Punishment

She then continued, "Speaking of Champa, why were you peeking at his planet? I was surprised when I noticed someone trying to pry into divine land.".

Broly tried to keep calm, but he couldn't help but widen his eyes in shock. His vision of truth was something that developed through the crystals of a multiversal force. He didn't think that anyone would notice if he observed them through it.

"I… My name is Broly and I had searched the Super Dragon Balls for quite some time. I thought that the Super Dragon Balls were in his territory. I was here to… borrow them." He got a smirk as a response.

"Broly… The Super Dragon Balls, huh? Truly magnificent objects one could risk their lives for, but why did you think that they were with Lord Champa?"

"It was just a hunch. After seeing the Universal Intelligence move to gather them, I thought that the only one that could make them act would be Champa."

This wasn't a lie as he really thought that Champa just ordered them. He continued, "I heard that Lord Champa…likes to take it comfortable, which was why he used the Universal Intelligence."

"I see. Indeed, if he knew of these wishing orbs, he would probably order them to move out to gather them for him." Vados held her chin while tilting her head slightly. She then shook her head.

"It will be impossible to get your wish, even if you gather all the Super Dragon Balls in this universe. In fact, the Dragon Balls are scattered between the two universes, 6 and 7, but you already knew that, right?

With your current strength you would only barely be able to cross the gap between the universes, even with your knowledge on time travel, you would be out for a tough journey." She looked at him with meaningful glance.

It seemed like she mistakenly thought that he was a time traveler, even though she was right about his knowledge on time travel. He knew that he couldn't deceive her discerning eye with some made up facts, so he only nodded to that.

He also didn't try to correct her misunderstanding of him.

"How about this if you gather all the Dragon Balls, I will help you create a path to universe 7. If you succeed to gather them all in that universe, will be up to you."

Broly was a bit confused and decided to ask. "Isn't is against the law to travel through time or to cross to another universe. Why am I not being punished?"

Vados raised an eyebrow. "You want to be punished?"

"No, I was just wondering!" Broly shook his head hurriedly.

"I see. I would have given you a good spanking." Broly's mind went blank for a second.

"Travelling to another universe isn't forbidden. If you are strong enough to cross that gap and enter another universe, you would have earned your right to do so.

Of course, gods wouldn't want to see another gods inside their territory. As for time traveler. It is indeed forbidden, since another mortal had once again created a time machine.

Afterwards the angels and gods of another timeline created a maze between the timelines to prevent easy passage, but I heard from Chronoa that there were some mages that were still travelling through time as they already have the locations of the timelines, but it isn't really my job to police these things."

Broly's mind was buzzing. A maze? Did she mean the thousand threads of different timelines, wait they were created by the gods?

"How… how many timelines are there?"

Vados chuckled slightly. "There are 6 real timelines, the rest lead to certain death. It appears that you were lucky enough to get here."

Broly couldn't help but shiver. When he pursuit Towa through time, didn't he travel through this maze. He thought he would only be lost in time, but it seemed like he would have died if he took a misstep.

'6 Timelines? From Towa's memory, he knew that she and Mira were from the far future of Future Trunks timeline. The only reason another timeline hasn't been created was through the efforts of the Supreme Kai of Time, Chronoa.

Then there should be the main timeline that represents the series and his own timeline. There was also the timeline from which his future daughter came from, so that would be 4 in total, but what about the 5th? Is it…, right! It should be the timeline of GT, but what about the last one?'

Broly shook his head, this wasn't important right now. "Before you go, how does becoming the successor of the god of destruction sound?" Vados suddenly asked with a slight smile on her face, however, Broly didn't even need to think about that.

"Sorry, but I have to decline. It isn't my style to be bound to a job."

Vados didn't seem to be mad about the rejection. "I see. Maybe it is better this way... Very well, I wish you good luck on your journey~"

Broly was surprised that Vados only wanted a chat. She didn't have to almost kill him if she wanted to talk! Broly screamed in his head.

"Thanks-" Before Broly could finish, her voice sounded out again.

"Before you leave, I have to punish you."

"I thought you didn't want to judge me as it was the job of the Supreme Kai of Time." Vados chuckled sweetly, but in Broly's ears it sounded like that of a devil.

"I am not talking about your time travels. I still have to punish you for taking a peek in here." Vados pointed at the blue lake next to them.

"What if you had seen me take a bath, how would you compensate me then?" Vados asked with a smile on her face.

"Don't worry, you won't die. You will just take a time out for now." She waved her staff and Broly disappeared from the spot.

****

Broly's surrounding was filled with a colorful haze. The pressure around him was almost crushing him to death as he struggled to breath. After taking a look around he realized that it resembled the part where Goku and Vegeta was sent into the staff.

Maybe she did the same and this immense pressure is godly ki. If that was the case, he would need to internalize his ki, so it wouldn't leak out at all, but that wasn't enough. He needed to power up and still keep it inside, otherwise he wouldn't be able to move at all.

This was an incredible hard thing to do. It was almost like a natural law to increase ones ki and have it leak it out of one's body.

This wasn't only something that could be solved with just a few hours of training. This was an essential step to create godly ki in the body. Broly first got comfortable with the surrounding before planning his next step.

If he wanted, he could take a few days to reach the staff and get out of here, but he knew that the time flow was different in here and this environment was a perfect place for training, how could he just abandon it?

Even if he stayed in here for several years it would just be a few seconds out there. He didn't know why she chose this method of 'punishing' him, but he wouldn't complain at all. As he thought about it, he started to train in this strange place by meditating.

After a few hours of meditating, he already saw some results, but he couldn't continue as he sensed a new guest. It was one of these robots that had hunted him down and it seemed like it was undisturbed by the atmosphere.

It pointed the arrow with its bow at Broly and shot it. Broly tried to dodge but the pressure around him made it difficult to move.

The arrow deeply pierced into his shoulder and the robot aimed another arrow at Broly. Broly gritted his teeth as he tried to urge his powers to move without leaking out, but it was just a too difficult thing to achieve right of the bat.

It may be possible for the middle aged Goku and Vegeta in the series but Broly was far from that level of control as of now.

While he tried to wiggle his way out of harm's way, he was repeatedly shot at. After a while there were dozens of blood covered arrows floating around Broly. The only silver lining was that this robot seemed to be a lot weaker than the ones he had faced beforehand.

In the end he could just ignore the attacks and try to meditate while an arrow pierced through his skin every 10 seconds like a clockwork.

Under these circumstances his ki was agitated through his pain, increasing the difficulty one level higher.

After thinking that it couldn't get worse than this, another robot appeared with a spear in its hand as it headed towards Broly.

"Really? Being shot at by an archer wasn't enough??"

This couldn't be called training anymore. This was just pure torture! Well, she did say this was a punishment…