I'm back! Now we're actually catching up to the movie plot!

Liz: Starting with an old flashback thing.

Envy: She's not even going to bother to italisize it so we thought we'd let you know.

Ed: It's the scene at the beggining of the movie, you know?

Al: Also we're including the carnival scene!

Al H.: And you get to meet me!

Ed: Uh...

Envy: Which ones which?

Liz: Kind of hard to tell...

This is going to get confusing...

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Wrath: This is awkward... REVIEW!

Three years previously...

"Ed, remind me why we're doing this again?" I asked moodily.

"Because this guy wouldn't shut up about his Uranium bomb and he was getting annoying!" Ed snapped impatiently. "Why is it so hard for you to not complain at everything!"

"Because I was teamed up with you two against my will that's why" I grumbled. "I want to go my own way. And do you really think Al can handle this?"

"Of course he can." Ed waved a hand dismissivly.

"The bomb dude is gonna think he's you, you realize that right?"

"...so..."

"So you set yourself up to get pissed off pipsqueak."

"Shut it Dwarf!"

"Elf!

"Flea!

"Atomic molec- ugh, I lost interest in this argument. We've had it too many times" I muttered.

"Whatever" Ed put on his little helmet.

I stared at him oddly "Why are you wearing that thing?"

"It's cool."

"No, it looks like you put a fish bowl on your head."

"You're jealous!"

"Why would I be jealous? I don't like sea food!"

"Oh shut up!"

"You make lofty speeches but your real reasons are clear!" we heard bomb dude yell at Al from below. "The state only gives you authority because of your slchemic power!"

"Authority?" Ed muttered incrediously.

"What authority." I huffed. "I'm stuck with these two against my will. I have no authority."

"Do you hate us that much?"

"Not Al. Just you."

"Thanks alot!"

"No prob!"

"You are afraid that a weapon like this will render you obselete at war" bomb dude continued in a way that made me believe him hypocritical for saying Al was making lofty speeches. "And with that the state alchemist's strangle hold on the state will weaken! Now let's see what the alchemist of the people really looks like!"

"You're up for dissapointment" I hissed under my breath. "He currently looks like a fish rights activist."

Ed casually wacked me over the head.

We heard the sound of drills and a clank as something hard and metal was thrown to the ground. There was a silent pause filled only by bomb dude's quiet chuckles and light footsteps followed by a gasp "That's impossible! It's empty! How can that be! It couldn't just be able to move on it's own. That's completely unexplainable... But no! Everything... everthing in the world can be explained."

I held a snigger back with my hand and glanced at Ed "Ready to make a dramatic enterance."

"Hell yeah." he grinned clapping his hands together and slamming them against the ground. The stone floor beneath us fell away to create stone steps leading down to the level below where bomb dude and Al were.

"You made three big mistakes" Ed smirked as he walked down the steps. I grinned as he decended and hopped over the gap he created to move over to an area above the place behind bomb dude, waiting to make my own enterance.

"Who are you!" bomb dude demanded angrily.

Al jumped to his feet "Brother what took you so long! He put holes in me!"

"Sorry! I got held up!"

"Tell me who you are!" bomb dude demanded again, expression teetering between out right shock and fury.

Ed turned his attention back to the man and raised one finger "Mistake number 1: See we were never actually interested in your bomb in the first place. We just came because you wouldn't shut up about it. That and the off chance it could help us on our own search."

Bomb dude let out a sound sounding like a mix between a snarl and a wild cry of fury and drill things burst from his sleeves and headed right twoards Ed. The first slammed him in the right arm, the second knocked his goldfish bowl helmet off.

"Brother!" Al cried.

"You'll take me to Central if you value your life" bomb dude sneered before he suddenly seemed to realize that the drill on Ed's right arm was having no effect whats so ever. Ed casually reached up and grabbed the drill with his hand, stopping it's movement.

