Meeting Stark and Rogers

Angela slowly climbs out of her unconscious state. Darkness is still the only thing she sees, but her hearing slowly returns to her. She tries to listen in to the three distinct voices above her.

"Will she be fine?"

Angela discerns each voice as she hears it.

That sounds like that guy named Steve. He….actually sounds concerned for me and he has never met me. She ponders on this. This planet may be a little peculiar, but at least some people here are not completely cold-hearted like some of the planets I know of.

After realizing this fact, Angela still could not open her eyes to see them, but she could still listen in on them.

There was silence for just a few seconds, then a reply.

"It's amazing."

That's weird. I don't recognize that voice at all, but from Steve's question to him, I'm going to guess he's a doctor.

Steve replies to the doctor in a confused tone. "Excuse me?"

The doctor replies in a quick tone. "It's truly amazing! I've never seen anything like this happen before in my life. I probably never will again."

"What are you talking about? Explain."

Angela recognizes the third voice with no trouble at all.

Stark.

The doctor explains to them what he is witnessing.

"Here is what I am saying. I released her to you, because I trust you since you are Iron Man. I told you that she would be unconscious for at least four days. But you are telling me that the very next day; she got out of bed, by herself, walked all the way into the main room, that looks like it's been through a tornado, managed to fight with this," He states the next two words sarcastically as if Stark said them himself. "Sith lord,gets thrown around by this Sith lord, and certain parts of her hair changed to a black color!"

The doctor pauses to take an audible breath, then continues. "I don't believe any of that, which you told me, but I have to believe this because I am seeing it with my own eyes."

There was another brief pause, but Angela knows they are looking at her.

The doctor finishes all that he has stated with one more statement. "The fact that her ribs are almost healed completely within two days is a remarkable miracle of science."

Steve's voice sounds in Angela's hearing.

"Whoa. Whoa Whoa. Slow down. Let me get this straight. What you are saying is that she has managed to heal after being found with her broken bones by Stark and thrown across the room, hitting a wall….in two days?"

"No." The doctor's voice was very sound and clear, sounding confident in his belief he was about to state. "I don't believe that she was able to go through all of that without seriously injuring or killing herself. What I am strangely believing is that she was able to make an almost completely recovery within two days!"

Hearing footsteps moving away from her, Angela focuses on trying to sit upright and opening her eyes. She puts both her hands flat onto the bed she was lying on and pushes herself upwards. Success. Angela sits straight up on the bed.

Good. Now all I have to do is open my eyes. Should be easy, right?

It was much harder than it would seem to be. Her eyelids acted as though they were sealed tight and weighed a couple hundred pounds, but she has them open soon enough. At first, her vision looked as with one was staring at stained glass windows, colorful and blurry to look out of. She blinks a few times, and sure enough, her vision was clear and sharp once more.

Just as she was able to see, Tony shuts the door behind the doctor using the knob then looks to the right at Steve.

"He can believe that she was able to heal herself in two days, but he doesn't believe that she fought the Sith and was thrown against a wall?"

Steve answers him. "Well did you believe that Sith and….um…"

"Jedi", Tony helps Steve to finish the sentence.

"Jedi were real even though you or anyone else did not see one before?"

Tony pauses at this thought and ponders it very carefully.

Steve's right. I didn't believe that there were beings from "outer space". I never saw one nor did I see or hear of any real evidence; but ever since I saw Thor and know he exists, I have come to believe that anything is possible.

Tony breaks from his thoughts and answers Steve's question. "No I didn't. You're right. Besides, if he doesn't believe it, we know the truth, right?"

Steve smiles. "Yeah. We know the truth." Suddenly, Steve tells Tony about what to do next. "I still want to know who she is and why she is here."

Angela knows she can scare them if she is precise enough. She smiles, takes in a deep, quiet breath, and then quickly shouts from behind them.

"WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW?!"

Tony and Steve both jump at the sudden, loud shout from behind. Quickly turning around, they both see the Jedi sitting straight up on the bed and giggling at the two of them.

Steve puts his left hand on his chest while breathing heavily. Tony on other hand has another one of his quick remarks.

"I think I had a heart attack. Totally was not expecting that."

Steve has a different response, stated in his very questionable voice. "What did you do that for?"

Angela stops her giggles then responds, "I just wanted to see what you two would do."

Steve and Tony simultaneously look at each other then look back at the Jedi while moving back towards her.

"Well," Tony states while breathing out, "please don't do that again."

Angela swings her feet so that they are hanging over the bed. "I can't promise that, but I won't do it again anytime soon." After saying this, Angela starts to stand on her own two feet once more, but Steve and Tony were cautious about her doing it.

"Whoa. You shouldn't be standing up." Steve's voice stated this as if he was very concerned for her, and Angela notices it.

"Don't worry about me. Besides, being thrown by a Sith is rather a regular occurrence if you are a Jedi."

