T'Challa: Ben Ate All the Vibranium!

night.

Wakanda.

Shuri yawned as she worked overtime alone.

As one of the smartest people in the world, she is responsible for the safety of the group that will be going to the Cancerverse to carry out the explosion plan.

The cosmic the Fault is not located near Earth in another universe, so it is conceivable that this is a long journey.

She had to act as a lighthouse, sending signals to Tony and the others, and responding promptly to provide support.

She's been doing this job for several days now.

Of course, this could also have been handled by artificial intelligence, allowing Azmuth and Friday to dock and issue commands.

However, Shuri had other matters to investigate.

"Let me see who's stealing our Vibranium!" she said through gritted teeth, keeping an eye on the situation in the Cancerverse while watching the Vibranium in the lab via the monitor.

A few days ago, she discovered that the Vibranium stored in the laboratory was decreasing.

At first, she didn't think much of it, assuming she had misremembered the number. But after a few days, the Vibranium in the lab was almost completely used up, which made it impossible for her not to notice that a little mouse had sneaked in!

"The last time something like this happened was a few years ago with a guy named Ulysses!"

She got angry just thinking about that white man with white hair.

Ulysses Klaue.

For decades, he had been smuggling small amounts of Vibranium out of Wakanda, which had already made him a wanted man worldwide. In the end, Norman caught this petty thief and handed him over to them for personal execution.

And now, someone actually has designs on Wakanda's Vibranium!

This is absolutely intolerable!

As she was thinking this, she suddenly saw the monitor screen flicker, followed by a faint, semi-transparent figure appearing out of thin air, wandering around the laboratory as if sleepwalking.

"Wait, Ben Parker?"

Shuri recognized the hero from the Ben Watch: "I think his name is Big Chill."

But what is the other party doing in the lab transformed into Big Chill?

Stealing Vibranium?

You must be joking!

She dismissed the absurd thought from her mind.

Anyone in this world could steal Vibranium, but Ben Parker couldn't.

Because the amount of Vibranium possessed by the other side already exceeded that of Wakanda.

Several years ago, due to the Ultron incident, a large amount of Vibranium was stolen from Wakanda.

Ultron was eventually defeated, but the Vibranium team was too embarrassed to ask Ben to return the portion of the Vibranium.

After all, they didn't contribute anything to this matter.

Later, the Ben mined Vibranium in Antarctica, and the total amount and types of Vibranium they mined exceeded those in Wakanda. There was no need for them to steal small amounts of stuff for the lab.

Trusting Ben, Shuri chose to continue watching.

But what happened next made her start to doubt whether she was dreaming.

The Big Chill in the scene returned from the phase space, picked up a piece of Vibranium in its physical form, and then stuffed it directly into its mouth, chewing it vigorously.

"Click!"

"Click!"

Even through the screen, Shuri could almost hear the metallic clang and feel his teeth ache.

Shuri felt as if his worldview had been shattered three times in an instant.

The first time was when she discovered that the person who stole the Vibranium was indeed Ben; the second time was when she discovered that the person stole the Vibranium not for technology or money, but simply for food.

The third time, Ben actually managed to crush the Vibranium into pieces!

No, buddy?

That's Vibranium, not rock candy!

You just crunched it up like that?

Is that correct?

She quickly picked up the phone and dialed. "Hey, brother, something terrible has happened!"

"What's wrong?"

On the other end of the phone, T'Challa was still sleepy.

Shuri immediately recounted everything she had seen. After listening, T'Challa was surprised, but not entirely.

"After all, it's Ben Parker; he can always do things we can't with ease," T'Challa said.

"Let him eat, we're all buddies! Besides, how much can he eat? He's not going to bankrupt us, is he?"

"That's not what I'm worried about."

Shuri shook his head, saying that this amount of Vibranium was indeed nothing, "I'm worried he might get an upset stomach."

"Don't overthink it. He must have his reasons for doing this. Maybe he's just lacking some trace elements, like iron."

T'Challa gave up thinking and waved his hand like the Jade Emperor in Journey to the West.

Ignore him!

Shuri's face darkened with anger.

Are Vibranium and iron the same thing?

"Fine, since you've put it that way, I'm not going to bother with it anymore!"

She simply turned off the surveillance camera and hung up the phone.

Anyway, there's only so much Vibranium in the lab, it won't matter if we eat it all.

If you get food poisoning, just don't blame her.

Given Ben's past practices, he still has some credibility.

While she was leaving things to her own devices, Ben had already devoured all the Vibranium in the laboratory in the blink of an eye.

But this amount is still not enough for him.

Or rather, he couldn't satisfy the child in his womb.

The Big Chill are a genderless race. They reproduce once every eighty years, and during this period, the wearer of the Omnitrix will uncontrollably and intermittently transform, accumulating nutrients for their offspring.

Generally speaking, nutrients are composed of metals, namely iron.

But in Wakanda, the Big Chill smelled an even sweeter scent and made sure this element was beneficial to her child.

Yes, it's Vibranium.

As for how he managed to crush the Vibranium, that's thanks to the Little Broken Watch.

