We Lost Our Light

by audaciousaudino

AU; What would happen if Hohenheim never left? Would Ed still like alchemy? Would he still join the military? Would Al stay home and take care of his family and fall in love with Winry? Will Royai happen? How will Hohenheim staying affect Lt. Colonel Hughes? Will he still have a kid, a family? Read to find out all this, and learn why its a good thing Hohenheim left. Many pairings.

20. Truth

Ed groaned as he sat up. He felt his head due to habit. He looked at the ground he was sitting on. But there wasn't any ground. Everything was white. There was nothing but an odd gate in front of him. He stood up and was welcomed by a white figure that looked like a little boy- though no features were shown. "Where am I?"

"At The Gate." The boy answered with a smile.

"Why?"

"You are dead, Edward."

"What do you-?" It all came back to Ed. Mom's leaving, going to the military, Dad's death, Trisha gettng married to Hughes, Al and Winry coming to Central, Ed getting promoted, Bradley being a humonculi, the government going corrupted, Trisha and Riza dying, and Ed's suicide. Ed looked at the white boy with a lost expression. "What do I do now?"

"You can give something up. Equivalent Exchange. I can let you live."

Ed thought about it for a second. Did he want to live again? "I don't want to live in a world like that."

"Then why not live in another one?"

"What do you mean?"

"I can show you a world similar to your's. In fact, it is the same. The events, however, are not."

"I'm listening," Ed said.

"I won't tell you everything. But there is a happy ending, Trisha doesn't leave for another man. You and Al are pretty much always together."

"I've heard enough," Ed walked up to the white boy. "What's the price?"

"This world."

"How can I offer that?"

"You get a new world in exchange. You'll be seven again."

"But I'll be guilty about this world!"

"Oh, don't worry. I get your memory as well."

Ed stopped and thought about it. "...Will it hurt everyone to be sucked into this gate?"

"Not at all."

"How do I know you're telling the truth?"

"I am Truth."

"Fine. It's a deal."

"Good," Truth grinned widely as the world outside the white universe was sucked into the gate.

Ed watched as the world blurred into the gate. He didn't know how to feel. "What now?"

Truth grinned as the last of the world blurred into the gate. "Now you jump in."

"I'll be born again?"

"Sort of. You'll know when it happens."

"Okay..." Ed jumped in without another word. The gate sucked him up and spit out his soul into the stomach of a pregnant Trisha Elric.

Edward Elric was sent to the "canon" world of FMA and he never went back to the awful world from which he came.