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When the sun rose from the horizon, announcing a new day, every smurf found themselves in their own hotel room within the Lucky Smurf casino. The rooms were in average conditions, but were not as messy this time. Smurfette woke up out of bed without the affects of a hangover this time, but found herself with Brainy who was sleeping right next to her. She could tell it was him because his glasses was sitting on the nightstand.
Also on the nightstand sat a tin can that is filled to the brim with bottle caps each worth 100 caps, he must have scored the jackpot from Blackjack last night. "I hope I didn't do anything that I would regret later on," muttered Smurfette as she pulls the covers off of her, "Oh look at that, I wet the bed."
Briany immediately shot out of the bed and land face first into the floor. As he groans in pain, he retrieves his glasses and puts them on. Once his vision is crystal clear, he saw Smurfette staring at him. "What happened last night?" asked Brainy.
"You have no clue either?" asked Smurfette.
"Nope," said Brainy, "All I remembered is that I won the jackpot, I'm going to go find Papa Smurf okay?"
Brainy grabbed his casino spoilings before rushing out of the hotel room in a hurry, Smurfette realized that its a big day today and she needs to get up fast. When she sets her feet onto the floor, she noticed there are empty Smurfberry Wine bottles everywhere. She noticed what appears to be a green hammer & sickle enclosed with a green 5 pointed star amidst a white background sitting on the nightstand at her side of the bed, she picked it up and saw there's a note on it.
"Ace in the hole," she read it out loud, she turns it around and reveals it's an Ace of Spades card, "Go figure."
She sat the card back down on the nightstand and gets onto her feet, she makes her way out of the bedroom awhile carefully avoid slipping on the wine bottles. She poke her head out into the hall and noticed that the way is clear. Smurfette steps out of the hotel room and heads for the casino bath house, which seems to be across the hall. When she opened it, she stepped into what appears to be a swimming pool.
This wasn't a swimming pool, the pool appeared to be filled with a bubble bath solution as there was suds everywhere. And there were green smurfs and smurfettes bathing in the pool without anything on, now she knows what a public bathhouse looks like. The bathing pool in question is about half a meter long and is 4 centimeters deep, since the average smurf is 7.2 centimeters tall there should be no chance of drowning here.
Smurfette strips down to her underwear and stepped into the pool, it was quite warm as he submerse herself into it. As she bathes, she watches a green smurf washes his hair. The green smurf dunked his head into the water and scrubs it, the water turns brown around his head. When Smurfette smelled the water, she noticed it smells like a mixture of smurfberries and french fries.
She soon noticed the pool started to turn brown as more green smurfs jumped in, Smurfette is quick on getting out of there as she grabbed a towel and her dress before leaving the bathhouse.
In the casino lobby, Handy was busy playing Caravan with Brainy as Papa Smurf showed up. He looked like he had a rough night. When he took a seat at the table, Brainy and Handy didn't seem to noticed as Brainy wins the pot. "How come you win all the time Brainy!" grumbled Handy.
"It takes math and strategy Handy," answered Brainy, "Not luck, this is why you don't see this game in any casino."
"Who told you that?" asked Handy.
"Malcolm," said Brainy, "Of course one doesn't win every time."
"Has anyone seen Hefty?" asked Papa Smurf.
Hadn't seen him since last night," said Brainy, "I wonder where is he."
Hefty soon showed up out of nowhere and sat down on an empty chair as Brainy and Handy gather up their playing cards, the look on his face says that he's in regretting something just like Papa Smurf. "So where were you last night Hefty?" asked Papa Smurf.
"You don't wanna know," warned Hefty, "It's too weird and messed up to explain."
"What happens in Dayglow," said a voice, "Stays in Dayglow."
Cyber soon arrived into the lobby and stood near the smurf's table, all the smurfs seemed to mind his presence. "There's going to be some green smurfs who are going to be helping us in this mission," explains Cyber, "He's bringing in 4 of his best smurfs to our aid. However, I did not told him about the Calculator."
"Why not?" asked Papa Smurf.
"He would think I'm crazy," explained Cyber, "You would have to see it for yourself, it's just that incredible."
"And Hefty," continued Cyber, "I heard you were having trouble with the locals, I'm not surprised since trouble always comes to you."
"If that trouble has wings then I'm good," said Hefty.
"As if," muttered Brainy.
