It's a cold harsh night in the small Californian town of Sunnydale, and all is peaceful at least on the outside, if you scratch the surface of this suburban town you would find a hole of scum and death unlike any town on the planet, its accidental killings and wild animal attacks bring the death toll of this community to higher than most cities which should be impossible, but everything about this town is impossible and unlike anything else in the world.
Just last month on old hallows eve every member of this community changed, you see every one changed into their costumes because of a spell. Yes magic is real and on the hell mouth even more so. This spell was called forth by a chaos mage called Ethan. He had managed to make sure that all the other costume shops were closed so his costumes were the only ones in the town. When the spell hit every one in the town changed into their costumes. When the spell ended they were all changed back with no visible difference all but one his name is Alexander 'Xander' Harris
In the abandoned warehouse district of Sunnydale an ex vampire hot spot cleared out by the slayer a single building lights are on. One building one light in the cold dark night.
The sounds of a metal hitting metal was ringing through the night, in the warehouse a young man of eighteen was working hard hammering white hot steel into a mould until it was fully shaped into what he wanted. This piece would be the last of the extremely heavy exoskeleton, when he stopped he was drenched in a layer of sweat and grime but finally he was done. A months' work and a lot of money but he was done the monster was almost finished.
As soon as he set the hammer down he was assaulted by math, numbers both indescribably beautiful and unfathomably scary. Calculations for technology that could change the world or doom it sometimes he couldn't sleep because of it but that was his curse to bare now. Having four of the greatest geniuses in comic and cartoon history not just them but several of their alternates as well.
Anthony 'Tony' Stark, Patrick 'Pat' Dugan, John-Henry Irons, David Xanatos, Iron Man, S.T.R.I.P.E, Steel and creator of the iron\steel clan respectively. Each one of them conflicts with the other the Xanatos, Tony Starks and John-Henry's often argue over anything most often about the different approaches of saving the world whilst Pat just enjoys the show with a few of the more level headed Starks John-Henry's. After a few hours they would calm down but he didn't need it right now.
He walked down to the desk at the edge of the metal table he picked up a white bottle opened the top with a pop and downed three pills to kill the migraines. He rubbed his eyes in tired exasperation. He went back to his workbench and heaved the 10-inch thick steel plate and bolted it into position. He then took a step back and looked at his new creation.
It was 9 foot 10 inches tall it had S.T.R.I.P.E head upper torso and forearm's to hands and knees to feet the rest was a combination of Steel and Iron Man (invincible Iron Man 2007 movie gray armour with S.T.R.I.P.E tech a bit like terminator armour war hammer 40k).
Xander stretched out his back the heavy grunt work was done for now. The numbers and migraine from another bar room brawl from the group in his head was slowly subsiding. He cursed as he finally sat down the first time in ten hours his gaze once again fell on the monster he was building. By no stretch of the imagination was it sleek and stream lined that most of his tenants were used to and the technology was a far, far cry from what any of them were used to and trying to reverse engineer from memory was quite difficult but not impossible.
Musical beeping broke Xander from his musings.
"Sir you have successfully bought out all the companies requested and have increased you stock portfolio congratulations sir you are one of the richest men on the planet," said the voice in a heavily upper class English accent that sounded a lot like Giles without the stammer.
"Thank you Jarvis and my other projects"
"Sir white knight industries is now at the height of technology and have gained several contracts we are doing very well sir" came the voice again "the new medical scans show that your body is adapting rapidly to cope with the stress being placed on it" the voice said
"Adapting how Jarvis?"
"It appears as though you body is going through a type of evolution sir moving you to the next stage of human evolution, it will take time about a month to five weeks but your body should be able to cope with the new stresses upon it"
"Thank you Jarvis is there any news on the power core for the armour"
"No sir most of the power tech we have seen won't help in this instance, and all the others seem to be in the position of a military group called the SGC" Xander tuned to face the voice it was a hologram that looked like Giles in full holographic tweed.
"SGC?"
"That keeps on showing up every time we make a new energy brake through wanting to buy it from us along with the rights to it and we keep refusing"
"Yes sir"
"Didn't we sell the new OSS to them?"
"Yes sir"
"What would they want all that power for any way?"
"Unable to compute sir more information is needed before a working hypothesis can be created"
"Keep working on the correct formula for a working ARC reactor's energy plasma I need to go to sleep before school"
"Very good sir" before shutting down.
