"Ugh! What happened?" Sakura asks waking up. She looks around and sees that she is in a alley between some buildings. She sees Kelly is still unconsious and Tanua has tied up the soldier and is sitting in indian style.

"Oh you finally woke up." Tanua says

"What happened?" she asks

"I'm not sure?" he says folding his arms.

"What ever happened we should see if we can find some help." the soldier says

"Shut up, who put you in charge." Tanua glares at him.

"But he's right, we should go find out were we are." Sakura says

"Fine, but once we find the police I'm turning you in." Tanua helps the soldier up.

"Whatever." the soldier says

Tanua walks over to Kelly and throws her over his shoulder and leads them out. The group of four look out and see that they are in some city. People are walking around there are some men and woman in blue outfits. Tanua walks up to a man in a blue outfit and asks "Hey do you know where we are?"

"Is this some sort of practical joke?" he says looking at the group.

"No." he replies

"Well this is Central City you should know that." he says

"Thank you sir." he replies

"Central City? Ive never heard of it." Sakura says

"Were exactly did that teleporter send us?" the soldier says

"Well we should find some help." Tanua says before he hears somthing. He looks up and sees some sort of blue circle with plenty of enscriptions on it apearing in the sky.

"What is that?" the soldier asks

"It looks familiar." Sakura says

Boom! The inside of the circle opens up and several things drenched in some sort of tar drop from the circle and land in the street scaring many civilians away.

"Those are!" the soldier exclaims

"The people from the auditorium!" they all yell

They are correct, they can tell from parts were the tar isnt that there are scientists, soldiers, androids, and people under the black substance. The people dont say anthing but moan as they look around.

"Whats ...wrong with them!" Sakura stutters in fear

One of the androids sees them and charges at Tanua. Tanua knowing he cant fight with his hands full pushes the soldier away and jumps back. The android suprises Tanua and shoots out a long blast of the black stuff. It latchs onto his arm and pulls.

"Aaah! it!" he yells in pain as he feels his arm being burned and pulled out of his socket at the same time.

"Ah Tanua!" Sakura yells and notices the soldier trying to get up. She quickly runs over to him and begins to untie him.

"Please I'll let you go if you'll help my friends." she pleads

"Fine just untie me!" the soldier yells

Tanua concentrates on his arm and the tar begins to turn red and expand like a balloon. BAM! The tar explodes freeing his arm and sending tar flying into walls. He looks at his arm and sees that the skin has litterally been burned off makinh muscles and veins much easier to see. He flinchs at this and returns his attention to the android which is howling in pain as more begin to notice Tanua. His hands begin to glow red as a soldier charges at him. The soldier glows red as Tanua lifts him up and sends him flying into the android that attacked him.

As he was figting a scientist covered in the goo had snuck up behind him and was about grab him when.Bang! A bullet flys into its skull completely shatering it. Tanua turns around and sees the dead scientist and sees the soldier untied holding his magnum. Tanua gives a smile and returns his attention to the people. The good soldier walks up next to him and begins to unload on the zombified people. BAM BAM BAM BAM! People and soldiers start falling to the ground as they are shot while the androids remained unharmed.

Clap! The two hear a clap as the creatures are suddenly trapped inside a cage of rock. They turn around and see a musclelur man with black hair and a beard. Below him is a woman with braided brown hair and a white dress. She has her hands on the ground and they are glowing. Crack! Crack! Boom! The wall is broken open by the Androids and they unload their guns at them. Just as the bullets are about to hit the woman they stop, glowing red, the woman looks up and sees Tanua holding his arm up at the bullets and his arm is glowing red.

The bullets suddenly turn around and fly at the androids at unreal speeds and peirce through their armor. The android stumble around before falling to the ground in a pile. The woman quickly claps her hands and presses her hands on the ground creating another cage made out of stone around the bodies. The soldier relaxs as does Tanua but Sakura is still in a panic. "Tanua..your arm!" she yells

"Dont remind me, it burns...a LOT." he says

"Maybe I can help." the woman says walking up to them. He relaxs and holds out his arm for her.

"She takes some random powders out of her bag and claps her hands and presses against his arm. Before his eyes the skin on his body grows back perfectly.

"Wow thanks!" he says

"Its no problem my name is Izumi whats yours?" she asks

"Im Tanua, thats Sakura, this is Kelly and he's umm." trying to figure out the soldiers name..

"You can call me Sam." he says

"Okay and he's Sam." he points to the soldier.

