The Chosen One's Jedi Quest I: The Phantom Menace
Disclaimers: the characters don't belong to me, the story belongs to me, everything else belongs to the author and the creator of the movies.
Warnings: With this chapter it's going to jump over 20% of the return to Naboo, and go right to saving Qui-Gon, after Anakin lands back in the hanger. So from here, the story-line had Qui-Gon involved fully in Anakin's life with Obi-wan. And as he spends his entire 13 years a Jedi, as his alter ego becomes Darth Vader. So Anakin becomes the true Chosen One, Andy, Darth Vader becomes a Sith and it becomes his version.
To his heirs' war against each other, in the last chapter of the Skywalker family 60 years from then. This story is going to use the theoretical from my other story, as the Jedi Quest novels. And are as though Anakin and Vader are two separate beings. As the Jedi know that Vader is a separate entity to Anakin's personality. And see him as the Chosen One, but are training Anakin in secret here, as the lightsaber implication.
Is Vader, and everything that involved the darkside was Vader, Anakin himself grows up to be the perfect Jedi padawan, as they all graduate 27 to 29.
Chapter 14: The Mission Begins And Close Calls VI
"There we go, we use this one with father alive now, but once activated, Father has living force, you have unifying, and Andy is a unifying force." he said and Obi-wan nodded. "Yes and to quote this now, as you were the one I got to know and spent the most time with. I will take this boy as Padawan, Master, I will train him the best way I can, but I will bare in mind what you told me. I will go carefully, I will heed your warnings, I will keep close watch over his progress now."
"But Andy is the one gaining how I was constantly correcting Anakin right now, but Anakin needs Master as he gains the knowledge of force healing. But one twin gets it, one doesn't, but as we learned, force healing had the added side effect of becoming one with the force." he said and Yoda nodded in agreement smiling gently. "Just wait for that power to go into our grandchildren's generation after my kids reached my level." he said and the council nodded.
"We know who we're matched to, in teams here?" Tru asked and he nodded. "With our memories back, back to your original teams again, but you're, starting now. In individualized training now, from master to apprentice, since the war's affecting your training. And boys, I get you wanted to graduate, but remember the rule on the darkside." Adi said and they nodded. "The darkside is faster, easier, more seductive, acceleration trials, code for the darkside here."
"So sure we made the trials, but why let go, we're going on 20 to 22 still not ready to let go, so another 7 years, I lost you and Siri, because of my own idiocy. I will not lose you again, I'm sorry Mother, it was my fault, with permission, I wish for probation." Ferus said and she nodded gently. "Granted baby, you be more careful, but anger and competitiveness have no room in the tests of partnership, you and Annie have to set aside your rivalries." She said and he nodded.
"Yes Mother, I will, so from now till we're 27 to 29, okay I can handle that now, 17 years, with our adult memories. But at least we get a second chance, clone all of you, and wait till the twins are 19, before revealing ourselves. So me to you, Anakin to Master Qui-Gon, Tru to Master Tiana and Darra to Master Damon. This is going to be a long 14 years, but again, if you need me, and I will come back, I swear to that." he said and the council nodded gently to him then at that.
"We keep our team together guys, never let go, we're strong by ourselves, but together, stronger together, single unified front." Anakin said and they nodded as they went into a line then. "He wants you, he's getting to you over my dead body." Ferus said sternly and he nodded "Yes, and guys, I think we found your padawans here, but I've got two in four years, him and his twin brother, but looks like Ferus is your's, honey, but back in our original teams again now."
"So Darra to you, Soara, and Tru to you Ry', but we can use these for a visual guide, but your mission starts in 18 months honey, he knows who the trader is." Obi-wan said and Siri nodded. "Honey?" Corran Damarron repeated at that and Anakin covered his eyes. "Whoever is thinking this guys, don't go there, but yeah, he's in love with your mentor here, Ferus." Soara said and Anakin started laughing at that as Dane and Tru's face turned red then at that consideration.
"Yeah I remember that exchange, but that was beyond embarrassing at the consideration shooting through my head that day." he said with a bemused smile. "We never had that talk yet, we're only 13 to 15, and this is neither the time nor place for human mating discussions." Tru said bemused as he tried to get that image out of his head. "And when we're on security duty, too, and what the heck was that about?" Ferus said and he chuckled as he answered him then.
"My friends and fellow pilots were discussing how many times he stalled out in the starter, not realizing the podracer was a Jedi handi-cap and she got it right. As a debate broke out between them, but though a haircut and a lightsaber, they knew if the games had podracing. They chose the only Jedi team with a podracing expert and everyone involved from his hometown." he said and they nodded. "And directly after you eliminated the Raider." Ferus said and he nodded then.
"My daughter is your new apprentice in 30 years, Ferus." Anakin said and he nodded. "Right, force types, unifying to living to unifying and back again, that's us, while for you. And let me take a guess, but I have your daughter, her brother goes to you, once we're adults now?" he said and Anakin nodded. "I'm actually the husband to Queen, soon to be Senator, Amidala now, as a result, everyone in both sides knew, but no public wedding." he said and they all nodded.
