A/N: There are several updates to the story that I've made. First off, the story will start after the Elric brothers and Absinthe reach Amestris. Second, Absinthe's appearance has changed to be a female version of Ed from Germany's side of the Gate. I know Ed's male double died, but that doesn't mean I can't make a female kind! Also, the Eniden family will be on the Amestris side instead of Germany. I also hope that I didn't make them too OOC. I have an in-depth knowledge of the FMA characters' personalities, so I figure that any OOC there may be, I apologize and please tell me if something seems so. Thanks.

Disclaimer: I do not in any way own Fullmetal Alchemist, its characters, or anything else pertaining to it. They are respectfully copyrighted to Hiromu Arakawa, her team, Funimation, Aniplex, etc. However, I do own my OC Absinthe Grigginger and if you dare try stealing her, editing her, put her in your own story without MY absolute permission, I will come at you like a rabid mother bear in heat. Trust me, that ain't pretty. :D

Chapter One
"Returning"

The diamond-like sparks from the transmutation slowly bounced away and faded into nothing. Steam and smoke that clung to the air crawled down the throats of all life nearby, choking and asphyxiating as it slowly mimicked the sparks and dissipated. It seemed that not a soul remained until a sudden scream of realization and shock rose out of nowhere like a siren.

The young girl that sat in the middle of the glowing, purple transmutation circle stopped shrieking as another form clasped their hand over her mouth. Shy golden eyes locked with a matching, more masculine pair that sternly kept her gaze.

"Stop. You have to be quiet," the boy said as he pulled his hand away from her. Obediently, she bit her lip and turned away from his gaze, moving her arms up to cover her bare breasts. As he came to realize his current situation was identical to hers, he blushed furiously and instinctively let his pair of human hands come to fly across his lower regions and cover himself.

"Ed... where are we?" the girl whimpered, her own blush gracing her cheeks as she turned her back to Edward and gazed at Alphonse's sleeping form just a few inches away. Lucky for all of them, he was sleeping face down with only his naked butt exposed. It would have been comical if it wasn't for all of them being naked and scared shitless.

As his name was spoken, Ed perked and looked around the girl to gaze at his brother. "We're in the Underground City," he said rather calmly as he let his eyes roam the scenery. If it hadn't been for their lack of clothes, they'd have already skirted out of here in about two seconds flat.

With a groan, the girl didn't bother asking what the Underground City was, but instead shifted slightly and hugged herself even tighter if at all possible and frowned. "... Ed?" The frightened girl craned her head to look over her shoulder at the older boy.

"What, Absinthe?"

"... I'm hungry."

A rather bored and stressed general sat in his big, black chair at his big, brown desk. An increasing pile of paperwork mockingly towered over him and with his brain power plummeting from boredom, the poor man began to actually see a sneering face in the stack. Growling to himself as he pulled his head from the brace of his hand, he reached into his pocket and commenced with drawing out a pyrotechnic glove and tugging it on... just as Riza Hawkeye strolled in.

With a demonic maroon glare that could stop a heart, she narrowed her eyes on Roy Mustang as he lifted his hand to snap at the paper and turn it into nothing but thin, black ashes.

"Don't you even dare," Riza warned calmly, all the more scarier than it would have been if she'd yelled at him. Mustang turned towards her sharply, having not even noticed that she'd entered his office.

"Don't tell me you have more paperwork," he groaned back in a smart ass reply and rolled his eyes, but reluctantly picked up his pen and returned to the work that lay on his desk or so help him the blonde sniper wouldn't just fire a few rounds through his skull right then and there.

"Touché," Hawkeye replied pleasantly, "but no, I don't. We just got a few reports from some of the employees and civilians all around Central of a mild tremor."

Roy immediately ceased his scribbling and lifted his head to face the stern blonde. "A tremor? Do you think it's from the Underground City?"

"We're investigating right now, sir, but that seems very likely."

