Begins several years before The Black Panther Movie and ends several years after. This is an alternate universe (with certain events from the comic and the cinematic universes which have been altered and intermingled together) containing multiple M...
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Riri Williams hopped down from the crates that she stacked in front of a makeshift workbench crammed into the corner on the far side of her dorm room; the second single bed dumped outside in the hall. Her entire room was stuffed full of mechanical parts. So far the only items which gave any clue to what she was building were the two completed bionic arms that sat on top of the work bench.
"Well, Tamika had nothing to worry about. You've already made yourself quite at home here." Shuri observed as she attempted to sit down on Riri's crowded bed. The dorm room contained a bed, a small television, and a PlayStation that looked like it was already taken apart and put back together. On the wall were a scattering of posters of Star Wars: the force awakens, Michonne from the Walking Dead with her katanas, an Attack on Titan poster with Eren in his titan form, A Tribe called Quest concert poster, Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Tony Stark partially in his Iron man armor. These were the only indication that this was actually a living space. Even the closet was stuffed full of parts. Shuri wondered where she kept her clothes.
There were several pill bottles sitting on the small dresser next to the television. Shuri eyed the immunosuppressives and looked at Riri hestitantly. "You're doing ok?"
Riri crossed the room quickly and pushed all of the bottles into a draw, closing it. "I'm fine."
Shuri had done her research prior to meeting with Riri. The teen was diagnosed with lupus two years ago after her heart began to fail. The cardiomyopathy progressed quickly to the point that she required a new heart and eventually, she was identified by Stark industries' rebranding department as the perfect candidate for a bionic heart powered by a version of Tony Stark's arc reactor. After the surgery, Riri spent the next nine months recovering at Stark's medical facility before coming to Boston for the summer program.
Several years before at age eleven, she was identified as a super genius, but Riri only decided that she planned to follow in Stark's footsteps as both an inventor/engineer and as an armored superhero after his invention saved her life. Shuri was certain with Wakandan medicine, she could have offered the young girl more than a mechanical heart, but she only said, kindly. "Well you look great!"
Riri smiled shyly, quickly removing some of the parts that she had piled on the bed to allow Shuri some more room.
"What are you working on?"
"Well..." In a soft voice, Riri replied hesitantly, awkwardly tugging at the Lt. Uhura t-shirt that she wore with a distressed pair of boyfriend jeans and blue converse sneakers. "I figured I might as well attempt to reverse engineer my own Ironman suit using some old parts that I confiscated around campus while I'm here.
After, Mr Stark heard I was coming to his alma mater for the summer, he sent me a prototype dirt bike with a note telling me good luck in the MIT program this year. So I've been procrastinating... using the parts to update and modify the dirt bike instead."
