I hope you enjoy this chapter. We are nearing the end! Run for your lives! Wait...it's the end of the fanfiction, not the world so never mind.
I hope you enjoy this chapter and I apologize for any mistakes I make. Also, remember that this is not following the fight exactly, after all it's going to be different.
Also, I got a question, how many of you are wondering what Ed told Envy to do two chapters ago? The plan that Alphonse is desperately wanting Envy to refuse to do? Tell me in a review.
I do not own Fullmetal Alchemist or any of the characters.
Envy was perched atop of the roof of Central Command, watching as the troops from Central fought against the Briggs and Eastern soldiers. He would probably have been laughing had he not been trying to figure out how to draw the Central troops away.
Not only that but, he kept hearing that Wrath was dead. He knew that the young homunculus wasn't dead, he was a homunculus for Gates sake! But he didn't know what Wrath was planning, and that worried Envy greatly. He knew that Wrath wasn't going to sit around and hide while this attack was going on. All the homunculi were going to be trying to stop them. Lust and Sloth were probably going to take out anyone who was deemed to much of a threat, most likely having Sloth have the attack up here and then Lust kill anyone who got into the tunnels.
He hoped that the others were going to be alright.
The homunculus took a deep breath before leaping off of the building, landing between Central and the attackers, creating a crater from the force of his impact as well. He must have startled both sides, which was good.
He leapt backwards to join the Northern and Eastern forces, next to Buccaneer to be exact.
"Hey there, Captain,"Envy greeted with a Cheshire cat smile.
The soldier stared at him, "who the hell are you?" He questioned.
Envy put on a hurt look, "What? You don't remember me? It's me, Lieutenant Colonel Alfonse Abrahms," He said.
Recognition flashed through Buccaneers eyes and he aimed a gun at Envy, "Your with those homunculi things aren't you?" He demanded.
The sin held his hands up, "I was with them, I'm on Ed's side. It was his idea to have me join you guys before joining them with Father," he explained, "Look, you can choose not to believe me and have to deal with an immortal enemy along with Central, or you can just believe me and let me help you beat these idiots your fighting, your choice," Envy explained.
Buccaneer growled a bit before motioning to the Central troops, "Think you can handle fighting them?" he asked.
Envy grinned, "I am just going to need you guys to back me up," He said as he began walking to the front lines.
He cleared his throat before glaring at the Central Troops, "I am Envy, and I'm going to give you guys this chance only once. If any of you have a family to get back to or have no wish to die today. Leave and go home now! Because there is no way you guys are going to be able to beat me and this army behind me," He stated.
None of the soldiers left, and Envy understood that even if they wanted to, they would be unable to leave because of stupid military regulations. He pitied them because they were all doomed now.
Taking a deep breath, he transformed his arm into a blade and lunged at them, dodging bullets before slicing through the first soldiers legs, knocking him to the ground.
Bullets flew around him, shots being fired from both sides, but the Central forces were gradually shrinking while the combination of Eastern and Northern soldiers didn't.
"It's the Fuhrer!"
That one shout caused Envys blood to run cold. He stepped away from the soldier he knocked down to watch as Wrath began walking towards the battle, looking calm and collected. The little brat was here.
Envy narrowed his eyes at him as Wrath stood ready to fight.
"It seems that a lot has happened in my absence," Wrath said in that annoying voice of his.
Before Envy could process what was going on, Wrath lunged towards the tank Briggs had brought and some how managed to kill the two soldiers in it using the small gap in the tank. The younger homunculus then turned to look at Envy.
It was going to be difficult to beat Wrath with that Ultimate Eye, Envy decided.
"We can do it," Alphonse said, "We have immortality while he doesn't. Just land one critical blow and he's done for!" the young Elric said with determination.
Yeah...easier said then done, Kid. Envy thought as he turned his arms into a steel version of Greeds 'ultimate shield'. It was going to be able to slice and block. Shape shifting was so useful.
"Hey, Wrath," Envy said with a cheeky smile.
Wrath narrowed his eye, "Envy," He said walking towards him, "So you had enough guts to show your face. Tell me, what happened to Pride?" He asked.
Envy laughed, "Pride? We kicked his ass, that's what happened," He said, sure he was exaggerating but who cares? If Wrath knew that he beat Pride, then Wrath would hesitate a bit, rethinking his strength compared to Envy.
That's what he needed, he needed to plant the seeds of doubt into Wraths mind. That would probably be the biggest advantage he could have against Wrath. One of the things he'd learned was that when someone started to doubt themselves they usually failed.
The only advantage Envy had was immortality, Wrath's wounds would only heal at a human rate while Envys would heal instantly. But that wouldn't stop Wrath, he knew that well.
