Green meets Gold in a battle of the wits.

Sweat drips down Ed's forehead as he glares at me.

Al sits nearby, glancing between us nervously.

I grin smugly.

We both ready for the next round…

"Rock, Paper, Scissors, SHOOT!" We shoot, choosing our weapons. Rock vs. Paper.

I throw my arms up with a triumphant "YES!". Ed groans and shakes his head. "Dammit! How do you keep winning?!" He demands. I laugh and cross my arms. "No idea!" Ed growls for the hundredth time on the trip. At some point we both got bored and decided to play Rock Paper Scissors. I've beaten him 12 to 2. I messed up a few times but, hey, he makes it too easy. Anyways, our train broke down a station back and we switched to one with cushiony seats. THANK GOD! Armstrong returns from… I think he went to the toilet… Ed leans back in his seat as I attempt not to be squashed by the giant bald alchemist. I smirk at Ed. "So, you wanna go again?" He rolls his eyes. "Yeah right. You probably cheated." I shrug. "Sure, whatever." I turn to Al. "So, how about you? Wanna try and beat me?" He shakes his head. "No thanks Lisa." He replies politely.

I sigh and lean against the window. I glance outside and see tall building quickly approaching. I would've jumped up had it not been for Armstrong. "OH MY GOSH WE'RE HERE!" I yell excitedly. Ed winces and rubs his ear. "We were here a few days ago, no need to get so hyper about it." He's trying to glare at me, but my happiness tends to spread to people, no matter what. I think it has something to do with me acting like a 5-year-old when I get excited, but, you know, whatever. Where was I? Oh yeah! So, Ed's trying to glare at me, but he's kinda smiling. Al just shakes his head at us both. "I will be as excited as I want!" I declare. "I get to meet Elyisia today!" I do a little squeal, mentally gushing over the adorable little girl. 'For the Love of God.' 'Shutup! She's ADORABLE!' Ed shakes his head and leans his cheek against the glass. Al nods. "I think you and Elyisia will get along. I know Mrs. Gracia will like you." I grin. "Awesome!"

-PIP-

I do a little squiggly dance in my seat as we pull into the station. Ed rolls his eyes and gets his luggage from the thingy overhead. (Yes, I have no idea what it's called, so it's a thingy. Sue me) Armstrong gets up and leaves the seat as the conductor calls for people to leave the train. Al follows after. I finally get to try and get my luggage as Ed follows the other two.

It turns out that the luggage thingy is higher up than I thought, because I have to get on my tiptoes to reach it. I reach around to try and grasp my bag's shoulder strap. I can't see up there but I know that they guys must have stuffed all the way at the back. I can feel the edges of it.. "Got it!" I cheer myself. Just as I grab the strap, my clumsy feet slip out from under me. "AHP!" I shout as I fall backwards. Squeezing my eyes shut, I mentally prepare myself for the smacking sound of my head on wood.

Suddenly, I feel something, excuse me, someONE, grab my shoulders. Instead of landing on the seats like I thought, I fall onto something else.

I look upwards and behind me too see Ed sitting there. He lets out a sigh of relief. "Geez, you're clumsy." My face warms up. We are literally close enough to kiss… N-Not that I w-want to k-k-kiss him.. Face bright red, I scramble off of him, almost faceplanting on the carpet. Ed rolls his eyes again and gets up. "I knew you were an airhead, but geez Lisa." I tuck some hair behind my ear, my feet becoming increasingly interesting. "S-sorry." I squeak. Ed shakes his head before handing me my bag. "C'mon, before Al starts wondering where we went." He effortlessly throws his suitcase over his shoulder and saunters off.

Yes, that's right, he SAUNTERED. FREAKING. SAUNTERED. AWAY. The FUCK Ed.

I put my bag over my shoulder and hurry after him, attempting to calm my heart down enough so my face doesn't glow.

