**A special note to Seirios: Of course I know Briar Cudgeon is "dead", but
if he was to be in my story, wouldn't I have the artistic license to use
him?**
**Okay, I hope you enjoy this chapter as well. It has about the same amount of action as the last chapter**
**Kree**
"Let's go! Let's go!" Root ordered as everyone rushed into the E148. "Short, don't worry about Mud Man-"
"Ahem?" Juliet cleared her throat.
"Short, don't worry about Mud Man and /Woman/ vomit this time." Root corrected himself with a bit of a glare. "Ride this slammer as fast as it can go! Strap on quickly, everyone!"
Captain Kelp quickly helped Foaly strap on this time instead of Holly. Holly began starting up the engines and was ready to go. Everyone else strapped themselves in as Captain Kelp sat down last to strap himself down.
"Let's take this baby for a ride!" She shouted as she pulled back the controls and began the start of a flying/vomiting roller coaster ride.
There was no one in the building. No one waiting on line, no one patrolling, and no one waiting for them. They all stepped out of the shute, a bit dizzy, but still able to stand and walk. Captain Kelp did a quick scan of the area as Juliet and Mr. Fowl looked outside the window.
"They're . they're all outside." He concluded.
"And now I know why ." Mr. Fowl muttered. Everyone else hurried to he window and each one's eyes widened.
If Mud Men weren't trouble enough than what was? About a hundred or more armed Mud Men chased after the citizens of the Lower Elements as if it was some sort of hunting sport. Each man with evil gleams of malice in their eyes, only with greedy thoughts of gold. They were mesmerized of course, but their desire for gold was most of their commitment as well. They grabbed the women and children sending most of the male fairies running back to save their wives, sons, and daughters. They began slaughtering some as if they were wild animals. They captured some and placed them in cages.
But if it wasn't enough to see Mud Men attacking their home . they saw fairies attacking. Fairies armed, shooting at their own kind, grabbing each other as if they were the worst of enemies. Some of them were even former LEP agents. Root, Trouble, Holly, and Foaly watched in horror as some of the fairies they knew very well flew in the air tackling the people who they once had to protect.
The LEP team was fighting them. Squads were everywhere, some fighting against the Mud Men, some fighting against the fairies, and some were helping the citizens get to safety. Of course they were missing their best agents as well. And some . were fighting the troll who was trampling the buildings.
The troll was larger than any other they had seen before. It was full grown, but it was bigger than any "big" troll they had faced before. He stood fifteen stories high, hovering above screaming citizens who were running for their lives. Only. some . LEP agents stayed to fight the terrorizing beast.
"Looks like LEP needs our help ." Root grumbled staring out the window. "Captain Kelp, go out and lead your squad. They need you out there."
"Yessir." He saluted and ran out the building.
"Mr. Fowl, Juliet; fight your own kind; leave the fairies to us." Root ordered. "You don't need to have mercy on them. After this is over, we'll have them mind wiped and fixed up, so feel free to give them any injury that is necessary."
"Yes . sir ." Juliet tried to keep back from giggling. And they quickly ran out the doors.
"Captain Short and Private Verbil, you can take on the troll." Root instructed next.
"You must be joking ." Holly groaned. "You know what happened before when I faced the troll! I cause a lot of damage!"
"Well this time, Short, I don't care how much damage you do. Just as long as nobody gets hurt." He smirked. "NOW GO!"
"Yessir." She murmured and she motioned Chix to follow her out the doors.
Foaly looked at them and he groaned. "Can't I go with them, Commander?"
"Why, you don't want to be with your good ole' commander?" Root grinned.
"Actually .. No ."
"Come on, Foaly . we fight the fairies ." Root led.
Foaly took one glance out the window. There was fighting to be done, and it was his first time at it. He looked back at his grinning Commander. "Yessir." He finally grumbled, with a weak salute.
And then they both ran out into the battle and the fall of fraternity.
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"Let's go attack that building over there!" Shouted a Mud Man as he led his squad toward a moderately large six-story building. "Looks like that one has some trouble with the evacuation system."
"Should we go help 'em?" Another Mud Man smugly snickered.
"But I thought we were supposed to kill or capture them?" One of them asked, confused.
"You idiot! We aren't really going to help them. God! Can't you understand a joke?"
"I am working with imbeciles!"
"Well I am working with idiots!"
"But those are the same things!'
"Oh . well . anyway . I am going to get the most gold!"
"No, I am!"
"Wait, where is Agent Kagel?"
