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Chapter 7: the race
On a bridge over the track, a great green light at the center flashed..
All the Podracers are launched.
Anakin's engine coughed - then died.
All the other Podracers except one swerved around him and dissapeared down the track.
Anakin struggled to get his racer started. The two-headed announcer told everybody this.
FODE/BEED : - (O.S.)
A : An dare ovv! (And they're off!)
B : Oh...wait. Little Skywalker has stalled.
Padme and Jar Jar looked very dissapointed with Annie.
Qui-gon put his arm around a very worried Shmi to comfort her.
Shawn talked to Anakin.
"I told you, some controls are different."
"Yeah, you could have told me that you altered the start controls."
"Okay,yellow switch on the left. green button up here, red button right. "
Finally, Anakin's engines ignite.
"Thanks," Annie told Shawn.
"No problem"
Annie also left, leaving one quadra-Pod racer still trying to get started.
The announcer described the race.
FODE/BEED : -
B : And there goes Skywalker... He'll be hard pressed to catch up with the leaders today.
Anakin was much faster than the other and he passed the opponents in the back.
One of the drivers, didn't let the boy pass.
The driver kept blocking the pod.
They came up on a cliff drop-off, Annie slowed down, then went full trottle as the other went down, sailing over the other pod
Suddenly some Raiders perched above the race course fired their rifles at the Pods racing in the canyon below them. One energy shot hit the back of Anakin's Pod.
Shawn's image appeared, "That wasn't very nice, press the blue button now and ready the red switch for the next time in this canyon.If they try something like that again, they'll be sorry "
Anakin did what Shawn asked.
FODE/BEED : -
B : Looks like a few Tusken Riaders have camped out on the canyon dune turn.
Jar Jar looked over the shoulder of an alien, who had an hand held viewingpad
"Where's Skywalker?" He asked
Annoyed the alien moved the view screen out of Jar Jar's view.
The group watched another screen, Padme and Shmi looked worried.
Annie was speeding around corners and over hills and cliffs, he passed other racers right and left.
Qui-gon was meditating, Padme and Shmi searched the landscape for any sign of the racers.
Jar Jar was still annoying the alien for information.
The quadra-Pod engines started just as the first racers came around the corner.
The driver shifted gear, and the four engines lauched off in all
directions.
The Pod drops to the ground as Sebulba entered the arena, closely followed by other racers.
The announcer continued his report.
FODE/BEED :
B ; There goes Quadinaros' power couplings.
A : Sebulba! Ka pa me cheespa wata! (Here comes Sebulba in record time.)
Sebulba and the pack raced past the main arena.
Qui-gon and Padme look worried.
Shawn smiled, "No need to worry, he's fine."
"He musta crash-ud." Jar Jar said.
Shawn became a little annoyed.
"Do you ever look on the bright side of life?"
"Here he comes!" Padme called out.
She was right,Annie came around the bend and he quickly gained ground on the pack.
The two-headed announcer kept describing the action.
The crowd went wild.
FODE/BEED :
B : It looks like Skywalker is moving up through the field. He's in...
A : Steeth pa nagoola! (Sixth place, not bad.)
Tension for Shmi and Padme was unbearable.
As Annie gains, Sebulba purposely tore a small part off
his Pod, and threw it into an opponent's engine, and it caused him to veer into Annie's pod, who breaked to dodge the pod.
Sebulba disabled another racer with one of his side exhausts, and the racer crashed, causing a cloud of dust.
A third, Habba, flew into the cloud and smashed into the crashed racer.
Anakin went around a corner and also headed into the dustcloud. He used his feelings andwatched the radar, to avoid crashing.
FODE/BEED : -
B :At the start of the third and final lap, Sebulba is in the lead, closely followed by Skywalker...
Anakin races side by side with Sebulba over the rough terrain.
the group cheered as the small boy came through the arena. .
Sebulba tried to use his side exhaust port to cut through Anakin's engines.
Anakin managed to avoid having his engine disabled but he was forced off course.
FODE/BEED : -
B : Skywalker is forced onto the service ramp!
A : Oh noah!
Anakin is launched into the air, but he dived to the inside and managed to take the lead.
FODE BEED : -
B : Amazing... a controlled thrust and he's back on course! What a move!
Sebulba became furious.
He started pushing Anakin through the turns.
Sebulba keeps pushing Anakin harder and harder.
Shawn appeared, "I really do not like this guy. If you want to go faster, press the buttons on the thrusters, it will activate another engine, press again to deactivate.
Everybody ,save one, was surprised as Anakin's pod suddenly boosted forward with an incredible velocity.
Leaving Sebulba eating his dust.
The dust blinded Sebulba, and he crashed into a rock.
Padme and Jar Jar jumped up and down with excitment..
R2 and Kitser whistled from the pits..
QuiI-gon, Shawn and Shmi smile.
Anakin came over the finish line,first place, the winner.
The announcer excitedly calls the finish.
FODE/BEED : -
B : It's Skywalker! The crowd are going nuts!
Anakin stopped the Podracer,
People put Anakin on their shoulders, and marching off, while they cheered.
Nobody had second thoughts about two black droids moving through the crowd.
