Ed: Hi folks, Al and I are doing today's Pre-story.

Al: Yea. *nods*The Author feels like he's been getting beaten up and chased around too much lately and is taking a break.

Ed: Yea. He does say thanks for reading and that he don't own FMA or Touhou.

Al: yep!.. so now what?

Ed: I dunno. Other than yelling at the Author, I dunno what to do in a Pre-story…

Al: hmmmmm…

Ed: ah well. We hope you enjoy this chapter!

[Sorry for the wait on this one. I got a new job and such, been doing well. Hours though is 4PM to 12:30AM and if on 10 hours makes it till 2:30 AM... so I don't get a lot of time to write this up. Updates might be slow. Thank you for your patience.]

Amestris: Gate of Truth

Marisa, Nitori, and Yukari appear before the door of the Gate of Truth. As Nitori and Yukari explore their surroundings with their eyes, Marisa looks for the Truth.

"This place feels like when I use my gaps," Yukari says.

"Of course it does, Yukari- It's almost the same!" a voice rings out. The trio look for where it had came from.

"The Truth," Marisa snarls.

"The what?" Yukari asks as the Truth stands up.

"Not coming back for your arm?" The Truth asks Marisa.

"NO! We are going to Amestris, Ze!" Marisa snaps back.

"Wait... So you have her arm? I don't see it!" Nitori says while staring at the apparition. To the small Kappa, the Truth looks like a clear version of herself. Yukari also sees a version of herself when she looks at the Truth.

"Well that's because I am you," The truth states, pointing at each of them separately. Marisa, Nitori, and Yukari think the figure had only pointed once. When the being points at her left arm, Marisa frowns.

"Let us through! We've paid the toll!" She yells at the figure.

"I'm afraid I can't. The toll you paid was for two," it says before taking a seat.

"What?" Marisa hisses.

As Marisa yells at the clear figure, Yukari glares more and more at the figure. Finally, she breaks down when Marisa is in mid sentence.

"YOU! You ba… What ever the hell you are! You are the one who's been blocking me!" Yukari rages furiously. She watches the Truth look her way, giving her full attention. Then, it acknowledges her with a smile. Yukari shakes in anger.

"Hey, Yukari... Calm d-" Marisa stops as Yukari leaps at the Truth.

When the Gap Youkai tries to attack the Truth, the gate opens up and jets out its small hands. The hands hold her back.

"WHY YOU!" she yells. She attempts at gapping them away, but it is no use.

"Your powers are at my mercy, Yukari. I really didn't want you to come here. But since you are here, I'll tell you why you can't do anything," The truth offers to explain to her. She calms down a little, hoping for a decent explanation. The other two view the whole commotion. "You see, we are both beings of absolute power. For such beings to coexist there must be some common ground. If there isn't any common ground- I mean when one power enters another's realm- the one who enters must abide by the rules of the one who controls the realm," The Truth explains in the least complicated way it could.

This made Yukari growl. There was no way an almost bodiless being could be as powerful as herself. She struggles against the hands that were holding her in place.

"You think I'm weaker than you right now, don't you?... My favorite show host…" The Truth says to her.

"Wha..?" Yukari reacts in a strange way to the nick name she had been given.

"I enjoy watching everything that goes on in Gensoyko. And you are the one who made the boundary. So you, my dear, are the host of the show." Marisa, Nitori, and Yukari frown at what the Truth had just explained.

Marisa glares at what appears to be the Truth's head. Her anger almost reached its limit. The Truth then turns its head to her.

"You wish to get going, right?" The Truth asks, pointing at the gate with its left arm. "I'll have to take away your ability to fly and most of your powers. Don't worry though. Whatever you keep will be converted into alchemy," the Truth reassures as the gate opens for them. Yukari is let go when the hands retreat.

"Finally," Yukari says, turning toward the gate. When she tries to take a step, she doesn't budge.

"I can't let you roam around my realm, Yukari. Those two are to go alone," the Truth proclaims. Marisa and Nitori head towards the Gate of Truth.

