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Anakin zooms into the tunnel after the assassin. They see a tram coming at them. They brake, turn around, and race out, barely ahead of the charging commuter transport.

"You know I don't like it when you do that!"

The assassin turns into oncoming traffic, deliberately trying to throw the Jedi off. Oncoming speeders swerve, trying to avoid The assassin and the Jedi. The assassin does a quick, tight loop-over and ends up behind the Jedi. She is now in a much better position to fire at them with her laser pistol. To avoid being hit by the laser bolts, Anakin slams on the brakes and moves alongside the assassin. It fires point-blank at Obi wan.

"What are you doing? He's gonna blast me." Obi wan glared at his padawan.

"Right – this isn't working." Anakin slides underneath the assassins speeder. They race along in traffic, one speeder right on top of the other. The assassin skims over the rooftops, causing Anakin to drop behind. He goes through his gears, zooming around traffic. They race at high speed across a wide, flat surface of the city planet. A large spacecraft almost collides with them as it attempts to land. They round a corner and clip a flag, which gets caught on one of the front air scoops.

"That was too close!" Obi wan sighed in relief.

"Clear that!" Anakin shouted. Obi wan turned to face him confused clearly written on his face

"What?"

"Clear the flag! We're losing power! Hurry!" he ordered his master. Obi Wan leans out of the speeder, then crawls out on the front engine and pulls the flag free of the scoop. The speeder lurches forward with a surge of power.

"Don't do that! I don't like it when you do that!" he yelled as Anakin laughs it off. Obi Wan climbed back into his seat beside Anakin.

"So sorry, Master." he smirked still laughing. They chase the Assassin through a power refinery

"It's dangerous near those power couplings! Slow down! Don't go through there!"
Huge electrical bolts shoot between the buildings as the speeders pass slightly electrocuting them in the process.

"what are you doing?" Obi yelled angrily at Anakin.

"Sorry, Master!"

"Oh, that was good..." Obi wan replied sarcastically still very angry at Anakin's actions

"That was crazy!" Anakin yelled as he dipped down.The assassin slides around a corner sideways, blocking an alley, firing point- blank as Anakin approaches.

"Anakin stop. This is suicide!"

"No, we can make it." Anakin barely misses the Assassins speeder as he dives under it and through a small gap in the building hitting several pipes and going wildly out of control. Anakin struggles to regain control of the speeder, narrowly missing a crane, barely clipping a pair of giant struts. A giant gasball shoots up, causing Anakin to spin and bump a building, stalling the speeder.

"that was crazy..." Obi Wan muttered to himself. Anakin smiled slightly towards his direction

"But it worked... we made it." Obi wan turned harshly to face Anakin

"It didn't work... we've stalled! And you almost got us killed!"he yelled angrily. He turned away and focused on the scene before him trying to look for the familiar speeder

"I think we're still alive." Anakin works to get the speeder started. It races to life.

"It was stupid!" by now Obi Wan was fuming. Words couldnt even describe how angry and frustrated he is with his padawan

"I could have made it..." Anakin replied sheepishly.

"But you didn't!!! And now we've lost him." Suddenly, there is an ambush. Laser bolts are everywhere. Explosions surround them. They look up and see The assassin take off.

"No we didn't..." Out of a cloud of smoke and ball of flames the JEDI tear after the assassin. Obi Wan slaps out a small fire on the dashboard. The assassin goes up and down, through cross-traffic. There is a near miss as a speeder almost hits them. The assassin turns down and left between two buildings. Anakin pulls up and to the right.

"Where are you going?! ... He went down there, the other way." Obi yelled pointing in the way the assassin went.

"This is a shortcut... I think." Anakin replied as he shrugged his shoulders.

"What do you mean, "You think?" What kind of shortcut?! He went completely the other way! You've lost him!"Obi leaned back slightly and rubbed his temples.

"Master, if we keep this chase going, that creep's gonna end up deep fried. Personally, I'd very much like to find out who in the hell he is and who he's working for..." Anakin said seriously as his eyes wandered around

"Oh, so that's why we're going in the wrong direction." Obi wan replied sarcastically. Anakin turns up a side street, zooms up several small passageways, then stops, hovering about fifty stories up.

"Well, you lost him."

"I'm deeply sorry, Master." Anakin looks around front and back. He spots something. He seems to start counting to himself as he watches something below approach.

"Excuse me for a moment." Anakin jumps out of the speeder. Obi Wan looks down and sees the assassins speeder about five stories below then cruising past. Anakin miraculously lands on top of the assassins speeder. The speeder wobbles under the impact. The assassin looks up and realizes what has happened.

It takes off, and Anakin slides to the back strut and almost slips off, but manages to hang on. Anakin works his way back to the speeder's cockpit, just as the assassin stops suddenly, and Anakin flies forward to the left front fork. It shoots at him with a laser pistol. There is a BLAST near Anakin's hand, which breaks off a piece of the speeder. Anakin slides to the right fork of the speeder, where It can't reach him, then he scrambles to the top, holding onto an air scoop.
Obi Wan has jumped into the driver's seat of his speeder and is deftly gaining on the rogue speeder. The two speeders dive through oncoming traffic and then through cross traffic. Finally, Anakin is able to get hold of his lightsaber and starts to cut his way through the roof of the speeder. The assassin takes out its laser pistol and starts firing at the helpless Jedi, knocking the sword out of his hand. Obi Wan races under the speeder and catches the Jedi weapon in the passenger's seat.

