//------------------------------// // 5. Man of Smokes // Story: Geodes Chaser // by TarBlade //------------------------------// Rainbow Dash retreated to dodge the smoke man's attack, after taking a few steps back, she started to think of a way to defeat the smoke man in front of her. The smoke man was no ordinary man, his ability to turn into smoke and move as fast as the wind made him powerful, although not as fast as her but it was quite troublesome for her. Coupled with his fight ability. The man then challenged her to attack him, and she started running fast towards the man and doing side kicks. The man turned into smoke only to move behind her. She then tried again to kick, hit or at least give the man an attack. But the man could always dodge. When Rainbow tried to do a kick by jumping high from above, the smoke man immediately took action by turning into smoke again to avoid Rainbow Dash's kick and turning back into human form, then he lifted Rainbow Dash with his hand and took the geode using his other hand. The man then threw Rainbow Dash to the wall, at the same time Kilic, Applejack, Trixie and Puffer came to help, Applejack and Trixie then helped Rainbow Dash while Kilic and Puffer started attacking the man. ====================================== Twilight, Sakin and Hance with his H-4rc were in the treatment room accompanying their friends who were lying there, later then Sunset and Wallflower came with an antidote for their friends. Wallflower then proceeded to take one shot filled with the antidote and inject it into Pinkie Pie, then do it again to Fluttershy and to Keen Feather. Wishing their friends a speedy recovery. "Will it work?" Twilight asked worriedly "We'll see" Sunset replied with a bit of worry too after a while, Pinkie wakes up followed by Keen and then Fluttershy, they are immediately hugged by their friends who are worried about their previous state. "what? what just happened to us?" Fluttershy asked Twilight was about to explain but Pinkie cut her off first. "The three of us were drugged with a chemical drug called Monsforgatulia which came from the Foralia flower so that Moon Dust could steal our geode, then you took the same flower from the Wallflower school garden and used it to heal us!". the others then looked at each other after hearing Pinkie's words. Pinkie then continued her sentence. "Now Kilic, Applejack, Trixie, Puffer and Rainbow Dash are fighting Moon Dust and his father who can turn into black smoke!", Pinkie still continued her sentence. "And Rarity, Flame, Valent, Vinyl and Flash are heading here to tell us about Moon Dust!" Not long after, Rarity, Flame, Valent, Vinyl and Flash came to the treatment room in a hurry, they then told Twilight and the others about Moon Dust who was the mastermind behind the drugging and theft of geodes. "See?, I just told you" ====================================== the smoke man ran towards Kilic to attack him, Kilic dodged to the side and deflected his attack, the man then turned into smoke and moved behind Kilic to attack the rear, Kilic immediately twisted his body and hit the man's hand to parry the attack. Puffer then jumped to attack the man, Kilic immediately acted quickly by holding the man's arm and allowing Puffer to give the man a punch to the wall. the man then immediately turned into smoke and moved towards Kilic and Puffer, Kilic dodged the smoke, the smoke then turned into human form and attacked Kilic. Kilic gives a high kick to the man's head, but the man holds Kilic's leg and attacks Kilic's other leg at the same time to knock him out, then throws Kilic into the Wall. the man then looked at Puffer signalling that it was his turn to be beaten by him. Puffer then began to give the Smoke man some punches, but the man always managed to parry them. Puffer then managed to give the man a hard punch, but the man returned with more punches and finally kicked the already defenceless Puffer. Applejack who saw that decided to intervene, she jumped up and hit the Smoke man. her punch was strong enough to destroy the wall beside her, Applejack chased the man and kept trying to beat him, but the blow often hit the ground or the wall there causing considerable damage. the man then turned into smoke and moved behind Applejack and directly hit her in the neck to knock her unconscious. just as he was about to take Applejack's geode, Trixie immediately threw a ball of smoke at him. after the smoke ball lost its effect, Trixie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Kilic and Puffer disappeared from there. Trixie probably uses the smoke ball to bring them away from the Smoke man, knowing that they can't win against him. the man then went to see Moon Dust who had been there, the two of them then hugged each other when Moon Dust called the man her father. the two of them turned into black smoke and grey smoke, then disappeared into the air to continue their plan. currently, they need 4 more geodes for their plan to work, they want to use all of The Rainboom's geodes to take out the Forgaur. Forgaur is a humanoid creature that eats the human memory, the creature has the ability to control shadows as their medium to move places, or as a tool of damage. According to legend, Forgaur was sent to the Shadow Realm by a female knight named Holofira. Iris Dust and her daughter Moon Dust wanted to get Forgaur out of the Shadow Realm. because they were formerly loyal followers of Forgaur, after Forgaur was sent to the Shadow Realm and defeated by Holofira. they are one of Forgaur's remaining loyal followers. they then tried to free Forgaur from the Shadow Realm, moreover Holofira had died about 250 years ago, making things easier for them. once Forgaur had been released from the Shadow Realm, things would probably be even more chaotic than before, and the other smoke humans or so-called Smokeron, who had previously hidden their where abouts would reappear and become Forgaur's loyal followers.