Yukari watches the two girls appear farther and farther away as they head towards the gate. For some reason, they didn't even notice that she wasn't with them.

"They won't notice until it's too late," it says to Yukari. The gate takes Marisa and Nitori in before closing. As soon as the Gate of Truth closes, he releases her from the invisible restraints. "You are now free to gap here if you want to see how they are doing," it quietly says to her.

Yukari growls at the Truth. The Truth points below him. Yukari looks down and sees the two girls appear on a porch in a quiet town.

Amestris: Resembool: Granny Pinako's Automail Store

Marisa and Nitori look around for Yukari outside of a house-store. Both Marisa and Nitori feel dazed and confused.

"Where is she, Da ze?" Marisa asks Nitori. Nitori just shrugs, looking at the store.

"Automail… I wonder what that is," Nitori thinks out loud to herself. A short, old woman walks up to them.

"Have you come for Automail?" the elderly woman asks the two, noticing Marisa's left arm.

Both girls look at each other in confusion.

Amestris: Central City: Hotel

Meanwhile, everyone was in the same room. Winry polishes Al while they talk about what they are going to do. As they finish talking, someone knocks at the door and Ed gets up to go see who it is. A clank is heard and everyone looks at the door. A huge, muscular man with sparkles around him heads from the door towards the place where Edward was pushed to by the man's punch.

"OH DEAR!" says the man with a curl for hair. "Your Automail is Broken! This is bad!" He exclaims, lifting the little Full Metal Alchemist up by the back of his shirt. "Hmh! This is a grave situation! You must be repaired immediately!" the man says as he sets Ed down. Then he pats Edward's shoulders. "I shall accompany you to Resembool!" He finishes, confusing Ed.

"I've got Winry here so I don't need to go all the way back there," Ed protests to no avail.

"No need to hold back on my account!" The huge, bald man says as the other three peek out the door.

"What? You're going back to Resembool?" Al asks Edward as Winry tries dodging the smoke from Mokou's cigarette.

"Why it's Alphonse Elric!" says the man before moving to him. "You stand out too much so you should stay here." He says, pointing a finger at his chin. The sparkling man then turns and starts to drag Edward away. "We must make train reservations immediately! Lets go Edward Elric!" he says, dragging the full metal alchemist with him. Everyone was left speechless until Ling asks the trio if they were leaving. All three jump in surprise.

"L-ling? How did you…?" Al stutters.

"Through the window," Ling says, pointing with his thumb. "As a State Alchemist, I knew he'd be staying in a military run hotel so I just checked all of them." Ling walks into the room mumbling about how tired he is.

"But did you have to sneak though the window?" Al asks with annoyance while Mokou picks up the cigarette she dropped. They all jumped, making sure the carpet in the hall didn't get scorched by Mokou's cigarette.

"Of course! After all, I am a wanted criminal," Ling gloats in his tone of voice.

"What have you been up to since we last saw you?" Al asks, giving off an aura that the Xing Prince shouldn't be so proud.

"I've heard all about your adventures from Berry the Chopper. It's quite a mess you've gotten yourself into," Ling says, shocking Alphonse a bit.

Amestris: Resembool: Granny Pinako's Automail Store

After learning some knowledge of Automail, Marisa and Nitori look at Pinako.

"How quickly can you do the surgery, Ze?" Marisa asks the short old woman.

"Two days… If I had help, a bit faster- but you won't be able to use it for at least a year!" she explains to the witch.

"Ummm, I could help," Nitori offers, speaking up as she closes a book about Automail. "I can learn how to help from these books so," continues the little Kappa girl as she goes back to being timid again.

"That would be fine. You remind me a lot of my granddaughter when you were reading that book," Pinako says to the little kappa girl. Nitori blushes and Marisa smiles at what Pinako had just told Nitori.

When Marisa was about to open her mouth to speak, she feels a nudge from inside her. Her hat falls off her head, letting Martel the doll fall out onto the table.

