Summary: DBZ/FMA X-over. Sequel to my Alchemy and Saiyans fic. Chi-Chi decides to have Gohan learn alchemy, so she sends him to Amestris.
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it walks alone: (sings) Happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me! Happy birthday to me-ee, happy birthday to me!
All: (clap)
(There are cheers of "Happy birthday, IWA!)
IWA: It's my birthday! This is my birthday present to me. And by the way, I don't own any of it.
Chapter countdown: 4 chapters left
"Speaking" Thoughts (Me to you) "Telephone or other such communication device"
Last time:
"Ooh, fireworks!" Goku exclaimed.
"Um, no, Goku, that's our transportation blowing up," Al corrected him.
"Oh."
"So… Now what?" Mustang asked the world in general."
Chapter 20Back to Resembool
"Whaddya mean, 'now what'?" Bulma asked.
"Well…" Mustang replied, "the plane's gone."
"Yeah," Bulma agreed. "That plane. I've got more." She pulled her capsule case out of her jacket pocket and opened it. "Let's see… This one should do." She pushed the button on top and threw the capsule.
/poof/
And suddenly there was a plane.
Mustang stared. "Umm…"
They boarded the plane. Bulma disappeared into the cockpit again.
"So that's a homunculus, huh?" Mirai asked once they were airborne.
"Yeah," Al agreed. "And not just any homunculus."
"Hmm?"
"…That was our mom," Ed explained.
Everyone stared at the two brothers.
"Yeah." Al fidgeted.
"Are you sure?" Mirai asked.
"Positive. That was definitely our mother," Ed confirmed.
"But if she's a homunculus, then…" Gohan started.
"That must mean that homunculi are created when someone tries to raise the dead with alchemy," Ed finished.
Al turned to Mustang. "Did she say why she captured you?"
"She said she required information, but that I was just the bait. I asked why she wanted to talk to you two, but she wouldn't tell me."
"Wait— If she's a homunculus…" Gohan said, thinking out loud.
"Yes…" Ed agreed.
"And she was created when you and Al tried to raise your mom…"
"We think so…"
"Then isn't she the 'results' that Shenlong mentioned?" Gohan finished.
"'Results'?" Ed parroted, lost.
"Don't you remember?" Mirai asked him. "'Gather the results and undo the alchemy'?"
"Oh yeah! But… does that mean we have to capture her?" Al asked timidly.
"Capture and contain," Mirai corrected.
"How do we contain her if she can turn her whole body into water?" Ed demanded.
"Good question!" Gohan replied.
"Got an answer?" Mustang asked him.
Gohan shrugged. "Stick her in an airtight jar?"
Everyone sweatdropped.
"We'll have to work on that…" Ed concluded.
"Yeah…" Al agreed.
Mustang sat down. "So how goes the search?"
"Pretty good, actually," Al answered. "We've found four so far."
"Where were they?"
"Resembool, Xenotime, middle of nowhere, and…" Al trailed off.
"And?" Mustang prompted.
"Liore," Ed said quietly.
The Flame Alchemist winced. "Oh."
Ed looked him straight in the eye. "We need to talk." He dragged the older man through a door.
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They landed in Resembool a few hours later. Winry was bouncing in the backyard by the time they got there, having heard them coming. This time, though, she waited for Bulma to get off before she started asking questions.
"This isn't the same plane as before! What happened to the other one?"
"It got blown up," Bulma replied.
"Eh?" Winry asked, totally confused.
"It's a long story."
"Oh. So, what's different about this one?"
Bulma took her off to the side to answer, because no one else (with the possible exception of Mirai and Gohan) would understand (IWA: Or appreciate, for that matter.) the resulting technobabble. (IWA: And yes, that is a technical term. They actually used that in Star Trek TNG scripts for Geordi when he had to explain a problem before they worked it out. ;)
Winry looked over as the last passengers disembarked.
"Oh, hi, Colonel Mustang!" she called, waving.
He smiled back and would have waved, but Ed shoved him from behind as he was blocking the exit.
Goku was greeted by Den, and the two of them went back to roughhousing as if they hadn't even left.
Vegeta simply stalked past everyone and into the house.
Once everyone had gotten off the plane, Bulma capsulized it (earning many awed exclamations and a declaration of hero-worship from Winry) and they all trooped inside.
After a late lunch, Mustang called Military HQ in Central to tell Hawkeye he hadn't died or dropped off the face of the planet while he was away, then got on a train for Central.
They all bid Winry and Pinako goodbye, Bulma uncapsulized the plane, and they all got on board. Once airborne, Vegeta started 'training' the Brats (BK: Read: 'beating up'), Ed took a nap, Goku floated around amusing himself by making little patterns on the ceiling, and Gohan and Mirai started teaching Al how to play poker. (IWA: Al has got the best poker face. All he has to do is not go all demon- or chibi-ized.)
After a while, the plane stopped and Bulma climbed out of the cockpit. "Alright, who's up for some scuba diving?"
Everyone stared at her. "Huh?"
"We're over the ocean now, and the Dragonball is right below us," she explained.
"I'll go!" Goku volunteered.
"You went last time."
"I'll—" Trunks started.
"Over my dead body you will," Bulma growled at him. The lavender-haired chibi pouted.
Vegeta appeared glaring in the doorway, dripping wet and holding the fifth Dragonball.
Bulma blinked. "Well, that solves that problem."
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