After their visitors returned to the past, Trunks, Ranch, and Bulma decided that it was best to escort Dende to the lookout, which was thankfully still intact. There they were greeted by Mr. Popo, who was delighted to have another guardian after so many years of solitude. At first Dende offered to make them a new set, but since that would've taken a hundred days, he said that he could simply restore the old ones with the addition of extra wishes. Using the original sculpture Dende stood over it with his hands out and began to chant in his language. The sculpture glowed, and then a bright beam of light shot out of it into the sky. The beam, instead of scattering to go in different directions across the globe, kept on going as it flew off in a single direction.
Inside of a chilly room within a rundown building the elderly Pilaf Gang was just trying to get through another day. The three were huddled up underneath some blankets, trying to stay warm, when all of a sudden they were illuminated by a beam of light that traveled through the building and into the floor. They all looked at each other in shock before they slowly approached the spot where the light had gone. Shu tentatively removed the floorboards to reveal the hiding spot, as Mai and Pilaf looked on in hope and wonder. Could it be? After all these years? Shu took out a sack and opened it in front of them to reveal the glowing set of newly restored Dragon Balls.
Back at the lookout, Bulma took out her old Dragon Radar and said, "Alright, let's see…" She zoomed out some and then received a shock. "What the hell? The Dragon Balls are already gathered!"
"What!" Ranch and Trunks exclaimed, looking over her shoulder.
"I don't know how but it doesn't matter." Bulma shoved the radar in Trunks' hands. "Go! If someone has them and uses those wishes we'll have to wait a year to get Shenron to fix everything!"
"Right, we're on it," Trunks said.
"Let's go!" Ranch said.
They both powered up and took to the sky at top speed in the direction that saw the beam go, following the radar in the process.
"Finally," wheezed Pilaf, taking the sack and carrying it outside into the woods with Mai and Shu right behind him, suddenly filled vigor for the first time in so many years. When they reached a clearing the Dragon Balls were laid out on the ground, glowing as if anticipating a summoning.
Before calling Shenron, Pilaf turned around to face Mai and Shu, and began to boast, "At last! Thirty years ago our ambitions were thwarted when the Dragon Balls suddenly turned to stone before we could make a wish. But we never gave up and kept the balls in the hope that one day our patience would be rewarded. And now, decades later, our time has finally arrived!" Shu and Mai began to tear up during his speech, unable to believe that the time they had spent waiting wouldn't be in vain.
Pilaf turned back to the Dragon Balls, and raised his hands over them and spoke the words to awaken the dragon. The sky darkened and out of the Dragon Balls a burst of light erupted that formed into Shenron. "I am the eternal dragon," announced Shenron in his booming voice. "Speak now your wish and it shall come to pass."
"Mighty Dragon!" shouted Pilaf, arms raised towards the dragon. "I beseech you, grant our wish! Return us to the prime of our youth!"
Eyes glowing, Shenron proclaimed, "Your wish has been granted." Immediately the aches and pains of old age began to recede, their bodies became less wrinkled and shriveled, their backs became less hunched, and they could feel themselves becoming stronger and more vigorous by the second. When they reached apex adulthood, they began to celebrate, but then they noticed that they were continuing to regress. They got to their teens, and only stopped when they were little more than children, their clothes now ill-fitting.
"What's going on?" Pilaf said in horror, looking down and touching his body. "This is too much!"
Shu thought about the wording of the wish, and reasoned, "Well, the wish was for us to go back to our prime. Maybe this is it."
"You mean we all just happened to have peaked when we were kids?" Mai asked, dejectedly. "Oh man, that's depressing."
They then noticed that the dragon didn't disappear. "What is your next wish?" asked Shenron in his booming voice.
Astonished, Pilaf asked, "We get more than one?"
"That is correct. The new guardian upgraded me," Shenron informed them. "I can grant three wishes now, unless a particular one, such as multiple resurrections, requires more power, in which case it'd use more than one."
Pilaf stopped and thought about it. The possibilities! Maybe they could—
"Hey, what's that?" asked Mai, pointing at the sky. The three looked up to see two dots in the sky that were quickly getting bigger as they rapidly approached them. Ranch and Trunks had seen the Dragon from afar, panicked, and pushed themselves to go even faster.
"Run!" Shu cried, bundling up his clothes and moving faster than he's done in years. "Guys that can fly have only been bad news!"
"Wait, we have the dragon!" Pilaf shouted. But fear took hold of Mai so she had followed Shu, and took refuge with him behind a tree. Pilaf looked from his minions, to the dragon, to the incoming threat, and back. Growling in frustration, Pilaf hustled over to where the two were hiding. The three hid together and poked their heads out to see what was happening.
