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A/N:Sorry about the long wait readers! We've been back in school and haven't had much free time. This next chapter is brought to you by Puff's music theory teacher. He never makes her do anything in that class, therefore she had enough free time to write this. Thanks for the reviews (especially the death threats! They make us feel all warm and fuzzy inside to know you all care about this story so much!) LOL. Okay, without further delays:

Part 10: The Pot Luck Dinner

"And that Masters is why I believe everyone should have their apprentices spayed or neutered." Qui-Gon Jinn finished his presentation.

(Author Objection! Obi-Wan and I could have such beautiful children!)

Anywho, Qui-Gon's presentation had lasted a good two hours and featured a slide show, charts, statistics, and an eye witness Wookiee who claimed he saw a male padawan making out with a female padawan in the gym locker room.

Despite Qui-Gon's knowledge about his uh topic, the council was not convinced.

"Qui-Gon you are taking this complaining thing to a whole new level." Shaak managed to say after she regained her composure.

"But Masters if we want to keep attachment forbidden we have to!" Qui-Gon started.

"Where is Obi-Wan?" Mace interrupted.

"In astronomy class, why?" Qui-Gon asked.

"I am starting to believe that you are too mentally unstable to have a padawan." Mace explained.

Qui-Gon looked completely flabbergasted, "Mentally unstable?"

"Yes." Mace replied, "Obi-Wan will stay with me until we can find him a permanent master."

"But-"Qui-Gon objected.

"And about your most recent idea, by treating apprentices like animals, we would show them that we do not trust or respect them." Adi said.

"And lead to the dark side that can." Yoda added.

Qui-Gon looked like he might explode. He snapped the stick he had been using as a pointer during his presentation right in half. Then he stormed out of the chamber.

"Well." Depa stood up, "I'm gonna go barf up every meal I've ever eaten."

"Wait!" Yarael suddenly cried.

"What?" Everyone asked in an extremely cheesy perfectly in sync way.

"Do you all realize what today is?" Yarael asked.

"Thursday?" Plo guessed.

"No! It's the day of the annual pot luck dinner." Yarael reminded them.

"You mean that big dinner where distinguished Jedi from all over the galaxy come to exchange recipes?" Mace asked.

"Yep." Yarael replied.

The pot luck dinner was very famous. Thousands of Jedi came to the temple every year to exchange dishes and share cooking tips. Then well-known judges would pick the best dishes. Yaddle had won first place for the past twenty years. Plo was a whiz at making interesting desserts and almost always took home second place. The pot luck was a very big deal.

"Oh no!" Shaak cried, "I haven't made anything yet!"

"I'm just gonna bring the corn pudding I brought last year." Depa said, "It's still in my freezer."

"If no one ate it last year, what makes you think they will find it more appetizing now that it has been rotting in your fridge for a year?" Ki-Adi-Mundi asked.

"Like pot lucks I do." Yoda said, "Try out new recipes I can."

"We know." Eeth sighed, "We all remember that oatmeal, pickle, and tangerine concoction you made last year."

"We're all still recovering from it." Adi muttered.

"We'll all go home early today so we can get started on our dishes." Mace decided.

So they did.

"What should I make?" Yoda asked himself as he paced around his quarters.

"I know!" He snapped his clawed fingers, "Try out my new Betty Crocker Bacon Fill Cake Pans I can!"

NOTE: For those of you who don't know, the Betty Crocker Bake'N'Fill is a cake pan that allows you to make cakes filled with icing, ice cream, or jell. I wonder what Yoda will put in his cake!

So Yoda started cooking.

Shaak had gone to the temple courtyard to meditate about what she should cook. (The Jedi take their pot lucks very seriously you know). Oppo saw her and decided to join her.

"Something wrong?" Oppo asked.

"I don't know what to cook." Shaak sighed, "I'm not a gourmet chef like Yaddle or Plo. Heck, Dai is a better cook than me!"

"Hey! Don't be that hard on youself!" Oppo shouted, "We should make something together."

"Yeah. We should." Shaak agreed, "But what?"

"Something that doesn't involve blenders, that's for sure." Oppo chuckled.

"Okay. How about pizza? Everyone loves pizza!" Shaak suggested.

"Everyone loves chocolate too." Oppo added.

"We could make a chocolate pizza!" They both yelled together.

They marched off to Shaak's apartment to get started. In the hallway they ran into Mace.

"Hey Mace. What are you gonna make?" Oppo asked.

"A Honey Bunches of Oats layer cake." Mace replied.

"Wow. That sounds much better than the Lucky Charms tacos you made last year." Shaak grinned.

Mace shrugged, "I was being creative. Lucky Charms went great with everything else, so why not ground beef?"

Mace walked off and Shaak and Oppo continued on their way.

Later that evening, the dinner started. The dishes were all placed on a long table to be judged. After that, everyone could chow down. The judges this year were Master Ellori Symbana, a Rodian who had been stationed on Mustafar, Master Cherina Almota, a human who was working on Hoth, and Cucabobba, a Wookiee from Tatooine. The three of them carefully looked at and tasted each dish. The first one they came to was Depa's ancient corn pudding.

Since last year, is had freezer burnt, turned green, and attracted its fair share of maggots.

"How old is this?" Cucabobba asked.

"A year or two." Depa answered, "Don't worry, it can't go bad!"

"That's because it can't get any worse that it already is!" Muttered Mace whose dish was next to Depa's on the table.

Needless to say the judges did not want to catch malaria, therefore they did not eat the corn pudding. They also warned Depa that if the corn pudding returned to following year, they would have her arrested for attempting to poison them.

The judges were very impressed with Mace's Honey Bunches of Oats layer cake.

"The first layer is Honey Bunches of Oats with bananas, the second is Honey Bunches of Oats with strawberries, then blueberry, cranberry almond, peaches, and oatmeal raisin." Mace explained.

"Can I ask why you drew white cats all over the cake with icing?" Cherina asked.

"Those are my special kitties!" Mace then enlightened the judges with a three hour story about his cats.

"Lovely." Ellori muttered, "We need to move on."

The next dish was Obi-Wan's. He had made fortune cookies.

"Let's see what my fortune says." Cucabobba smiled, "It says, "You will help save a young padawan from his clinically insane master"."

"That's funny. So does mine." Ellori announced.

"Mine too. Hmm. I wonder when that will happen." Cherina said.

The judges moved no to Yoda's cake. They each took a bite and made a face.

"Is this cake filled with bacon?" Cucabobba asked.

"Yes." Yoda replied, "Made it with my Betty Crocker Bacon Fill I did."

"Don't you mean Betty Crocker Bake AND Fill?" Ellori wanted to know.

"What?" Yoda asked, "Who is Phil and what does he have to do with my cake?"

The judges rolled their eyes and moved on. They tried Yaddle's pasta surprise, Plo's martini pie, Adi's burnt sock stew. Finally they reached Shaak and Oppo.

"What is this?" Cherina questioned.

"A chocolate pizza." Shaak explained, "With a chocolate chip cookie crust, chocolate sauce, for the tomato sauce, white chocolate shavings, for the cheese, and macadamia nuts and chocolate chips as the toppings."

"It's richer than an Aldaraan senator." Oppo added.

The judges tried the chocolate pizza and fell in love with it! Oppo and Shaak won first place. Mace won second and Yoda won a ribbon for most unique recipe. It was the best potluck ever - if you overlooked Depa's corn pudding.

THE END

Tune in next time for:

Part 11:

Road Trip