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O'right. Anyway, you can gather natural energy in the battle itself by remaining stationery for one turn entirely, and thereby activate it. You can however also make use of Ma and Pa having them replenish your storage while you do the fightning, and they remain stationery/merged onto your shoulders.
Sage mode can only be used once per battle and only lasts 5 turns but it can be activated at any point in battle. If the user has signed the Toad contract, the user can have clones in Myobokuzan gathering natural energy. By reverse summoning them, the user is able to, by dispersing them in the battle field, use the natural energy they gathered and replenish his own, prolonging Sage Mode. However, not only do those clones count towards the normal clone limit rules and have to be stated in the beginning of the battle, but the user can only have 2 clones pre-preparared and using them only replenishes 2 turns of Sage Mode (user must state at the beginning of the battle if he has clones in Myobokuzan pre-prepared). If the user makes a clone on the field and leaves him gathering natural energy to then disperse and enter sage mode, the duration of it will be the normal one.
Any questions?