Planetshine's Space Odyssey Book 1

Well, we all crawled out of the command pod, one by one, not even injured a bit. After all, it was a pretty soft landing, to say the least, but it didn't feel as soft as the one at Eve, not entirely sure why. Starry Night was the first one to get out of the command pod then Sandbar, Silverstream, and I was last.

Silverstream spotted the space center, 'Space center is over there!'

'Let's fly there!' I commanded.

Silverstream grabbed Gallus up and we all flew there, leaving the command pod where it landed. When we were there, we saw something very different. The runway was rebuilt, the spaceplane hanger enlarged by quite a bit, and the research department looking better than ever.

Everyone walked into the administration building, telling the administrators that we were back from the Eve mission. They approved of the mission and asked one thing to me, 'Planetshine, why do you look younger than the others?'

There was no other way to answer the question but to say this, 'Well, its a long story, but I went in stasis and somehow the other stasis chambers broke or something and I am now 5 years younger than them.'

'Well that's just strange, but all you astronauts will be assigned holidays for the next few months, until the next mission. Feel free to come back to the space center, and don't forget to rest well after that mission I know that was hectic.'

We all trotted out the administration building, a little bit tired. 'Starry Night, Planetshine,' Sandbar said to us, 'We will be going to Mount Aris for the holiday, see you guys until the next mission.'

'Ok, we'll be going to the astronaut complex,' I replied back.

Starry Night and I trotted to the astronaut complex, which was all void of any ponies or creatures. I ran into my room while Starry just sat on the couch starting to watch TV. The inside of the building didn't change much, I couldn't see too much of a difference other than the things mounted on the walls. My room looked the exact same, barely touched, but definitely cleaned by the janitors or it would be full of cobwebs by now.

I took off my flight suit and started to do more work on it. I really wanted my suit to be perfect so that wearing it outside every day or even on other planets wouldn't be a problem. When I took it off, I flew out the window, getting parts from the spaceplane hanger and from my junkyard.

I got back a better thermal unit and better suit material. Now I realised that modifying the suit would be a problem, but making a whole new one wouldn't. I was pretty much now an expert at this as I've modified mine a several times already. I decided that a fur tight suit would be best for movement, so I went with that.

The next few steps were to basically fit everything together, using nylon and cotton to make the inner layer and using a newly discovered fabric that was very strong and extremely pressure-resistant while not restricting movement at all. I then attached the thermal module, a modular flashlight this time, and no gizmo, because I was too lazy to do that.

I then flew out of my window and went to my junkyard to then test it, realising that I spent hours making the suit. When I reached the junkyard, I realised that it was all new, now not having parts all being thrown in a huge pile, but more in an orderly fashion. This wasn't what I expected but I just went to the spacesuit testing device and set it to be a vacuum and test it overnight.

I was surprised that Starry didn't come up in my room for the whole day, maybe he was just minding her own business. I went down the stairs, but I couldn't find Starry. I went into her room, not there. I then went into the kitchen, and there she was, cooking up dinner.

I asked her, 'What are you cooking?'

'Making, not cooking.'

'Ok?'

'Hayburgers!'

The hayburgers that she made weren't the best, but it was pretty good to say the least, especially not having actual real food for 6 years, even if a lot of it was me in stasis. I then slept early, as I had a long day tomorrow. The next day, I flew out of my window again, not even alerting Starry Night. For some reason, I feel like flying out the window was a trademark of me.

I flew over to the junkyard, which I still couldn't believe that the managers sorted all of the parts and whatnot into sections. I went into the spacesuit testing chamber and read the results. It somehow worked, maybe it was me being a pro at that, but I wasn't fully sure about that.

I just couldn't believe the results I saw, the suit actually withstanding no a vacuum and extreme temperatures. I think I just revolutionalised the spacesuit, or maybe not, it was only mine that I was able to modify, the space center administration had to approve stuff and whatnot.

I then put it on. I didn't even know how the feeling of it was, it was extremely comfortable. It felt like I wasn't even wearing anything, the movement was all fluid and it did a great job of insulating temperatures, meaning that the thermal control unit was less useful.

I trotted out, then flying. Flying was easier than before, not needing to flap my wings as much. My tail was also covered pretty nicely, but it had to be tied up, which I didn't mind as I can barely feel it. I then went back to the astronaut complex at the space center, entering it. 'Starry, I'm back from my junkyard.'

'Planetshine?' she asked, 'Did you get a new suit again?'

'Uh, yeah, why?'

'Nothing, do you want to go to Ponyville later today?'

