Artemis Fowl: The Final Battle

Prologue

Shortly after the LEPretrieval team failed to recover the body of the megalomaniacal pixie Opal Koboi, who had come from the past to steal a silky sifaka lemur, they sent out all of their active officers to places all around the world to find her. Undercover fairies is Disneyland Paris soon became LEP officers, searching everywhere in France for Opal, and it was not long after this that Tara was soon under heavy guard every full moon, waiting for the pixie to attempt a ritual. Opal was priority number one; until the People's most trusted human, Artemis Fowl II, contacted them, saying he had a plan to save the world. Little did he, or the People, know that this plan was made while Artemis was under the influence of the Atlantis Complex, and that they would soon have to fight off former LEP Captain Turnball Root, to save the people of Atlantis.

This forced the issue of Opal Koboi aside, and the People sent all of the officers they could to Atlantis, helping with the evacuation. After Turnball's plan was foiled, the city then begun to recall all of their evacuation ships, and Artemis Fowl was being sent to Dr. J. Argon's facilities to be treated for his Atlantis Complex. They had just foiled one of the biggest plots in history, and were ready for a few weeks' rest and relaxation. However this clumsy evacuation presented an opportunity, one that neither Opal Koboi could pass up…

Chapter 1:

Angeline Fowl has seen fairies before, she was no stranger to Captain Holly Short, the paranoid LEP technical consultant Foaly, or even the demon warlock N°1, but she was not prepared for the utter shock that came with seeing an LEP shuttle seem to come from nowhere on the grounds of Fowl Manor.

Chix Verbil stepped out of the shuttle, introduced himself, and asked Angeline to board. He assured her that it was safe, but after hearing that they will have to go through a hologram in the ground, down to a pit with liquid magma at the bottom in order to reach Haven City, she was put off a bit.

As it was, she was currently sitting in the cabin of the shuttle, speaking with the sprite about where exactly the chute was,

"Right now we are heading south to Tara, and we should be there in about twenty minutes," Chix said.

"Are you sure that we will be fine going into the pit? I have no intentions of being killed on my first visit belowground."

Visit. She thought about how she sounded, acting as if all of this was just going to be a fun vacation, but in the back of her mind she knew that this attitude was just to keep her from thinking about her son, who apparently has a mental disorder called the Atlantis Complex, and will be soon admitted to a mental hospital.

"Yes, I'm sure Mud Maid, I'm the best shuttle pilot the LEP has, aside from Captain Short, and I have not once had to report so much as a scratch on my shuttle."

This calmed Mrs. Fowl slightly, but when Chix took the shuttle into a dive, she couldn't hold back her high-pitched screams.

"Calm down, Mrs. Fowl! I didn't even take this dive fast, now that would have been something to scream at."

She didn't bother replying to this, because as soon as he had finished this sentence, they had landed, and Mrs. Fowl saw her son waiting for him at the dock.

"Arty!" She called, almost tripping as she ran out of the shuttle with excitement, "you're safe. I was beginning to worry."

"No need to worry, Mother. I am well, and soon my complex will be treated by the best doctors on the earth, or under it."

Artemis was slightly annoyed that he had used twenty-five words in the reply to his Mother, but he pushed that worry aside, knowing that his complex would soon be cured.

"Still, Artemis, I have to worry for you, you are my son."

"Thank you for your concern, Mother, but once again, it is in no way necessary."

Fives already, I need to get treatment quickly.

Holly Short burst onto the scene, breaking up the family reunion.

"Come on Artemis, we need to get you to the clinic. Oh, hello there Mrs. Fowl, it's nice to see you again."

"Nice to see you too, Holly," she said, hugging the elf.

Once they were in another shuttle, this one heading to Dr. J. Argon's clinic, Holly began the discussion of how Artemis's treatment was going to play out.

"So after we get you to the clinic, you will be officially admitted, and then sent to your room. You will be left alone for approximately thirty minutes until Dr. Argon will join you in the room, where he will interview you, and make his primary report on you."

"I have been meaning to ask this for a long while now," Artemis said, "this hospital, it's the same one that Opal stayed at, is it not?"

"Yes it is, but you do not have to worry about that, ever since the Koboi escape the People have tripled security at every hospital, to make sure that criminals cannot break in, or out," Holly replied.

At this point, Chix Verbil was talking on his communicator to Commander Trouble Kelp, and it appeared that he did not like what the Commander was saying to him.

"What's wrong, Chix?" Holly asked.

"N-nothing, it's nothing at all."

"We just saved the world, how bad could it be?" Artemis replied.

"Bad. Worse than anything that Turnball could have done."

"What happened, Chix?" Holly demanded.

"It's Opal Koboi, she's…broken herself out."

"D'Arvit, not again," Holly swore.

Just outside of Atlantis, fifteen minutes earlier

Opal Koboi was livid. Why? She thought. Why is it that I don't even get to leave my cell? It's bad enough that they are taking us outside of this dump of a prison, just to go back in, but I don't even get to leave my cell?

When the evacuation was ordered, every other prisoner, except for Opal, was put into a shuttle, handcuffed, and they took off. Opal, however, was deemed far to dangerous to let out, so they simply removed her shuttle from the rest of the prison and used cables to essentially tow it through the ocean.

It seemed like she was about to explode. All her cell consisted of was a small bed, even by fairy standards, and a toilet. Even worse, Opal thought, it's all white, not even close to my color.

Throughout the whole evacuation, she was pounding on the walls, just begging to actually be put in the shuttle like a regular prisoner. Instead, all she got for her trouble were sarcastic remarks, and the occasional broken nail.

"Why would we just take the most dangerous former pixie out of her cell? So we can just let her take it from us?" The Atlantean elf was saying this to his partner, but Koboi could hear it just fine.

I swear, if I ever get out of here, you two imbeciles will be the first to feel my wrath.

Of course, there was not much of a wrath that Opal Koboi could give them, because as she was killing her guards in her imagination, she remembered the former pixie remark. She truly couldn't kill them, she remembered, not with magic anyway. Ever since she had a human pituitary glad attached to her brain, she had slowly but surely become more and more human, until finally, she was almost one hundred percent human, and was barely recognizable as the pixie she once was.

Still, she thought, it is still nice seeing them blasted out of this ship with a Neutrino, even if it is only in my head.

The Opal Koboi of eight years ago had an attitude completely opposite that of the present day Opal, because she was finally get the chance to make her alliance with the only person who could help get her revenge, herself.

She took the Atlantis evacuation as an opportunity to finally free herself, because not only was the present-day Opal not in her shuttle, but the LEP hadn't even put a full squadron of guards on her, just two idiots with buzz batons.

How could they think that just leaving her cell out in the open ocean would work out? It's basically begging me to break in.

When she realized that the evacuation was being cancelled, she decided she would make her move. She dove below the ocean in her Koboi Labs suit (What other suit would it be?) and stopped right on top of her own cell. She took out a softnose laser, modified to fit human batteries, (which she had made a plan for, already,) and cut a small hole in the cell, but with her magic, kept the water from getting inside the cell. Without hesitating, she jumped into the cell and quickly disposed of the pathetic guards.

Wow, thought present day Opal, My imagination must be really vivid, for a second there I actually saw myself—and then she realized what had really happened. All that she could manage to say to her savior was,

"My gods I am a genius."