Ed was trying to adjust to life in the era of the 1940s with a mysterious young man by the name of Alphonse Hiedrich, but the time that he had spent with his father and his young student he was starting to realize the idea that he might never get back home to his own time and his friends. Alchemy was outdated in this time and as time went on for Ed, he felt that his sense of knowledge in alchemy was fading with every passing day that he spent in this world. In this world he was safe from the problems that his brother and his friends were now facing with the impending doom of Envy's comeback.

"Where do I fit into this equation of all this work that my father and Alphonse have been working on? I feel my powers of alchemy falling away and I feel helpless to do anything. What is happening to Al? What has happened?" Ed pondered these thoughts over in his mind as he sat in his room.

"Edward? May I come in or do you want to be left alone?" Alphonse asked through the closed door with some of the notes in his arms.

"It's alright, you can come in," Ed answered depressingly.

"You alright, you don't seem to be yourself lately, does it have to do with Professor Greed?"
"You wouldn't understand the problems I'm facing with being separated from brother. The world I knew, alchemy was like science and technology to you guys, but it was more…much more."
"What do you mean?"
"Al and I thought it would be the key to bringing our mom back from death, but when we tried to bring her back, we faced the consequences and the rest of our lives was spent trying to find a stone of myth and the closer we got to finding out the truth…we found that such actions of the stone comes with great suffering."

"I'm sorry that you are here instead of being home with your brother, but you can find a way to cope with your situation…I lost my brother early on in the war."
"Why didn't you tell me this?"

"I didn't think you would want to hear my sob story, but after seeing how you've been lately, I thought maybe you needed to some to talk to and if we can find away to make the fuel for the rocket and get the parts, I'm sure that with time, you can return to your time."

Ed didn't know what to say as he stared at the floor and pondered what Alphonse was saying, but could he truly trust him? This was a time of war and alchemy wasn't going to help them in their situation, but the rocket may be his own way home.

"So, what happened to your brother?" Ed asked with a renewed since of hope in voice as he turned towards Alphonse.

"My brother was in the British Air Force and he was excited about his job because he was one of the many to shoot at the German enemy from the air, but he didn't count on the possibility of machine guns behind the enemy lines," Alphonse said as he sob rose in throat as he tried to tell his story.

"What happened next?" Ed asked as he leaned closer to where Alphonse sat across from him as he looked at Alphonse's face and noticed that he was emotionally breaking down in front of him.

"My brother's plane was flying over enemy air space and the next thing he knew, his plane was shot down over enemy lines…then we got the news that my brother had been shot down and his plane did not make it, it was shot down and crashed into a building and my brother didn't make it."
Alphonse couldn't hold back the tears and neither could Ed as the two boys embraced each other to console each other, and from that moment on, the two boys became closer than ever and the hope of the rocket getting Ed home was about to become a reality.

Later that night at dinner the idea of the rocket came up as a discussion topic, but it didn't go as planned in the conversation between Ed, Hohenheim and Greed was more than pleasant.

"Dad, Alphonse and I have been talking about the idea of the rocket you have been working on the plans for and we thought maybe that there might be a possibility of get the fuel together," Ed started to say.

"The only thing we need is the chemicals that will make the fuel for the rocket, the parts and of course time and money to make it work," Alphonse added.

"It's a nice thought, but---"Hohenheim started to say.

"NO! Absolutely no about the rocket because even if we could get the parts and the fuel together, we are running out of time because each day there are reported signings of spies of Hitler watching for any one scientists to slip up and there are those that have been caught and tortured for their work. I will not allow you two to put all of us in danger and that is that is the end of that!" Greed said as he stabbed his knife into his meal with anger.

Ed and Alphonse were silent for the rest of the meal and the idea behind the rocket was forgotten for the time begin, but what Greed didn't know was in the eye of Ed, a glint of hope and potential started to glow in his eyes.

"May be excused?" Ed asked as he backed his chair out from the table as he winked at Alphonse.

"Yes you may, but don't stay up too long because we have a lot of research to do in the morning and we are going to start early tomorrow morning," Hohenheim said as Alphonse and Ed made their way up the stairway.

"Are you aware that if your son does something as stupid as trying to get home by way of the rocket, the gate that sent him here will permanently close and your chance and the only chance that I may have will be gone forever?" Greed asked as he stared at Hohenheim.

"I understand, but Edward wants to return to his own time as much anyone else and I can understand why because when they were little I disappeared without a trace and when Edward told me what he and his brother went through I knew then that I have to find a way to return him home to find out if his brother has returned to human or not."

"If Ed gets in our way of creating the rocket for the purpose of stopping the war, we may not be able to change the past of history because you and I both have red that the outcome of this war. Hundreds upon thousands of Jewish people are slaughtered in the death camps that Hitler is just now starting to plan and build, but in the end Hitler will commit suicide with his wife and the world will be rid of him."

"Ed means well, but what do we do about Alphonse?"

"He has family and we are not his family, if something were to happen to us, he would find a way to survive."
"He is not German like most of the population in this small town and if it were found out that he was of Jewish descendant…he would…I don't even want to think about it Greed."

Ed and Alphonse talked upon in Ed's room over the blueprints of the rocket and the notes that Hohenheim and Alphonse had been writing up about the rocket and the equations to make the chemicals of the fuel to make the rocket work.

