fandomhigh | Chemistry; Tuesday, Period One [ 01/11 ].

"Good job on survivin' yer first week of classes, kids," Kūkaku smirked at the assembled class in front of her. "I'm sure some of you have been workin' on your projects for this week, while the rest of you either slacked off or picked somethin' easy, so let's get those out of the way, and then move onto the lecture. There's safety goggles on yer desks; put 'em on so John Watson doesn't yell at me, and we'll get started. Stark, since you were so convinced yours couldn't be done, let's start with you."

It was always good to start the day with blowing things up.

But all good things eventually came to an end. "Now that the fun's over, we'll take five to clean up, and then get into the lecture. Atoms today. The very basis of what you just blew up. Starsmore, while everyone's gettin' ready, help the twins pass out the model kits. Careful not to melt the plastic."

"So, the atom." Kūkaku turned to the board and started to write. "Can't have matter without it, so that makes it pretty freakin' important. One dense, central nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons. Kinda like one dense high school student surrounded by a cloud of hormonally charged issues. Unless you're hydrogen-1, which is the only stable nucleoli without neutrons. All these electrons are bound to the nucleus by electromagnetic force, they're so small you can't even see 'em, blah blah blah, you should have all read about this in your textbooks.

"And when you put atoms together, you get molecules, the freakin' building blocks of life. If all the protons and electrons are equal, it's neutral; otherwise it's got a positive or negative charge and ya call it an ion. I, then, could consider myself like a negative charge ion, all things considered. If you honestly get what I mean by that and thought it was even remotely amusing, congratulations, you're a nerd.

"So where the hell did they get the word atom? It's Greek, meaning uncuttable, indivisible, cannot be divided any further. Well, I guess they shot themselves in the foot for that one, because you actually can split an atom and it's called nuclear fission, and it produces energy. This is nuclear transmutation, since you're essentially changin' the original element.

"Unfortunately, the products of nuclear fission are extremely radioactive, so we can't actually split an atom in class." Kūkaku really couldn't sound more disappointed that she already was. She sighed, shaking her head.

"So, instead!" Kūkaku whipped around from the blackboard with the gratuitous swinging of her cans. "All you guys get to do for a project today is build stupid models."

Hey, if she couldn't be happy, none of them could.

"Ya all got the atom building game at your desks, so find a partner, and build some damn atoms. You work with the periodic table to figure out how many electrons, neutrons, and protons you need and compete against the other person to make them. Or something. I don't know; you guys have eyes, you can read the instructions yourself. Or just make shit up. It doesn't really matter.

"If ya do want to make it a little exciting, though, and make certain combinations of atom models explode, this is a Shiba class, so it's mostly recommended. Any questions? If not, get to work. And don't forget to read the chapters for next week, too."

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Scully thought this was ridiculously easy too. So she smiled at the new kid, and said, "Want to make a nuclear explosion?"

"With cards?" Tony, don't be mean about science.

"Since we're not allowed to build a model nuclear reactor," Scully returned dryly, one eyebrow going up.

Like that was difficult, really. The plans were on the internet, these days.

"But cards," Tony had to insist. "That's not even close to the real thing."

"No," Scully had to admit, frowning. "Maybe we should tell Ms. Shiba that if we used the Danger Shop, we'd be able to build whatever models we wanted, without risk. Maybe no one told her?"

"Danger shop?"

"There's a -- holographic type of theater?" Yes, that was probably the best way to explain it. Or at least the shortest. "Some teachers use it to illustrate things we can't go on field trips to. Professor Holmes used it to create a crime scene, last semester. It feels and looks real, but disappears as soon as you leave the room."

Tony stared. "You're telling me this school has a hard light holographic projector?" A beat. "And no one told me about it?"

Scully had to grin at Tony's expression. "Until now? Yes. I'm sorry, it's one of the things they leave out of the brochure, although they really shouldn't..."

"Where is it?" Also, no one had explained to Tony that one can't just leave the classroom.

Well, actually Rhodey had, but he'd tuned that out.

Scully gave him ~~handwavey~~ directions from their classroom, and added, "You might need a key, I think it's usually locked. Although I thought I heard that one of the Reserves groups got to use it for a demonstration, too." She smiled, and said slightly teasingly, "Something you've always wanted to see, or something you miss from home?"

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