BIOGRAPHY - page 15
The Avengers were called in to deal with the Red Zone, an expanding wave of flesh-eating mist attacking South Dakota. Iron Man and Black Panther remained out of the field to assist the CDC with a cure to the affliction, but continued butting heads with each other. Stark accused T'Challa of keeping to his own secretive agendas instead of being a team player, while T'Challa retorted Tony had never made any real sacrifice or taken any risk, locked away in his armor. Their efforts were interrupted by military agents working for the Secretary of Defense Dell Rusk, who was secretly the Red Skull and responsible for the outbreak. The Skull intended to corrupt America from within and blame the Red Zone outbreak on Wakanda, starting a war to cleanse the world of those he saw as "sub-human." The other Avengers arrived but, as Iron Man and Black Panther escaped 
their cell, Captain America contracted the Red Zone. While T'Challa beat on the Red Skull with his bare hands, Tony Stark left his armor and exposed himself to Red Zone mist in order to resuscitate Cap. In the end, Cap was saved, the Red Skull beaten and a treatment for the Red Zone was found. Black Panther and Iron Man shook hands and put their animosity behind them, planning a new joint venture between Stark Enterprises and Wakanda. [Avengers (3rd series) #66-70]
Black Panther remained with the Avengers for a few weeks after the Red Zone. [Avengers (3rd series) #76] He had already begun working with the team less often, though, by the time the Chaos event struck, causing the team to disassemble. [Avengers (1st series) #500-503] With his obligations in America largely behind him, the Black Panther returned full-time to Wakanda.
[Note: Black Panther (4th series) #1 began a sudden, even jarring shift in Black Panther continuity. Confusion was rampant during the publication of the first arc as to whether Reginald Hudlin was writing a Year One story, a reboot or just a new direction for the character. Black Panther (4th series) #1-6 introduced T'Challa's sister Shuri and his uncle S'Yan, who had never been mentioned before. It re-imagined Klaw and gave an entirely different story of T'Chaka's death. Everett Ross was a researcher instructing the U.S. Cabinet as if they'd never heard of Wakanda. The Dora Milaje were now a nameless duo of nigh-identical warriors instead of recognizable women like Queen Divine Justice and Okoye. The first arc seemingly took place immediately after T'Challa assumed the throne, yet the second arc both followed the first arc directly AND had a crossover with the contemporary X-Men continuity. So, something LIKE this story arc happened and (despite some evidence to the contrary) it more consistently happened in the present rather than years ago.]
Klaw resurfaced and organized an invasion of Wakanda from the neighboring corrupt nation of Niganda. King M'Buku was eager to annex Wakanda through little effort of his own, while Klaw was still motivated by revenge and profit. In addition to a mercenary army, he assembled several costumed fighters such as Batroc, Rhino, Black Knight and Radioactive Man. The latter targeted the Great Vibranium Mound with radiation to destabilize the atomic structure of the Vibranium, causing tremors. Seeing this as an act of war, T'Challa flew to Niganda to personally end M'Buku's reign, but Klaw and his mercenaries infiltrated the palace while he was gone. Shuri was trapped in 
the Mound with Radioactive Man while investigating the tremors, but killed him with the discarded Ebony Blade of the fallen Black Knight. S'Yan was nearly killed fighting Klaw to protect Queen Ramonda, but the Black Panther returned in time to defeat Klaw. S'Yan's son T'Shan, ambassador to the United Nations, was shot down returning to Wakanda during the chaos and, unbeknownst to anyone, was possessed by the malevolent body-jumping Cannibal, who had also been working with Klaw. [Black Panther (4th series) #1-6]
With M'Buku ousted, Niganda fell into a state of chaos and uprising. T'Challa discovered a Genoshan scientist named Erich Paine had been performing mutagenic experiments on animals in the region with M'Buku's consent, and now those creatures were running wild. Black Panther crossed paths with the X-Men, who were conducting a similar investigation. T'Challa and Storm were reunited, and the Black Panther expressed interest in rekindling their connection from long ago. Ororo told T'Challa she had her own pursuits to follow at the moment, but that they would meet again soon. [Wild Kingdom crossover]
Back in Wakanda, Queen Mother Ramonda began pressing T'Challa to fulfill his royal duties, take a bride and begin fathering children to secure his lineage. Having so recently been rejected by Ororo, T'Challa traveled to America and attempted to propose to Monica Lynne again. Monica turned down his proposal yet again, however. She had never felt welcome or at home in 
Wakanda, and did not enjoy being attacked and kidnapped as often as it happened at T'Challa's side. Besides, she knew she was not his "one, true love" and she encouraged him to stop playing it safe with her and go after the woman he truly wanted. The king told her what a good friend she had been to him, and T'Challa and Monica Lynne embraced for the last time. [Black Panther (4th series) #10]
Black Panther stalled for time until he worked up the courage to approach Ororo. He became friends with Luke Cage, fought against Fu Manchu and joined Blade, Brother Voodoo and Monica 
Rambeau fighting vampires in New Orleans. With the thrice-blessed armor of the Panther God and the holy Ebony Blade he had secured during the invasion, T'Challa was a force to be reckoned with against the undead. When he was fully prepared, however, T'Challa returned to Africa where Ororo was fighting against local warlords. He told her the rage he felt as a child which drove them apart had been dealt with. He said he had no more need for dalliances or childish mistakes. His Royal Majesty T'Challa asked the princess Ororo Munroe of Kenya to marry him. After some hesitation and a visit to Wakanda to meet with Ramonda, Ororo said yes. [Black Panther (4th series) #11-15]