"Mistake number two" he stood slowly, drill still in hand, the torn shreds of his right sleeve falling away to reveal his shiny steel, automail arm. "That young and promising state alchemist you were reffering to... is me."

"Automail" bomb dude glared. "So that what it means. You're the Fullmetal alchemist!" he looked about ready to attack again as Ed snapped the drill but the boy grinned devilishly "Hang on pal... you forgot your third mistake."

"And what is that!" he snarled.

"I thought you'd never ask" I called loudly with a large smirk, straightening my gloves before I blasted a hole beneath me, causing the celing to fall away. I lept down from the hole and landed on one knee a few feet behind the bomb dude before standing up and holding out my black gloves in front of me to display the white transmutation circles on them. The source of my infamous lightning alchemy.

"Your third mistake was that the Fullmetal alchemist came with a companion, another state alchemist..." Ed grinned as the man whirled to look at me, a shocked expression on his face. "The Lightning alchemist to be exact."

"Yo" I waved once.

"This little girl?" bomb dude looked confused.

"I going to kindly disregard that comment of yours" I growled. "Let's do this Ed!"

"Don't have to tell me twice." he lunged through the air, transmuting his arm into a blade as he charged the drill dude. He dodged Ed's attack and whirled to fire a drill at me. I dodged, clapped my hands and pressed them against the electrical contraption. Light flashed and the drill sputtered and died.

"That things powered electrically" I grinned. "I send a little shock through it, the currents get interupted and it goes dead."

"Nice work Liz!" Ed called, charging again.

Bomb dude stepped back from us and pulled out a can of stuff that exploded into smoke rendering me blind. I heard retreating footsteps as the smoke slowly disapated and Ed yell "Come on! He's getting away!"

"Right!" I followed Ed and Al in pursuit of the bomb guy.

We were led into a huge room, lined with winding stair cases and fixed with a giant drill machine in the middle. A drill machine that was started by bomb dude and began careening straight twoards our direction.

We barely jumped out of the way, Ed and I going one way, Al another. Bomb dude pursued us with giant drills of death.

"God what is with this psycho!" I yelled over the whir of the drills as I ran next to Ed. "Scientist my foot! He's insane! Why can't there be any normal scientists who want peace and prosperity or something cheesy like that!"

"Just keep running!" Ed panted. "Hey, can't you shut this thing off with your lightning alchemy?"

"The engine is at the center, I can't reach it!" I called. "Least ways, not without risk of getting impaled by deadly drills!"

"Split off of me!" Ed waved his hand to the series of other ramps around the room. "He'll probably keep after me."

"On it!" I grabbed the railing to the side and swung myself over the edge before redirecting myself back to the ramp below and coming down safely in a roll, then darting in the other direction. As Ed had predicted, bomb dude seemed set on killing him first and kept on him.

I around the ramp before I came to a place where the platform holding the drill machine of death was and jumped from railing to machine before beggining to quickly climb up the side. At this point, bomb dude was getting really pissed off and the fact that the machine kept spinning and changing direction so quickly made climbing up it a tad bit hard... actually insanely hard. There were a few times I almost slipped.

By the time I had gotten to the top I was sweating and my heart beat against my chest wildly from the adrenalin rush. Then the drill machine jerked to a sudden stop and I looked up to see Al had stopped the drills movement up at the top of the machine.. Grinning I swung myself onto the back of the cock pit of the drill machine and called "Hiya!" before clapping my hands together and slamming them against the engine, cutting off the whirling drills "Ha... I hope that didn't cost you alot of money dude."

"Nice work guys" Ed clapped his hands together and transformed the drills into his signature, creepy Ed head- god that thing always really creeps me out- before he started to walk twoards the bomb dude.

"If it weren't for you alchemists" bomb dude accused. "Us physicists would be leading the world into a new enlightened age!"

"Enlighten them like that!" Ed hissed gesturing over to a tunnel where lay a huge pile of the corpses of Uranium miners. I suddenly felt like throwing up.

