On the day before the Promised Day,
Alphonse Elric hid himself at the East Area training grounds.
However, the Homunculi Gluttony and Pride appear, and capture him.
Alphonse.
Wake up, Alphonse.
Who are you?
It's too soon for you to die.
There's still so much use we need to put you to.
Excuse me, is this Kanama?
Mr. Ho.
You have a visitor.
So you've come, Edwa--
Ah, that feels better.
You didn't have to haul off and slug me out of nowhere, you know!
And with your right hand too!
You've made some more friends. Whoa...
It just works out that we're all in the same boat.
And incidentally, I'm the boss of these guys.
Well, well, thank you for looking after my son.
Not at all.
- And a damn sassy son he is. - Shut up!
That's an unusual tattoo.
Ah, this?
I suppose there's no sense in hiding it.
Pops, don't keep back anything from us either.
Tomorrow is the "Promised Day," right?
Yeah. I'll tell you everything.
I guess you can't accept this as readily as Alphonse did.
You talked to Al too?
Yeah.
He probably has his own take on some of it, but he accepted it.
I am the Philosopher's Stone that you wanted.
- Will you use me? - Don't be ridiculous!
Those are the lives of people that have nothing to do with this!
There's no way we can use you,
when it's our own fault we lost our bodies!
I'm glad my son would say so.
Tomorrow, there will be an eclipse.
He is planning to exploit it.
Exploit the eclipse?
Edward, will you help me put a stop to his scheme?
Help you? Don't get the wrong idea.
I'll knock that bearded bastard's block off
without teaming up with you!
It's just that right now,
it looks like banding together assures our victory,
which is the only reason why I'm listening to you!
Good.
Whatever your reasons are, you'll still fight alongside me.
Granny Pinako asked me to give Mom's last words to you.
"Sorry I couldn't keep my promise."
And "I'm dying first."
There, I told you!
Don't you think you should talk more heart-to-heart with your old man?
Yeah, yeah. At least call him "Pop."
It sounds like there's been a lot between you in the past,
but he's not the sort of man who would abandon his wife.
I'm sure a lot has happened to him. Go on, hear him out.
Aw, geez, shut up! A lot has happened to me too!
Like what?
I'll bet you're just being stubborn.
You're not sure how to sort out your feelings, huh?
I can't blame you.
He's a Philosopher's Stone, in the form of a live person.
And what's more, he also happens to be your father.
It's not just that.
He's not quite who I was expecting.
Someday, I'll be a wrinkly old woman myself.
Even so, no matter what form I take,
I want us to be able to all smile together.
So let's always stay a family.
Trisha, I'm going away.
Wait here for me.
Okay.
I'll wait for you.
"I'm sorry I couldn't keep my promise."
You've passed away first, huh?
I may not have been able to grow old and die with you like you wanted,
but you always believed
that I would be coming back to you later on.
Tomorrow, Trisha.
- Here you go. - Thanks.
What are you doing with that?
Are you planning to wear something that flashy again?
Why does it have to be red?
This will probably be our last battle against them.
I have to make sure I'm all fired up for it.
Look, you guys don't have to tag along with me.
I think it might be better for you if we parted ways here, fellows.
Hey, now, you can't decide that for yourself.
You work for me.
Or, do you, you know, want to get your original bodies back, or...
I don't know.
There's a lot about these bodies that comes in handy.
I wouldn't really mind staying like this.
That's more like it!
So then, why?
Well, you know, we don't have anywhere else to be.
My animal instincts tell me that if I stay here,
something good will happen to me.
What about you?
Didn't you say you'd split from the Homunculi?
Are you asking why I've returned to Central?
I'm not telling.
What is it?
Al!
Oh, it's you. Don't scare me like that.
I'm glad we managed to link up again. How have you been?
- Brother, you're all right too. - Huh?
I thought you were together with Major Miles.
Is everything all right with them?
I need to speak to you about that. Come here a minute.
Okay.
Al, is something the matter with you?
Why do you ask?
No reason, it's just that...
- Ed! - Ling?
Get away from him!
That's...
He's...
What is this?
So you've gone over to their side, Greed.
To think you'd let the human take you over again.
Your soul is too weak!
The Führer is still missing?
They say they've only found the body of one of his subordinates downriver.
It would be a miracle if he's still alive.
I'll enlist the cooperation of the Northern forces,
and direct the search myself.
You, personally, General?
I won't be able to rest until I see his corpse for myself.
You're not going to make for Central, as we first planned?
There's not much choice.
I'll have to let Colonel Mustang have the bigger bite of Central.
The current Bradley administration is still functioning
without any great difficulty.
If either Colonel Mustang or General Armstrong starts anything now,
they'll be treated as rebels.
And if that happens, that is when I step in.
