Marcus and his group passed the portal and crossed over into his home reality. There was a considerable number of people waiting for him there.
Of course, there is heavy traffic with the portal's opening. There are two train lines that go in and out so that two realities can swiftly exchange people, items, and research material.
Though there is a spot where people can simply walk into another reality.
They immediately walked to the waiting shuttles, where a line-up of Knights was waiting for the Imperial Family.
"Your Majesty! Welcome back!" Jeremiah greeted him with a bright smile.
"Good to see you, Jeremiah. Anything of note happened?" The Emperor asked with a smile.
"Nothing worth your notice." The knight declared with an assured tone.
"I see, well, let's hit the road. I missed my city." Marcus declared as he looked at the waiting shuttles.
The Commander of G-Force chuckled with a nod as he motioned for the Royal Guards to get going.
"At once, Your Majesty."
Not long after everyone got seated inside their seats, and soon enough, the shuttles began to float and move North towards the old continent.
Marcus smiled a bit as soon as he saw the orbital elevator. They passed soon after and moved towards the Capital of the Empire.
"Didn't change much, didn't it?" He asked his wife, who was already writing something.
"Not to my knowledge." She replied with a confused look, wondering what he meant by that.
"Good. I love opening new buildings." Marcus then randomly commented, smiling as he enjoyed dropping into building-opening events, doing the honours of opening, and then giving his blessing as the ruler of the world.
"...Don't do that. People freak out." Leila sighed in resignation, recalling him doing that! Is he going to start looking for new buildings upon his return!?
"Wait! What does he do?" Wang Liu Mei asked as she sat behind them and heard what they had just said.
"From time to time, he drops into parties unannounced and does the honours of opening the building."
"...Oh…I would freak out as well." The Heiress smiled a bit as she found it amusing in a sense.
"Your tone of voice tells me otherwise." Leila didn't see the Heiress, but she heard her voice.
"Well, I found it amusing."
As the pair of girls was talking, Marcus checked his holographic console, more specifically the A.S.P. He wanted to see what Setsuna was doing.
The observations on him showed him that the Gundam Meister was restless; the guy tried to look for anything remotely bad in his Empire, he travelled around parts of the world and learned a considerable amount about the history of his Earth.
"Jeremiah,"
"Yes, Your Majesty?"
"How is Setsuna?" The Emperor asked his Knight.
His question got the Celestial Being girls perked up; they started to listen in.
"Wait! Is he in this reality?" Christina asked.
"Indeed. I thought, I mentioned." Marcus pondered out loud.
"I only heard that you dealt with the Meisters." Feldt deadpanned.
"Hmm…" The Emperor hummed as he looked at his Knight, who began to explain.
"We do monitor him remotely as you asked. Trying to give him space. It was a bit surprising how deeply he looked for some sort of rebellious elements in the Empire.
Though he quickly realised that our Empire has a deep spiritual mission to conquer the stars, and people are very driven to do that, so there is no time for something as mundane as rebellions," Jeremiah said with a passionate tone.
His passion made the newcomers sweatdrop; they didn't expect to meet someone THAT passionate.
"Good to hear, I shall visit him soon." Marcus smiled as he said that.
"Oh! Us too!" Christina chipped in and then looked at Feldt, who nodded back.
"I do want to see how well he is doing." The pinkette replied.
"He did try several different works, though, I doubt someone as scarred as him would easily change," Jeremiah mentioned.
"Indeed. He would be a perfect G-Force pilot." Marcus offhandedly mentioned and then perked up when he saw his city in the distance.
"Welcome to Constantinople, girls." The Emperor commented as he saw the skyscrapers on the horizon.
"Oh…" The pair of them perked up.
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The ex-Celestial Being girls looked through the car windows at the landmarks.
"...Isn't it a bit dangerous… I mean, flying cars… what if it breaks down?" Feldt asked, seeing that there were only flying cars in the whole city.
"That's where you assume that the car has a typical engine and it can break down." Marcus looked at where she was looking.
"...So it's different from… like an electric engine?"
"Vibrations do the floating, the engine is basically a battery sending vibrations into a resonator that moves the vehicle, and the resonator is basically a piece of stone." He smiled at her, hinting at where it goes.
"...Oh…" The girl was smart, realising what this meant.
"...So… it is far more reliable than anything built before," Christina commented from what she understood.
"Indeed. Marcus was the one who introduced this technology. Imagine how it would look on him when the tech he introduced is worse than before." Leila commented from the side while writing an email.
"...When you said it like that." Feldt didn't know that Marcus had introduced flying cars!
Soon enough, the motorcade arrived and came to a stop on the platform. There were rows of maids waiting for them, and royal guards lined up behind them with their pikes.
"Oh, old school. Pikes?" Christina commented on their choice of weapons.
"She says old school." Leila shook her head.
"You know these guys are ceremonial and usually here to maintain order. Remember in the souvenir store?" The Empress reminded her of the statues they saw in the shop.
"Oh… right." The brown-haired woman slowly nodded as she recalled what she saw just a couple of hours ago.
"Indeed, you don't want other guys to be here, as they would leave holes in your body." The blonde vaguely hinted at the 'other' guys who are dressed in black and wield gravity weapons.
"That's extreme…"
"Don't scare them, Leila, those guys don't get deployed that easily." Marcus tried to calm the girl's nerves.
"Is it? They do want to work in well-paid jobs, and those usually include your A.S.P." Leila rolled her eyes.
"I just told them what the weapons they wield can do—" As she was explaining, her son's voice interrupted them.
"Dad, look!" Trajan showed something.
"I am almost done with Exia!" The Prince showed Exia's figurine; it only needs painting.
