First Transmutation

[thebloodseal]

Who: Alphonse Elric and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Marsiva
When: October 15th

[Video]

[Hello, Fleet, there's a fearsome-looking suit of armor peering at the screen- though right now only one of his eyes is visible.]

So this is like a telephone or a radio, right? Except there are pictures and words on it, too! I really like it!

I'm Alphonse. Uh, don't mind how I look- I wear armor for protection. [Al wasn't under any delusions that he'd be able to keep the fact that he was hollow inside a secret for very long- he never seemed to be able to- but he was going to try.]

Brother, are you here, too? Major Miles? ... Winry?

[Action, on the Marsiva]

[There wasn't much Al could to do make himself look less conspicuous- he'd accepted that long ago- but here, in this unfamiliar place, he wished more than ever that he could. The Homunculi had eyes and ears everywhere in Amestris, and he had to be working under the assumption that they were here, too. He could only hope that they wouldn't be putting any innocent people in danger trying to find him.

He was also worried about Edward. He knew his brother would be fine in the storm, watched over by Major Miles, but what would happen to him afterward? And what about Winry, May, and Dr. Marcoh? He could care less about Scar, but he'd gone out to try and warn them that Briggs was unsafe, and now there was nobody to deliver that message.

Of course, if he kept blacking out... if this was it, if his soul was going to let go of his armor body... he might not have been able to get to them himself anyway.

Al let out a sigh. At least the view was pretty. Stars were everywhere.]

Comments

[tobeajedi]

Yeah, it is tough to be separated from family. But don't worry so much about being taken away--Atroma can do stuff with time and space so that it returns you at the same moment you left, and enough people have been sent home and taken back to confirm it.

--Which is its own problem, but at least we're not actually going to have to travel for millions and billions of years to get close to our home galaxies again.

[thebloodseal]

That's a big relief- I wouldn't want Edward to worry about me. Or have to worry about what was going on without me.

Do they plan to let us go at some point?

[tobeajedi]

Yeah. It's a drag to be taken away from my training, but at least we can pick up where we left off, or something.

Well, they say that the person who "wins" at the end of the season gets sent home--whoever gets the highest popularity rating, I think. But people also get sent back before then. I'm starting to think that either it's because they get ratings too low, or Atroma decides to up the drama by shaking up their friends.

[thebloodseal]

So we're at Atroma's whims, more or less? I don't like that- well, I'm not sure anyone likes it. But I've never had to perform for an audience before. It almost makes me want to intentionally be boring so I can go home.

[tobeajedi]

[She smiles a little at that.] It's universally unpopular. And you could try it, I guess--I think if I did, I'd get so bored I'd end up doing something that makes the ratings shoot to the sky.

[thebloodseal]

I can see that. I'm not good at being inactive, anyway- Brother and I are always traveling and always have our noses into something, and we've always believed in earning our keep, so to speak.

[tobeajedi]

Sounds like you're a pretty interesting pair. What kind of thing do you get up to at home?

[thebloodseal]

We've rarely been apart, even since we were little kids. We fought sometimes, but it feels like we've always been a team and came together when it counted.

We like to travel, and to learn- we'd like to know everything we can learn about alchemy and about the world around us.