It's the Galactic Games and on special business Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and his Padawan Anakin Skywalker with the help of two other Jedi Master-Padawan teams are asked to help guard the Games. When Obi-Wan is reunited with his old friends, Didi and Astri Oddo, with Astri's new husband Bog Diviano and Mistress Liviana who is on the Council of the Games. While Obi-Wan talks with his old friends and other Jedi, Anakin and the other two Padawans Tru, Anakin's best friend at the Temple, and Ferus Olin, serious Padawan who does everything,"by the book", goes out to explore the Games. Then while they're exploring Anakin overhears a conversation of illegal Podracing, Anakin's old passion when he was a slave boy, and became very curious about it. Anakin hates to leave his friends but he feels responsible for the task of investigating the illegal Podracing. Meanwhile, on a favor of Didi Obi-Wan follows Didi to frighten a swoop bike seller for money back. When that fails Obi-Wan is suddenly on a trail of sabotaging the Games and trying to find the crooks in the act.
Obi-Wan then finds information about how the Alderan team will win the fixed swoop competition and triesto find the crook in his act. After the competition Obi-Wan finds out its the timekeeper who fixed the game so in a thrilling chase to catch him Obi-Wan is almost assassinated and the timekeeper is murdered. While at the podrace Anakin befriends and helps two podracing brothers to free their slave sister from Anakin's old rival Sebulba and his son Hekula who owns his old podracer. Obi-Wan then rea- quants with the swoop dealer, Uso Yso, who shows him his betting list and starts to find the true suspect. After a visit with Bog and Astri he finds out of a connection between Uso's list and Bog's seating chart for Republic senators and out of a plan to humiliate senators with betting with the Commerce Guild. Obi-Wan then finds out that Maxo Visto,a Galactic Games veteran, is behind the sabotaging of the Games he quickly tries to apprehend him before he tries to kill Astri, who has been taken hostage.He finally stops him after a deadly battle of wits and strength in the arena. Then Obi-Wan tries to warn his padawan about a bomb that is in the podrace and Anakin is now in it after a pilot is hurt by Hekula.
Then thanks to Anakin's amazing racing skills he stops the bomb, beats Hekula, finds out that Mistress Liviana is behind the bomb with the help of the two podracing brothers that he helped. Then after against Maxo and Liviana they are innocent of all charges and, although the mission was a weird one they would continue to the next mission even with the horrible taste of betrayal. ( )

When Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are send tot the Galactic Games, they are meant to be keepers of the peace. Then they discover an illegal event that Anakin knows all too well: Podracing. Even though Obi-Wan forbids it, Anakin cannot resist the thrill of the race—the chance to face off against his childhood rival, the loathsome Sebulba.
As a Jedi, Anakin is supposes to let go of his past. But his past will not let go of him. ( )