Disclaimer: I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist, because if I did, why would I be doing this? FMA belongs to Hiromu Arakawa and Square Enix/Aniplex/Sony Entertainment.
Author's Note: This is slight AU where Ed keeps his alchemy by offering Hohenheim as a sacrifice instead of destroying his gate, so that is why Ed still has his alchemy. Just letting you know that. With that being said, on with the show!
Four Years after the Promise Day, Edward, Roy, Alphonse, Alex, Scar, and Olivier met in the Amestris Parliament building, deciding on what to do with the restoration of Ishval.
"Members of Parliament." Roy announced. "It has come to my attention that we need to discuss the restoration of Ishval."
"But what about Xerxes, we need to make amends for what the Homunculi did to Xerxes." Ed interjected.
"Please." Roy told the blonde alchemist. "Xerxes was wiped out years ago, and Ishval was attacked by the Amestris military as of recently, so we need to focus our minds on restoring Ishval."
"But we can still rebuild Xerxes like new again!" Edward said, arguing for his father's homeland.
"Yes, but Xerxes will have to be part of Ishval, because it is already being populated by Ishvalan refugees."
"I am done arguing with you, Mustang." Edward said, putting his foot down. "Let's take this outside." The Parliament took a brief recess, as Ed and Roy settled their differences outside.
On the streets of Central, Roy commanded the Amestrian Central Soldiers, while Ed commanded an army of Ishvalan refugees that occupied Xerxes, since there was no Xerxian army to fight for him.
"Soldiers, on my mark..." Roy announced. "Fire!" The soldiers fired at the Ishvalan warriors on Roy's orders.
"Ishvalan Warriors, Fire!" Ed commanded. The Ishvalan soldiers shot at the Amestrian soldiers, shooting soldiers in the heads, and the Amestrian soldiers shooting at the Ishvalans, killing them too. Alphonse noticed the bloodshed and was ready to put a stop to them.
"Stop fighting, stop it right now!" Alphonse cried. "Fighting won't solve anything!" Roy shot fire blasts at Ed, but he dodged them. Ed transmuted his spear and did some spear thrusts at Roy, but he dodged them. Olivier stepped in and grabbed them, throwing them in opposite directions.
"THAT'S ENOUGH!" Olivier snapped. She gave off a scary appearance with a red light in her right eye with her face dimmed in the shadows, making an angry face with jagged teeth and a bloody red glow from her body that was dimmed in the shadows. All in front of a scary dark blue background.
"We are headed towards a future of prosperity and you continue to fight like children?" Olivier said, scolding Ed and Roy. "Not to mention you put the lives of humans at stake because of your nonsense!"
"We are sorry...Miss Ice Queen..." Roy said faintly.
"That changes nothing!" Olivier lashed. "As punishment for this juvenile delinquency, I am locking the both of you in the House of Commons until you come up with a solution to the problem."
"But." Roy asked, but he was cut off.
"I am going to have to confiscate your alchemist gloves so you cannot use your alchemy to blow holes in the wall to bust out."
"Joke's on you, I don't need them because I saw the gate." Roy told Olivier.
"Then have it this way." Olivier suggested. "If I any evidence of you trying to blow holes in the wall to break out, I will have you court marshaled, or worse, shot on sight. As for you, Edward, if I see you trying to use alchemy to break out, I will have you shot on sight, or worse, make you my sex slave."
Olivier took the boys into the House of Commons until they could come up with a plan for the Ishval-Xerxes problem. Olivier had her Briggs soldiers watching them while Oliver sat in a chair outside and did her nails.
"Nice going Edward, you got us into this mess." Roy said, still angry at Edward.
"Yea, well you care so much about Ishval that you don't bother to consider what happened to my people in Xerxes! And besides, I am a Xerxian so you don't even have the honor to speak for Ishvalans because you murdered them!"
"Don't bring up the past, that's old shit!" Roy said with anger. "I am trying to redeem myself here, and I don't want you to ruin it!" Roy punched Ed, knocking him to the ground.
"I am calling the fire department to break us out!" Roy pulled the fire alarm but it just activated sprinklers.
