Central HQ
July 20th, 1915, 12:47 PM
'Revenge'
Lieutenant Colonel Hutchings' team was just settling into their new office in Central HQ, when a boy no older than sixteen burst in.
"Sir-" Sergeant Abernathy began, and he flashed his silver pocket watch at her. She went silent, and sat down quietly. She began to quickly unpack a cardboard box of office supplies.
The white-haired boy traipsed ever-so-casually up to the Lieutenant Colonel's desk.
"Hello, sorry to bother you…" his red eyes glanced down at the nameplate on the Lieutenant Colonel's desk. "Lieutenant Colonel. Do you know where Colonel Mustang is? It seems you've replaced him in his office, ma'am."
Lieutenant Colonel Hutchings rose up from under her desk with a disinterested look on her face. "And you are?"
The boy grinned. He flashed his metal right hand (which was, interestingly, in the style of old Ishvalan automail) at her, and said, "I'm Major Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist. I just back here after a mission and it seems the Colonel has moved. Could I…borrow someone? To help guide me around?"
Something in the boy's increasingly mischievous grin tipped the Lieutenant Colonel in to the nature of Elric's true intentions, but she didn't make any remark.
"Sure, Major. How about you take… Major Thompson. Go ahead, Silverbone." Lieutenant Colonel Hutchings waved her hand dismissively and disappeared under her desk again, to fiddle around with the rusting gears of the drawers.
A very tall woman near the front of the room perked her head up and saluted towards the Lieutenant Colonel.
She offered a handshake and a polite smile to Major Elric, which he returned. He leaned in towards her ear, (which was quite hard, given that she was at least six foot three and he five foot six.) and muttered something.
By the time he was finished, a wickedly happy smile had split across Major Thompson's face. She nodded and followed Major Elric out the door, which shut with a small snap behind them.
"I don't know what you just did, Lieutenant Colonel, but it's going to be messy." Lance Corporal Breedlove stated. Lieutenant Colonel stifled a snicker, from her vantage point behind the desk.
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Five minutes later, a loud boom from the courtyard rattled all of the windows in Central HQ. Soldiers crowded at the windows to get a look at what was taking place.
Lieutenant Colonel Hutchings sat behind her desk, perfectly composed, as her subordinates crowded the windows behind her.
The door, now sporting a few cracks, groaned open. In came the very dusty and very triumphant Major Thompson and Major Elric.
"Don't. Ask." Major Thompson stated.
The grin on Elric's face disappeared once he saw the monetary cost and pile of paperwork he was handed the next day as a result of his collateral damage.