"I no longer need the Cube," Hit announced to Champa. "Allow me to go home."

Grimacing angrily, Champa demanded, "What the hell was that?"

"I lost my footing."

Champa put his hand up and produced a ball of energy. "Really funny."

"So it's come to this?" said Hit, preparing himself for a fight with the Destroyer, shocking all his teammates.

"You constantly ignore my orders, and then you easily lose the match," Champa growled, his hand twitching. "You think you'll get home alive?"

Cabba ran up, pleading, "Lord Champa, please wait!"

Champa pointed the ball at Cabba's face. "You too. All of you here have humiliated me!" Frost tried to sneak away, but it was to no avail. "I will destroy each and every one of you!"

Noticing what was happening, Trunks gasped, "Oh no!"

Ranch began, "We have—"

"You will do nothing," ordered Beerus. "Don't stick your noses where they don't belong."

"But this isn't right!" Trunks insisted.

"Hit spared our daughter!" Ranch said, seething.

Continuing with disinterest, Beerus told them, "I commend all of you on your performances, but the match is over." He then gave them a look, saying, "Unless you want to take on a God of Destruction. Try and remember how well that worked out for you the last time."

"Lord Beerus," Whis suddenly said, pointing down at the arena.

"What?" Looking down, Beerus saw that they had new arrivals, and shouted in disbelief, "It can't be!"

"Lord Champa," Vados calmly said in the middle of his ranting.

"What!" He looked down at the figures that appeared down at the ring. "No way!"

Trunks, Ranch, Gohan, and Bulla looked down to see what was causing the commotion. Two tall people were flanking what appeared to be a child. Whoever they were, their presence made both Beerus and Champa lose their nerve and sweat profusely.

"LORD ZENO!" both Champa and Beerus cried together.

Ranch felt her stomach constrict. "Trunks…your past mom's notes…"

Trunks thought back, and then he remembered. "On no…"

"Who's the kid?" asked Gohan.

"He looks funny," commented Bulla.

"Don't say that about Lord Zeno!" shouted Beerus. "He's the highest being that stands above all twelve universes!"

Whis asked, "Is it okay to be looking down on him from up here?"

"Of course not!" said Beerus in a hurry, flying off with Whis.

Champa asked as he went down with Vados, "What is Lord Zeno doing in a place like this?"

"Are we saved?" Cabba asked confused, seeing Champa scamper off.

In that moment Frost attempted to use the distraction to take his leave, but he suddenly found Hit right in front of him. "Oh…Hit, I was just—" Hit silenced Frost by rendering him unconscious with a single punch. Frost collapsed but Hit scooped him up and threw him over his shoulder.

"Hit!" cried Cabba, shocked. "What did you do that for?"

Looking away, all Hit said was, "The truth will come to light soon enough."

Meanwhile Beerus and Champa flew down to stand in front of Zeno, and they bowed deeply. "Welcome, Lord Zeno," they said together nervously.

"It's been a long time," said Whis, as he and Vados landed next to the two.

Vados offered, "I hope you've been well."

Zeno just kept staring, as the Kais from both Universes came down and prostrated themselves. "What brings you here today, Lord Zeno?" asked Shin, trying to stay calm.

"I came to warn you because you're doing this without my permission," said Zeno.

"Yes!" said Champa.

"You shouldn't slack off too much on your duties as Gods of Destruction."

"I'm sorry!" Beerus quickly said.

Whis then said, "You should know, Lord Zeno, that Lord Beerus is more interested in napping and eating than destruction."

Vados informed him, "Lord Champa lives an unhealthy lifestyle, and as a result his body has become like this. I try to serve him well balanced meals so it doesn't interfere with his job, but he refutes whatever I offer him." She cried fake tears.

"Hmm…should I change Gods of Destruction?" asked Zeno, causing the two to panic even further. "Just kidding!" Beerus and Champa sighed with relief. "Anyway I came to warn you, but then I ended up watching, and it was really fun!"

"Yes, sir!"

"So I was thinking that next time we could do this with all the other universes!" said Zeno optimistically.

Before anyone else could respond to that, a different voice cried out, "That sounds cool!"

