T’Challa the Black Panther in Cannibal

Chapter One

Somewhere in South West Asia

The British SAS team killed the terrorists and attached small cameras thoughtout the terrorist camp. Then the team fell back to the brush and waited in the still of the night for the next orders from the command post in England. A black orb floated down from the sky and hovered over the camp. Several hexagons shined on the orb then suddenly the dead terrorists stood up.

The SAS team was told to hold their position while the orb floated over to them. The zombiefied terrorists wailed and hissed at each other; their eyes gave off a hellish green gleam. They sniffed the air and discovered the SAS team.

In a flash the terrorists moved with staggering speed towards the SAS team who received instructions not to retreat or defend themselves. The hexagons on the orb changed colour and the SAS team leader was given commands from the base to use on the zombies.

He shouted, “Halt, get face down on the ground.”

The zombies obeyed and the SAS team was ordered to burn the bodies as they laid on the ground.

Chapter Two

Sawney Bean Castle was a mega structure named after a notorious Scottish clan of cannibals. For centuries the castle was used as a temple by Great Britain’s cannibal sect until the events of the recent attempted alien invasion where an alien kill squad was captured and devoured by the sect. The incident was streamed to the invasion force to demoralize them and was considered a focal point in England’s victory in the war. Since then the British government had formed a Public-Private Partnership with the sect to use the cannibals’ strategies in the defence of the country in all fields from medicine to intergalatic policy.

T’Challa the Black Panther pursued the man who had stolen his King of the Dead power to the castle. It was clear to T’Challa that the power was already synthezied and distrubuted to the various arms of the British miliatry in a coordinated manner. He guessed that the Brits had infused alien technology into their military apparatus to have accomplished the task.

An invisible T’Challa crawled along the ceilings of the vast corridors of the castle. There was a purplish chemical that dampened visibility in the interiors which was probably poisonous. Oddly T’Challa came across a long stretch of giant size paintings on the walls like those in a cathedral that showed the Vikings and Danes interacting with the cannibals when the foreigners had occupied England. There was even the depiction of mummies from Egypt being grounded up into powder to be used as brown paint in artworks. Another part of the ceiling showed the various monarchs of Europe being administred corpse medicine and human blood by the sect.

T’Challa suddenly realized that he was not alone; there was someone else equally invisible who lurched in a corner.

“I know you there and you have one chance before I kill you,” said T’Challa.

The person partially reveal its face and it was an alien.

“I recognize you Black Panther but before you attack listen to me. I am a warrior of honour, my side lost and I have accepted that but I cannot condone the butchery that my fallen comrades have been through in this place. Instead of being prisioners of war their tissues are being used to generate electricity,” said the alien.

T’Challa contemplated because Great Britian had violated Wakanda when they sanctioned an attack on him and were about to break the Omniversal Accords that they signed which debarred travel to the Zombie Verse. Having a sabateur would be an asset but still the alien was apart of an invasion where humans lives were shattered.

“I have to decline your offer and we must duel,” said T’Challa.

Unbeknownst to the masked personnel whom walked in the corridors below, the Black Panther and the alien were locked in mortal combat above them. T’Challa crushed the face of the alien with a palm strike and the broken bones went into the creature’s brain. T’Challa staked the alien to the wall with an invisible spear but blood slowly seeped onto the paintings.

Chapter Three

T’Challa entered an enormous chamber where the man he hunted was in the middle of a holographic meeting with the British Prime Minister who seemed to be in a panic.

“Did you see the visions from the telepathic transmission?” asked the Prime Minister.

“No because the castle is psi shielded. What transmission?” asked Cannibal.

“The entire nation was just shown graphic scenes from inside the Zombie Verse where the Cosmic Avengers are the major zombies that ate the brains of people. Someone has told the general public that my government intends to go into the Zombie Verse and risk the contamination of Earth with a fast spreading zombie virus,” replied the Prime Minister.

“T’Challa must be responsible for this,” said Cannibal.

“The feasibility studies did not account for his retaliation strategy to be going directly to the public. We expected diplomatic wrangling and sabre rattling. He has scarced the crap out of people. I have to halt the Zombie Verse incursion,” said the Prime Minister.

“No that was not the arrangement we made after you begged me for protection from that kill squad. You said that anything I wanted in repayment would be mine and I told you that I wanted the Zombie Verse,” said Cannibal coolly.

“Yes, I know but for the time being I have to go back on my word; its politics,” said the Prime Minister. “All the other endeavours such as the corpse medicine and the control of zombies to ward off a potential zombie apocalyse in our dimension will continue.”

“This is the reason my people stayed away from yours.”

“Don’t be slighted or take offense because cannibalism has been kept off the law books as a crime by name for centuries because of my people. Violation of a corpse was the least we could do legally to give some sembelence to the public that Europeans consuming Europeans was wrong.”

“Cannibalism is a spiritual act and nothing is wrong it. We consume the essences of a human. Death is not the end of a human’s usefulness to the rest of society. It was through us that organ transplantation developed,” said Cannibal.

