FMA: The Santa Kidnapper

"Ummm, isn't this a bit much? I'm sure I would be safe in my hotel room." Winry said as she walked into Riza Hawkeye's home, clad in her winter outfit as it was nearly Christmas time.

"Unfortunately it is, you picked a bad time to come visiting Central." Riza said setting down one of Winry's bags. "As you saw by the large group of military personal you came across, there is a very serious issue going on."

"Which is?" Winry asked sitting down as Riza looked hesitant to answer.

"Someone, has been going around kidnapping only women of late." She said making Winry twitch and have a horrified look on her face as memories of being kidnapped by Barry the Chopper came flashing back to her mind. "But don't worry, it’s rare for someone to be kidnapped twice in a lifetime, so please relax Winry." Riza tried to reassure her as she began to make some coffee.

"Ye-Yeah." Winry said nodding as the smell of Coffee being made filled the room.

As they waited for it to be ready, Winry began to remove her scarf and coat and was nearly done when there was a knock at the door.

"I'll get it." Winry said before Riza appeared at her side, holding up a hand to not do it as she headed towards the door with one hand gripping her gun which was behind her back. As they looked at the door, there was a alchemic reaction behind them near the coffee pot which neither of them noticed.

"Can I help you?" Riza asked opening the door slowly to see a delivery guy.

"Merry Christmas ma'am." He said handing her a red envelope.

"Ummm, thanks." She said taking it as the delivery guy nodded his head and walked away.

"Who was it?" Winry asked as Riza shut the door.

"Just a letter delivery." She said tossing the envelope off onto the nearby table and returned to the coffee and poured themselves two cups.

"So, how are women being kidnapped? What’s happening to them?" Winry asked fearful, not sure if she should be really asking.

"Most of the time there is no signs of struggle, so that means they went of their own will or drugged into submission." She said placing a cup in front of Winry and sat down in the opposite chair with her own cup. "As for what happens to them, none of them have shown up yet despite nearly one hundred being taken."

"One hundred?" Winry said shocked as she took a gulp of coffee, enjoying the warm jolting liquid entering her body. "How could so many be taken and not found yet?"

"We don't know, most are young women from their teens to mid-forties." She said taking a gulp of coffee. "Needless to say, the upper brass wants this matter taken care of quickly before it harms the holiday shopping season any further. Few women are going out these days." Riza explained.

"Doesn't help if they are being taken in their homes." Winry said wearily.  

"Yeah." Riza replied as they drank their coffee in silence. "I shouldn't say this, but even Major Armstrong was kidnapped." She said making Winry do a spit take.

"Major Olivier Armstrong?! I find that hard to believe!"

"Tests done at the hotel she was temporary staying at; since her home is still under construction, shows that she drank spiked tea."

"To think someone like her was even kidnapped." Winry said feeling a little better about herself.

"Alex is in tears right now, so him and the rest of the military are gun-ho to really take care of this matter." Riza said as Winry fully understood the situation.

"I'll get us some more coffee." Winry said after a few moments of silence and she stood up and headed into the kitchen. As she reached out for the coffee pot, she noticed her vision getting blurry. "Hrnnn." She groan holding her head.

"Something wrong?" Riza called out hearing her soft moan.

"Ummm, my trip took its toll. I think I need to. Uhhnn." Winry groan slumping to the ground, the cup she held fell to the floor and shattered.

"Winry!" Riza cried out rushing to her side, but before she could reach her, her vision also began to blur and her whole body was going numb. "What in the? Don't tell me the coffee…." She said looking towards the pot and next to the pot on the wall was signs of it being transmuted as well as part of the coffee can. "D-Dammit." Riza groan as her eyes blank and she slump to the ground.

"Hehehehehehehe ho ho ho ho hooooooooo!" Came a deep voice as Riza's door was forced open with alchemy and a large dark figure clad in red came in. The figure stood over them grinning and took both away after stuffing them into a deep red sack where they slumbered peacefully.

