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Chapter 2:

"Please T'Challa?" asked Shuri.

"No." T'Challa told Shuri.

The two may not have been on speaking terms, but T'Challa was going to New York for a conference about the registration act and Shuri had wanted to go since she was a little girl.

"It's not safe for you. What if something happened? You could be attacked! Or hit by a car! Or mugged!" T'Challa told her.

"I'll be safe if Okoye comes with me, right?" asked Shuri, looking to Okoye hopefully. "Besides, you never know when you're going to need an inventor in New York."

"She has a point." Okoye told T'Challa.

T'Challa gave her a 'you're supposed to be on my side' look before looking back to Shuri.

"Fine. But you're not to be out of Okoye's sight from the moment we step foot in New York." replied T'Challa.

Shuri nodded eagerly.

"Thank you." she told T'Challa.

"We leave tomorrow. Get some sleep." he replied as he walked away.

Shuri nodded eagerly and went off to her room.

The next day, Peter was doing patrol around New York on his way to the city conference building.

"Spider Man, Spider Man, does whatever a spider can, spins a web any size, catches thieves, just like flies-" Peter sang to himself as he swung from building to building. "Look out, here comes spider man."

"Nice vocals Peter." Tony's voice told him.

"GAH!" Peter exclaimed as he landed on the building, almost falling off from shock. "How long have you-"

"You come up with that yourself?" asked Tony. "I figured I'd call you, but if you're composing that anytime soon I happen to know-"

"Never mind that." replied Peter quickly. "I'm just finishing up my patrol while on my way to the conference."

Peter ducked into an alleyway where he changed out of his suit and into his clothes, then walked to the conference building, secretly humming the theme song.

Shortly after Peter made his way into the conference building, the dark clouds started to rain.

"It's a stormy day for a conference." replied Okoye to T'Challa as she made her way inside the building with Shuri as a bolt of lightning shot across the sky.

"Hopefully it's not a bad sign." replied Shuri anxiously. "Usually rainstorms mean bad news."

"I don't think so. That's just one of those superstitions dad talked about." replied T'Challa.

"I hope so." Shuri replied nervously, feeling that fearing a rainstorm after nearly being killed when her cousin tried to take over Wakanda wasn't that scary.

"So, what do you need me to do?" asked Peter to Tony.

"You're my intern. Just be backup." replied Tony. "Just stand with all the other people and listen."

"So, this is jury duty?" asked Peter

"It's practice for jury duty." Tony replied.

Shuri found herself standing with her brother and Okoye in an elevator with Tony Stark and a short, brown haired, green eyed boy in a suit who looked about her age.

She was doing a very good job holding in her excitement.

Figuring it was too quiet in the elevator, she looked over at the teenage boy.

"Hey." she responded quietly.

The boy looked over at her in shock and surprise, then quickly bowed.

"It's okay. You don't have to bow." replied Shuri. "Or address me as your highness."

"Wait, really?" asked the boy, looking at Shuri, too surprised to notice that T'Challa, Okoye, and Tony were all giving him looks. "I mean... so, to whom should I address you as?"

"Shuri." Shuri told him.

"Peter. Peter Parker." replied the boy.

"Well, Peter, it's nice to meet you." replied Shuri.

"It's nice to meet you too." replied Peter.

Suddenly, the lights flickered on and off a couple of times, shaking the elevator. Okoye protectively drew her staff for a moment, then put it back after realizing it was just the storm.

A few moments later, the elevator doors opened and the hall before the conference rooms was revealed. As they started to walk out, Shuri looked at the hallways full of people and the shinging walls and floor, the beautiful fountain-

Shuri suddenly had a pang of fear and took a step back into the elevator.

That fountain reminded her of the water that her brother had been thrown into months before.

"Shuri?" Peter asked, stopping and walking back to her. "Are you okay?"

Shuri froze. She couldn't call to T'Challa, or even step out, spite the fact she was trying to urge herself to move, but her body didn't seem to want to.

The doors of the elevator shut and the elevator started to move. Peter reached for the button to open the doors-

And that was just when the power went out.