Author's Note

Hey there everyone!

So today or night depending on where you are from we introduce the dizzitron. A short little chapter with a basic insight to what is to come.

Academyy: The Dizzitron

*Wonderbolt Academy a Few Days Later*

Spitfire awoke to the sound of her alarm in her room. With a mighty yawn the mare stretched out her arms and wings, feeling them pop loose as she did. She then rubbed her tired eyes and used her wing to silence her clock. She sat in her bed looking around.

Her personal quarters in the Academy were spartan. She had a bed, a dresser for her cloths and uniform, a mirror, a clock and a wooden chest for personal belongings. Throwing the comforters off her bed Spitfire flapped her wings hovering over towards her mirror and hovered over it. She stared at her tired face for several minutes before she finally got a brush out and slowly began to tidy her mane.

Once that was done she put on the uniform and flew out to the officers mess and had a hardy breakfast. She helped herself to an extra serving of food. She was going to need it.

Today was the hardest part of drills the cadets would go through. The Cloud Obstacle Course and then the Dizzitron. The dizzitron was the bane of the Academy. Back in Spitfire’s day it was a device that would spin with a pony strapped to the center of it, still is to this day. After making the pony dizzy the device would launch ponies into the air where they would recover in the quickest time possible and land as quickly as possible… most of the time.

In Spitfire’s day the dizzitron was actually far more dangerous than it is today. Back then the ponies had to time the launch for the dizzitron or they would send the cadets into the ground or worse. Spitfire recalled a near death they had once during her first year as a Wonderbolt training cadets. One of her staff wasn’t paying attention to the timing of the spins and sent a very green cadet over the Academy cliff.

The end result was disastrous. The cadet was so badly injured he had to be discharged from the Wonderbolt Academy being rendered unable to fly afterwards. Word after he left was he couldn’t even hover so his wings were vistegal at best, and only served to prove he was a pegasus.

Even worse the cadet forgave the pony and no charges were made against him, but the pony in charge of launching the dizzitron resigned and nearly hung himself. Last Spitfire heard he was still going through intensive therapy with his wife in hopes he could return to a normal life someday.

Spitfire was glad he was alive and healing. After Trixie’s return she was happy just to have her family together again. To have a whole family. Though she missed Vector at times she and Vector know their relationship was forced. At least as far as Spitfire could tell.

She watched as her cadets lined up for the dizzitron. She was in a better mood than she was earlier. For today was a special day for the cadets.

“Morning cadets. Today is a very special day for all of you,” With a wave of her hoof one of her staff removed a cloth cover from the dizzitron. “This is the dizzitron, and it will make very, I mean VERY dizzy. It’s rare for a Wonderbolt to spin out but when it does, a Wonderbolt must be able to recover from it.”

She stepped across the lawn and looked over each cadet as she gave her instructions.

“Your task will be to recover and fly straight again as soon as possible. Once you have recovered you must come in for a smooth landing, now who’s first?”

Nopony stepped forward and everyone look nervous. While two ponies raised their hooves, Lightning Dust and Rainbow Dash, she ignored them and went to the first cadet in the line. A pink pegasus mare with a medium length blonde mane and tail.

Spitfire walked right up to her and just stared at her in the most awkward way possible. The mare just stared blankly at her for a few seconds before it registered in her brain that she was the one being called out.

“M-me?”

Nervously she pointed to herself sweating from her brow as Spitfire glared at her. The mare looked once over Spitfire’s shoulder to see the dizzitron. She wasn’t even on it and she was already feeling dizzy and nauseous just thinking about it.

But Spitfire’s impatience trumped everything else. “NOOOWWW!!”

With the loud yell from her CO the pony ran up and flew into the dizzitron and straped herself in.

“Ready?” Spitfire asked impatiently.

“Y-yes ma’am.”

The mare slid on her goggles and prepared her body for the wild ride that was sure to come. Spitfire pulle dout a stop watch from her chest pocket and nodded to the grounds pony who was helping her.

He pushed a large switch on a nearby machine that had wires attached to the dizzitron. the device slowly began to twist and spin with the pony in it. Spitfire watched waiting for the right time. Once the machine reached its maximum speed she counted mentally.

One…
two.. .
Three…

“RELEASE!”

With her order given the ground pony released the pony by pulling a second lever and launched the mare into the sky.

The mare spun clumsily in the air, if one could describe it as such, and came to a wobbly flight down to the ground. When she made contact her butt skipped on the pavement and eventually she landed on her belly and spun in circles until she came to a stop near by Spitfire and passed out on the spot.

Spitfire took note of the time. “Huh, 56 seconds. Decent, but nothing to write home about. Who’s next?”

She looked to see Rainbow Dash and Lightning raise their hooves.

“Rainbow Dash, you’re up!”

“Yes, ma’am!”

With her usual diligence Rainbow Dash put herself into the dizzitron and slipped on her goggles. She didn’t say a word. She simply waited for Spitfire to begin.

Spitfire nodded again to the grounds pony and he started the dizzitron up again. Around and around Rainbow went spinning and spinning faster and faster until Spitfire was satisfied with the speed. Then as before she checked her stop watch and made sure she reset it. No use if she didn't get the time wrong.

“RELEASE!”

As Rainbow was launched in the air the mare was quick to recover. She spun with the spin out and used her own momentum to propel herself forward straight again. Spitfire was impressed, it took great skill and knowledge of one's self and body to pull off such a stunt. She watched Rainbow then nose dive and fly straight down, managing to pull up last second before colliding with the ground and skidded to a halt past Spitfire.

Spitfire looked at the watch and nearly choked at the time.

“6 seconds!? That’s an Academy record! Nice work Cadet!” She said with pride.

Rainbow grinned and proudly flew over to her place in the line. She stood between the pink mare form before, now that she recovered, and Lightning Dust. Then Lightning Dust was called, but to everyone's surprise she made an unusual request.

“Ma’am? Can you put the dizzitron and the highest setting?” The lightning maned mare asked. “I want to test my limits.”

Spitfire whoever wasn’t sure. With a single glance at the grounds pony she looked up at the confident mare who looked ready to be shot out of a loaded cannon.

“You sure newbie?”

With a confident smirk “Yes, ma’am!”

“Alright.”

Like before Spitfire gave a nod and the grounds pony prepared the dizzitron for full power. The machine started slow and then after pulling another switch the dizzitron rotated faster and faster until the machine was a dizzying blur itself.

Lightning’s eyes watered as the wind blew through her mane. How it happened through her goggles no one knew. She held her grip firmly on the bar to the dizzitron when Spitfire ordered her ‘release’.

Next thing Lightning knew she was in the air. At first she had no control, but her own personal training and preparation was about to be put to the test. Unlike most ponies she didn’t go against the push of the G-forces on her body. Instead she spun with it but used her wings as flaps to stop her spin. It worked like a charm. Then like Rainbow she went straight into advice, only Lightning used her hind legs to lead her decent like a log falling straight down the sky.

As she approached the ground Lighting gave a powerful thrust from her wings and shot forward across the ground. She was only skimming it by an inch or two, and she was past Spitfire in what she considered record time. Spitfire looked amazed at her stop watch.

“6.5 seconds! Amazing!” She exclaimed.

Lightning Dust chuckled and landed by Rainbow dash, who gave her a hoof bump. Spitfire was proud of these two young mares.They were really setting a high standard for the rest of the cadets, but they were also shining examples of what was yet to come.

If only Spitfire knew what the next few days were going to hold, she might have thought otherwise.