I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist or Brotherhood. But there will be some direct lines from the story.

This story deals with a gender-swapped Ed.

And please feel free to comment and or give suggestions

Winston was gawking at the other girls automail, I felt kinda jealous about it. What really pissed me off was the fact that Winston didn't strip her down like I was earlier.

"How come she gets to keep her pants on?" I asked out loud.

"Because you can't roll up leather dumb-ass." Then he went back to checking out her automail. "You have to introduce me to the creator of this automail."

"Sure no problem, but he lives in a remote place you'll need a guide."

"Okay we just need to find a guide now." Winston said

"I'll take you but on the condition that you forget what happened today." Paninya offered. 'She's flirting with him!' I mentally screamed. I grabbed Winston and pulled him to the side

"Don't make decisions by yourself. Winston she attacked a soldier!" I loudly whispered at him.

"Don't be so petty! It's only a minor problem."

"Minor problem?! Look at what happened to the town!" I yelled pointing to what happened

"Ed! You did most of that!"

"It was her fault she took my watch!" I screamed at him but nobody listened.

We dropped off the luggage at the hotel and followed Paninya up the mountain path. 'Maybe I shouldn't wear black all the time.' I was dying of heat walking through the desert. After crossing a shifty looking bridge we saw a house that looked like it was built into the mountain side. Winston and Paninya walked together most of the way talking about automail. The bitch didn't even give me my watch back through the entire trip. Let's just say I didn't like her. Then Paninya walked into the house and started introducing people to us.

"Is that Mr Tommy he doesn't look like much of a loner?" Winston asked and she laughed.

"No that's Lear and his wife Sadila. Mr Tommy is his father." Paninya said leading us to a outside table with tea cups set up. I leaned over to Winston.

"We don't have time for tea parties let's just get my watch and leave."

"I'm not leaving until I've meet Mr. Tommy." Winston growled at me. When Mr Tommy came out I left the table so the gear heads could talk and I went over to Sadila. She was pregnant and my guess was that she was due soon. Al and I were talking to the couple for a while before Winston called me over. And before I knew it I was in my underwear again. At least this time I wasn't in the middle of the city.

"Why are you pretending to be a guy?" Paninya asked

"A long story that's none of your damn business." I snapped at her. Winston and Tommy were talking technical stuff when I heard.

"The stress is too much maybe that's why she's shot for her age."

"Short... Wait a minute so if I lighten this arm I might grow taller?"

"It's possible." I was over the moon when he said that.

"I was right! Mr Tommy please make me your apprentice!" Winston bowed as he asked.

"Defiantly not." He shot him down. "I don't want an apprentice

"Well in that case just teach him how to make me taller." I begged. We begged him for a little longer and it ended with him kicking us out.

"Come on Ed hurry up we better get back to town soon." Winston said. But it didn't speed me up I felt the familiar ache in my automail telling me that it was going to rain. By the time I was dressed it started raining. 'Now Winston has more time to make Mr Tommy change his mind.'

"I bought more time for Winston to ask and what does he do? Talk to Paninya about what ever!?" I was passing and bitching out loud to Al.

"Calm down sister they're just friends." I looked at Al 'Oh god he is so naive.' I thought. There was a silence when all we heard was

"My grandson is being born!" Shouted at the top of Mr Tommy's lungs. When the initial panic was done Mr Tommy left to go get the doctor. We laid Sadila down on a bed and Mr Tommy was back fairly soon.

"The bridge is out." He said. I ran outside to try and fix it, but physics wasn't on my side today. Every time the bridge got to a certain point it would break due to the weight. We couldn't add supports because the water underneath would wash them away. It was pouring and the only solution we can up with was to have Tommy take the old path which is longer and more dangerous. When he left I kicked a rock into the ravine.

"I'm a State Alchemist, a living weapon and at this important time I can't do anything." When we came back in Paninya threw herself on Winston.

"She's really bleeding and there's a lot of water.!"

