Authors notes: Hello! It is I! this is my first story and I know its a little rushed but I've had this brewing in my head for ages so I HAD to get it out there! I might update soon...

Chapter 1 Oh Dear

Trouble gritted his teeth as he stared in fascination at the huge building in front of him. It was at least 30 stories high and 20 miles (33 kilometers) long on each side. He could see guards patrolling the grounds, and a huge concrete wall surrounded the building, with turrets upon it. Human Turrets. Vehicles sped through the gates carrying huge crates with roaring animals inside. He gulped nervously and said quietly into his mike

“I have to go in THERE?”

“The counsel says so, so you HAVE to!” Foaly said for the 5th time, while nibbling at a carrot.

“I don’t like it anymore then you do, but if we’re ever going to find Holly we have to do what they tell us to do. Or just do what we think is best” he added cheerfully.

Trouble gritted his teeth again, he was very unhappy about this, but this was the last known place Holly could possibly be. If they went anywhere else and they would be crushed by all the pressure above them. They had stumbled on this huge fortress by accident, even Foaly hadn’t known this place had existed until they had seen it from a few miles away. How this building had managed to remain off the maps was still a mystery to everyone. And this was the last place to check for Holly. He winced again at the thought of her; She had gone missing a month ago from her apartment just one day after her birthday. At the memory of her birthday he winced again, regretting the present he had given her. It wasn’t a present exactly though, he had told Foaly that he had nothing to give her and Foaly had gotten a weird look in his eyes and had said

“I know what you can give her”

“Really? What?” Trouble had said eagerly

The centaur had placed a hand on Trouble’s back and led him out of his office humming a soft tune. Trouble kept questioning him until they had stopped in front of a door. Trouble read the name on the front and paled. It was Holly’s, and Foaly still hadn’t told him what to get. He chuckled slightly at Trouble’s face and simply said

“Just wing that mother”

And shoved him through the door and into Holly’s office, and had run away singing “Hey Jude” under his breath.

From that point Trouble was in a panic, but he had kept it hidden extremely well. And when Holly had asked what the hell he was doing he simply came up to her, acting totally on instinct and kissed her. Quickly and softly but needless to say Holly was incredibly surprised. Trouble has blushed and mumbled a Happy Birthday and left an extremely confused Holly behind him.

The next day she had disappeared from her apartment. There was barely any evidence to suggest she had even been taken. Just a few broken water glasses in the kitchen and a few drops of blood on the floor. She had been absent from work for a few days with no explanation when finally Foaly had gone to see where she was, he had found the apartment empty of any life form other then a few spiders that lived in her closet.

When the Council was alerted they ordered a squad to search for her. They knew how valuable she now was to Haven, she had saved the world more then once and would be needed again if the world needed help again. They also called upon the help of Artemis who immediately agreed to help, and suggested that they search all of Haven. If they had no success there they should go out from Haven and search the outskirts. If once again no success then they should search the wasteland outside of Haven, usually where Trolls roamed. They had searched both Haven and the Outskirts with no success just as Fowl predicted and had moved on to the Wasteland, and still had no success until now. Until they found this building, Trouble had orders to go inside and search everywhere for her. But obviously the people here didn’t want unexpected visitors and were prepared to send them home if they appeared. But orders were orders so the Major signaled his squad to turn on their shields and take off with their Mechanical Wings.

They slowly made their way over the Fairies below and finally made it to the roof of the building without being seen. Trouble cast a quick look around and saw a small vent off to his right, spewing some noxious gas. He checked its fatality factor and was informed by the computer in his helmet that the gas was not fatal unless injected into the bloodstream. So this meant it was safe enough to use the vent, at least a little while. He lifted the vents cover and slid inside slowly, allowing himself to take his time. No rush, there could be cameras even in the vents, be careful, You don’t know what kind of people your working with here. A he slid his whole body into the vent his squad, which consisted of Grub (Trouble had protested bringing him along but they Commander had insisted probably just to get rid of him), Ash, and Chix followed. And they squeezed themselves along the narrow corridor choking on the gas, as it seeped into their helmet seems. They finally came into a room in the vent large enough for all of them, with another vent leading to a room below them. Trouble was just about to open the grille when he heard footsteps come in the room and settle around a large table set in the middle of what Trouble was beginning to suspect was a usual gathering place for people.

