It's time

It was the beginning of a new year for Ed and his team; they had been successful in stopping the Anti-Dictatorship group killing any more people in the military and also slowed down their other missions thanks to the help of the spy that General Quinn placed amongst them.

It was a cold day in Western Command because the radiators had stopped working so everyone remained in their coats until they had been fixed. There suddenly came a knock on Ed's door "Come in." Ed said putting his pen down to look at his visitor, it was one for the Generals men "Sir General Quinn wants to see you right away." The solider said saluting Ed "Ok thank you tell him I'll be there right away." Ed said dismissing the man and picked up his pen to finish his paper work before heading to see the General.

Edward waited outside the general's office to be asked to come in as he could hear that Quinn was with another person, then all of a sudden the door opened and Quinn stood in the door way and turned his head to see Edward sitting on a chair. "Edward glad you came come in." Quinn said Ed sat down on the chair in front of his desk "Do you know why I called you here?" Quinn asked while sitting down behind his desk.

"No General but I'm guessing it has something to do with our friends the A-D?" Ed always knew what Quinn wanted to talk to him about "Yes you're right I have had news that the leader is not happy with our success." "Can you blame him though we have been stopping at every turn almost." Ed said cutting the General short.

"As I was saying before you interrupted me Edward," Quinn only used Ed's full name when he was interrupted by him "Thanks to our spy we have news that their leader is so angry at his lose that he will be personal over seeing this next mission," Quinn looked up at Ed and could see his mind working on a plan to capture him. "And I wanted you and your team to go in and capture him alive, you will be also working with another team as I feel it will be too much for just the six of you." Quinn had just finished signing the orders for the capture of the A-D leader and called for one of his men to go and hand it to the other team's commanding officer.

When Ed got back to his office he informed everyone of what the General had asked of him. "So we finally get to take the big boss man down good I'm getting bored of taking his lackeys down." Frank had been waiting for this day for far too long "Calm down Frank it's because of those lackeys that we have been this successful or did you forget that they are the ones who informed us of some of their plans?" Chris said sitting at his desk "Yeah I know but I can't help myself ok." Frank was never one to wait.

"I'll be meeting up with the other officer to inform them of my plan and what I need them to do," Ed said looking at them all "For this mission I'm going to split you into three groups Chris I'm teaming you up with Riza, Stan you will be working with Frank and Nina your with me any questions?" Ed could see that Stan wanted to ask a question but he never did and he knew why.

Later that night when Riza and Ed were at home "Do you think General doesn't think you can handle it with only us?" Riza asked knowing that was the same question running through Ed's head, he shook his head before answering her "I'm not going to lie yeah I was thinking about that but I think he is just playing it safe as this is an important mission and he doesn't want it to fail." He suddenly got up and headed into the study, Riza followed behind him to see what came to his mind and saw his pull out a box "You are going to use them?" Riza asked as he opened up the box "Like I said it's an important mission we need to keep up trick or two up our sleeve." Ed said looking into the box and then closing the lid.

The next day Ed headed straight to see LT Colonel Roode while his team talked about the mission. When he got to his office he knocked on his door and Roode's second in command opened the door "Good morning LT Colonel Elric he is waiting for you please come in." Ed didn't know Roode's team at all so he just walked up to the desk "Morning Roode can we talk in private for a minute?" Ed asked looking at him. Roode was a tall man with long black hair Ed thought it looked like it needed cutting every time he saw he but knew it wasn't his place to say "Sure I have a place we can do that follow me." Roode got up from his desk and headed to the door followed by Ed

When they arrived Ed found himself in an old office that looked like it hadn't been used in some time but at the same time looked clean. "I use this old office when I need to talk to someone without being heard I'm guessing you have a plan already then?" Roode jumped straight to the point he didn't like his time being wasted "Yes I have one my team will take the front and west side of the building I want you and your team to take the east and back of the building, the plan is to flush him out into open space where we stand a better chance of capturing him," Ed pulled out a blue print of the building.