"I don't know." The first Mud Man shrugged. "I guess he already started attacking. Anyway, let's move men!"
"I don't think that will be on your agenda any longer." A voice called out to them.
Two Mud Men started looking back, but it was too late. Juliet jumped on top of both of them, knocking them out immediately. Quicker than any other person could turn around and see what was happening. Juliet punched two others at the same time, knocking them out as well.
By that time, they started looking back.
"Hey, what have we got here?" The first Mud Man started circling Juliet.
She quickly kicked in the place that hurts a man the most. He started yelping and pain so she kicked him in the shins to make him fall to the ground.
"We've got a rat in a trap." Another Mud Man sneered and they all began cornering Juliet.
Juliet held her hands up in defense, but no need for that anyway. Another figure jumped on two of the five men surrounding her. They knocked over another Mud Man and the figure kicked another. He straightened himself up, and then punched the guy who was coming up from behind him.
"Mr. Fowl." She grinned. "I was wondering whether or not I should have waited up for you."
"Well," he grinned back. "I was wondering whether or not if there's a guy behind me." And then he back kicked another man who was sneaking up behind him. "Come on, Juliet. I do believe we have some work to do."
The two ran ahead to find themselves face to face with another Mud Man squad.
"Are those two fairies?" The leader asked one of the squad members.
"I don't know, but get them anyway." He answered.
They both started charging at them, with all worried and bit frightened because they showed no signs of slowing down. Juliet and Artemis Fowl Senior body slammed against two of them that knocked a few more men to the ground, like the effect of dominos.
"You'd think that they would of given us guns, and not kept the guns for themselves." Juliet said as she fought off some of the Mud Men who were trying to tackle her.
"We'll manage." Mr. Fowl replied.
Juliet glanced to her side at Mr. Fowl and saw that a Mud Man was sneaking up on him. "Mr. Fowl! Behind you!" But his reaction was too late. The man wrapped his arms around Mr. Fowl's neck and began strangling him. Juliet ran up to Mr. Fowl's attacker and kicked him in the back and punched him in the nose. Then she gave the attacker just enough time to fall to the ground before kicking him over once with her foot.
"Thanks Juliet."
"It's my duty. Don't mention it."
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Root and Foaly stealthily followed a group of fairies who were chasing after crowds and crowds of other fairies. Root could hardly believe his eyes. Some of the fairies who were chasing the crowds were agents that he himself had worked with before. He would have almost hesitated, but he knew that there was no time to go soft. He was Commander, and he had a job to do.
"Do you have a plan, Commander?" Foaly asked as they snuck up behind the fairies.
"Of course I have a plan. I'm commander." Root answered hesitantly.
Foaly rolled his eyes. "I see. I'm sure I'll be very confident that I can trust you."
"Okay, I'm working on it!" Root scowled and yelled a bit too loudly. Loud enough that a few of the fairies who were too busy chasing crowds to hear them and turn around.
"It's the Commander!" Exclaimed a now "former" lieutenant.
"What should we do?"
"Well, Agent Z ordered that we capture the Commander and the centaur." One said. "Let's obey his orders ."
Would Root let them obey any other than himself? Certainly not. Root grabbed the one who just spoke, held him up in the air and tossed to the ground as if he were a doll. More of the fairies stopped to help fight against the Commander, all armed, but they weren't quick enough to use their arms. Root body slammed them against the wall; and tossed some more fairies to the ground.
He took out his Neutrino and began shooting some fairies down. Not the prettiest sight and it was making Root feel guilty about shooting his own kind down.
Some of the others were too frightened of Root. They decided to stick with fighting the centaur. First, Foaly was a bit worried. no magic in his veins. but his mother gave him hooves. and hooves come with advantages. He reared them up like a horse and brought them down on a few fairies and they fell to the floor. He didn't waste his time to trample them and he wasn't that brutal. He kicked them away with his hooves.
Foaly couldn't believe he was actually fighting. He was mostly in the Operation Booth working on his computers. but now. the genius centaur was working out a sweat?
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"Let's go, now!" Captain Trouble Kelp yelled. He led his squad out into Haven ordering groups to go left, go right, go to different areas to fight against the invaders. "We will not stop until we have all of these filthy creeps out of here!" Trouble watched and made sure each squad covered an area. He scanned the area and then switched on the communicator. "Opal, are you there?"
"Where else do you think I'd be?" Retorted her voice in his helmet.
"Opal, are there any areas that need to be covered?"
