Me: Yeah, yeah, I've been taking too long writing.

Roy: So shut up and get on with it!

Me: Bah…

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Chapter 13: When Sins Meet Sins

"Is she still asleep?" asked Mustang as Hawkeye exited Winry's room; the woman nodded. The colonel sighed; "It's a good thing that Ed went back to 'normal' when he did, or else Winry might have never slept again." Hawkeye rolled her eyes at the lame joke. "By the way, where'd they go now?" Hawkeye shrugged; she'd given up on trying to keep track of seven of that boy.

X

"…So you see, the problem wasn't in my calculations, but in some unknown factor that some of you don't feel like sharing with me." Mr. Smarty-Pants turned away from his chalkboard to see his audience of selves either asleep or flat out not paying attention. "Why do I even bother?" he grumbled.

"I have a question," squeaked little Ed of all people, shooting his hand up into the air. "In simple English: what did you do to us?"

"Well… I sort of recreated the alchemic blast that occurred between us and Scar."

"But then how did we revert if we were in comatose-like state?"

"I put a failsafe into my calculation. After a 12 hour period, if the experiment was not a success, then we were to regress back into these forms."

"How did you install a failsafe into alchemy?"

"Well I," smarty Ed stopped, "wait a minute—when did you become so… so… intelligent?"

Little Ed shrugged. "Since I started studying harder?"

"When have you had a chance to study?"

The boy shrugged again. "I dunno, I guess I just sort of remember studying, that's all."

"Uh oh,"

"What?"

Greed Ed quickly turned back to his chalkboard and began scribbling away. After a few minutes, he stopped writing and stared at his new calculations. "Uh oh," he repeated.

"What?" pressed little Ed again.

The other boy laughed nervously. "Well… it seems that my little experiment has caused a chain reaction…"

"Such as…?"

"The effects of the initial accident have begun to accelerate exponentially."

"Uh oh," squeaked Sloth Ed, "and since we're linked to Al in this that means he's gonna feel the effects, too?"

"Exactly," Smarty-Pants stopped again, "wait, how did you—"

"Studying," chirped sloth once more.

"Right," he grinned evilly, "but do you know how we were linked?" he asked, just to test the other boy.

"Duh, when he 'caught' us, and left a dent in his armor, the effects ricocheted off him; everyone knows that."

"Smart kid…" muttered Greed.

"I am you," chirped Sloth cutely.

"Right…"

"Hey," said Havoc, walking up to the doorway, "there are some creeps outside wanting to kill you," he stated before walking away.

Both Eds glanced at each other.

X

"So the rumors are true… there really are seven of you…" muttered Lust as Little Ed, Smarty Ed, and (for some reason) SoulReaper came out to meet the homunculi.

"If there are seven, then where the hell did the other five go?" said Wrath, being as crude and psychotic as he normally is. "Did the rest of you bastards die already?"

"Watch your language, kid," spat the only Al on the scene. The two Eds shot him worried glances; tough Al? Giving parental advice to a homunculus?-! What is the future like…?

"Make me, you freak!" shouted the little boy, charging at Al.

The taller boy caught his transforming arm as it shot passed his face. Al slammed his elbow into the sin's stomach and pinned him against the wall of the military base. "I don't know what drug-induced game you're playing this time, but I want to know why you've rejoined the homunculi!"

Wrath blinked at him. "Rejoined? What the hell are you talking about?" he asked stupidly, totally lost.

Al groaned; "Oh right… hasn't happened yet…" he looked back up at the boy, "Never mind," he chirped, tossing him away. "But you better be nice to Izumi, or you'll have me to answer to!"

"What about Teacher?" asked the Eds, just as lost as their attackers.

Al groaned frustrated-ly again. "Just never mind!" he shouted.

"What the hell happened to you?" called Envy. (A/N: Okay, so it's every homunculus here except for Pride and Greed.) "You're Chibi's little brother, right? So how come you're not trapped in that armor anymore?"

"I think he split into seven, too…" drawled Lust.

