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Fullmetal Alchemist: Conspiracy

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Fullmetal Alchemist quote:

"We became absorbed in the science that made you feel like you were magic."- Alphonse Elric

"Talking"

Thoughts

Chapter 9: Revolutionary Alchemists

Pounding on the door, brought Al out of his book. He looked at the clock and saw that it was about ten at night. Who would be here at this time? The young boy stood up, put his book on the couch, and went to the door.

On the other side of the door was a pissed off looking Mustang. "Hello Colonel. What are you doing here and where is my brother?"

"I thought your brother would be here by now." Mustang said annoyed.

Fear began to appear on Al's face. "What do you mean? What happened?"

"Your brother snuck away from my house and I thought he would come running back here since this is where he is staying. It's been about an hour. He should have been back by now." Mustang explained to the young boy.

Al's eyes widened. "You don't think something could have happened to my brother, do you?"

Mustang turned around. "Don't worry. I'll find your brother."

"Let me help." Al said determinedly.

Mustang looked at Al for a few minutes as if examining him. "No. It's getting late. I don't need you running around at nighttime to. Get some sleep. If we don't find him tonight, you can help us search tomorrow."

Al nodded his head.

Mustang went back outside to meet his comrades. "Fullmetal's not here. Something must have happened."

"Great. How do we find him?" Havoc said sarcastically.

"Let's go to Headquarters." Mustang replied. "And work from there."

When they got to Headquarters, they saw a lot of officers there, which was a surprise to them since it was evening and all the officers would normally be at home by now.

Mustang, Hawkeye, Havoc and Hughes went inside and were met by the Fuhrer. "Sir, what is going on?" Mustang asked, as he and the other officers saluted the Fuhrer.

"Han Jackson, The Blood Red Alchemist, is back. He entered Central about a little more than a week ago." The Fuhrer said.

"That traitor?" Hughes asked.

The Fuhrer nodded his head. "Yes. We must capture him at all costs. He is challenging us. He called here saying that he was in Central and that we have two days to capture him or he will destroy Central."

"So we just got to find him?" Mustang summarized.

"Yes." The Fuhrer said.

Mustang nodded his head. "Sir, we also need to find Fullmetal. We sort of lost him a little while ago. I know he is missing because even his brother doesn't know where he is. From what I learned of the brothers they would never disappear and not tell the other what is going on."

The Fuhrer put a hand on his chin in thought. "That is trouble. Where have you searched so far for him?"

"We have just gone to his hotel room and he wasn't there, so we decided to come here." Mustang replied.

"Does Fullmetal know about The Blood Red Alchemist?" The Fuhrer asked.

Mustang shook his head. "I've not had the time to inform Fullmetal of the Revolutionary Alchemist Establishment So he doesn't know about the state alchemist traitor."

"I will alert the officers that they also have to find Fullmetal." The Fuhrer replied. "Most of the officers have not met Fullmetal yet so ask Major Armstrong to make a sketch of what he looks like so the officers know who to look for."

Hughes saluted. "Yes sir." He left to go find Armstrong.

Edward groaned as he began to wake up. His neck still hurt from getting hit by that gun. He went to rub his neck when he found that he couldn't move his hands. They were chained to the wall. He tried to pull his metal arm free but his arm couldn't move. He looked at his automail arm to see that his arm was completely chained to the wall so he couldn't break the chain.

"So you're awake?" A voice asked.

Edward looked up to see a man in a military uniform. His long black hair was pulled back into a ponytail and on his right arm was a metal gauntlet with an alchemy array on it. "Who are you?" Edward growled.

"I am Isaac McDougal, The Freezing Alchemist." Isaac answered. "And you are Edward Elric, the newest state alchemist."

Edward struggled against the chains. "Yeah. What do you want?"

"For you to leave the military." Isaac said. "The military is corrupt and you are just a kid. You have no reason to be in the military. The military is going down anyway. If you stay in the military you will be killed."

The young alchemist shook his head. "I can't. I can't quit."

"Why?" Isaac growled.

"The Fuhrer forced me to join the military. I can't get out of it." Edward snapped. "What is this place anyway?"

"This is the base of our group." Isaac replied, looking around the cell they were in. "The Revolutionary Alchemist Establishment."

Edward looked at the man confused. "Revolutionary Alchemist Establishment? What's that?"

Isaac raised a brow. "You are in the military. Have they told you nothing?" The Freezer crossed his arms annoyed and angrily and started to pace back and forth. "The Revolutionary Alchemist Establishment is a group of soldiers, civilians, ex-state alchemist, just normal state alchemist, basically anyone you can think of. We are working on taking down the corrupt military and turning it back into a democracy." Isaac looked at Ed. "How about you join us? Get your revenge on the military for the Fuhrer making you join the military."

