With obvious reluctance, Jar Jar climbed into the open cockpit of the X-wing - with his usual clumsiness - but managed to don his pilot's helmet and close the canopy without further incident.

"Do not forget to put on your safety harness, Jar Jar," Waru's voice informed him through the soundproof confines of the cockpit.

"Oh, moi moi, meesa almost forgot," Jar Jar said as he hurriedly pulled the harness over himself.

"Good," Waru said. "Now I am going to telepathically guide your hands so that you can turn on the engines. And remember, it is up to you to remember this procedure even as I lecture you on what you have to know. Do you understand?"

"Yessa, Meester Waru," Jar Jar answered nervously.

"Very well," Waru stated. "Let us begin."

Then, without further warning, Jar Jar lost complete control of his hands as they began the start-up procedure of the X-wing's engines in a hurry. During this process, Waru lectured him on what each entry in the sequence was.

When the lecture was done along with the start-up procedure, which was within a matter of more than half a minute, Waru released his hold over Jar Jar's hands and asked, "Now, can you relay that information, Jar Jar?"

"Relay?" Jar Jar inquired. "Whassa dat mean?"

"Can you repeat what I just said?"

"Oh, moi moi, meesa canm do dat," Jar Jar said. He opened his mouth, but then said, "Uh... um..."

"We will go over this again," Waru said with only the infinite patience that can be afforded to a powerful entity such as he.

"No, wait, meesa can do it!" Jar Jar said.

And then he rattled off the entire start-up sequence in even less time than it took Waru to tell him about it.

"Impressive," Waru commented. "Most impressive. Now, I will provide you with an impenetrable shield of energy that will protect you from any projectiles that you will encounter in the battle that you will get involved with. But you must not let any projectiles or the explosive aftermath of projectiles even skim this shield, or else you will receive this as your punishment."

Jar Jar then lost control of his right hand, and it smacked him across the mouth. "Ow! How wude!" he exclaimed.

"For each hit the shield receives, you receive one hit yourself," Waru said. "This starfighter training will only stop once you have entered a battlefield in which your shield will receive absolutely no hits at all. Is that understood?"

Jar Jar nodded. "Moi moi."

"Then proceed out of the hangar bay and involve yourself in the battle," Waru said.

"Okey-dokey," Jar Jar muttered to himself before he hesitantly grabbed on the X-wing's joystick.

And with one heaving push, he rocketed the starfighter straight out of the bay at hundreds of miles an hour, all the while screaming like the panicky imbecile that he was.

Once he was out of the bay, his panic only further increased once he saw that he was out in a war zone, with starfighters all around him getting blown up and projectiles of all kinds being fired every which way. Without even thinking, he juked and jinked for all that he felt like his life was worth, and fired on pure impulse, not even knowing what was going on around him as lasers, torpedoes, and missiles hit Waru's invincible shield around Jar Jar's starfighter.

After about two minutes, the battle was over, with the surviving Rebel forces having flown for hyperspace. Only a small contingent of TIE fighters, with their Star Destroyer on standby, remained to try to destroy the shabbily-piloted X-wing that could not be touched.

"Calm down, Jar Jar," Waru's voice said in the worried Gungun's head. "You only have a handful of enemies left. Destroy them, and their Star Destroyer, and you will be free."

At that point, Jar Jar did calm down - if ever so slightly - and became more focused as he jerkily dodged the lasers that came from the opposing TIEs even as he fired back his own barrages.

Because of the combination of his horrible piloting and bad aiming, rather than in spite of it, the remaining TIEs were quickly destroyed, and Jar Jar found himself rocketing for the Star Destroyer up ahead.

Halfway toward it, once he began evading the Destroyer's shots, he suddenly shook his head and began piloting with panic again. "Whata meesa doing?!" he asked himself aloud. "I can'ta destroy a Star Destroyer!"

"Yes, you can, Jar Jar," Waru's voice said. "So long as I am here, you can."

Once more, Jar Jar calmed down, and continued with abandon toward the Star Destroyer, still dodging the shots that came his way even though green lasers continued to hit Waru's shield around his X-wing.

Eventually, Jar Jar reached the Star Destroyer and fired off two concussion missiles for the larger vessel's shield generator, blowing it to molecules before releasing his last proton torpedoes across the now-unprotected hull of the Destroyer.

A chain of explosive reactions from the larger warship followed until the entire Destroyer blew up into a brief star that quickly died out in remnants of wreckage and debris strewn across hundreds of miles in this system that it died in.

"Woo-hoo, meesa kill dem Imperials!" Jar Jar cheered.

"Yes, you have," Waru said. "Now go to these coordinates. There, your training will continue."

"Okey-dokey," Jar Jar said before lining up the X-wing for the coordinates that spontaneously appeared on his display screen. He then launched for hyperspace.

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After enduring the painful punches by his own fists - which Waru was obviously controlling - Jar Jar's punishment for all the hits that he took in the battle against the Imperials - all one hundred and eighty-five - was done.

Bruised and beaten severely over a period of two hours - enough time for him to heal from his wounds so that he wouldn't die, thanks to Waru - Jar Jar now stood before the honeycomb-like being within the swamps of Dagobah, where the legendary Grand Master of the Jedi Order, Yoda, had died.

"Now your combat training may begin, Jar Jar," Waru said.

And just like that, the entity miraculously transformed into a red-skinned, tattooed male Dathomirian Zabrak donned in black.

"This is Darth Maul," Waru's voice said in Jar Jar's head. "Or rather, my personal recreation of him. He was the one who killed Qui-Gon Jinn, who you were most familiar with. He will provide you the skills needed to become a more-than-able combatant."

Waru said no more as Darth Maul charged Jar Jar and delivered a fist to the Gungun's face, as if he didn't receive enough punishment for one day.