Hey again!

I would like to say sorry, for the confusion in chapter three, and don't worry... there'll be more of it... heh..

I would like to say, that I'm sorry about the confusion in chapter three. And beforehand I'll have to warn you: It's not over yet, there'll be much more of the confusion later on. I'm sorry, but it's hard to avoid.

I'll just try to explain:

In the end of chapter 3, where Holly catches Mulch: The Holly in that part is Captain Short, so it's the one from the past. This whole scene is happening in 2005, and Commander Holyl Short from 2106 hasn't gone back in time yet!

In the following chapter, there will also be some switching between 2005 and 2106, but I've tried to make it obvious who's who. Look after the following things:

1. Remember to look at the headlines written in Italic. Theyre you'll be able to see, which year we're in.

2. If it says "past-Holly", "Holly's past-I", "Captain Short", and stuff like that, we're talking about Holly from 2005. I've done the same with Root (2005: "Commander Root", 2016: "Leutenant Colonel Root"!) and Trouble.

Also, I have added some rulers where the perspective changes.

And about the other reviews:
I really like Trouble and Holly, so I'm not going to change it.. I also like Artemis/Holly, but I just think, that Holly/Trouble is more likely to happen in the real series.. :)

I've changed Artemis a bit, so he's a little more like his evil self.. :)

And again I've corrected a lot of mistakes, and added a bit to the story to make it better.. :) Enjoy!

And I still don't own Eoin Colfer's characters!

Chapter 4 –The first travel

Police Plaza –Operation's booth –Haven City –Year 2106

Holly and Trouble looked at the little box, Foaly was holding in his hand.

"Is that box going to send me back in time?" Holly asked. She was starting to get nervous about her plan.

"Yes it is, and it's not a box! It's my newest invention, Timetraveller 5000®."

"Yeah, whatever you say. Does it work?"

Foaly looked offended. "'Does it work?!' Of course it does! I have designed it!"

"Hm." Holly wasn't convinced, but she had to trust the centaur. "Ok, but you say that it's finished?"

"Yes, ready to bring you wherever you want it to. Or whenever, to be more precise."

"Good. Then make it send me back to 2005. The day where I took Artemis and Mulch with me underground, remember? It was right after Artemis got his memories back."

"Yeah, long time ago, but I certainly do," he made a quick search on his computer, found the right date and pushed some buttons on the side of the box. The right date and year appeared on the display of the Timetraveller 5000®.

"Where do you want to appear? And what time of the day?"

"Hm… The conference room. About… 4 pm I guess. Wouldn't that fit perfectly?"

"Yeah," Trouble said. "I think that's a good time… Unless my memory fails me, it was right before four o'clock, when Julius finished yelling, and Fowl told us, how he got his memories back."

"Yeah! Let's wait until Julius's finished yelling!" Holly laughed.

Foaly fine-tuned the time machine, and then he looked at Holly. "So Commander? Are you ready?"

"As ready as one could be," she said, but she didn't feel ready at all.

Foaly pushed a red button. A little shutter opened, and something that looked like a small camera lens, came to sight. Out of the lens came a strange, blue light. The light stopped in the middle of the air, and became what looked like a round portal.

"Step inside," Foaly said. "And then we'll see you again in a short while, hopefully in the company of Artemis Fowl."

Holly nodded. Trouble gave her hand a comforting squeeze. Then he let go, and Holly walked into the portal.

Police Plaza –Haven City –year 2005

Captain Short sent Commander Root, a concerned look. He had been yelling so loudly that Foaly had chosen to leave the room. Now he was trying to calm himself down a little. It might sound unbelievable, but it actually worked. "Ok, Mud Boy," Commander Root said, when his face color had turned a little less purple. "I'm only going to ask you about this one more time, if you won't answer, we'll have to mesmerize you: How did you get your memories back, and what does Mulch Diggums have to do with it?"

Artemis smiled. "Ok, ok." He looked at Holly. "Captain Short. Do you remember the coin you gave me once?"

She nodded.

Artemis smirked. "And do you remember that I gave it to Mulch Diggums, before I was mind wiped?"

This time Commander Root also nodded.

"Well," he said, and pulled a leather string out, from under his shirt. In the string hang a coin; the very same coin that Holly had shot a hole in and given him. "The coin is right here. The thing I gave Mulch was a minidisk, which contained all the fairy files from my computer. I simply asked Mulch to go to the surface again, and show me the files, after he was discharged."

