Chapter Three
The Sith deflected Anakin's attack.
They went backward and forward.
Forward and backward.
Left to right.
Right to left.
Anakin would not give up; would never give up.
"Join me, Skywalker!" Palpatine hissed. "You'll rule the galaxy!"
"No! I'll never join you!" Anakin shouted as he maneuvered his saber.
Palpatine smirked. "Your loss."
Suddenly, Palpatine felt a tap on his shoulder.
it was Yoda!
Yoda soon engaged Palpatine in a fight, tiring the already weakened Sith.
Anakin sat, exhausted and in a daze, barely able to keep up with Yoda and Palpatine's fight.
He crawled over to the unconscious Mace Windu. "Master Windu..." He tapped him in on the shoulder.
Mace didn't respond, and Anakin soon realized Mace was losing blood; a lot of it. It didn't make sense to him, lightsabers are supposed to cauterize the wound; if done properly. Windu's hand was cut off sloppily.
Ripping a part of his own tunic, Anakin wrapped it around the Jedi Master's hand.
Anakin wanted to help, desperately. He tried standing up, only to tumble back down.
"At ease..., Skywalker. Master Yoda... will wear... the old... hag out..." Anakin heard Mace say via the force.
Anakin was fading.
He tried to keep up with Yoda and Palpatine's fight.
Tried.
He closed his eyes, letting himself fade.
He didn't even notice Palpatine standing before him, and unconscious Yoda curled up on the other side of the room.
Until he felt the heat of a lightsaber close to his throat.
"Last chance, Skywalker. Join me, or die with the rest of the pitiful Jedi."
Anakin pretended to contemplate when really, he was reaching for Mace Windu's lightsaber.
"So I would rule the Galaxy?" Anakin asked, stalling.
"Indeed. It's time for the Jedi to end, and I'd hate for you to go down with it, Skywalker." Palpatine gave a fake smile, thinking he had baited Anakin again.
"While I appreciate the offer," Anakin said, his thumb on the 'activate' button on Windu's lightsaber. "I'd rather fulfill my prophecy."
"Wha-" Palpatine was cut off, as Anakin had sliced off his legs!
Palpatine writhed on the ground angrily.
"Damn you, Skywalker! You've stopped nothing!"
Anakin stood up. "I beg to differ. You're going to go on trial and rot in jail."
Yoda limped over. "Correct, Skywalker is. Over, the rein of the Sith is. Arrested, you shall be."
Not long after, Obi-Wan, along with Commander Cody, Fives, Echo, and Captain Rex arrived.
"Take him away," Obi-Wan said, tossing Rex force-resistant handcuffs.
"A little late to the party, aren't you, Master?" teased Anakin.
Obi-Wan didn't respond, instead, he pulled Anakin into a hug.
"I'm so proud of you, Anakin."
Yoda smiled. "Proud, I am, as well. Fulfilled the Prophecy, Skywalker has."
Anakin stared off where the clones had taken Palpatine.
"So why do I feel like I haven't really won?"
"Answer that, I cannot," Yoda says, "But proud, you must be."
"Well now, Master Yoda, let's not inflate Anakin's ego even more," Obi-Wan said playfully.
Anakin chuckled. "Very funny."
"Anyway, you and Master Windu need to go to the medbay,"
Anakin didn't object.
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