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[fashionably_strong]

[Bulla is walking throughout Balamb Garden and being particularly alert. Time Compression has brought the Garden a new surprise lately - people who appear for a couple of hours at a time and then vanish again. She's had a few experiences with it, but there are particular people she's looking for. Trunks had found a younger version of their father, and she's on the look out for anyone who might be from her world. There are some people she'd like to see, and others that she and Trunks would have to protect most other people here from.

There are a few she not only would trust to have her back, but also wouldn't worry too much about. As for everyone else...they are best kept away from some of the dangerous people of her world. Bulla knows that she probably isn't strong enough yet to take on many of the enemies her family and friends have - but she is stronger than before, and far more focused and determined.

The expression on her face as she walks around is uncharacteristically serious. Not angry or stern. Just very serious. She feels a responsibility to Balamb Garden that she didn't feel when she first arrived here nearly two years ago.]

Comments

[elementofloyalty]

Hey, you okay?

[The question is posed from midair and is followed a moment later by a pony dropping out of the sky and landing in front of her.]

You look... really stern.

[fashionably_strong]

[Bulla blinks for all of a second at the arrival of the pony. She's encountered Rarity and Espio is her friend, so a talking pegasus isn't that shocking to her.]

With all the new arrivals coming and going lately, I'm just a little worried someone bad from my world might show up and cause some major trouble. I'm trying to keep an eye out so I'm not caught by surprise later.

[She'd rather be prepared for the ensuing chaos so at least the youngest cadets could be evacuated if need be.]

[elementofloyalty]

Major trouble, huh? Ha! I live to handle major trouble! Just tell me who I should be keeping an eye out for, and if I see them, they'll regret any trouble they might be making!

[fashionably_strong]

[She's skeptical, but she doesn't want to insult someone who's offering to help.]

Well...some of them are the kind of trouble that it takes a whole group of really strong people to fight. So if you see a guy named Cell or a guy named Bebi, please don't try fighting them alone. Bebi has this really nasty power where he can take over your body if he even gets in a little cut on you, and then make you attack your friends.

He's a creep who tried to take control over the whole world and almost succeeded.

[elementofloyalty]

That's kind of weird. Any cut, huh?

...Actually, now that I think about it, that's not as bad as Discord, but still, point taken. So a guy named Sell and a guy named Baby are bad. Anyone else? [This is how she's spelling them in her head...]

[fashionably_strong]

[There are so many possibilities. Entirely too many, and Bulla has to think of other notable enemies her family and friends fought before she was born.]

Someone named Frieza is bad, too. He blew up a planet.

[Then there's people who were enemies but became friends. She doesn't want to overload the pegasus, though. Cell, Bebi and Frieza were never anything but bad news.]

[elementofloyalty]

No offense, but people from your world have really weird names.

[Says the pony named Rainbow Dash.]

[fashionably_strong]

I guess it's just a matter of what you're used to.

[elementofloyalty]

I guess. And I bet no one from your world has a cutie mark, either. That's even weirder to me.

[fashionably_strong]

What's a cutie mark?

[That's probably a good indicator that nobody has one on her world.]

[elementofloyalty]

[Rainbow obligingly half-turns, pointing at the mark on her flank: a cloud from which a lightning-shaped rainbow descends.]

Everypony on Equestria gets theirs at some point as they grow up, so it's weird that no one here has one.

[fashionably_strong]

[Oh Kami, she is not explaining human puberty to a pegasus.]

Does a cutie mark just appear gradually on ponies as you get older?

[elementofloyalty]

No way, once you do something really awesome, it appears to say hey, that's your special talent!

[fashionably_strong]

[She blinks.]

Just like that? It's not so clear for people from my world. You never really know if they're awesome or if they're a creep until you get to know them.

[elementofloyalty]

And that's why we're keeping an eye out for some of those people!

[fashionably_strong]

[Bulla nods. If she encounters Freiza, no firaga will be spared. The words 'kill it with fire' will have never been more literal.]

Well, if you find any of the ones I mentioned, come and find me right away, okay? Or if you see him before you see me, tell my brother Trunks. He's got light purple hair.

[elementofloyalty]

Sure, I'll let you know!

[fashionably_strong]

Thanks. I'm Bulla, by the way.

[elementofloyalty]

I'm Rainbow Dash! It's nice to meet you! [She might be a over-confident and arrogant pony... but she IS genuinely friendly!]

[fashionably_strong]

It's nice to meet you, too. Do you know someone named Rarity, by the way? I really like the pants she designed for my friend Espio.

[elementofloyalty]

Sure I know her, she's one of my best friends! And one of the best fashion designers Equestria's ever seen, so no surprise you like her work.

[fashionably_strong]

I'm head of both the Fashion Club and the Fight Club here. I'll have to see if she can design me something cute I can fight in.

[elementofloyalty]

There's a Fight Club? That sounds pretty interesting!

[Rainbow perks up, though she won't stop selling her friend!]

And Rarity can make some pretty amazing things. I'm not one for frilly and fancy myself, but the stuff she's made has been really beautiful and not really constraining at all.

[fashionably_strong]

It happens a couple of evenings a week...depending on if there's a SeeD available to supervise or not. Usually that SeeD is me.

[elementofloyalty]

Oh, uh. [Rainbow Dash leans back slightly to salute.]