1. The Vortex Appears

It was Artemis’s 16th birthday, but he couldn’t see his family. He was in the middle of his biggest criminal venture: sending a nuclear missile to a specially made chute heading to the center of Haven. His time after the Hybras incident made him despise all the fairies but now-Commander Holly Short. He knew it was their fault bringing the demons to lift Hybras from time, and also their fault trying to get them out.

He was in his bunker with Butler, watching the launch of the nuclear cruise missile, when the missile disappeared into thin air. “WHAT!” he yelled. “It seems that some kind of shield, simil-”Butler started to say, but he disappeared as well. “Butler?” Artemis called out. He couldn’t even find any fairies in his 3-d map of Haven, which marked every fairy.

Then he saw a strange pattern of triangles on his screen, and it sucked him in.

For what seemed like hours, but was really only microseconds, he tumbled through a strange energy tunnel. He saw events from his past as if he was really there. When he found a nugget of silver at the event of his 9th birthday, he grabbed it, hoping to anchor him to his own time. Instead, a weird chain reaction happened. There was a flash of light, and HE, age 16, was in his 9 year old self’s body. Huh? What’s going on? he thought. Ok, I need to calm down. Now what ha- And he was released into his normal body, just as Holly was coming through.

He missed his target, his own body, when Holly was being released from hers. He ended up in her body. “What? More body switching?” he yelled, and saw the missile he had sent. He found a hole in the continuum, and he sent the missile out of it. He followed right behind it, and they returned to their original locations. But the time took its toll. Instead of their own time, they overshot by- “50 years!?!” Artemis in Holly’s body yelled. “Wait, if I’m in a commander elf’s body… I can destroy Section 8, the LEP, and then the entire fairy world!”

2. The Plot

While Artemis planned his destruction of the fairies, Holly was having plenty of trouble.When she came back to a body, she ended up in Artemis’s. She saw that now, she could stop everything Artemis started. When she got to the bunker, she destroyed the missile remotely, just as Domovoi came back- in Juliet’s body. “What’s with all this switching?” he asked Holly. “A time vortex is ripping this world’s timeline apart. Strangely, people aren’t dying like usual when this happens, they just switch bodies. Now I know what Artemis meant by ‘blasted puberty’. Well, I think Foaly is probably trying-” Then the both saw what was on the screen. The missile’s destruction created a giant rockslide.

3. The Final Attack

Artemis was at Holly’s desk, giving out orders- orders to end up spreading the LEP so wide that when he activated his strategically placed bombs, they would be sealed out.

But not all followed the directions.