Thank you once again to Gosurori Otaku! Huggles and muffins to you!
NB: Yoda is my sister's nickname. I'm sure George Lucas doesn't own her.
Pairings: Still undecided as of yet. Mwaha.
Spoilers: Whole series + Conqueror of Shamballa. Maybe some manga spoilers. You have been warned.
Here is the second chapter! And after reading… a review would be nice, please?
Chapter 2- Anna's point of view
My head was muddled as hell. And I was rather sick of just passing out at random intervals, even though it had only happened twice. And the first time I had woken up, I was blind in my left eye and missing my goddamn right hand!
The second time, though much less painful, was wounding to a girl's pride.
"Isn't Anna a girl's name?" Alphonse was asking Chibi. I mentally banged my head against the wall. I was, once again, and much to my disgust, being mistaken for Chibi's little brother. I did NOT look like a goddamned boy, goddammit!
Please note that the fact of being dressed up like a human Alphonse is not relevant to this particular equation.
"Yes," Chibi's voice held just enough mirth to make me ticked off. "She's my big sister."
"I don't mean any offence to her, but she doesn't look that much like a girl..." Al said. I resisted the urge to kill something, preferably small and fluffy.
"It's because I'm dressed up like you, master Alphonse," I announced and winced as my voice came out all croaky. I sat up, rubbing my temple with the hand I still had. Damn Gate.
"I beg your pardon? How d'you know my name?" he sounded bewildered.
I admit it, I wasn't thinking straight. "I'm dressed like you are when you're thirteen." I shook my head. That didn't sound completely correct. "Sorry, when your body is thirteen. And I know your name because I've read a good deal about you."
"Um..." Winry looked confused beyond all reason and Al doubly so.
"Anna, shut your gob, you don't know what you're talking about!" Chibi said warningly and glared at me. I blinked innocently at her.
"I think Ed might want to hear this..." Al told Winry, and she nodded unsurely. He turned to go out.
"Believe me," Chibi mumbled. "He'll want to know. Badly."
I shook my head again. "I don't get it, what's going on?"
"You're telling me," Winry muttered. "You passed out on the veranda. Al brought you in, then you woke up. Tell me, you two, how exactly did you lose your hand, Anna, and your leg, Ebonee?"
I could hear Al walking back to where we were, a second set of footsteps following behind. I sighed.
"I unwittingly performed human transmutation," I said. The footsteps outside stopped dead. "The Gate opened to meet us, took my hand, the sight in my left eye, Ebonee's leg and threw us into this world. Envy had something to do with it."
"I'll bet it was her," Ebonee grumbled. "Bloody witch."
"Settle down," I cautioned. "They don't know of her yet."
"What do you mean this world?!" Winry asked, her eyes wide. A blond head peered around the doorframe and I stared directly Edward Elric.
"We come from the world on the other side." Cliché, am I right? I probably sounded like some random alien from one of those cheesy sci-fi movies.
Winry laughed unsurely. "You just hit your head, Anna, it'll be all good." She waved a hand at Ed. "Sorry to disturb your brooding session."
Ed gently batted her hand away and stepped into the room. I twitched internally. He was taller than me. The Fullmetal midget was taller than me. How shameful.
"You saw it?" he asked me, his gold eyes hard. "How?"
Chibi made a face. "That may be a little harder to explain..." I nodded in agreement.
"Tell us, please." At least Al was polite, I thought ruefully.
"This'll seem a bit farfetched, but sure," I agreed.
"In our world, it's the year 2007," Chibi started. "Technological age, basically, all the cool electronics, gadgets you could ask for. You-" she pointed at Winry. "-would have a field day in one of our cities."
"Anyway," I said. "In our time, there are these cartoon series, television series, books -manga, really- that are based on whatever the author wants to. There's a series, a particular favourite of ours', called 'Fullmetal Alchemist'. It's about a short, blond State Alchemist with an automail arm and leg, and his younger brother whose body doesn't really exist anymore, but his soul was bound to a suit of armour with a blood seal."
"Now these brothers, they're trying to find, or if possible, create the Philosopher's Stone-" At this point, both Ed and Al were really listening intently to Chibi. "- so as to return them to their former selves," she finished.
"Think we should tell them any more?" Chibi asked me.
"Nah, they know the rest, and besides we can't go giving away too much else. It'll stuff up the future."
"Good point." She looked at Ed and I could tell that she was restraining herself from tackling him. "So, what d'you think?"
"There are three things I could say to this," Ed began, slowly. You could see him weighing out everything in his mind before saying it. "One, you two are freakish stalkers and what the hell have you been smoking? Two, you're telling the truth and we should really take you to Central when we go back, Mustang would want to hear about this. Or, three; you're both allied with Scar and we should take you back to Central as well, but in shackles."
