"Ed where the hell is Al?" Aly and Leon had just entered Roy's office. Ed looked slightly surprised, he had scratched his head and sighed.

"That's what I was trying to tell you all earlier, Al has been kidnapped."

Aly looked angry, "And you're here. You should be looking for him and getting him back!" Leon looked at Aly and whispered, "Calm dow'." Riza was there already and Roy had just entered the room. He noticed the atmosphere, "What's going on here?"

"Ed, the jerk, let Al get kidnapped."

"Oh…" The phone seemed to ring at a perfect time, Roy answered it. "Col. Mustang, I am LtGen. Marks from the USMC. Can I speak to Cap. Leon?"

"Cap. You have a phone call."

"Cap. Leon speaking." After a good five minutes of Leon going 'mmhm' and 'yes' he ended with "Yes sir," then he hung up.

Aly was still angry and she began taking out on the people around her, "Well… What was that about?"

"Col., I needa speck ta ya in private."

Roy entered the office again, alone, after the coversation with Leon. Aly was still angry, "Well…..?"

"Cap. Leon is leaving because his General needs him somewhere to fight a dangerous killer."

Aly glared at Roy, "Next I bet you're gonna tell me that you are going ta kick me out?! Too freakin' late, Ed," Aly yanked Ed over by the arm, "You and me are going to go hunting for Al. Roy, you can get ride of my stuff, I don't really know when I'll get back, or if I will come back. Bye." Aly ran out of the building with Ed being dragged at her heels. They got on a train and headed for Lior, which was the last place Ed was with Al.

Leon had packed all of his Marine uniforms, and headed for Lior. His General had told him Scar was attacking American soldiers in Lior, Leon was going to meet up with his secret team. Leon rarely worked with his Black Op's team; he was only called in when it bacame most important.

In a short week Leon made it to the outskirts of Lior, he was met there by a few members of the team. "Hey, boo." One of the guys was joking around.

"Fuck ya, Mortlock." Leon said.

One of the other guys laughed and said, "What's with the accent, "Boo Bear."

"Plexico I hurt ya." Leon punched Plexico playfully.

"Yeah, Boo what happened?" the last guy asked.

"Look a' dat, Holt know how ta treat a superior. Fine I tell ya's our assignment injured me. A' ya can tell I got no rite ea'or. It go' affecdid, and cauzed bran damage. I can't read e'dor. I gots Dys'exi'ya." Leon explained.

The boys joked around for a few more minutes befor they headed into the city. They rented a hotel room and changed into the Black Ops uniform, it was night before they went out to look around. They split into a two groups of two. Leon and Mortlock walked around the perimeter of the city. Leon noticed an underground tunnel, Mortlock helped take the sewer lid off to enter the tunnel.

It was dark and cold in the sewer, they waited for a few minutes to adjust to the darkness. The two pulled picked up they're .30 Caliber rifle from a strap around their chest. Mortlock tripped over something and fell, the thing moved swiftly and the next thing Leon knew Mortlocks blood was all over him. "Mor'lock!!!!" Scar jumped at Leon, Leon attempted to shoot Scar; but he missed. Scar put his hand on Leon's abdomen; in a sickening second Leon was dying. He sat there having the blood drain like water from a bath tub. And then less than a minute passed and Leon's ears rang, gentle music played in his head and it was only getting darker. He died.

Ed and Aly got off the train and were in Lior, it was quiet, and destroyed. They walked in and found Leon with a group of people, but Aly decided not to wave because of the people around him. She continued to pushed Ed forward, "Come on, we need to keep going." They got to an underground city when they went further into Lior, and found Rose and Dante. Ed ran over to Dante and started yelling at her, but Aly couldn't hear a word he said.

A sharp pain raced from her right eye to her back. She fell to her knees trying to breathe, and not cry, until she collapsed. She was bleeding from her back and her heart, and she was motionless on the floor. She had died.

