Star Wars: AU
Summary: What if Anakin chose the side of the Jedi instead of Palpatine's? What would have happened? Find out! Alternate Universe R&R
Disclaimer: I don't own SW.
Chapter 1:
Agen Kolar dashed at Palpatine, his lightsaber lifted up and ready to strike. His attack was blocked by the Sith lord however and he was kicked back. He managed to recover quickly and slashed at the Sith's arm, but Palpatine stopped Agen Kolar for a second, using the force.
This gave the Sith enough time to cut his opponent down. Kolar collapsed and fell down while shouting in pain. The Sith turned his back to his fallen opponent and grinned at the shocked faces of Mace Windu, Kit Fisto and Saessee Tiin.
He jumped into the air and twirled around with surprising speed. He threw his lightsaber up into the air and slashed down at Saessee Tiin. The Jedi tried to block the attack, but he was a split second too slow and Palpatine's lightsaber drilled into Tiin's head, killing the Jedi instantly.
The Sith now attacked the remaining two Jedi and also the most powerful two of the quarter. He slashed at Fisto, but the experience Jedi master blocked the attack and stepped back, ready to block another attack. Palpatine grinned and swirled around, now attacking Windu. Windu was easily the best combatant of these four, if not all Jedi and blocked the attack with ease.
Fisto now countered, but the Sith lord quickly blocked his strike and managed to push him away with the force. He turned towards Windu and slashed at the dark skinned Jedi master. The red and purple beams of light clashed for a few seconds and this struggle of power was won by Windu, forcing Palpatine back.
Fisto now came back charging into the battle and the Sith lord cunningly stabbed at the Jedi master. His blade penetrated Kit Fisto's stomach and killed him instantly. Palpatine smirked. He looked at Windu, now able to fully concentrate on the highest master of the order he hated so much.
The two lightsaber wielding combatants attacked each other and Windu soon gained the upper hand, forcing Palpatine back in the direction of his office with swift attacks. He slashed at Palpatine and the Sith blocked the attack. The two men struggled, the blades of their swords connected.
Windu won the struggle, again and Palpatine was knocked backwards and out of balance, he almost fell down but flipped backwards and got back on his feet, creating a little distance between him and the Jedi master. He took a few steps back and Windu followed him with nimble feet.
They now entered Palpatine's office and clashed again. The Sith lord was forced two flip backwards twice, using all his agility in order to dodge the Jedi's slashed and stabs. The fighters now stood next to the window that allowed Palpatine to look out of his office.
Windu shouted in frustration when his attack missed the Sith and broke the window. The men continued to attack, dancing around each other with great speed and agility. Windu spotted a moment of weakness and kicked Palpatine in his gut, knocking him down and launching the Sith's lightsaber out of his hands and out of the window.
The Sith let out a cry of panic and bumped into the edge of the right wall of his office. Windu now walked towards the disarmed Sith lord with great determination, aiming the tip of his lightsaber at his opponent's chest. He was about to strike when Anakin Skywalker ran into the office.
'You are under arrest, my lord.' Said Windu, still aiming his lightsaber at Palpatine. 'Anakin! I told you it would come to this! I was right! The Jedi are taking over!' Palpatine cried out in panic when he spotted Anakin. 'The oppression of the Sith will never return. You have lost.' Said Windu loudly.
'No! You will die!' shouted Palpatine and he fired force lightning at the Jedi master. Windu managed to block it after an initial shock and the lightning shot back into Palpatine, deforming his face. 'He's a traitor!' accused Palpatine. 'No! He's the traitor!' replied Windu, still doing a lot of effort to deflect the lightning.
When Palpatine realized Anakin still wasn't helping him, he decided to use the knowledge only he knew off. 'I have the power to save the one you love!' He shouted, still firing lightning from his hands. 'You must choose!' shouted Palpatine. 'No!' replied Windu. 'Don't listen to him Anakin!' and he shouted in pain when the lightning touched his hands for a second.
'Don't let him kill me!' Shouted Palpatine. Anakin ignited his lightsaber. 'There is no such thing as gaining power through the dark side, you should realize that!' shouted Windu. Palpatine roared and used his last ounce of strength to hurtle Windu into the office with a force push. He crawled back up and smiled, convinced that Anakin was now on his side and would help him kill Windu.