After they are held up as the villains,
General Grumman will come riding in on a white horse.
I'll let the youngsters pull the chestnuts out of the fire,
so that I can take charge of this country with little risk.
That's probably what the old fox is thinking.
We've joined forces with the Promised Day ahead of us,
but I can't let my guard down until it's all over.
- Al! - It's Pride.
Pride?
Yeah.
I guess you could say he's our oldest brother.
A Homunculus?
You're going to betray us, no matter what, aren't you, Greed?
At this point, you are nothing more than an obstacle to us.
Damn it, how did you know I was here?
How dare you disguise yourself as Al?
It is not a disguise.
This is, indisputably, your brother's body.
You bastard!
I'm going to deal with Greed now.
Fullmetal Alchemist, would you be so kind as to come with me?
Hey, Mr. Gorilla, you guys run--
Whoa, you guys sure are fast!
Our animal instincts are telling us not to fight with that thing.
Are you going to be all right?
I'll be fine.
They need Al and me, so they won't kill us.
But I can go all out against them!
I won't hesitate to take them down!
You are correct. I will not kill you.
I might slice up two or three of your limbs, though.
I can't afford to run toward the slums!
Guards won't work against this guy!
That was close!
Now then, I have captured your friend, as well.
What will it be?
Will you do as I say if I capture the slums' people, as well?
True to form, he goes right after the last thing you want.
I can't stand to keep losing my fights.
- What's that? - A blackout?
Hey, what's going on?
I can't see anything...
but then, his eyes have disappeared too.
- Greed. - Is that you, Heinkel?
What is this? What's going on?
Oh, you only get shadows when there's light.
When it's pitch-black, he can't materialize,
and just like us, he can't see anything.
So he's gone, then?
He's just lying in wait.
When the lights come back on, he'll return.
Hey, what do we do?
Heinkel, did you see Alphonse's shadow earlier?
Yeah, with the snaky, tentacle-looking things.
Not those.
He always kept near a large shadow, right?
His main body is somewhere in the forest shadows.
Main body?
The suit of armor wasn't his main body?
No.
He has a specialized container that he uses to go out in.
What kind of container?
The moon and stars are not out tonight.
The others cannot act in this darkness either.
I'll just wait for the slum's lights to come back on, and...
You're not getting away!
You're pretty good,
attacking me in this form without even flinching.
Sure, I might hesitate to lay into a little kid.
On top of which,
my animal instincts are screaming at me!
They're saying that if I don't beat this guy, I'm in deep trouble.
Ed.
- Hey, Ed. - Is that you, Mr. Gorilla?
Where's your brother?
He hasn't moved. Whenever he moves, he clanks.
All right, for the time being, let's move away from here.
And leave Al behind here?
I know how worried you must be,
but what if we get close to him, and it's a trap?
We have to stick together, at least until Heinkel deals with Pride,
so we can avoid attacking each other.
That sound is the lion guy fighting?
When it's dark, leave the fighting to the nocturnal animals.
Lousy Pride. How did he know where we are?
Does he have that sort of ability?
Get down!
I smell the Fullmetal Alchemist, I smell Greed.
- That voice, it's Gluttony! - Him?
I get it.
So they used Gluttony's sense of smell to track us down.
Sniff, sniff...
I also smell someone I don't know. I can eat them, right?
You're up, Darius. He's a Homunculus too.
How am I supposed to handle a monster-class opponent like him?
He's only relying on his nose to move around.
If you take him now, you'll be evenly matched, won't you?
My animal instinct is telling me not to.
But, hey, a man's gotta have nerve!
Victory favors he who strikes first!
And another!
That was brutal, Mr. Gorilla.
I thought we were sticking together so we could avoid attacking each other.
Sorry.
I guess in the dark, we don't have the upper hand against Gluttony.
But once the lights are back on, there's Pride.
This is going to be tough.
Hey, Greed!
Is that you, Ling?
Switch with me.
I'm able to sense a Homunculus' presence.
I'm the one who realized Pride was out there, right?
I can maneuver around better in the darkness!
Don't go running off with this body!
Don't be ridiculous! It was my body to begin with!
Time to eat--
There you are!
Oh, nice one. I'm glad I paired with you.
Thank you.
- Is that you, Ling? - Yeah!
I'm mad, I'm hungry, but you won't let me eat you right away!
So I'm gonna swallow you all!
- I sense something bad. - Bad like what?
- Something's coming. - Something like what?
It's the same as that time earlier.
Hey, what is it you guys are looking at?
Explain it to me, the normal guy!
What?
Huh?
- What? - Hold still!
- Is there someone else out there? - I don't know.
I don't know, but that's...
That smell...
I know it.
Thank goodness you're all right.
I've been waiting for you, Lan Fan!