'Sure, that would be great, I haven't been there for a while now, it's been a long time.'

I cooked up lunch later, then going to Ponyville. It was the afternoon, and we were ready to head to Ponyville. We flew a bit, and we finally got there after a few minutes of flying fast. It was definitely faster than the Friendship Express, which would get from Ponyville to Canterlot overnight, which was very very slow compared to flying, after all, it was for the ponies who wanted to sleep in Ponyville and wake up in Canterlot. I then landed softly, my wings gliding me to the ground.

There, I noticed something straight of the bat, Ponyville was different again, this time more modern. The signs were mostly digital, there were electricity poles routing electricity everywhere, but the buildings remained the same. A few ponies greeted us, warmly welcoming us to the town, and then Pinkie Pie jumped in front of us.

'Hey, welcome to this town, you new here?' she abruptly shouted in our faces.

I replied pretty quickly, 'No, I live here but I haven't come here in more than 5 years.'

'What! That will be a welcome back party for you two!'

'Not Starry, she's from Cloudsdale, I'm from here.'

'Ohh, I get it, WELCOME BACK PARTY!!!'

Pinkie threw a huge party for us, inviting everyone in Ponyville. There were not just ponies, but there were dragons, griffins, hippogriffs, even changelings. I knew there had to be those creatures, and I was expecting them, as the School of Friendship was all about teaching friendship to all creatures, pony or not.

The party went on for a while, and I definitely enjoyed it, now I just wanted to explore Ponyville again, just like the time I moved here. To put the party extreme would be a huge understatement, it was EXTREME and crazy as hell. There was total chaos on the streets and ponies holding out phones taking photos. Yes, there was something called a phone, and how did I know it, I asked a pony that had one what it was.

When the party was finally over, I was free to explore the town again. I first went to my home, with Starry of course. When we entered, I saw the state of my home, absolutely disgusting. There were insects, cobwebs, and dust everywhere, not including tons of mold. I had to clean all that shit up, even if I didn't want to.

I first had to get equipment to clean it up, so I went to the local shops to buy some cleaning equipment. There was apparently something called a vacuum, which would suck in the dust and other nasty things in my home, so I bought it. It only cost 20 bits, but since I was a famous astronaut, I had lots of them, so I bought it outright. I also saw a phone, and since lots of ponies had one, I thought I would buy one too.

The phone was supposedly running an operating system called Android, which I have never heard of, but after a while of mucking around, I quickly got used to using it. I then saw something that came with it, something called earphones. They were supposed to fit in your ears instead of headphones, which would fit on your ears. I started to use them, and they weren't that bad at all, sounding pretty well.

I flew home carrying the vacuum. It was a bit heavy but I got it home after a while. 'Starry! I got something.'

She was in my home dusting the place when I brought in the vacuum. I flew up to the electrical pole that was hanging over my house and started to do some electrical work. I was no expert at it, but I knew basic electrical things like powering things with batteries or an external electricity source.

I cut out the protective layer of the electrical circuit, and accidentally touching it a few times, I hooked up something that would let me get free electricity, which did count as sort of stealing but I didn't really care about that. 'I all done, you can now use the vacuum, I'll do the mold cleaning work.'

The next thing I realised instantly was that my suit protected me from the electrical currents, which I wasn't surprised at all. I went into my house, starting to clean the mold. There weren't any mold problems specifically towards my house, but after several years, it's really just bound to happen.

The cleaning took ages to do, but it finally was done after hours and hours of pure cleaning, making it look like new. I now just needed to get some new things, futuristic ones to be exact. I let Starry do all that, while I just stayed in my home, playing on my phone for a bit. All I knew was that Starry was outside buying things, but I didn't know what.

After a long time of waiting, I started to think about what she was doing. Then, I saw her come into the room, carrying tons of items into my home. There were things like fridges, which were a new way to store food, a computer, and lots more. There was no way that all of that was going to fit, but after a long time, we managed to finally to get them all in, somehow fitting it in.

I started to go out, putting my phone into my pocket that was on my chest. I liked that pocket, it was pretty nice to have it for keeping little things. I still had my earphones in for some reason, I didn't know why but I liked it being able to not only play music but to hear things around myself while doing so, unlike headphones, which muffles all outer sound.

The feeling of going outside was very strange, and since it was nighttime already, Ponyville looked very new. There were lights everywhere, well, not everywhere but it lit up all the streets. There were neon lights that were subtle but did make a difference. There were even ponies in restaurants, which was pretty strange at night, as that only really happened in Manehatten. Didn't I mention that the ponies also changed a bit.