River of Memories

There are three types of people in this world, those who are good at math and those who aren't.

"Come on! You guys never tell me anything!" I was getting annoyed with Winry's constant questions. She wouldn't understand what we had to do anyway.

"Face it Winry, you have no clue what we are doing." I walked ahead with a smug look on my face.

"Yes I do, Ed! You're trying to bring your mom back! I know how it feels! My parents are dead too you know!" I freeze, then turn around and glare at her.

"How the hell do you know what we are trying to do?! How did you find out?" I glanced at Al, who was avoiding eye contact. What was he thinking? He can't tell Winry that kind of stuff!

"Al, why did you tell her?"

He blinked at me with an innocent look. "I thought it would be alright..."

"Well, it isn't. Now she wants to know exactly what we are doing! You need to come up with some way out of this mess."

"I didn't think she would believe me! We could just tell her we were joking." I glared at him. "Wait! Isn't Winry bad at math?"

I thought about it. We did have a math test in school today. Al and I got perfect scores, of course, but what about Winry? "Hey Win! How did you d on the math test today? It sure was hard!" Yeah, hard for a rock to pass maybe.(1)

"I didn't do so good. I my score was 2/10..."

Al perked up. "2/10? That isn't so bad. You still got 8 right, which is an 80%."

"No, 2/10 is how much I got right." I stared at her. Al stared at her. We looked at each other, then back at her. She was being completely serious.

Al and I burst out laughing.

"That's the funniest thing we've heard all day! You actually think you can begin to understand what we are doing if you are struggling with long division? That's hilarious, Winry you are too funny!" Ed clutched his stomach as he laughed even harder.

"For once, I agree with Ed. You wouldn't understand the first sentence of out research!" Al actually had tears streaming down his face.

The two boys fell over in the road laughing as Winry stormed away! "Those two idiots! I could understand it if I really tried!" She stormed home and threw the front door open.

"Oh, Winry, you're home. Are Ed and Al with you?" She shook her head furiously.

"Granny! Teach me about automail! I'll prove to those two that I'm not stupid!" Granny Pinako realized what was going on.

"Of course, now why don't you first walk over to the boys's house and teach them a lesson. Here, I've been waiting for this day for a while." Granny Pinako handed Winry something from the workbench.

"This is perfect! Thanks Granny!" Winry had an evil grin and ran to the Elric brothers' house.


"Brother, have you figured out the ratio of the ingredients according to Mom's body? The measurements have to be precise."

"Yeah Al, I figured it out, now I am trying to calculate error percentile so we can get it as low as possible. It's so frustrating! All these formulas are easy to mix up!" Ed and Al slumped. They had poured over textbooks for two hours.

"Hey brother, do you think we were too meant to Winry?"

"Heck no Al! She had it coming! What can she do to us anyway? 20%, she really isn't the sharpest tool in the shed!"

The door slammed open, and standing in the rain was a sadistic Winry. Lightning flashed behind her as she stepped into the house. The two boys clung to each other in fear.

"Funny you should mention tools." She grinned even more and lifted something above her head. A flash of silver was the last thing the two boys saw.

- Much Later -

"Al, are you okay? My head is killing me!" Ed sat up and winced. He noticed a spot of blood surrounding where his head was. Al had a similar fate.

"Al wake up! We were attacked!"

Al opened his eyes, and cringed in pain. "It hurts! Why is there so much blood?" Al paled at the sight of the blood.

"Head wounds bleed a lot. Do you remember anything?"

Al thought a moment, and then shivered. "It was Winry. Ed's eyes grew wide and he shook with fear.

"Al, listen. Never insult Winry again. EVER!"

"Agreed!"


"SO Winry, how did your visit with the boys go?"

Winry smiled. "It went absolutely perfect. They aren't going to be mean to me anymore." She continued to polish one of the tools from the workbench

"That's great Win. Did you like the gift I gave you?" Winry finished polishing and held up the silver wrench.

"I love it! It is perfect." Sh smiled again with an evil glint in her eyes. "I can't wait to learn about automail. We'll see who the stupid ones will be then!"

A/N: Haha! A funny chapter! This explains why Winry becomes interested in automail, where she gets the notorious wrench, and why Ed and Al are afraid of her! I know I said this would be mostly serious stories, but I couldn't help myself! I had to put this one in! LOLS to whoever noticed the joke in the beginning! Which group are you in? Thanks for reading!

Manga-neko signing out! :3