"Envy! Focus! " Al shouted in his head snapping Envy out of his thoughts to allow him to dodge one of Wrath's swords, just barely.
"Thanks, Al," Envy muttered as he skidded back a bit and slowed down, he had been so lost in his thoughts that he hadn't noticed when Wrath had came at him. If it hadn't been for Al, this battle would have been lost already.
No sooner had he said that was Wrath lunging at him. He used the steel he turned his arms into to block Wraths blows, but he was losing ground in the battle.
Once again, Envy leapt back to put more distance between him and Wrath and began circling him, hoping to get to a blind side. The fuhrer had his eye patch on so he was not able to use his Ultimate Eye, hopefully. Envy never really understood how that abilities worked so he had always assumed that if the eyepatch was on, Wrath's Ultimate Eye wasn't able to be used to it's full potential.
Wrath must have known what he was thinking, because when he ran towards Wrath on the eyepatch side, he removed the eyepatch and Envy barely had time to raise his arm to block the sword.
The older homunculus gritted his teeth as the sword began cutting through the metal on his arms, it hurt like hell!
"We have an opening now! Grab him and throw him!" Alphonse said.
Envy nodded and with his free arm, grabbed Wrath by the shirt and managed to throw him away a little. The force of the throw had him let go of the sword and Envy pulled it out of his arm and threw it to the side.
"Interesting choice to do," Wrath said and sped towards him, "But your still not a great fighter!"
Envy just dodged to the side, using his leg to slam into Wrath's knees and then using his arms to fling him over his shoulder with a martial arts ability that Envy knew he didn't have.
The sin just stared at his hands for a moment.
"Envy," It was Alphonse, but it was his voice and his mouth that said that, "What...what's going on?"
Their mouth curled into a smirk.
"Our minds are in a perfect sync" Envy and Alphonse said in their minds.
They were both controlling the body, Envy didn't understand how but somehow they were able to understand each others instincts and control the body at the same time. With Alphonse's superior martial arts abilities, and Envys experience and shape shifting skills, they were going to give Wrath a run for his money.
Wrath seemed surprised by the sudden skills that Envy had and managed to stand up, a little unnerved by what had just happened. unfortunately he landed next to his sword so he had both of them now.
He watched as Envy dropped into a stance, waiting for Wrath to come to him, that cocky smirk plastered over his face. He felt new rage course through him as he watched the older homunculus look down at him with such amusement, as though he didn't even consider Wrath a threat anymore.
He lunged at Envy again and Alphonse blocked his sword with one arm that had turned to steel again before grabbing his other arm and twisting it so he wasn't able to move it.
Wrath glared and tried to use his free arm to attack but only got it grabbed too. Then, using Wrath as leverage, Al and Envy tightened their grip on his arms and then gave him a kick in the face before flipping away from him.
"Not so tough now, are you?" It was Envy who spoke this time.
Al laughed, "My old teacher is a tougher opponent then you," He said, maybe Envys taunting nature was rubbing off on him.
Wrath leaned forward a bit, clutching his nose which was bleeding and very broken thanks to the kick that the two gave him. He raised his arm and threw a sword at them, his anger reaching a boiling point.
"We make a badass team like this!" Envy said as the two dodged the sword with ease. "Why didn't this happen when we were fighting Pride?"
"I'm going to assume that our minds hadn't reached a certain point of understanding to do it," Alphonse offered as he ran towards Wrath and grabbed his wrist before flipping him. "I think Brother would be scared if he saw how dangerous of an opponent we are now," he laughed a bit.
Envy smirked as they lunged at Wrath who was getting up and delivering a solid kick to his stomach, knocking him more back. "I hope he sees us like this then...Alphonse we need to-"
Alphonse finished what Envy was saying, "-Knock him over the ledge." he said, "So continue landing attacks on him-"
"-Until he falls off the edge," Envy finished. The two had just shown an example of how tuned in they were to what the other was thinking and planning.
"Let's get rid of those swords," Alphonse suggested. They knew Wrath's Ultimate Eye was allowing him to know what they were going to do, but they were doing it to quickly for him to be able to stop them.
"No, the Ultimate Eye first," Envy said and Alphonse nodded in agreement. The two ran towards Wrath, using the steel-arms to block his swords, "We need to get closer," Envy mumbled and they did that.
Dodging the swords, the two slammed one arm forward, aiming to rip his eye out. To bad Wrath managed to dodge, but the steel claws ripped into the flesh beside the eye and Envy was pretty sure they struck the eye.
Upon jumping back, they saw the blood running down around the eye and knew they had caused some damage to the eye. Though if the eye was useless now or not they didn't know.
"Now the swords," the two thought to each other as their body ran towards Wrath.
