A/N- This is a defiant sequel to 'Beep Beep', you do have to read 'Beep Beep' first or the message part won't make sense :) please click either the little go button at the bottom to review or send me a PM and give me your opinion. Have fun!

Oh and by the way, the italic paragraphs are scene dividers but also insightful calls like in the first couple of chapters!

Mobile Phones Ruin Everything.

As the phone continued its journey through time it was unaware that somebody had been tracking it. It was unaware for two reasons, one; it was a small gold disk and didn't have and self awareness but the more important, two; its batteries were dead.

Someone had been tracking it.

Someone had been following its journey through history.

Someone who knew the rules of the time tunnel.

Someone who could stop it and send it back.

Someone like… Artemis Fowl.

As it flashed briefly into reality someone noticed its arrival. Not just one someone, but two someones. The most noticeable was the gigantic mountain in a black suit. But if you got to know both of the well you would realise that the big man, who could think and deploy hundreds of ways of killing you with just a small piece of lint, was nowhere near as scary as the once pale youth next to him.

Artemis lifted his had and a look of concentration passed over his features. Shortly afterwards a single blue spark leapt from the tip of his outstretched fingers and jumped onto the gold disk where it sank in and turned the whole disk a glowing blue.

"Perfect butler, we have what we came for; this will not be bothering history again. Now what is it? Presumably a coin of some sort that got dropped into the vortex? Or perhaps… no, it couldn't be!" Artemis walked towards the still glowing disk. Butler looked as though he was about to warn Artemis but the boy picked it up and held it in his hand.

"What is it Artemis? And before you answer remember we have to be in Paris to pick up Juliet in an hour."

"No problem old friend! A work of a mere moment to get the plane ready." Artemis replied.

"Even with you magic you can't tell the airport to get it ready without a phone." Butler pointed out.

"Ah but I have a phone!" the boy said triumphantly.

"But your fairy com was lost in… the… it's in you hand isn't it… did you know before you picked it up?"

"No, but what a happy coincidence for me! I do some good for the human race by removing the starting factor of most wars and what happens?" Artemis asked rhetorically, "I get my phone back!" at that Artemis placed the disk on his palm and closed his hand around it, activating the generator that would turn his thermal energy into electrical energy and power the phone.

"You have fifteen messages!" a cheery little voice blared out through Artemis' thumb.

"play." Artemis said into his little finger and listened to the messages (the first couple of chapters). Afterwards he sighed and phones the airport telling them to get the jet ready.

"Let's go butler." Artemis said wearily.

"Is something wrong Artemis? You don't sound to happy." Butler asked as they made their way to the DB9 (1).

Artemis wordlessly handed the phone to butler who listed to it for three messages before speaking again.

"Root? Artemis he's gone, this thing just picked up a message from when he wasn't. Just remember what Holly said, he wouldn't want people to worry, just to get on and do their jobs." Butler said quietly, which would have surprised listeners. He didn't look the type to be gentle.

"Not that one, the fifth one." Artemis said, sticking to his good old defence of saying as little as he could get away with, this was a cover for his mind racing ahead and thinking of all possibilities.

Butler listened and then wordlessly handed the phone back.

"Do you think that was our Holly?" he asked.

"Well it is possible it picked up a different Holly from either the past, future, or maybe even alternate dimensions. It could even be a message she didn't send in the end. The time tunnel could have amplified its capabilities. I would have to test it to find out."

And at that moment the phone rang. Artemis picked it up but before he could say anything he heard…

Yes Holly? This is Commander Root; I want you to check the area but whatever you do, DO NOT enter. Do you understand?

Yes sir.

Click

"well, I think we can safely say that it was, and apparently still is, picking up messages that are not form the currant track of events." Artemis said, triumphantly.

"Why can't it just be a message from the past?" asked butler.

"Well messages don't hang around that often and Holly's voice pattern has changes a semitone up in the years we have known here, it was at the currant rate in that message but Root was alive. It's not our world. Do you think I should tell her?"

"no." said butler firmly, "if it is our Holly, how will it look if we know about it? And I it isn't it could put her in a difficult position. Put her needs before your curiosity Artemis, just keep an eye on her and you will find out for yourself." Butler said.

"Yes I suppose your right. Anyway… on to Paris!"

I don't know if you can hear me, I don't know if you want to, I don't even know why I'm doing this. You said you hated me but there is always a fine line between hate and love… I think I may have stepped over the line. Don't reply to this message. I don't want to know what you think but it's good to get that off my chest.

Holly loved flying. It was the best part of above ground missions. As she was now sector 8's official correspondent with Artemis, she got to fly practically every week! But still, no matter how many times she flew she never lost the feeling of joy when she took of, and the feeling of disgust when she saw what had happened to the world. Then she would remember that not everyone was bad, some mud men actually tried to save the planet and help out. Most of them didn't know what they were doing but one specific person had asked Foaly what to do, and was spending millions fixing the world.