"Gather Fuery, Havoc, Breda, Falman, and several others. We'll start our own investigation as well," Roy ordered as he stood from his chair and strode across the white floor to retrieve his black overcoat from the hanger.

Another scream shook Ed's eardrums as his younger brother awoke. Alphonse's hands tried covering every inch of exposed skin that he could while he also tried hiding behind Ed. "B-Brother! Where are we and why am I- why are we naked!?"

The older brother dared not try covering his ears, but only hissed at Al to quiet him down. With a pounding headache begging to emerge, he sighed. "The damn Gate took our clothes, so unless we do something about it, we're screwed."

Absinthe sighed as well and furrowed her brows angrily as she considered what Ed had told her about the Underground City. Hopefully this wasn't the place Edward was talking about as his home when they were all stuck back in Germany.

"Well, you said so yourself. Sitting here won't do anything, so let's get off our asses and do something," she ordered sharply, but made no move to get up.

With a shrug, Ed said, "Ladies first," and then began to snicker. Alphonse looked between Ed and Absinthe and grinned, but didn't laugh. Absinthe could swear that the hair on her arms and the back of her neck was standing on end as if she were bristling. She blushed again and made a noise of frustration.

"This isn't a time to be laughing!" Absinthe growled fervently. "We're all naked and before you know it, we'll all start to get cold."

As she spoke, the purple glow from the intricate lines of the transmutation circle grew intensely bright and the trio gasped as they shielded their eyes with their arms. Suddenly, it died with a flash and several sparkles of what was left of the glow slowly fluttered to the ground. The circle was gone.

Mustang and his troop of ten men and women ran through the deep, long expanse of buildings and streets known as the Underground City. Most of his crew was panting and out of breath, but Roy's experience in the field had provided him with ample stamina and he dashed through the huge city.

As the rest fell behind, the general slowed down but proceeded further and was the first to witness the unfathomable glow of the transmutation circle fighting for life before vanishing completely.

"What the hell?" he asked as Riza caught up to him with her gun drawn.

"This doesn't look like an earthquake at all. The last thing we need is another rip between worlds like before," Hawkeye stated as she followed the curious general with caution.

When they passed a large building and stepped into view of the transmutation circle, they were close enough to surprise the naked group that sat within.

"What the fuck?!!" Ed and Absinthe screamed in surprise and horror at the same time as they snapped their arms down again to cover themselves, but they weren't quick enough to keep the eyes of the two ahead of them from seeing their goodies.

Roy and Riza, both struck with surprise, took no concern into the fact that the others had caught up with them and were all equally shocked. Mustang was beginning to feel weak in the knees, but swallowed and tried to keep balance.

"Fullmetal...?" he asked, but he wasn't focused mainly on him, but the girl that sat nearly crying with embarrassment next to him. Her wide, golden eyes were locked on him and her body was quivering as she clutched herself tightly. With the time he'd had, he'd glimpsed at her large breasts that molded well with her form before she'd blocked them from view.

"Look away, you damn pervert!!" Ed shrieked at them and grit his teeth, feeling rather exposed as Hawkeye lowered her gun and followed Ed's order quickly. Mustang snapped out of his trance that he'd unknowingly acquired from staring at Absinthe.

Alphonse noticed the number of people that had arrived and seen him naked and the most he could do was just groan as his eyes rolled back into his head and he fainted. Absinthe tensed up and blushed madly, feeling embarrassed enough to cry.

Apprehensively, Mustang, Hawkeye, and Havoc approached to offer their coats to them. Ed and Absinthe quickly snatched them up while the unhappy Havoc was left to wrap his around the unconscious Al.

It was from that day forward that Absinthe, with the help of the Elric brothers, had escaped her war infested homeland of Germany, crossed into Amestris, and had the hottest guy she ever saw see her boobs.

A/N: I hope I didn't disappoint! I know it seems a lot short and I apologize for that. I didn't mean to make it look short, but my OpenOffice shows two text wrapped sentences on FanFiction as three or four, etc. One day I might make my sentences more detailed or longer. Sorry. :(