So, this is the second chapter and this time it's a little bit longer.

Disclaimer: I don't own Artemis Fowl.

Alternate ending to Artemis Fowl/Chapter 2

Somewhere at the south coast of Ireland:

The stone floor was damp, cold and just the shimmering image of how Holly felt at the moment. She had lost hope long ago and hadn't seen any of her friends in more than 3 months and it had been 6 months to the exact day since she lost Artemis.

The mere thought of him, made her tear up and sob uncontrollably. 4 months ago the attack on Haven ended badly. Holly had suppressed the memory so forcefully, that even when she tried to remember the events, that had taken place, she would only be able to regain part of her memories.

Flashback

Holly walked into the ops booth, like every morning and every evening for the past two month. Foaly already awaited her and asked her, if anyone had followed her. She only raised her brow, looked outside, just to be sure, not like she expected anybody and then closed the door quietly.

Foaly pressed a combination of buttons and the wall to their left glided to the side, just big enough for someone like Butler to step through. Thinking of him, he had rarely talked to them since the Berserker incident, but he had visited two times to see the clone grow. The first time he visited, he had said, that the Fowls weren't in a good condition.

Angeline Fowl only ate and slept, when she wasn't crying, which was not often. Artemis Fowl senior, being raised up to never show emotions openly, cried silently and looked after the twins, because Mrs. Fowl obviously wasn't in the state to do so.

Beckett felt lost and didn't understand why everybody was crying, even Myles. But when he had asked him, Myles had looked at him and nearly screamed. "Don't you understand, Arty is gone." That Artemis was absent, Beckett knew, but why was everyone crying, Artemis would eventually return. When Butler had told him, that Artemis would never come back, he refused to believe him. And Juliet, she blamed herself, just like Butler did.

Holly and Foaly walked through the open wall and came into a small with machine stuffed room. In the middle of it stood a large pitch black box, that was attached to multiple gadgets. Holly walked around it and looked suspiciously. "And Artemis' clone is really growing in there?", she asked. Foaly, who had been typing on several computers at once, rolled his eyes and trotted over to her. He hung up some tubes and connected them to the box.

"How many times do I have to tell you, the answer is not going to change. Yes, Artemis' clone is temporarily growing its organs. In two or three months it will be finished with the growing process and will start to built up the synapses to restore the IQ and the memory. In four months everything will be ready and Artemis' soul will be able to settle in." Holly nodded, having understood half of it, but she didn't quite catch the part with the synapses. She carefully laid a hand on the box and smiled.

That was the moment hell broke loose.

A quake went through Haven and Holly flew backwards. Foaly helped her up and ushered her out to the main room of the ops booth. He quickly shut the secret door to the clone and activated the cameras on Haven to see, what was happening. Half Haven was in flames. Holly gasped, "What happened?" Foaly shrugged, "Earthquake?", he suggested, "I start the shutdown on Haven."

Commander Kelp came rushing through the door. "Captain Short, with me." He gestured her to follow him, what she did. What happened next Holly only remembered in a blur. It became clear quickly, that it hadn't been an earthquake, but an attack on Haven. Humans invaded Haven under no other leader than Opal herself.

The LEP counteracted as good as possible, getting help from Butler, but were overpowered and outnumbered. Holly lost it when a blast broke through the ops booth and into the wall that connected the ops booth and the room, the clone was currently growing in. The room burned and Foaly and Holly knew, that the clone couldn't have survived it.

Haven was a heap of rubble and Holly was separated from the others. Her only company was Caballine, Foaly's wife. They were brought to Ireland and were locked up in a dark cell, but after one month Caballine was brought away and Holly was alone ever since. She didn't know, if any of her friends were still alive. Opal had come often to her to shove her victory into Holly's face, who had ignored it. After sometime even Opal forgot her and the only people she saw day in, day out, were the prison guards, that brought her food.

End flashback

It had all turned around drastically, since he was gone. She didn't need to think about what would have happened earlier 4 or more like 7 years ago (3 years lost in TLC), when Artemis wouldn't have been there to stop Opal, but now he was gone and this time he wouldn't be able to avert her plan, not that she hadn't already succeeded, Holly thought bitterly.

She was going to make Opal pay for what she did. Holly scratched her fingernails bloody on the stone floor, not having noticed, that it was already kind of a habit from being bored. The only thought she had on her mind was a single, easy word, often mistaken with justice: revenge.

Negev, Israel (in the middle of a desert):

Butler was worried. He hadn't heard from Juliet in a long time, not even an attempt from her of getting her brother out of here, neither had he heard from Holly, Foaly or the Fowls in general. The sun emitted an unbearable heat and Butler felt awful. For 4 months he had been a slave in Israel, working in the desert. Every time he tried to break out, the guards inflicted more pain on him, so he had stopped trying. What was the point, what would he do once outside? He couldn't fight against Opal and as good as the rest of the world. So he waited and waited, but for what he had no idea.