"Okay, what about if you…"

"That won't work."

"How do you know?"

"Because none of your ideas have worked so far, so why should this be any different?"

"If you'd just try my ideas…"

"But they never work."

"How would you know, you've never tried any of them!" Anakin was getting a little annoyed at… the other Anakin. Actually, everyone had decided to call the older one Anakin and the younger one Ani, to avoid confusion. It didn't help as much as one would like, but it still helped a little… sort of.

The Jedi, Taun We, Padmé, Jar Jar and Boba had spent the past hour trying to get Ani and Luke off the ridge. It wasn't working any better than the recent conversation suggests. In fact, it was worse.

"Boba, where are you going?"

"I'm trying to get them down."

"How?"

"I'm gonna climb up there…"

"NO."

"But Taun We…"

"She's right, Boba," pointed out Qui-Gon. "Getting up there is too dangerous."

"Then how'd they get up there?" demanded the boy.

"The just appeared there."

"Master Qui-Gon, I'm not a child. You can tell me, instead of inventing strange stories about it. I'm not going to fall for them."

"Sadly, kid, he's telling the truth," called Ani from the ridge.

"Who're you calling kid, kid?"

"I'm calling you kid, kid!"

"Yeah, kid? Well I'm not a kid, kid!"

"Kidkid!" cried Jar Jar. "Mesa's daddy's sistahs kid is Kidkid!"

"Your cousin's name is Kidkid?" asked Obi-Wan incredulously.

"You should talk," laughed Anakin. "Everyone called you Old Ben. But you're real name's Obi-Wan. I mean, seriously. What would you're family's names be?"

"My mother was Janet, and my father was Bobby."

"Normal names?"

"Yeah. But then again, but brother was Bob-Jan, and my sister was Et-By. I'm the only one who wasn't named after both my parents at the same time."

"Weird."

"Hey, you should talk, Anakin! And what was your mother's name again?"

"Shmi."

"Shmi. Sounds like that cat from the Mutts comic strip saying 'me'."

"It's not that bad."

"I suppose it's not, Qui-Gon. What was your family's names?"

"Gon-Gon, Qui-Qui, and Gon-Qui."

Everyone stared at him for a moment, and then Obi-Wan burst out laughing. "Where did those come from?"

"My parents were Qui and Gon. They were strange people."

"Not so bad for mesa! Mesa's family eez normal. Box Box, and Can Can, are mesa's parents, and Jug Jug, Container Container, and Jon are mesa's brothers and sister."

"Which one's the sister?" asked Obi-Wan blankly.

"Jon."

"My family doesn't name people after each other. We, at least, are sane."

"Oh? And what exactly are your family's sane names, Taun We?"

"Baun We and Baun Us are my parents, and Taun Us and Tan We are my brother and sister. Even Lama Su has a normal family! His parents are Llama and Sue, and his brother is Llama Chow, and his sister is Sue Chow."

"I see…" muttered Obi-Wan, still lost. "Well, Padmé, I believe you've still got the normalest family."

"My family named my sisters Ryoo, and Pooja. Our parents are insane, Obi-Wan, live with it."

"Umm, okay. Boba has the normalest family. Congratulations."

"Okay, I just got back in time to hear that," answered Boba, getting back in time to hear that.

"Huh?" asked Anakin, who really hadn't been following the conversation.

"Huh what?" asked Ani.

"How'd you get down here?"

"I won't tell you. Not until you tell me what exactly you meant by 'huh?'!"

"What do you mean, what did I mean by 'huh?'?"

"What do you mean, what did I mean, what did you mean by 'huh?'?"

"What did you I mean huh what I did you mean mean huh what I you did…"

"Okay, you can shut up now," snapped Ani.

"What if I don't want to?"

"Then you can still shut up now."

"Okay, boys, stop fighting," said Qui-Gon parentally.

"You stop fighting."

"Huh?"

"No!" cried Obi-Wan. "Don't start that again!"

"I will if I want to."

"No you won't."

"Yes I will."

"No you won't."

"Yes I will."

"No you will."

"Yes I will."

"Won't you know?"

"Huh?"

"OH, NOT AGAIN!"

"Okay, I'm a little confused," muttered Anakin.

"Boba brought us down here, and now Ani's being annoying," explained Luke.

"Oh."

"He hasn't changed at all as he got older," muttered Taun We.

"Believe me, he was much saner when he was a child," answered Qui-Gon. "This must be his evil twin."

"And, of course, the evil twin is also the one you raised," teased the Kamioan.

"OH, MY GOD, THEY'RE EVIL TRIPLETS!"

"And somehow, people think Jedi are sane," muttered Padmé. "What an unusual myth. And how… wrong."

Thank you, Satra, Ellenlome, Child-of-the-Dawn, Phoenix Red Lion, and Kekelina for reviewing. Maybe eventually, the story will get back to the plot, but for now, I'm content to remain totally random.