Just as he was answering the radio went off. "Yeah Skywalker here." he said and they heard a 14 year old female voice. "Annie, we're ready here, is that really you, my you?" she asked and he smiled. "Yeah my love it's me, it's me, but your remark to Obi-wan, it's true, turns out we had twins, but learning Bail had our daughter. I finally got up enough strength to kill my alter ego and kill Palpatine, he's the Sithmaster." he said and knew she nodded at the news then.
"The mentor of the one that killed Qui-Gon?" she asked and he nodded. "Yeah, we got him now, so just pretend, when you become senator, with him, but we're getting back together. Ten months before my mandate with you, Adi and Siri have protection duty, Father and Obi-wan. They have the investigation, but take as long as he needs, we both need a sabbatical here, as I'm running on fumes, and before we come back to Naboo, we're heading for Tatooine here."
"But we make a few changes, leave others alone, but I'm cloning my alter ego, but I'm a master guardian, remember Mace's lightsaber." he said to her. "Yeah I do, so that's what you are, so you're a purple, wait a second, if he's purple. Well then are what Siri and Master Gallia exactly?" she asked and Obi-wan exchanged amused smiles with Yoda, now that the truth was out. "Adi is sunrise orange, Siri hot pink, borderline purple." he said to her gently.
"The others realized they been deceived here and decided on a 13 year plan, the same 13 years he masterminded my downfall at the time." he said and her tone went stern. "Then we been tricked, alright, Master Yoda, if you can hear me, from now till the end of the Republic. Is we have meetings every 2 weeks, but cross and double cross, for the 8 years. Leading into my due date." she said and Yoda nodded in agreement, knowing it was critical.
"Padme, in 7 months we're heading home, and my promise to mom, only this is where your remark on the said slavery laws comes back into it. We're doing everyone by another race, but 7 months Jedi with an adult mind here, you know how good I am as an adult." he said and they heard a smile of determination in her tone. "Yeah I do my love, I do, though meeting only once, I love your mother, but you helped us, and we now we pay it forward here."
"The last thing I remember is naming the twins, Annie." she said and he nodded in relief. "Okay, well with the urgent urgency of things right now, Obi-wan removed the same limbs he did me, but I get my entire set grown back, but my alter ego. We're calling him Andy now in truth, he's carrying everything in me, you remember after we got back together, me as I am. I'm a 20 to 23 year old Obi-wan in personality now." he said and knew she smiled at that then.
"The council knows and doesn't mind, so once we get back together, in 10 years, tell the sextet, as Bail knows already. But Mon, his general, Jan Dodonna, Agiel Ackbar and Crix Madine. As well as Davish Krail, and Garvan Dreis. Reason being Garv's Luke's squadron leader, the queen and your parents, and soon it's all over the alliance. And in both sides of it finally here now, we just couldn't do a real wedding, or the attacks just get worse here, the code changed right now."
"We can go public now, after we kill Sidious, and bring it home again here." he said and knew she was thrilled. "Alright, the first to know are my pilots, and Captain Panaka, in that truth, once we bring it home, with you my boyfriend. And protecting me, my parents and Sola get what they want now, as I'm locked right into the council. Through you, and you into the sextet, through me now, so there we go." she said and he nodded then.
"Be there in 90 minutes, we're with you for the duration, but we're staying on Naboo…" he started to say and Mace mouthed 2 weeks and he nodded. "We're staying on Naboo for 2 weeks, as Father recovers from his injuries, before returning to Coruscant. So during that, the cloning is activating both for the army and Andy." he said and knew she nodded. "Got it love, see you soon, Annie." she said and he smiled. "See you soon, my love." he said and turned it off.
"Yeah point taken, you're my best friend, so there it is right now." Ferus said, smiling to that. "Well as we would have said here right now, to the cubs, they don't understand a thing about you, we were with you from now to adulthood. You would never turn if you had no choice, and you would never hurt a child, nor would you kill in cold blood. Oh no, all of that was Andy, during the purge, this is the you we know, to us it's always you this and you that now."
"But young man, jealousy is path to the darkside, so careful here, because you must control your emotions and remember here. That fear is the path to the darkside, fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and hate leads to suffering now. To feel these emotions is to be human, to control them is to be a Jedi." Mace said sternly and they felt another flinch at that. "Andy she's engaged to me, you have to find someone else." Anakin said and they felt a jerk of shock then.
"She, like us and Bail, are the only ones that know here, our 13 to 23 year older minds are inside these bodies now." Obi-wan said and he nodded in agreement. "Like I said mom is you in everything that counts, but Amee's sister is you, Siri." he said and Adi chuckled and nodded then gently. "Indeed, now the truth is out, the entire Order know you, our true chosen one is engaged and married to the queen and future senator to Naboo." Mace said gently to him then.
Before the radio went off and they heard 30,000 Jedi reporting in, that their memories were all back along with the Alliance. "Well there we go: everyone that knew you all your life, knows that you and Vader are 2 different people, as we clone you. Andy is walking around in the flesh now, and he gets the scrutiny and distrust, you are the true Chosen One. As we trained you in secret as you either kill him or arrest him, either way it's over." Garen said and he nodded gently then.