Al stands nearby, waiting on me and Ed. Ed walks up to Al. "Where'd the Major go?" Al shrugs. "He was here a minute ago." I sigh and adjust my shoulder strap. "How do you lose a man the size of a house?" I ask, looking around. "Sirs!" I turn around to see… "2nd Lieutenant Maria Ross and Sergeant Denny Brosh, reporting for duty!" The two military officers chorus. Ed looks slightly confused though he's trying not to show it. Ross and Brosh explain to Ed and Al how Armstrong had to go see Mustang and stuff. I really wanna hug Brosh. I always thought he looked really huggable. He's even more huggable in person! And ROSS! OH. MY. GOD! Praise this woman and her endless courage for putting up with Brosh AND the boys. And everything afterwards! I wanna hug them so bad, IT HURTS! LIKE, IT IS PHYSICALLY HURTING ME TO HOLD BACK THIS HUGGYNESS! Bombs away then! I proceed to glomp-hug them both, squealing happily. Brosh, surprised at first, lightly hugs me back. Ross glances at the boys, confused. Ed shrugs. "2nd Lieutenant, Sergeant. I don't know if the Colonel told you two about Lisa…She has a tendency to hug people out of nowhere." Ross nods as I unlatch myself from them both, grinning wildly. I shake Ross' hand. "Ms. Ross, I can't tell you how amazing it is to meet you!" She frowns at me in confusion. "I-I don't understand what you mean. I'm just a soldier." I grin at her. "Exactly! A female soldier! The whole world needs more women like you!" She blushes. 'It doesn't take much to flatter her, does it?' 'Can it psycho!' Al grabs my arm. "Lisa, I think the 2nd Lieutenant has had enough." I finally notice that I'm still shaking her hand. I drop my hand to my side, heat tinting my face. "Oops. My bad." I rub the back of my head. 'I have GOT to stop doing that! CURSE YOU GOKU AND YOUR PICK-UP-ABLE HABITS!' Brosh coughs. Ross snaps back into her amazingly laser like focus. "R-right." The two salute. "We've been ordered to escort you wherever you'd like to go while you're in Central, sirs!" They say. I immediately spin towards Ed. "Can we go to the Hughes'?" I beg Ed. I hop up and down like a little kid in a candy store. "Please Ed? Please please please PLLLLEEEAAASSSEEE?" He sighs. "Well, he did say to stop by then next time we were in Central." I fist pump. "YES!"

-PIP-

I bounce the whole way to the Hughes' apartment. Al keeps up with me, laughing at the fact that I'm babbling at a hundred miles an hour about god-knows-what. The others walk at a steady pace behind us, Ed telling the two how they meet Hughes and how I came into their lives. My story was much more exciting, seeing as Ed over-dramatized my falling-on-a-serial-killer. Ross and Brosh kept shooting me surprised and, on Brosh's part, terrified looks. I do my best to ignore them, but Brosh and Ross have THE. BEST. FACIAL EXPRESSIONS. EVER! One of the many reasons that they are among my favorite people of all time.

-PIP-

We head upstairs to the Hughes'. I'm so excited that I'm going to get to meet Gracia and Elyisia. But I'm also SO incredibly nervous! I don't want too give them a bad impression! What is it Pinkie Pie calls it when she's nervous and excited? Oh yeah! I'm nervouscited! I follow Al upstairs 'cause I'll be the airhead who completely passes their floor altogether. I know that we're supposed to go to the Central Library, but I wanna meet the Hughes' first. I think I said that already, but I don't really care. Anywhosals, Al knocks on the door first. I hear someone, probably Mrs. Gracia, call "In a moment!" I bounce next to Al, smiling broadly. Al sighs and shakes his head, probably smiling at me being a mental 3-year-old. The door opens and Gracia smiles at us. "Oh, Alphonse! What a nice surprise!" She glances at me. "I don't believe we've met." I nod, unable to rid myself of my huge grin. "I'm Lisa Green. I meet your husband the last time I was in Central with the guys." I point behind me at Ed, who waves at her, smiling. Gracia nods, drying her hands on a towel in her apron. "Oh yes, Maes came home the other day talking about you. You fell out of the sky, right?" I nod. "Yes ma'am." She steps too the side and gestures us all inside. "Please, come inside and stay awhile." She pats Al's shoulder. "Elyisia's been wondering about you two." Gracia really is one of a kind. She acts like a person falling out of the sky is nothing! God love her!

I nearly die at the sight of the little girl sitting in the living room, building a block tower. And now I'm SUPER FREAKING NERVOUS! Like, if I run up and hug her, she's going to freak out. But I also don't want to stand here awkwardly...

