Getting out of the time machine, we looked around and only found barren lands with destroyed and collapsed buildings that used to be situated in a city, now all you can see is rubble and sand in the distance.
Vegeta-"That copycat did a number on Earth."
Trunks-"Well he has been terrorizing Earth for a little over a year father."
Vegeta-"That's why he is just a copycat."
Goku-"So where's that Black guy?"
Trunks-"We should return to mothers place first, and see how she's doing."
Although Kakarot wanted to find Goku Black for a battle, Vegeta forced him to listen to Trunks and not do something stupid, once they turned the time machine into a capsule they all started following Trunks who was flying in the direction of where the hideout they've been using ever since Goku Black appeared, but after flying for a while they turned around once they noticed I wasn't with them.
Trunks-"Is something the matter Sage?"
Sage-"No, but you know I can't completely hide my ki, I'm like a beacon to Goku Black with all the ki that's radiating off me, so unless you want your hideout's location to be exposed, I'll go solo. Besides, I didn't come here Goku Black, I have someone else to deal with."
Trunks-"All this time I've been fighting Goku Black and I haven't seen 21 once, It seems she hasn't given up even after you beat her during the Cell games."
Vegeta-"What do you mean Trunks, when Cell happened there were no women who looked like the one that appeared earlier."
Goku-"Yeah, wasn't it just Cell?"
Trunks didn't seem to fully understand what they were talking about, so before he could respond I spoke first.
Sage-"He's talking about when visited my timeline, we've fought many times on Beerus's planet, and haven't you ever been curious how I could so easily read your moves?"
When I said that, I was mainly talking to Vegeta as in this timeline Kakarot is stupid, but Vegeta is still more or less the same in terms of intelligence.
Vegeta-"You, you're from another timeline in universe 7 am I right?"
Goku-"Sage is!? Does that mean you know another me?"
Sage-"Yes, I'm from another timeline, and in that timeline, I'm friends with your counterparts, we've fought together against a couple of different enemies. Though the reason why our Cell game was different, was because someone interfered in our timeline after Trunks had already gone back into the past, meaning this Trunks experienced a different Cell game than you guys did."
By the time I finished speaking it had seemed to clear up some of Vegeta's confusion though Kakarot wasn't even really paying attention, and I didn't care enough to dumb it down to his level so I just ignored him, but this time Trunks seemed more confused now.
Trunks-"Wait, if that's true wouldn't that mean there's another timeline since both father and Sage remember me being there during the battle against Cell?"
I completely overlooked that fact as I'm not one to go too deep into time travel, but what Trunks is saying should be correct, and although I have an inkling of what happened to that timeline as I remember that Kaioshen said there were only 3-time rings, which means that timeline with the second Future Trunks was destroyed.
Sage-"Listen, it doesn't matter as we have more important things to deal with, besides if you're that curious you can check it out after we've fixed your timeline."
Hearing my words, Trunks nods before turning back around and continues flying in the direction he was heading in before, while both Vegeta and Kakarot followed behind. Now that I'm alone, I start flying in the opposite direction of where they were going as I came here to find 21, not fight Goku Black, but here's the problem, I don't know where 21 is.
Sage-'Tsk, where would 21 be? If I can't find her I can always go and try to kill Goku Black as I'm sure she would show herself to stop me again.'
While I was flying looking for any traces of 21, I thought about visiting her birthplace, which would be Dr. Gero's secret lab in the mountain, though I don't know if I can even find that area again with how badly Goku Black has destroyed Earth's landscape. Turning to my left, I start flying in the direction where I believed his lab was, once I arrived at the location, I was lucky enough to notice that the area had received minimal damage though it still took me a couple of minutes before I found Dr. Gero's lab.
Removing the rubble, I headed into the dark lab walking past several different destroyed machines as well as different android parts, when I made it to the back I found an elevator shaft, obviously with no working elevator. Hoping down the elevator shaft, I fell for a little bit before landing on the ground, causing dust to be kicked up everywhere. Once I was out of the elevator shaft, I walked down the hallway leading to a steel vault door that looks surprisingly clean compared to everything else, I was about to grab the door and rip it right off, but before I did, it opened all on its own.
Backing away, I watch as it opens revealing another lab, but this time it wasn't all old and destroyed like the ones I saw upstairs, it looked clean and new. Walking inside, I saw many different machines doing several different things, some of them looked like they were analyzing different body parts, and I couldn't tell you what all the other machines were doing.
Though in the middle of walking I suddenly sensed something behind me, causing me to instantly turn around with my guard up, as something that can get this close to me while evading my senses is quite rare.
Sage-"Android 16?"
Gevo-"I no longer go by that name, Mistress has changed it Gevo. now if you could please follow me so that I may lead you to Mistress."
Android 16, or Gevo looked pretty much the same, he was just wearing different clothes from what I remember but seeing him solves the problem with his disappearance during the Cell games, I should stop calling it the Cell Games considering in my timeline 21 was the real threat, anyway when I see Gevo turn around and start walking away I follow behind him as it seems like 21 knew I would've found this place.
After a few minutes of walking, we arrive in front of a door that Gevo knocked on before it opened, walking inside, I saw 21 sitting down in a chair while watching the fight between Goku Black and Kakarot that had just recently started.
Gevo-"Mistress, Sage has arrived."
After announcing my presence, he turned around and left the room, leaving just me and 21 alone, ignoring how weird all this seems, I walk forward and sit down in the chair next to 21, which seems to have been purposely left there for me.
(Note: For those who don't know, Gevo is android 16's name before he was turned into an android by Dr. Gero.)