Ok, Thanksgiving Eve: Who the hell thought that anyone would be able to concentrate in class? Practically three quarters of the classs wasn't even present. What the hell? Mom got home way earlier than I anticipated. Half day. Ug. I call upon the God I do not believe in to save me.

Thanksgiving Day: Two words. Thanksgiving Service. My Uncle Christopher took me to Thanksgiving Service again. We woke up early only to be late and somehow still arrived in time for Service. I am baffled. First by how late we left only to arrive in time for Service, and second by why my uncle thinks it's a good idea to bring me, an atheist, to a church to sit through service. We spent practically the entire day at church, or at least they did. I snuck away as soon as I saw an opening and returned after a nice long stint at an internet cafe that was, surprisingly enough, open, and only Father Muller knew I'd been gone. I swear that man knows everything that I do, because while I only see him once a month at the very most, he always seems to know everything that's ever happened to me. It's Flame and Fullmetal all over again, only this is real life and not the FMA-verse. Got home late, and while this year, I drew he short straw and got stuck host Thanksgiving Dinner, and that includes the cooking, I found out that my mom had done most of the prep work. Boy, was I pissed. I'm naturally a lazy person, but this year was to be my big debut! I was so looking forward to fixing everything myself. As it was, I threw mom out of the kitchen and got everything done in time to shower and change and welcome the guests. Twas awesome, and I did pretty well.

Black Friday: Went shopping with Kendrick. Fun? Kinda. Boring? kinda. Window shopping? Hell yeah. Ended up buying some candles. Came home and washed clothes. no big. Leftovers from Thanksgiving night for dindin. boring. Reheating was a pain. I'm a lazy person. Don't like to work, which is sad, because my grand ambition is not to be a pharmacist as my grandparents want, but to be a housewife. And being a housewife is a lot of work. The paradox is kinda mind boggling.

Yesterday: Who the hell calls people overe and throws a party on the day their mother dies? WTF?! Uncle Tony, get help. There is something weird in that brain of yours. Poor Aunt Jackie. Dai xiao jie, and she was rushed off her feet in the kitchen. Never had to lift a finger in her life, and once she marries a Korean perfumer, she finds that she has all this work to do, including housework. Poor thing.

Today: Boring. Went to Target and K-Mart with mom. Bought two new shirts, found three albums by Trans-Siberian Orchestra, was gonna buy 'em, but decided what the hell? Is spending thirty dollars on these CDs really worth it when it's only really in season two maybe three months out of a year? Mom bought yet ANOTHER slow cooker, and a waffle maker. I am giddy about the waffle maker. I cannot wait to make some chocolate chip waffles and try my hand at the mocha waffle recipe FleetInquisitorSaraiyu sent me. Bought a basketball for Abraham and Alex (I swear, if they loose this one, I am NOT buying them another one, the little brats). Other than that? Today was boring as hell. Thank god tomorrow is Monday. I have never wished for wi-fi and to be in class more in my entire life.

I have a new plotbunny... --sighs--

Why must my brain be such a plot machine?

It's a FMA/Jurisdiction/GW x-over.

A teenager with golden hair and golden eyes awakes in a Bench Federation hospital with no memory of who he is or how he came by his strange injuries, especially the prosthetic right arm and left leg which resemble nothing recorded in the Federation Patent Inventory. Fleet Commodore Treize Kushrenada, to satisfy his curiousity since the child resembles a childhood friend, orders a DNA test, and the tests come back with startling results. The child shares the same genetic structure as the sole Prince Inherit of the Emelese Foundation, Edward fa Vedris who had gone missing after an assassin murdered the Royal Family of Emelan almost two years gone.

The child is startled and confused when the Commodore enters the room and hugs him and blathers on about how happy he is that he's alive punctuated with a great many "Oh! Edward!" To assuge the child's confusion, the Commodore tells him his story.