As Noah's Ark, which exists to perpetuate the intelligent race, it seems to have determined that the Big Chill need to consume Vibranium to replenish their nutrients, and therefore made some minor enhancements.

At this moment, the Big Chill, having consumed all the Vibranium in the laboratory, became increasingly agitated.

He looked around; all he saw were various kinds of metal, but none of them were Vibranium.

Having tasted this metal, he no longer cared about these mundane things. So he passed straight through the wall, following the scent of Vibranium, and flew towards the Vibranium inside the mountains of Wakanda.

T'Challa slept soundly all night until his father T'Chaka, sent someone to wake him up, at which point he groggily made his way to the palace.

Seeing his father, Mother Empress, sister, and everyone else with serious expressions, he asked curiously, "What's wrong? Why do you all look like the sky has fallen?"

"It's more terrifying than the sky falling down!"

His mother said.

T'Chaka was in tears, his majesty gone, replaced only by guilt towards his ancestors. "I never imagined that Wakanda's legacy, built over so many years, would be destroyed in my hands! How can I face my ancestors, how can I face the great Panther God!"

"What exactly happened?"

"See for yourself!"

T'Chaka sadly pulled up the surveillance footage, T'Challa he watched repeatedly, but he couldn't figure out anything.

There's nothing there?

"Yeah, but before this morning, this was the world's second-largest Vibranium! Until some spendthrift guy told his sister, 'It's okay, let him eat it!'"

T'Challa:???

"Wait, what did you say? This is Vibranium in Wakanda?"

His eyes widened.

Such a huge Vibranium, all of it has been completely devoured?

No, not at all.

T'Chaka then changed the subject. "What's being eaten so far is the very top layer of the vein, roughly one percent of the remaining total."

The Vibranium is not a single, continuous entity.

When Vibranium fell from the sky, the high temperature caused by atmospheric friction made it less solid, and it broke into many fragments upon impact.

But even one percent of an entire mine is an extremely terrifying amount.

"Moreover, the other party's appetite is constantly increasing. A few days ago, the little bit of food in the lab was enough to satisfy him, but now he has eaten hundreds of tons in one night... At this rate, it will only take him a few days to consume all the Vibranium."

"I can't believe it Shuri said in despair.

We must stop him!

T'Challa said firmly, "Shuri, report this to Norman Osborn, the Galactic Plumbers Security Officer, immediately and request assistance. We are no match for Ben on our own."

A few minutes later, Norman Osborn, having figured out what had happened, summoned the remaining agents on Earth.

This also includes Felicia and Looma.

Looma crossed her four arms, racking her brains but still couldn't figure out a single problem.

She asked, "Why should I help you deal with the Benny?"

"As Benny's future wife, no matter what he does, I will stand by his side. So, you'll have to get past me first!"

She picked up the Divine Hammer.

"Felicia, come over here too!"

T'Challa was numb, and looked at Norman Osborn with a hint of resentment.

Brother, I asked you to find some help, not to find help for Ben!

Fortunately, Felicia was still quite clear-headed and quickly said to Looma, "No, Looma, I'm worried that something might have happened to Benny."

Norman added, "Yes, Benny's behavior is very abnormal right now, and T'Challa and the others have tried to communicate with him, but Benny hasn't responded at all."

That alone is enough to worry them.

This is normal.

Looma shook her head and said, "That's how the Necrofriggian are. Benny must be entering their egg-laying period now. He needs to replenish a lot of metal during this time."

As the Princess of the Red Peak Empire, an interstellar civilization, Looma has a considerable understanding of the well-known races in the universe.

"Laying! Egg! Period!?"

Felicia was so frightened she almost collapsed to the ground.

"Is my Benny going to be all girls?! No way!"

"And if they really do lay eggs, whose child will it be? Mine? Yours? Or perhaps Mary Jane, Eunice, Wanda, Helen Cho...?"

Felicia rattled off a list of dishes.

The sheer number of names that came out of her mouth made even the decadent capitalist Norman and the even more decadent tribal chief T'Chaka feel ashamed.

This relationship is such a mess!

"I can't figure it out, I really can't figure it out!" Felicia clutched her head in anguish.

It's just that there were too many people there at night.

"It has nothing to do with you, it's asexual reproduction," Looma shook her head. "It happens once every eighty years, but we can all be godmothers."

Felicia calmed down.

"That's good."

Even if it means getting Benny pregnant, she has to be the first!

Peter, relieved to hear that Ben was alright, couldn't help but chuckle, "That's hilarious! So I'm going to be an uncle soon? Unbelievable, Peter! That sounds great! I wonder how happy Uncle Ben and Aunt May would be to know they're going to be grandparents."

"Stop laughing."

Looma glanced at him and couldn't help but say, "Your watch also has Necrofriggian DNA; you'll have to give birth to one someday too."

"Walter?"

"But, but this is a copy."

"But the genes are real," Looma shrugged.

"Oh my god!" Peter exclaimed, cupping his face in his hands, "Does that mean I'll lay eggs too? What do you think will happen if I do? Will they be moths or spiders?"

"You asked me, and my advice is to take off your watch," Norman said succinctly.

"That won't do!"