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INT. TRIBAL COUNCIL ROOM - DAY

[In full royal regalia, T'Challa strolls in with confidence.]

[Shuri, Ramonda, the Dora, including Okoye, Ayo, and all of the Elders, even M'Baku are present. Gabrielle stands in the back, looking slightly out of place, but smiling nonetheless.]

"You look so out of place," Sirius says.

"Well, I was. I felt that I shouldn't have been there, but Shuri insisted." Gabrielle sends an accusing look to Shuri, but she just sticks her tongue out at her.

EXT. STEP TOWN, GOLDEN CITY, MORNING

[T'Challa and Nakia stand together.]

T'CHALLA: Thank you. You saved me. You saved our family. Our nation.

NAKIA: There is nothing to thank me for. It is our duty to... it was my duty to fight for what I love. I should have --

[T'Challa kisses her.]

T'CHALLA: You can't blame me I almost died.

[Nakia looks at him deeply, and kisses him back.]

T'CHALLA (CONT'D): Stay. I think I know a way you can still fulfill your calling. Please stay.

[Nakia looks at T'Challa with curious eyes. She kisses him.]

EXT. LAKE MERRITT APARTMENT COMPLEX, OAKLAND - DAY

[T'Challa and Shuri, dressed in subtle clothing, look at the now abandoned apartment building. In the distance, a group of SIX KIDS (mostly Black, some Latino), play three on a rugged basketball hoop.]

SHURI: When you said you would take me to California for the first time, I thought you meant Coachella, or Disneyland. Why here?

T'CHALLA: This is where our father killed our uncle.

[Shuri looks at T'Challa, shocked by his bluntness. She turns and stares closely at the building. We see her POV of large SIGNAGE that hints that the building is soon to be demolished.]

SHURI: They are tearing it down. Good.

T'CHALLA: They're not tearing it down... I bought this building.

[Shuri turns to him confused.]

T'CHALLA (CONT'D): And that building, and that one over there... This will be the first Wakandan International Outreach Center.

"I think I saw something about that over the summer!" Hermione says.

[Shuri smiles at the surprise.]

T'CHALLA (CONT'D): Nakia will oversee the social outreach... And you will spearhead the science and information exchange.

[Shuri turns to T'Challa in shock at what this means.]

SHURI: You're kidding!

[T'Challa hits a button on his Kimoyo bead, and the RTF comes out of cloaking, revealing itself to have been parked behind the kids playing basketball.]

[A YOUNG BLACK KID turns back to see the ship as the other kids collectively lose their shit.]

OAKLAND KID #1: What?! Man, what the hell is that?

OAKLAND KID #2: That's like a Buggati spaceship!

Tony nods in agreement.

OAKLAND KID #3: Woah, it came out of nowhere!!! Did y'all see that?

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