Hey everyone, sorry for that cliffhanger I left you with. This one should be better. Poor Ed, always dying at my hands in my stories! Hehehe...oh well, he always manages to survive somehow. Wait, did I just give a spoiler? Oh well, you would have found that out by the time you read the first few paragraphs of this chapter anyway, hehe.

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"Brother!" cried Al, pushing Winry aside and throwing his own arms around Ed. "Brother, no! You can't die, you just can't!"

Everyone was in tears, even Colonel O'Neill and Teal'c. They had really grown fond of Ed, and they couldn't believe he was gone.

"Relax, everyone, I'm fine!" said a voice out of nowhere. Everyone looked up to locate the source of the voice, and saw the mass of blue alchemical energy that had killed the Sylph. The mass of energy shifted its shape, so that it was in a human form, though it still glowed with that radiant blue energy. It was Ed.

"B-Brother?"

"Who did you think it was?" said Ed, "You ought to know that I'm not going to let someone just go and kill me when your lives are at stake."

"But…" asked Winry, "How…did you…survive?"

Ed reached up and scratched his head. "Uhhh…I'm not exactly sure. I think that since I was so desperate, I managed to create myself another body out of that alchemical energy she tried to kill me with."

Everyone was silent for a moment, staring at the blue figure before them, and trying to take all this in.

"So," said Colonel O'Neill, breaking the silence, "Can you still do alchemy?"

"DO alchemy?" replied Ed, "I…AM…alchemy!"

"You ARE alchemy?" said Carter, moving closer to Ed. She reached out and touched him, but her hand just passed right through him. He was non-material. Carter quickly reached into her pack, and grabbed a device to scan Edward with.

"I'm getting strong energy readings from him, sir," she said to the Colonel.

"Good," said O'Neill, "That'll make him easier to track. He's the only thing we know of that can kill the Sylphs, so we can't afford to lose him."

"But this is so incredible!" said Carter, "This is a being made entirely out of energy, yet he used to be human. It's not everyday that you see something like this!" Carter began spewing off a bunch of scientific jargon, trying to explain the phenomenon, only to be interrupted by a loud protest from Colonel O'Neill.

"Sorry, sir," said Carter, realizing that she'd been rambling again. O'Neill waved her off, like it was no big deal, though he wished she'd get control of that habit.

"I believe that this boy could be a powerful weapon against the Goa'uld," said Teal'c for the first time in awhile.

"Yes, very probably," said O'Neill, "And those homo-things too."

Edward smiled. "If I can be useful, then let me know. I'm not sure how, or if, I can get back to normal, so I hope that I can be useful in this form."

Daniel sighed and scratched his head. "If only we could get back home, we could plan a strategy with the assistance of General Hammond."

Edward thought about that for a moment. "You know, with me in this form, I just might be able to open the Gate, since I'm just pure alchemical energy, and have nothing to lose."

"You can open the Gate?" said Carter.

"I think so," said Ed, "But we should really bring a representative from Amestris through the Gate with us, so that we can all be on the same page."

"What's Amestris?" said Colonel O'Neill. Ed gave him an I-can't-believe-how-stupid-you-are look.

"This land…this country that we're in, is called Amestris."

"Oh," said O'Neill, apparently not noticing Ed's glance. "So, who do you recommend we take with us?"

Edward sighed. "The military in Amestris is corrupt, and there are very few people that I trust. As much as I hate to say it, I recommend that we bring along Colonel Roy Mustang, because he's the only one I know of that we can trust."

"You mean that black-haired dude we met back in Central? That Roy Mustang?" said O'Neill. Ed gave O'Neill another one of those looks. How could a Colonel be so dense? Oh, wait, Roy Mustang was a Colonel too. Maybe that explained it. The denseness must come from having the rank of Colonel.

"Yes, that Roy Mustang," Ed answered, "And we'd better hurry and get him and get back to your side of the Gate before something else happens here."

"How do we do that?" asked Daniel, "Central's a long way away."

Ed turned and looked at him. Oh ye of little faith! These people knew absolutely nothing about alchemy.

"Since I am alchemy, I think that I can control the Gate so that it goes where I want it to go. We'll just go through the Gate to Central, pick up the Colonel, and then go through it again to get back to your world."

"But, Brother…what about the equivalent trade? What will you lose?" asked Al.

"Why would I lose anything?" said Ed, indignantly, "I already gave up my body, what more could I lose? I can only gain from here."

No one else argued with Ed. They knew it wouldn't get anywhere, because he's already made up his mind. Edward was one of the most stubborn people you could ever meet.

Edward stretched his hands up in front of him and closed his eyes. The electrical charge in the air seemed to go up, and a mysterious breeze seemed to come out of nowhere. Everyone suddenly heard a loud bang, which made them close their eyes and plug their ears. When they opened their eyes again, they found themselves surrounded by glowing white mist, and a huge doorway standing before them.

"Is that…the Gate?" asked Carter.

"Yes…" said Edward, giving her one of those looks that he seemed to be making a lot of today. "You guys came through it, so how come you don't recognize it?"

"We never saw it ourselves," said Carter, "We entered a portal that we call the Stargate, and somehow ended up here, even though there is no Stargate here."

Edward thought for a moment. "So…some sort of anomaly must have occurred which made you jump from the Stargate to the Gate, but what would cause that?"

That being a rhetorical question, he didn't expect an answer, but he didn't bother to even wait to see if anyone would try to answer him. He slapped his blue hands onto the Gate, and the massive doors slowly swung open. Everyone stared in dead silence. The power they felt coming from the Gate was overwhelming.

When the doors were finally fully open, the entire group found themselves looking into a massive void, if that makes any sense. What little they could see beyond the Gate looked like so much…nothingness. Were they really going to enter that thing?

They didn't actually have much choice, now that the Gate was open. The overwhelming power reached out and pulled them inside. It was the strangest feeling, like lots of black, snake-like hands had reached out and grabbed them, and were continuing to pull them through the Gate. They were now in this void, of nothing and everything all at the same time.

Carter turned around as best she could and looked in the direction they had just come from. She was just in time to see the doors of the Gate slam shut, and then promptly disappear. They were stuck in here now, stuck here until they reached their destination. She hoped that Ed really was in control of where they were going. He'd summoned up the Gate so easily, so maybe he was. She would just have to wait and see.

She turned to see the others. They were all just floating aimlessly through this void like she was. Ed had converted back into a formless mass of energy. That probably was the easiest form for him to be in, especially when going through the Gate like this. She turned and looked ahead, trying to see where they were going. She couldn't see anything yet, but she was pretty sure that she would soon. This was a similar experience to traveling through the Stargate, but not exactly the same. The Stargate isn't a void of nothingness, after all.

Finally, the group found themselves standing up again, before the door of the Gate. Ed converted back to his human form, and placed his hands on the door. Everyone held their breath. Where were they? What was going to happen? What would be on the other side?

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