I took so much time and energy to write this chapter and I deeply apologize for the lack of writing that has not come out yet from the last chapter I wrote of Someone Has to Play the Bad Guy. Got a lot going with my summer internship this summer and good old fashioned drama there I won't get into detail about here. Anyhow this chapter was the biggest challenge as far as writing certain characters and keep in mind where the plot of FMA lies within this fanfiction without going way off the plot. Coughcoughoriginalfmacoughcough XDD I'm just getting so headstrong back into FMA that I will try to finish of SHTPTBG before I go back to college in the fall. (Tanglepelt are you ready?) You don't want to see how many headcannons I've been making for two particular characters which will be turned into fanfiction, trust me on that part. *Check out Roy Mustang - Requiem for a Murder on YouTube, you'll see what I mean hopefully. ^_^*

I feel so proud of getting my brother into FMA that rewatching it actually helped me in things that I could've missed such as trying to write Scar's character. As soon as I got to the part where he's introduced I stopped and literally couldn't write anymore than I could for the day. I had to step away from it until one day, just to get into Scar's head, I rewatched the feels episode where Nina dies...;w; (J. Michael Tatum thank you! :3) So I hope you like how I wrote him based on those concerns I had.

As per my usual concerns/kvetching, I hope I wrote the FMA characters properly. Another concern I had was the whole Ling Yao section and Barry the Chopper. Clearly in Brotherhood, Barry had a hell lot more supportive role than his original counterpart so I'm trying to work that out as well as Ling's path for immortality. (He'll come up again soon I promise for you Ling fans.) My thinking is that before the terrible incident with Havoc and Lust (or in better, might complicate that even more), there's just so much commotion going on how can you handle something that massive with everybody involved. I promise that this absolute disarray will, hopefully, make sense to everybody who reads it.

This by far was the longest chapter I have ever wrote for a fanfiction by far and I hope everybody will appreciate the time I took to write it.

Hope everyone enjoys this chapter like I do.

"Who are you, friend or enemy?"

Right in front of his feet, people were magically thrusted onto the ground by a black and purple portal. They seemed so weak and defenseless, but the blonde Elric didn't want to make that assumption. Alphonse was just astonished by a feat so incredible like that, but the people remained unconscious or tried to wake up either by their arms or legs fidgeting followed by inaudible mumbling. He got very curious into who the people were and realized something about them when he almost touched the white-haired teenager. Despite only being a soul in a massive suit of armor, he sensed that they had something similar to himself. "I see, you must have souls entrapped into an inanimate object. Brother, they're our friends and they need our help." He sighed in a mixture of belief and disbelief. I thought I was going nuts when Barry told me I was a fake, but these souls I can sense, they are real and maybe, just maybe, will help brother and I reclaim what should be ours. However, I can set that aside for now, something tells me that these people were brought here for a reason and it can't be good.

Alphonse extended his hand to help out the white-haired boy when suddenly, Seto woke up and was extremely startled by the Elrics. "Who are you people?! Where in the world am I?!"He saw a duel disk by him and grabbed it quickly to summon his Blue Eyes White Dragon. Lights turned on and multiple beeps went off, however no visuals came through and Edward was extremely confused and tried to explain the situation, "Uh, my name is Edward Elric and this is my younger brother Alphonse Elric."

"I'm very pleased to meet you and your friends!" He said with an incredibly chipper tone and bowed to show respect.

"Anyhow, you're in a country called Amestris. Right now were in Central City." The State Alchemist was still confused as to who they were or where they came from, he focused his gaze on the spiky haired teenagers. These people, especially those two maybe they're brothers. No, that's not it, they gotta have some really special connection. Edward was still trying to think of what to do next, he usually tends to think of plans on the fly but this time he wasn't too sure.

Rustic and vintage buildings in the heart of Central City was something brand new to the spoiled and technological advanced rich boy. "I've never heard of place called Central City and why isn't Blue Eyes being summoned?"

Both of the brothers looked at each other and said, "Blue Eyes? Summoned? What the heck are you talking about?"

Edward was hoping to respond to him but Seto groaned in doubt about his situation and saw Joey still knocked out and heard his obnoxious snoring. He got angry and the Elric decided to back off.

"Uh...I could go for some pizza now...Seto...you can cover the bill..."

