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Edward's P.O.V.

"Where's Al?" I asked, looking outside and seeing only the broom against the white fence, but no armor in sight. "And Scarlett?" I added, remembering she went out with Alphonse.

DAMN THEY LEFT WITHOUT ME TO GO SOMEWHERE WHY. WHY.

They probably went to a restaurant to get some food or something, I blew out a breath of hot air.
But, I still had this sinking worry that they were in trouble, and I knew that would never go away.

Why? Don't ask me about it, it's kinda like a sixth sense.

Alphonse's P.O.V.

Scarlett and I were heading over to the Devil's Nest, and it was mostly quiet the whole way until about a block or two away, because a man with spikes black hair stood in our path. I knew at that moment we stepped into a trap, or worse.

"Hello there," he slurred his words cockily, "I see you got our message."

Boiling, I pulled out the chicken scratch and showed it to him. "We know you're secret. Come to the Devil's Nest alone. I couldn't ignore this."

"Good! So if you'll follow me," he guest urged to continue walking, but I didn't. I knew I had to play the stupid card.

"Teacher tells me to never talk to strangers.." I cautiously eyed the man, but he simply sauntered up to me with this stupid grin.

"Come on, you're what, 14? That means you're old enough to make your own decisions. Live for yourself!" He exclaimed, like I was the stupid one.

"Oh, I get it!" I saw as he smiled at me before I smashed my fist into his face. "I decided for myself that I won't talk to strangers like you." I darkly stated. Inside my suit, I could feel Scarlett hold in a laugh. Hey, I don't blame her. The guy looked really shocked, but fell to the ground unconcise.
I was about to continue down the street when other people jumped down from the roofs- wait, are they Chimeras?!? One man had a dark cloak over him, but it didn't cover his tail well enough. The other one was a woman, but when she stepped forward to attack me, her arm stretched out way past what is considered normal. I grunted, but blocked nonetheless, and grabbed the limb to pull it towards me.

"Oh, so we've got a fighter on our hands!" She exclaimed, and nodded to someone.

Wait a minute. Where did the lizard tail guy go?

Someone behind me took off my head, and tossed it away, and I saw it was the man!
"Now!" He yelled as the woman tried to wiggle her way into my suit.

She was stopped quickly when Scarlett kicked her right in the face and began to climb out.
HA NICE SCARLETT!

"Hey idiots! There's not enough room for two of us!" She shouted, like... Oh! I have to pretend she's me and I'm just a suit of armor.

Even though technically I am.

I went limp as she stepped out of my head and put up her fists.

"Wait, she's.....what?" The girl looked between me and Scarlett, confused. They probably think she's Al! HA!

"Bite me, snake girl." She growled and- Scarlett! Don't middle finger them! Wow...she is like brother in more aspects than I imagined....

"Gladly, alchemist."

Scarlett and I looked up on the roof behind my armor, and we saw one more guy. Dressed in a black undershirt and dark grey vest with white fluff near his neck. His hands were in his black pants smugly as he looked down at us.
Man, I really wish we had Ed right about now.
The new man jumped from the building and landed skillfully in front of Scarlett. He swaggered up and around, but then his smile faded into a confused frown as he looked.

"Aren't you...." He trailed off when his hand reached to touch her flaming red hair, but just as I suspected, she slapped his hand way before going in to round house kick him. Sadly, he maneuvered to dodge and managed to catch Scarlett's left hook aimed for his face with a now blackened hand. She tried to free her hand, but it looked stuck in stone! That's when the smile returned.

"...you are. That girl from the other world. Never expected to see you again!" He laughed, but I didn't get a word he said. But from Scarlett's pale face as she stared at him, she understood perfectly.

"Greed..." She managed to let the words loose. The man whom I assumed to be Greed (really weird name for a dude..) was about to reply, but we all watched as his black hand cracked and broke revealing muscle and bone!
"You don't think I'd forget your greatest weakness, do you? Ed told me all about it." Now it was her turn to flash the cocky, scheming smile that she had while shaking the blood from her automail fist.

"Well, works as a great distraction, doesn't it?" He smirked, and I realized that the guy I knocked out was not where he once was.

"Scarlett! Behind you!" I cried out, and tried to stop what happened next, but I was too late as the man dived down from above and kicked Scarlett in the neck.

Knocking her completely unconcise.

"So it does move on its own." I heard the snake girl's voice, but as I tried to move my body, it was constricted and kept in place. "Interesting; just as you said, Greed."

"Hell yeah it is Martel! Now, I'll need you to stay under our guest's 'skin'. Wouldn't want him running off now." Greed grinned, picking up my fallen head in one arm and helpless Scarlett in the other. I have to say, helplessness doesn't suit her. I've never really seen her like this.

"You'll never get away with what you're planning." I dangerously echoed as a warning, but all he did was laugh his butt off.

"Sure, and alchemy doesn't exist." He joked. Grrr I hate this guy! "Bido! Dorochet! Pick up the tin can and let's go!"

Sadly, I couldn't do a thing to stop him.

"So what's your plan, anyway? And how do you know Scarlett?" I bombarded the questions on the leader once we arrived at our destination: a basement under the Devil's Nest. Of course, they were smart, and I was still trapped from the inside out, so when Greed walked over to set down Scarlett, I could only let my temper boil as he stared at her. He seemed to have spaced out, but whatever had his attention caused him to frown.

"Scarlett hasn't told you?" He asked and turned to me with a confused face.

"She told us that she was from an alternate world; one where she died." I proudly stated, because I felt proud that she trusted my brother and I enough to tell us. She said that it hurt her too much to tell anyone else though, which must've been harder than I can imagine.

