Three Years Later...
Gowasu rubbed his tired eyes, feeling exhausted. The weight of his failure with Zamasu had been weighing heavily on his mind as of late. Whenever he thought he had finally gotten over it, the thoughts surged back to haunt him again and again, as if compelled. They kept him up at night, a haunting reminder of his failures.
Gowasu sighed. "It was my sin. I failed you Zamasu. From the moment I met you, to when I didn't stop you from killing that mortal on Babari, to when the Omni-King slew you for your crimes."
Gowasu smiled faintly. "Babari… I wonder. You argued they would never see the correct path. Were you right Zamasu? Or was I right? How long would it take for them to see the light of peace?"
Gowasu snapped his fingers and a ornate box appeared with a thud on the table infront of him. He opened it, revealing one Silver Time Ring, and five Green Time Rings. The silver one represented their own timeline, the green ones represented other timelines. He reached for the Silver Time Ring before a sudden coldness overtook his body, a black aura surrounding him.
"W-what is… going… on?" stammered Gowasu.
A dark chuckle sounded behind him. "It took you long enough you old coot."
Towa slowly walked infront of the paralyzed kaioshin, savoring the moment she had waited years for; she glanced down at the box, admiring the jewelry. "Ah, so these are my precious time rings."
She reached inside the pox and plucked the Silver Time Ring up before placing it on a finger and concentrating her energy, when nothing happened she smirked. "So, the other Towa was right. They only work for kaioshins."
The demoness smiled wickedly at the kaioshin. "But since when have I given a damn about little rules like that? I'm a demon, breaking rules is what I do."
She wagged a finger, almost seductively, at Gowasu. "Come my pet, we have work to do."
Gowasu rose to his feet against his will and walked away from the table. Towa concentrated her energy, and in a flash of red light, a dagger appeared in her hand. She forced the Kaioshin to stop a bit from the table. She raised her hand, and slit the palm of her hand and clenched her fist. She slowly walked around the Kaioshin, letting blood drip from her hand and make a circle of blood around Gowasu.
She stopped moving, took off the Silver Time Ring, and rolled it in her cut hand. "Bathed in the blood of a demon..."
She put the ring back on, curled her fist, and drove it through Gowasu's chest. "Bathed in the blood of a god..."
A pentagram began to form inside the circle at Gowasu's feet as blood poured down his chest and blood red light shined and enveloped the area. The ground began to shake, the air around them began to moan and scream in agony. Black and red energy began to form around the two of them.
"By MY will shall the chains binding this ring be broken. Reborn will its purpose be with the power of a demon," she began, "Fed shall it be, the power and soul of a god..."
Gowasu began to scream in agony as his body began to crumble into dust and disintegrate. The dust and energy began to circle as if in a vortex before it began to shrink and be consumed by the Silver Time Ring. But as it fed on the soul and energy, its color began to change. Its silvery gleam faded, and a blood red and black color replaced it. With one final cry, Towa poured her power into the ring and linked her own soul to it, binding it to her will.
RIPPLE
A translucent ripple of energy burst from the time ring, breaching time and space, going off in all directions.
Towa held up her hand as the ritual completed, admiring her work. "I call it, the 'Demon Time Ring'. Ah, my greatest creation, so far above that pitiful Mira construct the other Towa created. Why bother trying to mess with the original timeline, when I can just go and create my own? My own beautiful paradise."
She studied her ring for a moment before an annoyed look crossed her face. "Though, it lacks the power to do this as of the moment. I'll need to feed it energy first, an enormous amount of energy. So, lets get started then."
She clenched a fist, aimed the ring, and released a black red pulse of energy that tore a hole in reality. Towa smiled a sinister smile before she slowly strode through the hole, to her destiny...
Twelve year old Pan gave a war cry, burst to Super Saiyan 2, and rushed at the target of her frustration: the every annoying Gotenks, the most absolutely horrible sparing partner in the world. The fused Super Saiyan easily dodged out of the way before he put his hands to his face, waged them back and forth, and stuck out his tongue at her.
"Naa naa naa! Can't touch me Panny!" teased Gotenks.
"What are you, five? Grow up!" said Pan, aiming and releasing a burst of ki in his direction.
Gotenks dodged to the side before yawning. "You know, I don't even think I needed to go Super Saiyan to beat yo-."
Pan put on a burst of energy and drove her knee into his gut. "What was that?"
Gotenks flew back and spun through the air. "Oh! Now you've done it. Galactic Donut!"
Pan gave a cry as the ring of energy formed around her and closed in, binding her in place, she struggled against the technique and seethed. "Wait until I get my hands on you!"
Gotenks began to retch and appeared to puke up a white blob, and then did it a few times before pointing at Pan. "Super Ghost Kamikaze Attack!"
"Eww eww eww!" screamed Pan, "Don't touch me with those puke blobs!"
