27. Does She Speak English?



Mary taps her cuffs and they slide over her fingers with ease, the nanites in the cuffs working to form gloves to hold the repulsers Mary was so used to using by now. She watches from the ground as Okoye grabs the wig she was wearing and throw it at one of the assailants. She moves her spear with ease and slides her spear between one of the men's legs, launching him over the balcony railing and onto a roulette table behind where Mary and T'Challa stand.

T'Challa turns his head to face the onset of commotion as Mary watches Ross lift the briefcase in front of his face to deflect the bullets Klaue begins to fire. "Wakandans! They're here!" Mary hears Klaue shout to his people.

The king grabs his advisor and pulls her into a squatting position to deflect the rain of bullets coming towards them. Mary looks over, seeing Ross as she grabs his arm, pulling him to where they're taking cover. Klaue is shouting out orders towards his people as one rushes towards the tipped poker table Mary, Ross and T'Challa are hiding. Mary exchanges a look at T'Challa and her king nods. She then moves to stick her heeled foot out, tripping the thug and giving T'Challa the opening he needs as another thug comes up and he turns quickly, disarming the thug and then kicking the man across the room into a table. She quickly acts and fires her repulser at the thug she had tripped, sending him skidding across the room, colliding with a few of his own people.

Ross looks at Mary as he pulls his own gun out, she feels his eyes on her as she commands the necklace Shuri had given her to shield her as she stands up from her cover spot. She ducks quickly as she sends out two more repulser blasts towards on-comers advancing towards her. Her eyes then find T'Challa fighting two men, taking them down with ease it seems. She can hear the sound of bullets colliding with the force shield the necklace is giving out which only makes her smile briefly. When T'Challa looks over, he sighs quickly in relief, knowing she and the baby will be okay. Mary moves out of the way, taking cover behind a pillar as she spots Nakia removing her heels and using them as weapons against her attackers. She then looks up from where she is hiding, seeing three men on the balcony.

She steps out of her cover and fires repulser blasts at the three men, watching them fall to the ground. She then side steps out of the way as a man falls to the ground with pieces of the balcony. Okoye, she simply thinks with a smirk playing on her lips as she then looks up to see Okoye launching herself off the balcony and onto another attacker, her spear collides with his chest harshly and she then stands, whacking a man behind her with her spear.

Mary gasps as she sees two more men coming towards Okoye while she's busy with another thug. She thinks quickly, she feels her anklets take form around her heels to give her flight and she begins to run. She steps onto a thug with her heeled feet and launches herself into the air, she stabilizes herself as she fires repulser blasts at the men behind Okoye. She lands behind Okoye and the general smirks at her aide. The two bend around each other as they fight against the oncoming thugs around them. Mary blasts flashes at the men, stunning them just enough for Okoye to knock them out with her spear.

Mary looks around for T'Challa, her eyes widening as she sees him pursue Klaue. The king leaps onto the side of the second level balcony, lifting himself onto the balcony. Mary quickly repulser blasts another man behind her as she races up to where T'Challa and Klaue are.

"Umbulali!" Murderer. T'Challa shouts at the smuggler as Mary lands slightly behind him, her repulsers raised and aimed at Klaue. Her eyes widen when Klaue attempts to fire the gun he has in his gun but it only clicks, out of bullets.

The smuggler discards the gun, raising his hands in mock surrender. Mary's hazel eyes widen in shock and fear as his prosthetic arm separates in two to reveal a weapon. The man chuckles, "You know, you look just like your old man." Klaue teases then looks over at Mary as he aims the weapon at her and T'Challa. T'Challa's eyes widen as he grabs the cart beside him to deflect the blast from Klaue. Mary gasps and crosses her arms in front of her face, the cuffs extending more around her forearms as armor as the necklace's force shield around her deflects the blast, she feels herself be pushed back slightly as her shows skid across the wooden flooring. She turns in shock as T'Challa is sent over the railing back onto the first floor, colliding with a table. Money explodes from the cart T'Challa was holding and Klaue laughs, "I made it rain!" He shouts.

Mary looks over at Klaue, sending a repulser blast at him but he's pulled out of the way by his remaining thugs as Nakia and Okoye race up the stairs, "Mary! With us!" Nakia states and she nods, rushing off with the two women. She wasn't a fan of running in heels but she could complain about that later after the imminent danger had passed and Kalue was in their grasp back in Wakanda.

"What about T'Challa?" Mary asks as they rush out of the casino and into the alleyway they had come in from, SUVs file out quickly.

"Do we just leave him?" Okoye questions.

"He'll catch up." Nakia states as Okoye tosses the device that connects to Shuri's sand table onto their car she had sent ahead for them earlier.

The three women file into another car, Nakia and the Okoye taking the driver and passenger spots and Mary in the backseat as she watches the women. Nakia swerves the car to catch up behind Klaue's men. "Which one is he in now?" Nakia asks but none of them know.