"I'm from that world too." Greed admitted, slowly letting his gaze fall back on the sleeping alchemist. "You see, I had captured you and her before. But, someone was chasing me, and you two followed me up until my last fight, where I met my demise." He stood from his crouched position and adjusted his sunglasses. Even though there was no meaning for him to have them on.

"But enough for the sob story that never happened, I want immortality." He switched topics, and caught me off guard. Is that what he thinks this is? Immortality?!

"You don't want what I have. It's a living hell. You're all Chimeras so why would you want immortality?"

"Except I'm not a chimera." Greed held up his hand and there was a strange mark he showed off. "A homunculus. Artificially created human. That's what I am."

I remember reading about this with Ed when we were kids. How it's impossible to make one!

"You're lying! I've never seen one truly created before! They're impossible!" I denied.
He stood up, taking off his sunglasses and looked down at me. He took a breath in as if he were about to say something, until one of his lackeys smashed his head to pieces with a hammer! I screamed in surprise, and then in horror when his body hit the ground.

"But....why?" I looked up at the burly man, but he didn't say a word.

"BeCAusE I ToLd hiM To." Greed's corpse explained, and I watched as his brain and skull regenerated out of thin air as he got up. Once fully healed, he cracked his neck and smirked down at me. "That's one death for me."

"N-No way.."

"There's no way "there's no way"" he wiped spots of blood broom his mouth. "Besides aren't you living proof of that? A soul without a body."

"How does it feel to have an immortal soul?" Adding on the question after a moment. "I'm Greed, and I'm greedy! I want money, women, fame, status, and everything else in this world!"

"But aren't you already immortal?" I asked.

"I'm built durable. I've been alive for two hundred years, but I'm not immortal." He clarified. "I've shared my secret, it's time you shared your secret on that body." Uh, no. I'm not telling this creep anything!

"Sounds like you two a swapping workout routines." Scarlet groggily awoke just as the lizard man, whose name is Bido, was kicked for fully through the door.

And there stood Brother! Always late to the party, it seems.

Scarlett's P.O.V.

"Eyyyy, welcome to our party, Ed." I sarcastically smiled, and he groaned in response.

"Brother this man is a Homunculus! He may know a way to get our bodies back!" Alphonse yelled aloud.

"Don't go spilling my secret!" Greed cried. He always was a sissy when he could be. Ed calmly kept walking further into the room, and giving the homunculus a stern look.
Out of desperation, he picked me up by my hair - not without a few colorful words from me as I bit back a scream- and held me up as if I were a shield. "I wouldn't come any closer if I were you." I watched as he stopped his approach and stand cold.

"If you're looking for something, why don't you ask the others? I met a guy at the laboratory they run with a soul affixed to armor." Ed asked; warily gazing over everyone in the room before stopping on Al.

"The other Homunculi? Seriously? Well, let's just say for a certain reason, I can't do that." Greed uttered lowly.
Aww, is little Greed still not loved by his own kind? SUCKS TO BE YOU!~ idiot didn't realize that I had a screw from Al's armor in my hand, and I was scratching a transmutation circle on my handcuffs, because my hands couldn't reach each other from where they were.

"I have a deal for you two; you want to get your bodies back, right? I'll teach you how to create a homunculus, and in exchange, you'll teach me how to transmute a soul." He concluded. Wow. Great plan lets just,

NAH. AINT HAPPENING PSYCHO.

"It's equivalent exchange, right?" He grinned, and turned to Al, STILL HOLDING MY GODDAMN HAIR WHY THAT HURTS!! "I would think that body is more useful than any human body." Oh shit. You're gonna get Ed angry, and trust me Greed, you won't like him when he's angry. He's like the hulk.

-wait. What's the Hulk? Damn, fourth wall breaks.

"Your wrong!" Al shouted in anger, but Ed still said nothing.

"Come on, you don't get tired, you don't need food or sleep, I think that's very useful." He had a point. At this moment with everybody coming after the Elrics, there were worse objects to transmute a soul to.

"Nothing's immortal, or fully free from danger, and that includes Alphonse." I murmured as a quiet contradiction, but just when I thought I was safe, Greed pulled my hair back and I gasped from pain.

"What was that toots? Is there something you're hiding?" With tears in my eyes I shook my head a little, and tried to squirm out of his grasp. Damn homunculus. I CANT KICK HIM IN THE JEWELS!
"Well, let's see what your boyfriend says a-" I watched as Greed was punched in the jaw before he finished his sentence. He let go and I took the chance to escape by crawling away.

"YOU DONT KNOW WHAT THE HELL YOURE TALKING ABOUT SO I SUGGEST YOU SHUT THE HELL UP!" Ed screamed, and I sat shocked at his outburst. "THIS ISNT EQUIVALENT EXCHANGE, AND IM NOT MAKING ANY DEALS WITH A VILLAN! SO THAT HOW THIS IS GONNA GO!!" Damn, someone's gonna die tonight. I was so concentrated in Edward as he fought a chimera that I didn't see the buff lackey of Greed picked up Al and hoisted him over his shoulder before grabbing me around my waist.

"I'll take care of this guy, you guys get the armor outta here so we can dissect him. The girl's and alchemist I know, so we'll pummel the answers out of her." Greed smirked at me with pointy teeth and I gulped.

"Wait, no! Al! Scarlett!!" I heard  as the wall collapsed as the guy holding us made his getaway.

"Let me GO YOU ASSHOLE ILL BEAT YOUR ASS LET ME AT 'EM!!" I kicked and screamed, as well as made a nice little trail for Edward to follow once he beat the living hell outta Greed.
But now I was having second thoughts on who was getting the butt whooping, because it's been almost a hour now.....

....god Ed, I'm gonna hold this over your head for so long if you lose.