Racing Sand Boba's POV

As I made the jump to hyperspace and then set it on auto pilot, heading for Ludus, planet for all sports, I heard this loud thud! I looked back and saw Kiesha on the floor rubbing her head. "Ow" she muttered as she stood up and then fell down again on her backside. "I see you intend to make my job harder by being a klutz" I said, suppressing a laugh. That's weird, I never laugh. "Oh, shut up" she murmured and sat in the co-pilot seat. She sat there, just staring at my helmet. I was about to ask her what she was looking at but she asked me "Do you ever take that helmet off?" "Sometimes" I answered. "How old are you?"

"16 standard years." I replied. "How old are you?" I asked, now curious "I'm 15 standard years old" She said, "But just 'cause I'm younger doesn't mean I can't kick your butt in combat" she challenged. I never back down from a challenge. "We'll see" I told her and we cleared some space. "Knife-to-knife combat first" she said. I gave her two stylian blades and kept two for myself.

I charged her but she deflected my attack easier than I thought, then she twirled around and went for my stomach. I deflected her attack. It went on like that but then she dropped her guard and I attacked, grabbing her shoulder turning her back against me and held a knife at her throat. "You're dead." I stated simply. "Well you'll be in a moment when I whoop you at hand-to-hand" she retorted.

She grabbed my wrist while I was off-guard, twisting my arm behind my back and pushing me to the ground and straddled my back so I couldn't get up. "I win" She said with a smirk on her face. I tried getting up, but man she was strong. I was impressed, and that's not easily done. I was enjoying the moment when a beeping from the cockpit was going off.

We both ran to see what was happening. A huge asteroid was coming our way. Fast. There was no way I could move the ship in time. I looked to see if Kiesha was frightened, but she did something I least expected. She stuck out her palm towards the asteroid and looked like she was concentrating very hard. The asteroid slowed drastically but it still wasn't enough. I manoeuvred the ship out of the way but the asteroid knocked the side of the main engine.

"Damn, the hyperdrive is damaged. I need a new one; we only have enough power to make it to Tattooine." I cursed. We set course for the sand planet, when I turned and asked "How did you do that?" "I used the force" she replied casually. "You never told me you're force sensitive." I said. "You never asked" she said with an innocent smile on her face.

She started laughing out of nowhere and I stared at her blankly. "What is so funny?" I asked, thinking she might have knocked her head and become delirious. "No, it- it's just that you're the world's strongest and most feared bounty hunter and I beat you!" She answered while laughing. "I let you win." I said, making up an excuse, "yep, sure. I totally believe you." She replied sarcastically. "You lost and even worse you lost to a girl. You can go on deluding yourself into thinking you won, but we both know who really won." She continued smugly. I didn't answer.

We came out of hyperspace and landed on the outskirts of the desert planet. I needed to get a new hyperdrive and I had a feeling it was going to be difficult. We headed towards the junkyards. A twi'lek slave was standing at the counter. "Excuse me, would you happen to have a hyperdrive for a mandalorian spacefighter 0079 model?" I asked her. "Yes, we're the only ones on this planet that have one" Another scruffy voice interrupted. A mean-looking, overweight, green coloured creature came into view. He was a Conjinian.

"I'll pay 7,000 credits for it" I offered. "We don't use credits here. They are worth nothing." He spat. Then Kiesha caught his eye. "I'll make you a deal, bounty boy. There is the annual pod race this afternoon. I am competing in it. So will she. If she wins, you get the hyperdrive, if I win, I get her." He said, jerking his thumb in Kiesha's direction. I thought about it. He looked like he wouldn't get very far in his podracer and I knew I could get one much better, but still... "It's a deal" I replied, sealing it with a handshake. After that, we left the store.

I didn't really want Jabba seeing Kiesha, knowing that he would probably take her as his own slave. I told her to wait outside, hiding in a cave. I entered Jabba's palace. "Ah, Mr. Fett, to what do I owe this pleasure?" He welcomed. "Jabba, you owe me a favour for when I saved all your precious materials from those imperials. So I am now calling on your favour in return." I reminded him "What do you want, my boy?" He asked. "I would like to borrow one of your podracers for the race this afternoon." I requested. "Yes, have your pick. Good luck; you know how dangerous they can get." He granted.

I looked in the garage and chose the yellow with a black pinstripe podracer, which had the highest speed, most power and excellent defences. I left the palace straight away and fetched Kiesha and we left for the stadium. I entered her in the contest and we headed out to the track to prepare for the race.

"Here, use this for your power source" I said giving Kiesha the connector. "Okay" she replied with a determined look on her face. I waited by the side of the track when all the podracers powered up. Beep, beep, beep. On the third beep the racers set off. Yaboah was in the lead followed by Kiesha. The rest were fighting amongst themselves, ending up destroying each other in the first lap. In the second lap Yaboah released a sensor cache which nearly destroyed the engine but Kiesha saw it coming and deflected it with a simple wave of her hand using the force, catching him off-guard. He slowed down but not enough for Kiesha to get in front.

They started on the third and final lap with Yaboah in front, when he did something that only somebody with a trained eye and specialty helmet like me could notice. He dispatched an invisible sensory deprivation blanket, which would end up with Kiesha being smashed into smithereens. I was about to beam it with my laser but Kiesha must have sensed it through the force and shifted out of the way.

She pushed the podracer to full power and speed and overtook Yaboah on the final straight crossing the finish line with time to spare. She jumped out of the racer and ran over to me, bouncing with joy. Her joy was like an aura around her, as if whenever she smiles, it makes everyone want to smile aswell. It was contagious. Even I smiled; luckily she couldn't see that through my helmet. "I did it! I did it!" she kept shouting, with a huge smile planted on her face.

We went back to the junkyard and took the hyperdrive from the twi'lek slave, since her owner got killed in the pod race. I repaired the main engine and blasted from the desolate planet of sand into hyperspace. I set course for our original destination, Ludus. "You are a very skilled podracer" I commented. 'Where'd that come from?' I thought. "Thanks" she smiled in return. I went back to my room and settled for now. "Good night" she said as she headed toward her room. I nodded my head in reply. I wasn't sure if she saw it or not but the small smile she had on her lips told me she did.