Hello all of my honored readers! This is a special chapter dedicated solely to the marvelous American wonder called Halloween. I hope that all of you enjoy it, and I wish you all a Happy Halloween!!

Now on to the sugar!!! (Runs off squealing and bouncing around like a little kid to go trick or treating.) (Ed, Al, Annora, Mustang, Hawkeye, and Katie all watch her and sweatdrop.)

Katie: (Looks over at Annora) And you thought that I was the one that you needed to keep the sugar away from.

Annora: Katie, don't even start with me. (Everyone hears a distant squeal.)

Wandering Hitokiri: SUGAARRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Everyone sweatdrops again)

Mustang: I'm not going to be the one peeling her off the ceiling tonight.

Halloween Havoc

Ed arched an eyebrow skeptically as he and Al surveyed the room that they were in. It was hard to believe that just a few short hours ago Annora's insane friend had somehow showed up in Central and then proceeded to drag the three of them back to her house. Annora sat next to him on the couch, her chocolate eyes looking about her nervously as she scrutinized her surroundings intently.

"Will you stop twitching?" Ed grumped, his golden eyes revealing the barely contained annoyance that he felt at being dragged away by some crazed girl. Annora glanced over at him before she forced herself to relax.

"Sorry," she muttered. "I just can't believe that Katie not only managed to come to Central, but she dragged us back to her house as well."

"And why is that weird?" the alchemist asked. Annora shot him a look that plainly said 'just how stupid are you?' before she sighed and ran a hand through her long bangs.

"I've been looking for a way home for God knows how long, and Katie just randomly pops up out of nowhere and drags us all back to Flagstaff. This goes beyond weird right now," the sixteen year old pointed out before a thoughtful frown crossed her face. "I wonder if it has anything to do with today being Halloween."

"Halla-what?"

"Halloween," Annora repeated. "It's a holiday like Christmas and Thanksgiving, but pretty it much consists of kids in costume going door-to-door and begging for candy, or trick or treating. That, and it's supposed to be one of the spookiest nights of the year."

"Trick or treating?" Al piped up suddenly. "That sounds like fun, Brother."

Ed gave a disbelieving snort in response, earning him a smack upside the head from Annora.

"Hey, what was that for?" the teenager alchemist demanded angrily as he rubbed at the injured area ruefully. Annora let out a sigh as she rolled her eyes upwards.

"Ed, don't be rude, okay?"

"Why, what happened?" Katie demanded suddenly from behind them, and all three teens jumped a good foot in the air from fright. Annora slumped back on the couch clutching at her heart while Ed spun around to glare at the other girl.

"Don't do that!!" he raged. Katie stared at him and blinked in surprise before a knowing smirk made its way across her face.

"Did I interrupt something?" she asked as she reached out and rubbed the top of Ed's head. The boy immediately jerked away from her and scowled as he attempted to flatten his ruffled hair. Annora, reading the situation, got in between her two friends and held her arms out to separate them while Al restrained Ed.

"Katie, why did you bring us here anyway?" the girl inquired. Katie gave her friend an unholy smirk in response, and Annora felt her blood run cold at the sight.

"Well, I went and found you guys because tonight's Halloween, and I didn't have anyone to go trick or treating with. That, and there's a party going on at the mall tonight that I want to go to as well."

"So?"

"If you guys come with me, tonight will be the best Halloween ever!!"

Annora, Ed, and Al all sweatdropped in unison as they stared at they incredibly hyperactive girl, who was currently drooling profusely at the mere thought of spending a night with the famed Fullmetal Alchemist.

"Okay, Katie, you really need to hold off on the sugar," Annora remarked as she glanced over out the living room window to look at the sunset forming outside. It was already after five thirty, and the trick or treaters would be out soon. Katie made a scoffing noise as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"There is no such thing as too much sugar," the black-haired girl stated stubbornly, her yellow-green eyes narrowed slightly behind her coke-bottle glasses. Annora rolled her eyes in response.

"With you there is," she pointed out. "I never filled up a bucket with sugar and hid it under my bed so I could eat some whenever I wanted to."

