Hello, people. I wasn't planning on posting this, but my computer crashed and I lost everything from my other stories, so I lost inspiration for a while, but I've found FMA and for a while, I'm going to be focused on it. I don't know when I'll start my other stories, but I will eventually. Sorry if this sucks, because everything makes a whole lot more sense in my mind, but doesn't always translate well when written down. Please Review, even if you don't really like it. Constructive criticism is much appreciated.

Disclaimer: I Don't own, so don't sue.

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"Ed, wake up!"

"Alfons? What's happening?" Having just awoken from his previous state of unconsciousness, it took Ed a moment to remember what had just happened. Remembering, he looked at his shoulder, which had been shot.

"Good thing she has such a lousy aim. The bullet hit your mechanical arm and didn't cause any damage," said Alfons. "Eckhart is busy with preparations to go into your world, and this small rocket should be enough to get you through the Gate before anyone notices."

It was then that Ed finally took notice of his surroundings. He had been strapped into a small rocket, barely big enough to fit two people, which was most likely the reason why Eckhart had ignored it. "Wait, Alfons, what are you doing?!"

"I'm sending you back to your own world. You're the only one who can stop Eckhart."

"What about you?"

Alfons grinned. "I'm coming with you, of course."

By the time Edward had gotten over the shock, Alfons had already jumped in and another rocket engineer had begun to launch the rocket. "Wait, why are you coming with me?"

Alfons shrugged. "If I don't have much longer to live, I might as well spend what time I have left helping you. Better to go down fighting then to wait for sickness to kill me."

And with that the rocket shot into the Gate, heading towards a world of problems and leaving behind one very irate Gypsy girl.

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Of course, what happened in Amestris is known to anyone who watched to movie, and is unimportant to the plot of the story. In truth, the main story does not begin for quite a while, but as it would make no sense without a prologue, there are certain events I am required to add into said prologue (just not Amestris).

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As the rocket crashed through the gate, having just returned from the so-called "Shamballa", the people gathered around it waited with an enormous amount of anxiety to see what else would come out of it, having already killed the strange and frightening thing that had once been Eckhart. What they saw next was not what they had been expecting. Instead of more frightening, monstrous creatures, they saw two young children, who looked to be no older than ten or eleven. The shorter of the two examined his hands, one of which was metal and far too big to belong to a child. "I guess it was just luck that nothing happened to us the first time we went through the Gate. Oh well. At least you took the case from Winry. I'm guessing that she has the schematics in it, so I'll be able to adjust this."

The other boy looked as though he could not believe what had happened to him. "Ed, why the heck do I look like I'm ten years old?" His ice blue eyes were filled with astonishment and bewilderment. Then Noah, who was among those watching this scene, realized who these two children were. "Edward? Alfons?"

And, indeed, it was them. Although both were much shorter (much to Ed's dismay), and Edward's hair was no longer as long as it once was, the two were unmistakable. "I'm guessing that the Gate took away a few years of our lives, as payment for crossing it. I'm not sure why, though, or if this is the only thing that was taken away from us. I suppose we'll find out eventually." Then Ed paused. "Why did we come back, anyway?"

"To destroy the Gate, remember?" At that moment, all attention was taken away from the two boys and focused on the suit of armor that had suddenly spoken. "Al… did you transfer your soul again?"

"Nope. I hid in here, before you entered the Gate. Colonel Mustang should be destroying it right now on the other side." And with that Al left his hiding place from the suit of armor. He, too, was once again a ten-year old, but he was now a ten-year old with seventeen year's worth of memories. "Now all we have to do is destroy it on this side."

Ed grinned. "It'll be difficult to do without alchemy, but I suppose the two of us will manage it, somehow."

Al grinned as well, although for a reason other than the happiness of seeing his brother. "Who says we can't use alchemy? Try it brother. I know you said it doesn't work on this side, but I think that going through the Gate changed that." Indeed, when Ed clapped his hands together and placed them on his automail, the familiar blade was formed. He grinned again. "I guess it won't be as hard as I thought, then."

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And so, the Gate was destroyed preventing anyone from ever using it to get to Amestris again. Then the Elric brothers plus Alfons Heidrich left Germany to search for the uranium bomb. While on their search, however, they began to notice something very peculiar and extremely troublesome. They did not mention it to one another, though it was clear that all of them had noticed. It wasn't until five years later that they finally admitted the thing they had had been afraid of. Their bodies were not aging.

While this meant that Alfons' sickness did not progress to the stage of near death it had been at when he was seventeen, it also left the three in quite a predicament. It was difficult for three unaccompanied minors to travel across Europe, and they were often detained at orphanages along their journey. Also, they were unfortunate enough to be caught in London during the bombings in World War II. Death and destruction reigned over the places they were in, an all three saw far more than their share of horrors. Several times they came close to dying, and it was only due to their companions that they were able to keep their spirits up amid the chaos that had become their lives.

But they prevailed through the hard times, and soon after the war traveled back to Munich. They had been unable to stop the uranium bomb, but in the end, Edward felt, more would have died if it had not been used to end the war. They stayed in an orphanage in Munich for several years, before leaving the country and traveling around Europe once again. It was impossible for them to stay in one place for a long time without arousing the suspicion of the people in said place.

Almost forty years passed before they returned to Munich, once again living in an orphanage. There they met the person who managed to change their entire lives. He was none other than the infamous Von Hoenhiem, aka Edward and Alphonse's father. They discovered that he was, in truth, not even from Amestris, and neither was their mother. Both were English, and soon after meeting their someday children they disappeared, most likely to the other side of the Gate. But before this happened, Ed, Al, and Alfons learned a piece of very vital information. Not only was Trisha Elric from that world, but she also had living relations, back in England.

Before their disappearance, Trisha sent a letter to her sister, asking her to take care of her children (she conveniently neglected to mention that one of these children was not her own, but their friend), for she "no longer had the financial resources to care for them, nor the cruelty to leave them in an orphanage." And this is where the story truly begins, for that sister was none other than Petunia Dursley, who agreed to take in her sister's children. After all, they were already taking care of one orphaned relative; what was the harm in taking more? At least Trisha had not possessed magic. She had been Petunia's dearest older sister, whom she had looked up to and admired. The Dursleys were confident that they would not have to worry about these relatives having magical powers. Oh, how wrong they were…

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