You know how I got a mean review from someone Telling me that my story was "f'ing awful and how I should quit" and I got my notebook taken away because of how my mom thought I needed a break away from this story? Well I found it stole it, and finished the chapter while she was at the store. Now every time she goes out I'm writing and typing new chapters so updates will be slow until either A she realizies I stole it and grounds me and rehides my notebook, or B she actually gives It back.

Also I have a question for all readers. Does anyone know where I can find a free online translator that will translate a Japanese phrase into English letters instead of kanji? I know where I can get it to translate to kanji but Elle will be dealing with Drachma more and I'm going to make the main language of Drachma Japanese and I would like to know where I can find a translator.

My friend and I were at her house and we were talking about ideas for the Ed and Al show (which by the way the theme song for that show is up on my Youtube account if you want to see it) while playing Wii sports. My wii has nothing but anime and video game characters for mii's execpt for my friend's doppelgangers but it was Edward vs. Me and instend of cloud, Tamaki, Jasper cullen, *the only non-anime/game character on my wii* and other people I threw in the town of Xenotime. Let's see how well I remember this game.

Well this is the answer.

Chapter Twenty-Four: Baseball

Even though we knew it was unnecessary Edward and I forced Al to be on bed rest for at least a week so Al didn't stress his soul but after that week we let Al leave the house and that's when Al was curious.

"Hey Sis?" Al asked while Ed and I were having another Automail rehab for the flesh workout.

"Yeah Al-ow! What the hell was that about Edward?!" I shouted when Ed forced my arm up and it started to burn again.

"Sorry Elle." Edward smiled apologetically.

"Go ahead Al." I said.

"What was up with the random forest?"

"Random Forest?" I asked confused.

"That forest that Brother and Leah found you in."

"Oh The World! Wow, there goes the hidden blonde genes." I laughed. "The World is where the kids and I hang out and role play. We abandon the human world and enter a world that only us kids rule and we make all the laws."

"Is that why you were wearing those weird clothes the day we came?""

"Uh-huh. When we're in the world we're not human either. We can be what we want to be. We can be mages, wizards, warriors, alchemists, like I said whatever we want."

"Then why were you wearing those weird clothes?"

"Because I could. Do I need a better reason? That and it's fun to be able to get further into character. We even have fake weapons but I left mine in the Town."

"Oh. Then…can I play in The World too?" Al asked shifting his weight from one leg to the other and so forth.

"Of course! It was my intentions to introduce you two to the game anyways."

Just then Mom walked inot the room with at least four baskets of vegetables.

"Are you making stew for dinner Mom?" I asked.

"No. Don't you remember Elle? Today is the great baseball game."

"Great baseball game?" Edward asked confusedly.

"Once every other month or so Xenotime's businesses close and we play baseball all day long." I replied. "I love baseball."

"I'm sorry Elle." Ed sighed.

"What about Brother?" Al asked curious and so was I.

"Yeah seriously." I replied.

"She's paralyzed in one arm Al. She can't possibly play." Ed replied.

"Sure I can. I've been practicing for ages." I said.

"Alright." Edward added getting up and went to my room to get my baseball bat and brought it over. "Prove it. Grab the bat."

I used my working hand to force my other hand to grip the bat then I grabbed the bat with my working hand and lifted it up over my shoulder.

"See?"

"Alright but can you swing?"

"Not in the house I can't." I said.

"Why not?"

"I'm not breaking anything."

"Elle, there's two alchemists' right here. We can fix it." Edward replied.

"And I'm right here Edward." Mom smirked. "Go outside and do your little test."

"Alright. Come on guys." Edward said and mom tossed Ed and Al each a glove and she also tossed a baseball to Ed.

"Thanks Mary!" Ed shouted as he and Al ran outside and I followed.

"Elle, please be careful." Mom said.

"Maybe." I joked as I walked out and I led Edward and Alphonse to an abandoned lot so we could practice our swings.

It wasn't to much longer before it was close for the game to start. We sent Al ahead of us while Ed and I changed into a pair of shorts and a tank top because it got a lot hotter than it was supposed to be. However Edward wasn't to happy.

"Edward, what's wrong?" I asked as we headed toward the field.

"I hate this." Edward replied.

"You don't have to play if you don't want to."

