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Chapter 9 –Punishment

Police Plaza –Operation's booth –Haven City –Unknown year

Holly felt rather lost. What was she going to do? The portal was gone, she didn't know in what time she was, and she was rather low on equipment. She'd dropped her helmet in anger before she left, and all she had with her now, was her Neutrino 6000 and some standard tools. She got angry at herself. What an idiot she was! Before she even got started making a plan a siren started to ring.

Oh, oh. Revealed! She thought. Holly looked around in the room. There! A small camera was hidden in a corner. She took her gun and shot the camera. At least they couldn't see her now – for a while. She was about to run out of the door, but too late. A male fairy in a blood red uniform came in. Holly gasped: It was Trouble.

He walked towards her. Holly looked into his eyes. His pupils were unnaturally small; he was mesmerized.

"D'arvit," she swore. She took a step backwards. "Stop!" he said and drew a gun. "Right away!"

Holly stopped. "Trouble," she whispered. He didn't react. She had to do something, and it had to go fast. So she took her own gun, set in on the lowest power, and shot him. "Sorry," she whispered, sat down next to the unconscious Trouble and turned him around, so she could handcuff him. But then she saw it. He had a small computer chip or something on his left wrist. When she touched it she found out, that it was, in some way, stuck right under his skin. "Sorry again, this might hurt a bit," she said, and took her gun. With a very precise beam, she made an opening in the skin, and removed the chip. There was a needle in it, and when she pulled it out, the blood started to pour out. "Heal," she said, and blue sparkles came out of her fingers, and healed the wound.

Trouble opened his eyes. Oh, please let it work, she screamed inside herself. Please!

"Holly?" Trouble blinked twice, and looked very confused.

Holly almost started to weep with joy. Almost. "You remember me?" she whispered.

"Yeah, of course… What… What's happened? The last thing I remember is…" he sat up. "We were attacked! Right after you disappeared… The time machine broke down. How did you come back?"

"I didn't. I have no idea about in what year we are. You were mesmerized. I don't know for how long…"

Just then Trouble remembered something more, and his eyes turned dark with sorrow, fear and anger. "They won. They won the battle, because… Because more and more of the officers started to fight on Richter's side… I was shot…"

"… And then they took you somewhere, and put the mesmer-chip into your arm. It makes sense."

Trouble nodded.

"Did you see what happened to some of the others?" she asked.

"No."

Holly got an idea. She had to find someone, who hadn't been mesmerized at all. She grabbed the small chip from the floor. If she could just find out, how it worked. The needle was hollow. And inside the chip there seemed to be some kind of blue gel. Maybe this gel could affect something… She showed Trouble the chip, or whatever it was. "Have you any idea how this thing could work?"

He looked at it for a while, and then he said: "The gel probably goes into the blood…

"… And affects the fairy's magic…"

"… And makes, in some way, the fairy mesmerize itself from inside!"

"That's possible."

Holly smiled. If this was true, Foaly, and maybe Artemis – it depended which year it was – could help her. They hadn't been mesmerized, because they didn't have any magic.

Trouble looked down. "And what are these ugly clothes all about?"

Holly laughed and gave him a kiss. Then she loosened a pair of handcuffs from his belt. "You'd better get your captive into prison, right?"

LEP prison –Haven City –Unknown year

Artemis looked up. The door was opened, and Holly was pushed inside by Trouble Kelp. First he thought that it was the Holly Short from his own time, who the guards had taken with them earlier that day, but then he saw a couple of golden acorns on her chest. No, it couldn't be…

Something unexpected happened. Trouble looked around to make sure that there were no one but the other prisoners there, and unlocked Holly's handcuffs. Then they both looked around, like they were searching for something.

Artemis took a deep breath, stood up, and avoided cleverly to bash his head into the low ceiling.

"Holly?" He said when he reached the bars.

"Artemis?" Holly said, and the two fairies walked over to him. "Oh, I'm glad you're still alive! What about Foaly?"

Trouble leaded her through all the corridors, they both knew so well. But they looked so strange. So… scary… And old.

They came to the prison, and Trouble opened the door and pushed her inside. If there were guards, they should think, that he was still mesmerized. But there were no guards. Not even security cameras. Either was Richter very incautious or he simply just anticipated that his prisoners were too weak to be able to do anything. It didn't take long before Holly realized that the last one was probably the most likely.

Trouble unlocked her handcuffs, and they started to search for Artemis and Foaly.

"Holly?" a voice said. She turned around and saw a young man looking out through the bars of his cell. Holly recognized him. She had seen him at about that age before. But that was many years ago, when the 25 years old Artemis had helped the people against Opal Koboi one more time.

Just… this time he looked far skinnier, his hair was wild and unkempt and an unsuitable, unruly beard covered the lower part of his face.

"Artemis?" she said, and they walked over to him. "Oh, I'm glad you're still alive! What about Foaly?"

"Here!" Foaly's voice said, from another cell. Trouble went down to check up on him, Holly stayed to talk to Artemis.

"You came back," Artemis groaned tiredly.

"Of course. But I'm so gonna kill Foaly for this… Which year is it?"

"2116. So it's ten years ago."

"Have you been sitting here for ten years?"

"No, not all the time. Sometimes Richter tries to make us help him with some technical projects. He's not very technical himself."

Holly noticed a long scar on his face, from his forehead all the way down over his right cheek. It could be from a knife or something. She touched it with her finger.

"What's happened to you?"

Artemis sighed. "Richter. When you don't do what he wants you to do, he… punish you. He's sort of sadistic, really." He pulled a little up in his left sleeve. There was another scar, very close to the artery. "And he has some very… interesting punishing methods."

"That monster!" Holly hissed. "Why haven't you tried to escape?"

Artemis laughed. But it was an empty laugh, without happiness at all. "We have." He pulled the sleeve a little more up. More scars and also some fresh wounds. Holly looked at the arm, then into his blue eyes, and then on the arm again. "Wow," she muttered. "It has been close, huh?"

"Yes, it has been close… And it has been close many times." Holly sent him an asking look. He sighed and pulled in the sleeve for the third time. This time she could see the whole underarm. She gasped. "He is crazy!"

There were scars and wounds everywhere in all directions. Holly took his arm, and healed it with her magic.

"Thanks," he said. "Can you get us out of here?"

"Maybe. If I can find a key card for the lock somewhere." She turned around. "Trouble. Help me. We need to find a key card."

While they were searching everywhere, Holly thought about Artemis. He was very unfamiliar from the Artemis she knew. This Richter-guy was even more dangerous than she thought if he could tamper with Artemis Fowl's self-confidence.

Goldie: What did you think? Tell me.. PLEASE... I just love to get reviews... :)

Holly: Hmm... I like the thing about me becoming commander... that's cool...

Goldie: Where did you come from?

Holly:Who cares? But I would like you to make a few changes in this story...

Goldie: Oh, no...

Holly: One: Why is Trouble my boyfriend?

Goldie: Because I thought that it would be a good idea... And I wanted to get some romance into the story...

Holly: Change it... If you want romance, you can give the mud boy a girlfriend...

Goldie: But...

Holly: Two: I'm way too nice to Artemis. Change that too!

Goldie: Holly, you have to remember, that in this story you have known Artemis for many years... You two are probably friends after so long time, and...

Holly: (Pulls out a gun, and points it at Goldie) Change it!

Goldie: Oh, hell... Well, please review, guys..