Hello. Me again. I'm not gonna be able to post much during the week – school and homework and stuff – but I'll do my best to get some writing done for you lot.

And, on that note, you're not really doing your bit. Only four of you have reviewed. Four. Come 9on, people! Let's see which country has better readers! Get a little national pride involved here! (And an average of at least two reviews per chapter would be super-nice!)

That said, on with the show!

Lines You'd Never Hear From A News Reader:

More radio channels were popping up all over the place. It seemed that everyone who had a radio set wanted to get involved in the 'fun' of it and, as the alchemists believed, creation and destruction are two sides of the same coin. Many of the new channels did not last for longer than two weeks, and even then it was lucky!

To increase likelihood of long-term survival, each radio station tried to have a specific 'tone', which led to situations like the one Hughes could hear now:

"It is three o'clock on this wonderful summer's day and welcome to Channel Five News, thickos."

Surprisingly, many listeners found the rude tone funny and the number of listeners seemed to increase the more the insults piled up.

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Most of the radio stations got their funding from corporations that had discovered that many people now listened to the radio, making it just as good a forum for advertising as the newspapers.

Unfortunately, many of them were not entirely sure yet about how, exactly, to change their adverts from paper-suitability to interesting on the radio.

Actually, interesting was not quite the right word. They were interesting, that much was certain, but they were not quite… right.

There were no radio stations, as of yet, none had thought of the idea to have breaks in programming specifically for advertising. That did not mean that they tried their hardest to earn the money being given to them by the corporations paying for the airtime.

"Oi!" shouted one DJ in between songs, "You wanna buy some speakers?! The ones we have in here're from Downton's Tech Shop for a steal at only three hundred sens! What are ya waiting for?! And the next song is…"

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A state-run station had recently started up, focusing mainly on law and order and this week, they seemed to be trialling a new news presenter, hence the slightly odd reactions to the results of a few court cases.

Take, for example, the one about the case of two youths now convicted for bank robbery. They had not caused much damage and they had shown that they had a good reason to do it, which was why the harsh sentence was so surprising to those following the case.

But not, apparently, to this guy. He had been crowing about the perceived victory of law and order over 'hooliganism'. "And the two youths convicted this morning got what they f***ing deserved! That'll teach them to…"

It was, quite frankly, sickening to most of the listeners.

Which was, perhaps, why they were broken out by no less than fifty different people on the first day of their prison sentence.

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It had finally happened. A State Alchemist stalkers' radio station was set up and they had somehow found the location of the top of their 'hot' list, Edward Elric's hotel room. A general alert had been issued and fangirls (and boys) started to congregate around the building.

What first alerted the Little Alchemist was the fact that he could not stop sneezing; a sure sign he was being talked about by someone nearby. And then his 'fangirl radar' was going haywire.

It helped, of course, that he looked out of the window.

There they were, in all their glory; Edward Elric t-shirts, signs with varying messages scrawled on them, even a few Fullmetal Alchemist plushies.

He backed away and started to build a barricade, not caring that Al was still out there. In a battle against fangirls, it was every man for himself.

They rushed the building and swarmed, like piranhas, to his hotel room, where a battle of Good versus Evil was soon to take place.

Later that evening, when the small army had been defeated, another news reporter entered the hotel.

"And, as I walk down these halls, every wall showing signs of a battle, I see scenes too revolting to describe. But let's have a go anyway! Basically…"

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And that's all for now. Look out for more later on this week (like maybe Saturday?) TTFN!