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{Opening Song}

Ed quickly awoke, his breathing rapid. "Edward, are you alright?" Whitney asked. Ed turned to her. "It was just a nightmare." Ed told her. Then he hugged her tightly. Whity kissed him on the cheek. Audrey was panting and Whity looked over to her and walked towards her and hugged and, "Addie, breath in and out." Addie followed her distractions by breath in and out, "That's right, breath in and out and calm your heart down." Addie calm down as Ed look at the interaction between Whity and Addie and a sad smile was on his face.

~Central Command~

The four headed off to Central Headquarters as they walked up to Mustang's office. Ed was about to reveal L.T. Hawkeye. "Huh? What's the matter you four? You're up awfully early..." she said. "We...needed to know..." Whity started. "What's to know what happens to Tucker and Nina?" Ed asked. A look of shock showed on her face and she looked down. "Mr. Tucker was scheduled to be stripped of his certification and stand trial for what he did to Nina but... they both died." she said. "Dead?!" Al shouted shocked. Ed's mouth opened but he couldn't form words. Audrey and Whitney froze their eyes wide. "They've been murdered." L.T. Hawkeye said. "They...how?" Addie asked as she walked off. "By who?!" Ed exclaimed. "We don't know...I was just heading over to the scene now." L.T. Hawkeye said.

"We're coming with you." Al said as Riza told them, "No." "Why not?!" Ed shouted as she stopped and turned to them saying, "You don't need to see this."

The Tucker house was shown with Hughes and Armstrong standing in the room where Nina and Tucker were killed.

"He's still one step ahead of us, huh?" Hughes said.

"We have to catch up quickly. The way things are going..." Armstrong replied.

Mustang was shown staring as the tarps covering the bodies. "You sound as though you were expecting this to happen." Hughes glanced up at his friend. "What's going on?"

~Liore~

"God has given us a trial!" Cornello shouted. "Wicked heathens have been spreading false rumours to disrupt our faith, and the military is planning to oppress us. But we must not give in! Now is the time to rise up, with weapon in hand! In the name of the great god Leto!"

The civilian faces were shown with grins, which looked evil on some of them. "Yeah! We have the god Leto on our side!" "Down with the heathens!" "Hey, don't be fooled!" "Those are just lying he's telling us!"

"Silence!" "You guys are pawns of the heathens!" An evil grin spread on a female's face. "Humans are so hopelessly foolish." A rock was thrown through a glass window, then civilians were shown fighting each other. A little girl stood off to the side, crying.

Don't you think so, Gluttony?"

"Fools, fools." Gluttony agreed.

"Fools indeed. Sad, but true." 'Cornello' said as he walked up the stairs of the tower. "Well, well, if it isn't the Father." Lust said. "Father." Gluttony said.

"Sorry to have to put you to all this trouble." Lust said. "As soon as we have everything handled over here, I have my own responsibilities I have to get back to." Envy told them.

Lust smirked and turned her head to the side. "The Fullmetal boy's interference was irritating, but at least we were able to make it work in our favour. Looks like we'll finish up ahead of schedule." The land was overlooked with the sun starting to sink. "Manipulate a little information and I whipped up the believers, and that's all it took to get this. Humans are such simpletons."

"Bloodshed gives way to more bloodshed, hatred breeds more hatred, until all the violence soaks into the land." Lust's tattoo was shown. "Craving rivers of blood." Her face was shown as she continued. "And no matter how many times it happens, they never learn. The human race is made up of violent, miserable fools."

"Who seem more than willing to play into our hands." 'Cornello' said, causing Lust to smirk.

"Are lots of people gonna to die again?" Gluttony asked.

"Yes, they will." Lust said.

"Can I eat all of them after they die?" Gluttony asked.

Lust petted Gluttony's head. "No, you can't." 'Cornello' was shown, smirking. "By the way, Envy, how long are you planning to look like that? It's grossing me out."

"Aw, I'm just in the moment." There was a flash of red light, and

'Cornello's' body began to change into another form. "But as long as I'm going to transform anyway, something young and cut would be better, huh?" He said as his body changed into another form.

A follower behind Envy gasped. Envy's leg was shown with an Ouroboros tattoo while the follower said, "A-A monster!" Envy looked over his shoulder at the man. "What's going on here? The Father...where have the real Father Cornello gone?!"

"What do we do?" Lust asked.

Envy sighed. "He called me a monster. That was rude, huh?" Gluttony appeared behind Envy, staring at the follower. "Can I eat him?" Envy and Lust looked at him before the sounds of eating took place of the scene. While Gluttony ate him, Envy leaned against the railing of the balcony. "Oh, hey, did you hear the news? Shou Tucker, that alchemist in East City, he's dead." Envy said.

"Tucker? Why should we care about a little nothing like him?" Lust asked. "Because it was him responsible for the murder." Envy said.

"Speaking of East City, isn't that where the Flame Colonel is staying right now?" Lust asked.

"Yeah, and apparently, the Fullmetal and Ice brats is there too." Envy replied.

"Fullmetal?" Lust asked surprised. "As furious as I am that they interfered with our work here, we can't very well let them die. They are important sacrifices."

