Chapter 27: An introduction

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My feet landed on the soft grass of what seemed to be a strawberry farm. Rows of strawberry  fields stretched for miles behind me, workers milled around picking the berries. In front of me sat a large farmhouse

Odd, I thought, isn't it late in the season to be picking strawberries. The thought disappeared as quickly as it had come. No, of course, this had always been the right time to be picking strawberries, otherwise why would they be picking them. Why had Perry Johansson sent me to a strawberry field though, and where the heck was he?

"Friday," I told my faceplate, "text Perry Johansson, 'Where are you?'"

"Done, sir" Friday replied, mine and Perry's conversation appearing at the bottom of my vision.

A ding sounded then the words don't freak out popped up on the texts.

"Perry Johansson says-" Friday started

"Yes, yes. I can read." I interrupted, "make the screen bigger."

Friday did so and the texts filled up most of my vision.

"Tell Perry that telling me this was a matter of life and death and practically forcing me to come is not exactly keeping my blood pressure down."

"Are you ok?" I dictated as an afterthought, "I'm not going to walk in there and find you laying in a pool of your blood?"

He had said it was a matter of life and death. Maybe he had been kidnapped and found a phone. I looked around, it didn't exactly look like a kidnapper's home. The air was filled with the light chatter and the scent of strawberries , not blood and tears and guards running in fear. In fact, no one had come up to me, a couple of workers were sending glances my way and whispering, but that was the norm. Even the large house seemed cheery.

I checked the texts again, no reply. I guess I was going in. I took a step towards the door but as it opened revealing a tall, dark haired teen, one by the name of Percy Jackson. Acting on instinct I raised my repulsor at him. Percy immediately stopped, putting his hands up in the air.

"Woah, woah, woah,"

"What are you doing here?" I demanded, my words coming out deeper and robotic through my mask. Percy stared at me, not answering the question.

"What?"

"You kidnapped Perry Johansson." I said with dawning horror. It all made sense. Hydra had always wanted the serum, so they framed me and sent Percy to break into the tower to steal it. When that didn't work they kidnapped someone close to me, the only one without the means to protect themselves like Pepper or Rhodney, someone Hydra also didn't like. They probably forced Perry to text me, do anything to get me here.

"Release Perry and maybe you will live." I threatened, but once again Percy jested kept staring at me.

"You better wipe that stupid look off your face before-"

Percy interrupted me, doubling over with laughter. He clutched his stomach completely ignoring the weapon pointed at him.

"You think I kidnapped "Perry"" he put the last part in air quotes, only slightly recovering from his laughing fit. "I thought you already figured it out. What with you being a genius and spying on me and everything. Or I told you and forgot about it."

"You have ten seconds before we see if you actually have a brain inside your head firsthand."

"I'm Perry Johansson." Percy announced, throwing his arms out wide.

"Hardy had har. Quit the joking."

"I can't believe you don't know. You are supposed to be smart." Percy said, "remember I said I had a really crazy family. Well, tada, it's the gods. And when I met you after the fire you asked if you knew me because I called you titanium tin man or something."

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