Fullmetal Alchemist Fan Fiction ❯ Veritas Hominum ❯ Relativity ( Chapter 22 )

Relativity

 

The energy that flows between the two worlds moves through the gate in both directions - the bomb had proven that much. But how was he supposed to make a bomb on this side of the Gate?

 

Could he even access the gate anymore? He hadn't performed any transmutations since he'd returned to Amestris, much less something as huge as that.

 

He'd spent his whole life reaching for things beyond his grasp, and because of that he had always remained at the mercy of those in power: the Fuhrer, the German Government, and now the Amestresian government. It never ends.

 

He was so very tired… all he wanted was to go home to Risembool and Winry and live out the rest of his days there in quiet anonymity.

 

He thought of his teachers from Munich; Einstein had run off to the United States around the same time Edward had left. Things had gotten much too dangerous in Germany. Last he'd heard Einstein had been working on a way to unify all forces, to make a “theory of everything.”

 

Ed had never really been able to wrap his head around most of his mentor's theories. The idea that time was relative to the observer and that gravity was a result of the curvature of space-time did not make any sense to him.

 

But if he was right… then by all accounts things can happen before they're supposed to happen, or later than they were supposed to. Fifteen years in Amestris may not mean fifteen years in Germany.

 

He'd heard rumors of a new theory bouncing around Europe before he'd left; rumors of particles going where the experimenters wanted them to be instead of where they should have been. That would explain how he wound up in Risembool again.

 

If those rumors were true…

 

Then alchemy really was no better than magic.