𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐀𝐑 // 𝐒𝐇𝐔𝐑𝐈 𝐔𝐃𝐀𝐊𝐔

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killmonger

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As Ada and Shuri sat quietly in Shuri's lab, they both were thinking things over. They both liked each other without the other knowing it.

It was both a curse and a blessing.

They wanted to tell each other, but they couldn't. It could ruin so many things. Or make them better. They had no idea.

Both of their thoughts had gotten interrupted as they heard a voice.

"All right, where am I?" Everett Ross spoke, making both girls jump.

"Don't scare us like that, colonizer!"

"Colo... What? My name is Everett."

"Yes, we know. Everett Ross... former air force pilot and now CIA."

"Right," he said as he looked around. "Okay, is this Wakanda?"

"No, it's Kansas," Ada spoke as she watched Shuri's movement.

"How long ago was Korea?"

"Yesterday."

"I don't think so. Bullet wounds don't just magically heal overnight."

"They do here," Ada chuckled softly. "But not by magic, by technology."

"Don't touch anything. My brother will return soon."

Ross looked out the window and into Wakanda. He thought it was beautiful.

"These train things... that's magnetic levitation, right?"

"Obviously."

"Obviously, but I've never seen it this efficient. The light panels, what are they?"

"Sonic stabilizers."

"Sonic what?"

"In its raw form," Shuri started as she and Ada walked to the window, "vibranium is too dangerous to be transported at that speed... so I developed a way to temporarily deactivate it."

"There's vibranium on those trains?"

"There's vibranium all around us," Ada pointed out.

"That's how I healed you," Shuri lightly smiled.

The girls both got Okoye on their Kimoyo beads then.

"Where is T'Challa?" Okoye asked. "His Kimoyo beads have been switched off."

"Well, we are not joined at the hip, Okoye."

"And we may be close, but I don't keep tabs on him at all times."

"A man showed up at the border who claims to have killed Klaue."

"What?" The girls said in unison.

"W'Kabi is transporting him as we speak, to the palace. We need to find T'Challa!"

"An outsider?" Shuri questioned as she pulled the information up on a hologram.

"No, a Wakandan."

"He's not a Wakandan," Ross spoke to the girls. "He's one of ours."

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"Erik Stevens," Ross started. "Graduated Annapolis age 19... MIT for grad school. Joined the SEALs and went straight to Afghanistan... where he wrapped up confirmed kills, like it was a video game. Started calling him Killmonger. He joined a JSOC ghost unit. Now these guys are serious. They will drop off the grid... so they can commit assassinations and take down governments."

"Did he reveal anything about his identity?"

"He has a War Dog tattoo," Shuri pointed out, "but we have no record of him."