A/N: Well, the first chapter of this 'revolutionary' fanfic. Or I just think it's revolutionary because it's never been done before. The other end of this crossover will be revealed in chapter 2. As said in my profile, this will be a pretty lateral story, with no real suspense/excitement/plot twists yet.
Ok, after about a week after I finished this chapter, I got a little brain-dead halfway through the second one, so to relieve my brain, I'm releasing the first chapter just for the hell of it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Artemis Fowl. I can't buy it either, but whatever.
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It all started as a small blip.
Not just any blip, though. If it was just a normal small blip, it wouldn't have eventually given so much attention, and almost plunged a species to extinction. This blip was special. The techie and his computer didn't pay much attention to the blip, but even if he did, it wouldn't have mattered. It would have only made Foaly pay attention to the blip about 5 seconds earlier. In this grand scheme of discovery, chaos, and new beginnings that would soon happen in the next couple of days, 5 seconds meant very little.
That blip was a portion of a LEP techie's gas screen monitor of his computer. That blip was an indication, flagged red for some reason. Of course, that techie being a techie, thought it was a malfunction from the Scopes of one of the satellites right above the west coast of the USA. That techie still being a techie, acted accordingly and sent the information that the blip was indicating to the main screen of the LEP's resident technical advisor and ridiculously annoying genius, Foaly.
The information was sent to Foaly's computer, and brought to the main attention of his V-goggles. Foaly had been experimenting with a newer version of his V-board and goggles, reducing weight and being more sensitive to certain strokes of the fingers. The file, coloured red for urgency, was opened automatically as Foaly's eyes drew over to the file. The file opened, revealing information picked up by the supposed malfunctioning Scopes system on the US satellite and a video. Foaly drew his attention to the Scopes information first. After several minutes of reading and the eventual pang of horror, commonly experienced when someone's deepest secret has been revealed, Foaly watched the video. The video was a short e-conference, between two beings. Those beings were not exactly human, but that wasn't the point right now.
Foaly minimized the video and the Scopes information back into its red-flagged file, and patched a connection to Chairman Cahartez of the fairy Council.
"Chairman Cahartez? This is Foaly. I'm advising a complete lockdown on Haven City. I've received some data that may potentially be disastrous for the fairy people."
Cahartez paled slightly at Foaly's distraught voice and looks. The centaur was not usually like this, so he took heed at his words.
"Very well, Mr. Foaly. Gather whatever information you have and meet us at Ops. Commander Kelp, the majors, and all captains will also be called in."
"Affirmative, Chairman."
Foaly closed the video link. All captains, Cahartez had said. For this job, Foaly thought, only one captain is needed. Along with her human friends, and maybe some luck.
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Haven City, two and a half hours later
Holly shifted uncomfortably in her seat. The Council had issued a city-wide lockdown, so something was going on. Holly doubted that this situation had to do with Artemis Fowl, but she knew in the back of her mind that he was going to be involved pretty fast.
Artemis.
Holly thought back to her time spent getting the silky sifaka lemur.
I kissed him, and, crap, Foaly knows…
During her return to the present, Foaly had did a little memory scan on Holly for any brain problems. He had found out the 'intimate moment' those two had shared. The only thing that preventing Foaly from leaking that information to every single officer in the LEP was that she threatened to tell Caballine that Foaly planned on getting another filly. That statement wasn't exactly the truth, but Caballine trusted Holly pretty well, sometimes even more than Foaly.
Foaly walked in right on cue, and just like 4 and a half years ago, he was carrying a load of data disks, and loading them onto various monitors.
"Ok, I advised a lockdown to the Council based on these readings, which I received after a techie shunted a red-flagged file pertaining to this to me."
Commmander Trouble Kelp, in a moment of slight annoyance, responded. "Foaly, I'm gonna quote our dearly departed ex-Commander Julius Root here. All I see are lines and squiggles, as well as every other fairy here. We need plain Gnommish now.
