"Are you alright?" Anakin asked his wife, rushing to her side. Her shoulder was badly wounded, but still attached. "Try and relax." Anakin placed his hand on Padme's forehead and let healing energies of the Force flow into her. She stopped shaking and opened her eyes. She nodded. "We have to go, now."
Anakin lifted Padme and carried her toward the landing grid.
"Threepio," he said, "let's go."
"Yes, Master Anakin," the droid said, obediently following.
Anakin placed Padme gently in the passenger seat of the airspeeder and climbed into the pilot's seat himself. Once Threepio was aboard, he roared off at top speed toward the Jedi Temple.
(-O-)
Darth Sidious landed roughly in an open-cockpit speeder. The occupants cried out briefly in alarm before the Sith Lord ended their lives with a flash of his lightsaber. He guided the craft to the ground and limped off into the crowd.
He approached the first HoloNet terminal he saw. It was being used by a surly-looking Twi-lek male. Sidious pushed him roughly aside.
"Hey, sleemo," the Twi-lek protested, "I've got ten more minutes on that thing!"
Sidious hurled the alien away with the Force and closed out of the adult entertainment program it had been viewing. He punched in his emergency override code so as to interrupt all HoloNet broadcasts in the vicinity with an emergency signal.
(-O-)
Anakin was startled to see the image of Sidious appear on the speeder's holoprojector. He had just finished explaining the events in the Dark Lord's chambers to Padme.
"Attention all clone units," the Sith's voice came echoing across the streets and skies of Coruscant, "By order of the Supreme Chancellor, execute Order 66."
The hologram vanished.
"We don't have much time," Padme gasped.
Anakin brought the speeder to an abrupt halt on the first platform he spotted. Several Jedi came out onto the dock, gasping when they saw the wounded Padme in Anakin's arms.
"Master Skywalker," one of them said, "that broadcast...What's this 'Order 66'?"
At that moment, they all heard a commotion from the street level. Below, hundreds of clone troopers were approaching the Temple.
"Mobilize the Temple's defenses," Anakin said. "Prepare to evacuate!"
(I'm back, baby! Random Phantasm)
