Kaori: MWAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA!!
Shadow: OO What the…?
Kaori: Weird things will happen in this chapter! Shaddie! Do the Disclaimer!
Shadow: Don't ever call me that again! insert sigh here Kaori does not own Fullmetal or Pokémon
Kaori: But I wish I owned THE Fullmetal…OH EDWARD! 3
Shadow: …o0 Onto the story!
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So the Elric Brothers walked upstream to the waterfall. They had no idea what to expect of Pikachu's friends. All the two knew was that they were stuck in a cage. Who knows? They could be evil masterminds for all Ed knew or they could've been demons for all Al knew.
Along the way, Edward began to complain about how long it was to the waterfall, but Pikachu and Alphonse kind of tuned his complaints out. Realizing this, Ed ranted about how no one listens to him and how he deserved more respect. Al rolled his eyes and whispered something to Pikachu. His older brother demanded that Al tell him what he said.
"I told the mouse that you have a big mouth, and may need another shock to shut it," the younger replied with a smirk.
Ed growled and pulled out a whip.
"RUN, ALPHONSE, RUN!" he yelled with an evil smirk on his face.
Pikachu took note that the whip was personalized not with Edward's name…but with the name "Indiana Jones." (1)
Alphonse ran towards the waterfall and hit the wall beside of it. Edward and Pikachu caught up just in time to see…and laughed.
"Pi pikachu!" said Pikachu pointing towards a cage hanging directly above them.
"Pikachu! You're back!" a male voice said from the cage.
"Pika pi!"
Edward and Alphonse blinked and stared up at the cage. Pikachu's friends were up there…but they had no idea how to get them down.
"Who did you get to save us, Pikachu?" a female voice asked.
"Pika? Pi! Pikachu chu pika!" it replied.
Ed decided it was time to introduce them.
"Hey captured people!" He yelled.
"So you did bring someone back with you," another male voice said.
"Yeah! Hold on we'll get you down!" called Al.
The two brothers decided to try what they do best. Alchemy.
"You going to try or me?" Ed asked.
"How about you? You're older, after all," stated Al.
Edward nodded and stood up.
"Just a second and you'll be on the ground seeing your saviors!" he declared.
Ed walked over to the wall. He clapped and touched the wall. As he had hoped, a spike came out of the wall and cut the rope that held the cage.
Said cage fell and broke apart. The three inside were sore, but happy to be out of their prison.
"Pika!" Pikachu jumped into the arms of a black-haired guy wearing a black and yellow vest with bluish pants on. He also wore a hat.
"Thanks for saving us," thanked the girl.
She was wearing a black and pink dress sort of thing…that was really short. This girl also had a hat, but a different type.
The third person was a tall man with…no eyes? Or slits for eyes. He wore a orange and black vest with a green shirt under it. He had no hat, which Alphonse thought was strange.
"It's no problem really," Ed finally replied.
"What are your names?" The black haired guy asked.
"I'm Alphonse Elric, and this is my older brother-" started the younger.
"Edward Elric," finished the older.
"I'm Ash Ketchum," said the guy, "And this is Dawn, and Brock."
"Nice to meet you, Edward, Alphonse," the girl, Dawn, said.
"Yo," Brock said.
Ash stared at Edward for a moment and asked a strange question.
"Why is your hair in a braid…like a girl?"
Ed twitched.
"Because…it's better than the hair falling in my face…" he replied.
The short-for-his-age alchemist assessed the boy in front of him.
"Why is your hair so spiky? And why are you wearing a hat?" he asked with an amused smirk.
Ash glared.
"Because it can be and because I can!"
"Peh," Ed said, "anyway, how did you guys get stuck in that cage anyway?
The three looked at each other…then at the brothers in front of them.
"Truth to tell…" started Dawn.
"We really have no idea," Brock added.
"These people just came out of nowhere and trapped us," explained Ash.
Edward looked at Alphonse and back at the three in front of him.
"What did they look like?" he asked, "I'm in the military back home…Maybe I can help."
Brock laughed nervously.
"They were wearing black suits. We couldn't see what they looked like at all," he said.
Ed crossed his arms and looked down.