“Nevertheless the portal to the Zombie Verse will remain closed.”

The hologram disappered and Cannibal yelled out in anger.

T’Challa was satisfied that his mutant Mute had sent out the transmission that showed glimpses of T’Challa’s experience in the Zombie Verse when he was trapped there.

Now the Black Panther readied himself to kill Cannibal.

NEXT STORY: CANNIBAL’S REVENGE

“In the heyday of medicinal cannibalism bodies or bones were routinely taken from Egyptian tombs and European graveyards. Not only that, but some way into the eighteenth century one of the biggest imports from Ireland into Britain was human skulls…” Quoted from Dr. Richard Sugg the author of The History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians.

T’Challa the Black Panther in Eminent Domain

Chapter One

T’Challa was the King of the Dead and in hindsight he should have never shared his knowledge of the Zombie-verse with SHIELD because the information was leaked to an obsecure British health corporation that was controlled by Cannibal who wanted an unlimited supply of the the living dead to feed on.

T’Challa arrived in London and was accompanied by Mute and Captain Steve Rogers. The Black Panther’s invisible orb ship landed in the River Thames and it was fired upon by an electro-magnetic pulse that emanentated from the Temple of Isis that was on the river bed. The ship was not affected by the shot.

“We must destroy that portal no matter the cost,” said T’Challa. “Mute what does your telepathy pick up from the target site?”

“It’s very fuzzy; they might be psi insulated,” replied Mute.

T’Challa and Captain America had stormed hidden enemy installations on countless occassions so they both had an understanding of the task.

The ship’s computer scanned the beatle-like shaped temple for a suitable entry point for teleportation. After one was identified the team were sent and they appeared inside of a passage way. The temple was made from metal but the interior was fabricated to resemble a stone masonry finish. Instantly T’Challa sensed an odd chemical in the air.

“Fall back to the ship,” he shouted as he commanded the computer to retake Mute and Captain America.

The chemical agent in the air intensified and became visible. It looked like thick snow as it blew through the passage way. His ceremonial combat uniform protected him from the strange poison. T’Challa heard the sound of a large machine being turned on and he felt fluctuations in time and space.

“It’s the portal,” he muttered.

He sprinted through the maze of passage ways until he reached the source of the sound. He programmed his optic visors to send a live feed to the ship’s display computer for Captain America and Mute to view.

The snow like substance covered everything in the laboratory that T’Challa came upon. A man with a machete and wearing a jacket that had a large fur mane stood next to the circular portal.

“Novichok nerve gas is a wonderful tool because it renders the enemy completely immobilsed but as in most things it is overrated when it comes to meta humans,” said Cannibal and he shut down the portal. “Luckily I took the antidote.”

The fact that he shut off the portal told T’Challa that it was a ruse to get him here.

“Tefen, Mestet, Mestetef, Petet,” said Cannibal.

T’Challa sensed another fluctutation in space and time. Four humaniod scorpions appeared around him and they attacked him. T’Challa scissors-kicked the attackers who came from the front and the rear. But the scropion-men on the flanks were able to land hits on him with their claws. The claws went through the uniform and tore at T’Challa’s soul. He gasped in pain. The attacker from the front fixed his broken jaw and joined the fray by whipping his tail at the Black Panther.

T’Challa leapt to the ceiling to get away from the attackers. He used his claws and special grips in his boots to anchor him to the ceiling. Then he tried to teleport but the system did not work. The scorpion-men followed him onto the ceiling and resumed the battle.

T’Challa head butted, clawed and stabbed the assailants but eventually they were able to inject a significant amount of supernatural poison into his soul.

Meanwhile a sarcophagus was dragged by Cannibal into the center of the lab; he opened the coffin and stepped inside of it. The scorpion-men took a sedated T’Challa and followed their leader into the disguised wormwhole.

The gateway took them to the Redlett surburb on the outskirts of London. Inside the basement of Cannibal’s house T’Challa’s uniform was cut opened with the adamantium bladed machete. Then the scorpion-men went to the four corners of the basement and turned themselves into stone.

Cannibal placed bio-signs observation pads on T’Challa’s temples and afterwards he released one of his caged zombies. Cannibal went to the second level of the basement where he would observe the experiment.

The zombie went immediately to eat T’Challa and the Black Panther woke up. Instinctively he told the zombie to halt and the creature complied.

Chapter Two

A data spike from both T’Challa and the zombie was captured by the computers in the observation deck and forwarded to a remote server. Cannibal believed that he was closer to his goal of being able to command the horde of the living dead in the alternate reality of the Zombie-verse.

He could only image the source of T’Challa’s strange gift and he thought that it might be deep in the heart of Wakanda.

Cannibal disconnected the link to the remote server and deleted the hard drives of the computers in the observation deck. He went into an elevator that took him to the top floor. Suddenly mid way up there was thud on the floor of the elevator. Then vibranium claws came up from beneath the floor.

