Chapter 175 - Sight!

In the evening,

Nina was sleeping; she was tired from running all over the place.

Miyuki was sitting beside Tatsuya on the table. There was a transmutation circle drawn from chalk on the table. On top of the transmutation circle were a few materials on top of them with his sunglasses.

"Onii-sama, it's all done!"

Tatsuya put his hands together, "thank you."

He put his hand on the transmutation circle, resulting in the discharge of blue lighting.

Soon, the materials disappeared, leaving only sunglasses in a much lighter shade.

Tatsuya picked up the sunglasses, with a slight tremble in his hand, that appeared and disappeared.

Tatsuya donned on the sunglasses before pressing something on the side. *Click*

*Slish!" Small needles pierced Tatsuya's head.

Miyuki pulled his face towards hers, "How is it?"

Tatsuya looked through the glasses; everything was disoriented, not the way he saw before. But slowly, he was able to see things.

Miyuki's face appeared in front of his eyes; Tatsuya moved his hands, his fingers brushing against her face, "I can see again..."

His thumb rubbed her face, "I didn't realize, not seeing your face would be so difficult." Even though he could sense her Chi, seeing her face... somehow put him at ease.

Miyuki put her hand on Tatsuya, beaming, "Onii-sama doesn't know how happy I am, now that you can see me again."

Her other hand reached Tatsuya's sunglasses, grazing the frames, "I still can't believe you did it."

"It wouldn't have been possible without Alchemy and Chi; I have no tools that could have done that operation or created something so intricate."

Miyuki clapped her hands together, "Let's celebrate!"

*BOOOM*

"Hm?" Tatsuya turned to look towards the window, "did you arrange the fireworks?"

Miyuki curled her lips, taking the remote monitor out of her pocket.

Her eyes fell on the red blinking sigh.

"It's Scar! He is attacking Ed and Al!" Miyuki stood up in surprise.

Outside,

In an alley,

Ed and Al were trapped in an alleyway, the path in front of them blocked by the rubbles.

Ed was on his knees as he turned his head to look at the man standing at the entrance of the alleyway, "Who are you anyway!!! Why are you after us?!"

The man watched them before speaking, "As long as there are creators like you in the world, there must also be destroyers like me."

"That looks like we are going to have to fight," Ed clapped his hands together, transmuting a fallen pipe into a knife. While Al stood up and assumed a fighting stance.

Scar had a scary smile as he watched Ed and Al run towards him, "Gutsy one, aren't you, huh..."

He turned his hands like claws, "But..." He easily dodged the coming attacks from Ed and Al, moving to stand between them, "Too slow!"

Lightning tweeted around his hand as he moved his hand backward. The moment it touched Alphonse's armor, it destroyed a large part of his waist and chest. Leaving a hole big enough for anyone to see that there was nobody inside the armor.

"Al!!!" Ed shouted, glancing back, trying to stop his body's momentum.

Scar paused, watching Al in shock...'There is nothing inside...'

"YOU BASTARD!!!" Ed shouted, running towards Scar, trying to attack him, "You are too slow!" Scar declared, catching Ed's right hand that was holding the knife.

*Crack!!*

Blue lighting shined brightly before repulsing Scar's hand and throwing Ed at a distance.

Ed rolled up the ground removing his red coat, his automail arm visible for Scar to see.

"Automail arm...I see. That explains why bodily disruption didn't work on you. Most unusual...and HIM, I was planning on stripping his armor before destroying him, but there is nothing inside. The two of you are a strange pair."

Ed focused his gaze on Scar.

*Clap*

Putting his hands together, he transmuted the upper layer of his automail, creating a blade.

Al tried to crawl up, from where he lay, Ed had no chance of beating Scar, "Brother! Don't! You have to run away!" AL pleaded while trying to get up.

"You Idiot!! I am not gonna leave you behind, Al!!

"You press your hands to make a ring, and you use the flow created to perform transmutation, is that it?"

"Well then,"

"RRRAAAAAAA!!!!" Ed jumped forward to stab Scar with all force.

*BAAM*

But, Scar easily dodged and held Ed's hand, pinning him where he stood.

"Your arm, let me destroy it!" Scar put his arm on Ed's shoulder.

*Crack*BOOM*

With the surge of blue lightning, Ed's arm broke apart into pieces.

"Brother!!!!!"

"Now, you will not be able to use your heretics Alchemy." Scar watching Ed, who had fallen on his end.

Watching Scar move towards him, Ed scrambled back.

Scar stood over Ed, "I'll give you a moment to pray..."

"Unfortunately, I don't have any god I'd like to pray to..."

Ed clenched his fist softly, "Am I the only one you are going after today? Or, are you going after my brother Al too?"

"If anyone interferes, I will eliminate them, but Fullmetal Alchemist, you are the only one I plan to kill."

While Ed let out a smile of relief and anguish, Al watched Scar and Ed, frightened as he prayed. He never felt this useless before, his brother was about to be killed in front of him, and he couldn't do anything but pray.

