Fatum Universus

By: Sango Ai

Disclaimer: I do not own Artemis Fowl or any of its characters. I do,
however, own Ariana.


LEP Ops Booth

Commander Root sat down; elbows on the table as he stroked his brow,
trying to keep his head from exploding"Explain this to me in simple
terms Foaly, exactly what are we dealing with here"

"You remember Jon Spiro"

"Of course I remember Jon Spiro" shouted Commander Root.

Foaly ignored Julius' out-burst, he was having one more often than
not"Yes, well, it seems that somehow a grandson of his, one
Anthony Spiro has discovered the fairies… and in the simplest terms
possible, is planning to raise hell. Sound a bit familiar"

Root groaned and stuck a fungus cigar in his mouth, lighting it, he
needed to calm down and think this through"How do we know a human
has discovered the People"

"Again…" murmured Holly, who was sitting at the other end of the
table, listening and drumming her fingers absently, the reason she had
been summoned becoming all too clear.

"It's simple really… my security has found a rather… provocative
website pertaining to the People. It has all kinds of information,
sacred information found only in the Book, just sitting there on the
Internet for any child that knows how to use a search engine to find. It
also contains plans… blue prints of shuttle ports, detailed reports of LEP procedures, you name it, the guy's got it."

"Anyone who would be dumb enough to put his plans up on the Internet
doesn't seem much of a threat Foaly… the Artemis Fowl thing happened
without up expecting it at all."

"We didn't know because Artemis didn't want us to know, if he had we
would have known… I think this person is similar to Artemis, but for
some reason he wants us to know, perhaps so we'll underestimate him."

Holly's ears perked up as she heard Artemis' name mentioned, her
stomach beginning to churn as she remembered everything that had
happened the night they met, and felt ten-fold the gnawing guilt she
had felt ever since the mind wipe"Do you think the two are
connected" she asked hopefully, for several reasons, the two most
paramount being the fact that if it did involve Artemis that the LEP…
or she at the very least would know just how to deal with the
situation at hand, and also, for some reason, she wanted to see the
mud boy again, even if it was on unfriendly terms.

"'Doubt it" muttered Foaly, feeling insulted that the effectiveness
of the mind wipe he had supervised would be questioned by one of his
closest friends.

Holly sighed but did not respond, she knew her theory was far-fetched
to say the least. But the fact that the fairy people, with their now
heightened security could be hood-winked again, particularly by
someone who was descended from someone so unintelligent and arrogant
as Jon Spiro. The something hit her"Wait… you say he's the
grandson of Jon Spiro. He was put in prison less than four months
ago and didn't have any children then… there's no way he could even
have a newborn, much less a son who would be old enough to have children of his own, even by human standards."

"I was waiting to see how long it would take for one of you to catch
that…" said Foaly smugly"It seems that whoever this person is…
created this website about fifty years from now, but the last updated
date says yesterday."

Root thought his head would explode"What"

Foaly laughed cockily, nearly a whinny"I knew that would boggle your mind…
well, simply put, this guy created a domain name fifty years from now,
found a way to transport himself and his future computer back to
present time, and update the website yesterday so my security would
pick it up."

"Time travel" Holly asked disbelievingly.

"Apparently so" replied Foaly, who was somewhat distracted by
whatever it was he was doing on the computer before him.

"So what do we do about it" Root asked impatiently.

Foaly turned to face the Commander"Well, we only have a few options
at this point. We won't know until this Anthony executes something if
his plans that he posted online are the plans he actually has… he
obviously wanted us to know that he was from the future and that he
knew about us… but other than that we're sort of in the dark here."

"Few or not give us our options, Foaly" Holly prompted.

"Well, we need a psychic fairy… or perhaps, human that will be on our side for one thing…" Foaly began.

"No" exclaimed Root"No, d'arvitting no! I know what you two
administrators of Artemis Fowl's personal fan club want to do, but I
won't allow it."

Holly was just trying to process what was going on around her. She was
a smart fairy, a resourceful fairy, but she had no idea how to cope
with all that was happening, since the mind wipe she had not exactly
been on top of her guns.

"Julius, listen" Foaly said, and despite much grumbling Root quieted
his rant, Foaly was smarter than he was and he knew it would be the
smart thing to do, but that did not mean he had to like it"Julius,
it could be that in the future that since we mind wiped Fowl that he
rediscovered us under some bad circumstances and made some kind of
alliance with Spiro's grandson, so if we contact Artemis now it may be
that he'll be back on our side, thus making the Artemis of the future
be the same. Causing our new adversary to lose, likely, his most
valuable resource."

Root sighed"Holly" he shouted.

"I'm right here Commander."

"Mud people are your department…"

"…were my department" said Holly, who was still bitter about the mind wipe.

Root decided to ignore her insolence, he understood her sentiment, she
and the Fowl boy had become something that resembled friends and she
had been quite fond of the Butler girl"Well… do you think you can
handle going back… and confronting Fowl"

"You're actually considering this" she asked in disbelief, this whole
day was unbelievable. She did not know whether to leap at the idea or
run from it.

"What choice do I have"

Holly nearly said 'Just go ahead and deal with the situation and leave
Fowl out of it,' but decided to go with it, this may be her only
chance to ever see her friends again, and to make things right… after quite an inward struggle she replied,

"Yeah, I can do it."


A/n: What do you think? I am absolutely horrible at beginnings, middles are more my thing, and endings more so than beginnings even though I hate endings, especially sad ones. Review please! Be honest and if I get a positive enough response I'll continue. I actually do have a plan for this one… a firm plan. For the first time in relation to a fanfiction that's gotten off the ground that I can even remember. If you wish for me to continue you should get to meet my OC in the next chapter.