Worlds Apart (Hiatus)

by LisaandIvy

Lisa is a... strange girl to say the least. So falling head-first into another dimension is no big deal. The big deal is getting out. So now Lisa follows Edward and Alphonse on their journey for redemption on the chance of getting back to her home. The only issue she has to work out is whether she's really ready to leave yet. (looking for betas, on hiatus till further notice)

2. Awkward Meetings

Ch.2 Awkward Meetings?

Ed stumbled as he scrambled to get out of the madman's reach. Al sat at the mouth of the alley, his armor having a huge hole just blown into it. "You bastard!" Ed shouts. Scar grunts. "You're to slow." He says again. "Ah! Damn it!" Ed quickly transmuted his automail. "An automail arm... Then that explains why my attacks didn't do the damage I expected." Scar mumbled to himself. "Most unusual." "Brother, don't! Al cried out, reaching for his brother. "Just run away!" "You idiot!" Snapped Ed. "I'm not just going to leave you behind Al!" Scar mumbled to himself. "You press your hands together to make a ring, and then you perform transmutation... Now I see."

Ed charged Scar, shouting aloud. Scar sidestepped Ed's attack before seizing his bladed hand. "Then I will have to start by destroying this abhorrent right arm of yours." "BROTHER!" Screamed Al.

Crackle.

BOOM.

Ed's eyes widened as he fell on his rump. His arm was now nothing more than tiny bits and pieces scattered around the street. "Now you will not be able to use your heretic's alchemy." He turned and started to scramble away before collapsing, half on his side. Scar took a step towards the collapsed alchemist. "I will give you a moment to pray to god." Al attempted to drag himself closer to the madman towering over his brother. "Brother!" He begged. "Run away! Brother!" Ed struggled with a dark chuckle. "Unfortunately, there isn't any god I'd like to pray to. Am I the only one you're trying to kill today? Or are you going after my brother Al, too?" Scar glanced back at the slowly falling apart suit of armor. "If he interferes, I will eliminate him, but, FullMetal Alchemist, you are the only one who's receiving judgment today. You alone." Ed nodded. "Okay... In that case, I want your word. Promise me you won't hurt my brother!" Al gasped. "Brother!" he whimpered. Scar nodded. "I will keep that promise."

Ed looked down with defeat and relief on his face. Scar started to kneel down, Al crying for Ed to run.

"LOOK OUT!"

Scar glanced up just as the soles of someone's sandals met his face.

Scar was sent flying backwards. Al gasped, partially in surprise, mostly in relief. Ed's head shot up as the thing... no, the PERSON hit the ground. They created a slight crater, making Ed wonder how high up they had fallen from. The person sat up, rubbing their head and rump. "Good gravy, that hurt!" Ed blinked in surprise. The person in front of him, this person who fell out of the sky... had just saved his life. And she was the most normal looking person he had ever seen.

She had short brown hair, nearly chocolate colored, that came to a choppy end just above her bright green jacket. He could just see the tops of her black tank top sleeves. She looked around, obviously confused. Her eyes landed on Scar, her whole body freezing up when she noticed the madman starting to get to his feet. Her head spun around and Ed got his first look at his savior's face. She was slightly pale, like she spent most of her time inside but did get out some. Her bright green eyes were wide with a mix of surprise, confusion, fear and... was that excitement? She abruptly jumped to her feet, spinning to face Scar. Her arms shot out from her sides, her thin frame looking tiny next to the killer.

"Don't you take one step closer!" She shouted. Ed was surprised by how strong her voice was for someone who had just created a small crater with their body. Scar glared her down. "You will stand aside or I shall eliminate you as well." To both alchemists' surprise she smirked at him cockily. "Only if you can get close enough to touch me."

BANG!

Everyone's heads spun towards the sound. Roy Mustang stood in front of what looked to be some kind of military blockade, his still smoking pistol pointed skywards. "That's enough! You won't be killing anyone else today, Scar. I'm taking you into custody, where you will answer for the murders of at least ten state alchemists." As Scar and Mustang went through their little debate, the girl spun on her heels and knelt beside Ed, pulling him into a sitting position.

"C'mon!" She pulled his remaining arm over her shoulder. "Let's get you out of the way, before-" Riza kicked Mustang's feet out from under him. Scar danced back as the lieutenant shot at him. She sighed. "THAT happens..." She grumbled and pulled at his arm. "Snap out of it!" She pulled Ed to his feet, him leaning on her heavily. His mind was still trying to wrap around the events that had just unfolded. She growled under her breath as she struggled to drag him towards the military officers. Riza and Havoc rushed to the two teens. Riza quickly draped her jacket around Ed's shoulders. As Armstrong appeared and they all went through their dialogue, the girl started towards Al.

