Artemis Fowl
Saudi-Arabia, 15 years ago
Butler lay at the top of the hill, he had a sniper rifle in his hands was about to shoot Hais Fargenski the terriost leader when he felt something cold against the back off his head. "Hands up!" Butler did put his hands up, his hands and his knife up through the unfortunate mans neck. He went back to his scope but Fargenski was gone, he looked round and all he saw was the 50 strong force coming up to his left. He turned to his partner Harrison who obviously didn't know about the small force coming up the hill. You had to feel sorry for them, the terrorists that is. Butler poked Harrison and pointed, that was all the explanation he needed. They dropped the PSGW12's and took out the large and very dangerous assorted machine guns. It was over in minutes but a terrorist got in a lucky shot hitting Harrison in the leg by the time they were at a hospital he was too far gone there was nothing that could be done.
He had never told Master Artemis that particular story, not that he was very found of war stories anyway but he did listen and learn from Butler's experience.
Near Chute E34, Under the Microsoft Cooperation HQ
Mulch Diggims was just about to go for it when he heard a distant rumble like thunder far off when he remembered what else sounded like thunder and that he had forgotten to use instant titanium mix. Maybe I should explain, the rumble was in fact a magma flare coming up the chute Mulch had just tunnelled through and was now protected from it's 50,000,000 degrees plus temperatures by 3 feet of digested clay and no 15 foot titanium wall as he planed, most people would run hoping to escape the inescapable heat he on the other hand improvised. He unhinged his jaw and dug down spraying the titanium mix behind him. He was now safe from pretty much everything on the planet. He waited about half an hour for the heat to go down before going back in Microsoft's HQ building and barely an hour later walked out with two prototype microchips worth over 5 million dollars each.
Police Plaza
Captain Holly Short was on top of things as usual, in this case her bed at 8:45, she woke slowly and nearly died "That party might not have been such a great idea" she thought as she got dressed and ran for work reaching the doors just in time. When she got to her cubicle and she already had a message saying that as soon as she got up off her lazy ass she had to go to a briefing about 5 minutes ago. When she arrived in the high tech looking operations room she was met by what looked like tomato in a fairy body but was in fact commander Root who gave her the usual shouting and then, as if nothing had happened got down to business "Rouge Troll in Seattle, young female, which should be no problem for you. Recon only, do not attempt a Retrieval." Said Root. Holly was half way out the door and a few minutes later she was going up Chute E34 where one Mulch Diggims just happened to be.