It had been a long night and would probably be a long day too, he stood up his body aching with pain and fatigue, he walked slowly past the amalgam armour he had created it had S.R.I.P.E arms steel/iron clan torso and legs Steal's shield and Iron Mans head and power core. It still worked but what he was creating now would be like the hulk buster armour and would deal with heavy threats that the slayer couldn't.
He reached his apartment which was in the factory where the manager's office would normally be he collapsed on the bed his aching body signing in him to sleep.
(Six hours later)
Xander strolled into school almost zombie like in an exhausted stupor, he reached the library and collapsed into one of the wooden chairs outside Giles office. The warehouse was in lock down until he returned after school, no manner of demon or anything else could break in even the sewer access was sealed with blessed blast doors (the ones that the storm troopers ordered shut in episode 4). He hadn't spent much time with his friends the amount of projects he had going on and the emancipation suit witch freed him from his parents had taken up almost all of his time.
"Xander its good to see you my boy" said Giles to the almost catatonic teen
"Not now Jarvis sleepy" he murmured
Giles being concerned for the boy shook him awake him up
"I'm up I'm up" he said looking around seeing Giles
"Are you ok my boy you were calling me Jarvis, who is Jarvis?" he asked
He looked the man who in all intense and proposes was like a father to him he could feel the concern for him coming from the man. He immediately wondered if he should tell him.
"I'll tell you later Giles after school I want to show you what I've been doing all this time" he said with a tired grin "just you not Buffy or Willow I'm not ready for them to know yet"
Giles nodded in agreement but unbeknownst to them the two in question were listening in on them hidden in the book shelves as the two men made arrangements to meet each other in the warehouse district and home of the new white knight industries.
Later that day Giles had arrived in his "classic" car outside the warehouse Xander was waiting for him he flagged down the little car.
"Giles glad you came" said an eager Xander as Giles winded down his window
"Xander why are we here?" he asked in a suspicious voice.
"Patience Giles I'll show you in a moment just bring your car through and we will get started"
Giles entered the facility the grate blessed steel blast doors closed behind them. But not before two very suspicious girls snuck out of Giles car boot.
"What is going on Buffy?" asked the red headed beauty Willow
"I don't know but were going to find out," said the blond bomb shell Buffy
Grate doors opened again as Giles and Xander entered the gallery of finished and future projects.
"Giles let me welcome you to White Knight Industries" he said with a grin
"Isn't that the new company that supplied the school with all new top of the range computers?"
"Yes it is my company provided the school board with a better alternative and all free of charge"
"Your company?"
"Yep my company built from the ground up in under a month"
"How in the name of the light did you create this Company in only a month"
"Thank you for asking Giles"
"It all started on Halloween, you see I went as an amalgamation of four separate yet like minded men Anthony 'Tony' Stark, Patrick 'Pat' Dugan, John-Henry Irons, David Xanatos, Iron Man, S.T.R.I.P.E, Steel and creator of the Iron\Steel clan respectively" he turned to Giles who had an expression that could only be the British version of WTF " Each one of these men alone were geniuses, no special powers or abilities just men who used what they had to make a difference in the world in which each inhabited"
"What does that have to do with this?" he said waving his hands at the sight around him
"The personalities never left but because of that I now have several different versions of each genius in my head. Each one a master of the stock market and each built a company from the ground up"
"Good lord" he said taking his glasses off and rubbing them clean
"Yes now let me show you around" he said as he lead Giles into a place that looked like the hall of Justice from the justice league each invention has its own pedestal or room. The hall was furnished in royal blue carpets the walls and pedestals each were white marble in colour but. Each invention had James Earl Jones narrating what each did. They passed through the weapons section the engineering section and finally the recreation section each Invention prominently displayed. All of which fascinated Giles he could see the applications of each in practical demon hunting.
Finally after an hour of looking through each section they came to the workshop. The two sneaking girls shadowing behind
"This is what I wanted to show you Giles my work shop"
He led him through and they came face to face with the heavy armour, the monster as Xander affectionately named it, Giles looked at the great armour with a sense of awe.
"That's a work in progress," he said to Giles gaining the man attention " I need a new power core for it nothing so far has been able to power it" he said with a sigh " also I need to install the heavier weapons and I have to finish installing the computer components targeting computer SI core for remote piloting"
"SI?"
