Okay people! I got back earlier than I anticipated. Normally we stay the entire weekend. Now normally I don't like to post on Saturday night or anytime Sunday, but since I left that horrible cliffy, I said what the heck. This chapter was interesting to me because I had to take into account that Ahsoka is sixteen and not a knight yet and therefore less experienced that most of the jedi. However, she does have to lead an attack on the temple… The thing that makes this believable is that I read somewhere that Ahsoka was more skilled than the average padawan her age, not that she could defeat a master jedi, even with the dark side. I also had to take into account she's a teenager. So how could I make her still a teenager, but mature enough to make the choice to join the dark side…

Oh yeah. There's a scene with Barriss in it. The reason is that as I watched a few random episodes of the clone wars, I noticed that Ahsoka is always trying to prove herself somehow and I've weaved that into the story a bit. And you finally learn Ahsoka's sith name in here. Pay close attention to the pronunciation I provide at the end of the story. I hope you like it. If not, let me know and I can quite easily change it, but only if I get an overwhelming majority of you saying you don't like it. But I don't know… It's really grown on me since I decided on it. Read, enjoy, and review!

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Chapter Ten

When Ahsoka got to Palpatine's office, he was in the middle of fighting Master Windu. The jedi master accidently slashed a window in somehow disarming the chancellor. Palpatine fell against the window's edge.

"You are under arrest My Lord," Mace shouted.

Palpatine spotted Ahsoka watching and pleaded with her. "Didn't I tell you Ahsoka? The jedi were plotting to take over."

"The oppression of the sith will never return," Mace declared. "Your plot to regain control of the republic is over. You've lost."

"No!" Palpatine roared. "Die!"

Palpatine threw force lightning at the jedi, but he blocked it with his light saber. Ahsoka looked on feeling helpless.

"He's a traitor Ahsoka!" Palpatine said to her.

"He's the traitor!" Mace said. "Help me stop him."

"Come to your senses Ahsoka. The jedi have betrayed me. And then they'll betray you. They already have. You're not like them Ahsoka. Don't let them kill me."

Ahsoka started to walk backwards. This was all too much. She had left the temple knowing exactly what she was going to do, but now she didn't know if she had the strength to do it.

"I'm your pathway to power. I can show you how to get the one you love," Palpatine pleaded, and then Mace began to get the upper hand. The lightning began to backfire on Palpatine. It distorted and disfigured his face. His eyes turned yellow.

"I'm going to end this once and for all," Mace said pushing the lightning back.

"No," Ahsoka said starting to move back towards them trying to come up with anything that would save the fallen sith. "You can't kill him. We can put him on trail."

"He has too much control over the senate and courts. He's too dangerous to be left alive," Mace said and finally Palpatine's hands fell to his side as he lay helplessly before the jedi master's blade.

"I'm too weak," the old sith said.

"Master Mace, this isn't the jedi way," Ahsoka pleaded even though she knew in the back her mind Mace really had no other choice. "You can't kill him."

Mace ignored her.

"I-I need him…"

He raised his blade for the killing blow.

"No!" Ahsoka cried and summoned all her anger and fear into a burning inferno. Then with a strength and speed she didn't know she could possess, she blocked the blade and pushed it away with such force, Mace fell over or maybe it was from shock. She didn't know, and she didn't care as she sliced off his hands.

When Ahsoka realized what she had done, she backed away and began to cry, shaking her head.

"I'm sorry," she whispered sincerely. "But I can't let you… I love him too much. It's the only way…"

Ahsoka trailed off muttering incoherent apologies and reasons as Palpatine got back up having recovered in the last few moments. He poured more lightning into Mace, and the jedi master fell off the ledge to his death.

Palpatine smiled and turned to Ahsoka. Ahsoka sat down and looked on in horror.

"What have I done?" she asked.

"You're fulfilling your destiny Ahsoka. Become my apprentice. Let me teach you the ways of the dark side," Palpatine urged his voice laced with evil intent, but Ahsoka didn't care anymore. It was time to suck it up. It was either the jedi or Anakin.

"I'll do anything you ask," she said finally looking at him. "Just please. Help me save Anakin. Help me make him desire me. I can't continue living knowing he loves someone else."

"That height of force ability, the power of ultimate seduction, is a power only one has achieved, but I'm sure that it you find Darth Salomé's diaries and immerse yourself in the dark side, it can be done," he said.

Ahsoka fell off her seat to her knees before him. "I pledge myself to your teachings, to the ways of the sith."

