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Time's Scar	By : RotSeele Category: Fullmetal Alchemist > AU - Alternate Universe Views: 828 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-Time's Scar
- 2-Two
- 3-Three
- 4-Four
- 5-Five
- 6-Six
- 7-Seven
- 8-Eight
- 9-Nine
- 10-Ten
- 11-Eleven
- 12-Twelve
- 13-Thirteen
- 14-Fourteen
- 15-Fifteen
- 16-Sixteen
- 17-Seventeen
- 18-Eighteen
- 19-Epilogue
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Sixteen
Edward slowly picked himself up and let out the groan that was in his throat as his body made him know about the new bruises. Across from him, he saw his little brother picking himself up too, shifting out of the rubble. Beneath him, the human Alphonse rose, looking like he'd escaped the worst of the collapse thanks to his younger self. Beside Ed, Elric was getting up as well, hissing softly as he pressed a hand to his forehead.
"Am I bleeding?" Elric asked Ed.
Ed shook his head. "Am I?"
"No." Elric pushed himself to his feet, steadying himself before he helped Ed stand. He looked across the room. "You two okay?"
"We're okay." Replied Alphonse the armor. "Are you?"
Ed and Elric gave them a thumbs up and slowly began to pick their way over to their little brothers. Halfway across, Elric clapped his hands together and pressed them to the rubble, forcing the stone and metal to twist and shape itself into pillars. Ed helped him, trying to clear a path that they could safely use. Suddenly, Elric grabbed hold of Ed and pulled him behind a pillar. Two seconds later, the floor where he'd been standing exploded.
"Shit!" Ed cried, pressing himself against the pillar. "The hell was that?"
"Come out, little alchemists!" Called a female voice. "We won't hurt you. Too much, anyway. You're important, after all."
Ed didn't miss the way Elric shivered. He wondered what had made him react that way - the voice or the words. He quickly pushed it to the back of his mind when Elric stepped out from behind the pillar to face whoever was out there. He started to follow, but paused when Elric shook his head.
"Get to our brothers." Elric said quietly. "Try and get them off the floor if you can. Otherwise, try and shield yourselves."
"Why?" Ed asked.
Elric started moving forward. "Because I'm going to be using some very dangerous alchemy."
Edward waited until Elric had fully left his line of sight before he hurried over to his brother and the older Alphonse. In two leaps he was with them, and he couldn't stop himself from staring at the older version of his younger brother. The older Alphonse smiled, then pressed a finger to his lips and gestured for the younger Elrics to follow him.
As they escaped the lower floor, there was a loud explosion behind them. Steam and dust and debris pelted the pillars and landed close to them. Ed chanced a look behind them and saw Elric bursting out of a cloud of steam, red alchemical light crackling around his left hand. He hit the floor with it, and spikes of stone shot out of the floor, streaking into the steam cloud. Then he was moving again, just before someone burst out of the cloud after him. Ed recognized the body as the woman Erika. Blood streaked her thigh, from a gash where a stone spike must have caught her. Elric danced away from her, clapping his hands together to pass his left hand over his right, forming the blade from his automail.
"Ed! Hurry!"
Edward hurried up the alchemy-made stairs and joined the two Alphonses on the landing above. As his foot left the last stair, the staircase broke apart. He looked at the older Alphonse, who had his hands pressed to the floor. "Your brother won't be able to get up here."
The older Alphonse smiled. "He has no intention of coming up here."
"What do you mean?" Asked the younger Alphonse.
"He's going to kill whoever's down there." The older Alphonse smiled grimly. "The alchemy he's going to use is really dangerous."
Edward swallowed the lump in is throat. "He used that alchemy to kill people."
"I know." The older Alphonse looked pained. "He came up with those sequences to try and protect me, if we ever made it back and we ended up in a worse situation that we're in now. I never wanted him to do this for me, but I'm glad he did."