"Uh . let's see. no. not really. they seem to be well covered. but there is a strange looking guy with a black trenchcoat and a green turtle neck coming up your way." She replied.
"D'arvit!" Captain Kelp swore.
"I'm guessing he's a friendly acquaintance?"
"Very friendly. He tried to murder me."
"Ah, nothing but settling your differences with someone by murdering them."
"Hey, I bet you felt the same way with Cudgeon."
She shut up.
Trouble glanced around looking for his nemesis. He spotted him flying towards him with the newest model of Hummingbird wings. Trouble glared at him, and started up his own wings. He flew toward him and they faced each other; it was hard to tell which face showed more hatred.
"I do believe that we still have something to finish." Agent Z snickered,
"Yes, I still owe you a lot." Trouble sneered.
"Let the games begin."
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Holly watched and shook her head as she watched some LEP officers run away in fear from the troll. She couldn't believe after all the LEP training they had been through, they wouldn't run a troll procedure. "Men." She shook her head.
"D'arvit, how are we going to do this?" Chix swore as he and Holly glanced at the troll crashing into buildings as they crumbled to the dust.
"Try as least as possible to swear on the job. then again. we do have some perfect executive examples." Holly rolled her eyes thinking of the commander. "Now, be quiet, I'm trying to think of a plan." She concentrated on the troll, watching it's every move, also, seeing that she had to think quickly, because it was causing more and more damage. Then again, Root did say he didn't care how much damage there was, but that didn't stop her from her instinct of keeping the damage cost low, though it hardly ever applied to her.
"I have a plan." Holly finally announced. "Chix, fly around his face and distract him."
"Are you crazy?" Chix was flabbergasted. "You -you want me? M-me to distract a fifteen story troll?"
"Looks like the women charmer his frightened?"
"Of course not." Chix retorted. "All right. I will go . and what will /you/ do?"
"I, will take that rope over there," Holly pointed to some rope that she had spotted earlier that was lying on the ground. "And tie it around the troll's legs. Than, when it will try to move forward, it will fall and there we go. All done. Stun it a lot."
"Okay." Chix gulped. "Here I go."
"Hey Chix?"
"Yeah?"
"Good luck."
"You too, Holly." Chix replied and he flew swiftly until he was right in front of the troll's face. The troll was startled and at first just started to stare at Chix. "Hey you big slimeball!" Chix yelled into his face. "I bet you can't get me!"
The troll began to growl and took its huge greasy hand and began to try to swat Chix. Chix began to dodge them, but each time the troll swatted him, it seemed to feel like the last time he would try and its hand would hit Chix. As Holly watched with fear, she snapped out of it. She had a job to do still. She ran over to the rope, picked up, and put it into the air like a lasso. Holly began running towards the troll's humongous feet. She unraveled the rope and flew around one of the troll's legs and tied it into a knot. She then flew quickly around both of the troll's feet with the rope in her hands. She gave it a big tug on the rope when it was running short.
The troll scowled and began to growl when he saw that its feet were tied together. However, as stupid as trolls were, it didn't attempt to move, so he didn't fall. He spotted Holly, and then, he grabbed her with its hand.
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Agent Z tried to start out the end of Trouble with a gun. He pulled out a Protonion XI and tried to shoot Trouble. Trouble dodged them all quickly, all of them missing him just by an inch. Agent Z kept on firing and firing the "bullets" as fast as he could but soon he ran out of them. He tossed the gun to the ground.
"I suppose we'll just settle this like before?" Agent Z snickered.
"I suppose so." Captain Kelp retorted
Agent Z tried to ram himself into Trouble, but ended up ramming himself into the air. Trouble flew under him and behind him. He kicked him in the back and then gave him another quick punch. Agent Z began to fly upward as Trouble began to follow him close behind. Trouble gave him a quick jab to the stomach and an uppercut to the chin.
Agent Z put a hand to his chin. "Well. looks like we've gotten tougher, have we?"
"You think that's tough?" Trouble raised an eyebrow. "Well, it looks like you're going to have a ball of time if you thought THAT was tough."
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"Julius!" Foaly yelled frantically. "Holly!"
"This is no time for Holly!" Commander Root shouted back at him as he shot another fairy.
"But, Commander! The troll has her in its grasp!"
"We're all in its grasp! It's destroying Haven!"
"No, I mean, it's crushing her in its fist!"
Root turned around and saw the troll with its fist in the air. wrapped around Holly.