"Like hell I would you puppy!" Seto retorted with a kick at Joey, hard and swift. The kick started a chain reaction of Joey colliding into everyone else which woke them up.

Both Téa and Tristan were the first to get angered and yelled at Joey, "Watch where you're going!"

The three went off into an argument while Bakura and Yugi stared at each other knowing how awkward the situation was. Edward and Alphonse didn't get the chance to say anything and everyone was so focused on themselves, they didn't realize that there was a crowd starting to form around them.

Many of the citizens were intrigued by the special guests, especially when a shy, young child leaned towards where Yugi and Atem sat. "Mommy, Daddy, how come those two have such strange hair? Are they from Xing? I hope they're ok."

Thoughts of dizziness made Atem slightly spacey as the other argument went on, but when he heard the child's voice he smiled and was able to focus on the child. He extended his arm to the child and gave him a pat on the head. "You are a very lucky child to have such wonderful parents and continue your acts of kindness towards others."

Glee filled the parents' faces, but a few of the citizens murmured about a woman who remained unconsciousness. Atem slightly eavesdropped into the conversation, he immediately stared at the ground, he saw blonde hair and immediately tried to wake her up by nudging her. "Mai, are you okay?"

Just the mentioning of her name made Joey lose it and dropped everything against Tristan and Téa. "Mai Valentine, it's me, Joey Wheeler!" He got on the ground and passionately whispered into her ear, "You have to wake up. You have too many people who care about you and want to be your friends. I don't want you ever to be hurt again, not while I can help it." Strands of blond hair intertwined, and Joey held Mai's delicate hand crying for anything to come through. Rivers of hot tears full of anger and compassion splashed around his own hands and a few trickled onto her face.

Warmth of tears falling slowly onto her face made her twitch in a mixture of pain and relief. Who's there? That voice... After I crashed my bike, everything's been a blur. No, it can't be. Lavender eyes gazed into brown eyes. "Joey... It's you." She never felt more relieved in her life. Even though she still bore some scraping and bruising from her accident, she was able to have enough energy to hug Joey for reassurance.

For a long time, she thought that she could get along in life with little to no relationships, solely independent and not be considered a burden to anyone. Not anymore.

Mai cried and cried, though she hated to feel weak. "I don't care where we are, I'm just so glad to see you. I-"

"You don't have to say anything else; I'm here, and that's all that matters." It was comforting to hold a dear friend, he helped her to stand up with a slight wobble. In the meanwhile, everyone else finally had the energy to stand up, and the crowd of Amestrians dispersed. Yugi and Seto made sure that the duel disks were still functioning properly, they did turn on but they still had difficulties seeing the holograms of the monsters which still frustrated them.

Filled with beautiful flowers and a luxurious fountain, the day couldn't be more beautiful. Yugi took the initiative as the leader and introduced themselves formally. Mai remained asleep on Joey's shoulder. "Hi, I'm Yugi Muto, this here is-" He paused for a few seconds thinking of what name to choose for Atem. Wait a minute, if I use the name Atem here would that bring in undesired attention? No that can't be, how would people around here hear a name like that and I don't even think it would be possible for that name to exist? You know, I'm gonna go with my gut reaction. "-Atem Muto my cousin, Seto Kaiba, Joey Wheeler, Mai Valentine, Ryu Bakura, Tristan Taylor, and Téa Gardner. I wish we could understand why we're here."

Edward was not going to make a big deal out of it; he knew how to handle the situation cleverly. "That does seem a bit odd that you were magically put here. It looks likes that you people are pretty darn special." There's something about Atem that's bugging me, I don't think he's bad but I hope I'm not wrong. I can tell that these people mean no harm at all and there would be no way in hell that they would be associated with the military. Even though Joey got into an argument with his two friends, that argument seemed legit to me and that only verifies my hunch that they're not bad guys at all in the slightest sense. He could feel all of the components of his automail cracking when he made a fist. "Normally I wouldn't help people like this, I really wouldn't. Alphonse, I think we can wait for that stone just a little bit longer."

Metal rattled as Alphonse replied, "We have to, it's the duty as State Alchemists to help everyone out as best we can."

Bakura remained quiet for the longest time until he finally spoke up. "I don't mean to intrude or anything, but from what I can recall, Alphonse, you said we have souls trapped into inanimate objects and a stone. What do you mean by that?"