"It was getting stuffy in there," Martel describes, not knowing she landed right in front of Pinako.

Pinako looks at the doll talk and move. She then knew everything that had happened.

"This is how you lost your left arm?" she asks Marisa. Marisa looks at her with a face of guilt. "I thought so. I won't change you for this… Hell, this reminds me of another foolish person who did this," she says, getting up from the table. "You want it done now, right? Then lets get you prepped for surgery," she says, smoking her pipe.

"R-right," Marisa says as she gets up.

"I'll let you know now… this will be a lot of pain," says the old woman to the Witch. Pinako moves towards the Kappa. "Grab that book as I prepare the young woman," Pinako orders the Kappa.

"Right!" Nitori says, hurrying to get it. She starts reading.

"This is going to be a long night," Pinako says to herself. She pulls Marisa in with her and shuts the door, leaving a dog with an Automail leg with Martel.

Amestris: Central City: Hotel

While Ling finishes explaining to them why the Muscle man, named Alex Louse Armstrong, had taken Edward away, a signal flare went off in the sky.

"Is that fireworks?" Winry asks as Ling puts on his shoes.

"Not exactly... It's a Signal to strike!" he grins. He turns to Alphonse. "Are you coming?"

Al looks at him for a second.

"This might lead us to the person who killed Mr. Hughes. If we're even partially responsible for his death, then I need to see this through to the end," Alphonse says to them.

"So you are going?" Winry asks him.

"Yeah," he replies.

"When you come back, you have to tell me everything that happened, 'kay?" she tells the armor boy, replying with an "ok." "You'll come back… Whatever happens, you'll come back, won't you?" she asks Alphonse nervously.

"Yeah, I Promise," he says.

"I'll make sure he keeps it," Mokou says, slipping on her coat.

After a bit of running to get to where the signal flare was fired, Mokou and Al find Mustang, Riza, and a man dressed in black named Havoc. Mustang notices Al. Al calls out to Mustang. A man with mostly white hair looks at them and asks them what they are doing here.

"This has something to do with Mr. Hughes's death, doesn't it?" Alphonse asks Mustang.

"…Well, are you coming or not?" the Colonel asks Al after a moment of staring at each other.

"Yes, Sir!" he says and gets in. Mokou gets in after him, having to sit on Al's lap for the ride. Alphonse is almost already squishing Havoc against the other door.

"He's heading for the center of the city," Riza calmly says as she loads a hand gun.

"Not Good. I don't want him drawing too much attention," Colonel Mustang says as he drives after Barry the Chopper, a one-armed armor man wearing a skull-faced helmet.

Moving Mokou over a bit on his lap so he could lean forward, Alphonse goes to tell the Flame Alchemist something.

"Colonel, a moment ago I saw someone with long, black hair and an Ouroboros tattoo. I've seen this person before at laboratory number five. He goes by the name of 'Envy,'" he says to the four people in the car. "When my brother and I were in South, we met another person with that tattoo named Greed."

Mokou winces at the mention of Greed, remembering her new family who accepted her. She starts to remember them, but her memory is interrupted as the car swerves, hitting a trash can along the side of the road.

"Wait, did you say Homunculus? That's Im-" Mustang says before being interrupted by Al.

"Nothing is impossible. That's what Greed told me. Just minutes ago I watched Envy transform from a dog into a person. I would have thought that was impossible if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes," Alphonse says, getting most of their attention.

Mokou wonders if this one was related to Ran ore Nue, knowing both of them could change shape and form. She looks up at Alphonse, noticing that he was finishing with something. She seemed to not believe him. Riza believes Al because of a fat one that she had once shot in the vials over and over again. He never did drop. After that, Mustang mentions something about freaks, angering Mokou.

After driving until it became dark, the target they were following ran into a building.

"Lab Number 3, a military run alchemical research facility. It's under the direct control of the Fuhrer President himself. The evidence points directly to the top," Mustang says as they all look at the building. He gives the order to pull back, however Barry already went off running into the building.