"But yeah we don't mind at all, we all know you're engaged to the queen now, and that's just fine with us." Minga said and he nodded. "Expecting anymore visitors, real or otherwise here?" Garen asked him and he shook his head. "No, but then that never stopped Tahl before right now at the moment, but the kids get sent here now, and it's we're the ones changing things. Luke tries anything, they're going to wipe themselves out of existence, they're ghosts in the past."
"We're making a few key changes here, but win one/lose one, we lost the capitol to the Sith, but we never lost what mattered more and that's each other right now. And you get us both back all at once you two, as our team is intact." he said and Obi-wan and Yoda nodded in relief at that news. "Indeed, know that we do, we lost the capitol true, but we live on, as everyone that they hunt down, clones they are, our homes on Dantooine and Yavin IV." he said and they nodded.
"Yeah, but the back up crystals, Leia redirected Tarkin right to Dantooine, so to save everyone, get them off Dantooine and move them to Yavin IV." he said and the 9 nodded to the orders. "What you want a bet that Andy goes there to create that lightsaber exactly, as you went to Ilum?" Ferus said and he shook his head. "No bet, but I don't doubt he will right now, but I create 30, so he does, I study Djem so he does, we're totally even." he said and they nodded.
"And you're not supposed to be gambling either boys, be careful there, after Watto thought I cheated him out of a fortune, after betting on Sebulba to win right now." Qui-Gon said and he started laughing at that. "We're teaching him to race cleanly, as you sold him my racer?" he asked and Qui-Gon smiled at him and the trio started laughing at that. "Qui-Gon, was that really necessary to sabotage his starts, if he's a dirty cheater." Mace said and Anakin nodded smiling.
"The latest one barely missed killing him right now, from his mother's reaction right now, but that's the podracer, the one behind the one he's manning." he said and Ferus picked it up. "So orange engines, and an orange ex on the pod itself, that's the Jedi handi-cap podracer." Siri said and he nodded. "Yeah but he doesn't know that, the engines get flooded with fuel, takes exactly 30 seconds to burn off, as we found this out in the race test drive." Anakin said and explained it.
"I created that, because to our counterparts having the force is considered cheating, so give myself a handi-cap and make the game more fun between us." he said and they chuckled and nodded. "Well that's good sportsmanship here, you know with your ability as a Jedi, you have distinct advantage over your peers, so give them a head start and catch up later." Mace said in approval and Qui-Gon and Damon nodded in agreement as he explained his original to them.
"Hey guys now that you remember, the quintet." Anakin said and the quintet nodded in annoyance. "For force's sake guys, again what you do this time exactly, after we had to get why he stole the speeder!" Obi-wan said in aggravation and Siri nodded. "I can't believe he did that right now, as if trying to control things is not enough here right now. We now got those chuckleheads coming back into the picture, but that should have been a message right now."
"First them and the Oddos and next comes Zan Arbor 3 years later, but we aged 20 years and and we're not kids anymore." she said and he nodded in agreement. "How about stopping the riot and that was my mistake right now and we can put that in there. Before I make the same mistakes twice, and I don't speak Huttese." Ferus said and she and Obi-wan nodded. "Good point and play that back for us, because the girls and I are coming." Qui-Gon said to him then.
"Well with the Parentals coming it becomes this, Master Qui-Gon." he said as Anakin explained things to him as Tiana and Adi crossed their arms…
The Galactic Games Arrival And Riot-Anakin's POV:
"Hello, what the..., Guys this is podracing track." Anakin told the adult sextet and they nodded. "And the group over there?" Siri asked and and explained it to her. "They're gearing up for the race right now, we do this all the time on Tatooine. We make jokes about who won the last race, who is going to win this one. At times they start debating about an old friend." he said, as he heard a surname and smiled gently then.
"Uh oh, I know what this is about father, after you sold him my podracer." Anakin said and Qui-Gon smiled. "Qui', what did you do, if they're discussing this exactly?" Tiana asked and he chuckled. "A little lesson in racing fairly, Tiana, the engine floods, so you're grounded for a few minutes till it burns off, it's Dave's design flaw. On his swoop bike, Sebulba caused a couple hundred crashes, so a little lesson." he said and they chuckled.
"They're talking about the Boonta Eve Classic, that was the last race I had, they were proud that the youngest of their fellow pilots won the race. They're talking about me, evidently Jabba asked who of the Master/Padawan teams. Was going to be here, and my name came up, they're hoping I will show myself to them. Been close to 5 years, but nothing's changed." he said and the trio nodded to him as he called out to the pilots.
"Chut, chut, mi Tatooine, you race, podracers here next to me, you race?" he called out and he heard a gentle call out from that and Obi-wan chuckled at that. "Yeah they race, they're the owners for these podracers, I knew there was a possibility. That we had a podracing circuit involved in this, and looks like Jabba chose. In truth the 8 best pilots in addition to me on the planet, if he's also here." he said and Siri smiled at that news.
