AN: Sorry, the other one sucked and was really predictable… I started to toy with other contest ideas and I came up with this! Obvioulsy this is in the beginning of the Opal Deception.

Holly Short was flying above Munich, her eyes red from crying. Why did this have to happen?

Either way, Root’s order to save Artemis was sure to be followed. Because it was the last order he ever gave. She flew towards a hotel she hacked into earlier.

Then she saw it out of the corner of her eye: A bio bomb… 

 

“Give me it!”

“No! Miss Koboi said I get the privelege to the remote! It’s not everyday you get to blast people with a bio-bomb!” Merv and Descant fought for the control of the bio bomb.

In the middle of Munich, the blue rinse strayed off the path as the Brills fought with the controller.

Merv managed to land a well-aimed kick at Descant’s *gulp* you-know-where

Fwoosh 

The bio bomb strayed left of the path.

“Argh! You got to shut off the clinic power last time! I didn’t even get to have some fun yet!” whined Descant.

“Quit your whining” Merv sneered as he quickly gained the upper hand. In all the shoving and punching, the direction arrows had shifted and soon the bio bomb progressed more and more west…

BOOM!

Oops… would Miss Koboi notice?

Artemis Fowl was back in the hotel and was annoyed to see that Butler had forgotten to shut off the TV before they left. He grabbed the remote and was prepared to shut off the blaring TV before he noticed something peculiar. The channel was switched to CNN and it was the afternoon news that caught his attention…

“We are reporting live at Munich where a supposed bombing took place two miles south of hotel Kronski.” A female reporter announced on the screen. “All the birds and insects within a five hundred meter radius were found dead on the road and caused a blockage. Foresics have uncovered that the source was an advanced form of bio technology. Police blame it on local pollution, but the public is highly skeptical”

Artemis mulled over what he just saw as he switched off the television. “Hmm… the plot thickens…” 

He tried to forget the happenings, but something kept nagging at him. Artemis sat down at a desk and started to unroll the tube. Huh? Something twinkled at him from the corner of the Fairy Thief. Artemis peeled it off and gasped.

It was obviously a bug of some sort. It looked nonoperational. Artemis screwed the back open and marveled at it. The technology seemed almost fifty years ahead of any kind of bug he had ever seen…

Holly sighed a breath of relief. It seemed that Opal’s plan failed and Artemis did not need saving. Oh how very wrong she was. She fluttered next to his window, hidden by her camaflauge suit. Holly wouldn’t put it past Opal to have a backup plan ready to spring into action.

Bleep. Holly’s helment was beeping. It was not a good sign. The beep was a locator. It signaled the arrival of five LEPretreval members.

“FIRE!” A major shouted. Holly ducked, causing five Neutrino beams to penetrate a window.

“What the-” was all that could come out of Artemis’s mouth before he was shot by a Neutrino burst. With a bleeding shoulder and mass confusion, he could only stare as a young woman with the size of a child and adult proportions crash landed in his hotel room. She had auburn hair, pointed ears, and… such familliar hazel eyes? Artemis blinked twice as the LEP closed in.

“I knew it! Short and Fowl are in league! Don’t let either of them escape!

“Quit stalling, Artemis! Move!” Holly managed to sputter before she started coughing up blood onto the carpet.

“H-how did you know my name?”

“WHAT!? You still don’t remember?” Holly stared in bewilderment.

“R-remember what?”

Down in the lobby, Butler was checking the escape routes when he heard an explosion. In Artemis’s room. He abandoned the Eye Spy sweeper and ran up to the third floor.

Holly was sure she was living on borrowed time. She had a broken arm, a half crushed lung, and several cuts and bruises. Artemis was slightly better, but only slightly.

They had no choice. Holly activated her wings.

“Come on, Artemis. We have to leave before the ceiling caves in”

Artemis hesitated. Holly knew that with someone like Artemis, gaining his trust was quite difficult.

“You’ll just have to trust me, now move! I’ll explain everything later!” shouted Holly as she extended her hand to him.

Artemis paused again, then accepted her hand. Somehow, he just felt like this girl was trustworthy and used to be a friend of some sort.

“All right mud boy, let’s go”

Please don’t flame me (again) I have constant writer’s block. If you don’t understand, it’s just that in this story, the bio bomb is controlled by remote and when the Brills are fighting over it, the bio bomb misses the Kronski. Holly’s helment is still broadcasting her location and they are cornered by the LEP. R,R,&R!

Some other stories by Star Jinin:

• Short Update!
• Beautiful Lie
• The Unknown Audience
• Reason to Live
• Death Note

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