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Title: Warp of the Worlds
Author: KK (a.k.a
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reticent_lassFandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender & Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)
Rating: PG
Warnings: Avatar spoilers for "The Library" on up, MAJOR FMA spoilers for Chapter 74 and beyond. Some pieces aren't going to make much sense without knowledge of those chapters.
Pairings: None
Character(s): Aang & Co., Azula and her minions, Edward & Alphonse Elric
Summary: Fifty one-sentence chunks of an Avatar/FMA crossover. Basic idea is that after some implied (non-canon) craziness in Amestris, Ed and restored!Al find themselves lost in a desert, under stars they don't recognize and with only the vaguest memories of how they got there.
Neither Ed nor Al can do alchemy without arrays because they've forgotten what they learned within the Gate. On top of that, Al is naked, malnourished, and weaker than a kitten. Fortunately Ed comes across some help: a cranky blind girl at the base of a tower, curled up beside something enormous and furry with too many legs. From there on out it's the severely AU story of the Elrics and the Gaang on their travels to Ba Sing Se.
I've got the full story mostly mapped out in my head, but for now all I've got are nibbles to tide you over until I find myself with some more free time. All criticisms are welcome; I know the story and timeline need some tweaking before the whole thing can stand on its own. Anyway, on we go!
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45. Eclipse:
When they explain the significance behind Sozin’s comet and their one window of opportunity, Ed just snorts derisively and walks off, while his brother struggles to push himself upright in order to ask for more.
37. Lies:
25. Mask:
Aang never mistakes Ed’s distance as a lack of emotion—he’s seen the way he sleeps at night, close enough to hear Al breathe.
4. Box:
Toph almost—almost—goes to the Ba Sing Se Bei Fong household alone, but the gentler brother with the limbs that make sense touches her elbow and asks if she can keep him company.
19. Candle:
”Any continuous writing media will do,” says Alphonse briskly, “and that’s why it’s a mistake to give a trapped alchemist a candle.”
20. Talent:
Al wakes up from the trance with a yell and scuttles backward, frantic to reach the pool of sunlight beneath the window—and stops, laughing shakily, to clap his hands together and press them to a stone column.
32. Farewells:
While Aang, Katara, and Alphonse dispense all of the hugs and Toph tells the brothers not to annoy too many people, Sokka and Ed share a Look and a Nod, each inwardly snickering that the other boy has finally admitted defeat.
ETA: Fixed a couple of formatting errors.
I've got the full story mostly mapped out in my head, but for now all I've got are nibbles to tide you over until I find myself with some more free time. All criticisms are welcome; I know the story and timeline need some tweaking before the whole thing can stand on its own. Anyway, on we go!
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9. Red:
None of them knew what was worse: the thinness of the yellow-haired boy’s little brother, or the rich crimson of the coat draped over his naked form.
15. Silk:
The yellow-haired stranger pestered them for softer cloth, claiming his brother had been waiting for this moment for a damn long time and deserved to feel something nicer than sand.
22. Journey:
The odd boy agrees to help them to Ba Sing Se—but only so he can regain his memories of some Gate or other, which will give him the ability to go 'home,' wherever that may be.
2. Hero:
"Baldie over there?” asks Edward, not quite able to believe that a hyperactive twelve-year-old with a flying monkey is this world’s greatest hope.
18. Dream:
Beneath him, he feels (feels!) something enormous and fuzzy and deliciously alive, and Al can’t help but wake up laughing.
8. Cold:
”Sokka and I are from the South Pole, this is nothing,” Katara says, laughing as Edward, Alphonse, and Toph shiver together with only a collective glare as a response.
1. Ring:
The brothers start drawing little circles filled with precise lines and curves, and Sokka’s hand jerks involuntarily to his forehead when the younger, skinnier boy tells him they’re for bending the world.
10. Drink:
Ed and Al are able to transmute water out of the desert sand for the group, but Sokka insists that it’s a traveler’s duty to learn raw survival wherever he goes and bites into the cactus anyway.
33. World:
”It was only a giant mystical library, the likes of which will never see daylight again,” Sokka tells Alphonse, and the boy’s shoulders slump at the exact moment that Edward kicks a hole through a wall.
48. Unknown:
None of them knew what was worse: the thinness of the yellow-haired boy’s little brother, or the rich crimson of the coat draped over his naked form.
15. Silk:
The yellow-haired stranger pestered them for softer cloth, claiming his brother had been waiting for this moment for a damn long time and deserved to feel something nicer than sand.