*************************************************Lisa's P.O.V.************************************************

I hurried over to Al, avoiding Armstrong and Scar's battle, ignoring what the others were saying. 'If Scar is here... And it looks like this is just after the Nina incident, at least, according to what Havoc said. This must mean I landed in the Manga/Brotherhood version. I was almost hoping for the 2003 version, but this'll be a lot better.' I grin slightly.

My expression quickly changes to one of concern as I kneel in front of Al. I gently tap his helmet. "Yo, you still with me kid?" Al lifts his head slightly to look at me. His eyes, nothing more than glowing orbs in a suit of armor, gives me a tiny chill. "Y-you... saved my brother." I smile and nod. "That wasn't entirely intentional, but it worked out for everyone." I chuckle. Al nods and I can imagine his soul smiling under the armor. Suddenly the ground below us shakes and an explosion sounds EXTREMLY close by. I yelp and fall on my butt. I growl and glance in the direction I know the explosion came from. "Damn that man." I growl. 'How can a character that starts out so FUCKING MEAN turn into such an awesome dude!' "Alphonse!" I hear Ed shout.

I scurry to my feet and get a few feet away, kind of hiding in the alley. Ed stumbles over to Al before taking my spot in front of him, holding part of Al's chest plate. "Al! Talk to me! Are you alright?" I bite my lip in an attempt to not laugh and cry at the same time. It feels like I'm intruding in this personal moment of theirs. "Come on, Al! Al do hear me?" Al rears his arm back and hits Ed with all his might. Ed cries out in surprise and pain while he falls backwards, holding his chin where Al hit him. "Why didn't you run away when I told you to?!" Al demanded. "What kind of idiot are you?!" Ed growls slightly. "No way! I'm not just going to run away and leave you behind!" "Which is exactly why you're an idiot!" Al punches Ed again. "Why do you keep punching me like that for?" Ed whines, holding his jaw. "If I'd run away, you could've been killed, you know that?!" Al slammed his hand on his knee.

"And maybe I wouldn't have been! Making the decision to die is something an idiot does!"

"Hey, easy on the idiot stuff! I'm still your older brother, got it?!"

"I'll say it all I want to!" Al shouts and grabs Ed by the front of his shirt. "Survival is the only way, Ed!

Live on, learn more about alchemy. You could find a way to get out bodies back, and help people like Nina. You can't do that by dying! I won't allow you to abandon the possibility of hope and choose a meaningless death!" Al's arm crumbles and falls off. "Oh, great! And now my arm's come off because my brother's a big, fat idiot!" Ed's head hung down as he smiled. "We're really falling apart, aren't we, brother? We look like we belong in a junkyard." "But we're still alive." Al says quietly. "Hm. We are."

I smile and step closer. "So, are you two ok now?" Both boys look up at me in surprise. Guess they forgot I was here. I grin and give a little wave. Ed has this look like he has no idea who I am. He was pretty comatose there for awhile, but seriously. "I'm the girl who fell out of the sky." I point up to prove my point. Ed's eyes widen with recognition. 'Does this guy EVER stop widening his eyes in this episode?!' He yells and scrambles backwards, pointing at me like I'm diseased. Al sighs. "BROTHER! She saved your life! You should be thankin-" "HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?!" Ed shouts. I grin and laugh. "I'm pretty hard to kill. A little fall can't do shit." "You made a freaking CRATER!" I shrug. "Eh. Nothing new." Ed and Al do the typical anime sweat drop as I laugh.

"FullMetal!" Mustang walks over. He looks at me suspiciously. 'Did he see me land? I think he did.' "What are you doing?" Roy demands. Ed points at me again. "You SAW her fall out of the sky right?! Did you see that freaking crater?!" Mustang nods and then looks at me. "You're coming with me, understand?" I nod, still grinning, and salute. "Yes sir, Colonel, sir!" Roy glances at the boys who shake their heads. He sighs and heads towards the car. Riza, Havoc and Armstrong come over to help get Ed and Al to the car. I follow, still grinning like a moron. I can see Ed continuing to glance back at me. I hope I'm weirding him out. That was the whole point.

**********************************************Mustang's office************************************************

As Roy launches into the history of the Ishvalin war, I pretend to listen while attempting to remember the names of everyone in the room. When I finally come back from my little mental place... or whatever... Ed's already said that they have to "pay a visit to our mechanic." Now they're all looking at me. I blink several times and glance around.

"... What?"

Roy sighs. "I asked who you are and how you just happened to fall out of the sky on a serial killer." I nod. "Ok, ok... uhm... let's see... how do I explain this..." I sit on the little coffee table in the middle of the room.