“Impossible he cannot be that fast,” muttered Cannibal and readied his machete to land a strike on T’Challa’s hands.

There were no other actions by T’Challa so Cannibal deduced that the Black Panther had not fully recovered and had only reached as far as he did on sheer will which had worn him out.

Cannibal stopped the elevator and opened the above hatch; he then climbed the cables to reach the elevator shaft door. He heard the tearing of metal from the elevator and he glanced down to see the sweaty face of T’Challa through the hatch. Cannibal quickly opened the elevator door and cut the cables with the machete in one swing. He didn’t get a chance to look down but heard the free fall of the elevator back to the basement.

Cannibal scampered to his garage and rode out of it on his motorcycle.

Chapter Three

T’Challa jumped out of the elevator and held onto the walls of the elevator shaft. He climbed to the door and after he opened it he lost consciousness. But he had a dream of when he became King of Dead.

Residents of a community in Wakanda had complained about zombies in the area and upon T’Challa’s research he discovered a hidden underground city. The city was built in the eighteenth century by deserters of Wakanda’s standing army. They told the then Black Panther not to call upon them to serve in any war with foreign invaders as they were not under his authority anymore. The deserters called their domain the Mute Zone to symbolize their unwillingness to speak to the Black Panther any further.

The deserters practiced a science that prolonged their life span for a few extra years but it did not provide immortality. Eventually their bodies died but were slow to decay and the souls were locked out of the afterlife.

T’Challa revealed to them that the Black Panther who they betrayed had cursed them to dwell in the city even in death. But the deserters wanted their souls to rest so T’Challa told them to return their domain to the authority of the Black Panthers and that he would unlock the gateway to the afterlife for them.

T’Challa heard the voices of Captain America and Mute in his dream; then someone touched him. Immediately he woke up and lifted up the two men by their throats.

“T’Challa,” said Captain America.

The Black Panther put them down as he regained his senses.

“What happened?” asked Mute.

“It was a trap to analyze my ability to control zombies,” replied T’Challa.

“So they are not going to the Zombie-verse?” asked Mute.

“Yes they will go to the Zombie-Verse but they think that the zombies are controllabe now which they are not. The reason the Zombie-Verse dangerous is that it is ruled by cosmic zombiefied Avengers. These Avengers cannot be controlled and they are actively looking for a portal to our world,” replied T’Challa.

“The ship’s computer tracked your translocation to this place. We are in a suburb,” said Captain America.

“It’s not a suburb. There are corpses underneath the neighboring houses. I can sense them and the zombie in the basement of this house was a co conspirator with the leader of this group who goes by the name Cannibal. The zombie told me about all his plans,” said T’Challa.

“Which are?” asked Mute.

“Cannabalism for medicial purposes. During the recent global invasions health institutions ran out of medicine so they reverted to a system that was practiced in Britain centuries ago where cures could be processed from feeding on human beings. Cannibal’s company formed a Public Private Partnership with the government and this community was used as a case study,” replied T’Challa. “We have to get to Sawney Bean Castle in Scotland now. The Romans brought Isis worship to Britain when it was a colony and temples were built all over the isles in honour of her ressurection powers. The castle is really a temple and it has another portal machine, ” replied T’Challa.

NEXT STORY: CANNIBAL

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T’Challa the Black Panther in Sundown Town

Chapter One

The gold book spine of the The Revolt Against Civilization was prominent in Addisson Blackburn’s hands. He sat in a 100 years old wooden chair and behind him were two replicas of the Roman fascia symbols from the US House of Congress. His milita with their thor’s hammer armbands, military paraphanilia and body armour guarded him with laser rifles.

T’Challa and Mute sat across from Blackburn while coffee and butter biscuits were placed on the table in-between them by a maid. Two other books were on the table: The Stanford-Binet IQ tests of whites and negroes and the Principles of Human Intelligence by David Hume.

“Do you prefer if I call you by Luke Charles or T’Challa?” asked Blackburn.

“T’Challa,” replied the Black Panther.

“It is has been so long since you came to Westcrest County,” said Blackburn. “What brings you back?”

“Tell Mute about what you saw your father and uncles do to the two negroes when you were nine years old,” said T’Challa.

“So Mute is your name that will explain why your mouth is sewn up like that. Well Mr. Mute my pa and uncles caught these Under-Men who harressed Mr. Kessel’s daughter at his bakery. The Under-Men were beaten up with baseball bats, their hands and feet were bounded with barb wire and they were chain tied to the back of a pickup truck which was driven through the streets of the town and the Under-Men dragged behind the pickup. Then the truck stopped off in the Under-Man quarters or shacks where their community lived outside of town. My father told all the Under-Man there this was the price they would pay for terrorizing white civilization and my uncles doused the tied up Under-Men with kerosense and lit them on fire. Not an Under-Man onlooker dared to intervene as their kind cried out as the flames ate through their flesh. What remained of the bodies were taken as souvenirs by the whites in the town. Pictures were taken and I even have one in my photo album. It was one of the best memories of my childhood,” said Blackburn.

