FMA: The Real World (Part 3)

[masterwarlord]

Envy was beginning to realize the already insane butcher was drunk from his awkward body actions, which only further worried him. Envy was trying to avoid telling Barry exactly how about to go back to Amestris for fear he’d just shoot him and do it himself. Truth be told, Envy’d never felt so afraid in his life, simply due to being so powerless. How he missed his ability to casually take bullets. . .

”All the time in the world? Like I said, you underestimate the police here. Somebody’ll of heard the gunshots and phoned em in. I intended to get out of here before they arrived.” Envy decided that he didn’t have much a chance of all of getting out of this if he didn’t tell him, though at the same time it increased the risk he’d just kill him. . .Such lovely choices. ”Fine. . .I’ll tell you, dammit. Underneath this house is a transmutation circle we can use. We just activate it like any other circle and we’re back in Amestris. Seeing you wouldn’t give me the house, I was just gonna blow it up.”. Envy chuckled slightly. ”Seems my approach was a tad bit too hasty. . .Now then. Just help me send this place sky high and you’re more then welcome to come along for the ride.”

[rizahawkeye]

Hawkeye hesitated, but nodded.
"Yes..." she said, "It wouldn't be fair to you or Markus... HE's not the man I once knew... and though it worries me... you were there for me when I needed it..."
It was the heartfelt truth... no matter how much it hurt... she was thankful that ROy wasn't there... but the past was the past...
She only wish that she could've kept her promise to him... but, she'd have to live with that for the rest of her life.

[amouri]

He shifted again, infuriated at the fact that he was starting to feel lightheaded with pain and the loss of the thick red liquid that was seeping out of the hole in his jeans.
"Shut up." He snarled. "I have nothing to worry about. It'll be easy enough to explain who's the victim in this case, and who's the actual criminal." He paused, staring slightly confused into midair.
What? hang on... He shook his head slightly. He had no idea why he had just said that. Nothing to worry about? It would be hard to prove who was guilty if the police really did show up...after all, both he and Envy were injured, and he was the only one carrying a gun.

He looked up and listened to what Envy then said.
"Ha!" He roared triumphantly. "Either you're extremely stupid, or you think I am. Alchemy doesn't work in this world, how were you expecting to activate this transmutation circle? You idiot."
He shifted again, swaying slightly.
"Do you think I'm gonna kill you by the way?" He said suddenly, cocking his head in mild curiosity.
"Then I'll have to disappoint you. Its much more fun seeing you squirm and wriggle in fear. See how it is to be absolutely...helpless."

[masterwarlord]

Envy clenched his right fist despite the pain in that arm from the bullet wound and grit his teeth. His anger was getting the better of him. . .”What kind of fucking idiot do you take me for?!? Of course I know that! My powers don’t work here either. Why else do you think I want to go back so badly?!?”.

Envy took a moment to catch his breath and calm down slightly. ”You can’t just make a transmutation circle in this world. . .They don’t have any actual power in them. This one though. . .It can be activated like the ones back in Amestris, and it can take us back. How nobody else has used it already is beyond me.”.

Envy wasn’t actually worried about the cops. He had bullet wounds himself, and Barry was the one with the gun. It’d be easy enough to play the victim. He was simply trying to rush Barry along so that he could reduce the house to a pile of smithereens without taking some more bullets. Barry was the only thing he was afraid of, as pathetic as he felt that was.

[amouri]

Barry closed his eyes for a split second, to relieve the pain. The result was that he had to shake his head like wet dog to remain conscious.
I can't...do this.
The pain he hadn't felt for years shocked him, like a baby that bruises itself for the first time. His current confusion and the loss of blood from his wound was making him more and more drowsy, and he snapped his head up angrily.

"That may be, but I've got no way of knowing for sure. This may be some random bored act you've got going, wanting to blow up this house...HELL, why do I even CARE?!" His hands were shaking slightly, as he glared angrily at the humunculus.
"I have no idea why I'm defending this house. Its inhabitants are probably all people who wish me dead, and this wasn't even the reason I attacked you. Hell, I just wanted revenge, you know? Like kinda payback time?" He laughed shakily, a crazy smile twitching at the corners of his mouth.

"Screw you." He pulled the trigger twice.
But before he could register whether he'd hit the humunculus or not, the loss of blood got the better of him and he saw the ground rushing towards him, and everything went black.

[masterwarlord]

Envy watched as Barry struggled with the pain and chuckled to himself. "What? Can't take it?". Envy was more then capable of taking the pain, he'd taken plenty of bullets over his lengthy life span, after all. The only thing he was afraid of from bullets was their ability to now actually kill him.

Envy started getting intimidated again as he mentioned his revenge and raised his voice, then got some bullets shot at him him as Barry fell over unconscious from the blood loss. While Barry was still rather unstable and one missed Envy entirely, the other one went right into his gut, causing him to keel over in pain and hold the wound with his remaining arm. "Goddamn you, human!". Envy was started to black out from the pain. . .He didn't have much time. He began pulling himself over with his good arm to his remote control, which he'd dropped. "Hehheheheh. . .There's still time to finish this. . .".

