Disclaimer: I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist or Mario. I don't even really want them. Hiromu Arakawa-sensei and Nintendo are doing a fine job with them as it is.


Edward Elric was having the strangest dream. He was wearing a red shirt, blue overalls, and a red cap with a red letter "E" inside a white semicircle on the front. He seemed to be on a flying wooden ship, and as he tried to get to the back of the ship for some unknown reason, an odd mole/turtle thing wearing sunglasses popped up and started to throw wrenches at him. Ed jumped on the manhole cover-thing that was still on the offending creature's head, and alchemically welded it to the ship to prevent it from popping up again.

"What the **** is going on here?" Ed wondered aloud. His musings were cut short as three more wrench-throwing monsters popped up, but the one in the middle looked… off. None of the others had hair to speak of, but this one had a blond ponytail, and it also lacked sunglasses. It looked eerily like Winry…

"Attack, my Rocky Wrenches! This time we'll break the automail!*" said the ponytailed apparent leader.

"Eep!" Ed ducked behind a crate to avoid the ensuing barrage of flying metal projectiles of death. It didn't work very well. One passed through the crate and struck Ed right between the eyes.

"Gah!" Ed sat up, sweating with fear and swearing never to get on Winry's bad side… for at least the next week.


*This sentence could be read as "this time we'll break the automail" (because this was attempted by a Rocky Wrench already), "this time we'll break the automail" (as others usually do), or "this time we'll break the automail" (since Winry fixes it). Not that it matters, seeing as not even I know where the emphasis was intended to go… Sigh.

… I was reading FMA fics when I saw Kaa-chan playing SMB3. She was on an airship level, and the plunnies struck.

-SO