Disclaimer: Ok, nothing except the plot is mine.

Thank you: To my wonderful friends Vicki and Nicole for reviewing. Hey Nicole, thanks for reviewing but it looks a bit weird me reviewing myself! Also to Trouble Kelp, I guess that "Let's guess this show on the road" is a British expression and it means let's get started, and the commander wants to do something before they go back to the Ops booth. Thank you! maddisonavenue, the pairing is not Holly/Trouble, sorry! But on the plus side it's not Holly/Artemis either! Thanks! Wing Pikepaw I'm glad you liked the chapter, and most especially it's length (I still think it's a bit short but maybe that's just me) Thank you very much for your comments, you don't just say "Oh, ace awesome" when you don't really mean it, you actually give me something to improve on! (Which I do try and improve!) Thank you very much! ;)

I'm apologising: For the length of the chapters. I write out the story on paper, so each chapter is 3 pages long, but then when I type it on the computer the size shrinks. Then on a webpage it's even smaller!

Recap: "As they climbed into the sub the commander glanced back at the tunnel through which magma was flooding dangerously. "If it wasn't for you I'd be fried to a crisp right now! Now let's get this show on the road!"

"What show?" Said Holly. "Where are we going?"

'Bye: Ok, I'm off, please make my day and review! I am so smiley when I get one (and my mum will back me up on this, it annoys her!) Tell me what you think and I'll try to improve the next chapter (which will be the last chapter as I'm trying to make them longer) Bye:D

In the Ops booth Foaly was glued to the speakers.

"Come on, come on!" He yelled, but it was useless, there was too much static from the flare. He tried to block out the annoying shouting of Artemis and Trouble as they tried to make Foaly open the door –they weren't getting anywhere- The centaur wasn't going to let anyone see him in this state. He wringed his hands and bashed his head off the monitor.

"I should never have let Holly go," Foaly thought "I should have never let her be the tester of my theories. She means too much to me." And now Holly was far away and he had no way of contacting her. She couldn't hear him, and he couldn't hear her. Suddenly the door was banged off its hinges by the sheer force that was Butler. As Artemis walked in Foaly looked up mid-bash.

"Why don't you switch on the shuttle camera?" Artemis asked.

"Of course! Why didn't I think of that?" Foaly mentally scolded himself as he switched on the camera? Holly was at the wheel and OH GOSH! It was Commander Root!

"Hooray!" Foaly did a victory dance around the Ops booth.

"What?" Artemis asked before he saw the camera footage. Then he considered joining the centaur but decided against it –dancing wouldn't do anything for his image- "Can we talk to them?" Said Artemis to the resident technical genius.

"Nope." Foaly gasped breathlessly. He was now doing the conga with Mulch at his heels –something he hadn't indulged in for a while- If you call being chased by a smelly dwarf an indulgence.

Butler was watching the duo. "I don't think you'd make it past the first round of a talent contest." He smiled in amusement, but his expression quickly turned to confusion as he looked back to the screen. "Hey, aren't they supposed to be heading back here?" He asked.

"Holly…." The Commander paced the sub slowly. "You can't just expect me to forget all about the pixie who did this to me," he gestured to various bruises around his body.

"Commander, they haven't found Koboi yet." Said Holly.

"I know Captain, from what you've told me, you wouldn't have been locked up if they had. No, we're going to bring Koboi back ourselves. Right now."

What? No way. That pixie is armed and dangerous! There is noone under the earth that can make me go after her."

"Firstly Holly, if Opal is pretending to be a normal human girl she' s hardly going to be armed to the teeth with missiles. Secondly, we will have the element of surprise on our side. And thirdly, I am your Commander and you will do what I say. And I say step on that pedal and go faster!" Replied the Commander crossly.

"D'arvit." Swore Holly. "OK, what's the plan, Commander?" She said sarcastically.

"No need to take that tone with me Short. And now that you ask, the first thing on our agenda is to go topside and complete the ritual –well, I will anyway-. You will wait here in the shuttle."

Back in the Ops booth they still couldn't get through to the commander and captain. However, word had got out that the commander was still alive and had been saved by none other than the officer who had supposedly killed him in the first place. According to Chix Verbil, Commander Sool had pounded the desk in frustration when he had heard.

"He isn't going to be around for long when the real commander gets back," Chix said. "In fact….the sprite poked his head out of the door. "He's packing his briefcase right now!" He grinned deviously.

Whilst Foaly was occupied with his conga, Artemis played around with the computers, a few minutes later one of them began to beep. "What have you done?" Blurted Foaly crossly, but his expression quickly turned from anger to joy. "We've got a signal!"

Holly reclined back in her chair and shut her eyes.

"That plan of the commander's was a bit silly," thought Holly. "But I've always wanted to be a human for a day, well, as near as you can get with pointy ears anyway!"

"Yo, Holly!" Came Foaly's voice excitedly from the speakers. "You are the best!"

"Are you referring to the fact that I saved the commander?" Holly smiled.

"Um…." Foaly struggled. "Um….where'sthecommander?" He replied hurriedly.

"Outside, completing the ritual."

"Ok, as soon as he's finished come straight back down," said Trouble Kelp, from back in the Ops booth.

"Oh I'm not so sure about that," the female elf replied mysteriously.