The Death Of Clockwork Smurf

"The Death Of Clockwork Smurf" is a story event that takes place in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series. It is an adaptation of the cartoon show Season 8 episode "Clockwork's Powerplay", and leads into the events that take place in "Monkey On Your Smurf" which introduces Clockwork's rebuilt form. The story takes place less than a year before Empath's final return from Psychelia.

Plot Summary
As Reporter Smurf is trying out Handy's new power-generated printing press during a lightning storm, Gargamel is showing off his latest invention to his apprentice Scruple, the Skate And Bake Smurf Snare, with which he intends to capture and bake the Smurfs. Handy in the meantime is escorting the two Clockwork Smurfs back home to the Smurf Village for their routine checkup when Gargamel encounters them. Handy runs for safety while the two Clockwork Smurfs pick up Gargamel and Azrael and give them a little spin before they throw the terrible twosome. Scruple sees this and makes a run for it, but he causes the Skate And Bake to go down an incline, bumping into Clockwork Smurf and catapulting him onto it just as a lightning bolt strikes the invention. Clockwork is now overcharged with so much energy that neither Handy nor Clockwork Smurfette can safely touch him.