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New stories. I'm going to be starting a poll asking you guys, my readers, which story I should work on. I'm going to work on the two most popular choices, and move from there.
DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING! I just create odd ideas like this…which is the result of my figments.
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Summary: In the middle of an ambush, Edward Elric finds himself sent to a different world, where what he finds ordinary is extraordinary. AU and OOC Rated T for violence and language.
"Come on, men! Get those road blocks up!" Colonel Roy Mustang shouted. The MPs around him got to work setting up the road block on a nearby road.
This was the first real fight that Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist, was going into to protect his country. He insisted that his younger brother, Alphonse, stay in Resembool. He didn't want to risk loosing his kid brother a second time. The creak of his automail arm reminded him of the sacrifice he made to bring Alphonse back after a failed transmutation.
"Fullmetal!" the Colonel called. The blonde-haired fifteen-year-old looked at him as he said, "Fix up those barriers over there! If the rioters break through, there's no way we're going to be able to hold them off!"
Edward nodded, not saying anything. The truth was he'd rather not be here, but this was part of the agreement that he set up with Mustang in return for being able to research the Philosopher's Stone.
Edward got to the roadblocks and clapped his hands together, slamming them into the ground to reform the barriers. What he got was an unpleasing surprise. The rebellion had set a transmutation circle here; that he just activated.
The flash of light from it was enormous, and made the MPs turn their heads. From behind all of them, the rebellion attacked, and they were thrown into the midst of a fight in the city of Central.
Edward, meanwhile, was visiting The Truth.
"So, we meet again." The Truth grinned, his smile literally stretching from one side of his face to the other. He was nothing but a white figure otherwise.
Edward growled, "What am I doing here?"
The Truth answered, "What do you think?"
"I didn't activate that circle on purpose!" Ed shouted.
"While this may be true, I'm just doing my part in what the circle was meant to do," The Truth stated. Before Edward could ask what The Truth meant, the Gate sitting behind him opened, and Edward was dragged through by tiny black arms. "Good luck in your new life," The Truth called out after him.
Edward groaned, shaking his head to clear it. He looked around, realizing he was in the middle of an abandoned alley. From the looks of it, he was in East or Central. Most likely it was Central, from the sound, but he couldn't be sure. He slowly got to his feet, gaining his sense of balance. Edward did a quick check to make sure everything was intact. While he still had no arm and leg, the automail was there in place of the missing limbs. Edward felt an unexpected relief from this fact, before checking everything else. He still had his silver pocket watch, his jacket, his shoes, and all the other valuables he carried around with him. Now it was time to see what The Truth changed, and where he was.
Edward slid out of the alley. He realized he was in one of the back streets, where people were less prone to walk. On this street, there were two Ishbalans. From just looking, they appeared to be father and son. They pointed at him and whispered, before the son got up and disappeared into the house behind them. Edward took it as nothing, walking down the street. He realized that he was in East, not Central. This fact bugged Edward for some reason, and there was something about the way the Ishbalan father was looking at him that kept Edward on his toes.
Edward was almost at the end of the alley when he noticed something. It was a piece of paper. To be more exact, it was a Wanted Poster. Edward looked at it, shocked to realize that the person who was wanted was him, dead or alive. Edward stole a glance at the Ishbalan and realized in the nick of time to duck out of the way of a bullet.
"Dammit! What was that for?" Ed shouted at the Ishbalan.
The Ishbalan, now holding a gun, replied, "Shut up. You're coming with me." The Ishbalan slowly approached Edward, holding his gun at the ready on the chance Edward tried anything.
There was a flurry of movement as the Ishbalan was tossed aside. "What are you doing?" the transvestite called out to him, holding the Ishbalan down. "Go! Lust and Gluttony are waiting for you at the end of the next street. I'll hold this guy!" When Edward just stared at Envy in confusion, Envy shouted, "Go, you idiot!"
Edward realized that Envy was trying to help him, for what reason he didn't know. He turned and ran, trying to figure out what was going on.
There were more people on this street, all of them but two were Ishbalans. Edward recognized Lust and Gluttony, and he couldn't say he was pleased to see them. They looked happy to see him, though, and started making their way for him when the Ishbalans realized he was standing there. They started firing at him, trying for any hit they could get. Edward dodged all of the bullets, and was getting ready to pull up a barrier to protect himself when he felt something hit him on the back of the head. He fell unconscious, still wondering what was going on.
"Ed! Ed! God dammit, Ed, if you don't open your eyes, you're going to have a lot more than just a bump on your head!" a voice screamed at him when he came too. Edward groaned, opening his eyes. Lust, Gluttony, and Envy were in his field of vision, a bright light hanging above them. All three of them looked relieved to see him open his eyes.