“Was there any evidence to collaborate Mr. Kessel daughter’s claim?” asked T’Challa.

“Only her word and that was good enough. The whites never had a problem with any Under- Man from that time as far as I remember,” replied Blackburn.

“Well that will be all,” said T’Challa.

“Aren’t you staying for coffee?” asked Blackburn.

“It’s almost six o’clock,” replied T’Challa.

“May I ask the profession of Mr. Mute?” asked Blackburn.

“He thinks he is a demented killer of innocent people as he has been touched by a great evil from birth so I wanted him to meet an evil greater than himself,” answered T’Challa.

“An evil backed by science,” said Blackburn and tapped his knuckle on the Revolt Against Civilization book.

Moments later T’Challa and the telepathic Mute walked out of the elderly man’s estate and strolled into the adjacent surburban area. Mute was vexed that T’Challa had embarressed him in front of the strangers.

“Are you trying to humiliate me?” asked Mute.

“Yes because you are not the only demonically touched person crawling around on the Earth.”

The sun was setting and T’Challa checked his watch which indicated that six o’clock was seconds away.

“Do you like this community? The houses are nice,” said T’Challa. “If you were born in America as a negro Deeds of Covenant would debar you from owning any of these homes because they can only be sold to whites. This is a white controlled encleave of civilization.”

“I am a Wakandan not a negro,” said Mute.

“Your skin is black therefore to them you are an Under-Man and as such you are a natural threat to civilization. It does not matter if you are from Wakanda.”

“You seem to be friends with Blackburn,” said Mute.

“In my early days I spent time in Amercia as a substitue teacher under the alias Luke Charles at an inner city school. There I discovered that the school was marginalized at the state administration level based on so called scientific findings from Stanford-Binet IQ philosophies. The state administration turned a blind eye to another scientific study by Dr. Martin D. Jenkins that showed negroes with IQ scores of 180 and 200. So I investigated the matter which led me to the Dragon Circle Committee and to their chairman Blackburn. After some forceful persusian I could only get him to change the policy for my school not the thousands of schools that should have been freed from his thumb.”

“You roughed him up and yet he acts so formal with you,” said Mute.

“He knows that I am stronger than him and so does his security team however he views himself as human and me as an animal. An animal being an animal only cements his beliefs that the Under -Man are emotional beings incapable of refined and strategic long term thinking. Long term thinking is his safety net in his mind because I could kill him but not the book the Revolt Against Civilization. The beliefs in that book is the real leader of the Dragon Circle, it is a code and that is very hard to kill,” said T’Challa.

“What does this have to do with me? You promised that I will get to kill people,” said Mute.

“So you shall if you truly believe you can be that evil,” said T’Challa.

Six o’clock chimed on T’Challa’s watch and a siren blared in the suburb.

“There is a law in Westcrest County that used to be visible on a sign coming into here. The law is no Under-Man should be here after six o’clock when the sun goes down,” said T’Challa.

The five Sentinels were invisible to the normal human eye but not to T’Challa’s hyper senses. Their hands were shaped like stabbing tools. The heads were literally one large mechanical eyeball that viewed everything paronamically. They walked on insulated legs that made no sound as they snuck up on Mute who was a dwarf in the presence of the nine feet tall killers.

The Green Book for Negro Travellers would warn motorists not come into Westcrest County as suspicious murders of black people had occurred there. T’Challa imagined the lives lost across the country due to Sundown Towns like Westcrest.

T’Challa also became invisible and asked Mute, “You are about to be killed like the victims you want hurt. How does it feel to be powerless, defenseless and without a prayer?”

Chapter Two

Like all Wakandans Mute was taught basic martial arts as a child. He would later refine his skills at the Red Rock academy for Wakandan mutants so T’Challa expected him to out manuever the Sentinels for at least four minutes before they killed him. But T’Challa had to get the point across to Mute that being a self proclaimed sociopath and psychopath meant nothing in the world outside of Wakanda. Westcrest would be the first stop in a tour of the Evils that operated in plain sight and in the full parameters of the laws created and managed by them.

Blackburn’s Dragon Circle sat on both the assembly and the executive branch of the county. The Sentinels were given to the county by inflitrators in the administrative divisions of S.H.I.E.L.D because a minor bunker was built near the surburb. Legally the robots were there to protect the military asset and civilians in case of a planetary invasion by aliens or if America was attacked.

Mute cleverly dodged and weaved his way to the fire hydrant on the curb and made the attackers inadvertedly destroy it; water spewed up and doused the robots which made them visible to the naked eye.

Suddenly a S.H.I.E.L.D jet roared overhead and a man jumped out of it. He nimbly landed on top of an eletricity pole and then somersaulted off of it to land between Mute and the Sentinels. Steve Rogers held up his shield and the robots paused. Time seemed to stop and booster rockets appeared beneath the feet of the Sentinels and the robots flew into the sky and out of view.