"That bastard completely lost his mind!" Havoc complains as Mustang stares towards the gates of the place.

"How convenient…" He sarcastically says while Havoc becomes confused.

The group of five follows Barry in, telling the other soldiers that they are after this crazed criminal. They head down a hallway to some stairs, making it to a locked gate. Alphonse breaks the gate open with alchemy and then the group splits in two, going down both ways of the hallway. Roy and Havoc lead on their own path. Al, Mokou, and Riza head down the other.

The two girls and the armor boy come up to a huge wall with a circle of words. The sun and the crescent moon are at a 45 degree angle on each side of two circles. The words appear foreign. A star in a circle is located in the middle, linking to three other circles with squares and triangles in them. At the base of this wall, a bleeding man lays with a mask on, looking like he has rotten away. Barry stands over him.

"You sure took your time, babe," Barry says to Riza.

Riza and Mokou, both stopping a foot away from Barry and the bleeding man, hold their nose.

"What's that stench?" Riza asks. Mokou moves behind Al, attempting to get away from the stench.

"Sorry you had to see that. What a waste of meat. My body is all Rotten," Barry explains, surprising Mokou.

Mokou looks over at Barry, wondering what he is thinking while he looks over his body like that. After a few minutes, a black haired woman wearing a long dress shows up. Her dress reveals the top of her heavily endowed assets.

"Heh heh heh. 'Bout time you showed up Lusty," Barry grins at the woman with a menacing look.

"Number 66! I see… So they used you as bait and I fell for it," says the woman with a hateful look on her face. "Why did you help the colonel?" she asks the criminal wearing the armor suit.

"Heh heh. What can I say? I gotta be me! I never wanted to live my life- such as it is- kissing up to you freaks and hiding in the shadows," Barry says as he raises his cleaver. "But even when I escaped after lab 5 fell, I had to keep a low profile so you wouldn't find me. The only way I can be free is if you're all dead," he continues to speak, pointing the cleaver at the woman. "But above all… I WANT TO CHOP YOU UP!" he finishes as the black haired woman lets out a small sigh.

"Tsk tsk… What am I going to do with you? And you, armor boy- You just had to tag along with the big boys! Now you leave me no choice," she says, getting the attention of the others. "Killing two human sacrifices in one night is quite a setback," she says to them.

Mokou stares at her intensely as Alphonse begins to speak.

"Human sacrifice? Two of them?" Alphonse asks.

"That's right. You and another," she says with a smirk on her face.

"HEY LADY, stop chit-chatting with the help!" Barry yells in annoyance. He then leaps out at the sexy, black haired woman with cleaver ready to hack in to her. "The next words to come from your pretty mouth, Lusty… WILL BE YOUR LAST!" he yells out.

Mokou leaps into action, clapping her hands to set them ablaze.

"I won't let you harm anyone here!" Mokou yells out at the woman known as Lust.

Lust, having her arms folded up, lets her arms down and extends her fingers, slicing though the two who went to attack her. Barry fell to pieces as Mokou became a bloody mess. Mokou's coat however, miraculously survived. It was mostly untouched because of how her arms were cut off. The coat fell over her body, protecting everyone from the sight of the gore that was now Mokou.

"I hate rude people," Lust goes on to say. Those were the last words Mokou heard until she healed her arms that had been badly cut.

It was black again. Many times before, Mokou found herself in the black of death. Many of those times were at the hands of Kayuga. Mokou's soul filled with anger as she thought of Lust. She then awoke to the voice of a man. She slowly looks up from under her coat and see's Colonel Roy Mustang snapping his fingers and causing an explosion where Lust was at. He had his jacket open and a burn wound on his side where he seared a wound close. Another fiery explosion occurred as he continues to attack Lust. Mokou slowly gets up after her wounds heal and claps her hands. She then touches the ground, helping the Flame Alchemist with his attack. With both of them combined in power, the flames grew so hot that if Alphonse and Riza were not behind the wall Al made to protect them, Alphonse would have started to melt.

