It would be an impossible task for any ordinary alchemist...
Yeah, you're right. But I'm no ordinary alchemist.
All S1
S1 E15Unfinished Business
What gave me away?
The Brigadier was killed by Scar. I had a front row seat. Who are you? What's your name?
Well that depends, I can be whoever you want. So who would you like, Mr. Fullmetal Pipsqueak? Huh? Maybe a taller a version of you? (Ed growls)
My, my, the determined little pipsqueak wants to start a fight. But I don't know, I'm really more of a pacifist.
You should stop calling me pipsqueak, it puts me in a really bad mood!
Just remember you started this sparring match, pipsqueak. Do you have any idea of who you are dealing with, huh?! The only reason you're still around, the only reason why we haven't killed you yet is because we were told not to! But I can never forgive you... and there'll never be a time when I’m able to forgive you, for carrying that bastard’s blood in your veins!
Are you saying that me coming here was part of your plan all along? Al and I started this journey three years ago for our own reasons, of our own free will! And we went through hell to get here.
LLust
You're here because that is what we wanted.
Al and I are nobody's puppets! Not the State's, and definitely not yours!
LLust
It's an equivalent exchange... I'm going to tell you everything you need to know to make a Philosopher's Stone. And in return, you are going to to use it to turn all of us into humans.
And why the hell should I trust you guys?
LLust
Oh, but you misunderstand me, Fullmetal. We're not asking... We're telling. Do you know what happens to an attached soul... when you do this? [begins to scratch the Older Slicer's blood seal]
Stop it! You can't do that! He's still a human being!
OSOlder Slicer
Edward Elric, I want you to... [Lust destroys his blood seal]
LLust
[knocks Al's helmet off and touches his blood seal] This won't take long.
No! Please don't hurt him! He's my little brother! Please don't take him away! I'm begging you!
[uses alchemy to fix the ceiling]
[whistles, impressed]
LLust
To get something, you evidently have to take it away from somebody else. In order to achieve anything in life, you inevitably have to take it from someone else... That is what any honest adult knows
AAl
But we're not adults!
LLust
When Edward decided to join up with the State Alchemists...He gave up all claims to childhood in exchange for power...So don't start behaving like a child now... Because you can't have it both ways.
Mom, you're back.
Edward! You didn’t tell me you were in the hospital for this!
Yeah, well, one thing, lead to another… He-he…
This is nothing to laugh about!
What’s wrong?
I didn’t do the maintenance on your auto-mail the way I should have, and now… This is my fault…
No don’t say that! There are a lot of other things to blame! Right Al?
Right…
There, you see? And Al doesn’t lie!
Yeah, but…
Your maintenance was perfect, it always has been! It’s complicated machinery, and I’m slinging it all around! It was bound to jam up some time! I mean honestly, the timing was pretty good, if it’d stopped earlier, I’d be a lot worse off! It broke because I was rough with it, don’t worry!
(Thinks) Could he actually not have noticed I forgot to use that screw? (Talking) YOU’RE RIGHT, ED! YOU’RE TOO ROUGH! A RECKLESS KLUTZ, REALLY! AHAHAHAHA!
Hey…
SSheska
Lieutenant Colonel, sorry to interrupt, but there’s a call from Colonel Mustang.
Yo, Roy! Good timing, I’ve got great news!
What?! Your soldiers have found Scar?!
No, you obsessed idiot! How would that be great news? Did you honestly forget? Tomorrow’s Alicia’s birthday! We’re throwing her a party and everything!
Unless you want to become charcoal, Maes, you’d better tell me the news from Central!
Don’t worry, if anything important happens, I’ll let you know, but in the meantime, make sure you send my daughter a present! Bye now!
Uh! Rrrrggggg!
SSheska
But, sir, are you sure it’s okay not to tell him anything, about the boys?
Yeah, I’m sure, right now it’s better if he doesn’t know anything…
SSheska
Right…
But enough about that, you got those reports?
SSheska
YEAH! Working non-stop without sleep, I’ve managed to finish them all!
(Takes a sip of his drink) Great, here’s a list of what’s next, doll.
SSheska
(Faints)
How you doing’? Huh? Well, Ed it looks like you’re done with your dinner…
Uhuh…
Don’t be a baby. It won’t hurt much. Huh? (’moo’ is heard) You didn't drink your milk. (Ed twitches) Edward...
(grumbling) You drink it. I hate milk. It's like drinking vomit.
(shoving it in his face) WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! MILK'S GOOD FOR YOU! DRINK IT!
(shoving it away) FORGET IT! I HATE WHAT I HATE! IT'S NOT LIKE I'LL DIE BECAUSE I DON'T DRINK THAT CRAP!
JEEZ! AND THIS IS THE REASON YOU'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE THE SIZE OF A BEAN!
A BEAN?!
Yeah, a bean. Right, Al?
Just do what she says, Ed. Drink the dumb milk.
Yeah, sure, easy for you to say, Al, you're lucky. You didn't have to drink anything to get that big!
Shut up. It wasn't my choice to be this way!
You’re right, Al… I’m sorry…
Hey, what’s the matter are you two fighting?
Alphonse Elric. Earlier, I did sense something. Tears that cannot be seen...but felt. Those tears were...human.
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]
What?
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!
LLust
It's a pleasure to meet you, or should I make that goodbye, Lieutenant Colonel.
EElysia
Mom, how come? Why are they burying daddy? Who are those people? Why are they burying him, why?
He's gone, baby.
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!
Elysia!
EElysia
Stop them, mommy! Daddy has to do his work, he told me! Why are they burying Daddy, Mommy? Why? ...Daddy, wake up!
We’ll catch up, sir.
‘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.
Are you ready?
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.
What’s that mean?
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.
Yes.
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.
It was a war.
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?
Heh, I don’t know.
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.
I’d hope so.
That’s just the kind of cowardly human that I am.
Every sane person is.
Even my life, detestable as it is will have some use… Maes, I have a plan.
Let’s hear it, Roy.
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.
Wait a sec… 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.
Then where are we going?
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!
Yeah!
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?
Beats me…
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?
No. (He chomps the pie)
RReferee
Nah, I couldn't possibly ask this shrimp to take on the champ... Hahahaha!
I'M NOT A SHRIMP!
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.
Yes, ma'am.
Edward, if you lose, I'll kick your ass!
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