Imperial Junkyard [Sunday afternoon]

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin, with his newly completed droid whining about how it hated driving in the golf cart next to him, came to a screeching halt in the center of the junkyard.

Today he had a Very Important Plan.

He was going to build a podracer. It would be the fastest ever!

Surely nothing could go wrong with this idea.

He tore the golf cart down to its basic components, then began scouring the junkyard for other pieces he would need.

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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam wandered by the junkyard on the way to school from Daniel's. As you do. "Watcha doin', Anakin?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Makin' a podracer," he said, messing with the golf cart engine.

"Oh do make him stop," a fussy voice replied from where he was lying against a pile of junk.

"Quiet," Anakin said, waving his hand irritably at the droid.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Can I help," Sam asked, already climbing over stuff Anakin had thrown off the golf cart. "And who's that?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"That's a new Threepio," Anakin said casually. "Made him last night with stuff from my room." He frowned. "He's still a little too worry-y."

He grinned. "And of course you can help." He rattled of a list of parts he was still looking for. "You think you can find those?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"What's a Threepio?" She eyed the droid suspiciously.

Sam grinned. "Okay, I can do that." She repeated the list over and over in her head as she brought parts back, one at a time, and dragging some of them because she was little. She peered over his shoulder to watch.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"I am C-3P0, human cyborg relations," the droid recited. Anakin rolled his eyes. "I can't seem to make that turn off," he said. "Sorry."

He finally finished tinkering and stood back.

"So," he asked. "What do you think? (http://www.theforce.net/skystation/art/apod1.jpg) Should we start it up?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam was bouncing in her sneakers. "Yes. Yes, yes, yes, we should start it up now!"

"Will it fly? Can we fly in it, Anakin?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

Anakin grinned.

Over where he was being ignored, Threepio whimpered.

"Of course it'll fly," he said. "I made it."

He frowned as he climbed into the cockpit "You should back up, though. Don't want you to get sucked into the engine. Jar Jar got his tongue stuck in one because he's kind of stupid."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam backed up a lot, and waited for her turn.

"Is this far enough, Anakin?"

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"That's good!" he called.

Then he gunned the engines.

They were loud. The podracer lifted off the ground and hovered.

Anakin gave Sam a grin and a thumbs-up.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam grinned, but didn't wave because her hands were over her ears. That had to be one of the coolest things she'd ever seen.

[emo-padawan.livejournal.com]

"Be right back!" Anakin shouted over the roar of the engines, then went shooting out of the junkyard.

"Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear," Threepio muttered.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam? Vibrating with excitement and bouncing. She tried to remember which parts she'd gathered, so that she could try and make another one. Who wanted to podrace alone?

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

Wandering around town, Peter heard a loud noise. And then he saw something go shooting out of the junkyard. That was cool, so he ran over to the junkyard to see what was going on.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Peter!" Sam shouted, waving a metal part at him. She was filthy, and covered in axle grease, but beaming at him. "Hi!"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory toddled up just after Peter, because while she didn't like loud noises, sometimes they were interesting when things got quiet again.

"Wha' happen?" she asked Peter and Sam.

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I was just gonna ask that," Peter said. "What's happening, Sam?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Anakin and me made a podracer," Sam said. "He's testing it."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Whassa podracer?"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"What she asked," Peter said.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam pointed to where she'd last seen Anakin. "It's like a plane and a motorcycle, kinda smushed together."

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"Where'd ya get a plane and a motorcycle?" Peter asked.

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"That's just what it is," Sam explained, "but we got the parts from around the junkyard. Plus Anakin took the golf cart apart and we used some of that. He's really good at building stuff."

She looked over the skies. "D'you see him yet?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"It's loud," Rory complained. She peered out in the completely wrong direction. "No!"

[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

"I saw him take off, but that's it," Peter said. "Is he comin' back?"