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It started as another ordinary day in le Pays maudit, french for "The Cursed land", nothing unusual was happening at the Smurf Village as Gargamel is keeping his head down these days and the smurfs weren't harassed by anyone or anything else. What they don't know is that their world is about to change, and it's going to happen at noon when the sun is at the highest point in the sky.
As the smurfs were busy at their usual jobs, the first ominous sign appeared. A bright fireball suddenly appeared in the sky, almost as bright as the sun and leaving a cloud vapor trail the fireball was moving slowly indicating that it's very high up in the sky. Other species began to notice the fireball, Gargamel was gardening out in his garden when he first seen it for himself. That's when his cat Azrael began to act up and was in a state of panic, along with other wild animals nearby.
"This is not good," he thought to himself then turn to Azrael, "Azrael! Get inside, I think a disaster is imminent!"
The cat ran inside as Gargamel boarded up the windows of his hovel and head down into the basement, luckily he prepared as he had two weeks of food and water. He sat there with Azrael sitting on his lap as he sits there, waiting.
Other humans looked up at the sky and began to think it's a meteor, including the Pixies, Wartmongers, Elves, the Smurfs, and your average Woodland Critter. They had meteors land in their village before, one happened to crush Brainy nearly killing him. Puppy and Smoogle was jumping all over the place in the state of panic as the birds remain silent.
Chernov took note of this immediately, he is a green, 4 apple tall Human Smurf hybrid wearing camouflage jacket, pants, and Smurf hat. He happens to be a neutral smurf who acts like human, this frustrates Papa Smurf but does not bother with it as he knows Chernov carries highly advanced miniature size human manufactured guns and explosives. One time he nearly blown up the entire town after it tried to kill him, but it turns out the bomb was fake and everyone respect him more.
He had a shelter pre-built underneath his mushroom home after the meteor strike near the edge of the village, Chernov managed to persuade Snappy, Nat, Slouchy, and Sassette to take cover in the shelter awhile telling them that they'll might not be any rules to obey once they come out. Chernov went so far to shelter the children, he even kidnapped Baby Smurf before sealing up his shelter.
Before he went down, he rushed to Papa Smurf to tell him the emergency. By now the village leader already declared a state of emergency, "Have everyone take cover in their homes!" said Chernov, "Don't worry about the smurflings, they're safe!"
The alarm was sound and everyone takes cover under whatever they can, most smurfs hide in their mushroom homes awhile others either bury themselves or take cover in Natural Shelters like logs – one smurf happened to jump inside the village well and took shelter there for the time being.
The meteor was going to strike at the center of the cursed land, Chernov happened to have several video cameras set up before hand in special places before taking cover. He ran into his shelter and sealed up the entrance, by now everyone had taken some sort of shelter as the fireball opened up and a large bomb the size of a two story house came out.
As the meteor burns itself up in the atmosphere, the bomb struck the earth in supersonic speed in the middle of le Pays maudit and exploded. The explosion first gave off the brightness of a million suns, anyone who hadn't taken shelter seen only white before being blinded. Seconds later, the light fades and a massive earthquake accord.
An increasing ring of fire began engulfing the forest, Gargamel's hovel, several human and non human settlements, luckily the Smurf Village avoided the worst of the massive heat as everything that's water simply evaporated away in an instant.
By now anything in ground zero has been turned to dust in a fraction of a second, after the ring of fire came the shockwave travelling about 600 miles or 965.6 kilometers per hour. It ripped threw the already burned up forest and settlements and demolished buildings and knocked down trees as if they were twigs, when the shockwave crashed through the smurf village it failed to destroyed the mushroom houses thanks to their unique design.
However, it burst through the windows and scrambled everyone and anything inside like toys in a Laundry Dryer. The shockwave caused burst ear drums and collapsed lungs to a large amount of le Pays maudit's population but since the smurfs were screaming at the top of their lungs their hearing and respiratory system avoided severe damage.
After everything settled, the smurfs climbed out of their crude shelters and were horrified by the destruction. The trees were burned up logs either still standing or is laying on the ground, the grass is now gray and the pond near the village became a giant mud puddle. What really catched their attention is the mushroom cloud that dominated the sky as it blocks off the sun, Papa Smurf could not believe his eyes.
