"Al, I think I found something!"

Al came out of the house with a big smile on his face, "You found something? There's brownies in the fridge! Yum."

"Alphonse..."

"Sorry. What'd you find?"

"Well," Roy looked out towards the pier (which was north of the house and not west- the way of the blast- so there were lots of trees and things to hide it), "for a split second I thought I saw Ed over by the river but, he's gone now. Think they're playing some type of hide and seek?"

"I dunno," Al replied, "But, I did see someone left the PlayStation on in Envy's room. I don't think they'd just up and leave it for something like Hide-and-Seek. Though, the screen was black...maybe they didn't realize it was still on and went to play something else? I didn't touch it, just in case." He cringed inwardly, thinking of what happened the last time he touched something he wasn't supposed to.

"Maybe," Roy thought a moment, then looked back at Al, "Well, you have three options. We could continue to look for them, or I could go home and leave you here to look, or I could take you back home since we can't find anyone."

Al paused, "...no, you go. You have plans. I'll stay here and wait, they're bound to come back. Besides, if worse comes to worse I can call you to come back and pick me up, and Ms. De Clare is home too."

Roy nodded, "Alright. Unless I hear otherwise, I'll be back to pick you up tomorrow afternoon."

"Right. Bye!" Al waved happily as Roy headed towards his fiery-red Mustang convertible. Yes, Ed would come back and everything would be right again.

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"No no no, this can't be happening!" Ed exclaimed, covering his head and dropping to his knees, "It's a horrible horrible dream!"

"Ed..."

"Roy can't be our enemy! Tell me this isn't happening!" He started to cry, falling closer to the ground, "Tell me we don't have to destroy him..."

There was a silence of all but the shaky sobs for a few moments until a small voice said, "...technically, you don't have to kill the area bosses to beat them...as long as they cannot fight back it's considered a victory."

Envy looked at Nata thoughtfully, "'As long as they can't fight back'... I've got it! Our selves in here are directly linked to our real selves, that means they're one and the same. Ed, you know Roy better than any of us here, does he have some sort of weakness?"

"Tch," Ed sneered, "only for pretty girls in miniskirts." Wait... Ed stares at Envy. Envy blinks back. "What?"

"I have an idea..."

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"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

"Hold still, damn it!"

"No, you can't make me!" Envy shrieked, "I'm not wearing that!"

Ed sighed and handed the miniskirt to Nata, who in turn studied it curiously. "But you're the only one who can. You are very pretty..."

Glare.

"...and your voice is kinda girly..."

"You take that back!"

"Look, what I'm trying to say is," suddenly he threw himself at the taller boy, "PLEEEAAASE DO IT ENVY! I WONT EVER ASK FOR ANYTHING ELSE! PLEEEEEAAAAASE!"

"Uhhh," back awaaay from the midget. Far away.

"If Envy wearing this will stop Area Master Roy, then I don't see any other option," Nata deliberated, "Other than, of course, the default way."

Shudder, "No! No default way! C'mon Eeeenvyyy pweeeeeeaaaase!"

"Uhhh..."

Ed, still latched onto the front of Envy's shirt, looked up at him with big watery pleading eyes and Envy sighed defeatedly.

"...I...I guess..."

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"NO I change my mind I don't wanna!"

"C'mon, Envy, you're already wearing it!"

"I know, and I don't like it! It feels weird!"

The blonde pounced on the taller one again when he tried to get away, "Look, you're going to be doing this awesomely huge favor for everybody and save the world, so be a man and go flirt with my uncle!"

Envy almost choked. "That was wrong on so many levels."

"...sorry, just go," he pushed his friend forward and he stumbled a few feet, then regained his balance. During the some hour or so it had taken to find a miniskirt in this video game world, convince Envy to wear it and then go hit on Roy, said designated area boss spent the entire time admiring his own reflection in the river and saying stuff like "hey there handsome" and other such frightful things.