Trunks and Ranch, their attention fully on the deities, wondered who spoke and why they sounded familiar, when they noticed that Bulla no longer by them. Shifting their gaze, they spotted Bulla had gone down to take a closer look, and fear overtook them as they quickly flew down to her.

Bulla walked between all, saying excitedly, "I didn't do much today so—huh?" Zeno's two guards, phased through the ground to get in front of Bulla to stop her from proceeding any further.

Trunks swooped in and picked up Bulla before bowing deeply. "I am so sorry for my daughter's interference! Please forgive us!"

Ranch bowed too, hurriedly adding, "We were careless! It won't happen again!"

"Get out of here now, and I just might forgive this debacle!" Beerus shouted angrily at them.

"It's okay," Zeno said casually, strolling up between his guards, shocking everyone. He looked up at Bulla in her father's arms, and said, "All your fights were fun to watch! Let's do this again!"

Bulla managed to get Trunks to let go of her, and landed in front of Zeno, offering him a hand. "Yeah! I can't wait!" It wasn't just Beerus and Champa that were horrified by how Bulla was acting towards Zeno, Ranch and Trunks were nothing short of mortified. After several tense seconds, Zeno also lifted his hand, and Bulla shook it. The two Gods of Destruction may have looked calmed, but Trunks and Ranch delved deeper into despair.

"Say," Zeno then said brightly, "do you want to come with me so we can play?"

Not seeing any problem with that, Bullla turned to look at her parents to ask, and while their faces remained neutral, both their eyes made the answer loud and clear. Looking back at Zeno, she said, "I'm really sorry, Zenny, but I can't right now."

Zeno wasn't particularly glad to hear that answer, but then he got confused, and asked, "Zenny?"

"Yeah, it's a nickname," she explained. "Is that okay?"

Zeno nodded. "That's fine! But let me know when you can play, okay?" he said. Zeno held his palm out, and in a flash of light a button appear that he offered to Bulla. "Press this, and I'll come immediately."

"Neat," Bulla said, taking it without problem, causing all the deities and her parents to practically lose their minds.

"I'm going home now," announced Zeno.

"See you later," Bulla said, waving goodbye as Zeno clasped both his guards hands before they teleported away.

After one last sigh of relief, Beerus shouted at the Saiyans, "Damn it! Keep those children of yours under control! Lord Zeno could wipe out all twelve universes on a whim!"

"We're sorry, Lord Beerus, it won't happen again!" Ranch said.

"That's right," added Trunks. "In fact, Bulla, hand over that thing Lord Zeno gave you."

"Are you out of your minds?" Beerus yelled angrily. "Lord Zeno gave that specifically to your child, so she is to keep it!" He then exhaled to calm himself, and told them with an even but menacing tone, "Although, I don't have to tell you that it'd be quite preferable if it is never used."

Giving his daughter a hard look, Trunks said, "You heard that, Bulla?"

"Yes, daddy," she said, slightly dejected.

With that out of the way, Beerus tiredly commented, "This whole thing really put a damper on my win."

"Right," said Champa, quickly thinking. "Because the real tournament is going to be the one Lord Zeno hosts!"

"Either way a promise is a promise," said Beerus.

"I know, I know! The Super Dragon Ball is yours." He then turned to leave, yelling at his team, "You'll all be taking part in this next tournament; otherwise Lord Zeno will be displeased!"

Before leaving with Champa, Cabba ran over to Ranch and Trunks. "Hey, I'll definitely come to Earth to train—that is if I can somehow get a ride."

"You're more than welcome," Trunks said.

"Yeah, and feel free to bring friends," added Ranch.

"So, hey, what's up with Frost?" asked Trunks, seeing that he was unconscious and being carried by Hit.

"I don't know," said Cabba. "He just knocked him out of nowhere."

"In any case…" Ranch hustled up to Hit and bowed. "I can't thank you enough."

Trunks followed her lead. "If there's anything that we can ever do just name it."

Hit grunted before turning away to leave. "I'll take you up on that should the need arise."