Palpatine smiled. "Good," he said. "The force is strong in you. Henceforth, your name shall be Darth… Pesinoé."

"Thank you my master," the togrutan girl replied.

"Rise Darth Pesinoé," Sidious said walking to his desk and pulling on his cloak.

Pesinoé stood up and followed him as Sidious gave her and extra cloak to put around her. She did so and pulled up the hood. It made her feel older than she was, more mature.

"Because the council did not trust you my young apprentice, I believe you are the only jedi not aware of this plot," he said. "When the rest of the jedi get word of this, they will kill us along with the senators."

"I agree. The jedi's next move will be against the senate, but some of them deserve to die."

"I don't think any of the senators knew about that part of the jedi's plan except maybe Senator Amidala. You will deal with her and the other senators will be dealt with. But we must move quickly against the jedi. They are relentless and if they are not destroyed, there will be an endless civil war. Go to the jedi temple and catch the jedi off guard. Do what must be done. Show no mercy and you be all that closer to achieving your goal."

"What about the other jedi across the galaxy and Anakin?" Pesinoé asked.

Palpatine already knew how to deal with the other jedi, but the game for Anakin had changed. He could still be turned, but Sidious was beginning to wonder if Anakin's former padawan had even more potential than he did in the dark side. She was just as much a prodigy as Anakin was at that age. Sure his wife's death would drive him to the dark side, but only so far because she would still love him, and that would keep him from reaching his potential. But Pesinoé's anger at the senator and the possibility that Anakin might reject her forever would continue to drive her, especially if Anakin forced the girl to kill him while still rejecting her. He finally replied.

"I'm not sure. I fear the manipulations of the council and Senator Amidala may have put him out of our reach. Hopefully, he can still see reason and become aware of their lies. If not…"

Pesinoé nodded. "I understand master."

"As for the other jedi, their treachery will bill dealt with. After you have killed the jedi, go kill Viceroy Gunray and the other separatist. You do remember where they are?"

"Yes master."

"Good. Once you have done that, the sith will rule the galaxy, and there will finally be peace again."

When Pesinoé left, Palpatine lifted a control on his wrist that controlled the clones.

"Execute order 66."

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Shaak-Ti felt something was wrong long before the army of clones led by a sith were on the steps of the temple. When Anakin had left, she just had this feeling and when it wouldn't go away she led the younglings she was with to a secret room in the temple where ships similar to escape pods were. They were automatic and made for a one way trip. As soon as they landed, their engines were shot. It had been a precaution put in decades ago in case of an emergency in the temple and people had to get out. However, the jedi were so sure of their survival in those days that they were only a few installed to pacify some activists who wished for the jedi to have a better escape route if they were attacked. They would only fit one full grown jedi, but they would fit two younglings.

Shaak-Ti knew she was asking for trouble if her feeling turned out to be nothing, but it was better safe than sorry. They could always retrieve the younglings later.

She loaded the small ships one at a time and started with two younglings for the first ship deciding that the children would be safer on backwater or lawless planets. It would be safer there then here.

"Find a safe place, someone who will take care of you. Draw out with your senses and never use your powers again until a jedi finds you and tells you it's safe," she instructed all the children as the first pod took off.

She managed to three more off before she heard footsteps coming towards the secret room. She used her light saber to ruin the control. It would take a minute to break through that door even with a light saber. It left her just enough time to get two more younglings away. The rest would have to stay with her and she would pray to the force she had the strength to fight off their attackers.

She grabbed a girl and then another little boy but the girl started to protest loudly. She didn't know why until she looked at her. It was one of the twins. They had no clue they were related but they shared a powerful bond all the same. She looked amongst the group and saw the other twin sobbing in the corner. She grabbed her and put her next to her sister. The door closed and she put in the coordinates.

"Corellia," she said. It was a tough planet, but the girls would survive as long as they stayed together. She had just enough time to send the spacecraft off before the door fell down.

She turned ready to fight and sighed in relieve when she saw it was just Ahsoka.

"It's just you. Help me get the younglings away. I fear something bad is about to happen," the jedi master said.

"You're right," the young togrutan said in a strange tone looking past Shaak-Ti. "The temple is under attack."

"I knew it," the older togrutan said turning to help one of the younglings into the pod. "Help me Ahsoka."

When her plea was only met by silence, Shaak-Ti turned around…

"Ahso-." Her words were cut off by the girl's blade slicing through her front.

