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There are an estimate of 100 smurfs in le Pays maudit, their village is well hidden from them. In fact, it is so well hidden that Gargamel had failed several times on discovering that location. What if there are more than 100 smurfs, what about 100,000,000 million smurfs?
A crazy number, and even more crazy as the population will quadruple overnight. Everybody will be overwhelmed, the original 100 smurfs and then everybody that lives in the region. How will this effect their Economic System? Their food? Their water? Their Environment? The Air? Or their relationships to their allies, enemies, and themselves. We will see.
1 Day After Population Overload...
Papa Smurf was awoke by noise, massive amounts of noise. He shot out of bed and looked out the window, thinking that they're under attack. But what he discovers will horrify him for the rest of his life.
Smurfs, there are so many smurfs that the earth is literally covered with them. Ranging from Men, Women, and Children all packed shoulder to shoulder to each other, they reach as far as the horizon. Brainy managed to fight his way through the ground to reach Papa Smurf, he does not have much of an explanation.
"What happened?" asked Papa Smurf, "Where do all these Smurfs come from?"
"Papa Smurf," replied Brainy in a state of shock, "They came in overnight, we don't know where and how! The whole forest is literally covered with smurfs, we don't know what to do!"
"Get everybody over here!" cried Papa Smurf, "We need an emergency meeting!"
"This is everybody!" cried Brainy.
The Smurfs were in a state of panic, they began to climb all over each other trying to escape the crowd. The noise was so loud that Papa Smurf cannot get their attention, not even Harmony Smurf's trumpet could break the noise of the crowd. Papa Smurf realized he needs help, and he knows who to turn too. "We need to get 'him'," he simply says, "Chernov!"
Chernov was a green smurf who is slightly taller than the other smurfs, he wears a camouflage jacket, pants, shoes, and a camouflaged Phrygian Cap. Created by mixing Smurf and Human DNA, it wasn't a surprise that his appearance was so radically different from the rest of the usual smurfs. He is more heartless to life and nature than Balthazar, but is more good, more kind, more friendly, and more generous than anyone who ever lived in le Pay maudit. In other words, he's a True Neutral.
The smurf almost never used the word "Smurf" as a verb, he talks like a human and is smarter than Brainy and all the humans in the region. He is more technologically advanced and is completely immune to all forms of magic, as magic means nothing to him. He often works with metal then the traditional building material: Wood. And practice Chemistry and unorthodox experiments on a daily basis.
Chernov in question is sitting on top of his mushroom house admits the sea of smurfs armed with a powerful M1 Garand in his hands and a AR 15 Assault Rifle strapped to his back, he sits calmly staring out at the smurfs without an expression on his face until Papa Smurf get's his attention with something reflective.
The old smurf gestures to Chernov to come here, and Chernov simply got down off of his roof and "walked on top of the smurfs" towards him. As he got onto his roof, he simply says, "You need to get everybody's attention? Here's how."
He aims his M1 Garand straight up in the air and fired, the blast was so loud it shut everyone up and scared the birds out of the trees. Once everyone quiets down, Papa Smurf tries his best to make a convincing speech through a bullhorn:
"Due to the crisis of the smurfication of the Smurf Village," he says, "We'll take immediate action on smurfing everyone, however we need your cooperation to smurf so." Papa Smurf then explains that the original 100 smurfs who ever already present will form up and those who wish to join them with their duties simply group around them, next they set in a plan to feed and house everybody. Papa Smurf can't think of any more ideas as the smurfs begin to group together with the original 100 smurfs, the Chernov takes over...
"Here's the plan, first we must do is to clear cut a chunk of the forest and build skyscrapers in their place. Then plumbing and sanitation systems will be installed, then we'll have some buildings to grow our food as they are called Vertical Farms. Rainwater will be collected and will help feed the system, as everything else would do it's best to keep up. I'll have outside help to airdrop our supplies for the time being, we must do this now!"
All the smurfs cheered as Chernov takes out his cell phone, the only piece of technology that can contact outside of the region, and made a call to his father. "Hey dad, I need help." he began the conversation, which led to an agreement. After an hour of the call, flying mechanical machines known as planes begin to drop in supplies. First food and water then miniature size tools for the smurfs, it wasn't long before everyone get's to work.
