Fullmetal Alchemist Fan Fiction ❯ Chibi Roy Equals Chaos ❯ Second victim: Ed ( Chapter 5 )

Ed made his grand entrance when he pounded on the door until the hinges creaked. Worry was written on his face, it quickly disappeared as Hughes stuttered out his reason for calling Ed to his house. Hughes's words slowly sunk in causing Ed to explode at the thought of having to take care of the little colonel. If the usually calm lieutenant colonel couldn't handle Roy what made him think that he and Al could. Things escalated as the argument went on. Roy stood silently at the door while staring at his feet. He didn't want to be here anymore.

 

“You were lying to us!” Ed's voice boomed through the door.

 

“Ed don't do anything drastic I know I made a mistake...Ed...what are you doing....?” Hughes stuttered franticly.

 

“You sounded like you were in trouble!” Roy closed his eyes tightly as he began to hear loud crashes. Too many horrible memories were beginning to flash through his mind.

 

“It was trouble!”, Hughes shouted angrily, “He said Elysia was hott!”

 

“Are you okay colonel?”, Al asked bringing Roy back to what was happening around him.

 

“Colonel...why do I keep hearing that?”, Roy sluggishly asked. He was utterly confused everyone was referring to him with that name.

 

“Um...that's a bit hard to explain right now”, Al hurriedly finished.

 

“Oh...okay...I understand you don't have to tell me...”

 

“Is something wrong?”, Al asked again while watching Roy slump to the floor and lean against the wall.

 

“No, nothing”, Roy muttered, “can we leave now please I'm...tired...”

 

Al glanced at Roy one more time before going to tell his brother he and Roy were leaving. Al opened the door to where Hughes and Ed were only to find an unconscious Hughes, and Ed being cornered by Elysia who was now yelling at him. Al slowly closed the door, his brother would find out himself where the two had gone.

 

“Are you ready to leave now?”, Al asked as he turned to face the little colonel.

 

“What about your brother?”, Roy asked, looking up at the suite of armor. Al looked back at the door and reopened it. He now saw that Elysia had found rope and was using it to tie up his brother, she then gagged Ed with a nearby sock.

 

“I think he'll be fine on his own”, Al muttered nervously, who knew Elysia could be so evil?

 

"Come on, colonel, let's go to my house," Al led him through the front door leading them both outside. They then began to continue down the street towards the military dorms.

 

"Colonel...", Al started before he was cut off by Roy.

 

"My names Roy", He stated with a slight frown.

 

"Roy...", Al corrected quickly, " How do you feel about going to school?"

 

"I'm not going and you can't make me", Roy muttered, crossing his arms.

 

"It's not my idea, it's the lieutenant she suggested you go to school", Al protested. He was answered with silence until they arrived in front of the apartment. Al opened the door revealing a dimly lit room covered with stray books and clothes.

 

"I guess you can sleep on the couch", Al spoke as he made an attempt to clean the messy room. "Sorry if it's a bit crowded brothers always leaving his belongings everywhere, he never cleans".

 

"Whatever I don't really care", Roy cleared off the couch and soon fell asleep. The next morning Al awoke early to fix breakfast.

 

He looked up from the pan of scrambled eggs to see a downtrodden Ed come out of his room. The shrimpy alchemist had come in late last night, cursing and throwing a fit about little girls belonging to Satan.

 

“Good morning brother”, Al spoke while placing a plate of food on the table for Ed.

 

“Morning Al”, Ed replied, lazily yawning. He sluggishly made his way to the couch, if he couldn't sleep now neither could the brat colonel.

 

“Brother, maybe you should let him sleep longer, he seemed depressed last night”, Al pleaded as he tried to block Ed's path to the couch.

 

“I need to go to work soon Al”, Ed had somehow managed to get around Al and to the couch. Ed looked down at the....empty couch? “Al where is he?”

 

“Wha...What do you mean brother?”

 

“Déjà vu”, Ed muttered as he cursed under his breath.

 

“Brother he has to be there...”, Al was cut off by the door being pushed open. The doorknob lodged itself in the wall. The Elric brothers slowly turned around.

 

"I am Flame Boy, prepare to be an-anni-annih....destroyed!", the chibi colonel had jumped to the middle of the room. A blue towel served as a cape and a pair of flame underwear were worn over his pants. But that was not what drew the Elrics's eyes. It was the very large water gun that “Flame Boy” held.

 

“If you're “Flame Boy” then why do you have a water gun?”, Ed mockingly asked.

 

“You're right maybe I should have a flamethrower...”, a evil glint appeared in Roy's eyes.

 

"You don't want to really do that", Al spoke he watched his brother inch closer to the chibi colonel. Ed had a look of pure annoyance on his face.

 

"Right again! If I transmutated this into a flamethrower I wouldn't be able to do this!", Roy pulled the trigger. A stream of cold water hit Ed square on the forehead. "Score!", Roy screamed as he scrambled to get away from Ed. Roy hopped onto the back of the couch, 'cape' streaming behind him. The couch tottered on two legs before crashing to the ground.

 

“What the he—“, Roy was cut off as he tumbled to the ground. He got on his feet quickly and shot off down the hall.

 

“Al help me catch him!”. Ed continued chasing the boy. Any objects in his way were found knocked over on the floor.

 

“Brother please don't hurt him”, a high-pitched scream was all he got in response. Al ran over to where both boys were. Ed stood towering over a shaken up Roy, arm transmutated into a blade.

 

“I got blackmail Al, the colonel screams like a girl”, Ed spoke excitedly.

 

After catching Roy and transmuting him appropriate clothes, Ed, Al, and Roy exited the dorms and headed for the military headquarters.

 

“So Ed how old are you, you have to be younger than me”, Roy stated, as he walked between the two.

 

“No, I'm fifteen...”, Ed sneered, he was still fuming from the mornings events.

 

“Wow, you're really short. Did you know you kinda look like a eight year old?”, Roy asked, eyes innocent. “I know during Halloween you go as midget!”.

 

“Who are you callin someone so short you need a microscope just to see!”, Ed barked. Al shook his head and sweatdropped.

 

“Or during Christmas you can dress up as a elf....”, Roy continued, completely ignoring Ed. Today was going to be a long day.

 

"Good morning all!", Roy sang, kicking open the door to HQ.

 

"Shut up do you want to draw a lot of attention?", Ed questioned, clamping a hand over the boys mouth. Ed stiffened as he felt the chibi colonel lick his hand. "You're disgusting", he seethed letting go of Roy.

 

"Thank you!", Roy replied happily before running down the hall. He turned a corner and disappeared.

 

"Brother shouldn't we go after him?"

 

"No, we've been chasing him all morning someone's bound to find him", Ed began to head towards the colonels office hoping to find Riza there.