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Chapter 2

Prologue: I'm the Doctor

The Doctor had windswept brown hair and his green-hazel eyes shone with a madness and wonderment that had to be beyond his age. Both guards raised their weapons at the doctor man, but before they could fire, he brandished a metal, wand like instrument and pointed it at the ceiling. A buzzing noise like a thousand metal bees filled the room and the lights went out. Link felt the restrains on his wrists disappear and heard two clangs before a strong hand gripped his upper arm and dragged him backwards. It wasn't like being lead by the guard to the All-Seer or getting kidnaped by the dark figure. It was like being unexpectedly dragged to safety.

"Stop them!" The All-Seer croaked. "They must not reach the Accursed World or the universe as we know it shall end! No good can come if they escape! I have foretold a misfortune in their near future. It must be stopped! Seize them! Kill them! Do anything to prevent their escape!"

"That doesn't sound good, now does it?" The Doctor whispered to himself as he lead the two boys to the safety of his TARDIS that was parked in the elevator. The lights came on and the two armed guards raised their weapons and began shooting at them. The man, who was undoubtedly the Doctor, exclaimed nervously and pushed his two new charges in front of him and out of danger.

"What do we do?" Ed hissed quietly from next to Link, both asking for instructions and thinking out loud.

"RUN!" The Doctor shouted.

The man was a little too gleeful for being in a life or death situation. Link was terrified. Bolts of light ricocheted around the room, nearly hitting them. The Doctor pointed his glowing metal stick at the doors to the small room and buzzed it, opening the door from ten feet away revealing a blue wooden box just sitting there. The Doctor snapped his finders together, which opened the doors to the box so the he and the two boys could run in without slowing down to open them.

When they were safe inside the box, the Doctor swaggered in front of the two boys with a huge grin on his face. "Go ahead, say it." He prompted cheerfully. "I love hearing it."

"It's bigger on the inside," Link stated, not at all impressed, but it was the obvious thing to say and if the Doctor liked to hear it, Link would indulge him.

The box was indeed bigger on the inside. The interior was dark with an unnatural silver glow and a hollow glass column in the middle of the room that lead up to a spinning fixture on the ceiling. At its base was what looked like an oddly shaped table with all sorts of nobs, buttons, and levers in designs that Link had never even imagined, let alone seen before. In the back of the room were two sets of stairs, one that went up to what Link assumed were more rooms and another that went down into what looked like a closet, a wardrobe, and the lower level of the entrance room. Link just assumed the man who had saved them from the All-Seer and his scary, probably violent right hand woman was a wizard who was using some sort of powerful magic to make the blue box a portal to another dimension. Ed, on the other hand, was a man of science and numbers. For him, magic was not an option.

"It's another dimension, smashed into a small space, right?" Ed crossed his arms, trying to look unimpressed but the poorly contained smirk of wonderment betrayed him.

With a snap of his fingers, the Doctor closed the door.

"TARDIS, Time and Relative Dimensions in Space, yeah. How'd you guess?" The Doctor closed in on Ed and practically pressed his forehead against Ed's. He had to lean down a little to do so because of the height difference.

"I'm kind of a genius," Ed didn't back away, though he did straighten his back a little to seem taller. He might have also leaned on the top of his toes as well.

"I was thinking that, too," Link said quietly, wondering if he'd gone unnoticed, which wasn't unusual. "I just didn't say it out loud."

"Well, there's no other explanation. Magic just doesn't exist. And whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth," Ed said knowingly.

At this Link became confused. He lived in a world of magic. To say magic didn't exists would be like saying the sky is green, which it normally wasn't. But Link didn't vocalize his objections. Speaking didn't always end up well with him.

When the Doctor was satisfied with his staring contest with the young man, he straightened his back and looked over both boys, checking to make sure no one had gotten hurt in the mad dash to the box-that's-bigger-on-the-inside. Once he was satisfied with that, he smiled apologetically at Link and Ed before wringing his hands together and them putting them down eagerly on the table in the center of the room. He looked up at Link and Ed with the same apologetic expression painted on his face.

"I'm sorry, boys." He chuckled. "They seem to think you know me. Unless you do and we haven't met yet."

"I've never seen you before in my life," Ed said.

Link shrugged in agreement. He didn't recognize this 'Doctor' person either and he would remember someone like that. He had a very good memory, most of the time.

Ed crossed his arms and glared at the Doctor accusingly. "I can't say I ever want to see you again. It's your fault we've been kidnapped, isn't it?"

"Yeah, sorry 'bout that," the Doctor sounded genuinely sorry that he got two young boys in trouble for knowing someone they didn't know. "I suppose I should get you two back home. Where is home?"

"Amestris," Ed said.

"Hyrule," Link said over him.

