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ALTERNATE ENDING #1

IIIII

Edward charged forward at Envy not expecting Gluttony to get into the mix. The chubby man charged Ed into the wall as soon as he was in touching length of Envy. The blonde boy looked at the crazed man as he was trying to get a hold of his metal leg which caused him to fall on his behind.

"Le-Let go!" shouted Edward as he ripped it out of Gluttony's hands. He clapped his hands and touched the ground right beneath Gluttony. Spikes came out of the ground, going right through his arms, his legs, and one spiraled outward and went stabbing into his stomach. "There. You won't be able to move for a while!"

Gluttony still struggled to move even after he realized there really was nothing he could do. Edward looked at Lust who was sitting up, coughing up even more crimson red blood. Didn't look like she was going to fight either.

Facing Envy, Edward could help but smirk, "So. Just you and me now."

"Yes. I suppose so," Envy replied with a cocky attitude. "You managed to get them out of the picture but I won't be as easy. I'm the smarter of the three, you see."

"Oh yeah? Is that why you got yourself in this mess in the first place? A smart guy would have ran out of the room the first moment he saw I was coming in."

"Ha! You must be kidding me. You sound so confident. Tell me, do you really think you're great?" Envy put a hand on his hip with a big grin increasing across his face. "I'm not sure you're such a great an alchemist as they all say. Sure, you can attach souls to suits of armor, but then again who wants that? Common sense would say no. Guess you didn't think. Then there's everything you've failed at doing. Let me name them..."

Edward's face turned pale. He was right. Who wanted to be stuck in a suit of armor?

"Does the name Nina ring a bell to you?"

"Shutup, you don't know anything about Nina so be quiet!" demanded Edward, throwing a punch at his face but Envy turned around and smacked Ed hard in his hurt side with a kick. The blonde dropped to his knees out of fury, frustration, and pain.

"You were to late to save her. Tell me," Envy bent down to Ed's level, "What was it like to see a Chimera? You should have felt a bit special, Full Mini. Not a lot of people get to see those."

"I-It wasn't anything to be proud of. Shou was a sick man. H-He used his own daughter," replied Edward as he stood up. His breathing became shallow as his side tried to repair itself, in other words it hurt badly to breath.

"I thought dogs of the Military weren't supposed to have feelings?" Envy questioned as he hit Edward down onto the floor once again.

Al shouted "Brother! Run!"

Ed looked up a bit at his little brother, his vision was blurred, feeling pain all over his back as Envy buried his foot into his spine. Edward grunted in pain but refused to cry. He clapped his hands together then put his hands on the ground. A large metal pole came out of the ground.

Before Envy could jump back Edward hit him in the side. The sin went flying into the wall, cracking the wall, causing rubble to fall all around him. Edward hurried over to Al and started picking up the metal pieces of which he had broken earlier. All that ran though his mind was that he was a failure, he had failed to save Nina, he had failed in his duty as an older brother.

"Al, I'm going to fix your leg, and then I need you to grab Elisia and get out of here," informed Edward as he got the final piece around Al.

"Brother, you have to come with us. I'm not leaving you here with them. They could all be faking it and just waiting for me to leave so they can gang up on you!"

Edward clapped his hands then touched Al's chest. His pieces went back where they belonged and he had a leg again.

"Brother!" shouted Al, pointing behind him.

Edward swung around.

...A woman with dark black hair, a boy, and a small man, you, and Al were fighting. You thought you had beaten them so you turned your back to talk to Al...that's when the woman stabbed you in the back...

Al jumped in front of his brother as Lust tried to stab Edward one last time. Instead, she got Alphonse, who's armored chest only got a little scratch.

Lust hissed, "You aren't getting out that easily."

"Oh yeah? Try and stop us!" Edward stuck out his tongue.

Lust smiled as she knocked over a large lamp in the corner near the doorway with her stretched fingers. The bulb busted, touching the carpet, resulting in a large flame bursting forth. It seemed her idea was that if she wasn't getting out, nobody was getting out.

It consumed the doorway.

"What now?" asked Al who was in half-panic.

"Umm..." Edward looked around. He saw the window and said quickly "You're going to be jumping out of a window."

"What!" exclaimed Al. "Are you nuts? Do you know how high up we are? We are not at a good height to do such a thing."

"I know you're afraid of heights but you have to get yourself and Elisia out of here," Edward started coughing from the smoke that was starting to float on the ceiling. "I don't need either of you dying on me! If this place burns up you could very well be melted metal on the floor!"

"I'd rather take that risk then you loose you," Al admitted shyly.

Ed stood up and looked at Al. Lust was on the floor, vomiting up even more blood onto the floor. He glanced over to Gluttony who was still struggling to get out of the spikes and Envy was still under the rubble. Then Elisia was nowhere to be found.

"Damn. Where'd Elisia go!" shouted Edward as he looked around.