Treize Kushrenada, as Ducal Monarch of the Martine Judiciary which consists of five habitable solar systems, is a Commodore of the Martinese Fleet of the Federation of Worlds. They first met when they were thirteen and five respectively when Treize's father, then Duke Monarach, took him to the Snow White Gala, in celebration of the Three Hundredth Year Anniversary of the Emelese annexation into the Federation. The two became fast friends despite the age difference, and Edward was crushed when Treize left for the Military Academy at the age of sixteen. By the time Edward was twelve, Treize was already a Major in the Fleet, and was being pushed by his father to begin training as a Mobile Suit pilot.

Edward, being the Prince Apparent of the Emelese Foundation, was given the chance to enter the Military Academy early, and it was when he was on leave, visiting his family in Hyde, an exotic planet that is a known tourist destination that an assassin made it into the Royal Suite and self detonated a set of explosives, killing the family and wounding twelve retainers. The only good news was that the body of the thirteen year old Prince was never found.

Having discovered his "identity", Edward fa Vedris is put through the wringer, startling Federation tutors and old family retainers alike at the speed with which he picks up his lessons as before his disappearence, Edward was by all means known as a lazy student. Popular opinion is that with the loss of his memories, Edward was eager to regain a part of his former self, which is why he is picking up his lessons so quickly. Trieze is not so convinced as base personality traits do not simply disappear and appear as something else altogether, but DNA does not lie. Lieutenant Une suggests that maybe the trauma of the attack and spending two years whereever he had been had changed Edward. Trieze is still not entirely convinced, but ignores it in favor of taking care of his old friend, and helping the Prince of the Sanq Kingdom, the estranged Prince Milliardo Peacecraft in the building of the identity of Zechs Marquise, a Knight of Sanq.

The years pass and Edward fa Vedris has proven to be a prodigy in many feilds, and Treize is more and more convinced that although the DNA is the same, that this child is not his childhood friend, but has come to be fond of him nevertheless. When Edward is seventeen Trieze confesses his suspicions to Edward, and Edward tells him that he agrees with the observation due to discrepancies in reports in his childhood behaviors and current behaviors, even with exceptions made for the inclusion of trauma and amnesia. They discuss this with Zechs and turns their attention to seeking the whereabouts of the true Edward fa Vedris, and seeking Edward's true nature and past. In the meantime, Treize is rising in the ranks of the Fleet and is due to be promoted to Admiral of the Matinese Fleet and Edward is a Captain and is due to graduate from Mayon Medical with a Bench Medical Certificate before undergoing Judicial Inquisitorial Training. Zechs has since attained the Rank of Major and is due to recieve a promotion to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. At the same time, the Romefellar Foundation is gaining power as is the Alliance of Humankind, while discontent grows in the Bench Artifical Habitats, also known as Colonies, and war looms on the horizon for the Bench Federation of Worlds.

When Edward acheives his Bench Medical Certification and undergoes the Inquisitorial Training at the age of twenty. Zechs, recently promoted to Lt. Colonel, recieves word from Edward concerning a student who claims to be a part of a shadowy secret society. Zechs investigates and discovers that Romefellar has been funding an organization known as the Thule Society for reasons unknown. Une, since promoted to the rank of Colonel, makes a suggestion to Treize, and the four pool resources and influence to create the Order of the Zodiac, a military alliance between Martine, Sanq and Emelene which would serve as the Judiciary Special Operations with Treize as Commander General, Zechs and Une as trusted Lieutenants, and once his Certification is complete, Edward as Inquisitor.

Edward celebrates his twenty first birthday by graduating from the Judicial Inquisitory Training Facility with full honors and a promotion to the rank of Major. The degraded body of the true Edward fa Vedris is found, and Treize, Zechs, and Une decide it may be best that the discovery is not made public to keep unrest from breaking out. Edward agrees to the plan, and the body is destroyed with noone the wiser.

