Chapter 41: "One Small Possibility!"

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[Earth – Wakanda]

Imari and T'Challa walks with the guards over to the Quin-jet. Imari places her hand on her side where even though she'd been healed she still felt numbness where the attack from the border tribe spears had pierced her. Steve, Daniel, Natasha, and Sam walks towards them. Rhodey and Banner follow behind them.

"Should we bow?" Banner asks.

"Yeah, he's a King." Rhodey says.

"Seems I'm always thanking you for something." Steve tells T'Challa. Banner tries to bow and Rhodey looks at him confused.

"We don't do that here." T'Challa says and Imari giggles.

"So, how big of an assault do we expect?" Imari asks.

"I think you should expect quite a big assault." Banner says.

"How are we looking?" Natasha asks.

"You shall have my King's guard, the border tribe, the Dora Milaje and..." T'Challa says.

"A semi stable hundred year old man." Bucky says and Steve and him hug. Daniel smiles at Bucky.

"Hey, kid." Bucky says and ruffles his hair.

"How you been, Buck?" Steve asks.

"Eh, not bad. For the end of the world." Bucky says.

[Shuri's Lab]

Shuri begins scanning Vision and everyone stood around watching.

"The structure is polymorphic." Shuri says.

"Right, we had to attach each neuron nonsequential." Banner says.

"Why didn't you just preprogram the synapsis to work connectively?" Shuri asks. Vision looks over at Banner wondering the same question.

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

"I'm sure you did your best." Shuri says.

"Shuri." Imari says.

"I know. I know." Shuri says.

"Can you do it?" Wanda asks.

"Yes. But there are more than 2 trillion neurons here. One misalignment can cause a cascade of failures. It will take time, Brother." Shuri says.

"How long?" Steve asks.

"As long as you can give me." Shuri says before an alarm goes off.

"Something's outside the atmosphere." Okoye says.

[Outside]

"Hey, Cap, we've got a situation here." Sam says and they watch something fly towards Wakanda and bounce off the barrier and explode.

"God, I love this place." Bucky says.

"I know what you mean, Dad. It's so cool." Daniel says.

"Yeah, don't start celebrating just yet. We've got incoming just outside the dome." Rhodey says.

[Inside]

They watch the ships land and a wind ripple hits the dome barrier and causes a ripple effect.

"It's too late. We need to destroy the stone now." Vision says.

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