This is my first fanfic, so please don't flame etc. The characters here are all part of Star Wars, Lucas Arts etc. or they are ones I thought up by myself. I don't seek money etc. from this.

Summary: What if Anakin Skywalker killed Sidious? What if HE became the emperor instead of Sidious in Episode 3? What if some Jedi joined him and became the Sith?

Frost

A New Empire

Chapter One

Chancellor's Private Office

"Join me. Pledge yourself to the Sith. Become my apprentice!" Sidious said.

"Yes."

"Good, good!"

"I want your power, I want the power to stop death."

"That power only my master truly achieved. Together, we will find it. The force is strong in you boy. Together, we can do anything!" Sidious cackled

"You misunderstood. Together? Never. I want the power to stop death, and I can get that easily from your mind. Now die!" Anakin snarled and thrust the bright cyan blade into Sidious' chest.

"I am the master now," he proclaimed. "And you are dead," he finished, pulling the blade out of his body.

Senate Meeting

"The Jedi traitors have assassinated the Supreme Chancellor," Anakin announced out loud. "His last request in his will was to take up his duty as Supreme Chancellor."

"How do we know you didn't assassinate him yourself? You're a Jedi!" Yelled a senator from a podium above.

"The Supreme Chancellor told me to take this recording device from his desk in his will." Anakin lied, pulling out a small disk. "Listen"

Audio recording presented before the Senate. Identities of all speakers confirmed

Palpatine: Why Master Windu, what a pleasant surprise.

Mace Windu: Hardly a surprise Chancellor. And it will be pleasant for neither of us.

Palpatine: I'm sorry? Master Fisto, hello. Master Kolar, greetings. I hope you are well. And Master Tiin-I see your horn has regrown; I'm very glad. What brings four Jedi Masters to my office at this hour?

Mace Windu: We know who you are. What you are. We're here to take you into custody.

Palpatine: I beg your pardon? What am I, the last I checked, I was Supreme Chancellor of the Republic you sworn to serve. I hope I misunderstood what you mean by custody, Master Windu. It smacks of treason!

Mace Windu: You're under arrest!

Palpatine: Really, Master Windu, you cannot be serious! On what charge?

Mace Windu: You're a Sith Lord!

Palpatine: Am I? Even if that is true, that's hardly a crime. My philosophical outlook is a personal matter. In fact-the last time I read the Constitution, anyway-we have very strict laws against this type of persecution. So I ask again: What is my alleged crime? How do you justify your mutiny before the Senate? Or do you intend to arrest the Senate as well?

Mace Windu: We're no here to argue with you.

Palpatine: No, you're here to imprison me without trial. Without even the pretense of legality. So this is the plan, at last, the Jedi are taking over the Republic.

Mace Windu: Come with us, now.

Palpatine: I shall do no such thing! If you intend to murder me, you can do it right here!

Mace Windu: Don't try to resist.

sounds that have been identified by frequency resonances to be the ignition of several lightsabers

Palpatine: Resist? How could I possibly resist? This is murder, you Jedi traitors! How can I be of any threat to you? Master Tiin-you're the telepath. What am I thinking right now?

sounds of scuffle

Kit Fisto: Saesee-

Agen Kolor: Garbled; possibly "It doesn't hurt"(?)

sounds of scuffle

Palpatine: Help! Help! Security-someone! Help me! Murder! Treason!

recording ends

"As you see, it was them who assassinated the Supreme Chancellor. I am ashamed that what I once considered my brothers now collaborate to bring down the Senate! The remaining traitors will be hunted down, rooted out wherever they may hide, and brought to justice, dead or alive! All collaborators will suffer the same fate. Those who protect the enemy are the enemy! Now is the time! Now we will strike back! Now we will destroy the destroyers! Death to the enemies of democracy!"Anakin shouted.

The Senate roared.

"This has been the most trying of times, but the war is over!" he announced.

The Senate roared again.

"The Seperatists have been defeated! The Republic will stand! United! United and free! The Jedi Rebellion is the final test! When this session is over, I shall lead our finest troops, the 501st legion, and kill all the Jedi traitors in their so called temple!"

The Senate cheered.

"Never again shall we be divided! Never again sector on sector, planet turn against planet, sibling turn against sibling! We are one nation, we are indivisible! To ensure that we will always stand together, that we will always speak with a single voice, and act with a single hand, the Republic must change, we must evolve. We must grow. We have become and empire in fact; let us become an Empire in name as well! We are the first Galactic Empire!"

The Senate went wild.

"We are an empire," he continued, "that will continued to be ruled by this august body! We are an empire that will never turn to political maneuvering that wounded us so deeply! We are and empire that will be directed by a single sovereign chosen for life!"

The Senate went wilder, if that was even possible.

"We are an empire ruled by majority! An empire ruled by a new Constitution. An empire ruled by laws not of politicians! An empire devoted to the preservation of a just society. Of a safe and secure society! We are an empire that will stand ten thousand years! We will celebrate the anniversary of this day as Empire Day. Safety! Security! Justice and peace!"

The Senate went berserk.

Across the whole galaxy this was broadcasted until everyone knew, and by then it was too late for the Jedi. The clone troopers upon seeing this transmitted it to every single unit and so, ironically, Order 66 was executed everywhere without the order being given, everywhere but Coruscant. On Coruscant, Order 66 was already being executed, and as thousands of the elite clone legion 501st marched up the Jedi Temple steps, they were led by their new Emperor!