22. Journey:
The odd boy agrees to help them to Ba Sing Se—but only so he can regain his memories of some Gate or other, which will give him the ability to go 'home,' wherever that may be.
2. Hero:
"Baldie over there?” asks Edward, not quite able to believe that a hyperactive twelve-year-old with a flying monkey is this world’s greatest hope.
18. Dream:
Beneath him, he feels (feels!) something enormous and fuzzy and deliciously alive, and Al can’t help but wake up laughing.
8. Cold:
”Sokka and I are from the South Pole, this is nothing,” Katara says, laughing as Edward, Alphonse, and Toph shiver together with only a collective glare as a response.
1. Ring:
The brothers start drawing little circles filled with precise lines and curves, and Sokka’s hand jerks involuntarily to his forehead when the younger, skinnier boy tells him they’re for bending the world.
10. Drink:
Ed and Al are able to transmute water out of the desert sand for the group, but Sokka insists that it’s a traveler’s duty to learn raw survival wherever he goes and bites into the cactus anyway.
33. World:
”It was only a giant mystical library, the likes of which will never see daylight again,” Sokka tells Alphonse, and the boy’s shoulders slump at the exact moment that Edward kicks a hole through a wall.
48. Unknown:
Two nights after the Library, Toph plops down next to Alphonse and asks what he and his brother look like “because Sokka keeps calling you guys freaks and I’d at least like to know why the Princess of Nice sort of agrees.”
7. Wings:
The first time Ed sees Aang use his glider, he whispers “Icarus” and goes quiet for a very tense hour that feels like a week.
3. Memory:
At first, they can’t bear to watch Edward practice his fighting skills, the image of another strange, passionate, golden-eyed loner too sharp to let go.
7. Wings:
The first time Ed sees Aang use his glider, he whispers “Icarus” and goes quiet for a very tense hour that feels like a week.
3. Memory:
At first, they can’t bear to watch Edward practice his fighting skills, the image of another strange, passionate, golden-eyed loner too sharp to let go.
45. Eclipse:
When they explain the significance behind Sozin’s comet and their one window of opportunity, Ed just snorts derisively and walks off, while his brother struggles to push himself upright in order to ask for more.
37. Lies:
Aang suggests telling the Elrics about the healer near the swamp of the frozen frogs, but they decide that they can’t afford a delay and lay the idea to rest.
40. Whisper:
Aang undulates his upper body and the breeze shifts in their favor, allowing them to overhear Ed and Al’s sleepy murmurs.
35. Fever:
Al comes down with a light fever the fourth day after their meeting, but all Katara achieves when she attempts to heal him is an ache in her bones and a sense that something was (is?) wrong with his soul.
13. View:
For the eighth time, Toph explains she can see with her earthbending, and for the eighth time Ed silently prepares his diatribe on why it can’t possibly work.
40. Whisper:
Aang undulates his upper body and the breeze shifts in their favor, allowing them to overhear Ed and Al’s sleepy murmurs.
35. Fever:
Al comes down with a light fever the fourth day after their meeting, but all Katara achieves when she attempts to heal him is an ache in her bones and a sense that something was (is?) wrong with his soul.
13. View:
For the eighth time, Toph explains she can see with her earthbending, and for the eighth time Ed silently prepares his diatribe on why it can’t possibly work.
38. Forever:
Al refuses to accept the possibility that he and Edward might be stuck in this ludicrous world for the rest of their lives—they are alchemic geniuses, after all.
11. Midnight:
”Until last week, I hadn’t slept for over five years,” Alphonse tells the bald youth beside him, “so I know our home constellations like the back of Brother’s hand.”
Al refuses to accept the possibility that he and Edward might be stuck in this ludicrous world for the rest of their lives—they are alchemic geniuses, after all.
11. Midnight:
”Until last week, I hadn’t slept for over five years,” Alphonse tells the bald youth beside him, “so I know our home constellations like the back of Brother’s hand.”
31. Sacred:
None of them dares to mention their blood relations very often, but once in a while somebody—never the Elrics—slips and refers to their screwed-up little band as family.
None of them dares to mention their blood relations very often, but once in a while somebody—never the Elrics—slips and refers to their screwed-up little band as family.
27. Fall:
It happens so fast that Ed can barely remember it afterwards: seeing Al miss his grip when turbulence rocks them, watching his still-fragile brother tip over in slow motion, screaming, flailing, feeling Toph and Katara yank him back when he tries to leap after—then Aang shooting past on that impossible glider, Al clinging for dear life to the younger boy’s waist.
