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Post by aspiredeathe on Jun 4, 2009 16:11:37 GMT -6
((Uh, let's see. I already mentioned the kid. Barry's just arrived here, he's in human form though. Every single person from Amestris lives in one house. Dante+Scar= kid. Martel+Greed=kid.
Hughes has another kid too (It's like a baby boom in here xD)
I honestly can't think of anything xD Just wing it I guess))
Jean rose an eyebrow, he didn't know about any cat.
Though he tended to look away when the kid had that look in her eyes. Sometimes it was just better not knowing.
He prayed tha tMarkus wouldn't turn out like that.
"Dunno, though I am kinding of hoping they did. Dead things tend to smell."
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Post by rizahawkeye on Jun 4, 2009 21:09:40 GMT -6
((Okay... I'm just going to bring her in... correct me if I'm wrong... One hundred pages is a lot to read through. XD Oh, and are Jean and Riza married, or do they just have a kid? ))
"Jean, what are you talking about?" Riza asked, walking over to him, "What about a cat?"
She was confused, but wanted to know what they were talking about.
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Post by aspiredeathe on Jun 5, 2009 4:51:04 GMT -6
((They're not married, they just have a kid. Though you may, by all means have her ditch the poor 2nd Lt. for Mustang (The last Hawkeye had her go on holiday to sort out her feelings for the men) xD
And Jean is at his work in a club, co-owned by Martel))
Jean blinked as Riza entered, quite dumbfounded that she was actually here.
Sure, she had said that she'd come back someday, but he'd at least expected a phone call. Either way, it was a nice surprise.
"Hey, Riza. Uh.." He scratched his chin at the question "Well, ya know Martel's little girl, Arden and how she's kind of homicidal.." He looked to JD for help, realizing that he didn't really know what had happened to the cat.
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Post by amouri on Jun 5, 2009 7:27:25 GMT -6
Barry sighed, still watching the dog in mild interest.
Not that it concerned him, it couldn't do him any harm.
Or-well, of course it could, he just hadn't quite gotten down to thinking like a human again.
I'm not practically invincible anymore, I should probably watch it.
He suddenly sensed something...different.
He stood, a few seconds of confusion, and then he suddenly remembered that kind of sensation, and scratched the back of his neck awkwardly.
"Erm...You wouldn't happen to have a...Bathroom? Anywhere?"
He shifted slightly.
This is just so weird. A few years ago it was like the most natural thing in the world, and now I have to bloody think and remember it. Just proves the fact what becoming a tin can, can do to you.
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Post by rizahawkeye on Jun 5, 2009 10:46:53 GMT -6
((Okay... ))
"Oh..." was the only response she could give, "So there's a dead cat somewhere..."
She tried to hide the disgusted look on her face as she looked around.
"That poor thing..."
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Post by aspiredeathe on Jun 5, 2009 15:25:45 GMT -6
Jean could only shrug mildly, there wasn't much he could do about it.
Also, he'd thought the woman was more a dog person than a cat, what with Black Hayate and the way she trained Mustang back in the office.
A far away look crossed his eyes as he thought back to then, something that seemed liked a dream.
He knew it was real though, he could feel it, but he still wondered if one day the time would come when they would forget who they used to be.
"You wanna drink?" He offered her, glaring at JD because the kid still hadn't given him his drink yet.
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Post by rizahawkeye on Jun 5, 2009 21:50:30 GMT -6
Hawkeye looked up,
"No...I'm fine." she said offering a smile, "Thanks..."
She knew things were a bit awkward since she had gotten back... with Mustang's entire ideal, she didn't know what to think anymore...
She loved both men... but leaving one wasn't as painful as the idea of watching both of them deteriorate in front of her... and if she left Jean, that's exactly what would end up happening...
And her son...
She couldn't just drop everything and start over... no... that's not what years of loyalty in the military taught her... He wasn't the man she had once known... and as much as it pained her to realize that, she wouldn't leave Jean's side... they had a kid... and she loved him... perhaps not as much as she lhad once loved her beloved Colonel... she loved him...
After all, it was Jean Havoc that was there for her when she needed it the most...
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Post by aspiredeathe on Jun 6, 2009 15:21:33 GMT -6
Jean took her smile and returned it, before the awkwardness caught up with him again.
Though this time it was that look in her eyes, she was thinking, as always. But he never knew of what.
In fact, he found Riza to being one of the most difficult people to read.
Still, it was her thing, to ponder over everything and to try and make the best of things, he thought with a soft smile.
"Ah, so, uh, Markus is doing great." He grinned, just like any father, he loved talking about his kid, even if it was to the mother of said child.
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Post by rizahawkeye on Jun 8, 2009 14:24:07 GMT -6
Riza gave a small, hardly noticible smile.
