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"Anakin, I told you it would come to this, I was right, the Jedi are taking over" said Chancellor Palpatine, leaning against the window sill, with Mace Windu's lightsaber in his face. "The oppression of the sith will never return, you have lost" said Mace. "No, no, no, no, you have lost" said Palpatine, shooting force lightning out of his fingertips. Mace blocked the lightning with his lightsaber, and the lightning backfired on Palpatine. "I have the power to save the one you love, you must choose" said Palpatine. "Don't listen to him Anakin" said Mace through gritted teeth.
"I can't hold on any longer, I, I, I'm too weak" Palpatine said in a defeated voice, and stopped the force lightning. Anakin stood there in shock, "I'm going to end this once and for all" said Mace. A look of fear came on Palpatine's ugly, disfigured face. 'It's now or never; if he dies the power to save Padme dies with him' thought Anakin. Mace lifted his arm, in order to swing his lightsaber, 'no, I'm going to let the sith die, he's been lying to me, and the republic this whole time, he's the cause of this war and all those deaths, let the coward die' thought Anakin resolutely. Mace swung his saber but another lightsaber came out of Palpatine's sleeve and ignited, its crimson blade lunged forward, trying to meet with Mace Windu's gut.
Time seemed to slow down for Anakin as he accessed his powerful force connection. He made the perfect slice, as he brought his saber in a upward stroke and sliced off Palpatine's left arm before his blade could prove fatal to Mace. Palpatine screamed in agony, but the crafty sith lord ducked out of the way from Mace's saber. Palpatine rolled away from the two Jedi, took out a comlink with his remaining arm "Execute order 66" he said quickly, before Mace and Anakin's sabers came down on him.
Mace slowly turned his head to Anakin. "I thought I told you to wait in the chambers until we returned" he said, but it wasn't in his usual manner, he was actually smiling a little. Anakin was shocked, a smile from Mace Windu is as rare as a rodian without a blaster, "I thought you could use some help" said Anakin. Mace nodded his head solemnly, "I'm glad you did come here, I should've realized that evils must be confronted, not ran away from, I underestimated you, I thought you wouldn't be able to handle it, but I was wrong" said Mace and clapped his hand on Anakin's shoulder. "Now we must get back to the temple my friend and tell the council the sith have been vanquished forever" said Mace.
They walked out of the chancellor's office, but as soon as they walked out of the office they ran into a pair of clone troopers. "Trooper, we need you to retrieve the former chancellor's body and take it to a morgue to be buried, can you do that trooper?" asked Anakin. The troopers didn't reply, they just raised their blaster rifles and opened fire. The two Jedi blocked the blaster fire back at their owners with their lightsabers, and the troopers were down in 5 seconds flat. "I think I know what Darth Sideous' last message in the comlink was" said Anakin, Mace nodded his head, "I think we both do, and I think the jedi are in extreme danger" said Mace, then they heard heavy footsteps running towards them. "Time to go" said Anakin, the two jedi ran to the nearest window as more clone troopers appeared in the doorway and were shooting at them, they jumped out the window and landed on a landspeeder, much to the puzzlement of its driver.
"We need to get back to the temple, and warn the rest of the order, we also need to contact the jedi on the outer rim, I don't think the clones out there have gotten message yet, I saw the chancellor's comlink, it's a very old model, so they won't get the message instantly, but they will get it in time" said Anakin in a grave tone. "I agree" said Mace. They hopped in the backseat and Mace said "Do you think you can take us to the jedi temple?". The driver slowly nodded his head and turned the landspeeder around.
8 hour later….
"The temple is now on lock down and we need to decide our next move" said Mace in the council chambers. There was murmuring among the council members, both really there and the ones that were not. The council members that were not there were present via holographic transmission. "Disturbing this is that we could not see the clones for what they truly were" sad the holographic form of master Yoda. "They were really a weapon to be used against us this whole time" agreed Master Ki-Adi-Mundi, his cone like head nodding in agreement. Anakin sat there looking out of the council windows, the fires raging around Coruscant, the occasional blaster fire being shot into the air. Ever since the city had found out that the chancellor has been killed and a sith lord no doubt, they rioted. Despite the clones being turned against the jedi it was still there job to keep order in the city, but Anakin knew once the riots calmed down, the clones would march on to the jedi temple and try to eliminate the jedi. The jedi that were not present in this room, managed to escape the clones' traitorous attack, even before the clones got the message, thanks to the temple's faster communication system. But as far as Anakin could tell, even though most of the jedi had escaped, still some had been killed. Anakin was really grateful that Obi-Wan was still among the living.
"How many have been killed so far?" asked the holographic form of Obi-Wan. "Approximately 23, still a tragic loss for the order, but happy I am that it is not a larger number" said Yoda. Anakin looked at Yoda, how did he know that before they told him? Then he remembered, its Yoda, he has one of the strongest force connection in the galaxy, of course he would know. "Right now we told the remaining jedi to stay away from Coruscant for the time being, the same goes for all of you" said Mace, telling the council members that were holo images. "Senator Organa has agreed to cruise along the many hyperspace routes to pick up any jedi, send the code 11357689 to Bail's ship and he will pick you up and take you to a safe haven" finished Anakin. "One more thing… I think we have one more thing to do" said Mace. Anakin looked at the council members, who in turn looked back. "I think young Skywalker is ready to become a jedi master" Mace said.