“Well?” one voice said, to Trouble it seemed uncomfortably familiar.

“Well what?” said a second voice

“How is the project coming along? Sheesh! Are you deaf?”

“It’scoming along fine! No thanks to you! I just found out how to make them obey every word I tell em’!” the second voice said proudly

“Really? The boss will be pleased to here that! He’s been nuts ever since that Sharp-eyes fiasco!” The first voice exclaimed

The second voice said quietly “Don’t remind me.”

“Sorry, actually since we’re on that subject, did you ever get that dratted Wolf out of there?”

The second voice replied miserably “No”

“Still? Gosh! How come?”

It’s because she’s so FREAKING hard to track! One second she’s there and the next -poof! It’s impossible! It’s like trying to catch smoke with a net!”

“Ah no worries! She can’t be THAT slippery!”

“Whatever Phil! I need a drink! You just made me hate myself again!”

The first voice, Phil huffed “Well! A THOUSAND pardons your Majesty! I need to go I have a squad that needs to do some DNA checks on some Pups that were just born. See ya.”

“Yeah, you too” the second voice said past a mouthful of Alcohol.

Trouble frowned and sat back on his haunches. The Sharp-eyes fiasco? What the heck was that? He checked on the person below who was taking shot after shot of some sort of Wine. He lifted the vent slowly and had Grub and Ash hold it up for him while he lowered himself to the ground behind the now drunk Fairy. Trouble pulled out his Neutrino and then quickly grabbed his victim around the neck and pulled him back towards underneath the vent, where he lifted the smiling Fairy up to the officers above.

The Fairy who by now thought this was some silly game Phil was pulling on him hiccuped and said happily “You just couldn’t let it go could you Phil?” He giggled

A little and continued “You probably wanna know how I did it don’t cha’? Well I aren’t telling!”

“No uh John” Said Trouble glancing quickly at his name tag

“I just want to know what this place is”

“What this place is? Well Shoot Phil! You know that! Silly old Kitty!” John had another giggling fit, and poked himself to get himself to stop which only caused him to giggle more.

Ignoring the Kitty remark Trouble continued “No, John I want to know! Its protocol for me to check if you know what’s going on around here. Now I need you to tell me all you know, Okay? Can you do that?”

“Well! Sure I can Bob! I work at-“ Here John stopped and thought for a minute “Ah! I remember! I work at the Laboratory of DNA! Or LDNA for short, sounds like French don’t it?” He said cheerfully

“Yes John! Its sounds French! Now get on with it! I don’t have time!”

“Ah Time not important! Only life important! That’s from the Fifth Element! I LOVE that movie!”

“JOHN!”

“Okay! My job is to program their brains!”

“Program whose brains? To do what?”

“Honestly! You ignorant people! I program the Fairies brains! To do certain things! Like obey every command we give them! It Howard who injects the DNA!”

“Huh? Inject DNA?”

“Yeah! Gosh you ARE ignorant, Sally! Good Grief! They infuse Fairy DNA with animal DNA and they see what happens! I must say we’ve gotten some VERY interesting results! Go and see Jane! The observatory is open to all! See what we’ve created!” at this his head hit the ground and Trouble heard soft snores coming from him a few seconds later. Trouble was reeling with the information he had just received. It was against the law to mess with DNA, otherwise horrible mutations could happen. Which would reduce the Fairy population considerably.

“Squad to this Observatory! Lets see just what monstrosities these people have made.”

Authors notes: Huh? Huh?...oh well...you probably didn't like it...BUT OH WELL!! IT WAS FUN!!