A/N: Ok, next chapter up. Here we go:
-COMMANDS ROOM-
The lights flickered on once again to reveal to bewildered fairies.
"What just happened?" Captain Holly Short asked, the worry showing itself clearly on her face through little creases on her forehead.
"A power surge." responded the Centaur absently as he stared into space, obviously trying to come up with some reason for this to possibly have been a good thing.
A power surge: that was not a good sign. Unlike power surges, power failure, blackouts and other such things that are not uncommon on the surface world, they meant bad news for the fairies. Fairies did not HAVE power surges. The lighting and energy that they used to power their society came from plasma, a very efficient and faultless substance. If the power failed it could mean one of 4 things; one: Foaly had turned the power off for repairs. Two: a Mud Man had discovered them. Three: the plasma had accepted something disastrous into its highly reactive state and was about to blow, which would not only turn the entire fairy world into a puddle of black goo, but it would likely take out the solar system as we know it. Or, four: Something had been fired up that used up so much of the LEP's energy that it caused the power briefly go off until the plasma could build up its required state and bring the systems back on track.
Number one was the best case scenario but Holly and Foaly both knew that it hadn't been the centaur that turned the power off so that possibility was out. Number four was a wild card- it would depend on what it was that was using the power and how much power it was using. Seeing as the lights went out for 5 seconds and Foaly's computers had preformed an emergency restart it was not a good sign. Numbers three and two were a tie- Mud Men finding out about their world would be just as disastrous as losing it completely.
"This isn't good, Foaly." Holly said, "We need to form a council meeting right away."
"I'll bet Julius is on his intercom right now, ordering 'all LEP officers get your lazy fairy butts over to the main gate immediately for an emergency meeting. I repeat- all LEP officers move it!'", responded Foaly with all his usual sarcasm even in such a crisis as this.
Holly shrugged absently and began to zone out while trying to sort out what had just happened when she noticed one of Foaly's monitors which had a loading bar going across it signifying that his systems were starting up. Only they weren't starting up- it was frozen and Foaly's computers never froze.
"Foaly?" Holly asked, pointing to the motionless green bar on the monitor.
"Hmmm.?" Foaly, who had begun typing away on his main computer which ran practically everything within Haven, looked over to Holly and then followed her pointing hand.
Foaly's mouth dropped.
"Hello there.," He mumbled as he came over to have a closer look at the screen as though he had to be sure he was seeing it right. "What on earth." He trailed off and his face adapted an expression of bewilderment.
Foaly trotted back to his main computer and began typing once again, opening a bunch of complicated screens, maps and graphs. He got up again and went back to the frozen machine and stared, pale-faced as he tapped a button on the keyboard hopelessly.
Holly was rather scared now. She had never seen bewilderment on Foaly's face and if fear came right after then nothing good could come of it.
"Foaly?" Holly asked warily, "What's going on?"
Foaly swallowed.
"Lets get to that meeting."
A/N: I was gonna keep going and get to the part with Artemis but it is getting late and I still have to do homework. Besides, this is a pretty good cliff hanger doncha think? Oh yah, check out this page: I uploaded some of the pictures I've drawn for this story. I'll make more soon.
-COMMANDS ROOM-
The lights flickered on once again to reveal to bewildered fairies.
"What just happened?" Captain Holly Short asked, the worry showing itself clearly on her face through little creases on her forehead.
"A power surge." responded the Centaur absently as he stared into space, obviously trying to come up with some reason for this to possibly have been a good thing.
A power surge: that was not a good sign. Unlike power surges, power failure, blackouts and other such things that are not uncommon on the surface world, they meant bad news for the fairies. Fairies did not HAVE power surges. The lighting and energy that they used to power their society came from plasma, a very efficient and faultless substance. If the power failed it could mean one of 4 things; one: Foaly had turned the power off for repairs. Two: a Mud Man had discovered them. Three: the plasma had accepted something disastrous into its highly reactive state and was about to blow, which would not only turn the entire fairy world into a puddle of black goo, but it would likely take out the solar system as we know it. Or, four: Something had been fired up that used up so much of the LEP's energy that it caused the power briefly go off until the plasma could build up its required state and bring the systems back on track.
Number one was the best case scenario but Holly and Foaly both knew that it hadn't been the centaur that turned the power off so that possibility was out. Number four was a wild card- it would depend on what it was that was using the power and how much power it was using. Seeing as the lights went out for 5 seconds and Foaly's computers had preformed an emergency restart it was not a good sign. Numbers three and two were a tie- Mud Men finding out about their world would be just as disastrous as losing it completely.
"This isn't good, Foaly." Holly said, "We need to form a council meeting right away."
"I'll bet Julius is on his intercom right now, ordering 'all LEP officers get your lazy fairy butts over to the main gate immediately for an emergency meeting. I repeat- all LEP officers move it!'", responded Foaly with all his usual sarcasm even in such a crisis as this.
Holly shrugged absently and began to zone out while trying to sort out what had just happened when she noticed one of Foaly's monitors which had a loading bar going across it signifying that his systems were starting up. Only they weren't starting up- it was frozen and Foaly's computers never froze.
"Foaly?" Holly asked, pointing to the motionless green bar on the monitor.
"Hmmm.?" Foaly, who had begun typing away on his main computer which ran practically everything within Haven, looked over to Holly and then followed her pointing hand.
Foaly's mouth dropped.
"Hello there.," He mumbled as he came over to have a closer look at the screen as though he had to be sure he was seeing it right. "What on earth." He trailed off and his face adapted an expression of bewilderment.
Foaly trotted back to his main computer and began typing once again, opening a bunch of complicated screens, maps and graphs. He got up again and went back to the frozen machine and stared, pale-faced as he tapped a button on the keyboard hopelessly.
Holly was rather scared now. She had never seen bewilderment on Foaly's face and if fear came right after then nothing good could come of it.
"Foaly?" Holly asked warily, "What's going on?"
Foaly swallowed.
"Lets get to that meeting."
A/N: I was gonna keep going and get to the part with Artemis but it is getting late and I still have to do homework. Besides, this is a pretty good cliff hanger doncha think? Oh yah, check out this page: I uploaded some of the pictures I've drawn for this story. I'll make more soon.