Chernov climbed out of his shelter unscathed and instructed the Smurflings to stay close too him as they come out, he rushed up to Papa Smurf as he stood there with Brainy as the beaten and bruised smurfs stared at the mushroom cloud. "What is it Brainy?" asked Papa Smurf.
"A mushroom cloud," said Brainy.
"That mushroom cloud was created by the most deadliest weapon of mankind," said Chernov as he grabbed the smurfs attention, "Everyone that knows it fears it's might, it has the power to end all life on this planet and whoever survived 'change', they call it The Atomic Bomb. It has been realized upon us, forget the Cursed Land as le Pays maudit is now a Nuclear Hellhole!"
"Nuclear what?" asked Papa Smurf.
"It's radiation, it's more deadly than the blast we've just experienced." said Chernov, "Allow me to give all of you a Science Lesson so listen up!"
Chernov explains to the smurfs about the atom and it's properties, then explains the Periodic Table, then the Atom Bomb and Radiation. "Alpha particles' radiation won't get through your hand as Beta Particles will rip through it as a thick sheet of aluminum stops it, Gamma Rays are more deadly as lead will stop most of it as it rips through almost everything. But the Neutron will cause the most damage as it rips through whatever you can think of an imbeds itself to matter making it radioactive."
"You cannot control the atom, not even Father Time nor Mother Nature would help us because radioactive matter is immune to all forms of magic." said Chernov, "I know this as a fact as Gargamel tried to cast some spells on a Uranium Sample and it backfired miserably, your senses can't pick up the radiation but you can feel it's effects. Radiation Poisoning will kill you slowly and it would be horrifying as it rips away at your DNA and causes your skin and hair to fall off as your insides get torn apart."
Everyone gasped, but Chernov wasn't done. "The radiation is more deadly to small animals, including us. First the young and old will die no matter what their size, then the rest would give out."
"Lets do a head count on all the smurfs," said Papa Smurf, "Line up smurfs!"
All the smurfs lined up and Brainy assist in the head count, amazingly all the smurfs were counted for as Chernov expected a few would die. However those smurfs are not unscathed like him and the smurflings, some vomited showing a sign of radiation poisoning. Chernov was convinced that the smurfs are screwed, luckily the fallout is not heading in their direction but is heading straight for the human settlements and kingdoms that happened to avoid the blast entirely.
Gargamel climbed out of his shelter with Azrael in hand and looks at the devastation, since his hovel is made out of stone it received only broken windows but everything inside it was scorched to a crisp. After staring at his hovel for a short while, he heads back inside and finds his spell book unscathed. He tries to cast a spell but nothing happens, then he tries again and this time the spell he cast made a coughing sound and sputtered to silents. Frustrating him.
"What's going on?" he asked himself, "As much as I don't want to, it's best to check up with Mummy to see if she's ok."
"Meow?" meowed Azrael.
"What do you think?" responded Gargamel.
The Fallout began falling to the ground like a heavy snow storm over the human settlements and kingdoms, no one know what's going on as the fallout made their magic useless. As the fallout fall in large numbers, many human beings began to feel flu like symptoms: Nausea, Diarrhea, and Upset Stomach. Then their hair begins to fall out, still having no clue what's going on everybody retreats indoors into whatever that is still standing and sealed themselves inside.
After 6 hours from the bomb's detonation, the Pixies and Wartmongers' settlements happened to be in the path of the fallout and began to die in mass numbers. It wasn't long before they're finished, along with several other small creatures. Larger species like deer and elk managed to survive as the radiation manages to penetrate a centimeter within them, thus their organs were spared unless they ingest the fallout that covers pretty much everything which some did.
By now, all of le Pays maudit is affected by the atom bomb. Nothing is left untouched, a sudden rainstorm came by and washed out the fallout into rivers and lakes. Polluting them until they're a sickly brownish black or until they're turned into sludge, even though the rain washed away most of the radiation on land it polluted whatever water that is untouched by radiation making it undrinkable.
Most of the radiation in and around the Smurf Village wound up in the nearby lake, killing whatever that lives in it.
TO BE CONTINUED...
