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A/N: thank you to everyone for reviewing *gives them cookies*. I think the romance will be Holly/Artemis, but I'm open to suggestions.

Chapter 2: Odd Fight

"Now, what should we do about the mud men with our technology?" Root said, taking a poof on his fungus sugar.

"Well, that seems pretty obvious, doesn't it?" Foaly replied.

"If it was obvious, pony boy, I wouldn't have asked." Foaly knew that, but it was still fun to watch Root's face get redder.

"I was thinking that we would just send Holly up for a short look then decide our next course of action from there. Oh yeah, and while she was up there she could give Fowl his memories back."

"O.K. Holly, be ready to go above in 5."

"Yes sir," she said and trotted of to get ready. She had mixed feelings about her mission; the first was that she was glad to be doing something again. All the rest were more of a jumble, too confused to make anything from.

At the shuttle station Root was waiting for her.

"Where should I go first, Commander?"

"Foaly got the placement of where the fight toot place the it turns out to be about two miles closer then the Fowl Manner, so you go to the fight seen first. Foaly will give you the coordinates when you get above ground. Now go."

Holly stepped into the shuttle and buckled in. When she was above ground she strapped on one of the pairs of wings kept there for LEP officers.

"O.K. Foaly," she said into her helmet, "give me the location," two red dots appeared in her view screen.

"The closer one is where the fight took place. Go to there and see if you can find anything that might tell us how these mud men got our technology, but don't do anything, we don't want there to be any evidence that we were here."

"Got that Foaly."

"And Captain?" Root's voice came though the mike, "try not to get yourself killed."

"Yes sir."

As Holly flew over the Irish landscape, she started to wish that the fight had token place farther away. She loved to fly. The wind raced pasted her cheek and made her giddy, she laughed for the sake of laughing. The green rolling hills were small beneath her. In the distance she could see the town where the fight had taken place. Quickly, to quickly for her liking, the town larger.

Houses now were under her feet. As the first red dot on her view screen got closer she could hear gun shots in the up ahead. Stupid mud people, she thought to herself.

Holly slowed her flying and landed on a rooftop. She double-checked to make sure her shield was on, it had been since she started flying, but she didn't like the thought of being seen.

Looking down into the street below she could see the man who was shooting. The odd thing about it was that there was no visible people he was shooting at. It appeared that the other two people in the fight had fled because there was no sight of them and no bodies on the ground.

"Foaly, what do you make of this?" she asked in a quiet whisper.

"It looks like he's mad."

"Is he the one with the neutrino?"

"Just a minute, let me check," Holly waited for a few seconds, then she heard a little beep and her view screen was magnified. In the man's hand was the Neutrino 2000 "Stun him," Root said.

Holly pulled out her Neutrino 2000 and leveled it on her arm. She set the energy level to 'stun' and fired. By some strange coincidence, the man turned right as she was firing and shot. Holly didn't have time to duck. The bullet caught her squarely in the arm. For a minute her shield was down, but by a lucky chance the man was stunned by the time he could have seen her.

"Holly, are you all right?" it was Foaly, he sounded worried.

"I'm fine, and I have enough power to heal it," once her shield was up she flew down to see if she could discover how neutrinos got into the hands of mud people.

The first thing she found out was that his name was David Boon (A/N if anyone has that name I mean you no offence). His name was on a Safeway tag.

"Foaly, could you look up that name for me?"

"Already on it."

"Root, should I take the gun?"

"Why would we leave one of our guns in the hands of a mud man?"

"Just because you said that I should make it look like no one was here."

"You already stunned him Captain Short. I doubt any one will think that he stunned himself."

"Do we have time for jokes now Julius?"

"FOALY, DON'T CALL ME JULIUS."

Holly chuckled to herself as she strapped the extra gun to her belt. "Have you got anything on this David Boon guy yet?" she asked Foaly.

"He lives in an apartment neat the town you are currently in. He works at Safeway as a clerk. Ah, and he has been to jail twice.

"What for?" Root asked.

"Well, the first was for pick-pocketing and the second was for illegal weapons dealing."

"O.K., Holly head over to Fowl's house and give him his memories, but first heal yourself."

"Yes sir," she said. She touched her arm and murmured 'heal' to herself. Blue sparks danced around the wound and she watched as it closed, leaving a tender new skin where it had been.

Holly quickly was flying again, towards Artemis Fowl.

A/N sorry that chapter is shorter, it just turned out that way. I think the next chapter will be up some time this weekend *thinks*. Thanks again to everyone who reviewed. Please tell me what you want to happen and I will see if I can make that work. Review please!