This here is my first fanfic…well that I managed to publish anyway and I wish to see how it goes. Anyway this fanfic is based of the fanfic Fullmetal Geass- Rough Draft, by Miki-chan13 which I recommend to anyone willing to read it. Unlike it however this is not a crossover as it is only Fullmetal Alchemist and some of my own stuff. Anyway let's start this.

I do not own Fullmetal Alchemist

Also for flamers don't even start. As all flamers will be quashed by the manliness that the Armstrong family has been passing down for generations!

Anyway ACTION

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood: Syncopation

Prologue: A new story begins in Central

At 11:00 at night it was mainly quiet in Central at this time. There was hardly anyone on the streets at the time except for patrolling soldiers and the occasional drunkard. Most of the citizens were asleep in their beds dreaming. And it was no truer then around the eastern section of the city. As no one was awake in that area except for Alphonse Elric.

He could only sigh as it was another sleepless night for him while his older brother Edward was passed out snoring on the hotel bed. They were ordered to head back to Eastern Command tomorrow so they decided to stay at a hotel nearby the train station. As Al was prepared for another sleepless night. The earth began to shake and Ed fell out of bed. With a grimace he got up and noticed all the shaking going on.

"What the heck is going on here?!" He asked as he tried to steady himself. Al just walked over and tried to help steady the both of them. After a minute the shaking stopped and both of them managed to get themselves balanced.

"I don't know, but I think the shaking stopped." Al said. As Ed was finishing getting changed to see what was going on the shaking started up again and intensified. The structure of the hotel started to worsen and the sounds of screams began to sound out. Ed just grabbed his watch and opened the door.

"Let's go Al."

Both rushed out of the door and into the chaos.

10 minutes later and most of the damage caused by the second earthquake had been fixed. After the first one started most of the populace had woken up. Soldiers had helped escort civilians to the nearest safe locations, but they couldn't get to everyone. Several buildings had been damaged and a few had even collapsed burying several people in rubble. After the shaking had stopped soldiers had started digging in the rubble with the Elric brothers helping out. But it wasn't too severe and only a few people had to go to the hospital. As they helped clear the last of the rubble the brothers sat on a large pile of it.

"Ed what do you think caused this?" Asked Al looking down at his older brother. Ed just shook his head as he had no clue either.

"I don't know Al, but thankfully the worst is over."

Edward would regret saying those words in the next 20 seconds along with what he said immediately afterwords.

As if the universe was answering for him a small white orb formed in the middle of the road just floating there. Al's armored body was shaking all over as he felt scared by the pressure that the orb was releasing.

"Hey Ed, wh-what is that?" asked Al as he pointed a shaking finger at the orb. Ed was also worried about the orb as it was releasing a lot of pressure around them.

"I don't know but maybe it won't harm us. I mean yeah it will probably go always soon." Ed tried to reassure his brother and himself that everything is okay.

But he failed.

The orb then let out a low humming sound followed by what sounded like children giggling which terrified the two of them. It then started to expand and consume the road and started to pull in other material into it.

"RUN AL!" Ed yelled and both boys took of away from the orb which continued to grow to the size of a house. The giggling continued and a black spot appeared in the core of the orb and 3 shapes appeared to be lowered into the crater below it. As soon as all 3 shapes touched the ground the giggling stopped and the orb soon began to collapse in on itself. A second later it faded out of existence with a responding POP. All that was proof that it even happened was a large round crater in the road way.

Both of the brothers were officially terrified from what just happened.

"…Okay then. WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT?!" Ed asked completely shell shocked at what he just witnessed. Al was just as shocked as he was when he noticed something in the bottom of the crater.

"Brother there are people down there!" he said. Ed looked down there and widened his golden eyes when he noticed that there was three people down there and quickly ran down to the bottom of the crater. It was about 15 feet deep at the bottom with it being surprisingly flat and that the sides were curved like in a bowl. At the bottom the brothers were surprised at what they found.

The first was a woman who looked at around their age in what was a tattered white dress that was covered in blood. She had sandy brown skin and brown hair with part of it in braids. After seeing that she was just knocked out and a little malnourished they moved to the other two who were not far apart from each other. Those two were way worse then she was. The went to the closest on to them.

The second person was a woman who also had brown hair and looked to be about Ed's age, but had the common skin tone of a Amestrian. She was wearing the tattered remains of probably once a regal dress that barely covered her modestly and especially around her breasts. She had what apparently appeared to be massive gashes that were curved a various locations all over her body. Judging by the look on her face she had passed out from the pain caused by the gashes. After checking her condition and seeing that she would be alright for now, they looked at the other person and were once again they were shocked at what they saw.