Gluttony stood up, covered in blood. "That was yummy." And then he started to lick the blood off. "All right. We'll deal with it somehow." Lust said. "So, what was his name, again?"

Eastern Command Center appeared on the screen again. "Scar?" Mustang's voice said. He appeared on the screen. "Because of his face?"

The screen pulled back to reveal four soldiers in a hallway of the building. Mustang and Hughes were sitting on opposite benches while Armstrong and Hawkeye stood to the sides. "Yeah," Hughes said. "We don't really know anything else about him so that's what we're calling him."

"Our target is both unidentified and elusive." Armstrong touched his forehead. "The only information we've been able to obtain about him is that he has a large scar on his forehead." "Yes, I've heard stories about that man." Mustang replied. "That's who you're trying to hunt down?" "By order of the military police command centre." Hughes said. "Meanwhile all my other work is piling up. Eh, my head hurts."

"He's killed five people in Central, all State Alchemists." Armstrong said. "His body count nationwide is up to ten."

"Five days ago, he took down old man Grand." Hughes added. "The Brigadier General?" Mustang said shocked. "But he's an expert in weapons transmutation."

"That shows you how dangerous this guy is." Hughes said as the screen changed to Hawkeye's face. "You should increase your escort and lie low for a while. Nobody will blame you." Mustang's frowning face appeared next. "Please, I'm also asking you to do this as a close friend. You and

Tucker are the only State Alchemists of note in this area, right?" A look of horror passed over Mustang's face. "Oh, no!"

~?/Somewhere in East City~

The trio sat on a pillar, the four of us. Whity lean against Ed, sadness still burning through my body. "I've been thinking about this for a long time...we put all of our trust in alchemy but in the end, we lose it. Alchemy is the science of understanding the flow of matter and its laws. Everything circulates...even death is part of that circulation and we must accept the flow. Hmph, the teacher sure drove that into our heads, didn't she? I thought I understood it but...I didn't. I'm just an idiot...all this time and I haven't grown up one bit. I thought maybe the rain would wash away some of this gloom but all it's doing is making me more depressed." Ed said. "...I don't even get that much. Without a body, I can't feel the rain hit my face; that's something I miss, all the time. I want to be human again, even if it means going against the flow of the world and trying to do the impossible..." Al said.

"You two...are you the Fullmetal and Ice alchemists Edward Elric and Whitney Rockbell?" Ed and I looked up to see a man wearing glasses with snow-white hair and a scar on his head. "What if we are?!" Ed said. The scarred man pulled his hand back and released a blue light. "Whity, Brother!" Al called at them and pulled us out of way. A shock disappeared as Ed quickly made a wall to try and block the guy. "What the hell is going on?!" Ed shouted as his wall was blown. The man walked towards them as Ed grabbed my hand. "Let's get out here!" Ed said.

We were running down some stairs but we were stopped when the man appeared at the top saying, "No you don't.." He destroyed the stairs, causing them to fall. Al held on to the edge as he grabbed Addie's hand and she grabbed my hand and I grabbed Ed's leg. The guy soon destroyed the rest of the stairs, causing us to fall to the ground, thankfully on our feet. "Damn it! What's this guy's problem?!" Ed yelled. "There's no reason for him to want to kill us, right?" I asked.

We ran down an alleyway only to get the exit blocked by the man. "Who are you anyway?!" Ed yelled to the man. "Why are you after us?!" I shouted. "As long as there are creators like you in the world, there must also be destroyers." He replied. "Well, it looks like we are going to have to fight." Ed clapped his hand together, transmuting a pole into a sword as Al and I get into fighting stances.

"Gusty one aren't you?" He asked with a grin as Ed led the charge. "Too slow..." The man muttered as he used alchemy to destroy half of Al's armor. "Al!" We all shouted as Ed got angry. "You bastard!" Ed charged at him again, only to get his automail arm grabbed. The man used alchemy, only to have it fail and cause Ed to fly out of the alley. "Ed!" I called as Ed removed his coat.

"An automail arm...then that explains why my attacks didn't do the damage I expected." The man walked towards Ed as Ed clapped his hands and turned his arm into a blade. "Brother, don't...just run away! Take Whitney and Audrey and go!" Al shouted as Addie looked at him. "Big brother..." She muttered as Ed replied, "You idiot! I'm not leaving you behind!" Ed then charged at the guy, only to get his arm grabbed and destroyed to pieces. "Ed!" I shouted. 'This bitch destroyed his automail?!?' Whitney thought in anger.

As Whitney was about to attack him, a gunshot was let out. "Stop right! You won't be killing anyone else today Scar! I'm taking you in custody where you will answer for the murder of a least 10 State alchemists!" Ed, Al, Addie and I looked up and saw Mustang. Mustang holding a gun and handing Riza the gun.

