armoredsoul | 1st Transmutation | [video] Introductions

[Al had taken some time fumbling around with the Gear once he got out of that odd town, testing the buttons and managing to reason his way into making a video post--though he doesn't realize that it is transmitting video yet. Alphonse comes onto the screen sitting at the base of a tree, and actually seems relatively calm about all this. It isn't the first time he's been tossed into a strange new world, though at least the last time he'd meant to go there. Anyone that knows him might notice he seems a bit...young, though.]

Okay, I think it's recording...um, hello! I just got here, and I've read that little book, so I know what we're supposed to be here for, but...does anyone have any information as to how we were transported here? The only method I know to move between worlds like this doesn't...really seem to apply here.

[It looks like he would continue, but his Shinx takes that moment to pounce into his lap and headbutt under his chin--gently, though, and clearly just wanting attention.] Ah, jeez! It's barely been five minutes, can't I pay attention to something else for that long? --um, sorry, my Pokémon is being kind of needy...are they always like this? I know we're supposed to battle them, but this little guy is so much like a little kitten I can't see him fighting anything except his own tail! [And really, he's kind of offended by that concept in general. It's so cruel!!] Um, anyway, if anyone has any information I'd really appreciate it. Thank you!

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Oh, you don't know? It's...sort of the regulator of alchemy, and holds pretty much all the knowledge in the universe. It governs over Equivalent Exchange, and it's what takes the payment for human transmutation. ...and it's really, really creepy.

[CREEPY TENTACLE CHILD ALL UP IN HIS ARMOR.]

The hell...

[This is not helping his firmly rooted belief that alchemy is evil, Alphonse. Because right now you're saying that his brother's dick is floating around in some all-knowing door.]

Then... On the other side of this Gate, there exists an entirely different world with a varied history but shared faces?

[...Okay, fine.]

[AL NEVER SAID THE GATE WASN'T A GIANT BAG OF--...okay, poor phrasing.]

Yeah. There's more to it than that, but that's the simplest way to explain it. Even I don't know all the details of why or how, just that it...is.

[NOT FUNNY.]

All right.

[As curious as he is about all of this, there are more pressing matters, currently.]

You're in New Bark Town, I'm assuming?

A little ways out of town, but yeah. Where are you? [Oh man, Al has so many people he needs to meet up with. He has a feeling he'll be running around for a while.]

I'm on the road from Olivine City. I... can come to meet with you, if you would like.

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Yes, definitely! Brother and Winry are coming to get me too, but I'm sure we can meet up with you easily enough. Winry said one of her Pokemon could fly them all over, but I don't know how long that will take, to be honest.

Let me know when you've met up with them, then. We can speak then.

Okay! I will, promise.

[Al bites his lip, looking down before continuing.] I...thank you. For saving me.

[Scar's eyes widen, ever so slightly. Yes, he's been thanked in this life. But to hear it from somebody from his previous...]

There's no need.

[His tone makes it clear that he doesn't mean to dismiss Al. It simply isn't something worth thanks.]

[Al's expression falls a little. He knows what Scar means, but he can't agree with it. He never could.]

How could I not?

It... is not something that I am to be thanked for. There is nothing else to be done.

But you...you gave up so much for me. You gave your life for me.

I was as good as dead, anyway.

It isn't something for you to be concerned with.

You're my friend, of course I'm gonna be concerned about you dying!

[...Friend?]

If my life could be given for yours, I would quickly do so again. But... People cannot die here, it seems. So there is nothing for you to worry about.

[Yes, Scar, friend. Get used to it.]

Can't die? Like...we can't be hurt, or something else?

I did not believe it at first, but apparently they are so advanced that their medicine allows people to simply wake up in Pokémon Centers, regardless of how grave their injuries may have been.

That's...that's good at least. But still, be careful, please? [Even if you won't die, he doesn't want you hurt.]

Oh, Winry just told me she could meet up with you and give you a ride on her Pokemon to come meet me. Will that be okay?

[What is 'careful'?]

That will be fine.

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