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Envy sighed. The gate. Of course it was the gate. At least he was back in his humanoid form. He sat on the white substance of nothingness, only to misjudge the distance between his ass and the floor. He yelped and let out a string of curses, most aimed at whatever kind of idiot would think of putting a white floor to nothing, which was also white. He heard a snicker behind him and whirled around to see the guy… whatever he was. The truth or something.

"I see you've had no trouble making yourself comfortable so close to a domain that could easily take you to meet with Lucifer himself," It said. Envy scoffed. "The devil? I don't believe in him." Truth guy smiled his eerie grin and replied "You should, Envy, he believes in you." Envy blinked. "Well, if he does exist, why shouldn't he? Aren't I supposed to be one of his sins? Pure boni-fied evil in carnet?" He asked, shooting Truth guy a glare. Truth Guy's grin got bigger, if that was even possible. "Well, we're here now, at the cross between everything. Heaven, Hell, Earth, and all other dimensions that spawn from the latter two.

"But, I must admit, you have me a bit confounded. You see, you were supposed to be killed by fire, successfully ensuring that you would forever be condemned to freeze in the icy grips of your sin. Now, however, you can't go on. You died in the grips of spiteful outrage and fear, both equally as icy as your eternal damnation." Envy sighed, annoyed. "So, what? Am I just supposed to sit here for the rest of eternity?" Truth shook his head. "No, you foolish sin. No one with body, soul, and mind all intact and all together can remain here. And, according to my Boss, you've got all three and therefore must move on to a second life or an afterlife."

Well, the answer seems pretty obvious to me. Envy thought. "So, why don't you just send me on my way to whatever you feel is best?" Truth guy shook his head again. "Envy, second lives are for people with a job to fulfill and frankly, I don't think the devil will take too kindly to me letting you run all around hell like you own the place. That would cause me a bit of a headache, having to keep him at bay." Envy let out another frustrated sigh. "Well, what does your "Boss" have to say about this?" He swore he saw truth blink in surprise just then. "You may be right, Envy. I don't have an answer for everything, but He does." Then, suddenly, Truth wasn't there. He didn't pop or anything, he just wasn't there, like, one minute he was sitting and grinning, and the next, nothing.

He sat down in front of the gate so as not to get lost in the nothing area and waited. And waited. And waited. He looked wistfully at his wrist, wishing he'd worn the little watch father gave him a couple of centuries ago to help him keep track of time. He laughed abruptly, remembering.

It had been about three to five decades since his creation, and he was in the habit of sleeping late and never going to "family meetings" as his father dubbed them. He smiled again wistfully, because it had been back before greed or that ling kid were around to annoy him and call him ugly ( The brat had taken to using those words when he was vaguely remembering his past life as the bastard and Envy had had about enough of it).

Anyway, he had happened to waltz into the room where his father was usually sitting on his chair on his way to the kitchen. Envy froze when he saw Pride, Lust, and the then- newly-formed Gluttony all sitting around Father, and who were all looking at him in mild surprise. "Shit," Envy mumbled under his breath. He'd forgotten again. Father had motioned to him to come to him, which Envy obediently did. "Gomen, Otou-sama." He had said in the current language that was being spoken across the lands. Father pulled something from one of the folds of his robes and handed it to him.

Envy had peered closely at the object he now cradled in his hands. "What is it?" He remembered asking. Father had smiled and told him it was to help keep track of time, so he wouldn't be late anymore. Envy had flushed ever so slightly and ducked his head in embarrassment at he returned to his laughing siblings.

"Something funny, Envy?" Said Homunculus blinked and found truth grinning at him. In a weird sort of way, he looked like a slimmer version of gluttony. He shook his head at the being. "Just a memory," He replied offhandedly. Truth Guy nodded. "My Boss has an interesting future planned for you. Yes, you're getting to live again," Truth said, holding up his hand to silence Envy, "Back as yourself, though you're no longer to help your remaining siblings or your once-Father. You will, however, remain a homunculus and retain all of your powers as you had before."

Envy had a look of pain on his face. Not help Father? The one who had given him life in the first place? Truth seemed to read the look on his face. "Envy," he sighed, "The one who created you is not him. Without that man, you would still have been born Envy, and you still would have been a Homunculus, no matter what. You owe this man nothing, but you owe this human a lot." Envy blinked as, out of the nothing, a human girl appeared, kneeling on her bed with hands folded in prayer rested on the window sill. Envy frowned. "How do I owe this girl anything?" He asked indignantly. Truth shushed him and what He presumed to be the girl's voice echoed in the emptiness.

" Hey God, it's me again, Rei. Well, me and my sis were reading the latest downloaded chapter of that manga we've been reading, you know the one. I think it was chapter ninety-five. Well, Envy got his butt handed to him on a silver platter by the colonel- dimwit, and I just feel like I should ask that he not be held for those sins he committed. I mean, sure, he might deserve it, but if I go by what I think in my head I do too. Only difference is he actually throttles them when they irritate him. I don't care if he's not supposed to be real.

" So, please show mercy on him, wherever he's going. It'd be a bummer to die and find out you threw him in the incinerator or something."

"Incinerator? Do you even have one?" Envy asked as the image dispersed. Truth grinned again. "That was plan B." Envy blinked. "Oh… so what am I supposed to do?" another image appeared, one of that same girl and one that looked remarkably like her at gunpoint. "These two have been destined to save every dimension that would be destroyed before it's time without them. The world you came from just happens to be top priority right now because it's on the brink of disaster."

"So, what? You want me to help them on their merry way, destroy centuries worth of planning, and help them along to the next place they need to go?" Truth nodded. "In a manner of speaking, yes." Envy frowned. "I'm not doing it." Truth smiled again. "Fine, I get to see if the incinerator works." Envy thought of the Colonel's flames. "On second thought, helping them along their merry way sounds fine to me."

Truth smiled broader, and the world went black.