Back in the Royal Chambers of the castle, Princess Twilight was busy signing papers for upcoming meeting with the Equestrian Royal Armada who had managed to elect new leaders of their own regions. These new leaders had been replaced by the old ones who did the same thing Celestia and Luna did many moons ago, retire. So she had papers signed to inform that this meeting was what would become of the regions of Equestria since she was now in charge, alongside her as usual was Nathan in his captain's armor, and below were two royal guards. As Twilight was levitating one of the papers that contained a schedule, she heard Nathan sigh in annoyance.
"Nathan, is something wrong?" she asked as she rolled her eyes in the direction he was standing.
"Sorry, Ah'm just wonderin' where Zodi is, he was supposed to be back here three minutes ago."
Twilight put a hoof on her nephew's back, "I'm sure he's on his way back here, you know he has to take care of Celestia and Luna also."
"Well, Ah' just can't see how he can be two places at once and taking care of three ponies at once."
One of the guards below turned his head and looked up at Nathan, "Captain, don't you think you're being a little overboard about this?"
"As you were." Nathan ordered.
"Yes sir." said the guard with an obeying tone as he turned back to his guard position.
"Look, Ah'm just worried about him, he's been feelin' rather down lately." Nathan said as he flapped his wings and landed in front of a window, Twilight calmly followed him and stood beside him.
"Well I can see your concern Captain, but he has every right to feel that way."
"Well, he did tell me that Celestia's been acting kinda strange lately."
"How so?" asked Twilight, "It's normal for a senior pony to go back and forth on something."
"Yesterday while Ah' was givin' commands to the guards, he came up to me and told me that she didn't remember the nursin' home she and Luna are residing at. Even though the sign was all over the corridors there, she kept losing sight and memory of the name."
"She's probably just losing sight of things." said Twilight, "I'm sure she'll get better."
"Ah' don't know," said Nathan with a saddened face, "Ah've experienced a similar incident on mah' world, it went down so bad."
"What happened?"
"When Ah' was a boy, a kid Ah' knew got adopted and he had a grandmother that did not have good memory of things. One day when he went over to her house, she kept getting his name wrong even though he told her his name many times before. The doctor said she had a condition that made her do that, and then one day without warning, when he went to see her again............she passed away."
Twilight gasped at this, "She died?!"
"Yes, and what was worse, when he heard about this, he went mad over it because he was really close to her. Autopsy said that she died from this condition, and it drove him to suicide."
"Oh my!" exclaimed Twilight.
"Ah've heard the name of the condition, but it's hard to pronounce. Ah' just have this feelin' that whatever this kid's grandmother died from is what Celestia might be showing signs of, Ah' just don't want Zodi to suffer the same fate."
Twilight put a hoof on her nephew, "I know you're worried, we all are, but you have to understand that...." a sudden sound of the chambers doors opening up quickly interrupted her before she could finish. She, Nathan, and the two guards posing at the bottom quickly saw that it was none other than Zodi who had on his armor and helmet, but he showed them a look of utter disappointment and sulk.
"Sorry I'm late your majesty." he said with a hearing mutter, Twilight then approached him as Nathan stood beside the two guards.
"At ease Zodi." said Twilight, "We understand."
"It's just not fair!" he snapped as he walked towards his guard position, "How can she keep forgetting things?!"
"Take it easy." said one guard. "I'm sure she'll be fine."
"Ah' think Ah' know someone who can help." said Nathan.
"Your friends from the other world?" asked another guard.
"Yes, but just one."
"Luke?" asked Twilight
"No, Kyle, he's not only a cop, but he's also an expert on conditions." said Nathan, he then turned to the guards.
"Guards."
"Yes sir?" they both asked.
"Go to the Crystal Empire and have mah' sisters active the portal to mah' old world immediately."
"Why sir?"
"Ah' need y'all to go to the 3rd precinct and get Kyle from whatever he may be doing and get him here to Canterlot at once."
"But we don't know anything about your world, we've never even been there."
"Trust him guards." said Twilight, "He'll take you all there."
"Plus Ah' have directions to the main precinct, Skyla and Flurry Heart will give them to you from mah' old room."
"Yes Captain!" they said in a saluting manner, and since they were both Pegasus, they flapped their wings and took off to the Crystal Empire as Nathan had ordered. Meanwhile, Zodi was on the verge of breaking down over all of this, because he had sunk his head.
"Zodi, don't take this too harshly." said Twilight, but it only made him pound his hoof on a table.
"Princess Twilight, what in Tartarus am I supposed to do?!"
"There might be a way comin'." affirmed Nate.
"I don't believe there is a way at all." he sulked, "Every time I visit her in that wretched place, her memory falls even deeper, she gets harder and harder to communicate with. What am I gonna expect, just watch her get worse and worse by the days?!" he said as he started crying. Twilight and Nathan looked at each other with great concern, so Nathan quietly whispered in her ear a solution for Zodi, and Twilight thought this was a good idea. So, she walked up to him and put a hoof on his chin.
"Listen Zodi, I am releasing you from your patrol duties today. Nathan and I understand you are too upset for this, so what we would like for you to do is just go home and relax this depression off a bit. Drink some liquids, eat a hot meal, etc."
"Yes, your majesty." He sniffled, "I think I'm just gonna go back and spend the rest of whatever time I have with my mother."
"We understand Zodi, now go on." Nathan said, Zodi took his helmet off again and exited the throne room as Twilight and Nathan looked at each other again with great concern.