Luke hovered there, reaching for his neck while a confused expression appeared on his face. He had never been Force-choked before, and was both scared and puzzled as very little oxygen entered his lungs.

Padme, however, gave out a tiny scream before she covered her mouth with the hand that wasn't clutching Leia against her. She began to reach for her Naboo blaster, which was laying a foot away from her, but Sidious quickly said to stop her, "Freeze! Or I'll kill him right here, right now." Padme froze, then slowly brought her hand back and held on tighter to her daughter.

Ahsoka and Anakin, who were still pinned against the wall by Sidious's will, their lightsabers on the ground. Sidious had glared at them as if giving them the same warning. They glared right back but didn't reach out for their weapons.

Anakin then said to the Sith, "Listen, just drop him and-"

"And what, Anakin? You'll what? You know the drill, must I repeat it again?" Darth Sidious asked, not losing grip on Luke or Ahsoka or the anger-increasing Anakin.

Anakin opened his mouth, and Ahsoka knew he was going to try and negotiate, but again was interrupted by the Sith Lord, "Will you risk the life of your son, Anakin? Do you think the rest of your family will ever forgive you?"

Padme looked straight at her husband, trying to make eye contact as if to tell him that's not true. Anakin, however, didn't look away from Sidious. They stared each other down, and you could see that Anakin thought was he said was true.

Ahsoka knew she had to do something. Even if she used telekinesis to get her lightsaber back in her hand, she wasn't close enough to Sidious to do any damage to him. And if he saw her with her weapon, he would cut off air in Luke's throat with out hesitation.

Leia peeked between her mother's arms and saw her twin being choked by an invisible force in front of her eyes. Before breaking out in tears, she stared right into Ahsoka's eyes. As if hoping for an answer, someone to help. Ahsoka stared back into her brown eyes that resembled her mothers. She remembered she promised to look after the kids...take care of them...

This was all her fault. She wasn't strong enough or fast enough to take care of Bane or Robonino. It was her fault they had kidnapped the twins. Her fault she wasted that time in Tatooine. Her fault that Padme and Anakin were here now, and watching their children suffer.

She had to do something. She owed it to them.

"Fine." Anakin said. "You win, Sidious."

Everyone besides the Sith Lord looked at Anakin with a shocked face. Even Leia knew somehow that what had happened was bad.

No... Ahsoka thought, struggling to get free from Sidious's hold and talk some sense into her master. It can't end like this!

"Ani, no!" Padme cired out, "Do you really think joining him will make it all better? He'll just kill us once-"

"Silence!" Sidious growled at her. True, he had smiled slightly once Anakin had given in, but he still hadn't lowered Luke. In fact, the young boy was beginning to turn blue.

R2 and R7, who had followed the Sith's orders and had remained completely still, slowly turned their domed tops towards Padme, wonder what in the world should they do to help.

Ahsoka looked around frantically, what could she do? She then felt that soft bump in her side. Ahsoka looked down with confusion and saw a familiar sight. Lolly.

Lolly. The one thing Bane didn't take from her belt because he didn't think of it as a threat. She gave a tiny smile to herself as an idea sprung into her mind.

Sidious was just turning to grin at his new apprentice when Ahsoka managed to tug the Twi'lek doll out of her belt. She threw it with all her might at Sidious's ugly hooded head. He snapped his head to face her after Lolly bumped off it. "Why you little..." He growled at her.

Of course, Padme had been watching the entire time and was ready. Once his attention was on Ahsoka she snatched her Naboo blaster, aimed it, and pulled the trigger.

The blast landed in Sidious's shoulder, the one connected to the arm that strangled Luke. He jerked back, quickly dropping not only Luke, but Ahsoka and Anakin as well. They landed on the floor, Anakin and Ahsoka snatching their lightsabers as Luke tried to gasp for air.

The Jedis quickly unsheathed their lightsabers as Luke finally got onto his feet and scrambled to his mother and sister. Sidious saw this, and with anger in his eyes, snapped his uninjured arm towards the huddled group, and blue lightning exited from his fingertips.

