Takes place after Hybrid 4; 2 years prior to Hybrid 5:

Also I do not own any characters, except Skyler

After leaving Jak's world for a little vacation, Skyler found a world that used Alchemy and decided to see what it was like and so he found himself on train bound for Central City.

Leaning back in his seat, he decided to take a rest, but opened his eyes upon hearing a gun cock next to his head.

"Get up and put your hands in the air like everybody else." said the masked man holding the gun.

Looking around he saw two other masked men holding a boy, roughly 12, and a suit of armor? at gun point also.

"No." said Skyler looking at the gunman straight in the eyes who began shaking looking into them.

"I-I said, 'Put y-your hands i-in the a-air." repeated the gunman.

"I don't take orders from a two-bit scumbag like you." was Skyler's reply as his eyes turned orange.

"Fine, then this little girl gets it!" said the gunman as he pointed the gun towards a little girl.

In a spilt second the gunman was in the air with two blades protruding from his back.

"This is nothing more than a flesh wound, but threaten her again and I'll make sure you lose your life." growled Skyler in the gunman's ear before he removed the wrist-blades and looked around at the stunned passengers, "What? I stick up for the people. I'm freelance."

Before the boy and armor could say anything, Skyler was gone into the next car.

TIME SKIP: END OF TRAIN RIDE

A ton of gunman were tied up along with their leader, a man that had an eyepatch and a mechanical arm that looked like it used to be a gun but now ruined. There were also military personnel surrounding the captured gunman and one looked really arrogant and pompous and his name started with a "M".

Suddenly the leader of the gunman jumped up heading for the arrogant one with a knife now sticking out of his cybernetic arm. In a flash Skyler cut off the knife point of the arm, whirled around, and shot acidic fire at "Bald" at the exact moment Mustang snapped his fingers, both attacks engulfing Bald. When the smoke cleared, Bald was on the ground with burnt and bubbling skin.

"Hmm, maybe acid was too much. Oh, well." said Skyler walking away.

"Hold it!" said a woman with a mole under her left eye.

"I'm not on your side or their side." said Skyler continuing forward.

Suddenly a shot rang out and Skyler whirled around and caught the bullet in mid-air.

"9mm? How useless." said Skyler after examining the bullet then tossed it to the ground.

"H-how did you do that?" asked the 12-year-old blond by the military.

"Sorry, no time to chat. Shadow Run Jutsu!" and with that Skyler became a black mist and disappeared.

TIME SKIP: SHOU TUCKER'S HOUSE

Ed and Al were up in the bedroom Tucker let them have for studying their State Alchemist test when the window blew open and a black mist came flowing in and materialized into Skyler.

"Hello, boys." said Skyler in a cheerful voice.

"D-don't do that again." said Edward with a super creeped out expression on his face as did Al even thru the helmet.

"Okay, but you two can drop the charade."

"W-what charade?"

"That there's a person inside that suit of armor and about your arm and leg."

"How'd you know?"

"I may not know much about this world, but I do know some alchemy and you two performed taboo. Human Transmutation, correct?!"

Both of their expressions drop.

"[Both] Yes."

"Don't worry, nobody that doesn't need to know will know about this. Especially that little girl. Now, can I come in? I'm freezing!"

"Uh, sure. But are you sure because I think Tucker might not like having an uninvited guest in here."

"Don't worry. He won't even know I'm here..." said Skyler as he turned back into the black mist.

"I SAID DON'T DO THAT AGAIN!" yelled Ed at which Skyler reformed.

"It was a joke. You certainly have a short fuse." the last part Skyler muttered.

TIME SKIP: EDWARD AND SKYLER VS. MUSTANG

The entire military in Central was watching and waiting for the fight when Hughes was speaking and pulled down a curtain to reveal...his daughter at which everybody started throwing items of different varieties and sizes at him, even Skyler took part in it by stomping the ground, causing a huge boulder to come out then punching it and sending it flying towards the man who dodged it, but knocked the oversized picture loose and topple on top of Hughes.

"[Muffled] Now the fight between Edward Elric, the man who threw the boulder at me, and Colonel Roy Mustang, aka The Flame Alchemist, may now begin! Can somebody help me?" said Hughes still buried underneath the huge photo.

In a poof of smoke a creature appeared on Skyler's back that caused everybody's mouths to drop. The creature was a komodo dragon, but its size did not match a regular one, it was about Ed's height and it seemed to show large amounts of affection for Skyler.

