After a brief reunion, the two proceed to escape the society. This opens the Gate and sends the bodies of the soldiers who went in before, along with Alphonse who sealed part of his soul into one of the suits of armor during the fight. Later, Ed breaks into the Thule Society headquarters and after finding the room with an unfinished circle, fills it in properly and accidentally activates it with his blood from a cut on his face he sustained from a piece of glass when entering the society. Back at the Thule Society headquarters, Envy is strung in a circle above a large Transmutation Circle like image, and after biting into the Elrics' father Hohenheim of Light, activates the circle with his blood, sending the soldiers into the gate and to Reole. Soldiers from the Thule Society come in and apprehend Envy to use in their experiments. He finds the dragon, which turns out to be the Homunculus Envy, in the form he took after crossing through the Gate. At first skeptical, Ed joins the search at an abandoned castle where the dragon was last sighted. He is searching for a dragon to use as inspiration for one of his movies.
After confronting him, he realizes he isn't Bradley, but his counterpart, a Jewish film director named Fritz Lang. In the city, Ed sees a man drive by that looks like Führer King Bradley. Meanwhile, Ed and Alfons are keeping Noah at their apartment. Al uses Soul Transmutation to transfer part of his soul into a suit of armor, that coincidentally looks like the one he wore in the series. Al realizes that they must have come from another world and it has to be the portal to where Ed is. Colonel Alex Louis Armstrong, who was aiding in rebuilding Reole after its destruction in the anime. Upon appearing in Reole, they are quickly dispatched by Al in his original body and Lt. Later, soldiers from the mysterious pro-Nazi secret society known as the Thule Society open a gate to Amestris believing it is their fabled utopia Shamballa, unbeknownst to them they are crushed due to pressure from entering the gate and are covered in gate-children. Ed saves a woman, Noah, one of the travelers, from a group of men trying to capture her for her clairvoyant abilities and runs off with her to safety. They meet up with a group of Romani travelers headed towards the fair that Ed and Heidrich were going to demonstrate one of their rockets. Meanwhile, on his side of the gate, Edward's younger brother Alphonse, is trying to find a way to bring him back home.Įd has become a rocket scientist and is living with a boy named Alfons Heiderich, Al's real-world counterpart. Spoiler warning : Plot or ending details follow.Įdward Elric, having been sent to the other side of the Gate and ending up in our world, is trying to find a way back to Amestris.