"Nicely done, Troy!" Marcus praised his son.
Leila rolled her eyes. Clearly, her son doesn't read the room at all.
"You can finish with your figurines in your room, Troy." The Blonde Empress tried to explain to her son that there is a place and time for everything.
"Okay!" The Prince returned to his seat as the shuttle landed and the doors opened. The knights and their Commander left first as they lined up.
After them was Marcus and the rest.
As he looked around, he took a deep breath; it was a familiar 'smell' of home.
He then looked ahead, and there were his other wives, Anna, Kallen, and, surprisingly, C.C., who wore her iconic smug smile.
The Emperor walked over towards them.
"Well, well. Guess who decided to visit?" The Witch Empress teased him.
"I can say the same thing. Do you enjoy your holidays?" The Emperor teased her back.
"Holidays? Don't jest." She puffed her cheeks a bit. The witch moved aside and showed him their son. Marcus swiftly picked him up.
"My Little Conqueror!" The Emperor exclaimed as he hugged his little son.
C.C. smiled at him, seeing him react like that.
But then he felt a couple of jealous gazes, as he had two daughters.
Marcus rolled his eyes as he moved his son into one hand, then motioned for his little daughter to walk over.
He picked the red-haired girl with his other hand.
"...And me?" The green-eyed, black-haired girl puffed her cheeks.
"You are a bit too big for this, Claudia." Her father replied to her as she puffed even more.
"Come now. Claudia, you can get your dad's attention once we are inside." Anna tried to console her daughter with an amused smile.
"Hmph! I guess I can do that!"
"Now let's get inside." Kallen looked around, standing outside like that, and thought it was a bit too much.
"Sure." Marcus nodded as he carried his kids towards the doors.
"So who are the girls? More fiancées?" Kallen asked with a resigned sigh.
The pair blushed hard when they heard that.
"N-No, we are not!" Feldt swiftly shook her head.
"Hm? Is the Emperor of the World not good enough for you?" Kallen grinned as she countered.
"N-NO, I wouldn't dream!"
Kallen grinned even more as she found this girl blushing like that amusing.
"Don't mess with Feldt, Kallen. She is a good girl." Leila sighed as she got between Kallen and Feldt.
"Oh? Are you going to take her under your wing?" the Empress of Combat asked with raised eyebrow; the blonde rarely expands her retinue.
"No. Anna will." Leila looked at Anna.
"...I will?" The Pinkette Empress looked confused as she looked at Leila.
"Yes, these two were with Celestial Being and were part of the main team; they are experts in computers, and designed the OS for the Gundams, and assisted Marcus in developing his new Gundam." The blonde explained to them.
The praise made the two fiddle, especially Feldt, who looked everywhere but not at them.
"Oh, nice. I heard our husband literally hoarded most of Celestial Being." Anna complained to Marcus, who had his kids and C.C. surrounded. They were walking towards the doors.
"I can't hear you, Anna~ I have no idea what you're talking about.~" The Emperor placed Julia on his shoulders, so he used his free hand to wave at them.
"There is more to science than Gundams, husband." The pinkette began to walk towards the doors, and as she saw him, he was already quite a distance away.
"I doubt you could persuade him in that regard." Leila shook her head as she started to walk as well.
"Hmph." Anna puffed a bit, but then she sneaked between Christina and Feldt, wrapped her hands around their waist and then hugged them.
"Then you two join my retinue, right? I am not like my husband; I don't have mobile suit carriers, my fleet is mostly research and science vessels."
The pair realised that they were 'pinned' and there was no way they could say no to an Empress.
"Umm…"
"...Sure…I guess…" Feldt caved in as she hoped that this smiling woman would let her go!
"Anna, you know that they are not that comfortable with such proximity." Leila noticed what the pinkette was doing.
"Now I am certain that Marcus didn't touch them." Kallen commented from the side when she saw that these two were uncomfortable with 'cuddles'.
Leila and Anna giggle when they hear that, as the pinkette finally let them go as they proceeded to walk towards the Citadel's interior.
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"Announcing, The Holy Emperor, Marcus Justinian Anaheim!" The moment the guard at the double doors declared, people in the throne room scrambled to drop to one knee.
Marcus strolled in dressed in black, purple and gold robes and a crown on his head. He dropped into his throne and got comfortable in his seat. He leaned his head into his hand and looked at the people.
"Well, it would seem little has changed here. I hope you ladies and gentlemen had decent holidays when I was not here." The Emperor commented, there was a bit of teasing in his voice.
"You jest, Your Majesty, we wouldn't relax just because you were absent." One of them swiftly declared.
"Oh?" Marcus looked at the one who spoke.
"This one is Lord Darlington. I am with the Military Recruitment Department, and the recruitment is up by 15% from last quarter." The man proudly declared.
"Hm, that is mostly because of my program. Tell me how it's going with the Star Base's main weapon? Is it under construction?" The Emperor went for the important stuff.
"Yes, the base itself is complete, the construction for the Solar Cannon has begun; however, we do not know how effective it will be, or if it could have the range you desire, Your Majesty." Another noble said with a nervous tone.
The man hoped that the report would be to the Emperor's liking.
"Good enough, I already have ideas on how to shorten the distance and make it impossible for the possible enemy to dodge." Marcus smiled as he recalled what his new Gundam could do. He can cross around 4 to 5 light-years in mere moments, now give that to a gun…
He will be able to snipe reapers from Earth who try to enter his Solar system.
"W-Wonderful news, your Majesty."
"Indeed, now tell me how the Jupiter project is coming along?" The Emperor nodded as he ignored the ass-kissing he was getting from them and instead focused on what was important.
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