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A.N: Well, we are FINALLY up to the action parts! I know, the last 2 chaps SUCK!!! I admit it myself; I can hardly bare typing it up. There is going to be AF/HS romance soon. And it's going be disgusting. Really disgusting. Holly is going to show herself without cloth. Oh well, be sure you miss it if you don't like in-bed-romance and nudity. Well, this chap is going to be okay, but there will be action. BYE!!

Chapter 6: A fraction of action.

Outside the room, Trouble Kelp screamed, knocking something over. It sounded expensive. Holly burst out of the room, taking her Neutrino 2000 from her belt. A gang of goblins broke though an emergency doorway, charging at them. "Protect yourself, Mud Boy." Growled Root, throwing him a laser. Artemis needs not to be told twice, he fired straight away. The next second, 5 goblins lay on the floor, unconscious. Holly stared at Artemis. "Good aim!" She whispered in disbelief. Artemis simply smiled. Root has jammed the emergency door with a piece of unused pipe on the floor, the door threatened to give way to the goblins outside, who was charging at the door. Artemis took out what seemed like a bottle of liquid. He poured it on to the door, the liquid was red first, then sizzled and cracked, and turned into what seems like concrete. This time both Foaly and Holly were staring at him. "Artemis's concrete acid. Should order some for the LEP, it's my own invention. 50 euro a can in Fowl industries. I'll sell it to you for half prize." Said Artemis as they ran away from the concrete door. Foaly had half a mind to ask for the order form, but thought better of it. "We have an emergency shuttle port, incase enemies invade Police Plaza. Each and every building has a passage way to there too." Holly told him, ignoring Artemis's advertisement. But secretly, Holly would be delighted to be equipped with one of those; she will just have to wish that Foaly will order them. They reached a thick metal door. Artemis could see other citizens of the city waiting for an official to use the password. "Aprite sesame!" Holly whispered into the speaker. The door slid open. Other captains gathered around the doorway to see that no goblins were trying to get in. After knocking out 2 goblins in stolen LEP uniform, Holly and Artemis went inside. " 'Open sesame' in Italian? I was thinking of a more complicated password." Artemis was saying, but he wasn't looking at her, he was looking around the room; there were shuttles, of course, but they were built for 2 passengers, in the middle was the mother ship, Root was issuing commands to everybody. "LIEUTENANT KELP!! GUIDE THE CITIZENS INTO THE MOTHER SHIP IMMEDIATELY!!! SHORT, GRAB MUD BOY AND GO INTO A MINISHUTTLE!! BROWN, YOU GO." Artemis couldn't hear the end of the sentence, for Holly had grabbed him by his shirt and started nudging him to the nearest 2-passenger shuttle. The 2- passenger shuttles looked like a plane, with the drivers seat in the front and another seat behind it. It looked tight. "Why can't he call ME lieutenant Short for once? Not fair." Holly was mumbling. She sniffed, and continued hurrying Artemis up the ladder to board the shuttle. Artemis was right. It WAS tight. But somehow the seats stretched as they sat on them. Holly started pressing buttons, then she paused, Artemis saw sweat coming down her hair. "What's wrong?" Artemis enquired, trying to stop panic overtake him seeing Holly panic like this. "I-I-I don't know how to start these new gravity shuttles!" Holly answered, looking for a similar button on pad to start the new shuttle. A crowd of goblins blasted open the thick metal door, and started to go hunting for slow flyers, but the mother ship and all the ships have started up. Except one. "Don't panic, don't panic." Said Holly, unaware of the goblins surrounding them. Artemis raised his hand and pointed at the goblins. "Can we panic now?" He said, mimicking Rupert Grint totally. He turned to the controls Holly was fidgeting with. A light bulb lighted in his head. He understood every single control. With a grin, he pushed Holly's hands away and leveled 2 levers, press a few buttons and with a smile on his face, ran over the surrounding goblins. After they successfully raced though the half-closing tunnel door, Holly glared at him. Foaly's face appeared on a small screen. "HOLLY!! YOU MADE IT!! WITHOUT THE INSTUCTIONS THE OTHER CAPTAINS GOT ON THEIR SCREENS!!!" Foaly burst out, smiling from ear to ear, but his smile faded when he saw Holly's annoyed look. Artemis cleared his throat for attention. "Well, I'll take that as congratulations to me." He grinned. Holly's face would have made Root jealous. Foaly's mouth fell open. He seemed lost for words. "Oh.Okay, you 2 better come into the mother ship." He stuttered. They saw a wall of the mother ship open and they (more like Artemis) flew inside. Foaly was there personally to greet them. Okay, now will be a good time for description. The mother ship is a GIGANTIC ship, which looked like a giant flying building. Actually, it WAS a giant flying building, for thousands of citizens was taking refuge there. Have you ever saw those ferries with shopping centers in them? This is like that. Foaly led Holly to a captain meeting, and led Artemis into a large room. The room was very spacious, every thing from solar pads to sonic detectors, Nuclear power ports to laser gauges. This is Foaly's laboratory. "Well, it will be a while before we get to our destination, so amuse yourself by improving my inventions. You will get paid, I assure you." Foaly smiled. He threw a laser to Artemis. He inspected it carefully. "Hmmm. Good magnet laser here, good triggering too. But using nuclear power to power a electric charge will weaken the laser, and the magnet will weaken it even more. But if you take the electric charge off." Artemis removed the electric charge, "And link the nuclear power point straight to the laser." he took a thing that looked like a rod, and put it place of the electric charge, "Which will prevent reducing the power, and furthermore, if you magnify it." he took a piece of trimmed magnifying glass and slid it into the laser, "The laser will focus, so the magnet will unfocus the laser but not reduce it, but power it up!" Artemis held up his masterpiece and fired it at an empty jar. A laser beam as long an arrow hit bull's eye. Foaly smiled from ear to ear. He took the laser, examined it, and opened a locked cupboard. He put the laser inside. "I'll load the data into the computer soon," The centaur said happily, "and here's your reward." He opened another locked cupboard and took out a huge stack of human money. "Fairy printed and illegal, yes, but also real." He announced proudly, handing the money to Artemis. Artemis counted the money: 2 million. He stared at Foaly in amazement. "You deserved it, but DON'T TELL JULIUS, okay?" Foaly said, Artemis nodded, now stuffing his money into his digital-locked wallet. A loud voice spread across the ship: 'WE ARE GOING TO ARRIVE AT CONGRESS CITY IN 90 DIALS, ALL CAPTAINS MUST RETURN TO THEIR SHIPS!'. "You better go with Holly!" Foaly shouted as he galloped away to the commander. Artemis met Holly on his way to the shuttle. "What have you been doing?" Asked Holly. "Lecturing a centaur about magnifying laser beams." Artemis chuckled. In 3 minutes they were out in the tunnel again, with Artemis flying the shuttle, giving Holly lectures about gravity shuttles. Soon enough they arrived at Congress city.

A.N: Okay, you like that? You know what to do! REVIEW! No flames cuz this is my first fic, okay? This is seriously long, right?