Anuvuin: episode #28 The Midi-Cholorian Count, The Bet, and the Start of the Race

Anuvuin: episode #28 The Midi-Cholorian Count, The Bet, and the Start of the Race

Part 2

Previously: Anakin showed Padmé his pod racer & C-3PO. Anakin found out Qui-Gon was a Jedi, and Qui-Gon realizes that Anakin has the force, Anakin convinced his mother to let him raise money so that Qui-Gon and Padmé could have enough money to buy the hyperdrive.

"I don't want to talk about it. He had a father, but he hasn't done anything for Anakin, so he basically doesn't have a father."

Qui-Gon nods, and now it's getting dark. Just at the end of working on the pod that night, Anakin accidentally cut his finger on something.

"Ow…"

Qui-Gon had since come down, and Shmi had already gone inside to do some cleaning. Qui-Gon stood next to Anakin.

"It's not bad, come over here and I'll fix you up."

So Anakin came over to a bench, and Anakin and Qui-Gon sad down. Qui-Gon took out a special kind of test paper just for blood and wiped off Anakin's cut. He them put the test thing in his comlink.

"What are you doing?" Anakin asks.

"Checking your blood for infection."

"Oh…"

he then cleans out the cut and puts a patch on the area.

"There you go. You'd better go to bed now, Ani. It's getting late and you have that big race tomorrow."

"Oh, all right…"

Anakin goes inside. As soon as Qui-Gon is sure that Anakin is out of hearing range, he calls Obi-Wan on the comlink…

"Obi-Wan, I need a midi-cholrian count on the sample I'm sending you."

"Got it, Master."

Then he uses a little machine.

"That's strange…there must be a mistake…"

"Just tell me what it is."

"Over 20 thousand…"

"Thanks."

Obi-wan then says, "but even Master Yoda doesn't have a midi-chororian count that high."

"No Jedi has until now. It's the boy, Obi-Wan. I'll tell you about it later. I have a way of getting us out of her."

"Good because it's getting harder to keep the Queen and her handmaidens from sending a transmission."

Qui-Gon closed connection. He sat by himself for a little longer, thinking.

"All these years I've searched for the chosen One. And I'm almost certain it's this boy. I wonder…"

and Qui-Gon makes up his mind to bet on Anakin…and to free both him and his mother. Early the next morning Qui-Gon went to Watto's shop.

"I'd like to enter Anakin in the race today. I have acquired a pod, the fastest one ever."

(That's what Anakin had told him.)

Watto says, "I hope you didn't kill anyone I know for it. And you need any entry fee."

"My ship will be the fee."

Qui-Gon laughs. Then Watto continues,

"I supply the boy, you supply the pod…but I think we'll split the winnings 50-50."

"If it's going to be 50-50, I think there should be a bet. I'll take that bet. If the boy wins, I'll give you the pod in exchange for…say the boy and his mother."

"No pod is worth 2 slaves…not by a long shot."

"All right, just the boy then."

"We'll let this decide. It just so happens that I have a chance cube. Blue it's the boy and ret its' his mother."

3 sides of the cue were red. And the one remaining side was blue. Watto throws it. Qui-Gon uses the force to move it so that the side up would be blue. Qui-Gon smiles.

"Well, the boy's not going to win anyway," Watto says angrily, "so it doesn't matter."

Why do you say that?"

"Because Sebulba going to win. He always does."

Qui-Gon thinks to himself, "We'll see.

By this time Anakin, Kitster, C-3PO, R2-D2, Padmé, and Shmi arrive. Anakin rides with Padmé while his mother rides with Kitster. Watto comes flying over.

"You'd better stop your friend's betting or I'll end up owning him, too."

"What?" asks Anakin.

"I'll tell you later," says Qui-Gon.

Now the officials of the race say,

"Well…moves on out, contestants. The race is about o start."

Anakin along with his helpers move his pod to the starting position.

Jabba the Hutt (the Hutt in charge of the planet, if you'll remember) says, "Welcome," in Huttese.

Then he starts reading off the names of all the contestants.

"And little Anakin Skywalk form Tatooine."

People cheer for him as they did for everyone.

After Anakin climbs in, Qui-Gon says, "Remember, Ani, use your instincts. Feel don't think. Trust your feelings."

"I will," says Anakin.

But something no one had seen was Sebulba…he had cut something on Anakin's pod…he laughs, but a bantha farts right in his face so it doesn't last long. Anyway, the gun goes off and the racers start…but Anakin is left in the dust.

Until next time!