Captain America asked Mute if he was okay but the mutant swiftly took over his mind.

“Release him,” ordered T’Challa as he decloaked. “I will not say it twice.”

“Do you think you can reach me before I snap his mind?” asked Mute but T’Challa held him around the neck before all the words escaped his mouth. A claw from the Panther’s glove was precariously over Mute’s eye.

“Okay, okay I released him,” said Mute.

Captain America’s eyes no longer shined and he blinked.

“What is going on here T’Challa?” asked Rogers.

The Black Panther had many answers like how the author of The Revolt Against Civilization was prasied by the United States President Herbert Hoover in 1924 when Rogers was six years old. That Captain America fought against the Red Skull and HYDRA overseas while sundowns towns flourished in all corners of America. That Blackburn liked Captain America becasue he was deemed to be from the Nordic, Alpine and Medeterrean stocks or gene pools which were considered pure blood whites. But T’Challa did not have the time.

“This is a Wakandan military training exercise,” replied T’Challa.

“In a civilian area?”

“The civilians are being used as human shields but that is besides the point,” stated T’Challa. “How were you alerted?”

“The Defense Secretary said that there was a fluid situation that required my involvement,” replied Captain America.

“There is no fluid situation just a flex of power by the owners of this county,” said T’Challa as he released Mute.

“I don’t follow,” said Captain America. “All pretences aside you cannot conduct an unsanctioned miliatry manuever in America.”

“Yes I can because Wakanda Design Group pays US taxes that funds S.H.I.E.L.D or better yet let me take you to a town that the Group just purchased,” said T’Challa and the trio disappeared from the street.

Chapter Three

T’Challa invented the Quinjets for the Avengers and they were manufactured by the Wakanda Design Group in New Jersey but the plant was recently moved to a northern town in the United States to avert a take over of the town’s charter.

Stark Industries built a factory in the State and the legistrative arm wanted to run a highway through a predominanty black town to reach the factory. The town’s governing body asked the politician Luke Cage for help and he inturn asked T’Challa to move the Wakanda Design Group to the town which increased the value of the land. The State was forced to build the highway around the town to avoid a substantial payout to the Wakanda Design Group and the residents.

T’Challa explained the situation to Captain America and Mute in the strange craft that travelled along a stream near the town. The craft was in the middle of a forcefield and the forcefield rolled like a clear marble on the water and rocks. The craft was shaped like a royal house of Wakanda masonary.

“Luke is amassing quite a repuation in the political circles,” said Captain America.

“He deserves it and he will make a good mayor for New York,” said T’Challa.

“Why are you even involved in this country in this way? No wonder you were blind to my needs in Wakanda,” said Mute.

“The people in Westcrest consider themselves good people who have built a civilization called the Western Civilization and inclusion to that civilization requires certain genetic traits. Wakanda is a problem for Western Civilization because our genetic traits destroys the myths created to build places like Westcrest. The book by David Hume that you saw on Blackburn’s table was the basis of one of the myths and we undermined it. In regards to you, I am out in the world fighting to keep these people’s influence from penentrating Wakanda while you are undermining me with degenerative behaviour,” said T’Challa.

“I am sick,” said Mute.

“No you are immature but not for long,” said T’Challa. “As for you Captain our meeting tonight will not be wasted. I want to you to turn your attention to my next stop with Mute which is the Advance Idea Dynamic portal to the Zombie Verse.”

Captain America’s jaw dropped because of the seriousness of the threat.

Next Story: Eminent Domain

T’Challa the Black Panther in Cleaning House

Chapter One

“You are a drain on Wakandan society; the resources that are used to imprison you could be put to better use. That’s the reason I brought you on this team as a form of restorative justice for your crimes. But instead you betrayed Wakanda’s wartime code and made an attempt on my life. I am in my right as king to kill you for treason,” said T’Challa.

T’Challa walked down the staircase that was attached to a wall of computer mainframes. The glass panels of the mainframe computers formed into the face of Bragram; the collage represented the computers in the real world that were linked to the techno wrist band that T’Challa had given to Mute. Whenever Mute had entered Bragram’s mind the wrist band captured pertinenet information from the wizard. The entire scheme was based on Wakanda’s combination of spiritual and technological weapons.

Mute looked up at the Black Panther with bitterness in his eyes. “You are the devil and far worst than the Dweller in the Darkness. You used me to map Bragram’s mind. That explains why there is no one from the Mystic Clan on the team because you don’t want them to get a chance of having any of Bragram’s spells,” said Mute.

T’Challa was disappointed that such an intelligent man seemed to be irredeemable. Mute had broken into T’Challa’s mind with telepathy so the Black Panther showed him what was really taking place on the mission.

“You are correct that the Mystic Clan was deliberately left out but not for the reason you mentioned,” said T’Challa. “However let us deal with where we are; you have assisted in taking down of an enemy of Wakanda don’t spoil it by becoming a new enemy.”

“I don’t care anymore. I have the ability to rival Professor X now,” said Mute.

