AdventureAddict: Yay! I'm so excited! Chapter five is going to be fun! Ed is goin' to anime club! And yes, my school actually has an anime club. Ha-ha! (Blows a raspberry)

Kairi Angel: If you guys want one, then just ask your school…

Frodo: Rrr-ight…AdventureAddict doesn't own Fullmetal Alchemist, just to get that out of the way.

(Cricket chirps)

AdventureAddict: Now what?

Ed: You could stop talking.

AdventureAddict: No way! I'm just gonna keep talking and talking…hey, are you fading me out? You're fading me out! Cut that out! This is my fanfic!

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Chapter Five – Full Metal

Robyn crawled out of her bed on Monday morning. She really hated Mondays. Really hated them. Especially when the weekend had consisted of stealing Ed's newspaper and waiting for him to come over and rant at her to give it back. And she would give it back to him. After an hour when he got tired of doing the chicken dance on one leg, she would throw it at the back of his head as he walked away.

She slid over to her closet and looked at her shirts. She first pulled on a thin shirt that went down to her elbows. Then she started pawing through her T-shirts. She wanted something funny for anime club today. If she was going to announce her doom by taking Ed to anime club, she was going to announce it with a joke. Finally she settled on one that read: "I don't know what your problem is, but I bet it's hard to pronounce." She loved that shirt.

Robyn pulled on a pair of jeans and skater shoes along with the shirt and walked down to the dining room. She suddenly stopped at the sight that greeted her in the kitchen.

Her father was sitting at the table casually eating scrambled eggs. Next to him sat another plate of eggs and two presents. One was large and fluffy, the other was small and hard. At least, that's what it looked like. They were so badly wrapped that Robyn wasn't really sure.

"What's going on Dad? It's not my birthday yet," Robyn said looking suspiciously at the packages.

"I know, but Friday I'm leaving on a business trip, so I figured we'd celebrate a week early," he explained.

"A business trip?!" Robyn said, sliding into the chair next to him. "How long will you be gone?"

"Only a week."

"A week! Don't I need someone around so that the government doesn't come knocking on our door?" Robyn asked, taking a forkful of eggs.

Her father chuckled, "Yes, and I already asked our neighbors, and they agreed. So I want you to have a suitcase packed and ready by Friday." He reached out and ruffled her hair affectionately.

Robyn's fork clattered to her plate, partly because of what he said, partly because he had ruffled her hair. "What?! The Gurps?! Can't I please stay at Kari's? Please?" she begged. Ever since she was little, if her parents had needed a babysitter, they had asked the Gurps. To put it simply, the Gurps loved broccoli, and Robyn hated it. Such people could not live together in harmony. "Please dad, let me stay at Kari's," she begged again. She would do anything (well, almost anything) to escape the wrath of broccoli. Her father chuckled. "I hardly think this is a laughing matter," Robyn scoffed.

"Robyn you know very well you can't stay at Kari's. They have a dog, and you're so allergic to dogs. Besides," he laughed, "I know how much you hate broccoli, so I asked our other neighbors to watch you, not the Gurps." Robyn hugged him in relief, then realized who she would be staying with.

Ed.

But she didn't dare tell her dad. Oh no, if she told him there was a boy her age in that house, it'd be right back to the Gurps. Hello, broccoli.

"Well, go ahead and open your presents," her dad said, motioning to the packages next to her. Robyn eagerly turned to them and picked up the small package, quickly unwrapping it. Inside it was a small gold cardboard box. She pulled the top off to reveal a necklace made out of guitar picks. (Not made out of guitar picks, they're attached to a chain like charms)

"Aw, dad, I wanted one of these so bad," she gasped, picking it up and fastening it around her neck. Her dad smiled.

"The next one is better," he said, motioning for her to open the big fluffy one. Robyn grabbed it. The package was warm and soft in her hands. She ripped off the wrapping paper and out tumbled a red sweatshirt. Robyn picked it up off her lap and looked at it. On the back was the same symbol Ed had on the back of his jacket. A small (A/N: Robyn will kill me if I don't say this: Tiny, extremely small, in fact, so high only the neighborhood dogs could hear it.) squeal escaped from Robyn's lips and she quickly gave her dad a bone-crushing hug, then pulled it over her head.

"You like it then?" her dad asked.

Robyn twirled in a circle, arms outstretched. "I LOVE it!" she squealed happily. Her dad smiled at her.

"You better go to school or you'll be late," he said, glancing at the clock. Robyn looked over.

"Yeah, I guess so," she said, standing up and stretching. Her father stood up and she gave him one last hug. "Thanks dad," she mumbled into his shirt. He just patted her on the back softly.

Ed sat in chemistry class, waiting for Robyn. Chemistry was so boring when no one was there. He still couldn't believe he had told her about how he had no memory. He had planned not to tell that to anyone. There was just something about Robyn that made him trust her.

