A Dream Come True

Pepper and Angela stop shaking each other's hand and just stand there, looking at one another. Even though Angela knew who Pepper was, Pepper did not have the slightest idea who this blonde-haired woman could be. Not wanting the silence to continue, Pepper asks Angela who she is.

"Well, you seem to know who I am, but I don't have the slightest idea who you could be."

"Oh! Right...sorry. I'm Angela. Angela Darksaber. But, please...just call me Angela." Angela continues to give a little more information about herself, since she felt that Pepper needed more explanation about why she was here.

"I crash landed on this planet." Angela nods her head to the left where Tony and Steve were still fast asleep on the furniture. "Tony says he found me in my Starfighter and brought me here. I was badly injured, but thanks to his help, I'm a lot better than I started out on this planet."

"Wait, did you say you came...in a Starfighter?" Angela could tell from Pepper's question and the look on her face that she was close to piecing some information together. Because of this, Angela decides to tell her even more details.

"Yeah, that's right. I crash landed on this planet in my Starfighter. It's a old-time Jedi fighter used during the Clone Wars. I found it in a scrap pile and said to myself, 'Why not pilot a classic piece of machinery?'."

"Did you say Jedi?"

Angela nods. "Yeah, I'm a Jedi Knight, well...technically anyways."

Pepper points to Angela and smiles. "You're her. You're the Jedi."

Even though what Pepper said was true, Angela was a little bit confused. "Yeah. I'm a Jedi, but I'm not THE Jedi."

"No." Pepper's smile widens slightly more. "You're the Jedi. Tony had Jarvis call me and tell me to pick up this Starfighter at the coordinates he gave me. Also, you're the only Jedi that Tony's been telling me about for the last couple days. Every hour or so he would call me about how the Jedi wasn't awake yet or how he couldn't wait to see the Jedi use her power...of something or another."

Angela chuckles at Pepper not knowing every detail about the Jedi Way as Tony had. Apparently, there are some people that don't know about Jedi. Tony was right. I better hide my identity unless otherwise necessary. Some people would act like how Pepper is acting, but others may panic.

"Speaking of Tony, where is he?" Pepper quickly glances around the room.

Angela again nods her head to the left. "He's sleeping over on the chair."

Hearing Angela's words, Pepper walks over to the recliner that Tony was still asleep on, with Angela right beside her. "Tony?"

That's the only word Pepper had to say to wake up Tony. His eyes flutter open as he turns his head to the right. Looking up, he sees his beautiful girlfriend looking down upon him.

"I'm looking up at an angel. A beautiful angel that has no wings."

Pepper adds on to Tony's 'compliment'. "Or halo, right?"

"Wrong. You have a halo. It's...um...invisible because you're so pure that your...halo is made of your pure...um...stuff..." Tony questions himself about what he just said. What...did I just say?

"Nice try, honey." Pepper leans forward and kisses Tony on his right cheek, which gives Tony the energy to get up out of his recliner and stand next to his beautiful girlfriend.

When he does this, he sees Angela standing right next to Pepper. "Pepper. This is the Jedi I have been talking about!"

"Yeah. I know. She introduced herself. Here you go." Pepper raises her left hand, which was holding the two plastic swords by the blades, and gives the swords to Tony, who cheerfully takes them from Pepper's hand.

"Honey, you're the best." Tony faces Angela. "Angela. With these two FX lightsaber, I ask that we use them in a friendly duel."

A smile forms on Angela's face as she replies back to Tony. "Are you challenging my skills with a lightsaber?"

Tony's reply is quick. "Maybe, kinda. There is a slight possibility I could beat you, BUT even if I lose, it would be an honor just to duel with a Jedi." Pepper and Angela suddenly have a shocked look on their faces as Tony leans the two FX lightsabers against the side of the recliner and gets down on his knees, begging for the chance to have a friendly duel with an actual Jedi.

Pepper couldn't help but have a big, grin on her face. Angela also had a huge smile from the way Tony was acting. She had never seen someone beg her to duel with them. Even though she wasn't used to dueling with someone with lacking sword skills, she decides to let Tony "duel" her.

