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Edward turned back around to face his brother, and smiled a genuine smile for the first time since he had come on this mission.

"Yes, indeed," said Edward, "I am your brother, Al."

"What are you doing here?" asked Al nervously, "Shouldn't you have moved on by now?"

Edward sighed. "I can't move on while my little brother's life is on the line." He looked into Al's eyes. "Maybe your joining the military wasn't such a good idea, since I'll always show up when you're in trouble, and I know how you hate ghosts."

Al coughed. Ed was right; he didn't like ghosts at all. How was he supposed to deal with his brother being one?

"Just relax, Al, okay?" said Edward. "I was actually hoping that I wouldn't be noticed for who I am. That's why I possessed Roy. I don't think that you would have been able to handle seeing me while I was a zombie."

Al cringed. This was just getting weirder and weirder. He really didn't want to deal with this. He wanted his brother back, sure, but as a living being, not as a ghost or a zombie.

The other men began to surround Roy. Possessed or not, they had orders to perform this experiment, and they weren't going to let anything get in their way.

The man who had first figured out that Roy was possessed grabbed hold of a metal bar and swung it at Roy. Edward simply jumped and did a back flip over the bar, and then turned, clapped his hands together, and touched the bar, causing it to disintegrate.

Edward then reached out and grabbed the man by the collar, and held him tight. He closed his eyes, and entered the man's body. Roy fell to a sitting position on the floor. He knew what had just happened.

"Colonel, are you alright?"

"He's fine," said Edward in the other man's body, 'He just wasn't expecting me to leave him just then."

All eyes turned toward Edward. He'd possessed someone else? If they tried to fight him, would he possess them too? This was getting creepy.

"I don't care which body you're in," said the leader of the group, "I'm not going to let you interfere!" He picked up a gun and pointed it at Edward.

"You cannot kill me, you idiot. I can't get any more dead than dead. You could end up killing the man whose body I'm in though, if you're not careful."

The group leader, forgetting his fear he had previously had, suddenly was consumed by an uncontrollable rage. He hated anything that he couldn't control. So, without thinking, he lunged at Edward.

Edward simply grabbed the man's shoulders as the man plowed into him, and entered this man's body instead.

The man panicked. Now he had even less control than ever! He began running around frantically, with Edward restricting his movements just the tiniest bit so that he kept running into things.

Roy had finally managed to stand up. "He'll leave us all alone as soon as this nonsense about using his brother's discovery as a weapon is put behind us. He already told me that. He's still the same person he always was, just not mortal."

The man that Edward possessed finally managed to make it over to Al. Nearly screaming, he threw out his arms and grabbed Al's shoulders.

"Let's go, Al," said Edward, who promptly left the man's body and entered Al's. Now it was Al's turn to panic, though he wasn't running around in a frenzy like the group leader. He really wasn't sure what to do, but he knew that he was quite terrified.

Sensing his hesitation, Edward took over Al's body, and ran like mad towards the exit, pushing people out of the way if they tried to interfere. If he could just get Al out of here, the experiment couldn't be continued, since he was yet the only one that knew how to do it.

Nearing the exit, Ed suddenly remembered Roy. He might as well save him, since he'd actually been helpful for once. Edward turned around, kicked another man out of the way, and then grabbed Roy's hand and bolted for the door.

Once outside, Edward shoved Roy into his car and then hopped into it himself. "Hurry up and go!" he shouted.

"Where?" asked a frantic Mustang.

"It doesn't matter, just get out of here before they catch you!" shouted Ed again.

Roy started up the car, jammed his foot on the gas, and lurched forward. He had to maintain an intense control of the steering wheel at all times, since he constantly had to swerve to avoid hitting anybody.

When he finally pulled out onto the street, he saw that there were several cars chasing him. He was going to have to try and lose them. He swerved to the right, and then ducked down a narrow side street, and then into an alley. The ones chasing him just drove on by. Thank goodness, he'd lost them.

He sighed and put his head in his hand. These past twenty-four hours had been really tough on him. He hoped it wasn't all for nothing.

Al squirmed. "Brother, please, get out of my body. I can't take this!"

"But I need to enter someone else if I am to leave you. I have to have a body," said Edward.

Roy sighed, "FullMetal, can you reenter your own body temporarily, at least until you really need a living body?" That was the first time that Roy had used Edward's second name since this whole thing started. He was beginning to grow more accustomed to Edward's presence, and so wasn't afraid to address him by his military name.

"Yes," said Edward, "I can reenter my own body for the time being. It's adequate enough for me when I don't have to fight, since it at least allows me to stay in this realm."

"Then why don't we get you back in your body for now? A possession puts a lot of strain on a mortal body, so we need a break," said Roy.

"Agreed," said Edward, "But you'll have to help Al, because I'm not sure how he'll handle seeing me that way."

Roy drove his car back to the spot where he had buried Edward's body, and quickly dug it back up. Edward placed Al's hands on the shoulders, and closed his eyes. Al had been kneeling, but he fell weakly to a sitting position as soon as his brother's spirit left his body.

Edward opened his eyes and sat up. Al gasped. That body was obviously dead, yet his brother could still control his. He had always wished his brother could come back from the dead, but not as…a zombie!

Edward stood up and wrapped his cloak around himself. There was no point in forcing Al to have to stare at his ugly face.

"Seriously, Al," said Edward, "You don't have to be afraid of me just because I've crossed over. I don't want you to be afraid of me. I still love you, and I was hoping that you could still love me too." Roy nearly let out a gasp. Edward's human emotions seemed to only come out around his brother. At least that answered the question of whether he still had them or not. Perhaps Edward would show him some of his human emotions when he got more comfortable around him. He hoped so, at least.

"Come on, Al and Roy," said Edward, "Let's get out of here before someone catches us. You two are in trouble with the law right now, and you can't afford to get caught."

The three people piled back into the car. Al was still nervous, Edward was still silent, and Roy was simply wondering what to do next. Edward was right, they were definitely in trouble with the law, but it was worth it to save the lives of countless thousands of people.

Roy started up the car and sighed. He couldn't very well go back to Central, what with the search parties looking for him and Al. He might as well just drive until he found a good place to stop.

He pulled out on the road, and began driving. He felt like he was in one of those fairy tales where the hero goes and saves the village, and is then driven out of town by the very people he saved. He sighed. Maybe this fairy tale would have a happy ending, and maybe it wouldn't.

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