"You all dont look like your from here." she says

"Not exactly." Tanua says

"Well maybe I can help you. I'm going home so you all can accompany me." she says

"Okay lets go." Tanua says

"Hey are you sure its safe to go with some strangers." Sam says

"Whats the matter, afraid to talk to strangers Sam." Tanua says in the best mocking voice he could make.

"Grr Shut up!" Sam yells

"Lets go." Izumi sighs

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The group are on a train and Kelly still hasnt woken up yet.

"Im worried about Kelly she hasnt moved since we got here." Sakura says

Tanua nods and leans in close to her face. "Kelly wake up. Please. Anyone home?" Kelly begins to stir and opens her eyes.

"Aaah!! Wham!" she screams before punching him right in the face and sends him flying into another row of seats. Izumi not even caring looks down at Tanua's twitching corpse and says "Ah young love."

"Oh Tanua I'm so sorry let me help you up." she rushes over and drags him back to his seat and sets him on the chair unconsious.

"Great now Tanua is unconsious." Sakura sighs

"Does this happen often." Sam asks while looking at Kelly who is wiping blood off of Tanua's face.

"You have know idea." she says

"Attention passengers we will be stopping in Resembool for the next 30 minutes, prepare to stop." a voice says as the train comes to a stop.

"Here's our stop." Izumi says getting up.

"Lets go." Tanua says fully recovered

The group gets out and sees a beautiful country side. Sakura takes a deep breath and says "Wow nothing like country air." she smiles

"Follow me to my house." she says walking down a dirt path.

"Excuse me Izumi but I would like to know how you created that stone cage and how you fixed Tanua's arm?" she asks

"Alchemy." she says

"Alchemy." Sam repeats confused

"The study of equivelent exchange, breaking something down and putting it back together as somthing else." Izumi explains

" I took the basic componets of skin and merged them together." she says

"Wow thats amazing!" Kelly says

"Oh is that your house?" Tanua points to a house with a sign that says "Automail"

"Oh no thats the Rockbells, they specialize in creating artificial mechanical arms." she says

"Wow thats interesting just like me." Sam says removing part of his suit to reveal a white mechanical arm.

"Woah when did that happen?" Sakura asks

"I got caught in a explosion, during the second Civil War. I lost my left leg, arm and most of my torso. I had to get a artifical heart" he explains

"Wow thats terrible." Kelly says sympathetic

"Better not show that to Winry Rockbell, she loves to tinker and would take that thing apart in a heart beat to find out how it works." Izumi says

Sam gulps from behind his mask and quickly pulls the suit over his arm. They finally get to a house were a young muscular boy is working in the yard.

"Oh your back from your trip Izumi." the boy says

"Yep and I brought some new people." she says before opening her door and letting them in.

The group walk in and set their bags down by the door. There is a table and a kitchen and a upstairs.

"Nice place." Tanua says pulling out a chair.

"Now I'll let you stay here for a while but you have to do somthing for me." she says

"What?" they ask

"First, I know your not from here or Central or Ishball so were are you all from?" she says

"Um we came from a place called New York city and we were sent here because of a machine gone haywire." Sakura explains

"Its all those scientists fault." Tanua grumbles

"Actually it was the soldiers fault." Sakura corrects him

"But those scientists shouldnt have been messing with things that are out of their control. Or have you forgotten about the Wars." Tanua says

"No." she says

"What wars?" Izumi asks

"Nothing it doesnt concern you." Sam says

"Okay." she says "Second how did you stop those bullets earlier?"

Tanua flinchs and Kelly looks towards the ground. Sakura looks away and Sam says "Yeah I have been wondering that too."

"Its nothing you need to know about." he says quietly "Maybe later."

He then stands up and heads out the door.

"Where are you going Tanua?" Kelly asks

"A walk, I'll be back later." he says before shutting the door.

"I'm sorry If I offended him." Izumi says

"No its just that stuff is pretty personal for all of us, the war and his powers." Sakura explains

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Tanua is running down the dirt path faster than any human, he does this when he is depressed, it helps him relax. He gains speed as e passes up several houses at a growing speed. He feels himself being pumped full of adrenaline as he burns down the road and into a forest. He dodges past trees and bushes as he runs through still gaining speed. Boom! A huge burst of energy hits him as he takes off through the forest his legs a blur. He breaks out of the forest and sees a lake in the distance. Ignoring the laws of physics he runs onto the water. Not sinking he quickly raises one foot after the other not giving them time to sink into the water. His eye sight begins to grow blurry as he sees a island coming up.

Humans are evil.