"No not the game." (If you thought about "the game" game you lose lol)

"Are you worried about your automail showing?" I asked knowing how Edward was self-confident about it.

"That and my scars from 'that'."

"Ed your not the only one who has scars." I said rather irritated. "I'm not scarless either. My arm is proof of that."

"Yeah but."

"No buts Edward." I replied. "I may not have automail like you but I don't care and no one in this town cares about automail either. Dad had automail too, remember that."

"Alright Elle." Ed said sadly.

"I love ya Bro." I said hugging him with one arm.

"I know Elle. I do too." Ed added placing one of his arms around my shoulder and we got to the field like that and when Al saw us he ran over to us.

"Brother! Sister! Are you two okay? Are you hurt? Were you attacked?" Al asked frantically.

"Yes, no, no, no, and no." I said with a weird look. "We were just having a brother/sister moment that's all." I said and Al sighed in relief.

"So, did Mom or anyone else tell you how to play the game?"

"We play baseball all the time El." Ed said

"I don't doubt that. But we try to make it fair for the little kids like Leah or Ben. We can't strike them out and the only way they can get out is if we catch the ball in mid-air or we touch the bases." I whispered. "Also if one of them is up we usually fake things. Like if we can catch it we purposely don't."

"Oh okay we get it." Al replied.

"Hey Elle. The teams should be picked by you and Edward." Elisa said.

"You want to spark a compatition don't you?" I asked.

"That might not be a bad idea." Roy smirked from a bench.

"Why Colonel?" Al asked.

"It's better for twins to compete." Hawkeye added. "It brings them closer."

"Why not." I shrugged.

"You sure?" Ed asked.

"Yeah."

"Alright then."

So once everyone arrived Edward and I picked teams and we had a ten on ten game and Edward and I had to play at least ten rounds of rock paper scissors before we gave up.

"Al/Elisa you do it!" Ed and I said in unison.

"For separated twins they have the same wavelengths huh?" Ben asked laughing as he stood over by Roy.

"They're still twins." Roy smiled and Al had be Elisa.

"Edward, are you pitching or are you going to bat?" I asked.

"I call bat." Ed replied.

"Alright then. I'll need the ball." I said.

"No Elle. I'm going to pitch." Roy said. "Why don't you play shortstop?" Roy asked and I handed over the ball.

"Oh alright." I sighed defeatedly and I headed over to the outfield and I had a cloud of despair over my head as I sulked over by the fence.

"Elle, why do you have a cloud of despair above you?" Pete asked.

"Cause I can!" I shouted.

"Whatever you say Elle." Edward laughed as he picked up the basebal bat and he headed towards home plate.

"Wait! Roy you took your gloves off right?" I asked.

"Uh-huh. They're in my pocket." Roy said patting the said pocket. "I'm not going to set anything on fire."

"What about anyone?" I thought with a smirk.

Anyways, Roy apparently had been on the baseball team back when he was in high school so I lucked out when I picked him for my team. (That and I knew that Edward wouldn't pick Roy unless Roy was last and we wanted the day to go smoothly)

"Get ready Elle! I'm making this go right out there!" Ed shouted.

"And I'll catch it just you watch!" I called as he got ready to hit the ball just as Al got ready to be the catcher.

"Al, you can't be catcher." Roy said.

"Why not?"

"The catcher is on the other team so it's not betrayal when the catcher tags someone out." Pete explained. "I'm going to be catcher for Elle's team."

"You can be catcher when Elle's team is up to bat."

"Really!?" Al asked happily.

"Yeah."

"Okay." Al replied. "Hit it out of the park brother." Al said heading to a dug out and sat in front of it.

"I can so see him with one of those cheerleader fans." I laughed quietly.

I quickly stood up and walked over to shortstop and put my glove on.

"Hey Fullmetal! Are you ready?" Mustang asked.

"Oh yeah. Bring it on old man." Ed shouted.

"Roy is only twenty-five or so." I thought. "Then again, brother does hate him." I sighed and I sweat dropped.

"Everyone ready?" Roy asked.

"Hai Taisa-san!" Everyone shouted and I laughed.

"Huh?" Roy asked tilting his head.

"I know Drachmaian. But I only just recently learned the state names for the alchemists in Central."

"And you taught them?"

"A little bit." I laughed.

"What's mine?" Ed asked anxiously. "Do you know?"

