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Everybody turns towards the vault and saw a couple of feral ghouls come straight at them, the monsters in Smurf form were easily chopped down by the green smurf's Service Rifles. "We'll need to shut down the Nuclear Reactor of this vault," said Cyber, "If we don't, all of le Pays maudit will die from radiaton poisoning on an unimaginable level."
"Cancer will spread like forest fire," noted one of the green smurfs.
"Don't make it sound worse as it already is." said Cyber as he ran right into the vault, a security camera watches the smurfs rushed right into the vault as something calls in more reinforcements against them.
Cyber opened up a door to the living quarters and the smurfs descend down the stairs, and they soon stumble across their first enemy. "What is that thing?" asked the green smurf as they point at some mechanical object on treads coming towards them.
"It's a Robobrain," said Cyber, "It's on of Chernov's creation's alright."
The robobrain is of course, being powered by an actual smurf brain, the robobrain said in an electronic voice, "I'll enjoy killing you."
One of the green smurf's aimed their Service Rifle at the robobrain's "head" and fired, the bullet went right through it's brain case and killed the Robobrain as bio-med geland destroyed brain matter spills out through the bullet hole.
"I think there's other robots in the vault," said Cyber, "Despite the vault's rusted interior, it's still works as long as there is power."
Cyber leads the way as they encounter more feral ghouls, they also encounter Protectrons and Mister Gutsys as well. There were also several Turrets to deal with but the green smurfs were quick on cutting them down. When they got into the lower levels, they past the armory and Cyber stopped at the front door. "Hold on guys," said Cyber as he activated the wall terminal next to the door, "Let see if I could get in here so we get better firepower."
"Is it even necessary?" asked one of the green smurfs.
"Based on what we're going to encounter," said Cyber, "It IS necessary."
Cyber successfully hacked the computer and opened the door, the smurfs discovered that the vault is loaded with high-tech energy weapons. "Laser or Plasma?" asked Cyber as he grabbed a Plasma Rifle.
"I'll take laser," said Papa Smurf.
"Don't worry about fixing it," said Cyber as he hands Papa Smurf a laser rifle, "These things are modular design, very easy to fix."
After grabbing a few Microfusion Cells and energy weapons, the smurfs ran to the Reactor level. After descending down the stairs, they noticed it was flooded and the flood waters had a green look to it. When they approached the door to the Reactor room, it turns out to be locked by another wall terminal. When Cyber activates the terminal, a message appears on the screen. "The functions of this terminal has been transferred to the Mainframe, please contact administrator."
"Where is dis mainframe?" asked one of the green smurfs.
"Right above the reactor itself," said Cyber, "It's not going to be pretty, because the mainframe is being controlled by 8 smurf brains. AKA, my fellow brothers."
"You think dey'll let you in?" asked another green smurf.
Cyber turned towards them and said in a clear voice, "They've become a monster, just wait until you've meet the Calculator in person."
"The Calculator?"
"The very machine that is controlling all of the robots, maybe even the feral ghouls."
"Oh crap, that's insane!"
"That's why I never mentioned it to Lucky."
"Is it the only way? I mean the only way to shutdown the reactor is to deal with the Calculator?"
"The other way is a catastrophic nuclear meltdown that would doom us all."
"Okay then, where is dis Calculator?"
"Follow me."
Cyber led the smurfs back upstairs where they encounter more feral ghouls and robots, it didn't take long for Cyber to locate the Mainframe due to his accurate memory of the vault. Before he was able to open the door to the Calculator's chamber, the door opened by itself. The room was pitch black as the smurfs ran into the darkness without a second thought, then the door shut behind them.
"It's a trap!" cried Brainy.
"Nobody move!" ordered Cyber, "Everyone shut up and listen."
The whole room went silent as all the smurfs listened, it was a long eerie silence...
Suddenly the lights came on, and the Calculator revealed itself.
All the smurfs rushed back to the edge of the room as the examined the Calculator, the Calculator has a giant Quantum Computer in the center with the 7 smurf brains in question hooked up to it. The brains don't looked very healthy as old age and radiation poisoning begins to take it's toll on them. The bio-med gel that is keeping the brains alive has a hint of green to it, indicating that something is poisoning the brains.
On the calculator's quantum computer, a screen and keyboard sits at it's front face towards the only way out. Cyber cautiously approaches the Calculator as Papa Smurf wondered if he could talk the Calculator to stand down. "Well look at this," said a voice on the loud speakers, the voice sounds like a combination of Painter, Harmony, Handy, Farmer, Architect, Greedy, and Reporter Smurfs' voices all synchronized into a totally different voice, "Isn't that you Brainy? Or is that Cyberbrainy now?"
