will be going on stake-out at Joey's. I can't have you tired, can I?" he smiled, then continued, "You're dismissed."

Instead of arguing and saying there was more work to be done, Riza saluted her Brigadier General and left with a "Yes, sir." As long as it was for the sake of a mission, she would do anything, and that included going home early.

Once she was gone, Roy searched through all the files. Typically he would detest doing something like this, but this time it was actually important. There were so many faces: faces no one bothered to search for. While Roy was almost certain the missing people left by complete free will, there was sadness at the thought of no one looking for them, or caring about their fate.

He looked at the occupations all the missing people, and they were also fairly similar. Typically jobs that had so many people it didn't matter if one or two were missing. These jobs were simple and required little physical movement. He also concluded that they couldn't have been extremely healthy either.

So many things were unclear about the whole case, and Roy was more angry at his own government than the cloaked kidnappers. While the country was still healing from the Promised Day, and trying to re-establish Ishval, Roy was certain he would have been more on top of it if he were Fuhrer, but because of loosing his eyesight during the events he was unable to take the position, and Grumman took over. Luckily, Roy like Grumman, even if he felt he should be looking into the disappearances more.

Time ticked by as Mustang looked through the files of missing persons. The reports were all so similar, as if they were all the same people. Something was wrong, but just how big it might be was yet to be determined.

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