"Oh her water broke." He said simply. "Looks like she's going to give birth soon." We were panicked. The doctor wasn't going to make it in time. The three of us were running around the room when Winston stopped us by pulling on our hair. He was still holding mine when he called for Mr. Lear. He told him his plan and Mr. Lear had some concerns. Winston tied one of the aprons on and walked towards the bed room.

"I know I don't have any experience, but we don't have time to argue. Everyone help! We are going to bring that baby out." Winston said "Ed, Al get some hot water."

"How much?" Al asked

"The more the better. Paninya get some more towels. Mr. Lear do you have any disinfectant? And get Sadila a pillow."Paninya came up to me and asked

"Are you sure letting him do this is okay?"

"We are going to have to trust him. He comes from a long line of doctors and when growing up he read medical texts instead of actual books. But he's never had real training. He's going to have to do this from memory."

"What?!" Paninya said alarmed

"We have no choice but to trust his memory." When Paninya left my side I went up to Winston who was frozen at the door. "Winston!" I cried out to get his attention.

"Good luck!" Al and I said at the same time. He went into the room and asked Paninya for help. It felt like hours were going by and all Al and I could do was sit and wait. When she started screaming we freaked out.

"I'm actually really feeling afraid." I sat down besides Al

"Me too." I tried to comfort my little brother by leaning on him. "Sister!" He called to me and I looked up. Paninya feel out of the room mumbling about blood. I looked into the room to see Winston sitting on the floor.

"What happened?" I asked and he just pointed to the bed. I looked up to see Mr. Lear holding a baby in his hands. 'He did it.' I thought "The baby!" I hugged him and started laughing. "You did it." Then I remembered. I went to the door and called out. "What's wrong Paninya can't handle a little blood?"

"Time to wash the baby." Winston said still sitting on the floor.

"Alchemist throughout the centuries were unable to create life! But a woman is able to carry a life to term in 280 days." I said

"Don't compare the sanctity of life with science!" He yelled at me.

"Sorry professional interest. But it's still wonderful! Humans are really amazing." I looked down to him "You were amazing too." He started laughing at that.

"No seriously you helped deliver a baby without incident." I told him.

"Great now could you help me up? My back hurts."

I somehow managed to get Winston on my back and carried him out of the room

"It's embarrassing to be carried by a girls who's shorter then me." He waited a few seconds "Seriously how can you lift me I weigh more then you."

"If it's embarrassing I could just put you down." I threatened.

"Oh by the way Edelle, I saw what was in the watch." I dropped him just as soon as the words were out of his mouth.

"How dare you open it!" I yelled at him. He hung his head low and apologized to me. "Idiot" I dragged him over to a chair and helped him sit on it. "Al hasn't even seen it."

"Why?"

"It's a warning and remembrance for myself. This way I will always carry it with me. Although its a bit wishy washy." I finished and Winston was crying. "Why of all people are you crying?"

"Because you two wont."

"Fool." I told him and shook my head. He had a stressful day don't make fun of him for being emotional. "I think you should go home Winston. Now you know how precious having a family is. Granny must be missing you. Go back home and look after her." He wiped the tears from his eyes.

"You're wrong. Now that I know that I'm not able to go home. You were right you have to become stronger, and so do I. To let you continue your journey without regrets I have to be stronger. The only way I can help you is to become a better mechanic, that's why I'm going to ask Mr. Tommy to accept me as an apprentice one more time."

"Good luck with that." I told him then walked over to the watch thief and hit her.

"You could've used your left hand" she said rubbing her face where I hit her.

"Okay I'll use my left hand." And I hit her again.

He said yes, sort of. Winston and Paninya walked us back to town. By the time we got our stuff the train was already pulling out of the station. We said our goodbyes as we chased down the train.

"Remember call Granny!" I yelled at him

'Like I need you to remind me!"

"Better steal some techniques from that old man. The next time we meet you're going to fit me with a new mechanical arm."

"Leave it to me!" And with those final words we got out of ear shot. Dublith here we come.

Hi guys. We'll be in Dublith next time and instead of two short chapters I gave you a longer one. We get to meet Izumi in the next chapter, the badass house wife. Remember what I said I have tough skin so feel free to comment and suggest things. See you next time.