So I settle for sitting down nearby.

"Hi." Elyisia looks up at me with her big brown eyes. "Who're you?" she asks. I smile softly. "My name's Lisa. I'm a friend of Ed and Al's." She looks over at the kitchen where Gracia is talking to the guys. She points over at them. "Does Mommy know you're here?" I nod again. "Yup." I pick up one of the blocks. "Mind if I play too?" She grins and my heart melts. "Ok!" she says. She hands me a few more blocks and explains, in her childish gibberish, that she's making a castle for her dolls. We sit and stack the blocks up to make a wobbly tower. Elyisia stands on her tip toes to put the last block on top. After carefully placing it she takes a few steps back. The tower shakes for a few heartbeats. We both hold our breath. Then it stops wobbling and we both grin at each other. Elyisia runs up to me and we high five. "We did it!" She cheers. I laugh. "Heck yeah we did!"

She plops down on my lap and shows me her paper doll collection. "And this Betty, and this is Cherry!" I nod. "Hey, Elyisia. Do you wanna see my doll collection?" Her eyes widen and she nods excitedly. "Yes please!" I start to snap when I hear the door open. "Thanks again Mrs. Gracia." I hear Ed say. Frowning, I stand up and go to the door, Elyisia toddling behind me. I pop my head around the corner to see Ed and the others leaving.

"HEY!" I call, moving to stand in the hallway with my hands on my hips. Ed and Al spin around. "The heck do you think you're doing, leaving without me?" I demand. "Well, you and Elyisia were having so much fun and Mrs. Gracia pointed out that Elyisia doesn't have alot of playmates." Explained Al. Ed nodded. "Yeah, and we want to go check out the library, so we figured we'd leave you here and come get you later." "You didn't even ask me what I wanted to do!" I retorted, glaring at him. "Just 'cause I act kinda immature doesn't mean I'm not fully capable of making my own decisions!" I look down to see Elyisia tugging at my pant leg. "So you don't wanna play anymore?" She asks, big brown eyes full of sadness. I scoop her up and hug her. "Of course I wanna stay and play with you!" I smile and give her a little squeeze. Ed huffs. "So why the big fuss?" I glare at him again. "I still would've liked to have been asked my opinion." Al giggles as Ed rolls his eyes. I have a feeling that that's going to be his reaction to most things I do. He waves over his shoulder. "Fine, fine, whatever. C'mon Al." I pout before remembering something really fast. "Oh, Ed!" He glances back at me and raises an eyebrow. "Hm?" "Call me when you find something, ok?" He sighs and nods. "Alright fine." I nod happily.

I carry Elyisia back to the living room. "Do you not like big brother?" She asks as I plop down on the couch. I shrug. "He can be a pain, but I like hanging out with him and Al." I ruffle the toddler's pigtails. "Now then, I'm gonna show you my doll collection, right?" She nods excitedly. "Yup!" I laugh. I'm going to love this kid.

-PIP-

Elyisia and I sit, giggling loudly as we play with some old barbies from home. I have absolutely no idea why Truth is letting me pull things from home and otherwise here, but not people. Ah well. "Oh, come on Kyla!" I shake my doll, who we dubbed Jenny, as I spoke in a weird and high-pitched voice. "Ken's waiting on us to go to the movies!" 'Kyla', Elyisia's doll, bounce/walks out of our block castle...house… thing… "But Jenny!" Elyisia says with a squeaky little kid's "This-is-what-a-teenage-girl-sounds-like" voice. "I still have to put on my make-up!" She moves the doll's hand to it's face. I laugh. "What's a movie theater?" she asks me. I sit back and tap my chin. "Well, you know what a radio is right?" She nods. "A movie theater is a place with a big radio system, but there's a big blank sheet thing at the front of the room. and there's a machine in a room above the back end of the room. And the machine projects a picture on the sheet, but the pictures move. And it tells a story of… well anything!" Elyisia's eyes widen and listens to me with interest written all over her face. "So, like one of my story books?" I nod. "Just like a story book, but it moves and talks." "Oooo!" Gracia walks into the room and sighs. "You have quite the imagination!" She says. I shake my head. "I didn't make it up! Back home, we have stuff like that! Like, like… well." I jump up and fling my arms off to my sides. "We have ships that can fly!" I 'fly' around the room, making airplane noises. "And-and we have little devices that display pictures and words on a tiny little screen! And you can access any information in the world! And we have phones that are no bigger than my hand and you can call anyone in the world! You can even send people messages and play little games on them! And a bunch of other things!" Gracia nods, smiling. "Of course. Maes did bring up you being from somewhere far away." I laugh. "Trust me, it's really far away." Just then the phone rings. "I got it!" I shout before sliding into the kitchen and snatching the phone off the wall.