"Pull out your gun, Foaly!" Root yelled louder than ever before. "And aim it at the damn troll and don't miss!" Then he switched his communicator to Chix Verbil. "Verbil! Stun that troll now!"
"Yessir!" replied Chix's voice abruptly.
Foaly trembled as he pulled out a gun. After making different models for so long, after assigning them to agents, never in his whole entire life. had he ever used a gun. "Well, at least the target's big enough. It would be pretty sad if I missed that thing."
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Holly's scream of pain was the only thing that Captain Kelp heard.
Trouble abruptly turned around and fear and horror crept into his eyes as he saw Holly in the troll's fist. "Holly! Oh my God!"
All of a sudden, Trouble felt a sudden pain his back. He was forced forward a bit and cried out in pain. He looked behind him and saw that Agent Z had taken advantage of Trouble's distraction and attacked him. But Trouble knew that he couldn't waste his time fighting this guy right now. He had to stun that troll. He aimed his gun at the troll and fired.
Root fired.
Foaly fired.
Chix fired.
Have you ever heard the roar of a troll before? Well, its cry of pain was more terrifying, more horrifying, more LOUD than anything a roar could do. It dropped Holly to the ground before it could think twice. well it couldn't actually think.. Okay. it dropped Holly to the ground. Holly landed a bit hardly, but nothing that serious. She had learned to land from falling off from high places a long time ago. The troll began to fall into a building. It fell right on top of it. crumbling the building's structure. It began to fall on.
Holly.
"Holly!!!" Trouble screamed in his head. He flew to her like a bolt of lightening; she was the only person in his sight. She was the only thing that his eyes were focused on. He swept her from the ground, carrying her high above the air as the troll fell to the ground with a large rumble that the Mud Men and Women above thought it was an earthquake.
"Holly. are you okay?" Trouble asked her as held her close to him in his arms.
"I-I'm fine. thanks to you ." Holly stammered as she looked into his deep soft and kind hazel eyes that were full of worry. She looked away quickly.
"Looks like you haven't changed a bit, Trouble." Sneered a loud voice from afar. Trouble turned around to face Agent Z who wore an evil grin on his face. "You still have your soft feelings for her."
Holly couldn't help but notice Trouble turn a bit red. "What do you mean?" Trouble retorted with more of a shout.
Agent Z just laughed wickedly. "She really means that much to you, doesn't she? Years ago you felt the same way. Have you told her yet? Or are you scared of the reaction?"
"What are you talking about?" Trouble questioned.
"Oh, so now we're playing the question game?" He laughed again as Trouble turned around and was about to fly back down. "I don't want to waste any more moments of my life right now, so, I'll see ya later, Trub." Agent Z pulled out a Neutrino and aimed it for Trouble's back.
The pain was unbearable with a twist of a scorch and a freeze when it hit Trouble. He couldn't keep hold of his consciousness. He closed eyes and began to feel intolerable weak as he felt Holly slipping. He wanted to open his eyes and keep her safe. but he couldn't exactly wake up.
Holly held him up and took him back down to the ground to where Foaly is. She couldn't help but show indignation and fury in her eyes and her voice. "Foaly.take care of him. I have some "taking care of" to do right now." She muttered. She flew back up to where Agent Z and glared at him.
"Oh, so now his girlfriend wants to fight for poor Trubby Wubby?" Agent Z taunted.
"You're really asking for it, you do know that?"
"Oh, you think?"
Holly scowled, but she had a plan. She turned her back and Agent Z was surprised because he was expecting a fight. But she swiftly flew under him and then kicked him in the back. He turned around to face her, but she punched him in the nose and then kicked him in the place where she knew it would hurt.
Now it was Agent Z's turn to scowl, but then it turned into a grin. Of course, Holly couldn't let him grin for long. She tried to uppercut his chin, but Agent Z caught her hand. He pulled her close to him and then pulled out some kind of gun with a fluid in it. It had a long needle. He stabbed it into her neck and pulled the trigger.pushing the liquid into her neck. She instantly began to feel sleepy. She tried to shout but no sound from her throat was released. She wanted to stay awake, she struggled so hard but all she could feel was Agent Z holding her up and her eyelids growing heavier and heavier.
"What the hell did he want?" She questioned in her head. "What is he going to do with me?"
"HOLLY!!!" Chix yelled flying toward him furiously but Agent Z dove down below with Holly and went to the E1's entrance. He flashed an evil grin as the elevator doors shut him and Holly and they started going up.
