Ed pushes open the door and sees rikoa's hand stucked into kia's chest with an alchemy reaction " kia!!!!"

Everybody else rushes in.

Eliza: nii-san... What are you doing?!!!

Rikoa takes out his hand " unlock. Kia, can you hear me?"

Suddenly kia screams and cries. Tears kept on flowing non stop. No one understood what just happened. But after a while,she faints.

"poor kia." he carries her in his arms " I wanted to wait till I made her mine. But I guess she can be quite stubborn."

Yuki: what do you want to do? Nii-san.

Rikoa: well...

Zihein rushes up towards rikoa when chains come out from the ground making zihein move backwards " tsk. Return her!!!"

Rikoa: I need her.

Zihein: she might die if you do that!!!

Rikoa: than it can't be helped... *kisses forehead * kia... Gomen. You poor thing.

Zihein: roy!!!

Roy: sure. *snaps*

Fire set ablaze between them and rikoa.

Rikoa: what are you trying to do?

Suddenly zihein appears behind rikoa. Zihein tries to punch rikoa but he dodges by moving his head to the left. Suddenly the floor below rikoa cracks and he falls below. A tunnel... The floor immediately closes up.

Zihein: rikoa!!!

Rikoa: teleportation alchemy... Eliza huh? Not bad. But you should know that isn't enough to snatch kia back.

The chains dissapear and it seems the person behind the chains ran away too. The fire ceases under roy's command.

Zihein: damn it!!!!

Yuki: zihein...

Ed: ooi. You bastard. What is he going to do to kia?

Zihein: use the human souls kept in kia. Unlock the seal.

Frin: what?!!! After we tried so hard to change the conditions?!!!

Al: actually... What is the conditions you changed it to?

Eliza: it will open when kia wants to. Or to people she grants access the key to.

May: kia... Looked like she was suffering for a long time... Neh... Are we going to get her back?

Al: may.... Um. We will. Of course we will. Right? Mina. (everybody)

Roy: ah. We will. She is my baka imoto.

Riza: sorry for asking right now but, what does the lock on her body lock? The one that rikoa unlocked just now.

Yuki: kia-nee never tells us about it. She just said, you don't need to know.

Rita: that lock...

Ed: you know something about it?

Rita: it was an experiment. Experiment on what I don't know. I only know... Something about her changed.

Ed: what changed?

Rita: I never saw her using her zero state when on missions anymore. That fighting lust also dissapeared. She... Wasn't her.

Riza: wasn't her...?
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" rita. " he opened the door " can I talk to you?"

Rita: hm? Sure. If you... *smirks* give me a little benefits.

Ed: what kind?

Rita: I'm not a stealer you see... Well... Friend benefits. How does that sound?

Ed: huh?

Rita: oh my gosh!! Are you a virgin?!!

Ed: no... No I'm not!!! I've two kids!!!

Rita: hmph. Are you serious? Boring... Why does kia even like a guy like you? I don't see anything worth obsessed over. Annoying.

Ed: hey!!!

Rita: chibi.

Ed: *anime vein* you...!!!

Rita: what do you want?

Ed: what's with kia? She has this scary face I've never seen her put on before.

Rita: eh~~ the kind that leaks out a murderous aura?

Ed: ah... Something like that.

Rita: kill who?

Ed: rikoa.

Rita: eh ~~ zero state. Its been long. If only I was there.

Ed: zero state? What is that?

Rita: when someone has killed a lot of people for a long period of time, you would think one would become numb. But that's wrong. We're humans. We just ignore the fact we're going to take away someone's life and make someone sad. We only recognize the fact we need to kill.

Ed: that sounds horrible.

Rita: if not we'll always be hunted by nightmares. Of course different people kill for different reasons. I kill for lust to find someone stronger.

Ed: so you don't kill if they're not strong? No... That's not you nah.

Rita: I have to complete the mission you know.

Ed: what's kia's reason?

Rita: She recognises she needs to complete the mission. That's why she's a monster. A monster who can use zero state at nine.

Ed: so its a technique?

Rita: no. When someone loses all reasoning. He goes berserk. After that,he will kill without reason. Anyone. No feelings. Anger. Hate. Frustration. None.

Ed: so kia went crazy.

Rita: nah. Her reasoning is, my nii-san gave me a mission. I must complete. I cannot fail my nii-san. But not looking her right now,she used to cry a lot. Laugh a lot. She can be really childish. I loved that her. But as long as she's in mission, she will put on that face. No feelings. Just kill. Zero state.

