It is the sunlight that wakes her. Her eyes snap open and the dim remains of a headache fade from her skull. Did I doze off? She doesn't remember being tired. The subway car continues to rattle along, and the brief glimpse of day vanishes as they race back underground.
"Oh the fat pink thing?" Two schoolgirls stand by the train car's door, arms wrapped around handrails, heads dipped together in conversation.
"Mmmhmm," the second girl says. "I heard about it online. Apparently hes called Buu and he lives with Mr Satan. Hes been winning a lot of fights lately."
"Geez, that's scary."
"Well he did beat Spoavich last week"
The first girl frowns, "But, can that really happen to someone? I mean, I know Mr Satan is the world champ but you cant just become great suddenly, right?"
The second replies with a shrug and a giggle. "Who knows?"
Bulla's attention drifts away. They weren't talking about anything, not really. Just rumors and nonsense. She doesn't need to pay attention. She doesn't need to care. She had to learn this distinction from her Father. Trunks said it was the only way to keep herself sane. Know what you need to learn, and then learn it. Nothing else matters. She keeps her eyes on the floor for the rest of the trip.
The train reaches a subsidiary station, and Bulla steps off and mixes with the people on the platform. Her shoulders slump forward, her hands are shoved deep in her pockets, her eyes are fixed on the ground. She walks.
She walks.
Everything stops.
Everything.
Bulla looks up and around. All the people, all the cars, even the clouds above are frozen in standstill. Nothing moves and nothing makes a sound.
Except, that isn't quite true. Across the intersection, mixed within the throng of frozen people, above and beyond the buildings crackles a pillar of blue light.
What the hell is that? What's happening? Bulla takes a step away, and the sky goes dark, " Mom must be summoning Shenron" Bulla deduces. However she quickly realises somethings wrong when a burst of purple smoke like energy rockets into the sky, instead of the golden light Shenron normally gives off.
" This is not good " Bulla says as she runs off " Better get Pan, shes gonna want to see this "