The Fullmetal Human : Another World

by nb

Chapter 31 - D.R.

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"Evade" Ed chose as he saw Truth smile and Judgement sigh and fade away.

"Let's get started shall we" Truth said as she walked towards Ed and took to his side as she stood straight.

"When you re-enter time, you're not gonna have any time to dodge all of the bullets coming at you, so we need to use the fundamentals of boxing and teach you how to dodge quickly without moving from you're current spot" She said as she now stood exactly apart from him.

"Do as I do... lower you're stance, and get a even balance footing, chin in and eyes up, tuck you're fist in over your mouth and arms to you're body, then finally, weave"

She followed her own instructions to the point as she suddenly had a shine in her eyes as she weaved her entire body, not ever pulling a foot up but moving side to side as she outlined a figure eight with her entire body moving so fast. He could see how much skill it would require to pull it off and smiled mentally.

As she stopped moving she turned to Ed as she smiled. "It's not gonna dodge all the bullets, but with you're body and control in strength you can improve on this technique and hopefully scrape through them or even dodge all of them, you already ignore pain as it is but we both know damage taken over time can be annoying"

Ed just mentally nodded somehow as Truth nodded to him in return.

"Well, good luck Ed, try not to die" She said as she waved a peace sign out before disappearing.

Ed saw the world slowly start to move again as he mentally sighed. "Chin down... eyes up!"

Re-entering time Ed quickly lowered his stance and brought his fist to his face, he saw the first set of bullets lines with his all seeing eye and tucked his chin in as his body was now smaller thanks to the form he was in, he quickly weaved right as the bullets came, thankfully all the bullets were aimed high so most of the bullets missed as his upper body moved, he saw the next wave as it would hit his left side and he wouldn't be able to dodge it unless he moved his feet and went right a little more, quickly sliding his left foot back as he spun counter clock wise two times till his feet were planted again and was facing the enemy, he dodged the bullets but more came as he smiled this time seeing that they were farther now and he had more time to react within seconds.

Lowering himself down more as he began to bob and weave as he made a figure eight with his body dodging all the uneven bullets coming at him. He dodged the first set of bullets before drawing back during an interval in the barrage, Ed guessed that the recoil from the rifle and the ruggedness from the ground that the cars were driving on, majorly decreased their aim. He saw the next set of bullets aimed to hit him as it made almost a horizontal line across his chest, he quickly ducked down forward as he took a step forward and planted it, he looked again and saw the next line was vertical and would hit his left side, he turned himself sideways as he saw the bullets fly past his face, he glanced again to see that there was a single bullet coming at his head as he simple moved his head forward to dodge it hearing the bullet whiz by his head. It wasn't till the bullets stopped coming when he heard a bunch of...

*clickclickclickclickclick*

Ed smiled as the pirates looked down to their rifles seeing that they sprayed all their ammo out in the span of those seconds Ed was dodging. They looked back to Ed as he stood straight and waved. It was then that they noticed that the train was picking up speed and leaving them behind, the people with rifles began to fish for more ammo as Ed went to the railing and leaned on it peacefully.

"It's not that you're aim sucks, it's that you've been outplayed" Ed said as he gave a soft smile and waved.

One of the pirates finally got ammo and loaded his AK again as he went to aim at Ed when suddenly his driver pumped the brakes, the rifleman almost fell as his driver held onto him, when they fully stopped, the pirate shooting noticed the trees and giant forest in front of them, had they kept going they eventually most defiantly would have crashed into them. The train was already long gone down the tracks, as the driver backed up and drove forward onto the tracks.

Back on the train Ed let out a breath as he took a step back and looked down at himself, he wanted to see how many cuts and bruises he had, he had minor pain here and there but wanted to see how much damage he had taken. Looking down he saw a little bloody wound right above his right knee, it didn't hurt a lot cuz the knife that inflicted the wound was shitty, but it did sting a bit, he saw that his arms and sides had little scrapes here and there, probably from the bullets he was dodging, no blood came pouring out but it was still visible. All in all he was pretty okay.

"Ed?" He heard Derpy say, as he turned to see her standing up with the metal sheet pressed against her, only her head peaked from around the side of it.

"How'd you do that?" She asked confused as she looked at him with curiosity.

Ed just rubbed his neck and looked embarrassed. "I don't know, never dodged bullets before like that till now" He said as he chuckled.

"Enough about me, how are you-" Ed's sentence barely finished before a loud explosion could be heard ahead of the train.

Ed barely felt the impact from it but whatever blew up they would see it soon as the little train was going down the tracks faster and faster. Ed not wanting to wait around walked up to the front of the train and looked ahead. He could barely see as the train was making a slow turn right now. He looked to Derpy as he spoke. "Derpy get ready to take cover again, something doesn't feel right"

She just nodded as she went back into the little room, Ed not wasting any time, quickly opened up the digital map too see if anything had changed. He noticed immediately that the area had changed since they moved, like a general map would in some kind of game but he noticed that there was smoke nearby him and a river too, a lot was covered by the trees and saw that the forest got larger further forward.

"What did they shoot?" He thought out loud as he used his two fingers to pinch and zoom in on the map, from the way the train was turning it would probably keep tuning till it reached the river and smoke, he didn't know if the train would straighten out for a while so they'll probably see whatever the pirates blew up when they pass it.

Though the thought never came, the train suddenly trashed forward and the next seconds would fill with black as Ed felt something hit his head.


Author's Note

It's only actually been 2 Years since I left this story. A lot has happened, but were not here for my shit life story, I'm going to continue this and improve the story and writing. I'll be rereading the Story as well to make sure I can put back any references I had planned and such. Sorry if this chapter is short as hell, I'll begin writing the next chapter ASAP so expect a big jump in writing or pacing.

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