It's a long, long way...

[exeggutorhead]

Who: Envy exeggutorhead, Heather Mason foolishwren, and Alphonse Elric armouredsoul

Where: All over Kanto!

When: Starting March 22nd and ending...who knows!

Summary: With the return of warm weather, Envy, Heather, and Alphonse set back out on their badgequest. Surely nothing could go wrong.

Rating: Not likely to go above PG-13


Well...technically they'd planned to leave a week ago. But there'd been all the snow still on the ground, and then it was foggy, and then it was just plain chilly and every day they'd just waffled until it was too late to actually get going anywhere. But now? It's warm out, Pidgeys are chirping, flowers are blooming...it's time to get out of Goldenrod and get back to collecting badges. Someone else has already gone and beaten the Elite Four, they've got to step up their game a little.

Although this time, it's not so much a race between them (or at least, Envy and Al); the three of them have decided to all travel together instead, and after a long train ride to Saffron, they're off.

JOURNEY...RESTART.

Comments

[exeggutorhead]

"Exactly!"

Just two brothers sharing some cereal, nothing out of the ordinary here!

"I didn't even know you'd been over here. It's been years for me."

[armoredsoul]

Nothing strange in the slightest!

"I visited once with Winry and Brother while they were here. It's been ages, though, so I'm really excited to check everything out."

[exeggutorhead]

"Woah, that was a long time ago! They haven't been here in...I don't even remember."

Envy takes another few bites of his cereal, mulling this over.

"I always did like Winry, she was a nice kid. Kind of gullible, but nice."

[armoredsoul]

"Yeah, it's been at least two years since they left, I think." Disappearing for a while himself made it a bit hard to tell sometimes.

Al chuckles and waggles his spoon at Envy with good nature. "I think your definition of 'gullible' is a bit different from other people's."

[exeggutorhead]

"Well, it's true that I am very good at lying."

'Happy' can include 'self-satisfied'.

"But she didn't know who I was, so it's not like she would've known better anyway. But she was still nice even after she found out."

[armoredsoul]

It can also incluse 'amused', and Al snorts and rolls his eyes with a grin.

"No wonder you made a profession out of it."

And glossing right past the reasons for that--

"It's just her nature to be kind. She's always working hard to help out anyone she can. Besides, you helped her out a few times before I got here, didn't you?"

[exeggutorhead]

Glossed right over Ed, glossed right over Dante, nothing upsetting can seem to stick in Envy's head for longer than half a second.

"Sure did. Once everyone was in this big battle against nightmare monsters with our powers and weapons and everything, and she didn't know what to do. So I killed a monster chasing her and then I gave her a knife so she could fight back too."

WHAT A HAPPY STORY

[armoredsoul]

HA HA HA SURE IS JUST A GREAT AND WONDERFUL THING THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT!

"Yikes! I'm sure glad you were around to help her! But see, that's exactly it! You were putting yourself out there for her, so why wouldn't she want to return the favor?"

[exeggutorhead]

"Huh, I guess you're right. Equivalent exchange and all, right?"

That's how to relate to the Elrics, right?!

[armoredsoul]

"Exactly! Or cause and effect, to take a more general term."

[exeggutorhead]

"Woah wait, hang on, you actually worked out that those are two different things? When did that happen?"

Envy laughs good-naturedly, and gives Al a clap on the shoulder.

"I guess you're not a lost cause after all!"

[armoredsoul]

Al laughs and grins with a shrug. "Brother's the one that really likes to apply the concept to everything! We really do know which one is which, honestly."