A/N: my alternate ending and er…sequel to the movie Conqueror of Shamballa. Ah, screw it. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm attempting the impossible (for me)! If this does not turn out good, I'm stopping this story. Disclaimer: I do not own FMA

Central was, at first, not in good state. A sudden attack had befallen them. But when they thought they were about to lose, the Flame alchemist suddenly resurfaces for their aid. The tables are immediately turned and victory is now on their side.

Edward was able to sneak in while Roy distracts Eckhart. When her attacks stopped, he assumed that Ed was already fighting her and he let Alphonse follow his brother. For a moment, he glanced down to see how Central had been when he was gone and he saw how battered the place looks. There were bloods in the streets as soldiers battled with the armours containing live people sent by the sudden invaders. Whoever had planned this attack on them was certainly cruel, giving no regard for the amount of lives that will be killed, even the lives of their own battalion. The thought of soldiers made him think about his subordinates. Surely they were just doing fine? One of them was just chasing him moments ago. Hawkeye, his most loyal and trusted subordinate, was begging to come with him. No, he would not let her come. He left her for her safety that is why he fought and flew on his own.

The return of col. Mustang was supposed to relieve her. But the sight of him flying upwards towards danger all by himself was horrifying for her. She tried to run to him but she knew it was no use. He does not need her now.

And Riza was unable to follow him even from just the ground. She wanted to go to him and she felt danger would soon come. But Armstrong was with her. He would not let her go there saying it would be dangerous. Hell, she doesn't care so long as Roy is safe. I'm not going to fail from protecting him again…

"Major! Someone needs help there!" she pointed at the muscular man's left. Armstrong turned and ran to the said direction.

"Then let us help!" he bellowed, sprinting towards wherever it was, thinking that Hawkeye was following.

Instead, the sniper was running on the opposite direction. Now's not the time to act like an obedient subordinate. She looked up to see the rocket where Ed, Al and Roy just went. But when she got nearer, one armour stood up holding something big and suspiciously odd looking thing and was about to throw it upwards. Towards the place where her superior is and with two other people she cared about too. Swiftly, she pulled out her rifle and began firing at it, making it stop. But her hands were shaking too much she could not aim properly. The person in the armour ignored her and she saw that he was about to throw what he was holding again. Riza dropped her weapon and launched herself at the thing. The armoured man fell back as she clutched the object by her stomach, squeezing it between herself and the ground. Her suspicion turned out to be true. What she was holding right now is a bomb waiting to explode.

The rocket started to sway as the vertical bridge that the brothers made crumbled. He turned to see Ed and Al emerges, looking safe and unscathed. Alphonse was already by Mustang's side but his brother remained standing by the entrance of the rocket.

"Fullmetal…?" Roy called. He can tell that the boy was planning something.

He clapped his hands together and splits up the floor with a fine line. "With that much material, you guys can make it."

"Brother? Brother!" Al starts to run towards him only to be stopped by Roy.

"Where are you going?" Roy asked with a trembling Al in his clutches.

"I'm returning all of these guys beyond the gate."

"You don't have to go too!" Al cried.

"Al, you destroy that gate too so the path will never open again." Ed said trying to hide the pain in the edge of his voice. It would be difficult for him to leave since he had been working so hard to return to his home country but he had to. After all, he thinks it was his fault this city was almost destroyed. He turns to leave but Al said something that made him stop. "What are you going to do with Winry?"

Ed forces a smile as he raises his automail. "Tell her that I said thanks for this."

Al cries desperately but Ed already had his back on them, re-entering the rocket as the floor finally divides to two. Al began to trash, trying to go to Ed but Colonel Mustang stopped him as the gap from them and the rocket began to grow.

"Colonel, please…" Al begged. "I want to be with my brother!" Roy only looks at the boy, weighing which right decision he should make. And he knows well enough that the brothers are always together. "Look… if I come with brother you can still destroy the gate!" that's true, Roy thought. Finally, he decided to let him go.

Al ran to the edge when he suddenly stopped. Roy began to think that it was too late for him to jump when the kid turned to him. "Thank you." And he leapt across.

The bomb will surely blow off any second now but Riza has no intention of letting it go. I'll give my life if it's for them. Before it detonated, she opened her eyes wondering what the last thing she will see. And saw that there is a chalk drawn circle surrounding her…

A transmutation circle?

The rocket was already flying away with the brothers and Roy was left with a raised hand (a gesture of farewell) as the piece of ground that he was standing on began to descend. While he was descending, he could not shake off a sinking feeling that kept bothering him. As he skimmed downwards, a small (from his view) explosion blew a few feet below him. When he neared the ground, to his horror, there was blood scattered on the area of explosion almost in a circular shape. Surprisingly, the centre of it, where the source of the explosion must have burst, had less blood compared to the circle's border.

Before he could even get a closer look, people began to run to him in cries of happiness and thanks. They pulled him as they crowded around him, slapping his back and shaking his hands. He was not sure what to feel but when he scanned the people around him in search of the familiar face that he has wanted so long to see, the feeling of disappointment surfaced in him. She was nowhere in his sight and it made Roy feel more anxious. He glanced by his shoulders to see the place of the explosion but soldiers, including Major Armstrong, were huddled around it talking but Roy could not hear it and he could see that they were looking sad.

"Major… what happened here?" Roy reached Armstrong when the attention he'd earned earlier disappeared. The man did not reply, unable to look at him.

"And… where is Hawkeye?" he added when one of the soldiers replied.

"You see, sir…That's the problem."

A/N: O_o it wasn't that bad, was it? Was it? My first multi-chaptered fic! =_=!

I'm exaggerating….