Hello readers! This story follows no plan that I've been thinking of. I'm just writing off the top of my head. This is my first fanfic ever. WARNING: this story will contain yaoi of the RoyxEd nature. For now, the rating will be T for language, but may be upped to M for possible lemons later on. If you don't like the pairing, then you shouldn't be reading it, so please, no flames for the pairing choice. Anyway, onto the story!

Oops! Forgot to mention. This is placed after the movie except Roy doesn't have the eye patch. I just don't feel like giving him one, so…..I won't.

Disclaimer: I don't own Fullmetal. If I did, there would be a lot more yaoi, Rose and Dante would be murdered unmercifully, Envy would be a bigger part of the series, the Homunculus would all be alive, and Ed would probably have a new boyfriend every few episodes….same with Envy.

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Never Again

Chapter 1: So, we meet again

Roy Mustang, the Flame Alchemist, was sitting at his desk. He was making paper airplanes, throwing them, and setting them on fi- I MEAN!!!...doing paperwork….sure, we'll go with that. As Roy was doing his "paperwork", he heard a knock on his office door. Thinking that it was Hawkeye,–and fearing for his life if it was- Roy grabbed a random paper from the many stacks of work on his cluttered desk.

"Ahem...Come in," Roy said calmly as he grabbed a pen from the drawer. His fear had been confirmed, it was Riza. She walked up to him, looked around, and looked at the paper on Roy's desk.

"You were blowing up paper airplanes again, weren't you?" Riza said as she pulled out her gun. Roy flinched. He had thought that he had put up a flawless performance. He looked up at her innocently.

"What makes you think that?" he said, slightly pouting, as though he was offended that she would think such a thing.

"Well, the ashes on the ground brought me to the conclusion, but what really tipped me off was the fact that you're signing a menu from the restaurant down the street." Roy face faulted. "Most likely, you heard me coming, and fearing for your life from my gun, grabbed the first piece of paper that you could find. Unfortunately for you, that was this menu." When Riza knew something, she knew ALL the details. No one had figured out how she did that. "Either way," she said, pocketing her gun but still holding it, almost endearingly," the Fuhrer wishes to see you. He said that you will find him in the meeting room."

"What does that creature want with my life now?!?" Roy screamed, putting his hands to his head, "I killed the bastard once! If I have to do it again, I'm gonna make sure that he doesn't come back!" Riza laughed slightly. She had heard about the taisa's(1) fight with Pride. The Homunculus were all still alive

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When Ed and Al had gone back through the gate, and it had been closed for good, the Homunculus all came back to life. They were kind of human, but kind of not. They had all of the memories from when they had been human but also the one's from being Homunculus. They all still had the Ouroboros symbol where they had it originally, but they also had the Alchemy symbol of a snake wrapped around a cross. The cross symbol was on the opposite of the Ouroboros. Pride's was on his right eye. It was on the back of it though so he could still see. Wrath also had his own arm and leg. His cross was on his right foot. Lust had hers on the back of her neck. Sloth had it on her right breast. Envy's was on the back of his right leg. Gluttony had his on the underside of his tongue. He had also lost quite a bit of weight. He also got taller, but not much. Greed had his on his right hand. Greed was also accepted into the group somewhat. Envy still wanted to kill a few people, but he was in anger management. Gluttony was in a diet program and was a member at a gym. Scar was also alive and was currently living with Lust. Wrath was living with Envy, and no, not like that…usually.shifty eyes Pride was still Fuhrer at the military –much to Roy's displeasure- and was forgiven for all the problems caused as a Homunculus. Sloth was also given her job back. She was now referred to as Sloth and also as Trisha Elric. With the alchemic cross, the Homunculus now had the power to use alchemy. Since they had all seen the gate at least once, they could just use the handclap. The Homunculus still had their powers too, though they didn't use them for evil…usually. There were still a few odd cases about normally calm, quiet people doing crazy things. Then when questioned about it later, had no idea what people were talking about. At most of these scenes, something a palm tree could be seen laughing and jumping off through the trees and mountains. Either way, the Homunculus were trying to be good. Anyway, back to Roy and Riza's conversation.

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"In any case, you best not keep the Fuhrer waiting."

"I'll keep him waiting as long as the hell I want!" Riza sighed. Roy was still extremely upset about what the Homunculus had dome to a certain blonde chibi. They hadn't heard from Ed or Al since they had gone back to destroy the gate, and that had been three years ago. No one knew what they had been doing all of this time or if they were even alive anymore. All that they had was their hope which kept burning, trying to guide the brothers home.

"Really, taisa. You shouldn't keep him waiting. It may be important." Riza was starting to get annoyed at Roy's antics. She placed her hand on her gun handle. Roy saw this and immediately flinched.

