Prologue
"I'll be back in a few minutes! This is my last transmutation, so sit back and enjoy the show!" Ed had a strange grin on his face as he clapped his hands and performed the human transmutation. Ignoring all of the yelling, all of the trying to get him to stop, he kept his hands on the circle. Edward focused all his energy on it, until he came into the familiar whiteness.
"I take it you're here to retrieve your brother?" Truth said, believing that the alchemist may have actually worked out the solution to getting both of their bodies back. "Just how do you plan on pulling an entire human out of here? What's your payment? Do you intend to use your own body?"
Ed grinned. "I've got your payment right here, so go ahead and take it!" He gestured with his thumb back at the gate behind him. "This thing is my portal of truth, so I get to decide on how it's used! Is that right?"
Truth couldn't do that… he had some different plans for what to do with the Elric brothers. "No, that isn't right. Although I do have another form of payment that wouldn't affect you or your brother… that much, anyways." Edward frowned. "How about I throw you into another dimension, with no one who knows alchemy…?"
"Alright, I'll do whatever you want. Just return Al to his body." Edward answered. Arms came out of his gate, and dragged him in. It seemed like the time he had transmuted his mom and brother, but instead of the truth flashing past his eyes, his life was shown. From the time his father left him, to now. It hurt even more than all the knowledge he was shown earlier in his life.
He woke up in 2013 in a strange city. Ed took a minute to look around, and then fainted.