Hey minna. Hehe..Sorry I forgot to mention in the last chapter was from the play CATS..a broadway musical that is really interesting and one of my all time favoritres. Well onto the chappie. Oh yeah I've finally beaten t hat darned chimera. YES!...Now I'm swarmed by tons of bad guys who don't die easily...and I barely have any elixers...gah...When does the insanity end?

Currently Listening to: Momoiro ( Aya Matsuura, Album: T.W.O) hehe the music video is hilarious. Everything is pink and there it's a peach canning factory, and there are peach puppets haha.

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Chapter 5: The doughnut loving stampede

Ed groaned in anguish. Someone up there really seemed to hate him. The short alchemist scowled skywards before taking in his surroundings. He was in a dessert of some sort and infront of him was a small town. Ed sighed at the sight of civilization and walked towards it.

When entering the town the civilians seemed to stray clear of the blonde kid or whisper fearfully among themselves. Suddenly a group of three men with rifles ran into the street.

"Hey you! Hold it!" Yelled a burly looking man.

Ed, who thought they were talking to someone else didn't stop and continued walking towards what looked like a saloon.

"HEY I SAID STOP!"

Again he ignored the command. Ed was about ten steps away from the saloon's steps when a bullet whizzed past his head. Startled by this he whirled around and gave the men a slightly peeved glare.

"Jeeze you people sure have a way of greeting out of towners." Replied Ed.

"Shut up you! Don't think we don't know who you are. You're Vash the Stampede! The Humanoid Typhoon who leaves distruction where ever he goes. You have 60,000,000 on your head and our town needs the money badly! So just give yourself up quietly and we won't have to shoot you."

One of the men on the burly guy's right tapped him on the shoulder.

"Oi Nathan. You sure that's him?"

"Of course it's him you idiot! He matches the discription perfectly! Blonde hair and a red coat! Plus he's supposed to have a gun."

The other man on Nathan's left silently studied Ed. The short alchemist's features darkened at the looks he was getting.

"You sure? Looks kinda young to me..Plus he's kinda short."

Ed growled angrily at the man.

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING MICROSCOPIC!"

"We didn't say anything like that! Enough of this! Are you going to come quietly or not!"

Ed sighed in annoyance.

"For your information I'm not this 'Humanoid Typhoon' charcter you're talking about. My name is Edward Elric. Alright!"

Nathan glared a piercing glare.

"Take off your coat."

Ed facefaulted slightly.

"What kind of order is that!" He yelled, now slightly disturbed.

"I want to see if you're packing a gun kid. We can't take you too lightly, since we don't even know if your name really is Edward."

"Fine fine..." Muttered Ed pulling off the red coat. "There. Happy? No gun. Now can you tell me where I am and where I can find a tv?"

"It's still possible that you are packing a weapon. Take off that other jacket, you're in the city of August and no there aren't any tvs. We haven't had one for centuries."

"Oh for the love of- FINE! After this I want some explainations got it!" Exploded Ed, his patience now wearing thin. He removed the second jacket and was immediately greeted with the sound of cocking guns.

"What the hell is that?" Yelled the third man in fear.

Ed raised a surprised eyebrow and turned to look at his automail arm.

"See I told you he was Vash!"

"But Vash has a gun, this guy has a metal arm!"

"Idiot! He probably traded it in for a better weapon!" Growled Nathan. He then pointed the rifle at the confused alchemist.

"You thought you could pull the wool over our eyes you nuicence! Now put your hands in the air and come with us quietly."

"Gah for the last time I'm not Vash the Stampede!" Screamed Ed now royally pissed off.

"Sure you're not. And I'm not Sherriff of the world...Alright boys tie him up." Replied Nathan with a mocking grin.

Ed angrilly allowed himself to be bounded by course rope and dragged away. During that time his thoughts were on one person, well two people. The first was if he ever met this 'Vash the Stampede, he was going to pulverise him, Secondly he was going to murder that bastard of a Colonel who made him fix that damned tv in the first place. He didn't know how or when, but he was somehow going make that smirking bastard pay.

After what seemed like an eternity of walking, they went into a small jail house, opened one of the cells and uncerimoniously tossed the still tyed up Ed into it.

Nathan slammed the door and grinned.

"Our town thanks you for your partonage Mr. Stampede. Now if you'll excuse us we need to talk to the sheriff."

With that the group left the room laughing to themselves.

Ed hopped off the floor and ran to the iron bars.

"LET ME OUT! I'M NOT VASH THE STAMPEDE DAMMIT! HEY!"

Ed angrily kicked the bars then wiggled his hands so could try clap them. No such luck. After trying to untie himself he gave up on the hard knots, flopped stomach down on the dusty cot and sneezed.