"I don't know," Al said as he began to move closer to the flames because she obviously wasn't on the fighting side of the room. He was the only one that could because he couldn't feel the extreme heat. He could hear his brother coughing from the thick smoke that was slowly moving downwards. "Elisia! Elisiaaaa!" He shouted. The smoke was almost like a fog, making it so hard to see.

"I want daddy!" a little voice shouted but he couldn't pin point where it came from.

Al said "Follow my voice, Elisia! Come here! We'll get you out of here, I promise! Please, come out of wherever you are hiding! We need to get out! Then we'll take you to your father! I promise!"

"I think she's in the bathroom," said Ed, coughing some more. He rested his back on the wall, then to his glove off and started breathing into that for a bit of fresh air. He added "I'm hearing sobs from in there but I can't open it. The doorknob is hot from all of the flames."

Al finally made his way over and opened the door. Sure enough, Elisia was sitting on the toilet, crying.

"Elisia!" said Al, happy that they finally found her. He picked her up in his metal arms and tried to soothe her. "It's alright Elisia. We'll get out of here." She started coughing just as bad as Ed was. "Brother? What do we do?" There was no answer, just coughing, but he couldn't separate Elisia's from his brothers. "Brother?"

Al looked down at Edward who was sitting on the floor, trying to get some fresh air at a lower level.

"A-Al, get out," Edward said.

"But brother-"

"I said get the hell out! Just be careful jumping out. I'll be right behind you. I just have to see about something first."

"...Fine," Al accepted that he wasn't going to be able to sway his brother. He made his way towards the window, not sure if he really wanted to jump or not, because it looked like such a long way down. "Elisia?"

"Y..eah..?" she coughed out.

"Get in my suit, alright?" He said.

Elisia was confused "There's room for two in there?"

"Just get in here, please?" He pleaded.

Elisia climbed in, her eyes poking out from underneath his helmet. She was extremely confused why he was empty but feeling much better because inside there wasn't any smoke.

"Hold onto something, Elisia, this is going to be bumpy," he warned.

Edward heard the sound of glass breaking. Good. Al must have done what he told him to do. Now he had to see if all of the sins were done with. It was a stupid thing to do but he had to make one last round. He wouldn't have them come back for revenge or anything. He crawled on the floor, covering his mouth with his glove, and soon saw that Lust was having just as hard a time as him in breathing.

He made his way around her so she didn't notice him. He bumped into something and looked up. Envy was scratched, bruised, and cut and had a look of extreme anger on his face. Envy kicked Edward in the face, causing him to roll a couple feet towards the window.

"You aren't going to make it out of here alive, Full Mini! I'll make sure of that!" shouted Envy from within the fog of smoke.

Edward stood up. He could either jump out the window or he could fight Envy. Then again, in this puff of smoke, how would he be able to fight? He looked down to see that the Military had arrived and were about to hose everything down. He put a foot on the ledge of the window and put his glove in his mouth. It was time to go. He couldn't stay. He had promised to many people that he was going to come back.

He jumped, not thinking that someone would catch him. It was a long way down and he just hoped he would make it out with just a few broken bones or something. Then he felt someone holding him in their arms. He opened his eyes to see Roy looking down at him, his firm arms holding him in a tight grip, almost like a hug.

"Uhh..." Ed blushed nervously "You can..." He have a small coughing fit then finished his sentence "...let go, ya' know."

"You are extremely reckless, you know that?" Roy smirked. He set the small boy down in front of him and started rubbing a wet cloth on Ed's face since he had black smudges all over his face, not to mention bruises and cuts, "You should have had us come over at some time in the fight, you idiot."

"Hey! They said that they'd kill them if I didn't come alone," snapped Ed who was in no mood to be lectured. He grabbed the cloth and muttered "I can do it myself!"

"I guess so."

There was a small silence. Well, except for the hosing down of the building, people muttering or screaming everywhere, and even more Military cars coming by.

Roy stood up and sighed. He looked away and said, "Look, Ed, I'm glad you made it out alive."

"...Huh?" Ed was surprised to hear those words come from his boss. Then added sarcastically, "What do you mean 'glad'? You should be damn near ecstatic I'm still alive."

Roy put a hand on Ed's shoulder and smiled.

"Wait. Where are Al and Elisia?" Ed frantically looked around.

"Don't worry. Elisia's in an ambulance being taken care of and Al is with her," Roy pointed over his shoulder to an where they were. "I have to tell you though: Good job, kid."

"Kid?"

"Yeah, kid."

"I'm not a kid!" he waved his arms in fury.

"I was kidding with you Edward. After this, it's going to be hard thinking of you as a child any longer."

Edward couldn't help but smirk. It was a complement, in a way.

"Anyway, I called Hughes and he should be here any minute now. You might want to watch out for him becau-"

"Edward!" He heard a cheerful voice call. The next thing the blonde knew he was in a crushing hug, "Oh thank you so much for getting my little angel back! You are the best kind of friend a guy could ever have! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank yo-"

"You can let go now," informed Ed, squirming in the grip.

