001 → Arrival

[wontjustwait]

[ Waking up in a strange house that was not her own was not how Winry wanted to start her day. She immediately rolled out of the bed and scrambled about in confusion with a very realistic list of priorities, including "Whose pajamas are these?!" and "Wh-who changed my clothes?!". And all ending with a pajama-clad girl picking up the nearest phone

Comments

[flowers_suck]

[She sighs at another voice she recognizes from home.]

At least we've got a good mechanic now if someone gets their automail back. This is Mayfield, Miss Rockbell.

[wontjustwait]

M-Miss Major Armstrong-!

[ All of the flustered! Winry is a bit confused to hear her too. Olivier didn't kidnap her, right? That'd be too weird! ]

Mayfield..? Wait, automail-! Is Edward somewhere here?!

[flowers_suck]

Yes, he's here, but doesn't need your services quite yet. My subordinate, Captain Buccaneer is here as well. I have a feeling he might need your assistance sooner than Fullmetal.

Don't panic, but you should arm yourself just in case those put into the household with you are some of the shadier characters here.

[wontjustwait]

Captain Buccaneer? I, I can try, I guess...? Aren't there any other mechanics here?

W-wait, arm myself?

[float_like_a]

Try to calm down! I can explain.

[wontjustwait]

E-explain? Well... well hurry up! What's going on?

[float_like_a]

It's kind of a long explanation, unfortunately. You're right about the kidnapping part, but it's more like you've been brought here by magic. We're free to move around the town, but it just loops back in on itself.

[wontjustwait]

Magic... loops...

Huh???

You're kidding.

[fabumax]

W-Wait! Don't hang up or anything! Well... I guess that won't make much of a difference, but you probably shouldn't. [he's not doing a good job of getting to the point, is he? he laughs sheepishly, in some attempt not to sound like as much of an idiot.]

Um... You're in a place called 'Mayfield,' apparently, and... ['you've been kidnapped, yeah, and you can't get out'? somehow he thinks that'll just make things worse, so shoma just... trails off awkwardly...]

[wontjustwait]

Mayfield? Is there a train station somewhere here?!

[fabumax]

Hm... I've been told there aren't any trains. Or buses, either. This place isn't very modern, in case you couldn't tell.

[wontjustwait]

Buses...? What're those..?

B-but wait, then how do I get back to Resembool?

[snipingmissy]

Winry? Is that you?

[Riza isn't usually available for the phone early in the morning, but she's working later in the day today, and even had she been busy she would have stopped to check in and see if that really was Winry she heard.]

[wontjustwait]

M, Miss Riza? What're you doing here? What's going on?

[snipingmissy]

We're in Mayfield, Winry. Though I hate to phrase it like this, we're all prisoners here.

[Riza sighs quietly.]

You just woke up here today?

It's rather peculiar. More and more people from home have been arriving. When I got here, there were very few of us.

[unexculpable]

....

[No. Way.

IS THIS REAL LIFE?]

Winry?

1/3

[wontjustwait]

Ed-

2/3

[wontjustwait]

[ Wait, first she's kidnapped and then Edward is on the phone.

Her panicked mind is adding this up incorrectly. ]

Y, you...

3/3

[wontjustwait]

YOU CREEP!