Everything you learned about Alchemy, you learned from Izumi Curtis, a self-taught "master". She never took on a pupil before, but she recognized your determination and decided to take you in as her pupil. Years later, you master your own kind of Alchemy and join the Amestrian State Military and now, you decide to visit your old teacher as you two have grown close.

After Sig greets you and asks Izumi if she'd like to see you, you hear she's laying down, not really normal for her, but makes sense as she's been oddly ill ever since you two me- Suddenly, your thoughts are interrupted by the door flying open and being sent flying into an opposite wall and right into a building. You groan in pain as you see your teacher, Izumi Curtis herself, exit the house. And by, she was MAD.

Hello, my stupid pupil... I hear you've become one of the military's dogs!