Ed stands there facing Dante with a devious little smile on his face as his hedgehog runs through the rest of the hoops. "Turnabout is fair play, Dante," he says. "You decided to get creative with the rules, so we did exactly the same." He's not going to call it cheating, no. That's not what it was.

The rage is evident on Dante's face; she's even trembling a bit.

"No homunculi to fight your battles for you this time," Ed notes. "Only Wrath, Envy, and Gluttony are still alive; you took away Gluttony's ability to reason, so he's not going to be able to help you... Oh, and Wrath can't transmute his own body anymore, since you took my arm and leg away from him... And Envy? He's stuck on Earth trying to get to Dad, and that's assuming Dad hasn't already destroyed him. The card-soldiers you have here aren't a threat either; even if they were real, I could kick their asses back to the stone age any day."

Dante lets out a roar and presses her palms together, a spike of earth lances towards Ed in a burst of blue static. Ed claps his hands together in response and bitch-slaps the spike with his right arm, completely disintegrating it before it can hit him. He doesn't retaliate, though, choosing only to defend himself and not to attack.

"Let me guess," Ed says. "'Off with my head', right?"