He stumbled towards Anakin, but the young Jedi grabbed him by his collar and lifted the deformed man into the air. 'I'll end your suffering, Sith lord!' shouted Anakin. He stabbed Palpatine through his chest and the old man let out a final cry of pain, before falling on the ground and dying.
Windu was breathing heavily, the blocking of the force lightning had exhausted him. 'You've made the right choice Anakin.' He said and bent over the body of the heavily wounded Kit Fisto. Anakin kneeled next to Agen Kolar, who had a very weak pulse and the dead Saessee Tiin.
'Anakin, help me get Kolar and Fisto to the temple.' Windu said. Anakin nodded as he hoisted Kolar on his back. Windu grabbed Fisto and the Jedi master clung to the back of the dark skinned council member.
Jedi Temple,
'Yes, A sin it is Skywalker is married. An exception we must make this time. Proven his ability, Skywalker has.' Yoda said. Ki-Adi-Mundi's hologram nodded his head. 'He has restored the balance to the force, for now.' Obi-Wan now walked into the council room, he had just returned from Utapau, where the republic forces had won the battle by a close margin.
Anakin, who was seated next to Mace Windu smiled when he saw his long time friend.
'General Grievous is dead. All that remains now is to defeat the separatist forces scattered around the galaxy.' Obi-wan announced and K'kruhk, who was elected as a new member of the council when Tiin was killed nodded.
'He has finally been defeated. Now we must track down Nute Gunray and the other lower commanders of the separatists. The war could be over in months.' Said the whipid. Mace Windu nodded. 'Kenobi, Skywalker. Go to Cato Neimoidia. You'll have all the Jedi and clone troopers you need at your disposal.' He said.
Anakin stood up, his black robe waving from the swiftness of his movements. His eyes connected with those of his former master and the two Jedi paced out of the council room, more determined to end the war than ever before.
Cato Neimoidia, ten days later
Anakin leapt through the air, dodging a spray of energy bolts in the process. He landed after his tall jump and dashed at two super battle droids, who were cut in half with a single slash.
He swirled around and deflected a couple of energy bolts fired by a squad of battle droids.
The bolts flew back to the ones the fired them, and eight of the twelve were destroyed in a few small explosions. A clone trooper squad charged at the remaining droids and their bolts destroyed the droids within seconds. The troopers shouted in panic when a Droideka set it self up in front of them and killed most of them with a ray of laser bolts.
The three remaining troopers started firing at the Droideka, but to no avail as their bolts couldn't penetrate the Droideka's energy shield. Anakin was just about to help out the clones when Obi-wan appeared behind the Droideka and disabled the shield by destroying it's generator with the force.
He stabbed forward, piercing through the Droideka's metal and destroying it. Master Kenobi ran towards Anakin whilst shouting: 'Report Anakin! How are we doing?' Anakin looked around. 'I've lost the most of my clones, but all the defence Gunray has left is in that fortress up there.' Anakin said and he pointed at tall mountain, connected to the mountain the two Jedi were on with a hanging bridge.
The mountain's lush vegetation was spoiled by a large steel fortress with turrets sticking out of the walls. 'It's risky, but we could make it.' Anakin said, suggesting the two Jedi would conquer the fortress on their own. Obi-wan nodded, trusting his former student fully.
He pointed at the three clones. 'Stay here and warn us if any opposition you can't handle is coming this way.' He commanded. 'Yes sir.' Replied the commander of the clones, recognizable by the blue stripe of paint on his helmet. The two Jedi connected eyes and started to run in the direction of the hanging bridge.
The bridge began to swerve hazardously when the Jedi set foot on it. Obi-wan ran a little bit faster then his former student and took the lead. The force warned him just in time when a droid tri-fighter appeared above them up in the sky. The two Jedi leapt into the air using the force to avoid getting hit by the tri-fighters salve of homing missiles.
The bridge snapped in two as soon as the Jedi landed. Anakin and Obi-wan clung onto the bridge's ropes with all their might. 'Hold on!' shouted Obi-wan and the two Jedi smashed into the mountain a second later. Anakin's grip slipped for a short moment, but he grabbed the ropes again and managed to hang on.
'We're going to have to climb up.' Said Anakin. Obi-wan nodded and the two Jedi started to climb up the ropes slowly but steadily. They reached the edge of the moment a few moments later and crawled onto it. Obi-wan wiped some sweat of his forehead with the palm of his hand.
