Hands made of concrete reached out to grab Scar, which he was barely able to dodge. They were fighting by an old railway and Al was doing his best to hold off against Scar until his brother arrived, so they could defeat the Ishvalan together.
Concrete and other nearby materials flew through the air as the two alchemists used the resources around them to take the other out.
"Is that all you've got?" Scar mocked the suit of armour.
"Not even close!" Al shot back as he threw a punch at Scar's face, now switching to regular physical attacks. Scar dodged the punch as several more followed.
As he dodged each punch, Scar's hand, which was hidden behind his back, crackled blue as he readied for an attack. Just as he was about to strike, he was suddenly caught off guard by a punch in the gut, causing him to fly back.
Scar grunted as his back made contact with a freight car.
He slowly got back up. But before Scar could say anything to Al, a kick to his face sent him flying back again. Al easily recognized the person who just arrived on scene.
"Brother!"
"Hey, Al!"
"Look out!"
Ed was able to heed his brother's warning in time to just barely jump out of the way from an attack from Scar. He landed effortlessly on his feet next to his brother.
Ed and Al stood beside each other in battle positions as Scar did the same a few feet across from them.
Unfortunately, their battle was promptly interrupted by a sudden voice.
"Found you!" the voice cried. Gluttony landed on his feet as he jumped from high ground to be in the middle of their fight. "The Ishvalan!"
"That tattoo!"
"A homunculus!"
Gluttony launched into an attack right away, launching himself at Scar. Scar was quick, though, and instead, Gluttony swiftly ends up on the ground by Scar's hand. Scar, with his right hand already placed on Gluttony's back, used his destructive alchemy to make him cough up blood.
The effect didn't last long as just a few seconds later, a red light crackled around Gluttony, signaling his regenerative abilities and revival from Scar's attack.
Before he could process what just happened, Scar was thrown against the freight car again with Gluttony slamming into him not even a second later.
He released himself from Scar, but didn't have time to do anything else before Ed and Al delivered a kick right in Gluttony's face, causing him to stumble back.
"I've had enough of—!"
Whatever Ed was going to say, he was cut off by the concrete below Gluttony shooting up on a slant, throwing him into another freight car.
"Now!" someone shouted.
Three cloaked figures emerged from seemingly out of no where. All three kept their heads down, still allowing a shadow to cover the top halves of their faces, despite the daylight.
"The Cloaked Alchemists?!" Al accidentally said his thoughts. He shocked by their sudden appearance. Ed was also astonished as they made their entrance.
To Ed and Al it seemed that the one in the blue cloak, Ash, was the one who had given the order.
The one in the red cloak, Raven, had kept her eyes on her target the entire time and when given the order, started advancing towards Gluttony at amazing speed. The one in the grey cloak, Azure, also advancing towards Gluttony, but not as fast. But Ash stayed where he was, leaning against the closest object, all his weight seemed to be put on his left foot.
For a moment or two, Ed and Al watched as two of the Cloaked Alchemists faced off against Gluttony. Even though it was just the two of them fighting, both boys could tell that they were worthy of their reputation. Ed's eyes trailed on Raven. The way she moved seemed familiar, but Ed couldn't quite place how.
"We'll leave Scar up to you!" Raven told Ed and Al, her back facing them as she focused on Gluttony. The boys nodded. Azure quickly drew a transmutation circle on the ground, creating a wall to separate the two battles.
"Scar!" Ed shouted, drawing the Ishvalan's attention away from the battle with Gluttony and towards the Elric brothers. A concrete wall now blocked their view of the homunculus and Cloaked Alchemists.
Ed's fist made contact with Scar's jaw, but Scar grabbed his wrist. Before alchemy could be used, though, Scar felt something make contact with him from behind as he was kicked back by Al.
For a short while, all three refrained from using alchemy and showed off their hand-to-hand combat skills.
Once the three boys stood a foot away from each other, panting, Scar raised his right arm – unleashing his destruction alchemy.
Ed made a wall from the ground to shield him and Al.
An explosive sound was heard and the brothers instinctively crouched behind the wall again to protect themselves from flying debris.
The brothers noticed the wall that was previously separating the two battles had been destroyed. They spared a glance over at the Cloaked Alchemists. It seemed they had put a protective wall around their comrade, Ash.
Gluttony, who had just been compressed in a metal cage, was now freed due to Scar's explosion. Azure and Raven silently cursed before they began their fight with Gluttony once again.
Finally, Ed and Al turned their heads to face Scar again, putting their hands together and readying their alchemy.
"Multiple crimes: including the murder of the Rockbells!" Ed said through gritted teeth.
