Al, all this time I've been too afraid to ask you, but I need to know the truth, okay? It's my fault you don't have a real body anymore... Do you hate me? Ahh! [A bomb explodes behind them, destroying the wall Edward had created]
Do you? I wouldn't blame you if you did, Al, but I gotta know. Do you hate me for all that's happened?
That's what you've been trying to ask me?
Al! Behind you! [Barry the Chopper/Number 66 runs to attack Al from behind]
Brother, I could never... I could never hate you!
EElysia
Mom, how come? Why are they burying daddy? Who are those people? Why are they burying him, why?
EElysia
They can't! I don't like it! Daddy said he had lots of work to do and if they bury him, he can't do it when he wakes up!
EElysia
Stop them, mommy! Daddy has to do his work, he told me! Why are they burying Daddy, Mommy? Why? ...Daddy, wake up!
‘Killed in action’ and promoted two ranks for it. Brigadier General Hughes… You were the guy who was going to work below me, and push me to the top. Then you get yourself killed, and pass me in the ranks. I don’t know what’s more absurd: you or the state.
You know, years ago, I had a theory on human transmutation, and after all we’ve seen I was actually trying to remember it now. We alchemists are such hopeless, predictable things. Why didn’t he tell me, Lieutenant? Ed and Al in danger, Lab 5… Maybe I could have done something to help!
Maybe because he knew you’d try, sir.
When those boys are in harm’s way, well, sometimes your decisions aren’t exactly rational. Maybe Brigadier General Hughes didn’t tell you because he wanted you to concentrate on your own goal instead of the Elrics’, so you could make it to the top, without anymore set backs.
It’s-it’s going to rain today.
Got my girlfriend to bake you an apple pie! You want it? Roy…
It’s called a "Taboo", forbidden alchemy, it’s kind of fun.
I don’t understand much about alchemy! But I’m no fool, and I certainly know what happens to anyone who commits a taboo!
You can relax, Maes, I haven’t done anything.
Maybe not yet, but you were planning to.
You just don’t understand. I killed a lot of people out there.
Easy for you to say you weren’t there.
No, I wasn’t. And if you didn’t want to kill enemies in battle, you shouldn’t have been there either; you should have asked for a desk job, like I did. Did you think if you became a State Alchemist you could fix everything? Bring back anyone who ever died in a controversial war? Invent some Utopian world?
Is a taboo so easy to commit you just need a little binge of studying to pull it off? Or do you just want to wait and die? Because if that’s the case, there are plenty of easier means.
I had it at my mouth, Maes, and I couldn’t pull the trigger, I was too afraid to end it.
That’s just the kind of cowardly human that I am.
Even my life, detestable as it is will have some use… Maes, I have a plan.
I’m going to become the Führer, Maes. It’s the only way I can justify taking my next breath.
Well to do that you’ll have to have someone who knows you and the system, and can support you from the inside. I work under you, stay close to the higher ups, and help push you to the top.
What do you mean we’re not going to Dublith?
Don’t worry; we’ll still take you to Rush Valley.
Well, okay then, but what about your teacher? Didn’t you want to ask her about another way to fix yourselves besides the Philosopher’s Stone?
If we go for any reason, we’ll be killed.
Brother never told her he became a state alchemist.
If she could tell by our bodies we tried human transmutation… Personally, I’d like to live a little longer.
I, at least, want to fall in love before I’m through.
Even if those weren’t issues… I just don’t think it’d be right asking her that.
We’ve learned about a pretty sizable Ishballian refugee camps hidden in the mountains to the south. I think Scar and the others might have gone there…
You’re going after Scar...?
It’s been said the Philosopher's Stone was created in Ishbal, but no one ever taught them alchemy. In fact, their culture rejected it.
I’m going to beat the pulp out of him, and force him to tell me their secret.
Brother, about Scar, he’s really not that bad of a person, ‘ya know?
He murdered dozens of people, and he’s done it by using alchemy. I can’t forgive him for that.
Mmmm! I guess that’s what they call a “mother’s touch”! I could eat this stuff all day!
That Mr. and Mrs. Hughes and their cute little daughter Elicia, that had to be the perfect family!
Come on, perfect? The guy’s nosey and obsessed with his kid! He’s annoying!
You like him; he came to see us all the time.
Yet he’s always complaining about how busy he is, I’m telling you that big goof doesn’t make any sense!
Why do you think he cares about us so much, seriously?
Really, Ed. You’d better tell him ‘thanks’ when we get back to Central. (At the blink of an eye, Ed thought he saw a silhouette of Hughes waving as they pass him) Ed?
Did you see something, brother?
RReferee
Nah, I couldn't possibly ask this shrimp to take on the champ... Hahahaha!
RReferee
Whoa, you're a pretty feisty shrimp, aren't you? Looks like you salvaged that auto-mail from the bottom of a scrap heap!
Alphonse. Let go of your brother.
Edward, if you lose, I'll kick your ass!
Hi, it's a real pleasure to meet you, sir! I'm Winry Rockbell visiting from Risembool. I'm an auto-mail mechanic too!
DDominic
D-did you say you're a Rockbell out of Risembool? Are you related to Pinako?!
DDominic
The Leopardess of Risembool! ...I can still hear the bone-chilling laugh!
