When we finally arrived at a big hall, which was in front of the stadium, you could see something like a dozen racers running around with their pods or repairing those. "Better stop your friend's betting, or I'll end up owning him too!" Laughed the Toydarian in Huttese, as he arrived at us, who were about to dismount.

Anakin and I, who had understood everything, gave him an angry look, while the others looked at him suspiciously. "What did he mean by that?" I asked as Qui-Gon appeared. "Don't worry, Timothee. I'll tell you and Anakin later." He replied and wished Kitster and Shmi a good morning as they walked by.

"This is so wizard, Ani, Timmy! I'm sure the two of you will do it this time!" Kitster encouraged us both as we arrived at our racer. Padme, who hoped she had misheard, or thought he didn't mean what she thought, quickly asked what he meant. "Finish the race, of course!" Padme's jaw dropped in an instant. "You've never won a race before?" She asked us. "Well, not exactly" Anakin stammered next to me. "Not even finished?" Padme replied.

"Kitster's right! We will this time." I said with a nervous laugh as I wrapped an arm around Anakin and Kitster's neck. "Of course you will." Qui-Gon said in an encouraging tone as he placed his hands on Anakin's and my shoulders and shot Padmé a look, who still stood aghast and incredulous. They exchanged a meaningful look and she turned back to Anakin and me. "I hope so." She sighed meekly as the both turned away and strolled away.

 After that, we got back to work on the pod. "Hey,R8!" I called out to the droid and R8-D8 was quick to head over to where I was squatting beside one of our engine panels. "Will you check the oil levels and the electric currents for me? I wanna make sure all of that is in good order before we officially take the pod outside." R8-D8 gave me a few beeps and whistles which I assume indicated he was glad to help as he connected to our engine port and begin checking the pod as I requested.

It wasn't long before we were back in the stadium preparing for the race with R2-D2 and R8-D8 carrying the pod while Anakin, Kitster, and myself helped the droids by standing on the sides and behind the pod pushing it across the sand.

"We are all gathered here today to celebrate and cheer for our favorite event of the month. Now we can all take a moment to check out all the Podracers." A voice in Huttish shouted through the stadium, which was filled with all kinds of creatures. "That's absolutely right." Another voice boomed out this time in a language everyone could understand. "And a big turnout here from all corners of the outer rim territories. I see the contestants are making their way out onto the starting grid."

 The presenters started calling out each of the contestants and when Sebulba the Dug came on, the crowd clapped and shouted like never before. "And a late entry, the young Skywalker twins, Anakin and Timothee." The presenter then spoke into the intercoms after he call some others names and Anakin and I waved and smiled to the crowd who cheered for us in response.

When the pods were lined up, one of the presenters announced that the flag bearers were now making their way down the track. Creatures appeared in front of the vehicles, for Anakin and me 3PO did this task. The flags were in all sorts of colors.

"Be safe." Our mother said as she leaned down to be at eye level with us. She grabbed our shoulders and looked at us seriously. "We will, Mom. Promise." Anakin replied, making an equally serious face. Her hair flew slightly in the fresh Tatooine breeze. Our mother gave us a warm smile and stood back up before joining the rest of the group.

R2-D2 and R8-D8 now rolled over to Anakin and me and beeped encouragingly. C-3PO warned us seriously and solemnly of all the dangers of driving too fast and wished us well. Jar Jar patted Anakin and me on the back, his face a mask of concern. "You crazy,Ani,Timmy. Gods bless you my friends."

Then Padme appeared and bent down to hug Anakin and kiss me on the cheek. "You can do it." She grinned at us before she followed  the others into the loge. Anakin smiled to himself as I turned bright red in the face. My heart began to beat faster as I looked to the girl and my mother one last time.

 Sebulba then  showed up in front of Anakin and me with a clever smirk plastered on his face. "You won't walk away from this one . . ." He sneered at us in Huttese as he pointed a nasty foot in our direction. "You slave scums." He said with a disturbing smile as he twisted one of his tendrils with his feet as his beady yellow eyes glared at us.

"Don't count on it slime ball." I spat back in Huttese and Anakin had to grab my arm to keep me from doing something I might regret. "You're bantha fodder!" He sneered with a slight chuckle before he played with his goggles and waddled away on his hands.

"You two all set,Ani,Timmy?" A voice then spoke out from behind us and when I turned to see who it was a smile appeared on my face as Qui-Gon approached. "Yep." I quickly replied as Qui-Gon let out a chuckle and then suddenly grabbed me by my underarms and practically tossed me into the air. "Whoa!" I exclaimed as he carefully placed me into my seat in the pod. Then Qui-Gon helped Anakin into the seat beside of me.

