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.

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I fell down the wall. I think it hurt less fighting against Slicer. Greed broke the cover of my automail so I couldn't use the blade. And I was bleeding a lot, he reopened some of my cuts from when I fought Slicer.

"You dead?" He questioned from across the room. I couldn't let him win so I painfully stood back up. "Very good." He said as if this was a simple sparring match between friends. I charged him again and he threw me into some creates. He grabbed my shirt and lifted me up. "Better spit out the secret of the soul." I coughed. I was trying to figure out a way to beat him from the beginning and I finally got it. I had to change the density of the carbon he was using as his shield.

"Thanks a lot. I finally figured it out how to beat you." I clapped my hands and touched his arm that was holding me. My automail was ruined but at least it still moved. He dropped me and I landed on the ground. I lowered my head and waited for him to come at me. I transmuted spikes on my knuckles and meet his punch. His hand broke down to the layer of muscle. Then he regenerated it again. I kept using it against him beating him and his mind game.

"How the hell?" He questioned. I smirked and explained it to him. "And I thought you where just a stupid kid, I like your spirit, but you're a bad match to fight against. I gotta go now bye." He said that and the door was kicked in by two soldiers.

"We've found the boy." They started shooting at Greed without even making sure that I was out of the line of fire. They advanced as Greed escaped, when I was close enough one of them grabbed me.

"Let me go!" I yelled trying to get out of his arms. "No you don't understand there is something I have to ask him." I struggled against him. "Let me go!" I yelled they dragged me out of the room. Once we got to the entrance a man put a towel on my shoulders still holding me down. "Please my little brother is down there you have to let me go so I can get him." I begged the man, tears were coming out of my eyes.

"Edward calm down it's okay." Wait I recognized that voice I looked at the man really for the first time. "Havoc?! What are you doing here?" I questioned rubbing tears from my eyes. It was Havoc cigarette and all.

"Colonel said that you were late doing your assessment thingy so he sent me down to see if everything was all right." Wait Havoc would let me go save Alphonse

"Havoc you have to let me go Alphonse is still down there." I grabbed his uniform and begged him.

"Sure after we get you checked out by a medic." He stood up looking for a medic.

"Havoc you can't do that."

"Ed you're hurt and you need help."

"No you don't understand"

"What afraid of needles?" He mocked me. I pulled him down so we where eye level.

"I'm a girl!" I whispered at him loudly. He just stood there looking at me with big eyes. "I've been pretending to be a boy so I can be a State Alchemist and fix Al's body." I explained. He was still staring at me. "Please don't tell anybody, they'll kick me out or worse I'll go to jail and never fix Alphonse."

"You're a girl. Like with boobs and everything?" He asked eyes going down to look at my chest.

"Havoc!" I hit him. "Yes I have boobs but I'm still fifteen years old so no matter how old I get you are still going to be ten years older then me!"

"Right that wasn't appropriate, Okay so um how? Were you always a girl or did an Alchemy experiment went wrong?"

"I was born a girl, why does this even matter let me go get Alphonse." I tried to stand again.

"Easy there boss, let's get you check out first.

"Havoc I'm cut on my stomach meaning I'll have to take off my shirt, meaning ..." I left him to finish the sentence. He stood in front of me and stripped off my jacket and took my pocket watch, then he did my hair from the braid and pulled my hair, bangs included, back into a ponytail. "What the hell are you doing?" I asked him

"Trying to make not look like you." After about five minutes of trying Havoc succeeded. I didn't look like the boy I was trying to but the girl I should be.

"You ruined my tank top" I said on the walk to the ambulance.

"I'll get you a new one, and stop trying to sound like a man you are a girl right now." He told me. I sarcastically giggled at him making a face. When we made it there Armstrong was already getting patched up.

"Major what happened to you it looks like you lost a fight with a bull!" Havoc exclaimed "This is my little sister um.. Katrina." He snapped as he came up with my name.

"It's okay Havoc Armstrong knows." I informed him as I jumped up onto the table the medics had set up.

"What for how long! Am I the last person to know?"

