Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood · Season 1
Will you sit in that chair wallowing in self-pity, or will you stand up and seize the chance the military can give you?
It's their choice. They choose their own path.
If you believe the possibility exists for getting your bodies back, you should seek it out. Keep moving, whatever it takes. Even if the way ahead lies through a river of mud.
Will they be coming?
They'll come.
That boy... I've never seen anyone look so defeated.
That's what you saw? No. There was fire in those eyes.
Grr...! WHO'S LITTLE?! COME HERE AND SAY THAT TO MY FACE, I DARE YA!
So this guy's claiming he can bring the dead back to life...? Now that's something I gotta see...
So that’s it, huh? What do you think?
There’s nothing to think, that’s Alchemy. No doubt about it.
But somehow he’s ignoring the law of equivalent exchange. He should’ve only been able to transmute that flower into an object of equal mass.
And he’s changing organic matter into inorganic matter. He shouldn’t be able to do that. Unless…
Yeah, there’s just one way… Bingo.
Oh, merciful God, please hear me, hear my prayer, I beg of you. Please bring him back.
So this is the almighty Leto…?
Welcome, are you interested in Letoism?
Nope, can’t say I am. Not really the religious type.
Well, I’m sorry to hear that… To know God is to know hope… If we believe in divine grace, and through him all things are possible… If you believe… I’m sure Leto would bless you and make you grow taller!
What’s that supposed to mean?!
Easy, brother! She’s just trying to help!
What about bringing the dead back to life? Do you believe that’s possible too?
Yes.
[pulls out a notebook and opens it] Water: 35 Liters, carbon: 20 kilograms, ammonia: 4 Liters, lime: 1.5 kilograms, phosphorus: 800 grams, salt: 250 grams, saltpeter: 100 grams, and various other trace elements...
...huh?
That list represents the complete chemical makeup of a human body for the average adult. It's been calculated to the last microgram, but still there has never been one reported case of successfully creating a human life. And you're telling me something modern science can't do, you can do with prayer?
Lift thy voice to God! And the prayers of the faithful shall be answered!
Did I mention all those ingredients I read off? Down at the market, a kid could buy every one of them for the spare change in his pocket. As it turns out, humans are pretty cheap.
No, that's blasphemy...! People are-! We're all children of God... created in his image!
Heh. You have to understand, alchemists are scientists... We don't believe in unprovable concepts like creators or gods... We observe the physical laws that govern this world to try to learn the truth. It's ironic, really. That through the application of science, we have in many ways been given the power to play gods ourselves...
So you're putting yourself on the same level as God? That's just... sheer arrogance!
You know, there's an old myth, about a hero who flew on wings made of wax... He thought he could touch the sun, but when he got too close, his wings melted, and he came crashing back down to earth... Right Al?
Brother...
DAMN IT, I'M THE FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST! IT'S NOT HIM, IT'S ME!
He's the short one?!
Your arm. A brother trapped in armor! I see. It's all becoming clear now. You did it, didn't you? The one thing even the most novice alchemist knows is strictly forbidden!
Why don't you come down here and try me? I'll show you real quick who the novice is!
Rosé... this is the price of their sin... These fools attempted human transmutation: the greatest taboo for any alchemist! In their arrogance, they tried to bring someone dead back to life!
Oh no...
This is what happens when you try to play "God", or whatever you want to call it... Take a good look, Rose. Is this what you want?
So this is the great Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward Elric... Not even half a man...! Hell, not even half a boy!
And what're you?! You're just a phony that can't do anything without a Philosopher's Stone!
Father, we just want you to hand over the Stone before you get hurt.
Don't be absurd! Why, so you can use it for yourself?! Please... [uses his Philosopher's Stone to turn his cane into a Gatling Gun] If you fools are really so eager to play God, then perhaps I should send you to meet him instead!
[Cornello fires at Ed, Al, and Rosé. However, Ed conjures a wall of Earth to protect them all.]
Nah, me and God... we don't get along too well. Even if I went... he'd probably just send me right back here.
Alchemy is based on the Law of Equivalent Exchange... The price of even a failed human transmutation was enormous... It cost my brother his left leg... and it cost me my whole body... Do you see it...? My brother drew that with his own blood. His leg had been taken. He was bleeding. I can't imagine the pain he was in... But through all that, he still gave up his right arm to transmute my soul, and bonded me to this suit of armor. Now, I just want to help him get his body back to the way it was. He wants to find a way to get me back to normal, too. It won't be easy. We might even get killed along the way... But that's the path we chose... All we can do is keep moving.
[Cornello's Philosopher's Stone has just disintegrated.]
What the hell...? The stone... It's supposed to be a perfect material; how did it just break like that?!
I-I don't know! I don't know anything about it! S-Spare me! Please! I–I was wrong! Please! I beg you!
It's a damn fake...?
Please don't! I'm helpless without the Stone! Spare me, please!
You mean, we went through all this... risked our lives just for this one possible chance... and it's a fake?
So, uh... ha ha... what about me?
[finally snaps] I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU DO! JUST GET OUTTA HERE!
Right! [runs away whimpering]
You shut up! People don't come back from the dead, Rosé. Not ever. Not ever!
[collapses to the ground in tears] But he promised me... he said if I prayed, it would happen... A miracle... That hope was all I had left! What am I supposed to believe in now?! Tell me what to do... please...
I can't tell you that... You have to figure it out. Stand up and walk. Keep moving forward. You've got two good legs. So get up and use them. You're strong enough to make your own path.
Narrator: Alchemy. The science of understanding, deconstructing and reconstructing matter. However, it is not an all powerful art. It is impossible to create something out of nothing. If one wishes to obtain something, something of equal value must be given. This is the law of equivalent exchange. The basis of all alchemy. In accordance with this law, there is a taboo among alchemists. Human transmutation is strictly forbidden. For what could equal the value of a human soul?
You’re Basque Grand, the Iron Blood Alchemist, correct?
Why? Who's asking?
Foolish alchemists who have turned their backs on the ways of God... [cracks knuckles] ...shall all be punished.
I see... you must be the bloodthirsty murderer who's been making a habit of targeting State Alchemists lately. [puts on his gauntlets] Well, this time... you've picked the wrong target!
[A fight ensues. Basque Grand manages to trap Scar in a prison of earth.]
That wasn't so difficult. [Scar's hand suddenly bursts out of the prison and grabs his face.] What? No...! How?!
Now you perish.
[Scar infuses Basque Grand with a deadly energy, blowing him up from the inside. Basque Grand falls dead.]
Another State Alchemist, dead.
This killer is highly skilled.
Major, you watch yourself. For all we know, you could be the next one he comes after.
Understood.
Who knows, maybe we'll find something that could help us restore our bodies.
It might help if you consulted a specialist.
Huh?
The Sewing Life Alchemist, Shou Tucker. He's done some heavy research into Chimera transmutation. I'll introduce you.
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