"Well, first off, my name is Lisa Naomi Green and I'm from an alternate dimension. I have the ability to travel between dimensions and ... well this." I snap my fingers and a knife appears several inches above my hand. It drops and I catch it. I hand it to Roy. "It's not a trick, and it ain't alchemy." Roy looks it over before handing the knife to Riza, who continues to inspect it. "I'm not the only one with this ability either. My sister can do it too. Though she's not here, she wasn't with me when... When..." I trail off. 'Why can't I remember what happened?' "When what?" asks Ed, eyeing me like I'm the devil... or Envy... It's about the same thing to him I suppose. I bit my lip and rub my temples. "I... I'm not sure... Give me a second to remember..." I try to ignore them as the start talking, saying things like "Maybe she's an escaped mental patient?" "Maybe she's amnesiac and making stuff up." "Do you think she can make food appear?" "I bet someone paid her to say all that stuff." I sigh and drop my arms onto my lap.

"1. I am NOT an escaped mental patient, if I was, there would be cotton candy clouds and Roy would be dancing like a ballerina." Ed and most of the others snickered, leaving Roy to glare at me, Riza smiling behind him. "2. I am not amnesiac and I have been through too much shit to make any of it up." (LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL) "3. Yes." I snap my fingers and the coffee table is suddenly over-flowing with food. "4. No one could pay me enough to make all that up." Ed is already gobbling down the food. I grab an apple and start eating it. "Mmmmm..." My head shoots up and I snap my fingers. "I remember now! That asshole at the door threw me in here!" "What door?" asks Al. I turn to him, grinning. "I'm so very glad you asked Alphonse!" I jump up and off the table before clearing it up. I snap and several sticks appear, 5 lying parallel to each other and one laying perpendicular to the others.

"Now all you fools gather round so I can do ma thing." I gesture them all closer. Hesitantly they all come closer. I grin and turn to my sticks. "See, dimensions are constantly moving." I start moving three of the sticks around. "But there are two dimensions that don't move whatsoever. My home dimension, since it's a direct extension from the beginning of all dimensions, and yours, the one we're in right now." "And why is that?" asks Riza. "Well, because of the Gate." Ed coughs and nearly chokes on whatever he was just eating. "The Gate?" His voice comes out strained and kind of high pitched. I nod. "Ya see, the Gate and Truth do much more than regulate Equivalent Exchange. The Gate itself regulates what comes in and out of this dimension as a whole and the interactions between the different sub-dimensions and timelines in it. Truth oversees all of that and keeps the Gate, and its little minions, in line." I glance around to see confused looks from everyone. "By minions, I mean the souls who are stuck inside the Gate." "Wanna explain how you know all that?" asks Mustang. I roll my eyes. "Cause I've SEEN the dimension and sub-dimensions and the different timelines. I've walked in the space between dimensions, HELL I've fought things in there!"

"So, uh, what about this one here chief?" Havoc points to the perpendicular stick. I grin. "That little dimension there is my own personal world. Came with the powers. My sister and I have our own personal worlds in this dimension." I gently roll the stick up and down the other sticks. "It also serves as a sort of cross roads between dimensions I've been to. A train station if you would." I snap. The sticks disappear and a 3D figure of a floating island appears. (For you DBZ fans, it's like Kami's lookout.) It has a bunch of doors on the edge of the island and a house in the middle. "The heck is that?!" Exclaims Hughes, leaning closer and inching his glasses to the bridge of his nose. "It's a holographic version of my island world. Each of those doors lead to a specific dimension, all the way down to the specific timeline I went to." Roy strokes his chin *cough cough*invisible beard*cough cough* "And the house?" he asks. "Oh, that's where my unicorns live."

*cricket noise cricket noise*

"I was 5 years old once. I believed in unicorns." *cricket noise cricket noise* "I've met unicorns!"*cricket noise cricket noise* "... I just killed any respect you guys had for me, didn't I?" Everyone nods. I sigh and the figure disappears. "Whelp, now that I'm done explaining that, I ought to explain why I'm here... It's quite simple really. I gotta figure out whatever problem it is that the god of this dimension, Truth in this case, has set up for me. Then I gotta fix it and then I can leave." "Just like that?" asks Ed. I nod. "Yup. Just like that. And I'm going to go about the same way I've been doing it for 3 years." Roy straightens up and crosses his arms. "And that way is?" "I'm going to follow around the people who get in the most trouble, namely the people who actually go out and do things." Roy glares at me, as Ed shakes his head. "Nonononono. You aren't com-" "She's going with you." "What!" Ed screeches and glares at the Colonel. "She is technically from a guest from another country and you must show her the utmost hospitality." "If you want to give her hospitality , let her stay here with you in Central!" Ed and Mustang launch into an argument.

