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Thia woke up slowly. It was really cold in here. She opened her eyes fully. It was pretty dark, really. She stood up and cast her eyes around. She was in a cage and there was a pile of moaning smurfs next to her. She reached out and touched one of the bars on the cage. She tapped it a little. One of the smurfs struggled out of the pile and revealed himself to be Hefty.
"A cage? I can break it." Hefty said groggily yet confidently. He picked himself up and made his way to the bars but Thia put a restraining hand on his shoulder.
"Dude, this cage must be made of solid zircon. Zircon is as hard as diamond." Thia said. Hefty cocked his head.
"Zircon?" he asked.
"It's a thing from the future," Thia sighed. "You could be superman and you still wouldn't be able to bend it."
"Superman?" Hefty asked, cocking his head again.
"Another future thing." Thia sighed again. She turned her attention to outside the cage. They seemed to be on a table in a dark room. If you concentrated, you could see the walls were white as was the floor. They seemed to be in a laboratory. There were some people milling about the room in white lab coats and each of the smurfs had a tiny needle wound on their arms. Thia looked a little closer at Hefty's needle-wound.
"Okay, either you guys got a shot or they wanted blood." Thia muttered.
"Why would they smurf blood?" Hefty asked slightly uneasy at the thought there may be some future humans out for blood. Thia gave him a flat look.
"Not like that. It's something called a blood test, if you look close enough at someone's blood it can say all sorts of things about the person or smurf as the case may be." Thia said, getting a little tired of explaining all this.
"What kinds of things does it smurf about you?" Clumsy asked, working his way to them.
"Things like your DNA or blood type or who your family is. This is not exactly my genre of knowledge!" Thia said. Both the smurfs cocked their head.
"DNA?"
"Blood type?" they both said in unison. The smurfs looked at each other for a moment then turned their attention back to Thia. Thia put her face in her palms.
"I don't know a lot about this. Please don't ask," she said, rubbing her temples slightly. She and the two smurfs went across the cage to help the other smurfs out of their halfway conscious state. Suddenly a door to the far left opened up and three scientists walked in. One had her hands around something.
"Having fun?" the scientist in front said mockingly. She was tall and stiff as a board. She had closely cropped red hair and sharp brownish black eyes. Her features were sharp and cruel and her gaze seemed to drill a hole through whoever was the subject of it. The smurfs narrowed their eyes.
"No, I don't think we are." Smurfette said snippily. The woman chuckled coldly.
"How do you think they will work for the experiment?" the woman asked a scientist next to her. This one was a man with very short brown hair and milk chocolate brown eyes.
"They would work fine, but ma'm, their magic is their life force. If we converted their magic we would have to kill them or at the very least put them in a permanent vegative state," the man said. That woke the smurfs up!
"WHAT!?" the smurfs said at once. Thia had to cover her ears against the noise.
"Fine then. Begin the experiment," the woman scientist said passively. The third scientist looked up sharply. This one was a woman with brown hair pulled tightly into a bun with glasses over pretty green eyes.
"But ma'm, these creatures are sentient beings. It is likely they are distantly related to humans. This one even has a strange and mutated form of lung cancer!" she said, opening her hand to reveal a barely awake Brainy.
"W-where…?" Brainy murmured sleepily yet weakly.
"You're awake!" Clumsy exclaimed happily. Brainy tilted his head slightly when he saw Clumsy. He was about to say something but the first scientist cut him off.
"And Tanthar was both sentient and he helped us. Didn't stop us from hooking his magic up to the prototype time machine," she snapped, flipping a switch next to her. A room behind a window on the wall showed a half-dead demon with several wires leading through the wall and into the control panel that the smurfs were apparently next to.
"You monster…" Thia murmured when she saw the pitiful state of the demon. His scales where ashen and his eyes had a glazed, blank look to them. He indeed looked like he would die any minute. The smurfs gaped silently in horror at the image being displayed to them.
"But these creatures obviously mean no harm. You saw their living conditions, got a description from Tanthar, and you saw their biological makeup. They aren't built for fighting, only self-defense!" the brown-haired woman persisted.
"Can I ask WHY Papa Smurf is still unconscious?" Handy suddenly spoke up. Everyone's attention went to the smurf elder and, obviously enough, he was comatose.
"What did you do to him?" one of the smurfs snapped.
"We took his magic, humanoids. He is in a coma. Do I have to spell it out for you?" the first scientist said cruelly. Thia's eyes widened.
"You took his magic? He is in a coma? Dear God, you could've killed him!" Thia exclaimed. All the smurfs glanced up worriedly, some with frightened expressions.
"The key word is 'could've'. They didn't kill him." Thia clarified. The smurfs let out a collective sigh of relief.
"You see? They are like one big human family minus the human part," the third scientist said, gently laying the half awake Brainy on the control panel, which happened to be the only surface she could put him on.
"Do you think I care? Take one out and hook them up," the first scientist said.
"No!" the green-eyed woman gripped her superior's arm. The first scientist sharpened her gaze and slapped the offending woman.
"Don't touch me!" she snapped.
Thia shifted her weight nervously. She knew the gleam in the first scientist's eyes. It was something she learned to recognize with her life on the streets. This fight would turn ugly really quickly, and after that the smurfs were doomed to die. She wracked her brains for anything that may be able to help them. She turned her gaze to the control panel. Didn't the scientist say something about a time machine? Her eyes traveled across the buttons then she saw a big red button with the word 'test' written above it.
"Brainy!" she called. Brainy looked up.
"Thia? What are you doing here? What is happening? Who and what are they?" he asked, gesturing to the smurfs. Clumsy's face fell when he heard that.
"You don't remember us?" Clumsy asked sadly. Brainy slowly shook his head, than he dissolved in a fit of dry coughing. He coughed up a little blood, speckling the control panel with little droplets of red.
"God, he's getting worse. Listen Brainy, these guys are your family!" Thia said. Brainy furrowed his brow in confusion.
"Than I assume I'm hallucinating the 'blue-and-definitly-not-human' bit?" Brainy said.
"No, you aren't hallucinating that. We'll explain later, just go to the big red button and press it! You're the only one who's not stuck in a cage!" Thia said. She was a little worried the scientists would notice what was happening, but the two women were now locked in a heated fight and the male scientist was desperately trying to break them apart. Brainy cast his gaze onto the button.
"How will that help us?" he asked skeptically.
"She said something about a time machine. Since the demon guy was hooked up to this, I'll assume this is it. It is possible it will bring us back to your time." Thia said.
"My time?" Brainy asked dubiously.
"Just press the damn thing!" Thia snapped. Brainy weakly held up his hands.
"Okay, okay…" he said. He slowly and carefully made his way to the button.
"What is the humanoid doing? Get him!" the first scientist suddenly exclaimed. Two scientists went for Brainy but the split second before they reached him, he pressed the button and everything went black.
A/N
I finally got it in! Yay me! Thankies to my beta reader wallmoose! You rule! M'kay, I don't own anything but Thia and please REVIEW!