It happens so fast that Ed can barely remember it afterwards: seeing Al miss his grip when turbulence rocks them, watching his still-fragile brother tip over in slow motion, screaming, flailing, feeling Toph and Katara yank him back when he tries to leap after—then Aang shooting past on that impossible glider, Al clinging for dear life to the younger boy’s waist.
50. Breathe:
Sokka should be used to it by now, but he still can’t quite wrap his mind around Ed being able to overcome his raging ego for long enough to meditate with Aang and Alphonse.
25. Mask:
Aang never mistakes Ed’s distance as a lack of emotion—he’s seen the way he sleeps at night, close enough to hear Al breathe.
42. Talk:
Toph is somehow pleased that she’s the only one to realize Ed speaks with his voice and body, not with his mouth.
Toph is somehow pleased that she’s the only one to realize Ed speaks with his voice and body, not with his mouth.
12. Temptation:
Fed up with Edward’s attitude, Sokka shoves the alchemist into the river, and spends the next ten minutes having Al and Katara alternate between flaying him alive and fussing over Ed.
Fed up with Edward’s attitude, Sokka shoves the alchemist into the river, and spends the next ten minutes having Al and Katara alternate between flaying him alive and fussing over Ed.
21. Silence:
Skinny and weak though he is, Alphonse smiles as he walks; when Aang asks why, he answers, “I’m so quiet now,” and hurries to catch up with his brother.
Skinny and weak though he is, Alphonse smiles as he walks; when Aang asks why, he answers, “I’m so quiet now,” and hurries to catch up with his brother.
17. Promise:
“Brother, I know our plans didn’t work out exactly right, but Dad died for me and all of Amestris, so can you at least name him with a little respect?”
“Brother, I know our plans didn’t work out exactly right, but Dad died for me and all of Amestris, so can you at least name him with a little respect?”
47. Highway:
Tired of Ed and Al’s bickering about travel by sky bison, Sokka asks them what they’re used to riding, and spends the rest of the day grilling them on the finer points of Amestrian trains.
Tired of Ed and Al’s bickering about travel by sky bison, Sokka asks them what they’re used to riding, and spends the rest of the day grilling them on the finer points of Amestrian trains.
23. Fire:
After catching enough concerned whispers and glum mutters to piece together the story, Ed drags Aang over to the riverbank and spends an hour talking with him, transmuting wisps of flame occasionally to punctuate the bits about intent and self-control.
After catching enough concerned whispers and glum mutters to piece together the story, Ed drags Aang over to the riverbank and spends an hour talking with him, transmuting wisps of flame occasionally to punctuate the bits about intent and self-control.
26. Ice:
After the initial yelp of dismay, Al staggers over to Ed with his frozen shirt, chattering breathlessly about psychokinetic capabilities specific to hydrogen bonds and their possible applications to alchemy.
49. Look:
Katara’s the one to catch Ed and Al testing out bending moves on the sly, so she ends up with the dubious pleasure of explaining that Edward’s metal limbs interfere too much with his chi to ever learn even the basics.
6. Hurricane:
They saw Aang in the Avatar state exactly once, and the wind snatched away Ed’s soft promise to never, ever call the boy ‘Cue Ball’ ever again.
After the initial yelp of dismay, Al staggers over to Ed with his frozen shirt, chattering breathlessly about psychokinetic capabilities specific to hydrogen bonds and their possible applications to alchemy.
49. Look:
Katara’s the one to catch Ed and Al testing out bending moves on the sly, so she ends up with the dubious pleasure of explaining that Edward’s metal limbs interfere too much with his chi to ever learn even the basics.
6. Hurricane:
They saw Aang in the Avatar state exactly once, and the wind snatched away Ed’s soft promise to never, ever call the boy ‘Cue Ball’ ever again.
14. Music:
Six kids and not one of them can carry a tune, so they decide to gang up on one and give it a beating to pass the time on Appa’s back.
30. Body:
Once in a while, Al helps with cleaning out Ed’s automail while the rest of the group tries to keep Momo from nibbling the wires.
Six kids and not one of them can carry a tune, so they decide to gang up on one and give it a beating to pass the time on Appa’s back.
30. Body:
Once in a while, Al helps with cleaning out Ed’s automail while the rest of the group tries to keep Momo from nibbling the wires.
28. Forgotten:
Trisha Elric, Maes Hughes, Nina Tucker, Martel, Izumi Curtis, Riza Hawkeye, von Hohenheim—the long list of names are on a boulder in the middle of nowhere, carved with strange characters only two people in this world have ever, will ever be able to read.
