CHAPTER FIVE
If anyone knew anything about the Alistos, or their planning attack on the humans, the Council would know. And if they knew, they would discuss it at a highly-guarded meeting along with other important People matters. The only problem was, thought Artemis, when is the meeting?
"That's easy," Holly informed him, "March 17…what you mudmen call "St. Patrick's Day. It's the day when all the pranksters and lawbreakers of the Haven try to tap into the Council's meeting, but always fail. Luckily, they've put Foaly in charge of security, but this year's downside is that the Council wants to be sure that he is only keeping lawbreakers out, and not trying to listen-in on the meeting himself. Paranoid freaks."
"They still don't trust Foaly, do they?"
"Nope, not even enough to keep well-trained LEP officers from pointing Neutrino 500s at Foaly…point-blank range."
Artemis smirked. "Foaly must be ecstatic for the seventeenth, I can imagine. So all we need to do is disable the guards, and Foaly can spy on the Council without any problems."
Holly immediately recognized the tone of the boy's voice, drawling and almost bored. "Don't think it's easy just yet. I've seen this years new batch of LEP officers. Sool has really kicked their training up a notch. Not to mention weapon's upgrades, you and I may just barely defeat twenty or so guards and make it out alive."
"You're forgetting Butler."
"He's not as quick as he used to be, genius, and whose fault is that? He'll be a great help, for sure, but we need to make sure we're fully armed with some hearty weaponry. Three Neutrinos against twenty isn't going to do much good, not to mention that half of them will probably be pointed at Foaly as well. I hate to say it, but we may have to resort to some sort of gas to disable the guards."
"How about laughing gas? Perfectly ethical, even to your fairy standards, and harmless. You see Holly, this is going to be easy. The seventeenth is this Friday, right?"
"Yes…"
"Perfect. We have three days to plan. However, for me it should take roughly five hours to come up with three high-probability-success-rate plans, and two slightly more risky back up plans…"
"Yeah, yeah whatever just get it done and tell me in the morning. I Love Centaur is on tonight and I'm actually kind of growing to like the show…But don't tell Foaly I said that," she added, a little too quickly.