hi! I know it's been a while but get used to it! The truth is all these chapters were pre-made for another fanfiction site. So now it'll be a while 'till the next one comes out.

I also am gonna start with that Nii-san and other Japanese words.

Disclaimer- I don't own any of the FMA charactor or anything else. The only character I own in this fanfiction is Dr. Brian.

There was an uncomfortable silence. Ed got up off the bed and closed the door. He didn't have any room mates so he was safe to talk freely, as long as none of the nurses came in. and to make sure they didn't, Ed locked the door.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you Al." Ed took off the glove on his hand. He hung his head and shoved his hand out. His arm was in midair and his fingertips were facing up. Winry looked at the automail arm where the Philosophers Stone was. She couldn't believe her eyes. It was a miraculously, beautiful red stone that somehow entranced her. Russell tried to take a close look at it but Ed withdrew his hand with a scowl on his face. Then his face softened again. "I'm sorry Al." Ed repeated, but for a different reason. Al was still trying to grasp the fact that Ed had the Stone the entire time. "Do you remember anything that happened at the Lab, Nii-san?" (big brother) "Yeah, I remember everything actually, even when the giant rock hit me." Winry was on the verge of tears because Ed had her so very worried. Ed took notice of this. "I'm sorry Winry. I couldn't tell anybody. I told the interview person I lost my memory because he asked how I survived. Annoying, right?" Ed said kind of laughing at the end. "You told the person that you lost your memory so that they wouldn't have to tell them you had the Stone! 'cause if you did they would have hauled you off to some testing place, right Nii-san?"

"That's right Al."

"Well you could have told me Ed! I was so worried. Winry stared crying. Ed had a sympathetic look in his eyes. He didn't know what to say to her. He didn't know what to do.

"Yes! I'm finally out! Now I have to go to Jean and tell him I quit, simple!" Ed said in excitement of being out of the hospital. "Don't over work yourself." Russell said. "Why are you still here?" Ed said with a scowl on his face. Al and Fletcher were really good friends now. They were talking outside the hospital when Ed came out. Ed made everyone in the room swear they would never tell anyone that Ed had the Philosopher's Stone. Winry was close behind Ed and Russell. "Winry, you've been awfully quiet." Ed told her with a concerned look on his face. "Ed, is Winry your girlfriend?" Russell teased. "WHAT! SHE NOT MY GIRLFREIND! SHE'S JUST A FRIEND! AWE MAN! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO KEEP ASKING STUPID QUESTIONS?" Ed yelled at Russell, Winry giggled at Ed's reaction, and Fletcher was laughing very hard. Al just smiled knowing this wasn't the truth. Ed did have feelings for Winry. "Al, now that I see you and Ed standing side by side, you're taller then Ed by a few inches" Fletcher pointed out. Ed's face when like this, when he realized this was indeed true. I can't believe my otouto (younger brother) is taller by me! He got over this quickly and said, "Well, it's high time I quit the military. Better go to Jean right now!" Ed ran to Headquarters main building.

"WHAT! I CANT QUIT! WHY NOT; DAMMIT!" Ed was furious. He went to quit but Havoc declined that request. Havocs answer to Ed's question was, "I'm sorry Ed. you are unable to quit because the Fuhrer said that he wants to keep an eye out for you. And he knew you would quit once Alphonse got his body back, with the Stone or not. He said you can either stay in the military or have Armstrong follow you every where you go. Roy knows the homunculi are still after you. And we all know you wouldn't like Armstrong as a body guard. But as a state alchemist, we always know where you are." Creepy huh? Ed was breathing very hard. "Nii-san, please calm down!" Al held Ed by the shoulders so that he wouldn't attack Havoc. Ed cursed under his breath." But Ed, the good news is, you don't have to go on missions. Roy suggested you don't. Actually he told us you should only tell us where you're headed to. Either call us or tell us in person." "No missions?" Ed said with a quizzical look on his face. "All, right! In that case were headed to Rizenbul! So long!"

"Bye Ed."

"Lets go Al!"

"Right!" the boys left the room.

Ed and Al walked out of the room and down a few halls looking for Russell, Winry, and Fletcher. They walked down a few flights of stairs and- "We heard you from down here loud mouth!" said Russell. "Hey! Respect your elders and authority!"