"Shut up you aren't the last so don't worry, I still have to tell the rest of the team." The medics starting patching me up.

"We should probably take you to the hospital." One of them said.

"I'm staying here until I find my little brother" I glared the one who spoke down.

"So does the Colonel know?" He asked

"Yeah why do you think he sent you down to check on me?" I asked back.

"He would've done it himself but he's been in Central for the past week."

"Oh the lazy Colonel taking a break?" Havoc took a drag on his cigarette and nodded his head

"Something like that." He looked like he was hiding something.

"Okay you're all good." And with that I jumped off the table and took my coat and pocket watch back. Out of my coat pocket I grabbed 4,000 cens I gave two thousand to each of them.

"If anyone asks you didn't treat a girl you attended to the wounds of State Alchemist Edward Elric all right?" I asked and they both nodded. "That's how you keep a secret Havoc." I walked back to the Devil's Nest and undid my hair and put my jacket back on.

When I got to Al blood was coming out of his armour and he wasn't responding to me.

"Armstrong there's someone in Al." I whispered to him I opened up his armour to find a dead woman with a stab wound to the chest right through her heart. I started to gag as Havoc and Armstrong dragged her out of Al. When she was out and covered I looked at Al.

"Al!" I started knocking on his helmet "Al answer me!" He started to move the armour "That's it Al it's me you big brother." I said giving him the clue that we weren't alone.

"Big Brother?" I smiled letting go of the breath the I was holding. "You're covered in blood!" He looked down and saw the the blood was coming from him, then he looked at the corps. "I couldn't save her." I swear if he could've cried he would have. I hugged the helmet of the armour.

"It's okay Al it's not your fault, let's go home, teacher must be worried about you." I went to start attaching his chest plate back onto the rest of the armour when the Fuhrer told us to stop.

"The man behind all of this did you make any deals with the man?" He asked

"No" I shook my head.

"Did you obtain any important information?"

"Nothing beneficial to the military." I reported.

"You misunderstand, if you had made deals with them then we might have to execute you two depending on the seriousness of the matter." And when he said that his armed guards pointed their guns at me.

"If you had made deals with those who meant harm to the military..."

"Not at all. Do you have any more questions?" I asked

"Your right steel arm and your brothers body are they related in any way?" I held my expression and didn't answer the man. Then he chuckled. "An honest man." He turned around "Let's move out."And with that he and his men left Havoc Armstrong and my brother and I alone.

The two men helped me carry Al back to teacher's place because Al was still to shocked to walk. They left shortly after, and when they left I started to wash the blood out of Al's armour. It was completely dark by the time that I finished. I looked to Al who was still holding his knees.

"You all right?"

"Yeah just a bit confused."

"It's not your fault Al." I told him

"It's not that, I remember what happened when my body was brought over there." He vaguely told me but I knew he's seen the truth. "I didn't find anything about human transmutation."

"That's okay" I told him

"After all that no gain." He clipped on his chest plate and put his helmet into his hands.

"No that's not true remember the hospital in Central, those with the uroborus tattoo and the philosopher's stone..."

"Yup according to the president they might be associated with the unease of the military and he wants them caught."

"Then why was it necessary to slaughter all of them?" I asked "If he wanted all of them caught he should have caught them and made them spit out their locations." I said

"That's right" Al agreed with me. " It was strange in the first place that the president had to come down himself when he had so many men."

"Yeah it's not making a lot of sense... I'll stick with the military for now I guess." I kicked a rock across the walkway.

"We might find things out about the philosopher's stone" Al said in a cheerful voice.

"All right it's decided... Izumi Al is finally clean can we come back in I called into the house."

"Fine" She called back "I still can't believe he fought you Ed he said he didn't attack girls."
"Well I don't go around saying "Hi I'm Edward Elric State Alchemist who's actually a girl"" I ended with a fake smile. And with that she went back to ignoring me.

Hi guys sorry for the break between post. Well I think things are moving along smoothly, I threw Havoc in there because Mustang would have been worried about Edelle. Also if you have been paying attention this is the first person Ed has told about her being a girl.

So see you next time in Rush Valley again. And please like always fell free to comment.