Home is Where the Heart Is (Backdated to earlier in the month)

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Bulla looked around, confused at Balamb Garden's sudden absence. She had planned a shopping trip with Rinoa and Sharpay, yes...but Garden should have still been visible just two minutes out of the gate. For that matter, the landscape wasn't as it should be, yet it looked familiar.

As they made their way toward civilization, something clicked. The building structures. They were approaching West City. She was finally home! A huge smile broke across her face, vanishing as soon as it appeared when she guiltily reminded herself not to be too happy about it. It meant Rinoa and Sharpay were trapped in her world now. Still, there was hope. The dragon balls could be collected, her mom could invent something...and if they were stuck, at least they were stuck somewhere where the shopping was good and Bulla's family had plenty of money for helping two displaced young women come up with a worthwhile wardrobe to get settled in with.

"So...um. As completely weird as this is, I think we're in my world. I'll be able to say for sure in about twenty minutes or so."

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[hotpinkwhirlwind]

Sharpay frowned over her apple as she checked her junctions again. Messing with gravity... First the city looks like Esthar, now the technology sounds like something they'd be capable of. It hadn't really hit her until now how futuristic (from her point of view) a world Bulla came from.

And moving twice her weight around? Sharpay wasn't all that heavy, but she was trained to handle her body with only a little weight fluctuation; she didn't usually gain a whole lot of weight at once.

"Does even your mom work out?" she asked, curious.

[rebellingheart]

It looked like all that extra work with Snow focusing on conditioning and endurance would really be put to the test with this. She still wasn't too sure how well she'd be able to handle it. A weight machine was one thing, but her entire body being so much heavier? That's another entirely.

"We'll be careful." She wrinkled her nose when a thought occurred to her. "None of us want to turn into pancakes after all."

People pancakes sounded pretty gross after all, not that it stopped her from eating her apple. Like Bulma had said, they needed to keep their strength up.

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“She does, but not nearly as much as my dad and brother do,” explained Bulla in between bites of her apple and sips of water. “My grandfather invented the gravity chamber over thirty years ago. It can go up to five hundred times Earth’s gravity.”

Although there was nothing fun about it, she was privately curious as to how much she could handle now. However, there was no way it would be reasonable to inflict that on Sharpay and Rinoa, so hopefully her mother would succeed in persuading her father to put it on the lowest setting until later. Hopefully they would also get to go shopping before Bulla tried out a higher setting on her own. Aching muscles and exhaustion did not make for an enjoyable shopping experience.

[hotpinkwhirlwind]

Sharpay put down her apple to get up and stretch.

"That is insane." Five hundred times her weight... Sharpay couldn't calculate it.

[rebellingheart]

She had to agree with Sharpay on that one. Not that she knows what Earth's gravity is like, but if it's anything like what she's used to back home that was more than she could even imagine.

"Working out at normal gravity can be hard enough sometimes. Though I guess maybe a little heavier wouldn't be so bad." And by little she means as low as the chamber can go just about. Does it have a 1.5 setting? Because that she might actually handle and still be able to move.

She was trying to look at this in a positive light. "It's got to be great for endurance though at least, right?"

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"Well, if it's too hard, I'll tell dad to let you two out," said Bulla. "You're guests, after all. I think he just wants to see what kind of training is done at Balamb Garden."

In her opinion, it wasn't reasonable to expect Sharpay and Rinoa to step into the gravity chamber at all because they were human and her guests, but her father seemed convinced that if Balamb Garden had made such a difference in one year, that the Garden had to be doing something right. And maybe they were, but that didn't change the fact that Rinoa and Sharpay were not part-saiyan. Nor had they prepared themselves for such a dramatic weight increase by training with extra weights on their bodies. She hoped her friends would be all right.