War breaks out between the Colonies and the Federation. The Romefellar Foundation and the Alliance of Humankind side with the Federation. Edward, serving his fifth term as Ship Surgeon on Battleship Chronos, is forced to defend Secured Medical while his Bond-Involuntaries are out ensuring that insurgents do not penetrate the Breach Hull. The firefight detonates several canisters of compressed oxygen. Edward seals off Secured Medical to contain the blast, but a stray bullet brings him down. A Bond-Involuntary, Officer Shou Tucker is sent to investigate the lack of response from Secured Medical, finds Edward, who is transferred to Secured Medical on Battleship Daedalus for treatment. Captain Faye Verne of Battleship Chronos punishes Edward's six Security Bond-Involuntaries when the full extent of Edward's injuries is realized. In the meantime, Zechs and Trieze intercept a communication from the Colony Liberation Society to the Thule Society which raises concern for the course of the war.

Plans are made to send Edward to Secured Medical in OZ: Emelan. In the meantime, Edward's condition degrades into a coma. Treize and Zechs make plans to ensure the Autonomy of OZ for the future. In another world, Corporal Roy Mustang of Amestris finds his self imposed exile to a distant outpost in Briggs haunted by the Spectere of the Late Lt. Colonel Edward Elric, the Fullmetal Alchemist. Assuming that death is the cause of the spectre's amnesia, Corporal Mustang tells him the full story of his life, or what the Corporal knew of it. The Alliance of Humankind falls apart due to in-fighting and OZ absorbs the remnants of the Alliance, taking the resources for themselves. The Romefellar Foundation issues a complaint to the Bench, which is disregarded. Dissatisfied Romefellar leaders issue a request for a public detente with the Colony Liberation Society. The Federation issue an order to ambush the detente with a forged Romefellar Writ of Arrest. The CLS, believing themselves betrayed, fall back to the Colonies, and Romefellar turns on the Federation.

In Amestris, the spectre of Edward Elric, struggles to remember the events that Mustang had described to him. During a conversation with Corporal Mustang, we learn that the fake Edward fa Vedris is actually Edward Elric. Mustang realizes that Edward is not dead at all, rather, he is trapped in another world. Mustang promises Edward that he will do his best to bring the boy home, and leaves Briggs. In Central City, the Prime Minister, Major General Rodolfo Avis tells Mustang, better late than never, and allows him to retake his commision and his State Alchemy Certification, and he is placed under the command of Lt. Colonel Alex Louis Armstrong, the Strong Arm Alchemist. Unfortunately, Mustang's new promotion isn't very high at all, but Mustang assures the spectre of Edward who has followed him from Briggs that Major is better than nothing, and at least with the commission, he has more access to things that he wouldn't have otherwise. Mustang's former staff is revealed to have been absorbed into Lt. Colonel Armstrong's, and when Edward accompanies Mustang into the office for presentation and breifing, it is learned that Armstrong and his staff can see Edward also. The two alchemists begin coming up with theories about why they can see Edward and no one else can. In the meantime, Havoc and Breda are joking with Edward, but a careless joke about Armstrong's position as an interogator reveals Edward's position in the Fleet as an Inquisitor. Hawkeye somehow pressures Edward into reluctantly revealing the last thing he remembers before awakening as Mustang's personal haunting, and Mustang and Armstrong lose hope that maybe they can somehow bring Edward home due to the belief that Edward is there in spectral form because he has died in the Service of the Fleet.

Armstrong and staff are sent out to the Amestris/Creta Border to investigate allegations of a rebel faction gaining power in the vicinity. Their base of operations is attacked by the rebels, and once the fighting is over, Mustang realizes that the spectere of Edward is gone. The staff mourns. In the meantime, Edward fa Vedris wakes up in the Med Bay of Transport Shuttle Pride Before a Fall which is enroute to the Command Headquarters of OZ: Emelan and discovers the extent of his injuries. He falls into depression believing that what he experienced in Amestris was merely a dream. Later, the discovery that he will never see out of his left eye because of a lucky bullet is what pulls him out of the depression. Edward is determined that dream or no, he will keep his left eye as a reminder of friends and family in Amestris that love him and miss him and to hold out hope that he may eventually regain his memories and have a small connection to his old identity. A report to Treize and Zechs leave both overjoyed to hear of their friend's recovery.