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"Mfffmfm." Riza and Winry groan into their red cloth gags as once they fully woke up they began to move only to find themselves completely bound and restrained to a pillar. "Rrnrnrn!" They cried out struggling harder trying to break free. They looked at each other to see green ribbons wrapping around their bodies in a crisscross way with their arms bound securely behind the pillar and their legs pinned together.

They wiggled and struggled and tried to break the ribbons which should have snapped with enough force used, the fact they still didn't budge means they were alchemy formed to be extra strength.

"Hoooooooo ho ho ho!" Came a deep voice drawing both women's attention to the area around them, to see themselves in some dark underground place and around them were several women all bound and gagged the same in different colors of red, green, blue and gold.

"Morning ladies, so good you could join us." A man soon appeared in their vision as he wore a shabby torn up red outfit, which had a lot of similarities to Santa's outfit along with a thinning crooked white beard.

"Mrmgmph!" Riza grunted, instantly recognizing him.

"So good to see you Riza, its been ages since our time in that hellish desert." He said grinning at her showing he was missing some teeth.

"Mffmfm! Hhrhrprm!" Riza shook her head, wanting her gag off.

"Go ahead and speak old friend, I just didn't want you to wake those who are sleeping yet with your screams." He said pulling her gag off.

"Gah! Saint Nack! I thought you were dead!?" She demanded to know.

"Gehheheheh ho ho ho!" He laughed out making his belly jiggle a little.

"I would have been, but I found something that has kept me and my vengeance fully alive." He assured her.

"So you've been the one kidnapping the women then? Why?!" Riza wanted to know, she could still feel her back pocket gun on herself and was trying to reach for it as Winry just watched on helpless, fear of her last kidnapping still tormenting her mind.

"To kill the dogs of course!" He shouted with glee. "You dogs of the military, scum all of you! I don't hold the power to get rid of you all now, but if I were to get rid of all the women, then you damn vermin dogs can't breed and if you can't breed then there is no more dogs of the future military!" He said in glee.

"You're insane and that plan makes no sense!"

"It makes sense to me!" He laughed as a far off grunt from Major Armstrong only seem to make him laugh harder.

"All of this because you didn't get a promotion after the war? Let it go Saint, you're better than this!" She begged, as after the Ishval Civil War, Saint didn't receive the rewards he thought he get for his service and went mad and after an attempt to arrest him, he went plummeting into a outskirts water way and vanished.

"I am better than this! Which is why I'm going to give the Führer King Bradley a display he won't ever forget! Behold!" He said snapping his fingers making several lights turn on to reveal a giant tree in the center of the underground area they were in. "We are in the center of Amestris's Central City, I'll bind each of you to the branches of this tree like ornaments! Then in a fitting display, I'll burn you all down along with the tree, to release a toxic gas that should finish off those I have yet to grab."

"Mpmffmm!" Winry and the others females who were awake shirked in horror.

"Madman! Let us go now!" Riza demanded.

"Gehehe ho ho ho! I think you've had your say." He said reaching forward to regag her, before his hand could, his arm and hand suddenly burst into flames after a snapping sound filled the air.

"Gaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!" He cried out in pain, tumbling backwards as he waved his arm about madly as flames completely engulfed it.

"Colonel!" Riza cried out, turning her head to see Roy Mustang and his men enter the underground place.

"Saint Nack, its been ages. You should still remember though after all this time, that messing with my subordinates is the same as asking for death." Roy said with a dark glare.

"Damn flame alchemist! Curse your flame! That unholy power has no place in this world!" Saint shouted out as his arm that was on fire melted away to protect his body and soon after, thousands of small vines sprung from his arm stump and reformed his arm to show a alchemy sign on his hand to reflect control over nature.

"The Green Hand Alchemist, Saint Knack. To think you still be alive and even more demented than the last I saw you." Roy said in disgust.

"Don't you call me that, that is my dog name and I am no dog! I have transcended human limitations and have become one with nature!" He shouted out as cracks formed in the floor below which plants began to grow up at an extreme rate and soon took on his full appearance.  

"What the hell?" Roy asked over the shocked grunts of the captives.

"Me and the tree are one! You cannot kill me with that flame!" He laughed as Roy raised his hand out of annoyance.

