Meetings, AKA Info-Dumping 101[Plus just adding even more random things that will never be explained](Part 3)

Inoue and Shimomura followed Havoc's instructions and went down the tunnel until they heard a strange noise.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

CLAANG! CLAANG! CLAANG!

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

Shimomura blinked in confusion while Inoue cocked her head and frowned.

"Doesn't that sound...a little familiar...to you Shimomura-san?" Inoue asked while listening to the sound intently.

Shimomura frowned as he blinked again. "I...I think so. I feel like I've...I dunno...heard it somewhere before..."

The duo closed their eyes and listened carefully.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

CLAANG! CLAANG! CLAANG!

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

CLAANG! CLAANG! CLAANG!

CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!

Inoue's eyes widened and so did Shimomura's once they realized what the sound was.

"Is that..."

"Morse code! SOS! Someone's signaling for help!" Shimomura said seriously as he started to run towards the direction of the sound.

"Shimomura! Wait!" Inoue pleaded as she ran after the editor.

The two ran through the tunnel.

SLAM!

The duo crashed into two other people who were running straight towards them.

"Ah! Sorry!" A woman's voice said as a hand reached out towards Inoue to help her up. "...Inoue!?" The voice asked with surprise.

Inoue looked up to see Arakawa Hiromi's shocked face staring down at her. "Inoue-sensei? Is that you?"

Inoue smiled as she sighed with relief. "Yes! You finally came, Arakawa-san!" she grabbed Arakawa's hand as she helped herself up.

Meanwhile, Shimomura and Edward were both staring at each other awkwardly.

"Great. Another character." Shimomura sighed. "And...Edward? I'm guessing that means that your brother is probably with you?"

Edward stared Shimomura up and down. "Yes. In fact-if I'm guessing correctly and you also know about us- the Colonel and Lieutenant Riza are here to."

Shimomura nodded his head subtly.

"Shimomura." Arakawa said suddenly, catching the others' attention. "Were you two the ones who sent the message?"

"Message? Do you mean the SOS?" Inoue asked. "You heard that too?"

Edward and Arakawa both nodded. "We heard it a while ago and followed the sound here." Edward explained.

"Why are you here anyways?" Arakawa suddenly asked. "I thought you were at your house, Shimomura-san. That's why we rushed over through the tunnels."

"We WERE at my house," Shimomura explained. "But apparently, Second Lieutenant Jean Havoc decided to throw us into a manhole after DESTROYING MY PRECIOUS GLASS MONKEYS, SARAH AND ANNE!!!" Shimomura began to cry over-dramatically.

Edward blinked. "Lieutenant Havoc? What's he doing here?"

"I don't know. He told us to go down this tunnel and eventually we'll find "people like him". I honestly don't understand what he meant by that..." Shimomura explained bitterly.

"Wait...if Edward is here too, then does that mean that Havoc was talking about...."

"...the rest of my team." A familiar voice continued Inoue's sentence.

The group turned around to see Roy Mustang and Nomoto standing in front of them with a few other people standing behind them.

"Are they-" Arakawa started to say, but was interrupted by someone from behind Roy.

"Yup. Second Lieutenant Heymans Breda, at your service." The fat man introduced himself as he saluted.

"Warrant Officer Vato Falman." A silver-haired man next to Breda saluted as well.

"U-uh...I'm Master Sergeant Kain Fuery." A short man with black hair and glasses introduced timidly.

"And I'm pretty sure that you already know me, First Lieutenant Jean Havoc." The grinning figure of Havoc appeared behind Roy.

Edward blinked with surprise as each manga soldier introduced themselves. "Lieutenant Havoc? Lieutenant Breda? Officer Falman? Sergeant Fuery?"

Havoc grinned as he lit a cigarette. "Hey chief. How ya doing?"

"I-I'm doing...fine...I guess. But forget that! What are you doing here? How did you get here?" Edward demanded.

"We should probably get back to Shonen Gangan to discuss this." Nomoto said sternly. "And we should probably find the others too."

"You don't have to." Riza's voice was heard as she stepped forward. Natsue and Alphonse were behind her. "We heard the SOS signal too. It turns out that soldiers from Eastern HQ are here as well and sent out the SOS signal." Riza gestered behind her as Natsue and Alphonse moved out of the way to reveal a few familiar soldiers from the Eastern HQ. "These soldiers helped us out during the terrorist attacks. Apparently they were with Havoc's group."

