Okay... so here is the first one-shot... I'm going to put all of them together in one storybecause they will literally have a whole section from the anime taken out and stuck in them... If you don't want spoilers either skip them or don't read... I'll mark where spoilers begin/end... This one has a chunk of episode 25 stuck in it... probably from 3/4s through until the end

Disclaimer: I do not own FMA or Ed


Story 1:Hughes

WARNING! SPOILER!

"Mom, why… Why are they burying daddy? Why are those people burying daddy? Why?" The little girl asked as she tugged on her the long sleeve of her mother's black shirt.

"Elysia…" Gracia said softly.

"I don't like this! If they do that, daddy can't work anymore!" Elysia was still tugging on her mother's sleeve "Mom, stop them!"

Gracia bent down and hugged her daughter "Elysia…" She was crying.

"Daddy said that he had a lot of work to do." Elysia continued "Make them stop!" Major Armstrong covered his eyes with his hands as tears rolled down his face. "Don't burry him, Mom!" A faction of the military stood facing the grave in attention. Fuhrer Bradley was apart of them. Among them was Maria Ross, Denny Bloch, Lt. Riza Hawkeye, Roy Mustang, Alex Louis Armstrong, and Frank Archer. Sheska was standing behind Gracia and Elysia because Hughes had fired her not even a week before "Daddy! Daddy!" After the men finished burying Hughes, everyone left.

Roy returned later that day "Getting a double promotion for dying in the line of duty… Brig. General Hughes huh…? You said you'd support me and push me up from below. Just what are you going to do now that you've gone up higher than me? You idiot."

"Colonel" Riza said from behind him as she walked towards him.

"Alchemists are horrible people, Hawkeye. Right now… A part of me is desperately trying to recall the theory on Human Transmutation I developed. Right now… I feel like I understand what those boys felt when they tried to transmute their mother."

"Are you alright?"

"Why didn't he tell me the Elric brothers were involved? He didn't have to do it alone."

"When it comes to these boys, you tend to act irrationally. I think he was protecting you. He wanted you to head to the top without any worries."

Roy put his military cap back on "It's starting to rain" He said, even though the sun was shining brightly on them.

"Yes" Riza said as Roy began to silently cry.

"Is this what they call a mother's taste?" Ed asked while taking a bite of the pie Gracia had made for them.

"Hughes-san, his wife, and Elysia-chan were all good people." Winry said

"Yes" Al agreed

"Lt. Colonel was obsessed with his child and likes to poke his nose into other people's business. He's annoying." Ed said, as he took another bite of the piece of pie.

"He came to make fun of us frequently" Al said

He said that he was busy with work, but he visited us a lot." Ed looked out the window as he was speaking.

"Yeah" Al agreed again "Why does he care so much for us, though?"

"Like I know" Ed stated.

"You better say thanks to him when you go back to Central City" Winry said. She was holding a basket with the pie in one hand and a piece of it in the other. Outside the window, at a house next to the tracks, on the porch, Ed saw Hughes, waving at them. After they passed Ed stuck his head out the window and looked back. The porch was empty. "Ed?" Winry looked at him curiously.

"Did you see something, Brother?" Al asked

"No." Ed said and stuffed the last of the piece of pie into his mouth.

SPOILER END!


Riza knocked on the door to Roy's room "Sir, I heard you were sick so I came to check up on you" She called through the door. After a while when no one had come or yelled a response, she turned the knob. Surprisingly, it wasn't locked. She pushed the door "Sir?" She looked inside and froze. Roy looked up, a paint brush in his hand. On the ground, he was painting an alchemy array. "Roy… what are you doing." Riza asked… forgetting the military… forgetting their ranks… Paying no mind to anything else.

"What does it look like?" Roy asked coolly

"Tell me you're not…" Riza said… but his face said he was…

Roy responded "Okay, I'll lie and say I have no intentions of trying to bring Maes back"

"I won't… allow you to do that" Riza told him

"Really now?" Roy asked "Just leave, and forget what you've seen"

"I'm not going to do that Roy… not unless you do the same"

"It's an order"

"If you're not going to listen, I'm not letting you do it alone"

"You don't know a thing about alchemy, Hawkeye"

Riza stepped in and shut the door behind her, locking it. "What's their to know… I place my hands here like this" She knelt next to the array and put her hands on the edge, "and I will it to do something… transmute something"

Roy sweat dropped "Sorta…" He had no choice now… Either cancel the idea or let Riza go down with him… and he wasn't going to give up now. Roy finished the transmutation circle and put the ingredient in the center of it. He and Riza positioned themselves on the edge of the circle "Please… Riza…. Leave. You've seen what this has done to Ed and Al… and they are special… It may be worse for us"

"I know… and I don't care. If you die, I die with you" Riza said and started up the transmutation. There was no turning back now. Roy joined in. The blue/red light surrounded the ingredients. Roy knew that he would die after this. He didn't want Riza to go down with him but he had no choice in the matter.

The two were brought in front of the gate. They slowly opened. When those eyes and little monsters appeared, Riza grabbed Roy's face and turned him toward her. His face showed a variety of emotions. Riza shared those emotions with him but over all of them she had her love for Roy. She thought about all they went through together as she whispered "Sir… Colonel Roy Mustang… I love you" into his ear and kissed him.

Roy looked into her eyes… even though he said nothing, Riza knew he wanted to say "I know… and I love you too" When they broke the kiss, the little monsters grabbed them and dragged the couple across, to the other side of the gate, where Hughes waited.


Ed was looking out the window, thinking about Hughes. And what that vision of him waving was about. On the side on the railroad tracks, it happened again. As Ed, Al, and Winry were passing by towns on their way to rush valley, Ed saw Riza and Roy waving to them. Again, Ed looked out the window after they had passed by to find the two were no longer there. "What the hell is going on?"

"Something wrong, nii-san?" Al asked

"When we get to Rush Valley, I'm giving Central and East City a call"


"Sir, you got a phone call" A Lt. called through the door while knocking on Mustang's door. When no response was received he banged on the door "Sir!" he continued until he was sure something was wrong. Then he ran off to get the OK to knock down the door. The General gave the O.K. to remove the door and sent one of the state alchemists to transmute it into something else that wouldn't block their way.

The state alchemist transmuted the door into a wooden poll and found the alchemy circle and a homunculus on the ground.

The train arrived in Rush Valley and Ed told Al and Winry that he'd meet them at the hotel and he went off to call Central. Hughes' secretary picked up "Hello?"

"This is Edward Elric. Is Hughes in? I would like to speak with him."

"No, I'm afraid he is not… he died a week ago"

"HE WHAT!" People turned to look at Ed.

"He was murdered" The secretary told him

"I get it" Ed said "Thank you… goodbye" Ed then called Eastern HQ.

It was Havoc who answered "Hello Edward Sir."

"I'm looking for Mustang… is he around?" Ed asked

"No… he was sick this morning so he didn't come to work… and isn't in his dorm room" Havoc had a cigarette in his mouth as always.

"Then how about Hawkeye?" Ed asked him… hoping that the answer would not be the same.

"She went to see how he was doing this afternoon… they have both turned up missing…" Havoc told him.

Ed was getting suspicious "What is going on over there!"

"When no one responded to the knocks on the Colonel's door, the General up here ordered for the door to be removed… and on the floor… they found an alchemy array and within it… some sort of monster that slightly resembled a human." Havoc said

"I see… so… Hughes… Mustang… and Hawkeye are all dead" Ed said and hung up the phone and went to meet Winry and Al and tell them the news.

THE END