Anuvuin: episode #17 Anakin Skywalker’s events
Part 2
Previously: Darth Sidious has just made a deal with both Arawn and the Trade Federation. Arawn agreed, he really had no choice.
Darth Sidious says, “Thank you for your time. I will be contacting you within the next week. Be ready to carry out the plans.” Nute Gunray says, “that soon?” Darth Sidious nods. “Yes, that soon.” Next time will be a flashback, Anakin’s events in more detail. After Watto had just acquired Anakin and his mother, this event happened. Little Anakin (or Ani, as he was called for short) wandered into the storeroom by accident one day. He was as very curious kid (he was 3 at the time) and Watto had gotten so mad that he picked him up and threw him hard against the wall. This broke one of his legs. It wasn’t a bad break…just barely broken. Shmi heard the loud noise ad came running out. (She couldn’t take her eyes off her son for a second, or he’d go off someplace, which is exactly what had happened. (She had taken her eyes off him to look at t fight going on next door.) When she went to the Maurder doctor to look at Anakin, the doctor agreed. “Well, his leg is broken, but it’s not bad.” He started to walk way. “Aren’t you going to do anything for him?” The Maurder says, “He is only a slave. It’s not a bad break, so no; I’m not doing anything about it. He can do his job well enough. He’ll be able to walk on it in a couple of months. We don’t waste credits on slaves!” So from that day forward, Anakin had a limp. The next event happened when Anakin was five. Anakin looked outside one day and noticed a baby bantha on its side. He knew that it would die…sandpeople would see it and kill it, so he said to his mother, “look at that poor baby bantha…it’ll die…I have to help it.” Shmi says, “But banthas are so disgusting and bad…” Anakin says, “but it’s a creature, too.” Shmi says, “Yes, and the biggest problem in this galaxy is that no one helps each other. Go ahead if you feel you must. So Anakin struggled…he was only 5, and he fell a couple times, but with encouragement form his mother, he got the bantha back on its feet. The next event happened a year ago, when Anakin was 8. Watto says, “Boy, go get me some change for this 1,000 piece credit. I want them in tens.” “Where do I go?” (Anakin had never been outside the slave complex/Watto’s shop area.) Watto says, “See that building across the street? It’s a cantina, go get the money there.” So Anakin left to go get the change. As soon as he entered the place, he just stared. It took him a minute, but that amount of time was long enough for someone to come and steal the money. A pilot saw it, and went after the thief. With a little fight, the man was able to get Anakin’s coin back and return it to him. “Put that in your pocket, kid. This is a rough place.” So that’s what Anakin did. The man invited Anakin over to his table. 5 pilots occupied the table besides Anakin. “Those Jedi Knights are sure powerful…I certainly wouldn’t want to get on the bad side of one.” “Excuse me, sir,” says Anakin, “but what’s a Jedi Knight?” They all took turns telling Anakin things. Anakin was so impressed with Jedi Knights, angels, and pilots that he almost forgot about the coin. Watto would be very angry and impatient. So, Anakin said, “It was nice talking to you…I really enjoyed your stories, but I have to go or I’ll get in big trouble. I’m a slave.” They nodded and let him go. He quickly goes the change. (Anakin would later go there often to talk to pilots. He hoped to meet a Jedi one day, but he never did.) Watto didn’t seem to notice how long it had taken Anakin. He was in a deep conversation with someone about pod racing. Watto decided to try Anakin out at pod racing, even though he was a human. The boy had impressed him with doing surprisingly well at piloting a small ship. Anakin did a great job with it, and soon Watto was entering him in races. Anakin was so good that the champion of podracing, Sebulba, was after him. Sebulba was a cheating, selfish alien. Then Anakin had started on a protocol droid specializing in language…a translator droid…Anakin named him C-3PO. Another project of his was a pod racer. He hoped to someday enter his own in the races. And before we go back to the normal time of this story, there is one more thing that has taken place in the past 9 years…ant that has to do with Qui-Gon Jinn. Until next time!
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