"Why is it quiet and where the hell's Tiger?" Bucky asked becoming uneasy about the feel of the atmosphere. "I agree, we should not be here" Farnsworth the English commando said "Come on we have to find Tiger" Capt said leading his men up a trial "Wait Cap" James said sniffing the air "What is it?" Dugan asked "blood" Howlett replied making everyone freeze "Blood Where?" Bucky asked "Up ahead" James said indicating the path they were on "I've got a bad feeling about this" Capt said moving on. 'Why would there be blood here?' he thought. "Something doesn't seem right about this" James said. "I know" Dugan said readying his shotgun "Easy guys" Morita said walking forward. "Guys" Capt said indicating some guy "Is that?" Farnsworth asked unnerved. "Yeah it is" Capt said getting closer to see if he could find the dog tags of the solider. "This guy must be Tiger" Dugan said "But how did he get skewered by stalagmites?" James said.
The Howling Commandoes investigating the spikes "This doesn't seem natural Steve" Bucky said "I know" Capt said looking down into valley below "this seems like it's the work of HYDRA" Capt said "We'll need a sample of this spike and take it back to Stark, see what he thinks of it" Bucky said looking around the cliff. "I'm betting HYDRA's behind this" Bucky said "No doubt" Capt said as he used his shield to break off one of the rock spike off. "We're leaving HYDRA's already ahead of us" Capt said 'What is this, and who did it?" he thought.
Allied Base London
"Well Stark what are we looking at with this thing?" Capt asked. "Nothing I've seen before, its like somebody forced the earth to spike up and take this shape" Stark said "Is that all?" Capt asked. "Yeah, but that's not what I've been studying" Stark said moving over to a table where a pair of metal limbs laid. "High mix of chrome, nickel and iron, Plus it has mechanics more advanced than anything I've seen before, not to mention that it has a connection port on the shoulder for the arm and the knee for the leg. How they work I'm still working on" Stark said "So that kid wears this every day, no wonder the kids short, if I had time I could replace the heavier metal armour with a lighter and stronger alloy, like if I could scrounge up some Vibranium" Stark said "What about Adamantium?" James asked "Too hard to manipulate at this current level of tech, but whoever did that could possible manipulate Adamantium, but not us" Stark said slicking his hair back. "So what's the kid's name and story?" Stark asked. "Don't know about his name, but he says he's from an alternate dimension and some stone called the heart of something was the cause" Capt said "Intriguing" Stark said smiling.
"Okay think Ed, how are you going to get out of here?" he asked looking around "Mayber I could transmute a way out, grab my automail and try to reconnect it" Ed said hopping to the nearest wall "Here goes nothing" Ed said attempting to transmute with juts his right foot and left hand and put them together before punching/kicking the wall creating a hole in the wall. "Now to grab my automail" Ed said hopping along the wall. "Now where is it?" he asked passing the room where his Automail was being examined "There it is" Ed said hopping over to it.
"He's gone?" Capt asked looking at the cell "He can't have gone far" Stark said looking at the whole "How did he do this?" Bucky asked "Come on we'll find him" Capt said splitting off form Bucky and Stark. The captain looked everywhere, "Where did he go?" Capt asked passing Stark's room when he heard a restrain moan of pain "here you are" Capt said looking as Ed flexed his right arm which was metal "That feels better, I'm surprised you found me this quickly" Ed said performing a few kicks with his leg "So now that your limbs are connected what are you going to do?" Capt asked. "Firstly that spike over there" Ed indicated to the sample brought back from Sicily "What about it?" Capt asked. "I'm wondering did you see any rectangular marks on the base?" Ed asked looking at it "Yeah, why?" Capt asked "Transmutation that is what caused this spike, where did you find it?" Ed said "Sicily" Capt said "What was the location?" Ed asked "A cliff top overlooking a valley is that important?" Capt asked. "It is considering the warehouse my last mission in Amestris was located was in a valley," Ed said.
Unknown HYDRA base
"So this is the eye of Atlantis?" a voice asked "Yes Herr Scadel" another voice said "And what Col Jaeger, do you plan to do with this?" Red Skull asked. "I plan to sink the allied bases leaving only us victorious in this war" Col. Jaeger said "Very good, do you have the components?" Red Skull asked "Nearly my general, we have just one more thing collect" Jaeger said "And what is that?" Skull asked. "The very core of the Atlantis trigger" Jaeger said leading him over to an old machine "Once we find the cylinder, we can place the eye of Atlantis into it and control where we flood the Earth" Jaeger said viciously smirking "When one fall two more shall rise" Red Skull said "Hail HYDRA" Jaeger said. "HAIL HYDRA!" the rest of the room said
Allied Base London
"This is Alchemy?" Stark asked "It's a different form of it, but it's primarily the same" Ed said "So what would cause this thing to be like this?" Capt asked. "Who knows, I didn't think Alchemy would work in this world" Ed said "But you used it to escape your cell" James said "Well, I did. So who in this world would have knowledge and ability to use Amestrisian Alchemy?" Ed asked. "I don't know, but Captain I have to ask, but what is HYDRA?" Ed asked. "They are The Axis advance weapon department and their leader in Johan Schmidt: The Red Skull" Capt said "Red Skull huh?" Ed asked. "Yeah, recently he's been seeking out the mystical to achieve world domination" Stark said "So that's why he's after the Eye of Atlantis" Ed said becoming serious "The eye of Atlantis" Ed said "What about it?" Bucky asked. "It could be something from my world, the Heart of Amestris, the biggest philosopher's stone I've seen" Ed said. "How big is it?" Stark asked. "You see the blue area of the captain's shield?" Ed as he pointed to the centre of Capt's shield "Yeah" those gathered said "That big" Ed said "And that's the largest you've seen one?" James asked. "Yeah, considering they're usually the size of a pebble, and they can take any shape" Ed said.
Greece
"Keep digging you rats" Jaeger said looking down on those he captured to be his slaves as they worked endlessly without breaks for hours looking for the missing component "Once I have that piece the world will belong to the Red Skull and HYDRA" he said as he looked down again to see a young woman collapse "Got to get up" she said "Yes you better, but maybe this will help you" Jaeger said striking the poor girl with a lash. After fifty lashes he summoned two soldiers "Take this one to the men's tent; I'm sure they'll love the entertainment" Jaeger said cruelly smirking. "Yes sir" one of them said "And once we have the chamber, CHIMERA will finally unleash theiur ture abilities on this world"