Scar and Mustang were looking at each other. Wait RoyWater=Useless. Scar charged at him but miss by a little. Hawkeye trip Mustang. And she started a shootout at Scar. "Colonel, you know as well as I do, you're useless on rainy days. Please stay back." Hawkeye said. A sign said 'Useless'

"Oh yeah, I forgot. It's kinda hard to get a spark going when it's raining, huh?" Havoc said. Armstrong came just in time and attacked Scar. As they fought, Havoc ran over to Ed and me. "Who is he?" Ed asked. "That's the same man who murdered Mr. Tucker and Nina." Havoc said. "So that Man..." I said. As Armstrong's fight went on. "You might as well give up Scar!" Mustang yelled. Scar looked at everyone, before blasting a hole in the ground abs escaped through the sewers.

"Oh, is it over now?" Hughes asked. "Lt. Colonel Hughes, what were you the whole time?" Mustang said. "I thought it best to lay low." He replied. "You didn't think about maybe backing us up?" Mustang yelled. "Of course not! A person like me shouldn't get dragged into a freak show with your hack of pseudo-humans! It's bad for my health!" Hughes said. "Don't just stand there, we've got things to do! Deploy troops! Circulate his description!" "Yes sir!" The soldiers said. Oh, no." Ed whispered. "Alphonse." He stood up from the ground and ran over to his brother, who was now leaning against the alley wall.

"Alphonse!" He ran passed the soldiers, who stared at him, and kneeled in front of his brother, putting a hand on the injured part of the armor.

"Al, talk to me. Are you alright?"

The screen changed to Mustang, Hawkeye, Havoc, and Armstrong watching the boys. "That suit of armor is Elric's younger brother, is it?" "There's got to be a really long story behind this one." Havoc said. "Come on, Al." Edward said. "Do you hear me?" Al's fist came up to punch his brother, shocking the soldiers.

"Why didn't you run away when I told you to? What kind of idiot are you?" Al shouted.

"No way. I'm not just going to run away and leave you behind." Edward argued. "Which is exactly why you're an idiot." Al shouted before punching his brother again, shocking and horrifying the soldiers again.

Ed leaned against the opposite alley wall, holding his cheek where he was hit. "What do you keep punching like that me for? If I had run away, you could have been killed; you know that?"

"And maybe I wouldn't have been." Al retorted. "Making the decision to die is something only an idiot does!" An angry look passed Ed's face. He removed his hand from his face and put it on his knee. "Hey, easy on the idiot stuff. I'm still your older brother, got it?"

"I'll say is all I want to." Al shouted, causing a surprised look to pass over Ed's face. He reached out and grabbed his brother by his shirt to pull him up. "Survival is the only way, Ed. Live on. Learn more about alchemy. You could find a way to get our bodies back and help people like Nina. You can't do that by dying! I won't allow you to abandon the possibility of hope and choose a meaningless death." As he said the last part, pain and sadness filled his voice.

When Al was finished speaking, he pulled back slightly and his arm broke from his armor and fell to the ground. "Oh, great!" Ed stared at the arm for a moment before blinking and looking up at his brother sadly before hanging his head. "And now my arm's come off because my brother is a big, fat idiot!"

"We're really falling apart, aren't we, Brother?" Edward asked. "We look like we belong in a junk yard."

"But we're still alive." Al replied. "Mm-hmm, we are." Ed said without raising his head.

Mustang and Hughes appeared on the screen, watching the boys. While Hughes was frowning, Mustang had a small smile. "Good grief. I've stumbled into an extra kind of special freak show, huh?" Hughes asked. "Yeah, sorry." Mustang said. Hughes shrugged. "Don't worry. I won't tell anyone upstairs."

~Time skip~

Mustang mentions the Ishvallen war. Mustang was shown, sitting behind his desk. "That man is an Ishvalan survivor. In a sense, his revenge is justified."

Edward's face, shadowed by his bangs, appeared. "No way!" The scene pulled back to show Ed, Addie, Whity and Al were in the office with the Colonel, along with Mustang's team, Hughes, and Armstrong sitting or standing. "There's no justification for taking revenge on people who had nothing to do with it."

"He's just dressing up his ugly lust for revenge by calling himself an agent of God and acting all arrogant." Edward finished.

"Still," Mustang said as he got a close up. "The fact is, he's coming at us with full force. We can't let ourselves be killed for his cause. Next time, there will be no more talk." The scene changed to show the room's occupants, who were watching their commander, except for Ed, Addie, Whity and Al, who were still staring at each other. "Got it?"

"Yes sir." The soldiers said.

Hughes turned to Ed. "Well, Ed, Audrey, Whitney and Alphonse, what are you four going to do now? What's the plan?" This time, Ed got a close up. "We're going to keep moving. We can't just sit around, not as long as we're still alive. "Al looked at his brother. "Brother." Ed smiled and put a hand on Al's shoulder. "Before we can make any headway on getting your body back, we have to get my arm back to normal."

Hughes was shown, smiling at the boys. "After all, I'm the only one who knows how to bond you soul to the armor." Hawkeye and Mustang were shown, also watching the brothers with smiles.

"Uh-huh." Al said.

Ed sighed and closed his eyes. "We've got no choice." The Rock bell's house was shown at nighttime. "It's been a long time." Winry's back was shown as she worked on some automail. "We need to pay a visit to our mechanic."

(Ending Song)