Word spread around the globe about the upcoming nuptials. In some circles, it caused a good deal of pause to hear the king of Wakanda was marrying an American national and prominent mutant outlaw. Even some of Ororo and T'Challa's friends had concerns, but for the most part it was treated as a happy occasion. T'Challa helped Ororo reconnect with family members she had lost contact with after the death of her parents, and the wedding moved forward. Peace was declared across the land on the 
wedding day, with invitations extended to M'Baku of the Jabari, to the President of the United States and the President of Cuba. Ramonda performed the ceremony, and the spirits of T'Challa and Ororo were transported to the Panther Pavilion, where the Black Panther presented his intended bride before the eyes of his god. The Panther God accepted this offering, and so Ororo Munroe of Kenya and America became Ororo Idaqi T'Challa, Queen of the Wakandas. [Black Panther (4th series) #15-18]
Peace was not universal at the wedding, however. The Cannibal was nearly detected in T'Shan's body by Brother Voodoo and was forced to abandon that body, leaving the king's cousin dead. The Superhuman Registration Act had been passed into law in the United States, mandating all powered individuals and masked vigilantes register their identities with the government and 
accept oversight in their activities. Captain America and Iron Man had come down on opposite sides of the law, with Cap defending the right to individual freedom and Iron Man embracing the law in an effort to guide it from inside the system. T'Challa invited both men to Wakanda during his wedding under a flag of truce to reach an understanding between them, but both his old friends refused and left the wedding early with nothing resolved.
After a few weeks on their honeymoon, King T'Challa and Queen Ororo began considering Wakanda's position on the Act, and the inevitable progression beyond America's borders. After all, it was a short step from registering superhumans for civil defense to rallying them for military responses. Other countries would likely follow suit whether they admired America's paradigm or merely feared being unable to respond to it. T'Challa and Ororo were generally opposed to the Act, especially the manner in which it was being implemented. Reed Richards tried to sway 
T'Challa towards supporting the Act, but he remained unconvinced. They attempted to build an international coalition to voice opposition, but proved unsuccessful in swaying Captain Britain of the United Kingdom or the OPEC nations. Their most considered allies came from Latveria, Attilan and Atlantis, three nations that were in open hostilities with the United States at the moment or in the recent past. [Civil War (1st series) #3, Black Panther (4th series) #19-21]
Black Panther and Storm came to the United States for a planned meeting with the President over the SHRA. The United States government played politics with the meeting, however, by having the President refuse to meet with the Wakandan delegation until Storm registered under the Act. As a powered American citizen, Ororo Munroe was technically required to do so. Seeing the 
political trap as an insult to his queen, King T'Challa and Ororo left the White House without having their meeting. A ruckus with the protesters outside and a small skirmish with Iron Man and the Sentinel Squad only further tarnished the Panther's standing in America at that time. [Black Panther (4th series) #22]
T'Challa left Ororo in command of the Wakanda Consulate and went underground, linking up with Steve Rogers and his resistance. In addition to technical support and funding for their movement, Black Panther also used his senses to ferret out Tigra as a double agent working for the Initiative in Captain America's midst. The "Secret Avengers" installed their own double agent by replacing Yellowjacket with the shape-shifting Hulkling, and arranged an assault on the 42 prison in the Negative Zone. Thanks to Black Panther's planning and assistance, the unregistered heroes were freed from their cells and joined Captain America's resistance opposing Iron Man's heroes. T'Challa overrode control of the Negative Zone portal connected to the Baxter Building, and brought the fighting out of the Negative Zone and back to Manhattan. However, after being confronted by civilians who were being put in harm's way by the heroes' in-fighting, Captain America surrendered in order to continue the fight in the courts instead of the streets. [Black Panther (4th series) #23-25, Civil War (1st series) #6-7]
The Black Panther and Storm were relatively protected from direct prosecution for their actions, thanks to diplomatic immunity. However, the Wakanda Consulate was destroyed by the Thor clone in the last battle, and diplomatic standing with the United States was at a considerable low. Tony Stark and S.H.I.E.L.D. could do little directly to oppose T'Challa, though, since the destruction of 
the Consulate was tantamount to an act of war. Instead, T'Challa and Ororo met with the Fantastic Four. Reed and Sue Richards had wound up on opposite sides of the Act, and wanted a second honeymoon to rebuild their marriage. They offered to host the Wakanda Consulate and staff at the Baxter Building while Black Panther and Storm joined the Fantastic Four in their place while they were away. [Fantastic Four (1st series) #544, Black Panther (4th series) #26]
The Black Panther and Storm had a series of adventures with the Thing and Human Torch as part of the FF. They confronted Galactus and his Heralds and, in the process, discovered the Frogs of King Solomon were both sentient and mischievous. The frogs drew them into another universe to battle zombie super-heroes with the Power Cosmic, and later to the Skrull colony of Kral. They also reunited with Reed and Sue to confront the Frightful Four, later the Frightful Five when Klaw was resurrected to fight alongside them. Throughout it all, T'Challa renewed the friendships that had been strained during the Superhuman Civil War, and he and Ororo soon returned to Wakanda. [Fantastic Four (1st series) #544-550, Black Panther (4th series) #26-34]