The silent stealth drones transmitted images from inside the royal palace to the front lines. Malcolm vaguely saw several figures holding long weapons that emitted heat. Whenever a blinding white flash lit up the footage, a blazing azure pulse shot from the palace windows and struck the black drones hovering in the morning light. Then the massive armored personnel carriers activated their mounted weapons. Heavy Explosive Rounds and Laser Cannons began firing at those windows like a torrential downpour. Particle Beams and kinetic weapons sliced chunks of rock from the palace walls, and even the thick Vibranium within the walls began to bend.
A squad of giants in Power Armor carried out a Black woman dressed in magnificent robes, charging out like a speeding train under the fire cover of two armored personnel carriers. On their way out, they turned back and used their Explosive Rounds Guns to kill a Dora Milaje who tried to pursue them. Princess Shuri, who had returned from the Communication Center, stepped forward to greet the rescued Queen Regent Ramonda while also comforting the nobles whose children were still trapped inside the palace. Princess Shuri said a few words to Nakia, who opened the door of the hovering car and let T'Challa, clad in the Black Panther Battle Suit, step out from his seat.
Wakanda's Claw fighter jets and Latveria's Vulture Interceptors hovered above the royal palace, with more than a dozen aircraft casting bright searchlights downward. T'Challa briefly greeted his mother, then walked toward the palace beneath the focused beams. He invited Erik Killmonger to come out and face him in a fair duel. It would be a duel between two Black Panthers who had taken the Heart-shaped herb. No one would intervene, and every detail of the duel would be displayed before the