A/N: Ah! Gomen naisai! Gomen naisai! I am SO sorry for not updating for such a looooong time! I bet you guys were losing hope T.T I am also very grateful for all the reviews I've received from this story! Even more reviews in 2 chapters than in the WHOLE original story. Like always review replies are at the bottom of the page. Once more GOMEN NAISAI!

Disclaimer: I don't own FMA and yada, yada, yada... You know the drill.

"..." means someone is talking

"..." means someone is thinking.

HOWEVER if it starts out regular and/or only one word is in italics then the person is still talking. The one or two words in italics are just for emphasis. EX: "I am really bored." or "So, do you think I care?" and so on...

CHAPTER THREE: Fork in the Road

She was tired and groggy PLUS she had nearly been suffocated by a midget. She was Winry Rockbell.

Winry opened one eye slightly and looked about. What had awoken her from her peaceful nap in the first place? Well someone (a.k.a. shrimpy) was bounding loudly down the stairs.

"Winry! I'm hungry! Can you make me something to eat?" complained Ed.

"Why don't you make it yourself shorty?" she replied, closing both of her eyes. She desperately wanted to go back to sleep. "Dammit! I shouldn't have said that! Now I'm never gonna get back to sleep," she thought.

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A TINY BUG THAT ESCAPES THE WRATH OF A SHOE BECAUSE HE'S SO SMALL THAT HE FITS IN THE GROOVES AND CAN'T GET SQUASHED?" yelled Ed, now having a fit.

"Well, it's true. You are short," she stated, eyes still closed. She would just ignore him.

"IS NOT!" Then Ed got one of those funny little light bulbs over his head that you usually see in old and/or crappy American cartoons and it lit up and then he got this big evil grin on his face (not good, oh and sorry for the overly long/run on sentence )

"Well, at least I'm not a machine freak." he said. He folded his arms across his chest.

"What did you say?" Winry asked. She opened her eyes, turned around to look at Ed and glared.

"I said at least I'm not a machine freak," Ed repeated, smiling evilly at Winry. Oh, that one hit a nerve.

"Hmph," she turned her back on him, eye twitching slightly. "Well, it's better than being an alchemy geek and a midget."

"WHAT DID YOU SAY MACHINE GEEK!"

"YOU HEARD ME!" she yelled while turning to face him. She just lost her temper. "So much for ignoring him." she thought. She hit him on the head with her wrench for his, well, just because he was being him and like some say 'making a mountain out of a molehill'(don't worry it was the regular sized wrench). This action of hers pushed them to a whole new level of arguing.

"Oh, be quiet you two!" commanded Pinako who was standing nearby.

"But Granny, Ed was--" Winry was cut off by her grandmother.

"It doesn't matter. Now shouldn't you and Edward be getting my groceries?"

"Wha..." Ed was completely and utterly confused.

"You know get groceries for dinner? Geez Ed, I thought you were supposed to be a prodigy," Winry teased. Ed just gave her the evil eye.

"Why can't Al go?" whined Ed.

"Because Edward, Alphonse is working on fixing the door YOU broke. So I suggest you two get going!" and at that Pinako shoved the two out the door, giving Winry directions and a shopping list.

Winry put the list in her pocket and started to unfold the directions while pacing in front of the house. BANG! She hadn't been looking where she was walking and had fallen down on the dirt road.

"Ow," she winced. She had scraped up one of her hands rather badly but it was nothing serious.

"Where are the directions Winry?" Ed asked.

"Is that all you care about? Seriously Edward!" she muttered.

"Oh, um, sorry," he mumbled. He wrapped one hand around Winry's waist to help her up.

Her face turned hot at the sudden physical contact even if he was just helping her stand. But for some reason he didn't move. "Um, Ed?" He stared blankly in front of them.

"Oh crap!" he finally managed to mumble. She looked in the direction he was and saw it. When Winry had fallen the directions had fallen with her and had landed in a big mud puddle. He broke away from Winry and rushed over to the puddle of liquid dirt and pulled out the map. It was soaked and mostly unreadable. Winry came over to help. She took out a rag that she had in her back pocket and tried to dry it off. The directions now looked like this:

o st aght. Th n ou com to a fork i th road go t. Then ke p goi g un l y u s e the new market pl c . –P na o

"Um so I guess we go straight?" Edward said holding the now soiled paper.

