Trouble in Wakanda

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"Hey Danny, do you know how to solve this?"  Wanda asked Danny,

Danny looked over at Wanda's notebook but wasn't sure how to help her

"I'm not sure, you should probably ask Shuri," Danny replied.

"Shuri, can you help me solve this," Wanda asked Shuri

"Uhh huh," She replied blankly, staring at a holo projection from her Kimoyo beads.

Danny and Wanda both looked at each other in confusion and leaned over to see what had Shuri so enticed. On her screen was what looked like a report, but it was written in Xhosa

"What are you looking at?" Danny asked

"Huh, oh, it's a report of the Vibranium inventory," Shuri explained

"What's so interesting about an inventory report?" Danny asked.

"It says here that one of the cars on the vibranium transport train malfunctioned and was taken in for maintenance," She replied, scratching the left side of her neck with her right hand.

"What's so bad about that," Danny asked

"The trains get routine maintenance and have never malfunctioned," Shuri replied matter of factly

"You should look into it anyways," Wanda suggested

"You guys are probably right, but not right now. We've got homework to do'' Shuri said, turning off her beads right before a knock appeared on her bedroom window, startling the three kids. They reluctantly looked at the window, where a redhead with black webbed details was looking through.

Shuri stood up to open the window, and Peter crawled in and landed on the floor.

"You know we have a door right," Wanda said

"Forgot my key, and all the windows were closed,"

"How's May," Shuri asked, turning her beads back on, forgetting what she had said just moments ago.

"She doing well, she wants you guys to come with me next week,"

"That's fine with me," Wanda replied

"Me too," Danny said

"Mmmm hmmm," Shuri hummed and went back to looking at her report, already forgetting about the homework.

"I'm gonna go stretch my legs and get some air," Danny said, speeding out of the room and running circles around the property for a few minutes before returning.

"You good?" Peter asked

"Yep," Danny said.

"I think we should probably go to my room, it looks like Shuri needs some alone time," Wanda whispered to the other two, causing them both to chuckle.

They agreed, and left, leaving Shuri alone with only one goal in mind.

Shuri spent her evening solely working on this mystery. She looked into files on recent repairs, but nothing mentioned the train car. She looked through every recent report she had been sent and filled three pages of her notebook with various equations and calculations all pointing to the same answer. Somehow one of the cars from the malfunctioned train had just vanished. She just couldn't figure out how. Instead of giving herself a headache, the princess decided to try to sleep on it to replenish her ideas, and for the first time in a while, she had a dream.

In said dream, Shuri was back in Wakanda with the rest of her teammates, showing them the fantastic view of the golden city she could get from her balcony. Her three friends stood there simply fascinated. Dream Shuri then called out to someone to take a picture of them. When Shuri said their name, it was muffled and distorted. The team turned around, and a girl in a purple jean jacket stood there pointing a camera at them. But it was no canon, it was a surveillance camera. A red light flashed from her camera, and Shuri's eyes shot open with a revelation.

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