Havoc nodded in confirmation. "Their names are," Havoc pointed to each soldier as he introduced them. "Karin, Skylak, Brody, Tom and Cane." Each soldier saluted at the mention of their names.

Arakawa, Shimomura, Inoue, and Nomoto exchanged confused looks. "Wait. I don't recognize you. You guys don't have names either...so why..." Arakawa faltered when Havoc turned to face her.

"Apparently, these guys are those exact soldiers...but they didn't remember their names when I asked them. So we did reconnaissance to figure out where we are. After figuring out that we weren't in Amestris anymore, we found out about Shonen Gangan and about how our whole lives was just...a manga, apparently. And a couple of light novels. After that we decided to check out one of the novels ourselves. So we at first try to buy one, but we find out the Japan uses a different currency. Well, not exactly. I mean, the Japanese do use yen and we use cens, which are kind of similar in a way...but anyways, we decided to just wing it and buy using cens. And guess what? The store clerk didn't even glance twice when we bought the light novel. Anyways, the light novel we bought was titled, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Abducted Alchemist, so I thought it was about Chief getting abducted...because, you know...Chief and Al were on the cover...so..." Havoc shrugged. "Anyways. After that, we read the book...kind of like a book club I guess. We found out that these five are only mentioned in the book as 'Easter Soldiers'. So they just decided on names then and there." Havoc paused in his explanation and then gestured towards Breda, Falman and Fuery. "Later, we found these three passed out in the middle of the alley we were hiding in. That alleyway was somewhere nearby here...but anyways. I woke them up and apparently it seemed like they lost a sense of time. They told me that they just came back from the battle with the terrorists, while I've been here for about a few days."

Edward put up his hand to stop Havoc in his explanation. "So you're basically saying that there's a time difference?"

Havoc nodded slowly. "Yeah. Looks like time is faster here, than in Amestris. Anyways, we wandered around and then after finishing the book up with Breda, Falman, and Fuery, we decided to figure out ways to get out of this world."

"That's when you realized that you came from a different world...huh..." Alphonse mused.

"Yeah. So we wandered around to look for a 'base of commands' that we could use while we scoured for information. We stumbled across this series of tunnels. As it turns out, these tunnels just very happen to run all over Japan." Havoc stated, smirking with pride after finding such a miraculous tunnel.

"Wait. I thought that this tunnel was man-made." Shimomura rejected.

"Apparently it's not. Some parts of it slope down into wet parts of the tunnels that are slightly flooded. So I'm guessing that meant that we were under the ocean sea floor. We continued through the tunnel until we mapped the whole thing."

Behind Havoc, Breda, Fuery, Falman, Cane, Brody, and Tom started to set up a huge map on the wall.

Havoc turned around proudly at the map, which showed the tunnels and shortcuts to each island in Japan, houses, keys, landmarks, and other things.

Everyone in that room felt like their jaws just dropped.

"H-Havoc...how long did this take...exactly..." Roy could barely get the words out.

"Five months. It helped make things faster with Falman's high intelligence and photographic memory, Fuery's tech expertise, Breda's strategizing abilities, and those five are...well, really you've got to see them in action...they just do the BEST raids and reconnaissance." Havoc smirked at this last part.

"FIVE MONTHS!? Havoc, in our world it hasn't even been five minutes!" Roy threw his hands up.

Nomoto whistled. "Wow."

"Wait. What if...what if time didn't slow down...but instead it...stopped at come certain points." Natsue started to explain slowly.

"What do you mean, Natsue?" Riza asked politely.

"I don't know, but-"

Natsue was cut off by a voice that sounded throughout the whole tunnel the group was currently in.

"You're exactly correct, young Natsue." The voice said calmly.

The floor underneath them suddenly opened up to reveal that they were all standing on a trapdoor.

The calm voice chuckled evilly as the group screamed with terror as they fell through the trapdoor. After a while the trapdoor closed. "Soon...soon..." He purred, almost cat-like.

******

Arakawa slowly opened her eyes. "Ugh.." she groaned uncomfortably as she tried to stand up. "Where am I?"

"Good question." Groaned another voice beside her. It was Nomoto. "It's kind of dark in here..."

Slowly, Inoue, Shimomura, Edward, Alphonse, Roy, Riza, Havoc, Breda, Falman, Fuery, Cane, Tom, Skylak, Karin, and Brody started to slowly wake up.

"Oh geez. I still can't believe that was a TRAPDOOR." Karin muttered under her breath as she held her head in pain. "I mean, really?"

