Paolina regained her sense in a realm that looked very similar to the Hyperbolic Time Chamber from Kami's Lookout, she took a deep breath as she began to mentally picture Whis.

Her thoughts were interrupted by a small hum, "Oh, Paolina... what brings you here today?" The blue-skinned humanoid asks lightly. "I haven't seen you in quite some time, how are you?"

Paolina gives him a small smile and a hug before backing up and bowing a little. "Well... right now my physical body is in a hospital on a different plane so I thought I should visit you and Beerus-sensei..." she explains as they begin walking through a large park-area.

"Ah! I thought as much since I couldn't feel nearly as much energy from you. Do tell, what caused you to be hospitalized this time?"

"Well... I fought someone who had the strength of a god..." Paolina replies with a sheepish smile. "I had a bit of help, but I think my ribs got cracked in several places since I couldn't really feel too much of the pain."

Whis gave a small nod. "I do hope you kept some of those senzu beans with you so that you could make a full recovery..."

"Actually, I'm a little worried that my entire capsule case was destroyed in the fight..."

"Oh, that's definitely something that you should look into, I believe your friend Trunks may be able to help with that though. So why come here?" Whis asked as they both took seats by a pond that hadn't been there a minute ago.

"Well, I wanted something to do while I was recovering, and this was the first thing that came to mind." Paolina answers with a smile as she looks over the pond.

"I'm touched that you would think of Lord Beerus and I first when you wanted someone to speak with, although Lord Beerus is napping at the moment." Whis says as he opens a box of sushi. "Would you like a piece? I've been working on a recipe for sushi as well as watching how your earth-chefs prepare it. I've enjoyed trying to make my own."

The Saiyan gives a broad smile. "I'd be happy to try it Master Whis..." She says as he passes her a pair of chopsticks. "you've certainly gotten better at it since you met Bulma." Paolina chuckles before taking one of the round sushi rolls.

"Yes, I've grown particularly fond of the Makizushi, it's interesting just how appetizing they can be on their own too."

Soon enough he gives her a box of her own as they start savoring his recipe for sushi. "You've gotten really good Master Whis." Paolina complimented as she continued eating box after box of sushi. "Oh... I've been practically starving since I got to Equestria... Not a lot to eat there that doesn't already have the ability to hold a conversation with you."

Whis gives her an interested look. "Really? how so?"

"Well, I noticed that while they do keep pigs, they don't use them for pork or ham, at least... not in Equestria, but I haven't had the chance to..." Their attention directs above the pond as a swirling navy portal opens to let a timid light-navy filly step out as if the air was solid.

"Oh my, who are you?" Whis asks as he sets his sushi off to the side.

The filly winces a little. "We a-... no... I'm sorry... I didn't know where this dream went to and I was a tad curious..." She squeaks as she lands on the bank of the pond.

"Well, it's not quite a dream..." Paolina says as she gets up with her box of sushi, "more like... astral projection to another universe."

The filly straightens up and her eyes widen in curiosity. "Really!? you're in another universe?"

Whis gives out a small chuckle as he stands up. "You are as well little one, you are in the domain of Lord Beerus." The filly's eyes widen as he says that and she starts shaking like a leaf on a windy day.

"B-B-B-Beerus?" She stutters before lighting up her horn. "Oh no..." She whispers before casting a spell to disappear.

"Hm... Well, I can't expect everyone to act like you do around him." Whis muses as he looks to Paolina. "I believe I have kept your attention for quite long enough, I may visit you if I come up with a new recipe." The Saiyan nods and closes her eyes as her senses pick up the feeling of being bandaged once again.

She blinks once as she stares up at the ceiling. "Welp... bored time again..." she sighs.

Celestia let out a hum as she finished hearing her sister's information. "Friends with Lord Beerus... That's definitely not a piece of information I was expecting."

"What are we to do sister? What if Lord Beerus wakes up and attacks Equus...?" Luna asks in a slight panic.