"Remember, concentrate on the moment." Qui-Gon then said in a serious tone as he leaned close to Anakin and me with a look causing us to stare him in the eyes. "Feel, don't think. Use your instincts."

 "We will." I told him with the same serious tone and a small smile at the end to which he returned and handed us our helmet. "May the Force be with you." Smiled the Jedi at us and ruffled our hair before turning away and heading to the Loge with Jar Jar.

I put my helmet on and made sure the goggles were tightly fashioned around my eyes. "You ready for this?" I asked Anakin, who was fixing his helmet. "Are you?" He quipped back at me with a raised eyebrow as he turned to look at me.

"Either way, I know we can do this." I answered back with a smirk as I held my fist out to him. Anakin smiled at me as he too held out his fist and bumped my. "Me too." He told me as we both then gripped our steering sticks and waited for the signal to go.

 "Welcome." Jabba the Hutt then announced to the crowd and all the Podracers. "Begin the race." He declared with a booming voice and everyone ignited their pods. Anakin flipped the switch on ours and our pod jumped to life. "Start your engines." The presenter yelled to us and I pressed the button that allowed the fire to start in our engine and our screens came to life.

The gong then quickly rang throughout the stadium as it bounced off the walls of the crowd echoing throughout. Anakin quickly threw our lever down and the pod took off after the others. "There go the Skywalker twins!" I heard the announcer booming as we fled passed them.

"They will be hard-pressed to catch up with the leaders." We were long past the stadium and already I could barely see Sebulba knock one pod into the walls of the canyon and the poor pod went up in flames and I had to carefully swerve out of the way to avoid the debris flying in the air. It had probably already been two minutes into the race and I had managed to steer up five positions while Anankin continued to control our speed strategically.

 When we made it to the first canyon pass, we were unable to pass anyone because the canyon walls were so tight that it would practically be suicide to try and pass anyone. Our best bet was to wait until we were on open terrain again to start passing pods again. By the next canyon we made it into, I had only managed to pass one other pod.

The moment we reached the canyon turn, a few Tusken Raiders that were camping out there began shooting at the pods. They managed to make a few hits on our pods but they skimmed off and missed Anakin and me, thank the Force. It wasn't long before we were back in the stadium. "Looks like the Skywalkers are moving up in the field." I heard the presenter exclaim as we whizzed by the crowd.

We managed to catch up to one pad who wouldn't let us get around him. I then quickly took control of the speed lever and Anakin began steering the pod. The pod in front of us started swerving around every time Anakin tried to get past him and I had to quickly pull back on the lever to slow us down for a minute as at the pod in front of us tried to crash into our power couplings. If the pod hit those, there's no telling how bad the result could turn out.

"Jump!" I yelled at Anakin because I knew he would understand my reference as we were coming across a dip in the terrain. If we hit the drop just right, we might be able to get around this pod. "Now!" Anakin screamed at me as I threw down the lever as far as it would go giving us a rapid boost as soon as we hit the drop off in the terrain.

 Instead of dropping immediately like the pod in front of us, we were accelerating so fast that we managed to fly over the pod and land directly in front of them. We actually managed to land in front of two pods from our rapid acceleration. "Yes." I heard Anakin declare as he sent me a quick smile before going back to focus on his steering.

The one pod we jumped over unexpectedly though wasn't too happy as they managed to catch up to us before slamming their pod into ours. My body jerked from the impact as well as our pod since Anakin also jerked and managed to tightly swerve the pod as a result.

The pod was getting ready to come for us again.. I grabbed the steering sticks and used the canyon as a wall to flip us over the other pod. Once we made it back to the ground, Anakin slammed the lever down causing us to accelerate away from the pod back in our rightful place in front.

After that, there was only one pod in front of us separating us from Sebulba. We were planning on catching up before maneuvering around the pod until we only had Sebulba left to deal with until suddenly the pod in front of us exploded.Debris flew off the pod and headed for us and I was practically swerving out of control from trying to dodge all the flying metal coming at us.Then there was a loud snap.

Our pod was flapping around uncontrollably as the cord connecting us to our right engine had snapped off our pod. Our engines were still running since our left one still worked perfectly fine and we were still able to control it. Anakin managed to flip a few switches and somehow leveled us back out so that we were no longer flipping uncontrollably and were level with the ground and our engines.

Podracers were passing us left and right seeing as we were hardly going fast like before giving other racers ample time to catch up to us. I took the magnetic probe which I then held out of the pod with a tight grip trying to suck up the cord with the energy from the magnet.