T’Challa manifested a manila folder and tossed it to Mute; written on it were the words ‘PROTOCOLS FOR PROFESSOR X’. There was a single sheet inside of it that read:

BACKGROUND: Professor Charles Xaiver is the premier omega level telepath.

RECENT ACTIVITY: Professor X entered the home of Dr. Reed Richards and erased vital information from the man’s mind then told the victim the information would never be retreivable. The information regarded Dr. Richards’ invention that was built to save his son from the clutches of the mutants. Xavier then had the invention destroyed.

CONCLUSION: The blatant demonstration of telepathic intrusion into a mind that was fortified with psi shields showed that such defences were useless against a powerful telepath. The Black Panther should not be vulnerable to such penetrative attacks by anyone. Should an intruder get passed the psi shields then comes….

T’Challa stood directly in front of Mute.

“Professor X level power means nothing to me,” said the Black Panther. “So again will you finish the mission and get your life back together?”

“I want to kill people. It might be abhorent to you but I need it like air to breathe,” replied Mute.

“Then I will give you the opportunity to kill as much as you need in exchange you will fullfil your duty to fight against Wakanda’s external enemies when called upon to do so,” said T’Challa. “Or you can continue down the path as a henchman for the Dweller in the Darknesss and be hunted down for the rest of your life.”

“My goodness and they call me a pyschopath,” said Mute.

“Yes or no?” asked T’Challa.

“Yes,” replied Mute.

Chapter Two

“I must commend you for making such an effort for one of your own,” said the Dweller in the Darkness to T’Challa when the Black Panther regained consciousness and got onto his feet. “It shows that you have balanced your good and evil natures.”

“You are wrong because I am not evil,” said T’Challa.

“Then how will you fulfil your promise to the killer?” asked the Dweller in the Darkness.

“Wait and see,” replied T’Challa.

The Black Panther knew that the old god would be intrigued.

T’Challa teleported Mute and himself to the battle between Bragram and the rest of the team.

“You have finished your side quest,” said one hundred Bragrams that were engaged in fights with the strike team.

“It was not a side quest. Mute kindly dispatch of the wizard’s clones,” said T’Challa.

The Black Panther then ran forward to the Bragram that his hyper senses indicated was the original. The rest the team followed his lead. The Watcher created a time delay barrier around the wizard to prevent teleportation. M’Baku used his heightened speed to break Bragram’s shins with a knobkerrie. Hatura took a point blank necro blast from the wizard that burnt him down to his sketelon but his accelerated healing factor regenerated his body in an instant and he punched Bragam off his feet. Queen Divine Justice created blades of ice that cleaved Bragram in mid air. T’Challa finished the sequence with a spear of light into the target’s skull.

“I hate to ask but is that it?” asked Queen Divine Justice.

“No. He will likely have a spare clone in another location,” replied T’Challa. “But Mute’s contribution has nullified that circumstance.”

The Black Panther surveyed the dead clones that were scattered in the chamber.

Chapter Three

Wakanda

T’Challa spoke to Isca the Unbeaten through their secure channel.

“With Bragram gone there is no need to continue our arrangement. As the head of Arrako’s war council I assure you that there will be a de-escalation of war from Arrako against Wakanda,” said Isca.

“Likewise Wakanda will also de-escalate from a frontal confrontation,” said T’Challa.

“Good that just leaves the proxy wars to sort out. I would rather not have casualties from these minor incidents,” said Isca.

“I concur. Wakanda’s ambassador at the Arrako diplomatic centre will submit a rules of engagement document to your office through formal conventions,” said T’Challa.

After the meeting T’Challa appraised the cohesivesness of the team of his personal enemies. Then he went to check on Mute.

NEXT STORY: SUN DOWN TOWN

T’Challa the Black Panther in Where Wakandans Dare

Chapter One

T’Challa waited patiently for the betrayal of Mute. In the meantime the mutant was crucial to the attack on Bragram because his telepathy interfered with the wizard’s spell casting. The rest of the team of M’Baku, Queen Divine Justice, Hatura and Watcher battled the legions of demons that Bragram had summoned while T’Challa fought the omega mutant.

T’Challa suspected that Mute would become a traitor because the former prisoner had nothing in Wakanda to return to after the mission. Mute’s life was a series of unfortunate events that began when he was discovered to be a mutant and was enrolled in the Red Rock school to teach him to use his skills for the benefit of Wakanda. He hid his psychopathic tendencies from the tests at the school by abusing flaws in the system. Mute’s attempted murder of his classmates finally drew authorities to the years of abnormal behaviour that had gone unnoticed. Ironically Mute blamed the system and T’Challa for not finding out in time because he saw himself as a victim of uncontrollable circumstances.

Mute’s case changed everything about the mutant program and the military in Wakanda. Screenings for mental disorders became more complicated and stringent.

The pivot in the battle finally came as Mute left the courtyard and Bragram seized the opportunity to invoke a time laspe spell which left T’Challa frozen. Luckily the Black Panther had his forcefield up so Bragram was unable to strike a killing blow with his necro-sword. Instead he tactically retreated into his abaondoned prison complex.

