Thank you to Moonstream-Sunstripe, AruisWinter, Earthwhisker, FurryPurrsona, Syal the Jedi, and Come Lady Death for reviewing the fifth chapter, and thanks for the encouragement! [hands cookies] I apologize for the delay. Worst case of Writer's Block I've ever had... And Squirrelflight is Shmi, even though she's not Lionblaze's actual mother. (Whoops Long Shadows/Sunrise spoilers!)
Would my PenName be Katie Ladmoore if I were the Erins? I also do not own Superman, Doritos, Wii, et cetera...

Anakin/Lionblaze cautiously to the meeting place Tornear had set with Squirrelflight, Thornclaw, and Foxpaw. Thornclaw had been told previously by Yellowfang to be Qui-Gon Jinn, and Foxpaw had been instructed to act like Jar-Jar Binks. Suddenly...

"YAAAAAHHHH!" screeched Tornear, leaping out of the bushes.

"What the Dark Forest, Tornear?! I thought this was a race, not a battle!" protested Lionblaze, slightly fazed by the random outburst.

"It is. I was just scaring you because I felt like it."

The golden tom looked at the older cat blankly.

"Okay, then... Now what are we supposed to do for this dumb race, anyways?"

Tornear opened his mouth to answer, but another cat pressed through the bushes. It was Heathertail. Lionblaze couldn't help but look at her, almost drooling.

"I heard Lionblaze was going to race you," she meowed silkily.

"Yeah. I'm gonna race him. I'm gonna beat him too..." droned Lionblaze Skywalker.

"Well, I came to watch. Good luck, Lionblaze."

"Th...th... thanks...."

Tornear scrutinized his rival oddly and then proceeded to explain the podracing rules. The first cat to circle the lake twice won.

"Now, for the pods...." Tornear said when he finished. At his words, two gigantic green bean pods fell from the sky and landed in front of the two racing cats.

"How are you supposed to work this thing?!" Skywalker inquired, analyzing the pod.

"I don't know... But if you win, you're free. If I win, I own your buddy Thornclaw Jinn as well as you and your precious mummy."

"Own me?"

"No more questions! Let's rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" yelled Tornear, leaping into the pod closest to him.

The pod suddenly went vrrrrrrooooooosh! and the older cat zoomed away. Lionblaze copied him, and the same happened.

"Welcome to your pod!" an unusually--almost sickening-- cheery she-cat's voice spoke in the cat's ear. "Today, I'm going to tell you how to operate your pod! Hopefully you'll win this race!"

There was a slight pause, but the happy she-cat spoke up again. "Your pod will always turn when you need it. This is convenient."

"Well, no duh..."

"However, this only works for the shape of the track. Now, to accelerate, squish the peas-- the round seeds-- beneath your front paws."

Lionblaze did so, and suddenly he was only a few fox-lengths behind Tornear.

"Don't worry, the peas will always regenerate themselves once you've squished them! Now, to pass your rivals, simply put most of your weight to the side you want to pass them on. Be careful not to put most of your weight on the side, or you'll tip over!"

Lionblaze squashed the peas again, and his pod shot forward. He was almost right beside Tornear now. He leaned a little bit to the left, pressed down on the peas for a third time, and leaned quickly to the right. He was in the lead! There was only three-fourths of a lap to go.

Half a lap, a quarter of a lap... twenty fox-lengths, ten-fox lengths...

Tornear was only three tail-lengths behind Anakin.

Five fox lengths....

Lionblaze Skywalker pressed down on the peas one more time...

One fox-length... Finish!

"Whoohooo! Yay Ani!" cheered Foxpaw.

The winning cat hopped out of the pea pod triumphantly. Tornear came up behind him and pulled to a stop. He didn't seem very happy.

"Well, I guess you're free. Fox dung!"

Tornear then ran away, sobbing brokenheartedly.

"So I get to be a Jedi now?" Lionblaze asked Thornclaw.

