Reunion

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A whole year. It hadn’t even occurred to him, actually, until midmorning. He’d been here a year and two days. January 30th, he’d fallen out of the sky and washed ashore on an island from which there was no escape and a year and two days later, it was… Well, it was more home than Earth had ever been, before. Almost as much home as L2 had been,

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Edward had been on his way down to the beach (still lamenting the loss of normal limbs he'd been gifted for the weekend) when Duo's whoop and laughter had cut through the morning quiet. Ever curious, Edward turned down a different path, in pursuit of the source of that voice.

It was unlike anything he'd ever laid eyes on before; Giant, hulking mass of metal, terrifying and imposing, and (gratefully) motionless. If not for the lack of movement, he might have been compelled to run.

But as it was, he took a few slow steps toward the great mechanical beast, golden eyes wide and round, and jaw slacked.

In a tone that mixed awe, fear, and curiosity, he asked in a half-hushed voice, "What in the hell is that?"

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Duo made some excited gibbering noises as he sprinted past Edward that vaguely sounded like "minemineminemine". He flattened himself against part of the machine's wing and purred.

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Edward took a few, slow, cautious steps towards the ... whatever the hell it was. "Uhh... Duo?" he tried, confused (and maybe a bit amused) at Duo's behavior.

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Duo rounded on Ed, tackling him, careful of the automail.

"IT'S MY GUNDAM!!"

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Edward let out a sound that was something like a squawk, flailing in Duo's grip. "S'a what?" Gundam. Why did that sound familiar...?

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"It's my mobile suit! My- this is what I flew, back home! What I fought in!" Duo said, hopping to his feet and running back to the machine.

"It's my Deathscythe!" He came to a halt at the base of its foot, running his hands along the metal.

"Hey, buddy," he said quietly, "how ya doin'...?"

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It was moments like these that Edward was sharply reminded of how much Duo and Winry were alike. Talking to mechanical objects...

Still, he stepped slowly closer, shielding his eyes from the morning light, and staring up at the intimidating suit. Like a giant, metal person, in that it had a head, arms, legs, the basic structure of a humanoid body.

"It's... it's HUGE..." he said, awestruck. Duo had mentioned his Mobile Suit before, but Ed had imagined it to be... maybe twice the size of a human being... not as tall as some of the buildings in Central.