A/N: Hello there, welcome to this fanfic which I felt needed to be written. I've recently seen the new Avengers movie, Age of Ultron twice and I thought. Hey, what if a Jedi Knight was in it? I also saw the first Avenger's movie with my younger brother who hadn't even seen it and I imagined a Jedi Knight standing in the shot where the Avengers stood back to back with the Chitauri turning all their attention to them.

However, a good story needs a good introduction and story hook. You can't just throw a character into a movie plot. No, I'll throw him in earlier to the end of Ironman 2. I'll be as authentic to the canon of the star wars franchise and the cinematic marvel universe except for a couple of adjustments making it all slightly AU.

I did consider whether to have a Jedi Knight from the Old Republic era (SWTOR) or from the Rise of the Empire era around the Great Jedi Purge. I decided with the later since the Jedi are here fugitives and it fits a lot better for a Jedi Knight to be in exile on Earth which is inhabited by six billions people rather than the Hero of Tython being stuck there for absolutely no reason.

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His nostrils flared up and widen as he inhaled the oxygen. Calm and composed as he held his breath. All the while considering and weighing heavily on the mantra during his many hours of meditation.

There is no emotion, there is peace.

He exhaled as he found the peace within, he felt the force all around him even though he was among the last of his order since the Rise of the Empire. The galactic bastion of democracy had become the bastion of oppression and tyranny. Jarik had taken his time to contemplate his life. He was conceived on Mandalore and was raised by his parents until he came to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant to be trained as a Jedi. He advanced rather quickly in the group classes and eventually was taken on as a Padawan by Master Rahm Kota.

There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.

He was an adolescent when the Clone Wars began and served with his Jedi Master who became a respected General in the Grand Army of the Republic. Master Kota believed that clones were unfit to be soldiers and thus trained his own militia of volunteers and freed prisoners of war. Jarik found it unethical to have the Republic to have the backbone of its military consisted of living beings bred to serve like slaves. It baffled him that the bastion of galactic democracy actually condoned the grand slave army.

There is no passion, there is serenity.

It was during the Clone Wars which while serving with Rahm Kota and his militia that he completed his Jedi Trials. He passed the Trials of Skill and Courage when he faced one of Count Dooku's Dark Acolytes whom had been dispatched to kill Rahm Kota.

However, his father had joined the Mandalorian Protectors under spar and was fighting with the separatists. When Father and son meets one another on the battlefield, they had no choice but to fight one another. He passed the trial of the flesh by defeating his father in combat, severing his hand and endured the emotionally trauma which followed. He entered a deep meditation with his trial of the spirit, facing his inner darkness which was represented by no other than Darth Revan. It was a confrontation that he wasn't going to forget anytime soon. Lastly, his trial of insight involved him solving the High Riddles of Dwartii which while a challenge wasn't impossible to solve.

There is no chaos, there is harmony.

He had officially become a Jedi Knight shortly before the end of the Clone Wars. When Order Sixty Six was executed. With Jedi all over the galaxy being shot down by the clones under their command. He and his master went into hiding in the outer rim and the militia disappeared with them.

There is no death, there is the force.

They agreed to split up to make sure that if one of them are caught, the other wouldn't be compromised. That was five years ago, Jarik Shan was still exiled but in an uncharted system. Some may wonder why and his answer would've been more cryptic than the question.

His eyes snapped open as the alarm clock beeped, he complied and get up from his bed which he used to sit and meditate early in the mornings, contemplating the past, the present and possibly the future.

Jarik Shan looked quite serene with his brown hair and sideburns. He had a slender yet appropriate build and stood at 5'7" in height. Snub-nosed with Keen and intelligent blue eyes in his sockets.

A Jedi Knight in his full right but no longer wore the ceremonial and accustomed robes of the order. Instead he dressed himself with a pair of jeans and a shirt with a sleek leather jacket. He found a lot of people wore on their feet something called converse and tried a pair of those but didn't really find them to be quite practical. Instead he chose to wear a pair of thick wander boots.

He left his apartment with the morning rush in New York City, his gaze looked up at the new tower being constructed by Tony Stark otherwise known as Ironman. He smiled at the notion, he's done his research on the man. He wasn't that all impressed of what the earthlings called playboy attitude.

He passed a news stand, bought a newspaper which had the date printed in the corner 31st May, 2011 he started to read while enjoying a cup of coffee. Apparently Hammer Industries will have a presentation to make at the Stark Expo in Queens tonight. He had a feeling in the force that something was going down that night. He needed to be there.

