Author's Note: I'll provide a summary of the last chapter for those who skipped over to avoid the spoilers.

Lloyd and the party make a truce with Kratos (who isn't in the party at the time), in order to combat the growing 'Portal Party', who they believe are their enemies. Misao and Sheena are paired up to fight, but do not because they discover they are both kunoichi. They give each other their stories, and discover that they are not enemies; there has been a horrible mistake. After stopping the others from fighting, they go to Meltokio (city) for the night. Miroku and Zelos become quick friends, and have a night out on the town with the ladies. Later that night, the portals open up, and they fall into the new world.

InuYasha landed flat on his face. He as eagle-spread on the ground, stunned by the shock of falling flat on his face, when two other impacts hit him, knocking the wind -- and almost his consciousness as well -- out of him. It seemed that the impacts were objects that had fallen on him, but InuYasha couldn't investigate the matter any further than guessing, since he couldn't move with said objects on top of him. Eventually, though, the objects rolled off of him, and he was free to move once again. He discovered that the objects were Ed and Yahiko, both of whom seemed dazed, since they were barely even conscious. InuYasha looked around, suddenly realizing that none of the others were with them. They were all alone, lost in yet another different place.

"Er, hey, Ed! ED!" he said, shaking Ed gently to try and get him up. That didn't work, so InuYasha sighed. He said quietly "I really wish I had some SHRIMP sushi right now," making the word 'shrimp' really loud so that hopefully Ed would hear it in his half-conscious state and then his subconscious I-AM-NOT-SHORT mechanism would kick in, waking him up finally. As simple as it was, his plan worked perfectly. InuYasha had barely finished the sentence when Ed snapped awake, looking totally livid.

"WHO CALLED ME A SHRIMP?" he asked wildly, looking around for the source of his anger.

"Nobody did. I was just saying how I wanted ebi sushi right now." InuYasha said, oddly calm for him.

"O-oh. Damn, I overreacted again." Ed said, calming down.

"Ed," InuYasha started seriously.

"Yeah?"

"Where's everyone else?"

"...Wait. Why?"

"They're not here. Kagome's gone, and so is Alphonse. Not to mention everyone else..." Ed's older brother instincts kicking in, he started to get worried. "Are you serious?" he asked, making sure that his friend wasn't just kidding around.

"Ed, look at my face." Ed looked. InuYasha's face was unusually pale. "Do I look like I'm telling a joke here?" Ed realized that this meant that Al was totally vulnerable to the world around him, and he, the older brother, couldn't protect him if he needed it.

"Shit! We've gotta find them! Like, NOW!" The noise woke Yahiko up finally, who blearily opened one eye just as a new voice pierced the air.

"What a motley crew we have here. A mutt boy and two itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini pip-squeak runty midgets." This comment temporarily made Edward forget about the possible peril his brother could be in, as one of the worst short insults he'd ever heard was flung at him. Yahiko, who has a similar temper towards things like that as Ed does, joined Ed in his explosion. However, Ed's came first.

"WHO'RE YOU CALLING SO SMALL AN ATOM LOOKS LIKE THE SIZE OF JUPITER COMPARED TO THEM?" he screamed, making the whole place rumble from the noise level of his voice.

Yahiko just said "I'M NOT LITTLE SHUT UP!" in his stead.

InuYasha also blew up. "DON'T CALL ME A MUTT! I'LL SLASH YOUR WHINY LITTLE ASS OFF!" The person who had made the comments was still nowhere to be found. However, a door opened. The three followed that door and the path that it led to, in hopes of finding the person that had insulted them and kicking their ass.

Arriving some time later in a huge room, the three were ecstatic to see that the rest of their group was there. They noticed that the people from Sylvarant and Tethe'Alla were there as well.

"Thank you all for joining me here!" a voice said. Ed, Yahiko, and InuYasha were suddenly on full guard, recognizing that voice as the same one that had insulted them in the first place. The owner of the voice finally did appear. It was Seto Kaiba, but he wasn't in one of his usual caped outfits. Instead, he was wearing a bright pink sparkly spandex jumpsuit, and old English-style ruff, several chunky chains and rings, pink glasses, and a do-rag. Whenever he took a step, he wobbled, because he was wearing really, really, really high heeled shoes. In other words, Seto Kaiba was dressed in a bizarre mix of the eighties, the Shakespearian age, a rapper, a hippie, a gangster, and a crossdresser.

Seto gestured to a cluster of randomly placed seats near a tall potted plant. "Have a seat," he said. Everyone sat down, a little confused. Ed sat next to the plant, away from everyone else. Kaiba then walked to a podium, turned on the microphone, and began to talk. His talk began with something about potatoes, then about how the flashlight killed the spelling bee race, and the rants turned to other, more bizarre subjects from there.

While Kaiba talked his ass off, talking about his greatness, his dueling skills, how to make a tripe omelet, and anything else he could think of, his audience was getting less and less attentive. Ed felt like he was going to fall asleep and die from boredom, when a painfully familiar voice whispered "Hey, shorty!"

Ed jumped, both form surprise at someone talking to him and anger that they called him short, and growled "Who said that?"