**THIS CHAPTER IS FINALLY FINISHED!!!! Okay, I hoped you liked it ^.^*
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**Kree Sever**
**Okay, I hope you enjoy this chapter as well. It has about the same amount of action as the last chapter**
**Kree**
"Let's go! Let's go!" Root ordered as everyone rushed into the E148. "Short, don't worry about Mud Man-"
"Ahem?" Juliet cleared her throat.
"Short, don't worry about Mud Man and /Woman/ vomit this time." Root corrected himself with a bit of a glare. "Ride this slammer as fast as it can go! Strap on quickly, everyone!"
Captain Kelp quickly helped Foaly strap on this time instead of Holly. Holly began starting up the engines and was ready to go. Everyone else strapped themselves in as Captain Kelp sat down last to strap himself down.
"Let's take this baby for a ride!" She shouted as she pulled back the controls and began the start of a flying/vomiting roller coaster ride.
There was no one in the building. No one waiting on line, no one patrolling, and no one waiting for them. They all stepped out of the shute, a bit dizzy, but still able to stand and walk. Captain Kelp did a quick scan of the area as Juliet and Mr. Fowl looked outside the window.
"They're . they're all outside." He concluded.
"And now I know why ." Mr. Fowl muttered. Everyone else hurried to he window and each one's eyes widened.
If Mud Men weren't trouble enough than what was? About a hundred or more armed Mud Men chased after the citizens of the Lower Elements as if it was some sort of hunting sport. Each man with evil gleams of malice in their eyes, only with greedy thoughts of gold. They were mesmerized of course, but their desire for gold was most of their commitment as well. They grabbed the women and children sending most of the male fairies running back to save their wives, sons, and daughters. They began slaughtering some as if they were wild animals. They captured some and placed them in cages.
But if it wasn't enough to see Mud Men attacking their home . they saw fairies attacking. Fairies armed, shooting at their own kind, grabbing each other as if they were the worst of enemies. Some of them were even former LEP agents. Root, Trouble, Holly, and Foaly watched in horror as some of the fairies they knew very well flew in the air tackling the people who they once had to protect.
The LEP team was fighting them. Squads were everywhere, some fighting against the Mud Men, some fighting against the fairies, and some were helping the citizens get to safety. Of course they were missing their best agents as well. And some . were fighting the troll who was trampling the buildings.
The troll was larger than any other they had seen before. It was full grown, but it was bigger than any "big" troll they had faced before. He stood fifteen stories high, hovering above screaming citizens who were running for their lives. Only. some . LEP agents stayed to fight the terrorizing beast.
"Looks like LEP needs our help ." Root grumbled staring out the window. "Captain Kelp, go out and lead your squad. They need you out there."
"Yessir." He saluted and ran out the building.
"Mr. Fowl, Juliet; fight your own kind; leave the fairies to us." Root ordered. "You don't need to have mercy on them. After this is over, we'll have them mind wiped and fixed up, so feel free to give them any injury that is necessary."
"Yes . sir ." Juliet tried to keep back from giggling. And they quickly ran out the doors.
"Captain Short and Private Verbil, you can take on the troll." Root instructed next.
"You must be joking ." Holly groaned. "You know what happened before when I faced the troll! I cause a lot of damage!"
"Well this time, Short, I don't care how much damage you do. Just as long as nobody gets hurt." He smirked. "NOW GO!"
"Yessir." She murmured and she motioned Chix to follow her out the doors.
Foaly looked at them and he groaned. "Can't I go with them, Commander?"
"Why, you don't want to be with your good ole' commander?" Root grinned.
"Actually .. No ."
"Come on, Foaly . we fight the fairies ." Root led.
Foaly took one glance out the window. There was fighting to be done, and it was his first time at it. He looked back at his grinning Commander. "Yessir." He finally grumbled, with a weak salute.
And then they both ran out into the battle and the fall of fraternity.
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"Let's go attack that building over there!" Shouted a Mud Man as he led his squad toward a moderately large six-story building. "Looks like that one has some trouble with the evacuation system."
"Should we go help 'em?" Another Mud Man smugly snickered.
"But I thought we were supposed to kill or capture them?" One of them asked, confused.
"You idiot! We aren't really going to help them. God! Can't you understand a joke?"
"I am working with imbeciles!"
"Well I am working with idiots!"
"But those are the same things!'
"Oh . well . anyway . I am going to get the most gold!"
"No, I am!"
"Wait, where is Agent Kagel?"
"I don't know." The first Mud Man shrugged. "I guess he already started attacking. Anyway, let's move men!"
