Smurfed Behind: The Other Side Of The Mirror/Part 4

Traveler found himself falling out of the timestream very fast, materializing high in the sky and falling until he landed hard on the ground. He felt as if he had been struck by such power that he had never experienced before. He had no idea what was going on, why the timestream ended up changing and who that other time traveler was who had entered the timestream and claimed that it was his own timestream. All he could remember is that the time traveler looked like a dark version of himself, as if he had been corrupted somehow by somebody.

Traveler slowly picked himself up from the ground and looked around to see where it was that he landed in. It resembled the Smurf Forest, but somehow it was like looking into a mirrored version of it, like stepping into a reflection and seeing everything flipped to the other side. This seemed like an entirely different world from the world he was familiar with.

Then he heard voices that sounded like Smurfs that were heading in his direction. He decided to turn himself invisible so that he would not attract any unwanted attention to himself in case he accidentally appeared in a time period he was not supposed to appear in.

He saw two Smurfs approaching toward the site where he landed, but both those Smurfs looked very different. Their skin was red and they were both wearing black hats and pants. He sensed that their intentions were evil and that this must be an entirely different universe altogether, where the morality of the Smurfs are the exact opposite of their normal counterparts.

"Well, here are we at the spot, and there's nothing there," one of the Smurfs said.

"Ah, smurf it," the other Smurf cursed. "I was so smurfing sure that I smurfed something fall from heaven right to this spot. What was it that Tapper said...'I smurfed Satan fall like lightning from heaven' or something."

"Now you think it's Satan that fell from heaven to earth?" the first Smurf said, sounding a bit amused.

"I'm not some crazy religious nut who believes in that nonsense, you smurfing idiot," the second Smurf said. "I'm just saying something probably fell from the heavens, and it could be anything. Maybe an angel, maybe a devil, maybe an alien of some sort."

"Well, whatever it is, it's gone," the first Smurf said. "Let's smurf back to the village and see how they're smurfing with those prisoners they have captured."

"You mean that blue Smurf and the pale-face?" the second Smurf said. "They'd probably tell us nothing about how to use that Janus mirror."

A blue Smurf and a pale-face? Traveler thought. Could this mean that Empath and Polaris have somehow both ended up here in this other universe? There was only one way to find out. After watching the two Smurfs start heading back to the village, he altered his own appearance to resemble that of a Smurf from their universe and ran to catch up to them.

"Hey, Smurfs, I couldn't help hearing about these prisoners that we have captured," Traveler said, disguising his voice so as not to give himself away.

"You weren't here when Tracker and the Smurflings brought them?" the first Smurf said. "One of them looked like Empath, and the other had pale skin like a human."

"They found a magic mirror called the Janus Mirror, and it's supposed to be a portal between our world and theirs," the second Smurf said.

"Now Papa Smurf is trying to get some information about how they could use the mirror so they could smurf over that other world," the first Smurf said.

"That sounds incredible," Traveler said. "Do you think we can succeed?"

"We'll smurf the information out of those two one way or another," the second Smurf said. "There's no way they're going to smurf silent about it for long."

Traveler realized that Empath and Polaris had crossed over from their own universe into the one he and they were now in, and they were being held prisoner so that they could reveal whatever information they had on the Janus Mirror. He sensed that the Smurf Village of that universe was designed to keep prisoners physically sealed within its borders. If he could somehow find a way to get in, he could help Empath and Polaris escape so that they could find a way to return to their own universe...and to the timestream that Traveler belonged in.

To be expanded on.