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Chapter 3: On the Surface

Trouble and Holly crept from the chute E37 in Paris and activated their wings. They flew 50 feet in the air and proceeded dead north. As it was still day they were careful to shield.

"Where do we go from here Foaly?" Holly asked into her LEP helmet.

They both heard typing in the back round before Foaly answered. "You should fly to the outskirts of Paris. There you should find an old warehouse, where those gnomes are hanging out until sunset."

"Ok, thanks." Trouble said and turned off his mike.

In 45 minutes they were hovering over an abandoned warehouse.

"Is this it?" Holly asked.

Below ground Foaly rolled his eyes. "No, it's some other abandoned warehouse in the outskirts of Paris."

"Ok ok. You made your point. No need to get snippy." Holly retorted.

The two elves landed on the ground and crept to the door.

"What do we do?" Holly asked. "Just burst in and start blasting?"

"No. We should find a way in and surprise them." Trouble said.

"Ok... wait I have an idea." Holly said. She flew back up into the sky and started looking around. Or that's what it looked like to Trouble.

As she came back down he said. "What was that?"

She looked at him. "Well, I took a shot of the entire building. Now I have the blueprints and can see if there's an opening."

Trouble looked at her incredulously.

Well duh! He screamed in his head. Why didn't I think of that??

Aloud he said, "Good job. Can you send me a copy?"

She nodded and sent a copy of the blueprints to his helmet. He opened them and began studying the building.

"Looks like there's a small opening at the left corner of the building." Trouble said. "Let's go."

Holly followed him. After all he did have more experience at things like this. They found the opening and entered.

"Now what?" Holly asked pulling out her Neutrino.

"Turn on your x-ray filter." Trouble said. "Then we can see which room they're in."

It was now Holly's turn to yell at herself.

Come on Short! She said in her head. That's elementary!

She smacked her head and turned on the x-ray filter. She looked around. In a room at the other side of the building she saw very faint outlines of people... er...gnomes. She pointed and followed Trouble to the end of the hall. In 2 minutes they had reached the door to the room and he paused.

"Well go on." Holly said.

"Look we need a game plan." Trouble said. "They might have blasters."

"Come on, there are only 5 of them. We can take them easy." Holly scoffed.

Trouble shrugged. "It only takes one to blow your head off."

Holly rolled her eyes. "Come on, we have to do something."

"Fine." Trouble said irritably. "Let's just start blasting."

Holly grinned. "Ok!"

She kicked the door open and was inside blasting before she heard Trouble say. "I was being sarcastic."

As 2 gnomes hit the ground he shrugged and started blasting along with her.

The gnomes had been so surprised that they barely put up a fight. In less than a minute all five were lying on the floor unconscious.

Holly grinned at Trouble. "See. That wasn't so hard. Was it?" She asked cheerfully.

Trouble tried to glare at her but didn't quite pull it off. "Are you crazy? You could have gotten killed! You better hope I don't tell Root about your impulsive behavior."

Holly merely continued to grin. "Well it's my 'impulsive' behavior that caught these guys and saved you and Root in the initiation."

Trouble didn't reply. The truth was the truth after all.

"Ok fine. Just be more careful next time." He said as he started hand cuffing the gnomes.

Holly nodded and contacted Foaly. "Foaly we got them, we'll be down there in a couple hours."

"Good work." The centaur said before he cut the connection.

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