Nikki Tesla is a genius, so much she finds school boring, and amuses herself by inventing things, like her mysterious missing father. Most of her inventions have serious, lethal potential (like the death ray, which just blew a hole in her floor); so she and her ferret are hustled off to the special Genius Academy with classmates who are equally exceptional, although she still worries about fitting in. But when her death ray disappears she has something bigger to worry about, who took it and what are they planning to do?