Chapter 2: Five Start It One Ends It
Anakin sprinted out of his speeder and up to master Windu who thankfully happened to be in the landing area at the time.
" Master Windu!" Anakin yelled. It came out very raspy though.
" Anakin, are you alright?"
" Master, the Chancellor is the Sith Lord, the one we have been looking for!"
" You cannot be serious." Snapped Agen Kolar walking up behind Mace.
" Are you sure?" Mace asked.
" He told me himself."
" Then our worst fears have been realized." He turned and called out three names." Master Tinn, and Master Fisto. Please come here."
Calmly Mace explained the situation to the two Jedi masters and filled in Agen Kolar with the small bit he missed. Anakin heard him talk about an arrest. It seemed to take an hour and Anakin was shaking with anxiousness when Windu turned and the three masters rushed into the nearest gunship.
" Anakin stay here, there is great confusion eating away at you. We cannot risk it clouding your judgment. Stay here. We are going to arrest the Chancellor. And I am going to inform master Yoda of this situation." Mace explained calmly.
" Master Windu, the Chancellor is very powerful, you are going to need me on this one."
" Stay out of this affair Skywalker for your own good." And with that Windu boarded the ship, as it rose he spoke one last instruction." Anakin wait here until we return."
Anakin nodded. He was a little frustrated. The confusion Windu sensed was within him yes, but it was only that he could not stop wondering how the Jedi didn't figure out Palpatine was Darth Sidious. Then a voice slithered into his mind.
" Anakin you know that if they kill me my knowledge dies as well. You must choose and come so that your choice may be granted." It said. It was most defiantly Palpatine's.
Oh Anakin had chosen. He knew Palpatine was lying to him about the power to save Padmé and he knew if he joined up with him then he would end up killing Padmé. His vision was correct, he would not join Palpatine. Now he was coming, coming to fulfill the prophecy and destroy the Sith, so that he Padmé and their child could live happily and also so the galaxy could have peace.
Chancellor's Office
Palpatine sensed the four Jedi as they entered his office. He had been waiting for a fight like the one brewing now for a long time. The doors in front of his desk swished open. Three Jedi walked in led by Mace Windu.
" Ah, master Windu I assume General Grevious has been destroyed then, I must say you are here sooner than expected." Palaptine said pleasantly.
" Chancellor Palaptine, in the name of the galactic senate we are placing you under arrest." Windu growled.
" Is that so?"
" Completely."
" Then be so kind as to tell me Master Windu, what is my alleged crime?"
" You are the Sith Lord!" Mace flared.
" Are you sure? Well even if true there is no law that says I cannot be a Sith Lord, being an enemy of the Jedi is hardly a crime."
" The senate will decide that."
" I am the senate."
" Not yet."
" So you are planning to commit treason then?"
" This is not treason it is justice."
" I think not." Palpatine tapped into the force to let his lightsaber hilt slither down his sleeve and into his hand. He activated the blood red blade and propelled himself right at Saesee Tinn. Before the Jedi even had a chance to activate his saber Palpatine's blade incinerated his heart. Kolar was the first after to active his saber however he didn't get the chance to use it because Palpatine's sliced through his neck. Fisto dived at him next and Palpatine cut his arm off followed closely by his head.
Mace was the only one left now and from that spectacular show of power he was not so sure Palpatine was going to be so easy to arrest. Killing him was now clearly the only option, but he was not so sure he could do that either.
Palpatine amazed Mace as he flipped over him, he barely had any time to turn and parry Palpatine's intended strike at his stomach. Their fight led them into Palpatine's more public office. The Sith Lord would not go off the offensive. Mace suspected he would not tire out quickly and there was no way he could win by being on the defensive. He had to turn it around and when the fight led them next to the Chancellor's window he saw how.
Once Palpatine struck Mace parried and both sabers were locked in the air, Palpatine's blade closest to the window. With little effort, Mace forced both blades into the glass causing it to shatter.
Palpatine was momentarily destracted as he took his saber away from the window. This gave Mace his opportunity. Quickly he brought his violet blade down through Palpatine's saber hilt. The Sith Lord groaned and dropped the useless piece of metal.
He got down on the ground and backed away from Mace like a scared puppy. Mace angled his violet blade down at the Chancellor's neck.
" I am going to end this here and now my lord." Mace hissed.
" I think not." Palpatine spat. In about the time it takes for one to sneeze Palpatine extended his hands and shot force lightning right at Windu's chest. Mace angled his saber up to stop the lightning from killing him. Palpatine's attack backfired and his own blue storm came down on his face. His cheeks began to swell and it looked as if his skin was melting. Wrinkles in his forehead began to form turning into deep furrows. His cheeks started doing the same. Palpatine finally stopped as Anakin rushed up to master Windu.
" Anakin, I told you it would come to this. The Jedi are taking over."
" You're wrong." Anakin sneered.
" Pathetic Jedi! You have been given a chance for ultimate power and you would throw it away like this!"
" What dose he mean Ana" Windu started but was cut off by blue lightning running into his body. He had let his guard down and Palpatine had struck.
" NO!" Anakin cried as the screaming Jedi saber still active fell out of the broken window and into the streets of Coruscant.