After Edward's complete recovery with the exception of his left eye, Treize, Zechs, Une, and Edward are called before the Federation Leaders. They are told that the Federation cannot care less what they intend to do as long as OZ does not turn against the Federation. They then recieve a Writ stating that OZ and all associated planets under OZ Emblem are free and independant Judiciaries outside Bench Jurisdiction. Their only tie to the Federation being Edward and his Bench Inquisitor's Writ. They thank the Bench for their generousity, and leave. Edward cannot help but be uneasy about this show of goodwill, and Treize and Zechs agree. Back in Amestris, tensions with Drachma are running at an all time high, and the Prime Minister Avis as well as Secretary of Defense, Lieutenant General Kaydence Sammons, and Major General Olivier Armstrong attempt to convince Mustang to retake his former position as Brigadier General.

CLS begins an exchange with the Thule Society. Une infiltrates the Thule Society to gather information. She sends for Edward to interrogate researchers and discovers that the Colonies are studying sub-space travel and likewise the Thule Society want that research due to the belief that they can use said subspace travel to go to another world to take their weapons for the war. Edward begins research to stop the Thule Society, and in the worst case scenario, to attempt to warn the other world in question of the impending danger. In the course of the research, he comes across a book of alchemy. His Cheif of Security, Bond-Involuntary Maes Hughes, while bringing a flask of fresh coffee to his officer, finds Edward passed out on the ground in the library.

There is a deluge of memory. In the meantime, Edward is in Secured Medical once again. In Amestris, Mustang is in a meeting with other Generals when a spectral Edward materializes beside him. Surprisingly, all the Generals can see him, and there is much consternation when Edward realizes what happened and cries outloud in joy and actually hugs Mustang while yelling that he remembers and then still hugging an utterly shocked Flame Alchemist who wonders how a spectere can embrace the living and for him to feel the weight of a supposedly dead man's arms around his shoulders, announces that Amestris is about to be invaded and tells Mustang to be careful because Edward does not know if OZ can intercept the invasion force before they cross the gate. And just as suddenly as he materialized, Edward vanishes, and after a moment of stupified silence, Mustang wonders aloud what this means for the future. He is talking to himself, of course, but since he said it outloud the other Generals decide to plan for the future that the spectere had warned them of, because while the Fullmetal was an insolent brat who caused as much problems as he fixed, he'd never knowingly lied to cause harm, in fact, he seemed to go out of his way not to cause harm. So they made preparations for every conceivable angle of attack and form that the invasion may take, because although the Fullmetal had warned them, he had not told them what they needed to know. Mustang makes a mental note to scold Edward about the proper way to give reports when he sees the young man again. even so, Mustang could not help but feel the swell of pride in his belly, because it was his prize alcchemist who was working to save them, the country of his birth, and the people who resided within its borders.

Edward awakens back in his quarters, with Treize and Zechs at his bedside. He explains everything he's learned thus far, including the return of his memories. Treize and Zechs express happiness that Edward has his memories back, and understand that Edward will want to stay with his own people once everything is over. The three then begin to use Edward's knowledge and his research as well as information transmitted by Lady Une to try to get at least eight ships across the Gate to defend Edward's home. In the meantime, Edward secretely devises a way for him to contact Amestris to pass on important information.

Six months after the initial warning to Amestris, Edward succeeds in creating an array that will let him send information to Amestris and vice versa. He learns that the Parliment has decided to change his status from KIA to On Active Duty on a Covert Operation and he has been allowed to keep his posthumus promotion to Lt. Colonel, but has also been promoted another rank to Colonel. In the meantime Amestris is devising ways to defend theselves from a technologically superior military. The Colonies devise a revolution under the name Operation Meteor. Romefeller continues to be at odds with OZ. Lady Une works on sabotageing the CLS and the Thule Society arrays while passing information to OZ.

