"You should have gone with Shuri," T'Challa tells Amnesia once the group splits up near the palace.
"I will be more help here in case W'Kabi doesn't take your side. This counts as a civil war. I'll be able to incapacitate the enemy without a death toll. Unless they're like you and don't stay down," Amnesia says hiding her nervousness.
"I hope they're not," he replies with a smile.
"They've started," Amnesia points out seeing a cargo ship launch. She focuses on the energy running through it and absorbs what she can. The ship dips in altitude enough for T'Challa to pull it down. He climbs over the wreckage and yells out to the crowd that saw the ship go down as Amnesia runs to catch up. She gets around the wreckage in time to see the boys in blue running towards them ready to take out T'Challa.
She sighs and reaches into people's heads turning some of them to fight for T'Challa with some words of encouragement. She doesn't take their free will or affect their memories, she just encourages them to follow T'Challa and some do. The ones that don't, she causes them to fall to the ground, unconscious. She keeps moving forward as this occurs and the few that make it to her she's able to reach out and take down.
She slips up once and is ripped from turning people by none other than W'Kabi. He hits her back to the ground and challenges her to get up, she does with a glare concentrating on what Bucky has taught her. She is still a novice and nowhere near being a warrior but that's when she doesn't use her power. She surges energy through him, paralyzing him and causing his muscles to tense up, then she punches him in the face as hard as she can. She screams as he falls to the ground and cradles her hand which she is pretty sure is broken. She skitters away and is attacked again but this time a Dora is able to help her. She recognizes Ayo and pushes past her pain and reaches out to start turning and putting people down. They're back on the rise until W'Kabi calls the rhinos into battle. One plows into Ayo sending her flying and brushes Amnesia knocking her to the ground. She focuses on it like she did the helicopter and it collapses as Shuri calls for her in warning.
Amnesia dodges a hit just barely. Then takes that guy out and sees Nakia and Shuri fighting Killmonger. She starts running, lighting flickering from her hands and across vibranium ore poking out of the ground. Suddenly she's more fearsome than a puppy. Just as he hits Nakia away, she gets there and immediately she pulls energy from him which allows Shuri to use her blasters to power down the suit he wears. Amnesia sneaks up and attempts to grab the necklace from him. Killmonger gets the jump on them though as he's able to knock Amnesia away, she lands on her back twenty feet away unconscious for ten seconds. She comes too in time to see T'Challa rushing over and knocking Killmonger off of Shuri and they both fall into the mine below.
She breathes heavily and slowly gets up crying out when she puts weight on her ankle. One look tells her it's very broken. She looks around her and spots a discarded spear. Making the stupidest decision she's made that day, she grabs the spear and uses it to stand up. She observes the battle going on around her looking for somewhere she'd be the most helpful without needing to move. She sees the small hill right in the heart of the battle near the fallen ship from early. She rolls her shoulders back, wincing at the sore muscles and starts hobbling over there, taking people out while standing on one foot.
Shuri and Nakia join her, Amnesia points out where she wants to go and Shuri bears some of her weight to get her there. They get there and Shuri and Nakia give her a boost so she's sitting on top of the deposit and then they start fighting for their lives. Amnesia guards their backs by taking out anyone who approaches her. When they start to get overrun on their side Amnesia turns backs to the girls seeing the shields pressed together. That's all the distracting that the man sneaking up behind her needed. He nudged her with his shield and she turned drawing the energy from him as he's lifted into the air and tossed away like a rag doll.
Amnesia smiles seeing M'Baku standing behind her. "Witness the might of the Jabari!" He yells and she quickly turns her attention to the ring of shields surrounding them, they stop working like a light switch just in time for M'Baku's people to rip apart their formation. Her focus becomes more targeted to the people that are doing the most damage, she wants to save the good fighters on either side.
Then, all of a sudden like clockwork W'Kabi's people drop their weapons and kneel in surrender. Amnesia lets out a sigh of relief, ready to collapse.
"Someone tell my boyfriend I'm sorry I was stupid," Amnesia says loudly before lying back on the ground and shutting her eyes.
