Geo gripped the bar tightly as the tram came to a halt, hearing the announcer told the people onboard that they had arrived at the main center. The door to the tram slid open and Geo hopped out, glancing around to see if he could find his friends.
"Figures. They said they'd be waiting for us and they're nowhere to be seen," Mega snarled from over Geo's shoulder as the AM being materialized behind Geo. "Yet if we're so much as a second late, Prez tries to bite our heads off. I don't know why you out up with her."
"Because she's my friend. And speaking of friends," Geo replied before he waved to a group of teens that had just climbed the stairs to the tram station. the group waved back and raced towards Geo, who walked over to meet them halfway. "Hey guys, surprised to see that you're all so late."
"Well we wouldn't have been if somebody hadn't felt the need to stop and eat the new food stand they had here," Luna shot back as she gave Bud the stink eye. Bud tried to say something in his defense, but as both his arms and mouth was filled with food he could only make incoherent sounds. Geo and Zack snickered at Bud's frantic attempts to defend himself, before Luan cut off their enjoyment with a look. "Now then Geo, I believe that we are still missing one more member of our group? So if you would, please call her."
"Alright, here we go," Geo said as he pointed his hunter forward and pressed the call button. A screen popped up in front of him, but the screen was filled with static and made a hissing sound. "Um, Celestia? Are you there?"
"G-eo? I can-ba-" a voice replied on the other end, though Geo had a hard time making it out.
"Celestia, you're doing something to mess with the connection," Geo tried to explain to the princess. The hunter made a few sharp sounds before the image of the princess flickered in a few times before the image retuned to static. "Celestia, you need to push the button in the center of the hunter. The one that looks like a cell phone."
"What-cell-?"
It took another three minutes before Celestia was finally able to fix the screen so that she was able to connect with Geo's hunter. Once they had gotten to connection set up though, Celestia wore only a smile as she looked at Geo and his friends that were in the image behind him.
"Greetings, all of you. You must be Geo's friends," Celestia said from the other side of the call, where the teens were just barely able to make out the second pony laying in a bed behind her. "I am pleased to meet you all. I am...was princess of Equestria, but you can all call me Celestia."
"Woah, a talking horse. Never thought I'd see something like that," Bud awed as he leaned on Geo's shoulder for a better view, his weight nearly buckling Geo's knees. "Bud by the way. Bud Bison."
"Be polite, Bud. Didn't you hear her? She said she's a princes, which means she's royalty," Zack corrected for Bud while pushing the mass of humanity off of Geo, before bowing to the princess. "I am honored to meet you, Princess Celestia. I am Zack, genius extraordinaire."
"And humble too," Geo added with a smirk.
"What can I say? I'm just so perfect," Zack replied in a joking tone as he bowed even further, causing his glasses to nearly slip off his face. Celestia chuckled slightly as she watched Zack do his best to catch his glasses, before she turned her gaze to the girl that was hanging around the back.
"So princess, what kind of food do you like?" Bud cut in as he obstructed Luna from view. Celestia smirked as Luna grabbed hold of Bud's ear and, despite him towering over her, dragged him out of her view before she took his spot.
"Honored to meet you, your majesty. I am Luna Platz," Luna said in a tone that Celestia both recognized as well practiced and said in a way to impress her. She had heard it many times from the ponies and others of Equestria. And she hadn't liked it there either. "I am certain that we will get along perfectly. In fact, I'm certain that a sophisticated pony like yourself must be tired of dealing with such disrespectful people," she finished while giving a look to Bud and Zack.
"Actually, I was going to answer Bud's question," Celestia said in a tone that sounded aloof, used to blow off those that Celestia had no desire to speak with. "I actually really enjoy sweets, Bud. Perhaps in the future when my sister is feeling better, you can show me around to some of the best places to enjoy sweets around here."
"Oh you bet I can!" Bud exclaimed with excitement before he began to name off dozens of places that the two of them could go to get food. Before he could get too out of control a being made of fire and was shaped like a bull appeared behind Bud, also adding a few other places that they could visit.
'That is right, Bud is also like Geo. Able to transform into one of these EM warriors,' Celestia recalled as she watched Luna shout down both the bull and the Bud. She then glanced at Zack, noticing that his eyes flicked away right when she turned her eyes towards him. 'And Zack has been observing me this whole time, taking careful notes mentally. Interesting. As for Luna...she seems a lot like many ponies I've dealt with. Hmm.'
"So Celestia, what would you like to see first?" Geo asked the princess, who turned her attention back to the teenager she was in the call with. When she didn't give an answer, Geo took his hunter off of his arm and spun it around so that she could get a full view of the shopping center they were standing in. Her eyes went wide at the sheer magnitude of the buildings, the volume of people and wizards that were walking around and the strange machines that flew across the sky.
"I am actually fascinated by the technology that seems to put anything we had upon my world to shame," Celestia said as she spied a building that had a bunch of solid waves outside of it. "If you would not mind, I would like to learn more about how your tech works."
"Ah, a fellow intellectual. I knew there was a reason I liked you the moment I saw you," Zack cut in as he hijacked Geo's call and swiped the Hunter VG off of his friends wrist. Zack moved over to the devices with a speed Celestia would not associate one of his size, before she found her screen pointing at a number of solid waves. "Over here we have your standard solid wave cars, bikes and other vehicles. They may be impressive to you, but to us they are common place and can be seen everywhere. But over here is where the real fun starts."