Two years after Edward regains his memories, he is promoted to Lt. Colonel after assassinating three Colony Leaders and two Romefeller Commanders and gaining information that prevented a Coup by Romefeller on the Federation Fleet. The Thule Society succeed in opening a Gate into the world they call Shamballa and OZ discovers the fact too late. The ground beneath Central shakes and crumbles as the battleships of the Thule Society blast their way out of the cavern housing the Lost City of Xerxes. A pitched battle is waged with many losses to Amestris due to the extreme technological differences and the superiority of the Thule Society weapons even despite the weapons that Amestris constructed from blueprints sent by Edward. Inquisitors are released into Central to capture and detain the commanders of the Military as well as the leaders of the goverment. Edward finishes modifying the Thule Society's array to bring out OZ battleships above the Amestrian atmosphere and OZ begins preparations for battle.

The Thule Society Inquisitors are begining to figure out who the commanders of the Army and members of the Parliment are, and are making their way through the battling armies. Twenty OZ battleships emerges from the Gate in above the atmosphere. Surface scans allow them to pinpoint massive energy spikes, and Treize gives the order for transfer shuttles to begin ferrying troops down into Central. Edward confers with Treize who agrees to take a risk and allow the newly commisioned Battleship Fire Over Ishbal to enter the atmosphere. Six transfer shuttles enter the atmosphere with Flame Over Ishbal, and the Thule Society, recognizing their enemy from home, turn their attentions from Amestris to OZ. Edward gives the order for all MS pilots on board the Flame Over Ishbal to scramble and boards Medical Shuttle Argalier which lands behind Amestrian lines. Treize orders the Battleships Minerva and Hephestaeus to enter the atmosphere to engage the enemy. Transfer shuttles begin discharging OZ soldiers who engage the Thule Society infantry.

The Thule Society Inquisitors have rounded up the generals and active military members of Parliment. Deitline Erkhart gloats. Edward leaves Medical Shuttle Argalier and gives orders to the feild medics to tend to OZ and Amestrian injured. Zechs leads a fleet of MS against the Thule Society pilots. While Treize Commands from Command Battle Cruiser Hyperion, Edward, leading three OZ Inquisitors and eight squads of ten man Bond-Involuntary Security troops, engage the Thule Society Inquisitors. Erkhart panics and orders the Generals and Parliment to be executed. Edward defeats two Inquisitors and brings down a third before voiding Erkhart's order on the premise that the Thule Society is not a Bench authorized Judiciary, and therefore has no right to command Inquisitors. Thule Society Inquisitor Basque Gran counters that the Thule Society is an extension of the Romefellar Foundation, which is a recognized part of the Jakin-Due Judiciary and is therefore authorized to command Inquisitors. Inquisitor Gran then attacks Edward on his blind side. Edward retaliates, and an Inquisitor's Battle ensues. OZ Inquisitors and Bond-Involuntary Security Troops neautralize the last of the Thule Society Inquisitors and captures Deitline, who attempts to flee.

Skirmishes all across and under Central draw to a close, and Lady Une takes control of the Thule Society and begins ordering troops back through the Gate. In the meantime, Treize comands the OZ troops to end any still continuing skirmishes, and Zech begins the relocation of all MS as well as overseeing the protection of the feild Medics from Medical Shuttle Argalier. OZ Inquisitors and assosiated Bond-Involuntary Security, without orders from their Inquisitor Commander, begin tending the injured and ensuring that stray attacks from the two still-warring Inquisitors do not reach any bystanders while others take the Thule Society Inquisitors back across the gate. The generals of amestris begin directing troops and alchemists to begin cleanups of the parts of the city farthest away from continuing skirmishes.

