532 532. He Will Be Angry
Next Morning,
"THAT DAMN CAAAAAAAAT!"
It was a fine morning with the loudest alarm clock in the neighborhood being Edward. Edward found a pile of the sh*t on his head that morning. The worst thing was that he had tried to scratch his face in sleep and had smudged his whole body and clothes now.
Hats was lying near the window, having a sunbath. Ajax quickly woke up and asked, "What happened?"
"Your cat shat on my face." Edward barked.
"That's not possible. He's far too intelligent to do something so backward." Ajax defended Hats and Hats also nodded.
"THEN WHAT IS THIS?" Edward shouted.
"Brother, I think this is what's on your face," Alphonse came with a squeezed mustard sauce bottle.
"Hah?"
Edward quickly smelled his T-shirt and found out it really was the mustard sauce.
"See, Hats is not that bad, though he might have been the one who dumped the sauce on your face," Ajax said.
Gritting his teeth, Edward ran to take a bath.
"Alphonse, I will make breakfast today. Let's gooo..." Ajax excitedly entered the kitchen.
But even after he made such tasty boiled eggs, Alphonse didn't eat them. But Ajax didn't mind and they headed to play with Nina.
It suddenly started raining as soon as they left the apartment building. The day seemed too gloomy for some reason.
"How can a mother leave a sweet child like Nina." Ajax sighed.
"Some people are like that, Ajax. The world is not always as nice as we expect it to be" Edward spoke with a serious face.
"Meow." Hats affirmed.
...
Alexander and Dobby arrived in the border town called Youswell. It was the closest area to the Eastern Desert. It was a coal mining area and the people living here were also employed in it.
"Ah, I hate sand. Let's have a bath. There must be a nice hotel or something." Alexander decided and headed to the most crowded street.
"Hey there, young man, do you know where the hotel is?" Alexander politely asked a dark blonde-haired man with a beard.
The man turned around and looked at Alexander with slight greed in his eye. "Oh, welcome to Youswell, I am the owner of an Inn here. My name is Halling. Please follow me."
"Oh, nice. Lead the way." Alexander agreed.
"By the way, what does mister do?" Halling asked.
"Oh, I'm in the army," Alexander replied.
Suddenly, Halling stopped in his tracks. "I'm sorry, all the rooms in my Inn are full."
Alexander was surprised by the sudden change in the man's tone. He was now scornfully and angry for some reason.
"What's the matter? Why such hate against the military? What did they do?" Alexander asked.
"What did you all do? Haha, maybe you should go and ask this to your man in charge of this town." Halling replied loudly, gaining the attention of everyone nearby. They all stopped and looked at them.
Alexander took out his identification card. "Look, I am a Major General. Do you understand what this means? I can help you with any problem you have. I have the authority."
Halling looked at the identification and couldn't help but gulp his saliva. Such a high ranking officer had never come to their rundown town so he thought Alexander was also some low-level runt of the military.
His tone quickly turned a bit softer but still angry, none the less. "Sir, For some time, the land upon which the town and mines are built belongs to Lieutenant Yoki, who exploits the townspeople by frequently raising taxes while simultaneously lowering wages in order to line his own pockets. As such, though there are shops and inns for tourists and travelers to use, the prices are excessively high because we need to earn money somehow to pay the taxes. This is the reason there is a general distrust for military personnel among the villagers."
Alexander nodded. "Okay, does this Yoki know Alchemy or employed anyone who knows it?"
Halling shook his head, "Not that I know of. He only has a few soldiers with guns."
"Hmm, okay then, let's go to his office. I will give a befitting punishment." Alexander announced.
With Alexander leading, a big crowd walked to the military office of that town. The guards there haughtily stopped them but Alexander just showed them his identification that made them stand straight and salute.
"COME OUT! Yoki." Alexander called the man out.
Soon, a man came out in military clothing. His face was average but the striking feature was his pointy mustache.
"WHO'S THE HELL IS BARKING?!" He shouted while coming out.
"Your court-martial," Alexander replied with his identification still out.
Yoki's shoulder fell at that moment. Alexander looked into his mind and found out that what the people said was true. He was really exploiting them.
"Yoki, I want you to return the land to the town. I will graciously pay you 1 Cen for it. (Cen is equal to Yen.)" Alexander said evilly.
Yoki was about to pass out but Alexander held him. "Dobby, take him to the bank, take out all the money in his account and change the land deeds, and put them under the town's people. Then throw him in jail to be taken to the center for court-martial"
Dobby dutifully went with Yoki to arrange everything. Alexander looked back at everyone. "Everyone, he won't be troubling you anymore."
"YAAAAY!"
