Sorry that I haven't updated in quite a while. I've just been pretty busy. Anyways, enjoy the story!

CHAPTER FOUR

A Revengeful Plan … Ed Fights Back For Revenge

Envy sat on the top of the hotel building where Winry, Ed and Al were. He stared up at the sky and thought boredly, 'Why is Al taking so much time? It's already 9:00, and I haven't seen a single sign of him. Maybe he's-' He broke off when he noticed Al approaching him. He looked acutely embarrassed as he fidgeted with his fingers. Now Envy was curious. 'Did something bad happen? Because it sure looks like it.' "Are you…" Envy began to ask. "…okay? Did something bad happen? Have they found out? Did Winry dump Ed? Did-"

"I am so SORRY!" Al squealed. He sounded like a helpless girl. "I told Ed and Winry everything! They found out that I knew something and forced me to say everything! I am SO SOOOORRY! Please forgive me! I ruined everything! Ohh…what are we going to do NOW?"

Envy glared at Al and tutted. He knew trouble would happen if Al did something alone. Well, now that Ed and Winry knew that Envy was also behind this, they were going to have to go to Plan B. But…Envy had no idea what Plan B was! Now they were goners, unless either Envy or Al thought of another plan that would trick Ed and Winry. "Sigh…" he said. "You should have not gone on your own! I should have gone in your huge suit of armour and hear you say everything. Sigh…" he repeated. "But now it's done and gone, so we have to think of another plan. Any ideas in your metallic head?"

To his disappointment, Al shook his head. "I can't think," he replied. "I'm waay too depressed and sorry for what happened. Will you forgive-"

"I told you, it's done and gone, so let's think of another plan. Now, stop being depressed and sorry and start thinking about the plan!" Envy hissed. "If you are too guilty, then pay me by thinking up a plan right now!"

At this, Al seemed to have brightened up and he nodded eagerly. "Okay," he said. "Now that I think about it, I have some friends that could help us."

Envy looked at Al curiously, then asked. "What friends?"

"Ninja friends ;)." Came the reply. "From Xing."

"From Xing, huh…" Envy thought for a moment. Then he shuddered. "Oh…you mean that squinty prince and that masked girl and old man with a moustache? The ones who kept killing me continuously? Would they even want to team up with us? Plus, I don't even want to team up with those killers!"

"Scared are you?" A glint of amusement crept up in Al's eye. "Scared of Xing ninjas?"

"I'm not afraid!" Envy declared, refusing to look like a frightened chicken. He was a homunculus, for goodness's sake! Homunculi were scared of NOTHIING! Not even afraid of dying continuous times! "Okay, let's speak to those ninjas and squinty prince. I hope that they're not going to turn against us and tell Ed and Winry all this."

Al nodded. "I bet you," he assured Envy, "that they won't, after a few moments of persuading and bargaining. We'll talk to them tomorrow."

'I hope he's right,' Envy thought.

"Yo, Al! ~" Ling said in his sing song voice. He waved his hand happily in the air and stopped abruptly when he saw Envy. "A homunculus?" Lan Fan took out her kunai and she aimed it at Envy. She was going to throw it when Al yelled, "Don't throw; he's with me."

Fu stared at Envy with suspicion, but he asked, "Is he on the 'good' side now?"

"I never will," Envy replied, and with that Lan Fan threw her kunai, but it just missed past Envy's ear. He knew that the ninja girl wasn't planning to stab him anyway. "But Al and I thought of a good plan to ruin Ed's life, and seeing that we both thought of the same thing, we teamed up… temporarily to succeed that plan. Unfortunately Al ruined the plan, and Ed and Winry found out, so afterwards Al thought that you three could help us. But it doesn't seem like you guys look like you want to do it, so we won't force you-"

"Of course we'll do it!" Ling exclaimed. "But on one condition…" He stopped, obviously waiting for Al to say something.

"What?" Al asked.

"I want to eeeaaattt~" Ling replied, collapsing on the floor. Lan Fan gasped, "Master!" and Fu just rolled his eyes, as though all Ling could ever do was fall on the floor and beg for food. Envy sighed impatiently and growled, "Don't you have money or something?"

"I think they're broke," Al joked, but it was actually a very true joke. It was actually a fact. He turned to Ling, who was moaning. "Okay…" he said. "We'll give you something to eat."

"Thanks for the food! ~" Ling cried, bowing his head continuously. There was a pile of plates on the table, and the owner of the restaurant was staring at Ling with shining eyes, obviously saying, 'I'm going to be rich after this guy pays!" "Now…about the plan…"

"Are you going to pay?" The owner suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and was obviously impatient for them to give out the money.

"Yes," Al replied cheerfully. "Here's the money." He pulled out a wad of money from his underpants. He had withdrawn the money from the bank under his bro's name, as this was the first way to make Ed go 'boooom!' "Keep the change," he added, handing over the money.

"Okayy…" the owner took the money and hurried off and shouted to his workers, "We're rich! Friggin' damn rich!"

"Yeeeeahh!" the workers cheered and they all thanked Al, Ling, Lan Fan, Fu and Envy like…X times. Ling smiled, but Envy glared at Ling. Could they just get on with the plan? This was taking forever.

"So, what do we do in your plan?" Ling asked.

Al shrugged. "We don't know yet," he replied. "But do you have any suggestions?"

Lan Fan took out a kunai. "This way?" she asked.

"No way!" Al exclaimed. "That's way too dangerous…and plus, this is a 'revenge' plan, not a 'let's-kill-Ed' plan."

