Looking around, I noticed we seemed to be on a planet in the middle of the forest, in the distance I could even see groups of Namekians sitting together while eyeing my giant body, though I ignored them when I saw Trunks walk closer to me.
Trunks-"You good Sage?"
Sage-"Depends on your definition of good, if having almost all of your bones broken is good, then yeah, I'm good, what do you think Trunks!? someone reach into my pockets, I should still have a couple of Senzu beans left."
Trunks then quickly headed toward my giant pants and checked each pocket before eventually grabbing the remaining Senzu beans, he then floated over to above my mouth and dropped them in. Swallowing them, I immediately am hit with a wave of pleasure as I feel my exhaustion wash away while my body quickly heals itself in no time.
Once I was fully healed, I stood up and started reverting back to my base which only took a couple of seconds, and by then I could more accurately tell how much of a Zenkai boost I received from fighting Cumber.
Sage-'Hehe, amazing, I'm far stronger than I previously was, I even bet I could properly give Cumber a fight now.'
However, when I thought of Cumber, I noticed his ki had disappeared, which is weird since it would be impossible for me to not sense someone as powerful as him no matter where I am in the universe.
Sage-"What happened to cumber?"
XGoku-"Don't know, his ki just disappeared directly after we teleported you to safety."
Vegeta-"Think that Towa women transported him somewhere else once he defeated Sage?"
Trunk-"It's likely, but then again we will have to deal with him later, right now we need to find Towa, and speaking of finding Towa, Chronoa is calling."
We all watched how Trunks pulled a portable holographic phone out of his pocket before turning it on, once it was on, a holographic image of Chronoa appeared who seemed to be panicking.
Trunks-"Ms. Chronoa what seems to be the problem?"
Chronoa-"I made a mistake by sending you guys here and fell right into Towa's trap, her interference in releasing Moro was merely just a distraction to keep all of the strongest fighters preoccupied!"
Sage-"Mind explaining it in more detail?"
Chronoa-"The process of releasing Moro was meant to momentarily divert the attention from her onto Moro, and it seemed she had sent Cumber just in case Moro was quickly defeated. But the point is while you 6 were together, she went around to each universe and stole all of the time rings!"
Now what she said shocked us, but none of us really knew how bad this was so we were relatively calm about it.
XVegeta-"So how is this bad?"
Chronoa-"If Towa's ultimate plan is to unseal Demigra from the crack of time, then in order to do that she will need a vast amount of space-time energy, far more than she is capable of harnessing on her own. So by stealing all of the Supreme Kai time rings, she will use all the space-time energy those artifacts contain to break the barrier sealing Demigra!"
Sage-'Yep, that's quite bad, but wait a second.'
Sage-"If you knew this why didn't you say anything till now?"
When I said that everyone except trunks looked at her suspiciously though all we got in return was a deadpan expression.
Chronoa-"That's the point, I didn't know until just a few minutes ago, I thought she already had enough space-time energy so that's why I never bothered with informing anyone as I felt it would just be useless information, but when I found out she stole all of the time rings it wasn't too hard to come to that conclusion, considering why else would she need that many time rings."
Trunks-"So then how can we stop Towa from unsealing Demigra now?"
Chronoa-"We can't track her fast enough as she always manages to disappear before we arrive at her location, but we do know that Towa will have to visit the crack of time, so the best bet would be to bring all of our fighters and wait there while also setting up as many traps as possible."
It didn't sound like the best plan, but it seemed like the best option we currently had.
Vegeta-"Since Towa has gathered all of the time rings, how long do you think it would take her to harness all of the space-time energy?"
Chronoa-"I can't accurately guess that as I've never personally confronted her, but considering she is extremely gifted when it comes to space and time magic, I'd say 3 months at the quickest."
Sage-"So then we have 3 months to train and prepare ourselves for Towa's arrival."
Goku-"That's not long or short, guess it's better than nothing."
Chronoa-"Well, that's all I have to say, just make sure you 6 prepare because if we lose and Demigra is released, the chances of us defeating him before he destroys the time vault is 0."
With that last warning, Chronoa ends the call while we all stand there and ponder about the future, though it didn't last for long as we still have some things to do.
Trunks-"Well, I plan on returning back to Toki Toki city, what about everyone else?"
XVegeta-"Kakarot and I will be returning back to our timeline, it's been a while since we've left."
XGoku-"Yeah, I bet Bulma and Chi-chi are going to be quite upset at us for suddenly leaving unannounced, especially for so long as well."
Vegeta-"We'll help capture the rest of the escaped prisoners before continuing our training."
Goku-"But I got to return the Namekians to their home first."
Sage-"I'll probably just return and do some training as well, don't have anything important I need to deal with currently."
We then went along with our plans, XKakarot, XVegeta, and Trunks returned to the spaceship as they headed back to Toki Toki City, Kakarot started transporting the Namekians back to Namek while Vegeta just waited as he leaned against a tree and I ultimately decided to go and visit 21 to tell her about the bad news.
Taking out a small button 21 gave me that's supposed to teleport me to her personal dimension when I use it, once I pressed it the scenery immediately changed from a forest to a vast sky with several floating marbles in the sky.
Sage-'To be honest, I'm surprised It wasn't some trap she set up for me.'
Putting away the button, I flew over to where I sensed 21's ki, and when I arrived I found her meditating which is a rare sight for me to see as she's usually tinkering around in her lab.
21-"What do you want Sage?"