The Liberty War || Infinity War & Endgame

Chapter Twenty-Six: Yibambe

Music is "Wicked Game" by Ursine Vulpine feat. Annaca (aka one of my favorite songs ever).

Picture is Steve and Bucky.

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CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: Yibambe

{April 8, 2018 -- Present Day}

W A K A N D A

Seeing Shuri work her magic never gets old, but by the looks on the rest of the heroes' faces, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that thinks so. Bruce's eyes are wide in wonder as the Princess scans Vision, her hand hovering just above his forehead. When she pulls her hand up, a holographic schematic shows her the inner workings of the android.

"Wow," Bruce whispers.

Shuri is equally as intrigued, but not in a good way. "The structure is polymorphic."

"Right, we had to attach each neuron non-sequentially," Bruce explains.

"Why didn't you just reprogram the synapses to work collectively?"

"Because...we didn't...think of it?"

Grant snickers from beside Shuri. "At least you're honest."

Shuri drops her hand with a semi-smug smile on her face. "I'm sure you did your best."

Eggsy stands with Galahad to my right. "Did anyone understand any of that?" he asks.

He looks at Galahad, but Galahad crosses his arms over his chest. "Don't look at me. I'm a secret agent, not a scientist."

"I thought you knew everything."

Galahad turns to his protégé with a smirk. "Fooled you, didn't I?"

"Can you do it?" Wanda asks softly.

The Wakandan Princess' face drops as she turns to Wanda. "Yes, but there are more than two trillion neurons here. One misalignment could cause a cascade of circuit failures." She turns to T'Challa. "It will take time, brother."

"How long?" asks Steve.

"As long as you can give me."

Okoye's beaded bracelet sets off an alarm. When she presses the center bead, a hologram of the Earth appears with the noticeable addition of a circular vessel above it. "Something's entered the atmosphere," she tells us.

"Hold up," Eggsy says in awe. "Is that a freakin' space ship? Like, a proper bloody space ship?"

"That's what attacked New York," I inform. "That's what took Tony."

Not a moment later, Sam's voice sounds off in our coms. "Hey, Cap, we got a situation here."

I rush to the large windows of the building, able to see both Sam and Bucky from this angle, as well as what they're gazing up at. When I turn my eyes towards the heavens, a small gasp escapes my lips. The rest of the heroes join me just in time to see a large drop-ship fall out of the sky and collide with the massive barrier over the capital city of Wakanda.

"God, I love this place," Bucky states in awe.

"How about 'Thank God for that barrier,' otherwise you'd both be a treasured memory," I insist.

"Don't worry yet, Doll. There'll be plenty of time for that in a second."

"Yeah, don't start celebrating yet, guys," Rhodey chastises from somewhere in the air. "We got more incoming outside the dome."