Xander Harris sat at his desk and tried to ignore the senseless droning of the teacher as she talked about the nineteenth king of France, something that had no bearing whatsoever on the world other than to complicate the lives of students the world over.

As he ignored her, Xander jotted down ideas to solve the problem he had run into earlier. Taking a deep breath, he looked down at the words he had written.

Fission. Nuclear power was an option, its pros and cons where well known and on the plus side any containment failure would only result in the irradiation of a small portion of California with the city of Sunnydale decimated by the explosion. A soap bubble pop compared to the next option.

Fusion. A small sun contained in a battery. Fusion energy was as plentiful as hydrogen, the downside, of course, arose from the pretty light show. A light show only seen by alien star gazers as they tried to figure out how this rather boring star system suddenly became a binary system.

Scratching that one out, Xander looked at the next listed item.

Cold Fusion. The holy grail of all energies, the creation of fusion without the heat that consumes the fuel, it's a self perpetuating energy source. Of course the downside is the fact the containment system would only just barely fit… On Rhode Island.

Anything smaller and the containment field would fail, creating an electromagnetic pulse that would kill any technology more advance then a yo-yo.

Scratching that one off the list, Xander slowly looked down at the last words written on his 'normal energy' list and felt a chill run up his spine at actually considering it.

Zero point energy. The capturing of a micro black hole is considered by every single scientist that could figure out the equations to be a i very bad idea. /i And gods help the universe if anyone ever tried to use one as a weapon.

Using zero point weapons is like playing Russian Roulette with a nuke, the stakes are just … higher.

The idea behind a zero point weapon is enough to make any general salivate in anticipation. Create a black hole on your enemies lands and it will suck everything within a millionth of a light second into itself before it collapses.

That's when the down side starts around the world as the chaos of the weather, tides, air currents and what have you are all affected. The planet tries to compensate for the massive gravity that was exerted on it, the earth quakes and tsunamis form as the tectonic plates shift.

And more and more and more.

With all of the advantages of such a weapon, it could outweigh the problems, except for when the researchers calculated the odds of the weapon gaining self supporting status. One in fifty.

One in fifty odds, at best, that the black hole would gain enough mass to support itself and not simply collapse. It would suck the Earth in, for starters, then Mars and Venus, the rest of the planets and even the sun would be eaten by the ever ravenous monstrosity.

The odds of that happening when only used as energy are considerably better, one in five hundred or so, but like I said, Russian Roulette.

Scratching that one out, Xander looked back at the first option before crumpling the entire list up as the bell rang for the end of the day.

Its not that he couldn't get the fissionable material, it's just rather hard to keep it. Governments take a rather dim view of their civilians walking around with nukes.

Standing, Xander headed towards his friends as he tried to figure out how he could tell them he had found another slayer.

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Moving back towards his warehouse, Xander tried to figure out logically why he hadn't told the others about Kendra.

One, Ford was there and two, I don't trust Ford.

Stopping in shock at the simple logic, Xander started trying to figure out his power supply problem again. He would deal with Ford when the boy became a prob…

"Xander?"

With a start, Xander spun and tried to get his heartbeat back under control as his best friend walked up to him.

"Willow… What a surprise, seeing you here because you umm… why are you following me?" Xander asked as he tried to get a grip on the situation.

Stepping up to him, the redhead pulled a sheet of paper out of her books carefully. "You dropped this back at school." She said as she handed over a piece of paper covered in the equations and brain storming ideas he had been writing down for possible use on the gear suit.

"Ummm… well you… how much trouble am I in right now?" Xander asked as his best friend ground her teeth in frustration. "Yeah, alright here's the truth, Halloween night everyone got turned into their costumes…"

Yep, lots of explaining… and he still didn't know how to tell her about Kendra.

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"So that's what I've been doing." Xander said as he saw the hurt in his friend's eyes at his lack of trust.

"Why didn't you tell me?" the only child of the Rosenbergs asked as she and Xander sat on the park bench they had moved their conversation to.

"You and Buffy seemed happy that I was staying out of the slaying, so I just… never brought it up."

He was sure she was about to tear into him when a light dawned in her eyes as she realized something.

"Oh wait, so that's why Iron Man was here last night."

Xander felt his stomach turn into a tight ball of cold acid at the words Willow muttered more to herself than to him. "What?"

Yeah, his day was turning out great.

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Alice Case sat down in her seat as the airplane started warming up its engines for take off. Pulling open the folder, she started preparing for her next assignment.

Westchester, New York. Xavier's School for Gifted Children.

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(A/N) Well that's that. Hope you all enjoy it and give me lots of luverly reviews.

-Tjin.