Trisha Elric, Maes Hughes, Nina Tucker, Martel, Izumi Curtis, Riza Hawkeye, von Hohenheim—the long list of names are on a boulder in the middle of nowhere, carved with strange characters only two people in this world have ever, will ever be able to read.
39. Overwhelmed:
Appa’s been doing hard flying every day for weeks; it shouldn’t surprise Aang so much when the sky bison falls ill.
Appa’s been doing hard flying every day for weeks; it shouldn’t surprise Aang so much when the sky bison falls ill.
16. Cover:
Green and brown clothes, dark hair dye, and bandages wrapped tightly over a metal fist should have made them look more normal, but an aura of the weird seemed to cling to them anyway.
5. Run:
With the serpent of the Pass on their tails, all of them are running as fast as they can for the safety of higher ground—except for Ed and Al, drawing chalk circles on the stony path with identical ferocious grins.
Green and brown clothes, dark hair dye, and bandages wrapped tightly over a metal fist should have made them look more normal, but an aura of the weird seemed to cling to them anyway.
5. Run:
With the serpent of the Pass on their tails, all of them are running as fast as they can for the safety of higher ground—except for Ed and Al, drawing chalk circles on the stony path with identical ferocious grins.
44. Hope:
Katara wonders if she’s hearing him properly when Ed—cocky, grumpy, standoffish Ed—asks to help with the birthing.
Katara wonders if she’s hearing him properly when Ed—cocky, grumpy, standoffish Ed—asks to help with the birthing.
43. Search:
They’re all hanging on the prospect of ending their travels in Ba Sing Se—except Toph, who could camp and fight and earthbend forever.
41. Wait:
For the moment, Azula holds back Mai and Ty Lee, preferring to watch the group until she knows what the new boys are capable of doing.
24. Strength:
Something like recognition flickers as they watch these careless, idealistic kids transform into warriors Izumi would be proud to call her students—after maybe a month or so of well-meaning torture, of course.
46. Gravity:
They’re all hanging on the prospect of ending their travels in Ba Sing Se—except Toph, who could camp and fight and earthbend forever.
41. Wait:
For the moment, Azula holds back Mai and Ty Lee, preferring to watch the group until she knows what the new boys are capable of doing.
24. Strength:
Something like recognition flickers as they watch these careless, idealistic kids transform into warriors Izumi would be proud to call her students—after maybe a month or so of well-meaning torture, of course.
46. Gravity:
Sokka’s never figured out how the other three boys can be relatively normal human beings one moment and boneless, weightless, bending-master lemur-people the next.
36. Laugh:
Toph kicks Edward over to the acrobatic girl who interfered with her bending and smirks at the clang of knuckles getting smashed into a steel bicep.
Toph kicks Edward over to the acrobatic girl who interfered with her bending and smirks at the clang of knuckles getting smashed into a steel bicep.
29. Dance:
It had started out as a little food, friends, and dancing intended to keep the Avatar and his companions indoors and occupied, but sometime after a remark about a certain teenager’s boomerang it evolved into a mutually gleeful sparring session between all four of the boys.
It had started out as a little food, friends, and dancing intended to keep the Avatar and his companions indoors and occupied, but sometime after a remark about a certain teenager’s boomerang it evolved into a mutually gleeful sparring session between all four of the boys.
34. Formal:
It’s more than a little comical watching these kids he’s seen so much of (grumpy, filthy, tired, scared) so clean and polite with the king of Ba Sing Se.
It’s more than a little comical watching these kids he’s seen so much of (grumpy, filthy, tired, scared) so clean and polite with the king of Ba Sing Se.
4. Box:
Toph almost—almost—goes to the Ba Sing Se Bei Fong household alone, but the gentler brother with the limbs that make sense touches her elbow and asks if she can keep him company.
19. Candle:
”Any continuous writing media will do,” says Alphonse briskly, “and that’s why it’s a mistake to give a trapped alchemist a candle.”
20. Talent:
Al wakes up from the trance with a yell and scuttles backward, frantic to reach the pool of sunlight beneath the window—and stops, laughing shakily, to clap his hands together and press them to a stone column.
32. Farewells:
While Aang, Katara, and Alphonse dispense all of the hugs and Toph tells the brothers not to annoy too many people, Sokka and Ed share a Look and a Nod, each inwardly snickering that the other boy has finally admitted defeat.
ETA: Fixed a couple of formatting errors.
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