Soldier Keep On Marching On

Someone Has It Out For Me

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

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Aiden ducked out of the room before it could collapse and ran up the steps to retrieve Lan Fan. Ling had gotten there before her and she picked up the girl before she could so much as ask what was going on.

She rushed down the steps, "Long story short Roy pissed off the homunculus down stairs."

"It had another monster in its belly," Ling added. "He's swallowing up everything in sight."

They exited the house just in time to watch Ed, Al, and Roy disappear into the forest followed closely by Gluttony. A honk sounded and she turned to Nox as he pulled the car up.

"Hurry up and get in!" he ordered.

She wasted no time in getting Lan Fan into the car. Suddenly the girl looked over her shoulder and Ling did the same. The two glared at a bush but when she looked there was nothing there. They must have sensed Envy.

"Come on! We don't have all night we need to get moving!" Nox urged.

"But Ed and the others -" Ling protested.

"No way! I'm a civilian, not military! I'm not about to die in the middle of a battle with some crazed monster." He faced forward and frowned. Then he slapped the steering wheel. "Damn! What's taking those idiots so long?"

Just as the words left his mouth the rest of the group exited the treeline. Riza held up a wheezing and out of breath Colonel and Ed and Al kept glancing at the trees. Then an echoing 'no!' sounded from within the forest, sounding much like an angered and defeated Gluttony.

Edward sighed in relief, "Perfect. He fell for the Mustang decoy."

"Doesn't sound like he's very happy about it," Al noted. As if to prove his point the sound of falling trees reached their ears.

"Great. Now get in the car, invalid." Ed opened the front door and tossed Roy inside.

Aiden carefully passed Lan Fan to Ling and reached over to poke Roy in his shoulder. "Are you alive?" she asked the pained man.

He grimaced when his wound flared and straightened up. "Takes more than a homunculus to kill me. And you?"

She shrugged and grinned, "Some days I'm just not sure." Her wound was still aching but she knew it was nowhere near his pain level.

Ling had already set Lan Fan in the back seat when Al instructed Riza to take care of her. She looked unsure but nodded and climbed in. Roy turned his attention away from Aiden and looked at the three teens standing together.

"You expect me to run away and leave this to you?" he barked.

"If you stay you'll just get in our way!"

"Yeah! Leave!"

"They're right, you won't be any use here. Sorry."

With Ed, Al, and Riza against him, he slumped down in his seat in defeat. Aiden patted his shoulder and smiled reassuringly, it didn't help. She sighed, there was no helping this man when he'd been told most of his military career that he was useless. Though it didn't stop her from trying. He wasn't useless, he just had limited combat options.

"Right now you need to go and do your job," Ed said. "The head of the military is a homunculus. Don't you think you should do something about that?"

"The head of the military? You're aren't talking about Fuhrer Bradley are you?" Riza questioned. If they were then that would mean the betrayal within the military went too deep.