When Aly opened her eyes she was in a world all in it's own. A forest that was under attack, but the area she was in was calm and quiet. She sat there, "I've seen this place before…mom is here." She wanted to move, but knew if she did that she would not be able to leave the place she was in right now. Instead, she sat there and waited in the forest for some sign of a way out.

Back in Lior, Ed was fighting Envy now, and losing. Envy kept changing into diffent people to distract him from attack, until finally, he stabbed him. Ed died, and when he went beyond the Gate, he saw Aly, "You need to go back."

Aly got up and ran over to him, "Why do I need to go back?"

"Equivalent Exchange. My life for your's." Ed kissed Aly as a light flashed and she woke up in Lior by herself.

When she got to her feet, she noticed that she had lost some weight, and she felt…younger. As she looked around trying to find any trace of Al, she saw someone leaving. She got to her feet and chased after them, only to fall on top of them. When they helped her to her feet, they asked her a question in a tone that she knew, "Are you okay?"

Aly looked up and saw a cute ten year old boy smiling down at her, "Alphonse…?"

The boy's smile faded as he hugged her, "Aly! Oh my gosh, you're alive!"

She hugged him back and cried on his shoulder, "Oh my God you're human!"

He pecked her cheek and held her by her shoulders, "I'm so glad to see you again."

Aly seemed disappointed as she looked at Al and took his hand to go to the train station, "Something's…wrong. I'm forgetting something…important."

On the train, Aly explained that she didn't remember anything past when her, Al, and Leon got back to Central. Al looked down, "So you don't remember…the night…that I told you?"

"Alphonse, what are talking about? What night? What did you tell me?"

Al looked even more disheartened as he replied, "It's nothing, we can talk about it in the morning. For now, we need to get some rest. Good night Aly." Al kissed her on the head, then laid across the train seat to fall asleep. Aly tried to fall asleep on her train seat, but she just couldn't, everything was flowing through her mind about what had happened and what she couldn't remember.

So, since she couldn't sleep, she walked over and laid next to Al. After she did fall asleep, she had her head against his chest, and he unconsiously wrapped his arms around her, and held her close to him.

Leon awake in front of a large sign, 'Welcome to Pearl Harbor Naval Base.' He looked confused but picked his body off the cool ground. It was night and a guard ran up to Leon, "You… just… materialized… out of… nothing." Leon was speechless for a short time, "Where am I? What is this world called?"

Al woke up the next morning, feeling a warm breathe against his chest. He turned his head to look and see if Aly was asleep already, but she wasn't there. When he wriggled his way to a somewhat sitting position, he saw that Aly was sleeping against him, his arms wrapped around her. He moved carefully trying not to wake her, but it didn't work to well.

She wrapped her arms around his torso and nuzzling her face against him, "No…" was what she whispered, as a shiver when through Al's back at the feel of her warm breathe against him and her arms around him.

Regretting what he was about to do, he shoke her gently and whispered in her ear, "Aly, you need to wake up."

She shoke her head and inhaled as she opened her eyes weakly, "I don't want to."

Al gave her a small laugh, "Come on Aly."

She opened her eyes more, then gasped as she jolted up which made Al hit the side of the seat, when he winced she blushed and helped him up, "Oh my God, are you alright Alphonse?"

He smiled at her, "Yeah, just got surprised when you moved so quickly. Did you sleep well?"

Aly looked down at the floor as she went back to sitting opposite him, "Yes, I apologize for that, I just don't like being alone when I sleep, and I just felt that out of all the people in the world that I knew, you were the one who wouldn't care. I know, weird, I won't do it again."

Al shoke his head, "No, I don't mind at all, I was just shocked that you were there, that's all."

Aly smiled, "Anyway, now that you don't have an annoying girl to bother you, why don't you go back to sleep, you look really tired Alphonse, I won't bother you, I promise."

Al leaned back and started to fall asleep again, as Aly stared out the window and tried to remember why her and Al were so close, and what she had forgotten.

