As Armstrong and Mustang work together to disable the circles on the ground, the Elrics go after McDougal and throw off his momentum. McDougal's walls of ice continue to grow and shift despite the military's best efforts to stop them and Edward realizes that the Freezing Alchemist is attempting to create a gigantic glacial Transmutation Circle with military headquarters as its center.

As Ed and Al deduce that McDougal could only perform such remarkable new feats with the aid of the legendary Philosopher's Stone, the Freezer demands to know whether Fullmetal truly understands what Central Command is plotting for the country and flees again. Meanwhile, hidden from all sight, a mysterious being takes sudden and silent notice of the strange new energy's activation. He heads to one of his many transmutation circles only to be met by the Elric brothers, who have deduced his location by noticing a pattern in his movements, but before they can engage him once more, the Freezing Alchemist puts his plan into effect and - with an odd new display of Alchemical power, causes each of his Transmutation Circles around the city to react simultaneously, erupting in gigantic, growing mountains of ice. He is discovered by Colonel Mustang, who he identifies as the 'Flame Alchemist' but escapes capture by using his ability to transmute water to counter Roy's flame alchemy. Their battle draws the attention of Ed and Al, who rush over to back up Major Armstrong, but Isaac escapes again. As McDougal puts the finishing touches on his last circle, he is discovered and accosted by the 'Strong Arm Alchemist,' Alex Louis Armstrong. The next day, the military efforts to find Isaac are redoubled and Mustang himself joins the search.

Disappointed, McDougal leaves by himself but returns to his work - drawing more of his unique Transmutation Circles around the city and remarking that his actions will be King Bradley's undoing. Citing the mysterious atrocities that the State Alchemists were ordered to perform in Ishval, McDougal suggests that Kimblee's assassination of his superior officers during the war in protest to the military's shady activities, but Kimblee laughs him off and notes that he only murdered them because he wanted to and not for some idealistic principles. Meanwhile, McDougal has broken into Central Prison in order to recruit an old comrade, the incarcerated 'Crimson Lotus Alchemist' Solf J. But as he is brought into custody, Freezing uncovers his final ace and uses transmutation circles tattooed onto his palms to break his restraints and escape once again.īack at Central Command, Colonel Mustang scolds Edward for taking action without taking his target's abilities into account and explains once again that their quarry is Isaac McDougal the 'Freezer,' a former State Alchemist who had served during the Ishval Civil War, but quit the State Military and became an anti-government radical when the fighting ended. However, he is drawn into a trap when Edward arrives and displays his own impressive abilities - performing alchemy without a circle and resisting Freezing's boiling alchemy with the use of his Automail right arm. Military Police attempt to cordon the Freezing Alchemist in the dark alleyways of Central, but he displays his unique powers by using alchemy to freeze, boil and shape water in his surroundings, killing several of his pursuers in the act. Lamenting his new orders and the fact that their trip to Reole has been delayed, the teenage Edward and his brother Alphonse - a young man clad entirely in steel armor - prepare to go into action. At Central Command, Führer King Bradley takes advantage of Colonel Roy Mustang's recent visit to the capital and places him in charge of tracking the fugitive down, at the same time suggesting that the Colonel make use of yet another temporary resident - the young 'Fullmetal Alchemist' Edward Elric. In Central City, a mysterious man known as the 'Freezing Alchemist' is loose and scrawling strange Transmutation Circles in hidden areas.

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