Ed stared incredulously at Katie upon hearing this particular tidbit of information before he shuddered slightly. The mere thought of Katie on a sugar high was enough to give him nightmares for a month. Al apparently had similar thoughts, because his armor was rattling slightly as he stared at the girl nervously.

If Katie noticed their reactions, she ignored them as she fixed Annora with a piercing look before a smile broke out over her face and she clapped her hands together.

"Alright, enough talking!" she declared brightly. "We need to get into our costumes before trick or treaters start coming to the door!"

"Umm… how are we-" Ed began, only to be cut off by the hyper girl.

"You and Al are fine; you guys don't need costumes," Katie pointed out with a grin. "Annora and I on the other hand, need to get ready."

"But-"Annora started to protest, only to have her friend grab her by the wrist and drag her upstairs into her room, where she promptly closed the door. Ed and Al stared up the stairs at where the two girls had vanished before they exchanged nervous looks. Something told them that tonight wasn't going to be as clear-cut as Katie had said.

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Considering Annora's attitude, it only took about fifteen minutes before a massive argument ensued from inside Katie's room, causing both Ed and Al to jump. The two boys looked at each other curiously before they went up the stairs and onto the landing in front of Katie's bedroom door, where they could hear snippets of the conversation inside.

"Okay Katie, there is no way, I repeat, no way, that I am wearing this… costume!"

"Brother, Annora doesn't sound too happy," Al whispered. Ed nodded in response, his golden eyes riveted to the wooden door in front of them.

"Aww, c'mon Annora, you look good in it," Katie protested. "Besides, I think that Ed'll like it."

Ed blinked in surprise; why would they be talking about him?

"The only person that would like this outfit would be that miniskirt-obsessed pervert, Mustang!" Annora retorted hotly. Ed snickered softly at Annora's accurate description while Al just shook his head and sighed.

"Don't insult Roy-kun!!"

"I'm not insulting him, I'm stating the truth!!"

The sounds of a furious scuffle drifted out to the landing before someone stumbled over to the door and flung it open forcefully. Ed got a good glimpse of what looked like Annora wearing a sailor fuku with a green miniskirt before the girl let out a startled cry and slammed the door shut in his face. The alchemist blinked in surprise as a blush came across his face.

"Katie, I'm going to kill you!!!" Annora raged. "Hell will freeze over before I go out wearing this!"

"But-"

"Where's that other costume you showed me? I'll wear that, but not this! Got it?!"

"… Yes ma'am."

Five minutes later, Annora emerged wearing a white kimono-style shirt with long bell-shaped sleeves and an ankle-length pleated red skirt with socks and straw sandals on her feet. Her long hair had been pulled back using a thin white ribbon-like hair tie, although two long strands framing her face were left free. The teenager looked over at the boys and made a wry face.

"Not one word," she muttered as she walked past them and went down the stairs. Katie came out after her and grinned impishly as she pressed a Polaroid picture into Ed's hands. The other girl was wearing an Amestris military uniform, and had her shoulder-length black hair pulled back into a short ponytail.

"That's for you to look at later," she whispered conspiratorially as she winked at the confused teenager. Ed and Al exchanged confused glances before they followed the two girls, Ed quietly stuffing the picture into his trench coat pocket.

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"Trick or treat!!"

The man looked at the four teenagers standing on his front porch in semi-confusion. He had seen a lot of interesting costumes in his lifetime, but tonight's little group topped the charts. One girl was wearing a military uniform of some kind, while the other had on some sort of Japanese skirt and shirt combination while carrying a bow. But strangest of all were the two boys with them. One was wearing a seven-foot tall suit of armor, and the other one wearing the red trench coat was shorter than the two girls, and had a slight scowl planted on his face.

"Aren't you a little old to be trick or treating?" he asked the person wearing the suit of armor. He didn't notice the slightly panicked looks the girls exchanged, but he did see the smaller boy's scowl deepen.

"Actually, he's fourteen," one of the girls piped up. "He just had a huge growth spurt recently."

"Yeah!" the boy wearing the armor agreed, and the man noticed the young voice that echoed from within.

"Nice costumes," the man finally said as he started handing out candy before he directed his attention to the boy wearing the armor. "So, are you taking your little brother with you and your friends?"

