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Star wars

Revenge of the Sith

(Alternate version)

Chapter Two

Choice

Standing on a platform at the end of the room stood Count Dooku. He still looked the same to Anakin, he still wore a cape, his beard was neatly trimmed and he still walked with that smug "I'm so much better than you" sense.

"Gentlemen, your light sabers please we don't want to make a mess of my observatory".

"You won't get away this time Dooku" Obi-wan said, while taking off his outer robes, Anakin followed Obi-wan's lead.

A small voice came from Chancellor Pallpatine "You can't beat him he's a sith lord."

Obi-wan smirked.

"Chancellor, sith lords are our specialty"

"We will beat you this time Dooku" Anakin said fiercely taking out his lightsaber and igniting it.

"Such brave words from a boy whom I defeated so easily the last time we fought." Dooku chuckled.

"My powers have doubled since last time"

"Good, twice the pride double the fall." With that he cleared his sword arm of his cape and drew his lightsaber and ignited it. It shone blood red.

Anakin's grip on his lightsaber tightened.

Obi-wan ignited his lightsaber as well.

"This time we attack him together, all right." Obi-wan said to Anakin.

"I was just about to say the same thing master." Anakin said while observing Dooku's form.

"This is your last chance to surrender Dooku" Obi-wan said as he slowly moved to Dooku's right, Anakin mirrored his friend step for step.

"I have no interest in surrendering" Dooku said dryly.

"Let's begin then!" Anakin said as he charged as did Obi-wan.

'Deal with Kenobi first then Skywalker will be helpless to succumb to the arts of the dark side if he wants to have a chance in this battle.' Dooku thought as he flipped into the air striking both opponents lightsabers. He landed gracefully and Obi-wan and Anakin were at his throat again. Anakin attacked fiercely without mercy over and over again. Dooku easily blocked these but Obi-wan took the opportunities while Dooku was blocking Anakin to get his own strikes in his unprotected spots.

'This is getting tiring' Dooku thought. 'Time to make things a little easier.' With that his form suddenly became aggressive and he caught Obi-wan off guard.

Obi-wan barely blocked the attack but didn't recover quick enough because he was then blasted off his feet by the force and flew into a supporting pole of a platform and was knocked unconscious.

Dooku yanked the platform down on top of Kenobi to make sure he wouldn't be getting up soon. Anakin paused for a moment to look at his fallen comrade then turned back to his foe, hate glistening in his eyes. The battle was on. Anakin attacked ferociously .Then Anakin's and Dooku's lightsabers locked together both pushing against the other as hard as they could. Dooku knew this was his chance.

"I sense fear in you Skywalker! Fear and hate, but you don't use them. They are wasted on someone as pathetically weak as you!" Right then Dooku felt something change in Skywalker something cold and evil now flowed through him. As this change came so did another Anakin's fighting style. Dooku went from toying with him to actually fighting for his life in a split second. It happened then Anakin struck Dooku's lightsaber with such force it threw him off guard. Anakin took his chance and lunged forward grabbed Dooku's lightsaber while still in his hand and used it and his own lighsaber to be-hand the great Count.

Dooku fell to his knees both impressed and terribly frightened, for two lightsabers were now crossed at his neck like a guillotine.

"Good Anakin, Good." Said pallpatine proudly. "Kill him."

Dooku looked over at his 'former' master terror in his eyes.

"Kill him now" pallpatine said

"I shouldn't" Anakin said his voice trembling.

"Do it!" pallpatine said harshly

"No it's not the Jedi way" with that he extinguished the two lightsabers and looked down at the count. "We will take him with us and hand him over to the Jedi counsel." Anakin looked at Pallpatine and was taken aback he could see pure hatred in his eyes. He heard the count exhale painfully and then… a horrible snapping sound. Anakin looked down and the count's head was turned almost completely around. Anakin stumbled backwards. He had seen the sith rather be killed than taken back to the Jedi but he had never seen one kill themselves especially one as powerful as Count Dooku. Dooku's body slumped to the floor with a dull thud, blood trickling from his mouth. Anakin looked back at Pallpatine, he looked shocked.