Jedi Temple

The door to the Temple opened. The Gate Master stuck his body outside of the doors.

"Anakin!" he gasped. "What happened! Where are the masters?"

The Emperor looked at him like he wasn't sure who the gate master was. "Where is Shaak Ti?"

"In the meditation chambers, we felt something happen in the force, something awful. She's searching the force in deep meditation, trying to get some feel on what's going on…Something has happened hasn't it?" he asked.

The gate master looked past him. Climbing the stairs were clones. Dozens of them, companies, brigades, regiments, battalions of them.

Thousands.

"Anakin," he asked. "What happened, something has happened hasn't it? Something horrible. How bad is it-"

The last thing he felt was the cool handle of a lightsaber against his chin and pain erupting in his brain.

"My name isn't Anakin, its Vader, Emperor Vader, to you," the new Emperor replied. Pushing the gates open with the force, Vader charged in with hundreds of clones behind him, slaughtering the Jedi caught at unawares in the main hall.

"Spread out and secure the temple," he ordered, "Send three companies to secure the Jedi Archives before the Jedi destroy them, and send another three to start the recall beacon in the memory banks, summoning all remaining Jedi back to Coruscant. The rest of you, kill every Jedi you see."

Soon blaster fire erupted in the hallways around them, and the ignition of lightsabers could be heard, and the hum sounds of lightsaber blades. Charging into the council room, he was confronted by a lone Jedi, with a, wait, red blade? Whipping out his bright blue blade, he slashed downwards towards the female Jedi, then feinted left, then right, and stabbed at her chest.

Astoundingly, she countered each of them in turn.

"Very good" he taunted. "I never saw you around the temple before."

"Good observation," she returned dryly before leaping forward and unleashing a flurry of cuts and stabs at him. Vader jumped back and held up his lightsaber in the guard position.

"You have much anger in you." He remarked.

"You killed the other Jedi!" she spat out.

"Ah, but did you know they committed treason? They assassinated the Supreme Chancellor!" he said. "No doubt that they didn't tell you of what they planned to do did they!"

"What are you talking about! The Jedi don't keep secrets from each other! Do they?" she said, her voice quavering.

"What is your name, young one?" he asked in a kind soothing voice.

"Ar-Arianna Frost." She stammered.

"Trust me, the Jedi are greedy traitors who only serve themselves! They didn't confide in me about their plot, and so I found out they planned to assassinate the chancellor, but I was too late to save him. At least I killed the Jedi who killed him! Join me, and we shall create something new from the ashes!" Vader proclaimed. "We are not so different, they left you out of their traitorous plans to take control of the Republic as they left me. Together we can bring justice back into the galaxy!"

"I-I" she stammered.

"Join me, pledge yourself to the new Empire, to the Emperor!"

"Yes, my master." She finally replied.

Taking a comlink out from a pocket in his black robes, he spoke into it, and ordered all the clones in the temple. "Do NOT attack a female Jedi wearing black robes with black hair and blue eyes, and a red lightsaber. Treat her as you would have treated the second-in-command Supreme Commander of the Galactic Empire."

"Yes your majesty." Came the reply.

"Follow me," he ordered Arianna. "Though it is sort of a custom for new Sith to have a new name, yours is adequate. Therefore you shall now be named, Darth Frost."

"Thank you, master," she replied, jogging to keep up to the fast pace Vader was putting up to reach the meditation chambers.

"Why are we heading towards the meditation chambers? Master" she hastily added.

"Master Shaak Ti is there." He replied. "And I have plans for her. I believe that she, like you, have been left out about the Jedi Rebellion."

"Ah, I understand. Thank you master," she replied.

When they reached the meditation chambers, they stopped at the door. Dozens of clone bodies littered the ground, and two dozen more were firing at a blur which could only be Shaak Ti. As beautiful as a flower, as deadly as a viper, Shaak Ti had a way of moving fast through the battlefield, and decimated the clones as if they were mere statues made of wood.

Reaching a hand out and waving off the clones, Vader entered the meditation chambers with Frost behind him.

"Shaak Ti, what a surprise!" he announced cheerfully.

"Traitor!" she spat back. "I saw what you did to Siri Tachi and Ferus!"

"They were traitors my dear." (The my dear is like Palpatine always saying, Anakin my boy, or, Anakin my son!) he replied a bit coldly. "They betrayed the Republic and assassinated the Supreme Chancellor."

"Palpatine was a Sith Lord!" she countered.

"So? So what if he was? So am I! The Jedi assassinated him! I saw it with my own eyes! Master Windu and Master Fisto cut down him when he was defenseless! They planned to overthrow the Republic!"

"That's not true! They would have told me, and they wouldn't have done that anyways!" she said.

"No, it is sadly true. Before I killed Master Windu, I made him confess. He said almost all the Jedi knew, other than the ones they thought were too loyal to the Republic and planned to kill off, like dear Arianna here, and you." He said.

"But, but!" Shaak Ti stammered.

"Join us! Fight back the traitors!" Vader said eagerly. "You can undo the wrongs you never knew you were committing. Become my apprentice, like Arianna. You don't have to if you don't want to, but you can still work with us, to save the galaxy!"

"I-I, I'll go with you," she replied dejectedly. She couldn't believe her so called friends didn't tell her of their plot.