"I'm glad to hear it..." she said, "I trust that you're taking good care of him... and that he's doing well with everything... like school?"
She felt like she had been gone for years... it made her uncomfortable... not that being with Havoc wasn't awkward enough...
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Post by masterwarlord on Jun 8, 2009 16:14:07 GMT -6
Envy came outside the structure that housed nearly all of the other former Amestrians. . .Was he expected to stay there? Pfft. Not like any of his other former homunculi were there. Then again, he didn’t know of the locations of any of the others, save Gluttony, who followed him around like a lost puppy in hopes of finding Lust. Then there was the other Gluttony, Bartholomew, who seemed to be some sort of alternate version of him in this world. Two Gluttonies, but no other homunculi. Rather strange. . .
Envy had sat and plotted with the Gluttony who actually possessed a brain for a while. In any case, they needed the house to get back to Amestris, but the people had no intentions of giving the place up. Still, they didn’t actually need the house, just the transmutation circle under it. . .So who needs the house? Blow the thing up! While it might damage the transmutation circle, Envy wasn’t the patient type, and he had no reason to overthink things seeing his life was no longer on the line like back when he was enslaved to Dante.
Envy began to go around the house, planting ridiculously overpriced explosives around it. He didn’t care about the prices, though, seeing his good friend Bartholomew was paying for them. He wouldn’t miss the money. Envy was being somewhat stealthy, although he did stick out a good bit, unable to change his form due to no longer being a homunculus. . .The gate did weird things, it seemed. Only humans were allowed in this pathetic world.
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Post by aspiredeathe on Jun 9, 2009 12:11:42 GMT -6
Jean nodded wholeheartedly "Hnm, yeah, he's making friends with the other kids in the house. Though he's still a bit young I guess." He hoped that Markus wouldn't start picking up bad habits of the others. More specifically Arden's killing lust.
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Post by rizahawkeye on Jun 9, 2009 12:40:55 GMT -6
Riza smiled.
"Well, young isn't bad." she said honestly, "But he'll group up fast... He's a good boy."
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Post by dante on Jun 9, 2009 18:36:55 GMT -6
"Mischievous as ever, I see," came a sultry voice from behind the original homunculus.
Dante was standing behind him, her arms folded across her abdomen. Instead of her usual attire, she was wearing a thin violet coat with a black scarf, apparently having just returned from somewhere. Her eyes shone with a mix of curiosity and annoyance.
Resting her gaze on one of the explosives, she quirked a brow. Was he actually planning on blowing the house to smithereens? Apparently he was just as hungry for destruction as he was before they left Amestris. She had a feeling he had his reasons, but she could not care less. If he destroyed the house, she would lose all of the research notes in her study, and that was something she could not allow.
"What could you possibly hope to accomplish by destroying the house? How utterly moronic."
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Post by masterwarlord on Jun 9, 2009 18:55:41 GMT -6
Envy twitched slightly as he heard a rather famaliar voice from behind himself. It couldn't be her. . .Could it? Turning around, his fears were realized as the one person who had ever held power over him was present. His mother.
But he had no reason to fear her any longer. Alchemy didn't work here. While his powers didn't work here either, he had the power of money. He chuckled slightly. . . "Long time no see, you old hag. I was a bit hesistant to go back to Amestris. . .Because I hadn't foudn you yet. It would be a shame if I left before I could finally get my revenge for serving you so long.". Envy grimaced and pulled out a gun on Dante. "You were a fool to show your face here, bitch. I'm gonna go back to Amestris, become a homunculus again, and finish what you started. I'm gonna make an actual world worth living in that I won't have to tear to shreds."
"I dunno how you can stand being stuck in a pathetic world like this, so powerless. . .I've been searching for a way back ever since I've got here, and I've finally foudn it. You know what? It'd be more painful for you to continue living in this shitty world then dying. Still, I'll leave you a parting gift. . .".
Envy shot Dante in her left shoulder and let out a maniacal laugh. If you give a dog a taste, though, they always come back for more. He take a couple additional shots at her, firing off in a flurry, shooting rapidly and laughing maniacally. Truth be told, though, he rarely if ever used guns, and thus his aim was horrible. He only actually hit her once more in her right knee due to firing so wildly and carelessly. Still, he had to force himeslf to hold back to avoid killing her.
"Sorry to be ging so soon, but I've got a couple more bombs to set up. Excuse me, mother dearest.". He proceeded to continue setting up a few more bombs. He didn't need many more to take out the house. . .
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Post by amouri on Jun 10, 2009 11:16:04 GMT -6
Barry shifted slightly again. It seemed that they had lost interest in him, or were just thinking of other things. He needed a pee though.
He felt it would be too awkward to insist on asking again.