Fuery sighed. "I guess we can't help it. That voice caught us off guard. We didn't figure that there would be any other people in the tunnel."

"Yeah. I'm just wondering how that voice was so LOUD. It's like there was a speaker in there somewhere." Havoc said.

"Yeah. I think that too. Didn't the voice sound kinda-I don't know-distant?" Breda pointed out.

"Before we start talking about anything, we need some light in here. What if we're caught off our guards again?" Edward explained reasonably. "Colonel. Some light please."

Roy slumped. "Well, in case you didn't realize Fullmetal, it's dark down here and I can't see. And I don't have my gloves on me."

"I have them, sir." Riza said respectfully as she tried to shuffle towards Roy.

Riza handed Roy his gloves and a second later, everyone heard a spark and then light filled up the area they were in.

"Great! Now we can see." Alphonse said cheerfully as he helped a few people get up.

The group looked around and observed their surroundings.

They were in a dark room, with concrete walls and large crates and boxes set up around the walls. In fact, almost the whole area was covered in boxes. These crates and boxes were stacked high and almost reached the ceiling, which itself seemed around twenty to twenty-five feet.

The group split up to look around. They each took wooden sticks that was lit by Roy and used it as torches.

Ed, Al, Roy, Riza, Natsue and Karin went to one area of the room. Arakawa, Inoue, Shimomura, Nomoto, Havoc, and Breda went to another corner of the room. And another corner was covered by Skylak, Brody, Cane, Tom, Fuery and Falman. The group agreed to meet back in the center of the room in ten minutes to report their findings.

"What's this?" Natsue asked as she sat on her knees and pointed to a bunch of syringes infused with a strange liquid.

Edward picked it up. "I don't know." He mused. "But something is definitely wrong here."

Alphonse walked up to the two and chimed in, "You can say that again. So far, all I've found are a bunch of old medical records and pills in tiny bottles."

"Do you think that this might be a run-down hospital?" Roy asked, mostly to himself, but Karin heard him.

"Maybe. But what would a run-down hospital be doing underground. Under a tunnel, no less."

Riza inhaled deeply as she gestured for the others to be quiet. "Quiet down. I hear someone coming."

******

Like Riza, Havoc and the other soldiers told their group to hide upon hearing someone's footsteps.

A door screeched open. Everyone was tense as they all peeked and saw a single man walking through the area. He continued walking and then stopped at the center of the room.

"That's enough hiding." He smirked. "You can come out now." His eyes narrowed at the place where Havoc's group was hiding.

Havoc exchanged looks with Breda, who was reaching for his gun holster, but Havoc motioned for him to stop. 'We should try to negotiate.' He mouthed silently to Breda who paused then nodded, showing he understood.

Havoc slowly got up from his hiding place and walked towards the man. Roy saw what he was doing and thought that Havoc was clearly insane.

'When this is over, I'm sending him to the military therapist.' Roy thought, annoyed as he stood up and walked towards the center of the room like Havoc.

"Who are you?" Roy demanded. Silently telling Havoc to lay low.

The man chuckled. "I am Ochitsuita-Ochi, for short."

'Ochitsuita?' Arakawa questioned. 'Doesn't that mean...calm?' she though, giving strange looks to Inoue, Nomoto and Shimomura, who all looked like they were thinking the same thing.

"I have two other friends here who would like to meet you." The man declared. "Although, I'm pretty sure you already met them." He snickered at this last part in particular.

"Come out now, Colt! Gael!" He laughed maniacally.

Roy's eyes widened."Shoot! Havoc!" He cursed as he turned towards Havoc, "We have to get out of here and find an exit!"

Havoc nodded seriously as he ran back to where his group was hiding. Roy did the same. By the time everyone met up in the center of the room in front of Ochi, he was gone.

"What?! Where did he go!?" Edward growled as he stared looking around.

"There's no time for that! We've got to go!" Nomoto urged.

A scream was heard from Natsue as the others turned around to see her pale face staring at something behind them. "I-It's too late.." She whimpered.

Roy and the others turned around and came face to face with a large group of men who all held weapons in their hands and had evil looks. In front of them stood Gael and his massive figure. He held two guns in his hands-as always. And beside him stood Colt. He seemed like a kind man at first, but really he had evil intent hidden behind his glasses.

Colt smirked cruelly. "Well, well, well. Nice to see you, Colonel." He turned towards Edward. "And nice to see you too..." His eyes darkened as he growled. "...Fullmetal Alchemist."