Envy said, "Geez, Ed. You told us you were going to do recon in the East, but you never said anything about playing hooky with the Ishbalans. Again."
Edward just stared at Envy, wondering what was wrong with the shape-shifting Homunculus. The fact that Envy didn't insult him and called him by his name was weird enough, but the fact it was his nickname Envy used made Edward wonder if he was in some kind of freak house.
"Well? How are you going to explain yourself?" Envy asked.
Edward shook his head. "Ok, this is a dream. It has to be," Edward muttered. All of it was a dream, from the fact that a rebellion was rising in Central to the fact that he was called in to help fight against the war and activated that transmutation circle to the fact that Envy was actually being nice to him.
"How's that philosophy working for you, kid?" Envy asked after Edward had muttered that to himself a few times. "Do you not remember anything?"
"Remember anything?" Ed retorted. "Remember anything? I remember everything!"
A voice from the doorway interrupted them. "Geez, Envy. Out of everyone here, I'd expect you to be able to tell an imposter from the real thing." Everyone turned to the door, seeing an Ed-look-alike. The only differences were that he had both arms, as seen by the black T-shirt he was wearing, and was tall. Envy's height tall. Ed couldn't tell if this copy had an automail leg or not. "I mean, look at how short he is. He couldn't even pass for a good fake-me."
"WHO YOU CALLING A SHRIMP?" Ed shouted at the look-alike, though he hated the fact that this imposter was taller than him.
Envy looked between the two of them, saying, "I don't notice the height much, ok? I thought you seemed weird, what with the way you were acting."
"Hey! Wait a minute!" Edward shouted. He stood up and pointed at Envy, stating, "You always notice my height. ALWAYS!"
Envy stared at Edward like he was crazy, before standing up himself. He shrugged, saying, "Well. We might as well take you to see Wrath. Maybe he'll know what to do with you."
"What makes you think I'm going to follow you?" Edward asked, finding a gun pointed at his chest.
"If you don't," his look-alike threatened, "Then you're going to find yourself in a very bad position, scrub."
Edward had it with this idiot. He slammed his hands together, catching the barrel of the gun with his hands, and changed the barrel into a trumpet, similar to how he did it to that guy on the hijacked train way-back-when.
All of them stared at him in shock. "You can use chemistry?" Lust asked him.
Ed snorted. "Chemistry? That's the weirdest name I've heard it be called."
"There's no way," the second Ed muttered, looking at the first one skeptically. "Chemistry didn't work beyond the transmutation circles, and even so, it didn't make any real advancements to be able to do something of this caliber."
"You make it sound like its dead," the first Ed said.
"It is dead," all of them stated, followed by Gluttony's humming of 'dead, dead.'
Envy looked at Gluttony and said, "Most of it is, anyway."
Edward stared at them, wondering what was going on here. The taller Edward sighed. "Look, come with us to talk to Wrath. You seem to have a lot of questions about this place," he reasoned. "We'll also have questions for you, but maybe we can find something to work with."
"Equivalent Exchange," the shorter Ed muttered.
"What was that?" Envy asked from the door.
Edward shook his head, saying, "Nothing. Sure, I'll come with you guys. For every question you ask me, I get to ask you something."
"Sounds fair to me," the look-alike said. "I'm Edward Elric."
"This is going to be confusing," the first Ed muttered.
Envy asked, "Why's that?"
"My name is also Edward Elric," Ed stated bluntly. Everyone stared at him, wondering if he was serious.
"That pocket watch," Edward said, nodding to the chain hanging from his pants. "Let me see it."
The shorter Ed showed it to him. Envy walked over, looking at it. They tried to open it, but found it had been sealed shut.
"Well, how about this?" Envy suggested once they were done looking at the watch. He pointed at the taller Ed and said, "You're Edward." He then pointed at the shorter one and said, "You're Elric."
Both of them stared at them like he was crazy. "Envy, you realize I reply to both, right?" the taller one stated.
"Hey, I was just trying to think of something that would work!" Envy defended himself. He turned to shorter Ed and asked, "You have anything else you go by?"
"I'm also known as the Fullmetal Alchemist," Edward stated.
Envy nodded. "Edward. Fullmetal. There, we've got our names. Now let's go see Wrath." With that, Envy turned around and walked out of the room, Fullmetal staring after him in confusion.
Edward said to him, "You'll get used to Envy. Everyone does."
With that, they left.
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Just to make my life easy, I'm going to be referring to Edward 1 as 'Fullmetal' and Edward 2 as 'Edward'. No, I don't know why Envy didn't realize that was the wrong Edward. Hopefully more things will be explained in the next chapter, such as why the hell Edward is working with the Homunculi in the first place. And Envy's OOCness. Can't guarantee anything, though.
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