Not quite comprehending what she had done, a young boy with blue eyes and blonde hair that reminded Pesinoé of Anakin walked up to her.

"What's going on?" he asked. "What should we do?"

For a moment, Pesinoé considered letting the younglings go. They were no harm. They were only just beginning their training. She could send the rest of them off in the pods and they would never bother anyone. She looked at the boy who reminded her of Anakin again and shook her head. Anakin… That's who she was doing this for and if the younglings had to die too, so be it.

"Master?" the boy said again and Pesinoé ripped her blade through him.

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Barriss was doing her best to defend the jedi temple. Clones weren't really a real threat to jedi, but in these kinds of numbers, it was a challenge. She had narrowly missed being killed like many of her comrades. She was glad she had been delayed on taking off for her next mission. With all the council gone and most of their numbers spread across the galaxy, she and a few other knights were the only thing standing between the clones and the complete destruction of the temple.

As she took down the last clones in the room, she looked around and felt around with her senses for danger. The voice warned her. Something sinister was in the room… it was behind her.

Barriss struck out with her blade only to be met by another blade, the blade of one of her close friend, Ahsoka.

"Oh it's just you," she said putting down her blade. "Is there anyone else with you?"

"No. Just me. Everyone else I've come across is dead. We just may be the only ones left," Pesinoé said to the older girl.

"And the rest of the council?"

"Dead."

Pesinoé almost laughed at how easy it was to take care of the rest of the council. Were they so blind that they didn't sense the darkness around her, that she was the sith lady they were scouting the temple for? It had been easy enough to get them to turn their backs. It might have been a cowardly way yes, but she wasn't a fool. She was strong, but the council was still more experienced and skilled. Only one had caused her a little trouble, but it had been easier to take him out than expected. It only proved that the dark side made her stronger than the light ever would have and she was that much closer to having Anakin… She needed to find him too.

"Ahsoka," Barriss said carefully. Something was off about the girl. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine Barriss," Ahsoka said.

"Come on. We have to get to the control room. A transmission's been sent out telling all jedi to return to the temple. We can't let anymore jedi walk into this trap," Barriss said starting that way.

"That won't be necessary Barriss," Pesinoé said.

"You got to it already?"

"No," the togrutan girl replied. "I'm the one who sent it."

"But why would you do-?" Barriss didn't continue as the force screamed a warning to her, and she brought up her saber just in time to meet her friend's blade.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"What must be done," Pesinoé said twirling her blade to try and penetrate Barriss's defenses. The jedi knight met her strike for strike.

"You've betrayed us," Barriss said.

"No. You all have betrayed me. I'm returning the favor."

Barriss forced herself to attack her former friend. She was the one with the advantage anyway. Pesinoé used a force attack. Barris gained the upper hand when she repelled the attack with her own. She pushed back against Pesinoé forcing her to step back.

"You'll never overpower me. You're just a padawan, while I'm the jedi knight. Your training is incomplete," Barriss added.

Pesinoé bared her teeth at the knight and suddenly, to Barriss' surprise, she overpowered the jedi knight. Barriss was thrown into a wall, her light saber falling out her hand.

"Wrong," Pesinoé said. "You're the jedi knight and I'm the sith lady. I've embraced the force and not just the narrow minded view of the jedi. It is your training that is incomplete."

Barriss had no words to say. She just stared in shock. All she could muster was, "A sith…"

"Think of it this way Barriss. You don't believe in a dark side or a light side. It's how you use it," Pesinoé said and decapitated her head.

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Anakin groaned as he chased the terrorist through the city. He had been going on with this for the last hour. These guys were too skilled to be just a small band of rebels. Something else was going on. He lost his view on them and his control of his speeder as a horrible disturbance in the force distracted him. He felt, sadness, confusion, hate, anger and the worst of them pain from all the jedi, but the brunt of these emotions came from his padawan.

"Ahsoka," he muttered through his clenched teeth and tried to regain control of his speeder. It was too late though. Anakin crashed into the sidewalk and it was only by a miracle of the force that he was unscathed, but even so the pain of the other jedi and the emotions coming off his padawan through their bond weighed down on Anakin. He struggled out of the ruined speeder and with difficulty ran down the street to see if he could find some help.

It was then he realized he had fallen to a lower level of coruscant, and the chances of anything being down there were slim. He groaned. There wasn't enough time to climb to one of the high levels. He needed to get to Ahsoka and the jedi temple fast. He saw the answer to his problem in the form of an old broken down speeder. He ran to it and looked at the engine. All it needed was a little of his magic. It would certainly take a while, but it would be easier than trying to get back to the higher levels of the city, not to mention he just didn't have the strength to try and fight the scum that lived down here to do it.

