SMURFS: TIME SMURFED AGAIN – THE CONCLUSION

By Steven Acevedo

THE STORY SO FAR: With the forest revitalized, it's agreed by Dr. Gargamel and Papa Smurf's double to be guardians of the newly created Smurfland. It's also through a quirk of fate that The Good Scientist finds the Clay formula that his ancestor used to created Smurfette. Mixing in the residued powder left over from the magic fallout into some mushrooms. He spent the early morning converting it into a liquid he dubbed Chemical I.

Pouring it over the blue clay it morphed into the shapes of a hundred smurfs – and a hundred smurfettes.

And there stood a hundred Smurfettes. Each one possessing something unique and different about them. They were a lighter blue color than the male smurfs who stood opposite them but that was not of any real importance. They were here and were ready to began a new life in a world that was starting to get its bearings back.

"Welcome to the World my new Smurfs," Papa Double said happily. "It's nice to have you be a part of our family in Smurfland Forest."

The Time Traveling Smurfs were awestruck by how many of them looked like the ones they left beind in the village where they came from. Among them included Scaredy, Tuffy, Weepy, Scour and Golfer. There was even another Grandpa in the bunch and two very familiar Smurflings as their older selves. Then there were new ones who also caught their attention.

One smurf wearing a smurf cap with a four leaf clover in it stepped up to greet them. "Hi, My name is Lucky Smurf. I can say without a smurf that being alive is the luckiest day of my smurf."

"Nice to meet you Lucky," Hefty said shaking his hand.

Another smurf stepped up with a rain cloud over his head. "Hi there, Smurfs.

Oh woe as me. Why did this cloud have to be over my head on this of all days?"

I feel terrible!" he said.

"I HATE terrible days too!" Grouchy complained. It was odd how similar Grouchy and this other smurf were but with one difference. He was more depressed than grouchy. As a matter of fact he was downright gloomy.

"That's Gloomy Smurf for you. He never looks on the bright side of things." another Smurf piped in. "You can call me Cheerful Smurf." He said to Handy, Hefty and the others.

"Feh!" another smurf snorted. "Only you could be so Goody Goody. Me I get to the root of the matter and shake things up a bit." This smurf wore a leather jacket and

looked like a hood. "Call me Rebel Smurf. I'm always going against the grain of Smurfdom and speak my mind."

"You stop that nonsense, Rebel Smurf," he snapped. "I swear I don't know what I'm going to do with you and your unsmurfy attitude now that we'll be staying here a smurf."

"Nag! Nag! Nag! I can see your going to be a bundle of laughs, Nagger," Rebel said

and then turned away. He turned around and saw the most beautiful Smurfette he had ever seen. She wore a leather jacket like his but wore a pink hat instead of a

white one. "Where have you been all my short smurf life, Babe?"

She body slammed him in front of the other smurfs.

"Try another line that like that and you'll wind up back into clay," she said.

"Sorry about that, folks. I get riled up when I think I'm being taken advantaged of."

But you do look kind of cute though." She said to Rebel.

"You're a tough little lady," Rebel said to Toughette. "Maybe we can go out sometime after we've settled in here."

"We'll see," she said.

Other introductions were quickly made with the other Smurfettes and Smurfs.This included, Brainette, Baby Babette, Hippette who wore beads and had psychedelic colored hair as well as Nanny Smurf and Mama Smurf.

By the afternoon everyone had settled into their new homes. A few differences were also made in the village as with everything else. There were brighter light fixtures put in and a small rectangular building with an antenna tower on top. This would be the new radio station K-SMURF run jointly by Rocker and Deejay Smurf.

The Time Traveling Smurfs were happy to see this world rise out of the old one.

But as all things it brought a bit of melancholy to some of them. "I guess our job is finished here, my little smurfs," Papa Smurf said. "I believe it's time we took our leave and go back to our own time."

Without hesistation they said their farewells and left the village for the spot of the Great Oak Tree that now was placed near the village a few miles away where they originally landed.

"I can't wait to smurf to our own world and own time," Snappy said excitedly.

"I hope this time we get there in one piece," Handy chimed in.

The crystals were assembled in a different way than the last time and all seemed ready to cast off when Papa Smurf saw another shadow looming over him. Turning around he saw Dr. Gargamel.

"And you were going to leave without saying Goodbye to me?" he smiled down at them.

Papa Smurf was a little flustered by his appearance. But it changed to a genuine smile as he shook The Good Doctor's hand.

"Thank you, Papa Smurf. Without your help with the others this miracle would not have been possible," he said to the white bearded smurf. "We are forever in your debt."

"It's nice to finally meet a Gargamel that didn't want to eat us or make us into gold," he responded.

Dr. Gary Gargamel laughed at that. "I can't say I blane you for thinking that," he said to him. "I'm happy we met. And I wish you well on your journey home. Oh yes. Your double requested I give you this as a Going Away present. He pulled out of his left pocket a tiny scroll with a picture attached to it. It was a color photo taken by Shutterbug Smurf with his new instant camera. In it were all two hundred Smurfs and Smurfettes and Dr. Gargamel in front of The Town Square.

"Something to remember us by," he said.

"Thank you," was all he could say.

Dr. Gargamel took his leave and went back to his lab which was now closer to the

New Smurfland Forest below.

Papa Smurf turned to face his fellow smurfs and he put in the last piece of the crystal into place. It took a few minutes for all the individual pieces to light up for the big send off.

"What was on the scroll that was attached to the photo, Papa Smurf," Smurfette asked as the wind began picking up around them.

"Some Words Of Wisdom that will be very important to our world when we get home," he told her.

Then the rainbow colored time tornado began to spin them out of sight and into the great unknown.