"Oh goody, more to eat!" cheered Gluttony, clapping his hands apishly.

"Okay, definitely prefer the new Gluttony…" muttered Al, shivering a bit.

"WHAT?" cried the fat sin, "What you mean 'NEW' me? Who replacing me?" he cried pathetically.

"No one's replacing you," said Lust calmly.

"Okay!" (Yeesh, that seemed to quell his worrying…)

"You seem to know an awful lot…" called Envy, "Just what the hell happened to you?"

"Tell us more of the future, sweet younger brother!" chirped little Ed with sparkly eyes.

"I shouldn't have said anything to start with…" he muttered.

"I've had enough of this," said Sloth, coming up to Al, "come my son, Mommy will make the pain of existence go away."

"Oh, shut up, Lady." said Al, taking her hand a throwing her over his head.

"AHH!" cried Sloth as she landed amongst some trashcans. "No fair! You're supposed to be the gullible one!"

Al snorted; "You mean about me still wanting you as a mom? Look, I got over that ages ago!"

"So much for plan B," whispered Lust.

"MOMMY!" cried Wrath, racing over to Sloth. He turned to Al and snarled, charging at him again. "You'll pay for what you did to my Mommy!"

Al rolled his eyes, grabbing the oncoming boy's arm and swinging him around. "Get it through your head; she's not your mom!"

"And I suppose that old hag that you mentioned is?"

Al lost his grip on the boy and fell over; exasperated. "I am SO misunderstood…" he sobbed.

"I beat him! I beat him! I beat him!" chanted Wrath, hopping up and down on top of Al.

"Well stop gloating and finish him off already!" barked Envy.

"Ok-ayyyayayaya!" stumbled Wrath; Al had stood up, making Wrath lose his balance. "Oof!" he grunted as he landed on his bottom.

"Now, it's times like this when you gotta ask; 'What do you do now, Sloth'?" said Al, cracking his knuckles.

Sloth raised an eyebrow, looking at him curiously; little Ed just asked "huh?" Al groaned for the umpteenth time.

"NE-VER-MIND!" shouted the boy irritably. He then proceeded to toss Wrath into Sloth, kick Gluttony onto his back, preventing him from standing back up, twist Lust's arms back painfully, and just glare maliciously at Envy.

"W-we'll be back!" called the palm-tree boy as he and the other sins fled pitifully.

"…Did you just single handedly defeat 70-percent of the homunculi?" asked Smarty Ed after a minute.

Al shrugged; "You get used to it after a while."

"The future is cool!" cooed little Ed fanatically.

Al slapped his forehead; "The future is bleak," he growled.

"But you're so cool and not stuck in armor—everything must've worked out alright!"

Al glared down at him; "If only you knew…"

"Knew what?"

"Ugh… Never mind…"

"Hey, what's all the commotion?" asked Winry sleepily, peeking out at the boys through her window.

Al sighed, going over to the door; "Just go back to sleep…" he crooned tiredly.

Wrath: Wow…

Me: Ne?

Wrath: That was…

Al: Stupid?

Me: I thought it was funny.

Wrath: Are you planning a sequel or something; coz none of that made any sense.

Me: Not parse a sequel, more like an adaptation.

Al: …You mean like an extra story that's technically, but not really, a sequel to another story you have and you were just stupid and linked them all together so people would have to read the technical sequel to understand certain elements of the story?

Me: Umm………yes.

Wrath: But if it's "technically" a sequel, wouldn't that mean that people would have to read the first story, too?

Me: Nah, it just kinda builds off the first one, but you wouldn't have to read it to know what's going on in the "sequel".

Al: Then why are you calling it a sequel?

Me: Because I can.

Wrath and Al: Ugh…

………

Wrath: So when's this sequel coming out?

Me: …When you turn into a human.

Wrath: You mean never?

Roy: I wouldn't say that, you might wanna look at these story ideas.

Wrath: Squee! Do I finally kill Ed?

Me: NO.

Wrath: Rats.

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