Dragon Ball GX, Side Story: The Alchemic Saiyan

Chapter 10: The Touch Of Love

Winry Rockbell

I had heard screaming and loud rumbles that made the ground quake, but I had no idea it was caused my Edward until I saw King Bradley zoom over my head and into the street, causing the pavement to shatter like glass from his impact.

"I…I wasn't dreaming…" I say to myself as I stare blankly at what Edward had done to the good Führer.

"Brother…what's happened to you?" Al says as he eyes the weak form of King Bradley too.

Suddenly, Edward appeared from what seemed to be out of nowhere, and kicked Bradley like a kickball, who barely recovered and broke into a run.

"GET BACK HERE SO I CAN KILL YOU YA LOUSY GOOD FOR NOTHING HOMUNCULUS!" Edward bellows before vanishing again.

I was at a loss to explain his sudden harsh temper; but even more difficult for me to figure out…was how he had become some kind of war god being.

As I began to cry, a voice as soothing as an angel called out to me, "Winry-calm down"

I suddenly became alert, and looked around for the person who had spoken to me.

But after several minutes of looking around as I continued to follow Edward, I could not find the person who had spoken to me.

"Why can't I find that voice?" I say to myself with frustration.

"Because you are looking in the wrong place Winry" the voice suddenly says out of nowhere.

"Wait-where are you, who are you?" I ask desperately, finding it hard to believe that voice was just coming back once I spoke.

"The one who trained Edward and helped him gain the power you've seen him use" the voice says, his tone changing to a slightly serious one.

I then realized, that this person must be in truth, a horrifyingly powerful monster to have made Edward into this.

"THEN ITS YOUR FAULT HE'S LOST HIS MIND AND STARTED KILLING PEOPLE; WHY DID YOU TURN HJIM INTO A MONSTER!" I wail pitifully.

As I wept, Al was in the distance trying to protect innocent bystanders from the destruction created by Edward's reckless pursuit of the Führer.

"Winry-I didn't train him to be a monster at all; I trained him so he can save your world from the threat of Father, and any other horrors your universe might have hidden" the voice says, his tone indicating my accusations of him making Edward a monster had hurt his feelings.

As I thought this over, I decided a simple way to know if he was telling the truth was to see him for myself.

"Who are you really?" I ask, hoping my plan would work.

"Give me a moment, I'll need to use more power to manifest a visible projection of myself into your universe" the voice replies calmly.

Suddenly, there was a crackle of yellow lightning right in front of me. After several seconds, a figure began to materialize.

As his form became more apparent and solid, I realized something; he was barely taller than me. But the most defining aspect of him, was his crazy hair!

It was insane, like a wild jungle had grown out of his head. However, before I could think about the issue any further, he spoke.

"(Sigh) There we go, that's much better" the man says as he moves his arms, as though to test if they worked.

As I noticed a tail swaying behind him, I became suspicious.

"What are you?" I ask worriedly.

As soon as I finished asking the question, he walked over to me and touched my forehead-causing a discharge of some kind of energy.

Instantly, I felt my head fill with memories I'd never seen before; Edward nearly dying, a man just like this one saving his life and passing through The Gate, and meeting countless people I'd never seen before. Then, training with the man in front of me in a strange place called the Hyperbolic Time Chamber for a period spanning…oh my gosh.

Suddenly, the memories stopped flowing into my mind, and the man whom I now knew was named Adam, removed his palm from my head.

"Now do you understand what has transpired since he vanished 3 days ago?" Adam asks as he puts a hand on my shoulder.

"Yeah…I feel guilty for thinking you were to blame; but if it really is his DNA causing this-what can we do?" I reply, beginning to whimper again.

"Truthfully, I could come over there myself and beat him up with 3 limbs behind my back" Adam says as he begins to float and holds 1 leg and his arms behind his back.

"But…you're already here" I reply, feeling confused.

"(Groan) I'm not here physically Winry. (Sigh) I forgot in this universe, not all areas of science had advanced, I've used my powers to project a hologram of myself into your universe-I'm just a collection of organized light particles" Adam explains.

I quickly attempted to grab his hand to see if what he meant was true. As I attempted to do so, my hand passed right through.

"But then…how did you touch me earlier?" I ask, feeling confused.

"I changed myself to Hard Light momentarily; when photons or light particles are given sufficient energy in the right sequence, they can act like solid matter-allowing physical interaction" Adam replies calmly, like that kind of thing was a normal occurrence in his universe.

"Well then why don't you go calm Edward down then; or better yet-knock him out?" I inquire, wondering why he wasn't doing anything but talking to me; one who couldn't aid in battle in any way.

