"Oooooh! This is simply marvelous! Simply, simply! I cannot deduce how you managed to be so quick as to get the brats father out of the house before the giant MudMan came bursting in!" Opal One giggled - looking for all the world like an innocent school girl. She, however, was far from innocent.

It just so happened that at the precise moment of Opal One's exclamation of 'Oooooh!' Opal Two had lent back on the control board and unknowingly flipped a switch. The switch was the 'on/off' to the speakers in the cell the Fowl's currently inhabited. Consequently, the entirety of their conversation could be heard by the conscious of their captives.

"I am marvelous, aren't I?"

"Truly. Simply. Wonderful."

"Now tell me, what has happened with this boy in the future? I have already suffered the past injustice but I never suspected he would live to reek more!" Opal Two looked at herself a little bemused. Opal One's smirk turned sour.

"Well..." and here Opal continued on to explain all about the goblin rebellion. "...and apparently, do you know? Fowl was just helping the LEP take me and the Goblin Generals down because he wanted there help!"

"What ever would Master Fowl want help for? It's hard to imagine him less than cocky or without an infuriating smirk." said Opal Two, enthralled; Artemis I was equally enthralled.

"Ha! This, my dear self is where the irony comes in - but I won't yet tell you his price for defeating me, I'll go back a year. This is just what I heard so the details may be skewed but..." and she proceeded to tell what she knew of Holly Shorts Kidnapping and the Fowl sedge. "...so after having escaped a time stop, evaded a biobomb and earned a METRIC TON OF PURE GOLD! He gives half of it back to the LEP. HALF! And do you know what he had the elf do for him in return?"

"What?" gasped Opal and Artemis I at the same time.

"Heal his mother from depression induced insanity! Here we have what we thought was a heartless villain whose only goal in life is money and power but the half the stolen gold was used to cure his mother and the other half - which brings me back to my defeat at the Goblin Uprising and his price for helping defeat me - the other half was used to fund search parties in the arctic to find his missing father! He didn't use any of the gold for himself; it took me, a maniacal villain to see through his scathing greedy demeanor. The LEP and even Short and Root, they all thought him a demented bastard but not me! I saw how his plans were in the end, truly selfless."

"But what did he have the LEP do for him to get him to help defeat us!"

"My dear self, you haven't guessed what he had them do?"

"No." again Opal Two and Artemis I were speaking in unison.

"He had them help him rescue his father from the Russian Mafia! He trekked across arctic tundra, escaped the Goblins I sent to kill him and came up with an almost suicidal plan to save his father! He knew the Mafia would try to kill him and his father as soon as he handed over the ransomed money, (which was fake) so he drained about a pint of blood from his own arm, stuck it in one of Foaly's hydro what's its - the paint ball type things - and shot his father with it. SHOT him with it! The blood spurted everywhere making the Mafia goons think the man had really been shot and that the kid had murdered his own father!"

"I have to admit, your turning him into quite the romantic hero." said Opal Two.

"I am aren't I? Well, that's to be his downfall. Maybe if he WAS the treacherous little piece of scum the LEP had first made him out to be - he would have done better. As is, he has too many people he cares about to lose, I on the other hand, care only for myself and have nothing to lose. I am much better off."

"So that is what he did to us." said Opal Two.

"NO! He evaded me once more! Twice, if you count the going back in time as after these things happened. I had a beautiful plan, not to mention he was mind wiped at the time..." Again Opal One continued her fantastic story of the events in 'The Opal Deception' and how he really wasn't a true villainous criminal because he had selflessly helped his friends. Then it was Opal Two's turn to explain what had happened in 'The Time Paradox.'

All the while Artemis I was listening to the heroic accounts of all his son's deeds and the injustices he had caused these two people - who he soon realized were really the same person.

Now you're probably wondering where Artemis' mental disorder comes into Opal's plan; it doesn't. At this point in time neither Opal nor Artemis's father know there is anything wrong with him - least of all in the brain department. After all, that's Artemis's specialty, who would expect it to fail him now?