[aspiredeathe]

Denny gritted his teeth through the whole conversation. He didn't dare move, not while one madman had a gun and the other a remote that would blow the whole place up.
It was frustrating, watching them argue, exchanging and declining offers. Half the time, he'd expected Barry to just say ' Go ahead, blow these people up.' After all, the guy had been here only 10 minutes. Why would he care about the lives they'd all struggled to build, the hardships and pains they'd all been through?
Why would he care about their lives at all?

But somehow, it seemed he did. As the gun shots fired, the butcher's body fell limp, probably from lack of blood, he presumed. The Aemstris sergeant didn't waste time and quickly lunged for the remote, grasping it just before Envy's fingers could touch it.
"You bastard. You've been given another chance here, and this is what you do?" He growled, knowing that saying much more would be pointless, as he could already see the lights dimming in his eyes.
Whether he'd die or not, Denny didn't care, the ambulance's siren wailing in the distance now. He quickly made his way to Barry, grabbing the gun, slipping the safety on and stowing it in his pocket while he checked the man's pulse with his free hand.
He didn't dare put the remote down, not all that familiar with explosives, which kind of made him wish Kimblee had been here.
Not that he trusted that alchemist with such a 'toy'.
"You'll live." He sighed, putting pressure on the man's more serious wound.

[amouri]

Barry twitched slightly, a low groan of pain coming from behind gritted teeth.
He was still unconcious, though the pain he felt in his right leg was still bothering him.

[masterwarlord]

Envy grasped Denny's leg as he went to leave, refusing to give up despite the fact that it was obvious that he'd already lost. "Give that thing to me, damn it! I'll die if I don't get to the circle under this scrap heap and become a homunculus again!". Coughing up some blood, Envy still forced himself to stay conscious, seeing he was probably going to die momentairily. "Come on! Don't you wanna go back too? I'm sure we can work something out!". While Envy knew that his efforts were entirely in vain, he refused to accept his fate. He wasn't going to die here.

[rizahawkeye]

"Jean?" she asked, hoping that he heard what she said... or that she actually said it.
"Are you okay with that, Jean? I'm staying... for both you and Markus..." she said, her voice uncharacteristically pleading at this point.

[aspiredeathe]

((Oh god xD how could I forget to post for Jean? xD))

Jean's eyes were wide as he stared at the woman in front of him.
"You're serious?"Slowly a grin spread across his face as he stepped in and pulled her into a hug "That's gotta be the best news I've heard in ages." He said softly resting his head against hers.
It seemed that the blonde lieutenant would actually be getting his family.

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Denny gave a good shake of his leg "Give it up! Even if there's a chance that there really is a circle under there, what's saying you can activate it? You need Alchemy and in case you didn't notice, that doesn't exist here!"
Truth be, Denny would have loved to go back. It's not like he really had anything here that he couldn't live without. That is, if everyone went back together.
He doubted taking the kids back would be difficult either, after all, they'd managed to come from one world to another.

The siren stopped right outside the house, the sound of brakes screeching reaching his ears.
Hasty footsteps and two paramedics rushed around the house, pausing at the sight of three injured people.
"I called for her-"He motioned to Dante "But you guys took so long." He grinned weakly at them as they quickly made their way to Barry and Envy, who seemed to be more worse off.

"I think we'll need another couple rides, Caleb." The female checking Barry glanced briefly to her companion before moving to Dante.
"Hnm, kinda busy." Caleb replied, trying to keep his patient, Envy from going after Denny "Sir, I need you to relax, or I just might miss."He waved the sharp needle infront of the man's eyes just to get his point across.
The woman, Gabby, reached for the walkie talkie attached to her uniform "Ambulance 103 calling in to central. I'd like to request two more teams, we've got three gunshot victims here."
"That one's not a victim though.."Denny mumbled, finding it fair to be honest as cops joined the scene.

[masterwarlord]

Upon the medics and cops starting to show up, Envy stopped going after Denny. It was too late to try to blow up the house now. . .His consciousness was starting to escape him, but he forced himself to stay awake just a bit longer as he heard Denny placing the blame on him, motioning over to Barry. ”Yeah, he’s the one you want! That bastard nearly killed me! If it wasn’t for me we’d all be dead!” Envy managed to let out before his eyes finally closed and his awareness slipped. Envy had taken the most fatal of wounds out of anybody there, and he didn’t have any of the weapons on him. He could quite easily pose as a victim. . .Assuming he survived.

[rizahawkeye]

Riza smiled, feeling his arms around her.
"I'm glad to hear it..." she said tenderly, "It would be wrong if I didn't do this...You deserve it, Jean... but you're too good to me..."

It was the truth... all the stress she probably put him through... and she says one thing... and she's pulled instantly into his embrace... It brought tears to her eyes, though she tried to blink them back...

A family.... it meant that she had a future... and it was the nearest to forgiveness that she would ever receive... because her sins in Ishbal were unforgivable.

