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A/N: Thanks for the reviews people! We hope you will enjoy this chapter!

A/N 2: Yeah we know how Mace and Depa's relationship really is, but is anyone in this story the way they are supposed to be? I don't think so.

Part 5: Shaak and Plo's Confessions

Tagline of this story, "Oh…okay."

"Well this issue has been bothering me for quite some time." Qui-Gon said.

"What is it this time, Jinn?" Mace demanded.

Qui-Gon Jinn had somehow managed to escape being relocated to Hoth. How? No one knows. But he's still at the temple. Annoying the crap out of everyone.

"Well you see I do not think male masters should be allowed to have female padawans and visa-versa." Qui-Gon told them.

Mace and Depa exchanged looks.

"Why do you think this, Master Jinn?" Depa asked.

"Well isn't it obvious? Is there a Master in this temple who hasn't accidentally walked in while their padawan is changing clothes?" Qui-Gon asked.

The masters sat there in silence. Mace shifted uneasily and Depa stared at him. There were a few occasions when Mace accidentally walked in when Depa was changing. But after Adi's party, the whole temple had seen Depa naked and it didn't really matter anymore.

"Do you knock Master Jinn?" Plo asked.

"Well…sometimes. But sometimes I forget." Qui-Gon said.

"How do you forget? If you see that Obi-Wan's door is locked, why don't you knock before entering?" Shaak wanted to know.

"Obi-Wan's door is closed so often, I never know what he's doing in there. He could be doing something horrible. Like playing video games or watching TV or who knows what! I try to walk in and surprise him and catch him in the act." Qui-Gon explained.

"Master Jinn trust your apprentice you should." Yoda said.

"How can I trust him? What has he done to earn my trust! He tried to replace me!" Qui-Gon said.

"Can you blame him? You don't give him any privacy." Mace said.

"If he trusted me he wouldn't need privacy!" Qui-Gon snapped.

The masters all rolled their eyes.

"Master Jinn talk about this later we will. Discuss it with such a master/padawan team and ask about it we will." Yoda said.

"I know Mace and Depa never had any problems, right?" Yarael asked.

"What? Oh no…none…" Mace said nervously.

"Fine. If you do not care about this issue I will find someone who does." Qui-Gon stormed out of the chamber.

"Qui-Gon is such a Puritan." Shaak sighed.

"He just believes that everything should be the way it was hundreds of years ago when the temple was first established." Eeth said.

"Yeah. I just said that. He's a Puritan." Shaak argued.

"Well personally I don't think there is anything wrong with male and female master and padawan teams. As long as they give each other some privacy. And no hanky panky." Oppo said.

Mace and Depa exchanged another worried glance.

"Mace? Depa? Is there something you want to share with us?" Adi asked.

"No. Nothing." Depa said.

"Dismiss this issue we will. Add a no hanky panky rule to the book we will." Yoda said.

"You mean there isn't one already?" Mace asked, maybe he and Depa hadn't broken the rules after all.

"No. With a rule against attachment we thought such a rule was unnecessary." Plo said.

"Yeah. It should be." Adi glanced around rather nervously herself.

"And now on to a more serious matter." Shaak spoke up, "My vacation. I want it now. Now now now! Right now!"

"Yes. When is Shaak's vacation?" Mace asked, glad he and Depa were off the hot seat.

"Begins today it does." Yoda looked at his calendar that hung beside his chair.

"But my vacation begins today." Plo whined.

"We can't have two masters gone at the same time!" Eeth said.

"Sure we can! We had four gone after Adi's party last week." Yarael pointed out.

"Yeah. You all can take care of the place." Shaak said, "Now I'm outta here."

Shaak ran out of the chamber.

"Me too." Plo ran after her.

A few moments later Shaak and Plo ran into each other in the hallway.

"Hey, Plo where are you going for vacation?" Shaak asked.

"Six Flags Over Coruscant." Plo said, "I love roller coasters!"

"Really?" Shaak was shocked, "I'm going there too. We should do something together."

"Okay. We can go on the merry-go-round." Plo said.

"Alright." Shaak replied.

"We should car pool. No point in each of us taking a speeder if we're going to the same place." Plo suggested.

"True. But I'm driving." Shaak answered.

"Oh…okay." Plo said, uncertainly. Shaak's driving skills were known all over the galaxy to be terrifying.

Plo and Shaak had been old friends. But they hadn't spoken much in the past few years. They needed to catch up. The two of them put their suitcases in Shaak's sporty green speeder (that clashes with her skin but she doesn't care).

"Nice ride." Plo said.

"Thanks." Shaak replied.

"How did you afford it?" Plo asked.

"I won it in a Sabaac game." Shaak answered.

"Oh…okay." Plo said once again.

Shaak took off speeding towards Six Flags. Do to her inability to go less than ten miles over the speed limit they made it there in just an hour and a half.