7 Days After Population Overload...
Before the Overload, there's one smurf usually doing a single job for the community. Now, there's armies of them and they get to work cutting down the trees. The animals were in distress but the smurfs simply scared them off as they destroy the animal's homes in order to expand theirs, after a few days Gargamel began to notice the change. At first he hears the sound of chainsaws ripping away and trees falling to the ground in thuds, since his house is in a brown clearing he is within a stone's throw away from the forest.
When he looked out of his window, he was shocked to see thousands of smurfs chopping down trees as animals come running out of the forest in mass droves. Since all 100,000,000 smurfs are doing temporary work on cutting down the forest and building skyscrapers, they're doing a massive amounts of work and their progress is stunning. It wasn't long before Gargamel's house was a target for construction as he grabbed his cat Azrael and ran out of his home as the smurfs took it apart for building material.
"I hate those smurfs!" screamed Gargamel.
Father Time and Mother Nature could do nothing to stop the smurfs expansion, first off it made no sense for a hundred million smurfs to appear out of thin air so traveling back in time is out so Mother Nature has to take matters into her own hands. But she is no match for the smurfs at first, so she decide to wait for awhile until she strike back at them.
Lord Balthazar's home is also destroyed and his dragon protecting it slain, he simply joined up with Gargamel as they ran off along with the forest animals. The smurf's enemies and friends were driven out, 80% of the forest has been cleared cut and it's time for them to begin the next phase of the project. Erecting the building and pipe lines for Water and Sanitation, the Architect Smurfs make marvelous designs which is sent to the Brainy Smurfs to do the calculations.
All the 100 smurfs were multiplied to 100,000 smurfs times 1000 times the workforce of a single smurf can do making the result 100,000,000 smurfs which is every single smurf in the region. The math was stunning, and so is the speed of progress.
6 Months After Population Overload...
Many skyscrapers as tall as 100 floors are now built, they covered the chunk of the region for miles. Storks are now more widespread for transport as people walk across the roads that were 3 human feet long, many technologies thought impossible to create now comes alive. Growing food in buildings for example is amazing in itself, this solves the food crisis and produces more food than the smurfs will ever need.
Water is stored in giant tanks suspended over sections of the smurf city, all the water is collected by rain and from underground aquifers which were sent to a treatment plant before being pumped into the newly built water system. Due to their limited supply of resources, they conserve as much they can thanks to special tanks stored into each building. For Rainwater and Sewage collection separately, the sewage will be sent to the newly built treatment plants before heading back to storage.
Thanks to both Central and Individual water and sewage systems in place, resource use is at an all time low. The Smurfs found a way to take their fecal matter and use it to make Methane, a flammable gas from dead matter. This made cooking and heating a lot more easier and systems for them is also set in place, and factories to produce refined equipment sprung up at the edge of the smurf city.
It was fast as all the original 100 smurfs began to lead all the 100,000,000 smurfs in different sets of activities, the 100 smurfs became members of a new form of government with Papa Smurf as the Mayor of the new city as Chernov became the Director of the Smurf Emergency Management Agency (SEMA). A combination of Police, Firefighters, and Doctors in one central form of keeping the smurfs safe from harm.
Handy Smurf is in charge of Industry; Farmer Smurf is in charge of Agriculture; Natural Smurf is in charge of Environmental approvals and Resource conservation; and Poet, Harmony, Painter, and Brainy Smurfs is in charge of Education, Science and Technology Development. Other smurfs who had jobs that were similar together banned together to operate them, similar to human society.
Not that many smurfs touch the ground as some uses bridges that were connected to some buildings to get around, some smurfs never leave home at all as the work at home concept became more popular. When electricity was introduced, the city lit up the night by many LED bulbs and everything sped up dramatically. A Massive Natural Gas Plant that was connected to the Sewage Treatment Plant managed to turn Methane into Electricity and kept up with everybody's power needs.