"This right here, this is state of the art," Zack said as he pointed the screen at a massive, armored mecha suit that was nearly three stories tall. Celestia's eyes widened at the sheer size and power that the mecha held within it, even though she was looking at it through a screen. "This here is the newest in construction. It can lift tons of rubble, bring down buildings with a single hit or build them back up in a matter of days. It's amazing!"
"Zack, give Geo back the Hunter!" Celestia heard the voice of Luna scream at Zack.
"He's having fun and Celestia seems to be enjoying herself. I don't mind," Geo's voice of reason said in reply, but a moment later Celestia found her screen being run back to Geo, whose face filled her screen a moment later. "Well, now that Zack's returned my stolen property, what else wound you like to see?"
"Hmm...how about just walking around with my screen pointed forward?" Celestia offered. "I would just like to look around and see your world. You know, without me being in a rage and trying to destroy anything that gets close to me."
"Yeah, I think we can do that," Geo agreed before the group started to move forward. "So Bud, what happened on Sonia's show the other night? I spent all last night at the WAZA headquarters and wasn't able to see it."
"Oh man, it's probably for the best that you didn't see it. That fancy actor I was telling you about? He's trying to woo Sonia into being his girlfriend," Bud said to Geo with a chuckle. "But he's only doing it so that he can prove to some guys that don't like him that he can get the famous Sonia Strumm to go out with him. The episode ended with her about to give her answer."
"Bud, take this call. Megaman needs to go teach a jerk some manners," Geo replied in a serious voice as he tried to get Bud to take his call with Celestia. The group let out a laugh and a moment later they returned to their tour, before Luna moved back into the shot and gave Celestia a wide smile.
"So Celestia, I must know, what is it like to be royalty in another world?" Luna asked the princess, who pondered over her answer for a moment. "I mean, I know that you are powerful, but are you scared to be in a place that has beings you know nothing about and technology that, by your own admission, surpassed that on your world?"
"I am not royalty. Not anymore," Celestia replied with a small sigh as she glanced back at her sister in bed. "In order to be royalty, you need a nation that you rule over. I do not have a nation any more. I do not have a world any more. All I have is a sister to protect and a monster to kill. That is all."
Luna gave Celestia a nervous smile as she moved out of the princesses view, a little unnerved at the rage that was blazing in her voice. She and Geo caught each others eyes and Geo gave a shrug of his shoulders, before taking control of the conversation once more.
"Hey Celestia, take a look at this," Geo said as he lifted the Hunter and moved it so that Celestia was looking at the center of the shopping center. A colossal monument was erected there, a monument of Megaman holding up a meteor made of red energy that let off a soft glow, one that bathed those that walked by it in its light. Geo then spun the Hunter back around so that Celestia could see him and his smiling face.
"They constructed a monument to you?" Celestia asked in amazement, causing Geo's smile to widened even further.
"Yeah, they made this a four years ago after Geo-I mean Megaman-saved the world from Meteor G," Zack said as he moved under Geo's arm so that he was in shot. "Can you believe that it only took Megaman saving the world three times before they finally constructed a monument to him. If it were me I'd have one for each time he saved the world."
"And that's why the construction company doesn't let you intern with them anymore," Geo laughed as he pushed Zack out of shot, with a more serious expression on his face. "Celestia...I know that you are in pain and angry after what Maestro did to your world. But I want you to see that I can help you. I'm not just a teen with amazing power. I've fought the end of the world and won multiple times. And no matter how powerful the Maestro is...with your help, we can beat him."
Celestia opened her mouth to reply, to tell him that it was too dangerous, but after a moment she bit back on her words and reconsidered. She looked back at her sister and lost herself in thought for a moment. 'I do not wish for him to do this. He has been very kind and understanding since I have arrived here...and he is exactly the kind of person that Maestro would delight in destroying. And I cannot watch another child die.'
'But then again, his powers are not what I and I assume the Maestro are used to fighting. Both of our powers come from magic, but Geo's power is based on both alien and earth technology that I cannot comprehend. Maybe, with a combination of the two of our powers, along with the powers of the other EM warriors that they have, we might be able to defeat him here.'
"Geo...I know that you mean the best, but I still am not sure if you can aid me in battling him," Celestia replied in a reserved voice.
"Celestia, we can fight him. I know this," Geo replied with a confident smile. "We can win together."
"An interesting theory. Time to prove it."
Celestia's eyes snapped wide as she heard the voice and a moment later a colossal explosion erupted on the side of one of the buildings. Geo and his friends spun around to see a being with a black cape and metal limbs staring down at them from the side of the now burning structure, staring right at Geo and his friends while holding a sphere of shatter magic within his grasp. People began to scream and run for their lives as fire fighting wizards started flying towards the explosion, but when they got close to the caped being they exploded into shattered energy.
"The Maestro," Geo snarled under his breath as both Mega and Taurus materialized behind their friends.
"GEO! Get out of there now!" Celestia roared on the other end as her image went to static. "I will be there soon, but you need to-"
"I would say that I am happy to see you, Celestia, but to be honest I'm more surprised. I thought I left to you to die on that rock," Maestro stated before he waved his hand and cut off the call to Celestia, before he turned his attention to Geo and his alien ally. "But I am done dealing with ponies. That story has closed. Now I am more interested in this world and how I can end it."
"If you want this world, you'll have to go through me to do it," Geo replied as he slowly lifted his Hunter.
"Of course. The hero will fight the villain. Me being the villain in this case," Maestro agreed as he slowly began to float towards the six. "You think that you can beat me. Destroy me. Perhaps even save me, if you are that foolish. But in reality, all you can do is fail...no. Not fail. DIE."