" Hey everypony, glad you all could make it to the WG Five Hundred," said Wittyhooves wearing a green helmet with his Cutie mark on top. He addresses his fellow racers, who wore similar helmets with varying colors and cutie marks.
" We know you all have been working on your karts for the last few months, so now its time to race, and wreck them. You all also know that you can have a maximum of three accessories on your kart, and that Gyro helped make your design as small and effective as possible. Thank you Gyro. Ok everypony put on padding and we can begin.
All the racers walked to their karts and put on padding, all similar to their helmets, and did some last moment inspection on their kart.
" Hey Witty," called Gyro as he trotted towards the grey stallion," The guys and I finished setting up the pulley. It wasn't easy, I mean, come on its the longest hill in Equestria. But everypony should be able to get back up to the top with no problem. Now get goin, you've got a race to compete in", finished Gyro as he began to trot off.
Everypony was in their kart, ready for the big race. A white mare with a black and white striped tail, with a similar mane, stood a few feet from the center of the eighteen racers. A lever on the ground in front of her, hooked to the gate keeping the ponies from rolling away.
She spoke in a loud attention grabbing voice," Ok the rules are; there is to be no use of magic or wings, any breaking of these rules will be an instant disqualification. No grabbing other ponies karts. Winner gets bragging rights and a special helmet.
The anticipation could be felt all through the line of racers, from Witty's aerodynamic dart shaped kart, to Drill Bits's Drill shaped kart, and even to Turbulence's, Blosom Bud's, Blitz's, and Low Kicks karts. Turbo's being a small wooden cloud chariot, LowK's being a studded brown box, Buds being a large wooden wheel with a gyroscopic center,and Blitz's being a rocket with a large hole in the back.
"Ready", said the pony with the lever.
All the racers had their back hooves on the pedal, that would activate a large spring behind their cart.
"Set"
Everypony leaned forward in utter anticipation, and lowered their goggles over their eyes.
"Go!"
The gate drops and the karts start their speedy decent. But Blitz bursts ahead in a jet of flames. As he took off you could see dozens of bottle rockets in the hole in the back of his kart. The whole time thinking,' thanks for the idea Witty', and chuckling.
His speed held for a few seconds but his opponents were catching up quickly, and he had already used a non-reusable accessory.
Witty was surprised by the bursts of light and objects produced by his friends carts. His own surprises were needing to come into affect soon if he wanted to place well. He had three buttons, all three with a yellow number on the front. He pulled his hoof away from the steering wheel and hit the first button and the tip of his dart kart opened and shot a sticky ball of glue; attached to a rope, at a kart three karts ahead of his current position. He chose this because no matter where the blob hit it would cause some negative affect to an opponent.
The blob missed its target and struck the ground with an audible, wet thwop. He hit the first button a second time and the rope broke free from his kart. But jot before hitting a wheel as he failed to swerve out of the way. The wheel broke off and stuck to the track, unmoving, leaving Witty with three wheels.
Turbulence loved her kart, and the destruction it brought with it. He had an air compressed tube set up to shoot small clouds that expended over a few seconds. She could either blind another racer or get a small amount of air time by shooting at the ground in front of her, because she happened to marinate her wood in clouds when she accidentally left it laying around at home.
She blinded and jumped over ponies and almost hit a limb, before she found out she was six feet high off the ground.
Witty just passed LowK when he discovered that the studs on his kart were moving in and out with high speed. Witty was growing closer, due to his lost wheel, and had to swerve before he was knocked aside by LowK. He pulled back in front and jabbed at his number two. The back of his cart opened, then was broken off by the wind, and a spring came out. Witty hit the button again and was kicked off of LowK and sped four karts ahead, while LowK came to a compleat stop and knocked out two other racers.
" I'm gonna get you now Blitz", Witty's words were lost in the wind as he, like everypony else, picked up speed.
Blossom Bud had made this kart to be sure nothing could happen to him. The wheel was completely solid and a dragon couldn't rip it off without help. Though he wished not to find out. He sped past other ponies and found himself at the front with Blitz and Witty. He pulled his last card and tossed a small ramp out in front of his large wheel. He was launched in the air just in time to see Drill Bit with her giant drill kart right under him. She must have been gonna mow me down, thought Bud.
Witty was not going down without using his final button. This could turn the tide. He did a quick calculation of the wind speed and jabbed at the wooden button.
The sides of his kart flew off and two sets of, thin wooden planks came out. The cart lurched into the air and the wheels were dropped off. This was now what Witty like to call it; the Sharp Wit.
Witty slid a foot to the left to put his hands on the second wheel, for controlling his bird.
The finish was approaching fast and the four racers; Witty, Drill Bit, Blitz, and Blossom Bud were in a frenzy.
Witty had to pull to the side to avoid Bud totaling him.
They crowd was waiting and so were the dozen unicorns stationed there to stop racers once they finished. The group of four all crossed the line so simultaneously that even Photo Finish would have stumbled to believe it.
Witty called to his friends over the crowd," looks like were gonna have to have a rematch, just the four of us. Grab the pulley!"