"From what we have been told he will keep himself in here," Ed pointed to an office near the back of the building "but for a small window of time he will be here," he then pointed to a big room "This is where they will be sorting out whatever it is they are bringing in." Ed said looking up at Roode "So we still have no idea what they are doing there?" Roode said looking back at Ed. "Yeah but all we need to know is that their boss will be there all we need to do is keep ourselves hidden until he shows his face." Ed said confidently as he rolled up the blue print "So that's it then?" Ed simply nodded "Good I prefer plans to be simple go in get the bad guy and go none of this wait and see stuff." Roode said as he got up and headed for the door and stopped in the doorway "See you soon then Elric." And then he left to head back to his office.

The day of the mission soon came around Ed, his team, Roode and his team where waiting in a building opposite their target building waiting until it was safe to go. It took three hours before Ed gave everyone the signal to go.

Ed, Nina, Frank and Stan headed for the front and Riza and Chris headed for the entrance on the east side of the building while Roode and his team took the back and west side entrance.

When inside Ed and Nina went separate ways to Frank and Stan who turned and looked at Nina before he followed Frank who had almost ran off ahead of him.

It wasn't long before Riza and Chris ran into trouble but they took them out with ease it was only then when Riza realized how much he reminded her of Hues "Something wrong Riza?" Chris asked noticing how she was looking at him.

"Oh no Chris it's just that you remind me of a dear old friend who used to be an expert with knifes, he was with investigation you would have liked him he was always a laugh and also very smart died years ago trying to do his job." Riza said feeling the warmth of a tear roll down her cheek "He must have been quiet the friend to you?" Chris pulled out a tissue for her. "He was I knew him from the Ishballen war he kept myself and Roy sane during and after that hellish war." Riza felt herself missing him more as she spoke about him.

"I would like to hear more about him over a drink or two but first we need to finish this mission." Chris said looking around to see where they were.

When Stan caught up with Frank he saw he was in a fight with some people and hurried up to give him a hand but by the time he did Frank had already knocked them all out and turned his attention to Stan "WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU!" Frank said pinning Stan to the wall.

"I'm sorry Frank I don't know what I was thinking." Stan's throat started to hurt as Frank had put his fore-arm across it "Bull shit I know what you were thinking about, you're thinking about Nina? Is she's safe? Well right now you need to think about keeping yourself and me safe got it," Frank said letting go of Stan "Don't you have any faith in Elric? You're the one who looks up to the man but yet you don't trust him to look after you girlfriend?"

Frank punched a wall to stop himself punching Stan, Stan looked at Frank and took a deep breath before he said anything "Your right I'm being foolish I should know not only will he keep her safe but anyone on this team would even you," Stan placed his hand on Franks shoulder to turn him around "I'm sorry I'm focused now on the mission so let's get this guy before Roode's team do." Stan said trying to make Frank laugh but he only got a smile Frank started heading off then stopped and turned to face Stan "I'm glad you got your head on straight because dead people cannot get married remember." Stan took a step back "How could he have known about that?" Stan asked himself before heading off after him again "Oh yeah I know because it's been obvious for some time now." Frank said as if he could read his mind.

Ed looked around a corner before signalling to Nina that it was safe to move on, it was a dark hallway with doors on either said of them they both were on their guard in case anyone came out the door.

"What's the matter Nina?" Ed looked over his shoulder seeing that she seemed lost in thought "Oh s...Sorry sir I'm just worried about Stan I think he might be cheating on me." Nina stood still making Ed turn around, he looked around before opening a door to check to make sure no one was in it and called Nina in. "Ok what's going on with you two then to make you think that?" Ed went straight to the point because he knew he still had a mission to finish "It's just that he has been sneaking around and won't talk about where he's been and he seems more secretive recently." Nina held her tears back the best she could as Ed walked over to her to hug her.

