Time Paradox, The (Artemis Fowl, Book 6) (Artemis Fowl (Graphic Novels)) by Eoin Colfer

Author:Eoin Colfer [Colfer, Eoin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction - Young Adult
Publisher: Disney Book Group
Published: 2009-08-11T04:00:00+00:00

The Fowl Lear Jet, 30, 000 Feet Over Gibraltar

Ten-year-old Artemis Fowl tried his best to relax in one of the Lear jet’s plush leather chairs, but there was a tension knot at the base of his skull.

I need a massage, he thought. Or some herbal tea.

Artemis was perfectly aware what was causing the tension.

I have sold a creature . . . a person . . . to the Extinctionists.

Being as smart as he was, Artemis was perfectly capable of constructing an argument to justify his actions.

Her friends will free her. They almost outsmarted me, they can certainly outsmart Kronski. That fairy creature is probably on her way back to wherever she came from right now, with the lemur under her arm.

Artemis distracted himself from this shaky reasoning by concentrating on Kronski.

Something really should be done about that man.

A titanium PowerBook hummed gently on Artemis’s fold-out tray. He woke the screen and opened his personal Internet browser program that he had written as a school project. Thanks to a powerful and illegal antenna in the jet’s cargo bay, he was able to pick up radio, television, and Internet signals almost anywhere in the world.

Organizations like the Extinctionists live and die on their reputations, he thought. It would be an amusing exercise to destroy Kronski’s reputation using the power of the Web.

All it would take was some research and the placement of a little video on a few of the Net’s more popular networking sites.

Twenty minutes later Artemis junior was putting the finishing touches to his project when Butler ducked through the cockpit door.

“Hungry?” asked the bodyguard. “There’s some hummus in the fridge, and I made yogurt-and-honey smoothies.”

Artemis embedded his video project onto the final Web site.

“No, thank you,” mumbled Artemis. “I’m not hungry.”

“That will be the guilt gnawing at your soul,” said Butler candidly, helping himself from the fridge. “Like a rat on an old bone.”

“Thank you for the simile, Butler, but what’s done is done.”

“Did we have to leave Kronski the weapon?”

“Please, I put remote-destruct charges in my hardware, do you really think such an advanced race will leave their technology unprotected? I wouldn’t be surprised if that gun is melting in Kronski’s hands. I had to leave it as a sweetener.”

“I doubt the creature is melting.”

“Stop this, Butler. I made a deal and that’s the end of it.”

Butler sat opposite him. “Hmm. So you are governed by some sort of code now. Honor among criminals. Interesting. So what’s that you’re cooking up on your computer?”

Artemis rubbed the tense spot on his neck. “Please, Butler. All of this is for my father. You know it must be done.”

“One question,” said Butler, ripping the plastic from a cutlery set. “Would your father want it to be done this way?”

Artemis did not answer, just sat and rubbed his neck.

Five minutes later Butler took pity on the ten-year-old. “I thought we might turn the plane around and give those strange creatures a little help. Fez Saïss airport has reopened, so we could be back there in a couple of hours.

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