"Really?" The Doctor said. "You look related. Are you sure you're from so far apart. How'd they get both of you at the same time? Hyrule and Amestris are really far apart. Extremely far apart. They're not even in the same universe most of the time. Admittedly, Hyrule moves around a bit but it's never been close to Amestris. Though Amestris is in this universe, and I might have been a little careless with the preservation of temporal and inter-dimensional barriers around here, which would make it easier for Hyrule to move to this sector. Still, Hyrule shouldn't have been near here, let alone accessible under normal circumstances. And so close to here, so close to me. I'm assuming you both got abducted relatively close to the same time. It would be impossible to get from Amestris to Hyrule in the time their records claimed they did without time travel, which I check for before hand."

"So can you get me home?" Ed confronted after he decided that the Doctor had ranted long enough. "Because I was doing something important before I GOT ABDUCTED BY ALIENS!" He raised his voice as he got progressively more impatient.

Link winced at the loud noise but the Doctor didn't notice and was staring intently at the monitor he had pulled over from his left. He didn't find the time to explain that he wasn't in Hyrule when he had been abducted and could have easily been in some small village in Amestris but in the din of the Doctor's ranting and Ed's shouting, he couldn't make his small voice heard. Ed was much too angry for the Doctor to afford paying attention to the quieter boy, lest Ed bite his head off in his distraction.

If anything could have irked Ed more, it was what the man did next. He looked down at Ed and Link and frowned like he was trying to compleat an impressively difficult mathematical equation. He reached over and patted both of their head and nodded thoughtfully.

"I said, GET ME HOME! DAMMIT!" Ed stamped his foot, making a resounding noise reverberate around the console room. He was throwing a tantrum, though Link, who had a casual and laid back personality, couldn't see why Ed was being so adamant. The Doctor would take them home in his own time, Link was sure. He felt like he was a trustworthy person.

"I'm trying to get you home!" The Doctor snapped at Ed but he didn't look him in the face. Instead, he looked away from the screen and started switching levers and twisting nobs. "That lever thingy right there, if you would." He pointed at something and Link, who was closer, pulled the little switch like he was told and the whole room lurched, sending him toppling into Ed, who managed to catch both of them and maintain an upright position.

"What are you trying to do? Kill us!" Ed snapped.

"You're so loud and impatient!" The Doctor complained. "Calm down."

"What's happening?" Link whimpered. He clutched onto Ed and his hands didn't want to let go of the older boy's bright red coat. "What's going on? Please, someone explain."

"What year is it?" The Doctor said quietly to Link. It was hard to hear over the wheezing emanating from all around them.

"1284 AFH," Link answered, confused. "After the Founding of Hyrule. It's the Era of Peace, I guess."

"Ah," the Doctor nodded knowingly. "Then there's no way they could have nabbed you from the year 1915 CE Amestris time because those two times are two thousand years apart."

"Time travel, so?" Link nodded, recognizing and grasping onto the familiar words. "That I understand. So we're in the future? I guess that's easier to grasp and I suppose very understandable."

"You understand time travel?" Ed looked down at the young boy who had a vice grip on his favorite coat. "That's ridiculous. The amount of energy that would theoretically be required to travel faster than one second per second is astronomical and that's ignoring the calculations for traveling backwards."

"And you don't believe in magic, too!" Link retorted quietly.

"Well, the understanding of the universe evolves differently wherever you go. Anyway, who are you two?" The Doctor asked when the room finally came to a halt.

"Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist!" Ed snapped like it was obvious and that the Doctor should be impressed. The Doctor nodded like he had known who Ed was the whole time and was not impressed.

"Link," Link managed to let go of Ed and gather himself.

"Link what?"

"I…" Link opened his mouth to say something but closed it just as quickly and looked down at his feet. "I'm an orphan. I don't know who my parents were, just that they died. I don't have a last name."

"Do you have a title?" The Doctor asked, not sounding too unsympathetic.

"Hero of Time, I guess," Link whispered.

"You guess?" The Doctor was suddenly doing his staring thing to Link, who gasped quietly and couldn't hold the man's gaze for more than a few seconds. "The Hero of Time, you guess? That's fantastic! Amazing! You were supposed to have died when you were ten. Why aren't you dead?"

"I never really died," Link looked confused. One look at Ed told Link that the Fullmetal Alchemist was confused, and a little jealous. "I just left Hyrule through the Lost Woods with my horse, Epona."

"Oh!" The Doctor pulled away and smacked his forehead. "Of course you did! Now I see! That's excellent! You fell through a rift in the Lost Woods and ended up…"

"In Termina," Link said. "I stopped the moon from falling." Ed looked confused again. "I stayed there for about a month. I left a few days ago through the Termina end of the Lost Woods but it didn't lead back home." The Doctor looked concerned for a second but quickly replaced it with a mask of excitement.

