Holly Short was in a suprisingly good mood. For once, Root was not on her back, and for once, she was flying above ground at night, doing nothing important. The wind tugged on her wingset causing her to rock slightly above the sea. Opening the throttle slightly, she checked her wristband, and altered course accordingly.

Holly Short was as untypical as you could get for an LEPRecon officer. For a start, she was female. She was, in fact, the only female in LEPRecon, and, knowing Commander Root, would be the only LEPRecon female ever to be under his command.

"Holly, this is Haven, do you read?" Foaly's voice buzzed in her ear.

"Loud and clear. To loud almost, hang on." She reached down to her wristband controls and tapped the small LCD panel to adjust the volume.

"Any better?" Foaly asked.

"Much thank you. Now, why are you calling, just as I was getting relaxed.

"Oh, nothing. Just wanted a little chat really.

Holly sighed. Foaly had a bit of a soft spot for her, and regularly seemed to call her up like this.

"Go on then."

Holly could hear tapping as Foaly uploaded something to her helmet visor.

"I want you to have a look at this design, and tell me what you think." Foaly said.

Holly looked at the design light up on her visor screen, it looked exactly like the helmet she was wearing.

"I don't get it." She asked.

"It's not much of a difference, but look carefully at the visor area."

Holly peered closely, it looked like a tiny projector usually used for video-games, patented by Foaly of course.

"What's so good about a tiny projector?" She asked. Foaly tutted in her speaker.

"It's a 3D projector, I've reverse-engineered it so that it projects over the visor, it'll be able to display 3D images."

"Great, now we can have 3D images of you when ever you talk to us."

"Well, that might be one thing, but you can also have 3D projections of buildings, that would be pretty useful."

Holly had to admit, it would be pretty useful.

"OK, I'm impressed, can I test one?" Holly could almost see Foaly grinning smugly at his success to impress her. It was what he strived for every night of every year, in the day of course, he usually slept – like other fairies.

"Hmm. I'll see what I can squeeze out of Beetroot."

Holly grinned, and eased the throttle a bit further, suddenly, her visor beeped at her.

"Collision course with unknown object, please change current course." The sinppet of Foaly's voice said.

"What was that I heard Holly?" Foaly asked.

"I don't know," She adjusted course, "It's probably nothing, strange, because I can't see anything, and visual scanners aren't picking anything up, neither are thermals, or x-ray for that matter."

Holly looked around, to see a slight shimmer wizz past her.

"Shielded fairy, must've been wearing that heat and x-ray hider you have been manufactoring."

"I've never let any of those out."

Holly slowed, "What?"

"I said – I never let any out, not yet at any rate."

Holly grinned, "Someone's nicking your stuff Foaly."

"Holly, get back as soon as possible, something isn't right."

Holly thought for a moment, this was probably Foaly over-reacting as usual. Still, you could never be certain...