Both Elrics were a little nervous to explain why, but after Cornello, Isaac McDougal, and Shou Tucker they felt that the truth should be said rather than being called a taboo alchemist. Alphonse was very bold and said, "Well, my brother and I lost our mother to an incurable disease. We have the ability to do transmutations."

The word transmutation was something Yugi never heard of before or put into practical use. "I'm sorry, transmutation? How does that work?"

A coin magically appeared and glimmered in Edward's right hand, "Prepare for a lot of information and I'm sorry if you won't get any of it, but this is the only way I can explain it. Well, the process of a transmutation requires three stages: construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction. All of them must be able to apply to the law of Equivalent Exchange which is something any alchemist must follow or there will be consequences which is called rebound. I can take this coin which is the construction phase,"

A blue glow emitted from the coin. "You see once I start the transmutation it will go into the deconstruction phase,"

The coin transmuted into a small nickel butterfly, "I can move the atoms within the coin around and bend them to my will into any shape which is the reconstruction phase. You just have to make sure that it had the same weight it started from before; you can't create mass where it doesn't exist and that's something any scientist would learn from their textbooks. There are even more rules you have to follow as a State Alchemist; basically the alchemists work for the State Military, which you swear your oath to. Two of those rules are that you cannot transmute gold or everyone would be rich men and you cannot use transmutation to bring the dead back to life which is called human transmutation. The stone that my brother mentioned well, it's called a Philosopher's Stone."

As soon as Bakura heard that word his face lit up. "I've heard of mythologies with Philosopher's Stones. They're supposed to grant the user unlimited power beyond imagination."

Edward replied, "Exactly. When an alchemist possesses one of those stones he or she has unlimited alchemical power and can bypass the laws of Equivalent Exchange."

Even though Seto finally outgrew from his ignorance phase, he was still baffled by all of the jargon. "But that still doesn't explain why you two are in this situation."

The bright sun glistened and Edward's automail gleamed as he pulled up the sleeves on his right arm and left leg. "This is the price we paid for doing human transmutation."

Téa was just shocked by those words. "But if you're alchemists, why would you do something like that if you said it's forbidden?"

A blood seal was revealed inside of Alphonse's helmet; everyone gasped that there was no physical body was inside. "This blood seal was drawn by Edward when I lost my body and he lost his leg trying to bring our mother. We were only kids and we wanted our mother again; our father left us alone and never bothered to come back."

"I lost my left leg and Alphonse lost his whole body when we did the human transmutation, I lost my right arm to attach Alphonse's soul to that suit of armor. I wasn't going to lose my brother and have nothing at all. Within one year of recovery I got my military license and I've been given funds to do my research into the Philosopher's Stone or find an alternative solution to return our bodies back to normal. However, we keep going back to square one and, now, we have to start taking orders from our leader Fürher King Bradley."

Yugi and everyone's eyes widened when they heard that. More importantly, Bakura was aghast that their leader was called because of all the book reading he's done over the years. Fürher? Okay, so we're clearly not in Germany, but at the same time this is quite interesting. I think it would be wise not to say anything about that.

Just as Edward was about to say another word, a band of military men surrounded them all rigged up with semi-automatics and plenty of cartridges filled with ammunition. The sight of guns made Téa scared and she wanted to say something, but Tristan told her to hush up and whispered to her, "We don't want any conflict and it's best you don't say anything."

One of blond haired soldiers stepped through with the gun pointed at Atem. "Freeze FullMetal, those people are spies from Drachma and we have received direct orders from the Fürher to take them into custody until further notice."

Edward was just about as confused as Alphonse was. "Spies from Drachma huh? That's not true, if they were spies why would they be wearing such casual clothing and, on top of that-" He realized that he couldn't just say openly that they fell from a portal. That would considered lunacy and he wouldn't be taken seriously. Crap, what can I do? If I say they're from Xing they'll ask for their passports or some form of identification. I can't say for sure that they have ID's on them, but Alphonse and I have got to act quick.

Inside in one of his pockets, Edward whipped out his watch and knew how to convince them. "-Listen, I've found these guys unconscious and as a State Alchemist, I felt obliged to help out these people to the best of my ability."

The soldier man's face was getting more and more irritated as time passed on. "Do you want to disobey direct orders? I shall report you to your superior-"

Edward interrupted, "Go on, I don't care, the colonel bastard doesn't care as long as I'm getting something productively done and I think I am now with these foreign guests."

