DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT, IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM OWN FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST, NO MATTER HOW MUCH I WISH I DID.

Please don't be too harsh, this is my first time writing a fic! Sorry if it sucks!😅😅😅

Chapter 1

"Ugh." Ed sighed. "Hey, Al? Do I have to turn my report in to Colonel Bastard-Ass?"

"Yes brother. Now let's go or you'll be late, again." Al said, ushering his brother out of the barracks using shooing motions with his large gauntlets.

"Ok, ok. Colonel Ass-Hat, here I come." Ed muttered rolling his shoulders and cracking his neck. They made it about five feet from the barracks when the world exploded into white light, a high-pitched keening noise, then blackness.

…...

"Has anyone seen Fullmetal?" Colonel Mustang asked looking around his office at all of his officers. Breda, Falman, Fuery, Havoc, and Hawkeye all shook their heads. Mustang turned his onyx eyes to the door, concern and worry etching into his features. He looked back at all of his subordinates. "Have any of you- Fuery? Fuery?! What's wrong?" Mustang asked, knowing what he was about to hear was not what he wanted to hear.

"Th-there was a-an exp-plosion." Fuery stuttered.

"Where, Fuery?" Mustang demanded, knowing all too well where the answer would be.

Fuery swallowed the lump in his throat that was making speach almost impossible. Almost. "The-the barracks, sir."

Mustangs heart clenched. He knew what that meant. He looked out the window. Ed. Where ever you are, you had better be alright, damn it. Just then, the door to the office swung open and broke clean off its hinges. Before Mustang could turn around, his subordinates all yelled a name. Not the name he had been hoping for, but too close for comfort, for all their voices were filled with panic.

"ALPHONSE!"

"Colonel," Al said, not even bothering to hide the fear and desperation in his voice, "You have to help me. There was an explosion-and-and-."

"I know about the explosion Alphonse." he said turning around to look at the suit of armor that is just a boy. "You don't have to te-"

"Colonel, me and brother were caught in the blast-"

"I can see that." Mustang interrupted, gesturing to Al's mangled left leg, and missing left arm.

"Listen to me, damn it!" Al shouted, shocking them all into silence, "Me and brother were caught in the blast, but I can't find brother anywhere!"

"Have you checked under the near-by rubble?" Mustang asked with false calmness.

"No! I couldn't do that all by myself! There's nearly six tons of rubble. I'm guessing that the blast came from under one of the buildings because of the circumference of the blast and the way it craters beneath the buildings and I think that brother is trapped under there! Oh, why did I-."

"What is all the," cough, "fuss about? I'm right here, mostly fine." A voice said from the doorway. Mustang looked around Al to see none other than Edward Elric standing in the doorway, covered in soot, blood, dust, and what looks like tar.

Alphonse whips around. "BROTHER! YOUR ALRIGHT!" he says striding over to Ed.

Ed coughs. "Yeah, well, mostly." he coughs again, a very wet cough.

"Fullmetal? Are you alright?" Mustang asked as Ed kept coughing.

"Yes, I'm fi-." Ed cut off as he began coughing again, this time he brought his hand up to cover his mouth as his hacking got worse and worse. When his coughing fit was finally over, his eyes were glazed over with pain and his hand was filled with blood that he hacked out of his lungs. He began to sway as the world tilted and spun around him, the ground roiling under his feet. He felt his consciousness slipping away. "Sorry, Al, Colonel." he managed to mutter before passing out cold on the floor of Mustangs office.