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[helpdesk_hero]

[Oh. That's all a lot to process. But then he's laughing. A lot. This is so hilarious.]

Wow, you realize you just got that much more like my ex? Like, the whole static and electrocuting thing. I can't even count the number of times Nori shocked me. Though I imagine you have a bit more control than she does.

[thunderingcourage]

[Ok, he was laughing. That was a good sign, right? It meant that he wasn't upset or too shocked, or freaking out. When he mentioned that she reminded him of his ex she blushed a little. Well, Makoto had been attracted to him, and if she had been older he might have had two exes with electrical powers. Luckily she had Atsushi, so it wasn't something to worry about.]

Most of the time, the only time I can't really control it is when I get hurt. It's like it's trying to protect me, but is pretty inconvenient when someone is trying to dress a wound and it shocks them.

[helpdesk_hero]

[A very good sign.]

Well, if you need someone to patch you up when that happens, start with me. I'm experienced with patching up someone who is shocking me. I know how to handle it.

[thunderingcourage]

I'll keep that in mind. Usually it's not a problem, but we don't really heal quite as quickly as we normally would.

[She'd found that out after she'd had the experience with the tiger clawing a gash into her side.]

You're taking this a lot better than most people do.

[helpdesk_hero]

[Really? Was he? David smiled at her, bemused.]

Makoto? I've known a LOT of aliens, magic users, and secret super heroes. Some who started younger than you are now. This is a surprise, but not enough to shake me.

[thunderingcourage]

Good, because I really didn't want it to change our friendship. I mean I'm still the same person that I've always been, but that's why I kind of vanished for a bit. And why when things are bad I kind of get really busy. As guardians, we do everything we can to help anyone in trouble.

[She felt really relieved now. And honestly, he had taken the best of anyone she'd spoken to, no questions about why she waited until now, no freaking out about her having been the princess of Jupiter or a ton of questions about aliens or about the others.]

[helpdesk_hero]

[Why would this change their friendship? But really, she's mostly been spared the questions because the princess of Jupiter really isn't a lot of a problem for him when one of his best friends is an alien Emperor and the brother of the guy he's dating is possibly going to become the guy who created life on Earth back home. Soooo, this isn't so much.]

There is more than one of you here? I'm glad you have a team.

[thunderingcourage]

Yes, there's Sailor Moon, Mars, and Venus here as well. There were others too, but they've already gone home.

[Really she kind of missed Ami though and wished that Mercury were here as well. Then the ground could be together again.]

And together we're unstoppable.

[helpdesk_hero]

Would it... be correct to presume that whatever it is that protected you from my notice protects them as well?

[He hasn't even CONSIDERED, not in the slightest, of thinking of Minako or Usagi or Rei as the other Sailor Soldiers, so clearly it did. He wouldn't even now put the connection to her friends from her world to that. It's good magic, very good for safety.]

[thunderingcourage]

[Makoto nodded.]

Yeah, it protects all of us. Though sometimes we kind of forget and talk about stuff we shouldn't out loud or in public.

[She'd been found out once before because one of their classmates overheard Usagi, Mamoru, and Luna.]

[helpdesk_hero]

You're lucky. Secret identities are hard to keep in my world.

[thunderingcourage]

Well, some of the costumes that I saw in your yearbook didn't look like they did much to help. I just figured that there was another trick to it or something.

[helpdesk_hero]

Mutants can't hide who we are quite so easily. So it didn't matter there.

[thunderingcourage]

In all honesty, it hasn't helped very much actually. We still wind up being attacked all the time even when they don't know it's us. It's like they just happen to always show up at our school or somewhere near by.

[helpdesk_hero]

Yeah, that happens.

[He rises and heads for the kitchen. He wanted to whip up something, because talk just made him think of that.]

My school had that happen a lot.