Welcome Home

Disclaimer: I do not own FMA….*cries like a baby*
Title: Welcome Home
Pair: RizaxEd (hints of RoyxEd)
Summary: Ed’s gone for three years and when he finally returns, what will happen when an unexpected surprise is awaiting him?
***Okay, this plays around after/during the movie occurred so (spoilers some) but I changed some facts about the movie and the after events. So be aware that there are changes but some facts are still here. Sorry if the ranks I give people are their true ranks, I am not sure what everyone is after/during the movie.
Warning: hints Yaoi, M/F, language

Welcome Home
By: Kumiko

Chapter 7

“What the hell is wrong with you?” Colonel June yelled once they all got back to the command center. He was pacing back and forth while Ed was getting his arm patched up. “You acted like such an idiot back there.”

“It was the first thing that popped into my mind, sir,” he replied, getting a little bit angry. “At least your hostages were saved, weren’t they?”

That stopped the colonel. His last statement had been their main objective of that particular mission. Sitting at his desk, he tried his best to calm down.

“This will only get tougher, Fullmetal, tactics like those won’t always get you out of a bind,” he said, leaning against his hands. “I would hate to have to report to General Mustang that you died while under my command.”

“I won’t be dying any time soon, Colonel, I will make sure of that,” Ed replied, grinning. I can’t die; he thought to himself, I already told Riza that I would come back.

“Just make sure you don’t do anything stupid like that again,” the colonel said, sighing. “This may turn into a full fledged fight to the death if we don’t give in to their demands.”

“Thanks,” Ed said to those who wrapped his arm. “You aren’t going to, are you?”

“No, I’m not that stupid,” the colonel said, shaking his head. “We aren’t going to give into any demands, Fullmetal. We are just going to wait this out and fight out little battle.”

Ed sighed. “Good, I wouldn’t want to be here with a wimpy colonel.”

Colonel June laughed. “I’m glad you think that. Now I suggest that you get yourself some rest so that tomorrow we can begin the real reason why you are here.”

Ed nodded, standing. As he neared the doorway, he heard the colonel cough.

“Remember, Fullmetal, there are a lot of people out there right now counting on us to keep them safe,” he said. “Keep your mind focus on the goal before you.”

Pushing the door open, Ed made his way to the hotel he was staying at for his time at East. He knew for sure now that it wasn’t going to be a quick thing to get this mission complete. Sighing, he stopped in the center of the street and looked up at the now dark sky.

I promised you, Riza, that I would come back, he said to the sky before moving on again.


After hearing the news of her possible pregnancy, Riza didn’t feel like herself. She hoped that Gracia hadn’t revealed the news to anyone about this. Right now Riza didn’t really know whether she was or wasn’t pregnant. To think that only spending one night with Ed then having him be sent off to a long mission could turn her world completely upside down.

Sighing, she stepped into the office and found everyone crowded around the door to the general’s office. She cleared her throat which brought everyone at the door aware that someone else was in the room now and that someone else was not happy. Riza watched as they all scrambled to their desks hoping that she wasn’t going to get angrier.

As she made her way to her desk, she could hear them whispering about something but she couldn’t make out what it was. It wasn’t until she heard Hughes in Mustang’s office that she began to get angrier.

“..of it, Mustang, our little Edward, growing up like that,” Hughes said, loud enough for anyone in the adjoining office to hear. “My little Elysia is so proud of her Uncle Ed.”

“Hughes, who told you this bit of new, exactly?” She heard Mustang ask with a little bit on annoyance in his voice.

Riza took a key out and unlocked the top drawer of her desk and removed the gun that was inside. Everyone watched in slight fear as she began to load her gun with a smile on her face. They knew she was going to have fun with this. She made her way to the door where she didn’t knock to let them know she was coming in to join them. With a loud crash, she kicked the door open and fired the gun once over Hughes’ head.

“H-Hawkeye!” Hughes said out of shock. “When did you get here?”

“Oh about the part when you were talking to Mustang about growing up,” she growled, aiming her gun at him this time. “What just what was that all about?”

“Um…nothing, absolutely, nothing, Hawkeye,” Hughes said, trying to get out of being shot at.

“I know what it is!” Riza yelled, firing the gun. “Who told you?”

“I heard it from Gracia, honestly she didn’t want to tell me but I told her that if she had some type of news that I would find out somehow,” he pleaded, holding up his hands. “Don’t blame her, okay? It’s my entire fault.”

Riza glanced from Hughes to Mustang, who was cowering behind his desk. “Neither of you tell this to Ed at all, do you hear me? I don’t want to have to kill anyone.”

They both nodded, completely overridden by fear that she might actually do what she was threatening. Hughes knew full well what a pregnant woman was capable of if she was provoked. Slowly, Hughes made his way out of the office and to where he was far enough away from the crazed Hawkeye.

“Now, Hawkeye, please don’t do anything rash,” Mustang tried to reason with her. “Fullmetal won’t find anything out from me.”

Nodding, she left the office, glaring at the others. “Don’t let me hear that any of you inform Ed of this either!”

A group of nodding heads on looks of fear was the reply to her statement. Sighing, she sat down and began her paperwork.

For Riza the day seemed long and never-ending. By the end of the day she was more than ready to go home and rest. She hoped that the day wouldn’t hold out any more surprises for her.