That whole train ride was very tiring, Al slept and ate most of the time, and when he wasn't, he was talking to Aly hoping to spark her memories. Aly slept, ate, and watched the passing places trying to remember everything. She spent a lot of the time that Al was sleeping on the roof of the train, and once they got the Central, they were overjoyed to be over with the train ride.

Al helped Aly off the train as they walked to the military building going to Roy's office. When inside, Roy looked trashed with his hands covering his face and his finger running through his hair. He didn't look up when they walked in, so Aly gave him a greeting, "Daddy? I'm back, and Alphonse is with me."

Roy looked up and a smile came across his face when he saw Aly. He got up quickly and ran to give her a hug, "Aly, I'm so glad you're alright! After everything that had happened, I thought you weren't coming back." He held her out so he could look her over, "I guess me killing the Furher caused you to turn nine again…odd."

Aly stood in shock with Al. They both replied at the same time, "You killed the Furher?"

Roy was hugging her tightly again with a reply, "Yes, I did, but now that we have no Furher everything is in chaos."

Aly grimaced, then asked a question when she got away from Roy, "Where's Cap. Leon?"

Roy looked down in shame, "He's…dead. They called not to long ago claiming that him and another solider were killed in Lior. Scar must have given him a surprise attack. I'm sorry Aly."

Aly started to tear as she fell to the floor. She shook her head and tried her best to stay calm, but just couldn't, "No…no….No!" The walls and floor in the room started turning into spikes, and one almost hit Roy in a very sensitive area. He held still as a sigh of relief came over him. Riza walked in during everything and saw Roy, and tried not to laugh as Al dodged his way to where Aly was sitting.

With one fluent motion, Al picked her head up and kissed her lips for three soothing seconds. When he stopped, the spikes disappeared and Aly was blushing. Al wasn't to far from blushing either, that is if Roy hadn't pushed him away from her. He pulled Aly up by her arm as she was still in a daze from the kiss, "What was that?! I thought you only did that kind of thing when you were mad?!"

Riza came over, and Aly yanked away from Roy and hugged Riza tightly, "Mommy, Daddy's being mean." Riza and Roy both stood in shock at the statement she had just said. She thought that Riza was her mom, and Roy was her dad, which meant, that she thought Roy and Riza were married.

Something must have happened to Aly if she were to think that, she wasn't using her playful teasing voice, and she had even more trouble controlling her alchemy.

Leon was walking into the base with the man he met, "So you've heard of the other world?" Leon questioned. The guard smiled, "I'm a General you see, you understand there are things we military hide from the civilians."

"Gen. why are you out here guarding; you're a paid desk jockey."

"That's the problem, I miss the field. I told the guard to take the day off and I'd take his job for tonight. You're lucky I was here, If he found you you'd be in a mental hospital."

"Thanks for being here, then. But what's going to happen to me now?"

"Well I've thought it through if you still want to be in the Marines I'll give you everything you need. Identification, job, rank. The usual. But understand you will be a Lance Corporal, and once that happen you may go to war."

"Let me at it. I want this."

"Ok then lets get started, just walk into the first room on the left. I'll be right back."

Aly gave Al a hug before he left to go back to Risembool for study. "You must promise me that you will come back to visit Alphonse."

Al left her go and waved as he got on the train, "I promise Aly, don't worry."

She stood there as Roy and Riza came over to her side. They walked back to Central, and started to talk about the problem with Furher, "Alchemy, you need to pick a new Furher." Riza stated.

Aly looked down, "I know, and I've made my decision Mommy. I pick Daddy as the new Furher. I will announce it tomorrow, after the funeral."

Roy stood there with a big grin on his face, "Finally, my hard work has paid off."

Once they made it back to Central, they had to get ready to go to the funeral. Through the whole thing Aly pretended to cry against Roy, and clutching Riza's hand. After the funeral, Aly poured water in her eyes to make it look like she was crying as she went up to announce the new Furher. "Excuse me everyone, I wish to make a statement on the fact of my dear father's….death. In these times of turmoil, we have no one to guard the people, and we need someone now that my father is gone. I have been watching over each of you for the years that my father was in the military, and noticed one man excel over others. I believe this man will guide us, and protect those who need the protection. I now appoint Roy Mustang, Furher of the military."

