Genre: Supernatural
Rating: K plus
Summary: Sidious is caught up in his moment of triumph. Or perhaps he's simply caught in it.
Something was wrong.
Sidious could smell it in the air, feel it in the way the jagged grinding of the Dark Side's flow didn't sound loud enough to his mental ears. The presences of the Jedi Masters were right outside his door. He knew they'd be there. That was foreseen. That was planned for. Anakin had fallen to the Dark Side and pledged himself to the Banite Order. That was foreseen. That was planned. Everything was in place. The Jedi Masters would soon fall, as soon as they came in the door. Anakin would soon have wiped out what was left of the Jedi Order after Order 66. All he had to do was wait for the Masters to come in, and he would take care of them himself.
He checked the Masters' presences again. They hadn't moved. At all.
Sidious turned his mental eye to the presences outside his door, studying them intently. Not even the soft undulations and shivers present in anyone's signature happened now. He went over to the door and slipped through. The door swung shut behind him with an almost malicious intent. In front of him now were the Jedi Masters, frozen in place.
Something was definitely wrong here.
The Sith Lord pushed on Mace Windu's shoulder. It gave, thrusting him back, but his expression didn't change, and his body snapped back into place just as quickly as the door. What in the galaxy -
"Enjoying it?" came a young, soft, feminine voice from behind. Palpatine whirled - as much as his frail body would let him whirl - and saw a human teenager watching him intently. Light skin, green eyes, rather short. She was dressed in an archaic look - a shirt and pants somewhat resembling both an old uniform and an old formal dress, done in crimson and raven swirls.
"Who are you, and can you reverse this?"
She frowned, a strange parody of hurt on her face. "You don't like staying in your moment of triumph?"
"Staying in a moment?..."
She shook her head. "Mortals can be so strange sometimes." Then, in an instant, she was gone, and any chance for escape went with her.
