Nova slowly awoke to an unpleasant sensation, at first he thought it maybe have just been from sleeping outside on a bench like a hobo, however the quick jab to his ribs quickly, but that thought to rest, expecting an enemy, Nova jumped straight up to face his would be attacker.

"Wow, you're pretty tall." the small colt said, looking up at Nova with a mix of awe and fear, Nova sighed and rubbed his eyes.
"I may not be from around here little buster, but I'm pretty sure it's rude to poke others, especially while they sleep." Nova said, giving the colt a frustrated glare, the colt laughed nervously. "Uh, sorry about that, I just got curious." Before Nova could respond, the colts mother called out for him. "Coming Mom!" he quickly ran off in the direction of his mother's voice, leaving a slightly grumpy Nova behind.

Nova let out another yawn and sat back down on the bench, he quickly looked around the area, he could see a few ponies in the park, either doing what he assumed was some form of exercise, gardening, and just taking a stroll, surprisingly, none of the them paid any attention to Nova. "Well, that's a relief, I guess if you live right next to such a dangerous forest you get used to some odd sights." Nova concluded. "Now, it's time to find myself a map, I should take a look back at the markets first before heading to the library, I might be able to find it there, and maybe some info if I keep my ear out." With one last yawn, Nova got to his feet and headed down the path towards the markets.

It wasn't before long Nova arrived at his destination, the main street was filled with stalls selling mostly produce, though occasionally he spotted the odd store selling something completely different.
Thankfully, the ponies either didn't care, or were to busy bartering to pay much notice to the strange bipedal creature making his way down the sidewalk, Nova constantly kept his ear out for anything interesting.
"So then she said...." "That earthquake from yesterday was rather shocking wasn't it?" "Sorry, just the price is non-negotiable, it stays at five bits a bunch." Nova suddenly stopped in his tracks, that last sentence had quickly woke him up to a rather blaring fact he had managed to overlook so far. "I...... don't have any of their currency on me." Nova stole a glance towards one of the stalls, seeing the so called "bits" we're golden coins, he let out a long sigh.

"This trip was a massive waste of time, I can't even buy anything, and stealing isn't really a good idea, since I already stand out enough." Nova looked around the area once more. "I don't see any maps being sold either, not like I could buy one anyway, so I guess I should head toward the-" Nova's thoughts were interrupted when a certain group of fillies bumped into his leg.
"Yo, you should watch where you're..... Oh, it's you three again." at the sound of his voice, each of the fillies froze in fear, and slowly looked up to Nova's face. "What are you three-" was all Nova managed to get out before they screamed and run past him, leaving a slightly confused Nova the center of attention of the entire street, Nova muttered out a swear under his breath. "All I wanted was a fucking map."

Celestia was currently getting ready to leave Golden Oaks Library, much to the elements dismay, each one of them had recovered a significant amount of their minds since the previous night, although they were still a while off from full recovery. "W-what if, Nova comes back?" Twilight asked her teacher in fear, Celestia's heart almost broke to see her student so scared.
"Twilight, if I could, I would stay here until you were fully recovered, however, as a princess I have a duty to all of Equestria, besides, if anything does happen, Spike can send me a letter and I'll come straight away." Celestia draped Twilight with her wing and gave her a comforting hug. "Your friends have all been taken home, Spike will help you with anything you need and I will come running if anything goes wrong, be at peace my student." Twilight sighed and nodded. Spike chose this moment to come from the kitchen, two plates of food ready for himself and Twilight in hand. "Come on Twilight, you worry too much, I mean what's the worst that could happen?"

It was at this very moment, with those very words spoken, that a loud uproar came from outside, the door was suddenly slammed open and Nova tumbled into the room, to shocked by the event, Celestia, Spike and Twilight stood there as he quickly got to his feet, and closed the door again, facing away from the group, he let out a long sigh. "All I wanted was a map, sorry for the sudden entrance, but...." Nova finally turned around, his mood dropped even further. "Oh fuck off." The effect was instant, Twilight screamed and ran upstairs, leaving Celestia, Nova and Spike in the main room.
Celestia shook herself out of her stupor. "Nova! you dare come here to attack my student? have you not already done enough damage already!?" She yelled furiously towards him, Nova shook his head. "Yeah, totally, that's why I crashed through the door, turned around to close it, and tried to apologize, because I'm looking for a fight." Celestia snorted. "It doesn't matter why you came, the fact that you're here is enough for me!" Without warning, Celestia tried to shoot a bolt of energy at Nova, only to quickly find her target missing, she suddenly collapsed as Nova appeared, sitting on her back. "Now, now, that's no way to treat a customer." He said, a silly grin on his face, Celestia tried to stand, but found that the more she pushed back, the heavier he became. "To think, I had but one bloody goal for today, find a fucking map, so far I've been rudely awoken by poking, had three very loud fillies scream almost at my face, then chased by an entire town because of said screaming."

