Another quick update, but I was really anxious to get this up here since it's the last chapter that's in the manga.

Chapter Fourteen

"Alphonse! Alphonse!" the familiar voice of Mei called out. That's what Ed woke to. There had been some kind of explosion that knocked her out momentarily. She was still trying to regain the memory of what was happening.

That's right; they were on the battlefield with that 'Father' guy. She had nearly forgotten.

Ed allowed her eyes to slip open and she looked over to her automail. It was severely damaged, but still functional. Not for long, though. She caught a glimpse of Izumi laying on the ground battered and bloody.

"Teacher!" Ed exclaimed suddenly, running to Izumi. "Teacher! Say something!"

"I'm alive..." Izumi managed out. "Because of Mr. Hohenheim...He got to me at the last second." Ed looked over to see her father standing tall with his arms wide in a shielding stance, preventing further damage from coming to Izumi, unmoving.

"Hohenheim!" Ed exclaimed. "Hey! Snap out of it! Let's..." She stopped in her tracks when she saw Father standing behind him. Taller than before. Stronger than before. He no longer needed any container. He had a body of his own with more power than ever before. He lifted his arm, holding it tall in the air before slamming into Hohenheim and knocking the man the opposite direction.

"Hohenheim!" Ed shouted out.

"You're first," Father said, holding his hand up and performing a type alchemy that proceeded to choke Izumi and Ed, depriving them of their precious oxygen.

"Stop it!" Hohenheim shouted. "Leave them alone!"

Suddenly Father was knocked down with a gunshot, allowing Ed and Izumi to catch their breath once more.

"Teacher!" Ed exclaimed as she stood, quickly helping Izumi out of the crossfire. As she ran her out, another soldier had come and collected Hohenheim, running him away as well before a grenade was thrown at Father. Ed could feel it on the back of her and it pushed her off her feet slightly.

"Hey, Fullmetal!" the other soldier called out. "Are you okay?"

"It's bad!" Ed responded. "He didn't even flinch!"

"Seriously?!" the other soldier asked, turning back to catch a glance at Father, still standing tall.

After they had recovered from the close encounter with Father, they began revving it up full throttle. They each attacked him with speed, giving him hardly any chance to recover between blows. However, Father had a barrier up that was preventing him from receiving any injury.

As they were attacking him head on, Father emitted a transmutation of red light that proceeded to blow everyone away from him.

When the smoke had cleared, Father stood from the ground, where he had been knocked down in his explosion. He looked around, muttering, "The stone...the stone...Philosopher's stone..." His eyes locked onto Edward, who had been pinned down to a piece of debris. Her left arm had been pinned, a piece of metal sticking through her arm and into the cement she was pinned to. Her automail was destroyed in the explosion, leaving her defenseless. Father began to walk toward her.

"Edelle!" Hohenheim shouted. "Get out! Now!" Ed tried to pull herself away from the debris, but she found herself helplessly stuck to it. She was unable to move. She couldn't get out of the way and escape. This was it.

"Brother!" Al shouted. "Get out of there! Brother!"

Ed continued to try and pull herself away from the debris but only blood followed from her arm, which was only being contained as it was because of the debris holding it into her.

"Stop!" Alphonse shouted. "Dammit, Stop! Stop this! Stop it!" Al tried helplessly to pull himself toward his sister with no avail. His armor was nearly completely destroyed, leaving him defenseless as well. "My brother...My sister...Let her-!" He stopped himself short.

"The stone..." Father called out. "You vile human...give it to me!"

"No, Edelle!" Hohenheim shouted.

"Your energy!" Father exclaimed.

Suddenly Mei's battle rings (totally googled that shit) were thrown onto the cemented debris that Ed was pinned to. Exactly where her right arm would have been. Ed snapped over to where Al was laying. He was holding his hands up in preparation for a transmutation.

"What are you doing...?" Ed asked, mostly to himself. "Al...don't... please...Al! Al!" Ed's voice grew louder and more desperate as she called for her brother. She couldn't lose him. Not now. "AL, NO!"

Before she knew it, Alphonse was gone. Lost to the gate. Ed hardly had the time to process that her younger brother, who she had sacrificed so much for, was gone before an arm appeared where before, there had been none. An arm that she hadn't had since she was ten years old was suddenly reattached to her body.

In a fluid movement, Ed transmuted the ground below her into spikes that came from the ground and shot out at Father. She ripped the debris that had been pinning her to the cement from her arm, clapping her hands and performing another transmutation. She couldn't stop herself from feeling a rage as she attacked this man. This thing. He had taken her brother from her. The only family she had left was now gone because of this thing.

Ed could barely register the cheering that was going on for her by the others.

"Go, kid!" Zampano cheered.

"Elric!" Darius called out.

"Kick is ass, Ed!" Riza shouted.

"Go, Ed!" Izumi exclaimed.

"FIGHT, EDWARD ELRIC!" There was no doubting that was Armstrong. The Major, not the General.

"Please don't die," Mei prayed.

"GO, EDWARD!" Hohenheim called out.

"Don't die," Lan Fan said.

"Fullmetal!" Roy called out.

Ed continued to pummel the Homunculus, not giving him any time to recover. And this time, his defenses were low. His shield was down. All he could do was regenerate his body as it was damaged, and he hardly had time to do that.

Ed knocked him to the ground before shouting, "Get up, you novice! I'm about to show you how outclassed you really are. This fight, you lose!"

Greed. He had been taken by Father. His Philosopher stone used to fuel the rage and power of the Homunculus. Ed and Ling watched on as Greed disappeared into nothing. Father had grown more powerful in taking him, but after he had taken him, he was vulnerable. Wasn't that something Greed had said before?