"Damn." Roy said. "Now I just screwed myself up because there is no way I am making a spark with these wet hands."
"Oh yea." Ed mentioned. "Havoc used to prank call the fire department so many times that the fire department disabled the alarm."
"Great." Roy said with frustration. "We're trapped in here, I can't use my alchemy to get us out of here, neither of us can use our alchemy to get us out of here because we would be shot on sight, so all we got to do is come up with some kind of solution for what to do with the Xerxes Ruins and Ishval."
Three hours passed, as Ed and Roy struggled to come up with an idea for what to do with the Xerxes Ruins and Ishval.
"I got it!" Roy said, sparking an idea into his mind. "What if we create a new nation from the Ishvalan territory and the Xerxes ruins, a nation where people of all nations of the alchemical world can harmoniously coexist!"
"That's a great idea!" Ed agreed. He knocked on the door, alerting the Briggs man.
"What is it?" The Briggs man asked.
"We came up with an idea on what to do with the Ishvalan and Xerxes territories." Ed told the Briggs man.
"We agreed to create a new nation from them." Roy said.
"I will let Olivier know." The Briggs man said. "Olivier, Edward and Roy have the idea of creating a new nation from the Ishvalan and Xerxes territories." Olivier just got done applying lipstick and spraying herself with perfume.
"Well then." Olivier said. "I will let them out then." She let Roy and Edward out and escorted them to the Parliament meeting room to begin a meeting.
As the meeting began, Olivier had called the meeting to order.
"Edward Elric and Roy Mustang would like to present their new idea to the Parliament." Olivier said.
"We would like to create a sixth nation from the Ishvalan and Xerxes ruins, combining Ishval and Xerxes into one nation that is a melting pot where people from all nations can coexist together harmoniously, live together in peace."
"That is not a bad idea." Scar agreed. "With Ishval as part of a melting pot, Ishvalans and Amestrians could live together in peace."
"We will put it up to a vote." Olivier announced. "All those in favor of the development of this new melting pot nation, raise your hands." A lot of people raised their hands.
"All who oppose, raise your hands." One Ishvalan man with spiked grey hair, red eyes and was wearing a black suit, white shirt and purple tie objected.
"It seems we have a majority vote." Olivier said. "The new nation has been confirmed, but this nation has no name."
"We will name it after you, Alphonse." Ed added. "We will call it Alphonia."
"Really?" Alphonse asked. "Ed, you are so sweet."
"I decided to name this nation after Alphonse because he was the reason I joined the military and heard about what happened in Ishval and the real story of what happened in Xerxes in the first place." Edward explained. "The United Colonies of Alphonia should be a new nation where alchemists and non alchemists can live together peacefully."
"The United Colonies of Alphonia has been decided as the new nation of Alphonia." Olivier announced. "Me, Alex, Alphonse, Scar, Roy, and Edward shall make up the United Colonies Council, serving as a court and a Congress. Council members shall be elected every 4 years on December 5th, so the people choose leaders to represent them."
"And also the Colonies will have their Columns of Confederation, a document that provides a weak central government with strong regional governments so each region of the new land is a nation in its own light." Alex said. "With this new nation, we will bring balance to the world and insure that all is one, and one is all."
The meeting was adjourned, and twenty years of alchemical construction began on the new alchemical nation. Cities were built, roads were paved, and the electrical grid was wired, but the process was relatively fast thanks to alchemy.
Ed and the others stayed as the council members, since people kept electing them. Twenty years passed and the capital city of the United Colonies was built, named National City, built where Xerxes once stood. National City stood a wonderful sight to behold with the United Colonies flag, a golden Blood Seal on a field of black waved at the City Hall.
However, things were not fine and dandy once National City was in full bloom.
National City had its own problems, the growing threat of gangs and terrorists, as well as the decreasing poll numbers of Edward Elric and the other councilmen not doing much to address the problem.
As Ed had to deal with the threat of the Homunculi, Ed's daughter was tasked with more modern crisis, the crisis of maintaining order in National City. The time of Edward was over, and the time of Trisha Jr. was just beginning.