Author's notes: Oh my god! A new chapter! This is really overdue, but I finally got my inspiration back to write it. It'll be likley i'll have another chapter written and posted by at least next week, maybe sooner.

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Four smurfs stood watching the short lived battle between the small army of smurfs and Cecilia on an old Television screen.

The first smurf was a female, long blond hair flowing down her back.

Second stood a male smurf, a scowl burning already deep wrinkles into his angry face.

Third was another male smurf, a large, pink flower attached to his hat. He would glance at the female smurf constantly.

Last was yet another male smurf. This one wore large glasses of the geek-ish fashion. He was shorter than the other two males and carried a small blue book under his arm.

They watched the death of the other smurfs at the hands of Cecilia on the screen.

The female smurf smirked as the blue army was burned to ashes. "They're stronger than we thought."

The angry smurf sneered at her. "Hey moron, they did kill our lords, remember? Papa Smurf was a fool to barg in there."

The female smurf gave him a sharp look. "Watch your tounge Grouchy. You never know when you could lose it."

Grouchy clenched his teeth and changed his gaze to the ground.

The geeky smurf pushed his glasses back into place. "I agree with Grouchy, to attack so quickly was not the peak of strategy. I don't see how that old man made it to be our leader in the first place."

The smurf with the flower chuckled. "I guess with everyone else dead, we have to repopulate our species, eh Smurfette?" He said, winking at the female smurf.

"Try it and your dead." She glanced at all three of them. "That goes for all of you."

Grouchy spat at the ground. "I'm not into witchs anyway."

"With Papa Smurf and everyone else dead, I'm in command. One more comment like that and i'll have you fed to Azreal." Smurfette retorted with sadistic glee.

Smurfette's face became serious. "Alright, let's get everything ready. They'll be here to get that hideous woman soon."

With that the group of four dispersed.

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"I guess this is it." Jack said as he climbed out of the cockpit of the Protowing.

Cecilia looked at the old ruins. They were relativly small compared to other ancient structures they had seen in their travels. The temple must have only been twenty five feet high. The place was imbedded on the side of a old mountain, the ruins looking as though carved out of the light brown rock. Large statues of smurfs acted as pillars to the entrance.

Cecilia nodded. "Yeah. Good thing Rudy had been keeping tabs on Emma's escavating sites or we would never have found it."

Jack looked over at Rudy. "Speaking of which, why DO you know where she is all the time?"

A look of panic and embarrassment washed over Rudy's face. He searched desperately for a good excuse.

Jack grinned mischievously. "Oh, I get it." He placed a hand to his chin.

Rudy looked at Jack questiningly.

"You have a crush on that wacky scientist, don't you?"

Rudy's eyes widened and his entire face flushed a deep red.

Hanpan appeared as if from nowhere on Jack's shoulder and mimicked Jack's pose. "Yes, now that I think about it, I think i've seen a picture of Emma in Rudy's pocket before."

"Oh, and he always seems to get real nervous when she's around!" Cecilia chirped in.

Rudy's jaw draped open, his eyes going wild as he tried in vain to find a way to get himself out of this perdicament.

"HUMANS!" Came a loud voice from in front of the ruins.

Rudy felt releived on a level he never before experienced as everyone's attention was turned to the voice. He made a mental note to thank whoever it was later.

"I see you've made it here. I really didn't think you could find it." A soft chuckle was heard.

Jack squinted his eyes at the entrance to find the voice's keeper, but to no avail. "Whoever the hell you are, show yourself!"

"Oh, yes, yes. I am forgetting my manners aren't I? Allow me to introduce myself." A large explosion of smoke appeared in front of the group. The smoke quickly dissipated, leaving a table 4 feet high behind. A Smurf stood in the middle. He looked rather proud of himself, slicking back his...hat.

"I am Vanity, Vanity Smurf."

Jack sighed in annoyance. "More smurfs?"

Vanity feigned emotional hurt. "Sir, I am no ordinary smurf! Can you not see how white my pants are? How wrinkle free my hat is? This dashing pink flower? I am the hunk among smurfs, the thief of women's hearts, the most popular of popular!"

Cecilia leaned in slightly and smiled. "That outfit does make you look rather cute."

Vanity cocked an eyebrow. "Cute? ....I see humans cannot understand. That hideous scientist couldn't understand either!" Vanity flailed his arms around angerly, screaming in that annoying high pitched smurf voice. "You humans wouldn't know good looks if they came up and bite you in the--"

Vanity's screeching was cut short a phaser beam burning him, and his table, to ashes.

Jack and Cecilia looked over to Rudy surprised.

Rudy held his phaser gun in his hand. He smiled as a stray wind blew the ashes into the air. He took a deep, calm breath and placed the phaser back in a holster attached to his leg. He looked over to notice Jack, Cecilia and Hapan's stares.

Hapan looked wide-eyed at Rudy. "Why....did you do that?"

Rudy bit his lip and thought of an excuse. "Y-You mean you didn't see it?"

"See what?" Cecilia questioned.

"He was gonna...uhh.....he had acid in that flower! Yeah!" Rudy smiled widly and slammed a fist into his other hand. "He had the bag of acid hidden in his vile, disgusting, germ ridden pants, and a little plastic tube that lead up to that hideous little flower! Yeah, that hideous little flower....that blue worm.....how dare he say that...if he weren't ashes i'd smash him to pulp...!" Rudy began mumbling off further, his fists clenched and eyes nearly burning hole in the ground.

After another ten seconds of mumbling death threats to the newly departed, Rudy straightened himself back up. "I...I mean, if I hadn't blasted him, he would have melted your face Cecilia!"

Everyone looked at Rudy stupefied.

"We...we should go inside the ruins now..." Rudy spat out nervously. A few moments past in which everyone glanced at each other, then to Rudy.

"Well....let's go!" Rudy strided forward into the temple.

"Hey, Jack..remind me never to say anything bad about Emma again." Cecilia said when Rudy disappeared.

"Right. Remind me to remind her Hanpan."

Hanpan nodded dryly and crawled back into Jack's pocket trying to figure out just when the world went insane.