Chapter 8:

After Ed and Mustang disappeared into the ground Hawkeye fell to her knees and dropped her gun tears still sliding down her face. She clenched her teeth together and looked at the ground. Then she wiped her tears from her face and stood her eyes still fixed on the ground. "I was useless again." she muttered under her breath.

Al looked at the Lieutenant. He had never seen her look so defeated. He looked up at the sky "I wonder if they're looking at the sky too." Al thought aloud. Hawkeye blinked and looked up at the clear blue sky. "I wonder where he is?" she thought as she bent down to grab her gun. She holstered it and turned around towards the hospital. "We should tell them what happened." Hawkeye said with a strained voice. "Yeah" Al agreed.

When they made it back to the hospital they explained what happened to the others. "Wait, you said that a pair of black hands shot out of the ground and grabbed them?" Harry asked. He, Ron, Hermione, and Draco suddenly remembered what happened to them before they ended up in Amestris. "Yeah" Al and Hawkeye said in unison.

"That's how we ended up here." Hermione told them. "Some equivalent exchange." Havoc muttered holding a cigarette between his teeth. "Yeah I know. Four come here but only two go there. How does that work?" Al agreed. "What do you mean by 'equivalent exchange'?" Harry asked with a confused look. Everyone except Draco, Hermione, and Ron looked at Harry with surprise.

"W-what?" Harry asked even more confused. "What is the place you live like?" Al asked changing the subject. "What do you mean?" Ron said caught off guard by the question. Al shrugged and said "Well are there any people who can do something different from other people? Like in this country its alchemy but how about where you came from?"

The four of them looked at each other then looked at Al, Hawkeye, and Havoc. "Wizardry." the four said simultaneously. Hawkeye raised her eye brow and Havoc burst out laughing. Al however said "Oh. That's why you pointed that stick at Ed. It was your wand wasn't it?" Harry nodded. "But for some reason magic doesn't work here." he said.

Havoc looked up with tears in his eyes from laughing so hard. "You really believe them Al" He asked blinking away the tears. "Well sure." Al shrugged. "I believe there are things that can't be explained out there. Plus some people can understand things others can't. Like alchemy you may understand it or not that's just how it works." he said.

Havoc was shocked by Alphonse's statement and was left speechless. "Wait. If you can't use magic here then that means that the Colonel and Ed won't be able to use alchemy." Hawkeye said voicing her worries. "That means that Ed is nothing but a hot tempered pip-squeak with two auto-mail limbs and the Colonel will be as useless as a wet match." Havoc said with wide eyes. Al gasped and said "I hope they don't figure it out the hard way."

"Well there are four of you which means there are four possible places they could have been transported." Al said. "I hope they don't get separated. They will have such a better chance of finding a way back if they work together." Hawkeye said. "Yeah." Everyone agreed.

After that Hawkeye and Havoc caught a train to Central to tell Mustangs other subordinates the situation. While Al got more information on the places Ed and Mustang could have been transported. He got Harry, Ron, Draco, and Hermione to draw maps of the places as detailed as they could. After they finished the maps it was dark so Al said good bye to them and went back to his hotel room to go over the maps. "Ed please don't be reckless."Al pleaded.

When Hawkeye finally got to her apartment she got into civilian clothes and took Black Hayate for a quick walk. When she got back she took a shower and changed into a comfortable tee-shirt with pajama pants. She turned off the lights and laid on her bed staring out the window. "Don't get yourself killed Colonel."She thought as she fell asleep.

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