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Winry was looking down every alley, asking everyone "have you seen a small brunette boy? Hot headed too." She got "no"s and head shakes. She looked down one alley and saw Ed yell at scar and then scar ask something, not loud enough for her to comprehend what was being said. Then she saw scar charge at Ed and lost her voice in her throat. Ed yelled "I'll wake you up!" as he made his automail into his weapon. Scar grabbed it with his left arm. He then went after Ed's head with his right arm but thank god Ed had that wig one. Ed dunked his head and Scar pushed his hand forward.

Ed pulled back and Scar looked at the wig and threw it away. Ed then made to attack Scar with his right arm but Scar caught it and tried to decompose it with his right arm. Red flickered around it but did nothing to the automail, baffling Scar. Ed sent his elbow into Scar's face, making him back up and kicked his automail leg up onto Scar's shoulder and behind his head. Scar tried the same thing with the leg but failed and took a step back, clenching his teeth together and asked "why?"

"You don't understand, even though you're an alchemist?" Ed asked

"You think I'm an alchemist?"

"The three steps in alchemy are comprehension, decomposition, and reassembly." Ed began to explain "You unconsciously figure out the metals used in your opponents, and you fine-tune your technique to destroy them. That's why I've been substituting my auto-mail with metals other than steel."

Ed clapped his hands and transmuted his automail back with the stone wall next to him "So that's what's going on…"

Winry sent her wrench flying at Ed and bullets at Scar. "STAY AWAY FROM EDWARD!" She shouted. Ed was forced back by the blow of the wrench. Scar received a bullet to the shoulder. Winry stood there dangerously with her gun aimed at him. He quickly grabbed his arm and made no action that would give him another bullet, more than likely in the chest the next time.

From out of nowhere as far as Winry could tell, a black blur came by and then her gun fell to pieces. Winry looked down at it "What is going on?" She asked herself.

Ed rubbed his head as he sat up and to Winry's side, he saw Lust and Gluttony. "We can't let you kill him… He's important to us" She was about to send her spikes into the chest of terror struck Winry but Scar stepped in front of her. "We're protecting you, scarred one of Ishbal"

Scar looked at her firmly "I am your enemy"

"If you can make the Philosopher's Stone, then we will protect you." Lust said plainly

Scar took a locket out of his clothing "Does this bring back any memories?" it was oval had a blue gem in the center of it. "It's something you gave to my brother." There was blood flowing from his arm

Lust looked a little shaken by it "What are you talking about?"

"Remember it!" he demanded pulling up on the chain, the actual locket part rising and going forward some.

Lust got a distant, far off look on her face and memories of her past life flashed before her. A man… holding her hand. That man… embracing her. She then was completely shocked and frozen.

"Lust?" Gluttony said and then she began falling forward "Lust!" Gluttony caught her. She fell over his shoulder since he's much shorter than her. Gluttony had his back to them "I hate you! I hate you all!" He shouted, looking over his shoulder. He jumped up and clung to part of the wall of a building while he made a hole in it with his mouth and jumped through.

"What do you know about that Humunculus?" Ed asked Scar as Winry went to pick up her wrench. She was barely able to walk straight.

"It has nothing to do with you" Scar said and Ed tensed

"Stop!" Lyra said from the side "

"Lyra… and rose too?"

" 'Please, listen to what he has to say, Ed' I think that's what Rose is trying to say." Lyra said

"Rose… you can't speak?" Ed asked

Roze nodded. Winry looked as if she was going to chuck her wrench at him again "You won't be able to either if you don't tell me what you've done to my automail!"

Ed looked over at her "What are you doing here! I told you to go to the Inn! You could have died Winry!"

Winry snapped back at him "I WAS WORRIED ABOUT YOU!"

"Don't go placing my life above your own like that" Ed said and turned to Scar "What do you know about her?"

Short time passes (don't ask about it… this is a distorted version of what actually happens)

Scar was telling Ed and Winry about what he knew of that homunculus

"Take this as a keepsake, so you'll remember me after I'm gone." A woman with long brown hair, that closely resembled Lust, said to a man to resembled Scar to an extent. The man pulled her into an embrace. A mini scar lacking his scar walked up the hill and saw them and smiled lightly.

"Back when Ishbal was still a peaceful land, I had an older brother" Scar told Ed "An intelligent, respectable brother who I was proud of. My brother had a beautiful lover. She died from a disease, and all to early was given to the God of Ishbal."

Scars brother cried holding a woman's hand to his face. In his hand he held the keepsake she gave him. "Nii-san, What are you looking for? " A young scar asked as his brother searched through books

"The Great Art" He responded, light glaring off his glasses. "It's a miraculous technique that can recreate anything."

"Isn't the Great Art supposed to be the root of this propaganda from Central called "alchemy"?" Scar tried to reason with his brother.

"Within the Great Art, there's supposed to be a technique to bring someone back to life." Scar's brother said plainly.

Young Scar had a horrified look on his face "I see… so this is how this works…"

A while later (this is in Scar's story to Ed and Winry) Scar stood over a covered "body" that lay on an alchemy array. Scar raced through the streets of Ishbal. Scar tried the door to his brother's house and found it to be locked "Brother! Brother!" He called and banged on the door. Scar's brother opened the door and stood halfway out of it. Blood ran from the thing in the array to where Scar's brother stood and then up his pants to his groin.

"In order to revive her, my brother defied the teachings of Ishbal." Scar continued telling Ed "Even after he lost a part of his body… she still didn't come back. My brother was exiled because the Great Art was forbidden in Ishbal. But had my brother succeeded? That woman named Lust…"

"Do you know how the Homunculus are born?" Ed clenched his teeth "When someone fails a human transmutation, that failed result is a Homunculus."