The girl wearing the Japanese costume gasped as she dropped her pillowcase full of candy and restrained the smaller boy as he attempted to lunge for the man.

"WHO'RE YOU CALLING A MICROSCOPIC PIPSQUEAK THAT CAN'T GROW UP BECAUSE HE DOESN'T DRINK HIS MILK??!!" the boy raged.

"He didn't say that, Ed!" the girl gritted out. "Stop making such a big deal out of it!"

The man blinked in surprise before he hastily doled out a large amount of candy to the four teens and shut the door. Annora scowled as she let go of a struggling Ed and whacked the smaller boy upside the head.

"Idiot, stop biting people's heads off for no reason," she scolded as she bent over to pick up her dropped pillowcase. "That poor man is probably thinking about calling the cops because of the stunt you just pulled."

"He thought I was the younger brother," Ed muttered half-heartedly, anger smoldering beneath the surface of his golden eyes. One swift glare from Annora silenced the Fullmetal Alchemist though, and he wisely decided to keep any further complaints to himself.

"Okay, lets hit those last three houses, and then we'll go back to my house before heading off to that party I told you about," Katie interjected, grinning broadly at the thought of more candy.

"I'm assuming that it's a costume party then?" Annora muttered dryly as she took a quick count of her candy haul. Everyone had an almost full pillowcase, even Al. Actually, the boy had even more candy then the other three teens because most people assumed that he was the patient older brother that was nice enough to suffer through a night of trick or treating with his younger sibling. Ethan had received similar treatment a few years back when he had accompanied her and a few of her friends on a round of trick or treating.

"No duh it's a costume party," Katie replied, sticking her tongue out at Annora. "I wouldn't be going otherwise."

"But why is it at the mall?" the teenager wondered. "I know they have some sort of store to store trick or treating thing for little kids every year, but why would we be going to that?"

"You'll see when we get there!" Katie insisted. "Now stop asking questions and say 'trick or treat'!"

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Annora stared ahead of her for several long moments before she turned to look over at Katie, who was drooling slightly.

"No," she said sternly. "There is no way that we are going in there."

"Aww, c'mon Annora! Where's your sense of adventure?!" the other girl protested. Annora fixed her anime-obsessed friend with a dirty look as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"I left it at home," she muttered darkly. "Katie, you didn't tell us that this 'party' was some anime convention!!"

Ed and Al were not participating in this conversation, namely because of the fact that they had just seen an exact copy of Lust walk by, and be greeted cheerily by the 'homunculus'.

"Hey, nice costumes!" 'Lust' called out as she walked by, leaving behind two very confused alchemists. After several moments, Ed finally regained the use of his voice.

"What in the-" he began hesitantly before he decided to voice another thought instead. "Did hell just freeze over or something?"

"No, we just entered it," Annora remarked sardonically as she rolled her eyes upwards in exasperation. "Katie, you are going to be very dead in approximately ten seconds."

Katie let out a frightened squawk before she spun about and shot into the crowd of costumed teenagers and adults, soon vanishing. Ed and Al just stood next to Annora, who was scowling darkly, as they scanned their surroundings with interest. The teenage alchemist suddenly noticed the large banner that hung from the rafters of the mall roof, and read it out loud.

"'The Third Annual Flagstaff Comicon'?" he muttered in disbelief. "What in the hell is that?"

"If I knew, I would tell you," Annora told him as she looked at the crowd skeptically. "So, who wants to go home and fall asleep on the couch, and who wants to suffer from a temporary bout of insanity and go check this stupid thing out?"

"What could it hurt?" Ed admitted hesitantly as he took a step forward.

Famous last words.

Annora and Al looked at each other before they followed the smaller boy into the crowd, both of them wondering if this was the smartest thing to do.

Roughly two minutes after entering the teeming mass of teenagers and young adults, Annora had a very unwelcome brush with someone taking their costume a bit too far. The sixteen-year old had just reached out to grab a hold of the end of Ed's trench coat to avoid losing him when someone groped her butt. The teenager let out an ear-piercing shriek as she jumped a good foot in the air before whirling around to face her assailant. A guy no more than twenty wearing black and purple robes grinned at her roguishly as he adjusted his black wig in one hand.