"Professor Greed is not happy with what you said at dinner and the proposal about the rocket," Alphonse said as he poured over the notes.

"I know, but you don't what I faced against that guy in my time when he was apart of the Homunculi," Ed said, but he soon shut up when he realized what he had just said.

"What do you mean Homunculi?"

"They were a group of humans created from the use of alchemy and they had one wish and that was to become human, but they couldn't accomplish it without the use of the Philosopher's Stone."
"Where do you come into play in this whole thing with Professor Greed?"
"My brother Al and I were alchemists and they saw us a potential way to create the stone so that they could become human and the worst part about the stone was the final ingredient that was used to create the stone."
"What was it?"
"You wouldn't want to hear it, but I know you are going to want to know…it was humans."
Alphonse became silent at the mere mention of humans as the ingredient for the stone, but the room was alive once more as the two boys looked at the blueprints and notes until midnight and as they dreamed about the next day with the hopeful chance of changing the hearts of Hohenheim and Greed.

"Get ready Al because I'm coming home," Ed thought as he and Alphonse dreamed away the night about possibilities for the rocket.

Everyone was out doing different things and was on adventures, Al and company were in Lior and had a little excitement at the train station, but little did anyone know that a copy of Envy was headed towards Risembool to find Mustang. Mustang had been in Risembool only a few days, but as he walked around the town and saw the sights that Ed and Al had grown up with he noticed what made their home life such a peaceful one.

"Colonel Mustang?" Winry called out as she noticed Mustang standing at the end of the dirt path that was the walkway of the Rockbell's home.

"Yes, oh… I just got caught up with the beauty of your town," Mustang said as he turned around and started to walk towards the house.

"Grandma says that its time for dinner and was wondering if you were going to stand out here and wait for your dinner to cold?"

"I'm coming."
Mustang and Winry walked into the house where on the table in the dining room a dinner spread was, but no dinner would be complete without a fight between friends and family and that cloud was starting to form over the Rockbell household.

"So, Colonel Mustang…you've been involved with the Military for a long time and you have been connected with Edward and Al for a long time," Winry started to say.

"Yes, there have been points when I wish I could leave, but with the Fuhrer in hiding, the government is in shambles without the Fuhrer to oversee things," Mustang said as he started to eat his dinner.

"Winry, what are you doing?" Pinako asked as she looked over at her granddaughter.

"I am only interested in Colonel Mustang's career and I bet you know what happened during the massacre that took the lives of my mom and dad?" Winry asked as she glared at Mustang.

"Winry Patricia Rockbell!"

"I was apart of the massacre and it is hard for me to say this, but I am sad to say that in the midst of the massacre Brigadier General Basque Gran had found out through an unknown source found out that two doctors were curing and healing injured Ishbalans and I was ordered to execute the two doctors."
Mustang couldn't hold back his unknown fear about what Winry would said about what he had to say next, "The two doctors that I was ordered to execute, I am afraid to say were you mother and father Winry."

Winry was at a loss for words as she tried to control her emotions as she reached for a handful of mashed potatoes and threw them across the room into Mustang's face in a fit of rage as she got of her seat and continued her rampage.

"There are no words I can use to describe my actions, but if you wish me to leave, then I will leave on the next train out of Risembool in the morning."

"Winry Patricia Rockbell! You apologize to our guest---"Pinako started to say as Mustang held up a hand.

"No, she is entitled to be angry with me and she had the right to know the truth."

"Yes, I want you to leave this house and never return."

"Winry Rockbell, apologize!"

"I'm sorry you feel that way, "Mustang said as he walked out of the house and further down the dirt path, but he made a detour towards the site of the former Elric's home that had burnt down.

"Winry Rockbell, I don't what just happened here, but you were rude to our guest!" Pinako said as she got up from the table.

"I can't believe that we let a murderer into our home and sit at our table and eat with us, I feel so degraded of having to share a meal with that man!" Winry said as she stormed from the room towards her room where she could cry in private.

"Oh Winry, all these years later and you still hold back the memories of the past to be use as a form of guilt against others."

Mustang wondered around the site of where the home of the Elric's had once stood, but as he walked on the ground where the house had stood, he became overcome by memories of his own home and he had sit down underneath a tree that stood at the top of a hill that overlooked the town. As he looked down upon the hill his mind's eye wondered to a headstone at the foot of the hill from where he sat under the tree.

"What is that?" Mustang asked himself out loud as he walked down the hill towards the headstone.

Once he made his way towards the headstone he could read the name on the headstone was that of Trisha Elric, the mother of Edward and Alphonse Elric; the headstone revealed to Mustang a part of the Elric's past that they had hidden from Mustang and everyone else.

Here lies Trisha Elric

Mother, Wife, and Friend

She Shall Forever Be Missed

As Well As Her Forgiving Love

And Devotion to Her Family.

What a sad twisted fate for Mustang and the Rockbell's? Will Ed and Alphonse be able to convince Hohenheim and Greed to allow the creation of the rocket or will they have to go behind Hohenheim and Greed's backs to create the rocket? All these questions will be answered later. Okay, the whole thing about Mustang telling Winry about the deaths of her parents was already shown in earlier the show when Ed and Al asked Dr. Marcoh about the massacre and earlier in the series she found about her mom and dad's death. See you guys later!