"You blew up your high school!?"

"To kill a massive true demon, yup."

"You blew up your high school!?"

Xander rolled his eyes and sighed as he waited for the Army man to calm the heck down.

Ironhide told him to call if he needed help.

He had called them when they found out about the demon.

They told him not to bother them for pranks.

He had tried again, emailing as many images and references as he could.

They told him not to call back.

He'd decided 'fuck you, I'll do it my way' and just started planning the explosives.

"I can't believe you want us to believe you blew up your high school to kill a demon snake!"

Ah, Sunnydale Denial Syndrome, now with national coverage!

Finally he'd had enough.

"Follow me."

"What!? Why should I?"

"If you're going to bring up bogus charges you're damn well going to see the evidence first."

The guy with him, Epps?, followed along easily enough, even if he could tell he was holding back the major from doing something… regrettable.

He pulled them along to the high school, navigating the thoroughly abandoned hallways and heading straight for the auditorium.

The two army men followed him, stepping over miscellaneous bits until…

"Holy shit is that a tooth!"

"Hey! Cool, you found a fang. Maybe I can make another weapon out of it."

Epps picked up the fang, his hand barely big enough to circle the base.

"What the hell kind of thing has this for a tooth!?"

"And that's a small one. Check this out!"

The tooth Xander picked up was easily as long as his leg and about as thick, obviously one from the front of the mouth.

Will Lennox could be excused for paling at the sight of the two teeth, especially when the one Xander picked up had been resting next to what was now identifiable as a chunk of skull. One that wouldn't have looked out of place on a dinosaur.

"Xander?"

"Hey Clem! You get that video I asked for?"

"Yup, here you go."

Both army men stood stock still as what looked like a badly deformed human-basset hound cross made its way over to the boy and handed him a video tape.

"You coming to poke this Friday?"

"Only if it's non-kitten. Willow gave me The Eyes."

"Ouch, I'll put the word in then. Later."

Grinning the teen tucked the tape into a pocket of his cargo pants and turned back to the soldiers.

He stopped when he noticed how pale they both were and their jaws hanging open.

"What?"

There was a set of thumps soldiers fainted.

"WHICHEVER BOT IS OUTSIDE SEND SOMEONE IN HERE TO GET THEM!"

A soft hum and a brief shimmer from the outer doors later and a familiar holoform trotted into the room.

"What the slag kid!?"

"Not my fault they fainted!"

"It's not nice to shock people kid. How the hell were they supposed to know this crap was real?"

"And alien robots from outer space are any better?"

Ironhide couldn't really argue that.