"Whatever and I'm sorry you cant quit. You and Al must be heading somewhere." Russell said. "Actually, no, were headed for Rizenbul. Ed doesn't have to go on missions!" Winry gave a small sigh of relief. She was always worried about Ed and Al because she never knew what they were up to. When she heard about the homunculi, she found out she had a right to worry. Call it, women's intuition. "You and Al are coming with me to Rizenbul? Why?" neither Ed nor Al could answer that because before they said anything, Hohenhiem showed up. "Ed, were you the one who yelled what, 'I can't quit? why not; dammit?'" "Yeah" "So you want to quit?" "Yep. I have no need for the military anymore. Al's back to normal. But the thing is, Roy won't let me quit. It's either quit and have Armstrong follow me everywhere I go, or I stay in the military. I chose to stay 'cause, who would want that following you everywhere?" Ed replied pointing at Armstrong who was a few yards behind them. He was bragging about his family line "I am Alex Luis Armstrong" the poor soul he was bragging to was Denny Brosh and he was bragging about only God knows what because even Brosh was confused. "So where are you boys headed now?" Hohenhiem asked. "Home." Ed said simply.

"Excuse me? Alphonse Elric?"
Al turned around to see a man he never saw before. He had brown hair, glasses, and was wearing a lab coat. "Yes?"

"It seems as though you're overdue to a physical. Excuse me, I'm Dr. Brian, and the Fuhrer said you were overdue to one."

"Oh great." Al muttered but followed the man anyway, but the man stopped and said, "We need someone who knows Alphonse to come with us. They have to wait outside the door but the reason is if we have any questions, we could ask you." Ed's stomach growled, because he needed food. Ed groaned. "Cant this wait till I eat something? I'm starving." Winry stepped forward. "I'll go, Ed you need to eat."

"Thanks a bunch Winry! But I dont think-"

"Relax. I'll figure it out." Winry and the men walked off to the infirmary as Ed, Russell, and Fletcher went to the mess hall and Hohenhiem had some work to do. "Ed, how many stomachs do you have?" Fletcher asked because this was Ed's third time eating within 5 hours. "Only one." Ed said and ran off.

Al was lying on a table as the doctor was checking him for any signs of injury on his back. He noticed something that looked like a thinly lined scab in the form of a transmutation circle. The circle was on the top of his back but right below his neck. It looked like it was almost healed completely so it wasn't very gruesome to look at. And little did the doctor know about Al's past. He took a cotton swab and lifted a small piece of it. Al felt a dieing pain, something he never hoped to feel. He let out a blood curtailing scream and once Winry heard it, she burst though the room. Ed heard it from the mess hall, which was a floor directly above the infirmary, and came rushing to find Al with noodles still in his mouth. Russell and Fletcher were right behind him. Winry looked at Al; he was bleeding in the place the doctor picked at. It was a very small bit of the scab but was still bleeding very bad; it was such a small bit, that it shouldn't have even bled at all.

Ed just entered the room. "Al!" Ed looked at his brothers pain. Al was having trouble breathing, and was turning pale. "Hmm... the results are different." Muttered Dr. Brian, then he yelled, "Everyone out of the room! Now!"

"Not a chance buddy!" Ed told Dr. Brian firmly. "Al, what happened?" Ed couldn't see the circle because the blood was covering it. Ed ran over to Al's side. "Nii-san, why does it hurt?" Al managed to grunt. He was able to hold back tears. Ed took off his cloak and pushed it on Al's wound. "It's gonna be ok Al. just hang in there."

"Please, Mr. Elric, you must leave this room. I-"

"You have to kill my brother! Dammit! What did you do to him!" Ed yelled at the doctor. "There was a wound on his back; it looked like a transmutation circle. It looked like it was going to heal in less then a day and-" the doctor went silent at Ed's face. Ed mopped up the blood and took a look at it. It was the very same transmutation circle that connected Al's soul. "Dammit. I think I know why it did this." Ed muttered.

"Is Al gonna ok?" Fletcher asked.

"Yeah. Doctor, can you please leave the room?"

"Why?"

"Look, just do it ok?" then Dr. Brian left the room. Ed placed his left hand on Al's back. "Ok, Al I don't know if this hurt or not, I'm no genius, so bare with me." There was a bright flash of red light and all the blood was gone. Unknown to anyone, the doctor was just outside the door, and he could tell what the red array color meant. Then the doctor left them alone with what he thought he knew. Al then turned onto his back. "That hurt" was all that Al could say about the experience he just had. Then he sat up. Ed and Russell went to look at Al's back. "Hmmm... Winry, when we were out of it, did you, by any chance get a look of inside the armor?" Ed thought this was a pointless question because, why would she? But to Ed's surprise she said, "Yes." Ed then, out of shock, asked, "How where you able to look inside?" then added "Did you see this circle?" Winry looked at the circle and said, "No. It disappeared. When Roy and I found both of you, you got knocked out right away from something that should have killed you, and Al lay there motionless. We didn't notice he was human yet. We expected him to shout at you but when he didn't we got a closer look. Roy first noticed it."

