"Hey," Alphonse timidly said looking at the body laying down in front of him, "Miss are you okay?" he said gently touching her earning a groan from the girl. "Miss?" he said as the girl let out a couch followed by a splatter of blood. "You need medical attention!" he quickly said gently picking up the girl bridal style and running towards the apartment his brother and him were staying at. "Maybe brother can help," he mumbled sneaking quick glance at the girl seeing her pained face.
"Al?" Edward said his eye twitching seeing the girl in his brother's metal arms.
"S-She looked hurt brother," Alphonse said gently laying the girl on the couch. "I couldn't leave her out in the cold alone," he said putting a blanket on top of the girl as he brother gave his younger brother a gently smile at how caring he was to everyone and everything.
"Well it's an upgrade from a cat," Edward sighed peering down at the girl who was panting softly. "Hmm," he mumbled placing the back of his flesh hand on the girls' forehead feeling a strong heat emitting from her. "She has a fever," he stated heading towards their conjoined living room and kitchen grabbing a small bowl filling it up with cold water.
"Will she okay?" Alphonse worriedly asked watching his older brother wet the small towel he had draped on his shoulder in the cold water before placing it on the girl's forehead.
"We'll see in the morning," Ed sighed "we can ask her what happened and take her to the police station," he said letting out a yawn walking towards their bedroom "she probably got lost or something," he waved it off "I'm heading to bed," he said closing the door behind him as Alphonse directed his attention to the girl.
Examining the girl over with his bright red eyes he saw her stir slightly causing the cold towel on her forehead to fall down to the ground.
"Truth," she groaned out softly gripping her stomach, Alphonse freezing midway to grab the towel when she muttered that single word.
"Brother won't like this," Alphonse said rewetting the towel and placing it on the girls' forehead.
"Why is my forehead wet?" the girl mumbled slowly opening her eyes, "Where am I?" she asked brushing her hand over the towel on her forehead. Letting out a deep sigh she threw the towel on the ground blinking a few times trying to get accustomed to the lights around her. "Hmmm," she mumbled softly trying to remember what had happened to her. Letting out a loud gasp she quickly sat up memories of her school, the stone and Truth surfacing again.
"You're up?" a voice said startling her as she looked over seeing a tall and intimidating suite of armor looking down at her.
"Oh god!" she screamed jumping and landing on the floor with a loud. "Ow," she grumbled rubbing her lower back.
"You shouldn't move so much Miss," the voice said raising its hands in front of it showing her that he meant no harm "You might be hurt somewhere."
"Hurt?" she questioned looking up to see the familiar suite of armor. "Al?" she mumbled quietly her eyes going wide. "N-No," she stuttered out quickly standing up looking around her with panicked eyes. "T-This….it can't…" she desperately said placing her hands on her head.
"Miss?" Alphonse softly said looking at the scared girl worriedly.
"What's going on here?" Edward grumbled out walking out of his room. "Oh," he said looking at the girl, her face showing pure fear and confusion. "What's," he started as the girl bolted out of the room. "Hey!"
"This isn't really," Eloisa desperately said as she ran outside in to the bright morning, "How?" she said spinning around in the middle of the street earning a few confused glances from the pedestrians passing. "I'm dreaming," she said feeling her chest tighten up. "it has to be," she said feeling her eyes well up with tears.
"Hey," Edwards softly said seeing the girl trembling on the verge of crying. "What's."
"Truth…he…he," she stuttered out looking at the supposed fictional character in front of her, "this isn't my world," she cried out feeling the ground below her start to spin, "Truth….Truth…s-sent me h-here," she gasped out trying to control her hyperventilating breathing.
"You've seen the gate?" Edwards slowly asked, "who the hell are you!" he shouted grabbing her by her shirt and pulling her closer towards him.
"You're real?" she asked with wide eyes before passing out.
"H-Hey!" Ed yelled grabbing hold of the unconscious girl "Shit," he mumbled out.
"Brother?" Al asked seeing his brother lift the girl up bridal style with a grunt.
"Come one Al," Edward said as a black car pulled up in front of him.
"Elric Brothers!" Major Armstrong shouted sparkles surrounding him as he emerged out of the vehicle.
"Major," Edwards said turning to look at the tall muscular man seeing his blue eyes land on the girl he was carrying. "We can explain," Ed started before the Major quickly ripped his shirt off in a dramatic furry.
"No need Edward!" he exclaimed boosting his muscles, "You saved a damsel in distress!" he cried out as Edward chuckled awkwardly.