"What is that thing?" asked Ed.

"How dare you call me a "thing"! What? Haven't you ever seen a Komodo Dragon before?!" yelled the komodo giving Ed a death glare.

"Not one your size." replied Ed then his eyes went wide again, "You can talk?!"

"Of course I can! What, your's can't?! Figures! In almost any location, I'm the only talking one!"

"Are you three almost done?" said Mustang.

"Buzz off!" yelled the komodo.

"Komodo." said Skyler looking at his pet.

"Okay, master. Let me guess...sparring match?"

"Sort of."

"Okay, no posion bites. Your face seems different, what happened?"

"Tell you later."

Ed gave Skyler a side glance and noticed that no matter what Skyler wore gloves, a cloak, and had a hood covering his face and wondered why. Suddenly fiery explosions erupted around Ed and he took off trying to avoid the explosions and ran into the gathered crowd and everybodies face paled.

"I can't go exploding in such a large group," said Mustang and everybody let out a relieved sigh, "if the target's too SMALL to hit."

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SMALL?!" yelled Ed popping up in the crowd.

"If your opponent has a visible weakness use it." said Mustang getting ready to snap his fingers and everybody in the area paniced.

An explosion that sent every soldier around Ed flying erupted after Mustang snapped his fingers.

"Maybe I over did it..." said Mustang quietly.

After several minutes of Ed and Mustang fighting, Ed won when Mustang suddenly hesitated.

Mustang looked over at Skyler and snapped his fingers, but when the smoke cleared, Komodo was on his back laughing.

"What's so funny?" asked Mustang his eye twitching.

"You were so got up in fighting Ed, that you forgot about us! Now my master can beat you!" said Komodo still laughing.

Suddenly a hand burst from the ground and grabbed Mustang's ankle.

"Headhunter Jutsu!" said Skyler and pulled Mustang into the ground to where only his head stuck out and everybody burst out laughing.

Black mist creeped its way out of the cracks in the ground and formed Skyler who was also laughing.

"Only a coward hides from the enemy." said Mustang and eveybody stopped laughing and Ed noticed that Skyler's hands were twitching.

"WHAT did you just call me?" said Skyler darkly and Ed walked over to Komodo quietly.

"Only cowards hide and also cover their faces from everybody around them." replied Mustange.

"Oh, no!" said Komodo cowering and covering his head.

"What's going to happen?" Ed asked Komodo.

"With my master, its like you being called short, but he gets worse when he's called a coward. Never call him a coward or any of his family members for that matter. I don't think your "friend" will last now." replied Komodo still cowering.

"The fight was supposed to be over when I buried you, but since you've called me a coward...[Lifts Mustang out of ground with Force Lift]...you'll regret it." said Skyler as he got into a fighting stance.

Mustang snapped his fingers and an inferno engulfed Skyler and everybody expected to hear screams of pain, but none came and when the smoke cleared, Skyler's cloak was burnt to ashes revealing the greenish-orange armor he wore.

"Oh, did I forget to mention fire has no affect on me?" at this Mustang's eyes widened as did everybody else's, "Didn't think so. Phase 1."

With those words Skyler closes his eyes and hunches over as two spikes sprout from his back, a single tail comes out, feet turn into clawed feet, opens eyes as they turn orange and reptilian, gloves rip to shreds as claws come out.

"I'll enjoy making you regret calling me a coward." said Skyler as he charged forward, bringing a clawed hand towards Mustang's face who barely managed to dodge.

Everybody watched in awe and horror as Mustang was brutally beaten black and blue and it wasn't for two hours before Skyler stopped.

"Give up?" asked Skyler kneeling down in front of Mustang's bruised face and Mustang's response was nothing short of a whimper.

"Good." said Skyler as he returned to normal and began walking away, "You're lucky I didn't go Phase 2 on you."

"Well, that was interesting." said the Fuehrer with something that resembled a easy-going expression on his face which made Skyler suspicious of the man even Komodo growled at him and to Skyler that meant two things, 1) Komodo doesn't like the guy, or 2) he's not human, or both.

END CHAPTER

Next chapter is 3 years for the Elrics, 1 year for Skyler and they go to the deset town where Father Cornello is (did I spell that guy's name right?) and Ed and Al get some surprises from Skyler.