I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist or Brotherhood. But there will be some direct lines from the story.
This story deals with a gender-swapped Ed.
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"Colonel!" I heard Hawkeye call out in the distance, I knew she wasn't calling for me but the panic in her voice made me respond anyway. I found my arms under me so I pushed myself up hoping to be able to get up, instead my head was meet with metal and a loud clang rang out after the contact. I dropped back to the ground and looked up to see that Alphonse was right on top of me, not to crush me but to protect me from something.
"Hey little brother?" I asked trying to get his attention.
"Don't come in Lt.!" Mustang yelled back. I arched my eyebrows trying to remember what happened but then I felt the air get sucked out of the room again and everything fell into place, the homunculus.
"Al we should probably get out of here." I said pushing him off of me the best that I could. I heard Mustang yell something about it being mad at him, that caused Al to grab my arm and drag me away at the last second to avoid being trapped in the line of fire. I finally got a good look at the monster, let's just say that he fit the word now. He didn't have a lower jaw but he still had the teeth, his stomach was black with an eye right in the centre and long tusks surrounding it.
"What kind of alchemy is this?" I asked trying to figure out who would make a creature like that. It was like watching a horror movie I couldn't move and sounds where coming in hazey at best. I saw Mustang walk up to the beast and snapped his fingers, trying to kill it the same way he killed Lust, no one expected him to eat the flame like it was nothing. I didn't need to be told I took off running hoping that Al was following me, apparently so was Mustang. I looked up and saw the edge of the forest getting closer too us. "Run to the forest, then scatter." I found myself saying, it couldn't chase all of us at once. I stayed straight and Al and Mustang broke off to my left and right, I kept my eyes on what was in front of me and tried to come up with another plan. I heard gunshots go off on my right and felt myself running to them knowing that it was the Colonel and the Lieutenant, as I got closer I heard a grunt and the sound of a body hitting the ground. 'did Hawkeye shoot him to increase our chances?' I thought but dismissed it quickly knowing that she would never do that. When I found him he was kneeling on the ground holding his injured side. "Mustang are you okay?" I asked trying to help him stand, he was pretty much dead weight.
"Yeah I'll be fine." He said sounding breathless leaning more on me. "Nope, I can't put me down." I did what he said trying to be careful. "Ed it wants me, just leave now and save yourself."
"Oh since when are you Mr self-sacrifice? Remember you are going to be fuhrer, and you can't do that if you're dead." I tried to pull him back up again but his muscles tightened and I stopped moving and started to listen. Twigs were snapping and the sound was coming closer, there was also the sound of clanking metal approaching as well. "Calm down it's just Alphonse. Now you have an option walk out of here on your own free will, or I have Al carry you out like a baby." I gave him the options he glared at me as if I was missing something obvious.
"Edelle don't you realise that that thing wont stop unless it thinks that I'm dead? So I'll give you an option walk away on your own two feet or I'll make Al carry you out." Mustang retorted, I studied him, he was holding his right side tightly with both hands and he was panting trying to breath through the pain. I heard a gasp and turned to see Hawkeye and Alphonse there, perfect.
"Sorry Mustang you aren't dying on me." I clapped my hands to bring the earth up to around his height and size, then I roughly grabbed his coat off of his body and threw it on the little hill. "Hawkeye could you grab your stubborn boss before he gets himself killed, Al I need grass." I ordered the two. With Hawkeye dragging her boss to his feet and the Mustang dummy complete we made our escape to the cabin. The trek through the woods wasn't easy as it was the first time and Mustang keep tripping on roots and stones, by the time that we got out of the woods both Al and Hawkeye were supporting him and I had the back making sure he wasn't following us. We where almost at the car when we heard the monster cry out in the woods. "Let's hope it worked." I said under my breath. They setttled Mustang down in the front seat of the car he drove us here in. Ling was standing by the back window talking to Lan Fan trying to keep her concious. Hawkeye opened the back door and laid Lan Fan down with her head on her lap.
"I can't run away while this is happening." Mustang said trying to stand up. I pushed him down and shut the door on him.
