It's 1am here, but given that most of the people that read my Fanfiction are American, I'm hopeful at least some of you might still be awake.

The refinery had been cleared of all personnel due to the threat on it by Flower Kevoor, so Holly, Artemis and Commander Vinyaya were the only 3 people there. When Artemis had said that the refinery was big, he hadn't been exaggerating; The refinery was big for human standards, let alone for someone like Holly, who was all of 3ft nothing. But, as the refinery powered Haven in its entirety- bar the backup power grid at the LEP- it had to be big. Vinyaya keyed in the code for the giant solid Aluminium doors as Holly and Artemis checked over their systems one last time. With a hydraulic hiss, they parted, and the 3 made their way inside.
"Eerie" Holly commented as Vinyaya turned the lights on. Artemis shook his head.
"Not eerie, creepy. There is a difference."
Holly looked at him impatiently. "I did not take a ride into these mountains to get an English lesson from a mud-boy! I barely even talk the language."
Artemis laughed quietly to himself. "Yes, you're lucky I decided to learn Gnommish when I kidnapped you. I knew The People had the gift of tongues but I thought it would be nice to come prepared." Vinyaya stared at him, but he continued. "And it's still the same lesson regardless of which language it is in."
"Enough of the back and forth" Vinyaya almost yelled, but steadied herself. "Shall we actually get on with finding whatever threat Flower Kevoor has planted here?"
Holly wanted to say yes, but her voice was lost in the incredible slam as the doors crashed shut behind them. Artemis might be right, definitely creepy.
"They've locked themselves" Vinyaya said, trying to open them, but with little success.
"It seems the games have begun" Artemis said. To Holly, he didn't even look that disappointed. "The doors must have been on a remote linked to a sensor. She knows that we're here."
"I wonder what other surprises she had in store for us?" Holly wondered, subconsciously touching Artemis as they made their way down the corridor, and into whatever may lay ahead.

"This is useless" Holly said as they cleared yet another room. This one was a guard station, and the only thing dangerous in that room was some gone off food. The other rooms that they had searched had yielded even less. The entire place was a ghost town.
"This is not useless" Artemis replied. He seemed to be revelling in the things he had found. Holly had not. Vinyaya had kept a military like calm during the entire thing.
"We have just 2 rooms left, and we haven't found anything yet. What if there isn't anything here and we've been led on a chase?"
"What if we missed it?" Vinyaya chipped in.
"May I remind you that these two rooms are the two that I suggested would be the most likely to be where our mystery device is located."
"I hope they are" Holly said.
Artemis turned to Vinyaya. "Could you not have performed some kind of sweep before we got here?"
"We did" Vinyaya said. "I thought you of all people would know that. But the sweep came up empty."
"Empty for everything?" Holly said, surprised. "But what about the door mechanism that's locked us in?" Now she understood.
"So, 2 more doors. One leads to the Energy storage unit, the other to the Command and Control centre" Commander Vinyaya continued, Holly's question not really needing an answer. "Which do we go into first?"
"Seeing as the Energy storage room would constitute a larger and more destructive initial blast, we should go into the Energy storage room first" Holly offered.
"You're assuming what we're looking for is a bomb" Artemis said coolly.
"You think it isn't a bomb?" Vinyaya asked. Artemis took a good few seconds to think of his answer.
"I don't know. It could be, but equally it might not." Holly looked at him as he said it. It was killing him to be so unsure. "But Holly makes a good point. The Energy store shall be the first room."

Vinyaya led them into the storage room slowly, stopping to check every corner. Both Raine and Holly had their guns out, but Artemis refused to even touch his. For someone who was used to being an evil genius, he really had a dislike of guns. Whilst Holly had spent most of her time a combination of on edge and bored as they went through each room, this one was different. The entire place had navy blue walls, but splitting the walls were tubes that glowed a fluorescent green, lighting up the place in an eerie glow- For once, Artemis hadn't chastised her for using that word. Red lights flashed as blue and purple liquids rushed to meet each other; As soon as they made contact, the entire thing became green. Holly had never seen the Energon process in person before, but it was beautifully haunting.
"Hang on" Artemis said. "Did you just call it 'Energon'?"
"If you're thinking of Transformers, we had the name first, but a group of Sprites who worked here went on a day trip to the surface and got horrendously drunk. Needless to say they all got fired." Vinyaya commented in Artemis' direction.
"My sweep is complete" Said Holly afterwards. "Nothing radioactive, nothing explosive, nothing poisonous. Nothing that shouldn't be here."
"Well at least we know what room it's going to be in" Artemis said, walking out. "And if it's not, they're going to have a fun time cutting us out of this place."

So, nobody has died yet, which means somebody's life is going to come to an end within the next two chapters.

Tick... Tick... Tick...