Chapter Two

T’Challa was able to move once Bragram left and he assisted the other Wakandans to swiftly subdue to the demons.

“Where is Mute?” asked Queen Divine Justice.

“He went that way,” replied Watcher and pointed to a corridor.

“He is a coward,” said M’Baku.

“I doubt that as there seems more to this. T’Challa might have sent him on a secret mission,” said Hatura.

T’Challa was not moved to respond.

“Strategically we cannot leave him to be captured,” said Queen Divine Justice. T’Challa generated a holographic map and gave it to her.

“I will go after Mute but the rest of you will track down our enemy,” said T’Challa. “Work together as a team. I will rejoin you soon.” Then he teleported into the corridor that Mute had gone into.

Based on the map Mute was headed for the portal to the Dweller in the Darkness. T’Challa assumed Mute and the entity had made telepathic contact but the madman did not have a clue of the level of insanity that the Dweller in the Darkness possesed.

T’Challa trusted M’Baku’s tracking skills to find Bragram and the powerhouses of Hatura, Queen Divine Justice and the Watcher were capable as a team to hold their own against the wizard but Mute was still needed to ensure the victory.

T’Challa met Mute convulting on the floor that was stained in the blood of millions of mutants and he felt the presense of the Dweller in the Darkness. The presense was like a boulder pushing down on one’s body.

“Only a handful of individuals can reach this close to me,” said the Dweller in the Darkness. He was invisbile even for T’Challa’s hyper vision sense.

“Wakandans are hardy people,” said T’Challa.

“And crafty as well since you were able to turn Bragram’s former friend Isca the Unbeaten into your ally. She supplied you with the maps and times that Bragram would be present here,” said the Dweller in the Darkness. “She did horrendous things as well in these dungeons where mutants minds were broken and their bodies were sewn together so to speak with my children of the darkness.”

“They were not children, they were vile demons,” said T’Challa.

“I will not indulge you in banter nor engage you in battle because I have seen your record when it comes confrontations with gods. You even tamed my friend Galactus at one point,” said the Dweller in Darkness. “But I will barter with you. Give me Mute and I will give you safe passage from this prison complex.”

T’Challa couldn’t tell if the god was bluffing him.

“You must be saying that I T’Challa who dared to fight Khonsou the Moon God, the mad titan Thanos and Mephisto can certainly take on this old backwater creature from bygone multiverses but you will be wrong. I know where your bombs are located in the spiritual realm and I can stop their deonations,” said the Dweller in the Darkness.

T’Challa placed Mute onto his shoulder and said, “No deal.”

“I wonder what your girlfriend Storm the so called Regent of Sol will say when I tell her about you and her fellow council member Isca especiallay since they were forming such a cordial relationship with each other,” said the Dweller in the Darkness.

Suddenly T’Challa sensed a change in Mute’s health and then he was strucked with a telepathic blast from the mutant that broke through his psi shields. T’Challa staggered as his legs wobbled and he fell. Mute got up and said telepathicially to the god,” I told you that he would never admit to his crimes.”

“You were correct,” said the Dweller in the Darkness.

“I appreciate the power boost that you gave me and now tell Bragram that the Black Panther is a non factor so he should reveal his true power to the other Wakandans,” said Mute.

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T’Challa the Black Panther in A Message to the Regent of Sol

Chapter One

Official word swiftly reached the throne of Wakanda and the War Council of Planet Arrako (formerly Mars) of the grand standoff between Wakanda and the Arraki in the Cardassian region of deep space. The Arrakis had taken it upon themselves to speak for the Wakandans at a meeting with Cardassian traders. The Wakandans had objected but the Arraki insisted that they spoke on behalf of all the inhabitants of the Sol System because they had the might to do so. But the Wakandan’s retorted that their king the Black Panther was mightier and they would not submit to any other authority to represent them. The Cardassians took a neutral stance and would not sign any trade deals with either party until the conflict was resolved.

Days later at the Arraki Council meeting war was declared on Wakanda on the grounds that they had to be made an example of to cement Arrako’s right to lead the Sol System. The Regent of Sol who was also the former wife of T’Challa the Black Panther used her power of veto to quash the judgement but she was overruled by the appearance of the reclusive council member Bragram the High Summoner. Bragram controlled all spiritual, unseen and supernatural aspects of Arrako. He claimed that Wakanda’s spirtual technology weapons were a great threat to Arrako and needed to be destroyed so the council moved forward with war plans for Wakanda.

MEANWHILE IN WAKANDA

T’Challa looked down from his throne at the warriors he had summoned. The insurrectionist Hatura; the seditionits Jabari Queen Divine Justice and her cousin M’Baku; the acolyte the Watcher and finally the victim of society Mute.

“Thank you for coming. I know it must be hard given each of your personal history with me. To be honest I don’t want to work with you but for the sake of Wakanda I have to do so,” said T’Challa.

