I do not own Full Metal Alchemist; Hiromu Arakawa does.
"I'll cut straight to the point." The woman said bluntly with Al and company were gathered around her. "You want to know how to shrink him again? Even despite how much he loves being so tall?"
"We don't really care about what Ed wants." The Colonel nodded and Riza nudged his arm harshly.
"What he meant to say was that we believe it would be better for everyone, including Edward, if he were back to his original state."
"Very well then." She cleared her throat. "The only thing that can cure him is…" There was a pregnant pause as everyone waited with great anticipation, expecting to have to find some sort of tropical plant in a rainforest or something to that effect. "Milk." She finished.
A silence ensued after hearing that dreaded word which caused everyone to blanch. It was a few seconds later until hysterical laughter broke the silence.
"What's so funny, Mr. Mustang?" She enquired as Mustang tried to calm himself down and wiped the tears from his eyes which had formed from laughing so hard. "Oh, it's just that we're all screwed! There's no way of getting Ed to drink milk!"
"Oh, Mr. Elric doesn't like milk, I take it?"
"He despises the stuff!" Mustang informed.
"I have an idea." Havoc interrupted. Everyone waited for him to continue. "Well, what if we got Ed to try and eat Mustang who just happens to have a glass of milk. He pours it down his throat and jumps out before Ed starts shrinking."
Another silence followed before Riza spoke up. "Any objections?"
"What?! I object! What makes you think I'm going to let Ed eat me? That was the most stupid idea I've ever heard!"
"No need to lower my self-esteem, Colonel!" Havoc defended. "Everyone else seemed to like it and I don't see you making any suggestions!"
"Please, Colonel! We need to try something before Ed decides to destroy the entire country!" Al begged.
"You've got to be kidding. Even if we did go through with this, you'd want me to jump from 30 foot?!"
"300 foot." Falman corrected.
"Well that's even worse!" Mustang sighed and turned to the strangely-dressed woman. "Can we at least mix it in with something?" She shook her head.
"No, it must be purely milk, I'm afraid."
"Well, I have a plan and it's foolproof, so even you can't screw this up Havoc." Breda grinned causing Havoc to frown at him.
"Very funny, now what's this plan?"
They all huddled around Breda who started sharing the details of his scheme.
I understand that this chapter is even shorter than the other chapters so I apologise. It's just that I know Breda is going to have a plan, I just don't know the plan yet. Ideas would be loved thank you! Please review!