Ed groaned in pain as he sat up. The whole courtyard had been demolished, everyone was covered in rubble and wounds and Hohenheim...his father...was blocking Ed from the attack?! He looked straight into his son's eyes. "If it weren't for the fact you are wearing my son's face, Pride, I wouldn't have spared you."
Suddenly, Father loomed over him and swatted him away. "Now, before I was interrupted, your stone." Red electricity crackled and Ed suddenly felt all the air leave his body. No, his soul was! His and Pride's!
A gunfire stopped Father from finishing him off. Soldiers from Briggs and Central surrounded the area. "Your target is the man with the long blonde hair," a commander ordered. "Do NOT shoot Fullmetal by mistake!" The soldiers aimed all their weaponry and pointed them straight at Father. "FIRE!" Ed scrambled to get out of the line of fire while the soldiers proceeded to fire upon Father.
"Foolish humans," Pride grumbled, taking over Ed's mind. "That won't stop him."
Suddenly, a flash of fire blasted toward Father, missing him. Pride turned to see the blind Roy Mustang with Riza Hawkeye and Alex Armstrong. "How was I?" Mustang asked.
"You were off about a quarter inch," Hawkeye said.
"Damn it," Mustang growled, clapping his hands. "This doesn't feel natural, performing alchemy by clapping."
"Don't hold back," Hawkeye said. "He's fifty...no, fifty-three meters away!"
"I can't transmutate that well this way." Mustang complained. Still, he snapped his fingers, sparking more flames. This time, he got his aim right, but Father blocked it with his force field. Then he blasted the flames back at Mustang and Hawkeye. "Incoming attack on the front," Hawkeye warned. Mustang clapped his hands together and pressed them onto the floor, creating a wall of stone.
"Don't stop attacking," Armstrong ordered the soldiers. "Make him keep using his Philosopher's Stone until he runs out of energy!" He punched the ground, making a pillar of stone. Then he punched the pillar, making it fire projectiles at Father.
In the background, Pride watched as the soldiers, the alchemists, the Xingese bodyguard and the chimeras attacked Father all at once. Nothing even touched him. "I knew it was a waste of time," he said.
Suddenly, Greed lunged at Father. "Human attacks may not work on you, but how about one from a homunculus?!" He punched Father, only to get his fist absorbed, much to his shock.
"Ah, Greed," Father said. "You are just in time! What a nice son you are. Be a good boy and give me your stone!" And he began to absorb Greed into him. Greed screamed as he struggled to get out. Then he suddenly stopped and smirked. "Nice acting, huh?" Father was confused, then felt shock as he felt HIS power being drained! "You can't take away my stone without dropping your guard! Tell me something, Pops. Did you think that your Godlike powers can be taken away? But I knew. And it's all mine!" Suddenly, Father regained control of the situation and began to absorb Greed again. "Let me go!"
Meanwhile, Pride just watched. "Pathetic, Greed. This is what you get for disobeying Father."
Stop that, you idiot! Didn't you hear him before?! He basically disowned you!
"Shut up!"
He said you threw away your pride as a homunculus, which means you're not a homunculus anymore! You're a human now!
"I AM NO HUMAN!"
Gotcha.
"What?" Pride gasped as Ed regained control. "Now, let's teach your daddy what happens when he abuses his children!" He clapped his hands and transmutated a pillar of stone that fired at Father. The homunculus blocked it, but soon he eventually found himself being overwhelmed by the alchemy used by Izumi, Armstrong and Ed. It was too much. He blasted a wave of energy that sent them all flying. Even Greed was let loose. However, Ed's automail arm completely shattered all the way down to the stump. But he didn't give up. He gave Father a single punch only to be blocked by his hand. Wait, his hand?!
Father tossed Ed aside. Suddenly, he convulsed. He let out a scream as he began to swell up and the eye of God appeared in his mouth. Hohenheim knew what was happening. "He can't control the power of what he calls God anymore!"
Father screamed as a wave of energy burst from him.
(!)
Pride regained control and he felt something embedded in his left arm. The arm that remained. His arm was impaled on a rivet, leaving him incapable of moving. "Damn it."
Father stood up, his eyes were rolling and he started to look less and less like a human. "A STONE! A STONE! A PHILOSOPHER'S STONE!" He screamed this words like a wild animal. Then his eyes fell on Pride. "My son...made in my own image..." He staggered toward him. "Give it to me...NOW!"
Suddenly, an army of shadowy tentacles impaled Father and sent him flying. Pride still remained stuck, but he still had one more attack.
"Pride?" Greed questioned. "You're helping us?! Now?!"
Pride glared at him. "I don't care about you humans. I don't care if he disowns me! The only thing I care about now is my own survival!"
"STONE," roared Father as he got back up. "Give. ME. THE STONE!" He slowly walked toward Pride like a zombie, arms out stretched. Pride tried to use more of his tentacles to stop him, but to his growing fear, Father destroyed them with what little remained of his alchemy and continued walking. "Stay back," Pride cried out.
Suddenly, five kunai blades struck next to the stump where his right arm was. He turned to where Mei Chang and Alphonse were. Al's armor body was completely broken, but he somehow still had enough parts left to raise his arms and clap them. Pride's eyes widened. "Wait, is he...?!"
Al said one last thing before the armor went limp. "Brother, if you can hear me, keep going..."
Ed, regaining control again, let out a scream, "Al, NO!" Suddenly, sparks appeared where the stump was, and his flesh right arm reappeared. The arm that was sacrificed to put Al's soul in that suit of armor. Both Pride and Ed yelled at the same time, "Al, YOU DUMBASS!" Red sparks flew as Pride's regenerative abilities blasted the rivet out of his left arm and clapped his hands, transmutating a shower of pillars from the ground and sent them flying into Father. Father slowly got up. "Get up, 'Father'," Pride said with a growl. Shadowy tentacles wrapped around him before tossing him to the ground. Father groaned as he looked up at Pride. "Let us show you what a novice you are!"