Al sighs before noticing something-ahem, someone- hanging off his arm. *cough cough me cough cough* I give him my best puppy eyes. "Ed listens to you! Convince him!" Al blinks in surprise before nodding. I sit down next to him as he starts talking. "Brother, she DID save your life." Ed spun around with a 'are you kidding me' look on his face. "You're taking HIS side?!" Ed asks incredulously, pointing at Roy, who's grinning triumphantly. Al shakes his head and points at me. "No, I'm taking her side. Plus she needs our help to get home! We can't just... NOT help her!" I smile and give my best innocent face.

Ed half-sighs, half-growls. "GAH! Alright fine! She can come with." "Not like you have a choice." I say under my breath, grinning. Mustang turns to me. "One last thing." I groan. "Whaaaaaaat?" "How do you know our names without us telling you?" I wave my hand around lazily. "Pfft, in my world, all the dimensions I visit are stories, in books, on TV, onli-iiiAHHHH!" Everyone jumps as I cry out. I fling my IPhone from my pocket. "HOLY SHIT IF THIS WORKS-!" I squeal and dance around the room. "Oh my GAWD!" "What!?" They all yell. "I HAVE RECEPTION FROM THE INTERNET HERE! I CAN FRIGGING CALL PEOPLE!" I start typing out a text as fast as I can.

Lisa: Ivy?!

Ivy: Where the hell are you?!

Lisa: You won't believe me

Ivy: WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?!

Lisa: In the FMA world.

Ivy: ...

Lisa: Ivy?

Ivy: PROOF! I DEMAND PROOF!

I sigh and turn to Ed and Al. "Ed can you go stand by Al?" He shoots me a look. "I need you to! So my sister believes me!" Ed frowns, sighs and goes to stand next to Al. Hughes jumps in for good measure. I grin and take the picture. Then I send it to my sister. "Was that it? No flash?" Hughes watches me over my shoulder. "Yup, technology in my world is pretty freaking advanced. Plus it's also, like, a hundred years ahead of you on the timeline." "What?!" Ed and everyone else looks so confused, that I have to try really hard not to laugh. I nod instead. "Yup, the year is 2014 in my world." Roy shakes his head. "In your world, we're fantasy characters?" I nod again. "Yup, and alchemy is a dead science, as of, like, the 1980's? I think?" "Name everyone in this room." Roy says, though I can tell he's more or less demanding me to. I roll my eyes.

"Of course, Colonel Roy Mustang, Flame Alchemist and Ishvalin War Veteran." He's immediately stunned. I point to each person in turn. "Edward Elric, FullMetal Alchemist, and his younger brother Alphonse Elric. Lost their mother at... 4-5 years old, I think. At 10 and 9 years old, they attempted to resurrect their mother using alchemy. The rebound caused Ed to lose his Leg and Al to lose his body. Ed gave up his arm to bound Al's soul to a suit of armor." Ed and Al's jaws hit the floor. "Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye, another Ishvalin war veteran. Know for her sharp shooting and quiet personality. Mustang's right hand man... err, woman. Her father was Mustang's teacher." Riza nodded, looking slightly impressed, mostly looking creeped out. "Major Alexis Louis Armstrong, the Strong Arm Alchemist. Ishvalin War Vet. Know for sparkling, being soft towards his fellow man and using the form of alchemy that-" I cough and then pull an Armstrong pose, complete with sparkles. "HAS BEEN PASSED DOWN THE ARMSTRONG FAMILY LINE FOR GENERATIONS!" Armstrong pulls a 'The Thinker' pose, sparkling his acceptance of my awesomeness...I think. "Maes Hughes, another Ishvalin War Vet. Know for being extremely loyal to his family and gushing over his wife and daughter, CONSTANTLY. He is also known to carry several pictures of both women with him everywhere." Hughes looked impressed. I can't help what happened next though.

I completely broke ANY respect the others had for me.

I hugged Hughes and looked up at him, begging. "Also know for taking stray kids off the street?" I heard the others groan or chuckle. Maes glanced down at me surprised before hugging me back, full force. "Heck yes!" He cheered. I'm pretty sure I almost cried. 'FUCK THE TIMELINE I'M SO SAVING THIS GUY!' I grinned happily. "And the others?" Roy. Damn that man. Won't give me a moment of joy. I hopped out of Hughes' arms. "Jean Havoc, Knight. Vato Falman, Bishop. Heymans Breda, Rook. Kain Furey, Pawn. "I turn and glare at Mustang before pointing to him and Riza. "Riza Hawkeye, Queen. Roy Mustang, King. May I go now?" Roy's men look at each other and then at Roy. The Colonel eyes widen with surprise. I grin before waving and skipping off. "Now if you don't mind, there is an adorable 3 year old I must see."

There it is! Chapter two! Much funny! Such love! And that one Lisa-Hughes moment... I SERIOUSLY COULDN'T HELP IT! It was too adorable in my head! Anyways, R&R, love Lisa!