Metallic Hearts [FullMetal Alchemist Episode Forty-Nine: The Other Side Of The Gate
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You: "Bite me." p
Russell: "Careful I may take that as an invitation," You rolled your eyes. "A number of years ago, my father wanted to learn how to make red water," he sat down in one of the church pews. "So he came to Central. When he got here he worked himself into a place called Laboratory Five. There he became acquainted with a certain gifted Alchemist. It wasn't long before this man began to share his secrets, like using the red water to create a Philosopher's Stone by using human lives. And where to find a place insiders knew as the True Laboratory." p
You: "By the note we've only just scratched the surface. This Lab Five was a front for something deeper. And there's no time like the present to find out if he was telling the truth. We're going alone." p
Fletcher: "But if Al is in danger maybe we can use our Alchemy to help you save him." p
You: "Oh, don't worry, we're gonna all come out alive, no matter what." p
Russell: "Lita, I just want to be clear on something. I didn't tell you all this so you could create the Stone." p
You: "That's the last thing we plan on doing," he winked at Russell and gave Fletcher a kiss on the cheek and you both headed down the stairs. p
Russell: "Just come back. Just come back to me alive!" You opened the door to a ballroom. Rose danced around the ballroom and stopped when she spotted you. p
Rose: "Edward, I've been waiting for you." You sat at the foot of the stage watching in pure jealousy as Ed danced with Rose. You froze when you heard her say I love you. You grabbed your chest and started hyperventilating again. Ed broke apart from Rose and ran over to you, he calmed you down by just holding you. You never noticed until now how much you enjoyed being in his arms. p
Lyra: "You couldn't give her one little dance before going back to that cheap piece of trash? Rose has been waiting so long to see you." p
Ed: "Don't you dare say anything about Lita in front of me," his glare was fierce but his touch was gentle. You used your Alchemy to create a spear and you threw it at Lyra. She destroyed is just in time. p
Lyra: "That was too close." p
You: "So when did you see the Gate? The Lyra I knew couldn't do Alchemy without circles. Your secrets up, Dante." p
Dante: "When did you find out?" p
You: "How many times have you jumped bodies?" p
Dante: "Oh in 400 years a person can loose count. It's less than 10, since I had to use the Philosopher's Stone each time," before you could say anything else Gluttony stumbled into the room. "It hurts when you talk to me like that. I was planning on taking her body and being loved by the son of Hohenheim. But perhaps my new target is another, your real love." Ed jumped back as Gluttony bit onto his auto-mail arm. p
Gluttony: "Where's my Lust?" p
Ed: "I'm sorry, but she's gone." Gluttony fell backwards and you grabbed onto Ed. p
Dante: "Gluttony stop this. You don't have feelings." Gluttony wandered away. p
Ed: "Stay here, I don't want you to get hurt. You're too precious to me. I'll take care of her, and we'll all get out of here." You did as you were told and you stayed put. Dante transmuted the ground into a snake like creature who attack Ed. Said Alchemist jumped onto it's back, he ran at Dante and cut open the front of her shirt. "I was right. You can't sustain bodies anymore. Equivalency." p
Dante: "Equivalence? Don't tell me you still believe in that naïve theory." p
Ed: "It's a true theory! It's the absolute law of Alchemy, no of the whole world. To obtain anything something of equal value must be lost. You couldn't have gotten anywhere without knowing that!" p
Dante: "A beautiful story, to comfort the oppressed and make children do their lessons. The truth is the law of Equivalent Exchange is a lie. To gain something of equal value must be lost. In true form is you give something up you will always get a prize of equal worth in return." p
Ed: "Exactly, that's why people work hard in anything they do, because it pays off." p
Dante: "Wrong. People work because they think it will pay, but equal effort does always mean equal gain. Consider the State Alchemy Exam, which the two of you passed with flying colors. How many others took the test that day? Spent months, years preparing for. Some working much harder than you, yet you were the ones who passed. What did they get for their efforts." p
You: "The knowledge they obtained over their training is what they got in return. Although it may not have been the case at the time the knowledge they gained over the time they spent preparing would help them down the line and made them a stronger Alchemist and a stronger person." p
Dante: "Then what about the value of each persons life?" The snake grabbed Roses baby. "If I just clap my hands this baby won't survive. And if I do where is the world's balance in that?" p
You: "There may not be for the baby, but there will be for you. You could just ask Barry the Chopper what he got for killing people, if he were still alive. There may not be equal exchange for the baby or for Rose, but taking another persons life will come back to haunt you, I promise." p
Dante: "People can say there is a logic, that everything happens for a reason, but the truth is far less designed. No matter how hard you work, when you die you die." p
You: "That may be true, but it's how you die that really counts." Your nails sharpened. "And I will gladly die if I can take you with me!" You used your Alchemy to destroy the snake and you caught the baby, handing it over to Rose. p
Dante: "Equivalent Exchange doesn't exist, it exists to give order to a world that has none." p
You: "Say what you want, you'll never convert me." Out of nowhere, Ed disappeared.