Hope ? Male Reader x Edward Elric

Chapter 24
"The Ultimate Shield."
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M/R's pov

"I told you before, right? You won't be able to lay a scratch on me." Greed growled.

I paused and backed away, biting my lip and trying to come up with a way to escape this scenario. We needed to get Alphonse back, we couldn't waste time here.

"Edward, we can't afford to stay here for long. Who knows what they're doing to Al!" I whispered to him.

He gave me a small nod. I could tell from the small panic in his eyes that he was very fully aware of that fact. He just couldn't see a way around it.

Greed headed towards Edward to give him another strike, he clearly didn't bother laying a hand on me. He knew it'd be pointless.

Edward didn't see it coming, he was too busy looking at the ground whilst still in his fighting stance. "Fuck- Ed you dumb shit!" I groaned, rushing in front of him and blocking the strike.

I fell to the ground and looked up, Greed staring down at me dumbfounded.

"You're really asking for it now, Tinman." Edward groaned, clenching his fist about to lay one on the runaway homunculus.

Greed chuckled, "You can't defeat me no matter how many times you try." He grinned, grabbing Edward by the head and tossing him to a pile of boxes in the corner of the room.

"Ed!" I yelled out, "Are you okay!?" Oh wow, M/R. No shit. I wonder. He's probably suffering from broken ribs and lost braincells from the amount of times he's been thrown the past week.

Greed strutted (ah yes, like the iron-man wannabe model he is) towards Edward and picked him up by his collar. "Well now, you better spit out the secret of the soul." He hummed, looking up at him.

"Thanks man." Edward mumbled. Ed, is this really the time to be thanking your enemy- "The blood in my head has lessened a little. I'm thinking more clearly now. My body feels lighter as well." He smirked, moving his automail fingers.

It's amazing that his automail is still functional in the condition it's in. Winry really is incredible.

"My mechanic is sure incredible. It moves even at this condition." He then placed both his hands together to transmute and placed his hand on the other's arm. I'm not exactly sure what he did, but it caused Greed to let go of him, so I'm guessing it worked.

Greed roared at him to stop resisting and to obedient, about to land a punch on him. Suddenly, spikes from the ground formed and blocked Greed's attack - My foot on the ground, in front of where the first spikes formed.

"That's enough." I spat.

Time slowed down as all three of us realized that it had broken Greed's shield on his hand. He quickly regenerated his shield again and scratched one of the spikes. "I'm still hard, weird?" Greed cackled, getting cocky as usual.

I paused and questioned his choice of wording. "Please don't word it like that-"

The two ignored my remark and began fighting again. Transmutations here and there. I went silent and heard shooting from the distance slowly approaching the room that we were in. "Shit, Edward. The military is here."

The blond turned to look at me in disbelief, "What?!"

The door then suddenly slammed open, "We found the boy!"

Bullets were then fired at Greed, arms wrapped around Edward and guns pointed at me.

Wait. Me?

I looked around, "Wh- h-huh?!"