Lust tries to attack Roy by aiming a finger at his head, but she stops right before hitting him.

"You won," Lust says, starting to deconstruct. "I hate to lose. But, if I must die, I'm glad it's at the hands of people like you two. Both of your eyes… So clear and focused… I love them… I look forward… to see those eyes become clouded from suffering… The day will come… very… soon…" she softly says. Lust falls backward, turning into bones and a red stone. As the stone drops to the ground, the bones turn to dust. Immediately when the stone hits the ground, it turns into dust as well.

Mustang falls over in pain. Riza rushes over to help him. Mokou, with a lot of effort, gets up and buttons her coat. Her clothes under her coat had been cut through. She slowly walks over to the ruins of Barry the Chopper. When she gets there, she notices a plate of metal. On the plate was a soul seal. The soul seal wiggled a bit before Mokou picks it up.

"He-Hey! Put me down!" says Barry quietly.

"Shhh…" Mokou shushes him, carefully burns away the unneeded parts of metal where his soul was sealed, and then puts him in her pocket.

Meanwhile, near the entrance, King Bradley eavesdrops on the other side of the wall. He looks inside, and then sheaths his blade. He notices Mokou and his eye widens a bit. He then walks down the hall.

Amestris: Central city: Hotel

Winry waits on the steps of the Hotel for them to return. The Hotel clerk comes out and tells her she should come inside and wait. She starts to repeat something under her breath when a sound of armor clanking advances toward them. Both Winry and the Clerk see Alphonse and Mokou walking up to them. Mokou and Al looked beat up.

"Ah," Al says, not expecting Winry and others to have been waiting for them.

"Al… Mokou…" Winry utters.

"Umm... I'm Home," Al replies.

Mokou gives a small grin. Winry sniffles as tears form at the edge of her eyes.

"You Idiots! Welcome back!" She yells at them.

"Thanks," Al says, putting his hand on his head before starting to laugh.

They all start to laugh until Al's right arm breaks off. Then they all start to freak out.

Amestris: Resembool: Pinako's House: around noon, two days later

Marisa rests on a bed, having finished her surgery. She asked for Nitori to come in and give her some medicine made by Eirin. It took away the pain and helped heal what was left to heal. She sighs of boredom. After hearing someone walk inside, she gets up and slowly heads out to see who it is. When she gets to the door, she sees a tall, blond haired and bearded man. He was wearing glasses and was also wearing a suit. Marisa could see his golden eyes through his glasses.

The man looks at Marisa. Marisa was only wearing a gown. Then he looks over at Pinako.

"Did Trisha and I have another child or something?" the man asked Pinako.

"No you idiot! Though she is almost simpler to Edward-" Pinako pauses when she sees Marisa standing nearby. "Anyways, You! You shouldn't even be up walking around!" The short, old woman yells at Marisa.

"Don't worry, Ze. I took something a friend of mine made. It heals almost everything," Marisa says, tapping the metal under her gown. She then winces because it still hurts to touch. "…Owww… Da ze…"

"You should still rest, Marisa. It takes a few hours to finish its job," Nitori says, hiding in the corner with all the Automail books in the house.

"…." Pinako stares at the two, knowing it would be something impossible to make here. "So Hohenheim, what brings you home after so many years?" She questions the man.

"I returned to see my family after so long, but it seems Trisha is gone and my house has been burned down," he answers.

Marisa looks at the man and feels an overwhelming feeling from him. She wonders what it is but shakes it off, heading back to bed.

Ed: well.. that took forever to do…

Al: The Author must be busy..

Me: yep..

Ed and Al: Ahh! When did you come in.

Me: Just now… work has worn me out.. a lot. *falls over* My hands hurt…

Ed: well.. Umm..

Al: I feel bad for him *picks me up and sits me agint the wall.*

Ed: soo… now what?

Al: well. I think we say thanks for reading.. Thank you everyone, we hope you enjoy this chapter.

Ed: ! Wait a moment! Dad is in this chapter? Damn it!