"Chaining someone to a wall isn't a good way to ask them to join you." Edward replied.

"Maybe not, but we didn't want you doing anything rash before we could explain things to you." Han said as he came out of the shadows of the room. "If you promise not to do anything rash then we will unchain you."

Edward nodded his head. "Fine. I won't do anything stupid."

Han nodded his head and unchained Edward.

When he was free, Edward rubbed his flesh wrist. "I'm not joining you. I have enough things to deal with and I don't give a damn about the military. It isn't my problem. None of this has anything to do with me. You can destroy it and do what you want or you can just leave it be. Either way I don't care. I have other things to do."

Isaac shrugged his shoulders. "That's your choice. But just to be careful…" A fist came down on the back of Ed's neck, knocking him out again. "Can't have you finding out where our base is."

"I'll drop him off in an alley." Han said as he picked the unconscious alchemist up.

*F*M*A*

"That kid loves to cause so much trouble for me and he only just joined the military." Mustang growled as he stalked out of Central Headquarters a couple hours later.

"Don't blame me for your problems, bastard." Edward growled annoyed as he walked in the direction of the hotel he was staying at and was rubbing his neck.

Mustang and his comrades blinked in surprise. "Where the hell did you come from?" Mustang growled.

Edward stopped and looked at him with an emotionless face. "Resembool." He said with a completely straight face.

The Colonel's eye began to twitch and all the officers could practically see the steam coming from him. "That isn't what I meant." He grabbed Ed's coat and pulled him up into his face. "Where the hell did you go? You leave my house then disappear for a few hours. Do you have any idea how worried your brother is?"

Edward blinked. "Uh…uhm.….why didn't you tell me about the Revolutionary Alchemist Establishment?" The young alchemist asked, deciding to ignore Mustang's questions.

"I haven't had the chance to tell you yet." Mustang replied then paused. "How did you hear about them? The knowledge of that group existing is only known by the military. No civilians know about it."

"Did you meet members of it, Ed?" Hughes asked, concern etched on his face.

Edward ripped Mustang's hands off of his coat. "I met Han and Isaac and they told me about it, well the basics of it and its goal."

"They did, did they?" Mustang asked. "That makes it easy for me. I don't have to explain it to you then. Do you know where they are?"

"No." Edward replied and started walking again. "I'll see you tomorrow, Colonel Bastard."

When Ed got back to his hotel room, he found the lights still on and Al in his pajamas sleeping on the couch. Smiling, Edward moved to the couch and kneeled in front of his brother. "Al. Al, wake up." Ed said gently.

Al opened one eye to see his brother staring at him. His other eye flew open and he sat straight up. "BROTHER, YOU'RE BACK!" Al yelled happily and jumped off the couch to grab his brother in his arms. "I was so scared when Mustang came here and said he didn't know where you were."

Edward rubbed his brother's back gently. "I know, Al. I'm sorry. But I ran into a little trouble on my way back here. But it's all alright now. I'm back." Al nodded his head and held his brother's waist tighter. "Now let's get you to your bed."

Al shook his head. "Can I sleep with you tonight?"

"Alright, Al." Edward said. He picked his brother up in his arms and took him to his room. He playfully threw Al onto his bed and started getting ready for bed. His little brother lay on the bed watching his brother the whole time.

When he was done, Edward climbed under his covers and Al climbed under with him. Al crawled up into his brother's chest and fell asleep hugging his brother.

*F*M*A*

A few miles underground a group was gathered in a big room that was lit with torches on the cement walls. Behind the group was a big, metal door. At the top of the room on a slightly raised platform was a desk with a man sitting behind it. Along the walls were a few doors that led to different rooms.

"Sir, there is a new state alchemist." The man told his leader.

The leader looked up from his desk to look at the group in front of him. He closed his book to give them his full attention. "Who is it?

"A twelve year old kid called Edward Elric. He is a state alchemist going by the name Fullmetal now." The man said.

"He's in the military?" The leader said shocked. "Why would the military have a twelve year old join?"

"I don't know, sir." The man said.

"We know."

The group in the room and the leader turned to Han. "Why is that, Han, Issac?" The leader asked.

"We spoke with him earlier. He told us that the Fuhrer forced him to join the military. So it's likely that the Fuhrer won't fire him or anything and he can't quit. So he's stuck in the military." Isaac explained.

"I didn't know the Fuhrer forced him to take the test." One of the men in the group said. "I wonder why he didn't force the little brother to take the test as well."

The leader sighed and sat back down. "I wasn't expecting this. Who is the kid's commanding officer?"

"Colonel Mustang."

The leader sighed in annoyance "He was in Ishval too." The man muttered. "Don't touch the kid. We have to see where his loyalties lie."

