Edward's father could only stare at the floor as he pondered his guilt of leaving his family and the memories he had suppressed from his travels in travels of alchemy and the things he had encountered, both sad and happy.

"Ed, there are no words that I can express for what I did for when you two were little, but I cannot believe that you would have fallen to the lowest and most illegal form of alchemy to gain your wish for your mother's return."
"What were we supposed to do? We had no living family, even if we knew of anyone existed, we were on our own and we felt the need to get our mother back…" Ed started to say as his dizzy headache started to take him over as he started to double over as he fell to the floor.

"Ed! What's happening?" Ed's father said shocked as his son started to fall to the floor and Ed's head connected with the wooden floor and was knocked unconscious.

Alphonse Elric paced the floor of the Rockbell's home as he started to question why he was back here in this "time" and where his brother was and what had become of everyone else that had been involved in the fight three weeks ago. Each time he passed one window in the home that faced the Elric's former home he turned his eyes from the visions that clouded his mind of the past and the visions of having the body of armor.

"Why did I come back as human and were is my brother at this moment and if he is alive, where is he and why hasn't he come looking for me?" Al asked as he paced the floor as these questions raced through his mind, but each was leading to a dead end.

"Al, please, stop pacing the floor before you wear a hole in the floor and we have to replace the floor. If Ed is alive out there somewhere, he will find a way to come back to you and come back home," Winry said as she tried to calm the worried brother.

"Where could he be?"

"What is the last thing you remember seeing of your brother?" Pinako asked.

"We were fighting Envy, who is a member of the Homoncoulus and all of a sudden a flash light flashed as a portal opened and my brother and Envy went through it and they continued to battle, I found a way to open the portal again and retrieve Envy, but he turned to ash as he was coming through. I tried to grab my brother, but I was too late as the portal began to close my armor was dissolving. I had to pull back and with a big flash of light, the portal closed and that was all I remember and I awoke here in your home."

"That is strange," Winry said as she scratched her head with a wrench in her hand.

"We must not give up hope that Edward with find a way back to our world," Pinako said as she walked towards the porch to overlook the valley.

"I think I need to go to the East and see what the Military has to say about what has happened and maybe get some answers."
"Al, don't take this the wrong way, but do you really think getting mixed back up with the Military is the best way to go?"

"It's the only way."

Al left the Rockbell's house as he headed towards where his families' home once stood and each step was a painful step into the past and as he got closer to the house memories that he had once believed to be false started to come back. One memory was the memory of when they had been playing for hours on end and as it got dark they would look back towards the house and see a light in the window by the door and as they would get closer they would see the smiling face of their mother; a welcoming sight to the darkness that engulfed the world.

"Brother was the only that could beat me back home, but I was the only one that could beat him when we were older, back when this body of mine was a mere body of armor due to the consequence we faced for human transmutation."

Time seemed to be slowing as Al made his way up to where to the door would have been and as he prepared to walk onto the site where the living room would have been, he broken down and cried as he fell onto the ground and cried out.

"Why? Why did you have to die mother, brother where are you? I need you now because I can't face this world alone without you!" Al cried out to the sky as he pounded the ground.

All Winry and Pinako could do from crying with Al was hide back the tears that wanted to come forth and cry along with Al for they had been their the night that Al had come in with Ed in his arms with his right arm missing and his left leg missing. The painful memories of facing the cries and screams of Ed as he cried out in pain from the pains of losing his limbs. Winry seemed to cry along with Al as she stood on the porch with her grandmother and watched Al cry out his grief and pain as he picked himself off the ground and moved through the rest of the once site of his home and moved towards the gravesite of his mother.

"Mother, it has been a long time since brother and I have visited, but we have never given up the hope of seeing you once more, we tried, but such actions of trying to bring you back to us ended in disaster and now I fear that our actions of trying to regain ourselves back from our former actions may have ended in losing Ed, but I know he is out there somewhere and I will find him and we will come back and visit you together once again."

Al left his mother's gravesite and headed back towards the Rockbell house so that he could gather his belongings and headed towards the East Command Center to speak whoever was in charge at the moment in hopes of finding out anything about where is his brother maybe and if there was any way to bring him back.

"Al, you alright dear because you seem upset about something?" Pinako asked as Al brushed past her and Winry on his way towards his room to gather his belongings.

"I have made my decision," Al said as he turned towards the worried Rockbell's.

"What have you decided to do?" Pinako asked.

"I am going to Eastern Command Center and talk to whomever is in command, I am only hoping that Colonel Roy Mustang is still in some state of command at that command center," Al answered as he packed his belongings and turned to towards the Rockbell's as he headed towards the door.
"Will see you again Al?" Winry asked.
"Hard to say, but I know that needed to get down to the train station and get on the earliest train out towards the East, the sooner, the better."
"Be careful, or else Winry will take her wrench to your head like she did your brother when you boys came back for repairs when you were a mere suit of armor and that was years ago," Pinako said as she stifled a laugh as Winry prepared to whack Al as he laughed along with Pinako.

"You better be careful or I will take this wrench to your head!" Winry said as she prepared to hit Al as he ran out the door and was now on his way towards the train station and towards the Eastern Command Center.

"I am coming brother and I will find you no matter what it costs."

Having fun so far? This story is only bound to get more fun from here on out, but what has become of Ed and his father? What chaos is bound to ensue at Eastern Command Center and are the rumors true about promotions are in order for members of the military in the wake of the fight three weeks ago. Also thanks to those of you that reviewed the first chapter of this story! Thanks for reviews and I will try and to get this story done as fast as I can! See you guys later!