"That's no good…"
"Brother…"
The older looked up and caught Pikachu's gaze.
"Pikachu…do you remember anything?" he asked.
"Pika..Pikachu pi chu pika…chu Pi ka…"
Edward looked shocked.
"What?!"
Everyone looked to see that both Ed and Ash said that at the same time.
"How do we know it wasn't you two then?!" Ash accused.
"We just got here, buddy, I've never seen you before in my life!" Ed attacked.
"What did Pikachu say?" Dawn asked.
"It said that the ones who attacked us did something like what Edward did just now!" replied Ash, "So how do we know that these two didn't attack us?!"
"But there were four of them…and none of them were as short as Edward or Alphonse…"
Something inside Ed's mind clicked.
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SHORT?!" He yelled quite loudly.
Everyone except Alphonse, who sighed, stared at Edward surprised.
"Um…he does that EVERY time someone calls him short…please excuse Ed's behavior!" Al informed them.
The other three nodded. Everyone went back to being shocked at the fact that the attackers used the same technique as Edward.
"So…the people who captured you can use Alchemy…?" the older brother asked no one in particular.
"Alchemy?" Dawn and Ash asked simultaneously.
"It's a form of magic, if you will, that people studied a long time ago. You could use it to change lead into gold, among other things," explained Brock.
He turned to the Elric Brothers.
"People in the world still study alchemy?"
Edward looked at Brock and took a deep breath.
"Maybe not in this world…but…" he said quietly, "In our own world…perhaps."
"You're…from another world?" Dawn asked with an amazed tone.
Ed and Al nodded.
"Apparently so," said the younger of the two, "None of this looks familiar…at all."
"It doesn't make any sense, Al…" Edward said holding onto his head.
"Are you ok, Edward?" his brother asked.
"I'm fine…just have a headache…Probably from all of this stuff that's going on."
Alphonse sighed.
"I'm sorry that we troubled you," he apologized.
"No need to apologize," Brock told him, "In fact…why don't you come with us?"
Ash stared in disbelief at Brock. Dawn cheered and ran over to the Brothers.
"You guys will be safe with us! We know where we're going!" she said happily.
Ed looked from Dawn, to Ash and Brock, to Alphonse. He didn't know what to do or say. Honestly, the kid was confused. He didn't know why he was here, or why the ring took he and his brother away from their home.
"I guess we have to say yes," Edward said, accepting their offer.
"HURRAY!" Dawn squealed.
Alphonse laughed, "You sound happy."
"I've never been a teacher before! And you guys are totally lost!"
Al continued to converse with Dawn about burritos and pizza as Ed watched Ash talk privately with Brock…
"Those two are no good, Brock! Why can't you see it?!" Ash quietly yelled(is that possible?) to his friend.
"They're lost and confused, Ashy Boy," replied the older guy, "We have to help."
Ash looked down.
"Besides…" Brock continued, "These two might be able to help us find the people who captured us."
"How so?"
"Ed and Al know Alchemy, and apparently so do the attackers. If we could somehow find those people, the brothers could do something about it."
Brock crossed his arms.
"It has been said that people using weird powers dressed in black have been robbing and kidnapping people," he remembered.
"Ed is wearing black…" Ash said quietly, looking back from a short staring contest with the older Elric brother, in which he lost.
"Not the same kind of black…" sighed Brock, "Besides…did our attackers wear long red coats?"
Ash sighed, "No…they didn't…"
"Just give these two a chance, Ash," Brock said as he walked back to the group.
Ash stood by himself for a moment. He watched as Brock put his hand on Edward's head, which resulted in a short rant. Pikachu looked at Ash from his perch on a tree branch.
"Pika?" it asked.
"I'm alright…just wondering what's up with that guy…" Ash replied.
Edward Elric… he thought to himself, Why does your name sound familiar to me…?
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Kaori: Oh dear! Ed's name is familiar to Ashy!
Shadow: Whoopdee do…
Kaori: No…it's Whoopdee flippin' do…
Shadow: Whatever…
Kaori: Oh and…
1: Only the person I put that in there for knows why it's in the story…:)
Shadow: Review!
Kaori: Or Ed will use the whip he stole from Indy on you!