[Scar]

Scar caming walking down the sidewalk when he saw the mayhem. "Let me guess. Someone found a gun and decided to have a party." he commented bitterly, a scowl forming on his face. He was sick and tired of all this bullshit. But you know what? He didn't care. Not like anyone important was hurt, righ- "Dante!" Irony.

[aspiredeathe]

Jean let out a small laugh, loving the way she fit into his arms so easily, the way she let him hold her like this "Ah come off it, Riza. You're one of the most strongest, most respected and skilled women I know." He could hear, feel the doubt lingering after her words and held her a bit tighter "But if you do feel like you owe me, next time you take a 'holiday' like that, make it one for the whole family." He took one arm off her, gently raising her chin as he looked at her with a gentle smile "Promise?"


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Denny growled lightly at Envy as he made to pin the blame. Sure the only ones with anything dangerous looking was him, but did this guy really expect them to believe him over two potential witnesses, well, one seeing as Barry would be unconscious for an undefined amount of time.

The paramedics, didn't let the blame game get in line of their work and got Envy loaded up onto the stretcher, the far off sound of more help reaching their ears.
"Keep pressure on their wounds, we'll get this guy to the hospital." Caleb motioned to Dante and and Barry with his head before moseying past with the stretcher.
An unfamiliar cop exchanged a few words with them before walking over to Denny, glancing at the baby.
"Sir, I've been informed that you've witnessed the happenings?" His voice was cold and professional. Even when Markus stretched out his pudgy little hands to try and grab the big blue blur, then man only took a step back.
"Yeah, that guy they just took. I don't really know why, but he came waltzing in here and shot two house mates." By now the other ambulances had arrived, more people crowding around their backyard fence, curious to see what was going on this time.
He was pretty sure that some of them looked disappointed to see no dead bodies. After all, so far, they'd had everything but a dead guy.

"Oh, here." He rummaged around in his pocket with his free hand, pulling out the gun, to which the cop's hand flinched towards his own weapon "The guys were wrestling for this at one point." He found himself covering for Barry slightly, most probably because the man actually didn't go along with the whole 'Bye bye house' plan.
With a tentative touch, the cop reached out and grabbed the gun by the nuzzle, letting the metal firearm dangle in between his fingers "Why..thank you. My colleague will come to question you." And with that he walked off, still holding the gun away from him.
"Odd guy." Denny muttered to the baby, only a second before flinching at the yell "Scar..uh,yeah. Envy." What else could one say to a well known killer who's lover had been injured and was bleeding on the grass the man himself had probably mowed no too long ago.

[rizahawkeye]

Riza forced a smile, wiping her eyes as discreetly as the situation allowed her.
"Of course, Jean... anything." she said, "Next time..."

[amouri]

Barry's eyelids flickered briefly.
He let out a low groan and slowly came to, realizing from the pain in his leg that he was no longer unconscious.
"Damn." He hissed, screwing up his eyes and curling up into a tight trembling ball, clutching his leg around the bullet wound.
He was pale and shaking, but he was alive.
Well, of course I'm alive. Not like he got any vital parts. Just typical that something like this had to happen on my first day being human for years. Geez.

Everything was slightly hazy, but he could dimly see a figure standing not too far away.
"Oi!" He croaked.
"Where's Envy? And why am I still lying here bleeding? A little support at the least..."

[aspiredeathe]

Jean brought a thumb to her cheek, wiping away a tear she'd missed "Great. Now to just wait till I get off."
He thought about calling Denny, possibly asking the man to bring Markus over here, though he quickly remembered that he had the man's car and didn't want to hear another lecture.
Who knew the man had so mucht o say over such little things?
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A group of paramedics swarmed the site, two went straight to Dante, checking her vitals and wounds, while another pair done the same to Barry.
"Calm down sir please, we need to get a good view of your injuries." A stern looking man kneeled down while his partner worked with the stretcher, bringing it down to ground level.
Denny stood nearby, having found that every time he walked away Markus would show signs over a coming tantrum.
"Hey, just relax a bit. This place has a decent hospital care. Save the odd nutcase, anyway." Though he doubted that would bother the man much anyway, sort of being one himself.

Dante was quickly placed on the stretcher and wheeled to the ambulance, her attending paramedic turned to Scar, taking him to be the boyfriend "Sir, if you want, you may ride in the back with her."

[amouri]

Barry bared his teeth in reaction with a low hiss of pain as he was slowly brought on to the stretcher.
"I'm fine, get your hands of me!" He snarled, resisting the urge to slap their hands whenever they touched him.

He looked up in irritation to Denny's remark.
"Decent? Good lord, at least I hope they're better than the ones back home."
He had never been to the hospital before, not even in amestris.
And that one occasion he had fallen ill and had visited the doctor he would never do again.
He didn't trust them, they reminded him too much of alchemists.

[rizahawkeye]

Riza smiled, nodding silently. There was nothing she could say... after all... everything was fine now... going to be fine... and she was satisfied with that.