"Probably. My apprentice, Berrynose Kenobi, and I are going to present you to the Jedi Council. Ultimately, they are the ones who are going to decide your fate."

"That's sort of creepy..."

Thornclaw shrugged.

"I guess. Well, let us go!"

Suddenly, Thornclaw sprouted a Superman cape and took off into the air. Squirrelflight, Foxpaw, Heathertail, and Lionblaze looked up at him in awe. Thornclaw looked down at them and realized that they hadn't sprouted Superman capes. So, he landed. The cape dissolved into his fur just as his paws touched the ground.

"Sorry about that."

Lionblaze said goodbye to his mother, who he was going to see again; she was just going to turn into a Jedi. Then, he turned tail and followed Heathertail, Thornclaw, and Foxpaw back to ThunderClan territory.

Oddly, as they were leaving, Darth Ratscar leaped out of the bushes and attacked Thornclaw. The Jedi was able to chase him off, and Ratscar ran back into the bushes where he came from.

A few minutes later, the victorious podracing party, excluding Shmi/Squirrelflight, arrived back in the ThunderClan camp. A group of Munchkins ran in front of them, heralding their return. Hollyleaf looked very happy to see that her brother had won the race... until she spotted Heathertail. She stalked up to the Queen of "Naboo" --though no one knew her true identity-- and immediately began to rant.

"How dare you come into our camp Heathertail that's against the Warrior Code you're a warrior you should know that why aren't you going away why are you walking to our leader's den you'd better not attack him he may be way too old but he can still kick your tail stop that go away!"

"Good to see you too, Hollyleaf," Heathertail said coolly.

Hollyleaf let out a frustrated yowl and ran headfirst into the rock wall of the camp. Lionblaze rolled his eyes. Yoda came out of his den to greet them; his ears were still way out of proportion, his fur was still green, and he still was really small. The rest of the Jedi Council was with him. Though the actual Jedi Council had twelve members, there were about half that here.

"Um, what happened to your leader?" asked Heathertail, stopping and backing away slowly. Abruptly, she eyed the clock statue that was connected to the atomic clock in Boulder, Colorado, and was accurate to one-tenth of a second. She did a doubletake.

"Is that the time? StarClan, I have to leave!"

"W...Why?" stuttered Lionblaze.

"I, um, have to run an errand for the Queen, um, since I'm, um, one of her handmaidens and all..."

Nervously, Heathertail bolted out of the camp and territory with Foxpaw following her. Thornclaw narrowed his eyes, but then he went back to greet Yoda and the Council as Berrynose .

"Come hither, Master Jinn!" Brambleclaw boomed.

Thornclaw came hither, taking Lionblaze with him.

"Masters, I have found this cat."

"Found him? We've known him for ages! You haven't found him!" Dustpelt protested.

"Dustpelt, you really gotta kill my buzz, don't you? Anyway, I think he might be a good addition to the Jedi, in accordance to the Prophecy."

The Council gasped.

"You're referring to the prophecy of the one who will bring balance to the Force. You believe it's this tom?" Brambleclaw inquired in shock.

Thornclaw nodded.

"What other prophecy could I be referring to?"

"There will be three, kin of your kin, who hold the power of the stars in their paws!" cried Yoda, who immediately looked embarrassed at his outburst. The rest of the Council looked at him queerly for only a moment, then turned their stares back to Thornclaw.

"I really don't think the Prophecy could be about this cat," Brambleclaw said disapprovingly.

"Please let me train him! He's the one of the prophecy!"

"He doesn't need training; he's already a warrior," Cloudtail added.

"Yeah. Too old, he is, to begin the training," decreed Yoda.

But Thornclaw said, "Now listen here: just stick it in your pointy ear. I still will teach this tom."

After he thoroughly told Yoda "I don't care," he immediately began singing "The Saga Begins." He wandered off in a trance, leaving Lionblaze in utter confusion and the Council in utter shock.