"We need to take her to Mustang," Edward said with a serious tone, "there's more to this girl," he said readjusting her in his arms, "she seems to know about something that might help with us finding the stone." He said heading towards the car and placing the girl gently inside the car.
"You found her in an alley," Mustang said his temple twitching anger at what the infinite amount of stress the brothers continued to cause him.
"She saw the gate," Edward had his golden eyes staring at the girl lying on the couch in front of him. "Before she passed out she said this wasn't her world."
"And you brought her here why?" Mustang sighed leaning back on his chair.
"Sir," Hawkeye said noticing the small twitch's the girl's fingers did while Mustang simply brushed her off.
"We don't have the room to keep her with us," Edward said waving him off ticking Mustang off even more then he was.
"This isn't a hospital Fullmetal," Mustang growled.
"Ow," the girl said sitting up and rubbing her forehead, "stupid panic attack," she said.
"Well good morning," Mustang said smirking gaining the girls attention.
"Well fuck," the girl groaned out "I was hoping this was all a dream." She said running a hand through her hair.
"How are you feeling?" Alphonse asked.
"Better, a bit disoriented but better," she mumbled out feeling an embarrassed blush start to coat her cheeks as she recalled her reaction to the young boy. "Sorry about earlier."
"How'd you get here?" Edward quickly interjected before Alphonse could say anything.
"T-Truth," she stuttered out feeling his intense gaze get even more intense when she uttered that name.
"Brother!" Alphonse exclaimed, "Don't be rude she just woke up."
"No," Mustang said leaning his chin on the palm of his head looking the girl over. She must be no older than 15 or 16 years. "Fullmetal has a point here, for once, she might be threat to us."
"I-I'm not," she quickly stuttered out, "I was brought here by Truth through the gate from."
"Your world," Edward quickly added as she only nodded in response.
"Your world?" Mustang questioned.
"This isn't my world," she said looking down at her hands, "your world in my world doesn't exists. It sounds made up but but it's true. This shouldn't be real to me."
"She's under your care Fullmetal," Mustang sighed, "there really isn't a lot we can do for her right now. My hands are tied up with the Chimera incident as it is. What's your name?"
"Eloisa."
"Eloisa, you'll be traveling with the Elric brothers from now on. Maybe you'll be able to help each other out," he smiling at her.
"We're not babysitters!" Edward angrily shouted as Mustang gave him a stern look making the blonde male settle down and scoff looking to the side at the girl looking at him with curious eyes. "Fine," he grumbled heading towards the door "we're heading off to eat something then." He saved waving off to the Colonel and his right hand woman.
"Eloisa?" Alphonse asked making the girl jump slightly startled as she was looking at the fictional character she had come to admire.
"Sorry," she mumbled out embarrassed quickly standing up giving Mustang and Hawkeye and awkward sault before running to catch up to Edward.
"Was that a good idea sir?" Hawkeye asked looking over to see her superior smirking and chuckling to himself.
"Probably but it'll make things interesting for them."
"What did you mean by our world doesn't exist in your world?" Alphonse asked the girl next to him.
"Um, well you see?" Eloisa started off trying to form a good explanation without informing them that they were just some old cartoon where she was from. "Alchemy never existed with me. As in you couldn't you know," she said clapping her hands together and putting them in front of her hopping he'd understand which luckily he did.
"Transmutation?"
"Yeah, the whole concept of the rules here they never happened with us. There was just no need," Eloisa shrugged.
"How?" Edwards asked falling in step with his brother and their new companion.
"We advanced quickly without that need. Technologically speaking was the main thing that helps a lot of us not to do so much. We have the Internet, which pretty much means we have this universal source of information at the tip of out finger. We look up something and get the answer in seconds. Telephones are mobile and small," she said looking over to see Edwards face beaming with interest at what she was saying.
"A world without alchemy and the rules of equivalent exchange," Edward pondered on.
"That sounds interesting," Alphonse said.
"It has its pros and cons," Eloisa quickly added.
"Everything always does," Edward, added nodding slowly getting lost in his thought as Eloisa's stomach loudly grumbled.
"Sorry," Eloisa said quickly covering her stomach. "I don't think I've eaten since my unexpected journey here," she joked.
"Let's go then," Edwards said placing his hands behind his head walking ahead of them.
"To?" she asked.
"You're hungry aren't you," he said glancing over his shoulder at her "let's go get some food."