"They're splitting up." Mary announces as they see the SUVs split from each other as Nakia continues to drive.

"I'll take the right." Nakia states as she swerves to follow the SUVs on the right.

Mary watches as the man in the SUV they're following begins to shoot of them, but the car she learns is bulletproof, causing her to chuckle as Okoye leans her head on the headrest of her seat, "Guns. So primitive!" She quips.

The expectant mother's hazel eyes widen as Okoye casually rolls down her window, causing Nakia to look over at her friend, "What are you doing?" She asks.

"Just drive." Okoye states, then looks back at Mary, "With me." She states and the advisor nods, smirking as she had done this during the chase she and her family had done in Budapest. She slides to behind Nakia as she rolls down the window, she grabs onto the handle bar as she and Okoye make their way out of the car. Okoye plants her feet onto the car, her shoes sticking to the roof of the car with ease, she drives her spear into the roof of the car for more balance as Mary situates herself on the window, aiming her repulser at the SUV in front of them as Okoye readies her spear.

Mary and Okoye exchange glances as Mary fires repulser blasts at the tires of the SUV, she watches them explode as Okoye send her spear soaring straight through the SUV and implanting itself in the ground in front of the car and demolishing the SUV instantly. Mary can hear Nakia cheer from her seat as she drives. The two women outside the car simply smirk at each other in victory.

Nakia continues to drive for a ways and Mary spots the SUV Klaue is in, "There he is!" She announces and Nakia speeds up to reach and reach him.

"Hold tight!" Nakia exclaims to the women as she changes gears and Mary grabs onto the handle bar of the window she's sitting on. The car bounces as they pursue Klaue. Mary's eyes widen as Klaue leans out of the SUV window and watches his arm unleash another blast at the car. She watches as the car explodes around them on impact. Okoye goes flying from where she was on the car, Mary can barely get her anklets in flight in time to avoid the pieces of the car coming towards her. She hovers in the air as she watches Okoye grab her spear and plants her feet on the hood of the car that had detached from the non existent car, sliding down the hill as Nakia still sits in her drivers seat with the steering wheel in his grasp.

The advisor lands behind the two women, looking them over, "You two okay?" She asks, her doctor instincts kicking in as they all pant from exhaustion momentarily.

Nakia looks up at Okoye and Mary, she starts to say something until a sedan pulls up in front of them, the windows rolls down to reveal Ross. Mary's eyes narrow but she knows they have no other options as he calls to them, "Hop in." Mary stands beside them as Okoye lifts her spear and Ross's eyes panic slightly, "Put that spear in the trunk." He states as she retracts her spear and the three women climb into the car.

It doesn't take long for Ross to catch up to where T'Challa is pursuing Klaue. Her eyes widen in shock as she sees the Black Panther collide his claws to the moving SUV's tire and she watches it explode, sending the SUV flying into the air and landing in an open district. Mary gasps in shock as she sees T'Challa pinning Klaue against his destroyed SUV, Klaue teasingly begging for mercy as T'Challa unveils his claws.

"Kumkani wam!" My King. Mary exclaims in the Wakandan language as she, Okoye and Nakia race out of Ross's car. She looks around, seeing the people surrounding them and she looks back at T'Challa, her hazel eyes locking with his brown eyes. "Umhlaba ujonge." The world is watching. She states as Ross then leans his head and arm out of the drivers seat.

"Come on, guys. Let's go." He tells them as T'Challa looks around at his surroundings. His head snaps back at Klaue as his claws retract and Mary lets out a breath she didn't know she was holding.



Mary stands beside Okoye and T'Challa as Klaue is duck-taped to a chair in the other room in front of them. They watch him through a two way mirror as he talks to them but also to himself. She hugs her stomach, protecting her unborn child subconsciously as Okoye and T'Challa stare at Klaue through the two way mirror. Nakia was in the adjacent room, making sure no one had followed them to the location in South Korea they're in now. The Wakandan team were all in different clothes than the previous night, but per T'Challa's request, Mary's dress had been sent back to her room in Wakanda, waiting for it to be worn again with her husband. She now wore a grey t-shirt and black leather jacket over her to keep her warm, she wore skinny jeans with a belt at her waist because she knew from her past pregnancies that because of her short height and weight, she would show quicker than other women. She also wore black heels much to her dismay but she knew she had to be professional around the CIA and uphold her title as Advisor to the King. Her burgundy hair was loose from the hair pins it was in earlier, and she still wore the anklets, cuffs and ruby stud necklace. She knew those pieces would never leave her body now because they were not only gifts from Shuri, but they made her feel useful, powerful.

