Chapter 4
Fowl incident #4

Level 6, Briefing Room 1.

Root was furious he could not believe it Artemis Fowl had outwitted them again, how. There was no point in wiping him again as he would just get around it. But this also meant that he had found a total of two ways to avoid the mesmer. Would this boy never give up? It didn't seem so. "Holly, where are you do you copy?"
"Hello Commander Root, this is Artemis Fowl speaking, did you really think you could have got rid of me?"
"What have you done to the squad?" Root asked. "We are dealing with them."

Fowl Manor, Ireland.

"Butler, go outside and deal with them, I need to have a chat with Holly. Alexia if you would care to wait here while we deal with the problem outside." Artemis said as he left the room with Holly and Butler in tow.
"And miss all the fun, not a chance!" Alexia muttered.
Outside was a shamble. Butler tried to protect Artemis but after about three minutes of heavy fire from the fairies neutrinos the boy had nearly given up hope. When Alexia joined in, Artemis could hardly believe it. She was amazing. She did a back flip across the lawn, and a huge high kick which swung her round taking out three of the six fairies. She landed on the lawn like a cat and looked up. She leaped into the air again smashed one of the fairies with one fist and a second with another. Now only Holly was still airborne. "Drop the gun." shouted Alexia. What could Holly do but accept?
"Wow, you were amazing back there." Artemis said.
"Thank you Artemis." she replied, giving him a dazzling smile.

"Ok here it is Fowl, we need your help." Root said
"That is just like you, you try to stun me then ask for my help honestly!" Artemis replied.
"I hope you realise that I wouldn't ask for your help if I didn't really, really need it." Root muttered, annoyed.
"Ok what do you need me for?"
"We have developed a serious problem. Well you see our queen is having a problem, the princess Ardreala has run away from home. This is really important as she holds the key to fairy world. Also a lot of fairy technology from the lab has been stolen. We reckon that there could be only a few weeks, maybe days before who ever stole that technology could get it working." Root replied.
"So why do you need us?" asked Alexia.
"I didn't ask you, girl. Who are you anyway?"
"Alexia Pheo, why is this any of your business, Root?"
"Because I want to know who will be helping us on this mission, anyway how do you know my name?"
"Umm, you said earlier." Alexia replied.
"Anyway," said Artemis, ending their argument, "why is this so important to you anyway surely you know what your own princess looks like."
"Actually no, she's a shape shifter. She could be anyone, or anywhere. But we do know that she adores action. She ran away because she was bored of the palace, I don't know why we got her everything a girl would want. But all she wanted was a neutrino and a punch bag. Honestly what girl in her right mind would want that sort of thing?" Root replied.
"This type of girl." said Juliet as she walked through the door. Butler got up and gave his little sister a hug in greeting.
"You aren't being serious about how important this is to our whole society."
"No you're right, what's the plan then." Artemis asked
"That's your 'forte'."
"Fine I'll do the thinking but at least you can tell me where the technology is or where she is." Artemis said
"We don't know that." Root said.
"Yes but I do." said Alexia.