As Shuri quietly made her way towards the area where the disturbance was recorded to be, she made sure what was left of the royal guard stuck close to her. Even weeks after the Snap happened, she still got that panicky feeling when nobody was by her or at a close distance. They needed to be close enough that she could see them from the corner of her eye. To make sure they weren't gone like the others were.

Gone like her older brother.

As they got closer, Shuri could see the outside of the crater. The outer ring was high, most likely going to take some time if they walked up it. Time that they didn't have if whatever crash landed was a threat. So she signaled to the rest of the group to go around the crater, to surround it as best as they could while she used one of the few experiments she had been working on in the few weeks to take her up to the top of the pile of dirt and trees snapped in half.

All it took was single leap and as she landed on top of it without much issue. However she immediately came face to face with what caused the crater and the need to see what it was. Taking in at what she was looking at, the only thing that made sense in her mind that it was an alien spaceship. With the odd shape and size of it that she hadn't seen from anything here on Earth (she hacked many government databases to see designs of weapons and such for her own curiosity), that was the only explanation she could come up with.

The ship was huge, bigger than anything recorded on Earth's record, even for Wakanda. This wasn't what she expected when taking a look at the disturbance in the jungle. (Probably more along the lines of something from Thanos if she was being honest with herself.)

The ship didn't look like it had taken that much damage with only a few dents that she could see. Which was surprising with how far it had dug itself into the ground. Still Shuri knew that even if it appeared to be mostly unharmed that it didn't mean what was ever on it wasn't a threat in the slightest.

She took another leap to get closer. As she softly landed in the dirt, she finally saw the damage that was done to it. There were many scratch marks across the metal and dents the size of her hand that she couldn't have seen from the top of crater. There was also signs of many repairs, each one varying in age and skill of how well it blended with the rest of the ship.

With curiosity, Shuri walked to the ship and carefully touched the hull of the ship. Even with the gloves she wore to protect herself, she could feel the immense heat coming off it. Like it was extremely warm to begin with before crashing through Earth's atmosphere.

Making a decision, she took another leap. This time she landed on top of the ship. Shuri felt the heat through her boots, but thankfully for this latest version of them she had added the same protection as she did with her gloves. As she looked around, still seeing signs of repair, Shuri had to wonder what had created it. From what she heard from Oyoke with the fight against Thanos, he was a big being, towering over all the heroes who fought him. Still she doubt he was big enough to build what could house a big family or two with no issue over space.

Taking a step towards what she assumed to be the windshield of the ship, she saw soft colours of blue, purple and red lights peeking through all the dust and debris of the glass. When she was close enough to the windshield, she carefully touched the glass. It was the same kind of heat that she felt before, just a degree or two warmer. Thankfully her gloves protected her from such heat or her hands would have been burned severely.

Wiping her hand across the glass, she finally saw what was inside the ship. From what she could see there was a control panel, two seats for the giant aliens to use and a bunch of other things that she couldn't identify. But the thing that was making her nervous was that she couldn't see anything that could give an idea of what she was facing in terms of an alien.

She sighed heavily making the dust from the windshield float up. It would seem that she would have to have a few guards here to watch over the crash site to make sure nothing escaped (and destroy even more of the planet than what Thanos did.)

As she took a step away from the windshield, Shuri heard something underneath her feet. She paused for a moment. When she heard the noise again, she went back to her original position. Wiping even more of the glass, she looked beyond the cockpit and tried to see what was making the noise.

As she took in the rest of the inside of the ship, Shuri finally noticed the streaks of blue on the floor. It looked like paint, but she was betting it was the blood of the alien that was hiding in the ship. (After all aliens wouldn't have the same biology as humans.)

As she strained her eyes to see further in, she was suddenly met with a face of the intruder. With a yelp and a fumbled step backwards, Shuri fell backwards onto the ship. Even with the protect of her gloves and boots, the rest of her clothing wasn't made to withstand the extreme heat (yet.) Feeling the burning heat through her clothing, she got up once more.

That's when she saw that the alien who snuck up on her was still looking out the windshield. They were still looking at her almost like they were trying to solve a problem. But Shuri noticed that the alien wasn't like the other aliens she had seen or met over the last few years. They looked like they were closer to a robot than anything else.

Going back to the windshield, Shuri continued to take in details of the alien as she wiped away more of the dust. There was a grey outer metal shell on their head with something like fins on the side of it while the face underneath looked organic enough. It left the possibility that there was a smaller being using a robotic suit (but that didn't exactly give the reason why the ship was huge.)

She could also spot metal behind their head that looked similar to wings. It was outlined with green and the rest of the metal was white. At the joint of the shoulder and the arm connecting was a car tire. Random, but who knew what aliens do being in outer space and all.

Shuri went back to staring back at their face and noticed something else as well. The eyes were a solid light blue with thin dark blue lines to outline the pupils as they continued to stare at her.