The day ends and most of the fighting is over. Occassionally, Amestrian troops will encounter stray Thule Society soldiers. Most OZ soldiers have returned to the Battleships and Battle Cruisers via transport shuttles and are returning to the otherside of the Gate. On the ground, the battle between Basque Gran and Edward is still raging, though somewhat slowed. Prime Minister Avis, Secretary of Defense Sammons, as well as Mustang and Armstrong and respective staff are nearby. They notice that many Inquisitors are doubles of well known alchemists. OZ Inquisitor Roy Mustang takes it upon himself to ensure that the Amestrian officers are not caught in the crossfire between Gran and Edward. He tries to get them to leave by telling them that Inquisitorial Battles tend to be long drawn out affairs, and tend to get messy, and Inquisitors Gran and Vedris are the best there are, so an already long battle is bound to be longer. The Amestrians are confused because Gran and Edward are no longer attacking each other with weapons and drugs, but are yelling at each other by that point. Inquisitor Mustang then informs them that Inquisitors, as their names may imply, are not only experts in the feild of torture and interrogation, but also in politics and their chosen feilds of medicine, and that Basque Gran and Edward fa Vedris are experts in phsychology as well as Heir Apparent of their respective Homeworlds, therefore, Inquisitorial Battles are bound to become long winded debates in the high flown language of the Autocracy when Inquisitors rest their bodies.

The Prime Minister comments that the battle might end faster if the two Inquisitors don't stop to yell at each other, and the OZ Inquisitors laugh. The Prime Minister wonders if he shouldn't feel insulted, when Inquisitor Mustang tells them that he agrees, but unfortunately, Inquisitors are bound to the Protocols of their Writ, and there are Protocols for Interrogation as well as Battle and Examinations, and therefore, the very best Inquisitors pull obscure Protocols out at oddest times and the other Inquisitor is bound by both Writ and Protocol to respond or risk loosing the battle, and adds wryly that since Gran and Edward are the best of the best, they'll be there for a good long while.

Edward then shocks the Inquisitors by yelling at Gran to fuck off because he doesn't have time for this! and claps and presses his hands to the ground, which opens up and swallows Gran to his neck. Gran, shocked, asks how this is possible. Edward admits that he was Amestrian born and raised. Inquisitor Alex Louis Armstrong asks how this happened, and Edward admits that he was found wounded with amnesia and was transferred to a hospital, when Treize Kushrenada, struck by his resemblance to an old friend, ordered a blood and DNA test, which revealed the same blood type and genetic structure to Edward fa Vedris. It was not until the decayed body of the true Edward fa Vedris was found that they realized their mistake, and for the sake of keeping the peace, none of them revealed the truth. Inquisitor Mustang then asks for Edward's real name, and Edward gives a strange smile and tosses his head arrogantly and Mustang's staff realizes what is next, and even the Flame Alchemist is grinning. Edward says, "My name is Edward Elric. Rank: Colonel. But besides that, I am the Fullmetal Alchemist. Remember that." He finishes with a satisfied smirk.

With that, the battle is over, and Edward takes advantage of being the highest ranked Inqisitor on the scene by giving Inquisitor Mustang a feild promotion to Inquisitor Commander. Treize comes down to verify the promotrion and promises Edward that he will make sure the Thule Society's research is destroyed. Edward remains in Amestris when OZ and the Thule Society leaves. Roy asks Edward if he knew that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery and Edward scoffs and tells him that he's not imitating anyone. He lost his eye in the accident that sent him to Briggs in a spectral form the first time around.

On the other side of the gate, OZ has annexed the Romefeller Foundations' resource planets and the CSL launches Operation Meteor. The war ends with the Federation's dissolution and the annexing of OZ into Preventors under the command of Lady Une, which serves as a Military Organization dedicated to keeping the peace in the Space Wide United Nations.

In Amestris, Edward wears the uniform of a Brigadier General to Alphonse and Winry's wedding. Mustang, in the uniform of a full General, walks Winry down the aisle. The wedding is interrupted by a soldier who claims all generals have been called to an emergancy meeting in Central Headquarters. All the soldiers in the pews, mostly on Al's side, rush out of the church. Mustang and Edward pause wish the newlyweds a happy life, and dash out of the church also. Outside the church, eleven soldiers are dashing down the steps toward three military cars with the doors open.

Freeze frame. Roll credits.

So I go ahead and help design a scene for a chapter for one author who was writing a GW/FMA crossover, and the next thing I know my inbox is full of requests for help from other authors. I can't fill out all those requests and still be able to do my own work!