Weeks went by and Riza grew more and more irritable, this scared the others in the office. Even Mustang, who would never take any threat Hawkeye gave as actually life-threatening but when she began acting on them he stayed back out of her sight and did what he was supposed to do. After about four weeks of not actually knowing whether she was or wasn’t pregnant she made an appointment. Her heart knew that she was pregnant, the morning sickness, the irritability and the strange food cravings weren’t just a normal thing for any girl to have.

“Thanks for coming along, Mrs. Hughes,” Riza said as they waited for the doctor to tell them the results of the test.

“Please, Lieutenant, after spilling the news to Maes,” she replied, looking at a book. “It’s only proper for me to accompany you as another woman.”

“I don’t know what I am hoping for this to come out as,” the blond said, to the other woman. “It’s not that I wouldn’t love to be pregnant but without…”

“Don’t worry,” Gracia said, knowing what she was thinking about. “He’ll come back and be there for you and the baby.”

“I haven’t even heard anything from him since he left,” she said almost in tears. “I want him to be here with me now.”

“I know,” Gracia replied, pulling her into a tight hug. “Nothing will happen to him, believe that.”

The sound of the door opening brought Riza back to the reality that was here and now. They watched as the doctor moved and took a seat in front of both women, holding Riza’s health report.

“Well, Miss Hawkeye,” the doctor began, looking through the papers. “I have two bits on news for you, how you take them is up to you, considering you are military personal. The first is that you are pregnant. And the second is that you…”

Riza fainted at the news. Gracia’s mouth hung open; she was both happy and shocked at the news of Riza’s pregnancy. It wasn’t every day that she was going to be there to help what could become a good friend though a pregnancy.


Weeks went by and the fighting grew increasingly more dangerous. Colonel June called in more reinforcements to aid them in their cause. It wasn’t that Ed’s help wasn’t enough but he couldn’t be everywhere that help was needed. Tension and stress was building up in the military in East as those revolting crept closer to gaining what they sought.

“You cannot allow them to gain control!” Ed screamed, slamming his hands down on the desk where Colonel June sat. “There’s too much at stake here to allow them that, if they take over East what makes you think that they will stop here?”

“Please, Fullmetal, I know this, but there isn’t really anything else we can do,” the colonel replied, shaking his head. “Our men are already down in the least amount we have to hold them off.”

“Then let me get my brother here to help!” Ed suggested, “I’m sure I could get Mustang to send more to help, too.”

“I can’t have any more men involved in this, Fullmetal.”

“Dammit, Colonel, you want to hand the city over?”

“No.”

“Then think about what you are doing now,” Ed explained. “You are allowing yourself to give into the demands that these people gave you when we are more than capable in getting more help here. Why won’t you at least try to get some help before you go ahead and give up?”

Colonel June stared at the young man standing before him, not really knowing what to do. He knew that Fullmetal was right in that he wasn’t even going to try to get help.

When he went to reply, the door in front of him exploded open. This threw Ed over his desk against the wall. June ended up on the floor behind his desk with a piece of wood though his chest.

Ed pushed himself onto his hands and knees, pain racing through his body as he looked around. A few feet from him he saw the colonel lying behind his desk, bleeding heavily. Oh shit, he thought, making his way over to the man.

“Colonel?”

“Where the hell is that bastard?” A man yelled, nearing Ed.

“Hey, boss, do you think they survived this?” another asked, seeming to follow the other inside.

“That brat is an alchemist, I’m sure he made it through,” the first one replied, a growl in his voice. “I could care less if that colonel survived or not.”

Ed swore under his breath, he really didn’t want to fight anyone at the moment but it may be a good way to release some of his stress. He clapped his hands together and formed his arm into a blade. The light from his alchemy alerted the two men who stood in the center of what was left of the room. Ed jumped over the table slicing through one man and standing before the other.

“So you are the famed, Fullmetal Alchemist that I’ve heard so much about?” The first man said, laughing slightly. “It will be a great honor for me to be the one to finally kill you.”

Ed didn’t replay. He didn’t want to be the one who would get angry at the other. In this fight he wanted to keep as cool a head as he could.

“Not replying are we?” The man laughed. “I see, well I can play your little game, too.”

Ed watched as the other man clapped his hands together to transmute his own weapon out of the stone that had fallen to the floor. His eyes grew in shock as he stared at the other man, he couldn’t believe his eyes. Then the man attacked with full force, wanting to rid the world of the Fullmetal Alchemist.

“You’ll die today, Fullmetal!”

Ed leapt backwards when the man lunged forward, thrusting his stone lance at him. Oh shit, this guy is fast, he thought as he tried to get a hit in on the man. The man’s speed was a major disadvantage to Ed, who hadn’t fought someone like this in so many years. After a short while, he was backed into a rock and a hard place with no where to run. Clapping his hands together, he thought using alchemy would help him get out of this mess. It was too bad that the building he was in was unstable now. When he placed his hands against the wall to transmute a new opening for him to get out, the walls gave way and collapsed on the two alchemists. Smoke filled the air from the collapse of the entire building, alerting all of the other military personal.

As they gathered at the area, it seemed like it was too late to save anyone. Mounds of rock and wood stood everywhere when the dust began to clear. They stood in shock, waiting to hear sounds of life beneath the tons of rubble.


To Be Continued…

AN: yes, I did it again, two cliffhangers left for you to await the next chapter and see what happens with them both.
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Until next time.