A Heart Break In Time

I Know I'm Way Outside My Pay Grade Here.

The three of us walked into the tent and I saw another agent talking to a woman. When we got closer, recognized her as Darcy Lewis. Thor had told us about her. "A colossal amount of CMBR." Darcy stated.

The agent looked at her confused. "CM..."

Darcy rolled her eyes "Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation."

"We've been told the radiation is within a safe limit."

"Uh, it is... For now."

"Wait, what do you mean..."

Darcy shushed the agent. "There are longer wavelengths superimposed over the noise here. I got it. I need a TV. An old one. Like, not flat."

I walked towards her. "Miss Lewis, I'm Talia Aimilios. I heard about you from Thor."

"Thor? How is the man of many muscles?"

"He's... well I suppose. Alive."

"Here you go. Old TV." An agent sat it on the desk.

"How... how is that supposed to help us?" I turned to Darcy. She ignored me and set the tv up. When it was ready, she turned it on and we heard a studio recording of laughter.

A man I didn't know spoke. "What is that?" We stared at the screen in shock.

"Can I just see you in the kitchen for a moment, sweetheart?" The woman on the tv spoke.

"Who's doing that?" I asked.

"Who are those people?" The TV woman spoke again.

A man replied back. "What are you wearing?"

"Why are they here?"

"What are you wearing?"

I looked around to the people surrounding us. "This is a joke, right?"

The couple on the TV a continued. "Well, it's our anniversary!"

"Our anniversary of what?"

"Well, if you don't know, I'm not going to tell you!"

Agent Woo spoke again. "Is that..."

Darcy answered. "Yeah, it looks like her." My body tensed up. I couldn't breathe. There she was. Right there. But how? What was happening? And was that Vision?

Darcy looked at me. "Look, I know it's been a crazy few years on this planet, but he's dead, right? Not blipped, dead." I couldn't speak, just nodded at her, still staring at my friends on the television.

"What am I looking at? What is that? Where's this coming from?" The other man spoke.

Darcy pointed, still staring at the TV. "Out there."

"Is it authentic?"

"I'm not sure how to answer that."

"Is it happening in real time? Is it recorded, fabricated?"

"I don't know. I don't know. And I don't know."

I finally found my voice. "What do you know?"

Darcy looked at me again. "My equipment registered an extremely high level of CMBR. That's..."

The unknown man finished her statement. "Relic radiation dating back to the Big Bang."

"Yeah, entwined was a broadcast frequency. So I had your goons pick me up a sweet vintage TV. And when I plug this bad boy in, voilà, sound and picture."

Agent Woo stepped closer to her. "So you're saying the universe created a sitcom starring two Avengers?"

"It's a working theory."