After all, for all he knew they could be ignoring him. He didn't want to look like a moron and keep on asking.
He sighed and quietly sidled out of the kitchen, looking for the door.
He'd have to pee outside, it would be better than having to search the house.
He quickly let himself out, jogging briskly to the spot where he had appeared in that strange world, which was relatively sheltered from view.
A few seconds later he walked back to the house again, thinking about what had happened since he had appeared here.
He could obviously not go back to killing again, even though of course he felt he wanted to.
It was always satisfying to know that one was powerful...that if one had the means and the guts one could strip away everything that defined life and create death.
Why did one even need a reason?
Though of course...when he had been armour, killing had been something he needed, something he felt he couldn't survive without. The feeling of hopelessness and doubt had never bothered him when eliminating intruders, it was like a drug to him.
It had taken all the pain away and helped him forget.
He sighed. He wished he still had his knife though...being armed made him feel more confident.
As he rounded the corner, he noticed a shockingly familiar figure, sneaking around and placing what looked like explosives all around the house.
He hastily trod back again, as he felt the blood rushing to his head.
It was-but it couldn't be-though still...
The Denny guy had said that people from amestris ended up here...he was a living example. Though he hadn't expected Envy to be here as well.
He held his breath in surprise at how shaky he suddenly felt.
Being an armour had stripped him off all physical reactions, so fear had been signaled by his mind and instincts only.
But now he could feel droplets of sweat forming on his brow, and how his heart was trying to beat out of his chest.
He closed his eyes, trying to calm down.
What could Envy do? Nothing. After all, he was no longer in lab five, and from what he had heard alchemy no longer existed. He knew that humunculi were somehow created by alchemy...maybe they had been somehow impaired now that they were in an alchemy free world?
Before he could think anything else, he heard a collection of gunshots in quick succession, accompanied by a crazy cackle of mirth.
He peeked quickly around the corner, and saw to his surprise that Envy had pulled out a gun, and was shooting some unfortunate woman again and again.
He didn't seem to be aiming properly though, as only her shoulder and knee was bloody.
He didn't know what made him do it, but he stealthily crept forward speedily, eyes narrowed in rage.
Not because of the woman, but more of the fact that Envy had turned his back towards him, that gave him a chance to possibly get revenge.
He had always been hasty with his actions, that had never changed.
He lunged at the humunculus, who was slightly shorter than him, putting him in a headlock while he desperately grappled for the gun, gripping Envy's wrist tightly.
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Post by aspiredeathe on Jun 10, 2009 13:35:58 GMT -6
Denny watched with slight disgust as Barry ambled outside and began to relieve himself.
"Oh, come on. There's a bathroom upstairs." He placed a hand over Markus' eyes protectively when gunshots ran, laughter following.
Markus jumped at the sound, yet didn't cry, as the blonde had expected.
He wasn't really willing to take the baby with him, but it was in Denny's nature to find out what happened.
So, holding the boy protectively, he quickly made his way around the corner, a swear word forming in his mouth at the sight.
"Hold him!" He yelled to Barry, quickly making his way to Dante, kneeling down next to her while checking her wounds.
She'd been shot a couple of times, blood seeping into the grass.
"Ah, damn. I'll call an ambulance. I swear we're gonna end up with a constant police watch by the end of the week." He muttered, fishing his cellphone out of his pocket with his free hand.
As he dialled the number, Markus turned his eyes from the struggling men to the woman on the grass, only making out the more brighter colours and trying to grab them.
Denny leaned back a bit as the boy's arms came close to swiping at the blood "Ah, hi. I need an ambulance. Uh, multiple gunshot wounds. The victim? Dante?" Victim was not a word one used to describe Dante, at least not very often "A woman and please don't ask me what her age is. Yeah, that's our address. Oh, I see. Okay, thank you." And with that he hung up, slightly more calm then earlier.
"Seems like they know you pretty well." He flashed a small smile to Dante "They'll be here soon."
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Jean nodded with a grin "He is yeah."
Silence then returned, giving him enough time to muster the courage to ask a question he wasn't sure he wanted to know the answer of.
"Are..you staying now?"
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Post by masterwarlord on Jun 10, 2009 13:39:28 GMT -6
Envy turned around as he went to leave his mother to find a man that he didn’t have time to identify leaping at him. He twitched slightly and simply let it happen, him not having enough time to react. He struggled about against Barry, but without being able to buff up his muscles through transformation the former homunculus was rather weak physically, getting out muscled rather easily by the psychopath butcher. Frantically he fired a couple of shots as they wrestled for control of the gun. While he managed to hit Barry in his right thigh, when he fired again the gun fumbled about and hit him in his right arm. ”SHIT!” he let out as he dropped the gun from the pain. Envy wasn’t nearly used enough to truly taking pain due to instantly closing up the wound through regeneration later, but now that he was human, he got to truly experience pain for the first time.