"Uranium mining is dangerous" bomb dude said dismissivly. "It's the cost of progress!"

"Tell that to those peoples families" I growled. "You're not the one losing something, you've got no right to talk!"

"Science that doesn't benifit people is no science at all!" Al added adimently.

With a growl bomb dude jumped to his feat and pulled the uranium bomb out of his coat and held it in front of him "Stop! Don't come any closer!" We all flinched back and Ed froze in mid stride. "You know what this is now! Interfere and I'll use it."

"Dude stop swinging that thing around!" I exclaimed. "You're gonna drop that thing and I'm gonna laugh!"

"He drops that thing we die" Ed pointed out.

"Oh... right..."

"I may not respect your science" bomb dude continued drawing a piece of paper from his jacket that had a transmutation circle drawn on it. "But that hasn't stopped me from learning it. As a man of advansed physical equations, a few circles were easy enough to understand."

"Well aren't you mister amazing" I muttered.

"What are you planning now?" Ed asked, his eyes narrowing suspiciously.

"It's my back up plan Fullmetal" bomb dude sneered moving over next to the pile of corpses "An army of men combined with machines. You won't stand a chance!"

"Don't do it!" Ed exclaimed.

"Yeah, I'll just short circuit them anyway." I reasoned.

"That's human transmutation!"

"Oh yeah, that too..."

"Listen to me" Ed pleaded. "Life only flows in one direction and people arent meant to be brought back from the dead. It's alchemy's greatest sin."

"Your archaic rules mean nothing to me! I am a man of science!" bomb dude explained as he placed the paper on the ground and clapped his hands together before slamming them down on the ground beside the body pile.

"Stop! NO!" Ed yelled but it was too late... moments later, he was gone.


"Just like what happened to us." Ed murmured as he looked out at the sea from where we stood on the edge of the little hidden mining facility. "We tried to transmute mom but I pulled your soul back first. But in his attempt, he lost it all..."

"I can't exactly say I'm sad to see him go" I shrugged.

"Yeah" Ed shrugged. "Anyway, we need to get off this island before it explodes."

"WHAT!" Al exclaimed just as the first bomb sounded off. "Why did you do that!"

"I didn't like it..."

"Why do you have to be so impulsive! You could've told me" Al looked to me. "Did you know about this Liz?"

I smiled evily in response.

"Of course she did" Ed grinned. "She helped me rig them..."

"What is wrong with you two!"

"I like to see stuff blow up" I deadpanned.

"Quit whining. Let's get going." Ed said turning to leave.

Five mintues later we were in a boat with a leak over the ocean and Ed was now heroicly panicing "We're sinking, we're sinking, we're sinking!" he yelled as he hurriedly tried to shovel water over the side.

"Yep, so impulsive." I sighed from where leaned back against the side of the boat.

"WILL YOU HELP!"

"Nah..."

Ed lost his bucket and then snatched Al's head off and began to shovel water out.

"Hey!"

"Quit whining I need to get this water out!"

"Well then transmute something! You don't have to use my head!"

"Hurry up boys!"

"SHUTUP LIZ!"


"And that's how the hero of the people and the lightning alchemist became known all throughout Amestris." Ed finished as Al and I laughed, me sitting beside him in the passengers seat and Al right behind us.

It had been about another year since I had found Ed again. In that time we had found Alphonse Hedrich, the Al of this world and he was now staying with us as well. Also in that time Hoenhiem had left again. Ed and I didn't know why. All he had left was a sheet of paper that said "In case you ever need it... I, Vol 4, Sec 2."

Did we know what it meant... no... but whatever. Ed was taking it pretty well. As if he hadn't really expect Hoenhiem to stick around long. I guess he was over most of his daddy issues that had lasted for so long.

This worlds Al was into rockets, these things that flew and every one was expecting to go into space one day. We were on our way to a carnival where he and his team were giving a demonstration and were hopefully getting a sponser.

