Sorry for taking so long for updating this fic. Here's the new chapter. I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist and the current fandom being traveled in. And remember, you can make guesses and suggestions on the Pokemon egg from the last chapter!

Our gatehopping trio appeared in the middle of a dense forest. The trees towered over them somewhat menacingly, closing in all around them. The wind seemed to make the trees shake, making an odd rattling noise. They took a few steps, looking around at the surrounding area.

"So where are we this time, Amaya?" Ed asked.

"I'm...not so sure, actually..." Amaya said, a hand to her chin. "I was sort of hoping for something more bright and cheerful rather than a dark and creepy forest."

She seemed to examine a nearby tree with interest. "This place looks familiar, but I don't know what it's called...Dark Woods...The Clearing of Pain and Suffering..."

"How about the Forest of Death?" Al suggested.

"No no, that's not it..." Amaya dismissed.

Quite suddenly, something whizzed past Ed's face and impaled the tree behind him.

"This is the Forest of Death..." said a voice somewhere in the trees. Amaya snapped her fingers.

"Oh yes, that was it! The Forest of Death!"

"But isn't that what I just said?" Al asked.

"No, you had some idea like Woods of Evil or something like that." Amaya shook off. Ed however, went over to inspect the object that had impaled the tree.

"It looks like a knife of some kind." Ed pointed. Amaya came over and examined it as well.

"I believe this is a kunai. Ninjas use these." Amaya explained, before noticing a piece of paper attached to it. "...And we need to run like hell now."

"...Why?" Ed asked.

"That's a paper bomb that's about to go off!" Amaya shouted. The group quickly jumped back away from the tree as the paper bomb exploded, causing the tree to fall over opposite from them. They stared at the fallen tree before Al turned to Amaya.

"Where are we?" Al asked worriedly.

Before Amaya could answer, there was a sudden laugh as three people suddenly jumped down from one of the trees in front of them. They were wearing yellow jumpsuits and strange devices over their mouths.

"Like I explained, this is the Forest of Death. Did you forget where you are, little genin?" the leader of the group seemed to ask.

A familiar tick mark appeared in Ed's forehead. "I AM NOT A LITTLE-wait, what did he call me?" Ed asked, turning to Amaya.

"I'll explain later." she whispered to him before turning back to the ninja in front of them. "Sorry guys, we'll just be going now..."

They started to take a few steps away, but then the ninja moved forward. "I don't think so. Hand over your scroll!" the leader demanded.

"What do we do, Brother? Amaya?" Al asked.

Ed narrowed his eyes, clapping his hands together as he transmuted his automail arm. He held the blade up; the ninjas started to look noticeably worried.

"We fight back, that's what!" Ed said, familiar glint of determination in his eye. He had been itching for a fight for some time, maybe he would finally get one.

"So how is their mission going?"

"At the moment, it seems to be going smoothly...but..."

"But what?"

"It seems that they went to that particular fandom. You know the one."

"...This may be a problem."

And so, through a series of events so elaborate that it would take too long to go into detail right now, the trio succeeded in defeating the rain ninjas. They even stole their headbands and their Heaven scroll. Ed stared at the headband that he had wrapped around his arm. (Apparently it had been too big for his forehead)

"So why did we take their headbands?" he asked Amaya.

"So that if we run into anybody in here, they'll think that we're ninjas that are part of their exams."

"Exams?" Al asked.

"Yeah. We sort of accidentally showed up in the middle of their chunnin exams. Which is a very bad thing."

"Can you explain to me the whole genin and chuunin exam thing now?" Ed looked annoyed.

"Ranks of ninjas. Genin are the lowest ranking and chuunin is the ranking above that." Amaya explained.

"Oh, for a second I thought that guy was insulting me."

"Actually, he kind of was." Amaya pointed out. Ed looked infuriated.

"Why that bas-" he started to steam, but Amaya shushed him.

"We can't draw attention to ourselves. We're not supposed to be here and we could get killed if they find out that we're not ninjas that are taking this exam."

"So what do we do?" Al asked worriedly.

"I'd try to take us back home, but it takes a few hours for the fandom gates to be charged enough to open again. So for now, we're stuck here." Amaya said sadly. "Our best option is to find the main characters of this fandom and hope to God that they'll help us."

"And they would be...?" Ed asked, but soon enough, the question was not needed as said main characters suddenly walked into their path.

"I'm just saying, I knew what I was doing when I was beating up that one guy." a boy in an orange jumpsuit with blond hair said to one of his two companions, another boy with short black hair wearing a blue high-collared shirt. "After all, respect can only be earned by beating the shit out of someone."For some reason, Ed noticed that Amaya seemed to have crossed her fingers and was muttering, "Please don't let it be American Naruto, please don't let it-"

"Where the hell did you learn that kind of logic?" said his remaining companion, a girl with long pink hair.

