Part II
REMEMBERANCE
Shuri was happily tinkering away in her lab and Amnesia was helping her innovate. Amnesia found the young girl intellectually fascinating and enjoyed having someone that could keep up with her. Together they were able to heal the mind of James Buchanan Barnes and they moved from the bungalow to a small farm just outside of the city's limits. She didn't spend much time there though. Where Bucky found peace, she found a restless mind which kept bringing her back to Shuri's lab where she maintained daily operations and fixed any bugs that generated.
"The test on the suit is done. Why did you bother making the two? He's going to take the silver we both know it," Amnesia says as she moves onto another project, one of her own, meant for containing energy like the tesseract and canceling it out. She figured there were still Hydra weapons out there from Schmidt's reign and wanted to make their acquisition easier.
"Gold is for Kings," Shuri says with a shrug. "Now Check these out, I think they're ready. They're completely soundproof," she says showing off a new pair of shoes. "I'm calling them Sneakers."
"That's amazing but the name hurts me on the inside," Amnesia says thoughtfully glancing up from the device in front of her.
"It's supposed to."
"I think I've got a good basis for this-this energy trap but we won't know how well it works unless we have the tesseract. But I think I've got the right frequency."
"Forgot you were working on that. Would it work on my brother? Could it cancel out the black panther?"
"No, the flower is a different compound. The tesseract is...living somehow. The closest we will be to figuring out if it would work is if it cancels out my powers because my ability to channel energy was given to me by it."
"Then why make it? You're not a warrior. Why make a device that may be used against you?" Shuri asks knowing her own answer to the question but not understanding the pale haired girl's reasons.
"I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. It isn't nearly ready yet. I've still got to finish building it."
"You could make an anti shield. Something that blocks the device from reaching you. Think about it, that could give you an advantage."
"T'Challa is back," Amnesia says alerting her when the ship meets city limits, ending the conversation.
"Let's go, he's got Nakia," she says pulling the tiny white haired girl away and letting it slid.
"Nakia is his girlfriend?"
"He wishes. I bet he froze again."
"Oh he's whipped," Amnesia says proudly with a big innocent smile.
"Exactly!" Shuri cheers happy at the knowledge she's given the girl who's lived in a cave her entire life. She's shown her vine, John Mulaney, and even made her get a Twitter account. They meet the Queen Mother outside as the ship lands.
"I bet you he froze," Shuri says.
"Alright, What are we betting?" Amnesia asks curiously.
"If I win, you have to hack Tony Stark's security and paint all of his suits pink."
"If I win, you have to get me as much vantablack as I need and you can't say it's for me when anyone asks," Amnesia says thoughtfully planning out some designs for several space related items.
"Alright."
Just then the ship unloads and T'Challa, Okoye, and everyone else gets off. A woman in green stays to T'Challa's side and greets the Queen Mother and Shuri glancing at Amnesia quickly.
"Did he freeze?" Shuri asks as soon as she left.
"Like an antelope in headlights," Okoye replies and Shuri laughs.
"I told you he would," Shuri says with a laugh glancing back at Amnesia.
"Were you betting on your brother?" The queen asks with a raised eyebrow.
"Only a little," she replies.
Amnesia goes over to Okoye and fills her in on the spy network and all that's happened in the time she's been gone, which isn't much and then she goes off with Shuri as she flips off her older brother. When they get back to the lab, Amnesia immediately gets to work, getting into her own computer system and frazzling her trail before she gets started on Tony's security. It's been months since the incident and months since she's spoken to Steve or anyone besides Bucky, but she still hasn't quite forgiven Tony. Painting his suits pink won't leave her with any sort of guilty conscience. But as much as she doesn't want to admit it, she misses him dearly.
There a couple different suits on his system though...ones that aren't meant for him. There's a new prototype of the hulk buster but there's nothing that shows he's going to put any work into it. The ones that draw her attention are for that spider boy they met at the airport. After issuing new commands to FRIDAY to paint the suits neon pink she digs into his file purely out of curiosity. What she finds makes her incredibly angry. The so-called "Spider-Man" is a fifteen year old boy.
She closes up the system, fuming as she does so, deciding instantly she's visiting the billionaire to zap some sense into him.
"I need to borrow a ship. I need to visit Tony Stark and punch him in the face," she says angrily and Shuri looks up never having seen the girl so angry.
"What happened?"
"He sent a fifteen year old into battle."
"Talk to Okoye or my brother. And you better tell the white wolf. He worries about enough as it is," Shuri advises. Amnesia nods then goes to find them wherever they are getting ready for challenge day.