"Um, yeah. Then I think it says when we come to a fork in the road we go a certain direction. I just don't know which one." answered Winry.

"Hmm. Well we can decide when we get there," he replied. And so the two continued forward until they came to the fork in the road.

xoxox

Pinako and Al had watched the whole scene from outside.

"Don't you think we should help them?" Al said.

"Oh, if they need help they can just ask for a new set of directions Alphonse. It dosn't really matter if they do or don't. Either way Ed will learn his lesson and they'll get to Eleno--"

"Excuse me Aunty? I wasn't really listening. What did you say?" asked Al.

"Oh, nothing. I think I need to make a phone call. OK?" replied Pinako.

"Oh, alright. I'll start fixing this door then." said Al and as he went to work.

xoxox

-On the Phone-

Ring! Ring! "Hello? Oh I need you to look out for a young boy and girl around the ages of 16. What? Of course! OK. Yes, short. OK. Good bye then."

A/N: OK! That's chapter three. I have a good plot in store. Enjoy

REVIEW REPLIES :

Saturn Stars: Ah yes, an EVIL plan! That's the kind of plan! WHA HA HA! (chokes) Man, I gotta stop doing that XD Oh and you have to update on your fic too Okay?

Cricket-chan: Oh, yes I love inferences. It just kills me when they leave a big cliff-hanger and then don't update in a long time Gawd, now I'm being hypocritical. Although I don't leave that many cliff hangers. Do I?

Chiyo Ishida: Hiya Chiyo! Nice to see you here. You just had to track me down didn't you? Oh well, that's a good thing I posted this on fullmetal-alchemist .com too so you don't have to go all the way here just to read it. But you already knew that right?

TkMacintosh: Oh, but remember that this was a JUMBO wrench I glad you like the story!

Faoron: I'm glad you like the story too Thanks for the constructive critisism. I'll work on that. Ah, yes. Self denial and stubborness. (tsk, tsk)

Ed: Hey! What do you mean by all that tsking?

CagalliFan: I updated and I hope you keep on checking back

some 1 person: Yes, I'll work on making my chapters longer. I actually would've made this one twice as long but I wanted to use this one chapter title name: Rock, Paper, Scissors! for chapter 4. I don't have any idea why it was so important though. I guess I just like it XD

C. A. M. O. 1 and Only: Ed is oblivious to the obvious! What can I say XD

Ed: Hey! You know you're really starting to piss me off Phyco girl! Is Phyco even a word?

Phyco girl: Shut up Ed. Also I don't care if I piss you off so there! No Phyco is NOT a word. It was originally Psycho girl but when I was filling out the form to join on fullmetal-alchemist .com I accidentally spelt it wrong. So I just use the same messed up name everywhere I go.

Confusedalchemist: Hey! I know you! I glad you enjoy the sequel.

TheLastDay: I'll try to update sooner now that I know I have a lot of people waiting on new chapters I mean look how long the review replies section is!

Ed: Oh stop bragging baka.

Phyco girl: Hey!

Bunny Hooded Bumchu: I'm glad I could amuse you I've seen you before on the fm-a forums before!

So long for now! Hey, that reminds me of this random story:

BEFORE I SAY GOODBYE I WILL TELL YOU THE FOLLOWING RANDOM STORY THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO MY FRIEND BUT I WILL SUBSTITUTE HER WITH AL:

One day when Al was only 6 years old he thought he could talk to squirrels. Sure most everyone made fun of him but Al didn't care. Well everyday he would go to the backyard to say hi to his best squirrel friend Chipper. In reality it was a different squirrel everytime but Al thought it was the same old squirrel. Then one day when Al was going to say hello to Chipper he saw a snake eating the squirrel. Al got his mom and Ed and since Ed was afraid of snakes (although he pretended to act brave) Their mother, Trishia had to go and hit the snake with a rake (hey that rhymes!) until it died. After the snake and one of many Chippers were dead they buried the snake which had eaten Chipper under a big boulder and engraved upon it the words "So long my friend".

The End

Wow, that was very badly written and rather pointless. (shrugs) Oh well.

Phyco --(not a real word) girl