"Oh. Sorry," Hughes set the boy down again.

"That's the second time in five minutes I've been hugged," complained Edward as he pushed the wrinkles out of his shirt.

"Oh really?" Hughes looked at Roy whom looked at the ground. "I wish I was here to see that."

"Um, Hughes, did Winry come with you?"

"Yeah. Any second now you'll get a third hug."

Edward felt a hand on his shoulder from behind and looked around. Winry was standing there with tears in her eyes. Not sad tears, but those of joy that her best friend made it out alive. She closed him into the third hug.

"Winry? D-Don't cry," said Edward, patting her back to calm her down. "I'm alive, there's no reason to cry."

"I'm so happy you made it out! Oh Ed!" Winry sobbed onto his shoulder.

Edward rubbed her back. "It's okay Winry. I told you I wasn't going anywhere."

"Aw, a nice little happy family?" cooed a familiar voice only to Edward...

"Damnit, I knew this was to easy!" hissed Edward as he swung around, putting Winry behind him in a protective stance.

Cahts was, after all, still alive. Ed had forgotten all about her! And he really wasn't in good shape to give a decent fight right now. His whole body was aching and he felt like he could fall over and go to sleep for a couple of days.

"Who's she?" Winry asked.

"Is that your sister or something?" Cahts asked, bringing out her gun and looking at it, as if threatening them that she still had ammo.

"No. I'm his fri-"

Ed cut her off. "She's nobody. Just a bystander."

Winry felt someone grab her arm and she looked to see Al, "Come on Winry. Lets get going!"

"But-" before she knew it she was being dragged away.

"Now what do you want? I thought you had nothing against me. If the homonculi are dead shouldn't you be giving it a rest already?" Ed asked.

"But you killed Miss Lust. I can't let that go."

"Bishop..." Roy Mustang took a step forward "...you are under arrest."

"Oh my. I've just had a change of plans!" announced Cahts, cocking her gun than pointing it at Roy. "I'll take care of you first."

Roy raised an eyebrow and took a hand out of his pocket, putting his fingers in the snapping position. "As soon as you fire that gun I'll burn you so bad you'll be screaming for your mother. Now do you really want to shoot me or are you ready to die?"

"Just as cocky as ever, I see."

"Of course."

"Well? Aren't you going to kill me, Colonel?"

"Now why would I do that?"

"I can see it in your eyes. You want to."

"No. I'm not murder-hungry like you. Now put your gun down and come peacefully and nobody will have to get hurt."

"To bad I'm so stubborn..."

"Yeah..."

"Umm..." Edward looked at the two in a stand off and wondered if he should do something but Roy glared down at him for a moment.

"Don't move Full Metal," He said.

"Yeah. If you do I'll shoot you first," warned Cahts.

"Don't do this. Do you really want to get revenge for someone that was evil in the first place or are you just that stupid!" shouted Edward, more than frustrated with the whole situation.

"Shutup you little bother! You don't understand! I'm pissed off at Roy for just being the cocky bastard he is!"

Cahts moved forward at Roy, just one step, and the Colonel snapped his fingers. Cahts ran towards the side to where the lot of by standers were and grabbed a-hold of a woman, holding her in front of herself. Roy's attack stopped and Cahts threw the woman down and held the gun up towards Roy again.

"Just stay in one spot. We can just end this now without getting innocent people hurt," Roy said.

"I don't care anymore! I'll kill you if it's the last thing I do! It's either you or I and I'm just fine with dying!"

The time for talk was over and the shot rang out, the fire started, and there was a clap of the hands. Edward had been quick enough to make a stone wall just tall enough to cover where the bullet aimed, which was his stomach, and that gave Roy room to fire his flame without being stopped by the wall.

Cahts was engulfed in flames. It's like she didn't even try to move away! She just stood there like an idiot. She dropped to her knee's. Laughing.

"She's nuts! Why is she laughing?" Edward asked watching the flames starting to burn out, revealing her severly burned skin that was starting to peel.

"Death. It's what she's wanted all along," Roy replied. "From me anyway."

"Huh?" Ed raised an eyebrow.

The elder man sighed. "Bishop said that if she were ever going to die she'd like to die by my flame because she could truly be happy with the end. Though, she probably thought she would have injured me in our final fight, but it really didn't take much to take her down either."

"Is she still alive?"

Roy shrugged. "I dunno and I don't really care. Let's just get going and let the police take care of her."

Edward nodded. Thank God, it's finally over. Everything's over!

We probably should have went home and celebrate but we didn't. I, for one, just went home and took a nap, and for once in the last couple of days had good dreams…

IIIII END

The next chapter is the sad ending. This one was the happy one well except for Cahts but nobody really cares about her, right? Anyway please review and you don't have to read the next chapter cause...well...if you don't like sad endings or torture scenes than it's not your cup of tea.

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