"Forgive me my lady, but I could not resist to attract the attention of a miko as lovely as you," he stated smoothly. "Would you do me the immense honor and service of bearing my child?"

Annora gawked at him in complete and total disbelief, her chocolate eyes wide as she stared at them man. Fortunately for her, both Ed and Al materialized behind her, the former with a scowl on his face.

"Annora, is this guy bothering you?" the State Alchemist growled acidly, his golden eyes narrowed almost into slits as he placed a hand on the girl's shoulder. The man dressed as Miroku swallowed nervously before he hastily made his exit.

"Okay, I'm all for going home now," Annora muttered shakily as Ed cast her a sympathetic look. "After we kill Katie first though."

"I'm gonna have to agree with that idea," Ed said as he looked around them, and frowned when he caught sight of a group of girls looking in their direction. The girls all giggled when they saw that the alchemist was looking in their direction, but a few scowled darkly at Annora.

"You know what, lets move," he whispered urgently, pushing his brother and Annora ahead of him. "Those girls over there are giving me the creeps."

"Good idea," Annora agreed as she increased her pace. Al moved up to the front of the small group and gently pushed his way through the crowd, creating a path for Ed and Annora. Suddenly, a loud shriek rang out from behind them, causing all three teens to jump a good foot in the air.

"OMIGOD, IT'S REALLY HIM!!!!!"

Ed let out a strangled 'ooff!' as a girl wearing an Amestris military uniform and had a silver State issued pocket watch dangling from her belt tackled him to the ground, where she immediately began to squeeze him.

"I'msogladetomeetyou!I'mTristatheGoldAlchemistandIwannahveyourbabies!!!"

Ed managed to decipher the last part of the girl's insane babble and immediately proceeded to freak out when he got to the 'I wanna have your babies' part.

"AL, HELP!!!" he yelped as he struggled against the insane girl, who was currently foaming at the mouth.

"But Brother-" the fifteen-year old began, only to have Annora push him aside and launch herself at the rabid fangirl.

"Get the hell off my friend!" she raged as she grabbed the girl by the back of her collar and forcefully dragged her off of Ed before she twisted her arms around and held them together by the wrists behind the girl's back.

"Hey!!" the fangirl whined, only to have Annora bring her knee up and place it painfully in the small of the other girl's back.

"Shut up!" she snarled, her usually warm chocolate eyes flashing with barely restrained fury. "You have the right to remain silent; anything you say can and will be used against you, so shut up before I show you one of the many uses of a dirty sock. You have the right to an attorney; if you cannot afford one, then I will personally go and locate the shittiest idiot out there that received his certificate to practice law from a Cracker Jack box!"

Ed stared at Annora in disbelief as she pulled her ever-present roll of duct tape out of her backpack and proceeded to tape the fangirl's wrists together while she continued reciting her own version of the Miranda Rights.

"You have the right to a jury of your peers; they will all be a bunch of ancient geezers armed with shotguns who will shoot you on sight. You have the right to a fair trial, where I will pay off the judge with a hundred bucks beforehand so that you will get sent straight to jail and be executed by a firing squad. You got it?" she demanded as she glared at the now-trembling fangirl, who nodded her head vigorously. "Good."

Without further hesitation, Annora then proceeded to fasten the other girl's duct-taped wrists to a nearby statue with more duct tape and left her there, not even looking back as she walked away. Ed and Al glanced over at the whining fangirl before they hurried after their friend, not wanting to encounter any other fangirls without Annora's assistance.

"That was a little creepy," Ed pointed out hesitantly. Annora glanced over her shoulder at him and grinned.

"Just a little?"

"Ha hah, very funny."

"Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, Elric," Annora remarked dryly with a slight grin. Ed smirked back at her knowingly.

"Yeah, but it takes someone as intelligent as me to apply it appropriately."

"Ouch. Well you didn't exactly look like you were able to take care of the situation at the moment back there," she said semi-jokingly. "I kind of lost it at the 'have your babies' bit."

"I did too," the sixteen-year old admitted as he frowned darkly. "What the hell is it with people and asking complete strangers to bear their children?"