Greed was gone and Ed couldn't help but feel a rage run through her. She delivered a final blow to Father's vulnerable form. She actually rammed her arm through Father's torso. He stopped moving, and as Ed removed her hand from inside of Father, he fell to the ground. Moments later, Father began to emit souls from his own body from his collapsed state. Father pulled himself up to a standing position, though his torso where Ed had shoved her arm was still gaping open.

"My stone..." Father trailed off. "You destroyed my stone..." Tentacles, not unlike the ones that had taken Ed and Alphonse to the gate those years ago, began to emit from Father's wound. "What...This can't...What is this?!"

As the arms began to encircle the Homunculus and grab hold of him, Ed said, "Go back to where you were born..." She breathed out and glared the Homunculus. "Go back to nothing, Homunculus!"

"But why?!" Father asked as he was pulled to the ground by the tentacles. "I just wanted to understand this world's knowledge! I wanted to experience it!" Father struggled against the arms pulling him. "Free! I just wanted to be free!" He was then pulled by the arms and crushed before disappearing completely.

Ed immediately turned to the armored body that used to be her brother, charging toward it. She collapsed on her knees beside the armor.

"I'm sorry..." Mei apologized. "I'm so sorry!"

"It's not your fault, Mei," Ed said quietly. "It was Al's decision."

"Ed, I've got the toll for him" Ling said suddenly, causing Ed to snap her head toward the Xingese prince. Ling held up a small vile with red water. "It's a Philosophers stone. Use it to bring him back."

"I can't," Ed whispered quietly, punching the ground as she said so. "As much as I want to, I can't. I promised Al we'd never use a Philosophers stone." Ed stared at the ground as she continued to think of something. There had to be a way to get him back! There was a way to get her arm back, and Alphonse had gotten it. But Ed couldn't return the corpse of what they had revived that night all those years ago to get Alphonse back. It would take too long; they needed to get him back now.

"Edelle," Hohenheim spoke suddenly. Ed looked in his direction. "Use my life for the toll. Use me to save Alphonse." Ed stared at her father, her mouth opening slightly in a gasp. "I've got just enough life left."

"No way!" Ed exclaimed. "I would never do that, you dumbass! This doesn't have anything to do with you! It's our own damn fault. I won't use another human life to get Al back and I don't care who it is! Why should you sacrifice your life for our mistake?!"

"Because I'm his father," Hohenheim said. "And that's the only thing that matters. You don't know how much you two mean to me and I just want you to be happy. And I do bear some responsibility for this. This might not have happened if I'd just been there for you. I'm sorry, Ed. I've lived long enough. Just give me this chance to act like a father for once in my life."

"Shut up!" Ed shouted out. No matter how she felt about her father, she couldn't let him do something like this. A life is a life no matter what. "You rotten father. You say something that dumb again and I'll knock you out!" Ed felt the tears running down her face as she stared out at her father. It was embarrassing to cry in front of all these people, but she couldn't let Hohenheim sacrifice himself.

"I'm sorry," Hohenheim apologized. "Forgive me."

Ed rubbed the tears away from her eyes, staring down at her hands in trying to find a solution. Al had gotten her arm back. She needed to do the same for him. She could always sacrifice another arm, but would the truth truly take that?

"Alphonse..." Mei cried out. "Oh, Al...poor Alphonse..."

"Mei," Ed said suddenly, hatching an idea. "Stand back a little," she said gently. Mei did as she said and Ed weakly pulled herself to a standing position. She grabbed a metal rod from the ground, using it to scrape the pavement to a circle of her will.

"That's..." Ling trailed off. "A human transmutation circle!"

"I'll be back in a few minutes," Ed said after she had finished the circle. She cast the rod aside easily. "This is my last transmutation. Stand back and enjoy the show!" She held clapped her hands in the beginning of a transmutation and pressed her hands to the circle.

"Stop, Ed!" Ling shouted out.

"Elric!" Darius and Zampano called out.

"No, Edward Elric!" Armstrong shouted.

"You finally called me Ed," Ed commented as she sat with her father. Alphonse was being cared for by several doctors. Her wounds had already been taken care of and a doctor had looked at her new arm. It was weaker than the other with less muscle and there were bits of her port still underneath her new skin. She had been informed she would need surgery to remove it.

"I did," Hohenheim said.

"And you called me Edward for a minute there too," Ed added. "I didn't think you'd actually come around to that. Any of it, really."

"A parent always wants to call their child by the name they've given them," Hohenheim said. "Or at least that's my experience of it.

"Mom called me Ed," Ed commented.

"Your mother was a saint." Hohenheim sighed. "It just took me a while to get used to. My daughter running around calling herself by a man's name. Though, I have to say, it was a fine name you chose."

"Not like I'm gonna go running around with the name Edwin or something stupid like that," Ed said. "Thank you."

"For?"

"Coming around," Ed said. "I can't forget what you did. I can't forget that you left mom and us when we needed you. But...I can't forget that in the very end, you were willing to sacrifice yourself for Al."

"You're my children," Hohenheim said. "Of course I would sacrifice my very being very you."

"Well, thanks."

And we are officially out of the manga! Time to have some fun with the sandbox of Fullmetal Alchemist.

Lily (Anon): "So did greed actually do something to ed or did he stop when she asked? Also thank you for another update :)"

So, I left that scene more of an implied scene on purpose to allow people to come to the conclusion as to what happened, but it is implied that Greed did not stop when Ed asked. The reason I didn't include everything was more so everyone could think of what happened as far as Ed struggling. Did Ed struggle? Did she submit? That's all up to the reader. Personally, I would think she would struggle over something like that, but like I said, it's up to the reader.