T'Kira's Ficlets

🐆 Beastly 🐆

Tony was down, they shot him out the sky, T'Kira caught him but he still hadn't woken up yet. He and Riri had been backed into a corner, most of T'Kira's tech had been disabled by a short range EMP that they set off a while ago and Riri had most of her weapons system shut down due to insufficient of power in the reserves.

T'Challa always told him never to get backed into a corner, always be ten steps ahead.

T'Kira was honestly out of ideas as to what to do, he couldn't use his tech and fighting his way through wasn't through them all would only land him into injury or imprisonment.

He had to say, sometimes, AIM was quite the competent organisation.

He looked at everything and everyone. Only Tony's suit had full charge but Tony was unconscious, Riri was low on energy and even though he could transfer the energy, it would take too long and the shield would give way, of course Riri could erect a hard light energy shield once she was at enough charge but then she'd deplete it again and T'Kira would have to transfer the energy again repeatedly in order to keep them from getting hurt plus a last minute shield was too risky, the soldiers surrounding them were all using repulsor blast weaponry that they had stolen from Stark Unlimited Labs a few days ago and it would really sting to be caught in those but the advantage was that T'Kira knew how Tony's tech functioned. They were all trapped in a room with only one door which meant one exit and one entrance, there was also nowhere that they could hide should they wish to search for cover from fire. He could use this.

T'Challa always said never get yourself backed into a corner, always be ten steps ahead of your enemies...

"Shield of the Seraphim!" An energy surrounded the entire group as blasters started firing at them all, the barrier absorbing all the fire it was taking.

T'Kira then shifted his attention to Tony's suit. "Friday?"

"Yes cheshire?" He chuckled slightly at his nickname, Tony may have been a lot of things but the man was no doubt impeccable in his nicknaming.

"Friday, please jumpstart the armour with an EMP wave." T'Kira instructed.

"Are you sure T'Kira? That will knock out all functioning suits and technology you have available and that might-"

"Trust me Friday." T'Kira interrupted as be tapped away at his suit's own holographic screen. "However readjust the EMP's frequency to match that of the armour's." With those instructions Friday fired the EMP wave and all the weapons firing after them ceased. Riri's suit was dead too but T'Kira had already taken that into consideration. The barrier then broke down, fully revealing the group to the AIM soldiers.

"For the glory of Bast, let the spirit reign." Those words seemed to echo in the room after the scene that followed them.

Riri watched as T'Kira got onto his hands and knees, amber coloured energy flowing through the  suit as it gathered inside the 0rince's body. All of his bones morphing his skeletal frame and his body readjusting to the transmogrification. Once a dark shade of brown fur then started to cover the prince, his suit retrasnfigured itself into a collar around his neck. His eyes became a darker shade of brown as slits began to form and his teeth had all been enlarged and sharpened.

T'Challa always told T'Kira "Never get yourself backed into a corner, always be ten steps ahead but if you ever found yourself in the inevitable corner then always remember that panthers always scratch whenever they've been cornered."

And in this case, there was a lot of scratching. The panther growled then sprang after the soldiers, sinking his teeth and tearing through their flesh, ripping the skin from bones and organ from their bodies, blood painted the floor as he moved from one target to the next, his prey were all left cowering as they all tried to escape but he darted to the exit and closed them off, roaring as he slaughtered anyone who got near to the doorway.

Riri's suit then came back online and had been sufficiently charged. She also took notice that the soldier's weapons had reactivated and that they had all started firing again at the panther. Riri took quick action and blasted the weapons that fired after the feline, disarming the soldiers who held them and watching them get maimed once they were unarmed.

It took a while but they had cleared the room of soldiers and after an hour or so the entire base had been coated with the colour red and the stench of blood.

After the mission Tony awoke in a bed within the Prince's royal chambers. He had to admit wakandan sheets were amazingly comfortable and the pillows were just so soft, he was about to wrap himself around those said pillows when he was pulled closer into a protective hold. He turned around and smiled upon finding his gatino latching onto him.

The spell hadn't fully worn off yet and T'Kira at the time was sporting a lengthy set of a sharp canines and a dark dark brown fur panther tail and ears.

Tony kissed T'Kira on the forehead and the man awoke, his eyes had returned to their beautiful brown glow. "Good morning gatino." Tony greeted

T'Kira tried to speak but all of his words were vocalised as low growls, purrs or even soft whimpers. He hated this spell so much.

Tony pulled T'Kira close and the younger man nuzzled into his lover.

T'Kira had a tendency to be savage and beastly like the colonizers once thought Africa and especially Wakanda to be but he also could be just as lovable as a kitten, once you gotten past the claws and fangs.

(( The story and violence contrasts the Emojis, I know but hey I bet it threw you off, I dunno but see y'all...oh wait, the nicknames were inspired from a collection of Ironpanther fanfics I'd read. Unyule means "chosen" in xhosa and gatino means "little kitten" in italian. The fact that tony also knows italian is a head canon of mine that I adopted after reading the same Ironpanther fanfics because I like it and it makes sense to me. Anyways the fanfics are written by Oky Verlo on Archive of our own, I don't know them but check them out, I loved their take on Ironpanther and even though I don't know what else they may have, I'm sure they may have something you'll love, anyways bye!))