Celestia's bed chambers (Celestia POV)

I set Nova on the side of the tub so I could remove the arrows and bullets without ruining the carpet, she'd gone quiet since I brought her inside, now she just sat there, staring into the void looking broken and sullen. I used my magic to persuade an arrow out, She remained silent and unwavering, thank goodness these weren't broadhead arrows.

I finished removing the bullets and arrows, throughout the whole ordeal she just took it, completely ignoring the pain.I'd erased the immediate memories of the guard at the range and any of the maids we passed- I felt guilty but it was necessary for the time being. I'd repaired her clothes and cleaned her up a bit, her body stopped bleeding quite fast as it repaired itself, then I vaporized the arrows, bullets and what little blood there was to remove evidence. I took her to my bed and just hugged the poor thing, she respnded a bit to this, only mumbles and slight movement towards me. And to think I should be worrying about a changeling that stayed behind, it was a spy, controlled by the queen. I should have addressed Nova's predicament more directly, Nova had probably seen a lot, First, being forced into a new body, then, the concept of being stranded on a new world, then the murder of so many innocent ponies so close by and not being able to do anything, remembering old friends must have been the last straw, then she lost it, poor thing.

I sat there for a few minutes before I heard a soft knock at the door.
"Who is it" I answered

"It is me dear sister, May we enter?" I heard Luna say in a bit of a worried tone.

"Come in Luna, what do you need" I replied as Luna walked in.

"We heard yelling and we wished to see what hath happened" she said, obviously very worried.

"The yelling was Nova having a mental breakdown, she said something about remembering friends after she ran off and got shot, and almost did something regrettable." I said quietly, then Luna sat down next to me.

"When we had spoken to her we saw distress and longing to go back, but we did not suspect it was this bad," Luna looked at the barely responsive Nova in my arms, and sighed deeply, "Sister, we shall watch her while thy return to thine duties, we shall inform thee of any change."

"Thank you Luna" I said before she teleported herself and Nova to her room. I rose from my bed and teleported myself to the throne and sat down.
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Luna Pov

We transported us to our room, we placed Nova on the bed and tried to speak to her.

"Nova, it is us, Luna, will thy please respond?, Can thou hear me?" we spoke to her quietly."Doth thee wisheth to speak? Hello?

"Fuck this planet... Fuck twilight... Fuck everything" Nova mumbled to us.

"It is alright, be still, calm thyself," we said to the blank stare of the unfortunate alicorn. We received no response, then she got up and started to leave unexpectedly, we noticed the clenched fists, we also noticed that the runes on her horns were now glowing blood red rather than their usual blues, and violets, we knew she would not respond, and we could not grab her with magic, thus we shall find our sister.
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Nova Pov
'Twilight can go die in a ditch', in thought to myself, 'I need my gun, I need to shoot something right the fuck now.' I walked briskly to Celestia's room and entered, I retrieved my weapons and went out to the training area for the guards, I found a crowbar in a janitors office, perfect. On the range I was still furious I drew the rifle and pulled the trigger, it fired, the needle embedded in the target, then I noticed the trigger ring could be pushed forward, so I did, 'BZOOT!' the rifle collected the needles and fused them into one long javelin and fired, the glowing green javelin sailed through the target and embedded itself in the wall behind. I then emptied the rest of the pistols power crystal, then I went to the meelee training dummies and beat the shit out of them with the crowbar, damn that felt good.
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Celestia Pov

I had just left the throne room when I saw Luna come up to me.

"Sister, Nova spoke a bit then left, we hath not seen her since" Luna said with a worried look on her face.

"When did this happen, Luna?" I asked, worried that Nova would cause more trouble

"By our estimates 2 minutes hath passed since she hath gone" Luna said

"Scan for her magical signature, on the south end of canterlot, I'll scan the north" I said urgently.

"What are we looking for dear sister" Luna asked as her horn lit up.

"Her signature is unstable and random, it should be obvious enough" I lit my horn and prepared the spell, then both Luna and I activated the spell."in found her, she's in the gaurd training grounds near the east wall, I'll go see what she is doing, and by the way what did she say?"

"She expressed her distaste in this world and Twilight Sparkle, although she said it with more implied anger and swearing" Luna replied

"Good to know" I said back.

In the training yard I saw nova using some alien form of martial arts on the dummy, as well as prolific use of a prybar, she was silent, she only kept hitting and kicking, I'd never seen any of my ponies act this way, it simply wasn't their nature, Nova obviously knew something about fighting, she executed attacks brutally and efficiently, I also saw several other dummies laying on the ground nearby, decapitated and dismembered. It pained me to see such actions, I hoped she would stop but she continued, I lowered the sun but she still relentlessly attacked the dummies in more and more elaborate and brutal ways.

"Nova" I said to her

"Buisy....Right....Now" she sounded worn and tired. The voice I would expect to hear from a soldier returning from war. I watched in silence as she removed her shirt, she was not sweating,rather, steam was rising from her, then she stabbed the dummy with her horns, the dummy caught fire. I saw Nova roll over to the side panting.

"Do you want to talk about it?" I asked almost pleading her

"No" she replied panting, she got up, she retrieved her weapons and shirt, not bothering to put it back on then left. I would have been worried about her getting raped looking like that around the nobles, but now, she looked angry enough that only the stupidest nobles would try, and they wouldn't survive long enough to undo her pants. I was hoping that it wouldn't come to this, she was acting like Luna during her spiral into insanity, I hadn't realised this until now, but she was without a true friend or a herd to turn to, usually ponies suffering depression from a loss, would turn to their loved ones,their herd mates or friends but nova was grieving for everyone she cared for, she knew she would never see anypony she knew ever again,and she didn't trust anypony enough to open up about it, and she was met without the sympathy or compassion of most ponies, only Twilight's relentless desire for knowledge as well as her friends who, save fluttershy, would do anything for Twilight if they saw Nova as a threat. I need to find a way to help her get over it before she becomes another Nightmare Moon.

Author's Note

Another pretty heavy chapter but kinda necessary.