'Maybe I knew her once!' Ed thought suddenly. There certainly were times when it seemed like she knew him, sometimes even better than he knew himself. Ed was suddenly curious about Robyn. He reached back into his memory, trying to remember anything he possibly could about Robyn. Suddenly, the only previous memory he had, the one of the boy with blonde hair, flashed through his mind. Ed was about to pull away when he realized this memory was different. This time the boy was running towards Ed, and Ed suddenly felt a pang of guilt.

"Brother!" the boy cried, a wide grin on his face. He kept running towards Ed. He looked so innocent and happy, and Ed felt so guilty. Ed quickly tried to pull away from the memory, but not before the boy had let out one more cry of "Brother!" echoing in Ed's ears.

'Brother? I have a brother? But why did I feel so guilty? Did I… kill him?' Ed thought, horrified.

Suddenly Robyn walked into the classroom. Ed looked at her as she walked over to the seat next to him, then noticed that the symbol on her sweatshirt was the same as the one on the back of his jacket, and the words, 'Fullmetal Alchemist' ran up one sleeve.

"Where did you get that?" he asked curiously.

Robyn looked down in horror at her sweatshirt. She didn't realize she had worn it into the classroom. "Uh, birthday present," she mumbled truthfully.

Ed looked at her suspiciously, remembering how he thought he might have known her before. Robyn sat in the seat next to him and was silent for the rest of class. One time Robyn glanced at Ed during class, and noticed transmutation circles scribbled all over his paper.

Robyn cautiously walked into the classroom where anime club was meeting. She breathed a sigh of relief after realizing that Ed wasn't there yet, and no one seemed to be paying attention to her. She quickly shoved her stuff underneath a desk and slid into the seat. She stared quietly at the random pencil marks on the desk, when there was another creak at the door. Ed was standing there, along with all the other kids in anime club, all admiring his 'costume,' and trying to get him to sit with them. Ed seemed a little bewildered by the whole thing. Then he spotted Robyn sitting all by herself at a desk. Relieved, Ed pushed his way through the crowd and sat down next to her. The other students noticed the matching jacket and sweatshirt and left them alone, but Robyn knew that there would be ridiculous rumors going through school tomorrow.

"Okay everyone, quiet!" yelled a girl with blue hair at the front of the class. After everyone had stopped talking, she continued at a rate so fast most people would have thought she was on drugs, (Don't bother trying to read this) "Hieveryonemynamesallisonbuteverybodycallsmefredsoyoushouldtoandwelcometoanimeclubiknowthatweregoingtohavetonsoffunthisyearandwemightevengettshirtsbutanywaybacktotodaysagendatodayweregoingtowatchkikisdeliveryserviceandiknowyoureallgoingtoloveitcuzitsanawsomemovieanditsanime!Kay?"

(Translation: "Hi everyone, my name's Allison, but everybody calls me Fred, so you should to. And welcome to anime club, I know that we're going to have tons of fun this year and we might even get t-shirts, but anyway, back to today's agenda. Today were going to watch Kiki's Delivery Service and I know you're all going to love it, because it's an awesome movie, and its anime! Kay?"

'Fred,' paused and looked around the room. She seemed thoughtful for a second, then said, "Oh yeah! And I'm the president of anime club!" Ed snorted, casing the Fred to glare at him. She looked like she would crush him, but then said, "Hey, I bet you're shorter than the real Ed!" she said gleefully, making Ed very angry, blah, blah, blah, you know the drill by now.

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING SO SMALL THAT NOT EVEN A METAL DETECTOR CAN FIND HIM?!?!" Ed lunged towards Fred, but Robyn quickly grabbed him. Fred laughed at Ed, (only making him angrier) while the rest of the rest of the class watched suspiciously at Ed while he struggled against Robyn's grip in much the same way he struggled against Al's grip.

"LET ME GO! I'LL CUT HER INTO A THOUSAND PIECES AND THEN STOMP THE PIECES DEEP WITHIN THE EARTH'S CRUST, AND WHEN I GET TIRED OF THAT, I'LL DUCT TAPE HER BACK TOGETHER AND DO IT AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN!!" He screeched, writhing against Robyn's arm.

Robyn noticed how everybody (except Fred, who was still laughing) was starting to consider that 'Ed' really was Edward Elric. (Being the anime geeks they are) Robyn quickly grabbed hers and Ed's backpacks and dragged them and Ed out the door, closing it behind them.

"What the crap was that?!" Ed yelled, wriggling out of Robyn's grip. "What did she mean 'the real Ed?!"

Robyn looked at him for a minute, then threw his backpack at him. "Come on," she said, turning and sling her backpack over her shoulder.

