In Mr. Bennett's office, Ebed Melech sits. He dozes until he is almost toppling over when he realizes that Mr. Bennett was still talking, trying to teach him how to use AutoCAD. Just as his wits come back to him, he hears "Now go and try to do this on your computer." So he heads down the stairs to give another attempt at drawing some abstract figure that seems to come out of some really bad science fiction show.

Smack! Ebed tripped over his Jedi robe (as he usually does) and lands right on his face. Louie walks by and so does Nick, but Ebed just lies there, waiting for his will to walk to return to him.

He thinks he's crazy when a sound of ringing starts to come from the pocket of his robe. That is until he realizes it is his handy dandy holographic communicator. Pulling out of his robe, a figure appears on the platform and begins to speak.

"Ebed Melech, the council has a new mission for you."

"Obi-Juan, I'm a little busy being bored out of my mind at the moment. Can it wait?"

"No, I'm afraid not. This is a matter of dire importance."

"Okay, what do ya got?"

"In Costa-Rica there's a village of Ewoks that recently have had repeated attacks from some creature called Grendel. The council is sending you to take care of the situation. The Ewoks are of great importance to us because they always vote with us to have comfier chairs. If we do not support them, Mrs. Forseman may never get us new desks."

"Understood, Obi-Juan. I'll leave immediately. Ebed out."

"Oh and by the way, why are you lying on the ground like a Wookie with the revenge anyway?"

"Long story. Ok, its not that long. But I still don't want to talk about it. I'll leave as soon as possible."

So Ebed, being the procrastinator that he is, takes no less than five minute to pick himself up. By that time school had ended, and out of excuses, he hopped in his (well it was really his mom's but he used it all the time) X-Wing fighter with SS FOAMY NECKED FLOATER written on the side and sped off to Costa Rica.

Not so fluent in Spanish (or in Ewok) as he would like, Ebed practiced both with his R-4 unit all the way to the Guatemalan border. He would have gone farther but his R-4 started smoking from frustration and had a little red light flashing so he figured he needed to rest his awesome Spanish accent for a while.

So, for the next hour or so he listened to the sound track from LOTR The Return of the King. But when the airport he was heading for finally came into view, he turned it off to give it his full attention (even though R-4 was piloting for the most part).

Then one of those thoughts that don't really come from another thought popped into his head. He switched off R-4 and began to steer himself. The Costa Ricans thought he was insane because he kept doing barrel roles with himself like in Pearl Harbor. That was the only trick he knew.

Spotting a vending machine on the run way, Ebed landed peacefully and ran over to it. It turned out there was no valet parking for X-Wings, so he steered it to the hanger and paid some little kid to guard it for him. (Its like you buy lemonade from a lemonade stand just to make the little kid feel good, except this entailed giving the child control of a spacecraft.)

Anyway, he passed through customs with no problems (mind tricks make pass ports obsolete) and embarked on his trek through the forest to find the Ewoks and rescue them from Grendel.