The blobs took on Gotenks appearance and began to rush at Pan, laughing gleefully. The girl ground her teeth, focused her energy, and braced herself for impact...
RIPPLE
A ripple of translucent energy passed through them. In its wake came screams of torment, penetrating the air. For a brief moment Pan lost all sense of her ki. The Galactic Donut disintegrated. The little Gotenks blobs exploded prematurely. Gotenks himself flashed white and de-fused into Trunks and Goten far before their fusion timer was supposed to expire. The three of them fell towards the ground before they regained their ki and stopped their plummeting.
Pan shivered and struggled to get herself to stop. "W-what the h-hell was that?!"
Goten and Trunks exchanged uneasy looks, Goten spoke first, "Maybe we ought to..."
They all paused, feeling the ki signatures of their friends and family take to the air and began to move.
"Looks like they're heading to Capsule Corp, let's go!" yelled Pan, re-igniting her power and ascending to Super Saiyan 2.
Goten and Trunks did the same and flew at her side as they took off together. Pan eyed the two of them in brief passes, feeling a little jealous. They had both achieved Super Saiyan 2 awhile ago, spurned on by their families. Despite that they didn't train nearly as hard as she did, they weren't honestly that far behind her in power. Especially when they went Gotenks, she didn't honestly stand a chance against that fused menace.
She had to admit it was a bit agitating. She was leaps and bounds stronger than she had been when she first got back home. Last time she had asked Grandpa, he had said she was about as strong as he and Vegeta had been when they had fought eachother as Super Saiyan 2s during the Majin Buu conflict. However, even with such progress, she still hadn't achieved her second goal yet. While she could break even with Mister Buu in a fight, his huge stamina and regeneration always let him win. To be frank, she knew the only reason she could compare to him was because he had lost so much of his power when he had split into good and evil Buus. She still had a long way to go.
Not to mention, her DAD of all people had started training again. He had spent three days in the time chamber with Grandpa a few weeks after she had gotten home. She could readily admit, she had been awed when he had stepped out of the time chamber. Even without his power raised, she had immediately felt the absolutely HUGE difference in base power he had. She had seen him spar with Grandpa and Vegeta as Super Saiyan Blue, and hold his own. It was curious in a way, he could draw out his full power with normal ki without transforming, apparently that had been a gift of an the pervy old Supreme Kai. However, in order to use God ki her father still had to transform into Super Saiyan Blue.
His power growth was infuriating, Pan had wanted to immediately jump in the time chamber herself after seeing her dad's stunning progress, but apparently she wasn't allowed to. They had decided behind her back to not allow her in the chamber without Grandpa permission. No matter how much she begged and pleaded, he refused. He said they would wait until she was older. Something about not wanting her to throw away her childhood and teenage years inside the chamber. It was a crappy reason in her opinion, but, there was nothing she could do about it.
She shook her head and broke her thoughts as they neared Capsule Corp. Something had just happened, something wrong. That much she knew, and it was apparent everyone knew that as well. She landed and powered down, Goten and Trunks doing the same. Within the next ten minutes, the group had gathered: Goku, Vegeta, Pan, Goten, Trunks, Buu, Bulma, Tien, Chiaotzu, Uub, Yamcha, 17, 18, Bra, Piccolo, Krillin, Gohan, and Videl. Everyone was in their fighting gi's or clothes, even Gohan.
"Okay, so, did anyone else hear someone screaming when that energy passed through them?" asked 17.
There was a collective nod.
"Yeah... that... was something else," said Yamcha nervously, "Anyone got any clues?"
There was silence.
"Did anyone else loose access to their ki for a moment?" asked Pan.
There was another collective nod.
Goku crossed his arms and looked at Vegeta. "This was everywhere, I don't think it was any ordinary event. Beerus ought to be up by now, ya think? He said a few years would be a good cat nap. Maybe we ought to contact him and Whis?"
Vegeta rubbed his chin. "I'd rather not drag them in unless absolutely necessary."
"As much as I don't want to drag the gods into this," said Piccolo, "Were in the dark as of the moment. I'd rather not wait for something to come and attack us when we could inform ourselves and get ready."
Pan tugged on Grandpa's sleeve. "What about All-Chans? You still have the button, right?"
Goku hesitated. "I... don't know if calling them is a good idea right now. They're probably still in that Omni-King meeting. If we yoinked them out of that, they might get really mad."
"Well I'll do it if your gonna be a chicken," said Pan, starting to fish through her Grandpa's pockets.
"H-hey! Pan! Wait!" said Goku, grabbing her arms.
CLICK
POP
One of the Omni-Kings, the present one, appeared in the air above them. The Omni-King looked around before resting his eyes on Pan and Goku. He landed in front of them and looked up at them, his arms crossed, an almost ill-tempered look on his face.
