The Matriarch

The fighting could be heard everywhere as I walked down the corridor of the burning flagship.

"The Separatists will lose this battle.." I muttered as the clashing of light sabers became louder.

"What is going on here?" I yelled as I entered the chamber where Anakin Skywalker and Count Dooku were fighting.

"My Lord," he said. Anakin looking confused, Dooku instantly fell to one knee, bowing.

"Oh Skywalker have a seat." I snapped, using the force to move a chair behind him, making him sit, the force restraining him.

"Sidious, you should greet your master better."

"Master? This is Chancellor Palpatine!" Skywalker yelled from his restraint.

"Haha... You really don't know boy? Your precious Palpatine is a Sith Lord!" I said staring at Skywalker's confused face.

"What?! That can't be true..."

"It is…. Now Sidious you have a decision to make. Kill Dooku or let him live.. Your choice could change everything." I said, removing my hood showing my Twi'lek features and ignoring Skywalker.

I watched as Sidious look between me and Dooku, finally he broke the silence.

"Anakin kill Dooku." Sidious said. "He is too powerful."

Anakin looked back between Sidious and me nodding his head no.

"I won`t, not for a Sith!"Skywalker protested trying to get up from his chair. I glared at Sidious.

"I`ll will wipe his memory of my appearance.I will meet you later Sidious." I said to Sidious. "I`m sorry Dooku, but our friend here, your master and my apprentice makes this decision but he will be punished for it. It was never part of the plan." I said to Dooku, fully sympathetic.

I walked over to Skywalker, fear in his eyes. Using the Force, I erased his memory of my appearance. He slumped into unconsciousness; I laid him on the floor.

"Goodbye Sidious, I will meet you in the usual place." I said walking out of the room and towards my waiting ship, the power flowing through my veins.

"I am Power, I am Darkness…" I muttered.

The walk back to my ship made me think of my first apprentice, Darth Tenebrous, the master to Darth Plagueis, who was the old master of Sidious. No one knows my true identity only of my race, Twi`lek, that don`t know that I never died by Tenebrous` hand, he had a hallucination, one of the serums I developed to destroy the Jedi and Republic.

"I always win." I said when I reached my ship. The galaxy before me, ready to ravage…