Chapter 3: Reyna

"We could cut off his nose," I deadpanned. Rory and Kristina looked absolutely horrified. "I was only joking!"

"Well we need to think of some way to get my head out of Al's helmet!" exclaimed Ed, exasperated.

"Well we're definitely not going to use butter," pointed out Rory.

"We could use soap," I suggested.

"I have some hand sanitizer. Would that work?" offered Rory, holding a small bottle of hand sanitizer and his amazing never-ending backpack with a TARDIS design.

"Is your backpack secretly the TARDIS or we just seriously lucky?" I took the bottle from Rory's outstretched hand and examined it. "This should work just fine. Thanks, Rory-kun."

"You're welcome."

Five tiring minutes later Ed was finally freed.

"THANK YOU!" shouted the short teen, standing with a fist pumped up in the air.

"Hey, Rory-kun? Do you wanna head over to your house to show these two and Chandler-senpai the show?"

"Oh yeah. I almost forgot. Come on everyone, we're going to my house now!"

I was practically bouncing with excitement when we finally reached Rory's house.

"So what exactly is it that we're doing over here?" inquired Ed.

"We are going to watch a show on Netflix called Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood," explained Kristina.

"Aaaah, wait a minute," Rory realised, "Wouldn't it bad to show them the future? And didn't we already go over this? I'm going to shut up now."

"What's a 'Netflix'?" questioned Al.

"You'll see, Alphonse," I responded.

"Wait. Why am I here?" asked Chandler.

"Because you need to watch anime!"

Soon all attention was diverted to the telly as Rory had started the show. The first few minutes were hilarious seeing Ed, Al, and Mustang completely flip out at anything happening on the telly. Mustang nearly set the television on fire when his face first appeared. Ever-helpful, Rory Stockhelm simply shouted, "FIRE STYLE NO JUTSU!" Roy's gloves were confiscated soon after that. Rory, on the other hand, was banned from making any Naruto references as he was the only one who would even understand them.

The three alchemists had quite a fright when the theme song came on and Rory and I began singing along.

"Kono omoi wo keshite ni wa mada jinsei nagai desho."

"AAAAAAAA! WHAT'S HAPPENING?!"

When the song reached the fast part, the Amestrians were shocked to find Rory still singing each and every word.

"THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT A HUMAN SHOULD BE CAPABLE OF! IT'S INSANE!" panicked Edward.

"What language is that?"

"The language that your show originally aired in and technically you should all be speaking right now… but I guess we got the dub version? I kinda wish we'd gotten sub, just 'cause it would be awesome to see you guys with little floating subtitles every time you spoke…" Rory trailed off when he realised no-one was listening.

~Kristina~

"Actually, for him it is really normal; sometimes we can't get him to shut up," I said, "at all."

Everyone else agreed. Well, mainly just Chandler. Thankfully, I managed to calm Ed down in time for the first part of the show. The three Amestrians watched in wonder as their lives played out on the screen, going through their entire experience with MacDougal. No one spoke the entire time, too focused on watching the expressions of Rory's guests as they saw themselves and the idiotic things they did in the first episode, when they knew nothing about the truth, now that they were aware of the conspiracy and all that.

Once the episode ended, they were all still in a state of shock and looked at us.

"On to the next episode!" exclaimed Rory. I was about to go along with him until I remembered the plot of the next episodes.

"Wait, we shouldn't!" I said as fast as I could.

"Why not, Kristina-san?" questioned Reyna.

"I just remembered the plot of the next episodes, and considering that, I don't think it's something that they'll want to watch happen again. I want to show them more of the series as well, I really do, but it would just be painful. Besides, the last thing we want is to accidentally go too far in the series."

The normal-ish people around me, minus Chandler because she can't be bothered to finish the series, mulled this over and then there was a chorus of 'ohh's as they realized why I said no.

"And why can't we continue with this fascinating activity?" spoke Roy in that kind of dissaproving parent tone.

"Oh, nothing, just reasons that come from- uhhh…" I trailed off. Luckily, Rory had my back with a quick reply of his own.

"Security reasons!" he improvised. "Ed and Al are the main characters, so it would reveal all their secrets! You have secrets too, right Colonel? Like your parents?"

Mustang's face went through several expressions very rapidly.

"Checkmate, Colonel Bastard," I gloated, even though Rory was the one who came up with the reason.

"What, no reply, Colonel?" spouted Ed, looking all too pleased with the situation Roy was in.

"Well Fullmetal, I-" He didn't get to finish his scentence before we were all blinded by a flash of bright light, one that shouldn't have been in Rory's house. When it dissipated the Amestrians were gone, probably back home. It felt like something else was missing too… Oh well, I'm sure it'll come to me.

Epilogue

Suddenly, there was a bright flash of light. Rory squinted against the white brilliance, shielding his eyes. When the world came back into focus, he blinked some more, but out of confusion.

Edward, Alphonse, and Mustang were gone.

So was Chandler.

"Do you think they went back to Amestris…?" Kristina wondered tentatively.

"Do you think Chandler went with them?" Rory responded, his face unusually grave.

"Oh, no," gasped Reyna, and at the same time, Kristina let out a more profane synonym.

"I-I'm sure she'll be fine," laughed Rory nervously. "What could possibly happen to her? After all, she's probably with Ed-"

"She's probably with Edward-"

"She's dead."

Sorry this was so short, but it's only the beginning, after all. Part II is -man, so if you want to check it out, I'll be posting it in that category soon...