Roy bounced on stage with a smile, "Thank you Alchemy."

Aly smiled and then spoke again, "Now, if everyone agrees, let's head home. The rest of the day is yours to do as you please."

"Okay I've got your badge, birth certificate, and other identification. Now what have I taught you?"

"Everything there is to know about this world."

"Who was the first president?"

"George Washington."

"Current president?"

"Woodrow Wilson."

"And what's bound to happen in a matter of weeks?"

"War with Germany."

"It seems to me you're ready to get your own bunk. Goodnight, and go to 16C have a nice sleep."

The next morning an alarm sounded waking everyone up in the Naval Base. Uniform's were thrown on and soldiers were rushing outside to the yard. "Good Morning men, we have been informed on an attack from Germany. It's time to take them Nazi's out. Men we're going to war."

Roy woke up the next morning with a smile on his face. It was early, so Aly was still alseep when he walked in to wake her up. He shoke her, and she put an alchemy wall between them, "I want to sleep…"

Roy went to the other side of the bed and picked her up and carried her to woke. Riza was already there, when he walked in and set Aly on the couch in his new office. She rolled over and sighed and Riza watched her, "Sir, if I may, when Alchemy wakes up, I have something for her."

"Of course Riza." Roy grinned.

"Sir, it's Hawkeye."

"Oh Riza, who holds the power now?"

Riza sighed as she glared at him, then looked away. That was until Roy stopped her at the door, "Riza, I have a law. All girls must now where mini skirts."

Havoc walked in then to tell Riza something and overheard what Roy had said and replied, "Yes! Thank you God!"

Aly popped up from where she was sleeping, "But I already where a mini skirt!"

Riza sighed as she walked away, "Fine, I'll go get everything done sir." She left the room, and left to go to her own to prepare everything, while Havoc followed her out to talk to her.

Aly walked over to Roy and sat on his desk as he was in his own dreamworld, "Daddy, when is…Cap. Leon's…funeral?"

Roy looked up in surprise and gave her a small smile, "Tomorrow, baby, okay?"

Aly hugged Roy as he pulled her down into his lap, "Okay Daddy. I'm going to go hang out with Mommy. Bye." Aly jumped up and ran out of the room to go to Riza's office and help her with the paperwork and everything else. Once it was around lunch time, Riza faced Aly and handed her a braclet. As Aly put it on Riza explained its importance.

"That braclet is a chakra braclet. Since your alchemy is going crazy now, I want you to wear that so it can stay under control, when Al's not here to calm you down. Do you promise not to take it off?"

Aly nodded her head, "I promise to never take it off Mommy."

"Good." Riza got up and walked with Aly to go get lunch.

"I'm sorry LCpl. Leon, I tried to tell you this would happen. War was bound to happen soon, I just didn't expect it to happen so soon."

"I said I could handle it, I want this; I asked for this."

"Ok but you have all your uniforms, and stuff?"

"Yes and I'm wearing my very nice dog tags too. Thank you, and I appreciate this. I'm happy not to be in a mental hospital."

"It's good. Now you better catch that plane."

Aly walked in the next day, wearing a black dress and tears already lining her eyes. She stood there in front of Leon's grave crying her dear heart out as Riza held her close. When the service was over Roy walked over to where Hughes was buried, and waited for Aly to stop crying and calm down. When she did, her, Riza, and Roy went back to Central, where Aly put on her uniform, and then turned to face Roy and Riza, "Mommy, Daddy, I want to go to Risembool for a while and give everyone the bad news."

Roy glanced at her seeing that she was close to crying again, "Are you sure you want to go?"

Aly nodded her head, biting her lip to hold back the tears, "I want to get on the next train. So, I'll be leaving now to catch it. I'll be back in a while. Love you." She gave both Roy and Riza a hug and a kiss on the cheek, as she left to go to the train station.