'I'm getting too old for those things.' Obi-wan said. Anakin grinned. 'You're the greatest master I know, as wise as Yoda and as strong as Windu. I wouldn't rather want to be in those situations with anyone else but you. ' Anakin remarked and Obi-wan grinned. 'I feel the same way, my friend.'
The two Jedi were suddenly alarmed when a pair of Droid assassins, armed with sniper rifles that were patrolling the roof of the fortress spotted them. They fired bolts at the Jedi, who quickly ignited their lightsabers and managed to deflect the bolts with great speed.
'Follow me!' shouted Obi-wan and the two Jedi dashed forwards, dodging the following bolts fired by the assassins. They reached the front of the fortress after a few seconds and pressed their backs against the walls next to the front entrance.
The gate slid open and a ultra battle droid stepped out of the fortress slowly. The droid was twice as tall as the standard issue super battle droid and armed with rockets, two energy rifles and a flamethrower. It aimed its flamethrower at the two Jedi but the men managed to jump out of the way and Anakin jumped for the droid's head, slashing whilst in the air.
The droid's head was severed and fell backwards, broken and unable to move. Obi-wan jumped over the heap of metal the droid had been turned in and Anakin followed him closely.
The sprinted through an empty hallway, with their lightsabers at the ready.
They reached a pair of blast doors that just closed in front of their noses without any problems. 'If they think that'll stop us, then their wrong!' shouted Anakin and he stabbed into the upper right corner of the right door and slowly started to cut down diagonally, his blade cutting through the thick metal without any problems.
The doors had been sliced apart and Obi-wan pushed them over with the force. The doors fell down slowly and revealed an army of about fifty battle droids. They all turned to face the Jedi and started to fire short bursts of laser bolts. Obi-wan and Anakin were initially caught off guard, but managed to deflect the bursts and slowly started pressing forwards.
A few bolts were sent back into battle droids and they were forced into forming a ring around the two Jedi. The ring of attackers became smaller and smaller with time until Anakin was confident enough that he could attack them with his lightsaber.
He threw his weapon forwards, and steered it across the circle with the force. No droid came through this attack unscathed and Anakin pulled his lightsaber back to him with the force. Obi-wan nodded proudly. 'I trained you well, haven't now haven't I?' he said and Anakin smirked.
'I sense Gunray's fear. He's close.' Anakin said and the two Jedi ran towards the exit of the room they were that was only blocked by similar blast doors as before. Anakin used the same technique to dispose of the door and they entered the room. Nute Gunray was sitting on a throne, protected by six energy-spear wielding Neimoidian guards.
The two Jedi got into fighting stances, standing next to each other. 'Surrender Gunray and come peacefully.' Obi-wan said. The neimoidian shook his head. 'I'm afraid that isn't an option. Get him!' shouted Gunray and his personal guards ran towards the Jedi.
Anakin immediately pushed two of them away with the force and lunged after him. He stabbed down twice, dispatching both of them in a matter of seconds. Obi-wan dodged a strike from one of the four guards attacking him whilst Anakin rushed towards Gunray.
Gunray stood up and aimed a blaster at Anakin, but the young Jedi knight swiftly cut off the Neimoidian's hand, causing him to cry in pain. Obi-wan had managed to cut down three of his four attackers with a single strike and the third one attempted to run away, but Obi-wan kicked him on his ankle and the fall knocked him out.
He turned towards his former student and Gunray. Anakin had Gunray under control, holding on firmly to the greedy individual's collar. 'Your coming with us, figurehead.' Said Obi-wan as he deactivated his lightsaber. Anakin followed his example and started to drag the unwilling and muttering neimoidian out of the fortress.
Coruscant, Jedi temple later that day
'Please, master Jedi! Let me go!' begged Gunray, but to no avail as Anakin threw him down to the floor of the Jedi's council room. The wounded neimoidian rolled over the floor and let out a cry of pain. 'Well done!' shouted Plo Koon from his seat, congratulating his fellow Jedi.
'Call the surrender of your troops, Gunray.' Commanded Windu. Obi-wan and Anakin were surprised when the neimoidian crawled back up to his feet and smirked. 'I'm afraid I can't do that. I don't have the high command.' He said. 'Tell us who has then and you might live.' Demanded K'kruhk.
Gunray laughed. 'Ha! Like your prison guards could save me from this man when he finds out I've betrayed him! No! I would rather get shot or hung then cut down by a lightsaber!' Gunray shouted out. 'You'll have your way then.' Said Plo Koon.
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