When the Sixth Universe team left followed soon after by the Kais, Beerus looked up at the Super Dragon Balls. "Well, they're all mine now. What next?"

"Right," said, Bulma, who had come down to the ring with everyone else. She flipped through the notebook left by her past self, stopping at a page that had an annotation of her own. "Luckily I wrote down the summoning phrase back when it was still fresh in my mind." Bulma then peered at Beerus. "You aren't going to wish for anything awful, are you?"

"No, why would you think such a thing?" Beerus asked, annoyed.

"Alright, I'll take your word for it." Bulma read out loud the words to Beerus.

"Hmm…your pronunciation could use some work, but otherwise it was intelligible. But what was that last bit?" he inquired.

"No idea," she said, closing the notebook. "It sounds childish but it worked all the same when I said it to bring you guys back." Then Bulma added, "But before we summon the dragon we should get some distance. It's huge!"

Everybody was escorted back into the Cube. Whis directed the vessel away from the asteroid, putting a good amount of distance between them and the Super Dragon Balls. Once far enough, Beerus told Whis, who stood atop the Cube to speak the summoning phrase. Whis did as he was told, and after a few seconds where it didn't appear to work, but then what happened was nothing short of a spectacle: after a dazzling amount of light, the appearance of a gigantic dragon, and the cosmos looking as if it were zipping by them, Super Shenron appeared before them.

After the dragon spoke to them in the language of the gods, Beerus wondered to himself, "Hmm…what should I wish for?"

"You mean you don't even know?" Bulma asked indignantly.

"Shut up, I'm thinking!" He then thought about it, and then said in the language to relay it to Whis.

"Are you sure about that, Lord Beerus?" asked Whis with some surprise.

"Yes, get on with it."

With that confirmation, Whis told the dragon their wish. Its eyes glowed, returned to the Super Dragon Balls with another bright glow, and the balls scattered. On their way back home in the Sixth Universe, Vados received an alert in her staff—their universe's Earth had been restored.

"That was quite generous of you, Lord Beerus," Whis commented as they went.

"Shut up," said Beerus. "With this Champa really owes me now."

With that done, Gohan suddenly asked, "Mom, Dad, can I go train with Master Roshi?"

"Wait up, what?" Ranch blurted out in confusion. "Where the hell did this come from?"

"Right, I forgot," Trunks said, now remembering. "After seeing Roshi's fight he wanted to train with him."

Ranch's first instinct was to say no, but she actually gave it some thought. "Well, Roshi, you did train Uncle Goku…"

"And your father for a brief stint," added Roshi.

Trunks said to her slowly, "And it really wouldn't be the worst idea in the world if his training got switched up a bit."

"Hmm…good point." She and Trunks nodded at each other, and Ranch sternly said to Gohan, "Fine. You can go be trained by Roshi, but only after your studies in the morning are done."

"Aw, come on!" he complained.

"Take it or leave it," Trunks said flatly.

Gohan turned to Roshi. "If you agree to take me would that be okay?"

Roshi stroked his goatee in thought. "Well…not the most ideal circumstances, but very well. But only on the condition that you bring along a cute girl!"

Gohan nodded. "Right!" Without skipping a beat, he turned to the only person there he saw as matching the criteria. "Hey, Mai, do you, Shu, and Pilaf wanna tag along to watch?"

"Me?" Mai asked, perplexed.

"Yeah! You're cute," he stated as-a-matter-of-factly without thinking. After a moment's silence where everyone but the deities stared, Gohan then realized what he said, and blushed as Mai did the same. "So…uh…"

Looking away, Mai nodded. "Sure."

"Wait a minute," Roshi piped up urgently. "I meant—!"

"What?" asked Gohan.

Roshi looked at them and sighed. "Nothing," he said. He meant an older girl, but Gohan still technically followed his instructions.

Noticing the way Gohan and Mai now avoided looking directly at each other, Ranch snickered and muttered to Trunks, "Those two better not make us grandparents anytime soon."

A/N: Welp-I've been slacking on the writing in favor of other stuff, and I've just about caught up to my backlog. I might have to put a pause on the updates while I work on the next arc you all know is coming.