"He has shown bravery and commitment to the order instead of his own selfish desires, by destroying the evil that was slowly manipulating him and the republic" Mace said loudly. The council members murmured in approval. Anakin got down on one knee and bowed, "thank you masters, I pledge myself to the teachings of the jedi, and to the light side of the force, completely and forevermore" Anakin said. "Rise now, jedi master Skywalker" said Yoda. Anakin obeyed and took his seat once again feeling like a huge weight has been lifted off his shoulders. He looked at Obi-Wan, who was smiling at him like a proud father. "May the force be with us all" said Mace, and the holo images of the council members faded.
Jedi masters Mace Windu and Anakin Skywalker were busy organizing a evacuation of the temple, they already sent the younglings to Bail Organa to be taken to safety, now all that was left were the padawans and the rest of the jedi in the temple. It was a bit harder since the chancellor slaughtered the only council members on Coruscant besides themselves.
Some of the knights helped but they had to be evacuated themselves. BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP rang the temple alarm systems. "Clones closing in on the jedi temple, evacuate now" came a voice on the intercom. They redoubled their efforts even as they heard cannon blasts attempt to blast open the main doors of the temple, and heard clone gunship after gunship fly around the temple shooting at it with their deadly missiles. They sent the rest of the temple's jedi off, they all escaped except for the last one, it was caught in the middle of blaster fire from the heavy assault vehicles below and the gunships in the air.
Anakin's heart cried out as he saw that shuttle explode, full of jedi. Then a finger tapped his shoulder, "The clones have entered the temple, 20 other jedi have stayed behind to help us, but I want you to evacuate as well, I will stay behind to battle the clones" said Mace. Several long seconds passed in complete silence, so quiet in fact that Anakin could hear the missiles and blaster fire pounding against the temple, attempting to bring it down. Then Anakin shook his head "no I'm staying as well, I refuse to run while you guys stay here to fight and die just to stall them". Mace opened his mouth to argue but then the door burst open and hundreds of clones marched in, catching 3 of the 22 jedi off guard. The jedi deflected bolt after bolt and cut through clone after clone, but it seemed after they cut one clone down, 5 more took it's place. Anakin knew they couldn't keep this up forever. Then it dawned on him 'I'm going to die' Anakin cut through another clone 'but at least I'll die for my fellow jedi and Padme' he deflected a bolt 'my beautiful Padme, I never got to say goodbye, I'll never get to see my child…. Hold on why does it seem so quiet now' Anakin asked himself. The blaster fire was still going on, yet he could not hear it, or his lightsaber, or anything for that matter. Then he heard loud footsteps behind him, coming toward him, the room was shaking slightly… then he saw it. A large creature, covered in black so he could not see it's features; it's red, glowing, pupil less eyes looking at him; the horns on it's head in opposite directions, one going up, the other down; it was huge, approximately 30 feet tall. It spoke in a weird language. 'What is that thing' said Anakin in his head. Then the creature jumped 200 feet in the air, just barely missing the roof and landing outside the battle and started toward them.
The clones, not knowing what it was shot at the creature, but the blaster bolts passed through it harmlessly. It continued to charge toward Anakin, and then the remaining jedi decided to try to attack it but the creature shot out black tentacles from it's chest and stomach and grabbed the jedi and a orb of light formed around them and grew smaller once the orb was gone, the jedi that were in it's tentacles disappeared. A clone got to close to it and shot at it, but it swung it's arm and hit the clone away and into a pillar, killing him.
The creature started towards Anakin again but the few jedi that were left each took a swing at the creature with their sabers, but the lightsaber blades passed through it, and the creature repeated the process that it did with the other jedi. Then it's eyes met Anakin's and it shot out it's tentacles toward him, "Noooo" Mace screamed and jumped in front of Anakin, the tentacles grabbed Mace and dragged them toward the creature. "Run Anakin!" yelled Mace as the creature pulled him closer. With a heavy heart at the thought of leaving his fellow jedi with the creature and the clones, he turned his back and started off, and glanced over his shoulder just long enough to see Mace disappear in a flash of light.
Anakin force jumped to the upper levels, but the creature was hot on his heels. 'What the hell is this thing' he asked himself. He finally made it into the hanger and hopped in a jedi fighter, closed the cockpit and started to take off. But before his fighter made it out of the hanger, it jerked to a stop, the creature had it's tentacles wrapped around his ship and slowly pulling the ship back towards it. "You won't get me" said Anakin through gritted teeth; he pressed a button to release the spare parts. The parts hurled toward the creature passing through it, but distracting it. Anakin took this opportunity and set the engines to max power. The ship went forward at an incredibly fast speed, so fast that the creature's tentacles lost their grip and let go of the ship. Anakin's ship flew out of the hanger; he blasted a couple of gunships that were trying to prevent his escape, and flew away. But even though he was miles in the sky, he heard the creature's roar of anger. He had a feeling that it wasn't going to give up so easily, he knew that this isn't the last time he is going to see that thing.