Roy smiled after Aly left, "I'm excited."

Riza turned to glare at him, "About what?"

"The mini skirts will be in in about a week. Aren't you excited about it Riza? You get to lavish the world with your beauty."

"Sir, for the last time, it's Hawkeye, and no I'm not excited. I find it replusive, that even your soon to be daughter has to wear a mini skirt. Hell, she's already wearing one. And sir I think it's disappointing that you want to discuss this on a day of grieving."

"I know deep down inside that you really want to wear one. And come on Leon would have loved this." Roy mocked her now, so she readied her gun and pointed it at him with a smile. He back away as she walked out the door.

Aly sat on the train as it came to a stop. As she got off the train she walked down a dirt path that seemed oddly familiar. She saw a house with a girl outside talking to a boy who looked like he was being lectured. She waved her hand and ran over to them, then noticed that the guy being lectured was Al, "Alphonse?"

Al stood up and walked over to her, "Aly, what are you doing here?"

Aly's head fell and she hugged Al so she wouldn't start crying. Once she let go she walked over to Winry who looked about ready to cry and shook her head, "I'll…tell you later. I'm going to…go for a walk." Aly walked away and Al grabbed her arm.

"I'll come with you Aly. I want to show you where I used to live."

"Okay." Al took Aly's hand as they walked down the path, and Aly tried her best not to cry, but Al was already starting to. She looked up at him, "Alphonse, what's wrong? Did something happen?"

Al rubbed his eyes and smiled at her, "It's nothing Aly, don't worry. I'm okay."

Aly looked at the ground, "Al…I think I'm remembering things…but they feel like dreams. Like, you said you loved me."

Al looked away from her and tried not to blush, "Um….well, that would be a little weird huh? I mean, I'm to young to confess love to you. Why would you think something like that?"

"I don't really know," Aly leaned on Al's side and laid her head against him, "I guess it was just a dream, my own….desires blinding me I guess. Sorry to sound so weird." She smiled as he laid his head against hers.

"Once you jump out of the copter get shelter, bombs and artillery will be pointed towards you. Get over or you will die. Men I will lead you, I'll be the first man on the field and the last off. I'll leave nobody behind so with that said, KILL!!!" The General spoke. The soldiers hoped off the copter, which was incidently 10 feet above ground. Just an hour into being in Germany People were talking and acting as is things were normal. They were at a recently set up camp waiting to get more ammunition and weapons.

Once that was done the men were set into several different groups, Leon was in a battalion with a few of the men he had met earlier. The group head out into the streets of Germany; it wasn't long before bullets flew. Their mission was to kill as many German soldiers they could find. Leon had kept count of how many men he killed, he had just reached twenty-two.

Leon could feel a burning in his abdomen each time he killed someone else; although he knew he was built as a mercenary. Murder was his job, life, and as sick as it sounds his love. Leon was sent upstairs of an abandoned building to set up a sniper hide-out. Once he was done he ran back downstairs to find a hidden German soldier, the count was twenty-three.

Aly and Al walked back to Winry's house after Al explained who she was, and lavished in their together moment. Winry had stopped crying by now, but she was still pretty red, and her grandmother Pinako was outside comforting her now. Aly let go of Al and went to her very calmly, as she knelt in front of them. "I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I need to tell you something. Cap. Kazuo Leon has died."

Winry looked at her in shocked then did her best to hold back more tears. Pinako sighed, "And we had just finished a new automail for him. What a waste."

Aly got to her feet as Al walked over. She stared at him with a sad look on her face, then walked inside without another word. Al helped Winry inside and she left everyone to go cry in her room, while Pinako gave Al and Aly something to eat. After their dinner she told Aly that she could sleep in the back room, and Al would have to sleep on the couch.

Aly gave Pinako a nod, "Thank you for having me. I'm going to retire for the night. Good night Alphonse, Mrs. Rockbell." Aly excused herself and went to the back room to go to sleep.

