The Smurf Village Revival

Shortly after the Smurfs had returned from their time-traveling trip, they immediately transported themselves to the Smurf Village and had Empath hooked up to life support machines that Handy had developed using his smurferator technology. They succeeded in keeping his body alive, but Empath's brain functions were not taking over. Polaris sensed that Empath was in a coma and that it could take a while for him to recover from it, if he ever does. The other Smurfs tried to keep company with Empath during this state in the hopes that he would hear them and recover soon. However, the village was in low spirits: they were uncertain about Empath's fate and they wouldn't know what to do without him. As if an answer to their prayers, a traveling missionary by the name of Benedictus appeared to them to offer comfort to the Smurfs through the teachings of a spiritual being he calls God. Benedictus exhibited supernatural power that Clumsy was the first recipient of, causing him to walk around confidently without bumping into anything. The Smurfs took the missionary into their village where he shared his teachings with them. Papa Smurf was suspicious of this visitor at first, and became concerned for his little Smurfs when Benedictus' supernatural power was causing them to fall to the ground, writhe uncontrollably, laugh hysterically, and even speak in strange unintelligible languages. However, Benedictus slowly won over most of the Smurfs in the village with the exception of Grandpa Smurf, Polaris Psyche, Wild Smurf, and Baby Smurf -- the last of which sensed something evil about this missionary, which the converted Smurfs simply wrote off as being a "Jezebel spirit". Things got ugly when the converted Smurfs turned against everything in the Smurf Village and also turned against the non-converted Smurfs to destroy them as Benedictus now charged them to do. Retreating into the infirmary where Empath was still in a coma, the non-converted Smurfs now saw Traveler Smurf briefly appearing next to Empath with a young Smurfling girl from the future, whom Empath in his comatose state, still believing he is on a journey to rescue his fellow Smurfs, realized was his future daughter Psycheliana. After Traveler and Psycheliana disappeared, Empath awoke, glad to be alive again, but now realizing that the village is under the thrall of Benedictus. Empath now joined the non-converts to help the converted Smurfs see reason that they are being used by Benedictus, but they now turned against Empath. Through Baby Smurf's power, the spell Benedictus had over the converted Smurfs was broken and the missionary was revealed to be a Viperion, who sought to destroy the Smurfs through their spirits. Realizing that he couldn't control the Smurfs any longer, Benedictus fled from the village as the Smurfs chased him out of it. They now also saw that Empath was awake and alive again, and that night they had a celebration not only for Empath's 156th birthday (albeit a few weeks late) but also for Baby Smurf's new name which was Miracle.