*Whizz* An orange portal appeared inside the rather well-decorated hotel suite. “You sure I can stay here?” Bruce asked David.

“Your choice.” David shrugged his shoulders as he walked into the portal.

“What are you going to do now?” Bruce asked David who smiled.

“I am going to try and cheer up Nat. After that prepare myself for what is about to come.” Bruce had an unpleasant look as he heard that.

“Better send me a postcard or something.” David chuckled as he heard that.

“Just give me a call, if you need anything. I will try to visit you every now and then.” The portal began closing up.

“Sure.” The portal closed leaving David alone in his room.

“First thing first…” David sat down on his chair, took out his phone and began watching Nat infiltrating a research facility in Egypt.

Smiling, David watched her take down a guard quietly.

Opening his laptop David began looking for a certain place on the internet before finding their number.

Dialling their number, he called them up. “Hello, Rainbow Gardens. How may I help you?” The sweet voice of a young lady with a thick Russian accent entered David’s ears in Russian.

“Hi, can you arrange for me the best raspberries you have in your garden to an address once a week?” The lady on the other end frowned hearing that question.

“Sir, we don’t do deliveries. You have to come here and pick up the fruits by yourself…”

“₽100 million per month,” David interjected her denial with an offer equal to £1 million in Russian Ruble. The woman on the other end froze as she heard the figure.

“Selena Popov…” David called out to her name frightening the young woman.

“…tell your parents about my offer. I will call back in an hour.” David hung up the phone as he sat there with a notepad open.

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[David PoV]

“What should I build first?” I wondered unable to decide from the multitude of things I could build.

“Nanobots and nano suit is a must.” I wrote both those things down on my list.

‘Should I add in the Pym particles to that?’ Shrugging my shoulder I added Pym particle to the list of things I needed to make/ steal before improving on it.

Thinking about Pym particles made me think about time travel. “Time huh?” I smiled seeing how the future was going to be very different from now on until the main events.

[Time machine] I wrote down on my notes, but I didn’t intend to create a machine to travel in time but rather a machine that can predict the future without the need for time stone.

I roughly had an idea how to do that. A simple way to do that was by keeping track of all the data stream in the world with the help of my ‘Vines’ and using a simple algorithm to predict the flow of the world. A bit like how a chess grandmaster can see several moves ahead of most people, given there are the correct amount of limited variables known as chess pieces.

“Okay, I have covered offence and defence in the suit in nanotech and Pym particles. Utility in the time machine. Now transport…” I looked down at my sling ring.

It is better that I had another form of short rapid form of movement available should the sling ring become unusable.

[Space Stone] I wrote down on my notes. ‘I hope I don’t see you again Clint.’ I prayed as I opened up the camera feeds for Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility, in Mojave Desert, Nevada.

I didn’t like hurting him because as much as he had been my friend, he was Natasha’s only family.

A heavily fortified base with several researchers running about appeared before me.

Taking note of everything I walked forward to my suitcase sat in a corner of my room. “Long time no see.”

Smiling I grabbed the nano mask I hadn’t even used for a long time. Looking up the researchers inside the Dark Energy facility I chose a researcher that was fairly average in social life but had access to the space stone.

Uploading his biometrics onto the nano mask, I turned back to my phone.

Dialling the number, I had called an hour ago I sat down and waited. *Beep**Beep* “Rainbow Gardens. How may I help you?”

This time it was an aged Russian man who answered the call. “Mr Popov, please check your account for the money.”

While ordering him I finished the transaction. Popov asked back in concern. “Who is this?”

“You can say I am the most expensive whore in the world, who crushed the heart of a woman and is looking for ways to remedy it.”

*Ping* I smiled as I heard the chime of his phone’s message box. “Check your message.”

He was quiet for a second before I heard him scrambling. “What can I do for you?”

His tone shifted to a very polite one as I began texting him Natasha’s address. “Keep delivering the best raspberries in your farm every week to the address I just forwarded to you, beginning next week. Miss a week and we will have no more further dealings, understood?”

He had no more questions as money answered all his questions. “Yes, yes. Gladly!”

I hung up and placed my phone aside. Opening up my notebook I wrote down several things I would be needing for my daily visit to the Dark Energy Facility from now on.

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[Outside Natasha’s home]

A Benz pulled up outside the quiet house that had seen the stress of gun and bombs several times.

A man in a formal regal suite walked out holding a silk-covered box in his hands. Walking up to the door he rang the bell. *Ring*

A few seconds later the door opened to reveal a beautiful redhead. “Yes?” The man lost himself for a moment seeing the stunning woman.

He held out the package in his hands while the woman relaxed her hands seeing he was no threat to her. “Parcel for Natasha Romanoff.”

Natasha frowned as she heard that before looking down at the box. “Who is it from?”

The man took out his phone from his pocket before reading it out loud. “Rainbow Gardens. VIP delivery service.”

Natasha hesitantly grabbed the box before giving it a shake. *Rustle* She found the sound to be neither the sound of bombs nor anthrax.

The man extended his phone along with the stylus towards Nat. “Can you please sign here?”

Natasha nodded as she quickly signed it before the man passed her a note. “I was told to give you this note after you signed it.”

Natasha grabbed the note from the man as he left. She closely observed the car he got into and memorised the plates as he left.

*Clack* Closing the door Nat walked towards a table and sat down. Taking the note in front of her she read it.

[Raspberries are bitter and sweet. But I found a raspberry that is only sweet.] Natasha froze as she read that. She realised who the message was from as there was only 1 person she had ever told her love for raspberry to.

She remembered the question David asked her during their first date meal inside the dessert shop. “What about you? You like raspberry?"

"Yeah. Something about the bitter and sweet taste in raspberry tells me not to give up during the bitter moments of life as there is always sweetness that accompanies bitterness.”

The conversation they had flooded her mind as she held her head. How they ate, talked, laughed, held hands, hugged, warmth… “I love you.”

The way they confessed to each other as they stared into each other’s eyes, the way he held her face like she was the most precious...

“NO!”

Natasha woke from her emotional rewind and swept at the box sending it flying to the ground.

Crunching the paper in her hands she threw it down before going up to her room, ignoring the box of raspberry on the floor.