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Winry was so delighted to catch up Maria and Denny. "So, what have you two been up to lately? I know last time, things were a little crazy with Edward in the hospital."

After the Barry incident, Maria and Denny were a little apprehensive talking about it. Sunshine rays pierced through blank window panes, complementing her black hair and gorgeous dark blue eyes. Her eyes showed a sense of innocence, it was best that she didn't think or talked negatively. "Well, I've been doing a lot of work to help out my parents and I hear that Sergeant Brosh has a girlfriend." She said playfully and Denny's face tightened with vexation. "No! I'm focused on helping my younger brothers and sisters."

The mentioning of siblings lit up Winry's heart and made her smile. "Oh my goodness, I will have to meet them someday. You two are just so loyal to your family-" A small clear tear formed and her throat felt heavy, "-I wish I could see my parents today and be with them." She tried to hold it back, but flashbacks of her parents' smiles was all too much. Denny was just so shocked to see someone like Winry cry. I know she must care about Edward and Alphonse deeply, but when you lose your parents at such a young age what are you supposed to look forward to in life? Whatever happens to her, I know Edward and Alphonse will be there for her.

Plates of untouched delicious food was still in front of them and they got so caught up with life, they didn't bother to eat. Denny took the initiative to have the actual lunch happen. "I know it's hard to talk about things like this, but you have your support and that's all that matters. Why don't we set that aside and have a nice lunch."

Grumbling sounds could be heard from all three of them and their faces matched it. They all yelled, "Let's eat!"

/

The lieutenant made quick haste to find Winry from Roy's office. Some of the other members of her squad were confused and Kain tried to follow her just as she went through the door. "What's going on? I bet it has something to do with the Elrics." He was heavily concerned and didn't want anything bad to happen. In the meanwhile Roy continued to sit at his desk waiting for the right opportunity to open. The other members of his gang tried to presume back to their paper work, but Jean Havoc set it aside and was done for the day. "Looks like this day is about to get interesting." He said openly and bluntly. Roy knew Riza would get the job done. Be careful Riza. Still, we have to figure out who murdered Maes and something tells me that it was an inside job. Whoever it was I will carry out their punishment. At least Falman is keeping Barry at bay and we'll use him when necessary. However, even though he had complete faith in her, old military dog-like instincts kicked back in. Discreetly and secretly, when Riza was out of his sight completely, he slipped back on his ignition gloves. "Well, maybe the Lieutenant could use a little help." He waited for the right opportunity for her to come back.

Riza knew she had to keep things quiet without the other senior officers on her back, especially if word were to get to the Fürher. There was an open room and yanked Kain right in there. "Sergeant Major Fuery, I need you and the others to lay low. If Scar is spotted, I need Havoc and the Colonel to back me up. I have to find Winry and warn her."

Kain was even more confused and with an even more confused tone, "What does she have to do with the Elrics?"

"Everything." Riza replied with. She was ready to whip out her pistols at any moment and the whole military base made her suspicious of everything around her. "There's a possibility that the Fürher is trying to separate them and use Winry as a captive pawn against the Elrics. I know their history with her and her family. If anything were to happen to her, I know Ed would lose it and we can't afford that to happen. As soon as I warn her, she will leave Central immediately and then I need you, Havoc, and the Colonel to go find Edward. There's another possibility that Scar could have gotten them."

"Yes sir, I will go back to the Colonel's office and inform him of your message." Riza made her way while Kain ran in the other direction. Black, spiky hair swished as he ran furiously, but accidentally bumped into another soldier and was absolutely shocked. "I'm sorry!" He yelped with sincere apology.

When he looked up it was Bradley. Could his timing be anymore worse? Keep calm and act like a soldier. "Hello Fürher, how can I help you today?" He maintained the professionalism of soldier and even saluted to his excellency.

The situation was just outright awkward and Kain took every bit of manpower to move things along quickly and smoothly. He was going to say something, but Bradley put his hand up. "And where were you going Sergeant Major? I saw you conversing with the Lieutenant Hawkeye and started to run somewhere, but I didn't want to eavesdrop on your conversation."

Kain replied, "She wanted me to run an errand for her and then report immediately back to the colonel."

