Sorry Everyone! I've been so busy that I haven't been able to write anything. But here's a new chapter. ENJOY!

"I'm Major Hughes, and you're Laura Marsive and Edward Elric, right?"

"Uh huh."

"Yeah that's right."

The Major smirked at us and said, " Mustang told me about you two. I'm an old friend of his."

"Really?" I asked excitedly. Mustang really didn't seem the 'friend' type.

"Yup. He's always bragging about that silly promotion too." he replied with a faraway look before looking back to us. "Come on guys, we better work as a team."

"Alright!" I shouted.

I helped Ed back onto the top of the train and Hughes soon followed. Then we finally made our way to the front of the train.

Once we reached the engine both Ed and I hung halfway upside down on either side of the train and peeked inside. There was two men with guns in addition to the two conductors. Ed and I pulled back up and then on the silent count of three, we both swung inside and kicked the gunmen in their heads. They were still conscious but by time the conductors were done with them, they probably wished they weren't.

Once everything was taken care of there Ed and I went back to the roof while Hughes stayed with the conductors. Just as we were almost up top, we were shot at. We ducked our heads just as Hughes shouted, "Hey! You okay?" before being shot at himself.

"We're fine." I hollered just as Ed created a cannon and shot the shooter.

"Nice one Ed!" I said giving him a high five just as one of the conductors shouted at us.

"Hey! Don't mess with that tinder! It provides for this train!"

"Sorry!" we hollered simultaneously. Then our minds began to get to work. A box of tinder sounds helpful. I then grinned and looked to see Ed with an identical devious grin. "You thinking what I'm thinking?" he asked me.

"Oh yeah."

We then clapped our hands and pressed it to the closest car. I created a microphone which attached to Ed's speaker inside the First Class car where the remaining hostages were. I gave the mic to Ed. "The honors all yours."

He nodded with a smile before speaking into the mic. "Attention gun toting extremists! Can you hear me alright? Or did you blow your ears out playing target practice? Let the hostages go! You've got no right to drag these travelers into your personal politics."

Through our own speaker, we can hear the leader reply, "You're one of Mustang's secret agents aren't you? Interfere and I'll kill these hostages one by one."

"You're just itching to draw blood aren't you? Alright."

He nodded to me and I clapped my hands and placed them on the car. I created a large pipe that connected from the tinder box to First Class. Ed then proceeded. "Okay passengers! Please hold on to your seats and get ready for some turbulence!"

Together we opened the pipe and released the water into the car, hopefully washing out all the bad guys. Ed and I exchanged high fives, happy that our plan worked.

Climbing on top of the car, we opened the roof hatch and peered inside just in time to hear, "Before I finish off the General, I'll take care or you!"

"Me first!" Ed shouted as he jumped in.

I face palmed at his idiocy. I watched as the bad guy, Bald, moved out if the way just in time. He was a big man with long hair pulled back and he was wearing an eyepatch. Ed had spun around and both of them went at each other, ending with them clasping hand to hand. To our surprise, Bald had automail too, in the form of a gun. "Huh?" Ed intelligently said when he saw the automail, before grinning, "Two automails, go figure."

I noticed that with them both having their automail, they were pretty even. So, I decided to create odds. I jumped in feet first and did a quick land on his automail, causing them to back from each other. I jumped off and landed next to Ed. "What'd you do that for?" Ed scowled.

Smirking, I replied, "There's no way I'm letting you have all the fun."

"You're just brats!" we turned our attention back to Bald, "Don't tell me the army's feeding kids into its chophouse now."

"You're gonna pay for that brat comment!" Ed shouted, "And no one's feeding us into anything!"

"Thats right!" I added, "We're on our own!"

As I had shouted the last part I had put my hand up in a fist, the one with automail. "You too?" he asked before scowling, "Little piece of advice, kids. I used to be in his military too. It was fine as long as I was pissing on que until I wanted this upgraded arm. They didn't like that, saying that I'll be stronger than my superiors. See the queen bees don't like it when one of the little workers have a sting they can't control."