When it was later in the night, and everyone else was asleep, Aly woke up from a nightmare trying her best not to scream. She got out of the bed and walked down the hall and passed Al, who was completely out on the couch. She smiled as she watched him sleep, then remember what she had promised him on the train. So, she sat next to him on the floor, and fell asleep.

Unknowingly, she laid her head near his and his arm wrapped around her shoulders as she sleeped next to him.

"Riza I know you're mad, but please. It was only about the stupid miniskirts; why are you so mad at me?"

Riza didn't answer she just grimaced a slight bit, and cleaned her gun. Roy was staring at her nonchalant face . "As your superior officer I ord…"

"Because you've finally gotten your dream and you abuse your power by making a pointless and useless law. That is why I'm angry."

"Okay Riza, Listen I'm going home for the day, it seems as if you don't need me here today. You have things covered."

Riza looked sad as he exited the room her purpose wasn't to hurt him; she couldn't help the anger she felt. She did spend the rest of the day trying to finish all the work Roy had given her; but she realized being a Fuhrer's assistant entailed a lot of work she couldn't complete in her normal work hours. So in the end of the day Riza would go home around 8 or 9; it was then Marshall would attempt to coax her into a date. She refused him on the weekdays; work was too rough to do anything but sleep afterwards.

But all Riza could think was that she was happy with a job that she worked six hours a day extra; she decided it best to go into work two hours early as well. It was 7:00P.M.; she couldn't believe she finished her work so early. She knew it was time for a much needed bath. She made it home safely and the tub was as welcoming as a meal to the starving. She set the water to a good heat and put the bubble bath mixture into her marble tub. She soaked in the water for five minutes before the phone rang. She contemplated ignoring it; she decided that was for the best.

The phone rang for the second time and Riza decided it was crucial enough to get out of that comfort zone she wanted so badly. She answered the phone angrily, "Riza Hawkeye's place."

"Ay, baby you want to pick me up from this bar?" The barman took the phone form Roy.

"I've cut him off, you may want to hurry. We're at Bar Chuck's." Riza put the phone back on the reciever. She cursed under her breath and she dressed. Her hair was up but it was still damp from the bath's moisture.

She drove her car twenty minutes down the road before she was at Bar Chuck's and surprise, surprise Roy was staggering outside. "Sir, get in!" Riza rolled down the window.

"Hey, it's my girl. What's up?"

"Get in, sir."

"Aw, come on LtGen." Roy said as he got in the backseat, then he whispered, "You know what you want."

"For you to shut up?"

Riza unlocked his door with her spare key, "Okay sir, its open." Roy stumbled more and he stopped in the middle of the door and tripped. Riza helped him up and walked into his house; Roy shut the door as Riza reached for the door handle. "Riza come on. Did you really believe that performance? I don't even smell like I've been drinking."

"Even better I got you here, so know I'm going to make you not angry with me." Roy continued.

"Bad start, sir."

He leaned into Riza, and began kissing her neck; "Si...ir." Roy cut her off by kissing her. He kissed her roughly. He picked her up and she wrapped her legs around his waist; he carried her to his couch. Once he set her down he tore off his shirt the dove back down to her face; he was nibbling on her ears. She stopped him by pushing him up so she was on top; Roy slid Riza's collar shirt off to reveal her bra. Riza yanked hard on Roy's belt to get his attention off of her breats and back to her face. She kissed him, then he took it upon himself to stick his tongue in her mouth.

Roy wrapped his arms around Riza's waist and pulled her even closer. With a flick of his hand her bra was skillfully taken off. Her lower body bucked a little causing Roy to make a low moan in his throat; Riza smirked. Then in a flash her face went serious and she got off of Roy; she grabbed her clothes and put them on in a hurry. "I'm not mad. Bye, sir." Roy was so surprised at the change in Riza, "What'd I do?" He yelled after her. "You attempted to make me another notch on that toothpick of a bedpost you have." With that Riza left and went back home to that bath she now needed more than ever.