It takes a few seconds before Celestia responds. "Based on the evidence we currently have... there is nothing to say that this Saiyan wishes ill upon our world or she would have joined Nightmare Moon in her conquest..." She purses her lips as Luna winces at the name. "Luna... dear sister, you will have to come to terms with what happened at some point... maybe not now... but we shall talk about it. For now we must focus on the situation at hoof." She looks in the direction of the hospital and listens in on the room despite the celebration going on around the two. "I believe we may be speaking with her soon..."

Luna gives her sister a small nod and looks back over the small lake of ponies surrounding them both. It felt nice for once to have ponies enjoying her being there... or at least not shunning her while giving all of their praises to her sister. She leaned a little closer to her sister, who wrapped a warm wing around her out of reflex as the larger mare began to announce that they would be leaving for Canterlot shortly after finishing their business in Ponyville.

Twilight was sitting in the waiting room reading one of the books she had decided to bring with her to read while she waited, a small set of panniers with some notepaper, quills and several sealed inkpots rested on a nearby seat so that she had something to take her notes on.

Rainbow dash was hovering in the air near an exited Pinkie Pie and much less-enthusiastic Fluttershy. "Did you see how fast she moved!? Obviously not as fast as me, but still... she was getting some impressive speed... you know, for somepony not as fast as me to be impressed by." She seemed to be pouting and excited at the same time, still trying to figure out which one to settle on.

Pinkie was bouncing in her seat. "I can't wait to throw her a party and welcome her to Ponyville! She'll be so happy here!" She squeals as she pulls out a big box just to open the lid and start rummaging through it, tossing out fireworks... streamers... bags of balloons... at least, until one of the nurse's aides cleared her throat near the energetic pink pony.

"Miss Pie, how many times have we told you to keep that box out of this facility? there are various patients who could get hurt if even one of the items in there gets put in the wrong place." The mint-green earth pony mare says with a small glare, causing the party pony to let out a sheepish giggle as everything was quickly put back and she simply seemed to kick the box to a place she seemed to only refer to as 'off-screen'.

Fluttershy looks over to Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie nervously. "I... I don't want to meet her..." she squeaks just above a whisper.

Pinkie looks at her in confusion. "Why wouldn't you want to talk to the Saiyan who saved our lives?" She asks as she stands next to her shy friend and pulls her into a tight hug. "I mean... without her Queen Meanie would have been the end of our awesometastic adventure..."

"I... I know... but... When she got all mad like that... there's just something about her that I don't feel comfortable near..." Fluttershy responds quietly.

Rarity trots over with an understanding smile. "It's alright if you'd rather not be here Fluttershy, you can go home if you want."

The buttercream pegasus shakes her head. "I don't want... to leave my friends." She says before seeming to take a nervous gulp of air. Not even a few seconds later the doors leading to the waiting room opened up to reveal Princess Celestia and the newly-recovered lunar princess; Luna. Luna has a shy smile as she hovers close to Celestia as if the larger mare were her mother.

Twilight almost immediately closes her book, after putting a proper bookmark in of course, and leaps up to greet her mentor. "Hello Princess!" She gives her mentor a wide smile before gesturing to her note-taking supplies. "I didn't know how much I would need so I brought a few notebooks and plenty of ink!"

Celestia gives a warm chuckle. "that's good Twilight, you all may have much to learn from this Saiyan in particular." Twilight gives her an odd look.

"Actually Princess... What is a Saiyan... I heard you and..." She hesitates as she notices Luna. After the filly bites her lip and rolls her hoof in a 'go on' motion she continues. "...Nightmare moon said that name. What is a Saiyan?"

Celestia actually lets her smile fall a little. "Twilight... What would you do if I let you know that not only are we not alone in the universe, but there are teeming millions of species that have capabilities far removed from our own?"

Twilight paused as she began to think over her mentor's question, she also became aware that they had the attention of every pony in the room. After a few quiet seconds she finally looks back up at her mentor with a small smile. "I'd say that I'd have to grab more notepaper..." The answer brought the ancient diarch's smile back nearly in double force.