Ed: so that changed. Her emotions.

Rita: that damn experiment!!! My kia~~ laughter and cuteness... All gone.
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Roy: I've decided. We're going to get kia back. Its going to spell real disaster if we don't. Plus, I need her to open the door to let me out.

Al: did something happen outside?!!

Riza: hai. I managed to call outside. I contacted kain and found out our military fuhrer has been changed.

Al: wait!!! Changed?!!! So... Its going to be like the last time?!!!

Roy: huge chance. No. It will be.

May: that's horrible... We have to stop it!!

Riza: agree.

Al: what happened to the current one?

Riza: you mean previous. Guilty of making his own personal army. Executed.

Al: that's not true right? That statement.

Riza: unable to confirm.

Roy: that old man... I can't be sure either.

Ed: damn it!!! We're so focused here we almost forget about outside.

Frin: there's a way to open the door to the outside without kia.

Zihein: ah. Yuki can open the door. Neh.

Yuki: impossible. Kia-nee just cancelled my authority. Even that emergency button, it got destroyed yesterday. There's no way to fix it without kia.

Frin: I caught the guy. But he killed himself.

Ed: must be them. Making kia do things.

Roy: than we'll just have to get the key back.

Riza: there's another way to go through the gate right? By forcing it open while fulfilling some conditions.

Roy: you mean that ryuuga.

Riza: hai.

Eliza: I've already contacted him.

*ring ring~~*

Ryuuga: moshi moshi. Can you not track me with that circle?

Eliza: I didn't use it to talk to you. Just track you. Urusei.

Ryuuga: what do you want?

Roy: how do you force open the door? That gate.

Ryuuga: huh? Ask kia open it for you.

Zihein: that... She's captured.

Ryuuga: wait... Is that... Zihein? Are you with them?

Yuki: zihein is the good guy now!!!

Ryuuga: that's messed up. Wait... Kia is captured?

Riza: hai.

Ryuuga: YOU STUPID DAMN IT RITA. WEREN'T YOU WITH HER???

Rita grabs the phone over and shouts to the microphone " LIKE I COULD HELP IT. HER DAMN NII-SAN IS ALIVE."

Ryuuga: wait... What!!!!

Rita: rikoa captured kia.

Ryuuga: tsk. They're going down the list huh? Ed, al, eliza,yuki,roy, you all idiots. Be careful.

Rita: you have no position to say others. Baka.

Ryuuga: so? Why want to open the door?

Roy: outside may be in chaos.

Ryuuga: like I care.

Riza: human souls are involved. Please do care. Not everyone has many lives like you.

Ryuuga:..... you got some scary girl there roy.

Roy: arigato for your compliment.

Ryuuga: make a deal with the gate, and you shall pass. One deal per open.

Roy: that's advantageous.

Ryuuga: the gate isn't greedy like the Truth, but it is picky like the Truth.

Roy: arigato.

Frin: I wonder how many deals you've made. *smiles *

Ryuuga: don't be busbody kid. I can feel you smiling slyly from here.

Frin: hn. Urusei.

Ryuuga: make sure you get her back. Kia that is.

Ed: of course we will. She's... Precious to us.

Ryuuga: hm. Don't get caught.

- Beeeep -

Roy: I guess that concludes what we're going to do. Riza, can you head outside and meet up with them?

Riza: no problem.

Ed: you sure you'll be ok?

Riza: it shouldn't be a problem. I do have some alchemy upgrades.

Al: what if... Its not enough?

Roy: we have to do this at the same time. We don't have time to waste. The more time we waste, the less we know and lose more advantage than we already have.

Frin: agree. Eliza and I will head outside with riza.

Riza: but eliza, you're a genius. Won't you be needed?

Ed: oooiii!!! I'm a genius too!!!

Eliza: see. Its going to be fine.

Frin: two of us is the best choice. We'll scout the outside country for anything abnormal.

May: than I'll go along with you guys. You'll need a healer. They have yuki so... Maybe I can help.

Riza: good idea.

Al: may... *hugs* arigato. But we'll have to seperate. You sure?

May: *nods* I don't want that... To happen again.

Al: arigato.

Roy: than the rest of us, finds kia and bring her out.

Rita: aho. You go with them outside.

Roy: than who's going to command?

Rita: me. I'll take care here. You take care outside. That's your world isn't it? Your subordinates. Don't you think they act and listen when they're boss is there.

Roy: you.... *smiles *

Rita: don't worry, I'm the kia's squad leader even if I don't look like it.

Roy: its up to you than.