"U-um..." Envy stuttered as he took tiny steps toward Roy, his face beat red. He REALLY didn't want to do this.

The other three were watching with more than a little amusement. "Aw man, I wish I had a camera. This is great stuff!"

"Bet I could go find one."

"Guys? I think we should be looking for a way to..."

"Yeah! Blackmail!"

"...disable the area boss?" Nata sighed when they continued to ignore him and heatedly ramble on about blackmail and such frivolous things. /Hopeless people...none of them a good a gamer as Kaito.../

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Alphonse sat at the kitchen table. He was very, very bored. "Niiiiiiii-saaaaaan...where ARE you?" He got up and slowly made his way around the house for lack of something to do. He plopped on the couch, even lay on the floor for a bit, ransacked the fridge, and then finally made his way back up the stairs and into Envy's room. He flopped lazily onto the bed when he noticed the PlayStation again. Only this time the screen wasn't blank, but it wasn't exactly a picture Al could recognize.

"The game's still on. I wonder what could have been so important they just up and left it. I hope they didn't get kidnapped or anything," he chuckled at the thought. "Oh well. I really have got nothing else to do until they come back...they can't get mad if I play a little."

Al maneuvered himself onto the floor and picked up the first controller. "It's looks like all three of them were playing." He tried pushing buttons on the controller to see if anything would happen. Nothing. He tried the other controllers. Nothing. "It can't be the controllers are broken. But, I've tried everything else I could think of..." He grabbed the fourth controller and plugged it in.

fzt- "There's an active controller connected to slot four..."

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"...what? Someone else is accessing..."

Ed glanced at the small boy, "Huh? You say something, Nata?"

Wrath nudged him, "Look look, Envy's got Roy's attention."

"What? Wait, where'd they go?"

"Over there, see?" The younger boy motioned to a spot a little south of the river. He and Ed moved closer.

"So how are we gonna get him?" Wrath whispered.

The blonde beside him smiled evilly and pulled out a baseball bat, "With this. Hopefully the Envy distraction will work. I'm pretty sure it will, but just in case we could also distract him with Nata since they all seem to..." he trailed off as it seemed to him there was a head missing. "Hey, now where'd Nata go?"

"I dunn-"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" SLAM!

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!"

"YOU'RE ASKING ME?"

"IT LOOKED LIKE SOMETHING FELL FROM THE SKY!" (1)

"...guys! You'd better take a look at this," Envy called. He was gesturing towards something, but from three's vantage point (the navigator had suddenly reappeared again) none of them could make out what it was. Upon further inspection, they found Roy had already been taken care of. Something had indeed fell from the sky, and it was...

"Alphonse!"

"It seems we have a new player."

That caught Ed's attention, "Player? You mean he's real?"

Nata nodded affirmation as the younger blonde slowly got to his knees, "...owie...my head..."

"Oh! Here, let me help you!" The older blonde exclaimed as he pulled his brother up with some help from Wrath. Envy and Nata stood to the side because Envy was still trying to hide his skirt-wearing-ness and Nata just didn't know these people plus he doesn't seem to be very social.

"...Nii-san?"

"Yeah, it's me. How did you know we were here?"

"And where is 'here'? Last I checked I was in the house...ack!" Al gasped when he noticed what had broken his fall, "Uncle Roy? But what- I mean..."

Ed raised a hand to stop him and shook his head, "It's a very long story."

Wrath popped up, "Not really. Why don't we watch the tape?"

"Tape?" everyone else chorus, blinking.

"Yeah," the younger dark haired boy rolled out a television on one of those cart things you might see at school, switched the power and pushed play on the remote for the VCR he had just pulled from his pants pocket.

"See, this is Nii-chan and Ed finding the game in the river..."

"Where the hell did he get this?"

"Look look! They were sucked in, but I didn't know it at first...they came back trying to convince me we used to have a brother named Greed..."

