Jedi Quest #3 by Jude Watson

Author:Jude Watson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: sw-jediquest
ISBN: 9781484719756
Publisher: Disney Publishing Worldwide
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Anakin piloted Doby and Deland’s speeder back to the Podrace hangar, leaving Obi-Wan as he checked in with Siri and Ry-Gaul to see if other complications had sprung up. Anakin was glad that the investigation had allowed him to return. He already felt that Doby and Deland were friends. He’d made a promise to them, and he intended to keep it. The best part was that he could do this and still follow Obi-Wan’s instructions. Working on their Podracer would be the perfect cover for him to keep his eyes and ears open.

But if he were honest with himself, Anakin had to admit that it wasn’t just his promise and the mission that drove him back to the Podracer. It was how good it felt to be here. Here he did not have to worry if he was good enough. He did not need to question himself. All he had to do was make something go very, very fast.

He saw Doby and Deland working on the engine as he parked the speeder and hurried over. Deland raised a grease-stained face. “Am I glad to see you! We have a rotor problem we can’t seem to fix.”

“Let me have a look.” Anakin leaned over the engine. “This could be a connector problem. Let me take a look at the valves. Hand me that hydrospanner, will you?”

Anakin took the hydrospanner from Doby and bent over the engine. “Have you run the track in a speeder yet?” he asked. “An advance look is always a good idea.” The more information he got about the race, the easier it would be to figure out how it was fixed.

“Can’t,” Doby said. “The Podracers won’t know the track until they’re racing.”

Anakin looked up. “What do you mean?”

“The onboard nav computer will flash us the next area of the track every three minutes,” Deland explained. “We have to race and navigate at the same time. It’s a new innovation that Sebulba dreamed up.”

“He knows Hekula can do it, with his reflexes,” Doby said. “Plus they have such a maneuverable Podracer. The rest of us have had to reconfigure a bit, but it sure does make the race more exciting.”

Anakin tinkered with the valves. Could this be the key to how the race was fixed? What if Sebulba’s Podracer got the track information before anyone else? That would definitely give Hekula an edge.

“Who sends the route to the onboard computers?” he asked.

“The official timekeeper set up the program,” Doby said. “Don’t know his name.”

But I do. It’s Aarno Dering. And Aarno Dering is dead. Someone else will have to run the program. But who?

“Who’s the favorite?” Anakin asked. “How are the odds running?”

“Ten to one for Hekula,” Deland said. “Rumor has it that Sebulba has bet a fortune on his son.”

Of course he has. He knows Hekula will win.

Anakin glanced over the hood of the Podracer to where Sebulba was sitting, sipping tea while the pit droids worked on Hekula’s Podracer. Sebulba looked over and met his eyes.

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