~Third Person~

"That Bastard! There was a trap door!" Ed clenches his teeth. The teens peer down the hole that lies underneath the column. A set of stairs spiral down into darkness. The teens run into the dark cavern. When they reach the floor, they can make out in the dim light a mine of sorts. Their footsteps echo in the corridor, each hitting the muddy ground with much aggression. Ed, Artie, and the other brothers put on gas masks.

"Russel, how much farther?" Ed pants.

"We're almost there! There's a spring where the red water comes out." Russel glances sidelong at the rest of the group. Artie begins to falter, and then falls to the ground. The group skids to a stop.

"I'm fine! Just go on without me!" She began to cough up blood. Reluctantly, the group presses on without her. Suddenly, Russel stops. A large wall of cement prevents them from going any further.

"That miserable Mugwar! He blocked our way." Russel is left with a gritty feeling inside. The pure hatred for that man burning inside of him.

"I'm gonna drag him out of there!" Ed clasps his hands together and expels the concrete, only to find Mugwar with a cannon on the other side, desperately trying to protect the spring.

"What?!" Ed yells. The four move out of the way just in time to dodge a powerful blast. 'That fake is a lot stronger than I thought.' Ed thinks to himself.

"I'll never surrender the spring!" Mugwar cries. "As long as I have this water, I can keep replicating this experiment! I'm not afraid of State Alchemists!" Ed walks in front of the hold in the concrete.

"Now you've gone and said it, disrespecting State Alchemists!" Ed says, closing up the concrete in time for the second blast to resound in the spring. As the concrete shatters, Ed walks up to the miserable Mugwar, who lays helpless on the floor.

"Do you understand now? I'm on an entirely different level than you!" Ed yells over the man. Abruptly, the whole cavern began to shake.

"What's that?" Mugwar mutters. His eyes widen when he sees the spring covered in fallen rock from the blast.

"Ed! That's enough! Let's get out of here!" Russel yells over the rumbling of the ground. "Brother!" Al yells. Mugwar, however, begins climbing up the covered stream.

"I will never give up this stream!" He yells. All of a sudden, red water begins to jet out of the crevices in the rocks. When he looks up, a huge boulder comes crashing down on him, crushing him to his death. The teens run away, stopping in the tunnel to hear the sounds of the red water rushing out after them. Al kneels down to carry Artie on his back.

"It's the water! The red water is overflowing!" Russel reveals. Ed rushes over to transmute another concrete wall to broaden their time for escape. "That should do it. Are the other places still safe?" Ed asks.

"The bedrock must be unstable from that blast... We must hurry if we want to exit safely!"

The group looks up at the hill, having exited, to see streams of red water running down the sides. Hurriedly, Ed transmutes a wall around the mansion to prevent any water from flooding the town. The red water immediately rushes around, surrounding the teens in a lake on an island with the mansion.

"Now, if we can stop it from coming out..." Ed says, looking up at the hill. Fletcher rushes over to a nearby tree, drawing a transmutation symbol on it's trunk. As he preforms the transmutation, the tree begin to glow an earthly green color. The trees begin to suck up the red water, turning red in the process.

"These trees are absorbing all of the water..." Ed stands in awe.

"Brother, there were plants like this in the lab!" Al says. Artie strokes a nearby tree, admiring the beauty of it all.

"You had them absorb the red water to detoxify it?" Ed asks. Russel walks over to Fletcher and put his hand over his brothers, helping to end this once and for all. With both of the brother's powers, the trees turn from red to purple and finally to blue, all before disintegrating into the air.

"Thanks. Sorry for this." Fletcher says to the trees as they disappear into the air. All of the young alchemists marvel at the beautiful, shimmering flakes in the air. As they all smile to one another, the barricade that once held the red water disappears as well.

"Here. These are from Uncle Belsio." Elisa holds up a basket of lemons. Ed and Al eagerly accept them from their seat on the train. "Big brothers, please take care!"

"Come see us again!" Fletcher says. Artie stomps her feet in protest.

"You PROMISED me you'd teach me if I helped out!" Artie began flailing her fists in the air, Russel holding her back.

"Sorry, maybe we'll see each other again sometime." He grins, holding up his pocket watch. He turns to Russel, who is still restraining the young state alchemist.

"Are you sure you'll be alright here?" He asks.

"We'll accept whatever comes our way." Russel replies, smiling sheepishly at Artie who no matter how much she wanted to learn from Ed, decided to stay with the other brothers. Ed makes a teasing expression, which gets overlooked.

"Using my powers, I'm sure I'll be of help to Belsio." He says. Artie becomes limp in his grip from exhaustion, for which he releases her. She begins conversing with the younger siblings.

"Ed, are you still going after the philosopher's stone?" Russel says in a more serious tone. Ed contemplates, but one look at his brother conjures his answer.

"Yeah."

"Listen, I can teach you how to condense a stone." Russel whispers.

"What?" Ed says.

"Not by way of apology, I just think you need to know." Russel says, furrowing his brow.

"We don't need it, we'll find out on our own." Ed shakes his head. "Count on it."

"Ed, come visit us soon! We'll make sure this town is a better place!" Fletcher says happily.

"When you do, you'd better be taller, big brother!" Elisa teases.

"Hey! That wasn't very nice!" Ed says in a playful tone. Artie looks at him in surprise. 'Roy always told me he hated being called short. Maybe he's changed for the better.' She smiles to herself.

"Goodbye!" The Elric brothers wave their goodbyes. "Goodbye!" they call back. They drop their hands as the train finally runs out of sight.

"Now, should we go home?" Russel asks.

"Yes!" Elisa and Fletcher cry. Artie watches the group from behind with Russel, smiling.

"Hm? I thought you wanted to learn from the almighty Edward Elric about alchemy." Russel leans over to watch her expression.

"I did. I learned that I should be living my own life, instead of chasing my parents." She looks at the sky, then grins from ear to ear. The group near a river with a bridge to cross over.

"Oh really? That's why? Or was it because you wanted to be with me instead?" Russel teases. She kicks him off of the bridge and into the river. When he looks up, she's smiling rather than angry.

"Let's run, guys!" She pushes Elisa and Fletcher along with her.

"Hey! You can't just leave me here!" Russel yells, sloshing in the water after them.

Fletcher looks over his shoulder and says, "Sorry, brother!"

END OF PLOT REWRITING. I am so glad that's over with. It's pretty hard paraphrasing two whole episodes =_= Anyways, plot pause=romance on!