People started jumping and cheering with tearful eyes. Many of them were even forcefully bankrupted and they finally had their justice.
Yoki had millions in his account and that was enough for Alexander to help the town.
...
East City,
Edward, Alphonse, Ajax, and Hats reached Nina's house.
"NINAAA... we're here," Ajax shouted from the gate.
"Weird, she should already be at the gates, all excited." Alphonse wondered loudly. He touched the door and it was already unlocked.
~I feel ominous,~ Hats said telepathically.
They entered the building while calling Nina out. But they couldn't find them anywhere. Soon, they came to the underground lab.
It was dark inside when they opened the door. Ajax could only see the reflection on Mr. Tucker's glasses.
"I did it, boys. I finally did it. A chimera that finally understands human speech. Here, let me show you." Shou Tucker mumbled.
Shou sat down and talked to the creature, "Listen to me, that person over there, that's is Edward."
With a muffled voice the creature spoke, "That person... Ed...ward."
"Yes, that's very good. WELL DONE!." he patted the creature on its head.
Edward was in awe, "That's amazing... it can actually talk."
Shou proudly stood up, "Now I don't have to worry about losing my certification."
But then suddenly, the creature turned its head towards Edward, "That person Ed...ward..."
"That person Ed...ward..."
"That person Ed...ward..."
"Big brother Ed."
There was silence in the room. Edward and Ajax's eyes shrunk in realization.
"Mr. Tucker, when did you get your state certification?" Edward asked.
"Let's see, it was two years ago, I believe," he replied.
"And when did your wife leave you?" Edward asked further. Ajax didn't know about this but now he realized it.
"That was two years two." Shou Tucker replied quickly.
"WHERE... ARE... NINA AND ALEXANDER?" Ajax burst into anger.
"Damn brats figuring it out so quickly." Shou cursed.
Edward went ahead and picked the man up with his hand. But Ajax saw the pain in the creature's eyes.
"You did it again, didn't you? two years ago it was your wife, this time you used your own daughter and her dog to transmute a talking chimera." Edward raged.
"I don't see any problem with that. This is how we progress. Human experimentation is a necessary step. I would think a scientist would understand..." Shou rambled.
"SHUT UP."
"How could you toy with someone's life? That was your own daughter." Edward shouted.
"Someone's life, you say? Haha... You'd know all about that, wouldn't you? Look at you, Full Metal Alchemist. Look at your leg, your arm, your own brother. Those things are all the result of messing around with somebody's life, AREN'T THEY!"
"SHUT UP!!!" Edward punched him.
Shou started madly laughing. "Haha, we are the same, YOU AND I... we are ready to do the ultimate taboo because we saw the opportunity and we took it. WE ARE THE SAME...!"
*BOOM*
Ajax punched the air. All the walls and the part of the building behind Shou disappeared with a loud noise.
Ajax's eyes were red with anger. He tightened his fist. "SHUT UP!. Edward, stop, you are hurting Nina."
Edward looked back at the scared creature and let Shou fall on the ground.
Ajax continued to speak, but now it was a normal yet fear-instilling voice. "I promised grandpa that I will never kill people. But he will come now and he will be angry."
"YES... VERY ANGRY." Hats spoke, shocking everyone. All this time, Hats was hiding his huge grin but now it was clear and it was terrifying to Shou.
Alphonse kneeled down in front of the Chimera and caressed the head, "I'm sorry... I'm sorry. Even with all our power, we can't do anything to change you back. I'm sorry."
Alphonse dropped his head in disappointment with himself.
"Can we play... now?"
"Can we play... now?" the Chimera repeated.
Ajax went over to her and wrapped his arm around her neck and hugged her. There was a small drop of tears in his eyes. He was just 5 years old after all. He couldn't imagine the pain and fear she must have felt. She just wanted to play.
"It's okay, we will play with you. Don't worry, Grandpa will fix everything. *Sniff*" He assured her.
He then looked at Hats, who was silently staring at the beaten Shou and scaring the crap out of him. "Hats, can you bring Grandpa?"
Hats didn't say anything and just disappeared.
...
Youswell,
"Bwahaha... now we get to stay in a free hotel. Ah, no matter how rich you are, free stuff always feels good." Alexander laughed.
"Boss, technically it was not free, you worked for it." Dobby corrected.
"Bravo, way to ruin my joy." Alexander's laugh disappeared and he boredly looked behind.
*Pop*
"Old man, Ajax needs you." Hats appeared.
Alexander was already looking at him because he felt someone was going to appear, maybe it was his omniscience at work, "Oh, what is that little rascal up to? His grandma is worried about him."
"He's upset." Hats replied seriously.
Alexander immediately stood up. "Let's go, Dobby."
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