On the Other Side of the Universe

Name: Alexandria (Alex) Monroe

Age: 7

Hair: Onyx

Eyes: Sea green

Prologue

Hohenheim was walking through the smoldering rot of the city of Gremmich. Dead bodies were everywhere, a woman was screaming for him to help her dying son. He turned to her.

Hohenheim: I'm sorry but your son is already dead.

He saw a boy about as old as Edward. He had dried blood and tearstains covering his face. The boy looked so much like Edward he had to shake off his feeling of dread. Edward was safe with Trisha in Resembool. So was Alphonse. He shuffled on. A girl was running from the monster that he had created, Envy. She tripped and hit her head on a rock. Blood poured freely. Envy was laughing insanely enjoying this all. Hohenheim pulled out a bone and threw it at the homunculus.

Hohenheim: Leave. Now.

The woman was unconscious but still alive. Hohenheim saw a baby in her arms. He took the baby and saw the tuft of black hair protruding from its head. The woman jerked up and looked around wildly.

Hohenheim: Oh, you're awake? I'm sorry, here's your baby. It seems to be all right.

Girl: That's not my baby, that's my little sister. I'm Kara and she's Alex.

Hohenheim took a step back. Now that he really looked the girl looked way too young to be a mother. She looked about 10. He extended his hand.

Hohenheim: Come, I was jut on my way back to Resembool. Maybe you could stay with my family and me for a while. Until you find a safer place to live.

Kara: thank you . . . .

Hohenheim: Hohenheim Elric . . .

Kara: Hohenheim.

Hohenheim caught the train back to Resembool with the two girls. Alex proved to be a calm and relaxed baby. She only cried once after the train jolted to a rough stop, only for a second. Soon they were in front of his house, Trisha was standing outside with Alphonse at her hip and Edward howling from his playpen outside. Alphonse grinned and his pacifier fell from his mouth as he his arms flailed wildly.

Alphonse: Dada!

Edward quieted down and climbed out of the playpen toddling towards Hohenheim.

Trisha: Hohenheim! We've been so worried are you ok?

Hohenheim: I'm fine Trisha, is it all right if these girls stay with us for a little while? Until we can get a house built?

Trisha: Yes umm we have a spare room in the back and . . .

Trisha looked over at baby Alex. She smiled softly.

Trisha: She can sleep in Al's crib.

Kara: Thank you so much for your hospitality. . I will repay you in anyway I can.

Trisha: Don't worry about it. I have children too, I'm sure your mother would want as much help for you in your situation as I would for mine.

2 and a half years later

Kara looked on the horizon. It had been two years since Hohenheim had left. Trisha had been a wreck; surely a man who would save two kids off of the streets couldn't have been so awful as to leave his wife and kids?

Alex: Twisha!!! Help! Ed is being mean!!!

Ed had locked Alphonse and Alex in a chest in Hohenheim's study. The three-year-olds were screaming for help. Trisha ran over to Ed. She was almost in a panic. The key to the chest had been lost for two years.

Trisha: Ed! Honey did you realize the key to this chest is gone and they are locked in?

Ed: Good I hate them. They made Daddy go away.

Ed ran away to hide as Trisha continuously hit the chest. Al started to wail in fear. Alex was shouting for help and Kara was searching for a hairpin. She found Ed in his and Al's room. She knocked on the wall.

Ed: Go away Kara, no one likes you.

Kara: I know. Edward . . . do you realize your baby brother and Alex are probably going to die unless you tell me were you put the key?

Ed: I don't care. . . I hate them!

Kara: You don't and you know it. Remember when you fell out of the tree in front of my house and Al gave you his band-aid?

Ed: Yeah . . .

Kara: Or when Alex helped you and Al home when it was raining and you couldn't see.

Ed: Yeah . . .

Kara: So, Ed can you tell me where you put the key? So I can save them.

Alex: (in the other room) Ed! Please! We'll shawe our toys wifh you if you let us out!!! Please Ed?!?

Ed: In Mom's blue box. . .

Kara: Thanks Ed.

Two minutes later

Trisha: Are you okay Al? Alex?

Al and Alex: Yes!

Kara: Okay Alex let's go get cleaned up. Winry's coming over later.

Alex: Ed and Al can come too?

Kara: We'll see . . . Bye Trish . . .

Trisha: Bye . . .

Kara took Alex home. The Elrics stood there and waved at Alex and Kara's backs as the fourteen year old and her three-year-old sister walked away.

Kara and Alex's house

Kara was not the loving being everyone made her out to be ,in fact, Alex who was constantly dressed in a jacket to big for her and thick pants, was bruised and cut up on almost every inch of skin. Kara had very recently been accepted into the alchemist's studies in Laboratory 5 in central. She was trying to figure out the best way to ditch Alex without making the Elric's hate her in case she needed to come back. She would fake her own kidnapping. It was perfect. The scientist who was picking her up was about to drive up. If she pretended to make a scene as she was leaving. It would work. Winry wasn't really coming over, she'd had to lie to the girl to get her home. Alex was waiting on the porch for Winry and Pinako. To make the kidnapping story work Alex needed to be unconscious. Kara grabbed the lamp and. . . The girl fell on the floor. Kara wrecked the house and ran outside to the waiting car, it was all over.

7 years later

Alex was sitting on Winry's porch dressed in overalls and wearing her usual hat. Alex was going through the, I want to be just like the boys phase. She had even learned some alchemy. She had a will to be bigger and stronger than Ed and Al, it wasn't working so well, as the scabs on her knee indicated. Trisha Elric had died two years previously, of an illness she had told no one about. Alex wasn't too surprised, it was so like Al's mom to die before hurting someone. The brother's had taken it bad, well wouldn't you if your mom died? The only mom Alex had known was Trisha Elric, when she had come to her house and had found Alex on the floor bleeding, she had taken her back into her house for the second time in five years. Inside the house Pinako was teaching Winry the best way to hook up wires to create auto mail. Alex heard screaming. She got up and started instinctively running to the Elric house . . . The door was locked so she heaved herself through the boy's bedroom window. She heard Ed's voice.

Ed: Al? Alphonse? Nooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Alex: Edward?

She ran to the study and saw Ed, on the floor his arm and leg missing. He was bleeding profusely. She ran to him.

Al: Ed?

Alex turned around and screamed in terror. There was a giant suit of armor, soaring above her, she crumpled to the floor unconscious.