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"Bring the boy here." He ordered Envy.

"What! But, I just told you, he's dead--"

"Did you not understand my orders? Bring his body!"

"Y-yes, Father..."

"Everybody... Welcome your new brother, Pride." 'Father' said, and a boy with blond hair and elaborate tattoos all over his body stepped forward.

"Pride..." he said, as an introduction. Envy stared in bewilderment. He looked exactly like Edward, but his eyes were dull; without the same spark of flame that used to inhabit them. His hair was down, and he did not have the trademark black outfit and red coat Ed always wore. It just didn't look right. But then again, this wasn't Edward. It was Pride, the new homunculus...

"Havoc! Have they found Alphonse and the Colonel yet?" Riza Hawkeye asked, a tired, weary look on her face. After Roy and Al had broken into the Fuhrer's office to try to rescue Ed from whichever villain had captured him, they didn't come back for many hours, so Riza had organized some of Roy's staff to help find them.

"No luck yet, Hawkeye..." Havoc replied, taking a breath of his cigarette to relieve some of the stress from searching all day. "We've been searching for ages; where the hell are they? What's happened?"

"I don't know, Havoc... I really hope that... I hope they're okay..." Riza chewed on her lip, trying to maintain her cool, calm composure, but Havoc could tell that she was at least sobbing in the inside. Her heart wasn't going to be able to take anymore bad news.

"Well, I'm sure they'll turn up!! I mean, this is the Colonel we're talking about; he wouldn't leave that easily... right?" Havoc said in an attempt to comfort Riza. She smiled sadly at the effort, but didn't seem to be cheered up at all.

"I suppose so... You've been working for a long time, Havoc. Why don't you take a break?"

Before Havoc could answer, a soldier ran up to them, panting.

"Lieutenant Hawkeye!! We... We found them!!" the soldier reported after saluting.

"Wh-what?! Really?!" Havoc cried, eyes lighting up.

"Yes!! But... Well, the Colonel is alright, although he's very badly injured; he has a really deep gash in his side as though someone stabbed him, but the two boys... We couldn't find Major Elric, but his brother... I'm afraid he didn't make it; had a hole straight through where his heart was..."

Riza had been standing stiff, as though frozen, since the soldier had come, but when he finished reporting, she let her shoulders sag as she finally began to cry. She was happy... so happy that Roy was alive, yet devastated that Alphonse was gone... And Edward... Ed was still missing; he could be dead as well, but that would've made all their efforts in vain.

"Where... Where is Roy?" Riza asked, wanting to see with her own eyes how badly he was hurt.

"He's being rushed to the hospital as we speak."

"Hi, Pride!!" Gluttony stumbled over to Pride and stuck a finger in his mouth in wonder. "You look a lot like the Fullmetal boy!"

"Full...metal? What... is.. that?" Pride asked, eyes blank and face expressionless.

"Gluttony!! You fat idiot, Father told you not to say anything to Pride that might make him remember who he was!!" Envy scolded Gluttony, whacking him on the head.

Pride stared at the two homunculi squabbling, and seemed to just zone out for a while. Then his dull gold eyes widened a bit.

"I... am.. your brother? ... Am I... older..?" Pride asked, his sentences were slightly detached. Envy paused in the middle of trying to see what would happen if he punched Gluttony in the stomach (A/N: I mean, seriously, would his fist sink? Or would it bounce off harmlessly?)

"Uh... You're younger. You're the youngest now, out of all of us." Envy said, careful not to reveal anything about the fact that Ed indeed used to be an older brother to Alphonse.

"Really...? But... I ... felt like I ... was.. older... Like an... older... brother..." Pride seemed a bit confused.

"Nope!! No, you're younger!! No doubt about it!!" Envy insisted, hoping that Pride wouldn't remember anything.

Suddenly, Lust burst into the room, long lance-like fingers extended and covered with blood.

"They've found the Flame Alchemist!! Apparently, he was still alive, but after Envy stabbed him, I moved him outside of the laboratory, so I doubt that they'll find us." Lust said, walking towards 'Father'. "I killed a few soldiers just for good measure, however..."

"Welcome back, Lust!!" Gluttony raised his hands in a 'yay!!' position and waddled over to her. Lust retracted her lance-like fingers and patted Gluttony's bald head.

"Colonel, hang in there! You'll be okay... Everything will be alright..."

"Hawkeye... Alphonse, he..."

"Shh... I know, Roy... I know..." Riza shushed Roy as he lay in pain on his hospital bed, fighting to stay awake. Riza had rushed to the hospital immediately, and had collapsed at Roy's bedside in tears.

"And we couldn't... we didn't bring Ed back... actually... Riza, something horrible has happened..." Roy muttered, staring down at the sheets covering him. Riza nodded, to indicate she was listening. "Well, once that homunculus, Envy, I believe, stabbed me, they probably thought I was dead, since I was unconscious, and lost a lot of blood, too, and even I am amazed that I survived. Anyway, Edward... When he saw that Alphonse was... dead, and he thought that I had died too, I think something in him just snapped and he committed suicide... He actually tore out his own throat using his automail hand, Riza..."

Riza stared in shock as she digested Roy's words... That meant that Edward had died, and Alphonse had died in vain... And Roy's injuries were for nothing... Weren't the boys always saying something about Equivalent Exchange in alchemy? Then where was the Equivalent Exchange? What did they gain from all these hardships?

"But that's not all, Riza... A man, probably the leader of the homunculi, since they all called him 'Father", took Ed's body, and turned him into a homunculus!!" Roy said the last few words with much emphasis, but it hurt because of the wound in his side, so he slumped further into his bed. He covered his eyes with his hand and sighed. "So now Ed's a homunculus... And the Fuhrer... Fuhrer Bradley is a homunculus as well."

Riza could only sit silently in shock as she listened to Roy tell her what happened. She had so many things to process, but one thing she was absolutely sure of was that they were not going to have any more peaceful days in the military office...

Ok, sorry people, but I've got to end the chapter here, since I've run out of ideas... I actually had a wonderful plotline planned out for this story, but when I started writing it, it just didn't seem right. If you have any ideas for this story, I'll gladly welcome them. I want to have Pride encounter Roy and get his memory back, but I don't know how they should do so... help!