Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the first EVER -Kim Possible-X-Fullmetal Alchemist- xover
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NeoMetal Alchemist
Chapter 1 - The Law of Equivalent Exchange
Kim moved silently as she went about her task. First she moved all furniture away from the center of the living room, then using a piece of chalk she started drawing something on the ground, it started as a large circle but was soon filled with drawings of several other shapes within the circle as well as various symbols, Kim often looked back to a small diary laying a few feet away to make sure she was drawing it right.
After the circle was complete Kim made her way across the room to a bunch of bags filled with everything she needed.
She took each item out of the bags and placed them in the center of the circle she had just finished drawing while going through a checklist in her head of everything she placed in the circle.
'35 liters of water, 25 kilograms of carbon, 4 liters of ammonia, 1.5 kilograms of phosphorous, 250 grams of salt, 100 grams of saltpeter, 80 grams of sulfur, 7.5 grams of fluorine, 5 grams of iron, 3 grams of silicon and trace amounts of 15 other elements.'
Kim finally finished placing everything she needed into the circle, slowly she turned around and walked towards her bag which was laid on the sofa, after picking up the bag she notised that it had started to rain heavily outside, after rummaging through the bag for a moment she found what she was looking for, Ron's amulet.
It was only a month after Graduation when everything was revealed. Both Kim and Ron had been invited over to Ron's Grandfathers apartment for a visit, this shocked Kim because Ron had never mentioned his Grandfather to her and that he was 107 years old.
After arriving at Ron's grandfathers house he had sat both Ron and Kim down and told them a tale, a tale of how Ron's grandfather was from another world.
Ron's grandfathers real name was Edward Elric and he had come to our world during world war II from his own world where a power know as Alchemy exists. Edward explained that Alchemy is the power to transform one material into another with the use of circle called a Transmutation Circle.
Alchemy is broken down into three steps,
Step One, Analysis - To understand the structure and properties of the substance that is about to be Transmuted.
Step Two, destruction - To break the substance down to it rudimentary properties.
Step Three, Reconstruction - To rebuild the substance into another form or with different properties.
Edward explained to them both that Alchemy does not work in this world bit he had found a way around that, and that when Edward revealed the Amulet, it was a small clear red stone surrounded by a golden ring and connected to a gold chain. Edward had created it from a mineral called Cinnabar, the raw form of the element mercury, by liquidizing the mineral and then slowly crystallizing it Edward had created this amulet. The process took three decades to complete. This stone was called the Red Stone back in Edward's world and it allowed the user to perform Alchemy even in this world.
At first Kim didn't believe a word of it, but within two minutes she was a believer. Edward proceeded to draw one of the Transmutation circles he had told them about, he then placed a few piece of Coal into the middle of the circle and placed both of his hands on the edge of the circle. For a moment nothing happened, then all of a sudden Edward's Amulet around his neck sparked with energy and the circle seemed to explode with electrical power. After a few seconds the power died down and sitting there in the middle of the circle in place of the coal was a single bar of solid gold.
After that, Edward had taken off and passed Ron the amulet telling him that he was giving the amulet to him. Over the next few weeks, Ron spent a lot of time with his grandfather learning all about alchemy, Edward had offered to train him on two conditions that had to be met by both Ron and Kim.
First, they were to tell nobody else about this power, if the government learned about Alchemy then they would try to use it for their own needs. And secondly, never try to use alchemy to revive the dead.
But now Kim was breaking the latter of the two conditions. One day after going with Ron to train with his grandfather Kim came home to a silent house, she soon found her father in silent tears on the couch.
That weekend the family attended a funeral, Kim's Mother, Dr Anne Possible was hit by a car on the way home from the hospital, the driver claimed that he didn't see her. Of course he didn't see her, he was on his cell phone.
For a few weeks the Possible family grieved, meanwhile Kim was researching, she snuck some of the books Edward had given Ron out of Ron's house and studied them. After a while Kim came to a conclusion, she was going to bring her mother back.
Earlier that day Kim snuck Ron's amulet out of his bag while he was practicing drawing Transmutation Circles and now here she stood, with Ron's amulet in her hands.
She turned back to the circle she had drawn and filled with the different elements that make up a human body.