"I'm telling you Ed, you and Liz should right stories or something." Al chuckled.

"They aren't just stories." Ed sighed. "You saying you don't believe us?"

"No sane person has the ability to comprehend it." I pointed out with a small pensive smile.

"Come one guys" Al said with another laugh. "A world where alchemy moves ahead of technology? Modern science is letting us expand in new ways than ever before, reaching more progress then anything alchemy could achieve."

"In this world you mean" Ed argued. "I'm telling you that-"

"ED EYES ON THE FREAKING ROAD!" I exclaimed as Ed swerved off and we landed straight into a tree.

"...god you distracted nut of a pipsqueak" I muttered as we stared at the broken down vehicle moments later.

"Shut up shrimp!" he snapped glaring at me.

"Don't fight guys another car looks like it's coming" Al said calmingly, always the peacemaker.

"Hey!" Ed waved his arms at the incoming vehicle. "Hey over here!"

Al began coughing suddenly into his hand like he did alot these days and I turned conserned to look at him "You ok Al?"

"Just a little cold Liz, I'm fine" he tried for a convincing smile but it seemed forced to me.

Yeah... right... and my attacks are just hunger pains...

I wish...

The vehicle pulled up beside us. It was a truck with a wooden cart on the back carrying several dark skinned women as passengers. They wore strange clothes and jewlrey and most of them were very pretty.

"Gypsies" I realized.

"Heading to the carnival?" the man driving asked.

"Sure are" Ed nodded.

"Hop in" the man offered. "If you don't mind riding with gypsies, we're on our way there too."

We took the offer since we didn't have any other option beside walking and also because we weren't so racially predjudice like most other Germans in this day and age. Jews and Gypsies were getting hit the hardest and I couldn't help but be reminded of the Ishbalans. Maybe that was why I took pity on the supposed "races of parasites". Because nothing good came out of hating people who were a little different then you.

"So uh... what kinds of things do you guys do at the carnival?" Ed asked.

"Lot's of things" a woman leaned forward alluringly. "Singing, dancing."

Al glanced over noticing a much quieter gypsy sitting in the corner "What about you? What's your act?"

"She's a fortune teller" Another woman grinned. "And she always gets it right."

I raised my eyebrows, a little skeptical of this claim. Probably just a bit of advertising. After all, those things were unscientific.

"Can you read mine?" Al asked.

"Aw come one" Ed sighed. "You know how unscientific that stuff is!" He cut off as the girl placed a hand on his shoulder from behind. There was a short pause before her brown eyes widened and she drew back.

"You're like us... you have no home."

Ed and I drew in a sharp breath in unison and glanced at eachother obviously thinking the exact same thing. How the Hell did she know that? It was actually a little bit scary that someone could guess that from a touch... unless of course it was just a lucky guess but some how I doubted it.

"There it is! The carnival!" I looked ahead of us and sure enough saw the colorful flags flapping in the distance. The first Gypsy woman drew back her hood and began singing, a soothing foreign melody and the others began to join in. They all sounded amazing. Soon everyone had joined in, clapping, tapping on their knees, harmonizing with their voices. The only ones who didn't were the strange fortune teller, and us three non Gypsies.

The fortune teller's brown eyes never left Ed as he stared solemly ahead, deep in thought. She looked conserned. Al did as well, looking between her and Ed in silence. I scooted over next to Ed and nudged him gently with my elbow.

"Hey... you ok?" I asked in a hushed voice.

He smiled bitterly "No... you?"

"Never." I sighed glancing back at the Gypsy woman who quickly averted her gaze. Who knew...Maybe she did have a different way of seeing things...


Wow... long chapter...

Envy: Longer than expected...

Liz: Yeah, it's almost 4,000 words...

Huh... anyway, projected number of chapters till Envy appears is two more chapters. He wont be in the next one but in the one after that.

Al: Hooray! The other me is in the story!

Wrath: I'm not! But I'm cute!

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