Title: Mace Windu returns I: The Darkest Path
genre:action/AU key words: Mace Windu, Anakin Skywalker,Obiwan,Yoda,Sidious.
summary: what if Mace Windu on that long fall hadn't died? What if he had fallen hurt onto a passing car, and just had gotten hurt? This is the fanfic if mace went to face Palpetine again in the senate arena, and Vader as normal goes to mustafar, but both Obi Wan and Yoda follow him. What comes of this?
Chapter one The clash of Maces purple clashed against The evil Sith Lord's. He yelled and turned and blocked the attack. Mace couldn't hold back a smile. IThis guy is a pushover/I. He thought to himself. IOr maybe its because im so deep into Vaapad.Whatever it is the Sith will not rise/I. He swung at Sidious who ducked and he hit the window instead which immediately smashed. The night howled angrily at them, and sent a chill down his back. Something in the back of his mind, which was the force was telling him to look into the dark shadows, but he ignored it and continued to deflect Sidious's attacks. "You call yourself a Sith Lord?" Spat Windu backing away laughing as he sent a chair at him which was sliced in half. The Sith lord tripped and fell and scooted backwards. Mace had barley broken a sweat. He breathed slowly focusing on stabbing that blade into his throat. Oh what it would be to end the Sith's oppression right here and now. "You are under arrest, my lord!" Mace said calmly the buzz of the lightsaber humming slowly at Palpetine's throat. Then Palpetine saw someone past Windu himself, he could feel it as well, young Skywalker had come back. IDamn him! I told him not to interfere!/I "Anakin!" The old man breathed, winded. "I told you it would come to this. I was right. The Jedi are taking over!!" He looked over at Anakin who was confused, but enraged at the same time. Mace moved closer gripping his saber tighter. "You old fool. The oppression of the Sith will never return. Your plot to regain control of the Republic is over . . . you have lost . . . " Palpetine suddenly raised his voice as it became dark and evil. Palpetine yelled suddenly.
"No! No! You will die!" He raised his hands and lighting shot out at once. Mace caught off guard blocked it quickly, and Palpetine slid back a little. Palpetine yelled again out of desperation. "He is a traitor, Anakin!!" Mace Windu looked at Anakin, he needed Anakin's help to kill this menace. "He's the traitor. Stop him!" "Come to your senses boy!" He spat at Anakin, who was looking from Mace to Palpetine and back. "The Jedi are in revolt. They will betray you, just as they betrayed me! You must Kill him!" Mace yelled enraged now."Aarrrggghhh!" Palpetine yelled looking up at Anakin and yelled to him in a commanding way. "You are not one of them, Anakin. Don't let him kill me! Pleasee helllp meee!" He continued to shoot bolts from his hands at Mace who was yelling as the bolts were increased in power. "I am your pathway to power. I have the power to save the one you love! You must choose!! You must stop him. Kill him!"
"Don't listen to him, Anakin." But now the Sith Lord was getting weaker, slowly but surely. He coughed looking at Mace with raging fire in his eyes, but he could care less. Palpetine was getting even weaker as he began to beg now. "Help me! Don't let him kill me. I can't hold on any longer. Ahhhhhhh . . . Ahhhhhhh . . . Ahhhhhhh . ." Mace Windu smirked, and pushed Sidious out onto the outer ledge. The wind blew onto Maces cloak, and it flapped hard in the breeze. Mace pushed the saber back at Palpetine, and he yelled as his face became distorted and ugly. His eyes turned yellow, his face sunk in to create hundreds of wrinkles. And he yelled out one more time. "I can't ... I give up. Help me. I am weak ... I am too weak. Don't kill me. I give up. I'm dying. I can't hold on any longer..." Mace smiled to himself again. "You Sith disease. I am going to end this once and for all. I am going to kill you." Anakin stepped forward.
"You can't kill him, Master. He must stand trial!!" Mace looked at Skywalker. Was he serious!? He wanted this Evil pathetic Sith lord to stand trial!! That wasn't gonna happen. "He has too much control of the Senate and the Courts. He is too dangerous to be kept alive." Palpetine moaned from the floor breathing hard. "I'm too weak. Don't kill me. Please." But Mace barley heard him. The force told him to be careful of Skywalker. He kept him in his line of sight in the corner of his eye. Anakin stepped forward again closer. "It is not the Jedi way..." Mace raised his saber to make the plunge. Anakin yelled. "He must live..." And again the Jedi master ignored him about to kill Sidious. One strike to the head, heart or even chest would end his life forever. But what would Anakin do? Would he turn on Mace, so that he had to defend himself? Surely not.. He stepped closer. He was feet from him. "He must live..." "Please. Please don't..." The chancellor begged again. Mace was going to do it, but just as he did Skywalker yelled. "NOOOOO!!" and attacked Mace, who turned to meet his blue blade. The sabers sparked. "What are you doing?!" Skywalker yelled.
"He's a traitor to the republic! letting him live is too dangerous!" "Letting you kill him is against the Jedi beliefs. I wont allow it." He pushed forward, and Mace pushed back. "Anakin!!" Mace yelled trying to get through to him. "Come to your senses!!" But the reply was a shove with the force, and he was thrown backwards onto the floor, got up halfway and was thrown back again into another room across the hall. He looked up. "So be it...then." He sighed as he watched Anakin remerge into the room. Anakin attacked high, and Mace blocked. "This is crazy Anakin!! How can you protect that monster?!" "Your the monster. How can you just kill him like that?"
"Anakin!" He yelled again ducking a slash to the chest. "You don't get it do you?!" He swirled around and swiped at Anakin who parried it again like it was nothing. It was time to end this. He shoved Anakin back with the force, who stumbled and yelled releasing a large surge of Lighting, which by the look on Anakin's face, he was shocked and pleased because Mace was sent out of the window and down to the eighth floor where a moment later, Anakin landed ready to continue. "Dammnit Anakin! If you don't stop this i will kill you!!" "So...it is true!! You are planning on betraying the republic!!" "Betray?! Anakin the Jedi are peaceful! Palpetine is the one that iEVIL!" He blocked attack after brutal attack from Skywalker and ducked a headshot twice, then jumped over his head, and went for His arms but Windu saw this and blocked that as well. IThis...is getting tiresome...i need to end this now or kill him…/I He thought to himself breathing hard. Then a idea came to him. He saw a electrical box, and while Anakin was focused on Mace, he shoved Anakin back with the force into the box, it burst open at once and shocked him, and he then fell down smoking slightly.
Deactivating his lightsaber, he looked up, and saw the window through which was broken, and leaped into it. There was the Chancellor, or Former one now who was still laying there muttering to himself. When he looked up he yelled. "Now...as i was saying! Say good Bye My lord your day has ended!!" The dark figure of Anakin appeared, and before he could do anything sliced Windu's hand off, along with his saber and flipped over him and kicked him out the window into the dark Coroscant night.
end chapter 1
this story starts out slow. but it gets much better later on.