Brackenfur had been hogging the Wii. This made Cinderheart mad. She wanted to try out her new game that her mother had given her. But nooo... her father was busy leading attacks on ShadowClan.

"Die, ShadowClan scum!" he screeched as Cinderheart watched on, bored.

"Dad, can I please try out my game?"

Brackenfur was too immersed in the game to hear her. All he did was chase another ShadowClan warrior into his den and pop a Dorito in his mouth. His paws were stained with the powdered cheese all the Doritos had left behind. A stack of fourteen empty Dorito bags were piled up next to the television. This final ignorance was the last straw for Cinderheart.

"Yaaaaaah!" she yowled, launching herself onto him. The cats sharing tounges in the camp glanced up, but they went back to their conversations after a small glance. A few days earlier, that would have been out of the ordinary, but now, it was quite the ordinary.

Brackenfur shook her off.

"Cinderheart! Do not jump on me when I am playing my Wii game! See, you just made me lose a life!" he hissed. It was true; now he had only eight lives, instead of nine, left.

"Gosh, Dad! You never give me what I want!" Cinderheart whined, again sounding like a teenage Twoleg girl.

"Go to your nest, young she-cat!"

Cinderheart whimpered and tore off into the warriors den to throw a temper tantrum. Inside the den, Poppyfrost was staring in fear at the Darth Vader bobblehead.

Meanwhile, Heathertail had lied about having to run an errand for the Queen of Naboo. She was the Queen of Naboo! Then what exactly was the reason she had left? Simple; she had to appear in front of the Senate and beg for help. Naboo, at that very moment, was being run over by H1N1 viruses. Her archenemy had sent the pig from the Southwest on her Clan and given them the virus. She hoped that Kestreltalon was doing her best in helping the Clan.

"My people are dying!" she told Chancellor Blackstar, who really shouldn't have been Chancellor at the time.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. What are we supposed to do about it?" he asked, eating a fish that he forced Nightcloud to catch for him.

"We need medical help! Please! We need antibiotics!"

"What are those?"

"They're supposed to help cure their sickeness! The Trade Federation has unleased the virus on us; Gunray must be punished!"

"I object!" Blackclaw, who was the leader of the Trade Federation, protested. "I wouldn't try to mass-murder a whole Clan!"

Heathertail scoffed.

"Oh, sure, you wouldn't! You're wearing a campaign button that says 'Vote for Blackclaw! He infected WindClan with the H1N1 Virus!'!"

Blackclaw ripped off the campaign button.

"No, I'm not."

Heathertail frowned. Then she turned back to face the rest of the Senate.

"See what I mean?"

The Senate saw what she meant.

"But I don't wanna do anything about it," Chancellor Blackstar said, shrugging off the matter.

The rest of the Senate, however, agreed with Heathertail. They began to protest, but Blackstar flicked his tail.

"QUIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!" he yowled.

A silence fell over the RiverClan camp.

"We can't do anything about it, so we're not going to, and that's final," he declared. "But... Blackclaw, you're on probation."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Blackclaw asked.

"You're on probation. Duh."

Everyone was looking with blank stares at the Chancellor.

"Which means that you won't get any representation until I think you're sorry."

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Blackclaw wailed. And he ran off into the undergrowth to sob like a tiny she-kit, just like Tornear had.

The end of the period of the first movie was approaching. Fate was working overtime, and the Random Raccoon was too. And if one thought the attack on WindClan with the H1N1 virus was bad, he or she definitely did not know what was to come.

I hope the wait was worth it! I have TWO announcements for you! (Announcements, announcements, annouuuncements! Hey! -- My church youth group does that little chant during the announcements.)

1) I have posted a new story! It's a Warriors story, so if you are reading this, then you might like it. It's serious (aww...), and it's called "A Star to Light the Path." It's about RiverClan.

2) Please suggest kit names for Luke and Leia! I will have them in this story and the sequel, so I'm going to need names for them.

Thanks for reading! Review, review, review!