Sparky's Journey

by General Sparky

Navy activities

Sparky and Rachel would spend most of the time in the base. They had many fun times in the base, especially when it came time to do ship cleaning. Ship cleaning is an activity where all naval personnel would clean the ships in the base. Be it surface or subsurface ships, these would have to be thoroughly cleaned. The base that Sparky was stationed in had 4 battleships, a battlecarrier and 3 submarines. These vessels form the bulk of the Equestrian Navy main 'warfare' force. These ships would take a lot of time and effort to clean as these ships are big in size and has different weapon systems. To clean these ships, the divers would clean the hull of the ship which is in contact with the water. (Sparky is part of them), whereas other ponies would clean the deck of the ship and clean the barrels to ensure that the shell do not get stuck when leaving the barrel during operations. The whole activity would conclude with a simple live firing exercise to ensure that the ships are operational at the end of the activity. Sparky loves the live firing as the ships looked very majestic when the main gun fires. The thundering sound as the cannon fires and the shock wave it produced cannot be replaced by any other machine. To witness the live firing, Sparky needs to be placed on top another pony's shoulder or back but the ponies usually did not let him see the scene as they treat her as a misfit and should not be allowed to see the live firing. Moments like this made

Sparky wished she was taller, so she would not be blocked from view by pretty much all the other ponies. She managed to found a way around this by simply climbing on top of a nearby building and seeing the exercise from there. She dreamed on serving on these ships, maybe her wish would come someday soon, she told herself. Soon, the exercise would come to an end and everything went back normal.