"Simulated intelligence core smart but not too smart" he said
"Is this what you wanted to show me?" he asked running his hand over the tank like armour
"Yes and no I wanted to show you the presents I'm designing for Willow and Buffy" he said pulling a tarpaulin of two feminine armour each different " may I present the Valkyrie and the Amazon" the two were unfinished but they looked deadly even though they were unfinished Giles could tel they were made for predators. "What do you think?" he asked with a hopeful tone
"There amazing" he said looking closer at them. Suddenly gasps came from the door
"Come out guys I knew you were there the moment you left Giles car"
Two beautiful girls came through the door looking ashamed
"Well explain you," he said looking at them in faux anger
"Well we were worried about you so"
"So you wanted to cheque on me" they nodded and he smiled and chuckled at their down trodden reactions
"Well this was going to be a surprise for your birthdays but now" he turned to look at the unfinished armour "what do you think?" he asked
"Wow" was the only reply
"There not finished yet," he said looking over the blue prints "there for emergencies you know just in case"
They spent the next few hours talking about his company by the time they finished Xander had agreed to hire Willow and Buffy just to help Buffy's mum and Buffy and Willow for job opportunities later in life.
Two weeks later finally Jarvis had created enough of the ARC plasma to build the larger power core for the heavy armour. He finally finished the armour all components working fully another week later which was just in time for a crisis called the judge.
Sunnydale high school library
Giles just broke the news that no weapon forged by man can kill the Judge, which piled on the bad news for Buffy who was still reeling from the whole Angle thing. She was contemplating her next move when the room started shaking violently, Giles was panicking hoping nothing happened to open the seal, when the glass sky light opened and down came the heavy armour which landed on the floor. The wood creaking in protest to the weight.
The suit was still gun metal gray but had a knight white tabard over the top on one shoulder was a large Gatling gun on the right was a missile launcher further back on shoulder was a UV cannon and a stake ammunition for the Gatling gun. On the palms were repulses on the forearm were sections that opened for more weapons to open out.
"Guys" came the heavily distorted voice "it's finally finished fully armed and operational"
"Xander?" came the voice of Willow as she looked at the monster of steel in front of them, she couldn't believe they had forgotten about him and his armour.
"Yep" came the distorted voice, making him sound like the Big Guy. (From the Big Guy and Rusty the boy robot)
"I think you just solved our dilemma," said Giles
"What dilemma Giles" he asked
The elder Englishman smiled the helmet tilted slightly to show confusion.
"Now we have the means to defeat the judge we just need to find him," said Giles
"Well the Bronze is out its still getting repaired from last time"
"I just picked up a call from the police that gang members on PCP, there in the mall" said Xander before blasting off.
The journey was short and fast but what he found shocked him, he landed heavily outside the Mall his armour not letting him walk through without damaging the glass entrance way. Sighing he walked through the glass he only hoped that Buffy and his girls wouldn't kill him for damaging there Mecca.
Angelus was having a ball, he hadn't had this much fun in century's. There was blood there was screams of terror and the smell, oh how he missed they smell of anarchy in the evening. The judge was doing its job of burning the humanity out of the dinner Drusilla was dancing and gigging in joy, even William was smiling witch was no small feat, the only thing that could be better would be Darla at his side and Buffy drained at his feet, a sinister smirk spread across his handsome ashen face. That was until he heard the THUMP, THUMP of extremely heavy footsteps coming from behind him.
Turning to look his eyes widened in horror at what he saw, a walking tank was coming right at him, each step it advanced was another step he took back and the level of terror he felt grew and grew. He saw the gun on his shoulder begin to spin, having been around for war he knew a Gatling gun when he saw one.
Jumping to cover behind a wall, he covered his head with his hands and shrank down as best he could, Spike having never been around war until the First World War had never seen this particular gun, but knowing that whatever spooked the poof enough for him to run for cover was enough to get him to do the same, grabbing Drusilla by the waist he ran them behind the stone wall and away from danger.
Turning at the sound of heavy footfalls the giant demon known as the judge looked upon the new comer with relish, this was the first true warrior he had seen in centuries, not since the Catholic Church had launched an army of Templers to destroy him
"No weapon forged by the hand of man can destroy me" he boasted
"Let's test that theory" said Xander as he launched a heavy punch to the demon's face. The punch rocked the demon enough for Xander to successfully attack the vampires, the thick heavy metal arms opened to reveal every type of machine gun you could ever imagine along with his shoulder mounted Gatling gun he opened fire of the army of vampires each projectile had incendiary rounds that would incinerate any vamp or demon they would penetrate.
Once the closest few vampires was dealt with the Judge was back upon him, its chain mailed fist impacting the armoured torso like a war hammer on plate armour denting it and lifting Xander two feet off the ground. Xander kicked the demon away knowing that this fight was just getting started.