"That reminds me of something Dante told me." Lyra said "She said that she failed a human transmutation and created a Homunculus."

"That was probably Greed." Ed said Winry sat along side listening intently "But at that state, they shouldn't be able to survive for long. Someone must be collecting Homunculus like Lust or Envy, and giving them multiple lives in order to control them."

"Then it was my brother who created Lust." Scar said

"She has no soul." Ed told him "She's just a monster who looked like his lover." Scar looked at the locket before Ed took it out of his hand "Lust hates this keepsake. Homunculus are weak against parts of their former bodies."

"Soon after my brother left, we were invaded." Scar continued with his story "We were angered by the sudden attack, and retaliated. And then, the long, exhausting battle began."

Scar ran through the streets carrying a gun to where a group of people had gathered "I have discovered how to create the Philosopher's Stone!" Scar's brother said

"Brother!" Scar called from in the crowd

"With this power, I can save Ishbal."

"Because we were besieged by war, no one opposed the return of my brother. However, my brother abruptly abandoned the research when he came close to completing it. Now, I can understand why."

"At Kishiur, and exiled Ishvarite told me… that even in the Great Art, creating the Philosopher's Stone required a great number of human lives." Ed said. Winry began crying in recollection of that day. The day that she found out Roy killed her parents. She turned around to hide her tears.

"That's right" Scar said "It would require the death of a whole city, or even an entire race. The sorrow, the hate, the anger that is created from those deaths… When they become one, the Philosopher's Stone is born. The Philosopher's Stone was necessary in order to save Ishbal. But for that, Ishbal needed to be destroyed."

A group of Ishvarites were walking in a desert like expanse when an explosion came out of no where among them. "I'm the State Alchemist responsible for the deaths of all the Ishvarites in this area." A State Alchemist named Kimbley said. He had long black hair and a red stone hanging on a necklace around his neck.

"A State Alchemist?" Scar asked as he helped up his brother who had fallen. His brother had markings on his body. He looked like a weird alchemy array.

"Please stop!" An old man begged Kimbley "We're being chased out of our country. Isn't that enough?"

"I'n hyst following the orders I got: to kill every last one of you bastards, with your different colored eyes and skin." Kimbley told him and grabbed his arm

"Why?" He asked

"Who knows?" He said and transmuted the mans skin into a bomb. Scar charged him to find the man explode in front of him and to find himself face to hand with Kimbley. "I've got a great idea." Kimbley said menacingly "How 'bout I blow up your body, bit by bit? First, I'll turn your skin into an explosive material." He squeezed Scar's head tightly then released it and put his finger to the center of his forehead causing his skin to expand in the shape of an X and then explode. Scar grabbed his head and screamed in pain. "Now, this arm." Kimbley said gabbing Scar's right arm. He squeezed it tight and the arm flew from Scar's body to land in the sand. Scar fell to the ground "Next is…" Kimbley looked at Scar to find Scar's brother over him protectively. "Oh my, that body looks like a transmutation circle. Who would have thought that there was an alchemist in Ishbal? But we have a transmutation amplification device." Kimbley grabbed the sting of his necklace and pulled it up.

The markings on the body of Scar's brother glowed a red and the red stone hanging on Kimbley's neck became attracted to him. IT was then sucked into his body. Guns were shot from farther off "Colonel Grand" Kimbley said.

Scar began waking up. He sat up and looked at his right arm which had been blown off and now was connected to him and had markings on it "This is.. Brother!" He hurried to turn over his brother who was right next to him. He no longer had the markings on his body and was missing his right arm.

"The lives of people who were inside me… I give them to you." Scar's brother told him

"No! Why, Brother!" Scar said frantically

"That arm has power" He said "Had I not done this, you would have died."

"Brother! Brother!"

"I have done the unforgivable." Scar dropped his head and shook it "You loved her, didn't you? I'm sorry, I'll be seeing… her first…" Scar's brother's final words. Scar broke out in tears, crying over the loss of his brother.

"Your brother was attempting to transmute the Philosopher's Stone within his own body." Ed said knowingly. "He was taking the lives of the dying Ishvarites, and gave all of them to you, in that arm."

"The Philosopher's Stone itself has power." Scar said "That's how I managed to survive."

"That arm itself is the incomplete Philosopher's Stone… That's why it reacts with red stone" Ed said

"In order to complete it, I would need more lives."

"That's no excuse to set Rose up as a source of charisma to control the people - -"

"Wait" Lyra broke in "He isn't going to sacrifice the people of Lior."

"What are you even doing here, Lyra?"

"After Dante died, I was searching for a place to put my alchemy to good use. And then I learned of Scar's plans. Before the fighting begins, the people will escape through a pathway built below the old church. Then the soldiers that were lured into the town will be…"

"There will still be victims!" Ed argued "Even the people in the military don't deserve to be killed—" He turned to Roze who had come out of a room holding her baby. The baby started crying so she started comforting him and went into a room right next to where they were.

"Do you have any idea what they did in this city?" Scar asked

"What did the military do to Rose?" Ed asked

"She was captured, and by the time she returned, she had lost her voice." Ed grew horrified and it was apparent on his face "Do you still ask us to forgive the military?" Ed turned to Roze who he could see the back of behind a curtain like thing hanging in the door way.

Ed clenched his teeth "I won't stop you Scar."

"Ed?" Winry said cautiously "You're going to let them kill all those people?"

"No… Let's get the people out of here." He said firmly

I have replaced the chapter that used to be here because I screwed up...