Everyone was woken up the next morning by the sound of a car outside of the house.

"That'll most likely be Riza and Mustang." Ed said as he pulled himself up off of the couch. He staggered out to the hallway and stumbled over to the front door and opened it.

"Ah, Fullmetal. Lovely to see you awake this early." Roy said smugly. Ed opened his, mouth to back chat Roy but Heather decided to interrupt.

"That car of yours doesn't sound right. Do you want me to take a look at it?" It was more a statement than anything. She pushed Roy aside. She picked the spanner up off the ground from when she threw it at Scar the night before.

"You didn't pick up your spanner last night?" Ed leant against the door frame, crossed his arms and stared past Roy at Heather.

"I know. I'm so ashamed." Heather said sarcastically. She walked over to the car, the events of the night before after she and Ed had escaped Scar still swirling around in her head.

"WAHH! Who is that strange man at the door?" Britt said.

"You know who I am!" Roy yelled.

"Or does she?" Al stepped from behind Britt.

"Just tell me where Scar is." Roy demanded. Jessie pushed Roy, Riza, Al and Britt out of the way. Ed had already made his way over to Heather who was fixing the car. Jessie directed everyone to the coal mine.

"Here it is." Jessie stopped in front of everyone.

"Which mine shaft is it?" Roy asked.

"The one that says 'danger, keep out.' It's really obvious." Jessie retorted. "Riza, slap the back of his head for me."

"With pleasure." Riza replied. Roy tried to get away before she slapped him but, he was too late. He ended up sitting on the ground, clutching his head feeling sorry for himself.

"What was that for?" He said.

"You drove me insane on the way here so that was just payback." Riza grinned. Jessie progressed toward the mine shaft and began to remove the planks blocking the entrance.

"Bec, I could use some help over here." She said.

"Why me?" Bec answered.

"Because Russell isn't here." Bec groaned and removed the last of the planks.

"Haha! Finished fixing it!" Heather said gleefully. She slammed the hood shut

"You make that look easy. Where did you learn to do stuff like that?" Ed was impressed.

"I've always grown up around cars and engineering." She looked in the general direction of the mine. "We should probably go and help them shouldn't we?"

"Come on, we can probably catch up to them if we leave now." Just as they were about to leave, Ian ran out of the house calling them back.

"You two! Wait! Jessie wanted me to give you this before you left!" He handed them a small envelope.

"Arigato." Heather took the envelope they started to walk toward the mine again. When they got further down the road, Heather opened it and read it aloud.

"Don't forget to pick up Russell."

"What?"

"That's what it says; don't forget to pick up Russell." Ed facepalmed, he didn't like the sound of this.

"Why me?"

"I heard my name mentioned." Russell walked behind them.

"GAH! How did you get there?" Heather said.

"I walked."

"Fair enough." Ed said.

"YES! We're in!" Jessie celebrated.

"That sounded extremely wrong, please re-word that." Britt said. She took Al's hand and they walked into the mine shaft.

"Stop, we have to wait for Russell!"

"What about Ed and Heather?" Bec asked.

"Them too."

"But, we don't know how long it'll take for Heather to fix Roy's piece-of-shit car." Britt said.

"Actually, it didn't take me that long." Heather said. It seemed as though Ed, Heather and Russell appeared out of nowhere.

"Really? It sounded like it was unfixable."

"It looked it too, believe me. But, I fixed it!" Heather struck a pose.

"It's a good thing major Armstrong isn't here." Ed said. Heather ever so slightly tilted her head.

"Why?"

"He would have ripped off his shirt and flexed while saying that something has been passed down the Armstrong line for generations."

"Disturbing." They all walked in to the mine shaft, leaving Maes and Chloe outside. Chloe didn't want to risk letting Scar see her with some of the people he despised most.

The mine shaft had an eerie feeling to it. No one liked it. And knowing that the mine could collapse at any given moment added to that feeling wasn't good. Jessie stayed close to Russell. They ended up drifting behind the group. Jessie finally noticed and said

"Come on, we have to catch up."

"No we don't" Russell grabbed Jessie by the arm. "Stay back here for a while."

"You don't want to fight him do you?" Russell shook his head. Jessie looked at him sternly. He smiled weakly.

Everyone else progressed through the shaft rather quickly.

"He could be anywhere around here." Bec said.

"Oh trust me, he's close." Riza said as she reloaded her gun.

"How can you tell?" Roy picked up a rock and showed it to Bec, Britt and Heather. Ed observed it.

"Signs of alchemy." He said. Roy nodded.

"That doesn't mean anything, it just means that he has been here." Britt said.

"The mine shaft ends just around the corner." Heather said. "Once he reaches there, he'll have nowhere else to go."

"How do you know that?" Roy asked.

"How dare you question my geniusness." Roy raised a brow. "Fiiiiiiiine. Jessie and I used explore this place a lot when we were little."