"Hello, Hughes household, Lisa speaking."

"Lisa! Hey, it's Ed." I grin. "Oh hey Edo, what's up?" He sighs, sounding kinda out of breath. "Well, we found out the library got burned down."

"Aw, to bad."

"But we found this girl, uhm, Sheska. Yeah, well, apparently she's got a photographic memory and she read all of Marcoh's notes!" My heart drops. "She's going to write it all down for us!" I try to grin, struggling to keep up the happy mood. "Wow!" I fake excitement. "That's great news!" Ed apparently doesn't notice my fake mood. "I know! In three days, we'll finally find out everything about the Philosopher's Stone!" 'Maybe I should tell him… He deserves to know what he's getting into...' "Ed… look-" "Hang on a second." His voice fades as he spoke to someone else, probably Al, judging from the faint "Brother" that I managed to catch. "... Ed?" "Hey, look, we're on our way back to the Hughes' right now. Talk to you later, ok?" I sigh. "Alright, just be careful, ok? You never know what's out there." He laughs. "Me and Al can take care of anything. 'sides, I'd love to meet a guy with enough balls to try and attack Al." I laugh nervously. "Alright, alright. See you later." "Later Lisa." I put the phone back on it's little nook and sigh. 'Well then, let's see how long you can hold out.' 'Lillian, do me a favor and shut you mouth.' 'Of course, O Great One.' I growl at her remark. With a sigh I go back to the living room. "Who was it?" asks Gracia. "It was Ed. He said they'd be here soon." Elyisia gasps and clasps her hands together. "Does this mean you gotta leave?" I frown and sit on the ground in front her. "I dunno. It all depends on what the guys are going to do, and what your mom says." We both turn to Mrs. Gracia, both of us wearing puppy eyes. She jumps a little at our faces before smiling softly, in that way that only she seems able to do. "We'd love for you to stay Lisa." We both cheer happily, jump up and run over and hug her. "Oh thank you so much!" I tell her. She laughs softly and pats both our heads. "Well, we love company here." I grin up at her. "I promise to not be too much of a bother!" She laughs again. "Well, you two keep playing till the boys get here. I'm going to start dinner." She leaves for the kitchen once we unlatch from her sides to return to our game.

-PIP-

I have no idea how long we played before the phone call, and god knows I have no idea how long afterward we sat talking about random things instead of playing. We cleaned up the toys and then we sat on the couch and she listened to me babble on about past adventures I'd had with Ivy. In fact, I was in the middle of telling her about one incident when the guys finally show up.

"S-so, she smacked him with a shirt and proceeded to yell at him about it!" We both laugh. "Then what did you do?" I flick a tear from my eye. "Well, I grabbed the book and chased Sonic around the room, screaming 'Get book-smart, you blue moron!'" We both laugh again. "Elyisia!" We both look up too see Maes, Ed and Al standing in the doorway. "Daddy!" Elyisia jumps down from the couch and runs over to Maes, who scoops her up and hugs her and showers her with little kisses. I grin and walk over. " 'ello Mr. Hughes!" He looks up at me and grins. "Well, looky here! It's the huggy girl!" I laugh as he ruffles my hair. "Hey!" He smiles at Gracia as she enters the room. "Has Lisa been keeping out of trouble?" Asks Ed. Gracia nods. "Oh, she's been a wonder, keeping Elyisia occupied all day." Ed shoots me a look that says 'You did something and there is no hiding it'. I sigh and ruffle Ed's hair, to which he yells and complains about. "Honestly Ed, you should trust me more. You act like I'm going to end up doing something insanely stupid." He harumphs. "You probably are."