"To bad! You are a burden right know! Come back later when you can walk on your own!" I yelled at him.
"You are pretty useless sir." Hawkeye said from the back seat. At that Mustang hung his head in defeat, I winced that might have been to much for him to hear right now.
"Listen, the fuhrer is a homunculus you can't just ignore that." I said and he raised his head with his eyes set on something.
"Okay enough with the chatting get on!" Knox called from the drivers seat. I looked into the full car, I looked to Ling and Alphonse and smirked.
"Sorry, looks full to me." I said shrugging my shoulders.
"Bastards." Knox muttered under his breath and started the engine.
"We can't leave children on the battle ground!" Hawkeye yelled from the back seat.
"Look I'm no expert but you have something more important to do? Isn't the fuhrer an enemy?" Ling asked twirling his sword into the dirt.
"Listen we'll get information out of gluttony. The fact that we are children should have nothing to do with it." I said Hawkeye let out a sigh and shook her head reloading her gun. "We planned this fight and we are going to finish what we started." Ling propped his sword onto his shoulder, I nodded at turned to face the forest.
"Edelle." Hawkeye called to me. I stopped and turned to see her offering me the gun that she reloaded. "Take it." I reached for the handle but every part of me screamed to not. "Do you know how to use it?" She asked I still didn't grab the gun yet.
"That's a machine for killing." Al said from behind me.
"It's also a machine for survival." When she said that I was taken back to when Winston asked me not to die. I pushed my bangs from my face and grabbed the hilt of the gun.
"I'll borrow it for a bit." I said tucking the gun in the back of my pants. Ling walked up to the car and leaned in the window.
"Please take care of Lan Fan." I heard a weak voice call out for her master, and I felt a pang of jealousy that he was more concerned for someone who was leaving the battle field and not someone whose about to face a monster. I shook my head dismissing those thoughts, because she just lost an arm and he has every right to be worried. I turned back to face the forest and started running Alphonse and Ling following right behind me.
It wasn't hard to find Gluttony, he keep crying out for Mustang and destroying sections of the forest. We got up behind him without being noticed.
"How do we do this." Al asked hiding behind a tree that was way to small to cover him.
"If it would just revert back to it's normal state then I could beat it again." Ling whispered.
"Yeah but how do we do that?" I snapped back in a hushed whisper.
"Maybe we should feed him Mustang." Ling offered as a joke but my glare changed his attitude. Gluttony must have heard us because without a sec thought he turned our way making us run to a safe distance. The trees that we where hiding behind disappeared leaving nothing but a clean cut straight though the wood.
"Where does the stuff go when he eats it?" I asked panicked that if where a second to late that could have been us.
"How should I know!?" Ling yelled back at me.
"Does it really matter?!" Alphonse called from over Ling's shoulder. I rubbed my temples with my hands trying to get a grasp on the situation when Al's little cat thing started to hiss at something in the tree line. Ling drew his sword and held it in the direction I looked to find a dog on the hill looking down at us. 'What the hell is a dog doing in the middle of the forest?' I was trying to figure why he was there when it spoke.
"Stop it Gluttony." 'Wait a minute I know that voice.'
"Ed the dog just spoke." Ling said taken back by the impossible dog.
"Yeah I heard it." I snapped at him.
"It's you from before." The dog said once more, then it's back arched and it's black fur turned into pale skin. The creature keep shifting until it was in a humans form and not any form but Envy. 'another homunculus great.' I could feel my eyes roll at what was happening. "Nice to see you again Fullmetal-bean." 'that does it.' Without a second thought I charged Envy and kicked at his head.
"Who did you call a miniature plankton flea sized itty bitty little bean!" I yelled as my foot made contact with the tree. Envy put up his hands to signal surrender.
"I'm not here to fight you." I felt hard metal hands pull me back.
"Don't provoke him Onēsan."Alphonse said trying to calm me down. I took a deep breath and watched as Gluttony and Envy talked to each other.
"Hey squinty-eyes." Envy called out to Ling.