He clasped his hands and a hologram of Bragram appeared between the throne and the gathering. The mutant wizard was ashen but with dark circular markings on his chests and face. His eyes were made from metal and his hair was lily white.

“This is our target. He is a servant of the Dweller in the Darkness and he has replaced his eyes with the Arrako metal called Mysterium to harness its mystical powers in order to increase his own,” said T’Challa.

“Who is the Dweller in the Darkness?” asked Queen Divine Justice.

“He was involved in the destruction of the last known universe,” replied T’Challa. “The Dweller in the Darkness provides legions of demons to his servants as gifts and hence the reason I called this group and not the regular Wakanda forces. Bragram is pushing a war with Wakanda and when we kill him then our enemy will concede.”

“Are you sure?” asked Hatura. “He could become a matyr.”

“No. Bragram is hated by the populace of Arrako because he was the warden at their re-education schools when the civilization lived in another dimension. Mutants form a unique identity with their powers and Bragram violated the identities of his prisoners when he mixed their blood with demons’. He will not be missed,” replied T’Challa.

“You seem so sure like there is something you are not telling us,” said the Watcher.

“I am giving you all that is necessary to complete the mission. We leave for Mars in an hour,” said T’Challa. “In the meatime mingle with each other as your teamwork will determine the outcome of this mission.”

Chapter Two

T’Challa spied on the group as they got into an agrument over the seditionist movement of the Jabari. Hatura and Watcher objected to the semi autonomous arrangements that T’Challa made with Queen Divine Justice. Meanwhile the telepath Mute remained aloof.

“You are one to talk when you ran a secret society in Wakanda,” said M’Baku and he stood face to face with Hatura.

“Move or be carried off little man,” said Hatura.

“Knock it off,” said Queen Divine Justice and she used her mutant power to create a spike made from ice that emerged from the ground and separated the two men.

Mute grinned and Watcher commented on his sewn up mouth. “Did you do that to yourself?” asked Watcher.

“Yes,” replied Mute telepathicially in the minds of the all the group members.

They looked at the dimunitive mutant uneasily.

“So what do you guys think? Is T’Challa being on the level with us?” asked Queen Divine Justice.

“Absolutely not,” replied Watcher.

“But aleast we are not expendable or a suicide squad because I have a country to get back to ruling after this is done,” said Queen Divine Justice.

“Maybe this mission is his way to get rid of you,” said Mute.

“It is too elaborate a plot even for him,” said Queen Divine Justice.

T’Challa felt sorry for her because of the naivity she displayed. She was a young ruler who was in her twenties and she had not grasped the horrofic pitfalls that lay on her path.

T’Challa returned to the group with bracelets that were needed to operate in the spiritual realm on Mars.

Chapter Three

The Earth bound mutant nation of Krakoa had terraformed Mars as a gift to their cousins the Arraki. The dead planet had turned into a tropical paradise in seven hours and was declared the capital planet of the solar system. There was a metropolitan space port, a diplomatic centre and orbital space station. The valuable mutant metal of Mysterium which rivaled vibranium was loaded on the merchant ships that constantly flew in and out of the planet.

But the spirit world was a stark contrast. The green bodies of monsters, humanoids and other undescribable dead creatures were piled on top each other. They were the legacy of unknown and unseen wars that plagued Mars from its creation. T’Challa led his forces to the prison door of the Vile School where mutants once had their identities stripped from them.

“Why not a sneak attack?” asked Hatura.

“Because as a wizard Bragram should have foreseen our arrival and our intent,” replied T’Challa.

The towering door vanished and the screams of people came out suddenly from the darknesss that was behind the door. Then T’Challa’s hyper senses told him that a creature was coming towards the group like a bullet train.

“Scatter out,” shouted the Black Panther.

No sooner had he said those words than a grey goo bursted out of the doorway and almost crushed the group in its path. It resemebled ink and it rose into the air then sprouted ten limbs that it tried to squish the Wakandans with.

Hatura transformed from a man into a Savage Hulk-like creature, Queen Divine Justice used her mutant powers to send ice daggers into the beast, Watcher fired neutron blasts from his sword and M’Baku along with Mute did nothing.

T’Challa gave them an authorative glare and they stared back at him in defiance.

Locust-like insects then appeared and they went at M’Baku and Mute. The stings from the locusts created boils on their skins and then Mute used his telepathy to take over the minds of the beasts and the insects fell to the ground. The White Gorilla blood in M’Baku’s body gave him the rapid healing factor to remove the boils from the skin.

T’Challa created two spears of light in his hands and he threw them into the doorway; they weapons exploded and temporarily cleared the passage of anymore defences. Meanwhile, Hatura, Queen Divine Justice and Watcher cut the ink beast in half and subdued it.

Finally Bragram floated out of the ash and embers of the destroyed passageway.

“Human pest have you come to send a message to the Regent of Sol that you can defy the power of Arrako or are you here to be educated on your rightful place in the universe?” asked the High Summoner.

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