Canterlot, guard briefing room

Apparently the cops in this world aren't as brutal as the ones on earth, instead of beating the shit outta me upon seeing me covered in blood they just took me to their dispatch station with the surviving scientists, and started to question the remaining 10 of us individually, they even let me keep the guns id picked up if I unloaded them and didn't act threateningly. I looked around, the scientists I knew were still alive, there was also the janitor and some other staff. A stallion walked out of the room and motioned me to enter, I was the last one to question, so i got up and quietly walked into the room, and sat at the table.

"Hello, you must be Nova, I am commander Iron Shield, the leader of this guard division," he shook my hand and sat on the other side of the table and readied a quill, "You aren't being arrested, all I'm asking is that you tell me the truth," He stated in a calm tone. I told him of the horrors I saw, and what i did while in the building, including why I was covered in blood. "Anything else?" he asked,

"No, thats all I have" I responded calmly,

"okay, from the information gathered from all of the survivors, we've concluded that griffons and changelings attacked and prevented the alarms from sounding until it was too late, the survivors escaped and the attackers left, leaving you to make your way out on your own, you killed a changeling attacking you, and then we found you covered in its guts outside. does that sound like a logical assumption?" Iron Shield stated calmly.

"It seems logical," I said,

"You may leave now, thank you for your information" he finished. I walked out of the room and came upon a guard waiting for me,

"Hello, miss, you're free to go home, although you may be contacted later by us, the others were sent to medical, but from the news it doesn't seem like you'll need anything but a fresh set of clothes" he stated

"Thanks for the tip," I stated simply as I passed. I left the building, and headed for the castle to talk to Celestia and Luna, because my apartment was currently in a crime scene, and I didn't care to see that horror show again. I looked at myself, I was filthy, and I felt sticky from all the blood.

I reached the castle gates and asked the guard for access. "Hello, I'd like to enter my name's Nova and I need to speak to Celestia" i said, worrying that he may refuse access due to my current state.

"Celestia told me to let you in if you ever came here, normally I'd say no, but the princess has her reasons" he stated simply as he opened the gate.

"Thank you" I said very relieved that Celestia had expected me to show up. I entered, the castle was decorated everywhere, I kinda felt guilty for leaving bloody hoof prints on the carpet. I went to the throne room (thank goodness there were signs), once in I walked towards Celestia, her guards reflexively drawing their weapons.

"At ease guards," she said calmly, " Nova, you look terrible, I saw the report and the News, although I didn't suspect it was this bad," she said as she walked up examining me, "Come to the royal bath house with me, we can talk of this while we bathe" she said, motioning me to come with her.

"Wait, we? I know that ponies have communal baths, but are you sure you want to get in the bath with me when I'm covered in blood?" I asked unsure what she was thinking.

" I do not mind, and there is plenty of soap." she answered, we rounded a corner and entered a large room with a giant tub in it, Celestia, opened a rectangular mini floodgate and let the warm water rush into the tub, then promptly closed it when it was full. Celestia locked the door, and then undressed and stepped into the tub, "Come in, the water is perfect," she said in a jovial tone,

"Ok, suit yourself," with that I disarmed and got undressed, I realized that the blood had soaked through leaving sticky spots all over my everything, I wasted no time and stepped into the warm bath. The water started to turn green and pinkish from all of the gore on me,

"Oh yeah, thats nice" I said realizing this was the first time Ive bathed in Equestria. "By the way, you owe me for a bottle of alcohol, as I'm officially declassified", I joked a bit.

"Once you have a permanent address, i'll send it to you", she said giggling a bit

"Damn it, I just walked through a nightmare incarnate, why must you torment me so?" I said with a bit of sarcasm.

"First just come closer so we can talk this over," she said motioning me to scoot over, I complied, and then she grabbed the soap and motioned me to turn around, she started speaking as she started to remove the gore from my wings. "From what I've heard, it seems like the griffons teamed up with the remainder of Queen Chrysalis's hive, then they may have heard about you and decided to ransack the lab to find you, after all you are, to put it bluntly, a weapon, and they saw that as a threat," she said sympathetically

"Makes sense, although Im still wondering why there was a changeling in the building even after they left, wouldn't it make sense to leave with the rest?" I asked confused.

" I will look into it, for now, I think its best to not trouble yourself with it," she said as she finished with my wings, she then handed me the soap and turned around, I took that as the signal to do the same to her back and got started, "I may have given twilight too much freedom on our project now that I think about it, I should have known that she would have gotten overzealous," she sighed and looked a bit forlorn as she finished.

" Well, I'm here and Whats done is done, and mistakes get made, its just a fact of life," I said quietly, once I was done I finished washing myself, and just sat there for a bit, Celestia then looked at me and started to speak.

"You wanna have sex to take your mind off it?" she asked,

"uhhhh, no, I'm not gonna delve into that, I just barely got used to my body, and where my mind came from, sex isn't as open as It is here," I answered a bit puzzled as to why she'd ask, she was sexy but i didn't think it was the best idea, id read in the guidebook id gotten that ponies in Equestria had lower inhibitions , and that public nudity was perfectly legal, and because of the skewed population density, it was common to have "herds" of multiple mares to a stallion, I understood why it was so spur of the moment, but I still found it odd that she'd ask right now of all times.

"I understand, it was rushed anyway, although if you want to in the future, just ask me, and since the lab you were living in was destroyed, I will give you a room to stay in, and I'll get my tailor to make you some more clothes, and while you're here we can asses your combat skills at the guard training grounds" Celestia said apologetically, I got out of the tub, dried myself, combed my hair with magic and looked at my pile of clothes on the floor

"Thanks, and by the way, could you magic my clothes clean? I don't know the spell," I then held up my shirt observing the nastiness on it.

"Sure, oh and by the way I've invited Princess Cadence and shining armor over to meet you tonight at dinner, I sent the invite just before the lab was attacked," she smiled and cleaned the blood from all of my possessions and then teleported something onto my horn. "here's the key to your room, and if you come across nobles, Ignore them," she said cheerfully. I slid the keyring off of my horn and left to following a little map on the key's tag.
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Celestias POV

I watched Nova leave then I thought to myself, 'Poor thing, I wish I could help her more, she seems calm now but the stress could build, and I don't wish to repeat the incident with Luna, I'll have to keep an eye on her'. I got out of the tub, dried myself, put on my dress, and walked out to return to my duties.

Author's Note

Again, a bit weird grammatically, but its out now.

hope you like

live long and prosper.