"H-he killed himself." Anakin said not believing what he had just seen.

"It appears so my boy" said pallpatine his voice heavy.

Just then the floor shook tremendously as a turbo laser made a direct hit to the ship.

"Anakin we need to get out of here we can talk about what's happened later now come get me out of this blasted chair." Pallpatine said his voice sounding much stronger now.

"Yes." Anakin said jolting back into reality. He ran to the Chancellors side and used the force to open the arm restraints constricting the chancellor.

"Ah" exclaimed the Chancellor rubbing his wrists and hoping up out of the chair.

Anakin then ran over to where Obi-wan still lay trapped underneath the platform.

Pallpatine walked over to where Anakin was kneeling.

"Anakin we need to get out of here." He said with a nervous voice

"He appears to be all right" Anakin said ignoring the Chancellor

"Leave him or well never make it" said Pallpatine desperately

"His fate will be the same as ours." Anakin said coldly.

Anakin lifted Obi-wan onto his shoulder looked at the chancellor and coolly said

"All right let's go."

Anakin sprinted out of the doorway they had come through but had to slow down for Pallpatine could not keep up so he jogged down the war beaten hallway to the elevator shafts and quickly hit the "call'" button, but nothing happened.

"Elevator's not working. Great!" He said with a nervous and frustrated voice. He then pried the doors open with great effort.

"We'll have to climb down."

Just then the floor shook and Anakin felt the entire ship tilt and it kept tilting then suddenly and violently the floor came out from under Anakin's feet. He grabbed onto the edge of the open elevator shaft and he felt pallpatine grab hold of his legs. Anakin felt Obi- wan shift uneasily.

Obi-wan woke up with a start.

"Dooku!" he yelled at nobody then realized he was hanging upside down looking at a very frieghtend Pallpatine.

"Whoa!" he sat up quickly and nearly fell of but grabbed onto Anakin's shoulder.

"Careful master, were in a bit of a situation." Anakin said grunting.

"What happened? Where's Dooku."

"Dead" Anakin said shortly. "Here help me get the chancellor up." With a great deal of effort and cooperation they situated themselves on top the edge of the elevator shaft.

"Well lets go" Obi-wan said, and with that they sprinted down the vertical elevator shaft. Then the ship started leveling out, they then started sliding down the shaft. Obi-wan and Anakin pulled out there grappling hooks and hooked a pipe, and stopped suddenly. Anakin barely had time to grab the chancellor. Only seconds later they heard the sound of metal scraping on metal and looked up to see the elevator hurling down the shaft. Anakin spotted the lift doors across from them.

"Master the doors!" and with that both Obi-wan and Anakin blew the doors open with the force.

"Jump!" Obi-wan yelled. Anakin held onto the chancellor and pushed off from the wall and through the hole where the doors used to be, and landed in a heap. They untangled themselves and stood up and caught there breath for a moment

"Well shall we." Obi-wan said with a weak grin. He was very drained from this little excursion, and he was afraid it showed.

"Yes we should get moving are you ready chancellor?" Anakin asked. Pallpatine just nodded yes wearily. So they pressed foreword. That is until ray shields activated around them.

"Ray shields" Anakin said adjusted.

"Wait how did this happen were smarter than this." Obi-Wan said

"Apparently not" Anakin replied

"Well what should we do now" Obi- wan asked openly.

"I suggest patience. Security droids will be along in a minute and they will have to drop the shields to arrest us and then we blow them away." Said Anakin.

"What if there are a too many of them." Obi-wan asked questioning Anakin's logic.

"Master you know security patrols are just those pitiful old battle droids. They are disposed of easily enough." and just as Anakin said this two security droids accompanied R2-D2 down the hall to there position "You see master and they even brought R2 to us."

But then at least twenty super battle droids came jogging out of a doorway along with two destroyer droids and surrounded them.

"Well do you have a plan B" Obi-wan asked sarcastically.