I do not own FMA or try to claim that I do.

All I would like to do is tell a story.

The Return of Full Metal Alchemist

Prologue

Ed and Alphonse look up at the gate. Ed looks back at his friend who is now dead. Realizing how much has just happened in less than hour finally catches up to him. He will never go home. Everything is lost and now he must continue his life with nothing.....except Al. He takes a long look at his brother who is still staring at the gate.

"Al, how are we supposed to destroy this?"

"I'm not sure brother, we need some sort of major weapon to destroy that."

Ed looks around and notices one last warship still sitting in the bay.

"Well I guess we should put this to use shouldn't we."

The proceed to get everyone away from the area that was about to be destroyed. To Ed this last step would give his friend Alphonse's life and work some meaning. He knows that his late friend would want his work to be done for something good instead of what they wanted it for. They set it to aim right for the edge of the wall.

"Al, I just want you to know that this is it. Our life now will be different. No more alchemy, or state, or Winry. Just us."

"I know, it's just us. The way it should be."

The warship goes towards the gate as Ed and Al looks towards their home world and say good bye.

"I can't believe I have to do this."

Roy Mustang stands at the gate looking at his answer to bringing Ed home. Every night for the past two years he has sought after this answer. Many nights sitting alone studying everything there is to know about the gate, human transmutation, the philosophers stone, and everything Ed and Al had documented. His answer was here. This gate brought him Ed and now he must destroy it. He raises his right hand, brings his fingers together and is about too............

"Please stop."

Shocked and surprised he turns around ready to attack and see's an unfamiliar face standing before him. A tall man with long white hair and a long black coat stands before him. He looks to be in his thirties but the hair is familiar of an old mans. In his left arm is books and a bag filled with papers spilling out. Most of all there is an old state uniform under this long worn coat of his.

"And who might you be?" asks Roy

"Those boys are gone, aren't they?"

"Well before I answer anything I must know who you are?"

"I can bring them back without using this dangerous portal."

"Then why should I stop from destroying it?"

"I'm a former State Alchemist. Let me document everything here first. After I have this information I will make a doorway to the other side of the gate."

"You have one hour. Wether you are done or not I am destroying this gate."

The man sets his books and bag on the ground and stands at the gate. He claps his hands and puts them to the ground and a complex array of circles appears before them. He goes to his bag and sees red stones on the ground. He takes out a vile and fills it with the stones.

"What do you need those for?"

He grabs his book and pen and starts drawing everything he sees. Little does Mustang know what this man will do and who he was before this happened.

[End Prologue]