Chapter 24
Trouble was annoyed; the LEP had been punted off the case by two mudmen. A sprite was dead, chances are, with what he'd seen already, the men that kidnapped Fowl were probing him for information and would find out everything about Haven, it was chaos in command of everything again.
"Holly, Trouble," came the shocked voice of a certain centaur, a certain, very shocked centaur, over the comms, "We have a major problem down here."
"What, did the entire population of Howlers Peak escape and take over?" Holly said exasperatedly.
"No, it appears that those black armored mudmen, you know the ones that took down both retrieval teams, well, they just showed up in Haven."
"D'Arvit!" all three elves in the shuttle screamed, things just got a whole lot worse.
"The ports are closed and we can't access the rest if we don't want them finding the rest of the shuttle ports, we need help, and you can't get down here."
"We ought to go back and wait for Anton, he ought to be some helpful backup for us," Grub chimed in.
"True, he s our best hope at the moment, it could also lead to us having two of the Butlers on our side for the mission to save our home."
"Currently only the LEP headquarters and a few scattered pockets are still holding on against them, Vinyaya is dead, she tried to get them to calm down and talk, they shot her seven times with iron cased bullets, it's a whole lot worse than we had ever thought could happen," the centaur said, babbling now,.
An explosion echoed over the line.
"What the hell was that?" Trouble yelped.
"They blew up the council building because they didn't surrender, Julius is actually considering surrender and he is drinking himself into a stupor with Private Verbil."
"Julius and Chix are having a drinking party?" Holly said exasperatedly, "Then it must be worse than your saying."
"We're on backup power and our storehouses have already been raided by these backstabbing."the signal dissolved into static.
The three elves in the shuttle glanced at each other and back at the screen as Trouble gave it a few whacks to try to fix it.
"Foaly'll kill you if you break that," Grub commented, "Things just keep on getting worse and worse, how could it get."
Holly clamped her hand over the little elf's mouth, "Don't you dare say it."
".get any worse," Trouble continued his brothers phrase without thinking to be shot a death glare by Holly.
Suddenly the shuttle's power shut down and the small craft skidded to a stop, crashing through the hanger doors of the surface shuttle bay of Sara.
"Ooops," both Kelp brothers said in unison.
"You ruddy had to say the bloody phrase!" Holly raged.
"D'Arvit!"
Trouble was annoyed; the LEP had been punted off the case by two mudmen. A sprite was dead, chances are, with what he'd seen already, the men that kidnapped Fowl were probing him for information and would find out everything about Haven, it was chaos in command of everything again.
"Holly, Trouble," came the shocked voice of a certain centaur, a certain, very shocked centaur, over the comms, "We have a major problem down here."
"What, did the entire population of Howlers Peak escape and take over?" Holly said exasperatedly.
"No, it appears that those black armored mudmen, you know the ones that took down both retrieval teams, well, they just showed up in Haven."
"D'Arvit!" all three elves in the shuttle screamed, things just got a whole lot worse.
"The ports are closed and we can't access the rest if we don't want them finding the rest of the shuttle ports, we need help, and you can't get down here."
"We ought to go back and wait for Anton, he ought to be some helpful backup for us," Grub chimed in.
"True, he s our best hope at the moment, it could also lead to us having two of the Butlers on our side for the mission to save our home."
"Currently only the LEP headquarters and a few scattered pockets are still holding on against them, Vinyaya is dead, she tried to get them to calm down and talk, they shot her seven times with iron cased bullets, it's a whole lot worse than we had ever thought could happen," the centaur said, babbling now,.
An explosion echoed over the line.
"What the hell was that?" Trouble yelped.
"They blew up the council building because they didn't surrender, Julius is actually considering surrender and he is drinking himself into a stupor with Private Verbil."
"Julius and Chix are having a drinking party?" Holly said exasperatedly, "Then it must be worse than your saying."
"We're on backup power and our storehouses have already been raided by these backstabbing."the signal dissolved into static.
The three elves in the shuttle glanced at each other and back at the screen as Trouble gave it a few whacks to try to fix it.
"Foaly'll kill you if you break that," Grub commented, "Things just keep on getting worse and worse, how could it get."
Holly clamped her hand over the little elf's mouth, "Don't you dare say it."
".get any worse," Trouble continued his brothers phrase without thinking to be shot a death glare by Holly.
Suddenly the shuttle's power shut down and the small craft skidded to a stop, crashing through the hanger doors of the surface shuttle bay of Sara.
"Ooops," both Kelp brothers said in unison.
"You ruddy had to say the bloody phrase!" Holly raged.
"D'Arvit!"