Technomancer in MCU #21

Disclaimer - I don't own anything. Please support the official release.

Chapter 21

Technomancer in MCU

Birnin Zana, Wakanda

–N'Jadaka–

I watch with grim satisfaction as the traitor King is taken away to the Talon for medical attention.

Many times, in my dreams, I had envisioned this scenario.

The King at my feet, defeated.

Him finally getting the consequences he deserves.

Me finally getting my revenge and being in peace.

All those dreams were shattered by Boss within 2 weeks of me meeting him.

He showed me a vision.

"A Possible Future" he called it. One of the billions of possibilities.

What he showed me was the most likely one had he not interfered in my life's trajectory.

I had to admit that I was a little repulsed by my future self's actions.

God what a weird thought to have.

He had become the very thing he had sworn to destroy.

I could see it now, he just wanted to watch the world burn. Somewhere in the back of his mind, he must have known that no matter how many weapons we made and supplied to our brothers and sisters, the end result would be the same.

The world up in flames, more divided than ever with our community ending up being even more persecuted than before.

Because in the end, my future self chose to drive forward his agenda with the very thing that has held the world back for centuries.

Fear.

He chose to make the world afraid of Wakanda, not knowing that that would only hasten its destruction.

Hell, I could see the world imploding upon itself if I had not been killed by T'Challa.

The vision and therapy along with actual knowledge of how the universe worked, calmed me down.

I would no longer be the me from the future.

King T'Chaka might have thought that I was here for the throne, to kill him and plunge Wakanda into the flames of war, I could see it in his frightened eyes.

But that would be counterproductive to our motives.

We needed a united Wakanda, not one plunged into the throes of a devastating Civil War.

That would only expose the entirety of Wakanda to the world and destroy any hopes of Ed's Unified Government plans.

I would become an integral part of Wakanda, that much was certain.

Integrating myself with the upper echelons of Wakanda was a chore I hated with all my being and yet I would have to do it.

Boss' orders after all.

I was shaken out of my thoughts when the Boss put a hand on my shoulder.

"Look, " he said while gesturing ahead of us.

In front of us, I could see a veritable storm being raised by the amount of vehicles coming towards us.

Talons, Hovercrafts, SUVS and more were coming towards us in a very aggressive manner.

All of them followed a Talon that looked much fancier than the one the King came in. It had shades of gold blended in its body.

Noticing my gaze, Boss replied, "It's the Royal Family's Talon."

He grinned at me, "Somebody from the Royal Family is here to pick us up."

"Alfred, stand down." Boss ordered Alfred

Confused as to why he did that, I turned around to look at our forces stationed outside of the shields.

My eyes nearly popped out of their sockets when I noticed that all of them were floating menacingly near different sections of the barrier and all of them had their weapons active.

The most obvious of them was the aircraft carrier canon that displayed its tremendous might in yesterday's invasion, cleaving through thousands of aliens and vaporizing even more.

I could almost feel the march of the incoming vehicles become more confident as Alfred winded down the weapons platforms of the entirety of the fleet.

Soon, Queen Ramonda of all people exited the Talon and came towards us in a graceful manner.

She stood in front of us in a regal manner, the Dora Milaje standing dutifully at attention behind her.

An entire entourage assembled behind her, a fitting entry for the Queen.

"Welcome to Wakanda.", she began the conversation.

"I am pleased to be here," Ed replied.

He then looked at me.

Naturally, I stumbled upon it with the grace of a wet cat.

I opened my mouth and said, "Sup?"

I could almost hear Boss cringing beside me.

Queen Ramonda, credit to her, didn't so much as bat an eyelash at me.

She took it in stride, nodded at me, and gestured to the fleet of SUVs standing behind her.

"Please, board the Vehicles. They will take you to the Royal Guest House."

"My husband is currently not available so please use that opportunity to get yourselves freshened up."

"We will notify you once he is available."

"In the meantime, you can explore Wakanda but please do so with caution."

I raised an eyebrow at that.

"Please understand that this situation is an entirely new one for the civilians. Most of them will go their entire lives without ever seeing an outsider."

"Rest assured, as long as you don't harm anyone, all public places are open for you to visit."

She then gestured to one of the badass-looking bald ladies behind her, "This is Okoye. She will be your guide for today."

Okoye did not look happy to do that. Looks like it was sprung last minute on her.

"Very well, Queen Ramonda." Boss replied

"Lead the way," he said to Okoye.

Just as I was about to follow after Boss, Queen Ramonda cleared her throat, bringing our attention to what she was pointing at.

At Boss' questioning look, she said, "The Border tribe is getting awfully nervous regarding your fleet at our border."

Boss raised an eyebrow and replied, "If you are telling me to get rid of them, I am afraid to tell you that Alfred has complete control over them and he never listens to me on his best days."

At her deadpan stare, Boss shrugged and said, " The best I can do is tell them to settle down in a designated area and tell them to behave."

The Queen gave a very slow nod, "Very well. Someone will go there to tell them where to land."

"There is no crew on any of them. It's just Alfred so don't be shocked when no one comes out of the ships." Boss reminded them.

The Queen nodded at that.

After that hilarious conversation, I followed Boss to the SUV and sat in it.

The doors opened and closed on their own and after looking, I found that the entire thing is self-driven.

At my incessant poking around, Boss got frustrated, "Will you just settle down. It's just a life-size remote control toy. You've seen much more advanced self-driven vehicles."

"Yeah, but they were made by you," I replied.

At his confused stare, I said, "Between the team, it's commonly associated that you are a freak of nature when it comes to technology. So all of them have become accustomed to the fact that you can just whip out technology straight from dreams anytime you want. On the other hand, watching advanced tech built by relatively ordinary people is quite a novelty."

Boss said in a very confused tone of voice, "I don't know if I should be mad or amused at you all."

With a sheepish voice, I said, "Amused?"

He deadpanned at me and spoke out loud, "Alfred, increase their weekly training sessions with Frank, will you?"

"Acknowledged, sir," Alfred replied.

"Nooooooo! Why would you do that? He already grills us till we are half dead." I despaired dramatically. 

The Boss and Alfred's hologram both rolled their eyes at me.

It was disturbing in a way, how much they resembled in their mannerisms.

I guess being the creator, Boss imprinted some of his personality on the murder bot.

The SUV soon stopped and the doors opened on their own volition.

The scenes that greeted me were breathtaking.

Despite having seen the same visuals on a screen for years, the real thing just took away my words.

"Magnificent, isn't it?" Boss said, standing beside me.

I nodded robotically.

________________________________________________________________ 

Word Count - 1369

If you like my writing and would like to support me or want to read ahead of the public release, you can head on to my P*treon.

I already have 8 chapters ahead uploaded there.

________________________________________________________________