"So who's who again?" she asked and he smiled. "This one is Ben Quadrinaro, the one next to it, is Loren Hawreck, Ody Mandrell, Senia Tawbeck, Selbulba. Next to them is Xelbree, Gasgano, and Ratts." he said and she nodded. "Know who each racer belongs to, if you're like us, young Jedi?" they heard gently. "Indeed, I am one of you, as young racer, raced all the time, but retired after Boonta Eve." he called back and she nodded.
"Boonta eve, the classic was the race Anakin did, before he left!" they heard in shock and he nodded. "If we got trouble, you know the only way to reveal myself, I knew you all my life Senia!" he called back to her and she nodded to him. "Chut chut!" they heard from six other voices and he smiled. "Chut chut!" he called back smiling and the trio smiled at that. "Going to be quite a reunion today." Ry' said smiling and he nodded to that smiling.
As they exchanged smiles at that. "Issues here when your only human local happens to be like the subject of this conversation right now." she said with a chuckle at that. "There's that, and there's the case of the occasional bickering match that leads to the upcoming conversation the subject. And of said conversation happens to understand what causes this so called riot next." he said to her and she and Obi-wan nodded smiling
"If this gets physical you may have to now, you know this better then we do anyway, but a chance to reunite with old friends is a good teaching tool." Siri said, before they heard a shout. "That's a Jedi handi-cap' 'No it's not" "Yes it is, and stop arguing with me, this is why he keeps stalling out in the starter, someone rigged that podracer, to over extend the fuel-line." he translated and Obi-wan started laughing at the debate.
"You see what I mean?" he asked and she started laughing at that remark. "My racer got ripped off a design my uncle gave me for his swoop bike, but for these handi-caps they over extend the fuel-line, Father sold the pod to my racing rival." he said and they nodded. "When you start her up, fuel floods the engine it takes ten minutes for the fuel to burn off then you can leave?"she said to clarify and he nodded to her smiling at that.
"Hey guys, how many stalled starts has he had since the farmer sold him the pod?" he asked and they heard a remark and he nodded. "That's 150 times since Father sold him the pod, and what is this exactly. Father, but trying to give him a fair lesson in racing fairly or is this payback. And for the amount of crashes he's caused, since you started racing, before I found you?" Obi-wan asked and he started laughing at that question then.
"Both actually by the looks of this, it was after I won the race, that he was ready to take it to the Hutts, as we won the bet, but you all know this." he said calling out and they heard laughter. "Never bet against a Jedi, or you're going to lose said bet, when you Jedi have the force, and the farmer bet. You'd win that race, and bet Anakin's freedom with it, before this results in a well deserved lesson, of racing cleanly and fairly."
"And you Jedi gave us all a good laugh here, he's the laughing stock of the entire Mos Espa racing circuit as a result of losing to a human. And said is a slave turned Jedi right now." she called back to him. "I guess you guessed correctly who created the pod?" he asked and she nodded. "Indeed I did, but he doesn't, and he doesn't know who the racer belongs to, to know who did that exactly." she said and the trio nodded smiling.
"And I think I know who, alright you wiseacre was that really necessary, were you trying to teach him a lesson in fair racing here?" Ry' asked him and he started laughing at that. "Not me Ry', father." he said and they nodded and watched as Ferus charged in then. "What is he doing?" Obi-wan said sharply and Anakin watched it carefully at that. "Think twice, friend and then think again." he said, and the Dug got in his face at that remark.
"Jedi, this is not your fight, stay out of this schutta!" they heard and Anakin nodded. "Stay out of this worm, he's saying this is not your fight, stay out of it." he said and Obi-wan nodded as he looked at the scared look on Ferus's face that his warning never worked at that. "That's not going to work, he just told him to stay out of this, that's a dug no older then I am." he said and they nodded to him.
"So what's the fight about anyway, Anakin?" Siri asked and he explained that to her. "It's about that dug's racer, and I...' he started to say as he looked at the engines and nodded. "That's my racer, this dug must be related to my former rival, oh you got to be kidding, Semta." he said in shock and they nodded as the guard called out at that. "It's your's, son?" he repeated and he nodded to him.
"It was, but when I used it, it was painted white and blue, but that podracer and the engines. They were built by me, but that's what the fight is about right now, Semta is in a fight with the duo here." he said and the guard that charged up to him answered him quickly. "You understand what their saying?"he said and he nodded as he answered him then as Obi-wan stood next to him at that remark.
"Yeah I do, and it's because I speak the same language." he said and the guard called out. "Anyone want to hazard a guess of what the force this is about right now?" the guard asked him and he nodded. "Yeah it's standard in the case of why someone's engines keeping stalling out. And why the racer looks like it was built with a Jedi handi-cap." he said and they nodded as Siri said it to him at that.
"And reason 2)?" she asked and he hid a chuckle as he answered her at that."Master gave me my first lesson in being a padawan as a living force Jedi that day. But realizing he sabotaged my racer by breaking a breaker on it. So instead of dicing him, he chose to teach him a lesson here and I was planning on selling it. The pod anyway after racing, but Master took it one step further as he did this."
"Ever since Qui-Gon sold him that racer he's been getting a strict lesson in racing cleanly. And fairly right now, and he and his family have become the laughing stock of the podracing circuit. But she and her partner have been debating this every year for months that this is considered cheating. But they considered I was force sensitive and I decided to give myself a handicap.
