The conquest of ORB set off a chain reaction, prompting the independent countries to approach the new Federation as the fleet moved towards them.
The Equatorial Union was a neutral country, made up of a range of countries, including Indonesia and India. Not that Marcus cared as his fleet approached them.
Though he swiftly got an invitation to negotiate. Well, more like a surrender from them.
And that caused a chain reaction, as soon enough, Equatorial Union joined his Federation. Especially since there were no specific alterior demands, all he wanted was no military and to listen to the new Federal Governnt.
After the Equatorial Union, the Scandinavian Kingdom was the only remaining neutral faction, with no choice but to join them.
With the last nation to join, once more, Marcus conquered the whole world.
And sure enough, he began to make changes and integrate everything into a single nation.
As he did so, he began making arrangents for his return to his reality.
Most importantly, he needs to bring over his Gundams.
So, first ca his Testant, which he brought over to the Batcave, and the portal flickered on.
"C-Can I cross over as well?" Cagalli asked her father, gulped nervously, and looked at the portal.
"Sure, I don't see why not." Marcus shrugged, though his special forces swiftly greeted him as they poured through the portal.
"...Your Majesty? What happened?" The black tactical-gear-wearing soldiers rushed over; these were the Geass Order soldiers, equipped with powerful, mass-produced Geass ant to dominate battlefields.
"...Right. How many days have passed?" The Emperor massaged his forehead; he could tell that there was a huge ss waiting for him on the other side of that portal.
"It was nearly a month since you dropped off the radar." A familiar female voice comnted as she walked through the portal.
"...Shamna." Marcus nodded at his blonde Empress.
The blonde beauty walked over, and her gaze imdiately went to the teenage girl standing next to him.
"...Hmm…" She stared at her for a couple of monts.
"...Seriously? A daughter?" The Leader of his Geass Order crossed her arms.
"And on top of that, she is almost an adult. Do you realise what this will an?"
"Yeah-Yeah, I get it. I am not twenty or sothing. I have known my wives for nearly half a century." Marcus waved his hand, dismissing the usual nonsense he could expect from his family's won.
"..."
"...Umm…father…"
"Right. This lady is Shamna, she is one of my wives. She is known as the Hidden Empress or the Priestess Empress; in truth, she is responsible for my A.S.P., the Secret Police and the Geass Order."
"...Hidden?" Cagalli looked confused.
"That's how the population calls , they know I exist but can't tell how I look." The woman shrugged with a smile.
"Oh… I see…"
"We all have roles to play in our Husband's Empire." The woman smiled a bit more as she walked over to the girl.
"But you honestly are Marcus' spitting image." Shamna ruffled her hair as she was surprised to look at the girl who looked just like Marcus, only a girl.
"Yeah, but she is part of a duo."
"...Twins?" The blonde Empress deadpanned.
"Indeed. I ended up stabilising this world and collected my stuff." Marcus looked at the waiting Testant Gundam.
"Tell the chanics to bring over more Transporter ships to collect my loot."
"Very well." The blonde woman nodded, turned, and began to walk towards the portal.
"Go on. You can go with her." The Emperor motioned for the girl to follow after the Empress.
"...Umm…sure." Cagalli strolled right after her.
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"Whoa… that's a huge cavern." The girl looked around. What she saw was an underground complex, a spacious cavern complex, carved inside of so sort of mountain. There are mobile suit hangars and multiple buildings connected by corridors.
"Indeed. Originally, when I was the Queen of a small coastal country, this place was my temple. But when I beca one of the Empresses, I was assigned to manage the Geass Order and the Secret Police.
So I turned this place into my HQ, with Marcus' permission and blessing, I am quite suited for such a job."
"...Is it because you have a Geass as well?" Cagalli asked with a curious look as she stopped looking around and looked at her.
"Not quite. There is more to Geass than simple manipulation of Geass energy. It cos in two different forms.
Once one gets Geass, the energy inside their bodies begins to grow and saturate. Once it reaches critical form, it could beco what is known as a Code.
However, studies in this field have shown that one needs to build a Thought Elevator and connect with the Collective Unconsciousness to achieve direct energy flow.
When one does that, one achieves a form of pseudo-immortality. You might have heard of them, ancient rulers of sopotamia and Egypt, people who used to be kings and rulers for centuries. We have a deep suspicion that they were code bearers.
At least in this world, I have no idea how it's in your world." Shamna concluded. Over the years, she has beco quite a historian.
"...Now that you pointed that out. Many modern scientists have comnted that it's a fairy tale or simple fiction to claim that there were kings who ruled for centuries.
I can assu that you possess this code thing?" Cagalli concluded. It made sense, but then again, modern researchers and scientists, at least in her world, are quite arrogant and proud; they believe in only one form of science, and not in the possibility of spiritually based technologies.
"Indeed, the code is a manifestation of the geass energy; the amount of this energy saturates one's soul to the point that it's physically visible, and the body overloads with this energy.
The upside is that one becos eternally young and extrely hard to kill, but the downside is that the body would be frozen in ti.
In a sense, it's not even alive as such a person becos sterile."
"...Wait… my father has this code, but… how is he able to have then?" Cagalli was confused; she did see a strange bird tattoo on his father's chest. That should be the code, but then.
"Your father is on a completely different level when it cos to Geass. He mastered the code to the point that he has all the perks but no downsides; he beca so strong that he doesn't need the thought elevator anymore.