Jarik had other things on his mind though. He needed money to pay the rent for his apartment, stuff which he never before had to worry about. He had sliced or what they on Earth called Hacked through the firewalls and security measures of various records and created Jack Shawn.

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Agent Barbara Morse, codename Mockingbird had her eyes on the target, Jack Shawn. He was walking through the door to his workplace at Best Buy. SHIELD has kept their eyes on him for a while now. He appeared seemingly out of nowhere and with no trace to follow. There were no records of him, digital or otherwise until a few years ago when he first started to work with the customer support department of Best Buy.

He went behind the customer support counter when she approached him with that smile of hers which would make any guy swoon, deceivingly sweet and charming. "Hi, I'm Barbara Falkner. I'm your new co-worker in the customer support." She said smoothly, she was a head turner and she knew it.

"Oh, yes. The boss said you were starting today. Welcome, I'm Jack Shawn." He retorted without a beat, a polite smile on his face as he extended a hand for her to shake. "A pleasure to make your acquaintance." Inwardly she was taken back by his calm and diligent reaction, especially for a guy working at an electronics store. She was usually good at reading people and getting inside their mind but this guy was quite a challenge. Courteous yet stoic, distant yet present. She couldn't put a finger on it but this guy was special.

"Pleasure is all mine." She responded charmingly with a smile before taking her seat next to him. She had to take another approach to get information from him. It was going to take time but he was a complete enigma and SHIELD didn't like complete enigmas. When the shift started they were busy answering calls and provide customer support over phones. She tried to get him to talk during the lunch break but he didn't really budge, even with her flirty advances. At the end of their shift they were talking as the employees were closing up shop.

"So, what are you tonight?" she asked, giving him a deceiving hint that she was interested. It looked like he wasn't going to respond but he diligently answered. "I was thinking of going to see the Hammer Industries presentation at the Stark Expo."

"Sounds like fun, mind if I join you? I just recently moved to New York and don't have a lot of friends." She continued to elaborate. He smiled as he gave her a curt nod. "Sure, why not?"

She smiled as she finally seem to make some progress. "Great, I see you outside the park around Seven o' clock?" Jack smiled back rather politely, "Yes, see you then."

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Jarik waited outside the Expo, he wore a suit and one of those ties around his neck. A sense of fashion these earthlings had developed which he didn't really fully understand. He wondered why he even agreed to this, to come here with a woman of all things. He could imagine his master's disapproval but the woman wasn't legitimately interested in him, she was spying on him and he wanted to find out why. "Hey handsome."

He turned around and if he wasn't a trained Jedi, his jaw would've dropped at the sight of her dress, it was smooth and elegant with a bare back too. She is what the patrons at a Cantina would call, a vixen. "Good evening, miss Falkner." He diligently responded. She raised her eyebrows a bit at his response. Did he do something wrong? "Well, shall we enter?" He continued as he extended his arm, she moved her arm around his as they entered the park.

"Are you always this formal?" She inquired, tilting her head to the side as she glanced at him. Yes, this was perhaps too formal and what he understood as awkward for earthlings. "Part of my upbringing." He responded which she pursed her lips and nodded.

They hurried along to get to their seats, a shame as he would've otherwise loved to explore the actual park. The sound of music was playing in the speakers and a man was dancing out on the stage. Jarik recognized him as Justin Hammer, Founder and CEO of Hammer Industries whose logo was displayed in the background. Jarik could tell that his dance moves weren't all that particularly good, he have seen Rodians high on death sticks do better. Fortunately for the crowd, he stopped dancing when he reached the glass podium at the front and center of the stage.

"Ladies and gentlemen, for far too long has this county place its brave men and women in harm's way. But then the Ironman arrive and we thought the days of losing lives were behind us. Sadly, that technology was kept out of reach. That's not fair. That's not right. That's just too bad." He spoke, trying to be charismatic and impressive but so far Jarik could tell that people weren't exactly hooked but they didn't outright disagree either.

"Regardless, it was an impressive innovation which grabbed the headlines world over. But today my friends, the press is faced with a different problem. They're about to run out of ink!" The man proceeded with what was supposed to be a punchline of a joke, the only response was a few people awkwardly clapping. Two employees came onto the stage and rolled the glass podium on the wheels by the legs. Justin coughed to clear his throat before continuing to speak.

"Ladies and gentlemen. Today I present to you. The new face of United States Military!" He says as he turned around and gestured his hands as floor panels moved aside "The Hammer drones!"

Jarik tensed up when he saw the drones as the patriotic music played in the background. The display changed to the American flag. The drones, they reminded him of the Clone Wars, of the seperatist's droid armies which he had to fight. Barbara noticed his behavior and perked her brows a bit, seemingly puzzled by how tense he just got. "Hey, are you alright?"

