Love Conquers All

Chapter 4

After gathering their forces as quickly as possible, Artemis, Holly and Trouble returned to the base. Once there, Artemis looked around cautiously, "Here's the entrance," he whispered, "Now we don't know if the soldiers are still inside, so prepare for a fight, on the count of three." He looked at Holly, "Three," his gaze slid towards Trouble, "Two," he sighed and stared ahead once more, "One."

He stepped forward and slammed the door open, Trouble and Holly running in after him only to be greeted with, nothing. "They must have left already," Holly murmured, "But stay on guard, who knows what this crazy sprite had planned."

Together the three of them crept through the halls and eventually ended up back at the control panel, "Where do you think they went?" Trouble asked but he'd barely gotten his sentence out before Artemis had pushed past him.

He stormed up to the monitor and slammed his fist down on the keyboard, "Foaly, come in Foaly," he said reaching up to his earpiece.

Foaly replied a few seconds later, "What happened Artemis?" Foaly asked, "Did you find Butler?"

Artemis shook his head despite knowing that Foaly couldn't actually see him, "They're gone, I need to know where they went."

"If you send me your coordinates I can check the place for some sort of surveillance system. Plug Holly's headset into the computer and I can trace the call from earlier," Foaly responded and Artemis could hear him typing on a keyboard.

He nodded and gestured towards Holly, "Holly, I need your helmet, Trouble, what's our current location?"

Holly tossed him her helmet while Trouble fiddled with something on his watch, "64°07'12.9"N 19°58'10.3"W" He read and Artemis repeated it back to Foaly.

While Foaly looked up the coordinates, Artemis looked for some sort of port to connect Holly's helmet to the massive computer in front of him. It didn't take long and soon, all the information in the system had been downloaded and sent to Foaly.

"We're in luck," Foaly said triumphantly after a tense few moments, "The video feed came from the United States, more specifically New York, seems they don't have any technicians on their side, the source had very little protection." 

He did something else on his computer while Artemis waited impatiently, "And the surveillance cameras show that the soldiers you escaped were indeed the elves involved in the jailbreak. I'll send Holly the information you'll need."

"Great, now we're getting somewhere."

Ok, I'm sorry this chapter is super short but I've been soooo busy lately (see what I did there?) and also I was doing some fact checking (it's been a while since I read Artemis Fowl) and fell down a rabbit hole of looking at Artemis Fowl fan art and got hit with hardcore feels so I'm just gonna end this here (The ending, gah, still crying).