Chapter 8 – Battle on the Train Part II
A cry of "Ow!" and several loud thumps came from above the room. Bald looked up and to where the thumps seemed to go to.
"It's a rat," he said and pointed at another terrorist. "Go check above."
At the caboose of the train, Gilbert grabbed his left leg panicking. Taking off his boot it showed a bullet lodged in the bottom of his metal foot. He picked out the bullet, holding it in his hand.
"Man … if it weren't my left leg, I would've been gone. Dammit! Just you wait … first, I'll recapture the engine room!"
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The two workers in the engine room worked, being carefully watched by two blond terrorists. The one with the moustache noticed a small object fly past him in his line of sight and land on the floor.
As he picked it up, he missed the teenager who stuck his tongue out at him from the other side of the window. He stood up, holding a small bullet in his hand.
"A bullet?" the terrorist asked looking at his companion.
"Where did that …?" the second terrorist was cut off by a boot hitting his head from behind. He fell to the ground, unconscious as Gilbert landed in a crouch on the ground.
As the first terrorist moved to fire his gun at the albino, the teen was greatly surprised to see the two engine workers attack the man with their shovels.
Gilbert gave the workers a thumbs up which the men returned.
"Anything I can do for you?" The driver asked Gilbert as the teen was climbing up the side of the train to reach top.
"Just drive safely, please!" He said. "Hup …" his eyes widened as he saw a man with a gun waiting for him to reach the top.
"There you are, you rodent," with that he fired bullets at the albino who somehow managed to both dodge the bullets and stay on the train.
The sounds of something being transmutated were heard as Gilbert yelled, "Th-that was dangerous, you jerk!"
A cannon ball was fired at the terrorist who managed to fall back into the train.
"Hey! What are you doing to the tender car! That's got the water and the coal for the whole train!" The driver yelled, shaking his fist at Gilbert.
"Oh! The awesome me says sorry!" Gilbert yelled back before muttering, "The tender car?" He began to picture what the tender car and the coal cart on the train would look like in his mind before grinning. He had gotten an idea with this 'bad idea' look on his face which normally would worry his younger brother.
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"Bald! That's no mouse!" The terrorist that Gilbert had fired a cannon ball at said to the leader. "I don't know who he is, but there's some crazy guy up there …!" The terrorist added, looking panicked.
"Hey, car No. 2!" A dark skinned terrorist said on the phone. "What going on! Hey!"
"Help … there's a huge suit of armor …" interference was ruining what the terrorist on the second car had to say.
"Armor! What are you talking …."
"Aggh …!" With a few yells and screams form the other line, the phone went dead.
Everyone looked up as a speaker that looked somewhat like Gilbert's head popped out of the wall.
"What the …?" The Terrorists wondered.
"Hello, hello!" Gilbert's voice rang out from the speaker. "Calling all hijackers. We have recaptured the engine rooms and the rear cars. This car is the only one left. Please lay down your arms and let the hostages go … if not, we will have no choice but to use force."
"What a joke!" Bald yelled. "I don't know who you are, but as long as we have the hostages, we'll never give up!"
"Oh my, you're still going to resist?" Gilbert asked. "Too bad … talks over. Bye."
A water pipe appeared under the speaker.
"Is that a water pipe …?"
Gilbert's voice rang out again. "All passengers, please take cover."
Bald's eyes widened as he realized what Gilbert's plan was.
"RUN FOR YOUR …" He was cut off by the huge amount of water to come out of the pipe and drenching all of the terrorists. Gilbert had transmutated a pipe reaching from the tender car to the front car. As the terrorists made it to the car where Ludwig was, he opened the door allowed them in. Once the water was mostly gone, Ludwig punched his fists together saying, "Welcome," in a menacing tone.
"Man … it's the big suit of armor …" a terrorist said looking up at the armor.
Back in the front car, Bald began to stand up, "We're not through! We still got the hostages ..."
Gilbert jumped down from the ceiling, turning his arm into a blade. "Well, well … someone else with an auto-mail arm?"
"You're just a little brat!" Bald yelled as Gilbert slammed the blade into his gun/arm.
"You know …" Gilbert asked. "… You bought the cheaper model, didn't you?" Bald noticed the hand which had landed on his shoulder. Just as he was about to turn around to see who it was, Ludwig punched him from behind while Gilbert cut off half of his auto-mail arm.
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The train landed in Central station as planned. Several military men were there to pick up the terrorists. As Gilbert and Ludwig were walking through, a voice rang out;
"Hey, Fullmetal," it was the blond colonel from the office where the military had been trying to figure out what to do. Behind him were the blond woman and the man with wild hair. The colonel grinned as he waved at the extremely unhappy teenager.
Gilbert made a face while Ludwig returned the greeting.
"What's with the unhappy face?" The colonel asked, knowing the answer before Gilbert said it.
" #$% … I wouldn't have helped out if I knew it was in your district!" Gilbert said to the blond who sighed, almost sadly at the albino.
"You still don't like me … huh," he asked.
In the background Ludwig and the woman were exchanging greetings.
"Guten Tag, First Lieutenant Kirkland."
"Hello, Ludwig."
"I guess you're still not back to normal," the colonel noted looking over the brothers.
"I'm researching the ancient texts, but nothing yet … the awesome me pulled an all-nighter the other night," Gilbert started. "Right now we're been searching East City but we still haven't found anything that might work."
"I'm heard the rumors. It seems you're causing quite a commotion," the blond colonel said.
"I guess you're as nosy as never."
"Frankly, it's not hard to hear about you. Even if I am the hero."
Guards were yelling and ordering people to stop Bald, who had had a gun hidden in his arm and had attacked the guards.
"Whoa," Gilbert said. "It's a concealed knife."
"Please, stand back, colonel," Alice Kirkland said, pulling a gun out. The colonel pushed her back, holding up a gloved hand.
"I'll take care of this," he said and as Bald ran towards him, he snapped his fingers and fire flew from his gloved hand which had a transmutation circle on it. Bald screamed and fell to the ground in pain as guards grabbed him and the terrorist now covered in burns.
"I took it easy on you," the colonel said. "If you try to resist again, I'll turn you into ash, got it?" His voice sounded surprising serious as he said that.
"You damn … who the hell are you!" Bald asked.
"Alfred F. Jones. Rank: Colonel," the blond said. "And one more thing. I'm the Flame Alchemist. Don't forget that."
To Be Continued …
Well I got volume 1 done and I'm so happy. Alfred's been formally introduced and the brothers are now in Central.
Reasoning for Mustang/America: They're both lazy and have someone to force them to work. Also can you see America with Flame Alchemy? It's a scary thought – America with the ability to burn things. Also I just realized something important. America thinks he's the hero. Roy Mustang is a war hero. By default America is actually the HERO! Seems like America wasn't really lying whenever he called himself the hero, eh?
I'll try to have the next chapter up, but god dammit it's so hard! It is actually harder than it looks to write Denmark while trying to keep the lines mostly the same, but making so the character is still in character. It also goes for other characters as well. Hopefully I'll have the next few chapters up soon.
Also thank you for all the feedback! I've enjoyed reading the reviews and getting the ideas for the characters. Just thinking, is there anyone who wants to me to write America saying the imfamous 'Mini-skirt' line?
Please continue with you feedback. Also just to give a small hint, I've already got Hungary's part figured out, but she doesn't make an appearance just yet!
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