 A few moments later, the cord snapped onto the probe and I then pulled the probe along with the cord back into the pod before connecting the two and physically placing the cord back into its socket and making sure it was tightly secured. We then immediately got back to work trying to regain all the spots we had just lost against the other Podracers.

Within five minutes time of strategic maneuvers, we managed to make it back in the spot we had lost, second place. As we made our way back into the stadium for the final time, I could hear the announcers loud and clear. "At the start of the final lap, Sebulba's in the lead, followed closely by the Skywalkers!" The crowd roared as they rose to their feet and screamed us on.

Sebulba certainly wasn't making it easy for us to pass him to first place either. Every time we would try and pass him he would bang our pod with his own. Unfortunately, Sebulba gave us one hard knock that ended up forcing us into the service ramp. The poor people that were watching the race from there, screamed and dove out of the way as our pod smashed through the DO NOT ENTER sign.

The service ramp was insane because it was carrying us further and further from ground level back where Sebulba was and higher up into the canyon. The service ramp practically launched us into the air. For a split second, we were literally flying. We were flying sky high for a moment before we started floating back towards the ground.

When our pod was only a few feet ,I flips few switches and Anakin yanked the break before thrusting it forward again and the swift move caused us to shakily land in front of Sebulba's pod before we took off across the sand trying to put as much distance between our pod's and Sebulba's as we could manage.

Soon enough Sebulba was back hot on our tails trying to electrify us between his power couplings. There was no way I was going to pull back on the lever causing us to break, so I kept us on full throttle and prayed hard that Anakin would be able to maneuver around the rocky canyon without the need to slow down. We made it underneath one of the rocky arches and our left engine randomly caught on fire.

I began to look at the pod, instantly pulling out a lever and a compartment closes limiting the amount of air getting into the engine. The flames then disappear, but they had no power in the left engine, the screen completely blacked out. I pulled out the power charge that Qui-Gon gave me the night before and passed it to Anakin to plug in.

The panel then changes to half and half. I kept flicking the switch to turn the engine back on. The engine coughed up smoke as I attempted to restart the engine. I continued flipping the switch until suddenly it came back to life with a burst of energy. The panel then turned both engine to green and we were dashing back towards Sebulba.

We pulled through and caught back up to Sebulba as soon as we escaped the walls of the canyon and pulled back into sandy open terrain. Of course, Sebulba was not willing to give up that win and he quickly slammed into our pod, throwing me harshly against the sides of the pod, Anakin as well slammed hard into me.

When Sebulba slammed into us again, the dingus managed to get both of our pods attached and we were now literally racing side by side across the sand unable to pull apart.I slammed the thruster back and then forward again which ignited a short burst of flame from our engine. The flame was enough to separate our pods and even wreak Sebulba's power coupling, leaving his pod flying through the air with no power. He slammed into a giant rock in the middle of the sand dune and his pod was shred to pieces.

We left him behind as we flew swiftly towards the stadium straight ahead.As we flew into the stadium, I could hardly believe the cheers coming from the crowd as we pulled through. Anakin and i were raising our arms in the air and screaming.

"We won!" We screamed and did a fist pump in the air as we stood up. A crowd had gathered around our pod still chanting for us. "Yay, Ani! Yay, Timmy!" I heard Jar Jar screaming as he was jumping up and down now beside our pod while our mother ran towards Anakin and Qui-Gon came over to me.

"Mom, we did it!" I yelled at my mother while Qui-Gon wrapped his hands around my waist and hoisted me up onto his right shoulder and then Anakin onto his left. "Yeah!" Anakin and I screamed as we raised our arms in the air and the crowd roared along with us.

 After all the cheering and hugging and congratulations, Qui-Gon, along with Anakin and me on his shoulders, marched back into the hall, followed by the rest of the group, while Kitster and Wald pushed the racer in.

"Great class, Ani,Timmy!" Jar Jar exclaimed as we came to a stop inside and he holded us up in the air, before he let us back onto the ground. Padme on the other hand, pulled Anakin and I into a tight hug. "We owe you two everything." She said to us as we broke away from our embrace and gave us a warm smile. She stood up again and began a conversation with the Gungan.

 Our mother then grabbed Anakin and me and gave us a kiss on our cheeks, making us whimper. "It's so wonderful you two,Ani,Timmy. You have brought hope to those that have none." She raised her hand and ruffled our hair . "I'm so proud of you." She added before giving us another kiss on our cheeks and Anakin and me whimpered again, trying to pull away.

 After that, everything was pretty smooth. Just as promised, Qui-Gon received all the parts for their ship they needed as well as supplies for their travels. The Jedi then, along with Jar Jar, R2-D2,R8-D8 and Padme left back to their ship to unload all their new supplies before Qui-Gon promised he would come back to see us before they left.