He can access the afterlife and speak to the dead at his leisure or communicate with people from an enormous distance through it.
Perfectly honest, even the original creators of these powers never imagined that there would be Innovators who use their technology."
"...Wow…I an, it makes sense my father is the Emperor, he should be the strongest, right?"
Shamna giggled when she heard that. It would seem this girl is Daddy's girl, even more than the other daughters of his.
"You could say so. He is crazier and more obsessed than most." The woman shook her head.
"Where most conquerors want to take over Earth, he decided to take over the whole Galaxy." The blonde reminded the Princess of her father's real nature.
"That alone tells you all you need to know."
"...Yes. I an, I inherited his Geass." Cagalli showed her Innovator eyes, and that morphed into the Geass bird.
"...Amazing… You inherited those monstrous eyes!" Shamna looked at the golden bird's pupils with wide eyes.
"...Don't all of my siblings have these?" The girl dismissed them as she couldn't fully control them yet. She was looking at tens of Shamnas, which was confusing her.
"No, not even close. Your older siblings were not even naturally born Innovators. Only Daphne was one.
Even she didn't get his Geass. I assu it's because his power didn't reach that point yet."
Cagalli's eyes widened as she realised how crazy her situation was!
"...But they have Geass now?" The girl asked hopefully.
"Indeed. All of the geass were given either by the husband or the Witch Empress.
It's the power of the Imperial family and their close followers, and from the looks of it… It beca a genetic trait now." The Empress was pleased! Now she is truly focused on having a child of her own!
"I see. Good to hear." Cagalli sighed in relief.
The pair walked into the closest building, and once more, the Princess was blown away by the sheer technological prowess of the Empire.
Holograms of all sorts of sizes, even so strange contraptions and translucent people. From the looks of it, there are phone calls that are in full body projection and of course, there are interstellar maps of planets and so on.
She was truly in a nation where humans live on multiple planets.
"Take your ti to explore." Shamna placed an ID tag on her. It had a big golden A on it.
"This is?" Cagalli inspected the ID. It was her picture with the na that said 'Cagalli Anaheim'.
"Your ID, no one knows who you are, so this will help you. Trust , there will be a considerable amount of ss once everyone knows who you are.
Every single mber of the Imperial Anaheim family is important, especially to A.S.P., so do have this, and Legion, please add her to the database."
[Already done, Empress.] The AI replied.
"Now, if you want, you can explore the HQ I do have a report to make, just be ready, your other mothers will soon co to see you." Shamna smiled, her smile told Cagalli that a bit of Entertainnt is on the horizon… at least for Shamna.
"..."
"...I-I understand."
With that said, several girls who looked like priestesses appeared out of nowhere.
"These are my handmaidens; they will explain things and show you around."
'Where did they co from!?' Cagalli was surprised as these girls elegantly bowed to the Empress.
"Now enjoy the tour." With a wave of her hand, Shamna left the Princess be.
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And just like Shamna said, four Empresses imdiately arrived at the A.S.P HQ in less than half an hour.
It doesn't help that the HQ is close to the Capital City, and most of the Empresses govern from there.
"Oh my gosh! She is like mini Mark!" Anna pulled the girl into a hug.
The Princess looked like a scared deer caught in the headlights.
"I can tell she is a spitfire," Kallen said, smirking as her Innovator senses told her this girl was like her when she was a teenager.
"Fufufu, Indeed. I can tell that as well." i said with a grin, it would seem a bit of entertainnt is on the horizon!
"More importantly, why we don't learn about you now?" Leila asked with narrowed eyes.
"...Well… It's kind of a long story." Cagalli replied after finally getting away from Anna's hugs.
"Ti is sothing we have in spades." Leila, alongside three Empresses, nodded with a knowing look.
"...Umm…then—" the youngest Princess in the imperial family began to explain how her father started G.A.R.M and how he t her mother there, who worked as a scientist.
A fling started, and her mother hid the pregnancy, and eventually Marcus returned to his world and stopped visiting after G.A.R.M was destroyed and her mother died there.
"Wait! She is dead?" When Anna heard that, she once more pulled the black-haired princess into a hug.
Cagalli sighed in resignation as she realised that she won't escape this Empress affection that easily.
"...Yes… from what I understood. Father ended his research when he learned that G.A.R.M was gone. He only went to visit that reality to see if they developed Gundams."
"Of course he does. Even in his fifties, he still acts like a child when it cos to those machines." Leila sighed. It sounded just like her husband.
"I see… I like those too." The Princess didn't hide her fascination.
"We would question you and check your DNA if you hate those machines." Kallen teased the Princess, making her pale.
"...Y-You would?" The girl was a bit spooked by that!
"Fufufu, what a reaction." The Red-Haired Empress shook her head in amusent.
"Don't worry, she is joking, my daughter is more of a biology nut and doesn't care that much about Gundams." Anna, who was hugging Cagalli, pulled a bit back and explained about Claudia.
"...I-I see."
"But she doesn't hate those machines, and is quite approving of them." The pinkette added a bit more, making the youngest Princess slowly nod.
"That reminds . Where is Mark?" Leila all of a sudden asked.
"Umm, on the other side with my brother."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
At that mont, sothing 'snapped' inside of these Empresses when they heard that Cagalli had a brother.
That ans… twins! And that ans two kids with a woman who is not his wife! Now that… triggered them!
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