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Blooming Talent - Griffin Productions



Apple Bloom wants to become a great martial artist. There is only one being in the entire multiverse who can teach her the best: Son Goku. (Dragonball/MLP Crossover)

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The Weak and the Strong

"Once the saibamen finish searching this structure for any remaining Dragon Balls, I shall take my leave." The hooded figure stated to himself. "It should not take long, now. They've just about covered the whole area."

He turned to look at the frozen Vegeta, a look of surprise paused on the saiyan prince's face through the clear sheet of ki infused ice.

"It's a shame you showed up, Prince Vegeta." He said to the ice sculpture that was once Vegeta. "Perhaps next time, you won't stick your nose in Izotz's business."

Izotz hummed to himself as he walked away from Vegeta; he twirled the two-star ball between his boney fingers as if it were a yoyo end. As he started to exit the hallway that led to where the ball had been, his sensed an incoming force.

He turned to the direction he had sensed it coming from and, concentrating, counted one average power level, one higher power level, two massive ones, and--

"What?!" Izotz exclaimed loudly, a bit of shock in his otherwise cool and collected voice.

The two massive power levels he recognized, and he was not too concerned with the other two; but that last power level...

His mission had only been to retrieve the Dragon Balls that were in the area, but he was intrigued to find out who this incredible power that eclipsed even Goku's belonged to. He was also fearful, for the first time in a long time, about meeting this fighter face-to-face. He needed to prepare.

"Saibamen!" He commanded, echoing his voice off the chambers like a natural amplifier. "Converge! We have company coming."

* * *

"It's mighty cold in here.." Apple Bloom muttered out between chattering teeth.

The group had blasted their way in, and had experienced the self-repairing ice surrounding the building. Walking in, it was deathly silent save for a few ice chunks falling from precipices higher up on the floors. The darkness of the place was also thick, though a little bit of light turned bluish by the ice still shined through the frozen windows.

Goten, noticing Apple Bloom's shivering, kneeled down to pick her up like an oversized puppy dog; the act in itself making her blush with both embarrassment and desire. He smiled at her, pulling some wool socks from his pack and placing the on her hooves. This only made her blush harder. Back in Equestria, if a pony wore socks, it was not something for other ponies to see. The reason was because it was something some ponies did to..."assist" in their sexual excitement. It was kind of a fetish thing, in other words. Apple Bloom had a sock fetish.

"That feel better?" he asked, oblivious to her slight distress.

"Uh...eeyup.." She tucked her tail between her hind legs, hoping he hadn't noticed just how much better she felt. One thing was for sure; she wasn't cold anymore.

He placed her back down on her hooves, and instantly, she felt some of the freeze come back into her body even through the wool; but it wasn't enough to make her start shivering again.

The group continued on, and after a few minutes of wandering, Gohan motioned everyone to stop and listen.

Apple Bloom was the next to hear it; a sound like scratching within the walls of the place. It could've been mice or rats, but the closer the sounds got, the much more they sounded too heavy to be rodents. Then they heard the high-pitched chattering.

Gohan remembered that sound. "Incoming!"

Just as he shouted the warning, a whole squad of saibamen burst forth from the frozen walls like great white sharks jumping from the ocean to swallow their prey.

Gohan reacted first, punching one in it's ugly green face so hard, it's jaw dislocated as it spun away shrieking; he kicked at another as it tried to go for his legs.

Goten had blasted two of the monsters dead with powerful ki attacks, but four more seemed to appear to replace them, and they jumped atop the young half-saiyan; tackling him to the frozen ground.

"Goten!" Apple Bloom cried out.

She leapt forward and spin kicked one of the little green men off her crush and into an ice covered dumbwaiter, which shattered open and dropped quickly with the small victim inside. Why this museum needed a dumbwaiter, she wasn't sure, but she was plum happy it did.

She wasn't so happy when the others turned their attention to her, sharp teeth ready to literally take a bite out of her. They would never get the chance as Goten had recovered from his fall, and blasted them away with a few quick shots.

"Everyone hold on!" Goku shouted.