"I really don't want to know," Annora muttered fervently. "Somehow, I think that we're all better off that way."

"I don't know; I'm fairly certain that I wouldn't mind having a beautiful woman come up to me and ask for that honor," an all-too-familiar voice stated from behind Ed, and all three of them whirled around to see Mustang standing right behind them.

"What the-!" Ed yelped before he managed to squash his shock. "Colonel Bastard, what the hell are you doing here?!"

The older man smirked at the teen, and Annora fought the urge to wipe the smug look off of his face.

"Well, I thought that perhaps you could answer that, Fullmetal."

"Nope, sorry," Annora told Mustang sarcastically. "We're fresh out of answers. We do have an abnormally large surplus of questions though. How many do you want?"

Mustang frowned at the younger girl's impudence, while Ed had to fight back the urge to start snickering uncontrollably. Just as the Flame Alchemist was about to lose his cool, Hawkeye and Havoc walked up right behind him, the latter with a look of pure and absolute bliss etched onto his face.

"Sir, this seems to be a costume party of some sort, although it appears that a large amount of military personnel are in attendance here as well," the strict woman announced as she saluted. Annora opened her mouth to say hello, only to catch sight of Havoc.

"Umm, Miss Hawkeye, what's wrong with Havoc?" she asked curiously. Hawkeye glanced back at the Second Lieutenant and shook her head.

"He had some scantily-clad girl tackle him and start squeezing him, declaring the entire time about how she would do anything for him," the older woman stated. "I had to fire several shots to convince her to leave."

"Great, that means that the cops are going to show up soon," Annora moaned. "Just what we need, more problems."

Mustang had just opened his mouth to deliver a sarcastic comment when a sudden shout from behind them cut him off.

"Resembool Rangers, attack!!"

Annora, Ed, Al, Hawkeye, and Havoc were all treated to the sight of at least twenty teenage girls tackling Mustang and pinning him down to the floor.

"What in the-?" Ed began hesitantly as Mustang let out a very undignified yelp. One of the girls that had attacked him walked in front of the currently prone man and gave him a filthy look.

"Who in the Devil's name are you?!" the Flame Alchemist snarled, only to bite back a curse when one of the girls kicked him in the ribs.

"We are the Resembool Rangers!" the girl in front of him proclaimed proudly. "Sworn enemies of the Miniskirt Army, and defenders of Edward Elric!"

"Defenders of who?!" Ed spat incredulously just as Annora clamped a hand over his mouth and shot him a warning look.

"Don't try anything stupid," she warned seriously as she shoved her friend over in Al's direction. "I'll handle this."

The sixteen-year old squared her shoulders and strode over to where the Resembool Rangers were tormenting Mustang, indicating over her shoulder for Hawkeye to be ready to jump in if things turned nasty.

"Hey, what do you guys think you're doing?" she demanded angrily, causing many of the fangirls to look up at her. "Why they hell are you jumping my dad?"

Several of the girls froze, as well as Mustang, before they started to scramble off of the man. Annora immediately darted forward and seized him by the arm.

"You owe me for this one, Mustang!" she hissed in the alchemist's ear as she hauled him to his feet and started to drag him away. Unfortunately, they soon found their path blocked by the girl who had initiated the attack, who appeared to be roughly around twenty.

"So this man is your father?" she asked coldly, and Annora felt a chill run up her spine at the blatant disbelief in the young woman's tone.

"Yeah, why do you ask?"

"I don't think he's your father."

'Oh shit.'

The woman looked at her calculatingly before she continued. "Personally, I think that you're one of the members of the Miniskirt Army, and you're trying to defend this man just because he's dressed up as your idol."

Fortunately for them, Mustang finally regained the use of his senses and decided to use them to maneuver out of the sticky situation that they had somehow ended up in.

"Young lady, I have absolutely no idea as to what you're talking about, but I do not appreciate you talking to my daughter in that way," he stated sternly. "Besides, you and your crew blatantly assaulted me, and I believe that the police need to be involved."

At the mere mention of the police, all of the Resembool Rangers disappeared in a heartbeat. Everyone else came over while Annora stepped away from Mustang with humongous sigh of relief.

