Skirmish at the Kete Hive The Skirmish at the Kete Hive was a minor conflict involved in the Stranglethorn crisis . The event was the result of the intrusion of two young Ewoks into the Kete Hive . After discovering the trespassers , the Kete Queen and her subjects chased the Ewoks throughout the hive , but they eventually escaped . Build - up . Following the beginning of the Battle of Bright Tree Village , the two Ewoks , Kneesaa a Jari Kintaka and Wicket Wystri Warrick decided to obtain the ingredients for the antidote to plant growth formula , a powerful potion which had dramatically enlarged a carnivorous stranglethorn . The large plant had begun to take over the village , and the stores of antidote that the Ewoks possessed were held hostage within the Ewok Shaman Logray ' s hut by the vines of the stranglethorn . Since they were unable to get past the hostile plant , the Ewoks needed to find the ingredients and quickly . The first ingredient to the antidote happened to be keet nectar , a sweet fluid that was produced by the nearby insectoid Kete s . Making their way to the Keet Hive , the two Ewoks witnessed a Keet worker walking up the side of the hive , using his sticky feet as anchors . After seeing this , Kneesaa was struck with inspiration and fashioned sticky shoes made of leaves and the nearby bog surrounding the hive . With the shoes strapped to their feet , the two Ewoks scaled the outside of the structure and entered the hive , keeping a look out for other Keets . Confrontation . As the Ewoks tread carefully through the hive , they saw the Ketes storing nectar pearl s of kete nectar in one of their storerooms . The Ewoks planned to sneak into the storeroom and obtain one of the pearls , but before they could come up with a plan , they were discovered by the Kete Queen and several of her subjects . The Ketes backed the Ewoks into a corner of the hive , disturbed by the intrusion of the outsiders . Kneesaa tried to explain that they desperately needed a nectar pearl , but the Queen just snapped her mandibles menacingly . Realizing that the Keets were about to attack , Wicket grabbed Kneesaa and fled from the area with the Ketes in hot pursuit . The Kete warriors slowly began to advance on the two Ewoks , but Wicket and Kneesaa were eventually able to lose their pursuers . Backtracking back to their original location , the two Ewoks entered a nectar pearl storeroom and were delighted to see the huge stock of pearls that it contained . However , as the two Ewoks prepared to remove one of the pearls , a single Kete , who had witnessed their escape from the Queen , was able to roll a boulder in front of the entrance to the storeroom , trapping the two Ewoks inside . The triumphant Kete then signaled the rest of the hive , and they quickly arrived at the site with their Queen . Escape . Unknown to the Ketes , inside the storeroom Wicket W . Warrick had accidentally removed a nectar pearl from the bottom of the large pile . The removal of a base pearl caused the entire stack to collapse , flooding the room with the pearls and enveloping the Ewoks . Outside of the storeroom , the Queen signaled several Ketes to remove the boulder that was sealing the Ewoks inside . As soon as the rock had been moved aside , the pearls inside , and the Ewoks with them began to pour out of the room . The supply of nectar pearls hit the unsuspecting Ketes , knocking them aside . With the Ketes out of their way , the Ewoks rolled the rest of the way out of the hive and to freedom . Unfortunately for the Ewoks , their escape was less than coordinated , and they fell less than gracefully from the entrance to the hive . Along with several of the nectar pearls , the Ewoks plummeted into the bog that surrounded the Kete hive . Covered in sticky goo , the two Ewoks struggled to extricate themselves from the mess . As the Ewoks slowly made their way away from the hive , the Kete Queen and her subjects came to the entrance of the Hive to see the plight that the Ewoks had found themselves in . The Kete Queen found the sticky Ewoks to be extremely hilarious and collapsed in laughter . As the rest of the hive joined their leader in guffawing at the two Ewoks , Wicket and Kneesaa grabbed one of the nectar pearls surrounding them and escaped the area still covered in the bog ' s goo . Aftermath . After obtaining the kete nectar , the Ewoks moved on to obtain a ganga root . Unfortunately for the Ewoks , the kete nectar proved almost worthless in concocting an antidote , as they were unable to obtain the last ingredient in the trome sap . However , the event at the hive allowed Kneesaa to learn one of the Three Lessons , the lesson of the hand , preparing her for future leadership over the tribe . Additionally , the invention of the sticky shoes was instrumental in saving several woklings during the Battle of Bright Tree Village , when Kneesaa used the shoes to climb up to their location and fed one of the sticky shoes to a stranglethorn , sealing its jaws shut .