Smurfette soon showed up wearing a new white dress, her hair doesn't seemed to be well combed. "What a night," she says, "I don't wanna know what happened last night."
"You passed out on the bar," explained Cyber, "With a Smurfberry Wine in your hand."
"I think I had more when I went to bed," said Smurfette, "Wherever bed is."
"So is everyone ready?" asked Cyber.
"Yes," claimed Brainy.
"Alright then," said Cyber, "Let's go to the Smurf Vault."
As they walked outside, 4 green smurfs wearing bulletproof vest were standing by their Radroach wagon. When the smurfs approached, one of the green smurfs looked at Cyber and asked. "You know da layout of dat vault?"
"Yes," said Brainy, "I was one of the last smurfs to leave it."
The smurfs hopped on board the wagon as the green smurfs got out their Service Rifles before getting on board, Cyber hopped on top of the Radroach's back and urged it forward. The radroach started to move and it began pulling the wagon, Cyber had it turn around and the smurfs left Dayglow out the same gate they came in.
They went past the abandoned shanty towns before getting back on the main road, then they took a turn to a trail through the woods and head straight for the mountains. As they approach it, they begin to see trash piled everywhere. Random junk it seems, simply tossed aside as waste. When they were near the mountain face, there was a door that leads to a cave.
"There it is," said Cyber, "The airlock to the Smurf Vault."
The smurfs got off the Radroach wagon and approaches the airlock, Cyber opens it and walked into pitch blackness. The smurfs soon follow behind as Cyber leads the way, down into a cave that seems to go deep into the mountain. It was incredibly dark, the only light that they're getting was from the airlock as sunlight past through it's shingles and weird looking mushrooms that give off a florescent green glow.
"Here it is," said Cyber, "The very reason why this is called the Smurf Vault."
The smurfs approach what appears to be a large vault door that is 16 centimeters in diameter and weighed about 11.3 kilograms, to smurf standards that's about 11 tons. On the center of the vault door is a smurf hat, just like on the backs of the Smurf Village's playing cards.
"200 years of neglect and it's all corroded," said Cyber as he approaches a wall terminal next to the vault door, "At least the electronics still work."
As Cyber taps on the keyboard in an effort to get the vault door open, Smurfette noticed an Ace of Spades playing card taped onto the side of the terminal. Suddenly an electronic voice said, "Access Denied."
"Smurf!" cursed Cyber, "I forgotten that Chernov changed the password before abandoning this vault."
"Is there any other way in?" asked Papa Smurf.
"No, I'm afraid there isn't," answered Cyber.
"Ace In The Hole," said Smurfette.
All the smurfs turned to look at her in confusion, "Ace in the hole," she repeated, "Try that."
"Um, it's a long shot." said Cyber, "Let's try that."
Cyber typed down Ace In The Hole onto the terminal and hit enter, "Access Granted."
On cue an alarm began ringing as they heard something metal slamming against the back of the vault door, suddenly the vault door was pulled out of it's slot as it made a loud squealing sound as it grinds out of place. A gush of air rushed out of the vault before something made the vault door roll off to the side, the Smurf Vault is now opened.
Cyber looked at Smurfette and smiled, "Smurfette," he said, "If Ghoulette were here, she would have been proud of you for avenging what she lost that fateful day."
Suddenly, there were loud roars echoing out through the vault door causing the green smurfs to turn the safety on their Service Rifles to the off position. "Dat sound's like Feral Ghouls," said one of the green smurfs, "But how did dey get in?"
"I got the password to the vault on the back of a Ace of Spades playing card," answered Smurfette as she pulls out the card in question and hands it to Cyber, "I found it on the nightstand when I woke up."
Cyber looked at the card and was surprised, "This is Chernov's handwriting," said Cyber as she looked at Smurfette in surprise, "And the back of this playing card has his symbol! How!"
"I found it back at the Lucky Smurf casino on the nightstand of my hotel room when I woke up," said Smurfette again, "Like I said, I couldn't remember much on what happened last night."
"And there appears to be another Ace of Spades taped onto the terminal," said Smurfette.
Cyber noticed the Ace of Spades and pulled it off the side of the wall terminal, "No this is an Ace of Clubs," said Cyber as he turns it around, "It's from the same deck as the Ace of Spades here and it has a note on it, it says, Good Luck."
"LOOK OUT!" cried Brainy as he point towards the inside of the vault, "GHOULS!"
TO BE CONTINUED...