Ed, Roy, and Al sat in Roy's office playing cards for lack of anything better to do. "Your turn Fullmetal..." Mustang said with a witty smile. Ed hated that smile, he lifted up his hand and tried hard to decide which card grab from Roy's hand. Just as he was about to grab the ace of hearts Winry burst in the door followed shortly by Hawkeye. "Ed you bastard!" Winry fumed. "What did you do now, big brother?" Al inquired. "Do? I didn't do anything! She's flippin' out!" Ed replied. "Don't give me that you lazy ass! You're so damn lazy you haven't been back to visit me in weeks!" she hollered. "I've been busy..." Ed muttered defensively. "Bullshit, I come in here to find you playing poker with your Colonel friend, Mustang or whoever he is!" she snapped back. "Hawkeye...?" Roy began. "I'm sorry sir, I tried to stop her but she scares me..." Hawkeye admitted shamefully. "It's not that, Riza, I'm just wondering who she is?" he replied. "Well sir, that's Ms. Winry Rockbell, she's an automail engineer. The engineer who crafted Elrich's automail arm and leg sir..." she reported. Winry glared at Riza, the Lt. Colonel gulped at the younger woman's cold glare. "I'm not just any automail engineer! I'm the best in the business!" she replied hotly. "Her temper's much worse than Fullmetal's..." Roy murmured to Riza who nodded in agreement.
Winry grabbed the Elrich brothers by the back of their collars and began to drag them out of Roy's office when the room suddenly went dark. In fact it was pitch black, no one could see anything. It didn't take any of them long to figure out that they were unconcieous. When Ed began to awaken he found himself in a tube filled with a strange green liquid. The liquid was fixing large gaping holes in his automail and healing wounds he somehow recieved. He looked around for his companions to find them in tubes of the same green liquid with various injuries on them as well. Al was a complete mess, his massive armor shell floated in the liquid bits and pieces of armor broken off of him. None of them were awake, the were all out of it completely except him.
A person appeared in front of his vat. "Ah, awake at last I see? Let's see according to the readouts from you brainwave scans, your name is Edward Elrich, aka Fullmetal, aka Ed Elrich... It must've been pretty rough on a relatively normal human being to pass through dimensions. Your injuries should heal in a matter of moments, and don't worry about your friends they'll also be fine..." the red-haired young woman explained. Eventually everyone was awake, a little groggy but overall ok, standing in the lab of a mysterious woman. "I am the Greatest Scientist in the Universe Little Washu, welcome to my lab. Ahem, now let me explain how you all accidently got here... You see I was working in my subspace lab monitering some irregular dimensional activity in your dimension when some idiot who introduces herself to my lab frequiently caused a chain reaction that brought your nearly dead bodies to this dimension. It was I who placed you in the masses gel. That green liquid was masses gel, it has curative properties to such an extent that it can rebuild a living body from nothing but bones... I'm afraid to say that even though I know what brought you here and how the process was completed, there's no way I can send you all back..." she explained sadly. The woman raised her hand and a table appeared in front of her she began to write something down on a piece of paper. "Roy Mustang, give this note to a young man named Tenchi Masaki upstairs and don't let anyone else see it. After that we'll just have to play it by ear..." she replied handing a folded up note to Roy.
The alchimests climbed the stairs and left the lab, they needed to find the young man Washu described. When they opened a man with long silver hair and one arm looked at them and turned away in disdain. The silver-haired man walks away quietly after mumbling something under his breath. "What's with that guy?" Ed asked. "Maybe he had a dead cat in his pants..." Roy joked. "Poor kitty!" was Al's reaction. "Don't worry, Al, it's just a joke... A very stupid joke!" Winry reassured. The house was full of people, it looked like a civilian version of the Central Office. "Man this place is packed..." Ed remarked. "I didn't know so many people could fit in such a small space and still have room to move around..." Roy agreed. "Excuse us, people we're looking for a guy named Tenchi!" Winry announced. A young woman with long black hair and dark blue eyes approached them. "I'll take you to him, my name's Kagome..." she announced. The girl led the alchemists outside and upa long flight of stairs. Halfway up Ed was out of breath and was struggling to keep up. "If you would drink more milk and eat healthy this wouldn't happen, you lactosiphobe..." Winry lectured. "Milk! Fullmetal is afraid of milk! That's unexpectedly funny..." Roy commented. "Can it Flame or I'll reduce you to cinders..." Ed replied dejectedly. Al picked up his brother and they continued on.
The young man Tenchi was found sweeping the sidewalk of leaves. "That's Tenchi..." Kagome pointed out. Ed and Roy looked at each other in a way that said 'you have to be kidding me', but Roy walked up and handed the note to him and saluted him respectfully. Tenchi opened the note and begtan reading. "Wow, how unfortunate for you, well you're most welcome to stay until we can figure out a way to get you guys back to your own world..." he replied after reading the note thoroughly. "I'll go tell Washu we need more rooms..." Kagome sighed. And that's how three State Alchemists, an empty suit of armor with a soul, and an automail engineer came to live in a place that could almost be considered the universe's nuthouse.