Before the lightning could hit Padme or the twins, Anakin's blue lightsaber had deflected it so fast that Ahsoka couldn't even believe it. He stood there, clutching his weapon tightly, glaring at Sidious with that look in his eye that Ahsoka knew meant danger coming.

The Sith Lord lowered his hand and stood up straight, breathing evenly while Anakin stood in front of his family, lightsaber still out. Ahsoka stood at the spot where she had been released from Sidious's hold. She also had her green lightsaber out in front of her, but was unsure what to do.

"Well, my new apprentice-" Sidious began, but was soon interrupted.

"Shut up. I am not your apprentice and I am going to make sure you never harm anyone ever again." Anakin growled, taking a step forward.

Sidious slowly unsheathed his red lightsaber, not moving, just holding it. Padme clutched her children tighter as Anakin breathed in deeply, prepared for what was about to happen. Ahsoka was deciding weather to creep up and attack Sidious from behind or stand next to Anakin and fight from there. Before she could make up her mind, though, Sidious had already begun to attack Anakin.

Ahsoka quickly tried to rush in as Anakin and Sidious swung at each other, blocking and swinging at such speed and intensity even she couldn't keep track. Sidious no was so angry at Anakin that he wanted to hurt him. Anakin just wanted to protect his family. Ahsoka knew she must do the same.

As she engaged in the duel, she realized how powerful the Sith Lord's skills actually were. As they tried to back him up away from Padme and the twins, Sidious just became more violent. He was thrashing at them like it was no challenge at all.

"R2!" Padme said over to the astromech droid. He turned his domed top towards her. "Get the door open!" She told him as Luke and Leia buried the faces in her shirt and away from the fight.

R2, happy to be useful, rolled over to the door and was about to open it for Padme and her children to escape the danger, but Sidious had seen this through the the red, green, and blue lightsabers. He swung at Anakin and Ahsoka hard so the were pushed off for just enough time for him to Force-push R2 away from the door and into the wall. He made quite a large dent.

Luke gasped as he saw this. Padme made sure he didn't run to help the poor droid. R7 knew trying to open the door as well would only grant him the same fate, so instead he rolled over to help R2.

Anakin and Ahsoka didn't see this. Instead they kept dueling Sidious, making sure he didn't come near Padme, who was trying to figure out a way to open the door herself, and Luke and Leia, who were hiding behind her legs.

Ahsoka made a daring move and came close to cutting the Sith's uninjured shoulder. Sidious expressed his fury by deflecting Anakin and then made a gash into Ahsoka's left upper arm, a few inches below her own shoulder. It stung with tons of pain, but she did her best to ignore it.

They came up to the large hole Cad Bane had blown. You could see the landing platform, but between that and where the duel was was a boiling hot river of lava. Sidious was being forced to be backed up to the hole, but he knew what was behind him. If they could just push him far enough...

Sadly, Ahsoka was weakened, and Sidious took advantage of this. When she swung her lightsaber to block a low to her right lekku, her wound was ripped, causing more blood to flow out. As she drew a sharp breath, trying to ignore it as best as she could. But while she did that Sidious quickly ducked Anakin's blow then hit the tip of his lightsaber into her side.

This wound was deeper, and she automatically clutched her bleeding side. Pain spilled out and she did her best to block another blow. Anakin saw her injures, and knew if she only fought with one hand, Sidious would cut her to pieces in seconds.

And so, after deflecting a swing to his arm, Sidious was about to swing at Ahsoka's head, but Anakin saw this as his chance. He carefully let his lightsaber cut Sidious's lightsaber in half.

Now the Sith had no weapon. He was shocked, at first, that Anakin had actually made him unarmed. Suddenly, Ahsoka and Anakin held their lightsabers out infront of him.

As the wind from the hole made his cloak flutter slightly and the lava backdrop made him seem more intimidating, Sidious simply smiles at them. "Well done, but you still underestimate me." Then he jerked his fingers out towards them, and Ahsoka knew what was going to happen.

Her and Anakin's mind seemed to work the same, because at the exact same time, their green and blue blade tips entered Sidious's chest.

A/N: *lays back on chair with a big sigh* Wow. This chapter took WAY longer than I expected! I really hoped you liked it and don't forget to review! And hey, there's still another chapter to come! Yippee!