Scar's Perfect Opposite: Scarlett the Metal? Chapter 22, a fullmetal alchemist fanfic

SCARLETT

She stood, waiting for the general. She didn't want to get started without the general knowing.

"Scarlett."

She turned and gave a grim smile. "All ready and raring to go. Kimblee is dead and everything else functioning just fine!"

"Good. You know what your part is."

"Well, I'll be seeing you."

Having said that, she went to the tunnel that Ed had prepared previously. Without any further ado, she slipped down it.

Darkness enveloped her. She nodded. Darkness was good. According to the soldiers that had been retrieved from the tunnels, there was a monster in the shadows. No light, no shadows, no monster.

Sloth isn't on ice anymore. Work fast.

Bearing that in mind, she started running down the tunnel. Her enhanced eyes showed her everything, and it was easy for her to get far enough away from beneath the Fort. She stopped when it seemed a good distance away. "Well, let's get started..." she grinned, turning to the wall.

The plan? Make more tunnels. Lot's more. Just screw up the circle, make them have to fix it with almost no time. That was the plan.

It wouldn't be easy to execute, but it was a plan. Sloth was probably already across the country. But he was fast. So she'd have to be fast too.

EDWARD

He hadn't been told that Kimblee was going to be killed. He was still shocked at that.

"General Armstrong told me to be prepared for a plan. She never told me any more than that." Miles said from behind him.

"But that was... brutal..." he whispered.

"The technique, however, was accurate. She cut into him so that he'd bleed to death in warmer conditions, but in ones like these, even a shallow cut that we could've mended easily would've gotten frost-bite incredibly quickly."

Ed shuddered. He still couldn't get over it. Her eyes had been glowing.

She hadn't been even slightly human as she killed Kimblee. Kimblee might have been insane, a killer... But he was still human. And humans had their flaws.

But Scarlett wasn't human. She was a Chimera. Combined with a rare metal to make the first real super-human...

Was Scarlett a monster?

He instantly shook his head, trying to rid it of that thought. She wasn't a monster! He'd spent time with her, and lots of it! He should know first-hand that she wasn't a monster!

... Was she...?

SCARLETT

Beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat...

That was the rhythm she set.

Beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat...

Occasionally she'd come to a large rock or something and she'd have to increase the tempo or pause to haul it out of the way. But it was mostly...

Beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat...

Nothing interrupted her work. Nothing.

Nothing.

It was just her, the dark, and the stones and dirt that she flung out behind her.

She was working fast. She had to have at least ten miles of tunnel behind her now. But she couldn't stop working. Not for a while...

Beat beat beat beat beat beat beat beat...

MISCELLANEOUS

The ground was slightly shaking every once in a while. But for the most part, it was still. No one knew what was going on, what was happening beneath their feet.

Nothing...

What was going on?

Now there was a large rumble. The ground shook a little more violently than before.

SCARLETT

She jumped clear in a nick of time.

Her tunnel had collapsed. Only the little bit in front of her. But that gave her an idea.

"Two tunnels means more work for them having to find me." she said to herself. She turned and ran back the way she'd come. After gaining a good portion of ground, she started again, the rhythm just the same as before.

"You're being quite troublesome, ya know?"

The second tunnel was just started. Envy must've been started earlier.

"That's my job. It's why I was created. To be a thorn in people's sides. But you could say I back-fired a bit. I'm now a thorn in the sides of the ones that made me." she said, a grin creeping across her face. "But let's see... I've already killed Kimblee. General Raven is out of the picture. Same for Lust. I just need to take you out, and that'll be one more annoyance out of my way."

"You really think it'll be that easy to kill me?"

"Uh-huh. I know your tricks. There's no one you can impersonate to fool and weaken me." she nodded.

"Oh, really?"

She heard the crackle, saw the faint red flash. Snarling, she turned and dug her right arm-blade into Envy's throat. "Take off his face." she ordered.

Envy had the appearance of Scar on. His face was one of shock, and his neck was already healing over. "You didn't hesitate to attack your friend!" he shouted accusingly.

"Scar is in the North. He doesn't know the location of the tunnel exit-points. As far as I know, he's rallying the Ishvalan survivors across the country now to help in the revolution against you worms!" she smirked. "You can't fool me, Homunculus!"

Envy snarled, a shift starting-

As she chopped off the arm that he was morphing. He screamed.

"It's no use, beast. My eyes show me everything you're going to do, your stats and your plans." she said, a growl lacing her words.

"Well then..." Envy smirked.

She cried out as a fistful of dirt was thrown into her face, blinding her. She pawed at her eyes, but Envy was already attacking. "Shit you! I suppose you got that from when you were fighting me and Ling?" she spat as his blows glanced off her.

"How'd you guess?"

An idea popped into her head. Envy made to strike her again, and she grabbed him. His true size was very large, so his condensed mass was heavy...

"Ow!" he cried, getting up from where she'd slung him into the wall where she had the tunnel going.

"Heh. You made a mistake in coming here, Envy."

"Huh?" His voice held a trace of fear now.

"You've just made my work easier. You're assisting me dig." she informed him, a cold smile on her face.

Understanding sparked in his eyes as he saw what she meant. "You wouldn't..." he said, voice full of fear now.

"I already started. And I can do it until your Stone expires, which should be a while." she said, grabbing him as he tried to flee.