She slowly kneeled down, placed the amulet around her neck, placed both of her hands on the edge of the circle and started to concentrate. After a few moments the amulet glowed brightly and the circle erupted with electrical energy and the Transmutation began.
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Ron ran through the rough weather, cold wind combined with the rain stung his face as he ran against it. But still he bared the minor pain and increased his speed to get to his girlfriends house as fast as possible to stop what he feared she was trying to do.
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10 Minutes ago.
Ron rummaged through all of his notes, he let out a sigh of annoyance at the situation, after graduation he hoped that he would not have to worry about studying until the start of college but that hope had been shattered by his Grandfather Edward when he revealed the power of Alchemy. Since then Ron had been learning all about Alchemy so he might be able to use its powers while on missions.
Ron reached to his left to grab his drink only to have his hand knock over a pile of notes he had taken.
"Aww man!" Ron moaned as he fell to the ground and started picking up the fallen notes.
As Ron gathered the notes he noticed something, Kim's Kimmunicator.
"Huh, she must've left it here when she went home" Ron reasoned as he reached for it.
As Ron picked it up, his finger brushed against one of the buttons and the screen lit up displaying some kind of checklist.
"What the…? 35 liters of water, 25 kilograms of carbon, 4 liters of ammon…" As Ron read the list his eyes suddenly widened.
He turned around and scrambled through several of Edward's notes until he found one piece in particular, a list of measured elements. Ron quickly compared both the list on his grandfather's notes and the list on the Kimmunicator, they matched perfectly.
The elements on both lists were the calculated components that make up a human body. Ron's hand suddenly shot to his pants pocket to look for something, it wasn't in either of his pockets. Then he remembered he had left it the small box beside his bed, he quickly ran beside his bed and pulled the lid from the box to find it empty.
"The amulet… oh my god!" Ron said out loud as he realized exactly what was going on, Ron spun around on the spot and ran down the stairs out of his loft bedroom and ran from his house into the harsh weather.
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Ron turned the corner onto Kim's street and looked in horror, the windows in Kim's house were flashing wildly with blue light.
"No! I'm too late!" Ron screamed as he sprinted towards the house.
As Ron reached the door he didn't hesitate in raising his leg and kicking the door as hard as he could at the handle, the door may have been unlocked but he didn't have the time to check. Ron ran into the house and opened the door to the living room, there Kim was kneeling down in front of a large Transmutation Circle with his amulet hanging from her neck.
Kim had a terrified expression on her face, after a few moments she knew that something wasn't right, she watched as the compounds she had placed in the circle started to swirl and morph into something, but it wasn't human.
Ron ran full speed towards Kim, he knew that the Transmutation had started and couldn't be stopped so the last option he had was to get Kim as far away from the circle as possible. As soon as he reached Kim he grabbed her arm with his right hand and using ever ounce of strength he had he picked Kim up, swung her around and tossed her as hard as he could, as he did this the amulet she wore snagged onto Ron's clothing and the chain snapped.
Kim didn't have the chance to ask Ron what he was doing before he grabbed her, swung her around and threw her through the air. Kim's body smashed through the living room window and she landed roughly on the lawn and rolled a few meters away from the house before finally coming to a halt. She quickly got back to her feet with the intention of shouting at Ron for what he did. But before she could say anything her vision was impaired by a bright white light exploding from her living room.
Ron was about to jump out of the window he had just thrown his girlfriend through when suddenly his vision was filled with a white light. Ron closed his eyes tight to block the light, a moment later he opened his eyes to find he was no longer in Kim's living room but he seemed to be standing in a void of white light and directly in front of him stood a large stone gate.
"What the…" Ron stopped speaking as the twin doors of the stone gate started to open, Ron looked deeply into the gate and saw only darkness.
Without warning a black tentacle of sorts shot from the gate and wrapped around Ron's left arm.
"Hey! Let go!" Ron shouted as he grabbed the appendage with his right hand and tried to pry it off.
All of a sudden several more tentacles shot from the gate and wrapped around both of his legs and his torso. Ron felt a burning pain in his right arm and his left leg as the tentacles lifted him into the air and pulled him quickly into the gate before slamming shut again.
