Disclaimer: I'M SEXY O.O but I don't own FMA.

When Brosh woke up, he was slung over the back of a horse. A scorching heat beat upon his back. He groaned.

"Ah, seargeant. You're awake." said the burly man in front of him. Armstrong.

"Where are we?" Denny asked, repositioning himself on the horse's back. He saw Breda riding beside him. Armstrong was walking, because Armstrong needs no horse, fools! Armstrong glaced back at them.

"Ishbal. We're almost to the ruins."

"Ruins? Huh? What ruins? Did I miss something?" He raised an eyebrow. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT!" He shouted.

Breda and Armstrong remained silent. In the distance, there was a large pile of rubble. It may have been a chruch or temple at one time, but now it was mostly a pile of rocks.

"The Xerxes ruins..." Breda whispered. "Let's go." He slapped the reins over the horse's back and ran at a canter to the ruins. Armstrong started running and Brosh kicked his horse. It reared back and flung him off. "STUPID HORSE! HEY YOU TWO! WAIT FOR MEEEEEEEEEE!" He cried, the horse running after Armstrong and whinnying sadistically. The horse stopped. Just as Brosh was almost to the horse, it neighed and started running again. This little 'game' went on for fifteen minutes until the Seargeant collapsed, panting, sweating, and exasuted, in front of what looked like it used to be a big doorway or gateway. Armstrong and Breda stared at him. Well, actually, Armstrong just glanced at him and tied up the two horses. Breda was the only one doing a lot of staring. But that's not the point.

"Hello?" Brosh called into the structure, standing up and knocking on one of the pillars that was holding up at least part of what was the roof. A small peice of rock fell down and hit him in the head. It hurt like hell. "Owww..."

"Yes?" Said a female voice from behind one of the inner walls of the ruin. It seemed rather far away, but it had that certain girlish quality to it...

"M...Maria?" Denny said, trembleing slightly. Ross walked out from behind a wall and stood in front of him. They both stood still for a moment, until Brosh ran up to her and hugged her close to his chest.

"Oh god, Maria, I thought you were dead..." He whispered quietly, tears rolling down his cheeks. Maria winced.

"Ouch. Denny. You're hurting me." She muttered into his chest.

"Oh. Sorry." He let her go and backed away a few steps to get a good lok at her. She was wearing a long white robe with a neck wrap, the kind you saw a lot of Ishbalans wear. She had grown her hair out since he last saw her, more than half a year ago. It was now down just past her chin, curling naturally around her delicate jaw. But there was something much, much more different about her than that.

"Holy shit, Ross, you're stomach is...HUGE! Have you been overeating or something because I heard that the desert can make you get more blaoted and it's harder to burn fat so it just builds up and builds up and builds up and-"

"DENNY! SHUT UP!" She hit him in the head with a shoe.

"Hey! That really hurt! Who throws a shoe, honestly!" He whined.

Maria stared at him. "I'm pregnant, you idiot." She said.

"Oh." Brosh said quietly. "Congratulations, I guess." He looked to the ground. Ross looked at him and embraced him from the back.

"He's probably going to be just like you, too." She said with a smile and let go of him. He looked at her an blinked. "Wha?"

She nodded. He smiled. Breda threw up, and Armstrong was sparkleing.

"CONGRATULATIONS YOU TWO LOVEBIRDS!" He squealed, pulling them both into a suffocateing hug.

"GAH...NO...MAJOR...MY LUNGS...IT BURNS..." Brosh.

"GAH...NO...SIR...THINK OF THE KID...IT HURTS MY...SELF." Ross.

Brosh whacked him over the head with Ross's shoe from earlier while Maria pushed on his arm and Armstrong fell, unwillinly, off of them. The three normal people backed slowly away from 'the sparkleing hulk'.

"Don't bring Armstrong next time?" Brosh whispered.

"Don't bring Armstrong next time." Breda answered with a sweatdrop.

A/N: Was that a little longer? Sorry, I have serious length issues. Don't know why. YES, I do know that Ross left for Xing in chapter 41, I HAVE read the manga, so...HA. I WIN.