After this statement from Angela, Stark's straight face turns into an open smile and excitement rushes through his whole body. Letting out this excitement, Stark grabs Steve by his shoulders and starts to shake him immensely, all while stating the same two verses in a loud shout over and over again: "I knew she was Jedi! I knew it!" The excitement that builds in Stark is so great that he runs to the door, opens it and runs to the left down the hall still stating the same act over and over again: "Jedi exist! She's a Jedi. I knew it!"

Angela listens to Stark's shouts, sounding from outside the room. She turns to face Steve, standing on her right.

"Is he okay? He acts as though he has never seen a Jedi before."

Steve does not know how to answer back. "Uh…well…"

Angela was about to ask if Steve was okay as well, but Tony rushing back in through the open door stops her.

After stopping short from running at full speed towards Angela, he takes a few breaths. He reaches out and grabs Angela's hand, and shakes it up and down in greeting.

"It's such an honor to meet someone such as yourself." He lets go of Angela's hand, while she stands there with a blank look on her face, but Tony does not notice that; he is too excited and distracted to see it. "Allow me to introduce myself." Tony takes his open hand and gestures it to his chest. "My name is Tony Stark. I am also known as Iron Man.' He then moves his hand so that it points to his left at Steve. "And this is Steve Rogers, known when he is in his "spangled banner" suit as Captain America."

Steve smile does not fade, but his feelings switch from normal to uneasy.

Why did Stark say that? He told my identity to her as if he had known her from his childhood! He always acts before he thinks.

Angela's words break Steve's thoughts like window glass. "I'm Angela Darksaber, but I don't really have a second name like you two do."

Stark replies quickly. "But you have a title. That is almost like a second name. What is it? Jedi Master? Or Jedi Knight?"

Angela thinks of something quickly. "Well… I'm… sort of in between ranks right now. It's… complicated."

The three of them stand there for a few moments without saying a word. Angela looks at Tony and Steve; Steve and Tony do the same. The silence continues for a little while longer until Tony remembers something important.

"Oh, I almost forgot something." Tony walks backwards out the door, while keeping eye contact with Angela. "Wait right there." Tony looks over to Steve. "Make sure she stays right there." With that being said, Tony goes left down the hall and towards the main room once more.

Steve looks away from the open door and back towards Angela, making direct eye contact. He does not know if he should start a conversation or just stand there and wait for Tony to come back; but Angela decides to talk first.

"You know," she states this with a huge smile on her face, "you haven't really said anything to me yet."

Steve finally has an answer, but not a conversation carrier one. "Well, I really….don't know what I should say. Stark already told you my name."

Angela nods at this fact. "That's true."

Maybe if I ask Steve some questions, he will answer them and won't be so hesitant in talking to me. It will also maybe tell me where exactly I am.

Angela looks to the floor, brewing up a question for Steve in her mind, and then looks at up at him once more.

"So, where do you live, here or are you from a different part of the galaxy?"

Steve's mind is bewildered by the question. He has not been into space let alone been on a different planet.

Before Steve's mind can process the question, Tony runs back into the room caring an object in each hand.

"I forgot that these were on the floor in the main room." He stretches out his hands to return to Angela her coal and pearl colored hilts, the hilts of her lightsabers. "It took me a while to find them. They were both on opposite sides of the room, among all of the wrecked furniture and broken bottles."

Without saying a word, Angela puts both of her hand under Stark's, ready to catch them. Tony lets go of them at the same time, sending them downward right into Angela's palms. She closes her fingers on them both, feeling their smooth surface. She feels complete inside.

"Thanks, Tony." While saying this, she puts the lightsaber back onto her belt. The magnets welcome back the weapons by grabbing onto them and keeping them in their place on Angela's waist.

Angela continues the conversation that she was having with Steve, but this time, Stark is there to listen and answer as well.

"I was asking Steve here if he lives here or if he's from a different section of the galaxy, but you came rushing in before he has a chance to answer."

Tony's face gives of the impression that he was thinking of a way to break the news to her. Angela notices this immediately.

"Well," Tony tries to think of a way to tell Angela where she was without her panicking or laughing at the words he was going to speak. "You see, most of the people that live on this planet… well… haven't really left the atmosphere."

Steve adds on to this. "In fact, we haven't been on our own moon yet."

"Actually, we have been to the moon. It's happened while you were still an 'ice Cap'."

Steve is shocked by Tony's statement. "Really?"

"Yep. We beat the Russians to the moon, put the American flag up there, and brought back souvenirs rocks to rub it in Russia's face." Tony's words widen Steve's curiosity about the events that happened while he was sleeping in the ice of the Arctic Circle. Apparently, there was much for him to still learn.

Angela however hears the words of Stark and computes them in her mind with no positive results. Her voice becomes worried as she asks one last statement and question.

"You have only been to your moon?!" Steve and Tony turn their heads back towards the worried words that came from Angela.

"Where exactly am I?" Angela's voice becomes a little quieter. "What planet am I on?"

Steve is finally able to respond to one of Angela's questions.

"Earth."