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Quantum Alchemy

"Wake up, wake up. Oh god I hope you're not dead." Wyatt Moore awoke from his sedation to find himself in a dimly lit room. The walls were grey and made of stone, the floor as well, and there were bars as well, as though they were in a prison. "Oh thank god you're alive." He heard a feminine voice say

"What is this place?" he asked. He looked towards his cellmate, it was too dark to make out her features except she had jet black hair, and was dressed like she was headed out. "Who are you? And do you remember getting here?" he asked her.

"My name is Karen Baldwin, and all I remember was someone putting a cloth on my face and then passing out."

"Same here." They both looked and searched the cell, but found nothing. "Why are we here exactly?" and in response, a stream of blinding blue light and sparks filled the room. Wyatt looked and notices that it coming from the ground, and it was drawn in the shape of a transmutation circle. "What is this?" but then he felt himself getting weaker, thinner, as though he was having the life sucked out of him until he and Karin had become nothing but dust.

Central City, Amestris, 1935, the roof of Central College.

"Is it going to work this time?" Eva Elric asked her childhood friend and constant companion Jonah Mason.

"It has to work. This is my third time skipping class."

"And my first time." Eva told him anxiously checking the door to the roof.

"Well when we perfect this time travel equation, we're not going to have to worry about it." Jonah said in complete confidence. After months of research, along with trial and error, this attempt is sure to work. His heart racing, Jonah placed the test statue on the transmutation circle. If all goes well, it should reappear several minutes later. "Ready Eva?"

"Ready." She told him. They both put their hands on the circle, making it glow electric blue, the statue beginning to be covered with electric current. Then smoke expelled from the statue, surrounding them both. Coughing and unable to see, they ran as far away from the circle until the smoke no longer covered them.

"Well that was a bust." Eva commented. And she knew it since this had happened all the other times. Jonah however was still not deterred.

"Okay, I think I might have missed something here." But Eva raises her hand and stopped his rambling.

"Please Jonah." She started, tired of hearing his "solution" for the tenth time.

"But Eva if I can just."

"Just what Jonah? Another rambling that supposedly corrects the mistake of the last attempt only fail as badly as the last?" she scolded in an annoyed tone.

But Jonah only looked at her, undeterred by her tirade. "But I always come so close, and there's always some-." But she cut him off yet again, her voice more calm and controlled.

"Jonah, I really don't want to keep on with this cycle." She looked at his unchanged expression. He always worked so hard for this project, to put quantum alchemy in text books everywhere, and all of it kick started by him. Jonah Mason, the man that brought Quantum Alchemy out of obscurity. But after three years, and multiple attempts, he was never deterred.

"Jonah, it's been too long, you're going to have to face it, quantum alchemy, just can't be brought out of obscurity," she snaps her fingers, "just like that. And don't think that you can deny it." Jonah listened to he, and she was right. There wasn't that much research done on quantum alchemy in the first place, so they didn't have much to work with in the first place. But it took him all this time to realize it.

"I guess you're right." He said lowering his head.

"Just put it off for a while until you know more on how to work it, and until then, concentrate on the more important things." And she was right. They had their college work to think about. "c'mon, we have to get back to class. They picked up their bags and headed to the door. "My parents gonna kill me when the Head Master tells them about this."

Jonah splashed water on his face as he got himself ready for his next class. He looked at himself in the mirror, his long tanned face slightly covered by his now wet bangs, his hair that goes to his neck all frizzled and unkempt, the way he likes it, and finally his green bloodshot eyes from hours of staying up late working on his time travel equation. He picked up his things and left the lavatory, to his next class.

Jonah sat in the class looking over his notes. Next to quantum mechanics, archeology was his most favorite subject, and today they were supposed to have a new professor coming in, but they were running late apparently, and all around the class there were conversations ensuing. But it wasn't about the new professor; in fact you didn't even need to eaves drop on any conversation to know what they were about: the disappearance of a group of students. It all started around a month ago; a group of students left one night to a party, but were never heard of again. Since then people have sent out searches, but to no avail.

"I wonder who it is?"

"Probably some old dude."

