Hey Minna. This is my first FMA fanfic, so please a little gentle...Characters might be a little out of character.

Channel Hopping

Chapter 1: What is it?

The situation was simple enough and yet nobody knew how it got there. Edward Elric suggested that Winry might have made it, but after a very long excited phone conversation from Winry the blonde alchemist decided to ignore the subject.

So there it sat. On First Lieutenant Hawkeye's desk. The squarish object was as big as a large box, which was black in color with a blackish glass screen and buttons on the bottom.

"So what the hell is it?" Said Ed as he stared at the weird black object in a bored fashion.

Hawkeye studied the odd misshapen cube before noticing the long cord and plug attatted to it.

"It must work on electricity if there's a plug"

"Maybe we should just dump it." Said Fury who poked at the odd box.

"No way! Let's plug this baby in and see what it can do!" Said Huges excitedly.

"You do realise that if it's some kind of bomb we're all going to die." Retorted Mustang; giving the object a wary look.

"This a bomb? Why would a bomb have a plug?"

Mustang shrugged.

"As Hawkeye said, it probably runs on electricity."

Huges stepped back from the object and thought for a moment. After a while he shrugged slightly and grabbed the large box, only to place it on a table near the plug outlet.

A large grin appeared on his face as he placed the plug into the outlet. Rubbing his hands together he pressed a button that read 'power' and waited.

His grin disappeared and his head slumped in defeat. On the screen nothing showed but a annoying hissing sound and white specks that spazmatically danced across the screen.

"Ano...Is it supposed to do that?" Asked Al who had just come in a few seconds ago.

"Maybe it's broken." Said Havoc; now inspecting the plug.

"Fullmetal, why don't you fix it?" Asked Mustang. The blonde alchemist gave his superior a look.

"Why me?"

"Because your'e the only one who can preform alchemy without a transmutation circle." Replied the flame alchemist smirking his oh so smug smirk.

Ed shot Mustang a look before sighing and standing up from his seat.

"Fine.fine.. But if we end up getting blown up to bits I'm blaming this on you!"

Ed clapped his hands then placed them on the box's plastic cover. Nothing happened. Ed raised a surprised eyebrow, gave a look to his superior and shrugged.

"Must be working if nothing changed."

Soon the glass screen went blank before a couple of lines began to show. Hughes, Mustang, Fury and Hawkeye stared at the screen in curiosity. The short scilence was broken when a crash sounded behind them.

"NII-SAN!!!"

The four whirled around to see Ed staring at his hand in shock, as the artificial limb began to disinigrate into thin air. Before the young alchemist could utter a yell of surprise he felt an odd sensation wash over him and had the feeling of being pulled back at a very fast and sharp pace. The last thing he remembered before everything went dark was a pair of large hands grabbing onto his feet.

Huges, Hawkeye and Fury stared at the box in absolute shock. Not only the the thing suck up the Elric brothers, but it also took Mustang.

Fury was the first to recover.

"What just happened?"

"I believe it ate Mustang, Ed and Al...." Replied Huges numbly, still in the effects of shock.

"How can a machine eat a human being?" Asked Hawkeye equally numb.

"Maybe it's a government experiment." Said Huges quietly.

The three were brought out of their stupor when the screen fizzed and crackled a bit before a clear picture showed up. On the screen was none other then The Fullmetal Alchemist, who was laying face down in a small room.

"I have a feeling this might take a while..." Said Fury tiredly and pulled up a chair from his desk to sit infront of the box. Hawkeye and Huges followed his action and also sat infront of the object.

"So...How are we going to get them out?" Huges shrugged at Hawkeye's.

"Don't know....I'm guessing they have to do it on there own...."