fiction | Part of the journey is the end

4. We interrupt this program

There were voices of Maria Rambeau and a young Monica Rambeau.

Everyone was confused. What was happening?

"When they were handing out kids, they gave her the toughest one. Lieutenant Trouble," said Carol.

Everyone froze. They knew that voice.

"Was that Carol?" asked Tony, confused.

"It sounded like her," Rhodey said curiously.

Monica blipped back and breathed heavily, sitting on a chair.

Everyone's jaws dropped and their eyes were wide.

"Geraldine blipped back!" yelled Scott.

"Ohmygod, that looked so weird," said Peter. "The same thing happened to us too."

Sam shuddered. That was strange to think about.

She looked at her hands in shock.

"Yeah, I can see how that would be confusing," said Steve, faintly.

Monica looked to her right to see an empty hospital bed in confusion.

Everyone's hearts sank. This would've been so confusing to someone who blipped back.

There were crashes and people screaming.

Everyone winced.

Monica got up from her chair and opened the hospital room door to find the hospital in complete chaos. Patients were blipping back in the middle of the hallway, everyone was panicking, and the alarm was also blaring.

Everyone gaped at the screen.

"That's complete chaos," Bruce said weakly.

"What a fucking mess," said Bucky, shaking his head.

"No one would know what would be going on," said Sam in a faint voice.

"And exactly at this moment, all of us are fighting 2014 Thanos at the Compound," Tony pointed out.

Everyone shuddered at that realization.

Clint looked at Nat with pain in his eyes. Not all of them would've been fighting Thanos.

"They're all coming back. We don't have the capacity," a doctor told Monica.

"This is a nightmare," Steve groaned.

"Excuse me. I'm looking for a patient. In room 104—" Monica asked a nurse.

"Can you imagine how panicked the people who blipped would be?" said Tony, shaking his head. Thanos fucked up everything.

"Who, my wife? Do you have a phone? I have to call my wife," he said. Monica bumped into a man near the help desk, and both of them fell to the ground.

Everyone winced at the chaos at the hospital.

A nurse made sure the man was okay and escorted him away. Monica asked the person at the desk for room number 104, but she didn't know what to tell her. Monica looked around the hospital with panic and worry.

Everyone looked at Monica sympathetically. They couldn't even begin to imagine how frightened and confused she was.

"Monica?" asked Dr Harley.

"Oh, so her real name is Monica," said Peter. "Not Geraldine."

"Oh, Dr Harley, thank God!" said Monica. "I can't believe it. Where did you go?" asked Dr Harley.