Who's That Smurfette?/Part 3

Greedy was at the dam's gateswitch platform, monitoring the water control at the dam while thinking of some delicious dessert he wanted to eat that day, when Smurfette arrived with something from his kitchen. "Oh, Greedy, I have this wonderful smurfberry cake that I made just for you," she purred.

Greedy's eyes widened when he saw Smurfette with the cake, and his mouth drooled. "Oh, Smurfette, you shouldn't have..." he remarked.

"Wait a minute, Greedy," Smurfette snapped, snatching the cake away before Greedy could touch it. "Won't you smurf me what that switch does?"

Greedy decided he could wait a minute or so just to answer Smurfette's question. "Oh, you see, this switch controls the flow of water that smurfs into the village..."

"But won't you show me how it does that?" Smurfette asked persuasively.

"Well...gee, I don't know if I should...," Greedy pondered. "If too much water smurfs out of there, it could flood the entire village."

"Not even for a bite of this scrumptious smurfberry cake I made for you?" Smurfette pleaded, pushing her persuasion even further. "Please?!?"

Greedy had to admit -- Smurfette had a way of making him feel like doing anything for her. "Well, maybe just for a bit I can smurf you," he answered.

As Smurfette watched, Greedy pushed the switch away from him, and the water came gushing out from the dam. Further down into the village, other Smurfs began noticing that a bit too much water from the dam was pouring its way down there, and some of them began to wonder what was going on at the dam.

"Okay, Smurfette, I think it's time that we closed up the gate," Greedy said as he was about to pull the lever back toward him to close up the dam when Smurfette suddenly grabbed it and pulled as hard as she could to keep the gate open.

"Smurfette! What are you doing?" Greedy yelped.

"I'm not done smurfing what that gate does, Greedy!" Smurfette shouted back.

Greedy found himself playing tug-of-war with Smurfette. "If we don't close the gate soon, the entire village will be flooded!" he warned her.

"Well, that is exactly what I had in mind," Smurfette retorted, "and you're not going to stop me!"

But eventually the gate switch broke and Smurfette found herself falling off the platform. Greedy watched in horror, calling out for Smurfette as she plunged herself into the raging waters gushing out of the gate.

Down in the village, the Smurfs were seeing that the water from the dam continued to flow, hinting that something was wrong. "If we don't get that dam smurfed up, the whole village will be underwater, Papa Smurf," Brainy said.

"I agree with you, Brainy," Papa Smurf said. "Hefty, Handy, Duncan, come with me to the dam and see if we can get the sluice gate closed up."

Papa Smurf, Hefty, Handy, Duncan, and a few other Smurfs went up toward the dam, following the path of the flowing water, when they heard a cry of help. "Michty me, it's the raven-haired lassie!" Duncan said.

"Hefty, you and Duncan work together to try to rescue Smurfette," Papa Smurf said. "I will proceed to the dam with Handy."

"Come on, boys, let's get smurfing," Hefty said as he, Duncan, and a few other Smurfs formed a chain with Hefty waiting near the water until Smurfette came close enough. "Grab my hand, Smurfette!" he called out.

Smurfette grabbed onto Hefty's hand, and the others pulled as hard as they could until Hefty and Smurfette were both safe on dry land. Meanwhile, Papa Smurf and Greedy lowered Handy down to the sluice gate, where he used a hammer to pound on the gate until it was sealed shut.

"Oh, thank you for rescuing me," Smurfette said to the Smurfs who were with her. "I was up at the dam when it started to oversmurf, and I fell in when I tried to stop the water from oversmurfing."

"Thank smurfness that we smurfed you out before you got smurfed away, lassie," Duncan said.

"Yeah, but how did the dam start oversmurfing in the first place?" Hefty wondered.

"I'll tell you how, Hefty," Greedy said as soon as he, Handy, and Papa Smurf joined the others. "Smurfette was responsible for this. She lured me with a smurfberry cake into opening up the sluice gate, and then just when I was going to close it up, she forced it to remain open because she wanted to flood the village."

"What, me responsible?" Smurfette said, trying to sound innocent. "But I could never hurt another Smurf like you...would I?"

"This is a serious charge smurfed against you, Smurfette," Papa Smurf said. "I'm afraid we have no choice but to smurf you on trial for this act of endangerment."

To be continued.