"Ouch Ed," I whispered to him, "I think he just called you small."

His eyebrow twitched while Bald continued his "advice". "Shortly after he procedure, they discharged me. Since then I've had a taste for destroying them and the nation they command. You two understand. You've got arms just like mine. You wanted to be stronger too, and the military will just jet rid of you as soon as you're not convenient."

"No we don't understand." I answered, "We don't understand how you can be such an idiot to think those are even decent reasons."

"Exactly." Ed agreed, "AND, don't you ever lump in our reasons for these arms when yours is bad! Now!"

I dove past Bald just as he and Ed ended up clasping hands again. This time though, since Bald's was made with such a weak metal, Ed smashed it with his own. The sudden shatter caused Bald to stubble backwards in shock but he was able to regain his balance. "Hey!" I said from behind him, "Forget about me?"

He turned and just as he did I punched him hard with my left fist. He fell on the ground, unconscious and with a big red mark on his cheek. That's when Al decided to join us and the four of us, including Major Hughes, all chuckled and we gave each other a thumbs up.

"Well good grief." Hughes said, "That was something different."

I laughed but then I saw his arm. "Oh my god, are you okay, Major?"

"Huh?" he glanced at his arm before laughing, "Yeah. It's just a scratch."

Just then, there was some footsteps behind us. We turned to find a man, who I assumed was the General, standing behind us. We all straightened up and saluted. He laughed. "At ease everyone. I just wanted to congratulate you personally on a job well done as well as thank you for saving me and my family."

We all replied at once."It was nothing."

"You don't have to thanks us."

"Just doing our job."

We looked at each other and all laughed for a moment before gathering all the bad guys and tying them up. Ed and I also had to fix the car and tinder box back to normal.

Finally we pulled into station where many military officers were waiting. Among them, I could spot Lt Colonel Mustang as well as Lt Hawkeye. The baddies were all deposited on the platform before Mustang walked up to Bald. Sternly, he said "Don't take any lives. That's all I asked you, Bald" then he smirked, "And as it turns out, it seems you did just as you were told."

Smirking, Bald replied "So I take it you're Mustang." and then before we knew it, his bonds had been cut and he was about to attack Mustang. However, Mustang calmly snapped his fingers and a flame appeared and covered Bald. We had to cover our eyes from the wind and brightness. "That flame," Ed said, "It's awesome."

I agreed and secretly doubted that I would ever be able to be as good. "I controlled myself." Mustang announced, "The damage to your skin isn't nearly as bad as it feels. You can call me Roy Mustang or just Lt. Colonel. Hell, you can even call me the Flame Alchemist. Whatever you do, remember the pain."

Ed then finally snapped out of his awe and ran up to Mustang. I followed him to ensure he wouldn't do anything stupid. "Hey!" he shouted to him, "You knew. That's why you had us take this train. You put us at risk on purpose."

I looked at Mustang as well. "It's true, isn't it?"

"Come on, guys." he said with a smirk, "You think I've got the whole world on strings?"

Then without waiting for an answer, he walked off with the rest of the soldiers following behind. Ed looked stunned while I just looked at the floor in frustration. Al came over to us as well. "Those people had us dancing right in the palms of their hands, didn't they?" he asked us without waiting for an answer, "I guess it doesn't matter what we do, we'll never be the ones in control."

"We're we ever?" I muttered, my mind flashing to Truth.

Ed turned to me. "What?"

I just shook my head and then put on a fake smile. "Nothing."

He sighed and was about to say something when we heard, "There they are. Over here! Over here!"

We turned to see Marion, laughing and waving at us. Seeing her put a genuine smile on my face. "Hey, Marion!" We all smiled and waved back at her.

"Thank you big brothers and sister!" she shouted to us, "I'll remember you! Thank you! Thank you!"

"You're welcome!" I shouted back before turning to the Elrics, "You know, it almost doesn't matter that we're not in control. People like her make it worth it."

They both nodded and said, "Right."

We laughed and then began our walk into Central.