Crisis Of Infinite Smurfs (Empath stories)

The Crisis Of Infinite Smurfs is an event that took place sometime around Empath Smurf's 160th birthday in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series, shortly before Empath and Smurfette's wedding. It was initiated by Gargamel when he began stealing various time-controlling artifacts with the desire to change all history so that the Smurfs would no longer exist, thus leading to his future role as Oblivion. This had the effect of merging various timelines together, resulting in "infinite Smurfs" that appeared in the Smurf Village. Before they vanished, Mother Nature and Father Time helped transport the Smurfs to the beginning of time so that they could defeat Gargamel/Oblivion's plan to destroy the Smurfs before creation took place. Upon their successful defeat of the evil wizard turned reality changer, history was restored and Gargamel would never become Oblivion. In "Empath's Wedding", Empath upon rescuing the Smurflings had a brief moment where he thought he had seen the Smurflings in their adult forms from another timeline.