"This way," Shuri chirps, bright and visibly amused. Bucky can guess what she's anticipating.

With Ross on her other side, he walks with Sharon out into the main lab, where displays of inventions and experiments in various stages are arranged in illuminated glass cases.

Outside the floor-to-ceiling glass windows that show the heart of Mount Bashenga, a mag-lev train races by in elegant silence on its stabilized track.