Anakin sticks his hand into the cockpit and, using the Force, pulls the gun out of the assassins hand. It grabs the Jedi's hand, and they struggle for the weapon. It goes off, blowing a hole in the floor of the speeder. The speeder careens wildly out of control. The assassin struggles to pull the speeder out of its nose dive. Obi Wan gets slowed down by traffic and loses sight of the Assassins speeder.
Just as the speeder is about to nose dive into the ground, the assassin pulls it out, and it slides hard on the pavement in a shower of sparks. Anakin goes flying into the street
The assassin exits the crashed speeder and runs. Anakin picks himself up, off the pavement and runs after it down the very crowded street.
It's the seedy underbelly of the city. Broken sidewalks, garish lights reflected in filthy puddles. It's pretty crowded with various Alien low lifes, Panhandling droids , and the occasional group of upper-class slummer .

ANAKIN barges into several of them as he chases after the fleeing person. He loses the assassin in the crowd, then sees him again. The young Jedi is having a very difficult time getting through the crowd.
Ahead, it turns in through a door and disappears. A nightclub sign flashes over the door. Anakin is just about to follow the assassin when there came a sudden swirl of litter from downthrusters. People start moving out of the way, and the open speeder lands in the street beside him. Obi Wan gets out and walks over, holding out Anakin's lightsaber.

"She went into that club, Master." Obi Wan pushed Anakin slightly back

"Patience." Obi Wan hands Anakin the lightsaber.

"Here. Next time try not to lose it."

"Sorry, Master." Anakin reaches for the lightsaber, but Obi Wan holds it back.

"A Jedi's saber is his most precious possession..." he said calmly. Anakin nodded

"Yes Master." He reaches for the lightsaber but Obi Wan pulls it back again.

"He must keep it with him at all times"

"I know, Master."

"This weapon is your life."

"I've heard this lesson before..." Obi Wan finally holds out the lightsaber and Anakin grabs it.Obi Wan and Anakin enter the nightclub bar, and everyone stares at them.

"Why do I think you are going to be the death of me?!"

"Don't say that Master... You're the closest thing I have to a father.... I don't want to cause you pain." Anakin answered truthfully. Obi wan turns around to face Anakin

"Then why don't you listen to me?!" he turns back around and continues to observe his new surroundings

"I will. I'll do better, I promise."

"Do you see him?" he asked his padawan as they walked deeper into the club

"I think he's a she..."

"Then be extra careful..."Anakin noticed that his master began walking away from him

"Where are you going, Master?" he asked jogging up to Obi Wan

"To get a drink." Obi Wan heads for the bar. Anakin blinks in surprise, then moves into the room, where different faces look back at him with hostility, suspicion, and invitation as he moves among the tables. Obi Wan arrives at the bar. He signals the bartender.
Somewhere in the room a hand moves to a pistol in its holster and unsnaps the safety catch. At the bar, a glass is placed in front of Obi Wan. A drink is poured and he lifts the glass.

"Wanna buy some death sticks?" Obi Wan looks at him. He moves his fingers slightly.
The
"You don't want to sell me deathsticks."

"I don't want to sell you deathsticks." the bartender replied back in a dazed voice.

"You want to go home and re-think your life".

"I want to go home and re-think my life." He leaves. Obi Wan lifts the drink and tosses it back. A dark figure's gun is drawn from its holster and held down out of sight. The assassin starts to move toward the bar.
Anakin checks out many faces. Obi Wan signals for another drink. The gun moves toward his unsuspecting back. The drink is poured and Obi Wan reaches for it. The gun is raised to aim directly at his back, and suddenly Obi Wan turns fast. His lightsaber flashes. There is a shrill scream and the assassins arm hits the floor. The gun drops from its twitching fingers. Blood spreads. The room is silent. Many rise menacingly from their seats, and Anakin is suddenly at Obi Wan's side, his lightsaber glowing.

"Easy... official business. Go back to your drinks." Slowly, everyone sits back down. Conversation resumes. Onstage, the preformers pick up their routine. Obi Wan and Anakin lift the person up and carry her out. Obi Wan and Anakin carry her into the alley and lower her to the ground. Obi Wan attends to her wounded shoulder. She stares up hatefully at Anakin. She winces in pain, then nods.

"Do you know who it was you were trying to kill?" Anakin asked angrily. All traces of his earlier amusement left his face.

"some princess from Alderaan" she breathed heavily.

"Who hired you?" She looks up and glares at Obi Wan.

"It was just a job." she muttered.

"Tell us!" Anakin yelled causing her to flinch

"That princess' gonna die soon anyway, and the next one won't make the same mistake I did..." She sneered. She gasped in pain as Obi Wan inspects her injury.

"Who hired you? Tell us... tell us now!" She glares hatefully.

"It was a noble called..." Before she could finish a dart finds its way into her neck. Her once female face begins to contort into an ugly being. It's head then falls limp into Obi Wan's lap. Both Jedi look up to see a figure shoot up fast into the sky and disappears. He carefully ripped the dart of of her neck and inspect it.

"Toxic dart..."

So this chapter and the last was a mix of my own ideas and attack of the clones. So if it was a little confusing, sorry