"For me this was a handicap, Sebulba this was the teach him a stern lesson in cheating but that's Qui-Gon, he tricked him. And now he's the laughing stock of the entire circuit." he said smiling, and they started laughing at that as Obi-wan said it as he shook his head then smiling at that. "I can't say I blame the pilots for debating that, but that is going just a little too far in paying someone back.
"And for the amount of crashes they caused at the moment in this game, nice touch Qui-Gon that works well. But come on right now, is that debate really necessary right now, Padawan?" he asked him smiling and Anakin nodded smiling. "Yeah it is and trust me I hear this all the time on the circuit before you freed me." he said and Obi-wan nodded smiling as the second guard called out to him.
"Jedi Skywalker, if you know what this is, and who they are, say it quick, before your peer makes it worse." the security guard shouted out to him and he nodded. "Ferus freeze!" Obi-wan shouted out to him. "Ferus, stop, this is not a riot!" Anakin shouted out to him at that as he thought quickly as he shouted it out. "Ke booda, chut chut, mi chasa hopa?" he called out and they heard a fast shout in different language and he nodded
And he nodded as he confirmed it. "Huttese." he told the trio and they nodded to him. "Ke booda nova chut chut, ding mi chasa hopa?" he called out and they heard a fast reaction to the inquiry and he quickly translated it to them as he said it then. "Jedi whoever you are, if you know our language, stop your peer from hurting us. This is not a riot or a real right, we're in the middle of a debate we got into."
"And since this racer was sold to the dug's relative." he said and they nodded to the remark as the guards all looked at him in shock at that. "Where are you from, all of you, what planet are you from exactly?" he called out and he heard the name of his home planet. "Where on the planet exactly guys, where on the planet do you all come from exactly, I am from Mos Espa, I am local from Mos Espa."
"So where on the planet do you all come from?" he asked and she shouted out the name of his home town and he paled as he nodded. "Blast, they're all from Tatooine, they're from my home town, I know them all." he snapped and Obi-wan and Siri nodded in shock. "What's your name, you and your friend?" he called and he heard two names. "Senia Tawbeck and Loren Hawreck." he repeated and the trio nodded.
As they looked at the trio he was in a fight with. "Are all of you podracing pilots, and did you ever see me on the racing circuit?" he asked and they heard a fast shout. "If you raced with us then yes, if you know what this if we were old friends and comrades. When in podracing, if we know you and you know us, stop your fellow padawan." he said, translating as he called out to his fellow surviving pilots.
"Wait a second the racer next to mine belongs to Ratts, he was nearly killed in the cavern, his sons took over for him. And they, and the young Dug are arguing over this, though the duo are trying to prevent it from going to blows, hold on." he said and the trio nodded as he shouted out to the young duo in a fight with the dug. "Guys, it's okay, if you remember the human pilot Anakin Skywalker."
"Well then you remember what went on during these fights on track, but stand down, alright let me handle this." he said and they heard a fast remark in Huttese as he hid a smile as he translated it. "Great where is Anakin when we need him right now we're the best pilots on our planet. And we got some little hotshot trying what Annie always pulled off." he said in aggravation and the trio nodded to that.
"Come on, if you're who I think there is only one way to be sure." he said under his breath. "Ben, Ody, Gas, Ratts, Xelbree!" he called out in Huttese, and he heard an immediate reply to that as they all turned to look directly at him."Chut, chut!" they called out and he nodded. "That's six and if this is who I think it is then that means this debate is over why the dug keeps stalling out at the start."
"My racing rival is here and that pod belongs to him." he said and shouted out the trio's names at that in Huttese. "Senia, Loren, Semta?" he called out and he heard three affirmatives to the call out. "Who are they if you called out their names?" the guard asked and he explained that. "Members of my home town Mos Espa, we race at the main track, the last time they saw me was the Boonta Eve Classic."
"Before I left the planet, but I know them all very well, that racer used to be mine like I said that's what they're debating at the moment. Senia, Loren, and possibly Sebulba's son, and the others I don't know who is here, but the 6 best racers. With me off the planet now are here and he's about to cause a riot with my friends and fellow podracing pilots." he said and they nodded firmly to the news.
"Friends, they're your friends?!" Siri repeated and he nodded. "All from Tatooine, and Mos Espa, we know each other well." he said and they and the guards nodded "They're all from Tatooine?" the first guard asked and he nodded. "Yeah I know them all, but she's saying get him to back off, before Ferus makes it worse. And he's close to attacking one of them out of miscommunication right now."
"This is not a riot or a real fight, I hear this all the time on Tatooine after a debate. But it's normal for a pilot if they get a new racer, then the debates, it's over who created it." he said and they all nodded to him as he said quickly then. "Let me try." he said and they nodded as he called out. "Chut, chut?" he called out and they heard an automatic response to the greeting as the duo turned their heads to him.
"Chut Chut, E' Tatooine?" the female racer asked and he nodded. "Indeed Mi Chasa hopa?" he asked and she nodded quickly to him at that. "Jedi don't know what he's doing, could make worse if you not chasa hopa, please."she said and he nodded. "Come on." he said and the trio nodded as they got closer as he headed to them. "Wait a minute, I know the vehicles, these two are podracers, they're all podracers."