"Al go get help! Now!" Al could only nod as he went to get help as Ed tried to stabilize the last occupant of the crater.

The final person was a male who looked around Ed's age, but what shocked them was his condition and his appearance. He looked about a foot taller then Ed, but he had the same hair and eye color as well. Even his face looked like Ed somewhat. However he was in the worst condition among the three. His clothes looked torn and disturbingly fused together as in two sets of clothing were fused and it looked a bit too small for him. He was bleeding out from metal shads sticking out of his left leg and right arm. But the worst of it was that his body was pulsating and tearing itself apart as it kept opening wounds. He looked at Ed with his eyes half lidded and he noticed that both of them had 2 pupils that were looking like they were fusing together. His face looked like he was feeling the pain. Ed gently put the man's head in his arms.

"Hey are you alright?!" The man gave no reply as his eyes twitched and his breath started to slow down. He began to close his eyes and Ed began to shake him feverishly.

"Hey! No! Stay with us! You are going to be okay!" The young man could only close his eyes and his breath slowed down considerably. Ed began to shake him even more and then he flashed to when his mother died. How her face showed how much she loved them and how she fell asleep only to never wake up again.

"NO! NO! NO! Come on stay awake come on stay awake help will be here soon! SO STAY AWAKE!" All Ed could do was keep shaking him and tried to stabilize the man.

'I can't let this happen again not now not ever!'

"So you're here too, Fullmetal."

Ed looked up at the edge of the crater was his superior Roy Mustang with his Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye standing beside him. Which confused Ed as he was supposed to be at East City right now.

"Wha-"

"Stand back Fullmetal," Mustang ordered as he settled right glove. Ed looked at him and then at the 2 wounded people I the crater. Realizing what the Colonel was about to do.

"Hey! What are you going to do to them fry them?!" He snapped out.

Mustang paid him no mind as he concentrated at the task at hand. Snapping his fingers as lightly as he could, flames billowing straight towards the two and along their wounds with each snap. It took a few seconds for him to sear the woman's wounds shut, but for the young man it took a bit longer as more wounds kept appearing after he seared them shut. After a minute he finally stopped and the man let out a breath as his body stopped pulsating. He was finally starting to stabilize. Mustang let out a breath and couldn't help but find it curious on how the man resembled Fullmetal so greatly.

"Oh. Uh. That worked." Ed tried his best to avoid both of their eyes. As he settled his eyes on the man he was finding it difficult to comprehend how similar how they look. That and annoyed at how damn tall the look alike was!

A little bit later, some medics came in 2 medical cars and loaded all three of them onto stretchers. Ed rode in the same car with the male gripping his right hand with the medal shards sticking out with his automail one. Looking at the look alike he couldn't help but smile as the young man looked like he was sleeping soundly. Unaware with what has transpired with him.

' Hang on there for a little while so we can help you. I promise you and the others will be alright so just wait a little okay.'

After all three of them were brought to the closest hospital and Ed officially order the staff to put all 3 of them in the same room and to save them. He and Al were waiting for the results just outside by themselves watching as the other doctors going through the halls to treat the others injured during the earthquake. Mustang had already left to report about the situation to the Führer after telling them about why he had changed his order in the mourning.

"Damn it! It has already been a few hours since we brought them here and not one word yet. What are they doing in there anyways?!" Ed snapped impatiently.

"Um…" If a suit of armor that had a soul bound to it could have sweat dropped it would have happened right then." What are you talking about Ed? It has only been 45 minutes." Al said without even looking up from reading the newspaper he was holding.

"Wait really?!" Ed asked incredulously. Al just looked up from his paper, nodded, and went back to reading. "Huh…" Was his intelligent reply, feeling really sheepish for how he was acting.

Not a minute later the doctor came out to meet them while the nurses went their own way.

"So?! Are all three of them okay!" Ed snapped at the doctor.

'Please don't tell me that he died, or so help me I will-!'

"Don't worry about your friends they will be fine. All three are sleeping right now and will make full recoveries once they wake up." The doctor informed the worried alchemists.

Seriously? That's great!" Ed exclaimed. Both he and Al let out a sigh of relief.

"However I must inform you there was something strange going on with all three of them."

Both alchemists looked at the doctor at this and at the same time asked.

"What is it?"

"You said there was blood coming out of one of the woman and something happening to the man."