"You run along then, carry on your duty." Kain restarted his run, but knew that things were about to get chaotic. Fürher, Scar, and the military, just words to instigate chaos and violence. I will do whatever I can to help Mustang reach to the top and avenge for Hughes. All of this just doesn't add up right and I can bet Mustang knows what's about to happen.

Within less than five minutes, Riza finally found Winry in a private room with Maria and Denny. Relieved at last, she slammed the door open and startled the three of them. "Ms. Winry Rockbell, you need to come with me, your life might be put in danger and I will do everything I can to protect you."

Winry was fazed. "Danger? I bet it has something to do with Edward doesn't it? He always goes headfirst into everything without taking any second thoughts." She placed her hand delicately onto her earrings with a smile on her face. "But that's how Edward works and I can't blame him for that. Maybe that's why he's so defensive all of the time and in some way influences Alphonse to think the same. They are brothers after all."

Both Maria and Denny wanted to tail behind Winry to make sure she would be safe from all sides, but Riza thought differently. "Sergeant Brosh and Second Lieutenant Ross, I want you two to stay back and be Mustang's back up."

"Backup?!" Denny detested with a disgruntled look on his face. "With all respect, I feel that it is in my honor to protect Ms. Rockbell no matter what and Maria will help to see that happen." He was not going to back down, not for one minute just like he would for his siblings.

Riza remained placid and grabbed Winry's hand swiftly. She tried to resist, but Riza drew her gun and pointed it at Maria. "On second thought, Maria Ross, there is high suspicion that you were involved in the murder of Maes Hughes. I suggest you and Denny stay back if you know what's good for both of you." The Lieutenant's act was believable which made Maria falter back a couple of steps.

"No, it wasn't me who did it! It was someone else!" Maria screamed, she wanted to cry but forced herself to stop. Denny tried to console her, "This is madness, she would never do anything so unthinkable like that."

Winry was so angry with all of the animosity in the room. "Don't I get to have an opinion at all?"

"I'm sorry Winry, but we have to go. However I need to say one more thing before we leave for good." Riza put her gun down back into her holster and whispered into Maria's ear, "Don't worry, I've got Roy to create a cover for you and we'll get you out of Amestris safely. Just follow along even if Edward interferes. I hope that doesn't happen."

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All of a sudden, men were screaming bloody-murder, firing their guns like crazy. "It's him! It's-" Their screams were muffled by a very dark-skinned man's transmutation, blood splattered everywhere, and Edward knew instantaneously who it was. "It's Scar!"

He knew if Yugi and the others stayed there, they wouldn't last that long when they saw the dead bodies. "Everyone, run!" Joey carried Mai and everyone started to hurtle to a safer location. Scar slowly made his way to them and used his alchemy to create blockades. "Edward Elric, you're still using that forsaken method which denounces God and you will be rightfully punished." Glasses gleamed along the sunlight along his tan skin. "And those witnesses, clearly they do not belong here. As a servant of God, I can't allow such heathens walk the planet."

Joey was scared and yelled at him while protecting Mai, "What right do you have talking all this nonsense about God? Me and my friends, we're just innocent victims of unfortunate circumstances. Just let me and the others go, and maybe we can talk this out civilly. Whatever beef you got with Edward here shouldn't have to do anything with me and my friends." He tightened his grip on Mai's body and everyone was ready to move at the drop of a hat. This guy is nothing but bad news. Come on Ed and Al, you two gotta do something. Suddenly, rain droplets started to form from the high skies.

The FullMetal Alchemist stepped out in front showing his state licensed pocket watch, water seeped down his jacket trickling over it. "I don't know if that will be possible, this man," His breathing elevated and his arms trembled rattling the automail with the mixture of water, "No, monster, killed a little girl named Nina. I will make sure you kill no more innocent people you bastard! As a State Alchemist, I'll make sure that military and me will deliver the most severe punishment possible!" Téa was aghast and couldn't believe it. "Scar, if that's your real name, why? Why, would you ever lay such filthy hands a young child?" All of her emotions was too much and she cried, "Why?!"

Scar continued to show no emotion, a small frown started to form. "That unfortunate creature shouldn't have to go through pain and suffering, so I ended its life." He said coldly.

It was enough for Atem, he stepped in front of Edward with a face full of malice and his fists clenched. "I may have not ever known Nina personally, but no person ever has the right to carry out justice if they're not even doing justice for their people." Old familiar heart beats trembled through his body, almost like a nightmare. He clasped his chest and he panted heavily. "As a former pharaoh, I will use any or all of my powers to put you to a stop!" A golden Millennium eye appeared on his forehead and raised his right hand with that same energy swallowing it.