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Padmé stood sobbing as she looked out her window at the smoke coming out the jedi temple. She bet Anakin was there. He wasn't dead. He was alive. That much she was sure of, but he hadn't contacted her and she didn't know where he was. What was going on?

She rubbed her swollen belly trying to sooth her baby. It was restless. Perhaps it knew something was wrong too. She started to go to her closet to get a senatorial robe to put on. The chancellor had called an emergency session of the senate and despite her turmoil, she had to be there. Maybe he knew what was going on.

"Miss Padmé," Threepio said. "There's a speeder on the veranda."

Padmé rushed out the room and to the veranda. It had to be Anakin. Maybe he could tell her what was happening. She stopped when she noticed it wasn't. It was Ahsoka, his padawan. But there seemed to be something different about her. Something was off, but she was Anakin's padawan, and despite the fact that the girl hated her, she was welcome. Maybe she knew what happened to Anakin.

"Ahsoka," Padmé about to approach her.

"Don't come any closer," the girl said.

Padmé would have ignored her, but something about Ahsoka's aura told her to stop. "What's going on?"

"The jedi have betrayed the republic," Pesinoé said simply. She really wanted to kill the senator right then and there, but she couldn't. Not yet.

"I don't believe it!" she said getting ready to defend the jedi and her husband if she had to.

"I saw them try to kill the chancellor with my own eyes. It's true. Many of the jedi have been killed."

"What are you going to do? What about Anakin?" Padmé demanded suddenly forgetting her tears. Ahsoka wasn't telling her something.

"I haven't betrayed the republic. My loyalties lie with the chancellor and Anakin."

"Where is he?" Padmé pleaded this time in worry. Could Ahsoka stop being so evasive?

"I don't know," Pesinoé said in a deadly calm tone. "I'll have to try to find him after I deal with the separatist on Mustafar and the senate. Some of the senators are corrupt and will be dealt with."

"What?"

Pesinoé lit her light saber and put it to Padmé's throat.

"That's why I'm here," Pesinoé whispered venomously. "My new master ordered me to kill you and I was so glad. I've wanted to be rid of you for months and now I can do so, without anyone trying to stop me."

Padmé was scared. Ahsoka was a little taller than her, but that had never intimidated her until now with a light saber at her throat. She couldn't die. Her baby… Pesinoé put it away suddenly.

"But I won't."

"Because of Anakin?" Padmé asked carefully.

"No. He'd be better off without you. You've still got him caught in you pathetic web of lies and false love and devotion. I fear that if I kill you before he realizes that, it would just push him away from me more," Pesinoé decided.

Padmé let her outrage come through now that a light saber wasn't at her throat. How dare the girl accuse her of falsely loving Anakin? Padmé had put up with enough of her envy.

"Of course I love him. I'm not some whore trying to get something from him. I'm carrying his child."

Pesinoé shrugged. "That's what you say, but in any case I want you to leave. Never come back. Don't try to contact Anakin. Don't try to call any authorities because I am the authority now. If you cause any trouble, I'll kill you and your baby."

"But Anakin-."

"Will be so hurt that you left him because his former padawan found out about your plan and threatened to reveal it to him. He'll be so angry because you didn't love him, or at least care about him enough to tell you where you went so he could see his child, if it was his at all, and I'll be here to comfort him."

Padmé was so shocked that this was Ahsoka talking she didn't bother to protest or even admonish her. Had her envy driven Ahsoka to this? And what new master?

"I'm going to Mustafar now. When I come back, you better be gone or there will be sith hell to pay," Pesinoé said and got in her ship. She left the planet, leaving Padmé again confused and now scared in her wake.

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AN: Okay people. Let's say it together! Pe(short e) si (short i) no(as in the word no) a (long a). Pesinoé. It comes from the name of one the Greek sirens. Pesinoé was the seductress. I might be wrong but I know that name had something to do with seductress.

Alright so Ahsoka's envy has driven her crazy pretty much. I noticed in the show she even has the potential to be a little jealous and I thought the scene with Mace and her apologizing showed one of her personality traits. She's seems to be very apologetic after she does something, but that never stops her from doing it in the first place. I don't know. Anyway. We're only three chapters to the end of this story, but don't worry. I decided to write the sequel but that won't be out for at least a month. Tell me how you enjoyed it. Review please!