*F*M*A*

The next morning, Edward got up and made breakfast while his brother continued to sleep. Edward ate his breakfast then left a note and breakfast on the table for when Al woke up and got dressed. When he was done Edward left his apartment to head to Central Headquarters.

"Hi bastard." Edward greeted when he kicked open the Colonel's door. He drop down onto the Colonel's leather couch and looked at Mustang. "Do you have my mission for me?"

"I can't give it to you yet." Mustang said as he looked up at Ed. He saw the boy's eyebrow rise. "There has been a warning given by Han Jackson. He contacted the military yesterday and said we had two days to find him and the Revolutionary Alchemist Establishment and stop them. If we don't find him then he will destroy Central."

Edward shook his head. "Destroying Central isn't their goal. It's destroying the military and making it back into a democracy. They seem to really hate the Fuhrer."

Mustang raised a brow. "They told you that was their goal."

The young alchemist nodded his head. "Yes."

"Then we better find them fast." Mustang said as he stood up. "Can't have them taking down the military."

Edward banged his head against the wall of the hotel room a few times. He and Al spent the whole day searching the city for anyone that was part of the Revolutionary Alchemist Establishment and have come up with absolutely nothing. After searching all day they went to Central Headquarters to report to Mustang and found out that they found nothing to. They had until tomorrow night to find him. If they didn't then he would attack Central Command.

"Brother?" Al questioned.

"We won't find him in time." Ed replied. "I met them you know and I didn't even think about attacking them to capture them. They knocked me out two times so I wouldn't find out where their base was."

Al smiled at his brother. "It's not your fault. You didn't know this was going to become a mission of yours to capture them."

Edward rubbed his eyes tiredly. "I know."

The next day, Ed and Al ran all over the city looking for the traitors. "Damn it. We only have a few hours to find them."

"Brother, relax. Getting all worked like this will just make it harder to concentrate on finding them." Al said calmly.

Edward stopped and looked at his brother's bare hands. "Al, do you have your alchemy gloves?"

Al frowned and looked inside his pockets. "No. I think I forgot them at home. Why?"

"If we find them then we will probably have to fight. You'll need your gloves." Edward said.

Al turned to his brother. "I can go back to the apartment and get them while you continue to search."

The older brother shook his head. "Don't bother. It will take too much time and how will we meet after you get them. Here I'll go into here real quick. I'll be right back." Ed pointed to a store they stopped in front of.

After being in the store for a few minutes, Edward came back out with some red thread. He took his gloves off and placed them in his brother's hand then ripped two pieces of thread and placed them on the gloves. He clapped his hands and placed them on the gloves, making a new pair of gloves with alchemy arrays on them.

Al looked at his brother. "These are yours though. Don't you want to keep them so you can keep your automail covered?"

Ed shook his head. "You'll need them more then I will if we meet the traitors. Just don't forget your gloves next time, kay? Besides as long as we stay away from any soldiers it will be fine."

Al nodded his head.

The brothers started searching the city again and entered an alley after another hour and a half or searching. They stopped a few feet in the alley when they saw a man kneeling on the ground with a piece of chalk in his hand.

"Isaac!" Ed exclaimed as soon as he saw the man.

Isaac jumped to his feet and turned to face the alchemist brothers. "Edward Elric and I'm guessing this is Alphonse Elric."

"Took long enough to find you." Edward growled as he clapped his hands and changed his arm into a blade.

Isaac watched him shock. "No transmutation circles? Didn't know you could do that." Isaac smirked. "Well sorry, kiddies. I don't have time to play."

Edward's eye started twitching. "Kiddies? That's it!" He charged at Isaac and swung his blade at him. Isaac jumped away from him.

Al sighed. His brother was so reckless and charged in without thinking a lot. He ran after his brother and Isaac as they moved fighting down the alley. He clapped his hands and slammed them on the ground, forming spikes that went around his brother and towards Isaac.

Isaac jumped backwards to avoid the spikes. "You two are a perfect tag team, aren't you? You put so much trust in each other so you can fight so well together." Isaac grabbed a canteen from his belt. "But as I said, I don't have time to play. I have to finish setting up to destroy the military." He threw the water in the canteen on the ground and slammed his hands onto the water, causing steam to fill the alley.

"Damn it." Edward swore. The steam cleared and Isaac was gone. "We lost him."

"What now brother?" Al asked.

"Wait until tonight. He'll come back to attack Central Command. We attack him then." Edward said. He looked at the array on the ground. "Until then let's destroy this array. I don't get why he would draw an array in an alley. It seems pointless if his target is Central Command."

Al kneeled down and clapped his hands. He put them on the ground and caused the ground to break apart around in the array. "We just have to wait and see what he does tonight."

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