A few of the battle droids escorted the louds through the castle while explaining the city's history.
"Our fair city was founded 10 years ago in late October of 2020 by wreck it Ralph and Vanellope von schweetz, you'll meet her later. It was founded after their old home closed, and they eventually end up here. This city is constantly growing, and is run by the family living in this castle, with the help of mayors in the different districts. The city has suffered several invasions and battles, but always bounces back. Our master, queen Lucy, co runs a galaxy of planets with the galactic empire. We're sorry you had to see her bad side, but she has been through so much. I'm sure none of you could understand the pain she went through, being the most hated internet character for a time"
"She couldn't have been that bad a person, could she?" Lori asked
"Lucy has issues with her anger, her powers you were witness to don't help that. She means well, believe us. It's just having had to fight a war with the empire early this year kind of hardened her a bit. If you wish to learn more feel free to ask a droid, or look her up on the internet, there's plenty of videos of her out there of this city's past events. Well here are your rooms. You may bunk or each get your own room, makes no difference to us. You may freely explore the city but do be careful, some of the citizens, well they're rather intense. New clothes will be offered if requested"
"Some new clothes would be nice, we were in the middle of an award ceremony when we were zapped here" said Rita
The family was taken to another room full of clothes being donated throughout the city and were allowed to pick what they wanted. After ending up with clothes very similar to their normal outfits, everyone went to settle in their own rooms before deciding to explore. Out of all the kids, no one was more excited than Lola. She was getting to live like a real princess in a real castle with actual royalty. Though she did feel kind of bad how she treated that kid earlier. Hearing she ran a galaxy, and was close to her age, impressed her. She wanted to know more about her. She peeked out her door and faced a droid
"Excuse me, mr robot, can I talk to you?" She asked
"Certainly"
The droid walked into lolas room and faced her as she sat on a bed.
"I wanted to talk to you about that princess, I mean queen, I met earlier. What's she like?" Lola asked
"You may refer to her as either a princess or queen, she doesn't care. But Lucy is a kind and caring person. She's helped several of our city's citizens become successful, like the smorelines who live in the farmlands near here, and our resident queen bee, who lives 15 minutes away. She's also very smart and talented in the force, the powers you were witness to. She programmed me as well as an entire galaxy of planets which she ran before being overthrown"
"Why was she overthrown? She's a year older than me, people must've liked her" said Lola
"I believe a trip to the museum is in order, I can show you what happened"
Meanwhile with Lynn sr, he was talking to Ralph outside his door.
"It's an honor you're having us stay mr Ralph, I'm sure you'll find my family interesting. I'd like to make your family dinner tonight as a way of saying thanks for helping us" said Lynn sr
"No that won't be necessary, we have-
"I insist. You haven't lived til you tried my world famous Lynnsagna"
"I don't know, Kevin's not huge into Italian food" said Ralph
"I can guarantee he'll love it. I just need to get to a grocery store and get the ingredients" said Lynn sr
"Fine, you can cook. A droid will take you" said Ralph
With Lincoln, he was really excited.
"There's actual ghosts in this game?" He asked a droid
"They live in the haunted mansion in the farmlands. I wouldn't recommend going there, they don't like being disturbed too often"
'I gotta see that place, Lucy would love it I'm sure' Lincoln thought to himself
Some of the other kids were also happy to be staying in the castle, while others weren't. They were in a strange new world, in a completely different year, it felt strange and odd. Perhaps their minds would change as time went on.
Soon everyone went to explore the city with droid escorts. Lynn sr was taken to a grocery store to get ingredients for dinner. He was fascinated by some of the strange foods sold.
"Nuka cola, stay puft marshmallows, Mario mushrooms, seems like you game things eat some weird stuff" Lynn stated
"I wouldn't know, I'm a battle droid, I don't eat. But the majesty's friends say the foods are more or less like what you users eat"
Lynn sr browsed through the aisles, picking up different things, until he accidentally bumped into someone. A woman wearing yellow and black and a man in red and blue stormtrooper looking armor.
"Oops, sorry, didn't see you there" the woman stated
"Miss honey, good to see you again. Lynn loud, I'd like to introduce you to one of our games most important citizens, Miss Honey Potts, the queen bee" said the droid
"It's Shaw now. And nice to meet you mr loud, whoever you are" said the woman
"Queen bee? What does that mean?" Lynn asked
"Oh, long story, don't worry about it. But I've saved this game several times. You must be someone important if one of these droids are with you" said Honey
"I'm what you call a user, I think that's what the robot said earlier" said Lynn
" a user? I don't even wanna know. Well sorry for bumping into you, I gotta finish my shopping before my daughter finishes school" said Honey
Honey and her husband walked away while Lynn continued his shopping.
With Lynn jr, she was exploring a neighborhood in the city dedicated to her favorite thing in the world, sports. There were sports stadiums and players all over, with many of the citizens playing some kind of sport.
"This place is awesome. I gotta come back here" she told herself
Lincoln meanwhile was visiting an arcade Kevin owned nearby. And with the games all set to free play upon paying a small fee, he felt right at home. There were so many games, too many to possibly play.
"I think I'm going to like it here" said Lincoln to himself
Lily and Leni meanwhile visited the city's preschool district, where Lily interacted with the districts mayor, a light brown bear named Bear, who made Lily laugh by sniffing her.
"That tickles" Leni told him
"Tell me, did you just come from the farmlands? Because you smell like nature. Or perhaps you smell this good all the time" Bear told them
"I guess we just smell amazing" said Leni
Rita visited a spa in the city for some much needed relaxation, while Luan visited a joke store. Luna went to check out some of victory plaza while Lana played in a mud puddle in victory plaza park. Lucy went to some of the villain neighborhoods to see what spooky characters existed. Lisa joined Lola at the museum, wanting to see the weird new technology this world had. Lola was shown some of princess Lucys history.
"Her majesty started her empire in an attempt to show the world she wasn't crazy, and she could be a good person. She was fair, and kind, until the my little ponies of planet Equestria rebelled over food and lies. In response, she sent her army to keep the peace. Then came the empire" her droid guide told her
Lola looked through the exhibit, looking at models and pictures. She saw anti droid posters, newspaper clippings of events. Then finally she saw pictures of the day she lost everything.
"It was a big battle, 2 days long. We fought hard and brave, but the empire overwhelmed us. I laid deactivated for a couple months while my master was hated and ridiculed" said The droid
"That's so sad. I had no idea" said Lola
