Don't Trust The Force Anakin! By fvdv123

Chapter 2

Disclaimer:

Mr. Lucas, I came into your world and brought J.K. along to have fun. For free even.

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When I came back, I had to do secretly a reparo to get everything in working order, remove some explosives from my engines, and place them on an orange Pod that looked pretty fast. I guess I am ready to win a race.

2 It is fun being a kid… NOT!

Hey! That orange Pod is Sebulba's! Now I don't have to feel guilty for planting those explosives on it. He was the only one that I made mad at me, so it was easy to see who messed my Pod up. A small cutting spell on a fuel line made certain that he will go out with a bang… a big bang.

Being a newbie, I had to start on the back row, not that I minded it, after all, I promised to give Sebulba a head start. Now, my gear, it was nothing like it was from the movies, in the movie he wore a helmet and goggles like the car racers on Earth wore in the fifties.

My helmet is state of the art, complete with a visor and a HUD display, it showed the intel of my Pod and a mini-map of the region of the race track. My Pod you ask? Instead of an open convertible, my Pod was closed, that was the only demand Mother made. Her boy must be safe in his Pod. It was fine by me though, I have Airco in my Pod, so I am better off than those guys, who are sitting in a Pod with two hot engines beside them.

The start was hilarious, Sebulba was in pole position when the start sign was given. He went off full throttle, just before the first bend, he activated his explosives. Two of his four engines went up with a bang. It stopped him dead in the sand, the ones behind him could not avoid him and crashed into his Pod, shoving him aside, three more bumped into Sebulba before the rest passed him by. The fuel line I cut burst open and leaked on the hot engine, which caused another big bang. It left the poor lad with a bunch of scraps. Meh, too bad, I did a roadrunner Beep, Beep when I passed him safely.

The other racers are not exactly chivalrous either, Mr. Lucas took his inspiration from the Ben Hur movie, instead of horse chariots, so now we have Pods with two badass engines, playing bumper cars. I never raced before, but I have experience in driving my car through Paris and Rome. Believe me, you have to got steel balls to drive in those cities as a tourist. The moment they notice your license plate is from another country, all gloves are off, and you are the mouse the local cats play with.

That experience helped me to pass the bullies, the first one I needed to pass was the worst, he knew I am the last one, with my passing him will cause him to lose his sponsors, so he did every dirty trick in the book to keep me behind. In the end, I cut him off in a bend of the track, like those Parisians love to do, and pushed him into the decor. The second and third ended the same way, no that is not playing dirty, ask any citizen from Paris or Rome, they will tell you it is normal practice.

I don't know if it was the Force that was guiding me or my own talent… I vote for the talent, but driving this Pod is easy, Watto will make a killing if he buys the scrap. I made certain different parts of those Pods get damaged. I can make at least three good ones from them… four if I pass the next ones.

I bet this is the first race with so few reaching the finish line, I ended first with a big lead to the second one, the third one just managed to get his Pod over the finish line before his engines gave up. I'll bet that will make Watto happy… he looks happy though.