AN: Thanks everyone for all the kind words. Sorry I haven't been updating as often as I have in the past. Here's chapter 17!
Yoda lay still as Palpatine walked over to him, cackling. As soon as the Emperor was over him, Yoda sprung into action jumping up onto Palpatine's chest, igniting his Lightsaber and moving a quick kill only to have Palpatine deflect his blow with the Force. Palpatine then threw Yoda into a wall with the Force and started to run away. Yoda leaped over Palpatine's head and blocked the door.
"If so powerful you are, why leave?" Yoda asked.
"The weakest Sith is more powerful than the most powerful Jedi!" Palpatine said.
"Happy I will be to prove you wrong," Yoda said.
"Death will become you, Master Yoda. I bet your head would look good next to Master Windu's," Palpatine said as he attacked Yoda with a ferocious blow that Yoda parried easily to the left, "That is of course if I don't ruin it killing you."
"Easy to kill, I am not, you will find," Yoda said leaping up and attacking Palpatine with the quick slashes of the Vappad, while deftly combining it with the sure defense of Suruso.
"I would hope not, I barely had any sport with the so called Masters that Windu brought with him. At least he presented a bit of a challenge!" Palpatine said as he easily fended off the pinwheel of death Yoda had become.
"Anger me you will not, your highness," Yoda said once his spinning attack slowed.
"That would be delicious, turning you to the Dark Side," Palpatine said as he let loose with a burst of Force lightning to block another series of attacks from Yoda. Yoda caught the burst on his blade, but it knocked him back half a meter.
"Not as seductive the Dark Side is as you think, even young Skywalker turned from that path," Yoda said as he leaped into the air striking, Palpatine brought his own blade and parried quickly, though his fighting style had none of the grace of the Jedi's.
"A pity too, he would have made an excellent Sith. I suspect he would have killed me in less than five years. The boy is a quick study," Palpatine said, maneuvering to the podium and used the Force to start it rising into the Senate amphitheater.
At the Temple, Obi-Wan and Anakin were surrounded by clones and Grievous said, "Surrender your Lightsabers."
Anakin looked at Obi-Wan and Obi-Wan nodded, Anakin jumped over the clones and in front of Grievous and force Grievous to defend himself with only one Lightsaber, while Obi-Wan crouched low at the same moment and rolled his Lightsaber igniting killing several clones right away and using the Force to throw their aim off. Several clones fell to their comrades' wide shots.
Anakin was keeping Grievous busy enough that he couldn't pull out anymore blades and Grievous soon decided the situation was untenable, he started climbing the wall heading for a window, and Anakin used the Force to pull him down and struck down but Grievous parried and flipped kicking Anakin in the chin, knocking him back. Grievous took advantage of this attempting to impale Anakin on his blade but just before Grievous struck, Obi-Wan's blade parried it away from Anakin's chest. Obi-Wan than Force pushed Grievous away and said to Anakin, "We don't have time to play, lets go."
"Yes, Master," Anakin said and left the comm room with Grievous on their tail.
"This is backwards, aren't we supposed to be chasing him?" Anakin asked.
"I agree, but we've got more pressing matters to take care of. Besides, it's not the only thing that's going to change," Obi-Wan said.
"I just hope we are doing the right thing, many people are going to die with the Sith in charge," Anakin said.
"Think how many more would die if the Order dies now and we aren't around to help end his rule when the time is right," Obi-Wan said as he and Anakin ducked into a shadow in the main hallway of the Temple.
"I think we've lost him," Anakin said.
"Good, call the speeder and we'll take this window as an exit," Obi-Wan said.
"Good idea," Anakin said calling the speeder.
In the Senate amphitheater, Yoda and Palpatine traded furious blows as the podium rose up. "I suppose you've heard that I am now a father," Palpatine said parrying another series of blows from Yoda.
"A travesty it is that any child be raised by you," Yoda said.
Yoda leaped at Palpatine and Palpatine Force pushed him down off the podium. Yoda landed deftly on a senate pod and started leap fogging his way back up to Palpatine. Palpatine used the Force and took a pod and threw it at Yoda. It crashed into the pod Yoda had been in moments before. Palpatine started sending pods down on Yoda in twos and threes. The diminutive Jedi Master proved to be a very difficult target to hit. Yet, at the same time Yoda knew this fight was nearing its end, he was not young anymore and the effort he was putting forth was enormous. He paused to rest a bit on one pod, but could not for long because he had to catch a pod with the Force. Once he had the pod firmly in his control he threw it back to Palpatine who jumped out of the way and into a pod.
Yoda made a mighty leap and landed squarely in Palpatine's pod, however before he could bring his Lightsaber up, Palpatine tried to Force push him out, Yoda countered. Soon they both were blown out of the pod by the Force. Yoda landed head first on the podium. Palpatine grabbed onto a nearby pod and hoisted himself up. Palpatine turned and saw the prone Jedi Master on the podium and leaped over to it. Palpatine took his Lightsaber and just as Yoda started to recover, Palpatine took off Yoda's head, gleefully.