Chapter 2: Alchemy 101 (And I didn't even go to that class)

Hank, Al, and Edward were walking down the street and Hank realized that he was hungry; he hasn't eaten anything since he got teleported to this place. Hank needed to know where he is so he could find a bite to eat, "OK Ed, where are we?"

"We're in Central Amestris, where we get the alchemists to become dogs of the military," Edward answered.

"How'd you get here?" Alphonse asked Hank.

"Well, one of my friends built some sort of teleporter and I was in some sort of kiosk and there were strange symbols everywhere, all the symbols lit up as soon as the power ran through and then, I was falling forty feet in the air into a table and saw a lot of people staring at me," Hank responded. "What about you too, more specifically, why is Al here in a suit of armor, it's 31 degrees Celsius for crying out loud!

"Uh-we can't-um," Al and Edward were stammering when Hank asked the question.

"Anyway, I'm starving, should we go to that Italian Restaurant?" Hank asked while his stomach was growling. However Ed and Al looked puzzled.

"What is Italian?" They asked in unison. Hank was incredibly surprised by their reply and tried to asked again.

"Er, I mean, that spaghetti restaurant over there?"

"What is spaghetti?"

"How about that noodle shop over there, WHERE I AM POINTING!" Hank compromised in an annoyed voice.

"Yeah let's go there," Ed responded. So the three fighters went into the noodle shop and had a slightly large meal and they all exchanged stories, Ed started explaining about alchemy and Hank started realizing that whatever Deimos had made might have been alchemy enhanced with electricity. Soon Hank noticed the two people who have been following them for half an hour, "Hey, uh, Ed, do you know those two people who have been following us for the past thirty minutes."

"Who? Where?"

"That tall lady over there and that short bald overweight man who is devouring something. We might have to lose them, they don't look hospitable at all," Hank answered as he, Al, and Ed left without paying for the food. The three went to an abandoned area and Al decided to hide in one of the alleyways and Hank just picked up Ed and threw him into an abandoned building and carried Al to the same building. As they got inside Ed attempted to punch Hank in the face but was reversed and Hank tied Ed into a pretzel.

"Why didn't you just tell me to go into the abandoned building that was coincidentally right in front of us?" Ed asked while trying to untie his legs.

"I'm trying to get you guys off their list, I think they are away for now but in the meantime, we may as well take camp in this wonderful shelter, we need to go to the top floor, that could buy us some time." Hank responded.

"What are we supposed to do when we are being spied or stalked at?" Al asked.

"Wait a minute, you're right. Everybody upstairs now! They are watching us as we speak!" Hank exclaimed and decided to carry Ed in fireman's carry and ran up the stairs. Ed was incredibly annoyed while Al started laughing at the image. "By the way boys, why did you decide to allow me to join you anyway? I mean, I was some guy wondering who was in charge of the two of you and then you just decided to call me into the group." Hank asked the two boys while they were running up flight after flight of stairs.

"We needed someone who could help us out in our journey to finding the philosopher's stone. We thought you would be fit." Al replied while Ed was dead silent due to his abdomen being hit every time Hank took a step.

"Was it because I look like an assassin?" Hank asked Al.

"Yes," Al answered as the three guys made it to the top floor, Hank gave a semi-grand tour of the place.

"Well, here we are, Hank's condo with all the things you would want: great beds, bathrooms, the best furniture is Amestris and a TV with two-thousand channels!" Hank told the boys sarcastically. "We could all stay in the living room and kitchen for today, just be sure you're not cited."

"Hank, you don't need to be all stealthlike, we are going to be fine, okay?" Ed responded to Hank's dry humor.

"Brother! Did you bring your chess set?" Al asked Ed.

"I sure do Al, Hank want to play some chess?"

"Sure, why not."


Somewhere in Nevada

"Hank has been gone since yesterday and we haven't found any trace of him ever since he teleported," Deimos harshly stated as he and Sanford are looking all over the lab to find and the computer still couldn't find Hank anywhere. Sanford started to check the symbols and started thinking that maybe there was a glitch in the system and might have caused Hank to still be in Nevada but it would not show where he is, "Oi, Deimos, what do you think could have caused this?"

"I don't know, I had everything calibrated and got all the cords connected, Sanford! Do you think you should check through teleportation?" Deimos asked while searching for any wires that might have been unplugged.

"Sure, I might find him; just use the same coordinates, okay?

"Gotcha Sanford!" Deimos yelled. "Just get inside that kiosk and tell me when you're ready!" Deimos cried as he was setting all the coordinates and power. Sanford got inside the kiosk and gave Deimos a thumb up and Deimos hit the switch and Sanford's feet felt warm, soon there was a bright light and Sanford disappeared, but reappeared at the pad in the opposite side of the room. And sure enough, his location was marked on the computer. "What, How? WHY?!" Deimos screamed in disbelief.

"What could have caused Hank to not appear on the screen?" Sanford asked as he picked up his whiskey and started drinking again.

"Wait, I've got it! I set the teleporter to transport organic matter but I forgot to tell Hank to remove his weapons, in which caused the machine to go haywire and the rare metal material his sword is made of must have amplified the strength of the teleportational process and caused him to go to maybe another dimension," Deimos said excitedly. "We just need more of that material and we find-"

"You really read too many comic books Deimos," Sanford interrupted as he takes another sip of his beverage. "Where could we find whatever is the material that Hank's sword is made out of?"

"I don't know but wait, I do know, all we have to do is find the person who gave Hank his sword so we could find the manufacturers and get the material so we can get Hank and we could build a two way teleporter to wherever he is," Deimos answered gleefully.


Back in Amestris

After about twelve games of chess, it was night time; Ed and Al were asleep in their beds while Hank was covering all the windows. After that, Hank decided to go to sleep. He started putting all his weapons on the side, his dual five-sevens and his Dragon Sword. He went to his bed and fell asleep after half an hour of staring into his fob watch.

This time in his dream, he saw two kids, one of them looked like Ed, and the other had short hair and was slightly shorter. Hank saw a pile of random resources and saw them cut their forefingers and allow the blood to fall into the pile. He then noticed that there was a strange symbol on the floor around the pile and the two kids started the alchemic reaction. After four seconds, Hank saw the shorter one get consumed by a bright light and noticed the other one lost his leg and was yelling for his brother. Soon Hank noticed that the pile of resources was turned into a humanlike creature, incomplete and dying. He saw Ed grab a suit of armor and put a seal on the inside and kept screaming, asking for his brother. Ed soon lost his arm and the armor started moving and talking. All Hank could do was ponder, "So that is what these two have done, was I given this ability to find other people's sins and sorrows? Why are the Higher Power always so fucking vague and cryptic."