Chapter 2

After twenty minutes of continuous jogging (which was much easier on Ed's boot.) they stood before a window. 15' by 15' it stood with no frame, a glare from some mysterious light source prevented it from being transparent. Havoc walk around the back while Ed and Mustang examined it more carefully. Ed tapped on it with his right arm and it made a small sound not unlike that of a large church bell.

"Well that's not the sound glass usually makes," Mustang commented "and glass usually doesn't let wind pass through." He motioned to Ed's hair which swayed gently in the breeze. Ed shifted his coat to cover his braid, while giving his colonel another sour look.

"H-hey!" Havoc's voice sounded from somewhere distant "I can't find anything here!" he was sounding stressed and distant.

Hawkeye followed his footsteps but stopped short and retreated from just behind the window. The glare prevented the alchemists from seeing either of them through it.

"There you are!" Havoc exclaimed. Footsteps echoed and within a few minutes Havoc was panting against the near side of the window.

"It's totally empty back there," he tried to explain "the windows here on this side but on the other side it's empty. It's just not there. There's a whole new span of nothing where it should be. I got lost in it, and then I had to run back at normal speed to where I saw where Hawkeye was."

"He did walk at normal speed coming back." Hawkeye said "maybe it only works if we're walking towards the wall"

"Window," Havoc corrected "the thing on the other side's just too bright to see and walls aren't made of glass."

"Neither is this," Al said "glass doesn't sound like that."

"And none of us can transmute it" Ed finished.

"Well I'm pretty sure," Havoc continued "that I 'skipped' over there. I only took a few steps and had to run back. I couldn't tell I was doing it though, there's no wind on that side."

"What the hell's up with this 'window' anyway?" Ed demanded "I just wanna get out of here!" he punched the wall, full force, with his right arm. A loud, deep sound echoed from the impact. It shook them as it vibrated out. Oddly, the sound didn't dissipate; it just went on and on. They covered their ears to defend themselves from the continuous ringing. Slowly, from behind the deep sound, came a high pitched noise, almost like that of an electronic ring (mosquito/ teen buzz) and began over taking the deep sound.

Mustang yelled to Ed but was drowned out. In an instant all noise ceased except a faint cracking sound that had been underneath the others. Whatever was on the other side of the window cracked and chipped, but when they examined it a face on the other side examining the crack as well.

Edward Elric stood staring at a crack not ten feet from the Ed that was trapped with the rest of them in this black abyss. But he couldn't see them.

"What happened?" Al's voiced gently from behind him.

"I'm not sure," the window glazed and frosted quickly and, instead, showed the room as if the window wall in the house the other Elric boys occupied.

"Walls don't just brake for no reason," Al continued.

"Yeah, I know," his brother admitted "but it wasn't me!" Mustang turned to the real Elric boys. They stood in shock.

"They're us," Ed began, he stammered but nothing else came.

"They're you," Mustang confirmed.

"Yeah, but, not" Al explained "Ed has his limbs and I have..." the Ed and Al on the other side of the window did have all their bodies back. They looked different to, other than that, but Mustang couldn't tell how.

"Maybe it's your future," Havoc tried to calm the boys down "it could be, right?" Ed shook: no.

"We're the same age," he explained "but our bodies are different. It's like we never tried to..." he left it hanging.

"Maybe we should get some sleep." Hawkeye suggested. The window darkened as if to second her point. Ed was positive he'd never get to sleep. After all he'd been through alot an seing hinself ws kinda wird hw anyn expla...

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AN: words slur when you fall asleep.