(AN: I apologize to any of my readers that might happen to be members of the Resembool Rangers, or the Miniskirt Army if you feel that I have portrayed you wrongly. This is purely for humor only, and no insult is intended.)

"I believe that we are even now," the Colonel stated with a smirk, and Annora scowled at him.

"Bastard," she muttered defiantly under her breath while Ed shook his head and started grumbling darkly about obsessed rabid fangirls.

"Sir, I don't think that this place is safe," Hawkeye stated as she pulled out her gun and checked the clip. Annora rolled her eyes.

"No, you think?" she asked sarcastically. The First Lieutenant gave the teenager a skeptical look as she arched a pale eyebrow in question.

"By the way, where exactly are we?" Mustang asked as he fixed the three teens with a searching look. "It's almost as though it's Halloween, but that was months ago."

(AN: I am going under the assumption that they actually have Halloween in Amestris.)

Annora and Ed exchanged nervous glances before they responded.

"Umm, actually… it is Halloween," the sixteen-year old offered hesitantly as she looked directly at the older man. Mustang crossed his arms over his chest and fixed the girl with a clearly disbelieving look, both of his eyebrows arched skeptically.

"Do tell," he stated coolly, causing Annora to squirm under the intensity of his gaze. Any further questions were avoided by a series of piercing shrieks coming from behind them, and everyone turned around to see a horde of rabid fangirls all foaming at the mouth coming towards them at top speed. Ed and Mustang both went dead white as they stared at the incoming teenagers and young women surging towards them.

"Crap, fangirls," Ed whispered hoarsely as Al stated to shake in his armor.

"What are we gonna do?" Havoc wondered aloud, the first words that he had spoken since his little glomping incident earlier.

"I've got a good idea; run!" Annora roared as she whirled around and grabbed Ed and Al before taking off like a shot for the mall exit. Mustang, Havoc, and Hawkeye soon followed the teen's example as they all ran as fast as they could for the doors. None of them were expecting a group of FMA fans to suddenly run up and block the doors, but Mustang soon cleared away this obstacle with one simple snap of his fingers.

Needless to say, the ER experienced a sudden and unexpected influx of patients to be treated for burn wounds that night.

The small group burst out through the glass doors and ran as fast as humanly possible out onto the street down in front of the mall. Loud screams of anger and various professions of love followed them, much to the extreme annoyance of Ed, Mustang, Havoc, and Hawkeye.

"ROY-KUN, I LOVE YOU!!! Please have my children!!!"

"SQUEEEE!! It's Havoc!!!! I LOVE YOU JEAN HAVOC!!! WILL YOU BE MY

BOYFRIEND?!!"

"YOU STUPID SLUT, GET BACK HERE WITH MY BISHIES!!!"

"EDO-KUN, I WANT YOUR BODY!!!!"

"Riza, my love, I fear nothing and wish to be by your side always!!!"

That last statement was greeted with several rounds fired from Hawkeye's gun directed at the idiotic fanboy that was dumb enough to say anything along those lines to the sharpshooter.

"Are they all insane?!" Ed demanded as the six of them all ran down the street as though their lives depended on it. Annora glanced over at him and shrugged.

"Don't ask me!" she pointed out. "Personally, I think that they're all high on some-GAH!!"

The sixteen-year old let out a strangled yelp as one of the fanboys tackled her around the legs and sent her crashing to the ground, effectively knocking the wind out of the teen.

"Hey there, cutie," the boy, who was wearing a Shinsengumi uniform and had his long hair pulled back into a ponytail, purred. "What's the likes of you doing hanging around the shorty?"

Annora froze and her entire body stiffened up as she stared wide-eyed at the boy pinning her down to the ground.

"Who-?" she managed to whisper hoarsely before he held a finger up to her mouth and gave her a seductive grin.

"Shhh," he stated as he lowered his head down towards hers, obviously intending to kiss her. "Let me show you what a real guy can do."

Annora's response came in the form of a head butt to the face before she looked over her shoulder.

"ED, GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE AND GET THIS FREAK THE HELL OFF ME!!!" she shrieked as she struggled against the fanboy that was still pinning her down to the ground. The boy, who was maybe a few years older than her, smirked at the panicked girl knowingly.