Pharaoh, is that another meaning for God or a meaningless word for dictator? Either way, Ishvala will see to that and judge him.

Both men stared at each other head on, Edward and Alphonse were shocked by the vast amount of energy from them. The State Alchemist was ready to do his part and put a stop to it before it got worse. Téa was scared half to death. "We have to get out of here somehow! How are we gonna get out of it? Someone do something!"

"If our duel disks worked than we might have some chance of escaping! But I don't think this rain will help us!" Seto yelled at her. He really hated being stuck in a situation with no possible solution and it was only a matter of time.

Atem and Scar were ready to fight against each other, but Edward finally intervened. "Atem, let me handle this bastard. He's mine. I only let him get me one time, I'll make sure that it never happens again."

Even though Scar was hellbent on getting revenge for his people and praise Ishvala, he knew it was time to make his own escape. "Well Mr. Elric, looks like my God has a way of being a prophet to me and you won't be living that much longer, but I will still eliminate you when you will cling onto the end of your puny life." Just before he used his alchemy to destroy the street down below him and Edward throwing another tantrum for being reminded of his stature, a bullet round was fired into his left shoulder. Blood seeped into his yellow jacket and focused his gaze onto the person who shot him.

When Edward saw where the shots came from, he couldn't believe it. "Colonel? Lieutenant?"

"Scar, your crimes against the military deserve capital punishment." Riza was determined to not let him escape with more than twenty fellow solider men backing her up, along with Kain and Jean. Jean had his own semi-automatic rifle ready to go and Kain had a small pistol. Rows of military men armed to the teeth ready to dispatch the murderer.

"You're not going to get away from us this time." Roy pronounced so boldly with his hand in position ready to use his alchemy. He started to walk towards the Ishvalan not showing fear or emotion, however completely forgetting the current weather conditions. "Just because you use some form of alchemy, doesn't mean I can."

Riza knew what he was about to do. "Sir, you might want to reconsider."

With the snap from his glove, only a puff of a smoke escaped which gave Scar the perfect chance to strike. Riza acted quickly by swiping at Roy's ankle just barely missing Scar's right arm. "You know you're useless when it rains sir." Riza bluntly reminded him.

Scar blew off the gun wound and thought rationally about his situation; he resumed back to using his transmutation but just as the street underneath him crumbled, Riza was able to fire another round into his left thigh. The pain shot through the upper-half of his body and wasn't able to land properly. Disgusting and icky sewer water turned red from the loss of blood and Jean was flustered greatly. "Some of you go in there to to find him while some of you tend to the wounded. The Colonel and Lieutenant will handle FullMetal. Anything that has happened to him will be reported to the proper higher authorities." The way that everything unfolded, into sheer disorganization, made even the simpler tasks a lot more difficult than they should be.

All of Atem's magic dissipated and left himself a little exhausted. The last time I'm used magic like this was against Bakura's twisted game. I'm sort glad that Scar is gone, but I have a hunch that he'll be back sooner than expected.

Riza and Roy were elated to see Edward unharmed, but more was expected to come out of it. She was going to check on Edward, but Roy wanted to take over. In the meanwhile, she and fellow soldiers were crafting a report of the incident. "FullMetal, who are these foreign guests and where are they from?"

Yugi was tempted to walk to the two, but Edward put his hand out and gestured to Roy for a whisper, "I don't want there to be a huge ruckus but you have to believe me and my brother when we say they are not from this country or this world. You have to create some sort of distraction to the senior military staff, especially to Bradley. I don't want to imagine how he'll interrogate them." All of the information made the Colonel sigh and just as he was to gesture to her to write jot down her notes for later, Edward looked sternly at him and told him one last important thing. "The military thinks they're spies from Drachma and and I'm not buying one bit at all from them."

She overheard the conversation and chirped in, "FullMetal, as it stands I will be in command from here on out. The Colonel has granted me authorization and I will make sure these foreign guests are treated with the upmost, great respect. If need be, the Colonel will make actions when necessary."