Jarik took a deep breath as he glances towards her and nods. "Yeah, just have a bad feeling about drones in general." He whispered back as his attention returned to the presentation. "Army!" Justin announced as eight drone of a plain color which while similar in the build of a man in armor but with the head of a droid and with anti-air slugthrowers above the shoulder. Hammer swirled around and gestured to a different collection of eight blue-colored drones but this time they had missile turrets on their shoulders. "Navy!"

"Airforce!" Another platform moved and showed drones with what Jarik presumed to be jetpack and then opposite of them were drones with camouflage pattern. "Marines!" Jarik counted them real quick, they were thirty two in total and there were plenty of applauds now as the patriotic music ceased.

"That's a lot better than some cheer leaders, let me tell you." Justin spoke a bit smugly as he continued. "But as revolutionary as this technology is, there will always be need for man to be present in the theatre of war. Ladies and gentlemen, today I'm proud to present to you the very first prototype of variable-threat-response-battle suit and its pilot, Air Force Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes!"

Another floor panel slide to the side and what Jarik saw was remarkable. It was the Ironman suit, well. It looked quite a lot like it but thicker and with quite an arsenal to go with it, a War Machine. The War Machine salutes with all the drones saluting in synchronization. Jarik could honestly say that he was impressed by the humans' ingenuity, somehow it makes him think of HK-47 which was told to be the ultimate Jedi killer and assassination droid to have ever existed.

"For America and its allies, Hammer Industries reporting for—" Justin Hammer would've continued but was interrupted by a thundering sound of something approaching which have the audience turn their heads to see Ironman make an entrance. Landing upon the front and central platform directly in-front of Hammer and Rhodes. The crowd went wild, stood up and applauded. Jarik had to admit, Stark knew how to make an entrance. Ironman walked next to War Machine and waved back at the audience while Justin paced with false excitement and trying to make it look like he was with Stark on this by rousing the crowd. He felt it in the force, something was going to happen. Soon.

Ironman stepped away and towards Hammer who turned to face him. Jarik couldn't hear of what they spoke of but he closed his eyes and reached out in the force. Trying to see what sight couldn't provide him with. There was tension building between the two and it was building.

Ironman then turned around to face War Machine whom suddenly the six-barrel chain gun pointed at Stark. His body tensed as what unfolded seem to occur as such a rate where he felt disconnected to his physical body. Rhodes seemed equally distressed over what was happening, like if he wasn't in control of his armor. The army of drones raised their right arms as one, in the direction of the crowd who went into a state of panic. Ironman flew up through the window, fortunately all the drones were aiming at Stark.

He knew what would come next, the air force drones would fly after him with Rhodes at the lead. The other drones would move out and cause some strife for the audience and attendants of the expo. Barbara was pulling his arm as the rest of the people panicked and ran for it. His premonitions became reality and he knew it was a matter of time. The glass above the stage and the dome shattered by the now flying air force drones.

Ironman made a turn as the drones fired at him, shattering the windows of the on-looking tower next to the expo dome. The crowd were still running around in panic and the army and navy drones were marching forward. Their very presence sowing forward.

The Navy drones with the missile turrets exits the domes and looks like they were ready to fire as Jarik ran with Barbara away. He turned around when he noticed they were about to fire. Barbara turned to look the Jedi's way. "What are you doing? We have to run!"

"Barbara." He said as he glanced over his shoulder at her, seeing what seemed to be concern on her face. "I'm done running." He responded as he took a balanced stance and lifted his hands, feeling the force around him as the drones fired the missiles as artillery pieces all over the expo which would cause a lot of collateral damages and casualties. When they fired, he reached out through the force and grabbed the missiles. He recall what Master Yoda once has said; do or do not, there is no try.

The missile reached their highest altitude but reached no further but hovered in the air. Barbara was staring at him with wide eyes as he closed his palm into fists and dented the shells, having them combust in the air instead of the intended targets making them nothing more than ugly fireworks. The crowd were still running and rightly so, except for Barbara which seemed far to calm for any civilian had right to be.

She seemed to be at lost for words as he stepped towards the navy drones, drawing something which he had hidden in the sleeve of his jacket. To anyone, it would look like a thin cylinder can or shell with no purpose but it had a purpose, it was the hilt of his lightsaber. He activated it, the blue blade was held in a parry position on his dominant side, his feet were evenly spaced; taking a defensive neutral position which was intended to provide the maximum amount of blade surface area for blast-deflection or in this case, slug-absorption along maximizing its visual impact as a warning.