"You really think that Stan would cheat on you, he's too much of a nice guy to do that to you he just properly wants to surprise you with something," Ed said smiling down at her "now come on cheer up we have a terrorist to catch." Ed said making Nina smile "Thank you sir." Nina headed for the door first to make sure the coast was clear and to get her head back on the mission.

It was a long search of the big abandoned warehouse before Nina and Ed came across a big empty room, there was a single light on and both Ed and Nina could see a person tired to a chair "Oh no its one of Roode's men sir." Nina whispered to Ed "I know we need to be careful it might be a trap." As Ed said that he saw Frank run into the light to untie him followed by Stan "Oh my god he's dead!" Frank said loud enough for Ed and Nina to hear then all of a sudden the room lit up and Ed could see at least nine people on the cat walk aiming rifles at Frank and Stan and then a sound of a door opening came from just above Ed's head so he assumed that the big boss had turned up.

"Well well well look what we have here," Said a man's voice "I see you fell for it didn't take you long, I know you're here Edward Elric come out and I won't shoot your men." Ed knew that he had to do as he was asked he wasn't going to risk his own men.

Ed slowly came out form the shadows under him "Ah there you are it would seem you had better luck then your man there," the man said pointing to the dead officer "Oh and before I forget I know you're here Mrs Elric come on out so we can see you i know all of you came in but unlike the others your all still alive." Ed looked around and saw Riza and Chris come into the light and stand by each other.

"Now that you are all here let me introduce myself my name is Richard Clegg and this whole mission was a set up, you really think that you have been winning all this time I set those missions up for my people to be captured I knew all along about your so called spy, you really need to work harder on training them," Richard slowly stepped to the railing revealing himself "I knew if I let you keep capturing my men you would fall for this," Frank couldn't talk him like that so he made a run for it but a shot was fired and just missed his foot.

"That was a warning shot next time it will be in between your eyes don't push your luck." Richard was being serious now "You killed a lot of my men back then you know Edward and one of them was my second in command, my brother and for that I cannot forgive you." Suddenly Ed heard every rifle load and take aim and felt at least to were aimed at him. "What's the matter Fullmetal can't handle a few bad guys?" Roy's voice came from the shadows. "ROY MUSTANG'S HERE!"

Richard shouted scared out of his mind Ed knew Roy was in central because he only spoke to him the day before and knew it would take longer to get here but he saw an opportunity and clicked his fingers and a flame went shooting up towards Richard "Duck sir!" and someone jumped to push him over with that distraction everyone ran into the shadows again.

"We need to get you out of here sir." The person said helping him up "Damn that mustang all this planning and he ruins it sigh your right you deal with Elric don't fail me." Richard said heading towards the door.

"What about Richard sir?" Chris said running behind Ed. "It's no good like he said it was a set-up we wouldn't be able to get him now even if we tried to we need to focus on getting out alive." Ed said turning a corner to barely miss a bullet shot "Everyone split up we will meet up at HQ got it?" "YES SIR!" Everyone said before running in different directions, Ed ran after the person who shot at him since he wasn't going to go back empty handed.

Riza was nearly outside when she heard voice's that she knew not one of the gang or Ed's so she quietly sneaked closer to the where the voices were coming from but when she got there no one was there, then she suddenly heard Ed's voice in the distance and could tell he was in a fight on the way there she heard a gunshot and ran there hoping that it wasn't Ed how had been hot but by the time she got there she found Ed was still standing and when she looked at the body on the floor she froze in shock as it was Lucy's body with a bullet hole in her head.

Ed turned and saw Riza he wanted to say something but it was as if someone stole his voice and watched Riza's face turn from shock to pure anger before she turned around and ran out the room.

Shocking ending I hope you have enjoyed my stories so far please review its going to be a while for the ending as I'm going to write two endings and I would really love it while you wait for the ending to please tell me if you were in Riza's shoes after everything that they had been through and everything they mean to each other could you forgive or forget him.