He’d given Barry more then enough time to get the gun, but he hastily took out his remote control with his still good left arm. ”Don’t even think about firing that thing. You shoot me and I’ll blow this whole place sky high with my last breath. You got that?”. Now that Envy had a moment to breathe, he recognized Barry faintly. ”Oh, I get it. . .You want revenge for how I put you in that shitty armor body back in Amestris. You do know that if not for me you’d of died on death row, right? You should be thanking me. . .”.
”So. . .Barry the Chopper, right? You got sent onto death row for committing countless murders, your own wife among them, if I remember correctly. You love killing and slaughtering, right? A shame this world has such high security. A shame you can’t go back to Amestris and kill everybody you want. . .”. Envy smirked and chuckled. ”If you kill me now, the only way back to Amestris will be lost forever. If you think I’m gonna tell you while you’re still pointing that gun at me though, you’re crazy.”.
Envy was utterly humiliated at the position he’d been put in. . .At the mercy of a mere bucher who’d gone off the deep end. It pained Envy greatly to force himself to come up with somewhat of a deal with the man, much less to be powerless before a human. Still, it’s not like he was begging. He prayed to god (Or not, seeing how he didn’t believe gods existed) it wouldn’t have to come to that.
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Post by amouri on Jun 10, 2009 14:20:10 GMT -6
Barry frantically tried to grab the gun, as they struggled backwards and forwards. He was surprised at how weak the humunculus seemed, he could easily overpower-
"AAARGH!!!" He shouted in pain as the bullet sunk itself into his leg, but was satisfied to hear Envy yelp in pain as well, as the second shot apparently hit him.
Envy wrenched himself out of his grasp, causing him to fall to his knees. He noticed the gun and grabbed it, staggering upright and pointing the barrel of the weapon towards the bleeding humunculus.
"Don't move." He hissed, licking the side of his mouth.
His legs were trembling so much with pain, fear and adrenalin that he was surprised that he was still standing.
He narrowed his eyes at the mention of his name.
"Thanking you? Death is nothing compared to what I was put through. Though of course...I learned to appreciate it later on. Though the first few days were unbearable."
He leered unpleasantly, it was a wonderful feeling to be in control.
"But yeah, thanks."
He narrowed his eyes slightly, darting them to the remote in Envy's hand and back. He faintly registered that Denny must've followed him, and was helping the woman. Not that he cared.
"Hm. Who says I want to go back to amestris? I've got a strange feeling I'll just find myself in that rotten shell of a body again. And besides, I think it would be stupid to forfeit the second chance fate has given you."
He tilted his head slowly.
"Don't you?"
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Post by masterwarlord on Jun 10, 2009 14:44:36 GMT -6
Envy twitched a good bit. It didn’t seem that Barry was interested in his offer. . .He chuckled slightly, still not giving up on convincing him. ”You’re a born killer, Barry. You love the smell of flesh, the feel of it going through your fingers. . .You really think you’ll be able to hold that in here? You’ll go on a rampage and get yourself killed. In Amestris, though, you’d never be caught. The cops there aren’t nearly as good as the ones here. . .”.
After Barry still seemed uninterested, Envy continued. ”Look, I’m gonna destroy this place either way. Get out anybody or anything you care about in there, then it’s going up in flames. The cops will be here any minute from those gunshots. I don’t have a lot of time. I have to go now. Just let me do my thing, and you’ll never have to see my face again. Doesn’t that sound nice?”.
Envy was getting rather frantic. He wished he could play this out better to not have to take any risks or leave anything up to the butcher, but he had no choice. Time was not on his side. If he didn’t get out of here soon, he’d be spending the remainder of his short life in a cell, if not having it ended entirely with the death penalty.
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Post by amouri on Jun 11, 2009 8:39:36 GMT -6
Barry hesitated.
The adrenalin was slowly stopping to course through his body, and he knew that was a bad thing at the moment.
It was only that extra shot of energy that was keeping him standing, and even then he had to use all his will power so as not to collapse.
His leg throbbed in protest to the bullet buried in his thigh, and he shifted slightly, nearly balancing entirely on his left leg, trying to avoid putting any weight on the injured one.
He was still staring fixedly at the humunculus, the gun pointed directly at Envy's chest.
He noticed to his satisfaction that the guy seemed to become more and more agitated.
"Easy there now, we've got time. All the time in the world. Now, how do you expect to get me back to Amestris if I decide to help you? And what has that got to do with the house? You can't blame me for asking after all...how do I even know you're telling the truth?" He smirked even though the smile was stiff and uncomfortable because of the pain.
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