He took a spread legged position, crossing his arms over his torso in an X formation. He then rapidly shot his arms outward and shouted.

The result was an air blast of such force it not only blew away the nearby saibamen, but shattered most of the ice covering the room as well.

Trunks was surrounded by several of the giggling beasts as the others closed in to assist. But before they could, Trunks already blown them all away with a massive pressure blast; he hadn't even moved his body except to nod slightly.

As the saibamen hit the walls an exhibits, their corpses giving heavy thuds, the ice covering the entire chamber fell letting much sunlight in; the crash of the massive blocks of ice on the marble floor was deafening. Trunks merely walked away from the scene, hands in the pockets of his jacket.

Once the cacophony of glacier breaking ceased, Apple Bloom, as well as the others, stared at Trunks in disbelief. The purple-haired half-saiyan looked them back, a completely straight face.

"What?" He asked.

"What?!" Goten repeated loudly. "When did you learn that?! How did you even do it?!"

Trunks just shrugged again, nonchalantly. "I trained and got stronger. What you can't do that?"

"Wow, Trunks..." Goku said. "I had no idea Vegeta was such a great teacher.."

Apple Bloom didn't believe it. No, she literally didn't believe it. There was no way that was the truth at all. She had been the sibling of the Element of Honesty, and being around someone like that for that long gave her a pretty good idea of when others were fibbing. Trunks was fibbing.

She noticed Goten was glaring at Trunks, his fists shaking. "There's no way...last time we trained together, you were not that strong! I was...I was able to beat you so many times!"

"Did you really think I was going all out against you, Goten?" Trunks retorted, almost no emotion in the question.

"Well...why wouldn't you?" Goten answered with another question. "I gave you everything I had in our training sessions...you mean to tell me you've been holding back against me all these years?"

Trunks huffed with a smirk. "You're smarter than you look Goten."

Goten's face fell a little at the insult thrown at him by the one he had called his best friend. Apple Bloom instantly pointed a hoof at Trunks after seeing this and shouted at the purple-haired saiyan.

"Hey! What are you being such a brute for?!" She yelled out, her eyes focused on him intently.

"Goten obviously wants me to stop taking things easy on him, so why not start now?"

"He wanted you to not take it easy on him from the beginning from the looks of it!" Apple Bloom said back. "If you're tryin' to be the best, why hold back against each other? Why hold back against Goten?"

"Yeah, Trunks.." Goten added, wanting to know. "Why?"

Trunks looked Goten in the eyes and without changing expression said "Because you were always too weak."

That statement hit poor Goten hard. He dropped his fists, and his shoulders slumped. He stared dumbfounded at Trunks; the person he thought could understand him more than anyone; the person who had been his best friend from birth; the one who was now telling him he was inferior.

Seeing Goten about to break down sent Apple Bloom into a rage. She leaped towards Trunks, a hoof up and ready to buck his teeth out of his stupid skull.

"You big, dumb--!"

She was caught and stopped by Gohan. The half-saiyan plopped her back on the ground and looked all three of the younger members of the group in the eyes at least once.

"If you guys haven't noticed, we're in a bit of a situation here!" He said. "The last thing we need to do is fight amongst ourselves! If you have differences, settle them later!"

He turned to Trunks, his face showing barely controlled anger. "Oh, and Trunks. Don't think I'm gonna forget what you just said to my little brother."

Trunks snorted, and turned around to walk into the darker areas of the chamber, resuming the search for Vegeta and the Dragon Ball as if nothing had happened.

Apple Bloom, once calmed down enough, put a hoof over the teary eyed Goten. It was hurting her heart to see him feeling so betrayed. She nuzzled against his chin with her head, and he slowly pet her back in return. After that little moment, they started up the search together.

Above them, hanging from the ice-made rafters was Izotz.

Using the saibamen to figure out which of them had the unbelievably high power level had worked, to an extent.

"She didn't show her full power." He mused. "That leads me to believe she has no idea it's inside her...either that, or she's conserving energy. Further experimentation is needed before I can engage."

With that, he pulled himself upright, and slid over the frozen beams to his next location, a fresh batch of his next wave of trouble ready in his hand.

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