I'll give you three guesses as to who it is… nope wrong! Juliet! Artemis was far to busy trying to cover up for the fact that he had been missing for years and Angeline had almost adopted Juliet as a fill in daughter. Artemis didn't mind, it let him go around and get on with helping Holly and the sector 8 guys (especially Foaly, even through the centaur would never admit it.) but today he was going on a special mission underground with Holly and mulch to catch a rouge troll that had been displaying unusually high intelligence levels. Holly had agreed to meet Artemis at Fowl manor once he had picked Juliet up from Paris.

And so she was on her way to Fowl manor.

Once she got there and landed on the balcony she once again broke regulations and took off her helmet to take a lung-full of fresh surface air. Just as she did she saw the sleek, black Bentley pulling up to the gates and decided it was time to get Artemis back for all the times he had surprised her. She put on her new shiver suit and shielded, making her completely invisible to the human, or currant technological eye.

She snuck up to the car and just as Artemis got out she unshielded and shouted "BOO" in his ear. He didn't even bat an eyelid. Just kept walking and said

"Hi Holly, you made it okay I see." And kept going to fowl manor.

Holly sighed; it got annoying sometimes when nothing she did seemed to faze him. And as her mind wandered it went to the message she thought about sending to Artemis the other week. In the end she had decided not to send it because she was sure it would make their work really awkward and as Julius had said "it's not what's good for you, but what's good for the people." Or words to that affect. So here she was, wondering what to do and about to pursue a freakishly intelligent troll deep underground with the boy she might like and his continental (2) companion, not to mention a dwarf who stank of sewage.

'Just my day' thought Holly.

As she landed on the balcony to Artemis' set of rooms where he slept, washed and most of the time ate, but most importantly where they planned their operations. She walked straight in because Artemis had given her a permanent invite into Fowl manor (and he had only added unless she cam to do him or any colleagues or family harm as an after though instead of as the main part of the invitation, he was changing albeit slowly).

As Artemis was freshening up after the flight Holly looked around his rooms and her eye was drawn to the little communicator she had given him when she was still a bounty hunter.

'But hold on, didn't he lose that one when we fell out of the gallery window? Or was he just with holding the truth again? Maybe someone else gave him one! I better check it out.' And so saying Holly walked over and picked it up, placing it in her hand and dialling up the interface menu. After looking through and finding nothing suspicious she turned her attention to the 15 odd voice mails. After listening to one in particular she went completely numb. 'How did he get this message?!? I didn't even send it! What's going on with the rest of the messages as well? Something is not right. I wonder if he has heard it. Wait, who am I kidding? Of course he heard it. This is going to make the mission somewhat difficult. Darvit!'

But whilst out heroine was thinking this staring at her palm Artemis had quietly slipped back into the room. He instantly noticed Holly was staring at her hand and glanced over at the cabinet to confirm the fact she had the coin. That meant she had heard her own message, what was she thinking? 'Damn, this mission is going to be uncomfortable. Best to get this out of the way fast.'

"Holly!" said Artemis, forcing cheerfulness into his voice, "I'm guessing you found my phone, guess where it was? Floating through the time stream picking up bits of conversation from alternate universes! The message of you on there, it's probably a different Holly, and most likely a different me. Don't worry about it; we have a job to do."

After her initial shock and jump, which she expertly covered up, Holly relaxed, Artemis thought it was an alternate Holly! This was perfect, she could blame it all on that… or could she. For a moment she forgot Artemis was there and muttered to herself, "What's best for the people, not you!"

"Pardon?" enquired Artemis, even though he had heard perfectly and put one and one together. However deciding the mission was more important at this moment he was pulling the old 'feinting deafness' move.

"Nothing, just thinking of Julius I guess." Holly replied trying to keep the shake out other voice. It had been months but she couldn't get over him being just gone, the worst part was that for everyone else he had been gone for years, they had time to adjust. Now Holly was on her own grieving for him.

"Don't! What ever you do don't think of him. Do the job that's in front of you. Keep looking forwards not back, that way it won't catch up until you are ready." Artemis said urgently, trying to stop Holly having a breakdown. Heartless it may be but what with one thing and another, another being certain message, he wasn't sure how to comfort her anymore. 'I can't even comfort a friend anymore, this message is going to screw up the whole mission I just know it.'

Little did Artemis Fowl the second know how right he was, and how wrong he was.

Well a sneak peak would be that there will be in the rest of the story:

No trolls whatsoever!!!

A clever ploy to get Artemis' (not gonna tell you what, you guess!)

Magic!

Mayhem!

A smelly dwarf

A modest amount of bragging

A modest amount of cake!

A not so modest amount of dwarf… gas!

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(1)Aston Martin DB9, best car in the world 

(2)Not intercontinental, continental as in as big as one.