Roy looked at Al's limp body of armor. "Al?" Alphonse didn't respond. Roy walked over to Al and while Winry tried to stop Ed's head from bleeding with her sweater. Roy looked to see what was wrong with Al. He looked closer and saw the torso of a human boy. He was shock still for a moment, then took off his black trench coat, took off the upper armor, and wrapped the boy in the coat. "What did these boys do?" he muttered picking up Al. Winry looked at the body of Al with shock.

"A- Al?"

At that moment, more men swarmed into the room. They picked up the armor and Winry caught a glimpse of the inside. There was smoke rising from where the blood seal that held Al's soul should have been.

"I have to get a closer look of that armor." Ed was determined to figure this out, for sure. "Do you know where they put it?" Winry shook her head no. Ed cursed under his breath. Al was, at this point, putting his shirt back on. "What happened, Nii-san?" Why was I in so much pain? "I have an idea Al, but I need to make sure my theory is correct. I need to get to that armor!"

Then, just at a moment they least expect it, Maria Ross looked though the door. "Hey, did you guys hear someone scream? It sounded like someone was in pain. I was just upstairs and-" she stopped dead when she saw Al's face. He had a distant look in his eyes, he was still pale, and he didn't look up when she came into the room. She assumed he was the screamer. She walked into the room. "What happened?" Ed quickly hid his right hand behind his back, even though it was gloved and no one could see through it. Al didn't answer, so Ed did. "The doctor here really likes to try and kill people, doesn't he? I think he shouldn't have become a doctor at all. He almost killed Al." Maria let out a small gasp. "Dr. Brian is a professional and knows what he's doing. He would never try to kill any of his patents." Maria explained. Then she continued, "Now, Al, what happened?" Al looked up for the first time. "It was nothing" Al said. He was still very pale, with a distant look in his eyes. She then was quiet. Maria thought that if they didn't want to tell her she should leave them alone, so she decided to leave. Then Ed asked, "Maria, do you possibly know where they put the armor? I mean the one that Al was in." Maria paused for a second, and then said, "Yes, why do you ask?"

"I need to take a look at it. Please tell me were it is."

"It's in a closet on the third floor, why do you need to see it?"

Ed ran out of the room, with everybody looking at him with a confused stare, and ran all the way to the third floor. There, he skidded to a halt. He realized that he forgot to ask which closet the armor was in. He looked down the long hall. He started with the first closet to the right. "Nope, nothing in here but utility supplies. Damn this is gonna take forever. I don't even know which ones are closets and which ones are rooms!" Then Russell walked up behind Ed, unnoticed. "I'll help you." Ed jumped from surprise. "Why do you have to sneak up on me like that!"

"Sorry"

"Whatever"

"Well I came up here to help you but it appears you don't need it."

Russell started to walk away. "Wait! Ok I'm sorry. Please help me!" Ed was actually pleading. "Alright now that's a better attitude." Russell said with a smile. Then they got to work. Russell looked in the right side doors and Ed looked in the left side doors. It was long embarrassing trip down the halls look for that closet. There were many corridors to look down. Ed and Russell sometimes interrupted meetings in many of these doors. Finally, Ed found a door labeled 'Storage' and peered inside. There was a glint of metal on the other side of the room. A smile crept across Ed's face as he walked in and turned on the light. In the corner was the very same armor Al was trapped in for so many years. Ed walked over to examine it. He took off the helmet. He looked inside to look for the blood seal that Ed made to keep Al's soul in the armor but it disappeared. It was completely gone, no trace left. "Just as I expected." Russell just then, walked into the room. "What did you expect?" Ed turned around "Look, the transmutation circle that held Al's soul to this armor has disappeared." Russell looked inside as Ed continued, "My theory was correct. The array was transferred to Al's human body, therefore, if the array is destroyed, so is Al. But is seems the array transferred as a wound, not as my blood. The Philosopher's Stone doesn't seem as perfect as everyone thinks it is. There is still some equivalent exchange. Human transmutation is one of those instances. But most things there are now equivalent exchange."

Hehehe... I'm so evil. I'm gonna leave you towait for like, I dunno, a couple of weeks... Reason #

1, School.

2. I can only go on the computer for one hour each day, and I have friends to talk to and other fanfictions to write.

3. other reasons that I don't feel like typing.