Chapter 9: Memory

"What the hell does he mean by 'on the outskirts of town'?" Edward Elric asked.
"You mean, like, where?" Alphonse asked his older brother.
"Yeah! He never told us which direction to g-" Ed stopped suddenly at the sight of an arrow being drawn on the ground in the dust pointing to a cabin off into the distance.
"Uh...that was weird," Al said."I guess we must have missed it"
"Yeah..." Ed said slowly. As the Elric brothers werewalking towards the cabin, Torture dissolved into appearance seemingly from the air with a stick in his hand.
"Pain, it won't be long now," Torture said and walked away and dissolved again.

"Well, we're finally gonna get our revenge!" Ed said as they approached the door.
"We should open it," Al said.(A/N: NO PHUCKIN' DUH)
The two brothers opened the door.
"Surprise," Envy said before started fighting with Ed.
"ED! AL!" Riza said in a muffled voice.
"Huh? What was that!" Al asked as he tried to pull Envy off of Ed.
"EDWARD!" Riza yelled again.
"Envy, do you have someone in there?" Ed asked angrily.
"Naturally," Envy said coolly.
"Dammit!" Ed said as he ran into the cabin to find Riza bound and gagged in a cage with cuts all over her.
"RIZA!" Al yelled.
Ed clapped his hands and layed them on the cage Riza was in. It broke apart immediately. "Riza are you okay?" Ed asked as he took the piece of cloth out of Riza's mouth.
"Ed, look out!" Riza yelled. Envy was running into the cabin, ready to attack. Ed reacted immediately and pulled his blade out. Envy took the first blow to the stomach by Ed's blade.
"Come on, don't you think one time is enough to die?" Envy said.
"So you really do have a hard time dying," Ed said.
"Yeah, kind of a pain, but oh well," Envy said as he kicked at Ed a few times.
As Ed and Envy were fighting, Al was untying Riza's bonds.
"Thanks, Al," Riza said as Al undid the last one.
"Oh, and just a word of advice: Don't shoot at Envy. He's a himunculous; he can never die unless by a particular strategy that you'd need to figure out on your own," Al said to Riza.
"Okay, I'll keep that in mind," Riza replied.
As Al and Riza turned to face the battle at the same time, Ed continued fighting Envy. Ed slashed at Envy a few times, dodging his kicks and punches in between.
"Enough, Envy," Lust said as she walked into the cabin.
"Where'd you come from?" Envy asked."You're supposed to be with Greed"
"And where do you think Greed is?" Lust said as Greed walked into the cabin.
"Miss me?" Greed said casually.
"Not a chance!" Ed said as he charged towards him.
"Hold it, shorty!" Greed said as he held his hand out and grabbed Ed's head to stop him.
"Who are you calling a tiny bug that escapes the wrath of a shoe because he's so small that he fits in the grooves and can't get squashed!" "Uh...I didn't say that," Greed said, puzzled.
"So where's Torture and Pain?" Ed asked.
"I'm not telling you," Greed said.
"Let me save you the trouble," everyone heard Torture's voice say.
"We can come out now, Torture," Pain's voice said.
Pain and Torture's bodies absorbed into appearance.
"Well, well, well, you came," Torture said slyly.
"We thought you were captured! This was all a trick!" Al said.
"Compliments of Envy," Pain said.
"'Ohhh, help me, Ed! I'm in trouble!'" Envy said mockingly in Riza's voice.
"Stop it!" Ed said.
"Why should we?" Lust said.
"Because I said so!" Ed said charging for Lust, his blade out.
Lust slashed at him with her dagger-like fingernails(A/N: thing). Ed dodged the first few blows, but then got cut on his midsection twice. Ed returned it by slicing a chunk of Lust's midsection.(A/N: itsh all gorey)
"Wow, you're a hyper little midget, aren't you?" Greed said.
"Oh yes, I'm so small that you can't see me amongst the grains of sand, like always!" Ed said."Could you stop it with the short jokes already?" He slashed at Lust a few more times and then clapped his hands and sent forth a wave of wood pieces from the ground. It sent Lust falling backwards.
"Heh. Who's the ultra-hyper midget now!" Ed said. But then, Lust got back up again, with wood chips sticking out of her body, blood dripping from the cuts.
"That may have hurt, but you know you can't kill me by throwing a little wood at me," said Lust slyly.
"Shut-up! I know!" Ed said angrily, slashing at her some more.
Al started fighting Envy to keep him busy. Al punched Envy and then kicked him three times to get him to the floor. Envy immediately got up again and charged at Al. Al only went back a few inches as he tried to get to Envy.
"Hey, tin can, you're not going to get me; I'm to fast for you," Envy said, jumping everywhere.
"That may be, but I still have the upper hand!" Al said.
"And how is this?" Envy asked.
"I can use alchemy," Al said, drawing a simple transmutation circle, clapping his hands, and then a bluish glow appeared and created a sword. Al picked it up and charged for Envy.
"Envy, retreat," Torture commanded, sounding bored."Enough of this child's play.
"Torture's right; this is getting stupid," Pain agreed."Envy, Lust, Greed, leave. We'll finish them off"
"And how do you propose to do that?" Lust said.
"Don't worry about it, just go," Torture said as the three homunculi left the cabin, which was now a complete wreck.
"So, you're going to kill us, eh?" Ed said."Then how will that help you find the Scholar's Stone"
"You're forgetting that I can steal people's memories; I can get all the information I need from you"
"Oh, yeah, I forgot," Ed said."Why is it that you have so many powers? I mean, all the other homunculi have only one power, yet you two seem to have at least five"
"First of all, we weren't created the exact same way the others were," Torture said.
"What's the second?" Al asked.
"Um... that you're going to die," Torture said."Pain, start the memory extraction"
"You got it," Pain said as her hands started to glow blue, but then changed to purple. She drew a sort of circle on the ground.
"A transmutation circle!" Ed and Al said in unison.
"Heh. You also forgot that I'm the only homunculous who is trained in alchemy," Pain said as she clapped her hands and then placed them on the circle. There was a bluish glow throughout the room and suddenly Ed and Al started to feel woozy.
"Al, let's get out of here!" Ed said as he started for the door.