"King T'Challa," Amnesia says knocking on the door to the room he's in he tells her to come in. "I need to borrow a ship. I don't know if you knew, but that kid in the red suit, Spider-Man? He's fifteen years old and Stark is arming him for battle. I'm going to go punch him in the face and I'd enjoy some help in getting there."
"From the look in your eye, I can tell that you will do it with or without my help." He states with a raised eyebrow letting her know he thinks it's a bad idea immediately. It's not that he doesn't see the problem, he does, he just doesn't see the sense in confronting Stark about it.
"Imagine if it was Shuri. Kids have no place on the battlefield," Amnesia says firmly.
"Alright, but you should wait until after the challenges are over."
"Nothing is going to happen to you. If you're challenged, it will come from M'Baku and you will win that fight. Don't kill him. The mountain tribe is prideful and they keep to themselves but they still watch. You may not be king yet, but you've been acting as one for the past few months and you've done well. I imagine, they might find their way out of isolation in the near future going off statistics and M'Baku's twitter account."
"M'Baku has a Twitter?" T'Challa asks in astoundment.
"Yes. He's very funny. Just...don't take any of what he says to heart. I have no doubt that he'll say something. Don't lose your head. You're unbeatable when your mind isn't clouded. I'm going to fly to the farm, have Shuri send a message when the challenges are over. And thank you, again."
"You're family now, it's what we do."
Amnesia leaves heading to the hangar. She takes a small quinjet sort of thing after clearing it with the person in charge and then flies home to her soldier, landing on the driveway. Bucky gets up and walks to the door as the kids run off. They love messing with him, and they've found he's not bad with children. She gets out and meets him, kissing him softly when she does.
"Why the plane?" He asks.
"That spider man is a kid. I'm going to make Stark stop bringing him into battle."
"They'll arrest you," he says putting a stop to the idea at once.
"They won't get close enough to do so. Stark is in New York, he sold the tower and is overseeing that. I'll be in and out and untraceable. James, I'm not letting a kid get caught up in all of this."
"Hey, Stark isn't Hydra," James says lifting her up with his arm so they're level with each other. "You remember that kid, he handled us just fine."
"Yeah and then Steve dropped an airplane hangar on him. He's a kid James. I don't care if he can stop a tank with his bare hands. He's got family to worry about. Stark just worries about himself."
"We're okay. I'm right here and safe. Stark threatened you last time we saw him. Your arm was smashed. Don't paint a bigger target on your back."
"He won't hurt me James."
"I'm going with you then," he says resigning himself to the fact that his girl is going to do whatever she wishes.
"No you can't. If you do then who will take care of Steve, Vision, and Fitzgerald?"
"The sheep will be fine."
"And Clint, Sam, Tony, and Pork?"
"Fine. I still can't believe I let you name a chicken Pork," James says with a sigh and she smiles.
"I let you name one Sam," she points out and he chuckles.
"Well, it looked like him. Just like you thought the sheep looked like Vision."
"The next time we see Steve I'm telling him you named a sheep after him."
"I'll tell Clint about the chicken," he counters.
"I already did."
"When are you leaving," Bucky asks setting her down. She frowns knowing how much he hates not having the use of both his arms. They thought it was best though, he could better transition to normal life by confronting his losses. He never even had a chance to deal with his lost arm. She kisses his shoulder and sighs, looking back up at him, her expression firm.
"After the challenges. T'Challa doesn't want me to leave if I'd come back to a different ruler."
"If he doesn't think it's smart, I agree with him. Don't leave. We can get a message out to Steve or someone else and they can step in. Not you."
"He's not going to lose today, even if he is challenged. I painted Stark's suits pink by the way, so I need to tell him that was me. It's the little things in life that make me happy. Also, Steve and everyone else are in the same boat as us. I have the ability to get to Stark without getting caught and turned in, and if things go wrong, I can get out of there with the least damage. You're not going to change my mind, James. Not this time," she calls out to him as she walks inside when she sees the look on his face.
"When have I ever been able to change your mind? I can delay you though," he states, a smirk on his face.
"How?" She asks not understanding what he's implying at first. It does when she sees his eyes on her. A smirk takes over her face as he steps forward, and her backward until she hits the bed.
She leaves after lunch and arrives on the outskirts of NYC as the sun is going down. She lands in an empty parking lot south of the city and decides she'd rather push the rest of her so-called mission to the morning and then goes to sleep.