"Or some old broad."

"Do they really need to be old?" Jonah exclaimed.

"Oh lighten up J." Owen said, but Jonah just looked back at the door, but who came in was not what he or anyone else expected. Instead of a senior citizen everyone had expected, a young, beautiful, woman, probably in her late teens, possibly the same age as the students, with jet black hair going to her shoulders, blue eyes that seemed to catch the light, and a physic, that said she could take on anyone; and she had on a light gray shirt under a black trench coat, a black pencil skirt and black leggings with shoes that didn't really go with the rest of her outfit, they were black and white checkered high top shoes that read 'Converse' on its side, and it looked as though they were for running, as if she expected to be hunted down.

"Good day class." She said with an accent he's only heard a few times. "my name is professor Delany, and I shall be your teacher until further notice."

How Jonah was able to pay attention to what she said was a mystery, and it seemed to be the same case for the others, but Jonah kept his head down and concentrated on his notes.

The entire class time, Jonah had been concentrating solely on his class work, so focused that he finished before his next class was up, so he decided to pull out his quantum mechanics notes, and his alchemy text book. I might as well study up for the next experiment. He had his full attention on the text when he felt a presence come up behind him. He turned and looked in to the face of Professor Delany.

"What do you have there?" she asked him bringing him out of his trance.

"Well you see, I have been working on an obscure type of alchemy." He shows her his notes, but the reaction is not what he expected; her face became shocked, as though she couldn't believe what he had written on it. He looked and saw nothing strange about it, only the transmutation circles he drew down, but Delany looked as though they meant something deeper.

"Where did you get these?" she asked, but class ended before he could tell her.

"There's something going on with the archeology professor." Jonah told Eva and their friend Cameron. They were at a café near the campus, sitting out on the patio.

"What do you mean?" Eva asked.

"Well for one thing she looks like she could have graduated just last year, and the way she looked at my alchemy notes. It was like no one else should have known about them." He took a sip of his coffee.

"What are you going to do?" Cameron asked.

"Nothing, what she knows isn't any of my concern. Plus I have more important things to worry about." He gets up from his chair leaves his due money on the table and picks up his bag, "now if you'll excuse me, I have a test to study for." And heads back to campus.

That afternoon Jonah spent most of the day studying in his dorm room while his roommate was out on a date. When he decided he had done enough work for the day he decided to go for a walk around campus. Looking around He decided to head towards the campus bookstore to read up on some pulp fiction novels. As he passed by a statue, he sensed a presence behind him. He turned and took a fighting stance ready to go all out on whoever was trailing him. He looked around but saw no one, and then he heard his name being whispered. Let me guess, someone's behind the statue. Then Owen, his paranoid friend since their first year of college, came from behind the statue. This cannot get any more predictable. Owen walked up to him with a file under his arm, looking around as though checking if he were followed.

"Hey, Jonah," He said. "I've been digging up some dirt on Professor Delany."

Spoke too soon. And for as long as Jonah knew him, was going to drag him in to it.

"I've looked through her file, there doesn't seem to be much stuff about her, no medical records, no-."

"Owen let me stop you there." He said knowing Owens routine

"Why?" he asked raising an eyebrow in confusion.

"Because whenever there's something even slightly out of the ordinary, you blow it completely out proportion."

Offended at the comment Owen asked him when he has ever done that.

"What about the morgue that you were sure was a cult of Furor Bradley worshipers that you thought were trying to resurrect him."

"They're around dead bodies all day; you don't think they might use one as a vessel?"

"What about the bee that you were sure was following you around town to use you as its new hive."

"Well there's evolution to consider."

"And what about old lady Seamus, which I am glad I bailed out before the cops got to her house."

"Well she's been whispering about dealing drugs."

"She had Alzheimer's disease!"

"That's what she wants you to believe." But Jonah just rolled his eyes and walked away. "Jonah c'mon, I need help with this."

"No, Owen, I'm not going jeopardize myself again just because of your paranoia."

"But I."

"But nothing, good luck." He told him with a sarcastic smile.

"What if she's planning on taking over the country?"

"Then I'll haul ass over to Xing or Drachma."