"How am I going to get out of here? Dammit! If my hands were free I could use alchemy and be out of here by now...Guess there's nothing to do now but to get some sleep..." Muttered Ed before dozing off.

BOOOOOM!

Ed jolted awake and fell painfully head first onto the floor. Muffling a few curse words he quickly stood up and jumped onto the cot to look out of the barred window.

Outside men with rifles ran around shouting orders and in the distance the flashing lights of fire followed by the heavy booms of cannons sounded. The alchemist squinted his eyes at the flash of blonde and red run off into the distance.

'So that must be the real Vash the Stampede.' Thought Ed almost evilly. His thoughts were cut when a sharp whistling sound seemed to grow rapidly louder. Ed threw himself to the floor just seconds before a cannon ball blasted through the wall leaving a large whole in it's wake.

Ed grinned. Finally an escape route. Taking this advantage he dashed outside, carefully ducked the paniced civilians, and down the same path the other man in red went.

The young alchemist followed Vash's footprints to a small oasis a few miles out of town. Creeping down he spotted a man in red plop down on the ground near the water's edge. The man was very tall with spiky blond hair and young features. Ed ignored the rumors of this guy and rushed towards the oasis.

"HEY YOU!"

Vash looked up with surprise etched on his face.

"Oh hello. Are you lost kid? Why are you tyed up?"

"I'm like this because of you dammit!" Seethed Ed.

"Because of me? But I don't even know you." Replied Vash in a friendly manner that only made Ed more angry. "Here let me untie you."

Ed backed away.

"Thanks but no thanks. I'm like this because they think I'm Vash the Stampede!"

Vash raised his eyebrows in surprse.

"Really? Jeeze I thought that warrent was taken off last month..." He then shurgged. "Oh well...Guess the girls will have more work to do...Merile isn't going to be happy with this..."

"So are you going to turn yourself in, so I'll get aleast a straight answer for once!"

"Straight answer? You mean like why I'm wanted with 60,000,000 on my head? Well it's kind of a long story...Err why don't I untie you..."

Ed didn't reject the offer and allowed the taller blonde to untie him.

"So what's your name kid?"

"Edward.Edward Elric." He replied, now rotating his stiff wrists.

"Well Ed...I'm sorry that they mistook you for me, but I can't really turn myself in call it a fault if you like."

Ed sighed and sat down next to Vash. Scilence followed.

"So where you from Ed?" Asked Vash breaking the scilence.

"Well the last place I was, was Central. From here I'm guessing it's sort of a different world."

"Sounds like a story. Care to share?" Ed eyed Vash warily before continuing.

The young alchemist told him everything, from His and Al's first experience of alchemy to the part where he got transported to a different world. And the more Ed explained, the lighter the burden seemed to lift off of his shoulders. When he was done Vash was looking into space with a look of thought.

"You and your brother has gone through a lot haven't you. Does it...Bother you that despite your losses you couldn't really bring your mother back?"

Ed shook his head defiantely.

"No. After what had happened we realised that no matter how hard you try, you can't bring back the dead without a equal trade. And if it worked, such a trade would be unforgivable. Our goal now is to find the stone and revive what we lost. I don't care if i don't get my arm or leg back, all that matters is that Al gets his body back...I guess if Al really knew this he'd feel guilty, and I don't want him to feel more pain then he already has to deal with."

Vash silently stared at Ed in suprise. The young alchemist's maturity for his age took him a back. He didn't expect Ed to be so serious. Vash smiled tenderly and placed a comforting hand on Ed's head.

"You know it's alright to cry. It's not healthy to be so serious all the time and pent up your pain." He removed his hand and stared up at the starry sky.

"I guess i can understand what you're going through. When I was young and there were ships in space my brother Knives and I were saved by a woman named Rem. We lived with the crew and grew up there. We weren't human though. We were something else, since we grew up much faster then normal humans. I guess it was jealousy and anger towards Rem always talking to me, and the abuse we recieved from one of the members of the crew that cause my brother to hate humans. He murdered the crew and Rem. Then we crashed here on earth and stayed together for years until we went our seperate ways. Recently I had to fight my brother, because of his hatered...I'm hoping that one day he'll see the truth, but I guess i shouldn't keep my hopes up huh? Even though I hated my brother for the countless lives he took and his thoughts of human life being destroyed I still care for him. I admire your strength Edward, don't ever let that fade."

Ed stared speechless at Vash. For the first time in a long while he felt nervous and unsure of himself.

"I-."

Ed's voice was cut off when a flash of light under him exploded into a large alchemy circle causing him to disappear into thin air.

Chappie 5 is done. Hehe.. This time it's a more downtone serious chappie. I thought this might be interesting since the discription of Vash is similar to Ed's heck, if you even wanted to and there were no boundries Vash could be like a long lost cousin or older brother.

I think I might start a drabbles fic soon.