Robyn stopped in font of her hose, pulled out the key and unlocked the door. She led Ed over to a sofa in front of a TV, where they both dumped their stuff. Ed collapsed on the sofa, tired out from his little 'emotional outburst.' Meanwhile, Robyn walked over to a few shelves of movies and started running her finger across them. She finally grabbed one and snapped it open, pulled out the disc, then tosse the empty case to Ed, who caught it just in time.

He was about to ask Robyn what a movie had to do with anime club, when he looked at the cover. There was a boy who looked exactly like him on the front.

"Fullmetal Alchemist?" he asked, reading the words printed on the front. Robyn nodded and put the DVD in.

"I figured that you hadn't seen it before, because then you would have known why the kids were freaking out." She said, sitting on the sofa with a remote in her hand. When the menu popped up, Robyn quickly pressed 'play,' while Ed watched with his eyes popping and his mouth hanging open.

2 hours and 4 episodes later…

Robyn looked over at Ed. He was staring at the bank screen, a look of utter amazement on his face.

"I can only imagine how weird that was," Robyn said, jerking Ed out of his trance to look at her.

"That boy – Alphonse," he said slowly, "He's the boy I remember. I can remember him calling me," Ed paused, and Robyn waited patiently for him to finish "calling me Brother."

A smile quickly spread across Robyn's face. "Then that proves that you really are Ed! See? Now you know what your past is!" She said happily.

Ed looked at her, obviously not happy about this. "Yeah, but back when I didn't know my past I could have been anything. Still a little scary, but…Now I know who I am, and what I've done – to my own brother," He said sadly.

"So do you really have the automail?" Robyn asked. Ed looked back at her, then tugged off his right glove, revealing a shiny metal hand. Robyn slowly reached two fingers towards it, and after noticing that Ed wasn't stopping her, she gently touched it.

Ed's automail didn't feel anything like Robyn imagined it would. It was extremely smooth and Winry's design made it look lighter than it really was. Ed wiggled his pinky finger, and Robyn could feel the movement all the way in his pointer finger. But the weirdest thing about it was that it felt slightly warm, not cold like Robyn would expect metal to be. Robyn pulled her fingers away from the automail, and Ed slid his glove back on.

"That's not the weirdest thing though," he said, standing up and motioning for Robyn to follow. He led her over to his house and down to the basement, both of them going at a brisk pace in excitement. In the corner of the basement stood something very large that had been covered with a white sheet. Ed grabbed a corner of the sheet.

"This was next to me when they found me," Ed said, pulling the sheet off. The sheet quickly fell to the floor, revealing the suit of armor Al's soul had been attached to.

Robyn gasped, then looked closer. "Something's wrong. His eyes aren't glowing," she said peering at the helmet. "Is the blood rune in there?" Ed walked forward and pulled the helmet off for them to see. The blood rune was definitely in there, in what Robyn knew was Ed's own blood. Robyn looked over at Ed and saw a bead of sweat sliding down his forehead. Afraid he might get a little emotional, Robyn quickly grabbed the helmet and placed it back on the armor. Ed looked over at Robyn and gave her what looked like a tiny smile. Or maybe that's just what she wanted to see.

Robyn stepped back and looked at the armor. "I don't get it," she said, "If the blood rune is in there…" she trailed off, walking in a circle around the armor. "Maybe if we do some research, then…" Ed held up a hand to silence her.

"I have a different idea," he said, "Step back." Robyn dutifully took a step backward. Ed looked at the armor for a second, then swung a powerful roundhouse kick with his right foot, hitting the center of the chest plate.

"Hello? Anybody in there?" he yelled, now hitting the armor with his fists. After receiving no response, he swung another roundhouse kick, this time with his left foot, leaving a small dent. Ed collapsed on the floor, looking up at the armor in despair. Robyn stared at Ed, unsure of what to do, when Ed suddenly stood up and looked straight up into where there should have been glowing eyes.

"Al?" he asked softly, sounding unsure of himself.

Nothing seemed to happen. Robyn was about to turn away when a soft white glow started deep within the eye sockets.

"Brother?" a small echoing voice asked.

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READ THIS!!!! VERY IMPORTANT!!!!

Okay, I got a few things to say to all you lovely readers without Frodo or Ed interrupting me, so here goes…

Issue #1: Sorry it took me so long to update, part of the problem is that I'm putting more in the chapters, (Six pages this time!) part is that we got Sims 2 pets and I was testing that out. Ehehe. Sorry. (I did make Ed, Al and Winry characters though…)

Issue #2:Me and my friend are considering making this into a web comic. I would still write this of course, but I want to know if anybody is actually interested.

Issue #3: Are any of you interested in character profiles? I could get those out pretty quickly as filler between chapters…

Issue #4: I need ideas for the name of Robyn's older brother. I could name him Edward for drama, but I think that's unoriginal and boring.

Until next time, I'll leave you all with this nice little cliffie and I won't post until you review! Muahahahahahahaha!!!