"Fine, I'll go see the damned 'Fuhrer'," Roy said using the term loosely. Roy hated Pride

and didn't believe that he should have a name as powerful as Fuhrer. Roy had several

names to substitute his true titles. Roy's current favorite was: 'You bastard that tried to kill one of my subordinates after using him without any sense of regret'. Roy had similar names for the rest of the Homunculus.Although he was not sure whether to call Envy a bastard or a bitch Roy stormed out of his office as Riza stepped out behind him, closing the door. Why did she get stuck babysitting him all of the time? Oh right. Anyone else would get him so mad that he would set them on fire after five seconds. The taisa sure could be stubborn sometimes.

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Roy stalked down the halls, mumbling obscenities as he went. He reached the meeting room's door and slammed it open. Pride and Sloth looked up at him expectantly, waiting for him to speak. Lucky for them, they didn't have to wait long.

"What the hell do you two want?" Roy said, "What more do you want from me?"

"Calm down taisa," Pride said, laughing, "We have some good news."

"Anything you have shouldn't concern me. I'm leaving." Roy grumbled, while turning to leave.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you, taisa." A voice from the shadows stated. Roy, for the first time since entering the room, noticed the stranger. Roy turned in confusion to face the person, only to stagger back from shock. Standing not less than a foot in front of him, was Edward Elric. He had grown a considerable amount and was now about 5' 7". His hair was also longer and about to the lower part of his back, hanging in a loose ponytail. He still looked a bit childish tough, especially for being 21 at the time. Roy could do nothing but stare as the blonde in front of him smirked.

"I know I look good, Mustang, but you don't have to stare," Ed laughed, jokingly. Then, Ed was the one to be surprised as Roy pulled him into a hug. No one had even noticed that the Homunculi had left.

"Where have you been, Hagane no?(2) Did you think that I haven't worried and regretted letting you leave like that to sacrifice you and your brother, to close the gate? I can't believe that I let you do that." Roy let all of the pain and regret that he'd been hold in for those three years out.

"T-Taisa…" Roy released his hold on Ed but kept his hands an the boy's shoulders.

"No, Fullmetal. You two had sacrificed enough. I should have gone."

"Mustang. We both know that you couldn't have left your life here." Ed stated, looking up at Roy, "Either way, we have to talk-"

"Wait a second, Hagane no. Where's Al?" Roy started panicking. Ed would NEVER leave Al somewhere alone, ESPECIALLY if they had just gotten back from the gate.

" Al is on the other side of the gate." Ed said calmly. Roy stared at him.

"WHAT!?! How could you have just left him there, all alone?!?"

"He's not alone. He's making sure that my body is fine and not having problems with the transmutations." Now Roy was VERY confused. "This body is just a large amount of scrap materials that Al and I used as raw material to create an exact replica of myself. Al taught me the technique that he uses to transfer part of his soul to another object. He's watching my body to make sure that it doesn't reject the transmutation. If it shows signs of rejection, Al is going to use an array he created to call my soul back."

"S-so, what you're saying is that you aren't really back. Then why did you come?"

"I came because we might have found a way for us to come back without opening the gate." Roy stared at him.

"How can I help?" Roy was ready to do anything possible to get them back to where they belong.

"Al and I created an array to create a new gate that can only be used once, then it closes for good. The array is extremely complicated and needs to be created at the exact place, at the exact time. We found a place in the desert here, that aligns exactly with an unused field in Germany, where we're living now. The array will start in Germany. Once the chalk we are using touches the ground, it will show up as a line for you to follow here. We have everything set up at the place and I have a copy of the array and the latitude and longitude of the place for you to go to. I can't stay any longer though, so here." Ed handed Roy the papers that he would need.

"But, Ed-" Roy started, but was cut off be a finger pressed to his lips.

"Roy," Ed started, for once, using his real name," this is the only way, and you have to trust us. I also wrote on that page, the exact time that we're going to start. So, make sure that that watch of yours is set to the second." Ed finished, fingering the chain of Roy's Alchemist watch. "I promise that we'll be back before you know it." Ed started out the door.

"Ed! Wait a minu-" Roy was cut off as he looked down and saw Ed's body on the ground slowly turning back to raw materials. Al had called Ed back and now all that Roy could do was complete the array exactly as they had told him to. Until then, he couldn't see either of them.

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(1) Taisa translates to Colonel and I will be using that since I'm lazy and don't like to type Colonel since I always spell it wrong.

(2) Hagane no means, roughly, Fullmetall. That is the true translation, or else it would mean steel. Arakwa-sensei translated it to actually be spelled, Fullmetal. I just felt like putting in the little bit about the translation. I'm going to switch around with his name a lot. Sometimes he'll be Hagane no or he could be Fullmetal. Also I could put Ed, Mr. Elric, etc.

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WOOT! First chapter is out and ready to be reviewed……….click the button. You know that you. Anyway, you have been left with a cliffy of DOOM!...okay, so I'm just exaggerating. Oh well. The next chapter will be up soon. I'm in a bit of a writing mood. It's either write or try to fix my Windows Movie Maker and work on my AMV but it's being a bitch so I don't feel like it. Oh well.

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