Chibi laughed at him. "Why the heck would we be allied with Scar? I mean, sure he likes killing off State Alchemists mainly because of what Kimbley did to his broth-" I cleared my throat loudly.
She flushed. "Uh... whoops. You ignore that, I didn't say anything." I rolled my eyes at her.
"Very smooth."
"Shut up, you bean."
"I'M NOT SMALL!!" I half-shrieked at my smug little sister.
"Wow..." Winry muttered.
"Déjà vu," Al agreed. Ed twitched.
"Kimbley? Who is that?"
"Uh... never you mind!" I attempted to laugh it off. "You'll meet him soon enough, anyway."
"Uhuh."
"You don't believe us?" Chibi sounded wounded. She snatched her backpack off the floor, hefted it up and sat it in front of her.
"I have this as proof," she told both Ed and Al, quickly unzipping the main pocket. Yanking out the pocket watch she'd bought only an hour- if that?- ago.
"You're a State Alchemist?" Winry asked, her blue eyes sparkling as she eyed the watch.
"No, you dopes. This is a fake, I bought it at the convention we were at when Anna drew the transmutation circle and somehow activated it." She passed it to the blonde. "Take it apart all you want cause Armstrong won't let you touch his and when you bust Ed's open later on today he gets all grumpy."
"Major Armstrong is here?!" I yelped then remembered. Episode seventeen, 'House of the Waiting Family', right. "Oh dear."
"I also have this." Chibi extracted the large Ed plushie from the bag and passed it to its model. The State Alchemist looked incredibly freaked out at holding a doll with a complete likeness to himself. Al seemed to find this incredibly amusing and was chuckling incessantly.
"I think this is the last thing I bought," Chibi muttered and brought the replica automail arm out of her bag.
"No wonder the damn thing was so heavy!" I yelped. "What were you doing lugging that around?!"
Winry's eyes were positively glowing now. "That... that looks exactly like the arm I made for Ed!"
"Now that's creepy," Ed muttered.
"I have the leg in here too." Chibi grinned. I groaned. Stupid heavy bag.
Winry all but snatched the replicas of her masterpieces, sat down on the floor on the spot and pulled several screwdrivers out of a pocket. "Gotta see what makes this thing tick..." she squealed. Within seconds, both leg, arm and pocket watch were in several pieces and screws were spread everywhere.
"Automail junkie," Ed sniped.
"Alchemy freak," Winry retorted without a second thought.
"Is everything okay in here, Edward Elric?" inquired a deep voice from the doorway.
Chibi and I froze and turned in unison to see the hulking frame of Major Alex Louis Armstrong. Chibi shuddered. I squeaked.
"Major Armstrong...?"
"The one and only." Armstrong sparkled. Chibi shuddered again.
Al looked from the Major to me. "Do you know each other...?"
"Not personally, but we've read of him," I replied quickly, trying not to look at the sparkles of doom.
"So, young women, you have already witnessed the masterpiece that is-" The Major's voice was cut off suddenly as Ed slammed the door in his face.
"Back off Major Spaz," he called through the wood. "Uh... Win? Maybe the girls should have their... wounds bandaged? You have plenty of time to pull the watch to pieces and put it back together again after that's done..."
Winry glanced up and hissed at him.
Both Ed and Al backed away, and there was genuine fear on Ed's face.
"It's okay Win... just look after the girls then attack the pretty automail, okay?" Al asked gently, not wanting to incur the wrath of Winry.
She nodded absently, dropping the pieces of watch she had been admiring. "I need gauze and syringes and..." she trailed off, realising that this equipment was already out on a table. "Oh..."
Al helpfully passed the mechanic a readied syringe. She turned to me, breaking the tip of the needle off. "This is to stop infection and to numb your arm, kay?" I nodded warily, eying the syringe as she injected the purplish fluid into my handless arm.
All feeling left my arm and I blinked. "That was quick..."
Winry smiled and readied a second syringe. "They are fast-working. This one, Ebonee, will numb you below the waist, okay?" Chibi nodded and squeezed her tight shut as Winry injected the stuff into her.
With deft fingers, the mechanic cleaned the area around my wrist of excess blood and wrapped it securely in gauze.
As the same treatment was given to Chibi, only on her leg, Al asked me,
"So why are you dressed up as human me?"
I blushed under the stare Ed saw fit to give me. "Uh... Well, apparently you're the only character I resemble somewhat. Except I have purple eyes." I reached up and removed the contacts from my eyes. Al hummed in approval and Ed continued to stare.
"Purple? I've never seen someone with purple eyes before.
I grimaced, thinking of the homunculi. "You will, you will."
