Anne was a beautiful girl (despite the overload of freckles.) .She has red curly hair that goes down to her shoulders and bright sky blue eyes. She had a black long lacy dress under her lab coat, for she was more professional and can improvise in her most effective ways.

Riku was a little different. He has a smooth tone of brown wavy hair thats short, almost framing his beautifully constructed face. He looked almost professional, but his clothes says other wise. He had somewhat a carefree personality is always a bother.

But Russell trusted them both. They were smart ones, and everything he kept secret, they never told a soul. So now it's just them.

"...and that's what happened." Russell was done explaining.

Anne sat back in her chair and crossed her legs. "Well, we DO have some info on Human Transmutation. And doing it scientifically would not have the same rebounds you would receive if you did this with Alchemy. So this can be a walk in the park."

Riku nodded. "...only if you do it right. Although, we could give it a try. Also, even though we don't have all of the materials, we could just ask that Mustang guy you told us about to fund us for the remaining materials."

Russell smiled. He made the right decision on letting only these two remain. Then he stood up. "Ok, since we are all in agreement, I assume that you two will be here at the lab again tomorrow at 9 am sharp. Look presentable for the meeting with the General."

Riku and Anne nodded, got up, and made their way to the door. But then Riku stopped. "Um, Russell. What about your little brother's birthday party? Surely you can't miss it." Russell's eyes went wide. He forgot about that. So he waved his hands. "I'm pretty sure that we can get Edward back in two days. We're too smart, remember?" Riku smiled in agreement and then closed the door behind him. And when he did, Russell plopped down on his office chair and sighed.

What the hell am I doing?

Al slowly opened the door, not wanting to wake up his wife. But to his dismay, she was already awoke. "Al?" she said with curiosity. Al sighed and went through the door. "Ah, sorry for waking you, Winry-Chan."

"Where were you?"

Al gulped. "Aha, I just...uh." Al definitely didn't want to tell his first lie, so he told Winry everything. Winry's eyes went wide. "No. Fucking. Way!"

Al sighed again. Darn it, she was going to probably tell someone; Winry was on the right side of Justice.

"Can I come to the meeting?" She whispered. Al looks astonished. "But...you're-"

Winry interrupted by waving her hands in the air. "I don't care-well, I DO care, but still, seeing Edward again...is much more important to me - more than just some stupid cravings." Al nodded, and went over to the phone. He dialed General Mustangs number and told Roy about the plan. "Meet me with this Russell guy tomorrow at 11 am." and with that, Al went to bed along with Winry. And this time, Al's nightmares were replaced with a smiling Edward, who was soon to come home.

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"Hello" said Al in a weak voice. Who would be calling so early?

"Ah, so sorry for waking you, Alphonse. But what time is the meeting?"

Al sat up and looked over at the clock. 8:42. "Ah, I'll swing on by at 10:45 to pick you up."

"Ok, thanks."

"No, Russell, thank YOU."

There was a silent pause.

"Yeah yeah." click.

Al hung up the phone, woke up Winry, and they both got dressed. 10:23. Al drove with Winry to the Science Lab. As they pulled up, they saw Russell with two other scientists. As they got in, they introduced themselves and pulled out of the driveway and parked outside of an apartment. The got out of the car and knocked on the door that was labeled, "RM344".

The door opened to reveal Roy in proper clothing and behind him was a rather large and impressive room. They all took seats and started talking about materials, Edward, the Gate, what lies beyond the Gates, Human Transmutation, a plan, and arranged times.

"...Ok, I'll send in a budget later this afternoon. The quicker we get Edward, the quicker we can get this over with without any suspicions." Roy replied before showing everyone to the door.

Later on in the afternoon, the science lab was fairly quiet now that everyone was fired. Russell, Anne and Riku are busy mixing new materials, testing test tubes, and collecting and writing data.

After about 21 hours in the lab, finally Russell held up his clipboard.

"We can finally get started. Anne, call Alphonse Elric and General Roy Mustang over now." And I can finally see his smile. Russell's eyes went wide. Woah, where the hell did that come from...?

~~End

Sorry this was such a fast chapter...GOMENASAI! *bows*

I wrote this story years ago, and I just now found it.

And in the middle of reading it, I was like:

"I WROTE THIS?!"

Have a cookie, bros! :3