"I don't think that will be on your agenda any longer." A voice called out to them.
Two Mud Men started looking back, but it was too late. Juliet jumped on top of both of them, knocking them out immediately. Quicker than any other person could turn around and see what was happening. Juliet punched two others at the same time, knocking them out as well.
By that time, they started looking back.
"Hey, what have we got here?" The first Mud Man started circling Juliet.
She quickly kicked in the place that hurts a man the most. He started yelping and pain so she kicked him in the shins to make him fall to the ground.
"We've got a rat in a trap." Another Mud Man sneered and they all began cornering Juliet.
Juliet held her hands up in defense, but no need for that anyway. Another figure jumped on two of the five men surrounding her. They knocked over another Mud Man and the figure kicked another. He straightened himself up, and then punched the guy who was coming up from behind him.
"Mr. Fowl." She grinned. "I was wondering whether or not I should have waited up for you."
"Well," he grinned back. "I was wondering whether or not if there's a guy behind me." And then he back kicked another man who was sneaking up behind him. "Come on, Juliet. I do believe we have some work to do."
The two ran ahead to find themselves face to face with another Mud Man squad.
"Are those two fairies?" The leader asked one of the squad members.
"I don't know, but get them anyway." He answered.
They both started charging at them, with all worried and bit frightened because they showed no signs of slowing down. Juliet and Artemis Fowl Senior body slammed against two of them that knocked a few more men to the ground, like the effect of dominos.
"You'd think that they would of given us guns, and not kept the guns for themselves." Juliet said as she fought off some of the Mud Men who were trying to tackle her.
"We'll manage." Mr. Fowl replied.
Juliet glanced to her side at Mr. Fowl and saw that a Mud Man was sneaking up on him. "Mr. Fowl! Behind you!" But his reaction was too late. The man wrapped his arms around Mr. Fowl's neck and began strangling him. Juliet ran up to Mr. Fowl's attacker and kicked him in the back and punched him in the nose. Then she gave the attacker just enough time to fall to the ground before kicking him over once with her foot.
"Thanks Juliet."
"It's my duty. Don't mention it."
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Root and Foaly stealthily followed a group of fairies who were chasing after crowds and crowds of other fairies. Root could hardly believe his eyes. Some of the fairies who were chasing the crowds were agents that he himself had worked with before. He would have almost hesitated, but he knew that there was no time to go soft. He was Commander, and he had a job to do.
"Do you have a plan, Commander?" Foaly asked as they snuck up behind the fairies.
"Of course I have a plan. I'm commander." Root answered hesitantly.
Foaly rolled his eyes. "I see. I'm sure I'll be very confident that I can trust you."
"Okay, I'm working on it!" Root scowled and yelled a bit too loudly. Loud enough that a few of the fairies who were too busy chasing crowds to hear them and turn around.
"It's the Commander!" Exclaimed a now "former" lieutenant.
"What should we do?"
"Well, Agent Z ordered that we capture the Commander and the centaur." One said. "Let's obey his orders ."
Would Root let them obey any other than himself? Certainly not. Root grabbed the one who just spoke, held him up in the air and tossed to the ground as if he were a doll. More of the fairies stopped to help fight against the Commander, all armed, but they weren't quick enough to use their arms. Root body slammed them against the wall; and tossed some more fairies to the ground.
He took out his Neutrino and began shooting some fairies down. Not the prettiest sight and it was making Root feel guilty about shooting his own kind down.
Some of the others were too frightened of Root. They decided to stick with fighting the centaur. First, Foaly was a bit worried. no magic in his veins. but his mother gave him hooves. and hooves come with advantages. He reared them up like a horse and brought them down on a few fairies and they fell to the floor. He didn't waste his time to trample them and he wasn't that brutal. He kicked them away with his hooves.
Foaly couldn't believe he was actually fighting. He was mostly in the Operation Booth working on his computers. but now. the genius centaur was working out a sweat?
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"Let's go, now!" Captain Trouble Kelp yelled. He led his squad out into Haven ordering groups to go left, go right, go to different areas to fight against the invaders. "We will not stop until we have all of these filthy creeps out of here!" Trouble watched and made sure each squad covered an area. He scanned the area and then switched on the communicator. "Opal, are you there?"
"Where else do you think I'd be?" Retorted her voice in his helmet.
"Opal, are there any areas that need to be covered?"