"Oh you have an answer for everything don't you?"

"It's expanded a good length since meeting you."

"Ok fine. But when I save Amestris from another invasion, I won't acknowledge you."

"Fine by me." And he turned and left to the book store. When he got there he saw Eva looking over the dime novels. He waved to her and met up.

"How's today been?" she asked.

"Well Owens gone crazy again." Eva gave him a playful sympathetic look.

"I'm so sorry."

"Don't worry I made sure not to get involved this time." She gave a sigh of relief.

"Good, because I don't want a repeat of the Barry the chopper copy cat killer. Speaking of which, who was his target this time?"

"It was Professor Delany." It was Eva could do to suppress a laugh.

"He can't be serious." She said. "But there's no use fighting it." She said in acceptance.

The rest of the day was spent with them talking, reading novels, and drinking coffee. Sometime in the time frame Jonahs alchemy experiments was brought up.

"Jonah, about your Quantum Alchemy." Eva asked in a subtle tone.

"It's fine, I took your advice and took a break from it." But Eva looked as though she had some thoughts she was meaning to tell him. "What about it?"

She leaned down and pulled out a notebook from her bag. "I've been looking in to its history, and what surprised me was that its creation was... spontaneous." She said finally coming up with the word.

"What do you mean spontaneous?" he asked puzzled.

"It came out of nowhere, whenever I try to look up who created it, it comes up blank." She opened up the note book and flipped through the pages until she came to a page with a sketch of a man with curly chestnut hair, and a rather long scarf wrapped many times around his neck, and a fedora. "This man is the earliest I was able to trace it to, and even then there wasn't much information on him. All's he's known as is the Doctor."

Jonah looked over the sketch and recognized the man. "I know him, the Doctor." Then Eva's words came to him, there wasn't much on him except that he was associated with quantum alchemy. "You're right." But another realization came. "Why did you decide to help me with my experiments?"

She shrugged and said, "I just wanted to help. As a friend." But Jonah gave her a smug look.

"You felt bad for me and decided to look it up to make me feel better. Am I wrong?"

She looked at him in defeat. "Yes I felt bad for what I told you." She told him with an I'm-sorry look. Jonah got up and pulled her in a hug.

"Thanks eve, I appreciate it." She returned the hug.

They went to pay for the books and saw a notice on the back board that said

Announcement:

The dean of central college has announced a presentation of a revolutionary form of alchemy, on

5-12-35

Please come in your best dressed

"That's two month from now." Eva said. "What do you think it is?"

Then a horrifying realization came to him. Oh god what if… if." But he couldn't get himself to say it. But Eva gave him a reassuring look.

"Don't worry; hardly anyone is as interested in Quantum Alchemy as you." Relaxing from her words, they stepped out of the bookstore and said their goodbyes and headed towards their dorms.

It was already dark out so Jonah had his senses on full alert in case someone tried assaulting him. Or if incase Owen would try to bring him in to his scheme again. Halfway back to campus, he heard the light taping of footsteps following him. At first he tried out running them, and then he tried to shake them off. Then another pair and soon enough they started getting closer. What do you want with me? He thought as the steps came closer. As soon as he felt them reaching for him, he turned and grabbed his arm. The man tried a right hook, but was block and received a jab to the stomach, and a knee to the chin. He sensed another and turned to catch his kick, and gave him one of his own. The other man grabbed him from behind, but received an elbow to his side, then a round house to the head. Then he received a jab to the jaw, but blocked a second one, then a left hook, and then he delivered a kick to the groin, causing his second assailant to keel over. He studied the two hooded figures. He picked one up from his jacket and slammed him to the wall behind him.

"What do you want with me?" he demanded.

But then he felt a shock to his to his shoulder, causing his vision to blur and forcing him to retreat to a wall. Jonah looked and found a third attacker, as well as the other two coming towards him. He stood there helpless to what the men were going to do to him. I didn't think this was how I would go. Then he braced himself for the upcoming beating. But then felt a hand grab his, he looked and as surprised as he saw who it was.

"Run." Said Professor Delany, and pulled him away from the hooded figures.