OK I know, I am a horrible author who never updates, I'm so sorry!! Every time I take more than 3 months to update, anyone who sees me is allowed to smack me across the face until I update. This will probably happen because this is the last free day I'm going to have for a while. I have a bunch of stories that I'm thinking about posting, read my profile then message me to tell me which ones you like. Sorry this is still the Devil's Nests part of the story. I have no idea what to do for the other side.

Disclaimer: Do not own Fullmetal Alchemist, Naruto, or anything of importance (besides my bible… and some Q-tips….lol)

Chapter 8: Conspiracy

(In Marta's room of the Devil's Nest)

"Who put my name on that rubber duck, Dorochet?" Marta kicked Dorochet into the wall. (AN: Sorry, Doro) "WHO FRAMED ME?"

Dorochet whimpered and tried to explain himself "He…uh well...he told me not to tell!" Marta looked angry at Dorochet's inadequate answer. She walked calmly over to one of her drawers and pulled out a bag.

"W-What are you going to do with those?" Doro's voice was panicked (does that look right to you?). "I am going torture you with them until you tell me who put my name on the duck." The malice in Marta's voice was almost tangible. She then poured the contents of the bag onto the bed and started throwing them at Dorochet.

Dorochet dodged as many of the fuzzy white projectiles as he could before they started hitting him in the forehead. "Marta! Please stop! I can't tell who put your name on the duck! He'll kill me! Please stop throwing cotton balls at me!"

"You better tell me now or I'll go get the Q-tips!" "Noooooooooo! Not the Q-tips! They're sharper and pointier!! Fine I'll tell you!" The cotton balls stopped flying. "It was….me." Flying balls of cotton resumed their path toward Dorochet.

"Why would you do that, Dorochet?" Marta continued until she was out of fluffy white things.

"I'm not the one who came up with the idea! I promise, Marta. I would never do something so insanely cruel. Greed told me to do it!"

"And why would Greed do that?"

"I don't know? I think he said Bido came up with the idea…"

Marta picked the bag back up and said, "Let's go talk to Greed about it."

The two then went to find Greed. When Marta and Dorochet found him, the homunculus was sitting at the bar talking about the camping trip with Naruto.

"Hey, Marta, This kid and I were just talking about the trip…do you think we should bring a tent or sleep under the stars?"

"Neither. We are not going anywhere until you tell me why you had Dorochet put my name on this rubber duck." She threw the rubber ducky at Greed's head.

"Well…Bido suggested it. I only did it because he asked me to d-"

Before Greed could finish his sentence Marta was already off trying to find Bido, and Dorochet was running ahead of Marta trying to warn Bido to get out while he still had the chance.

Bido was poking through some garbage cans just outside of the Devil's Nest when Dorochet, still screaming: "RUN BIDO RUN! FOR THE LOVE OF NO ONE THROWING COTTON BALLS AT YOU! RUN!" ran into him.

"Why would someone throw cotton balls at me?"

"Because Marta is very angry!"

Marta found the two and pinned Bido against the wall. "WHY DID YOU SUGGEST TO GREED THAT HE PUT MY NAME ON A RUBBER DUCK?" "Marta…heh…heh (nervous laughter.). You know perfectly well that I'm not smart enough to come up with something that complicated on my own! Kimbly told me to do it!"

"Why did I know that conniving alchemist was involved…? Come on Dorochet we're gonna go give Kimbly a little taste of revenge."

Opening the door to Kimbly's room revealed a dark abyss that smelled faintly of gunpowder. "I'm scared…." Dorochet mumbled as he and Marta made their way down the stairs. "So am I." Marta said when they got to the bottom of the stairs. Marta found the light switch and turned the light on.

Kimbly was asleep on a cot-like bed, his mouth hanging open and hair flying all over the place, and a sweet, innocent look on his face. Completely ignoring the latter of the qualities, Marta yelled "Wake up you pile of filth, and explain this."

Kimbly woke up, glaring blearily at Marta. "What are you talking about, Marta? Do you always go into people's bedrooms in the middle of the night and wake them up?" "Only when they frame me by planting this rubber duck in my room!" "What are you talking about?" "This" Marta took the rubber duck and showed it to Kimbly.

"Oh, that old thing, I told Bido to give it to you. Don't you have a rubber duck collection or something?"

"No, I don't and you know perfectly well that I don't! You were trying to humiliate me, weren't you? You were trying to make me look like an idiot! Well, your plan didn't work!"

Kimbly smiled mischievously, "Didn't it, Marta? I believe you have viciously tortured several residents of this bar, and some of them were secretly filming you. So, in essence, my plan did work!"

Greed was sitting at the bar, still talking to Naruto, when Marta came in. "I'm packed, lets go. " She said excitedly. "So am I!" Dorochet came in behind Marta.

"Alrighty, then! To the train station." Greed said clapping his hands together then beckoning to the door. Everyone followed Greed to the train station.

Several hours later, Kimbly woke up, dazed, in a dumpster somewhere on the other side of town.

How was it? Review if you want, (it would be greatly appreciated) and constructive criticism welcome. Please forgive my torturing of Kimbly, it was meant only for the fun of this fic. Thanks for reading! ~Greedfreak~