"Uh . let's see. no. not really. they seem to be well covered. but there is a strange looking guy with a black trenchcoat and a green turtle neck coming up your way." She replied.
"D'arvit!" Captain Kelp swore.
"I'm guessing he's a friendly acquaintance?"
"Very friendly. He tried to murder me."
"Ah, nothing but settling your differences with someone by murdering them."
"Hey, I bet you felt the same way with Cudgeon."
She shut up.
Trouble glanced around looking for his nemesis. He spotted him flying towards him with the newest model of Hummingbird wings. Trouble glared at him, and started up his own wings. He flew toward him and they faced each other; it was hard to tell which face showed more hatred.
"I do believe that we still have something to finish." Agent Z snickered,
"Yes, I still owe you a lot." Trouble sneered.
"Let the games begin."
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Holly watched and shook her head as she watched some LEP officers run away in fear from the troll. She couldn't believe after all the LEP training they had been through, they wouldn't run a troll procedure. "Men." She shook her head.
"D'arvit, how are we going to do this?" Chix swore as he and Holly glanced at the troll crashing into buildings as they crumbled to the dust.
"Try as least as possible to swear on the job. then again. we do have some perfect executive examples." Holly rolled her eyes thinking of the commander. "Now, be quiet, I'm trying to think of a plan." She concentrated on the troll, watching it's every move, also, seeing that she had to think quickly, because it was causing more and more damage. Then again, Root did say he didn't care how much damage there was, but that didn't stop her from her instinct of keeping the damage cost low, though it hardly ever applied to her.
"I have a plan." Holly finally announced. "Chix, fly around his face and distract him."
"Are you crazy?" Chix was flabbergasted. "You -you want me? M-me to distract a fifteen story troll?"
"Looks like the women charmer his frightened?"
"Of course not." Chix retorted. "All right. I will go . and what will /you/ do?"
"I, will take that rope over there," Holly pointed to some rope that she had spotted earlier that was lying on the ground. "And tie it around the troll's legs. Than, when it will try to move forward, it will fall and there we go. All done. Stun it a lot."
"Okay." Chix gulped. "Here I go."
"Hey Chix?"
"Yeah?"
"Good luck."
"You too, Holly." Chix replied and he flew swiftly until he was right in front of the troll's face. The troll was startled and at first just started to stare at Chix. "Hey you big slimeball!" Chix yelled into his face. "I bet you can't get me!"
The troll began to growl and took its huge greasy hand and began to try to swat Chix. Chix began to dodge them, but each time the troll swatted him, it seemed to feel like the last time he would try and its hand would hit Chix. As Holly watched with fear, she snapped out of it. She had a job to do still. She ran over to the rope, picked up, and put it into the air like a lasso. Holly began running towards the troll's humongous feet. She unraveled the rope and flew around one of the troll's legs and tied it into a knot. She then flew quickly around both of the troll's feet with the rope in her hands. She gave it a big tug on the rope when it was running short.
The troll scowled and began to growl when he saw that its feet were tied together. However, as stupid as trolls were, it didn't attempt to move, so he didn't fall. He spotted Holly, and then, he grabbed her with its hand.
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Agent Z tried to start out the end of Trouble with a gun. He pulled out a Protonion XI and tried to shoot Trouble. Trouble dodged them all quickly, all of them missing him just by an inch. Agent Z kept on firing and firing the "bullets" as fast as he could but soon he ran out of them. He tossed the gun to the ground.
"I suppose we'll just settle this like before?" Agent Z snickered.
"I suppose so." Captain Kelp retorted
Agent Z tried to ram himself into Trouble, but ended up ramming himself into the air. Trouble flew under him and behind him. He kicked him in the back and then gave him another quick punch. Agent Z began to fly upward as Trouble began to follow him close behind. Trouble gave him a quick jab to the stomach and an uppercut to the chin.
Agent Z put a hand to his chin. "Well. looks like we've gotten tougher, have we?"
"You think that's tough?" Trouble raised an eyebrow. "Well, it looks like you're going to have a ball of time if you thought THAT was tough."
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"Julius!" Foaly yelled frantically. "Holly!"
"This is no time for Holly!" Commander Root shouted back at him as he shot another fairy.
"But, Commander! The troll has her in its grasp!"
"We're all in its grasp! It's destroying Haven!"
"No, I mean, it's crushing her in its fist!"
Root turned around and saw the troll with its fist in the air. wrapped around Holly.
"Pull out your gun, Foaly!" Root yelled louder than ever before. "And aim it at the damn troll and don't miss!" Then he switched his communicator to Chix Verbil. "Verbil! Stun that troll now!"