"Speaking or Jessie, where did she and Russell go?" Britt said.

Jessie was still trying to convince Russell to help everyone fight Scar.

"C'mon don't be such a baby."

"But..." Russell sighed. Jessie stepped closer to Russell, put her hands on his shoulders and shook him.

"Russell, you are never like this. What is wrong with you?" He didn't answer. Jessie put her hand on his forehead. "Are you feeling OK?" Russell took her hand off of his forehead.

"Yes, I'm fine." He kissed her tenderly and ran his fingers through her hair. He pulled away and cupped her left cheek with his hand.

"Jessie, since this is a potentially dangerous situation and we may or may not get through it alive; I just wanted to say now that..." He stumbled through his words, growing more and more worried; (More like paranoid) Scar could be anywhere. Before he finished his sentence he checked behind him, expecting Scar to be behind him.

"Go on." Jessie said.

"I love you." He wrapped his arms around her waist. "Nothing can change that." Jessie pushed him slightly.

"That's so cheesy." She grinned.

The others reached the dead end. Every one's eyes widened; there was a rather large hole where the wall of the mine shaft was supposed to be.

"I think 'rather large' may be an understatement." Ed said.

"Fullmetal, who are you talking to?" Roy raised a brow.

"Uh, I was talking to ..." He looked at the people around him. "...Heather!"

"Huh?" Heather cocked her head up. "What are you saying about me?"

"I was talking to you before, remember?" He looked at her as if to say 'Just play along'. He didn't want the colonel to think he had lost his brains.

"Ummm, kay?"

"Let's get a move on!" Ed said cheerfully. He marched off through the tunnel that was created by the man that they were after. Britt, Al, Heather, Bec, Roy and Riza followed soon after. As they walked further through the tunnel the lamps seemed to get dimmer.

"Well, this isn't good." Roy said.

"Point out the obvious much?" Britt retorted without turning around. Ed and Heather came to a halt. Heather dropped her lamp and began to back away, searching for Ed's hand. In front of her, leaning on the wall was Scar; ready to attack. He ran towards them and placed his hand on the first person he could get to. It was Bec's! Just before he got to use his alchemy, Bec held his wrist with both hands and forced his arm away, kicking him in the shin while he was distracted. They heard a snap from behind them. A flame rushed past Bec, Britt, Al, Ed and Heather and just singed Scar. Riza pointed her gun at Scar's head.

"If you move, I'll shoot!"

"Fine," Scar leant on the wall of rock, placing his hand on it. "You know you're going to regret this though." The wall crumbled like a biscuit, causing the roof to cave in. Rocks and debris fell all over the place. Everyone ran to try and get out of the way of it, but also chasing and cornering Scar. Al and Ed cornered him. Ed transmuted his arm into a blade.

"Fine; just kill me. One of us is going to die here anyway." Scar said. Ed couldn't bring himself to do it. He just stood in front of him, holding his defence. He felt something trickle down his face; it was blood.

'Must've happened when the roof caved in.' He thought. Out of the corner of his eye he saw someone rush past him.

"Al?" Bec dragged Ed back, out of the way of everyone. He saw Al drop to his knees and Scar place his hand on his head.

"AL!" Ed couldn't bare to watch. He closed his eyes and waited for it all to be over.

"Ed, what are you doing?"Ed opened his eyes.

"Al? But, I thought..."

"You thought what, brother? That I was dead?" Ed nodded. He looked around the place, everyone was bruised and/or bleeding. Heather sat next to Ed.

"W-wher's Scar?" He said. Heather pointed across the tunnel. "Is he-?"

"No, just unconscious." Roy said. Ed stood up and helped Heather up. Jessie and Russell finally decided to turn up. Bec looked over to them.

"Well, you sure took your sweet time."

Well, excuse me for not wanting to get my ass kicked." Jessie replied.

Although he was fatigued and injured, Ed still had enough energy to hold Heather up and Kiss her.

"I love you." He said. Mustang made his way over to them and held his hand out.

"You did well. Maybe you'll be able to help us with another case someday?" He said. Heather nodded, smiled and shook his hand.

"Maybe." She said. 'Wow, that's the first time we've ever gotten along.' Mustang walked away to congratulate the others. Ed looked into Heather's eyes and smiled sweetly.

"How do you and Britt feel about coming to Resembool with Al and I and meeting granny Pinako and Winry?"

"I'm sure Katrina wouldn't mind if we're away a little longer." Britt interrupted. Normally Heather would've gone off at Britt for interrupting like every other time, but this time she just smiled.

They all walked slowly out of the mine shaft, giant smiles across their faces.

"Victory?" Maes asked. Roy looked to the group of battered and bruised people... And Jessie and Russell. And then back to Maes and Chloe and smiled.

"Victory." He said back. They all celebrated, hugged each other, gave each other high-fives, etc. They all headed back to spread the news.