"Sit, Mary." Ross states as he steps up beside her, the advisor turns to look at him, he motions to the chair beside the table behind Okoye and she sighs. She didn't want to show how tired she was, but the pregnancy had been draining her of her energy lately. She nods in thanks to Ross and sits down, she could feel relief in her feet the moment she had sat down, her body no longer on fight or flight mode it seemed. She wasn't safe but she was as close to safe as she was going to get until she was back in Wakanda. The CIA agent turns to look at the three of them, "So this is a big mess, huh?" Ross states as he looks up at T'Challa. "I figured we could go good cop, bad cop. I'll talk to him first then you guys go in-"

"Asinakumvumela ukuba athethe yedwa." We can't let him talk to Klaue alone. Okoye states to her king and Advisor, her eyes drifting to Mary briefly.

"Kungangcono ukuba umyeke athethe yedwa eKlaue kangangemizuzu emihlanu kunokuba enze umfanekiso apha." It'd be better to let him talk to Klaue alone for five minutes than to make a scene. Mary replies back in Wakandan, causing Ross to look over at her with wide eyes.

T'Challa nods at his advisor and general, then looks at Ross with his arms crossed over his chest, "After your questioning, we will take him back to Wakanda with us." He states casually.

"Wait, what? No." Ross sputters, "Look, i like you, a lot. But he's in my custody now. He's not going anywhere. Listen, i'm doing you guys a favor by letting you even be in here." He states to T'Challa as he lightly hits T'Challa on his shoulder, causing Okoye to go rigid. Mary watches Okoye as T'Challa stares at where Ross had just touched him and then over at Okoye.

Okoye turns to inspect her king as T'Challa tuns to look at Ross again, "Ukuba uthe wakuchukumisa, ndiza kumbethela edesikeni uMariya ahleli kuyo." If he touches you again, i'm going to impale him to the desk Mary is sitting at. Okoye threatens as points to where Mary is sitting and then turns back to stare Ross down.

"Does she speak English?" The Agent asks T'Challa and Okoye smirks.

"When she wants to." The General quips, causing Mary to laugh lightly under her breath.

Ross blinks, "Huh." He mutters, then looks at T'Challa, "I'm going to go in. When i'm done, you guys are up."

T'Challa glances at Mary briefly, "Agent Ross." He calls to the man, causing Mary to raise her eyebrows in curiosity as to what T'Challa has in mind.

Ross stops beside the door to the room Klaue is being held in and looks over at the king, "Yeah?"

T'Challa steps over, clasping his hand on the man's shoulder. "I do appreciate your help back in Busan."

Ross smirks, looking over at Okoye, "You see that? It's called diplomacy. You're welcome." He states as he enters the room.

"Okoye." T'Challa and Mary tease at the same time as she scoffs.

"Play nice." T'Challa says causing Mary to chuckle.

"Americans." Okoye grumbles.

Mary continues to laugh under her breath, "We aren't exactly the easiest to get along with." She states.

"You and your family are different." T'Challa reminds Mary, "You may have been born and raised American, but you're Wakandan now. Always remember that."

Mary smiles up at the king, "I'll always be American though, i was born when we were proud to be called Americans." She comments as Klaue continues his singing. "That pride will never leave me."

"Nor should it." Okoye states, "Being proud of where you are from is something to strive for, it gives you strength." She points out, "Just because they turned their back on you and your family, doesn't mean you should."

Mary nods, "I know. I think that's why Steve is still striving to help people, he just can't bare the title of Captain America anymore. Being America's hope and being himself don't aline anymore ever since what the Accords did to our family. My family."

"My father and I signed the Accords in hopes that it would do good for the world's safety. It only caused chaos." T'Challa says, "It tore your family apart that you had searched for decades to find." He adds, Mary can hear the guilt in his voice, "I chased down your husband and daughter in vengeance for my father's death. But as i stood there as you and your family were being cuffed and pinned to the ground the German special forces, i knew something was wrong. And your daughter, being muzzled like a rabid animal.." T'Challa trails off, his mind going back to when it happened before his eyes, the young teenage girl being cuffed and muzzled like she was dangerous to them when all they had to do was let her be with her family.

"Our Red Wolf? Muzzled?" Okoye asks in shock, she had heard bits and pieces of what T'Challa and Mary were speaking about but she hadn't heard the full story.

"They muzzled her because she was screaming for James and I, for Steve, and for Rhodey to help her. But none of us could, and Rhodey refused to do anything. He let it happen to her." Mary states. She still held a grudge against Rhodey for that. She didn't know if she or Becca could forgive him for that. But she still loved him, despite it all. But the love she held for Rhodey had been tainted.

"Bast help him if i ever see that man." Okoye snaps under her breath as the three of them watch Ross talk with Klaue.

Mary nods in agreement, "You'll have to get in line, Okoye." She points out, "Right after myself, my husband, and brother." She states.






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