"I'm just smart like that, believe it!"

"Damn!" Amaya loudly cursed, causing stares from Ed and Al.

The boy in blue suddenly tensed at noticing Ed, Al, and Amaya. He pulled out a kunai.

"State your business here." he said, trying to sound somewhat threatening. The boy in orange and the girl with pink hair also did the same by pulling out kunais as well.

"We're just standing here!" Ed pointed out.

"Oh well, that's ok then." the boy in orange said, putting his kunai away.

"Naruto!" the girl with pink hair reprimanded.

"What? They look like decent people! They're not trying to attack us or demand our Earth scroll or anything like that."

"Good job for telling them which scroll we have, idiot." the boy in blue muttered under his breath.

"S-shut up Sasuke!" Naruto shouted at Sasuke.

"Look..." Amaya said, reminding the three of them that they were still there. "We don't care about your scroll. Hell, you can have the one we got." she said as she took out the Heaven scroll and tossed it to them. Naruto caught it, examining it carefully.

"Why are you just giving us your scroll?" Sakura asked.

"Does it matter? Now we can just go to the tower!" Naruto said, not really caring about why they were getting the scroll.

"Hold on. This could be a trap. They might just attack us the minute we turn our backs on them." Sasuke pointed out.

Naruto for some reason was staring at him. Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "What?"

"You're always worrying about us. I think I just realized this five seconds ago...I love you!"

Everyone in the immediate vicinity sweat-dropped.

"So you're saying that you somehow accidentally got lost and wound up in the Forest of Death?" Sakura asked.

"Yes, that's exactly what I said." Ed rolled his eyes at her. "Anyway, will you help us out until we get to the tower?"

"We probably should since you're giving that scroll you took to us." Naruto pointed out. "What do you think Sasuke?" he asked, turning to Sasuke. Sasuke quickly hid the kunai he had in his hand.

"What's that? I was too busy cutting myself over the loss of my family and all that. Did you know I hate my brother?" he seemed to come up with as an excuse for his obvious distrust.

More sweat-dropping. "...Right. Of course." Naruto rolled his eyes.

"Thanks for the help." Al thanked the trio of ninjas as they began making their way toward the tower. Sakura suddenly glared when she noticed that Amaya was walking on Sasuke's other side.

"Hey, girl, move away from Sasuke-kun!" Sakura seemed to snarl as she moved in between them. Amaya raised an eyebrow before sighing.

"Look, it might be hard to tell by my height and chest size, but I'm seventeen. And he's twelve. I'm practically taller than him by almost a foot. I have no interest in your 'Sasuke-kun', so next time I ever hear you say that again, I'm throwing you into the nearest tree, got it?" Amaya threatened, shaking a fist at her. Sakura nodded quickly, ducking behind Naruto and Sasuke. Ed thought he heard Naruto mutter something like "Somebody finally tells her..." under his breath. Apparently, Sakura got edgy when any girl was within a foot of Sasuke...even some of the older adults, apparently so.

No really, why do girls five years older than Sasuke "love" him? Geez...

"Yeah, we're almost to the tower, believe it!" Naruto seemed to cheer. He stopped walking when he noticed that Amaya and Ed had stopped walking.

"That's the dumbest catchphrase I have ever heard." Ed pointed out.

"Naruto, don't ever say it again. Ever. If you do, I'll grab Sakura by the ankles and use her like a baseball bat and knock you into the nearest tree." Amaya threatened. Naruto frowned at her before crossing his arms, muttering something under his breath about bitchy girls.

"What was that?"

"Nothing."

Quite suddenly, there was creepy laughter in the air. Ed, Al, and Amaya tensed as Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke moved in front of them, kunai's out.

"Whose there?" Sasuke called out.

The laughter ceased as a figure appeared in front of them. It was a man with pale skin and was grinning as a freaky long tongue was visible.

"Holy shit, it's Orochimaru." Amaya said, slapping a hand to her face. "Although I guess his disguise seemed to have fallen off."

"It did?" Orochimaru asked as he put a hand to his face. "Aw damn, those latex masks never stay on." he muttered.

"So who is this guy?" Ed asked.

"Evil guy. Very scary. It's scary like as if you're walking down a dark alley and you see that at the other end and you know you better run like hell because it's going to rip your fucking face off, and you don't fuck with that kind of scary." Amaya explained.

"Question?" Naruto asked, raising his hand.

"Yes?"

"Why would I be walking down a dark alley in the first place?"

"I don't know, you tell me."

"But you're the one who stated the hypothetical story."

"Splitting hairs are we?"

"I don't think we have time to discuss this because he just summoned a giant snake while you two were bickering." Ed interrupted them, pointing toward Orochimaru. He was right, as he had summoned a giant snake behind him.