Seto was growing rather impatient and wanted something to happen. Some parts of his old personality lingered and he got a little cocky. "I don't mean to interrupt, but if we're going to be your guests I would expect you'll find a place for us to sleep in the meanwhile. I mean, it's not like we can go anywhere with no food or money and as far as I can see it we're your responsibility."

Joey really wanted to punch him, but he wouldn't let himself act like that in front of Mai. Old Kaiba back to his snot-nosed ways. But what else can we do?

The soldiers started to show kindness to Yugi and the others, but Atem wasn't necessarily dropping his guard. Even though I don't have the Puzzle anymore, my magic senses something dark. Like a horrible awakening from the belly of the beast somewhere in this tranquil city.

While Yugi and company were lead back to Central Command Center by Riza and Roy, half of the other soldiers remained with the Scar incident. Men running back and forth, even through the sewer waters to find the wanted man. However, at alas, luck was not in their favor.

Within about twenty minutes, Joey was astonished by the size of the military center. "Woah! The ones in the movies can't compare to something this real!" His eyes gleamed from pure appreciation. Joey continued to carry Mai until he was gasping at Armstrong's height and build. He didn't really think intelligently and bursted, "You're a giant!"

"No kidding Sherlock, way to scream it to the whole world." Followed by Tristan's classic bop to the back of Joey's head. The interaction between the two made Alphonse giggle, but he really couldn't be subtle with it since his armor rattled. Armstrong's massive hands were very capable of carrying onto Mai's tiny frame.

The military center, I'm rather impressed. Just the scale of the military center and the numerous amount of soldiers running around only made Atem more skeptical of everything and everyone. He normally wouldn't feel this way, but he wasn't going to let his nerves get to him. Just before he went through the gates, he turned his gaze onto Edward. The two looked at each other and were ready to deal with their destiny.

Would it be sorrow or a sliver of hope?

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"You know old man, being chained up maybe does have some perks. One of those for reminding you that you're nothing. Absolute nothing. On the other hand, I crave to have actual substance. All this talk for obtaining God bores me to death." Still elevated off the floor gave Greed a good enough excuse to criticize Father. He grew very bored, waiting hours on end for something to happen.

The old man remained on his throne, barely listening to his son's temper tantrum. He knew that everything would fall into place. "The years of waiting for one thing can really take its toll on you. Greed, you should be somewhat thankful that I'm allowing you to live for this long. The idea that life is composed of years for humans can be so threatening to them that society will go into complete chaos. I on the other hand have all the time of the bane of existence of human life." There was nothing within in his hands, but then he opened up a small sliver on his forehead and allowed a red liquid to flow into it. As soon as it touched his hand, it solidified. A new Philosopher's Stone was formed and rippled greatly. Each soul screamed in pure agony, crying for help and mercy.

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"Well now, looks like the pipsqueak got some new friends. Lust, Gluttony, Wrath, I think it's about time that everything should fall into place. I want to please Father, it would be disappointing if we failed."

Envy was growing rather impatient sitting on top of Bradley's desk while Gluttony sat and remained still like a child. Papers were scattered all around it and Lust picked up one specific one to look at in further detail. Ink words about transfers and rank promotions were about to make the biggest historical impact in Amestris.

Phew, that was one heck of a chapter. -3- *This is my Poland face xDD*

Now then, when I take into serious consideration Scar's appearance, I did omit the whole scene from the anime when Scar obliterated Ed's right arm and a good majority of Alphonse's armor so Ed's imply helps thousands. And I feel a little bad of also omitting the whole scene with Tim Marcoh and his research notes about the Philosopher's Stone, but trust me (how many times am I going to say that XD) the absolute theme of the price and impact one stone can make on a human will be there. Hopefully, this impact is something a lot of the FMA fans can connect to and see my headcannon's about it.

Another issue I'm facing is when a good majority of the characters are forced to go in different parts of Amestris such as Fort Briggs, East City, and vice versa. The separation of Mustang's gang will occur within the next chapter or 2 and once that happens all of the big drama will go down. I hope I'm pleasing a lot of Greed fans (including myself) for keeping him alive longer than Brotherhood did (Or so I thought XD). ;w;

With such huge events going on how will Yugi and the others be able to cope with it or will something horrible happen to them that Edward can't control? Twists and turns are coming their way (I sound like Discord LOL, I'm also excited for season 4 of MLP) and it's only a matter of time when the chaos will reach its peak, AKA the Promised Day.

Please, R&R! ^w^