Chapter Three
Alphonse finally gets put in his place!
A day after Ed and Roy had their first um…encounter, a knock came on the colonels door. "Ed could you get that?" The flame alchemist yelled from the study of his apartment. "Yeah, ok," Edward jumped up from his book and went to the door.
Fullmetal opened the door expecting one of the usual military bozos, but was surprised to see Winry at the door. "Winry! What are you doing here?" Edward asked surprised. "Hi Edward, I umm." Edward looked past the door to see Alphonse sitting in a car outside the apartment. He was staring the opposite direction. "Oh, I see," Edward said.
"Now Edward, Im not mad at you.." Winry started. "You shouldn't be, it's no like I chose this, this is just me!" the blonde shrimp was instantly pissed. "Ed please calm down that's not what I meant, I just, Edward come on Al wants to talk to you," Winry said pulling him out the door to the car.
Edward sat on the right side of the car, with Winry in the middle and Alphonse on the left. SO far Alphonse had only said one word to Ed, and visa versa. Upon entering the car Ed had caught Al looking at him, "Brother," Edward said remembering all the fun times they had. "Edward," Al said coldly just to set the mood. So Ed sat in the car looking out the window.
The car stopped and Winry stood as best she could in the car. "Now you two need to work this out im going to give u some time alone and I better not catch u guys fighting!" Winry said in a mothers tone as she made an exit. The doors automatically locked using Winry's home made lock that couldn't be opened even with alchemy.
"Al, what? Why is this so hard for you?" Edward asked his brother. "How?" Al asked, still not looking at his gay brother. "What Al?" Edward asked. "How!" Alphonse repeated his voice quavered. "How what?" Edward asked confused. "How did you do this to me!" Alphonse yelled as he turned to face Ed.
Al was crying and his face was red. "Do what? Alphonse what are you talking about?" Edward asked. "Don't play stupid you grain of sand to small to be seen with a high powered microscope, so little it wont even hurt being caught in your eye!" Alphonse yelled. "Who you calling short?" Ed yelled trying to restrain his composer.
"You did it on purpose to get even with me!" Al yelled crying. "Did what?" Ed yelled back. "Make me like you!" Al yelled. "Alphonse what do you mean?" Ed asked. "Make me gay like you, how did you do it? Change me back make me normal!" Alphonse yelled.
"Alphonse, I didn't know," Ed said sympathetically. "Change me back, turn me back!" Al yelled. "Alphonse I didn't do anything to you," Ed said, putting a hand on Al's shoulder. "Liar! You did this!" take it away, make me normal again!" Al yelled at hios slightly bemused brother. "Al, it's genetic, I didn't do this…how could I do this?" Ed asked curios at his brothers accusations. "You managed to somehow reconnect your limbs and my body, maybe u were mad at me for what I called you earlier and decided to get revenge?" Alphonse asked sarcastically.
"Al I did not do anything to you, I couldn't even if I wanted to," Edward said making his brother look at him by turning his head slightly. "Don't touch me you sick bastard," Alphonse sneered. "Fine live in your misery," Edward said coldly as her turned to open the door.
He depressed the handle to find it was locked and the only way to open it was with a key. "Funny Winry," Edward said sarcastically as he clapped his hands and attempted to transmute the lock. "Nice Winry, I wonder how I could ever escape from here?" Ed made his voice loud enough that Winry could hear him outside the car. Winry turned and looked at Ed through the window and shrugged. Ed clapped his hands again this time transmuting the metal car door into dust.
Winry spun to see a pile of dull gray dirt with her alchemic proof lock, still intact but on the ground. "See you Winry, don't bother bringing Alphonse back unless he's serious about making up," Ed said as he walked away.
Winry spun around ready to scorn Al for what he had done only to see several large metal spikes shoot through the car roof where Al had been sitting. A small trickle of blood dripped of three spikes. Alphonse Elric had committed alchemic suicide. Winry looked inside only to see hundreds of metal spikes and Al's hand on the seat, his arm leading into the entanglement of metal.
Each spike had a transmutation symbol etched in it. Winry gently touched one. IT glowed blue as did the rest of the symbols and all the spikes and Al's body disappeared into particles.
Edward walked slowly home, still furious with his brother. IT began to rain as he walked home, but Ed didn't care. His bright blonde hair dripped as her walked. He heard footsteps running behind him and looked to see Winry. She told him everything.