Ed Elric’s Screw

Ed: "Couldn't you have made it more dramatic?"

Roy: "You're right. I forgot to give you the little screw."

Ed: "...WHAT?"

Hawkeye: [chiding] "Lieutenant Colonel, how could you have forgotten the little screw?"

Roy: [defensive] "Well, it's been so *long*..."

Ed: "WHAT?!"

Havoc: "What? The Lieutenant Colonel forgot the little screw?"

Roy: "You don't need to make fun of it. But I'll give him the screw right now, if it's that big a deal."

Hawkeye: "I think you'd better give him the screw. On the desk, Lieutenant Colonel."

Ed: "On the WHAT?"

Roy: "Desk. On the desk, Edward-kun. I presume you don't want it... tossed."

Havoc: "Hey, be careful with that screw, okay?"

Hughes: [enters] "Eh? What's that? Something about a screw?"

Hawkeye: [to Hughes] "The Lieutenant Colonel gave Edward the watch, but forgot the screw."

Hughes: "Eh, maybe he doesn't need the screw?"

Roy: "He's GETTING the damn screw!"

Ed: "What? I'm TWELVE!"

[long silence]

Roy: "What does that have to do anything?"

Hawkeye: "You can get the screw just as well when you're twelve as when you're older."

Havoc: "Or younger, for that matter."

Hughes: [thoughtful] "The boy may have a point."

Armstrong: [enters] "What is going on here?"

Havoc: "The screw. The Lieutenant Colonel forgot to give the boy the screw."

Roy: [defensive] "It could have happened to ANYONE."

Ed: "WHAT?~!"

Hawkeye: "But it happened to you, Lieutenant Colonel."

Roy: "Well, maybe if you'd all let me FIX the mistake and just give it to him already-"

Armstrong: "WHAT? We cannot have this!"

Ed: "...M...major..."

Armstrong: [shirt flies off! Flexes, pecs shining. Sparkles fly] "If you will not give him the screw, I shall!"

Ed: "WHAT?!"

Roy: "You CAN'T give him the screw. It's my JOB to give him the screw."

Armstrong: "But I have a special screw, handed down in my family from generation to generation!"

Ed: [goes green]

Hughes: "Really?" [interested ] "Can I see, sometime?"

Ed: "But Major! Your wife! Your child!"

Hughes: "What about them?"

Hawkeye: "Hurry up with the screw, Lieutenant Colonel. You're embarrassing the entire unit."

Roy: "Fine! Edward-kun, come here! Now!"

Ed: [flees with a scream]

Armstrong: "He... didn't want it?"

[long pause]

Havoc: "That was screwed up."