What a delightful morning to take a stroll, if only I weren't so busy, Palpatine thinks as he walks on the bridge leading to the senate building.
Lately, the Senate has been in a heated debate due to the Clone rights Bill presented by Senator Organa and Senator Amidala. Oh, how he would just love to force lightning all of them and take his Empire already, but sadly, Anakin wasn't even close to touching the dark side yet; he was only 19; I'll have to groom him some more in order for him to be my apprentice, he thinks.
He stops at a halt when he suddenly senses that annoying Gungan coming closer to him.
"Chancellor Palpatine! Behind yousa!" Jar Jar says as he runs up behind the Sith Lord.
Palpatine starts to walk faster, hoping to pretend he didn't hear him, but Jar Jar speeds up in front of him, and he sadly says hello to the annoying creature.
"Ah, hello, Jar Jar. Lovely morning, isn't it?" Palpatine asks, nicely.
"It's a berry delightful morn. How are yousa, Chancellor?" Jar Jar asks, energetically.
"I'm very well. And you?"
"Mesa berry good indeed! Mesa saw an insect today in mesa window! It was so melli with all of its beautiful vibrant colors, it had mesa plansa of mesa old mom, yousa know shesa was a cook and made such delicious foods-"
"I'm afraid I must interrupt you, my friend. I have to get to the Senate building now; I'm very busy, will probably be for a very, very long time." Palpatine says. When I become Emperor, the first thing I will do is rid this galaxy of this annoying Gungan, he thinks maliciously.
"Yousa should gos then, have a bombad day." Jar Jar says.
"And you as well, Jar Jar." Palpatine moves away from the ledge of the bridge where Jar Jar cornered him and heads to the Senate building, but before he can even move an inch, Jar Jar flails his arms and shouts, "Dat's dha bug mesa saw disa morn! Dat's dha bug!"
Palpatine tries to dunk from the flailing arms, while Jar Jar jumps into the air excitedly; he lands on Palpatine's robe, tripping him. Palpatine jerks back and tumbles over the edge of the bridge, grabbing on to Jar Jar's robe for dear life, bringing the poor Gungan with him into the abyss below.
That was the exact moment Obi-Wan Kenobi walked by. He decided to head to the Senate office today to visit his friend, Bail Organa. He abrupts to a halt when he sees something grab Jar Jar's robe, making Jar Jar tumble off the edge in the process. He calls out to the force and catches Jar Jar before he can fall to his impending doom. He levitates him up and lands the terrified Gungan on the ground safely.
"Jar Jar, are you alright? What happened?" Obi-Wan asks, concerned for his friend.
"Mesa alright, not even a scratch on mesa." Jar Jar says, still very frightened.
"That doesn't explain why you fell off a bridge's edge! What was grabbing you?" He asks.
"Chancellor Palpatine was grabb mesa, mesa accidentally tripped him because mesa saw a melli insect! Mesa sorry, mesa sorry, it was an accident, mesa didn't hurt him on purpose!" Jar Jar says, freaking out. Hurting him, that was an understatement, he's clearly dead, Obi-Wan thinks as he tries to assess the situation.
"I will have to call the Council. They can deal with this, don't worry, Jar Jar; nothing will happen with you." Obi-Wan says, trying to comfort the Gungan.
"Mesa accidentally killed mesa friend!" Jar Jar cries out. Obi-Wan huffs at that.
"If he was your friend, I'm sure he forgave you." He says, Of course that sentence was a lie though, he thinks.
The authorities arrived later and escorted a frightened Jar Jar back to his home, while in the Senate, everyone was voting for a new Chancellor, the end results revealing Bail Organa to be the next Chancellor.
While all this was going on, Obi-Wan was in his office talking to his good friend, Quinlan Vos, on his comm.
"So you saved Jar Jar from falling off the bridge! Wow!" Quin says.
"It really wasn't that hard, Quin; you'd probably be able to do it with ease if you actually paid attention in your classes." Obi-wan says, playfully.
"Oh please, Obi! I wasn't the straight A student; I'd be happy if I got C!" Quin says, laughing. "I just got to ask, though. I know you've never liked Palpatine, especially since he's had those private meetings with your padawan, but did you see him fall off the bridge too?" Quin asks, curiously.
On that day, Quinlan Vos (later on, Bant found out, who eventually got over scolding Obi-Wan after a while) was the only one ever to know what truly occurred during the rescue.
"You're asking me if I purposefully let the Chancellor fall to his death?" Obi-Wan asks. Quin nods, eagerly awaiting the answer.
"Alright, it was very uncivilized of me, but I did see him. I elected to save Jar Jar, not Palpatine." He says, calmly.
"WHAT?! How could you? I can't believe it! Obi isn't a perfect Jedi" Quin shouts, surprised yet still laughing.
"What? Come on, since the first time I set eyes on him, I knew there was something nasty about him. I'm pretty sure he was trying to steal my padawan, though. I guess today was just his day."
"Wow, just wow." Quin says, still very much surprised.
"I must go now, but Quinlan, one more thing?" Obi-Wan says.
"Yeah. Obi?"
"Never mess with my padawan." Obi-Wan says, coldly and hangs up.
Never will Quinlan admit it, but those last words Obi-Wan had said sent shivers down his back.