Learning About Earth
After Angela finishes her "scrambled pancake", she gets up from her seat and makes her way back into the previous room she was in. Getting up from his seat as well, Steve walks in front of Angela, grabs onto the doorknob, and opens the door for the Jedi. Grinning widely, Angela steps through the door and stops to wait for Steve.
Once the door closes with a click, the Soldier makes his way back to the Jedi's side.
"You know, you don't have to do that for EVERY door I get to."
Steve's eyes meet Angela's once more, as they continued walking to the right of the room, passing the table games. "Yeah, well, it's just that-"
"You're being a gentleman, right?"
"Right, but, if you like, I won't do it all the time."
Angela lowers her head to the ground , then raises it back up while looking away at Steve. If he could see around the Jedi, Steve would have saw a smirk on Angela's face. "Ok, then. You can open the doors every once in a while or if I ask. Sound like a deal?" Angela looks back at Steve, waiting for his answer.
Steve smiles back while nodding his head. "Yep. That sounds like a deal."
After the little talk, both of them look forward to where their feet were taking them. Sitting on the only recliner near the huge flat-screen TV was Stark, flipping through the many channels of entertainment.
Moving around the left side of the sofa nearest Tony, Angela walks to the right of the seat and sits nearest Stark, while Steve moves and sits on the other side of the sofa.
Still flipping through the channels, Tony asks Angela how the pancake was.
"It was pretty good, besides...I've had worse." Angela states this while looking at the TV on the wall. Not seeing anything like it before, she asks what it is.
"Oh." Tony adjust in his seat so that he is more straight. "This is a television. It shows programs about what's happening currently, nature, history, sport. All sort of entertainment." He voice quiets at the end of the statement. Turning his head to the left, he looks at Angela and Steve, all while his mouth was opened a little. Closing it quickly, he knows of a way to teach Angela just about everything from this planet, without having to travel everywhere on it.
Turning in his recliner, he says to both the Jedi and the Soldier, "How would you like it if I should you both all of Earth, the history, the sports, the geographical locations, everything? We can do it with the television. And if you guys have any questions, you can ask me."
Steve states a very sensible point. "No offense, Tony, but I have never heard a sentence that didn't have a hint of sarcasm in it, except for when you grabbed the nuke a few months ago."
The words from Steve's mouth caused Tony to smirk, while nodding his head. "Okay." He looks past Angela, locking his eyes with Steve's. "I promise not to be sarcastic and also not to put in details that are not true." He raises his hand from the arm rest. "Word of honor."
"Okay, then. Sure." Steve states.
"Yeah, I would like that." Angela's curiosity about his planet ignites and she is ready to see what type of culture and history are on this planet, but she remembers something from earlier.
"Hey, Tony."
By this time, Tony had pulled out a keypad from the side pocket of the recliner. "Yeah."
"I was wondering. You two were watching something before that Sith came here. Something that had Luke Skywalker in it when he was a little bit younger. What is that exactly?"
Tony stops short from typing something on the keypad in his hands. He knew exactly what Angela was talking about. However, he stopped from speaking until he could get the words to say what he wanted them to say.
"Well...you see...that.." He lets out a sigh and just says what comes to mind. "What you saw was...um..a movie. Remember when I said that people believe that Jedi and Sith and such are not real, they are fictional?"
Angela nods at this without changing her curious look on her face.
"Well, Jedi and Sith, your universe...it comes from...a set of movies. That is why we know about Jedi and such, but also believe they are fictional." After telling the Jedi this, Tony turns his head away and types something with his thumbs on the keypad.
"Oh. So, if I go out of the building, it would be best not to have my lightsabers at my side would it?"
After just finishing what Angela says, Tony presses enter button. While the TV searches for the program, Tony offers the answer to Angela's question. "Yeah, about that. Yes, you should probably hide your lightsabers when going out, if you decide to. Also, it would be best if you don't use your powers at all, unless you need to."
The TV creates a quick blimp sound as it shows the results of the search Tony put into it. Looking at the screen, then at his watch, he says, "It's about to start right now. Would you to like to watch the Star Wars: Episode IV? This is the one that you and Steve saw earlier. It shows how we think your history happened in a galaxy far, far away."
"Sure, if Steve doesn't mind."
Steve adds his answer. "I don't mind. Let's watch it."
