Miss America: The Daughter of Steve Rogers

Chapter 6

A few weeks pass by and Bucky and I are doing some farm work around the secluded huts we live in. Then we look over and see T'Challa and Okoye walking towards us.

Setting down a case, T'Challa opens it up, revealing the new constructed vibranium arm for Bucky. I gaze at it in awe while Bucky looks at it with slight fear and annoyance.

"Where's the fight?" He asks. I look up with a raised eyebrow and read the two men's faces. Finally understanding what's going on.

"On its way."

We head to the palace. On they way their, were debriefed on everything.

We learn my father, and most of the avengers are on their way here now because a Mad Titan by the name of Thanos is in search of the six infinity stones.

When we reach the lab, Shuri hands me a bracelet with a wide smile on her face. "Put it on."

"What's this for?" I ask, curious why she wants me to wear a bracelet while we're preparing to face an alien attack.

"No questions." She says and snatched it from my grasp and puts it on for me. "Watch this." She taps the middle of one of the beads on the bracelet and a suit appears around me.

It's form fitting, and what I can tell, made from vibranium. She brings me over to a mirror so I can get a better look at it.

"Well? What do you think?" She asks, eager for my response.

"I- I don't know what to say." I tell her as I take it all in.

It's mostly a light, metallic grey, with blue around my chest with a grey star in the center and red stripes along the sides of my torso, almost wrapping around to the front, but leaving a section in the middle for more grey.

"I can't except this." I press the same bead she had pressed moments before and it all disappears back into the bracelet.

"Nope, it's yours." She says and presses it again, allowing for it to reappear.

I take one more long look in the mirror before I press down again. "I really can't."

"Yes you can." She says and we both continue to press the bead down. The suit quickly disappears and reappears as we fight over if I'm gonna wear it or not.

"Emerson, are you ready? They're almost here." Bucky says, stepping into the lab. In that moment, Shuri presses the bead one last time and locks it in so that I can't take it off anymore. "Well look at you."

I look down, realizing the suit is on and I try to take it off again but it doesn't work. Glaring at Shuri for a second as she beams at me, I turn back to Bucky. "Yep, ready to go."

We walk down to the entrance of the palace to greet everyone.

Walking with T'Challa and a band of the King's Guard, Okoye states, "When you said we were going to open Wakanda to the rest of the world... This is not what I imagined."

"And what did you imagine?" T'Challa asks.

"The Olympics. Maybe even a Starbucks."

The occupants of the Quinjet descend the ramp. Bucky and I stay slightly behind to let them talk for a minute.

"Should we bow?" A man I recognize to be Bruce Banner asks Colonel Rhodes.

"Yeah, he's a king." Rhodes whispers.

"Seems like I'm always thanking you for something." Steve says, shaking hands with T'Challa.

Bruce bows in front of him. "What are you doing?" Rhodes asks. I smirk at the encounter.

"Uh, we don't do that here." T'Challa dissuades with a motion of his hand. "So how big of an assault can we expect?"

The group begins to walk back towards us.

"Uh, sir, I think you can expect quite a big assault." Bruce states nervously.

"How we looking?" My father asks the King.

"You will have my King's Guard, the Border Tribe, the Dora Milaje, and..." he trails off.

Bucky and I walk forward towards Steve. "A semi-stable, 100-year-old man." Bucky states. I look at him and chuckle.

"And your daughter." I laugh and Steve, Bucky, and I share a hug.

"How you been?" He asks us.

"Uh, not bad." Bucky says.

"For the end of the world." I add. Then he notices my new suit and smiles. "Shuri couldn't help herself."

"You look great." Nat says from behind and I see her and Wanda. I smile and run up to them, engulfing the both into a tight embrace. I then turn to Rhodes and Bruce.

"We haven't formally been introduced." I say extending my hand. "I'm-"

"Emerson... we know." Bruce says almost annoyed. I give him a questioning look.

"Steve doesn't shut up about you." Rhodes says with a smirk.

"So I've been told." I look back at my father as I shake the two men's hands. Then we head into Shuri's lab.