Planetshine's Space Odyssey Book 1

'Planetshine,' said somepony that was at the door, knocking on it.

'Coming!' I shouted across the house. It was a new day, still in the morning, my hooves sore from yesterday's house renovation. I opened the door slowly, looking out at the pony, uhh, pegasus, that was outside. To my surprise, it was my old friend, now only 5 years older while I wasn't.

It was Rainbowshine, Sia not there. I had tears flowing down my eyes, and so was her's. She hugged me very hard, feeling like that she was breaking my back. She was very curious about one thing, and that was why I looked the exact same as 5 years ago. It was very obvious that she looked older, but for me, I looked, and was, the exact same age as a long time ago.

'How old are you, it has been so long and you're still not at all older looking,' she asked, looking at me.

'Stasis, you know, the cryogenic stuff that freezes you and stops aging and helps pass the time,' I replied.

'Ohh, I get it, you're so lucky.'

The next thing that she wanted to know was about the Eve mission, and what happened during it, and why it took more than 5 years, and why I was still wearing my flight suit.

'Flight suit, so I like wearing it, and it's comfortable. Eve mission, so its a very long story,' I quickly answered.

'Tell me all of it!' she demanded.

I started telling her everything, which actually didn't take a long time to tell all of it, as I didn't live through that 5-year long transfer that Starry, Silverstream, and Sandbar had to endure. 'Starry, come out, Rainbowshine wanted to know about you during the 5-year long transfer.

She walked out, and seeing Rainbowshine, she started to explain the 5 year transfer time. Not bothering to actually explain it, she just explained it in one word, boring. Rainbowshine asked for more, but Starry just didn't want to tell her everything as she wasn't bothered at all, so she said, 'Don't think you want to know, every single day was the exact same, eat food, get bored, do some random things, sleep, get bored.'

She nodded her head, somehow taking in everything that she said. Rainbowshine then invited us to another Sia concert, which was great for us, as we needed some actual leisure time. This time, she was going to perform in Canterlot, and lots of ponies from all over Equestria were going there to just watch it instead of watching it on the TV. The time of her performance was tonight, at 9 pm.

The next few hours were just trotting around Ponyville and flying to Cloudsdale for the sake of it and watching a Wonderbolt performance. I thought about the Wonderbolts, still admiring them, but this time there were different ponies, but hey, they were just as good as the old ones. After the performance, we left for Canterlot.

Going to Canterlot was a different story. Rainbowshine wasn't very good at flying, and her part bionic wings were not very powerful as it got old. I still had my natural wings, and I didn't age, meaning that I was able to carry her easily, so I carried her all the way to Canterlot after about 2 thirds of the way there.

I dropped her down after a while, landing on her hooves. I hovered down slowly and seeing Canterlot for the first time in years, was surprised a lot. It was modernised, looking like Manehatten but also didn't because of the architecture. The architecture of Canterlot was more traditional while Manehatten's was mostly just flat and rectangular.

We ate at a restaurant, one that was not rated by Zesty Gourmand, as all of those restaurants were mostly the same and didn't have very good food. The restaurant we ate at was called the Tasty Treat, which somehow tasted very very good, much better than the ones that Zesty rated. When we went out, it was time for Sia's concert, the song called Alive.

We tried to get to the front, but couldn't find a spot to stand, so we did something that somehow nopony else did, and that was to fly above the other ponies. Sia then went on the stage after a few minutes of us waiting and started singing.

I was born in a thunderstorm
I grew up overnight
I played alone
I played on my own
I survived

She still had her sweet voice that everypony liked, this time not as soft as the last one. The next thing that happened was dancers bursting out on the stage out of nowhere, Sia then flying a bit, perching on a little rod that had a microphone on it. Then the chorus came.

I'm still breathing, I'm still breathing
I'm still breathing, I'm still breathing
I'm alive
I'm alive
I'm alive
I'm alive

Her voice was definitely different, but it was pretty subtle, but nopony else realised it, so I guess it was just me or was it really different? Not bothering to ponder it myself, as the answer was pretty obvious, we went backstage without anypony noticing, sneaking back, but it was more like flying backstage.

Sia greeted us and asked me something, 'I can't believe you came to this concert after more than 5 years, how was your trip to Eve?'

'Uhh, good?' I replied, a little nervous.

'So, what are you two up to anyways.'

'Oh, we're just doing whatever we want, you know, because we can,' Rainbowshine added.

'Great you two, want to come with me with the tour of Equestria, I'm performing everywhere in Equestria starting here in Canterlot.'

'We'd love to come!' I shouted, Rainbowshine looking at me confused why I shouted.

'Count me in,' Rainbowshine said.

So we took off on the journey. The travel time to Ponyville was a long long time, overnight actually, Sia falling asleep on the friendship express before any of us, officials guarding us. The set was transported via other means of transport, freight trucks actually. The freight trucks were supposed to travel on roads, which I couldn't see, but there were bound to be a road somewhere.

'Wake up all of you, we're in Ponyville finally,' Sia nudging us telling us to wake up. 'I'm performing I think tonight, you can look at the concert via the backstage, just peek through the curtains, nopony would notice.'

'What song?' Rainbowshine asked Sia.

'Elastic Heart.'

From what I have known from Sia yesterday was that Elastic Heart was one of the newer songs that she wrote, and she was going to perform it tonight. The officials disembarked the train, the set half assembled when we saw it near the town hall after we disembarked. Ponies were gathering around us, asking for autographs and hugs from Sia, leaving Rainbowshine and I just waiting for the ponies to leave. At least Rainbowshine and I didn't get jealous, I was famous already and Rainbowshine got very well known for being friends with me and Sia.