We Go Together

Underground/Back in Rush Valley

"What the hell are you?" Greed asks Izumi when he sees her puke blood because of her illness.

"I'M A HOUSEWIFE!!" Izumi yells angrily and lands a great hit on him.

Greed stares at the three of us angrily. Edward places a hand on my back.

"How do you feel?" He asks silently.

"My energy's coming back," I reply, "I'll be better in no time."

"Well," Greed says with his usual cocky voice. "A house-wife, a hot-headed brat, and an easily extinguished fireball. What an interesting team."

"Don't be so sure about the easily extinguished part," I launch a fireball at him, exactly what he asked for. Now that the flame is stronger, it can weaken his shield.

Edward manipulates the ground to make more sharp cones that can cut through the carbon, Izumi lands some pretty strong hits on Greed, and I make use of my now recovered power. Greed gets weakened enough so he runs off, right after we find out that the military is here, including Fuhrer King Bradley himself.

We hear shooting, screaming, and yelling. Izumi takes us to a hallway where we start treating our wounds (yet again). Meanwhile, I simply can't take out the image of Greed, along with Envy and the woman. After a long time of their fighting, things quiet down. Alphonse is brought in again, but the girl that was inside of him is now dead, so they retrieve the body. When Al wakes up, he shows himself upset about the girl.

Then Bradley comes in, with a threatening look on his face.

"Elrics," he says. "As you know, Greed is capable of several things. Now, I'm only going to say this once. Did you exchange any information of any sort?"

Edward looks at Bradley firmly. "No."

"Are you completely sure?" Bradley almost insists.

Edward takes some more time, but again, he answers no, with the same firm tone.

"If you did, I'll have the three of you executed," Bradley threatens.

"We did not exchange any information," Edward says.

In spite of the fact that we were close to trading intel on the Homunculus and the Philosopher's Stone...

Then Bradley smiles, the same way he was smiling when he went to visit Edward at the hospital. "You really are an honest kid. Be sure to keep those two safe."

Then he walks away. When we go back to the Butcher shop it's night time. Edward, Alphonse and I sit at the back alley with the company of Major Armstrong. We talk about several things, but for some reason, when Hughes comes up in the conversation, Armstrong acts strangely.

He walks up to Edward and places his hands on Edward's shoulders. "Don't do anything rash. The three of you."

"No... We won't," Edward replies.

"He's right," I say. "We'll take care."

"Good," Armstrong says, and then walks off.

"Brother," Alphonse says when Armstrong is gone. "I got my memories back."

"Of when you saw the Truth?" Edward replies. "What did you see?"

"I saw mom," Alphonse replies melancholically. "The more I stretched my hand to take her hand, the more it hurt. The faster my body disappeared."

We stay in silence until we have to go back inside.

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