"Yes doc, the woman was bleeding from multiple gashes all over her while the man's body was being torn apart and was also bleeding out from metal from his arm and leg!" Ed said stressing out how severe the man's condition was.

"And Colonel Mustang sealed both of their wounds shut." Al added.

"I don't doubt you, but we examined all three of them and all three of them surprised us. The first woman was exhausted and didn't show any signs of changing until the others were recovered. The other woman was covered with minor burns and the only evidence of wounding was that she is covered with scaring. There was no evidence of blood loss and the strangest thing about her is the scaring. All the scars resemble the jaw line of a large human." The doctor said. It took a minute for the brothers to process that and when they did you could tell they were shocked…well except Al as he couldn't show any facial expressions.

"HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE?!" Ed yelled

"Brother, please don't yell. I'm just as surprised as you are, but we also need to hear about the man." Al said softly while rubbing his older brother's shoulder. Ed calmed down and motioned for the doctor to continue.

"As for the man besides looking from like you except taller-" "WHO ARE YOU CALLING A TINY LITTLE RUNT WHO IS TO SMALL TO RIDE A FLEA!" Ed suddenly snapped scaring the doctor. Al just sighed and rubbed his brother's shoulder again.

"Ed he didn't say anything like that or about your height." Al said. Ed looked at him for a bit before signaling the scared doctor to continue.

"As I was saying besides him looking like you." Ed looked at the doctor, challenging him to call him short. "And you saying that he is not your brother he is the strangest of the bunch. He also had minor burning and no sign of blood loss like the woman. But there was signs of him having his body being torn apart. When we test him we were surprised to find he had 2 hearts! Which should be impossible! After that after removing the metal shards from his arm and leg we found some more in his arm, but we couldn't remove them with out cutting off his arm. As well as when that was done we found that he only has a single heart now and is healing faster then a normal human should." The doctor finished his report.

Both brothers once again were keeping calm at what they were hearing from him. Ed just breathed in to calm himself and spoke.

"Okay um…Doctor I'm ordering you and the medical staff who operated on the three patients to keep quiet about this and not to tell anyone, okay." He ordered the doctor using his ever so useful major equivalent status for the second time.

"Yes sir and one more thing. We each found one possession for each of them and you should see the young man's one." Said the doctor before handing the possessions to Ed.

"Okay but you don't have to call me-" the doctor took off "-sir." Ed sighed. He and Al looked at the possessions and were shocked by them. The first one was a simple necklace with a purple stone on it. The second one which they guessed belonged to the scarred woman was a pendent with a transmutation circle on it making her possibly an alchemist. The final one belonged to the man and that shocked them the most. It was an authentic State Alchemist watch.

"No way he's a state alchemist?!" Both of them said shocked.

Al tried to open the watch to see if it would open, but it wouldn't budge. Ed grew worried about something and took the watch from him.

"Hey Al why don't we just see if they know anything about this." Ed suggested nervously. Al looked at his brother for a minute before opening the door softly and walking inside. Ed looked at the watch and was tempted to open it, but he didn't and followed Al into the room. He had a hunch of who this mystery man is, but he was terrified on what he would do if he was right.

As they entered the room they noticed that all three of the occupants were waking up. One by one all of them woke and seemed to look at each other. This went on for a moment before Ed coughed and got there attention. He felt a little awkward just being stared at by all three of them before he steeled his nerves and spoke.

"Uh, hey. You guys seem to be okay and you two especially had me worried as I thought both of you were going to die.." He said while trying to break the awkwardness in the room. I'd failed spectacularly and it only continued to thicken to the point that you would need an ax to cut it. The two woman looked at the male and back at Ed before all three asked a question.

"Why does he/I look like you?" Ed just sweat dropped at that.

"That is what I want to know. So, um, if any of you don't mind me asking, but who are you guys and how did you end up in the crater?" Ed asked. All three looked at each other again and put some thought into it.

"Um, the only thing I can remember is my name being Noah, I think." Said the dark skinned girl confused and looked a bit worried as she couldn't remember anything.

"Like Noah the only thing I can remember is my name, Lyra." Said the scarred woman. Both Noah and Lyra turned to the unknown male who was thinking before he sighed.

"I…I don't know anything…or rather remember anything at all." The Ed lookalike said a bit distraught at not remembering anything.

'You have got to be kidding me.' Thought Ed.

Prologue end

Well what did you guys think. For those of you guys curious this chapter takes place a bit before the 1st episode of Brotherhood. Anyway remember to favorite, follow, and review if you like the story.

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