"You know, you're pretty when you're mad," he purred. "Your friend can't do anything to help-"

Ed cut off the fanboy in mid-sentence as he rushed over to where he and Annora were and hauled the Shinsengumi-wannabe up by the collar of his jacket.

"You keep your filthy hands the hell off her!!" the alchemist snarled as he pulled his fist back and punched the fanboy hard in the jaw with his automail hand. Without a moment's hesitation, Ed reached down and hauled Annora to her feet before they both took off running.

"Thanks!" Annora panted as they tried to catch up with the others, who were currently fighting their way through a tightly packed group of obsessed anime fans.

"No problem," Ed responded as he punched an Envy look-alike that had jumped in front of them in the face. "How the hell are we going to get out of this?"

"I have no clue."

"Damn."

The ground a few yards away from them exploded, sending an unfortunate group of obsessed fans flying into the air with second-degree burns covering their bodies, courtesy of Mustang and his rapidly fraying temper.

"FULLMETAL, YOU HAD BETTER FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GET OUT OF HERE, OR SO HELP ME, I WILL HAVE YOU COURT-MARTIALED!" Mustang roared as he snapped his fingers and started clearing a path through the insane fans surrounding them.

"Oh, real mature Mustang, real mature!!" Annora snapped back over her shoulder as she wrenched a wooden sword out of the hands of one of the anime fans around her and Ed and proceeded to start beating the crap out of anyone stupid enough to come near her.

Ed, who was punching and kicking at anyone and anything that came near him or Annora, glanced over at where Mustang, Al, Hawkeye, and Havoc were.

"Damn it, Colonel Bastard, we've got our own problems over here!" he raged as he and Annora were pressed together back to back. "We're having just as hard a time as you are!!"

"This is bullshit!" Annora growled angrily as she glared at the foaming fangirls that were currently eyeing her in the same manner that serial killer eyes their next victim. "I have had it up to here with these… these psychopaths!!"

"What can we do?" Ed asked rhetorically, irritation evident in his voice. "Every time we get rid of three or four of them, ten more pop up!"

The proverbial light bulb suddenly lit up over Annora's head, and a homicidal smirk crossed the sixteen-year old's face as she glanced over her shoulder at her friend. Ed stared at the girl uneasily; the last time he had seen that smirk, Hawkeye had almost given Mustang lead poisoning via a revolver for a thong underwear set that she had received.

"Annora, why are you smiling like that?" he asked nervously, and Annora's smirk, if at all possible, grew even wider.

"Remember how we got out of the hall closet with Armstrong hot on our heels?" she asked as she faced the rabid fans in front of her with a demonic-looking 'bring it on' expression on her face.

"Yeah, so?"

"Why don't you do something like that here?" the sixteen-year old suggested as she brought her stolen wooden sword down full-force on an unfortunate fanboy's skull.

This time, it was Ed's turn to smirk as he clapped his hands together and slammed them down onto the ground. A series of large holes immediately appeared in the ground around them, promptly swallowing the majority of the unwanted rabid anime fans assaulting them. The rest stepped back in surprise, and Annora and Ed took this chance to grab the other members of their group before making a run for it.

"Let's get the hell out of here!" Ed roared as all six of them took off running through the darkened streets Flagstaff, with Mustang sending occasional bursts of fire over their shoulders to deter their pursuers. Al chanced a glance over his shoulder before he let out a frightened yelp.

"Brother, they're gaining on us!!" he cried out, terror, as well as fury, evident in his voice. Annora and Ed exchanged worried looks; anything that would make kind and gentle Alphonse mad was definitely a bad thing.

"Annora, which way?!" the teenage alchemist demanded, his golden eyes hard. The girl looked around her before she seized the fronts of Ed and Mustang's jackets and yanked them into an alleyway behind her. The others needed no such motivation as they followed Annora into the suffocating darkness of the alleyway.

Without realizing it, Annora had unconsciously lead all of them into the very area where she had first disappeared into Amestris a few months before. None of them seemed to notice where they had crossed over from Flagstaff and into Central, but they all refused to stop running until they had reached the massive metalwork gates in front of Central HQ.