This should be very interesting. I haven't battled with training sabers, let alone the swords that Tony has leaning against the recliner. I'll have to go easy on him, though. I have had years of "realistic" pratice.

"Alright. We can duel..."

Tony immediately gets off his knees and jumps into the air. "YYYYEEEESSSSSSS!"

"What?"

Everyone looked over at the couch to see that Steve had been awaken by Tony's shout of joy.

Getting up from the sofa, the soldier moves over to where Tony, Pepper and Angela are standing. While Steve did this, Tony quickly grabs the two FX lightsaber, that he had leaned against the recliner, and holds out one of them to Angela.

"May I present to you, your weapon." Tony waits for Angela to grab the FX lightsaber from his hand.

Using her right hand, Angela takes the plastic sword and holds it by its hilt. She notices a difference and tells this to Tony.

"Hm...these are different from the training sabers back home." Angela twirls the hilt in her hand, causing the plastic blade to swing in a circle.

Tony sees Angela casually swinging the blade and wishes he could do the moves as easily as Angela made it look.

"You expected them to be the same as the ones you have used?"

Angela shakes her head. "I guess not."

Pepper, who had been standing beside her boyfriend while he talked to the Jedi, had noticed and watched the man that had risen from the couch, walking to stand on Tony's right. She noticed that he was taller than Tony, had smooth, brown hair, and was more muscular in his upper body.

"Tony, who is that guy standing next to you?" Pepper asked with curiosity.

Before Tony could say who, Steve introduces himself. "Oh, Steve Rogers, ma'am."

"Pepper Potts. Nice to meet you."

Tony walks from the group and head to the middle of the room, where Angela had been looking at the pictures of Captain America and Iron Man on the glass screens that came out of the floor. "Enough of this chat, LET'S DUEL!"

Tony enters into a fighting stance, with his right foot forward and his left foot turned sideways away from his body. The look on his face was determined yet full of joy and excitement as Angela crossed the floor to meet him in the middle of the room.

Steve and Pepper move from their original spots and stand in front of the windows, looking at Angela and Tony preparing for the friendly fight.

Angela once again stares at the FX lightsaber in her hand and wonders if it could withstand a hard strike against Tony's sword. Even though unsure about the sword's durability, Angela positions herself in the same stance as Tony was in.

"What are the rules? This is a friendly duel so what goes and what doesn't?"

Tony replies to Angela with sincerity. "Uh. Well, no using the Force. 'Cause, I can't. I wish I could, but I can't; and...uh...no physical contact such as punching, kicking, biting your opponent's ears off..."

"Biting ears off?"

"Yep."

Angela shakes her head. "Okay, then. You ready?"

Tony nods gently. "Yeah...yeah ready."

Pepper, who had been standing right next to Steve's left side, decides to make an offer to him.

"Twenty dollars says Angela will beat Tony."

Steve quietly laughs and replies, "No bet. Angela is going to win. I've seen her wield her own lightsabers with skill. Tony, however, doesn't really fight in hand-to-hand combat. At least, I haven't seen him fight like that. He usually uses his suit to blast enemies from a distance."

Pepper shrugs her shoulders. in a friendly tone, she replies with, "It was worth a try."

"Hey, Steve?"

Steve looks away from Pepper and at Tony, who was looking at him from the center of the room. When Tony has Steve's attention, he asks, "Will you count down for us to begin?"

"Sure."

Tony faces Angela again awhile readjusting his grip on the hilt of his sword. The Jedi, however, keeps her stance, as if she was a statue.

"Ready...set...Go!"

Even though Tony wasn't sure of the best attack, he makes the first move. Holding the hilt with two hands, he swings the sword horizontally right to left. Before it could make contact, Angela had switched the sword to her left hand and had flipped the hilt of her sword in her hand so that her blade pointed towards the floor.