"It's been awhile guys," said Cyber as he walked up to the Calculator's terminal, "How are you doing?"
"How are we doing?" asked the Calculator as it displays subtitles on the screen as it spoke, "This is the year 2211, we've been stuck here for about 200 years and you just walked back into the vault boldly as you please and asked how are we?"
"On occasion I happened to be thinking about you guys," said Cyber, "We've just been visited by Time-travelers."
"We can see them with the security cameras," said the Calculator, "How well are they adapting?"
"Not so well," said Cyber, "But my counterpart is fairing better than others."
"Damn right," commented Brainy.
"Shut up Brainy!" whispered Smurfette.
"Yeah Brainy," said the Calculator, "Your always the smart one, and you just have to show your so-called wisdom."
"Your talking to me or Cyber?" asked Brainy.
"Both," replied the Calculator, "And we did a series of calculations on this quantum computer to predict that such an incident will occur, so we flood the reactor level with water so the radiation levels on purpose. But that was just a few weeks after the bombs fell, and that wasn't very smart of us because it caused Chernov to force his hand and drive everyone out of the vault."
"What about those feral ghouls and robots?" asked Papa Smurf, "How did they came to be?"
"Simple," said the Calculator, "Handy's ingenuity helped create the robots using the human diagrams stored onto the quantum computer's data banks. The feral ghouls, former green smurfs or former smurfs we all grew up with, was less humane. The vault door wasn't always closed, we led the smurfs in before we shut the door on them. Then we guided them to the reactor level where they slowly turn into ghouls, then they lose their minds."
"Do you know why Chernov did this to you guys?" asked Papa Smurf.
"We asked him right after he activated us for the first time," said the Calculator, "He said our, directive as he calls it, is to be the successor of your counterpart. Because Chernov did the math and calculated that if he's in charge things will not go well with the smurfs, and so we refused. As a result, he made Cyberbrain here the Papa Smurf and left us to rot. Ironically, he was supposed to be part of us but Chernov had a change of heart."
"We never understood what Chernov saw in you Cyberbrain, everyone of course view you as a nuisance. And we also predict that there is a 90% chance of the entire village to simply abandoned you, did that happened?"
"Yes, and they were..."
"Replaced by Chernov's Hybrid Smurfs?"
"Hybrid Smurfs?" asked Papa Smurf.
"He took his own DNA and modified it before releasing it, creating the green smurfs you guys all know and love. When we first saw them, they are stupid, unsmurfy, and act like human beings. They're dumb enough to venture to this vault to become ghoulified, but they proven their intelligance all thanks to their, human, DNA."
"Papa Smurf would never approve, what about his counterpart?" asked the Calculator, "Would you approve of this new type of smurf?"
"They're talking to you Papa Smurf," whispered Brainy.
"Judging how the way their children acted," said Papa Smurf, "I didn't approved."
"Of course you didn't," said the Calculator, "So that's why we're poisoning the water supply to snuff out this race. We have a whole Vat full of something called the Forced Evolutionary Virus, it violently mutates you as a result. It's been modified to kill human beings instead, and we'll soon released it into the water supply to kill these green smurfs."
The eyes on the green smurfs looked like they're shrinking into their heads from terror, then they began to shiver in fright.
"Guys," said Papa Smurf, "Even though they're immature beyond description, they are alright."
"What makes you say that?" asked the Calculator.
"Chernov saved you, but not the way everyone expect." explains Papa Smurf, "The smurfs lived as most other species, including the humans, died out."
"The green smurfs that succeed the last generation of smurfs flourished as a result," said Cyber, "Even though they acted like human beings, they lived and their thriving."
"And our generation," said the Calculator, "Either became Cyborgs or Ghouls due to the sudden lost of the Long Life Force Stone, smurfing radiation annihilated any trace of magic. Our generation can't breed since all the storks were killed off by the humans, we're the last of our kind."
"And the new generation," said Cyber, "The green smurfs, despite all it's flaws, is worthy of preservation."
"Spoken like a true genius," said the Calculator, "But even though you are extremely intelligent, your body is going to give out on you. I could see that back brace trying to support your posture, I wonder why our ghoul siblings aren't suffering from your conditions of old age."
"For our sake," said the Calculator finally, "We're going to purge all life from le Pays maudit, starting with ALL of you."
TO BE CONTINUED...