"Yessir!" replied Chix's voice abruptly.
Foaly trembled as he pulled out a gun. After making different models for so long, after assigning them to agents, never in his whole entire life. had he ever used a gun. "Well, at least the target's big enough. It would be pretty sad if I missed that thing."
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Holly's scream of pain was the only thing that Captain Kelp heard.
Trouble abruptly turned around and fear and horror crept into his eyes as he saw Holly in the troll's fist. "Holly! Oh my God!"
All of a sudden, Trouble felt a sudden pain his back. He was forced forward a bit and cried out in pain. He looked behind him and saw that Agent Z had taken advantage of Trouble's distraction and attacked him. But Trouble knew that he couldn't waste his time fighting this guy right now. He had to stun that troll. He aimed his gun at the troll and fired.
Root fired.
Foaly fired.
Chix fired.
Have you ever heard the roar of a troll before? Well, its cry of pain was more terrifying, more horrifying, more LOUD than anything a roar could do. It dropped Holly to the ground before it could think twice. well it couldn't actually think.. Okay. it dropped Holly to the ground. Holly landed a bit hardly, but nothing that serious. She had learned to land from falling off from high places a long time ago. The troll began to fall into a building. It fell right on top of it. crumbling the building's structure. It began to fall on.
Holly.
"Holly!!!" Trouble screamed in his head. He flew to her like a bolt of lightening; she was the only person in his sight. She was the only thing that his eyes were focused on. He swept her from the ground, carrying her high above the air as the troll fell to the ground with a large rumble that the Mud Men and Women above thought it was an earthquake.
"Holly. are you okay?" Trouble asked her as held her close to him in his arms.
"I-I'm fine. thanks to you ." Holly stammered as she looked into his deep soft and kind hazel eyes that were full of worry. She looked away quickly.
"Looks like you haven't changed a bit, Trouble." Sneered a loud voice from afar. Trouble turned around to face Agent Z who wore an evil grin on his face. "You still have your soft feelings for her."
Holly couldn't help but notice Trouble turn a bit red. "What do you mean?" Trouble retorted with more of a shout.
Agent Z just laughed wickedly. "She really means that much to you, doesn't she? Years ago you felt the same way. Have you told her yet? Or are you scared of the reaction?"
"What are you talking about?" Trouble questioned.
"Oh, so now we're playing the question game?" He laughed again as Trouble turned around and was about to fly back down. "I don't want to waste any more moments of my life right now, so, I'll see ya later, Trub." Agent Z pulled out a Neutrino and aimed it for Trouble's back.
The pain was unbearable with a twist of a scorch and a freeze when it hit Trouble. He couldn't keep hold of his consciousness. He closed eyes and began to feel intolerable weak as he felt Holly slipping. He wanted to open his eyes and keep her safe. but he couldn't exactly wake up.
Holly held him up and took him back down to the ground to where Foaly is. She couldn't help but show indignation and fury in her eyes and her voice. "Foaly.take care of him. I have some "taking care of" to do right now." She muttered. She flew back up to where Agent Z and glared at him.
"Oh, so now his girlfriend wants to fight for poor Trubby Wubby?" Agent Z taunted.
"You're really asking for it, you do know that?"
"Oh, you think?"
Holly scowled, but she had a plan. She turned her back and Agent Z was surprised because he was expecting a fight. But she swiftly flew under him and then kicked him in the back. He turned around to face her, but she punched him in the nose and then kicked him in the place where she knew it would hurt.
Now it was Agent Z's turn to scowl, but then it turned into a grin. Of course, Holly couldn't let him grin for long. She tried to uppercut his chin, but Agent Z caught her hand. He pulled her close to him and then pulled out some kind of gun with a fluid in it. It had a long needle. He stabbed it into her neck and pulled the trigger.pushing the liquid into her neck. She instantly began to feel sleepy. She tried to shout but no sound from her throat was released. She wanted to stay awake, she struggled so hard but all she could feel was Agent Z holding her up and her eyelids growing heavier and heavier.
"What the hell did he want?" She questioned in her head. "What is he going to do with me?"
"HOLLY!!!" Chix yelled flying toward him furiously but Agent Z dove down below with Holly and went to the E1's entrance. He flashed an evil grin as the elevator doors shut him and Holly and they started going up.
**THIS CHAPTER IS FINALLY FINISHED!!!! Okay, I hoped you liked it ^.^*
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