"You'll pay for those crimes!" Al exclaimed as the two engaged in a more intensified battle with Scar.
For some reason, upon hearing their words, Raven hesitated.
"Raven!" Ava shouted. If it wasn't for her speed, Raven wouldn't have managed to dodge Gluttony's tongue before it was sliced off by Ava's weapon.
But being a homunculus, that didn't last long before a red crackling light appeared.
The way Ash stood off to the side, he seemed to be injured, and both Azure and Raven's movements seemed to slow as if they were... tired?
A sewer lid that was close by suddenly flew up. A man who didn't look like he was an Amestrian jumped out, and in swift movements landed on top of Gluttony. He jumped back within seconds, just in time to watch Gluttony explode. Probably placing a bomb on him in the process.
"Ling!" Ed shouted.
"In peak condition you're probably three times faster than him." Azure whispered to Raven.
As the red crackling appeared Ling shouted, "Get me a sturdy wire!"
"R-Right!" Ed responded, using parts of the train tracks to do so.
Ling, with the help of Raven used the wire to tightly tie up Gluttony. Raven's eyes never once left the homunculus in front of her.
"Your own meat that expands from within the wire will end up binding you tighter!" Ling explained to Gluttony as he finished tying him up.
A car arrived on scene and sped up to them as the driver shot Scar in the leg with her gun. Lieutenant Hawkeye, who was in disguise, loaded Ling and a captured Gluttony in the car. In the meantime, Azure kept pushing and nudging Raven to walk back to Ash. Not allowing the girl to turn her head to face Ed or Al.
"We need to go." Ash told his two teammates as Ed attacked Scar once again, this time with an advantage.
The sudden sound of a little girl's battle cry was heard as Al was knocked down.
"H-Hey!" Ed cried, clearly confused as he faced his new opponent.
"Eastern alchemy?" Ash said to no one in particular.
"Maybe she and that other guy – Ling – are from Xing." Azure concluded.
A thick haze soon appeared, probably created by that girl from Xing. It covered everything in sight, making it hard to see. The sound of Military Police arriving signaled the Cloaked Alchemists that it was time to leave.
"Quick," Ash said in a voice of authority through his haste. "Let's go." Azure put his arm around her shoulder so she could support his weight.
The aftermath of the chaos that has just happened was soon to come. Scar... Gluttony... The Cloaked Alchemists... That girl from Xing... Ed would have to explain it all to Mustang, which he wasn't particularly looking forward to... but right now, he didn't seem to care.
The group of Cloaked Alchemists that had come to save them were about to leave. One in particular had caught his eye, but he wasn't too sure about anything yet.
Just as the group ran past him, he caught a glimpse thanks to the sunlight that shone from above. It was brief, but it was all that he needed for his brain to start running at a severely fast pace.
"M-Myra?" he said with a shaky breath.
The girl who recognized that name, the one who had caught Ed's eye, stopped in her tracks. Ed followed her just outside the haze. She never stopped to think about it before, but she recognized that voice.
Looking up a bit allowed the light to catch her face, revealing her gold eyes. Ed couldn't see this, however, as he stared at her back, the girl's teammates disappearing from his line of sight. He was only focused on her identity.
The girl seemed frozen to her spot. Her red cloak blew slightly in the wind as she slowly turned around to face the young Elric with eyes full of mixed emotions, thinking of who she thought the voice belonged to. Ed was slightly shaking as a bead of sweat rolled down the side of his face and his breath caught in his throat.
Gold eyes met gold eyes. Ed's eyes widened and his skin grew to be a paler colour, while the girl's— Myra's eyes widened until someone yelled, "Raven! Let's go!"
Upon hearing the voice of her comrade, Myra quickly composed herself and gave a small, but apologetic smile before saying, "We'll meet again soon, Ed."
Before Myra could turn to leave, Al emerged from the haze to be by his brother's side, "Broth— ….Sister?!" His voice was shaky and squeaked in surprised as he stared at the girl a few metres in front of them.
"A-Al? Is that you?" she asked, surprised.
"Raven!" The voice called for her again.
Ed tried to quickly run after her despite his shaking, but in what seemed like the blink of an eye Myra jumped onto high ground and over the edge. Ed ran to the edge to find no one there. She had disappeared.
Different emotions could be seen in his eyes; anger, sadness, guilt, confusion, but most of all... relief.
"You're back." he whispered almost inaudibly, his throat tightening.
Running through the dark alleys, now reunited with her comrades, Myra wiped the few tears that managed to escape her eyes. That small sorry smile never leaving her face.