"I did, FullMetal Pip-Squeak!" the plant next to him said. Ed realized that the plant next to him was a palm tree a split second before it morphed into, well, a palm tree. Envy was squatting next to Ed, chin in hand, smirking in that annoying way that only Envy could smirk. He was looking especially smug right now, probably because Ed looked as though he had just seen a giant needle the size of the Moon, and a doctor had said "Time for your shot!" His face had paled, and his eyes were as big as the aforementioned Moon-sized needle. However, this expression was quickly replaced by one of pure hatred for the Crazy Psychopathic Lunatic Cross Dressing Gender Confused CrazyPants CrazySkirt SkirtWearing Annoying Jerky Perverted Peeping Tom Insert about 5000 more lines of this kind of stuff to get his name, yes this is the shortened version! Lightbulb Palm Tree.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Ed hissed angrily.

"I don't really know," Envy said, still having the smug look on his face. "I jumped in the portal after you to see where I'd go, and met this guy named Naraku. He's a shapeshifter just like me!" he sighed happily. "I never knew I wasn't alone until now," he continued.

"Well, uh, that's..er...freaky," Ed grumbled, not really sure how to react. Envy was about to say something more, but there was a sudden movement, and Envy found himself looking up at Miroku, his hands clasped in the monks'.

"Will you consider bearing my children?" Miroku asked.

Envy actually blushed before his face changed to an expression that quite clearly said 'uh, wtf?' and saying "Uh, I'm a guy."

Ed sniggered, trying to hold back his laughter, but it was taking more effort than it was worth. From the efforts of not bursting out laughing like that, he ended up doubled over laughing, totally unable to breathe for a second or two. Envy glared at Ed, unable to do anything more because he was still trapped in the grasp of Miroku. This problem of his was quickly resolved, however, as a giant bone boomerang whaled Miroku on the head, causing him to get buried into the ground. Sango sighed.

"What are we going to do with you?" she growled. She sat next to Ed, leaving Miroku on the ground. Envy, much to Ed's dismay, also sat down, so that Ed was sandwiched between Envy and Sango. They all looked at Kaiba, who was still ranting. The random Rant Timer said that he had been at it for two hours and six minutes.

After said timer reached two hours and forty-three minutes, Ed was starting to get bored again, and slumped down in his chair. However, he suddenly sat straight up with a squeak. His braid was standing up straight, that's how much whatever made him sit up surprised him. Envy and Sango looked at him worriedly wondering what could be the matter. The answer wasn't too hard to find, for in an intuitive second, Sango found Miroku's lecherous hand on Ed's butt, something that would obviously make him freak out. Her guess was that he had misfired, that this act of perversion was originally intended for her, but even if it wasn't, she was really pissed off now. Miroku earned himself another boomerang to the head, and Envy, after confirming that Ed was okay to be ridiculed, took it upon himself to tease him now.

"Well, well, what's this, Chibi-san? You seem to make a desirable little girl!" he crowed. Ed snarled at the short comments, and was quick with his retort.

"You're just jealous that he didn't do that to you!" Envy looked at him like he was crazy.

"Well, gee, it's obviously plausible since one, your name is ENVY, synonymous to JEALOUSY, and two, he asked you to bear his children!" Ed snapped. Envy, of course, wouldn't let Ed win the insult battle that easily, so the insults, retorts, and whatever else they could think of flew back and forth.

Seto Kaiba finished his rant after five hours and twenty-three minutes on the dot. He looked up to see the reaction of the audience to his entrancing and dramatic performance. Kagome was giving herself a manicure, Misao and Sheena were comparing weapons, InuYasha, Kenshin, Lloyd, Zelos, and Kratos were also comparing weapons, Colette had fallen out of her chair and was laughing optimistically, Presea was staring at the ceiling, lost in a dream or something, Genis was watching Presea, Raine was reading, Regal was looking annoyed at Yahiko, who was drooling, asleep, on his leg, Kaoru and Al were playing with Shippo, and of course, Ed, Sango, Miroku, and Envy were having their exciting events in the corner. Somehow, Seto found this to be a good reaction, and started to bow deeply and formally. This bizarre act caused everyone to look up, and at that moment, a portal happened to open up beneath them. They all fell down, but Kaiba didn't notice. As they were falling, Envy hugged Ed, something that shocked, scared, and pissed him off to no end, and said "Later, Hagane no Chibi-san!" He then shifted into a bird, flying away and out of the portal, which was still connected to Yu-Gi-Oh! land. "Damn you, palm-tree head, you and your shapeshifting!" Ed shouted, not really caring if Envy heard him or not.

Back in Yu-Gi-Oh! land, Mokuba had entered the room. He took one look at his older brother, and said "You've been eating sugar again, haven't you?"

Seto's eyes got all shifty, and he got on the floor and inched away like an inchworm.

"God, Onii-san, you're starting to really worry me!" Mokuba sighed, and exited normally.

Envy saw this bizarre spectacle, and said quietly "Those two reminds me of Pippy-Squeaky and his beloved tin can of a brother. That makes three pairs of brothers that are alike--the Elrics, the Tringhams, and the Kaibas. That's just weird." He then jumped into the portal and happened to land in the ruins of Lior.