"In the name of the Galactic Senate of the Republic, you're under arrest, Chancellor," Jedi Master Mace Windu said these words directly, with power and authority, to the newly revealed Dark Lord of the Sith. Slowly he removed his lightsaber from his belt, igniting the purple blade.
His fellow Jedi Masters, Kit Fisto, Saesee Tin, and Agen Kolar did the same. Mace sensed this arrest wouldn't be peaceful.
Supreme Chancellor Palpatine looked as calm as ever, seated behind his desk. "Are you threatening me Master Jedi?" He asked it cooly, but with a sense of anger.
Mace countered, "The Senate will decide your fate."
"I am the Senate!" said Palpatine, with more anger and spite behind his words.
"Not yet," said Mace.
Mace could see this was going nowhere good. He readied himself for what would probably prove to be the toughest fight he had ever fought. He couldn't allow this Sith disease to take over the Republic. He wouldn't allow it.
Palpatine stood from his chair slowly as an old man crippled with age would. Mace knew better. A lightsaber shot from the Sith Lord's robes to Palpatine's hand. "It's treason then," he said finally.
With a distorted look on his face he ignited the lightsaber slowly. A red glow filled his face, and with a horrid screech he jumped over the desk and spiraled toward the Master Jedi.
Mace Windu tensed himself and went into the Vaapad fighting stance. He would see now if years of training and perfecting his own personal fighting form. The form of Vaapad. Vaapad used quick, lightning fast blows to confuse and eventually destroy the users opponent. Only two Jedi had ever fully mastered Vaapad. The other Master was currently in a catatonic state after facing off against Master Windu. Mace tried not to think of Depa right now.
The Sith Lord dispatched Masters Tin and Kolar with ease. Mace could feel the Sith's power rising with every new kill. He was just too fast for the Jedi. I should've come alone. Thought Mace as he blocked a vicious attack from Palpatine. The Sith then turned to Master Fisto slicing through the Jedi's gut. Kit had died quickly.
An anger filled Mace as he and the Sith Lord fought alone. Mace channeled his anger into his fighting using a darkness for the purposes of the light. The Sith had to die, there was no other option left thought Mace. Slowly Windu was gaining the advantage, only through the power of Vaapad was he able to do this.
They were now back in the conference room. So many times had the Jedi met with Palpatine in this place, unaware that the man they were talking to was in fact the Dark Lord of the Sith. So many times thought Mace, could we have killed him. Mace broke open the window with his blade, causing a slight distraction. This was all the Master Jedi needed.
He quickly kicked the blade from Palpatine's hand, knocking him to the floor in the process. As he did this he felt another person walk into the room.
It was Skywalker.
Palpatine backed up quickly in fright, as the Mace's purple blade was right in the Sith Lord's face.
"You are under arrest my lord," said Mace.
"Anakin, I told you it would come to this, the Jedi are taking over." The Sith said this in a frightened voice, one of desperation.
"The opression of the Sith will never return. You have lost." Mace glared at the Sith, there was still much power and anger within Palpatine. He wasn't don't yet. But he noticed something, Palpatine was for sure that Anakin was with him. With the Sith.
"No, NO, NO, YOU will die!" Palpatine yelled this with fury and shot lightning from his hand towards Mace. Mace raised his blade to block the lightning. Slowly using Vaapad he channeled the lightning back to Palpatine, using the Sith's weapon against him.
"Kill the traitor Anakin!" shouted Palpatine.
"He's the traitor!" yelled Mace. He knew this shouldn't have been such a hard choice for Skywalker, for any other Jedi the choice would be clear. But not Skywalker. Here was his chance to fulfill the prophecy. To fulfill his destiny of being the Chosen One. But Skywalker hesitated. Why?
"I can save Padme!" said the Sith, he was growing weaker by the second. "You must choose!"
"Don't listen to him Anakin!" yelled Windu. So this was why. Senator Amidala. Mace knew something was strange when Skywalker and the Senator spent more and more time together, but she wasn't in any danger, was she?
"Don't let him kill me, I'm too weak." Palpatine was putting on a show. Mace could sense it. The Sith had full trust in Skywalker, enough trust to let down his attack. The lightning then stopped altogether. "Help Anakin, I can't hold on any longer."
Mace knew what he had to do.
"I'm going to end this once and for all!" Shouted Mace. Taking Palpatine was no longer an option. While it was un-Jedi, he had no choice.
Anakin then spoke up. "You can't, he must stand trial!"
"He has control of the Senate and the Courts. He's too dangerous to be left alive." Mace said this with full truth.
"Please don't kill me," said Palpatine in a dying voice. "I'm too weak."
"It's not the Jedi way." Skywalker was desperate. "He must live."
Mace raised his blade, this was it, an end to the Sith. The Republic would live on, Mace wouldn't let it die.
"I need him!" Skywalker quickly drew his lightsaber and blocked Mace's blow.
Mace looked at Skywalker with surprise, and anger. He saw it clearly now. Palpatine wasn't the shatterpoint to everything. Skywalker was.
"POWER!!!" Palpatine shouted as more lightning took on Mace. The lightning hit Windu hard, Mace was unable to stop it. "ABSOLUTE POWER!!!" Mace was then thrown out the window and began to fall.
I've failed, thought Mace. I've failed the Order, the Republic, even the entire Galaxy. Weakness overtook him. He was unable to concentrate as he fell. Death was coming for Mace, it had already taken hope. All the Jedi would die now. The younglings, the Knights, all of them. Suddenly a new hope arose in Mace. I won't allow it, he thought. I won't give up. Mace called on all his strength and stopped his descent. He looked down to see the hard steel ground only a few meters below him. The Order still needs me, he thought.
He looked around at his surroundings, he had landed in an empty speeder lot. He recognized it, only a few kilos from the Jedi Temple. He looked around at the empty speeders, there was a Class-TG95 speeder parked on the far end of the lot. That'll do, he thought.
Mace ran over to the speeder, started it with the Force. Luckily he wasn't a rule follower in his Padawan days. Stealing a speeder came easily even after all those years. Mace jumped in the speeder and took off toward the Temple.