The League of Shadows Part - 2/?

T'Challa POV——

Our shuttle had taken us only a couple of hours to get to New York. We had met up with the surviving Wakandan spy.

Sitting on a park bench in Gotham. "Tell me what happened, I want to know everything." I say.

The surviving woman begins to speak, "We were having lunch at a cafe-"

"What were you doing outside of your zones? What were you doing together?" I interrupt her, as I need to know all the details.

"..Jhai and I were in love. We were committed, faithfully."

"You had your orders. None of you were supposed to have contact with each other."

"…I am sorry-"

"Ok, you were having lunch, then what?"

She looked to me, a little frightened at my tone of voice, bug she continued on, "We were attacked. It was coordinated…professional. They would have killed us if Jhai hadn't blown them up with himself." She looks down, saddened by her loss, but she continued on.

"He wanted you to know, that 'they know'."

At her words my brain enters supermode, trying to peace together a puzzle I don't have and pieces for. Realizing my mistake, I immediately stop, however I keep those words at the back of my mind.

"Dora Milaje will be here shortly, you have been compromised therefore you are relieved of your post immediately, do you understand?"

"Y-yes my king."

"Good." I say as I walk away nonchalantly, leaving the grieving woman behind.

——

I had met back up with Shuri and N'Jadaka, and we had entered the scene of the attack.

"Bringing up Acoustic Shielding and sound isolation. Were now silent to the world." Shuri says as she activates a blue forcefield around the scene. She continues, "Well. This sucks, always too busy being 'Princess Shuri' to do much traveling, so when I finally visit America, all I get to see is an alley."

Me and N'Jadaka ignore her words, moving to investigate the scene.

"Huh…Okay boys, go do some work..-" she says as she rolls out her new spheres. "-..see if you can tap into any cctv feeds, merge them, and then play back what you find." She says to the balls.

A moment passes and a screen of blue hardlight appears, figures come into focus as the screen plays what happened.

It showed Jhai fighting against 4 typical ninja dressed figures with one figure standing at the back, his appearance out of focus. He fought hard against the odds and when he finally went down, he took them down with him, except-

"Rewind it." I say, thinking I recognized something. "To the aftermath of the explosion."

The screen rewinds to the split second footage of the aftermath. "What do you see cousin?" N'Jadaka asks me as I kneel to get a closer look at what I was seeing.

"Its…Promethium." I say, recognizing the metal.

"The liquid?" N'Jadaka asks me confused.

"No cousin, this IS promethium, a metal that has energy absorption abilities, and can self regenerate." Shuri corrects him.

"Mhmm, rewind it to the fighting." I say, as she does.

"Those martial arts, Tire Machèt from Haiti, Naban from..Myanmar, Kapu Kuʻialua from Hawaii, Hopak from…Ukraine, Huka-Huka from Brazil, Okichitaw from Canada, Engolo from Angola, Tahtib from Egypt. How do they know these martial arts?" I recognize every movement they did, these martial arts made up a chunk of the complete Wakandan martial arts, however not a big chunk.

"Y-you recognize every martial arts here? I only knew the first couple by heart." Shuri asks me, baffled.

"Every martial art has its own 'dna'. No matter how much it evolves, you can trace it back to its original fighting style." N'Jadaka explains for me.

"Yes..now, whats the probability that the combat and movement patterns are Wakandan?" I ask the blue spheres.

< probability is 97.13 percent. >

It responds to me. "Run metallurgy analysis on the armor piece at the end and on the ninjas fighting."

<…Metallurgy match is 88.28 percent a match for Vibranium. >

"We have ourselves a problem." I say, now starting to see some of the pieces of the puzzle.

"Wait! Run Gotham Assassination video again!" Shuri yells.

< Running. >

"Now..hold it!"

< Pausing. >

"Expand!"

< Expanding. >

"Highlight points of articulation!"

< Highlighting. >

"Now….put into a combat matrix and expand!"

A few moments go by and, "You're right." She says defeated.

"This doesn't make since, Wakandan martial arts has progressed substantially!" N'Jadaka states confused.

"Hmm, When was the last time those specific martial arts were used exclusively for our martial arts?" I ask the spheres again.

< 450 Years. >

"….N'Jadaka, I need you and Shuri on a ship back to Wakanda. Search through the archives about any select group of Wakandans abandoning or betraying Wakanda during this time."

They immediately begin their tasks.

I take some time to walk around Gotham, piecing together some of the puzzle.

'The uniforms of the ninjas, plus the fact that they have 450 year old martial arts, points to one group. The league of Assassins/Shadows with their leader Ra's Al Ghul.'

'Now with the armor piece made of Promethium plus no 5th dead body points to another person. Deathstroke!'

'That means Ra's and Deathstroke are in cahoots with each other. However if its the League of Shadows, that means Lady Shiva, David Cain and Cassandra Cain. Ill need to mentally prepare for Lady Shiva, the second best martial artist in the dc universe.'

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Now I know some of those martial arts haven't been around for 450 years, but just go along with it, this one time. PWEASE????

I seen comics Shuri for the first time today, and she got my heart pumping, oh lord ❤️❤️😍😍