With all three of them, looking at the screen, Tony presses the select button. The TV responds by putting the movie on its screen. Since it was a commercial-free channel, the movie starts immediately on schedule, playing the advertisement for the sound used. Unfortunately for Angela and Steve, it was an advertisement they had never seen before: THX.
The vibrating noise starts of low in pitch and volume, but builds quickly to a higher pitched vibrating tone that makes the whole floor below their feet shake. The sound finishes by quickly dissipating away along with the white text on the screen.
"Well, that was obnoxiously loud." Steve states this while gently rubbing his sore ears.
"I agree." Angela shakes her head, trying to get the ringing out of her ears. "That was uncalled for."
Tony lowers his head to hide the wide smile that was crossing his face. "And I only had the volume half way up."
Finally, the movie begins. Angela watches as this piece of entertainment acts out the exact events that her Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Leia Skywalker had gone through in destroying the first Death Star.
It plays out exactly as I have read and have been told by Luke himself. It's completely accurate.
After Episode IV finishes playing, the TV puts a list of the movies that would be playing next. The one that was beginning to play was Episode V, and after that Episode VI would start. Nobody suggested something else to watch. All three of them wanted to watch the set of movies through. And so they did. They never got up from their seats; they never said a word. All of them just kept their eyes fixed on the screen until the movies were finished playing.
"Wow."
Both Tony and Steve look at Angela, waiting for her to continue.
"That...was as if someone was there the whole time...recording everything." Angela shakes her head in disbelief. "I can't believe it's considered fictional on this world."
Trying to give some comfort to the Jedi, Steve reaches out and puts his right hand on her shoulder. "Well, after what I have seen with you..." He pauses briefly. "I believe that is it very real."
Angela's straight lips make a big smile. "Thanks for the comfort, Steve." They both stare at each other for a moment or two.
"Uh, Steve."
"Yes?"
"You can take your hand off my shoulder now."
Looking at his right hand, he notices that he had not removed it from her shoulder.
"Oh, sorry...uh...I..."
For some reason, Tony's mind registered this event as being extremely funny. Smoothly turning in his recliner so that he was facing away from Angela and Steve, Tony laughs to himself, but laughs so hard that no sound comes from his mouth, which he was clenching tight.
This is priceless! Tony's inner laughter slowly dies away as he gets back to showing Angela and Steve Earth's many characteristics.
Angela, Steve, and Tony continue to watch on the TV the many cultures that were and are a part of the world. Hours of learning takes place as the three of them see majestic scenery from around the world as well as the many cultures, governments, and religions. Unfortunately, the day flew by. Angela knew this because her energy was waning, and she could barely keep her eyes open. The same was happening with Steve and Tony.
Soon, before they could even leave their seats, all three of them went to sleep at exactly the same time. Tony had the back of his recliner leaning as far back as he could put it. Steve had managed to fall asleep sitting with his back against the sofa, with his head leaning back on the top of the sofa's back. Angela did the same thing, but soon after, her head slid from its upright position. Instead of her head laying on the back of the sofa like Steve's, her head was resting on Steve's right shoulder.
J.A.R.V.I.S., who had been on standby this whole time in case Tony wanted him, sees that all three of them are asleep on the furniture. Since he wanted them to get as much rest as possible, J.A.R.V.I.S. turns off the TV, draws all the automated curtains in the building closed, and shuts off all of the lights that were left on.
After all these tasks were finished, J.A.R.V.I.S. switches back to standby, just in case he was needed.
While the three heroes were sleeping the night away, two villains were just landing on the same planet that Angela had crashed on. Once the Tie-Fighter landed in a wooded area that was closest to it, it's two occupants decided to sleep as much as they could before another day started on the newly found world.
Yeah, yeah. The chapter is short. I'm sorry about that. I wanted to give you guys a little something. It's been too long. I've been busy the last couple weeks and hadn't really had time to write. But now I have three weeks of nothing! (You can see where I'm going with this.)
Also, I think my writing is improving because I just started another story and when I read that then read the first couple chapters of this story I just think that this story is awful! lol But I will continue this story. Maybe after this is done, I'll continue this series :) Also, if you like The Dukes of Hazzard (the tv show not the crappy movie remakes), you should read my other story, which has Angela Darksaber in it as well. It's not tied to this story.
Anyway, thanks for being patient, and I hope to have some more for you really soon!
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