"Because I'm not going to clean up after my student's mistake of giving into his Saiyan Rage and bloodlust for battle; you need to help him" Adam states firmly.

"WHAT CAN I DO! IM JUST A HUMAN; IM NOT A SUPER POWERED SAIYAN LIKE YOU OR EDWARD! WHAT-CAN-I-DO!" I scream, my tone frantic and pissed.

"No-not by battle! Absolutely not-you're not fit for that kind of battle, I know that. I meant use emotions to reach Edward" Adam stutters, surprised that I thought he had insinuated that I fight Edward.

"What do you mean by emotions…how can that help my friend" I say as I look at Adam with surprise.

Son Adam/Psyagon

I couldn't believe I had forgotten how much earlier in time I was when I arrived.

"Oh…that's right, forgot that it didn't happen till later in the series" I mutter to myself.

"What was that?" Winry asks curiously, almost hearing my question.

"Oh never mind, but Winry-surely you knew that Edward cares about you" I say, hoping to get back to the original task of having her help calm my former student down.

"Of course he does, he's my best friend" Winry replies as she stares at Edward worriedly.

"No, you don't understand; Edward REALLY cares about you Winry" I argue, putting heavy emphasis on the word really, hoping Winry will catch my drift.

As soon as she heard my sentence, she immediately whipped her head around as though someone had been shot right beside her.

"W-what do you mean Adam?" she replies timidly.

"Think about it; he hates it when you cry-no matter how trivial the situation is, he's always there to support you, and he always does his best to comfort you even if you've upset him. What kind of emotion can possibly allow him to be so kind and give such requited selfless devotion with the kind of attitude he has?" I explain, knowing that this response would be the only thing next to outright telling her that would explain what she needed to do.

Winry Rockbell

As I replayed Adam's last statement in my head, I kept thinking about several of the keywords he had used; emotion, kind, requited, selfless…devotion?

"Devotion…(gasp)" I say out loud to myself, realizing what Adam meant at last.

With a nod, Adam began to disappear and fade away.

"You now know what you must do Winry; and by the way…tell Edward once he's calmed down, that the key to restoring his brother's body lies with the necklace he was given by me" Adam says softly.

"I will!" I say, letting him know how grateful I was for being informed of how Edward truly felt about me.

"Good luck Winry-help Edward defend this world and keep it a pristine place" Adam says just before his hologram vanishes.

With that, I turned my attention to the direction of more explosions and bursts of light, then broke into a reckless run toward Edward.

Edward Elric

As I tried out some new moves on Wrath, screamed in pain; my flame alchemy certainly was on par with Roy's, above it even.

As I boiled out Bradley's eyeballs, I then used my power to heal them and boil them again; I wanted him to suffer for all the innocent people who had died by his hand due to his fellow Homunculus Envy starting the Ishvalan Civil War.

Motionlessly, I engulfed Wrath in flames once again, then healed him as soon as the pain died down, then repeated the cycle.

Suddenly, just before I could do it again for the 100th time-a voice cried out.

"ED!" Winry screams.

I turned my head and saw she was coming this way. "Stay out of this, you don't know what's going on-I'll explain after I kill this joke of a king" I say as I snap my fingers and cause titanium chains to pop out of the ground and bind Bradley to the point of immobility.

"No Ed, I do understand-please don't do this" she begs, crying and hoping I won't kill anymore innocent people.

"Don't do this?" I ask myself out loud, trying to see if I had misheard what she said.

"Don't do this!" I bellow as I turn to face her.

She immediately drew in a sharp gasp of breath and her tears doubled.

"DO YOU KNOW WHAT THESE ASSHOLES HAVE PLANNED FOR AMESTRIS!" I roar as I snap my fingers and levitate the chains with Wrath over to, hanging him right in front of her.

"LOOK IN HIS EYES; ESPECIALLY THE ONE WITH THE OUROBOROS TATOO PUPIL!" I rage, hoping she'd understand.

She looked into his eyes, and seemed to understand what I meant…until she said, "That doesn't make a difference; he needs to be given a chance. And you killed innocent soldiers who don't know what their leader truly is"

I was filled with anger that she was wanting to forgive the monster who had caused the events that made the murderer scar become a killer of state alchemists-including myself nearly.

"You expect me to forgive this monster! ITS HIM AND HIS HOMUNCULI PALS FAULT THAT THE VILLAIN SCAR TRIED TO KILL ME AND AL!" I roar, making the earth rumble and shake.

I then smacked Wrath in the back of the head with such force it broke the chains and knocked him to the ground.