Kim's vision returned to normal after a few moments, she turned to look at her house with her mouth open ready to start shouting at Ron, but when she saw her house, any words she had meant to say were lost. An entire chunk of her house was missing, there was no wreckage, no burns, it was just gone. A sphere shape of empty space filled her house as well as a portion of the ground. The living room, the windows and a chunk of the top floor was completely gone without a trace, she could look straight forward and saw the kitchen.
"W… What happened?" Kim whispered to herself as she slowly took steps towards the house.
As she was walking slowly she realized something, everything in the living room was gone… including Ron.
"RON!" Kim screamed as she ran towards where her living room had once been but as soon as she reached it she skidded to a halt and looked down, within the ditch where her living room had once been, laid a human arm and leg. As Kim opened her moth to say something, anything, she found that all she could do was scream.
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One Week Later.
This wasn't right, the Possible family had attended two funerals in the last month. After the incident took place the government investigated what had happened and came to the conclusion that the destruction was caused by some kind of bomb. Kim had tried to get in contact with Ron's grandfather to try and find out what happened.
As Kim stood at the ceremony she spotted Ron's grandfather standing across from her, but instead of looking as Ron's casket was lowered into the earth his eyes were stuck on her, looking not with anger but more with frustration and disappointment.
As the crowd started to disperse Kim was approached by Edward. As soon as she was within earshot he spoke,
"We need to talk…"
Kim nodded and followed him out of the cemetery towards Edwards apartment.
After arriving at the apartment Kim noticed several Alchemy books strewn across the floor along with notes scribbled down. Kim and Edward came to the living room where they both took a seat. Edward reached to his side, picked up a photo and passed it to Kim.
It was an old photo that showed three people, one was a fully grown woman with brown hair who was kneeling down with her arms around the shoulders of two blond boys, Kim immediately recognized the blond boy on the woman's right arm.
"Hey, that's Ron!" kim said while pointing at the boy.
Edward slowly shook his head.
"No, that's me and my brother Alphonse with our mother"
Kim was shocked,
"Ron, he's the splitting image of you when you were a kid"
Edward nodded slowly.
"Yes, anyway you have to hear this… when I was ten my mother died, me and my brother attempted to bring her back with alchemy… we knew we were breaking the biggest taboo when it comes to Alchemy, life only flows in one direction and humans are not supposed to be brought back from the dead… on the day Ron disappeared I gave him one last lesson, the law of Equivalent Exchange, we cannot gain something from alchemy without giving something in return…"
Kim was listening intently as Edward was speaking, she absorbed everything he said to try and understand what went wrong.
"…remember when I first used Alchemy to show you it was real? I transmuted Coal into Gold, but in order to gain the gold I had to give up the coal, these are the basics of Equivalent exchange… you and I made the same mistake Kimberly, we both didn't respect that rule when we tried to bring back our loved ones…"
At this point Kim had to speak,
"But I did respect the rule, I had everything right, all the compounds to make up a human body down to the last smallest measurement… " Kim stopped as she noticed Edward shaking his head slowly.
"No Kimberly, you forgot something, the same thing I forgot when I tried to bring back my mother… the soul"
Kim's eyes widened as she realized what Edward meant and all of a sudden it seemed to obvious.
"You respected Equivalent Exchange to get your mothers body yes, but not to bring back her soul and anchor it to the body… nothing is equivalent enough to give up for a human soul so the Transmutation tried to compensate by taking another living thing to exchange for the one you were bringing back"
Edward said as he stood up, Edward slowly took off his jacket and rolled back the sleeve of his shirt and what Kim saw made her gasp. Edward entire right arm was mechanical.
"… when I tried to bring back my mother, my brother's entire body was destroyed and I lost my right arm and left leg… this is the price of Human Transmutation, this is the punishment of people who don't respect the law of equivalent exchange." Edward finished as he watched Kim fall from her chair and start crying.
In trying to bring back her mother, Kim had lost Ron.
Edward left one thing out of his story because he didn't want to get Kim's hopes up. If Ron did become exchange to bring back the dead, then his body was taken to the other side of the gate… Ron could very well still be alive in the other world. Of course time passed differently between the two worlds, even though Edward had lived for decades on this side of the gate… only a couple of years would have passed in the world Ron was now in.
To Be Continued…
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whew, well thats the groundwork for the story. Please review and tell me what you think of the story, it helps me update faster.
the next chapter will have more action in it, and will show what happen's when Ron goes to the other side of the gate.
