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The smurfs' victory is a major game changer in the Humanoid War, they have electrical power which gives them the ability to operate computers and radar. But would this make a difference?
There was no word on the 20 missing smurfs but the 30 captured smurfs whereabouts are unpleasant. They were once again transported from Gargamel's mom's house to the NSA battle fortress near the center of le Pays maudit. In this long conference hall, the captured smurfs were placed on the center of the table by NSA soldiers.
It was already three days since they were captured and already they were broken down, demoralized, and neglected. The whole room seated various villains against the smurfs, like Earl Flatbroke, Matthew McCreep, Lord Balthazar, Hogatha, Nemesis, Chlorhydris, Imperia, Scruple, and the most commonly known villain, Gargamel. And yes, his mom is also there.
They all laughed at the smurfs who were already beginning to become depressed, two NSA officers guard the door as Drick came walking into the room with a couple of folders in his hand. He tossed them onto the table where the villains were giving him his attention, "You know why I brought you all here right?" he asked, "The hint are those smurfs right on the table, your enjoying their misery?"
"Oh yes," said Chlorhydris, "Really enjoying it."
"Well, that's about 30 of 100 of the smurf village," said Drick, "I can't believe it's so easy for us to find their smurf village from birds eye view, of course we have about the rest of the smurfs on the run. But there is a grand prize here ladies and gentlemen, a prize that Gargamel wants eliminated by all means possible. As he would explain."
"The prize is the Wunderwaffe," said Gargamel, "This Chernov Reznov is not an oridnary smurf, he fantasize with death and craves information like gold. The Wunderwaffe contains a lot of power that we cannot imagine, the 4 apple tall menace won't go down without a fight. Observe these files."
Gargamel places a hand on one of the files and opens it, then pushes it to Lord Balthazar whose across the table. The villians passed down parts of the files and looks over them, there were 5 photos. One was Chernov doing a pose with a SIR rifle mod, the second photo shows his computers and piles of books and documents inside his home, the third shows a bunch of dead red smurfs from the red smurf war that took place months back, the forth photo shows zombie smurfs eating the body of an unfortunate smurf, and the fifth photo shows what appears to be a nuclear bomb explosion."
"Just look at him," said Earl as he finished viewing the picture of Chernov and passes it to Hogotha, "He has it made."
"I gotta admit," said Hogotha as she passes it to Chlorhydris, "He's handsome."
"Indeed he is," said Chlorhydris as she observes the photo before passing it down to Imperia, "I think I'll get along with the Wunderwaffe, he doesn't seem happy like the other smurfs."
"He never is," muttered Gargamel.
"Maybe we can use this Wunderwaffe," said Imperia, "And take over the entire region."
"I wish that could happen," said Gargamel, "But Chernov cannot be controlled, few creatures on the planet possesses a will like his. That's why he must be destroyed."
"He's gotta have a weakness," said Lord Balthazar, "He's gotta-"
"He doesn't have one!" cried one of the captured smurfs.
"Shut up!" snapped Scruple as he pound his fist onto the cage.
"Where do you think Chernov is?" asked Hogotha.
"Well," said Drick as he turns on a projector and turns off the lights as the projector projects the entire map of le Pays maudit on the whiteboard at the edge of the room.
The smurf village is here," said Drick as he circles the Smurf Village's location with a red marker, "His last whereabouts is here," he says as he circled the location of Chernov's birthplace, "We scorched this much of the forest," he says as he drawn the outline of the artificial forest fire's path, the Smurf Village was within it's boundaries, "And we scorched this much forest around the area of his last whereabouts," he says as he draws a large circle around Chernov's birthplace, "The fires will obviously not kill him, he never stays in one location for long. But he must have settled down somewhere, he can't just run forever."
"I think there's other smurf villages," said Gargamel.
"Other smurf villages?" asked Drick.
"Yes," said Gargamel, "It appears he's heading east, which is very remote for humans. So their could be of smurf encampents in the eastern forests of le Pays maudit. I've seen about a thousand smurfs at some point in time, just a few weeks after the Wunderwaffe came around. It was very interesting, they could be around there for all I know."
"I'll have some predator drones scout the east," said Drick, "I've heard of these red smurfs who showed up out of nowhere, they are no friends with the Wunderwaffe so we may find signs of their battles against each other."
"We must also find their Long Life Force Stone," said Nemesis, "Its one of their greatest treasures."
"We already dug around in what's left of their village,' said Drick, "We found nothing, they either took it with them or have hid it elsewhere. I'm not going after magical artifacts just yet, there's a anti-magic field encasing le Pays maudit so we cannot use any kind of magic. The Great Smurf is highly dependent on magic, just wait to see the look of his face when he finds out that his 400 years of knowledge about magic is useless. Ha ha ha!"
All the villians laughed evil laughs, but Gargamel soon realized something. "If this field prevents the smurfs from using magic," he noted, "How can we use magic?"
"No one can," said Drick, "Magic assures the smurfs existence in this world, so we must use something new. Something unfamiliar to anyone here."
"Like hat?"
"Highly sophisticated technology, technology so advance that it will go against everything you know about the world and the universe."
None of the villians spoke to contradict his claim, so Drick lets it sink in for the moment. That's when Lord Balthazar broke the silence, "So about these Predator Drones of yours," he said, "What do they do?"
"I'm glad that you asked," said Drick as he aims a remote control at the computer next to the projector and presses a button. The map was soon replaced by live view from the eye of a Predator Drone, Drick soon wipes off all the markings he made on the whiteboard for the villans to get a better view of the footage.
"This is the bird's eye view of the Predator Drone," explains Drick, "We use these unmanned reconnaissance aircraft to seek out and destroy targets which ground forces can't get to, I can assure you that these Predator drones are very accurate in locating persons of interests."
"When you find them, how do you destroy them?" asked Nemisis.
"The Predator Drones are equipped with 2 AGM-114 Hellfire air to surface missiles, 4 AIM-92 Stinger air to air missiles, and 6 Griffin air to surface missiles. They are mainly used to take out armor and aerial targets, but targets as small as your thumb is completely overkill and are ineffective against them."
"So what's the alternative?" asked Hogotha.
"We'll use the B-2 spirit bombers to drop RRAB-3s on them," said Drick, "These bombs are designed to drop incendiary and chemical bomblets at a altitude of 5 kilometres and can cover about 1100 square metres of land. If we find any smurf encampment, we're going to drop these bombs right on top of them."
All the villains laugh as the captured smurfs stared at the live footage of the predator drone, they have little hope left to live as the Predator Drone shows the aerial view of the Smurf Village. It doesn't look like a smurf village, it looks like a massive black scar near the body of water. The only thing that is recognizable was Chernov's mushroom house which looks like a black pot with a bent straw coming out of it.
Seeing how Chernov's house survived where the rest of the mushroom homes did not gave the captured smurfs some hope, hope that the free smurfs are alright.
TO BE CONTINUED...