"Good time…" Plo said, his fingers still holding on to his seat.

"Let's go." Shaak jumped out of the speeder and raced towards the park gate.

"Yeah…let's…" Plo was in too much shock to leave his seat.

"Remember where we're parked." Shaak ordered.

Plo looked up at the sign at the front of the row of speeders. It said "You are parked in Veractyl 5."

"Veractyl five that shouldn't be to hard to remember." Plo said and got out of the car.

"Come on Plo!" Shaak shouted, waiting impatiently.

"I'm coming." Plo ran across the parking lot towards her.

The two of them bought tickets and walked into the park.

"I wanna have my picture taken with Wally Wompa!" Shaak said, grabbing Plo by the wrist.

The two of them waited in line for an hour to have their picture taken with Wally Wompa, the park's mascot. They then bought a print of the picture for only a low price of three hundred and eighty two credits! Theme park merchandise is so over priced!

"Let's go on the merry-go-round!" Shaak suggested.

"Okay." Plo said.

It was then that the two of them released they were holding hands.

"When did this happen?" Shaak asked, quickly pulling her hand away and wiping it on her robe.

"I dunno." Plo said and did the same.

"Oh aren't you two just a cute little couple!" An old lady said.

"Excuse me?" Plo asked.

"I saw you two posing with Wally Wompa. And then you skipped off holding hands. My husband and I used to do that. I miss those days." The old woman said and wandered off.

"But we're not a couple!" Shaak yelled after her, "We hate each other!"

"Very much so!" Plo added.

They continued on to the merry-go-round. Shaak got on a bantha and Plo got on a speeder bike. The ride went around in circles.

"This is fun!" Shaak shouted, "I'm winning the race."

Plo noticed her bantha was placed a few feet ahead of his speeder bike.

"No, I'm already a lap ahead of you." Plo argued childishly.

The two immature Jedi finally got off the merry-go-round and made their way over to the park's biggest roller coaster, The Raging Gundark.

"I hope this isn't too scary." Shaak said.

"It's not." Plo reassured her, "The last time I rode it all I did was throw up all over the guy next to me. Whom I later found out was Qui-Gon."

"You were sitting next to Qui-Gon on a roller coaster and didn't know it? Didn't he complain about something?" Shaak asked.

"No. He was unconscious." Plo explained.

"Unconscious?" Shaak repeated.

"Yeah. Him and Obi-Wan took a trip here. And Obi-Wan thought he was being a pest. As usual. So he knocked him out and dumped his lifeless body on the roller coaster." Plo told her.

"Gee no wonder Qui-Gon doesn't trust him." Shaak said.

After waiting in line for half an hour, they got on The Raging Gundark.

"This is gonna be great!" Shaak cheered and put her arms up.

The roller coaster made its way to the top of the hill and dropped and went halfway through a loop and got stuck upside down.

"We stopped." Plo said.

"Good one Captain Obvious." Shaak said.

They heard the frightened screaming of the other passengers. They were shouting things like "The blood is rushing to my head." and "We're gonna be stuck here forever." and of course "I can see my house from here."

Finally Plo used the Force to calm everyone down so they would shut up.

"Well looks like we're gonna be here for a while." Shaak said as she looked down at the ride's mechanics scurrying around like confused protocol droids.

"Yep." Plo said.

"Let's play a game. I spy with my little eye something that is brown." Shaak said.

"The temple?" Plo guessed.

"Yep. Your turn."

"I spy something yellow." Plo said.

"Those flowers down there?" Shaak guessed.

"Yep. Your turn."

"I spy something red." Shaak said.

"You?" Plo guessed.

"Yeah." Shaak answered.

"This game really stinks when you can read each other's minds." Plo said.

"Yep."

"What do you wanna do now?" Plo asked.

"Let's catch up. What kind of movies do you like?" Shaak wanted to know.

"Oh…action and adventure. Thrillers. What do you like?"

"Romantic comedies. Chick flicks."

"I should have known." Plo sighed.

"Now what?" Shaak asked.

"Your definition of catching up is talking about movies?" Plo asked.

"Well I don't see you asking any questions." Shaak snorted.

"Okay. What's your favorite color?" Plo wanted to know.

"Isn't it obvious? Red." Shaak replied, "What's yours?"

"Green." Plo answered.

"My speeder's green." Shaak said, stupidly.

"Sure is."

"Yeah." Shaak said.

"Yeah." Plo agreed.

"Green." Shaak said.

"Cool color."

"Sure is."

"This sucks." Plo complained.

"Yeah it does. I'm bored. Let's use the Force to open all the safety restraints and watch all the other passengers fall to their doom." Shaak suggested.

"Nah. That's dangerous." Plo replied.

"Yeah." Shaak agreed.

Six hours later, they were still upside down.