Then it lifted a hand to point at the side of it's head. Confused at what they were trying to communicate, she shrugged. With what looked like a full body sigh, they quickly left the windshield. Shuri watched as they went to a cabinet and dug through it's supplies. She waited for a few moments for it to come back. Whatever they wanted her to do, she hoped it was reasonable.

When they popped back up, they held something up to the glass. Then they proceeded to write on it. Shuri waited until they were done to examine the words. The white lettering looked similar to English, but like someone who was either starting to understand the language or didn't use it often.

"C...O...M...M..S?" She said out loud, hoping she was reading the letters right. The alien smiled and pointed back to their head.

It took her a few moments before she finally understood what they wanted. "Oh you want to contact me through my comms!"

Without waiting any further, Shuri started to find the frequency that the alien was using. It took several minutes, but finally she connected to something that she hoped was them. She gave them a thumbs up to indicate that she had found it.

It took only a moment for the alien to use the link.

"Hoping that's you kid. Otherwise I'm talking to nobody." Came a masculine voice through her ears. Oddly enough it reminded her of an old actor who did a lot of western movies back in the day that her would sometimes watch down in his free time.

Shuri smiled and replied "Don't worry it's the right line. Do you have a way to get out or are you stuck in there? That would make talking easier."

"Can't get out. The ground is blocking Jackhammer's ramp door from being able to open. And I don't have any grenades in here to use to break open the window." The alien said, tapping against the glass.

Shuri smiled once more, knowing what she had to do. "I can help you get out. Just have to signal to the guards to join me up here."

"Doubt it could be any worse that what I would do."

She contacted the guards, telling them what she had found, why she needed their help. It took a few minutes for them to get to the ship as they didn't having the same technology that she had. When they finally made it up the side of the ship, they stood close to the windshield, waiting for her orders.

It didn't take long for her to set them up. With three of them standing around the windshield along with her, Shuri hoped this would be enough to break through the glass the first time. Otherwise it would take awhile. "Might want to stand back. Don't want to accidentally hurt you."

There was a huff of laughter, but the alien moved away from the glass. Hopefully far enough that they won't get hurt by flying glass. By the count of her hand, they all shot at it at the same time. There was a few cracks that she could see, stretching out over the glass. But it didn't look like it would break from any of them kicking or hitting it.

With a heavy sigh, Shuri counted down again. And again. And again until she saw that there was a few pieces missing. With a smile, she counted off once more. There was loud cracking sound from most of the glass falling away. While a few pieces clung to the edge, it wasn't enough that someone wouldn't harm themselves if they jumped in or out of the ship.

"You can come out alien. As long as you don't harm us, we don't see a reason to use our weapons against you." Shuri said. She watched as the alien came back and then crawled out from where the windshield use to be.

She could hear the sounds of metal scraping metal and the soft hint of an engine as they stood up. Still the most surprising thing was how tall they were. Shuri had to bet that this one could tower over Thanos no problem.

They stretched and groaned, but still managed to give her a friendly smile when looking down at her. "Don't think you're gonna have to use your weapons on me. But I'll ask if I can use whatever supplies you have to fix Jackhammer."

"You can come with us to my lab. I want to ask you all kinds of questions."

"Yeah? What kind of questions?"

"Things like if your a robot or an alien wearing a robot suit. Or more along the lines of how you crashed here."

The smile grew wider on the alien's face. "Smart move, kid. How about we start with names before diving into that stuff?"

"Alright. I'm Shuri, Princess of Wakanda. Who are you?" She asked. She watched as the alien tilted his head at the title. Like he wasn't use to hearing titles like that.

"I'm Wheeljack from Cybertron. I thought we were on Earth?" Wheeljack said as they scratched the back of their head. "Unless the navigation wasn't working when I crashed."

"Wakanda is part of Earth. There are no countries or separate areas on Cybertron?"

"No, we didn't have different countries. But there were certain cities that were for others unlike me. Like Vos for the seekers. But I don't think that's what you're talking about."

" I guess not. But it sounds interesting nonetheless." Shuri could feel her mind spinning a million miles per second, giving her questions that she should ask Wheeljack. His species sounded so interesting and different from hers, especially with what sounded like different body types to describe the type of ability they had. "We'll talk more about it later though. I want to see how your ship works and see if I can recreate that in my lab?"

"Doubt you could do that kid. But it would be fun to see you try."

"I don't try. I do."

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This'll be a short fic with about 2 or 3 chapters, but it'll definitely be fun to write since these two have great personalities. Plus I figured they would mesh well together since in the original cartoon and in the comics, Wheeljack is an engineer (which is a shame they never show that side to him in Prime.) And Shuri makes all those weapons and suits from what we're shown in the Black Panther.

Hopefully it was a fun chapter to read! :D