The Winter Witch | mcu x hp wtm

✮ bp: wf - 5 ✮

EXT. RIRI'S GARAGE - OFF CAMPUS - NIGHT

[SHURI'S LEXUS PARKS. Riri hops out and walks up with Okoye and Shuri. She enters a four digit code on the keypad (0112) and the keypad box springs revealing the inner workings. She grabs a lightning connector cable and extends it out, plugs it into her iPhone and begins to punch in an absurdly long security code.]

Many laugh. 

[Okoye looks on, genuinely confused by this. Eventually a door opens.]

INT. RIRI'S GARAGE - NIGHT - CONTINUOUS

[A motorcycle is parked next to a CAR with a weather-covering.]

[Riri approaches a TOUGHBOOK on a worktable. Shuri wanders about, intrigued by Riri's lab. Bucky goes to look at the car under the weather-covering, but Riri stops him.]

RIRI: Don't touch that.

Bucky scowls. 

[Bucky holds his hands up in surrender as he moves to look at the motorcycle.]

RIRI (CONT'D): You know what? Don't touch anything.

OKOYE: So the only other design plans for the machine are on that laptop?

RIRI: Yeah.

OKOYE: And you just leave it on a desk? In a car garage?

RIRI: I've got 2560 Bit encryption on this thing. (off Okoye's look) Locked myself out once, took me the whole semester to get back in.

[Bucky mumbles something unintelligible.]

Gabrielle and Steve cover their faces with their hands, both having ideas about what he said. 

RIRI (CONT'D): What did you say?

BUCKY: Nothing.

RIRI: That's what I thought, Mr. Winter Soldier.

BUCKY: Hey, I haven't been the Soldier in a long time, Williams.

[Before they can get into an argument, Shuri interrupts them.]

SHURI: (referring to the complicated blueprints) What are you building in here?

RIRI: I said don't touch anything!

GRIOT: Princess. Law enforcement is approaching your location.

Bucky and Shuri groan. 

SHURI: Shit.

BUCKY: Shuri...

SHURI: I know!

RIRI: Who was that?

SHURI: My AI.

[Shuri and Bucky walk over to the window, Okoye and Riri follow behind them. They look outside to see.]

[SEVERAL ARMED FEDERAL OFFICERS surround the garage. An ARMORED CAR has the driveway blocked, and a HELICOPTER CIRCLES THE SKY. FEDS POKE THE TIRES OF SHURI'S LEXUS.]

RIRI: I thought you said a merman was after me. That's the Feds.

[Ripping blueprints from the walls and grabbing them from tables, Riri dumps them into a barrel that she lights on fire.]

"That's a little excessive," Tony comments. Rhodey shrugs, knowing that Tony did exactly that sometimes during their time at MIT. 

RIRI: Oh, I do not need this shit right now! I swear to God, I was doing so well! Goin' to class on time. I must be dumb as hell. Real dumb thinking that the Princess of Wakanda is gonna show up at my doorstep and then shit about to pop off. I think that I'm actually gonna take my chances with this merman, because at least he never brought the FBI to my garage!