"What the-"

"...then I joined them, where we found out Roy was our next boss dude, so we made a plan to have Envy-"

"Hey! You know what, we don't need to watch this part!" Envy snatched the remote from Wrath's hands and clicked fast-forward. Ed took the remote from Envy's hands and clicked the power off.

"Basically, Otouto, we're inside a video game that could determine the fate of the world," he looked around, "uh, I think. Either way it's dangerous."

"Ah, but the real question is, is it dangerous to be here, or dangerous to not be here?"

Ed cast Envy a weird look, "What are you, Shakespeare? What the hell kinda question is that?"

"A good one," answered Nata, deep in thought, "it's just as dangerous being an innocent bystander caught in a blast as it is being a player. Not to mention those innocent bystanders could just as easily decide to attack us and cause their real selves more danger."

There was an uneasy silence before Wrath whined, "I don't like this game anymore, Nii-chan."

"Neither do I, but can we just stop playing? I mean, what would happen to..." Envy trailed off, giving an indication toward Nata. The latter shook his head sadly.

"No, you can't just stop once it's started, that's the same as losing. I could try to hold them off, but I'd be captured eventually..."

Ed clasped his hands behind his head, "So it's one of those 'do or die' scenarios, eh? I'm not sure what other dangers there are, but we're smart, right? With the five of us, there's nothing we can't solve!" He gave a grin to display his confidence.

"And here you were crying a minute ago."

"Shut up!"

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"How many bosses do we have to beat before we're done, anyway? How do we know when we're done?"

The other four focused their attention on Alphonse- who'd just spoken- then to Nata, being the only one who would know the answer to that. It was a few hours after Al'd first joined them and it was already dark in the game world. They'd built a fire to circle around, after deciding to pull an all-nighter to keep watch over Nata, even though the NPC insisted he would be fine over night and they needed their rest. But of course no one ever listens to reason.

"I'm not sure, actually, how many bosses...Kaito only had two and he's the only one that's ever beaten it before (2)..."

"Well then shouldn't we be done?" Ed asked, frowning, "I know we didn't kill the second boss, but you said that wasn't necessary!" During his little panicked hissy he motioned towards a body lying in the grass a ways away, tied up and gagged but not doing much to struggle.

Al sweatdropped and murmured, "Poor uncle Roy..."

"But- let's rewind back to Al's earlier question," Envy said, quickly giving Wrath a 'don't-you-DARE-start-pulling-out-video-tapes-'cause-you-know-that's-not-what-I-meant' kind of glare before continuing, "the one about how we know when it's over."

Nata thought, "Well, from my experience with Kaito, when it's over there should be..." he paused and furrowed his brow as if straining to remember. "There should be..."

...I've wanted to meet you...'Gate'...

"...a bright light..."

...Who are you?

Not 'who'...but 'what'...

"...the ground crumbling..."

NO! NATA!

Suddenly feeling dizzy, he finished, whispering a single word, "...Kaito..."

The others called out to him, but the worried cries went unheard as he hit the ground.

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1 - What? Kaito fell from the sky in volume one.

2 - Remember I'm going only by the first volume! Nata said the protection was the final boss and counting Rush that's only two! And I know Nata said "No one's ever given me a name before..." implying that there'd been others, but I don't know them and I writing this so therefore Kaito's the only one to have beaten Gamerz Heaven and that's that!

A/N: Waaaaa update update naaaaa...this is killing me! I know that loyal fans (if I have any) don't like excuses like "horrible writers block!" or "I had no internet!" or even the newest "my dad finally got internet but now his new computer has no floppy drive!" but aren't you just glad that I was so BORED OUT OF MY MIND that I forced myself to write more and then hitch-hike the twenty or so miles to the nearest computer- that is, with internet and floppy drive. Yeah I thought so. I see you're all so very enthusiastic. Especially since no one actually reads this story. Do you notice it has no reviews? Oh wait, there's one, but that's someone I know personally and I told her to go write that. How very depressing.