Entry: Saturday, August 1st, 2015

The impossible happened this morning.

We had a visitor.

We specifically calibrated the portals not to allow anything not originally from this side to cross.

We heavily guard all of our portals.

Yet, we still had a visitor.

A visitor that completely bypassed all of our guards, both in the Array and on the other side of each portal.

A visitor from a world whose portal is one-way.

A visitor that nopony noticed walking through town, yet she still rang my doorbell this morning.

A visitor unaffected by the transformation effect between our world and the one she came from.

A visitor from World 3DB.

A visitor that asked for Agent Sweetie Drops’ help, by name, to my face. With a look in her eyes that told me instantly that she knew she was speaking to Agent Sweetie Drops.

A visitor that picked the perfect time to arrive and make that request, since Lyra had just vanished into the bathroom.

A visitor that gave me a handful of papers.

A visitor that didn’t wait for an answer, simply disappeared once I had accepted the papers.

When I asked her how she got here, she said the rules are different for beings composed of magic.

When Discord arrived seconds after she left, he said he’d felt the signature of a trauma avatar- and the fury burning in his eyes was quite unusual as he asked if I knew where it had come from.

I could only give him the world designation.

She had introduced herself, after all.

Bonbon opened the front door. “Who is-?”

“Hi. I’m from world 3DB, and I need Sweetie Drops’ help.”

Bonbon stared at the tiny human girl for a couple seconds, and the stack of papers she was holding out. “H-How?”

“The rules are different for beings composed of magic, but I still need Sweetie Drops’ help.”

She accepted the papers and glanced at them- looked like legal records of some kind- but when she looked back up again, the girl was gone.

Continued: Saturday, August 1, 2015

In other news, today is the day that we finally got to meet the Princess that has been making Celestia look like an idiot by not telling her about the Royal Orders she’s been writing.

When I reached the portal array to check the security after our visitor, she was there. Princess Luna, in all her glory- and combat armor. Apparently, she detected the apparition as well, but was too far away to pin down the exact location or origin, beyond that it was from another world. She said Discord was right to call her a Trauma Avatar, since they spawned out of the hearts of badly abused children with the sole purpose of protecting those children, but most worlds called them Guardian Angels because they were fierce protectors, and often extremely deadly.

That one would ask for help- much less from the Agency- had her flying into a barely-suppressed rage. Once she read the papers I had brought- which turned out to be details on the legal system that our Agents hadn’t been able to gather- her rage cooled, but she declared war.

It visibly took all of her willpower to keep from throwing herself through the portal immediately to go perform some punishment when I told her which world the girl said she was from.

She then told me that it wasn’t going to be a fighting war, likely, but a legal war. These papers came from four or five different governments, and detailed a large number of problems with the legal systems of the same… which apparently had certain children abandoned to highly abusive guardians.

She also told me that it is incredibly rare for these Trauma Avatars to seek assistance at all, even if the needed protection was political in nature- and even rarer for them to seek to protect someone other than the one they spawned from, or to seek to change a harmful law.

Add that to the fact that this particular avatar was so powerful Luna had felt it from Cloudsdale, and we have to work very carefully in that world. There is a threat there capable of threatening an utterly fearless Trauma Avatar that was more powerful than any hundred Palace Mages- more powerful even than Celestia Herself, though Luna might still have the edge over the Avatar in absolute power levels.

The thought is terrifying.

I have called another fifteen percent of Reserve Agents back to active duty today, just over doubling the Worldgate Array staff roster. Most of these additions will be focused on World 3DB, a few going through and the rest helping manage the operation. We cannot afford a mistake.

Twilight hasn’t arrived yet today- it’s still just past seven in the morning. Won’t she be surprised?

Author's Note

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