She doesn't open them again until she feels someone's gaze on her and she opens her eyes to see Okoye standing above her. She raises an eyebrow wondering why the girl hasn't bothered to get up or move.
"I went on a giant ass hike then fought in a mini war and got tossed around like a rag doll. I'm tired, my ankle is broken, so are a few of my fingers and the only major repairs that need to be done are to the cargo ships that our very own king took down. James is going to be so pissed at me. He might not let me get a goat," Amnesia rambles on, just continuing to talk once she's started. "I was gonna name it Everett. Or no! I'm gonna get a pig and name the pig Everett. I'll name the goat Donnie. Or Chris, there aren't very many Chris's right? I don't know any."
"Let's get you to an infirmary," Okoye says nodding to two of the better off Dora. They hoist her up and Amnesia winces.
"Did someone tell James what happened? I don't want him breaking into the palace again. That definitely wasn't good for his mental health and just bring me to the lab. I can heal it there by myself, then others can be helped," she says as they hobble along. They keep walking and Amnesia draws in power from the building so she doesn't just collapse to the ground.
She gets to work on her ankle immediately, setting it and arranging the presets then she just passes out and takes a nap. She briefly debates the fact that she should make sure T'Challa's alive but decides she will deal with that in the morning...or whenever she wakes up.
She wakes up breathing hard a couple hours later, driven to consciousness by her dream. It wasn't exactly hers though. It was Vision's this time. Usually she's stuck reliving James's worst nightmares which often coincided with her own. The weird aliens though, they were Vision's. She looks to the side and isn't completely surprised to see James.
"Please don't yell at me," she mumbles before he can say anything. The angry look on his face immediately disappears.
"Then don't do that to me ever again," he murmurs. Amnesia nods then looks over her ankle to see the status.
"Can we go back home?" She asks seeing that it's healed enough to put weight on it and it will be just bruises in another hour.
"If that's what you want," he allows and she smiles slightly and nods. She starts turning off the equipment and then gets up gingerly. He gets up as well and she cranes her neck to look up and meet his eyes. She reaches up and pulls him down for a kiss. He picks her up and swings her around so she's on his back. They leave the palace like this, Amnesia fell asleep before they got to the car but that didn't stop James from buckling her into the passenger seat and heading out, giving Okoye a nod from where she observed at one of the big windows.
He heard what had happened and he would love to chase down Okoye's husband and beat some sense into him but he also knew that she would rather do it herself. Okoye kept an eye out for Amnesia the first two weeks they were there, and she continued to do so even after. James doesn't trust T'Challa like Amnesia does, but he does trust Okoye. And Shuri. He trusts Shuri, but it's hard not to when she was so welcoming to him and his Amnesia. He leaves the car outside the hut and carries Amnesia inside, smiling at the kids playing with the sheep and the new goat. He got it as a surprise for his girl and he hopes she will appreciate it when she wakes up.
She may not appreciate his name for it. He started calling him Wilson because he thought it was one ugly goat. That's two animals for Sam so far. At the rate they're going though, it won't be long before Amnesia is asking for a cat or dog. A herding dog might be nice though he muses as he lies Amnesia down and tucks her in. He walks around to his side of the bed and joins her.
He's kind of worried that she never really stirred on their way here but her heartbeat remained steady and so did her breathing so she's probably just extremely tired from all that transpired the past few days. That includes her ankle. It takes a lot of energy to heal oneself and he recalls that her eyes were more green than any higher reading when she was awake. He pulls her close and kisses the top of her head, grateful she returned to him in one piece.
He knows how stir crazy she gets, even when she tries not to show it. It was different when they were on the run. They were always moving and at the time, Amnesia was interested in learning all of the domestic little ticks. Now, she knows what all of that means and knows what it's like to not have to travel constantly. She's moved past that phase, at least for now. He's glad she found solace in the lab and doing her part to help out the king, she got too anxious in the bungalow and he really liked the farm and didn't really want to move again. They were very different the two of them, but they managed to balance each other out despite that.
"I know," Amnesia says her voice showing her exhaustion and James looks down to see her eyes open, peering up at him curiously.
"I know," he returns, kissing her on the forehead.