The two plastic blades make contact with each other. This gave Angela an opportunity to make a move against Tony. She grabs onto the hilt with her right hand once more while letting go with her left hand. In one smooth motion, she moves her blade, along with Stark's blade, upwards and back until Tony's blade was on Angela's right side. Because of this, Tony had to reposition his feet on the floor so that he could have more strength behind his sword. However, when Tony shifted his feet is when Angela made the final move. Giving Tony's blade a quick push away from her sword, the Jedi spins in a quick. While in the spin, she bends her wrist slightly so that the plastic blade reaches around her back.

Before Tony knew it, he felt something blunt, yet hard strike his exposed right side. Standing in place, Tony turns his body enough to see that Angela's plastic blade had made contact with his right side. He also noticed that Angela had hit him with a backhanded strike while the Jedi had her back towards him.

Tony had lost. Even though deep down he wanted to win one duel, his factual mind told him his odds of winning were little to nothing.

I'm better at shooting than at hand to hand combat. That's something I got to work on. I bet Steve is enjoying me getting beaten by a girl.

Wow, you're mind is sometimes like an open book.

Tony face suddenly had a shocked look as he stands straight and looks at Angela's face. Her smile confirmed that he had actually heard her voice in his head.

I usually can't read minds unless the individual is weak-minded. You have nothing to worry about. You just lost focus when you starting talking to yourself. the rest of the time, your mind is strong so I can't read your mind all the time.

Tony smiles silently as he hears Angela's words.

"Nice try, honey!" Tony looks over to Pepper and returns his girlfriend a wide smile. The billionaire turns back and starts talking to the Jedi.

Seeing that Tony wanted another chance to win a duel, Angela decides to go another round with Stark. "You want to try again?"

Having a slight smirk on his face, Tony replies, "Yep, only this time..." Stark twirls the hilt and throws it into the air. He quickly spins in place and catches the falling sword by the hilt with his right hand. "I will defeat you. It is my destiny."

Angela knew Tony was showing off and being sarcastic so she decided to join in on the fun. Instead of throwing her FX lightsaber into the air, Angela suddenly makes the hilt flip quickly in her hand several times, causing the blade to move in an up and down circular motion. While the blade does its circular dance, the Jedi tosses it from her right hand, catching it with her other hand while spinning in place just had Tony did.

Tony stood there, frozen by the performance Angela had did in front of him. He was in a dazed state until Angela had started to speak once again.

"It is not your destiny. You have no idea who you fight against! Your foolishness will be your downfall!" Angela spoke these words as if she meant it, but Tony, as well as Steve and Pepper, knew that she did not really mean it. The two sword wielders prepare for round two while Steve prepares something else.

Moving away from Pepper's side, Steve goes over to the couch he had been sleeping on earlier, grabs hold of the end closest to him, lifts the end away from the floor and walks holding the one end of the couch until the piece of furniture turns to face the middle of the room, where Tony and Angela were.

Pepper moves over to where Steve was. The soldier puts down the end of the couch, looks up and motions towards the couch with his left hand.

"Would you like a seat, Ms. Potts?"

Pepper walks in front of Steve and sits on the end of the couch closest to her. "Why, yes. I think I will take a seat. It'll be nice to sit and do nothing for awhile."

After Pepper takes her seat, Steve moves past her and sits down on the other end of the couch.

"You know," Steve started. "I'm actually enjoying watching Tony trying to fight someone, who I believe, has had extensive sword training." Steve leans back into the couch, putting his hands behind his head. "You got this, Stark!" Steve encourages Tony, however, the billionaire sees through Steve's remark.

"Liar." He mumbles under his breath, but it was loud enough for Steve to just hear it. He smiles, knowing he had been caught.

"You ready, youngling?" Angela moves into the same starting stance as earlier. Tony does the same, replying to the Jedi, "I'm ready, Jedi."

When this is said, Tony once again makes the next move; and another friendly duel begins. However, even though the heroes expected it to happen eventually, the two Siths were closer to confronting them than they realized.

Yea! Another chapter done! Hope you enjoyed it. Sorry it took so long. College work is sometimes a lot.

Anyways, I so excited that this story is almost done! The sequel I plan to write after this will be better, longer, and have most (if not all) of the Avengers! :D So excited for this. Hang in there. Only a couple of chapters left!

~TheJediAvenger~