The homunculus nodded as they slid to stand beside Wrath, grabbing his arm and yanking it behind him. They raised a leg and slammed a kick behind Wraths knees, causing him to fall to his knees. The two slammed their foot onto Wraths back and kept it planted there as they pulled harder onto the arm until Wrath's grip on the sword loosened. They used this moment to grab the sword.
Unfortunetly, Wrath had tricked them.
His grip on the sword tightened and he twirled his wrist, the sword slicing across their throats in the process.
Due to having a slit throat, Envy and Al collapsed onto the ground for a minute, giving Wrath the time he needed to get up. Red crackled around them as the wound healed and they got back onto the ground only to have Wrath's sword stab them in the back pinning them to the ground.
Blood started to run down their chin as the wound began healing, but Wrath started inflicting more wounds faster then they would heal.
"D-Damnit!" Envy screamed in their mind, not only were they now getting their asses handed to them, but both him and Al could feel their synchronized minds starting to separate. They were losing their sync and that was going to get them killed.
"W-We need to get the advantage again!" Al said, but his voice was showing panic, they weren't even getting time to move before Wrath killed them again.
Wrath just stared down at their body that was healing the wounds again, "Not so tough now, are you, Envy?" He said but froze when he felt a solid body ram into him from behind. Shit, his Ultimate Eye was damaged so he didn't see the soldier coming!
He stumbled back and glared up at Captain Buccaneer. Despite his large size, this was going to be too easy.
Envy stumbled to stand up, it was now just Envy controlling the body. Him and Alphonse had lost whatever it was that allowed them to control their body simultaneously and now it was just going to be him against Wrath.
He glared up at where Wrath was fighting, and beating, Buccaneer. He took a deep breath to steady his nerves, he had to wait for the perfect moment.
That moment came when Buccaneer and Wrath neared the edge of the fall. He didn't waste a moment as he lunged forward, using all his weight as he tackled Wrath. He gritted his teeth as he tried to ignore the blade that Wrath slammed into his shoulder when he tackled him.
The moment that they fell over, Envy let go of Wrath and grabbed the edge so he could climb back up onto the ground but felt weight added as Wrath grabbed his leg.
Both of them were weaponless, Wraths sword had fallen out when Envy grabbed the ledge, but Envy now had the advantage.
He smirked to himself as he sneered at Wrath, "Wrong move, asshole," He said as his form started to change. Now, he didn't change his form that much, he just made it so his usual form had amputated legs. No legs, meaning no legs for Wrath to hold onto.
Envy grinned as he watched Wrath fall into the water below before shape shifting his legs back on.
"That was clever," Alphonse said as they climbed back up. The battle seemed to have had halted, both sides shocked to have seen their Fuhrer taken out. But one thing caught Envy and Al's attention.
"Captain Buccaneer!" Alphonse yelled as Envy ran to the injured soldier. His automail arm was gone and he was in a puddle of blood. Envy wanted to slap himself for not noticing just how much damage Wrath had caused him. As he examined Buccaneers wounds, he knew there was no way for him to survive. He needed a hospital and they wouldn't be able to get him to one quick enough before he died.
Buccaneer grinned at him, "Good work, taking out Bradley," He said to Envy as he gritted his teeth in pain.
Envy nodded," Thanks you, I...we...couldn't have beaten him without you joining the fight," He said and gave Buccaneer a grin, "Your the hero of this battle, Captain," he told him. It was the least he could do, give him some ego stroking before the man died. And it was true, Wrath would have had Envy use up all the energy in his Philosophers Stone had Buccaneer not step in.
The Captain nodded, "You go off, you said that you had to join up with Ed and the others after this right? Go," He told him.
"But," Envy began, it didn't seem right to leave him behind like this.
Buccaneer grinned, "I got the Briggs soldiers around me, we'll be fine now that the Fuhrer is out of the picture," He said.
Envys face turned into a frown, "He's not gone...he would have survived that fall easily. He's just gone to fight a different battle," he said, he wasn't fond of Wrath but he knew that the young homunculus would have had no problem surviving that.
"Then go and find him, kill him," Buccaneer ordered.
Envy hesitated before nodding and out of respect, saluted Buccaneer, "You did good, Soldier," he told him, "It was an honor to fight along side you," He told him before turning around and diving off the edge. It was time for him to hunt down Wrath and end him. This time he would have the advantage.
He was going to admit it, as much as he hated to, he was admitting it. He was becoming more and more human now. Alphonse, Edward, Winry, Hohenheim, Ling, his two bodyguards, Scar, the Chimeras, all of them were making him feel more and more human.
And he'd be damned if he let Father destroy what he had gained.
I hope you enjoy this chapter.