Nova finally jumped off of Celestia's back, causing her to fly up and hit the ceiling, her horn getting stuck in the floorboards above her, Nova continued to talk. "So I run here, to the last place I hoped to find a map, and what do I find? A fucking princess instead, an element, and....." Nova stopped and looked at Spike, who was currently attempting to hide by curling up behind a chair. "I don't even know, anyway! the point is, all I fucking want is a goddamn map, it shouldn't be this hard!" With Nova's mini rant over, Celestia finally dislodged herself from the floor boards.

"Nova, if all you have come here for is a map, then quickly take one and leave here, under other conditions, I would not simply let you walk away, however..." Celestia looked towards the stairs leading to where Twilight was currently hiding. "I will not risk any more harm to the ones I care about." Celestia looked back towards Nova, her face filled with suppressed rage. "Take what you need and leave this place." Nova simply shrugged and looked around the library, some of the books had been knocked off their shelves from the brief struggle, but the area was mostly intact. "All right then, lets find me a-" Suddenly a large piece of paper fell onto his head, the words 'Map of Current World' appearing in front of his eyes. "Huh, that's convenient." He took the large map off his head, quickly rolling it up. "Well..... I have what I came for, you would think such a simple goal wouldn't take such an effort, but-"
Celestia stomped her hoof down. "Nova..... leave." she muttered out, her patients wavering, Nova shrugged and headed for the door, suddenly stopping right in front of it. "Oh, I just realized, as soon as I leave you're going to try to find me.... Well, I can't have that now can I?" Before she could react, Nova ripped the door off its hinges and flung it towards Celestia, the force of it flung her towards the bookshelves and almost through the wall behind it. "Catch." He said as he quickly made his way out the library and disappeared from view.

After a few moments, Celestia finally managed to pick herself up, the force of the attack catching her completely off guard. "Damn you Nova, I will find you eventually." Celestia looked around the now messy library, she sighed and starting moving the books into neat piles, and placed the door back into position, Spike finally came out of hiding. "Was... that Nova? I can see why Twilight is scared of him, I'll go check on her." Spike quickly made his was upstairs to find Twilight, he found her tucked into her bed, shaking in fear. "Twilight? he's gone now, he only came here for a map or something." Twilight quickly pulled Spike into the bed with her, hugging him tightly. "AH! Twilight, what are you doing?" He said, startled by the sudden hug. "I'm..... sorry, I.... ran." She muttered out, spike sighed and returned the hug. "It's okay Twilight, I'm here for you." The two kept hugging for a while, before Twilight finally let him go, pulling herself out from the covers. "Is.... Celestia?" She tried to ask, Spike nodded. "She's fine Twilight, I doubt she could be hurt that easily."

After a little while, Celestia finally made her way upstairs, Twilight was sitting in her bed with Spike, she walked over to her student. "Twilight, are you all right?" she asked, getting a slow nod in response. "Good, I cleaned up the mess downstairs for you Spike, so you don't have to worry yourself with that." Spike let out a sigh of relief. "Thank you princess, that would have taken all night." Celestia smiled sadly. "I'm afraid I must leave now, Luna can only do so much on her own with how Canterlot is now." Celestia nuzzled her student, comforting her. "Stay safe Twilight, and let me know if anything happens." Twilight sighed and shook her head slowly in agreement. "I... understand.." With that, Celestia walked out to the balcony and flew off towards Canterlot.

Nova eventually found himself on one of the roads outside of Ponyville, not wanting to stay in the hostile town any longer than necessary, after reaching a crossroads, he took a seat on the side of the dirt road and brought out the map. "All right, let's see what we have here..........." he looked over the massive map, shocked to see just how big the world really was. "hmm, not really what I expected.... Then again, I don't really know what I expected... still this WORLD looks to be just as big as earth....." After looking over the map for a while, he sighed and rolled it back up. "I'm going to need to think this through properly, and some advice on where to go would be nice, might as well just head down the road till I hit a town and ask around." With that, Nova jumped back to his feet and headed down the road.

Meanwhile, further down the road Nova took, a blue unicorn was having difficulties with a wheel on her mobile stage/house.

Author's Note

Finally can get started on the journey.
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