"Hey," Shu said quietly, as Trunks and Ranch landed nearby. "Do those two look sort of familiar?" He was quickly hushed by Mai and Pilaf.
"Where are they?" Trunks asked.
"Who cares? We need to make the wish," Ranch said.
"Right." Trunks faced the dragon and raised his arms. "Shenron, we wish for all the death and destruction caused by the two Zamasus to be undone!"
Shenron's eyes glowed and all around the world ruined structures were rebuilt and those that died were brought back to life. "Your wish has been granted." And Shenron, having used up two wishes to grant that one, disappeared back into the balls, which rose up into the air and scattered.
"Damn, so it all got fixed just like that?" Ranch asked in amazement with a big grin as the sky cleared back up. "We've got to start being careful or else suddenly having Dragon Balls might make us sloppy!"
Trunks chuckled. "You may have a point." Then he started looking around curiously. "So…that used up two wishes. What was the first wish and who made it?"
Ranch just shrugged. "Does it matter? We got the only wish we care about."
"I suppose," he agreed, as they both flew off. "Plus we should be there for when the kids get back."
The Pilaf Gang left their hiding spot and looked up at the two as they flew away.
"Just great," Pilaf complained. "We summon the dragon after all this time, find out we get more than one wish, and our last ones get stolen."
"Well at least we don't need to worry about suddenly croaking anytime soon," Shu reasoned, looking over his youthful body again.
Mai suggested, "Yeah, let's try to enjoy the fact that we're old anymore."
"I know, let's try eating a whole bunch of junk food!" Shu said excitedly. "Our crappy digestion hasn't been able to handle something like that in years!"
"Sounds fun!"
The two of them suddenly ran off, leaving Pilaf to go after them as he yelled, "Wait, we need to at least find some appropriately fitting clothes first!" As the Pilaf Gang went off to re-experience youth, and Trunks and Ranch awaited the return of their children, out in the cosmos the gods had started to move.
Beerus arrived at the Sacred Planet of the Kai with Whis. "Alright, explain what the hell happened!" he immediately and angrily asked the Supreme Kai, who had anticipated their arrival. "How could you let yourself get killed when you know the consequences?"
"I don't know. One moment I get overpowered by someone dressed in all black, and the next I'm brought back," said Supreme Kai uneasily.
"That's another thing!" Beerus continued yelling, as Whis looked into his staff. "How is it possible that we were brought back?"
"How could I know—?"
"I believe I have the answer," Whis suddenly said with a pleasant smile.
"You do? How?" Beerus demanded.
From his staff he projected an image of a message he had received years before. "Some years ago my counterpart from an alternate reality sent me this. These are instructions advising me to go to the neutral space between the Sixth and Seventh Universes, where I would find wish orbs."
"Hold on, are those the same wish orbs that Champa kept on accusing me of stealing? It was you?" he asked, annoyed.
"That's correct. Anyway, I was to disguise them with a layer of crust, take them near the orbit of a certain planet, and leave instructions with the inhabitants for someone named Bulma on how to use them to wish the gods back."
Irritably, Beerus asked, "Why didn't you tell me all this before? If we were warned beforehand we could have prevented all this from happening in the first place!"
"Because that would've just created an entirely new and unnecessary timeline," said Whis smartly. "I figured it'd be best to just see how all this plays out."
"Wait—Bulma?" Supreme Kai remembered, shocked as he stared at the message. "I know who that is!"
"You're joking!"
"No, I'm not," he said. "She's from Earth. Her son and his wife once helped me prevent Majin Buu's resurrection!"
Beerus read the message which forewarned of the individual from the Tenth Universe responsible for what happened. "Did they also defeat Gowasu's apprentice…this…" Beerus stared at the name. "…Zamasu?"
"I'm not sure, we'd have to ask them ourselves," said Whis.
"Very well," Beerus said in thought. "For now I've got a feeling that all the gods are going to eventually figure out their involvement, and congregate at the Tenth Universe to look for answers. We will as well, but we should keep the message and this 'Bulma' to ourselves for now."
Supreme Kai nodded. "I agree. We need to get more information before anything else."
"It's decided. Let's go."
The gathering of the gods in the Tenth Universe went about as expected. Someone from each universe had recognized Zamasu's ki, which led them to Gowasu, who was being hounded for some sort of explanation. But all he could tell them was that the man in black had simply done away with him as well, and that his apprentice must have gone rogue. Beerus, Whis, and Supreme Kai kept silent about how the Seventh Universe was involved, and they and all the rest of the gods eventually agreed to return to their respective universes to investigate further and get everything in order.
Beerus scoffed as they traveled back to their universe. "As angry as everyone is, I know for a fact that they'll eventually accept this and just be glad they were brought back. We, however, are going to Earth for more answers."