A late review I know but I think using live ammunition during a test like this is going overboard. Are they really trying to kill the recruits or something.

Very well written and extremely interesting, however, I must ask why you kept with the anime version instead of the manga one? I personally prefer the manga and think this would have been better in that world over the anime. The anim started well but ended up seemingly scattered to me. You did exceeding well in my opinion and changed from the anime in such a way that it flowed better than th anime. Thank you for your hard work and skill making this fanfic for us readers.

Ok, you dumbass, it's spelled Risembool!

I'm not sure you will ever read this review. For all I know, you have forgotten completely about this site and your clever little story that has made me so happy. But thank you.

oh my gosh i loved this so much! but it would have been nice to see everyone else's reaction to Edward

No...i know this one by heart...Hoenhime

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww C:

awwwwwwwwwww :) this is so adorable and oh my goodness i fell in love with the idea of the picture of ed and winry :)

OH MY GOD I KNEW IT WAS HER! BUT WHEN I READIT WAS ACCTUAALLY HER I WANTED TO FAINT! XD

I KNEW IT! I already L-O-V-E LOVE this story!

Loved it! I was so happy to read a great story without it stoping in the middle because the author lost their mojo. Loved the ending. Thanks for an awesome story.

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. I JUST LOVE THIS ENTIRE FANFIC SO MUCH. Hardly any grammatical/spelling errors, great use of plot-change, excellent action scenes. I'm usually not one for major character changes, but this fanfic was definelty worth reading.

Omg I love this story. I was just looking for a story where whinry didn't sit at home to help me to continue my writing and I have so many ideas now I really like this story the plot followed the actual anole so well and was put together exectally all the characters where very close to original other then whinry of course but I could totally see this happening because her character has so much growing room in both the manga and the anime. I do have to say Ed was a little out of character bit it was totally need to pull off this story. Please keep up the writing I can't wait to read more of you work!

Well done, but why was it rated M?

Great imagination. Lots of unique ideas. Loved Winry as an alchemist and a gear-head. Very good writing style and making the characters true to the way they would have reacted.

*this is meant to be constructive, not critical. I'm sorry if it comes across that way though*

Couple of things that seemed (to me) wrong or not fully explained. Winry couldn't use alchemy in the first place. So when Envy showed up, how did the Gate appear? Doesn't the Gate only appear when human transmutation occur? Also the ending bothered me. Why would Lyra have Rose's child when Rose wasn't there (or was she and we didn't see her)? Also the actual ending in Ch. 37 seemed almost like you rushed it. I was expecting with that the explosion was the start of the invasion of Shamballa, not a rocket ship from outer space which seems a little lame.

I felt a little robbed by the chapters ofter Loir. You painted a really good picture of how Winry subtly changed minor events and made her a bad-ass character, but after Loir, events just played out as usual. Nothing different (except the inspection team to look at the Rockbell house that Mustang redirected). I could see how Rose could have been controlled, but Winry was an alchemist who knew her feelings for Ed. I don't believe that she would have been able to be controlled, especially when Ed showed up. I thought that Winry, along with Ed would have been able to beat Dante.

*end to my gloomy comments*

All around a very good fanfic story. Really enjoyed it.