"Fullmetal Alchemist: The Second World War"
By cdc100
Summary: Edward, Alphonse and their friends are transported to Earth and help the Allies defeat the Nazis and the Axis Powers. They also meet prominent figures like President Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Claus von Stauffenberg. EdWin, slight EdRose
Disclaimer: This is a work of pure non-profit fan fiction. I do not own any of the characters, their weapons, their abilities, or any of their universes, nor do I own any of the lyrics that will appear in later chapters, or any of the products mentioned in the story such as Coca-Cola, or Playstation.
Prologue
In a world very similar to ours, science evolved differently than it did on Earth. In this world, called Amestris, the ultimate science is that of alchemy. Using alchemy, its practitioners can create new things, provided that what is created has the same mass or chemical properties as the materials used. Alchemists can even use it to turn lead into gold. To the average person, alchemy may sound like the ideal science. But the reality is, everything comes at a price, particularly in alchemy. "Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost." That is alchemy's first law of equivalent exchange. One of the worst crimes you can commit in terms of alchemy is human transmutation, the act of trying to modify a human being, create human life, or bring a person back to life. For this, there is a high price to pay.
Amestris is dominated by a military power. This military was once greatly disliked by the people of Amestris; Hated because of a war that broke out in a faraway country called Ishbal. The military came to Ishbal and introduced the science of alchemy to its people. The military was considered evil by the Ishbalans, because their God, Ishbala, forbade alchemy. One day, things got out of hand between the military and the Ishbalans, and one of the soldiers shot an Ishbalan child. This sparked the war with Ishbal… at least, according to military records.
It is true. An Ishbalan child was shot, but this was a shooting orchestrated by the Fuhrer. The Fuhrer is the ruler of the country and the head of the state military. The Fuhrer ordered a soldier to shoot an Ishbalan child in order to start the war between Amestris and Ishbal. The Fuhrer was secretly planning to use the human lives taken in the war to create the most sought-after alchemical object, the Philosopher's Stone.
The Philosopher's Stone is a pure substance, an amplifier that can be used in alchemic transmutation. With the stone, alchemists can choose not to obey the laws of equivalent exchange, making the impossible possible. It is a blood-red stone, said to bring happiness in sadness, victory in war, and life in death. For this reason, alchemists saw fit to give it such a name as the Philosopher's Stone.
Anyway, in secret, the Fuhrer was a homunculus. Homunculi are created when a person tries to transmute a human being. The homunculus then takes the form of the human being that the alchemist was trying to bring back, and are weakened by being near the remains of that person. The Fuhrer and the homunculi sought the Philosopher's Stone in hopes of making them human.
However, the Fuhrer wasn't the reason for the homunculi's pursuit of the Philosopher's Stone. They were rallied altogether by an old woman- emphasis on "old." She kept herself alive by transferring herself from one body to another for four hundred years. It was she who rallied the Homunculi together to search for the stone. In fact, without her, they wouldn't have been in the shape for such a search. In exchange for their help, she promised them that she would use the stone to make them human.
The state military has alchemists in their ranks, called "State Alchemists." They report directly to the Fuhrer. One such alchemist was a boy named Edward Elric. Edward was famous because he joined the state military as a State Alchemist when he was only 12 years old. He was also famous for representing the best interests of the people when the military would not. It was he and his brother who stopped the Fuhrer and the rest of the Homunculi from achieving their goal. He was a great alchemist, but not because he became one when he was so young, but because he paid the ultimate price. He and his brother Alphonse tried to transmute the body of their late mother, Trisha. For their sin, Edward lost his left leg while Alphonse lost his entire body. Edward then used his right arm as material in a transmutation in order to bind Alphonse's soul to a suit of armor in their house. It was this mistake that drove Edward to join the state military in order to get funding to search for the Philosopher's Stone. In order for Ed to go on his journey, he had his neighbors fit him with full metal prosthetic limbs. When an alchemist is taken into the military, they are given a symbolic second name, which signifies their attributes or talents. It was because of Edward Elric's mechanical limbs that the state military saw fit to name him, "The Fullmetal Alchemist."