"But we each chose a specific design, they're podracing pilots, quiet." he said as he listened carefully to the fight and nodded. "They're arguing over the fact mine was given a Jedi handi-cap, Sebulba's here. And possibly several more members I used to race with, they hear the title. And of the race that freed me that ends this guys." he said and Obi-wan, Siri and Ry all nodded to the news in amazement.
"Who are they?" Obi-wan asked and he explained that. "Loren Hawrek and possibly Senia Tawbeck, the last race we saw each other. It at was at the Boonta Eve Classic, that's the one that freed me. But if this fight is over the case of Selbulba using my podracer, she's saying that a Jedi handi-cap created podracer. Is fine and this is not cheating and their debating over why he keeps stalling out."
"Semta is irritated that he snd Sebulba, my rival and his father keep stalling." he said and the trio nodded in amazement to that. "She's from Ben's home planet, and he's from Ody's, but I know them both, 5 years and a new haircut doesn't change anything. As they'll know it's me the second I say their names as we go to our normal language, which is Huttese and that's the local tongue.
'And for all Tatooine locals, but as a result, their old friends, and racing comrades of mine, so let me handle this. I know the people involved as this is my home town, but sport, people involved and hometown. Let me handle this, just get ready in case Sebulba arrives too soon. And you better take this right now." he said, passing his lightsaber to him and and Obi-wan nodded to him smiling.
"No lightsaber?!" the guard repeated and he looked at him. "Do you want this to turn into a riot, Ferus has his out, and we don't this getting worse right now." he said and they nodded as Obi-wan answered him in agreement to that. "Nice, and you make a good point here, we get the one race, now. That has several of your friends at and you know what to do." he said and Anakin nodded in agreement.
"I don't think they're the only ones here, but as is Sebulba, and possibly three or four others. But it's the standard debate in podracing as for the aliens they never understood why a human could do this. Or said human was child and said was no older the five in racing, but this helps now at the moment. As reason being, is that the main racing circuit for us Tatooine locals was in Mos Espa."
"And the last race resulted in destroying, Ody's engine and after one of his pit droids got too close. And Ben's power coupling exploded before I shot passed him in the starter. But if the guys are all here, expect trouble from this, as Sebulba is a filthy cheater, I got the point of your last test, this is mine." he said and the trio nodded with a bemused smile at the news as he went further at that.
"Your sensory perception test of the force now, Ferus never saw what I did and jumped right in there, he's showing off and that could get him expelled. Or worse arrested and killed by my planet we live outside the republic as a result. But here's the bad part, I just gave every slave in the galaxy hope of freedom. And then freed them from our worst nightmare, we must survive on our own."
"Well that answers that, we didn't know there was going to be podracing at the games, but they chose a game that I know. And one I'm an expert in this after fours years of doing it right now. Let me do this, I can stop this, before it gets worse." he said and Obi-wan nodded. "If you're planning on doing this, it's just this once and for the last time now." Obi-wan told him and he nodded to the orders.
As Siri finished that. "Anakin that personal part of your life came up 6 months this is the other, so use that against them now. You're a Tatooine local, but a Jedi, your test was passed by seeing what he didn't see. So make it clear what this test really is." she said and he nodded gently. "Son, if you know the pilots involved, then you take charge for us, if you did this repeatedly in your home town."
"And they all know you, use that now." the guard said and the trio nodded in agreement to her thoughts. "She's right, you know them and you know your planetary customs so you take charge right now. You're the only one who can stop this act like you did then." Obi-wan said and he nodded. "Obi-wan, Siri, I know under normal circumstances..." he started to say and they nodded to him.
"We'll let it go this once, but we don't need that happening repeatedly between you, you're the veteran padawan, he's the rookie. They're your people and this is your life before we came into it." Obi-wan and Siri said together and he nodded as he made it clear as he answered them. "Sorry guys, but I'm going to have to do a public dressing down." he said and they nodded firmly to that news and remark.
And as she answered him gently at that. "Well you take charge then, if your fellow racing pilots are here that stops this before it results in a shootout."Siri said and he nodded as he got ready to do it. "Better do it fast, before he makes it worse." Ry added as he saw Ferus yank his lightsaber. "Oh no, not now don't try it Ferus!" he shouted out to him at that as he quickly shouted out to the pilots at that.
"Everyone hold fire, don't shoot." he called out and they froze at that as he said it to Obi-wan. "Chut Chut, don't shoot, just hold fire!" he called out in Huttese and that caused the entire group to freeze. "Chut, chut, if looking for Skywalker, you just found him now, guys, hold fire, don't shoot, chesko, chesko. He's a uma geesa of Tatooine, me local, so chut chut." Anakin called out to them and they nodded.