An explosion drowned out whatever else the older Alphonse might have said. The three of them looked down below and watched the dust cloud settle. Elric stood on a small pile of rubble, his arms slightly up and out for balance. Nearby crouched Erika, blood streaming from a slice on her forehead. She was glaring at Elric, her mouth twisted into a grimace as she struggled to get to her feet. She wobbled a bit, then steadied herself, her hand with the alchemy circle carved into it pointing at Elric. To Ed's surprise, Elric didn't seem to notice, or if he did, he didn't care.
"I won't let you destroy Olivier's dream." Erika hissed, her voice clear.
Elric shrugged. "Then you can have the first shot, because you know I'm damn well going to have the last."
"You're a punk, Edward Elric." Erika spat as she brought her hand down on the concrete beneath her, the stone transmuting into bullets.
"No," Elric replied, bringing his left hand before him, his arm relaxed and his palm pointing downward. "I'm the Fullmetal Alchemist."
He pushed off and was rushing her just before Erika unleashed her alchemy. The bullets raced toward him with deadly accuracy. Ed watched as Elric hit the ground, his left palm hitting the ground as he pushed his body into a roll before springing to his feet. As he did, a rope of stone followed him, its end clutched in his left hand. Ed stared at the rope, still a fluid and moving thing, not yet stone and not yet metal, and marveled at the skill it took to perform such a feat. He watched as Elric yanked on his rope and threw it over Erika's head.
And missed.
"Oh, come on!" Edward hissed. "How could you miss! She's like ten feet in front of you!"
The older Alphonse touched his shoulder. "Just watch."
Erika was moving away from Elric, away from his fully-transmuted metal rope. She was laughing, alchemical light cracking around her as she prepared another attack. Elric moved fast; the sound of his hands meeting was loud even in the roar that followed, and Ed saw at last why his superiors had feared the man who had been killing their pet alchemists.
Elric simply blinked out of existence. A second later, his transmuted rope started to writhe, as if it were becoming a living thing. Ed saw electricity sparking along the metal, and realized Elric had tapped into the building's power grid when he'd transmuted the stone into metal. The whole thing was now conducting an electrical current, so even if he did miss hitting her with all of the rope, there was still be a discharge of energy, because the electricity was seeking a way to ground. And Erika was its way to the ground. Elric reappeared a second later on the opposite side of Erika and his writhing rope, and held out his automail hand as if he was beckoning her. Erika grinned and turned to face him, putting her back to the real danger.
Because he'd been holding the rope before he'd used the translocation alchemy on himself, Elric had magnetized his automail arm. The metal in the rope was now attracted to his automail, and the writhing thing almost lifted itself up into the air in its quest to get to his hand. The only problem was someone was in the way.
So it went through her.
Erika's face suddenly got a surprised look on it. Before she could even scream, the metal rope pushed through her chest with a wet slurpy sound, along with the sudden snap-crack of electricity discharging. Her entire body seemed to ignite as the current rushed through her, suddenly no longer interested in Elric and his metal hand.
Elric moved quickly, clapping his hands together and pressing them to the rubble at his feet. Alchemical light flared, warring with the electricity for brightness. The floor rumbled as the concrete rose up into two thick slabs around Erika, one before, one behind. Edward watched as the two slabs suddenly smashed together, and the electrical current suddenly stopped.
Elric rose slowly, his shoulders heaving as though he was breathing hard. And maybe he was, Ed surmised. Translocation alchemy took a lot of concentration, and to do it battle was incredible. And then to perform alchemy right after, it took nothing short of a genius to have enough energy to do anything.
Elric turned to look up at them, an easy smile appearing on his face when he saw his little brother. Edward glanced at the older Elric and saw the same smile mirrored in his face. Ed couldn't help but grin himself.
Before Elric could begin to move toward them, a slow monotone of sound started, then increased in tempo. Edward realized it was clapping. They all followed the sound to its source, and there, standing on a little catwalk just above where the destroyed floor met the wall on the fare side of the room. Standing there was a man dressed in a smart suit. Immediately, Edward knew right away that the man standing over there was Olivier.
Elric performing a sudden burst of alchemy only confirmed it.
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