Jace flew the ship as close to the door as he could. Mace got in, unseen by anyone else. He went to the cockpit.
"Okay." Mace told Jace. "Let's get out of here."
Jace nodded. He pressed a button to close the ramp. Mace sat down in the co-pilot seat and buckled in.
"Hope you know how to fly this thing." Mace grumbled.
"I do, don't worry." Jace assured him. "I've piloted one of these before."
"Good." Mace replied. "I don't feel like getting anymore injuries."
They flew to a medical bay station in the middle of space. Once they landed, Senator Organa came out to greet them. He looked at mace with shock.
"Are you alright, Master Windu?" The senator asked.
"No, I'm not, Senator." Mace responded. "Is Master Yoda here?"
"Yes. He's inside." Organa began to lead the way inside.
Mace and Jace followed him.
"Don't trust Skywalker." Mace told him. "He's a traitor."
"Did he do that to you?"
"He sided with Sidious and chopped off my arm. Most of the wounds are from landing."
The senator looked at Mace's arm. "I see." He nodded.
Organa led them to a room in the bay (*SPOILER* : the same one Padme was in when she died). Yoda was in there. He was just as shocked as the senator was when he saw his former padawan.
"Greetings, Master Yoda." Mace said.
"Greetings, my old padawan." Yoda answered. "Lost to Sidious, have you?"
"Yes." Mace responded blankly. Then he raised his right arm, "Skywalker has turned to the dark side."
Yoda's head dropped. "Our worst fears realized, they are."
"Where's Kenobi?" Mace suddenly remembered the Jedi Knight.
"Gone to Mustafar, Obi-Wan has." Yoda told him.
"To fight Skywalker." Mace mused.
"Yes." The green Jedi nodded slowly.
"He won't kill him, you know that." Mace heaved a sigh.
"I do." Yoda responded.
"Master Windu, you should probably go see the medical droid." Organa suggested.
"Yeah, I know." The Jedi Master groaned.
He walked along the glass until he reached a doorway. He went through it and down into the medical area. The droid had him lay down on the bed.
The Jedi forced himself to relax. He saw the droid holding a metal arm and some tools. It put the arm against his and used a screwdriver to connect it to his bone. As soon as the droid started turning it, he felt pain. Horrible pain. He let out a yell.
He clenched his teeth and his good hand balled into a fist. His eye squeezed shut as he tried not to yell. After two or three minutes, the droid finished screwing the arm on. He felt a needle poke his injured arm to numb it. Uh oh…now what's it doing?
He heard a welding tool light. He looked at the droid as it moved the tool towards his arm. He watched it start melting the edge of the metal arm into the edge of the skin. At least it was numbed. It would hurt a lot if it wasn't.
After one minute, the droid finished and put down the welding tool, making sure to turn it off first. Then the droid grabbed something that looked like an eye. What the…
"Open your eye socket."
Definitely an eye…
Mace obeyed, but closed his good eye. Painfully, the droid stuffed the thing in his eye socket. He felt wires come out of the object and seemingly plug into something in his head.
Suddenly, vision came to him. It was a cybernetic eye. He opened his other eye. "Whoa." He mumbled. The Jedi had only seen one other living person with a cybernetic eye. Commander Wolffe from the clone army. Is Wolffe a traitor too?
"You can get up now. We're done." The droid said.
Mace got up. He knew he still had marks on his good arm and his face and maybe some bruises or scratches here and there, but he still felt a little better. He around the glass and over to Yoda, Jace, and the senator.
"You alright now?" Jace asked him.
"A bit." He responded. His voice sounded a little closer to normal now.
"Well, are you coming back to Corusant?"
"I can't." Mace knew it was true. "They probably sent some of the troops out to look for me. I'll stay here, with Yoda, for now."
"Alright. Well, I have to go back. Goodbye." Jace walked out.
A few minutes later, Mace watched the ship leave.
Then, to everyone's surprise, Senator Amidala's ship landed. Organa went out in a hurry, worrying over what happened. Mace and Yoda watched from the window.
Obi-Wan walked out of the ship, carrying the senator in his arms. She didn't seem to be moving. Mace went into another room of the building. He heard them walk past and into the room where Mace had been.
*X*
A little while later, he heard a knock on the door.
"It's unlocked." Mace called.
The door opened. Unsurprisingly, it was Yoda and Obi-Wan. Mace raised his eyebrows as he saw Kenobi glance over him.
"This is what your padawan helped do." Mace told him. "He cut off my arm; Sidious flung me out the window. Got hit by a few ships and had a rough landing."
Obi-Wan and Yoda sat down at the circular table that he was at.
"And he's nearly killed Senator Amidala now." Obi-Wan added.
They talked about the current situation for an hour or so. Then Mace left the room, telling them that he was going to exile on Alderaan.
He piloted a small ship to the peaceful planet and sold it for a good price. Then he rented an apartment and bought food and other supplies. He planned to stay on the planet for the rest of his miserable life, until the war came there.
*X*
He lived in peace for twenty years until the Death Star was built and Leia, daughter of Padme Amidala, was captured.
Mace Windu was on the planet when it was blown up, dying along with millions of others.
R.I.P. Mace Windu
End of Story.