"Don't you get it Winry? I'm doing this so the country can finally be safe; as long as these Homunculi live-they are a threat to everyone" I explain firmly, hoping she'd get the point.

Winry Rockbell

Edward wasn't getting my point; I had to snap him out of it before he could possibly destroy the rest of the planet in a fit of rage.

"You're calling Scar a murderer?" I ask, my voice nearly a whisper.

"LOOK AROUND YOU EDWARD; YOU'RE MORE A MONSTER THAN ANYONE AT THE MOMENT BUT FATHER!" I scream.

Flinching from the force of my fierce tone, Edward looked around…and began to realize what he had done.

Immediately, his eyes became less fierce, and his knees became wobbly.

"I…I…I killed them…hundreds of innocent people" Edward stammers as he begins to cry.

I quickly ran to hug him, knowing he had finally been broken from the rage he was in.

"Oh Ed…its ok; you weren't yourself when it happened-I don't blame you" I say soothingly, trying to make him stop crying.

However, the peace was cut short, as I suddenly felt an intense pain in my right shoulder.

As I turned around, the pain only increased more, as I realized Bradley had stuck his sword through my shoulder, then a torrent of blood gushed out and I feel to the ground.

Edward Elric

As the sword cut Winry, the world began to run in slow motion, and everything else but her fell away.

After what seemed like an eternity, she hit the ground and moaned in pain.

"WINRY!" I howl, horror and fear filling my tone.

Briefly, my horror turned to rage, and I kicked Wrath so hard he began to fly back to Central Command.

To aid his flight, I blasted him with a red burst of Ki into his lower extremities, causing his velocity to double, then crashed into the Central Command Center.

"WINRY-NO!" I scream, as I turn my attention back to her.

I quickly rushed to her at near light speeds and held her head.

"Winry…are you ok?" I cry, as I notice the wound.

She wasn't responding.

"WINRYYYYY!" I bellow, causing the planet to rumble violently.

I quickly used my alchemy, paying the price with a tiny bit of my own life force (an equal amount compared to normal humans) to heal her.

"Winry…speak to me" I plea.

Quietly, her eyes opened (I could hear the muscles that open them move) and looked into mine intensely.

"Edward-" she begins, still weak from the blow to her subclavian artery.

"Yes-what is it Winry?" I ask, my mind finally cleansed of the rage that had filled me entirely.

"I…I know how you feel about me…and…I…I love you too Edward" she continues, blowing me away.

Immediately, my gaze became filled with tears.

"That's why I lost it when we were attacked, I thought someone might accidentally shoot you, or one of them might have been the Homunculi Envy; I'm sorry that I killed those people…the old me never would have done that…the human me" I explain, trailing off as I remembered how I was once human.

Then my eyes filled with tears and I turned my face away from Winry's and wept.

"Edward…why are you looking away?" she asks kindly.

I couldn't answer her I was so stricken with grief and guilt.

Winry Rockbell

I could practically feel his pain, like a throbbing irregular heartbeat; his sadness emanating from him in waves. Why was he so sad?

"Edward…why aren't you looking at me?" I ask, wondering if I had upset him somehow.

"Because I'm a…(Sniffles) I'M A MONSTER!" Edward sobs.

I felt deeply hurt that Edward had taken me seriously; I only said it to help snap him out of his rage.

"I killed hundreds in less than 30 minutes, and…I didn't even listen to their cries of mercy…most were innocent, and how many did I blow to oblivion using that Big Bang Attack on Wrath?" Edward says, his tone depressed and downcast.

As I stared at him sadly, he wept and replied, "That's something I would have never done when I was human"

I couldn't bare to see him crying, so I did the one thing I knew could cheer him up now that we knew how we felt about each other.

I grabbed his head and pulled it to face mine, then-as gently as possibly, I planted a kiss full on the lips of Edward Elric.

Edward Elric

As I was kissed by the girl I loved so much, I felt the world around me melt away; nothing else mattered at this moment.

I realized she truly didn't think I was a monster, and truly loved me; so I deepened the kiss.

However, the moment had to end sooner or later, and thankfully it was my brother instead of anyone else who came running over to me.

"Brother, what happened? What were those powers, and how did you do Alchemy without even moving?" Al badgers; he was still my brother.

"Al…lets finish up things here, and go talk to Colonel Mustang" I reply as I help Winry up, who'd finally regained her strength after being healed.

I decided that since the whole of Central Command had seen my display of ferocity and power, it was time to stop acting like I was the same old Edward. So without further ado, I motionlessly created a gigantic series of pillars that moved in an escalator like fashion, and began to carry us to Eastern Command.