'No! Don't! Someone stop him! Someone save brother!! Someone!!'

'Miyuki! Tatsuya!!'

"I am afraid I can't let you do that."

"Huh..." Scar widened his eyes in disbelief. His eyes turned slowly to find a man with black hair and light shade sunglasses standing beside him, 'when...'

He hastily stepped back, creating a distance between them.

"Tatsuya!!!" Al shouted in a happy surprise...he couldn't believe it!!

Suddenly, a hand patted his back, "you two really love getting in trouble..."

Al glanced back to see Miyuki's smiling face. She sat on her knees, patting his back.

"Miyuki..." Al said in a near tearful voice.

"It's you...the sage..." Scar stared at Tatsuya, muttering.

"Tatsuya..." Ed collapsed down, smiling, "it seems I am not dying today."

Tatsuya had a tiny smile on his face as his piercing eyes glanced at Ed, "No...you are dying tomorrow when you show Winry that arm."

Ed's body shivered in fright, "Uh..." Winry was going to kill him.

"If you try to stop me, I will kill you."

Tatsuya let out a breath narrowing his eyes, "I owe you a debt of gratitude, but I can't let you kill this midget."

"HEY!! DID YOU CALL ME A DWARF SO SMALL THAT YOU COULDN'T EVEN SEE WITH A MAGNIFYING GLASS!!!!"

Scar glanced at Ed weirdly before watching Tatsuya, "I don't remember having done you any favor."

Tatsuya was about to say something when he saw cars coming to stopping near them. Scar also watched them as more and more soldiers poured out from them.

Tatsuya glanced at him, "You should go, even you won't be able to take on all of them."

"Tatsuya!" Ed growled in confusion. He didn't understand why Tatsuya was letting Scar go.

Quickly he shut up when Tatsuya glared back at him.

"Stop!" Mustang shouted, with a gun in his hand. Beside him was 2nd Lt. Jean Havoc and Lt. Riza Hawkeye. There were also other soldiers of the Mustang unit and East branch.

"I am taking you into custody, where you will answer for the murder of at least tens of State Alchemist."

"Alchemist distorts things from their natural form. Turning them into something else...something grotesque. They profane God, the true creator of all things. As the agent of God, I am he who hands down his judgment."

"If you interfere, I will eliminate you as well."

"Don't interfere!" Tatsuya stopped Mustang. It would be troublesome if all these soldiers started attacking Scar. Thankfully, he and Ed were in the way.

Mustang frowned before smiling and putting his gun down, "if you want to handle it, but be careful."

Scar's eyes were still on Mustang; just then, he felt something coming towards him with great force.

With his reflexes, he barely dodged it.

Tatsuya pulled his leg back.

Scar frowned, "Since you insist on getting in my way..."

He lunged towards Tatsuya, clawing at him, "I will take care of you first."

Tatsuya moved to Scar's right, dodging his claw. He kicked behind Scar's knee, making his knee touch the ground, "Ugh!"

Scar put his hand on the floor, resulting in a stream of lighting, breaking the floor under Tatsuya's feet.

Tatsuya jumped up, scarcely creating a distance because of disbalance. By the time he stood straight, Scar had stood up and was in front of him, trying to grab his face.

Tatsuya clapped his hands together, transmuting the air in front of him. He condensed the air into a liquid, vaporizing it again, creating a small blast of air that blasted Scar away with high velocity.

Scar rolled on the ground a few times before standing up. He stared at Tatsuya, "you use Alchemy the same way as the Fullmetal Boy..."

In fact, not only him, Mustang had his eyes stretched out. There could be only one reason that Tatsuya could use Alchemy without a transmutation circle. What he didn't understand, how...why?

Tatsuya turned his face diagonally to his left, "You are sorely outnumbered. How about leaving here for now."

Scar followed Tatsuya's gaze to see a remarkably tall man with an exceptionally-sculpted and well-defined musculature honed from years of enthusiastic physical training. His head is completely bald save for a single lock of curly blond hair hanging from just above his brow. His eyebrows, too, are bare of hair, sporting a thick, blond handlebar mustache, which hides his mouth while accentuating his strong, cleft chin.

Major Armstrong bumped his fist together, "I would suggest that you surrender yourself."

Scar grunted as he looked around; just Tatsuya alone was being too much for him. The pressure he felt from him was unreal. He wasn't sure he could win.

On top of that, there was Flame Alchemist and his accursed flames. Now another formidable one had appeared, and then there was that pair of eyes on his back. He glanced back, his eyes meeting the woman next to Al.

She was watching him, intently, as if ready to kill him at any moment.

"Maybe there are too many of you."

He silently watched them before squatting down, putting his hand on the floor.

*CRA-BAAK*KARARARRARARARARARARRR*

With intense blue lightning, Scar created a hole in the ground, disappearing in it.

"The bastard went inside the sewers."

"Stay put!"

"Sure, you don't have to tell me twice."

Once, Scar disappeared, everyone's eye was on Tatsuya. Especially Mustang, "I hope you have a good reason..."