Nothing in Space

      They suddenly went straight into the great beyond, where nopony had ever been.  The sudden acceleration pushed everyone into their seat.  As they reached 60,000 feet, everything seemed to slow down.  Twilight started to float.  This was like nothing she had ever read before in books describing 0-g.  Of course she had experienced being in the air before, but nothing like this.  She unbuckled and had Starry Night man the controls.  It was wonderful.

     Things had been going as planned, except the fact that Twilight had puked all over herself and the seat.  Suddenly, Starry stated that the ship had entered outer space.  He pressed a series of buttons and flipped a switch.  The walls sprang to life; folding, creasing, and sliding back to reveal a sleek, transparent observation deck around the cockpit.

      "Cool," Spike said, eyes wide and his mouth hanging open.

     Twi motioned for Spike to follow.  The two wandered over to the side and looked out.  The ship appeared to be approaching a cloud of  clustered brownish gray rocks, ranging from the size a pebble, to the size of small cities.  She had expected this, and had observed it from her telescope and in books.  The Cloud orbited Equestria at 600,000 miles per hour.  It was a relatively small cloud too, so she calculated that it would be 5 hours until The Cloud completely passed.  Twilight entered the data into the autopilot, and had Starry enable it.  Now she just had to wait.

      Twilight decided to do liked to do most, she liked to read.  She read one of her favorite books.  She read for 2 hours and finished nine times, and there was nothing else to read so she slept.  And slept...

      And slept...

      And woke with alarm blaring in her face.