Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar: The Last Airbender or Warhammer 40k. I also do not own anything regarding the power source in this chapter. Most of it comes from Star Trek. A chapter finally dedicated to Sokka and Suki. I moved things around to work them in earlier but I thought it was important. Sorry about not uploading faster but University takes up so much of my time now. The next week is crunch time. I have also spent my free time trying to clean up future chapters to remove silly plot details. Jet was going to be was sillier but I grounded him with a legitimate reason as to why he is a terrorist. Hope you all enjoy this nice distraction chapter. Also, My World is by Transmissions. I liked the futuristic feel of the song and it worked great as a trailer for Deus Ex: H.R. The music isn't necessary but I feel it adds something to the chapters if you listen before you read, then again I may be completely mad.

Monday November 25th, 2020

Suki woke up; her thoughts heavy with what Sokka was working on. She loved her boyfriend dearly but she worried about his work, especially after what had happened to Katara and her friends. She had wanted to protect him from any reprisals that Jet might send. They didn't know why Jet's agents targeted Aang but perhaps they were all worried about what was happening in Ba Sing Se. Small bombings occurred in the outer ring for months now. Dai Li agents were arresting people all the time and many hated the power the government had over their lives. She felt crazy for thinking that they were going to be attacked, but rumors were going around the labs that attacks were occurring in the upper ring but were being covered up by the Dai Li. She didn't want to take any chances and called in some favours as well as Hakoda's concern to protect Sokka from harm. He was so focused on trying to get his project to work, so much so that any time he got distracted by outside events he was unable to work for a couple of days as he tried to refocus his concentration.

"Suki? Everything alright?" She heard Sokka mumble, as he was still half asleep, but had felt her move around from restlessness.

"Just a lot on my mind. Go back to sleep, my love." Suki pulled Sokka's arm around her and laid her head on his chest, hoping that he could help her sleep like he usually did. She loved him so much and wished that this craziness would be over.

"Worried I might be wrong?" Sokka was starting to become coherent, and asked a question that was on his mind, just as it surely must be on hers. They had often talked about what might have happened if they were wrong, but the science was solid. They just had to create an experimental object that only existed at the end of a planet's life and make it small enough to use as power.

"No, if anyone could make it work, it's you. I'm worried about the future... our future." Suki decided then and there that once he was finished his experiment she would tell him her secret past; the mistake of asking for protection instead of trusting herself. She hoped that he could forgive her for lying to him. Kyoshi would be disappointed at her inner weakness, but it had been many years since her time as Kyoshi's student and much had changed. Suki felt Sokka wrap both of his arms over her, pull her close and kiss her on the forehead.

"Sleep. We have a busy day tomorrow, and you know what our future holds. You and I will be staying together forever. I will always love you." Suki loved when he got gushy, and felt better. She drifted off into a comfortable sleep, dreaming of her life with Sokka.

Suki woke up and felt strange. She felt around the bed and realized Sokka was missing, which worried her since she always woke up before him. He loved sleep and always clinged to the bed like a life-line in the morning. She heard sounds coming from the kitchen and began to smell something delicious. She decided to see what Sokka was doing up so early. She walked into the kitchen and was surprised to see a hearty breakfast already made and Sokka sitting at the table with a smile on his face. "You seemed so heavy-hearted yesterday that I thought I would treat the best girlfriend in the entire world." She saw that he had cooked eggs, grilled potatoes and even put on some strips of bacon on for her, but it was the freshly cut fruit that really made her smile. She knew he had really tried to make her feel special and everything tasted delicious. It made her wish that she treated him like this more often. Everything tasted delicious, especially the seasoned potatoes. He even had made freshly squeezed orange juice for her.

"Thank you, love, this really was perfect. I might have you start making breakfast all the time now." Suki saw Sokka smile, and walked into their room to get ready for work. She decided to give him a little present and walked towards their room with a purpose. She saw him shirtless and only wearing his underwear as she walked in. "You know, I think breakfast was missing something."

"What?" Sokka asked in surprise before turning around and seeing the love of his life begin to remove the little clothing she was already wearing. "Ohhh."

"Come here, I need some fun." She removed the last article of clothing as she lay on the bed and threw her panties as him. Sokka didn't say anything and simply jumped on the bed and began to kiss her.

"Can we do this every morning?" Sokka said between kisses and he slowly moved down her neck and towards her chest.

"Only if you make me breakfast." Suki laughed before groaning as Sokka began to suck on her nipples.

"Deal!" Sokka said quickly before continuing pleasing her body.

They arrived at the lab an hour late, but their fellow technicians didn't raise the subject when they finally started getting down to work. Most people would since Sokka was the project leader and it was only through him that the funding had been acquired. Sokka was working on his containment field emitters in order to properly capture and contain the singularity that would be created, which he started to call Null Generators. The problem was creating a force great enough to limit the field's pull, but not too strong to actually cause it to collapse and become useless. They also needed to have an array that could capture the singularity's energy that was radiated from its natural entropy, which would be used as the power source. In theory, once the machine was turned on and the field began to naturally decay, energy would be released and captured in power generators that would both power the machine and create a surplus they could store or use. The power source would run infinitely, or at least until the singularity collapsed in a few hundred million years. The only problem that Sokka's theories had come up with, apart from the great risk, was that the generator would never stop running naturally. This seemed beneficial, but required complex infrastructure to be built for the generators. Creating the singularity was also a problem, but there were some ideas. The most promising was one in which they would use a mixture of magnetized, super heavy atoms and fuse them together in order to create enough mass in a small enough area to start the creation of a singularity. This would allow mass to be collected in a measured amount, and then they could vacuum seal the singularity and hold them in place with the containment field filled with electromagnetics that would hold the super heavy mass in place.

"Have you figured out how much radiation will be released from the atoms used?" Suki wanted to make sure that this power source, which could hopefully be the future of clean, sustainable energy, wouldn't kill those around it. It especially worried her since she and Sokka began to think about starting a family. She knew her parents would agree since they weren't married, but they had lived together for years and he was the only man she saw herself wife. They both had good paying jobs working for Future Industries and they had already made enough money to buy a house either in the upper ring or anywhere else.

"While energy seems to be released, or at least what we can harvest, actually radiation levels should be low. The problem is that we can only know for sure once a field is actually created and a singularity trapped." One of the lab technicians said, as he worked on the device. Suki knew that so much was guess work at this point, despite half a year's worth of lab work already done, and years' worth of study and theorizing on Sokka's part.

"What about the stabilization of the core? How do we know that it won't collapse?" Suki knew that it was the main problem. Despite Sokka having solved many problems, there were still several ifs.

"Because its own gravity will cause it to not fall apart. Once it is created, the effect horizon will maintain its integrity. The bigger problem is actually creating something heavy enough to have the mass to become a small singularity." Sokka had finally added to the discussion Suki was having, and of course told them a correct theory that they had been working from already.

"I'm just making sure we don't create a black hole. You know the consequences of what will happen if we do." Suki could only imagine what the results would be like if that happened…at least no one would be around to criticize them after the Earth was destroyed.

"Yes, yes... world ending apocalypse, zombie horde and all that. You do know I'm a genius right?" Sokka was kidding, but he didn't like the idea of what would happen if he was wrong. He didn't want to explain why zombies were walking around.

I have had a few requests from some friends who have read the story to have a Zombie apocalypse AU of this where the generator makes zombies. I don't know if I will but if the idea gains traction than I might consider it after this story. Hope my readers are enjoying the story, I'm trying to make it as good as possible. Once again if you give me reviews or comments I know. Hopefully I'll have enough time to upload another chapter soon.