A/N: I do not own Star Wars. Please R&R!
CORUSCANT
"The time has come," Palpatine said. "Execute Order Sixty-"
"I have to go make sure Padme is fine," Anakin said to himself.
"-Nine," Palpatine finished, as Anakin saying "fine" messed up his command. "Wait, no! Not Order 69!"
"It will be done, my lord," all the clones said before disconnecting.
"NO!" Palpatine yelled, throwing Force lightning out the window into the night.
"What has happened?" Anakin asked.
"Those clones are going to execute Order 69, not Order 66!"
"Is that bad?"
"Not bad, but completely stupid! I don't even know why Order 69 was programmed into them!"
UTUPAU
"It will be done, my lord," Commander Cody said. He then turned to the other clones, "You heard the Chancellor. Execute Order 69. Crank up the speakers on the AT-TEs! Go, go!"
The clones immediately stopped fighting the Battle Droids and ran over to their vehicles, pressing certain controls. A few seconds later, all the vehicles started blaring lyrics at the highest possible volume:
I GOT MY FIRST REAL SIX STRING!
BOUGHT IT AT THE FIVE AND DIME!
PLAYED IT TILL MY FINGERS BLED!
WAS THE SUMMER OF '69!
On the clifftop above the battle, Obi-Wan heard this and looked down. "What in the world is Cody doing down there?" he asked.
Below, the lead Battle Droid said, "The clones have given up the attack – they're just playing music now! Press forth…we might still win this thing!"
CATO NEIMOIDIA
"This way!" Plo Koon said, turning his starfighter to the left. "This way, troops!"
Meanwhile, in the clones' ships, Palpatine's hologram commanded, "Execute Order 69."
"It will be done, my lord," the clones said. Seconds later, they started blaring "Summer of '69" from their starfighters.
"What are you doing?" Plo asked. "We're on a stealth mission! Turn that off!" He then detected several Vulture Droids closing in behind them. "Dammit, troops, you gave our location away!"
HYPERSPACE
Ahsoka opened the doors to exit the bridge of the Republic cruiser and said, "Rex…it's Anakin. I feel like…something terrible has happened."
Rex walked past her into the bridge.
"Uh…did you hear what I just said?" Ahsoka asked.
Rex sat down at the controls and pushed a few buttons.
"Rex, what are you-?" Ahsoka started, but was cut off by the opening lines of "Summer of '69."
CORUSCANT
"Great," Palpatine said, sitting in his chair and folding his arms. "Now all the clones are busy executing that ridiculous Order 69, and I'm gonna have to wait till they're done with that to call them back to execute Order 66."
"And…what is Order 66?" Anakin asked.
"Oh, I'm not telling you." "Summer of '69" drifted through the shattered window on a slight breeze.
"But I'm loyal to you now!"
"Oh, please. You've been loyal to me for, like, two minutes. Just earlier today, like, 70% of your brain wanted to kill me. I'm no idiot."
"I thought once I joined you, there'd be some big transfer of secret knowledge or something between us."
"Okay, fine. Jar Jar Binks is a Sith."
"That's not secret knowledge. Everyone knows that!"
"…How?"
"He's been sabotaging the Republic from the beginning! Giving you more powers in the Senate, destroying Padme's ship on Rodia…I could go on and on, it's a never-ending list."
"Well, then, betcha didn't know I staged my own kidnapping!"
"What?"
"Yeah. When Grievous kidnapped me. It was all part of the plan."
"Really? That seems kinda…."
"Kinda what?" Palpatine's fingers crackled with Force lightning.
Anakin was originally going to say "stupid" but changed it to "brilliant."
"Oh, yeah, of course it was. I orchestrated it, of course. Oh, and remember when Cad Bane stole that holocron from the Jedi Temple? That was all because of little ol' me too."
"You mean you were the inside man helping him out?"
"Guilty as charged. Oh, I sense a great disturbance in the Force…like all the clones have ceased executing Order 69. Now time to call again and give them the right orders this time." Palpatine brought up his communication device and spoke into it. "Your earlier instructions were incorrect. Execute Order-"
"Chancellor, I just realized you turn 65 today," Anakin interrupted. "Happy birthday."
"-Sixty-Five," Palpatine mistakenly said. "What did you say, Anakin?"
"Are…are you sure, my lord?" one of the clones replied.
"I said happy birthday," Anakin said.
"Oh, yes, yes, whatever," Palpatine said.
"It will be done," the clone said before disconnecting.
Palpatine turned back to the device. "Okay, I'm back. Hello? Hello? Wait a minute…did I say 'Order 65'?"
"I think you did," Anakin said. "What's that gonna do? Make them start singing ''65 Love Affair'?"
"No, no, NO, this is no laughing matter!" Palpatine yelled. "Now those clones think I've lost my marbles! They're all gonna come back to Coruscant and try to kill me!"
"What do we do?"
"There's only one thing to do. We must get to my shuttle and head deep into the Unknown Regions. I have a…backup base of operations way out there that hopefully none of the clones know how to reach, and where we'll hopefully be safe."
At that moment, the doors to Palpatine's office flew open, and a battalion of clones entered. "Chancellor Palpatine!" the lead clone ordered. "You're under arrest!"
"Twice in one day," Palpatine spat. "This is ridiculous."