"What… what in the hell?" Ed gasped as he looked up at the familiar building and realized where they were. "What just happened?"

"Well, I'm pretty sure that it wasn't a dream or a hallucination," Annora remarked sourly as she spread her arms out for her friends to see that she was still wearing the Japanese priestess costume that she'd had on earlier. "Damn it, my clothes are still over at Katie's house!"

Mustang and Hawkeye exchanged nervous glances before they directed their attention over at the three bewildered teens in front of them.

"Let us never speak of this again," Mustang declared sternly. "This never happened; got it?"

"Yes sir," Ed, Al, and Annora all muttered, still slightly dazed from what had just taken place. Mustang nodded before he turned around and headed off in the direction of his military-issued dorm room.

"Oh, and Hawkeye, I'm taking the day off tomorrow," he called out over his shoulder. Havoc muttered something along the same lines as he headed in the direction of his apartment, already deciding that he was going to get extremely drunk so that he could forget the night's traumatic events. Ed, Al, and Annora looked at each other and nodded in agreement as they too set off towards the townhouse that the three of them shared, neither of them saying a word for several minutes.

Al was the first one to finally speak.

"Brother, tonight was… interesting," he admitted hesitantly. Ed glanced over at him and arched a golden eyebrow wordlessly in disbelief before he started to search about in his pockets for his house key.

"Yeah, well whatever it was that happened tonight, I sure as hell am not going to it a second time," the teenage state alchemist grumbled, successfully locating the elusive piece of metal hidden in his pocket.

"I'm just glad that it's over," Annora said with a sigh as they unlocked the front door and tromped inside. "Man, I'll never be able to look at a mall in the same way again."

The teen suddenly froze in her tracks as she caught sight of something on the living room floor and crept closer to investigate. Ed and Al looked at each other and shrugged before they followed their friend. When the two siblings caught sight of what Annora was staring at, they couldn't believe their eyes.

"What the-?" Ed began in total and utter disbelief, his golden eyes wide. Al simply stared wordlessly at the objects in front of him with wide eyes

"No way," Annora muttered softly.

In front of them, placed in the middle of the living room floor, were their three pillowcases full of candy. There was a note attached to them, and Annora quickly darted forward and pulled it off before she began to read it.

"Katie came and brought these here," she stated after a few moments of heavy silence. The sixteen-year old looked over at the couch and saw that the clothes that she had been wearing earlier were placed neatly folded on the arm. All three of them were silent for several moments as the strangeness of the evening finally caught up with them.

"Well, I'm going to bed," Ed announced as he turned around and headed up the stairs towards his room.

"Right behind you," Annora agreed as she bolted up the stairs and ran into her room across the hall from the room that Ed and Al shared. Al stood downstairs in the living room for a few more moments before he sighed and followed his brother up the stairs. He'd actually had a lot of fun that night, if you didn't count the rabid fangirls that is.

The next morning, none of the teenagers mentioned their strange adventure the night before, and neither did any of the adults that had been with them. It was almost as though it had never happened.

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(Mustang, contrary to his earlier statement, is currently standing on a large stepladder and is attempting to peel Wandering Hitokiri off the ceiling while under the strict supervision of Hawkeye.)

Mustang: I don't see why I'm the one who has to do this.

Annora: (Rolls eyes) Because you're the one who was dumb enough to let her get into the candy bowl after she came back from trick or treating. Not to mention the fact that you caused more property damage than the rest of us combined tonight.

Mustang: But that corpse was coming after me with a bloody knife!

Hawkeye: That was a costume sir, and the knife was fake.

Wandering Hitokiri: (Is currently plastered up against the ceiling and has a contented smile on her face) Sugar, sugar, sugar… gooooooddd sugar.

Ed and Al: -.-;

Annora: -.-; (Looks over at Mustang) I blame you.

Mustang: You always blame me.

Ed: (Muttered) And with good reason.

Mustang: What was that, Fullmetal?

Ed: (Adopts and innocent expression that no one buys for a minute) Nothing.

Wandering Hitokiri: SugarsugarsugarsugarsugarsugarSugarsugarsugarsugar!!!!!

Ed and Annora: (Both groan) Oh God.