Star Wars: The Jedi Twin

Ch: 5

I used the force to increase my speed as I ran away from the destroyers. I was faster than both Obi wan and Qui-Gon, perhaps it has something to do with my midichlorine count being high. I quickly ripped off a covering over a ventilation shaft and climbed in. The other two where right behind me, I looked back to find that Obi wan had put the covering back on the ventilation shaft but it's not like that will do much considering that the droids saw us enter it. I felt a little light headed as I placed my now non-ignited lightsabers back onto my belt.

"Are you alright?" Qui-Gon asked me. Maybe he could sense that I was feeling a little weak or dizzy at this second.

"I'm fine." I told them. "It's been way too long since I last tried to do that."

We climbed threw the ventilation shaft until it opened up to a large room filled with tons of more droids and a red cruiser. I took the cover off the shaft and we all dropped down as quietly as we could, luckily, there where tons of crates stacked up high that blocked us from view.

"Battle droids." Qui-Gon quietly whispers.

"An invisible army." Obi wan whispers.

"To invade Naboo." I quietly say. "Now the treaty makes so much more sense."

"This is odd." Qui-Gon whispers.

"We've got to warn Naboo." I whispered.

"Let's not forget to contact Chancellor Valorum while we're at it." Qui-Gon whispers. "Let's split up. Stow aboard separate ships and meet down on the planet."

Obi wan and I snuck onboard one of the ships while Qui-Gon snuck into another ship. We managed to hide behind some crates in the back of the ship.

"So, what was with the force run?" Obi wan whisper asks me.

"N-nothing." I whispered back to him.

"You were fast, faster than I've seen anyone else run while using that ability." Obi wan whispers to me.

How do I keep the fact the my midichlorian count is higher than any other Jedi that's in the order, I thought. The force run reflects on your midichlorian count, the higher your count, the faster you can run. There is a way to control it but I'm not at that level yet, I only know how to activate it.

"What is your midichlorian count?" Obi wan whisper asked me.

I gotta come up with something fast, the council doesn't want that getting out as they don't want anyone to feel inferior to me. And besides, I'm not one to boast about something like that, especially since that is based off of genetics and chance. "Asking for that is like asking a girl her age." I quickly whispered over to him, that seemed to shut him up, at least for now.

I felt the ship hit the ground and then the droids left the ship. Obi wan and I snuck out of the ship and into the swamp.

"We need to find Qui-Gon." Obi wan told me.

"Don't need to tell me that." I told him. "Can you sense him?"

"Yes, can't you?" Obi wan asked me.

I closed my eyes and felt around the force until I felt the presence of a Jedi not to far from here. It was the only Jedi presence I felt in this area other than Obi wan's so that has to be Qui-Gon's. "Yes." I told him. "But it's unrecognizable, it would have been easier to feel and recognize if he was the one who trained me or if I didn't just met him for the first time a couple hours to a day ago." I really didn't know how much time had passed since we left Coruscant, but I hope that it hadn't been that long.

"Point taken." Obi wan tells me before leading the way to Qui-Gon.

Once we found Qui-Gon, he was talking to a gungan, just great. It had taken us sometime to find him and in that time, we dispatched too many groups of droids to count. By the time we finally found him, both Obi wan and I were exaughted from the running and fighting for our lives. I did not need a gungan on top of the mix.

"What's that?" Obi wan asked as we neared Qui-Gon.

"A local." Qui-Gon tells him. "Let's go, before more of those droids show up."

"I couldn't agree more." I told him. I was also wanting to get away from the anoying gungan.

"Mure? Mure did you spake?" The gungan asked.

Ugh.... Why do they haft to speak so dang weirdly? I asked myself. Him talking is making my head hurt.

I just up and bolted away from the gungan, Qui-Gon and Obi wan followed me of course.

"Ex-squeeze me, but de mosta safest place would be GungaCity." The gungan says in his annoying speech pattern. "Tis where I grew up...tis a hidden city."

Qui-Gon and Obi wan both stopped and I did to cause we are supposed to stick together. "A city!" Qui-Gon exclaims.

The gungan nods his head and says, "Uhhu."

"Can you take us there?" Qui-Gon asks the gungan.

What? I thought. No! The last place I want to go right now is a place filled with more annoying gungans.

"Ahhh...on second taut...no, not willy, no." The gungan tells us.

Yes! My thought scream out.

"No?!" Qui-Gon exclaims.

What? I thought. Does he really want to be in a place with more annoying gungans?

"Iss embarrissing, boot ahh...my afrai my've bean banished. My forgoten der Bosses would do terrible tings to my. Terrible tings if my goen back dare." The gungan tells us, his tone shows embarrassment.

Suddenly we heard a sound ringing out in the distance. It sounds like a whole lot of droids marching very close to us, too close for comfort.

"You hear that? Jar-Jar?" Qui-Gon asks the gungan.

You've got to be kidding me, his name is Jar-Jar. Was he named after a jar? I asked myself. But I'll admit it's a better gungan name then all the other ones I've ever heard. After all, it is easier to pronounce. And after I heard the droids, I'd rather be in the gungan city than fighting off those things.

"Yeah." The gungan, Jar-Jar, says.

"That's the sound of a thousand terrible things heading this way...." Qui-Gon tells him.

Are we trying to invoke fear into the gungan to take us to somewhere safe? Because I'm pretty sure than all we need to do is put him in front of some destroyers in order to do that. Suddenly that plan seemed great, after all, it would get rid of the gungan.

"If they find us, they will crush us, grind us into little pieces, then blast us into oblivion!" Obi wan tells the gungan.

Is Obi wan trying to make the gungan more afraid than he already seems to be? I asked myself. I can practically sense the fear rolling off the gungan in waves.

"Oh! Yousa point is well said. Dis way! Hurry!" The gungan tells us. He then runs off and we all follow him, only stopping once we get to the edge of a lake.

"How much longer?" I asked the gungan, a bit annoyed.

The gungan didn't answer me, he just said, "Wesa goen underwater, okeyday?"

Since neither Obi wan, Qui-Gon, or I can breathe underwater, we all have these masks that attached onto our belts. We then proceeded to put them on.

"...and my warning yous. Gungans no liken outsiders, so don't expicin wern welcome." The gungan tells us.

"Don't worry." I told him. "Our last welcome almost ended in us dying aboard a space ship."

Without another word, Jar-Jar dives into the lake with a double somersault with a twist. Show off much...?

Qui-Gon, Obi wan, and I all follow him into the water. Qui-Gon and Obi wan just walked right in while I made sure that my breathing mask was very secure on my face. Once I knew it was secured as best as it could be, I jumped into the lake. I used the force to propel myself further, to make sure that I landed in the deep part of the lake. My dive consisted of one flip which landed with a head dive.

Jar-Jar resurfaced from the lake and says, "ahh... yousa follow me now, okeyday?"

"Okeyday." I told Jar-Jar, mocking his speech pattern. Because of my jump, I was in a deep part of the lake not to far away from Jar-Jar the gungan.