"All-Chan!" said Pan, stepping forward, "Did you feel that ripple thing?"
The Omni-King frowned at her. "I did, I was in the middle of trying to figure out what it was before you interrupted me."
Pan winced. "I'm sorry, we were just worried about what was going on."
The Omni-King sighed, a pinched expression crossing his face. "I guess it's fine. From what I can tell, it was a ripple in time and space that passed through all of existence that temporarily nullified the energy of everything it touched, even me."
Yamcha gave a start. "Woah woah woah, but aren't you the Omni-King? How could that..."
The Omni-King turned its head. "Quiet."
Yamcha froze and trembled. "S-sorry..."
Goku thought for a moment. "Maybe some of the other gods would have a clue? How about the Kaioshin?"
The Omni-King paused, considering his words. "Kaioshin? Wait... time and space, of course."
The Omni-King snapped his fingers. They all waited, but nothing happened.
The Omni-King looked perplexed. "Why didn't that work? She should have appeared."
"She?" asked Pan.
The Omni-King rose into the air, a blue aura of his godlike power engulfing him. With a cry of power, a tear in space and time appeared and out of it tumbled a small pink Kaioshin. She landed on her butt and winced. She had wavy pink hair, black eyes, and a pair of potara earrings. She bore a pink version of traditional Kaioshin robes, but, only up to her arms and midsection. Above that she had on a gray, skintight cloth. Below her robes were baggy gray pants, and she had on white high-heeled boots.
She rose to her feet and looked around before spotting the Omni-King as he descended, and went into full panic mode. "O-o-omni-king!"
The Omni-King looked at her in confusion. "Chronoa, why didn't you come the first time? You should have immediately answered the summon."
Chronoa looked distressed. "Because I couldn't! Something awful has happened! Toki-Toki City is having a complete meltdown. The scrolls of time have stopped working, Toki-Toki himself looks like he's in a coma! None of our time abilities or time machines are working anymore! We have time-patrollers stuck in all corners of the timestream unable to get back! I can't even contact Trunks or the two Toki-Toki Champions!"
"Time what?" asked Pan with confusion.
The Omni-King looked at her. "Chronoa is the Supreme Kai of Time. I designated her to watch over the flow of time."
"What did you mean by contact me?" asked Trunks.
Chronoa scowled at him. "Not you! The original future you who first went back in time and started the whole time travel mess!"
"Be SILENT," warned the Omni-King.
A deathly silence filled the air as no one dared move or speak.
The Omni-King looked at Chronoa. "Do you have any idea what's going on?"
"W-well, I had started to narrow down the source of the time-space distortion. I believe it was centered around the world of the Kaioshin in Universe 10," replied Chronoa.
"Gowasu?" said Goku in confusion, "What would he have to do with this?"
"I don't know, but we should investigate," said Chronoa, "I have a really bad feeling about all of this."
The Omni-King looked to Goku. "Son Goku, I want you and three of your friends to come with us. Consider this a way to pay me back for your wish three years ago."
Goku nodded. "Okay. Vegeta's obviously going to come..."
"Hmph," was Vegeta's reply, a smirk on his face.
"And I think you should come as well Gohan, it would be a good way to really test how far you've come," continued Goku.
Gohan nodded slowly. "Alright, I'll do it. Who is going to be our fourth? Buu?"
Pan narrowed her eyes, she was NOT going to be left behind. "I'll go!"
Gohan frowned at her and crossed his arms. "Pan, this could be dangerous."
She crossed her arms and glared back at him. "And? I know that! I want to help!"
"You're only twelve years old!" said Gohan, "You'rer not going and that's final."
Pan glared at him for a moment before a mischievous smile spread across her face. "Hey All-Chan?"
"Yes Pan-Chan?" asked the Omni-King.
"Could I please go? I really want to help you out," said Pan innocently.
"No! Absolutely..." began Gohan.
The Omni-King smiled at Pan. "Of course you can Pan-Chan! I'd really appreciate it."
Gohan smacked his own forehead. "Pan..."
Pan gave him a victorious smile. "Well, I guess its settled. Let's go!"
Vegeta laughed. "Well Kakarot, looks like your Grandbrat has some spirit in her."
Goku shrugged and looked at Gohan. "It'll be fine Gohan, lets get moving."
The Omni-King snapped his fingers and the six of them disappeared.
Moments later, they re-appeared outside of Gowasu's dwelling.
Pan frowned immediately, the hair on the back of her neck standing up. "Something feels wrong..."
Goku nodded. "You can say that again, brrr, I'm getting chills."
They walked into the building and began looking around. Pan ran over and knelt down near a small ring of blood.
"Something happened here," said Pan, feeling a little nauseous.
Vegeta walked over and looked over her shoulder. "Hmm..."