"That's an exceptional answer my Faithful Student, While my sister and I are familiar with the Saiyan race, I believe that the one in the hospital room would rather explain on her own so that nopony tarnished her reputation before she had the chance to." Celestia looked over to one of the nurses who just entered the room. "How long until she is awake?"

The mint mare who had spoken to Pinkie suddenly felt herself tripping over her words a little. "She's actually... uh... she's been awake for the past ten minutes..."

The white alicorn nodded with a small smile. "my, how quickly they can recover from near-death..." Aside from Luna all of the ponies in the room give her a confused look before she raises a hoof to preemptively stop any questions. "You'll be able to see for yourselves soon enough." She looks over to the nurse. "May we see her?" she asks gently before the nurse gives her a nod and gestures for them all to follow her. The walk to the Saiyan's recovery room was pretty quiet, only the sound of hooves clicking on tile could be heard which caused the nurse to cast a few nervous glances back at Pinkie Pie who simply waved happily at her each time. The nurse pauses a little as she gets to the patient's room before opening the door.

"She's right in here, do try to keep the noise to a dull roar and for the love of the sun Pinkie don't set off any fireworks like you did last time." Pinkie gives the nurse a big smile before bouncing into the room.

"Pinkie... why would you use fireworks in a hospital?" Twilight asked her as she seemed stunned by the idea.

Pinkie rolled her eyes in response. "It wasn't a big firework, just something that made pretty lights for one of the foals, he even liked it too... until it caught my mane on fire, then he was worried." She shrugged before Celestia slid the curtain back to reveal the heavily bandaged form of their hero. "Oh wow..." Pinkie says in amazement. "...you don't look like you should be awake if you got hurt this badly." She takes a few curious steps around the bed as the Saiyan gives a chuckle.

"Well, I am part of a race that's got a nasty habit of not dying when someone tries to kill us." Paolina explains with a small smile before noticing the ki from the violet unicorn pick up a pad of paper, quill and ink so that she could start writing. "Judging by all that paper... I'm guessing I have quite a few questions to answer..." Twilight gives her a wide smile and readies her paper as Paolina lets out a small sigh. "Alright, but one question at a time, though you're not going to hog them all..." That caused Twilight to deflate a little and got a few chuckles out of Applejack and Rainbow Dash, though the violet unicorn quickly smirked as she realized that her new friends could still ask questions that she could take notes on. Paolina lets out another small breath before looking over the group. "Alright, who wants the first question?" She asks, making Twilight smile and raise her hoof. "...shouldn't have expected otherwise..." The Saiyan mumbles before smiling at the unicorn. "Alrighty then, you first Twilight."

Twilight hesitates for a few seconds, trying to remember when she had told the Saiyan her name, before she shakes her head and smiles. "What is a Saiyan?"

"Oh wow... first time I've actually had to explain this one..." Paolina says with slight surprise. "Quick question on my end first then; are any of you familiar with the theory that multiple universes exist?" It got a few nods from Celestia, Luna and Twilight, although the other five seemed lost. "Okay... small science lesson first then..." She smiled as Rainbow Dash gave out a sigh. "Don't worry, it should be easy enough for even you to understand." Paolina chuckled.

It took a few seconds before Rainbow Dash shot back into the air. "Did you just call me stupid?" the cyan mare accused.

The Saiyan simply smiles. "Nope, I only said it would be easy to understand, and now that I have your attention the lesson can begin." She shifted a little on the bed to get more comfortable. "Think of the timeline of the world like a tree... The main timeline is the trunk and every time you have a choice to make a new branch is created... it's the exact same world, except for that one choice."

Pinkie let out a small gasp. "Oh! So, whenever you make a choice you make a new world?"

Paolina gave her a nod. "Yep... and it's my job, along with several others to help make sure the regular timeline works as it should..."

"But... if you work with time stuff like that... why are you still here?" Pinkie asked.

"Well... I don't know..."

A new voice answered them. "I can actually help explain that one..." Trunks said as he pulled back one of the curtains.

Author's Note

Well... this time I don't know what to put in the author's notes, so for now, I'll just say leave any questions you have in the comments and I'd be happy to get to them!