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"So brother, how are we going to destroy this side of the gate

"So brother, how are we going to destroy this side of the gate?" Al asked his brother once they were both safely on the other side of the gate.

"We are going set off a reaction that will destroy it, but not before we go back through." Ed replied.

Al looked at him curiously. "You can get us back through?"

"Yes." Ed lied.

"Brother! That is great news! We must hurry before they close it on the other end!" Al exclaimed.

Ed nodded, and they both set to work. There was one rocket left. It was smaller, and would only have enough power to get one person through the gate, barely. But Al didn't know that. With help from the soldiers still there, Ed and Al positioned the rocket, and set up the explosives, in a half an hour.

Before they were completely finished though, Al called out frantically to his brother. As Ed walked up to the direction his brother's voice called out from, the soldiers parted before them. Al was crouched over the cold body of his double. Ed turned his face away, and silently walked off. He could not bear to see Al dead, whether it be his brother, or the friend that was like one to him. It just reminded him of what he could of lost. What he could still lose. What he was about to lose.

"Come one Al, there isn't anything we can do for him. We have to hurry." Al took one last look at non-seeing eyes, then turned to follow his brother.

Everything was set up. The explosives were ready, and Al was positioned in the rocket, ready for his brother to join him. Al didn't completely understand how the rocket worked, but her understood, that he had to start the rocket from inside, a few seconds before Al told him to, so that the timing would be just right.

At a nod from his brother, he started the engines like he was showed to, and then Ed started the explosives, and jumped down to the first level. Al knew something wasn't right. Ed wasn't supposed to start the explosives; there wouldn't be enough time. He tried to open the door and jump out of the rocket, but it was locked on the outside. I won't start the rocket, he thought, I won't let this happen after all we have been through. But he realized he had no idea how to stop the launch. And that it could be controlled outside. Ed was going to send him back.

He unbuckled the belt that would have strapped him in. "NO! Brother No! Ed! You can't do this! Stop! Please! Please Ed. Please! Don't do this! Don't Ed!" Al screamed as loud as he could, as hard as he could. Ed just stood there staring at him. Tears streamed down Al's cheeks as he begged his brother to stop. Ed picked up a small box with a cord connecting it to the control center, and motioned for him to do the same. Al searched for the box, and found it.

Ed's voice came through it. "To talk to me, press the button on the left. I am sorry brother. Only one of us can fit. You deserve to go back. After all we have been through. After all that happened to you, because of me, and all of my selfish ideas, you deserve to be with the ones we loved over there. You, need to go back."

"Brother! All I want to do is be with you! Don't take away the only thing I want!" Al pleaded.

"Al promise me something?" Ed asked quietly.

Al looked over at his brother while he talked. Quiet tears were flowing freely down his face. Ed never broke eye contact with him. "No. No Brother."

"I need you to promise, that you will never forget me." Ed said quietly. "Never forget what happened."

"No. No. NO! Brother, please it doesn't have to be like this." Al cried as he spoke.

"Tell Winrey," Ed paused, "Tell her that I am sorry. I won't forget her, her grandmother, or everything she has done for us. For me. Can you tell Mustang something too? Thank him. If not for him, nothing would have happened. Tell him that although I have always acted as though I hated him, that he is an honorable man, and that he will always have my respect. Please do that for me." Ed asked.

"Ed you can't do this. You can't. You can't." Al just kept repeating that sentence over and over again. "You can't."

"Al?"

"Brother."

"Have a good life ok? You take care of yourself." Ed said solemnly

Al just stared at him, unbelievingly, "You bastard! You can't do this. This isn't your choice! It is ours! You stop it now!" Al yelled into the radio as he cried uncontrollably.

"I'm sorry. Please find it yourself to one day forgive me. Don't try to come back through. This end will be closed. You will die. Don't try. Just live your life, and I will do the same. I will still be with you. In your memories. In your actions. And you will be with me too."

Ed put down the radio and buried his hands into his face for a moment, before he looked into his brother's shocked face. Al was shaking his head. There was a jerk as the rocket began to rise, slowly, then quickly. Ed watched his brother, the whole way up, and Al's face watched back, both of them shaking with tears. The rocket tip touched the middle of the gate, then the rest seemed to melt into the stone ceiling. Ed watched until it was completely gone, the mouthed the words "Goodbye Al," before the bombs went off, and the gate was destroyed for good.

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