"Colonel! No!" Riza shouted out tugging hard at her bindings as Winry had enough and began to reach into her shirt sleeve for her own means of escape.

"We'll see about thgahh!" He cried out as his men pinned him to the ground. "Hey! Let go!"

"You heard him colonel! You burn that tree down and toxic gas could be released!" Havoc said as Roy struggled.

"Dammit let go!" He demanded as Alex Armstrong appeared.

"Settle down Mustang and let me show you the Armstrong way of cutting down trees!" Alex said as he tore off his uniform top to reveal his buff body as he struck a pose which made him glitter and shine.

"Mffffmm." Olivier groan shaking her head slowly at her brothers poor display.

"Now have at you!" Alex shouted rushing the plant copies of Saint and began to blow them apart with one hit, which they began to grow back instantly. "What power is this? It shouldn't be possible!" He said as they laughed at him which annoyed Alex. "Laugh will you? I will have none of that!" He said grabbing one of the forming clones and pulled at him hard like pulling a plant and as he lifted the plant clone up, a single vine was being uprooted from the ground which lead back to the tree and to the bark which the tug made the bark on the tree break making everyone gasp at what the hole in the bark revealed.

"That explains it." Roy said as the real Saint was embedded deep inside of the bark, a red philosopher stone embedded into his unconscious body's center chest.

"But you said, you were going to burn the tree down!" Riza pointed out.

"And with that special stone, the stone that allowed me to make a forest of an oasis of bloody in the middle of a hellish desert, I'll keep healing the tree, making it burn and release a toxic gas forever!" Saint's clones declared with another deep laugh.

"Not on my watch!" Alex said rushing forward along with the other men, Roy being careful to only burn the clones. As they tried to reach the tree trunk and fighting the clones, the branches began to move forward and pluck a few bound women to add to its branches while in the meantime more and more plant clones appeared blocking their path.

"Dammit, someone free me!" Riza cried out pulling ever harder on her bindings and quickly noticed Winry who was grunting loudly as she was making an odd movement as if she was cutting something behind her back.

"Mrmgmg." Winry grunted as she had reached and grabbed a small sharp tool she hid in her sleeve. Ever since the incident with Barry the Chopper, she made sure to leave herself ways of getting free should she be kidnapped again. With some more work, Winry finally cut the ribbons with the tool made from very strong and rare ore and reached forward and quickly freed Riza.

"Thanks!" Riza cried out as she drew her weapon, took quick aim and fired off a shot that hit the tiny red shard on Saint's real body.

"What? Nooooooooooooooooo ho ho noooooooooo!" Saint cried out as the tiny red fragment broke from the bullet, shattering it into pieces that turned into dust making all the plant clones wither away and forcing the real Saint to wake up in a coughing fit.

"N-No, my plan, my revenge." The real Saint said in a rasp, as his body was reduced to skin and bones as the tree had been living off of his body.

"It’s over!" Alex cried out smashing the tree with the full might of his fist alchemy, making the tree crack and break apart and let go of the few women it grabbed before the tree landed on the ground with a loud crash sound.

"We did it!" Winry said pulling off her gag as Riza help untying the rest of her.

After freeing the rest of the women and Olivier chewing out Alex for his long display instead of fighting, Winry and Riza stood in front of a smiling Roy.

"I'm glad you two are unhurt."

"How did you find us so quickly Colonel?" Riza asked curious.

"You were many of the women we were baiting to find the kidnapper, after you were taken we trailed Saint to this underground passage." Roy explained.

"Oh great, I was bait. Wait till I tell Ed." Winry said making Roy sweat drop a little.

"How about I buy you something nice and this stays between us?" He said a bit irritated which Winry smirked entering a long negotiate with him to get the best deal as possible as Riza only sighed knowing it was her job to be bait when needed.

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After freeing everyone and seeing everyone back up to the surface, even lower than the area that all happened sat Father, who looked grumpy and sad.

"I save that useless soul, in hopes of getting myself a nice tree for the holidays and they go and tear it down." He said sighing. "I just can't have nice things. Well Merry Christmas human souls, only a few short months till I get my present." He said with a dark smile.

The end.