If all of this sounds confusing, it is MORE confusing on how they operate. Luckily, they are organized as Large SEMA Buildings are scattered throughout the city. With a system so long to identify who's in charge of who and what and so confusing to operate, it won't be long for disaster to strike. Chernov make sure that does not happen as he takes his job seriously, he and a few smurfs who thinks they are tough enforces the rules. Only Chernov, the one who directs SEMA takes is job more seriously than anyone could possibly imagine. So how does he do it?
Jokey was caught doing his usual exploding prank so much that he is finally arrested and thrown in jail, not before being beaten up by his struggle of resisting arrest. Brainy nearly got sent into the slammer himself not after Chernov intervened saying they need more smurfs like him, with so many smurfs out there it is difficult to keep up with communication and the network of goods.
Reporter Smurf, who's in charge of the Media and Communication, manage to spread news about Current Events by armies of Paper Boys and Storks traveling everywhere around the city. Communication was so well established that socialization with smurfs from different parts of the city became more shorter, and easier to deal with.
To make a long story short, it's compared to early 20th century New York except it's overpopulated and cars don't exist. The system in place however is 21st century styled, but communication and technology remains more primitive yet some parts are modern and computers don't really exist yet. A human being standing in this city will be like Godzilla with buildings towering over them, the city is small to human comparative but gigantic to smurf comparison.
City Hall is an apartment building that houses the original 100 smurfs from the village, they live and work there and they no longer have to go outside as what they need is delivered to them – usually food. Chernov sits in his office going through reports when Brainy stepped in, since Brainy is also Papa Smurf's successor and main adviser he keeps an update on what everyone's situation.
"How are things Brainy?" said Chernov as he types away on a typewriter.
"Papa Smurf likes to see you, he wants to smurf with you in private." said Brainy.
"Oh right, I'll go to him immediately." said Chernov as he gets up from his chair and walks past Brainy.
Chernov walks into the meeting room, simply a round table with Papa Smurf pacing back and forth in the back. As he takes a seat, Papa Smurf follows suit. "We've got a problem," he said.
"Let me guess, is it Gargamel or our enemies and former allies?" asked Chernov.
"No, they're long gone," said Papa Smurf, "We've taken up a large portion of le Pays maudit that we make up the majority now, it's something else."
"New enemies to deal with." guessed Chernov again.
"Correct, but the problem is who are they?"
"Well, the census say that there is now a hundred million smurfs in the region and some of them are becoming fat awhile others are becoming more ignorant and aggressive from frustration of daily life." said Chernov, "But that is normal, however there is one major enemy that we will live with through the rest of our lives."
"What is this... enemy?" asked Papa Smurf.
"I'll show you," said Chernov as he pressed a button to an intercom, "Brainy, bring over the sample in a microscope."
Brainy came in with a microscope and sat it on the table then quickly head out, Papa Smurf looked through the microscope and see's tiny microbes floating around. "What are they?" asked Papa Smurf.
"Influenza," said Chernov, "This stuff is a real killer, they would sweep through here and wipe out a lot of Smurfs. The more smurfs there are, the faster disease spreads and kills through Bacteria, Viruses, and Parasites."
"Incredible," commented Papa Smurf.
"We will see miniature outbreaks of viruses now and then but the big one is something to worry about," said Chernov, "If it hits, Smurf Society would end no matter what we do. It's out there, and it's waiting to strike."
"When?" asked Papa Smurf.
"Anytime," answered Chernov, "They would strike at anytime so we must be ready all the time, we let down on guard and they would infect us and dissolve our insides to liquid within 12 to 72 hours. That's how bad they can be, and they would have help from other diseases found in Smurf Sewage if those Sewer lines back up."
"Ew," said Papa Smurf.
"Nobody knows nobody anymore Papa Smurf," warned Chernov as he gets up, "Which means they will no longer trust each other and if they begin to riot, that's where I step in to pacify the crowd and the streets would be filled with... Yeah, it's that bad."
Papa Smurf gulped as Chernov leaves the room and returns to his office, "What did we do to deserve this?" thought Papa Smurf.
TO BE CONTINUED...