Foaly frowned. Trouble was right, he had got to stop being so technical around everyone. Really, the only sentient being Foaly knew that could keep up with his intellect was Artemis Fowl. He sighed, "Fine, plain and simple. We were pinged, OK?"
A silence laden with shock and suspense hung the air for several seconds, until Foaly broke the silence again.
"This time, it's probably not the big emergency we had a couple years ago where Artemis Fowl's stolen LEP technology pinged us unintentionally, and we thought the humans had discovered us. No, this time, the communications system used was alien."
"What? It's alien?" The commander said.
"Yep. Our Scopes intercepted a video conference two of those aliens were having. I'm pretty sure that this video will surprise you."
Foaly pressed a big red button on a remote control, obviously for novelty reasons. A giant gas screen lowered down one wall, and turned on, displaying two very alien faces. Only their heads were visible, due to their proximity to the camera. One of the aliens was almost completely purple, with two extra eyes beside their main eyes. That alien's face was a light pink-ish purple, with only three hairs on top of its head. He spoke with an unusual accent, which seemed to be Russian. The other alien spoke with a commanding female voice, but was also comforting in aspects, and had a head that seemed to be shaped like a cross but the extending bars were cut short and rounded. The second alien's face had a sort of grandmotherly texture to it. It was obvious that the second alien was some sort of commander of an unknown alien organization.
Things got even more unusual as about 48 seconds into the video, another alien's head popped up into the purple creature's screen. The third alien had a disproportionately large head that resembled a koala's, and had two gigantic ears. The alien was a deep blue, and below its jaw was a lighter blue. The blue creature spoke a few words to the purple alien in an unknown dialect, and left.
Foaly pressed the gigantic red novelty button on the remote control again, and the gas screen retracted back up to the ceiling. Commander Kelp took action right then.
"OK, Captain Short, I'm sending you for recon on this. You seem to have a bit of experience with unusual matters anyways. I want a fully tooled-up Retrieval team covering Short. If she needs backup, she's gonna need it in less than 30 seconds, I bet." The commander kept up with the orders as he walked out the room with everybody else.
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Holly strode purposefully to Foaly's centre of operations. He had called her for getting her above-ground equipment, and a little information that the commander didn't known about.
"Ok, Holly, this isn't exactly gonna be standard issue stuff," Foaly said as he reached down to grab an above-ground suit. "Here's your standard Shimmer Suit, got it? It has the normal auto-armour and the smart wafers, and all that crap. But that's the only thing that's normal around here this time." Foaly handed more equipment to Holly. "Ok, prototype Neutrino 3500, more stun settings, powered by kinetics like the 3000, about 20 percent lighter than its predecessor, and so much more, but we're wasting time here talking."
Holly rolled her eyes. We're wasting time talking?
The obnoxious centaur continued. "Since we're dealing with aliens, I thought we should use some more heavy weaponry today." Foaly handed Holly what looked like a Heckler & Koch 69A1 grenade launcher, but slightly smaller and with a load of wires and screens attached. "This is a new invention of mine. The only problem is that I haven't gotten around naming it yet. This baby fires a neutrino projectile, a lot like those humans' grenade launchers, and when the projectile detonates, everybody within a 10 feet radius of the blast is knocked out for at least 6 hours. The range is adjustable, from 20 feet to 20,000 feet. You're gonna have to reload after every shot though."
Holly picked up the weapon. Reloading, so ancient. She can't believe the humans still use guns with nearly non-existent magazine sizes. Foaly continued his 'briefing'.
"Ok, Holly, the signal that pinged us was from…outer space, but one of the ends of the video conference was actually in Kauai, Hawaii. Take E121, and investigate. Retrieval is going to be steps behind you, literally."
Holly walked out with her equipment and headed towards the East Bank, where E121 was located. That chute was pretty old, but a lot of people still used it, due to Hawaii's enjoyable climate and conditions, and low human population. Holly's walk turned into a sprint. This whole 'saving the world' thing is getting old, she thought, a nice below-ground riot would be better than doing this.
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A/N: If you can guess what the crossover is, you get a cookie! The next chapter will be released around late August, when I start on chapter 3.