Smurfed Behind: The Other Side Of The Mirror/Part 7

Back in the Smurf Village, Papa Smurf was continuing to go through the belongings of his prisoners when he saw a whistle in Empath's pack. "What the smurf does this thing do?" he wondered aloud. He blew into it once, then twice, and then a third time, but surprisingly nothing happened. "Huh...just some useless keepsmurf that they have for themselves," he said to himself as he placed it back into the pack.

"Hey, Papa Smurf, you happen to have something that belongs to this smurf and my friend Polaris," a voice called out high and loud.

Papa Smurf was beginning to wonder who it was that was calling out to him when he heard frantic knocking on his door. He opened and saw his little Smurfs all gathering around him.

"Papa Smurf! Papa Smurf!" they cried out. "Gargamel has just reached our village and he's smurfed some kind of armor on himself."

"Some kind of armor?" Papa Smurf said. He decided to look for himself, and as he did, he indeed saw Gargamel wearing a kind of armor with a pair of gauntlets that are glowing with a magic power. And sitting on Gargamel's shoulder was Empath, the Empath from the other universe.

"So you have smurfed your true colors," Papa Smurf said. "I didn't think you would smurf all the way to bring our worst enemy straight to our village."

"You are the ones who are the enemy, Papa Smurf," Empath said. "We're just here to make sure you do not cause anymore trouble, either in this world or any other."

"We'll see about that," Papa Smurf said. He then called out to his little Smurfs. "Smurf the catapults...aim...and then fire!"

But before the Smurfs could reach the catapults, Gargamel aimed one of his gloved hands toward a catapult and fired a burst of magical energy. It struck the catapult and blasted it to smithereens.

"I...I...I...I did it!" Gargamel said, looking at his gloved hand, sounding excited. "Those Gauntlets of Gantharros actually work!"

"Gargamel, look out!" Empath called out. Suddenly he was bombared by a volley of small rocks as the Smurfs one by one fired the remaining catapults at him.

"I don't want to do this, but they leave me no choice," Gargamel said. He aimed his gloved hand toward another catapult and fired a burst of magical energy, also destroying it completely.

The other Empath came out when he saw his fellow Smurfs in a futile struggle against a strangely armored Gargamel. "So this Gargamel thinks he can overpower us with this armored suit?" he sneered. "I will smurf it apart like it's paper mache and smurf him until he's a bruised and bloody mess."

The other Empath used his telekinesis to launch himself straight toward Gargamel, only to find himself ricocheting off the armor with a metallic clang and falling to the ground. Coming to his senses, he saw the Empath from the other universe and decided to hurl himself straight toward him instead.

"YOU!" the other Empath shouted, knocking Empath off Gargamel's shoulder and felling him to the ground. "You bring our worst enemy to our village and let him destroy everything we have built! You are worse than a traitor to the Smurfs!"

Empath tried to fight defensively against the other Empath, but the other Empath was too fast and too strong. He felt like his own punches were not landing anywhere while the other Empath's punches were like jackhammers. He honestly didn't know how long he could hope to last against his other self.

"I think it is time to smurf out our mechanical army," Papa Smurf said, realizing that his little Smurfs were not much use against an armored Gargamel. "Handy Smurf, call out the Clockwork Smurfs!"

"Yes, Papa Smurf," Handy responded. He then pressed a button on a remote control he was carrying, and suddenly up from a hidden underground bunker, an army of Clockwork Smurfs, all dressed in black suits and resembling the latest model of Clockwork Smurf that Handy of Empath's own universe had built, emerged to the surface.

"WE ARE HERE TO OBEY YOUR ORDERS!!!" the Clockwork Smurf army announced.

"Clockworks, destroy Gargamel!" Handy shouted.

"YES, MASTER HANDY!!! WE SERVE TO OBEY!!!" the Clockwork Smurf army responded.

Gargamel saw that the Smurfs have now sent an army of robotic Clockwork Smurfs to defeat and destroy him. He tried blasting one of the robots with his gloved hands. The destroyed robot sparked for a few seconds, and then suddenly it reformed and divided itself into two more robots. He tried blasting another, but the destruction of that other robot also caused the same effect: it reformed and divided itself in two.

Gargamel began to realize that no matter how many robots he blasted, he could not stop their approach, but only made things worse as they continued to multiply and then climb upon him and swarm around him, slowly dismantling his armor in the process.

"Empath, help me!" Gargamel cried out in fear as he felt himself overwhelmed by the sheer number of robots that are taking apart his armored suit.

But unfortunately Empath was too busy with his own problem -- namely, trying to fight his other self and get him to stop pummeling him.

The other Empath laughed as he stood triumphant over his fallen adversary. "Soon we will conquer Gargamel, just as we have conquered you," he gloated. "And when we are done here, we will open the portal and conquer your world!"

Suddenly Empath felt power coursing through his body. He rose up and punched the other Empath square in the face, felling him. "OVER THIS SMURF'S DEAD BODY YOU WILL!!!" he roared.

The other Empath looked up, as did all the Smurfs, and saw an entire army of Psyches, being led by Polaris, flying toward them from out of the sky. They looked like they were ready for the day of battle.

"All right, you Smurfs, everyone fight to the death!" Duncan called out.

But as the Smurfs tried to fight the army of Psyches, they all began to fall one by one, knocked down by the bursts of telekinetic energy they were projecting.

The Clockwork Smurfs have finished stripping Gargamel of all his armor when they noticed that the Smurfs themselves were falling to the army of Psyches that have emerged. They dropped what they were doing and headed straight for the army to stop their advance.

To be expanded on.