Star Wars what if: Windu's survival
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Chapter 1: Hard to kill
Mace Windu was the first to enter Palpatine's office. He had never felt it before, but it was so imminent now, the dark side surrounded the area like a shadow. The powerful Jedi master let out a demeaning growl when he saw the source of the darkness.
Palpatine sat before him, on his face not the usual polite expression, but a stare of pure hatred. One thing was for sure, Palpatine was a great actor as he had succeeded in hiding the true nature of himself to the Jedi for all these years.
Mace felt that the other Jedi that had come with him felt the same as he did. Agen Kolar softly shook his head in disgust, Kit Fisto let his hand slide down to his weapon and Saessee Tiin balled his hands into fists. 'In the name of the galactic senate of the republic, your under arrest senator!' Shouted Mace Windu and he and his fellow Jedi ignited the blades of their weapons.
'Are you threatening me master Jedi?' asked Sidious, whilst remaining in his seat. 'The senate will decide your fate.' Replied Windu calmly. 'I am the senate!' replied Palpatine, anger shaking his voice. 'Not yet.'
Palpatine proceeded to rise up from his seat, with a flick of his wrist, the black halter of his lightsaber appeared in his hand. 'Its… treason, then.' He said and activated his weapon, a red blade shooting out from the halter.
He screamed out in pure rage and jumped forward in a spiralling motion. He landed in front of Agen Kolar, planted his feet in perfect balance and thrust his blade forward. He pierced right through Kolar's chest, killing the skilled Jedi master as if he was nothing but a insect.
Kit Fisto and Saessee Tiin now charged in with a swinging motion of their weapon, but Palpatine blocked both their efforts by twisting around and parrying. He managed to separate Tiin from Fisto by putting his body in between them. Now that Tiin no longer had superiority in numbers, it took Palpatine less than a second to slay him with a slash of his blade.
Fisto and Windu, shocked at the great power of the chancellor now both backed away and put up a side by side defence. Palpatine concentrated himself on Fisto, there was an obvious difference in ability between Fisto and Windu and he knew that if he could finish Fisto off first, Windu wouldn't pose as much of a threat any more.
His first few slashes were blocked by the combined efforts of Windu and Fisto, but he finally succeeded to kill Fisto when he saw an opening in his defence. He immediately capitalized on it and cut him down. Fisto went down with a shout and this small distraction gave Windu the opportunity to run down the hallway.
Palpatine chased him with silent, stalking steps. The Jedi master and the Sith lord clashed their blades. The sheer power of both these men knocked both of them back a bit. Windu twisted around and jumped whilst slashing down, forcing Palpatine to stop in his tracks.
Windu reached the office's main quarters and got his blade up in a defensive position. 'Well, well, Master Jedi. So the rumours are true, you are as powerful as they say, if you wouldn't have been indoctrinated in the Jedi ways, you would have made a powerful ally.' Palpatine said.
'Thank you for this indirect compliment chancellor, I must say you are the most powerful adversary I've ever faced as well.' Windu replied.
Palpatine grinned and then suddenly charged, but Windu saw it coming and blocked the attack with a downwards slash. He twisted around and counter attacked, but the chancellor was fast enough to jump backwards. Both men then clashed blades as they charged forward.
A struggle of power proved out to be a draw, none of the men was able to push the other away with their physical strength. Both men then jumped backwards after realising this and sparks lit up the dark office. With an outburst of pure hatred, Palpatine leapt forwards. He slashed with fury, but Windu's skills proved too much to be beaten by a move like that as he blocked every attempt of hurting him.
Then Palpatine felt something he had expected to feel, Anakin Skywalker was rushing over to the office, his heart filled with fear. Palpatine knew that he could convince Skywalker of joining him , but in order for that to happen, he would have to let himself go down.
That would prove to be a challenge, he thought. Master Windu was very dangerous and he would probably finish him off as soon as he saw a chance to do so. Palpatine slashed whilst stepping backwards, towards the windows of the office. He then threw up his blade to block Windu's attack.
But Windu attacked with all of the intensity he could find and smashed the red weapon out of the old man's hands. The slash went on to destroy the window and the sudden wind knocked Palpatine down and made Windu struggle to stay on his feet.
Palpatine crawled backwards and up into the corner, with Windu coming after him , the blade in between them. 'Check mate.' Windu said and he held the blade closer to the chancellor, giving him no space to move. Suddenly, both the chancellor and Windu looked into the office to see Anakin Skywalker enter the room.
'Help me! Anakin!' pleaded the chancellor. 'Skywalker, don't listen to him. He's a sith lord.' Anakin looked at both of these men. 'Chancellor, can you teach me how to save her?' he asked. Palpatine nodded. 'Quickly, help me! I'm defenceless!' He shouted, but Anakin hesitated to make a move.
Palpatine than screamed out and unleashed lightning upon the Jedi master in front of him. Windu threw up his blade and the lightning was shot back into Palpatine, deforming his appearance. 'Power! Unlimited… power!' screamed Palpatine as he forced Windu to back away.
The lightning stopped flowing and Windu got ready to finish Palpatine up, lifting up his weapon and preparing to strike, but Anakin stepped in. A kick to Windu's side launched him out of the window and sent him down in a fall. He was caught by a speeder on his way down, and even though the blow hurt him , it wasn't enough to kill him.
He clung on to the speeder with all his strength. The startled dug driver of the speeder slowed down and proceeded to land. Windu spat out some blood and jumped off of the speeder's roof. The dug got out the speeder, scared and shocked of what had just happened.
'You okay?' he asked in poor basic. 'I'm fine, now if you don't mind, let me borrow your speeder.' Windu said as he put his saber back on his belt and waved his free hand at the dug. The dug nodded and Windu hopped into the speeder before blasting off towards the Jedi temple.
End of Chapter