"Okay…" Lan Fan replied, putting her kunai away disappointed.

Envy growled, "So now what?"

"Well…" Ling looked thoughtful. "I don't know what to do…you guys should just think up of a plan and we'll follow what you say." There was a rise of agreement from both Lan Fan and Fu, meaning that they both go with the prince.

"We could try the Winry plan again…" Al suggested.

"But the shrimp won't fall for that trick twice," Envy pointed out. "So we have to think of another plan. But I don't know what…"

"Well…if I go talk to Ed and Winry and make them pissed, wouldn't that help too?" Ling said 'carefreely' as though the plan was nothing of interest.

"But what are you going to say?" Envy challenged.

"That's what I don't know…because you two are supposed to tell us what to do, not make us think of a plan!"

"But didn't we tell you earlier that we haven't thought of a plan yet? That's why we need YOU to find out!" Envy sighed irritably. They were going nowhere.

"Or how about," Lan Fan suddenly said, "we ambush the couple and we drag Winry away and block Ed's sight so that he can't see anything, and then Envy could disguise as Winry and then come back to the fighting, and Ed wouldn't know a thing."

"That sounds like a good plan," Al agreed. "But what if Ed gets suspicious?"

"Hmm…" Envy didn't know what to do, and it seemed that no one else knew too, at least until Al exclaimed, "Then we'll just have to tell Envy everything about Winry and Ed together as both childhood and now, so then Ed wouldn't get too suspicious or wary that the Winry standing before him was actually Envy!"

"That' sounds like a great idea!" Ling applauded and sang in a sing-song way. "So…when are we doing the ambush?"

"How about tomorrow?" Envy suggested. "Seeing that we are so eager to start the plan right away…let's do it then."

"That's perfect!" Ling cried. "Then let's go and get ready. I'll meet you here tomorrow at the start of evening."

"Okay." Al and Envy watched Ling and his bodyguards disappear from around the corner. "That's three friends we've finished talking to-"

"Friends?" Envy spat. "They're not my friends!"

Al rolled his eyes. "Fine," he sighed. "Whatever. Now let's talk to Mei Chang."

"Mei…who?"

"Mei Chang," Al repeated. "Also from Xing, but she is rivals with Ling and Lan Fan and Fu. Plus," he added. "She's got a CUUUUTE 3 cat with her!~"

"Urrgh…" Envy groaned, but he followed Al anyway to wherever this 'Mei' was.

"Yes!" Mei exclaimed, and then added evilly, "I want payback for what he did!"

Al and Envy met Mei in an alleyway, talking with Yoki about something, but Envy wasn't bothered to know what. Al had explained their plan to Mei, who somewhat was eager to do the plan. She explained to Envy that "he ruined her dreams about him by being too short" but Envy didn't understand what that meant until Al told him "she liked him but then after she saw him she was heartbroken…though it's normal for people to be short".

"So tomorrow in a restaurant just two blocks away from here?" Mei asked. Al nodded and she added, "Is anyone else doing this plan besides us?"

Both Al and Envy exchanged a worried glance. Would Mei refuse to participate if they told her that Ling, Lan Fan and Fu were part of the plan as well? But even if she refused, they still had enough ninjas to ambush Ed and Winry anyway. "Well…" Al began.

"Ling, Lan Fan and Fu will be joining us on this ambush," Envy said for Al. Mei gasped and Xiao Mei showed her sharp white teeth in anger, but then Envy added, "Don't you want to change that shrimp's face a little? Wouldn't that be fun then just hanging around here doing absolutely nothing?"

"That's not why I'm shocked though…" Mei replied shakily. "It's just…well…"

"What?" Envy was impatient now, but Al's voice was gentle when he asked, "What?"

"I overheard Edward talking to Ling, Lan Fan and Fu just this afternoon," she explained. "They were scheming something, and the only words I could hear were 'revenge on Al' and 'kick some ass' and 'tomorrow night'."

Both Al and Envy exclaimed, "Oh shit!"

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"Oh shit!" both Al and Envy exclaimed.

"…what?" Mei asked.

"I totally forgot that I need more oil!" Al cried. "I have to ask Winry for some!"

"Are you stupid?" Envy snarled. "Firstly, I only said shit because Ling turned against us, and secondly, Winry and Ed are planning AGAINST you, so if you go and ask Winry for oil, she's not gonna give it to you. Get it?"

"NOOOOOO!" Al screamed. "I need oil! Oil! OIL!"

"Geez, Al," Author sighed. "You're so random these days."

Envy snorted. "Now you know why I don't like this suit of armour?"

BANG!

"Oww…! Why did you do that for?"

"He has a name!" Mei replied angrily. "Sir Alphonse Elric!"

"…sir?"

"Ooohh…" Author smiled wickedly. "Al and Mei sitting in a tree!~"

"Shut up!" Al yelled. "I don't like her at all! I only want to know about alkhestry from her!"

"Waaaah!" Mei started crying.

"Say sorry immediately, Alphonse!" Author shouted.

"No way!"

"Just do it!"

"I'm not gonna!"

"I'LL MAKE YOU DO IT!" Author wrote 'Al says sorry to Mei' on a piece of paper.

"Sorry Mei," Al said suddenly. "Sorry for…huh?"

Mei was nowhere to be seen, because she ran away crying because she got dumped. (Don't think I did this because I don't like Al and Mei together. I think they're PERFECT together :D)

THE END