A/N: Umm, how best to put this… Sorry, sorry sorry a thousand times sorry? Yeah, that works. I had been working on my stories, went on a 4 week vacation, took my flash drive with me so I could continue working on them… And then I left it behind by mistake. 3 weeks later and my friend finally mailed it back, but looking back on what I had written, I decided I hated it all and it needed to be changed. So, sorry that this took so long and enjoy the next chapter.
In The Glory Of The King
"Master! Master I'm back!" Naruto called out as he walked towards the grounded ship. He glanced to the side at the now beastly looking pod racer and mentally repressed a sigh, it was like a chainsaw mated with a rocket, and these were its abomination children.
"Warning: Meatbag, you are trespassing. Mournful Statement: You have ten seconds to vacate the surrounding area." Naruto jumped a good 4 feet straight up at the sound of the soulless robotic voice directly behind him.
He slowly turned around to see the scariest thing he had EVER laid eyes on. It stood seven feet tall, black with the odd bronze bit of markings on it. It had a massive sword on it's back, and clawed hands, and the eyes! It's horrible crimson eyes! "Who the hell are you!" Naruto said, hands flying to his lightsaber.
"Introductory Statement: Greetings Flesh Sac, I am HK-47. You have 6 seconds." The robot reached up and grabbed the handle of the massive sword, and after thumbing a switch the blade burst into a brilliant crimson with an angry hiss. Naruto groaned and ignited his sabers holding them up just in time to to block a forceful downward strike that shoved his feet into the sand. "Puzzled inquiry: Is not Pink considered an unacceptable color for a male?"
Naruto growled and shoved the droid back, slightly. "Shut up you pile of parts, it's not pink it's magenta!" He swore again as he flipped over a horizontal strike of HK's much larger blade.
"Statement: It's color is irrelevant to your chances of continued survival." And so it continued. For a giant pile of metal, HK was much faster than he had any right to be. And were those buzz saw blades in it's chest? What kind of sick bastard would make something like this?
"Hmm, admirable job, that's enough HK. This is Naruto, my new apprentice." Ah, that's who. Revan stood, leaning against the Ebon Hawk in a grimy work short and work pants, a tool belt hanging off his waist, though Naruto doubted lightsabers were common on most toolbelts. The goggles around his neck were a nice touch.
"Exasperated Statement: If I must Master. He seems adequate at combat at least." The droid, well, stated.
Revan grinned, baring his teeth, "Oh I'm sure you'll get along just fine. Naruto here trained was trained as an assassin from when he was just a small boy."
"Intrigued Statement: Oh? Perhaps he will not be a useless sack of flesh after all." Naruto shuddered under the assassin droids crimson gaze.
"So, uh, this is the droid you were telling me about?" The blond asked his master, edging away ever so slowly from the homicidal machine.
Revan gave a grin that would be at home on the face of a proud father just after his child's birth. "Yup. New and improved, in body at least, his mind never needed improved." Revan chuckled at that, then turned to his more then mildly disturbed apprentice. "So, parts for the ship, where do you stand on that?"
Naruto sighed, "Well you see, it goes like this..."
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"Master Jedi I do not believe gambling our ship away top some stranger was the wisest course of action."
Qui-Gon sighed, it had almost been cute at first, the way the fourteen year old girl had tagged along as a representative of the Queen, but it was getting irritating the whole questioning his judgment at every single turn. Really now, who here was the Jedi, and who was teenage girl? "I assure you, again, that everything will work out." He clasped a hand on Anakin's shoulder, "I have a good feeling about this boy. Really now you must learn to trust me."
Padme grumbled something unintelligible about senile old Jedi, and recommended some alternate storage areas for their lightsabers.
"Besides," Qui-Gon continued on, dutifully ignoring the less then subtle cracks at his age and sexuality, "It's not like theirs a better plan hmm? Unless you're hiding a few krayt dragon pearls of your own somewhere, or perhaps your own hyperdrive? No? Then do cease your incessant grumbling and go with the plan at hand."
Padme's eyes widened at that. Apparently a Jedi's breaking point was somewhere along the lines of whiny bitchy teenage girl. She shut up, mostly due to not wanting to find out what happened when you pushed a Jedi past their breaking point, but also because dammit the old geezer had a point. She didn't have a better idea. Sad as it was. "Fine, I concede your point in this matter."
Qui-Gon smiled, just a touch condescendingly, and continued walking.
"But I reserve the right of 'I told You So.' if this all comes crashing down." She said, with just a touch of smugness before running ahead of him with Anakin towards the boy's home.
Qui-Gon rubbed his brow in irritation. "Obi-Wan had been such a well behaved child... Now I know how the Masters must feel dealing with me." Hmm, there was an unpleasant thought. "Oh well, what's done is done. All that is left is to trust in the force."
And what a nice sentiment that was to, and, in another time, another place, another universe, it would have worked just fine. Unfortunately in this particular reality there was someone the force favored more then anyone else. Someone named Revan...
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The day of the race was hot, blindingly, and excruciatingly hot. In other words, a normal Tatooine morning. "So there's Anakin, Where's this mysterious competitor of ours?" Padme asked Qui-Gon as they walked towards the seating area... Lift... thing...
"I would guess he's the only other human. Over there in the fifth row." He said, pointing towards a particularly nasty looking pod racer. There was a man standing beside it, checking it over. He didn't look like anything special, a drab brown hair, mechanic-y clothing. Nothing much, but then Anakin was nine and was expected to win this thing, through fate or something like that.
Padme opened her mouth to further comment when that blond boy from the junk shop popped beside her. "Hello!" He said, giving her a foxy grin. Not that she knew what foxes were, nor would associate grinning with them even if she did. It looked more like the hunting grin of a rather large feline predator from her homeworld.
She hid her urge to scream and leap as far into the air as her Queenly legs could take her and looked over him again. Not to bad on the eyes, confident walk, oddly dressed but then who wasn't? "Hello to you to. You know I never did catch your name."
He cracked open a single azure eye, "Really? Hmm, I guess your right. I'm Naruto Uzumaki. Just Naruto though.
"Padme. Naruto, that's an odd name though."
He laughed, and again she was reminded of the predator, whatever it's name was. "It means Maelstrom, or whirlpool in my home tongue."
She laughed a bit at that. "A little out of place in the desert then are we?"
Naruto laughed again, joining them as they rode up to their seats. "Just a little bit." He started to say more but was cut off by the sound of the opening horns. "Ah, looks like the race is about to begin."
"You don't seem worried, not afraid your master might lose at all?" Qui-Gon, who had been dutifully ignoring the conversation of the two teens perked at that question. One he as well would like to know.
Naruto just grinned, bearing his sharper then average teeth, which had the unintended side affect of causing Padme to yet again suppress a small shudder. "I have not been traveling with him for to long, relatively speaking. But I have learned one thing, Never, EVER bet against Revan."
With that comforting statement, Padme gulped uneasily and looked to Qui-Gon, who was just as uneasy as her, he just hid it better. Neither had time to speak as another horn went off, signaling that the race had just begun.
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A/N: Woo! Fun chapter! I hope anyways. Not as much as I'd of liked but hey take what you can get, give what you have. And this is what I have. Next chapter is the pod race, which I will try to write, but I guarantee nothing. Next update... Will be either Prince of Time, or Hydra. Haven't decided which yet. Which story (of all of mine) would you readers like to see updated next? As always, reviews are welcomed., loved even. I thank all those that have reviewed so far and encourage you to continue to do so!... Until next time, Draton out.