"I'm getting weak, Plo." Shaak said, "I can't see anymore…"

"Me neither." Plo said.

"Something's touching my arm!" Shaak screamed.

"It's me." Plo replied.

"Oh…okay." Shaak said.

"You know, I never thought I'd die on a roller coaster." Plo said.

"Me neither…" Shaak's voice trailed off.

"Shaak? Keep talking! Don't fall asleep!" Plo shouted.

"Okay. No need to get so…melodramatic…" Shaak replied.

"At least we'll die together." Plo said.

"Yeah." Shaak agreed.

Back at the temple…

"Qui-Gon we don't care!" Mace shouted.

"But Master Windu without my ceiling fan my room is unpleasantly warm!" Qui-Gon said.

"And Obi-Wan, you say you didn't see anyone walk into your quarters, take out a lightsaber, and cut down the ceiling fan?" Adi asked.

"No. I didn't see anyone…" Obi-Wan said nervously. If Qui-Gon found out he was the one who accidentally cut down the ceiling fan while jumping on the couch with his lightsaber, who knows what Qui-Gon would do!

"Master Jinn we will have your fan replaced as soon as we can. Now leave." Ki-Adi-Mundi commanded.

Qui-Gon grabbed Obi-Wan by his braid and dragged him out of the chamber.

"Sense a disturbance I do." Yoda said.

"What?" Mace asked.

"Plo and Shaak. In pain they are. Dying they may be." Yoda replied.

"Where are they?" Depa asked, concerned.

"On…a…rollercoaster?" Yoda could not believe what his mind was telling him.

"We should go rescue them!" Eeth said.

"Not you. We all know what happened when you tried to save the temple from the Sith. You sliced up the water heater and Qui-Gon complained about it for two months." Adi said.

"Alright. Adi and I will go." Saesee said.

"Go. Hurry. Die they might!" Yoda said.

"Good riddance." Mace muttered.

"What?" Yoda asked.

"Nothing." Mace replied.

Saesee and Adi ran out of the temple, jumped in a speeder and sped off towards Six Flags Over Coruscant.

Back on the roller coaster…

"Plo…I feel like…my head…is…going to explode…" Shaak stammered.

"Me…too." Plo replied.

"What are the mechanics doing?" Shaak asked.

Plo managed to open his eyes long enough to see the ride's mechanics building a human pyramid in an attempt to reach the stranded riders.

"We're screwed." Plo said.

"Oh. In that case there's something I want to tell you…" Shaak said.

"Me too." Plo said.

"You want to tell yourself something?" Shaak was confused.

"No I wanna tell you something." Plo said.

"Oh. Okay. Well you go first." Shaak said.

"I…always…sort of…" Plo said

Suddenly they heard a speeder. It flew underneath them and hovered there.

"Plo! Shaak!" Someone with a megaphone shouted, "Can you hear me!"

"I can." Saesee rubbed his ear.

"Adi?" Plo thought he recognized the voice.

"Yes!" Adi yelled, "Can you hear me!"

"Didn't you hear me say your name!" Plo demanded, "Yes I hear you!"

"Don't worry!" Adi screamed, "We're coming to get you."

Shaak screamed in terror, "They're gonna get us!"

"It's okay Shaak, it's just Adi and Saesee." Plo reasurred her.

"Oh…okay." Shaak said, "Adi and Saesee?" She screamed again, "We're screwed!"

"Saesee get the speeder a little closer so I can undo the restraints!" Adi commanded.

"Adi, you don't need to use the megaphone. I'm sitting less than two feet away from you. I can hear you." Saesee said.

He piloted the speeder closer to the roller coaster until Adi could reach the restraints. Plo and then Shaak fell with a thud into the speeder. After dropping the two of them off with a medical team, Adi and Saesee went back to save the other passengers.

"Are you all okay?" A medic asked Plo and Shaak.

"Yep." Plo replied, "Just need to get the blood down from my head and into the rest of my body."

"Oh. Okay." The medic walked off.

"He didn't even bother to see if I was okay." Shaak whined, "My horns hurt."

"I'm so sorry." Plo said.

Finally Saesee and Adi landed their speeder and let Plo and Shaak in. The four Jedi flew back to the temple where Plo and Shaak would spend the rest of their vacation recovering from hanging upside down for so long. What Shaak and Plo wanted to tell each other on the roller coaster, the world may never know…

But wait a minute, what happened to Shaak's speeder?

Well Eeth Koth was feeling insulted after Adi said he couldn't go on the rescue mission. So he decided to go get Shaak's speeder. It took him five hours to find the speeder. After hanging upside down for six hours, Plo couldn't begin to remember where they were parked. Once Eeth found the speeder he headed towards the temple but wrecked and ruined the speeder. He fled the scene of the accident and left the planet before Shaak could find out about her speeder and kill him.

Stay tuned for

Part 6: Jedi Congeniality