"Come to capture me?" Wait those two know each other?
"Not today, I'm here to pick him up." The homunculus said patting Gluttony's head. "But you keep getting in the way. Gluttony you can't eat the flame alchemist or the Elrics but feel free to eat Mr. Squinty-eyes over there." Envy ordered. I couldn't help but smirk.
"You hear that brother, they aren't after us right now."
"And Gluttony has calmed down a bit." I made eye contact with Al. We both clapped our hands at the same time making a wall between Gluttony and Envy.
"You take care of him." I yelled to Ling as we charged the fat one.
I could say that our fight was going well but I could also say we won by a landslide. In theory it worked his size put him at a disadvantage to us, but he wasn't human so normal rules don't apply to him. If only I remembered that before he sent Al and myself flying to the wall we made to divide the fight.
"Hey don't get in the way." Ling said as he easily cut off Envy's leg. 'nice to see we gave him the easy fight.' I thought bitterly to myself. Al was trying to keep Gluttony away so I was watching Ling to see if I could help him. He got himself on top of Envy and was about to stab him again when Envy shifted into Lan Fan's form. Ling froze mid swing and Gluttony went to attack him. It was a split second decision that I made I charged Ling to push him out of the way to save his life. It was a chain of events I tackled Ling out of the way and I felt Envy grab my ankle. I heard yelling and felt the air get sucked from the surrounding area, then saw nothing but black.
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It was harder then I thought to get ride of Hawkeye at the front gates but I eventually did get rid of her. I didn't even know how to start to overturn the fuhrer, I pressed my head against the wall trying to find the answers.
"What did I tell you?" I heard a familiar voice ask, I leaned away from the wall to see who it was and I wasn't surprised in the least. Hughes was standing there in full military uniform.
"Thank God you are here Maes I need help." I said hugging my best friend. "Or are you about to drag me back to the hospital."
"I told you I would do that if you came back before I did, well I got here first." He smiled. We walked down the halls of Central in silence until we got to a secluded area. "I need you to tell me everything now."
"The fuhrer is a homunculus, and I have no idea what to do." I admitted.
"You are going to need people who believe and support you, every person counts."
"God you sound so cheesy do you hear the words you are saying right now?" I started laughing and soon Maes joined in.
"Hey you sound crazy, 'the fuhrer is a homunculus.'" He impersonated me again. We laughed louder this time when some one walked up to us.
"That's a pretty funny joke the fuhrer is a homunculus." Maes and I snapped our heads to look at the General talking to us, we jumped to attention and saluted causing him to laugh more. "At ease men." he said between laughs. "I was on a way to a meeting and I'm sure some of the upper brass would love to hear the joke follow me." Maes and I grimaced at that and followed the General listening to him talk about nothing of importance Maes and I sharing glances. When we got to the double doors the General opened them to a room filled with the upper brass. I took a deep breath and walked into the room Maes followed. All of the men in the room stopped to look at us. "So Mustang why don't repeat your joke." I heard the sounds of footsteps approaching from the far end of the room and saw the fuhrer walk in.
"Yes tell me the joke about the fuhrer being a homunculus." King Bradley said. I looked around the room and realized that Hughes was trying to tell me something that the danger was from the higher ranks, was that what he found out when he was attacked. I looked to him to see panic on his face.
"It was just a rumour I heard on the streets, I was telling Hughes about it when the General found us." I reported.
"Is that true Lieutenant Colonel Hughes?" I shot Maes a glare from the corner of my eye.
"Yes, this is the first that I've ever heard of it." Maes reported.
"Colonel Mustang come with me, everyone else is dismissed." King Bradley ordered. Everyone stood and left leaving me with the monster in charge of my country.
Hey guys not the longest break between updates but still pretty long. I'm about to start school again so I don't know when they will be possible but the will happen. Could anyone suggest any really good fan fictions (filled with angst please) from Avatar the last Airbender or Supernatural or Buffy, I'm just looking for a good read. I'll see you guys next time inside of Gluttony.