T'Challa, Okoye, and I ran into the building to see multiple agents and Nakia hovering around Ross on the floor. One woman applied pressure to a gunshot wound on his back as another agent checked his pulse. Shaken, Nakia looked up at us.

"He just jumped in front of me," she said. "I don't think he'll make it here, it hit his spine." T'Challa nodded.

"Give me a Kimoyo bead." Nakia pulled one off of her bracelet and handed it to him. He carefully inserted it into Ross' wound, and the man visibly relaxed. "This will stabilize him for now." He glanced at us and looked up at the agents around us. "Give him to us. We can save him." They were hesitant at first, but, noticing T'Challa and I's suits, agreed, and soon he was lying on the sand table in the Royal Talon as we flew back to Wakanda.

"Our mission was to bring back Klaue," Okoye said from her spot at the helm. "We failed. This man is a foreign intelligence operative, and he wants to arrest Chris as well. How do we justify bringing him into our borders?" Nakia looked up at her.

"He took a bullet for me," she said.

"That was his choice." T'Challa stiffened, and I shook my head. This wasn't going to end well.

"So now we are just supposed to let him die?" Nakia asked. Okoye sighed.

"Let us consider that we heal him," she said. "It is his duty to report back to his country. And as King, it is your duty to protect ours." I sighed.

"Oh no," I muttered.

"I am well aware of my duties, General," T'Challa scolded. "I cannot just let him die knowing we can save him." Okoye sighed again.

"Where exactly are we taking him?" He looked at me, and I glanced at Okoye before nodding.

"Shuri and I can help him," I said. "We will save him."

⇔

We took Ross to the Great Mound, and I immediately ran to get Shuri. We met Okoye, T'Challa, and Nakia as they pulled Ross along on a hovering stretcher. Shuri lifted the cover off of his face.

"Great , another broken white boy for us to fix," she said. I laughed, and we put him onto the table in the middle of the lab. Shuri looked at me. "Chris, would you get my tablet for me please?" I nodded and in less than a second was back with it. She used it to pull up a hologram of Ross' spine, the area where he'd been shot lighting up red. She nodded to T'Challa. "He will live." The security alarm on her Kimoyo bead went off, and she looked up at her brother. "W'Kabi is here." He nodded and ran off, and the four of us quickly hid out of sight of the border guard. Shuri looked at me.

"Are you alright?" she asked. "I know you really wanted to bring Klaue in, and instead you came back with a man that wants you in prison." I sighed and nodded.

"Yeah, I'm- I'm alright," I assured her. "It's not what we hoped, but it doesn't matter who he is. We can't just let him die." She nodded. "I just hope I can convince him not to turn me in. I can't leave Bucky now, I just got him back, and besides-" I nudged her shoulder, grinning. "-I've got a wedding to plan." She grinned and high fived me.

"Ooh, yeah!"