"AH!" screamed Chronoa, pointing towards the table, "T-t-t-he time rings!"
They all rushed over to it, Omni-King floated onto the table and looked at the box. "One is missing. The main time ring is gone."
"Wait a second," said Goku, "Gowasu showed us these before, they shouldn't look like that, right? They're supposed to be pure green, aren't they?"
Pan peered at the table and into the box. There were 5 sickly green and red-vined time rings in it.
"It's like... they've been tainted," said Chronoa with unease.
The Omni-King touched one of the rings and immediately recoiled, as if stung. "This is..."
The Omni-Kin turned to the blood circle and aimed a hand at it. A flash of light exploded from his hands. In the circle appeared a illusion of Gowasu, it appeared to be bound by some kind of energy. A blue lady began to circle him, dripping a trail of blood around him in a circle.
"Towa!" shouted Chronoa in anger, "Of course she's behind this! I don't know how she came back, but..."
She paused. "Wait no, that's... that's not the same Towa..."
"Be silent and watch," ordered the Omni-King, "Maintaining a time vision is for some reason not as easy as it should be. It's particularly draining, I do not wish to do this again."
They watched, silently, as this 'Towa' completed her ritual. Pan grimaced, feeling horrified and disgusted as the Kaioshin was consumed by the corrupted time ring, the 'Demon Time Ring' as Towa called it. The vision faded a moment later as Towa walked through a tear in space and time.
"This Towa... she's even worse than the one I had to face," said Chronoa with fury.
"Not even five years, and already, another rule of creation has been broken," said the Omni-King, a primal fury in his voice.
Pan took a few steps back from the Omni-King, a spike of fear rising in her gut.
The Omni-King turned to Chronoa and spoke with deadly authority. "You will take Son Goku and his friends after this 'Towa'. Reclaim and return the tainted time ring to me to be cleansed if possible. If not, destroy her and the ring. That 'Demon Time Ring's' mere existence is destabilizing the control of time."
"B-but, I cant access my powers of time!" exclaimed Chronoa.
The Omni-King raised a hand into the air, blue energy condensing in his hand. With a flash of light, the energy condensed and formed a pure White Time Ring. He handed it to Chronoa.
"This White Time Ring is the most powerful one I have ever created, its power eclipses your normal power by tenfold. It should be able to follow her tear in time and space," said the Omni-King.
Chronoa stared at it in awe before slowly she slipped it onto her finger. "Woah..."
She recovered from her shock and bowed to the Omni-King. "As you will, it will be done."
She rose and put her hands on her hips. "The Time Patrol beat Towa before! With the power of three Super Saiyan Gods and this time ring this Towa doesn't stand a chance!"
Pan scowled. "Guess I don't count for anything."
Chronoa gave her a look. "Oh shush."
Vegeta crossed his arms. "So then, my future son was fighting against this demon woman?"
"Another version of her yes, she was a real pain in the butt," said Chronoa.
"Hmph, well, I guess we will be cleaning up the remainder of his mess then," said Vegeta dismissively.
"Tsaaa, don't needa be rude about it," said Goku.
"Before we go, is there anything you can tell us about Towa that could help us fight her?" Gohan asked Chronoa.
"Well... I know about the other Towa's abilities. She could teleport through time at will, she can artificially amplify the power and take control of people she encounters," said Chronoa.
Vegeta frowned intently. "Like Babidi's magic?"
Chronoa nodded. "Yes. On the fighting side... to be honest, she doesn't really engage in direct combat often. She usually gets others to fight for her. She's conniving and cunning. She's also a scientific genius that could put your wife to shame."
Vegeta scowled. "So she's a schemer and a coward who wont fight us directly, how aggravating."
Chronoa hesitated. "But, I'm not sure how much of all of that applies to this particular Towa. She didn't have her creation Mira with her, if she even created him in her timeline, and, she seemed to be MUCH more versed with demon magic than the Towa I knew. She had to be to pull of a stunt like this."
"So basically, were going in blind," said Vegeta.
Chronoa scratched her head. "I guess. There's also the fact she has this Demon Time Ring. I have absolutely no concept of what kind of powers it might have granted her."
"We will manage, you guys ready? Because I sure am!" said Goku with borderline glee.
"Son Goku, take this seriously," warned Omni-King.
Goku nodded. "Don't worry, I will."
The Omni-King hopped down from the table. "I have to return to the dimension meeting now. When you have recovered the ring and stopped Towa, use the button to summon me again."
POP
With that, the Omni-King disappeared. Chronoa moved around the table and aimed her White Time Ring at the spot where Towa had disappeared, and with a flash of light, a tear in space and time appeared.
"Alright lets go, keep your powers suppressed," ordered Chronoa, "That way we might be able to get the drop on Towa without her running away."
They did as she instructed, and with that, followed Chronoa through the tear...