"Boba, does your father know you're here?" asked Obi-Wan a few hours later.

"No. But since he's in jail, that shouldn't be a problem, should it?"

"Yes, it still should," corrected Qui-Gon.

"Don't worry about it," answered Taun We. "I sent a message to the Jedi Temple, asking them to tell him where his son was."

"Wouldn't they be mad that you didn't turn back after finding him?" asked Anakin.

"No. It was impossible, after all. There was a very nasty ion storm between us and Coruscant. We couldn't turn back without endangering everyone on bored."

"Really? We didn't see any ion storm."

"It must have… conveniently appeared out of our imaginations," answered Taun We innocently.

"I see," muttered Qui-Gon, grinning.

"How did you end up coming, Senator Amidala?" asked Anakin suddenly. "I didn't know you knew we were leaving."

"Are you sure you didn't tell her?" asked Obi-Wan acidly, but, as usual, everyone ignored him.

"Well, as a Senator, I try to keep up on what people like the Jedi are doing while I'm on the planet. I had heard that you were leaving, and when I heard that Taun We was asking for a ship, well, I asked her where she was going…"

"When she found out that I was following you, she asked to come. Jar Jar just sort of… showed up, and Boba stowed away," added Taun We.

"Wait," Anakin was still confused. "You told her that you were going to follow us?"

"Well, as you know, Anakin, Padmé has a way of getting information out of people," said Taun We, just as acidly as Obi-Wan.

"Not again!" complained the younger Jedi. "When are you people going to leave me alone about that?"

"When Tatooine freezes over and banthas fly," said Obi-Wan.

"Leave him alone about what?" asked Boba, mystified.

"Anakin told Padmé about Obi-Wan's visions," explained Taun We.

"Oh," said Boba.

"Wait a minute, Taun We," Qui-Gon said suddenly. "How does Boba know about that?"

"Uhh…" Taun We paused. "Don't have an answer to that. Sorry."

"Is there anyone who doesn't know?" demanded Obi-Wan, who would have preferred nobody know about it at all.

"Mesa," said Jar Jar.

"Thank yousa," said Obi-Wan, and then paused, befuddled. "Wait…"

"Great. Now you're talking like a Gungun," complained Anakin.

"Yeah, well if you don't have anything better to do than complain, then maybe you should learn another… dialect yourself!" retorted Obi-Wan.

"Don't you mean 'yousa's self'?"

"Yousa… You know what I mean!"

Everyone laughed, and then Boba pointed at a screen. "What's that?"

"A banana," answered Anakin randomly.

"What's a banana?" asked Taun We.

"You need to get out more," commented Padmé.

"But what's a banana?"

"Not that. That's Darth Maul's ship," said Qui-Gon, getting all of their attention.

"What?" demanded Obi-Wan, leaning in for a closer look.

"It is, isn't it?" pointed out Anakin.

"How close is it?" asked Taun We, trying to figure it out for herself all the while.

"Too close," answered Qui-Gon, maneuvering the ship quickly. "Sit down, everyone."

Everyone sat.

"You can hide behind that asteroid there," Obi-Wan suggested, pointing at the rock.

Qui-Gon moved the ship into place, waiting. "Why hasn't he seen us yet?" asked Anakin.

"Count yousa's blessings!" exclaimed Jar Jar.

"Anakin's right," said Obi-Wan, looking as though it pained him to admit that. "He should be attacking us about now!"

No sooner had he said that then nothing happened.

"Odd," muttered Qui-Gon. He pressed a few buttons quickly. "There we go. Most of his systems are down, that's why he hasn't seen us. He's been fired on before."

"By who?" asked Padmé. The Jedi shrugged, unsure.

"He's moving off," pointed out Anakin.

"His present course should take him to a nearby planet called Geonosis," Obi-Wan calculated.

"Follow him at a distance," instructed Qui-Gon. "He'll be able to see us if we get to close."

"Which obviously means we shouldn't," commented Anakin.

"We'll have to eventually," Taun We pointed out.

"Not until we reach the planet," Qui-Gon answered. "Then we can get him."

"Good," muttered Obi-Wan, but nobody heard him.

Ohhh, look at all the pretty reviews by StarDrifter, Ellenlome, Satra, dmitchell, Child-of-the-Dawn, Seylin, A.Nu.Evil, Black's Phoenix, Storyteller Person, and Fell Dragon! Okay, sorry, that's my burst of too much candy. Anyway, I've got a bit more of the story planned out, and I'll be using someone's plot suggestion, but I won't say whose. Maybe I'll use more than one, maybe I won't. Either way, the story will end eventually. Not anytime soon, but I know what'll happen. Sort of. And I'll probably end up forgetting and having to redo the whole thing… But either way, please review, hope you enjoyed it, yadda yadda ya.