Ed furious, rightly guesses the reasons for being forced to take the earlier train as Mustang knew what would happen. Ed destroys his arm and Al beats him up.Īt Central station, Bald on seeing Mustang tries to attack him, but is burnt by Roy’s flame attack, he then reveals himself to be the Flame Alchemist. They manage to overpower all the extremists with a little help from Hughes and Ed is forced to battle Bald, the one with an auto-mail arm that looks like a gun. While Al deals with the extremists below, Ed heads up to the top of the train to deal with the ones there and he personally meets Hughes. The brothers overpower them and decide to handle the situation.
Two of the bandits approach Al, due to his appearance. They want their captured leader to be traded for the General and the train passengers. The bandits are revealed to working for the ‘People's Eastern Revolution Front’, headed by a man called ‘ Bald’ who has a mechanical arm. In other places, the bandits take charge of the train, holding the General and the train passenger’s hostage. On going to check on Edward, Falman gets attacked by two bandits. Hughes is shown to be tying up the military line talking nonsensical to Mustang waiting for confirmation the line isn’t being tapped.įalman panics at the appearance of Al in a suit of armor, however through Hughes who conveys the message to Mustang, he learns that it’s ‘okay’.
It is revealed a military General Hakuro is on board the train, taking a family vacation. On hearing of there being an earlier train, he decides to test their luck and orders the brothers to ‘get on it or go home’, forcing the brothers to run towards the train. The Elric brothers hop aboard a train to Central City and quickly find themselves defending the passengers - including General Hakuro - from terrorists.Īt the train station (still in Ed's flashback), Edward calls Roy Mustang to inform about their expected arrival at Central.