Disclaimer: Unfortunately I don't own Artemis Fowl.
A/N This is the sequel to my other Artemis Fowl story 'Revenge Fowl Style'. If you haven't read that, you probably won't understand this!!
Summary ~ In the Lower Elements Foaly has created a super computer, and is urging the commander to surrender all control over to the machine. Koboi is still missing, and looking for a way to regain power. She thinks she has found it through one unsuspecting mud man. But what connections does this mud man have to Artemis Fowl?
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Chapter one ~ Foaly's Invention.
Commander Root sat in his office, twiddling his thumbs. It was all he had to do now since Foaly's installation of the super computer. He grunted as someone knocked at the door.
Captain Short walked in, almost back to her old self again. She was smiling, not that she had much to smile about. Crying would have been far more appropriate.
She collapsed on the chair opposite her boss. "Man, am I am glad to have left that place." She was talking about the infirmary where she had spent over a month recovering from Opal Koboi's attack on her.
The Commander managed a smile. "Well, Short, it is good to see you back in action."
"Not that I'm needed now, thanks to Foaly. That's the reason I've come Commander. I mean should we have given up all our control to a computer?"
"As much as I hate to admit it, Captain Short, Foaly is a genius, he knows what he's doing."
"Even so, I don't like the idea of giving up complete control, I mean what if something should go wrong, we shouldn't be completely dependent on the computer."
"Well, Foaly reckons it can protect us better then the other system, plus there is absolutely no Koboi technology in this one, I mean you don't know what sort of viruses she could have planted."
Commander Root said, he was in fact repeating, almost word for word, what Foaly had earlier that day told him.
"Koboi's still missing, then?" Holly asked.
"I have decided to abandon the search, anyway the new computer system will give us far more secrecy, no mud man will ever find us again."
"You sound too confident."
"I just wish we had managed to get Koboi back down here where she belongs! I mean she could be any where by now. Foaly said he was going to generate a global search using the new computer but so far it appears she has vanished of the face of the Earth."
"And you're positive that this new technology doesn't have a single wire from Koboi Enterprises?" Holly asked.
The Commander nodded. "Or so Foaly says."
Holly nodded. "What happened to Artemis, after we left?"
The Commander shrugged. "All I know is that he is back in Ireland."
"And the others?"
"Well, they are still alive at any rate, why you are so bothered I don't know. it is the same boy who kidnapped and held you to ransom."
"Yeah, it also the same boy who saved the Lower Elements during the Goblin Rebellion."
"And the same boy who stole our fairy technology and used it to build a computer, which he then lost."
Holly sighed, this was an argument she couldn't win. She didn't even know why she was sticking up for Artemis. But there was one thing she knew, somewhere under all that exterior image, somewhere underneath all the criminal mastermind was a good person.
"Anyway back to the reason I came, the computer. Maybe we could.oh I don't know, I just hate the idea of losing control."
"We haven't lost control." Foaly said, appearing in the doorway. "The computer controls our ports, weapons and most of the Lower Elements, but we control the computer, simple."
"But to what point do we control the computer and to what point does the computer control itself?"
Holly demanded.
"Holly calm down, we can shut down the computer at any time."
Holly gave a hollow laugh. "I can see we are not going to agree on this. so when disaster strikes, I'll be waiting, to say I told you so." she said, getting up and leaving the room.
"If she's angry now, wait 'til she finds she doesn't have a job any more. With the new system in place crime will near on impossible."
A/N This is the sequel to my other Artemis Fowl story 'Revenge Fowl Style'. If you haven't read that, you probably won't understand this!!
Summary ~ In the Lower Elements Foaly has created a super computer, and is urging the commander to surrender all control over to the machine. Koboi is still missing, and looking for a way to regain power. She thinks she has found it through one unsuspecting mud man. But what connections does this mud man have to Artemis Fowl?
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Chapter one ~ Foaly's Invention.
Commander Root sat in his office, twiddling his thumbs. It was all he had to do now since Foaly's installation of the super computer. He grunted as someone knocked at the door.
Captain Short walked in, almost back to her old self again. She was smiling, not that she had much to smile about. Crying would have been far more appropriate.
She collapsed on the chair opposite her boss. "Man, am I am glad to have left that place." She was talking about the infirmary where she had spent over a month recovering from Opal Koboi's attack on her.
The Commander managed a smile. "Well, Short, it is good to see you back in action."
"Not that I'm needed now, thanks to Foaly. That's the reason I've come Commander. I mean should we have given up all our control to a computer?"
"As much as I hate to admit it, Captain Short, Foaly is a genius, he knows what he's doing."
"Even so, I don't like the idea of giving up complete control, I mean what if something should go wrong, we shouldn't be completely dependent on the computer."
"Well, Foaly reckons it can protect us better then the other system, plus there is absolutely no Koboi technology in this one, I mean you don't know what sort of viruses she could have planted."
Commander Root said, he was in fact repeating, almost word for word, what Foaly had earlier that day told him.
"Koboi's still missing, then?" Holly asked.
"I have decided to abandon the search, anyway the new computer system will give us far more secrecy, no mud man will ever find us again."
"You sound too confident."
"I just wish we had managed to get Koboi back down here where she belongs! I mean she could be any where by now. Foaly said he was going to generate a global search using the new computer but so far it appears she has vanished of the face of the Earth."
"And you're positive that this new technology doesn't have a single wire from Koboi Enterprises?" Holly asked.
The Commander nodded. "Or so Foaly says."
Holly nodded. "What happened to Artemis, after we left?"
The Commander shrugged. "All I know is that he is back in Ireland."
"And the others?"
"Well, they are still alive at any rate, why you are so bothered I don't know. it is the same boy who kidnapped and held you to ransom."
"Yeah, it also the same boy who saved the Lower Elements during the Goblin Rebellion."
"And the same boy who stole our fairy technology and used it to build a computer, which he then lost."
Holly sighed, this was an argument she couldn't win. She didn't even know why she was sticking up for Artemis. But there was one thing she knew, somewhere under all that exterior image, somewhere underneath all the criminal mastermind was a good person.
"Anyway back to the reason I came, the computer. Maybe we could.oh I don't know, I just hate the idea of losing control."
"We haven't lost control." Foaly said, appearing in the doorway. "The computer controls our ports, weapons and most of the Lower Elements, but we control the computer, simple."
"But to what point do we control the computer and to what point does the computer control itself?"
Holly demanded.
"Holly calm down, we can shut down the computer at any time."
Holly gave a hollow laugh. "I can see we are not going to agree on this. so when disaster strikes, I'll be waiting, to say I told you so." she said, getting up and leaving the room.
"If she's angry now, wait 'til she finds she doesn't have a job any more. With the new system in place crime will near on impossible."