They dont deserve to live.

I should destroy them

Now.

His vision starts to change as everything turns red and white as he closes in on the island. His entire body begins to glow red as he lands on the ground and keeps on running. Realizing what he is doing immiediatly stops running and screeching to a halt. He looks around and sees that he is deep in some type of forest on the island.

How could I be so foolish.

If I lost control

It would be horrible

"Who..who are you." a timid voice asks

Tanua looks down and sees a little boy with long black hair. He is wearing a outfit made of leaves. His right arm and left leg are a different color than the rest of his body which is pale and slightly green. He looks like he was sowed together exept no stitches. He has big blue eyes and looks like he hasnt eaten in days.

"Um my name is Tanua, whats your name." he says

"Umm...I..I..I DONT KNOW!" he bursts into tears.

Tanua having a no experience with kids says "Hey calm down its alright. Can you tell me what happened?" he bends over grabbing the kids shoulders and looking him straight in the eyes.

"Umm I'm not sure. I just woke up here a few days ago. And I'm scared!" he bursts into tears again and starts crying on Tanua's shoulder.

"Dont worry I'm here." he says standing up holding the lost child over his shoulder slightly. He looks around not seeing any sign of humanity anywhere except for some strange stone carvings.

"Come on, you look like a strong boy, toughen up." he says setting the boy down. "How about this, until we find your parents I'll be your...umm...big brother!"

The boy wipes some tears off and says "Really?"

"Sure now lets go get some food!" he says grabbing the boys arm and leading him into the forest.


Later that night.

"I'm worried your friend isnt back yet." the boy from earlier says

"He'll be fine, he did this time to time back at New York. He would run off and we wouldnt see him for weeks sometimes and then just like that he'd be back." Sakura explains "He's just getting a taste of the land."

"Still I'm worried." Kelly says looking out the windows at the stars.

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"Well its not Hot dogs but it'll do." Tanua says levitating some wild fish out of the water.

"Wow how do you do that?" the boy says curiously while walking next to him.

"Just a.. unatural born talent of mine." he says as they walk into a clearing. He sets the fish in a pile by a circle of rocks that he got. He grabs to rocks while the boy drops a bundle of leaves in the circle.

"Now watch your brother make fire." he says holding up the rocks. Dramatically he slams the rocks together and "pppt". A small spark ignites but quickly extinguishes. He clacks the rocks again, "pppt". Clack Clack Clack Clack! Soon Tanua is lying on the ground the rocks are completely destroyed and the leaves arent lit.

"Umm that was cool?" the boy says

"SO maybe Im not up to making fire from rocks but I got another way." he says grabbing his right arm with his left hand. The boy leans in close to see what he is going to do when suddenly Tanua exclaims "Look smoke!" Of in the distance there is a piller of smoke rising into the air. Tanua motions for the boy to follow him.

The two walk through the forest before getting to another clearing. In the middle of the clearing there is a short boy with golden hair and golden eyes wearing a black outfit. And a big guy in a large suit of armor. Tanua turns around and thinks, he sees the boys leaf outfit and gets a idea. "Hey can you make me a outfit like that except all over my body?" Tanua asks

"Umm I thinks so." the kid says before clapping his hands and touching Tanua's chest. Soon he is covered head to toe in leaves and is completely unrecognizable.

"Great! Now the finishing touch." he concentrates and then opens his eyes making them glow red.

"Now stay here I'll be back." he says sneaking up towards the clearing.

"I wonder what ever happened to that crazy forest guy?" the blond boy says

"I'm not sure brother. It was years last time we saw him" the armor replies like a child.

"FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!" Tanua bursts out of the bushes yelling at the top of his lungs in the most demonic voice he could think of. First one of two things happened, first the blond haired boy, looked like he just got a shot in his butt as his entire body went pale, two he literally flew into a tree with amazing skill and agility. Tanua ran into the clearing screaming like a maniac. He ran up to the armored man who was still in shock and punched him right in the face sending the helmet flying into the bushes. Then he took a branch that he was holding and lit it with their fire.

"Ayayayaya!!!!" he yelled as he jumped back into the bushes and grabbed the kids arm. "Runrunrunrunrunrunrun!!!!" he yelled as he pulled the kid away from the clearing as fast as he could. The golden haired boy slid out of the tree completely exhausted and said "What was that Al?"

"Im not sure but it just stole our fire." Al now retreiving his head points to the now extinguished fire.

"I think this island just got a lot scarier." Ed sighs


Next time "Brotherly bonding!"