Holly headed straight down to chute E 25. Here orders were to get inside and incapacitate the five B'wa Kell goblins that had highjacked the shuttle on open the doors. She t the terminal entrance she found Retrival and techies flooding the place. One techie was giving her trouble getting in.

"I'm Recon!" she told the dense dwarf.

"That's nice, sweetie, but my orders from Corporal Kelp are not to let anyone in or anyone out once the civilians are cleared."

"I have to get in. I'm working on the mission you stink worm." She spat at the dwarf.

"Calling me names isn't helping the matter, hunnie."

"DON'T CALL ME HUNNIE AND MOVE OUT OF THE WAY BEFORE A SLAP YOU WITH MY BUZZ BATON!" shouted Holly.

Just then Trouble came up behind the dwarf.

"Let her in!" he barked. "Or it'll be you who has to get into that shuttle, techie!"

The dwarf moved aside and let Holly in. Holly joined Trouble and the started to walk down the terminal.

"Foaly's waiting for you up there." He mumbled.

"Thanks, Captain." Holly felt very awkward. Why was Trouble acting so weird?

Trouble suddenly stopped.

"Captain...Holly I've been meaning to ask you something." He had to do it now. He was not going t chicken out this time. It was now or never.

"Um...alright Trouble, what is it?" Holly had no idea what was coming. All she knew that Trouble was getting very weird at a very inopportune moment.

"Well, I wanted to ask you if you would..." BANG!

Trouble was cut off at that exact moment. One of the goblins had just given another shot from inside the shuttle. Trouble and Holly raced towards Foaly. When they reached him ha was tapping the board like mad.

"What the hell was that, Foaly?" gasped Trouble.

"A shot from inside the shuttle." He was still typing like mad.

"Any surveillance yet?" asked Holly

Foaly was suddenly grave. All of a sudden he just stopped typing and looked sadly at the to LEP elves.

"Just got in and there's another civilian on the floor. I think they shot another one."

"D'avrit!" Swore Trouble. "A civilian!"

Holly gasped. They had killed two fairies. An LEP officer and a civilian. She had known the LEP officer. He had work with her on one of the Artemis Fowl cases. He was a good man. He never deserved to die like this.

"Any status on the civilian?" asked Holly. "Any ID?"

"Status...no idea, that's for you to check once you get in. No ID either. But it looks like a female this time. A young one. We're dealing with real psychos here, you two."

"Any word from the Commander?" asked Trouble.

"He's still in a conference with the Council. You two are in charge till he gets here."

Holly and Trouble quickly looked at each other then turned away.

"He also said that Retrieval One is on standby till Short gets in. On that note let's gear you up, Holly."

Foaly got up and stated grabbing things from a table. He pulled out a hazel contact lens and a mike and some flesh colored tape.

"Iris cam and mike." He said putting the mike on her throat as she put the contact in her eye. Then he grabbed something yellow and fuzzy and put it in her ear. "Ear phone. You'll have me the whole way."

"Great." said Holly "Do I get any weapons?"

"Yes. A Neutrino 2000. Take out any goblins in your way and open that door for Retrival to come in. Now I've looped their outside surveillance so the just keep seeing use and they won't see you approaching the shuttle. Stay down and quite You'll want to make your way to the service hatch but an alarm goes of it you open it. So, fist, make your way to the tail of the shuttle. There you will see a black box. The box will have a ton of wires in it. I'll tell you which one to cut. Then you go into the service hatch. You'll end up in the cargo bay of the shuttle. I'll direct you from there. Got it?"

"Yes. I think so." Said Holly. She wasn't really sure if she did these goblins were killing people. But, Recon was what she did best. So she would suck it up and do her job.

Trouble noticed the fear in her eyes. He didn't feel right. Something was wrong. He knew it. And when he had this feeling it was usually right. He didn't want Holly to go in. What if something happened to her? He would probably die of heartache. Holly was about to go and he put his hands on her shoulders and stared into her hazel eyes. They were the most beautiful eyes ever.

"Don't go." He said.

"What? Have you gone mad." She looked at Foaly, who shrugged, then she turn back to Trouble. "I have to do this, Captain."

"No. I have a bad feeling about this, Holly. If you do this job your going to get hurt. I just know it."

"But," Holly could see it in his eyes. He was truly afraid for her. She didn't know what to say or do. She had never had anyone worry about her like this before. Except maybe her mother. "Listen, I can take care of myself." She said. "I'll be fine."

Trouble dropped his gaze for a second and then looked back into her big hazel eyes. He was taller than Holly by almost a foot. And, those eyes were entrancing.

"Alight, just...just...be careful will you."

Holly smiled at him. She had never noticed it before, being so devoted to work, but he was kind of cute when he was worried.

"I'll be fine." She repeated and then she left the cabin.

Trouble tuned to Foaly who was just watching the whole thing.

"That was even better than those human soap operas I watch." Said the centaur.

"Shut up Foaly! We have work to do. Pull up her eye cam on the main computer. I have a really bad feeling about this, Foaly, a really bad feeling."

Little did he know how right he was about to be.