"Nice thinking, your native language is the fight stopper and it keeps anyone from losing it now." Siri said and he nodded as they moved closer to the group as he got a better look. "Yeah it's Loren and Senia alright, they're arguing over this, but Ferus, he could have made it worse." he said and she nodded as he said it to her. "Senia, Loren, chut, chut." Anakin called out to them and they called back to him
"Oh force, they see a lightsaber and there's going to be a blood bath, only a Jedi that knows the duo this well can do it, so get ready in case it gets worse guys." he said and they nodded as he shouted out to them. "Whoa, whoa hold fire, nobody move, Ferus put it down now." he said as he got ready to swing it within an inch of the female racer's neck as he shouted out for as they heard a sigh of relief at that.
"Ferus, stop, don't, just back off, let me handle this." he called out at that as he charged in at that, as they saw the lightsaber he yanked and he threw himself in front of her and he grabbed his wrist. "Don't, stop and put it down now, let me handle this." he said and turned to the trio. "Chut chut, Loren, good to see you again, ding mi chasa hopa." he said and they relaxed in relief as the male alien straightened up.
"Semta Hekula, Loren, been a long time boys, good to see you right now."he said and they straightened up at that. "Indeed, young Padawan whoever you are, how do you know we are?" the alien asked him and he smiled. "You called a surname, you were hoping I was here, but give me five minutes. And let me deal with my companion, but Chut chut, mi ki chasa hopa." he said smiling and the alien nodded.
"Ke booda, chut chut." the dug said in relief as the second pilot nodded in agreement gently. "Mi chasa hopa." the male alien and the dug said together and he nodded. "You're welcome, you guys okay?" he asked in Huttese to them at that gently. And they both nodded to him gently at that as the male alien smiled in relief. And as she answered him gently at that remark as she looked into his eyes in relief.
"I am, Jedi and thank you so much." she said and the duo nodded in agreement. "Anything for an old friend Senia, Loren and Semta." he said and they nodded as they exchanged looks. "Know who we are, without needing to hear our names or where from?" the young dug asked and he nodded to him gently as he said it. "No banyo, from Tatooine and Mos Espa myself, five years, but still me."
"Me slave, before become Jedi, Boonta Eve Classic." he said and they nodded in shock and relief at the revelation then. "So race with us, or watch us race?" she asked and he smiled at her. "Race with you, first human racer in podraces, long story can explain in a minute while get misunderstanding worked out, former slave, but slave turned Jedi, but slave raider dead now, and irony is said Jedi was slave here now."
"And adopted son, to one of the human slaves, Halla Farcloud." he said to her and they both nodded in agreement to that thought as the male alien said it to him. "Yes that's irony alright, his adoptive mother or aunt was the slave that caused Krayne's death and destruction finally." Siri said to that and Obi-wan nodded. "Well this explains why he decided to deal with him on his own, this was his mission, and we were along for the ride."
"So he needed a way in, to get close to him, and you gave him the opening here?" he asked and she nodded. "Looks like it, but this was meant to be his final touch, in dealing with Krayne as he faces the more horrific pieces of his past, before he can move on finally here." she said and Anakin hid a nod as everyone in hearing range gave a nod to the news as they looked at the 13 year old padawan gently as Loren nodded gently.
"Indeed, but good to see a local who is a Jedi, young Jedi here, not know what this is, but relieved you do my friend, if knew each other in another life now." he said in Huttese and Anakin nodded. "I do, the last time we saw each other was at the Boonta Eve Classic Loren, I'll explain who I am soon."he said and they nodded as she gripped his arm and he nodded as he rubbed her back to calm her down softly.
"Loren, Semta, listen to me, remember when Jabba said I was in training, me at 9, borderline 10?" he asked and they both nodded. "Age me 4 years, since I missed with the last visit home, after being trapped on Melida/Daan. Happened again, I got drafted for that mission, that's why I didn't come back for the last 3 visits." he said and they looked at him and they both smiled."Annie!" they said together in delighted relief and he nodded.
"New haircut, aged 4 years, but same old you, Annie Skywalker, thank you for saving my son, it's good to see you again." Sebulba added and he nodded smiling. "You too, but you remember father, that's his padawan, aged four years, my counterpart there. Said is the padawan to our partner pair up, but as you only met my unit in real training. This bonehead is trying to show off to the adult trio." he said and Adi and Tiana nodded.
"Indeed, I remember the farmer perfectly, so the young man next to him is your brother, the duo are your mother and sister mentor. The woman next to your father and the young man are their counterpart pair up, yes I understand. Came to watch the games and if necessary one last race between us, Annie?" he asked and Adi nodded. "Yeah that's the reason exactly, but my counterpart is in big trouble here right now."
"Senia, you okay, it's alright, he doesn't know what he's doing, he's a very fresh student just out of basic training at the temple. I got started the year before, but it's me, it's me, Sen." he said in Huttese and she nodded as she pulled him into a hug and he pressed his forehead to her's as he felt her shaking in fear then. "Force that was too close, I don't believe you Ferus." he snapped in anger at that to him.
As he lifted his gaze to him sternly. "You out of your mind, what the force were you thinking right now, this is not a riot, but a misunderstanding?!"Anakin snapped at him sternly at that. "What are you doing Anakin, they're rioters?!" he said in shock and he shook his head. "Not rioters, this is a simple debate us locals get into all the time in the racing circuit, you don't understand huttese, Ferus."