"Uh…yeah. It's Hagane no Renkinjutsushi."

"Huh, it's kinda weird sounding."

"Well it's not Amtresian and you aren't used to hearing Drachmaian either Brother."

"Neither are you. How can you say that I'm not used to it if you're not."

"I may not be used to hearing it but I do know it. So it's not all that foreign sounding to me. Dad…he taught me Drachmaian and I liked the language and the way he taught it made it easy to remember." I added.

"Well, how do you remember all of it?" Al asked.

"Memorization techniques. The same way you guys learned everything you know about Alchemy. I've read and studied everything I could."

"Can we please have a Elric brawl later?" Alex asked. "We want to play ball."

"Yeah, we wanna play ball." Leah said.

"We weren't going to fight." I said. "But oh well, let's play ball."

Roy go in a few practice pitches with Pete and Edward practiced his swinging before walking up to the plate and Ed managed to hit the ball but it turned out to be foul and Elisa threw the ball back to Roy.

"1-0" Pete called.

"Huh?" Ed asked confused.

"You don't know the scoring system do you?" Roy asked.

"No."

"strikes and balls. Fouls go in with the strikes." Pete added. "The only ones that system doesn't apply for is the little kids and they know it."

"That's different from how we played in Risembool." Al said.

"Those are the pro rules. How did you guys play?"

"You keep going until you hit the ball."

"The school rules or the rules for the little kids." I said.

"Oh well, hit me with your best shot." Ed said.

"Dear god here we go." I moaned. "Everyone move back!" I called and Uncle Jake, Riza, and John backed up further so that they could catch Ed's hit if he managed to hit the ball Roy pitched.

Roy pitched the ball and Ed power drived it right towards me and I wanted to show Edward up, (why? Cause I could) so I ran right for it with my arm extended and I titled my hand a little so the ball wouldn't bounce right out.

I got underneath the ball and waited for it to fall into my waiting hand and when it did I closed my hand.

"Take that Brother! You're out!" I laughed.

"Now you can catch? What kind of crap is that?" Ed shouted.

"I just got lucky." I called back and Ed stomped back to his team's dug out.

Alphonse tehn stood up and walked over to the baseball bat and the bat was only big enough for one of his giant hands.

"Hey Al, you want me to transmute the bat?" Edward asked.

"No. I couldn't do that." Alphonse said since that particular bat wasn't one of mine.

"As long as you return it to it's original state go ahead." Micheal called angerly.

I hated Michael. He owned the town library and even though our library has a poor selection, it was still there. Michael was also a very uptight man. He hated pretty much everyone, including me, and everything so I was surprised when he said that Al could transmute his precious bat."

"No thanks." Al called. "I'll be fine." Al said and I saw a lot of cast a side steel in the corner.

I knew that Edward would be really pissed at me but I wanted Al to play as normal as possible so I snuck over to the steel and sneakily turned the steal into a wider and longer baseball bat.

"Hey Alphonse! Look at what I found." I called.

"Is that a bat?" He asked.

"Yeah. An official pro bat too. Why don't you try to use this?" I asked hoping Al didn't know the diffrence between a pro baseball bat and this custom made bat.

"Um…okay." Al said unsurely and I brought the bat over to him, handed it over, and ran back to my spot on the field.

Roy pitched the ball and Al tried to hit it but he swung to early.

"1-0" Pete called.

Roy pitched again but it was way over the plate.

"1-1."

The same happened again.

"1-2."

Finally Al hit the ball and it soared way past Hawkeye and by the time she got to it Al was already on second base.

"Stay Al!" Ed called.

Eventually a couple of runs were made and then I caught another ball making three outs and we switched sides and Al had stayed behind to be catcher.

"Give me the damned ball Taisa." Ed said.

"Edward, control your language please!" I replied. "There are little people here."

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SMALL!? I'M NOT A HOBBIT DAMN IT!"

"I didn't call you small. I meant little as in young people you damn short rant obessiver." I called back.

"Now who needs to watch their language." Roy asked smugly.

"Oh be quiet and give Ed the darn ball." I said heading to the dug out and Ed let Al practice catching the ball and it also gave Jake the chance to practice his swing too before he stepped up to the plate.

