And I'm back again, with the next chapter to my story! Please enjoy.

Disclaimer: I still don't own Fullmetal Alchemist unfortunately.

Ed stared at his brother in disbelief.

"Winry?" he said. "DO I LOOK LIKE A GIRL TO YOU?

Al approached his snarling brother and said, "Well…kinda. I mean, you are short like a girl, you do have long braided hair, and you're wearing gloves like I've seen Winry wear. So you must be her!"

Ed didn't quite know what to say to that. It was disturbing enough that his own brother had mistaken him for their childhood friend. But before he had time to orchestrate a response, Al was talking again.

"Regardless, I'm glad you're here! I need you to find my gauntlets." He held up his arms and Ed saw the gauntlets to the suit of armor were missing. "You took them off to polish them before I went to visit teacher and you never gave them back. So I'd appreciate it if you found them for me."

"But I'm not Winry! I don't know where you're gauntlets are!"

Al wasn't listening. He pushed Ed towards the open door, shoved him inside, and closed the door.

"Just find my gauntlets please."

Ed sighed and looked around him. It was a simple enough cottage. The kitchen was through the door on his right, with a few boxes scattered on the table, and the sink filled with water. The living room was to his right and there was an armchair and a love seat set around a coffee table with a few books opened on it. A lot more books were in the bookshelf against the far wall. Directly ahead of him lay a stairway leading upstairs and to the bedrooms.

"Knowing Winry, she probably left the gauntlets on her workbench. The sooner I help Al, the sooner we can both get out of here!"

So Ed climbed the stairs and saw three doors. One led to Al's room, according to a nameplate hanging next to it, and was locked. The one across from Al's room was just a storage closet where a bunch of Winry's extra tools were located. The last room was Winry's and Ed immediately entered it. The bed was made and set in a corner next to a nightstand with several small pieces of machinery and a few small tools, including a screwdriver and hammer. Apparently Winry liked to work on metal, even in bed! A large workbench with several shelves completely covered in metal works and tools, took up an entire wall to itself. A closet was open revealing even more pieces of metal and broken or half fixed machinery. Ed began to search the workbench.

"Jeez! How can anyone find anything on this table? It's a mystery to me how Winry can work like this!"

But his search was not in vain! For on a shelf he found the gauntlets! He grabbed them and started to leave. Just as he reached the door, however, he noticed Winry had left her lunch on the table. Half a sandwich lay on a plate next to a glass of milk and a shiny apple. Ed didn't want to eat the sandwich, and he'd rather die then drink milk, so he grabbed the apple and took a bite. This bite, however, proved to be a mistake in this strange world. The "caught in an elevator going up" sensation returned and Ed soon found his head hitting the ceiling!

"Aw crap! Not this again!"

Ed quickly sat down as he continued to grow. As he continued to fill the room, Al, with his back turned to the house, was still waiting for him to come back down when who should appear, but Winry! Al glanced at her, then did a double take as he realized who was coming up the path!

"Winry? What are you doing here?"

"Don't you remember? I told you I was going to pick up some more tools for the project I'm working on." She pulled out a wrench. "See?"

"But if you're out here...then who's in the house?"

"You let a stranger in the house?"

"I thought it was you!"

"What did they look like?"

"Well, she was short, had long braided hair, and was wearing gloves!"

"Hey, that does sorta sound like me…"

"I'd better go after her and make sure she isn't doing anything to our house!"

Al ran inside the cottage and up the stairs. He threw open the door to Winry's room and came face to face with Ed's boot. He quickly turned around and tried to run, but the boot came crashing through the door, and carried him down with it! He flew out the door and nearly landed on Winry when Ed stopped growing. Ed now totally filled the cottage with his arms sticking out of opposite windows and his right foot through the door while his left foot was through a wall. A small window was near his eyes, so he could see out. A large metal object suddenly sailed through the air and landed at Winry's feet.

"NOOOOOO! MY PROJECT!"

"Uh-oh…" Al said looking at Winry's reddening face.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

Winry let out a battle cry and began to mercilessly attack Ed's boot with the wrench. Ed reflexively kicked out and knocked her down.

"Don't just stand there Al! Help me!"

"DID SOMEONE CALL FOR HELP?"

Al, Winry, and Ed all sweat dropped at the sudden appearance of the sparkly Major Armstrong.

"Uh…well…" was all Winry managed to say before being interrupted.

"Say no more! I, Alex Luis Armstrong, shall help you with any problem that should come your way!"

"Then can you please take care of that?" Al said indicating his cottage and the various limbs sticking out of it.

"Of course! Behold! The power of lifting passed down the Armstrong line for generations!"

Armstrong grabbed Ed's left boot in both arms and began to tug it upwards. After several minutes of huffing and pulling all he managed to do was tear off Ed's boot.

"Hmmm…This may be harder than I thought…"

"Um, Major Armstrong?" Al said. "If it isn't too much trouble I'm in a bit of a hurry so if you could speed this up a little…"

"There's only one alternative! We must tear the house down!"

"Yes! Great! Tear the…Wait a minute. You can't tear down my house!" Al exclaimed trying to stop the Major.

"Nonsense!" He said knocking Al over. "Just sit back and watch the Strongarm Alchemist do his work!"

With that, Major Armstrong slipped on his own gloves, picked up a rock and smashed it, causing the spikes to shoot out and tear off several tiles of the roof, break a window, and nearly decimate an entire wall!

"I've gotta find some way out of here or he's going to kill me!" Ed thought, looking around for something, anything that would return him to normal size. He couldn't find anything in the room, so he reached around outside looking for anything edible. His fingers touched what appeared to be a green house. He broke the glass, which was impossible to hear over Armstrong's destructive redecorating and Al's cries of horror, and grabbed a vegetable. He pulled it up to his mouth and managed to eat it. Almost instantly, he began to shrink, his limbs pulling back inside the cottage. Unfortunately it worked too well and Ed was now only inches tall. And missing one boot! He managed to run to the stairs and created a wooden slide with alchemy and slid out the front door. He came outside in just enough time to see Al pull out a pocket watch.

"I've got to go! I'm already late as it is!"

"But Al!" Winry called. "You don't have your hands!"

"I'll come back for them!" he shouted back. "If I'm late to see teacher she'll kill me!"

And with that, he was gone.

"Well my work here is done." Armstrong said, nodding. "If you ever need my assistance again just call!"

"I've got to chase after Al!" Ed said running into the grass.

Winry was now alone with a half demolished house, a giant boot in the front yard, and a bag full of tools.

"I suppose I'd better start fixing the house." She sighed.

Ending Note: I hope you enjoyed this chapter! I'll put the next one up as soon as I can.