Considering that no one had seen a lightsaber yet a Jedi before, everyone moved away from him. Wary and afraid but he had their attention. The navy and army drones were targeting him and not the civilians. Jarik spoke loud and clearly "Barbara, go!" he declared as he took the resilience form, Soresu as the drones fired upon him, using tight motions with his lightsaber to achieve total-protection from the slugs which were disintegrated instead of deflected like blaster fire.

He had a calm center and was the eye of the storm which were gunfire and didn't allow himself to be distracted nor disturbed by what was occurring around him. However, he managed to analyze the gunfire. The slugs was travelling slower than ordinary blasters thus should be more manageable. He then darted forward and changed to Schii-Cho where he performed a Sarlacc Sweep, amputating the closest drone's legs as he ducked down as the drones fired too late and hit one another. He pushed out, sending the drones to his left away thrashing against the stairs as he turned his attention to what was left on his right flank, going on the offensive and managed to make a disarming slash at the closest drone and then used him as a meatshield for the rest who were standing on the right flank before he force pushed it into another and performed a Shien deflection, his blade disintegrating the slug as he leaps towards his target and cleaved it in half.

Turning around to face the left flank which rose again, lifted his hand to grasp the remains of the drones and hurled them at the opposing drones which were about to open fire, the drone piece knocked them back, throwing off the aim as the Jedi closed the distance and finished them off, the Force enhancing his speed.

He took a deep breath, there were no premonitions of something attacking him. The other drones were focusing on Ironman. He noticed how the marine drones were now finally deployed and thrusts themselves up in the air. The Army drones were now firing their Anti-Air Slugthowers towards Ironman who looks like he could manage on his own and did what he could to avoid collateral damage. He rose his hand, using the force to lift the navy drone remains and hurl them towards the army drone, the impact staggering them to the degree where their shots became more inaccurate.

He moved in, determined to finish the drones to prevent further collateral damage. They tried to fire upon him after determining him as a threat but he was already upon them and utilized the same tactics used on the navy drones, using the force to enhance his speed and the velocity of his lightsaber. Leaving the dismembered drones littering in a pile. When he deactivated the lightsaber, he could feel the many eyes which were upon him.

He turned to face the Police officers along with Pepper Potts, the new CEO of Stark Industries along with Barbara Falkner. They were all speechless and frightened. While Barbara seemed more composed than the rest, she seemed tenser than before. So much for blending in. He then sensed it, the glass shattering at the dome surrounding the serene garden. He then looked at the drones and upon seeing their red center blink at shorter intervals.

"Move!" Jazik voiced, rushing away with the force enhancing his speed as he grasped Barbara and pulled her away from the blast zone. Pepper Pots was carried away to safety by Ironman to a nearby rooftop outside the park. He could feel the cold ire of Barbara upon him and the premonition of her martial prowess, she were about to warp her arm around him and compress the carotid arteries in hope to subdue him. He used the force to push her away, she rolled upon the pavement before getting back on her feet with a gun in her hand pointing at him. However before any shots could be fired, the gun flew out of her grasp and into Jarik's hand who was now, staring right back at her. "What are you?" She asked warily but composed.

"I'm a Jedi Knight." He elaborated as he dropped the pistol to the ground. "As to what a Jedi Knight is. Well, that's a more difficult question to answer." He continued to elaborate as he put on what people would call a poker face.

She just stared at him and the gun, seemingly taken back by how he pulled it from her grasp without even moving it. "You do realize that you can't just walk away from this." She spoke composed with a tempered voice. She had nerves of steel and courage which was quite unfound in others. She was a warrior in her own right and a cunning one too.

"I'm well aware of that fact." He spoke with a tone which betrayed his emotions. "You were spying on me, Barbara. I don't know for whom but since you've not made a hostile move towards me save for now. I'd say that your intentions are noble." He kicked the gun back over to her whom seemed a bit puzzled over the development. "I'd like to meet the person in charge."

She seemed a bit reluctant but then finally moved her hand to press it against her hidden earpiece. "Mockingbird here, assignment parameters have changed, I need a pickup." She held the gun now but it was pointing towards the ground.

"I can't promise you anything, Jedi. Except that if you run, you will be hunted and there will be no place on Earth where we can't find you. However, if you come with me peacefully then I'll put in a good word for you. Does that sound reasonable?" She spoke, closing the distance as she extended her hand into a handshake as she stared into his blue eyes. Jarik had obviously underestimated the humans' Intelligence services. Besides, he don't need other than the Imperials hunting him. He offered his hand and shook it courteously. "My name is Jarik Shan, Knight of the Jedi Order."

"And I'm Barbara Morse, Agent of SHIELD."