"Edward, are you sure you can pitch that far? You were pretty out of it last week." Jake asked consirned so Edward didn't flip out. (thank god)

"Yeah I'm okay Jake." Ed said. "Elle and Mom brought plenty of water for us." Ed added pointing to a cooler we dragged with sut aht was filled with ice and water bottles since mom and I recycled.

"Al, come here for a second." I said and Al came over and I dragged him over behind one of the dug outs.

"What's wrong?"

"You do know that out of everyone here only Mom, the military, Ed, and I know that there isn't a suit of armor on the inside right?"

"Of course I do. Why?"

"People are going to wantt o see you drink water. Meaning your blood seal could be in trouble. I just can't believe that I only thought about it now."

"Brother took care of that before we came. He added a plate that'll cover my blood seal."

"But the cracks in the armor. They'll poor out the water."

"Come here." Al said and he pulled me completely behind the dug out and he opened his chest plate and inside on a small shelf sat a long, deep plastic bucket.

"Thank god brother thought a head." I said.

"Well Ed know sabout the heat. I might have to fake eating food too in order to keep up the façade.

"Now that may be a problem. That'll mean taking off your helmet. Don't worry, I'll talk to mom and Ed. We're figure something out…oh wait…I just did."

"what?"

"You're still eleven al therefore, puberty is right around the corner. Being so tall if you were to hit puberty now you'd be a dead man."

"And your point?"

"Boys usually go through puberty before girls do. Unless you're Edward, but that's antoher story." I laughed at that part. "They have medicine that stops puberty. I had to take it a long time ago because I started puberty early. When you're on those pills you can only eat two meals a day."

"So, what's your point?"

"Al, since you're so tall you would be on those pills if you were in a human body."

"Oh! I get it now." Al said.

"Wow Alphonse."

"Blonde moment."

"While you're in that armor you can't blame hair color Al."

"Aw man, you took away my hope."

"Must you be so mellodramatic lil' bro?"

"Well I tried to be funny." Al admitted.

"Don't quit your day job Alphonse." I laughed and we ran back onto the field.

"You had better not have been cheating Elle Elizabeth Elric." Edward called.

"No Ed, I just wanted to make sure Alphonse did something back at the house."

"If you say so." Ed said skeptically.

We played for a while and the score became 3-2 with Ed's team in the lead before it was my turn and my team had two outs already.

I walked forward and forced my hand around the bat like I did earlier and once I had it I walked towards the base.

"Move in. Elle probably can't hit the ball that far with her retarded arm." Someone called.

"Hey! Stay where you are and don't talk about my sister that way. She can hit a decent ball." Ed shouted angerly

"The little brat." The man mouthed in Drachmanian and I was pissed off since I already knew Drachmanian and I could also read lips.

I walked over to the man and got up in his face.

"If you ever say anything offensive about me or my brothers again I'll shove this bat up your ass so hard people will mistake you for a ventriloquists' dummy and that's not a threat, it's a promise. Neither Alphonse, Edward, and I chose to be the way we are." I growled.

"Look brat, I don't want to be here and I need to be here in order to get paid by my employer. Besides, you don't have any power anymore. You're just a state alchemist and you can't even transmute. You're just a little kid now." He said in Drachmanian.

"Heh, you're wrong. I do still have power. I'm only on medical leave, I'm not fired. And I can still transmute. I think you need to cool off anyways." I said in Drachmanian and transmuted the ground to make a giant fountain and water pored onto the man's head. "Screw you." I added before tossing the bat and walked of the field.

"Elle! Wait for us!" Edward and Alphonse called before chasing after me.

They eventually caught up with me and they knew I was in one of my pissed off moods so they were careful with what they said.

"What's wrong Elle? What did that man say to you?" Alphonse asked. "And in what language? Drachmanian?"

"He came here from Drachma and is fluent in it. But he mouthed that you were a brat in Drachmanian Edward and you know how mad that would make me." I said.

"That definitely wasn't all of it."

"Well he told me that I had no power and that I couldn't transmute anymore so I told him that I could and drenched him in water."

"What about your arm?" Al asked.

"Huh." I said normally looking at my arm. "It doesn't hurt." I added.

"Not at all?" Al asked dumbfounded.

"No, not at all." I added happily. "Maybe we really can get my arm back to normal one day."

"Maybe. We'll just have to work harder." Ed said.

"Yeah!"

Maybe, just maybe, I can beat all the odds."