Ficlet - Explosive Combination

[cornerofmadness]

Title -- Explosive Combination
Author-- cornerofmadness
Disclaimer -- not mine
Rating -- teen
Characters/Pairing -- Roy, Berthold & Riza Hawkeye
Timeline/Spoilers -- set during Roy’s apprenticeship
Word Count -- 250
Summary -- Roy was certain he had mixed the chemicals right.
Author’s Note -- This was going to be about Kimbley (as he’s a natural) then Roy just wanted to hog the limelight. This was written for fma_fic_contest for their ‘boom’ prompt (which was a blind prompt and I even won for guessing. I’m stunned.) and I took first place. sonjajade made the two lovely banners.





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The booming explosion left Roy deafened and in fear for his eyebrows. His fingers floated up to reassure himself that they were still there before he checked out the experiment his master had set for him. Squinting at his ingredients list, Roy was sure he had it right. He glanced over at Master Hawkeye. “What went wrong?”

“What did you mix right before you blew yourself up?”

“What you told me to,” Roy replied, petulant and working his way to a full on sulk. He hated failing. “Ethanol and silver nitrate.”

“Ethanol? I never said that. You must have been hoping for some. Those two ingredients always explode.”

“I’m sure that’s what you said.”

“Hmm.” Hawkeye closed the gap. “More likely it was on your mind while you were messing with my daughter’s underwear on the clothesline.”

The teen blushed, his mouth flopping open.

“Might want to clean this up.”

XXX

Berthold watched his apprentice scurry around, cleaning, then turned to see Riza glaring at him.

“You did that on purpose.”

“It wasn’t enough to hurt him. He needs to know your undies are off limits.”

Riza’s scowl deepened. “Father, he was helping me by taking in the wash.”

“Hmmm, oops. Still, that doesn’t explain why he was caressing his cheek with them,” Berthold replied, watching his daughter’s face darken.

“You’ve had your revenge. Mine’s going to make that boom look like nothing,” Riza promised, her voice low and dangerous.

Teenagers, they were going to be the death of him.

Comments

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

Ooh, interesting. Very humorous setup - and then that rather ominous last line. Nicely done! And congrats on the win! (And why am I not surprised Roy won out over Kimbley? *lol*)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. poor Roy, he should have behaved.

and yes, Roy tends to win out. I do end up with my muse for the fandom, Roy, Goku, Spike, Connor...

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

Roy wouldn't be Roy if he was behaving - that's a lot of why we love him!

And that's one thing we don't have in common - I've always had the hardest time relating to Goku of all the main Saiyuki characters (well, except maybe Nii.) I have a hard time writing Goku, and I won't even try to RP him - whereas I have done pretty much all the rest of the main ones in both Saiyuki and S.Gaiden at one time or another. But I got stuck doing Goku one evening and it was just an epic fail. It's not that I don't think he's a great character - I just can't relate to his mindset or get inside his head very well. I'm with you on Spike and Roy. Just out of curiosity do you get into Bleach all that much, and if so, what characters and ships do you like? Have you watched Kuroshitsuji? I'm about 4 episodes into the second series right now.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

this is so true about Roy

Normally Goku is exactly the type of character I don't even like so liking him was a surprise. I find Sanzo the hardest to write, not sure why but I'm fairly comfortable with the main four. I've even RPGed Goku.

I liked Bleach for about the first 12 episodes right up until Rukia did nothing but sulk and fret and wait for rescue time and again. I would have shipped Rukia/Ichigo. I do like Renji but I gave up on the show years ago. I get the manga as the library gets it.

I have watched Kuroshitsuji and much preferred the manga.

[helliongoddess.livejournal.com]

Rukia gets on my nerves at time - the one that really makes me nuts is Orihime - I could cheerfully strangle her. Kubo has made Rukia much stronger in the past year or so, she's no longer the "oh, please come rescue me" perpetual damsel in distress. I find most of the time I actually prefer the anime to the manga with Bleach (which is rare - usually it's the other way around) but there is so much fighting in it, and I just don't like the way TK draws fights - it's just confusing and ends up being B/W white noise to me. I find the characters in the Seireitei, the Captains and others, to be what makes Bleach worth dealing with its shortcomings, and some of the other peripherals like the Vizards and some of the Espadas, and Urahara. I also like Uryuu and Chad. Truthfully, Ichigo is one of the lesser draws to Bleach for me - and I get a little tired of the constant ramping up of his power - but so little of his character development otherwise. That's one thing where Arakawa has it all over Kubo, contrasting Ed's progress to Ichigo's - Ed's was much more multi-dimensional.

I'll have to check out the Kuroshitsuji manga - I really like the first season, but so far the second season seems a little less impressive. Maybe it's better in the manga.....

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Rukia definitely gets on my nerves. At least she finally got stronger. I'm not thrilled with Orihime either. The Espada storyline left me cold and that was about the time I completely gave up to be honest.

yeah I didn't like where the anime went and I sure as hell hope the manga doesn't follow.

[ishte.livejournal.com]

Oh wasn't this a load of fun to read! I hope we get to see what Riza is going to do to him. hahaha.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks. everyone is asking to see what Riza is going to do to him. Poor Roy