"It's that clear, I grew up speaking the language and the local tongue or Tatooine is Huttese, if you heard me putting my notes, when Creche. And into my local language, so you can't copy off me, and the council puts it through a translator circuit to understand, this is why. They understand, of us I am the one remembering where I come from and who I am here now to know I still think of Tatooine as home.
"But they know is all I need is what's inside me to know where this conversation was headed, this debate in huttese is a standard argument. One that happens all the time on Tatooine, said area of Tatooine happens to be from Mos Espa, that's my home town now, as to that. They're all from my home-town on Tatooine, all locals Ferus, and you just failed Adi's test right now, they're my friends in the racing circuit."
"Are you trying to cause it to turn into a bloodbath, they're my own kind, so stand back and watch me in action here right now in it. I know what they are, they're podracers, Ferus, let me handle this." he said as Obi-wan moved in with Siri, Ry and Tru behind him as they watched it. "Senia, you okay?" he asked her and she nodded. "Chasa hopa." she said as she straightened as he looked at the fight between the dug and the racer.
"Whoa, alright hold fire, what's the problem both of you?" he asked gently as he walked up. "Was it just you three or did these guys also start the fight, before you three nearly got caught in the middle." Anakin asked in Huttese and a bigger version to the young Dug answered that. "Stay out of this human." one of them said and he looked between them and he looked at the alien firmly, at that remark.
Before turning back to the trio gently as he said it to them. "Chut Chut Senchi, been a long time, but chesko, now is not the time for this." he said in huttese and he nodded. "Di minimento and then discuss how you know me, that is if the truth doesn't come out in the next 20 seconds. Young Jedi, if we knew and know each other already." he said and Anakin nodded as he explained it to the group at that.
"Chesko Senchi, he's uma geesa, but remember, de doe pot sleemo?" he asked softly and Sebulba's eyes widened at that as he answered that exchange in their last race together."You bantha poodoo..., Skywalker?!" he said in shock and Anakin nodded to him."Yes Senchi, it's me alright, but 4 years older and 4 years wiser, but Jedi and saved nephew Semta and protected him." he said and the dug nodded in relief to that.
"Been a long time Sebulba." he said and Sebulba nodded. "Indeed it has, but that where you been all this time, been training as a Jedi all this time?" he asked and Anakin nodded. "Yes, but I never expected to see the 7 of you here, but nice to see a familiar face, were you able to fix your original or did you decide to keep using mine now, since our last race together?" he said and the Dug nodded with a bemused smile.
"That's Sebulba's brother, didn't he have another on the capitol?" Obi-wan asked and they nodded. "Yeah, but if we're on protection detail and the whatever it is has you running passed him, he knows we're on duty, as they know us on sight here now. After 10 years, knowing you immediately with the fact you grew a beard now." he said and Obi-wan nodded to him, as he answered his question with a bemused smile to Anakin then.
"My original was damaged beyond repair, after latching onto your's in our last race, so I've been using this one ever since, but there seems to be a flaw in the engines here." he said and Anakin tried to hold it in. "No flaw, it was built that way, you know of the Stargliders?" he asked and they nodded."They are Jedi gone farmers, that design was borrowed from my uncle, and he helped me build it, but it's a handi-cap."
"As you know we have the force, to you this is cheating so to make it more fun between us, this gives everyone a 2 minute head start. And as the fuel burns itself out and then you're going after them, Senia guessed right, it was meant for a Jedi pilot, but as you know one. And only one Jedi who races with you guys, it has my signature all over." he said and Senia started laughing and he nodded with a bemused look.
"Yeah I do, and it's because I speak the same language." he said and the guard called out. "Anyone want to hazard a guess of what the force this is about right now?" the guard asked him and he nodded. "Yeah it's standard in the case of why someone's engines keeping stalling out. And why the racer looks like it was built with a Jedi handi-cap." he said and they nodded as Siri said it to him at that.
"And reason 2)?" she asked and he hid a chuckle as he answered her at that."Master gave me my first lesson in being a padawan as a living force Jedi that day. But realizing he sabotaged my racer by breaking a breaker on it. So instead of dicing him, he chose to teach him a lesson here and I was planning on selling it. The pod anyway after racing, but Master took it one step further as he did this."
"Ever since Qui-Gon sold him that racer he's been getting a strict lesson in racing cleanly. And fairly right now, and he and his family have become the laughing stock of the podracing circuit. But she and her partner have been debating this every year for months that this is considered cheating. But they considered I was force sensitive and I decided to give myself a handicap.
"For me this was a handicap, Sebulba this was the teach him a stern lesson in cheating but that's Qui-Gon, he tricked him. And now he's the laughing stock of the entire circuit." he said smiling, and they started laughing at that as Obi-wan said it as he shook his head then smiling at that. "I can't say I blame the pilots for debating that, but that is going just a little too far in paying someone back.
"And for the amount of crashes they caused at the moment in this game, nice touch Father that works well. But come on right now, is that debate really necessary right now, Padawan?" he asked him smiling and Anakin nodded smiling. "Yeah it is and trust me I hear this all the time on the circuit before you freed me." he said and Obi-wan nodded smiling as the second guard called out to him.
