AN: YOOO ore no nakama!! Suman suman that I haven't updated in a while. Bin pretty busy and I've decided to stick in some Japanese romaji here and there. I know A LOT but I won't put it all over the place…Just ask me what stuff means. I can only put the simple stuff so...I could make almost ALL the dialogue in romaji but I wouldn't. I ain't trying to brag but just giving information about myself. See profile...

Sugi wa-- Chapter 6!! (there was meant to be an arrow after the -- but fanfiction appears to have technical problems and glitches that erase smilies and stuff )

P.S. short chapters...I am now using (xx etc.) as line breaks cuz they look like a zigzag separator.

Disclaimer: Don't own FMA and don't want to. I made up the name for the engineers though.

Chapter 6

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"What-what should we do?" Winry burst out. She held her hands to her chest with a sad expression on her face.

"Nani mo. Nothing. We can't do anything. All we can do is wait for them. Al promised to come back right? And I think Ed is saying that in his heart too..." Rose said in a soothing tone.

"There's no use in crying. It only makes you sadder. We will wait for them," Pinako muttered. She stepped out of the room.

"Is that all the memories he transmuted into you?" Rose asked, eager to hear more.

"Yes. He didn't leave any reason. Just a story to pass on. Al did the same to you...but with reasons why..."Winry muttered sadly.

"I see," Rose also stepped out, leaving Winry to her thoughts alone in the living room.

Why is it always them? My childhood friends, taken by that notion of saving the world. Those reckless fools; they would never know how I feel.

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"Soka," muttered the young engineer, "We'll help you. But how?" He glanced at his co-workers. Before, when Alphons was alive, Alphons was the boss and knew exactly what to do when it came to building rockets. With him gone, the others did know a lot but could not build things as nicely as Alphons.

"You know those rockets Alphons built long time ago to send me into the Gate? Well we'll need about 2 of those and an attachement cord so we don't get separated. We also need you to use offensive rockets and destroy an area for us after we get through," Ed jumped in and said. Ed knew how he got bak to Amestris unlike Al.

"We can do that but there is a slight problem," the young engineer replied thoughfully.

"Nani?"It was AL who asked. The engineer signaled another to reply and come forth. It was Thomas Knights.(an: yes VERY original )

"We don't have any more material and if we were to get some, it would be too much because the Nazis are still ruling and even more sternly. The materials are scattered all over the place after the war between the Nazis and the resistance group, " Tom said sadly.

"Let me tell you what." Al tried to jump in but Ed stopped him.

"Let me, Al. And don't say that I shouldn't because I"M SHORTER!!" Ed yelled at his brother, banging him on the top of his head.

"Nii-san! I didn't say that! ITAI! ITAI!" Al held his head for a while and yelled.

"FINE!," Ed replied, "Can I say something?!"Thomas sighed."Go ahead."

"Well, since you ARE doig us a favor, why don't you let us get the materials? At least we can repay you and have some part in this. What do you all say?" Ed chuckled. His hands were on his hips and a grin spread across his face.

"I guess you could predict our answer. DEAL!" The boy yelled, "SIGN HERE!" he held out a sheet of paper and scribbled the plan on it, drawing a line at the bottom for Ed to sign.

The win whistled. The piece of paper drifted to the window and flew out. Envy did not catch it because he was running from "bastardly punky crappy Nazi idiots that could never catch him", as he called them.

Thomas stood with his hand in front of him where the paper used to be.

"Ah..." boing everyone sighed.

"WHATEVER!! LET"S JUST SHAKE HANDS OR SOMETHING!!"Ed roared. Al caught him by the shoulders and dragged him to the corner of the room, out of earshot of the engineers. THey looked cluelessly at Ed and Al.

"Nii-san not so loud!"he whispered.

"HMPH! Fine!"Ed whispered loudly. He marched up to Thomas, roughly grabbed his hand and shook it as hard as he could. He also accidently stepped on the boy's foot.

"ITAI!!" This time, Tom roared, clutching his hand and foot at the same time. CRASH! he fell on the ground.

"ah-ah..."Ed looked at the scene, "Sorry..." he held up his hands and shuffled away.

"Apology--itai--acc-epted..."Thomas got back up, "DEAL!!"

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"Dosure? Those young men shouldn't be allowed to leave this world unless we also go with them," the Nazi officer exclaimed.

"Hmph. Fool. You underestimate your master?" a taunting voice pierced through the darkness of the room.

"M-m-aster? No sir!" the man kneeled, "Please forgive me for my rudeness."

"No matter. Ikuso!" the figure leaped away.

"Hai!" and everyone in the room followed until the only sound was the wind rustling through the small window on the side of the room. Mice scurried around, looking for food in the remaining uniforms hung up on hooks.

Then, all was quiet. You could hear the crickets chirp outside.

AN: LONGEST CHAPTER YET!! Expect very quick updates cuz I can update and stuff all day and week. (today is May 16th) Well now, we know what everyone is going to do.