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For the first time the Wakandan royals finally noticed Luka and the intense glare that she had while looking at them. It was clear that she had suffered a lot and her clear disdain for those preaching ethics while living wastefully by her definition stemmed from that painful experience. One doesn't usually pursue a life of piracy if everything in their life is going great. Her family was essentially forced to fight and steal just to live an impoverished life.

So when someone living a privilege life were lecturing us on right and wrong she was beyond furious. Someone who was never to face hunger, the bitter cold or the fear of going sleep only to never wake up her rage intensified several times over. Living in a frozen hell hole forced Luka to appreciate the little things but seeing a world filled with abundance and waste left her jaded.

"As Luka stated your are meaningless you came to question me about the newly terraformed Asteroid but object to my way of thinking. I want you to understand and fully grasp that none of this would be possible without it"

Shuri: What do you mean by that? You could have convinced Wakanda to help you instead

"Did you forget that I went to Wakanda first? I was turned away without much thought as Wakanda refused to sell any vibranium. So I met with what you called a dictator and he agreed and asked for nothing in return. I even found another supplier of vibranium that isn't a smuggler all without your ethical assistance"

T'challa: We didn't know what your plans were if we had known we...

"Don't treat me as a fool. I know for a fact that you weren't ignorant of Shuri's interactions with me. Which would mean that you tacitly approve of her decision until you discovered what I was capable of"

T'challa: You're right Wakanda originally rejected the idea of working with you. You are correct in your assumption that we only now have taken interest in you but you are wrong in assuming that this was due to your terraforming project. It was was an order by our patron goddess Bast that we ingratiate ourselves to you.

Shuri: Sister have you taken leave of your senses!? How can you speak of things like this with outsiders!?

Shuri began to bicker with T'challa about state secrets and other such nonsense. T'challa shot back about hacking into foreign computer systems and getting caught while also being unable to keep Wakanda's system secure. Whenever I contacted Shuri Cortana hacked into their systems to connect us regardless of where we were. This led Shuri to personally to try and block us out of Wakandan systems failing every time. Worse still Shuri was unable to crack into Black Technology systems no matter how much she tried.

T'challa: Since you already know why we've reached out we will let you consider Wakanda's new position regarding you going forward and when you ready please contact us.

After getting dismissed the Wakandan royals departed and I was returning to my harem. Emma Frost was already mingling with Thoris chatting amicably with her. I couldn't rejoin them because as soon as I was free others decided that it was time to introduce themselves. It obvious that they wanted to know what was discussed between Wakandan royals and myself.

I was doing my best to keep my composure in the face of inane and incessant questioning of the crowd. The more manipulative didn't approach themselves instead they sent beautiful actresses and models. I will admit that it was clever if a bit obvious considering how many there were. They didn't approach all at once as they were experienced hunters trying to catch their prey. It was at this moment that Electro crashed through a window into the center of the crowd. I was expecting to see the spider family maybe Ironman or Luke Cage instead I saw Livewire. Apparently the two electrical villains were brawling against each other and happened to crash the event.

Electro Apparently landed on a old man and his young gold digger wife frying them both with electricity when he crashed in. They didn't seem to care about where they were and were more focused on fighting each other. All hell broke loose as people panicked trying to escape the danger like rats on a sinking ship. I wanted to do nothing and let the situation play out but I had an image to maintain so with reluctance I headed over hoping a hero would pop up to handle this.