"Attack!" Orochimaru ordered the snake. It suddenly lurched upwards and headed toward the group. They screamed, jumping out of the way as it smashed itself through the trees just as Orochimaru rushed forward with a kunai, attempting to attack Sasuke with it.

"It's the hair that makes people attack me, isn't it?" he seemed to moan, motioning to his trademark duckbutt hair.

"Pretty much." Both Amaya, Naruto, and Orochimaru said at the same time.

Naruto turned toward the snake. "I'll take care of this thing, you take care of the creepy guy, got it?"

Without another word, Naruto disappeared after the snake.

"He must figure that the five of us will be able to take out Orochimaru. Dumbass." Amaya couldn't help but mutter under her breath.

Ed turned to Al. "Al, you and Amaya stay here. Sakura, I'm not going to say the same thing because I really don't know you that well enough to be concerned for your safety, but I would suggest the same thing." he said as he clapped his hands together and placed one of them on the ground. A rather large kunai emerged from the ground and Ed took it in his hand.

"Wow, how did you do that? Is that some sort of ninjutsu?" Sakura asked.

"...Sure. Whatever that is." Ed said with a roll of his eyes before running toward Orochimaru.

With the combined efforts of Sasuke and Ed, they managed to put Orochimaru on the defensive, despite the fact that the authoress apparently can't write a good fight scene.

Ed tried to stab at Orochimaru with the kunai, but Orochimaru's tongue suddenly wrapped itself around the blade and yanked it out of his hands, tossing it as far away from him as possible. Ed growled, jumping back as he clapped his hands again and placed them on the ground. A large jagged rock suddenly jutted itself upward from the ground in an effort to impale him. Orochimaru's eyes widened as he was forced to jump back into the trees to avoid him.

"I'll admit, that's impressive work. But still not good enough."

"Then maybe this will." Sasuke said as he activated his familiar Sharingan. Ed couldn't help but stare.

"What's wrong with you, did you pop a blood vessel in your eyes? Or is it pink eye?"

"No Ed, it's not pinkeye, you idiot!" he could hear Amaya shout from their little group of spectators.

"Hey guys, I'm back! And I'm all angry and stuff!" Naruto suddenly appeared next to Sasuke, swirling with red chakra.

"About freaking time!" Ed couldn't help but shout at him.

"Well excuse me for not showing up until the last minute. I was taking care of a giant snake by myself, after all."

"You're the one that wanted to take care of it by yourself!" Ed pointed out.

"Uh guys, Orochimaru's right behind you." Al pointed out from the spectator group, before glaring at Amaya, who was eating from a bowl of popcorn that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere.

And sure enough, so he was as he used the five prong seal on Naruto's stomach before tossing him over to the spectator group. Naruto collided into Amaya, causing her to fall over and spill most of her popcorn onto the ground.

"Well that was quick and unexciting." Ed rolled his eyes, ignoring Amaya's cursing in the background.

"And now for the two of you." Orochimaru said as he suddenly bared his fangs and his head stretched from his neck and was heading toward Sasuke. Ed growled as he started running at him, clapping his hands together and pulling out the blade of his automail arm. "You're not going any further, bastard snake!"

Somehow he managed to move fast enough as he thrust the blade outward at Orochimaru.

There was suddenly a sickening "crunch" sound in the air as blood splattered on the ground. Ed's automail blade had gone straight through the top part of Orochimaru's torso and out through his left shoulder.

"Good work Brother, you did it!" Al cheered, but Amaya suddenly put a hand on his arm.

"What's the matter?" Al asked.

Amaya simply pointed with a shaking finger. "Look again."

Al looked and saw what was making her act weird.

The blade had gone through just as Orochimaru's fangs had punctured Sasuke's neck, leaving behind the familiar curse mark. However, the impact of the attack had caused his neck to snap back, when his head came back to its body, it's fangs struck out at Ed in retaliation, also puncturing Ed's neck.

Both Sasuke and Ed collapsed to the ground as Orochimaru laughed. "Well, I wasn't expecting that. Then again, this is sort of good for me." he laughed before jumping away into the trees and disappearing. Sakura ran over to Sasuke as Al and Amaya went over to Ed.

"Brother?" Al asked carefully.

Ed was unconscious already as Amaya pulled his jacket back and examined his neck. "Oh shit..."

"What?"

Amaya moved so that Al could see the black mark that appeared on Ed's neck.

"He's got one too."

Amaya: And we're outta here!

Al: Wait, what?

Amaya: We're going on hiatus for a little while. The authoress is having a creative block with this fic right now.

Al: What about Ed?

Ed: Uggh...

Al: How can we go on hiatus when he's in pain and with that kind of cliffhanger?

Amaya: Because I say so.

Al: ...You're some kind of evil, you know that?