April 13-July 20, 2010

Author's Note: Yay! The story is near the climax! Woot!

Disclaimer: I don't own FMA!

Chapter Thirteen: Spotted

Mustang stood in front of the other three alchemists, glaring. He has been trying to get answers out of these three for almost two days. His patience was wearing thin. They were almost as stubborn as Ed was. Almost. If he could persuade Ed to do something he would, it just took days of persuasion anyway. He can break these men.

"I know that you know where he is keeping him. And if you even want the chance of being freed you better tell me where he is tomorrow or else you will never see daylight again. The choice is yours: help me find my subordinate and you help yourselves win your freedom, or you can be the stubborn asses you're being right now and let him die and be stuck in a jail cell for the rest of your left. It's simple."

The three alchemists looked at each other and weighed their options. They began murmuring amongst themselves as Mustang took a step back and let them deliberate. Two of them seemed to argue but they all agreed to something in the end. The man in the middle told Mustang their choice.

"Okay we'll help you."

Mustang sighed in relief in his head, thanking Fullmetal for making him good at persuading people.

"Okay, so where is he hiding?"

The others looked a bit nervous and the one who spoke before answered,

"Were not entirely sure, we planned several locations to hide in just in case something in our plan went wrong. We will tell you where all of them are. The majorities of our hideouts are in the outskirts of the city and most are abandoned houses."

Mustang took out a piece of paper and began jotting down all the addresses of their hideouts. As soon as they finished they had come up with 14 different places. He left the three alchemists in the cell and ran towards his office. He barked orders to everyone through the radio to check the locations that he specified and gave a strict order to only check out the place and if they see any signs of Edward and Winry to immediately call for back up.

Mustang sat down at his desk and looked at the suit of armor that was sitting down on the couch in front of him. There was also another man sitting next to him wearing a blue uniform. Hughes looked at Mustang and broke the silence by giving a huge sigh of relief and had a small smile on his lips. He reached over to Al and patted him on the back trying to reassure him that they would find Edward soon. Alphonse looked more hopeful now that they are getting close to finding his brother. However, even with that hope Mustang could still see the worry showing through Al's body language.

"Don't worry so much Alphonse. We will get your brother back by this evening at the latest. We have everyone searching in the right locations and it will only be a matter of minutes till somebody contacts us."

"That's Al. I'm positive that we will get your brother back and Winry too.

Al looked up to the grown men and really felt grateful to them. As soon as the news came that Ed was kidnapped the Colonel and Hughes immediately went into action to find Ed as soon as possible. They stopped doing all of their other work and put all their energy to get Ed back.

They really must care about brother and me. I hope that we will have the chance to pay them back someday…

"Okay, I believe you."

…

Meanwhile outside the headquarters Havoc and Breda were running towards one of the location in the eastern outskirts of the city. The two men wanted Ed to be brought back already they both thought of Ed as a little brother.

"Hey Breda, do you think the chief's going to be alright?"

"I dunno Havoc. I just hope that he isn't hurt to bad. That goes for Winry too."

"Yeah…the kid will probably lose it if she gets hurt."

The two men stopped abruptly and thought about the sight of Ed seeing his mechanic get hurt. They both shuddered and kept going. Once they got close to the house the stopped talking and pulled out their guns getting ready for whatever could be in the house. They split up, Havoc took the back of the house and Breda looked through the front. They stayed down low and looked through all the windows. It was Havoc that spotted them.

"Breda!" he whispered urgently.

As soon as he heard his name he scurried towards Havoc and looked through the window. He didn't know how to feel when he saw the boy bound onto a metal bed breathing heavily, and a girl tied down on a chair next to him with tears in her eyes. He looked at Havoc and nodded.

"That's definitely them. C'mon we have to tell the Colonel as soon as possible!"

They both hastily backed away. They would have gotten away quicker if Breda hadn't fallen into a hole a few meters back. Luckily for the both of them he didn't scream. There was just a loud thump. Havoc immediately grabbed his arms and began pulling.

"Oh my God! So heavy! What the hell have you been eating Breda!"

Havoc struggled as he tried to pull Breda up by the arms. Sweat began rolling off his forehead.

"Shut up and just pull! We don't want him catching us! Ow…OW! You're pulling my arms off!" hissed Breda.

"Shut up! You're too loud!"

The two bickered as they finally got Breda out of the hole. They started sprinting off towards the headquarters, praying that they were not heard by the kidnapper. If he did hear them, he would most likely move to a different location and make finding the two even harder to find. Breda and Havoc prayed that they made it in time to get everyone ready to rescue the two teens. They definitely didn't want him moving on their account. The Colonel would have their heads.

Luckily for them the kidnapper was to busy sharpening his knives to hear the commotion that they had created outside. All he could heat was metal rubbing against metal. He looked up to his finished work with a big evil smirk on his face.

"One night left."

Author's Note: My fingers hurt from typing… which is kinda pathetic. I think I have been away from school for too long.