"And that's how you ended up in Amestris! That's also how they managed to kidnap both of you! But why you two. Two children…" Both boys indignantly protested to being called children but the Doctor ignored them "…When there are dozens, if not hundreds, of people whom I actually know. If they were going to kidnap someone to get to me then why not take Clara or Sarah Jane or Martha."

"If you're done listing your girlfriends who would have been better hostages," Ed snapped. "Why not think about the creepy old Yoda man's prophecy. It involved us specifically. Not that I believe in prophecies or whatever." Ed clarified.

"They are not girlfriends and I was just getting to that. It's still 'why you?' Why not Clara. I take her out on Wednesdays for fish and chips on Mars," He clapped his hands and rocked back and forth as if nothing was cooler than fish and chips on Mars with Clara-Who-Wasn't-His-Girlfriend. "Is there anything special about you two?"

"I'm a state Alchemist," Ed snapped. "I'm pretty much extremely important."

"I'm nothing special really," Link looked down at his feet again. Though the future and time travel were okay by him, it was still a little much to wrap his head around.

"Of course you are, everyone's special," the Doctor pulled Link into a hug, causing Link to reach for a small hidden blade on his belt. It took him a moment to realize that it was hug and not a strangle hold. "Especially you."

"What about me?"

"What about you?" The Doctor asked. "No really." The Doctor pulled out his metal wand thing and metal bee buzzed Ed up and down, then did the same to Link. "Anything inter-dimensional for you, Edward?"

"Ed," The blond corrected. "And that's none of your business."

"You've done something stupid and you repeated it more than once," the Doctor deduced. "What did you do to loose those limbs, Edward." Link gave Ed a startled look. It was not obvious at first glance that Ed was missing limbs, or second or third, for that matter. He seemed whole to Link.

"None of your damn business, old man," Ed snarled.

"More than twice, even. Why? What would drive you to risk losing body parts multiple times. Humans are normally so self-preserving. What was so important you would go through that four times?"

"My little brother," Ed's angry words were so quiet Link almost didn't know what he had said. "I made a mistake and I fixed it. So it's none of your damn business."

"Even if it isn't," the Doctor said. "That's what made them think you had traveled with me. It was the third time that made you stand out. Only someone like me'd be stupid enough to do something like that. Especially if it was for someone else. And Link is an experienced time traveler, though I condone your methods of redoing."

"But I needed way more than three days to wake up four giants and stop a crazy mask!" Link protested, not noticing the confused look on the Doctor's face. "And it's not my fault. Princess Zelda wanted me to have the chance to relive the childhood I lost. She wasn't very wise for a Hero of Wisdom. It's impossible go back to being a child after everything that happened." Link's voice got progressively quieter and quieter as he explained what had happened. "Especially when you're going back to being the homeless orphan whom no one cares about. At least when I was sixteen everyone respected me." Link looked up, ashamed of his angry words. "But it's the thought that counts and I'm grateful!" He stated. Ed snorted with amusement, earning a short lived glare.

"You're really naïve," Ed laughed. "Are you sure you aren't reliving your childhood? Because you're pretty childish."

"I am not!" Link shouted as his face flushed. "I'm manly."

"You're adorable," Ed corrected. Link couldn't help but smile because he knew perfectly well he was far from manly. Especially at his age and scrawniness. He was more of a munchkin than a big manly man.

"Well," the Doctor, who hadn't lost his own childish grin the whole time, once again waved his hands about his head and started. "If you two are done bickering, I've got to get you both home. Preferably in one piece. Well, whatever pieces are left, in Edward's case."

"It's just Ed," Ed snapped. "And I find that offensive."

By now, both Link and Ed learned to grab onto the railings as the Doctor started spinning things and pulling levers, moving his TARDIS to one of their homes.

"Amestris, year 1916. Sorry about the small jump, but I didn't want to overlap your…" The Doctor walked over to the TARDIS doors but when he flung the doors open he immediately stopped talking and walking. "That's not right." He muttered. Quickly, he ran back to the middle of the room and once more started to look at the panel. Outside the door was empty space.

"What's wrong?" Ed asked. "What is it? Tell me, dammit!"

"Amestris is gone," the Doctor said. "Just vanished. Poof! Never existed."

"EXCUSE ME!" Ed shouted. "What do you mean IT'S VANISHED! Planets don't just vanish over a course of a few months!"

"It's not a matter of months, Edward," the Doctor said. Ed corrected him once more but he ignored him once more as well. "But a matter of it never having existed in the first place."

"If my planet's gone," Ed said, slowly and angrily. "Then how am I here?"

"Because when the anomaly happened, you were on the TARDIS and that protected you. Think food preservative, but it's nothing like that."

"So where is it‽" Ed snapped. "What happened?"

"I don't know," the Doctor said. "But I think something's eating planets and Amestris was on it's menu."

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