Holly, Root and Trouble Kelp, who was also sitting in the conference room, looked at the black-haired boy. Their eyes grew wide. This kid really was smarter than ordinary Mud men.

"Then I suppose, that it was also you, who changed Mulch's criminal files, so that he was released, right?" Root asked.

"Yes, that was also me."

"Hm, I was quite certain that something about that date wasn't right, but there was no way to prove it."

Artemis opened his mouth to answer, when something strange happened.

A big, blue hole opened in the middle of the air, and out came…

Holly gasped. Out of the hole came a woman. She was wearing a commander's uniform, and the badge with the golden acorns was glittering on her chest. But the thing that made Holly gasp was that the woman… was her. She looked a little older and the hair was a little longer, but there was no doubt. It was herself; Holly Short.

When Holly walked out of the portal, she saw one of the strangest things, she had ever seen. She saw herself. And Trouble and Root… and Artemis. Everybody was staring at her. And with a good reason. This probably seemed even stranger to them, than it did to her.

She had no idea, what she was going to do, so she just started to talk.

"Hello, I…" She stopped. What was she going to say? She took a deep breath, and then she tried again. "I'm Commander Holly Short. This probably sounds very strange, but I come from the future. The year 2106, to be more specific." She looked at Artemis. "I have come, because I need your help Artemis. Actually, the entire fairy civilization need your help. In the future a Mud man called Dominic Richter has discovered the Lower Elements. You must come with me back to the future to help stopping him. You're the only other human, who has done, what he's done. Will you help us?"

Artemis still stared at her. He actually seemed a little confused, and Holly would have enjoyed the look on his face, any other day.

Then Artemis got his old, sneaky look back on his face. "Well… Commander. What's in it for me?"

Now it was Holly's turn to be confused. "Wha… What?"

"Don't I get anything for helping you saving the fairy civilization?"

"Oh, I hate you Mud boy," Holly muttered. She missed the man she knew Artemis would become, when he'd grow up. Her friend. "Please Artemis. We don't have much time, and we really need your help! Damn, I should have chosen to talk to you, when you got a little older."

"Well, why don't you just do that then?" Artemis said with a sarcastic smile.

"Because I only have permission to take one time travel. Artemis, please. For this one time, be a little generous."

Artemis shook his head, like if he tried to make Holly's idea about generosity disappear, but then he looked up at her, and sighed: "Sure. Fine. Let's go."

Holly sighed in relief. "Good, come with me."

She was about the turn around, and walk into the portal, when her past-I stood up.

"Can I help with anything?"

Holly (the one from the future) looked at her. She thought it over, and couldn't see a reason not to let her past-self come with her. She smiled. "Sure. If Commander Root will let you come with me. I'd like to have all the help that I can get."

Then Trouble also stood up. "I'm going too," then he looked at Root and added: "If it's okay with you sir."

Root sighed. "Ok, you two can go, but then I'm coming with you!"

Holly (again the one from the future) smiled again. "Are you all ready to go, then?"

The three fairies and the human nodded, and then they all followed Commander Short through the portal.

Police Plaza –Operation's booth –Haven City –Year 2106

Foaly and Trouble was waiting for her in the operation's booth. The other four was coming right after her.

She smiled at Trouble (the one from her own time), and gave him a quick kiss. Past-Holly and past-Trouble took a step away from each other, and stared at them as if they'd seen a huge, slimy cave snail.

"I think I'm gonna be sick," Captain Short whispered, and her future-I started to laugh. Then she turned around, and looked at Foaly, who was eating a carrot and laughing at the two fairies from the past at the same time. The carrot almost strangled him and little orange carrot pieces and spit flew in every direction.

"Charming, Foaly," future-Holly said sarcastically.

"Don't I ever fire him?" Commander Root said, with a disappointed sigh.

"Good to see you too, Julius," Foaly laughed.

"Nope," Commander Short said, ignoring Foaly's comment. "Congratulations Foaly, your Timetraveller-thingy worked."

Foaly had finally regained control over himself (and the carrot), and now he looked proud and offended at the same time. "I told you that it would work! I'm a genius! And by the way: It's called 'Timetraveller 5000®'."

"Uhm, yeah, whatever. Oh, and remind me to get the conference room refurnished soon. On my time travel I noticed, that it still looks exactly the same, as it did in 2005."

"Yes sir, of course sir. Refurnishing sir. I'll remind you sir!" Foaly saluted her with a teasing smile.

Holly raised her eyebrows. "And would you please stop doing that?"

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