Author's Note: Hey guys, sorry I didn't post this sooner. Obviously the site was having problems concerning uploading documents because whenever I'd try it wouldn't let me. Thankfully it's fixed now. No this isn't the first chapter of ROTS. I thought it'd be interesting to give you all a little preview of what's to come in this episode before posting the first chapter. Expect it up on Monday, June 26 2006.
It's been quite a ride putting this together, picking the scenes out of a 138-page story. Deciphering which should be included and which shouldn't. I think I have a new found respect for the people who put together movie trailers now. It can be a bit challenging, but very satisfying in the end. I know you'll love it. I hope to hear from you all what you think of it. And welcome to the story Twisted Words.
An evening shot of the Jedi Temple is shown with many speeders flying around it.
Two Jedi Masters – Obi-Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu – are seen sitting cross-legged on the floor in Master Windu's quarters.
"Be mindful of Anakin," the older Jedi warned, "and be careful of Palpatine. He is not to be trusted, and his influence on Anakin is dangerous."
"But Anakin is the Chosen One-" Obi-Wan started to protest.
"All the more reason to fear an outsider's influence. We have circumstantial evidence that traces Sidious to Palpatine's inner circle."
Suddenly Obi-Wan had difficulty breathing. "Are you certain?"A vision of Padme screaming for her husband on a birthing table appears.
Anakin wakes from the dream in a cold sweat.
"You die in childbirth," he tells her in a level tone.
Padme doesn't seem concerned. "It was only a dream, a metaphor perhaps."
"I won't let this become real," he pressed with more urgency.
Padme just shakes her head.
"Careful you must be when sensing the future Anakin," the wise form of Master Yoda tells Anakin in his private chambers. "The fear of loose is a path to the dark side."
"When presented this amendment is, passed it will be?" Yoda asked looking over holoprojected report on the contents of the latest amendment to the Security Act.
Mace nodded. "My source expects passage by acclamation."
"Simply follow orders, Jedi do not!""I don't think he intends to control the Jedi," Mace calmly explained. "By placing the Jedi Council under the control of the Office of the Supreme Chancellor, this amendment will give him constitutional authority to disband the order itself."
"Surely you cannot believe this is his intention." Obi-Wan said in disbelief.
"You're probably aware that relations between the Council and Chancellor have become stressed of late," Obi-Wan said to Anakin as they walked.
"I know the Council has gone wary of the Chancellor's power," Anakin said with a nod. "Mine too for that matter. Aren't we all working to save the Republic? Why all the stress?"
"The Force grows dark Anakin," Obi-Wan warned. "Be mindful of your feelings."
"I need you help son."
Anakin gives the Chancellor a questioning look.
"I'm appointing you to be my personal representative on the Jedi Council."
Another shot of Jedi Temple appears
"I have told you all what I have seen of the energy between Skywalker and the Supreme Chancellor," Mace said to the assembled Masters present in the High Council chamber. "Anything that might distance young Skywalker from Palpatine's influence is worth the attempt."
"I, too, have reservations on this matter," the holo form of Ki-Adi-Mundi said, "but it seems that in these desperate times, only desperate plans have hope of success..."
"You are on this Council, but we do not grant you the rake of master," Mace Windu pronounced.
"No Jedi in this room can match my power-no Jedi in the Galaxy!" Anakin exploded. "You think you can deny Mastery to me! Do not imagine that it will be tolerated!"
"The Council wants you to report on all the Chancellor's dealings," Obi-Wan informed.
"That's treason!" Anakin said in disbelief.
"We are at war Anakin," was Obi-Wan's brisk reply.
"Why does the Council want to know what the Chancellor's up to?" Antellica asked. "What reason would they have to want such information? And further more why is it their business?"
"This is clearly confidential information," Obi-Wan said. "Palpatine himself might be in danger. Master Windu traced Darth Sidious to Five Hundred Republica before General Grievous' attack. We think that the Sith Lord is someone in Palpatine's innercircle of advisers."
Antellica was frozen still in shock.
"Antellica, are you all right?" Anakin asked.
"Yes, I'm just fine and I do think I should be going now."
"What do you think of all this?" Antellica asked Padme. "Do you think he should be told of the Jedi's suspicions?"
"I'm sure he'd get a real kick out of it if you did," Padme answered. "Sidious is quite capable of taking care of himself Antellica. There's nothing to worry about."
"Has he been to see you?" Obi-Wan asked Padme, sitting down on her living room couch.
"Several times," she answered in a level tone.
"Anakin is under a great deal of pressure. He carries tremendous responsibilities for a man so young. He is changing. Quickly. And I have some anxiety about what he's changing into. It would be a very great mistake were he to leave the Jedi Order."
"I'm confused. Why would Anakin want to leave the Order?" Padme asked.
"I feel that some current difficulty has to do with your relationship."
"Excuse me?"
"You know the two of you can never be together while he remains in the Order. And I do know that Anakin has feelings for you."
Padme looked livid. "And what makes you think I've returned those feelings or would be interested in returning them! Because I'm sorry to tell you that the feelings he has for me aren't mutual."
"Obi-Wan!"
Anakin and Obi-Wan whip around to see Antellica making her way towards them.
"Antellica! I wondered if I might see you before I left."
He opened his arms and she threw herself at him in a hug. He's taken slightly aback but surprises her with a peek on the cheek. She gives a light blush.
"I take it you saw this morning's Sector Goverence Degree?" Senator Mon Mothma asked. "About Palpatine having control over the Jedi."
"Of course," Padme replied.
"And what do you think of it?" Senator Bail Organa asked.
"I'm not prepared to believe his intent is to dismantle the Senate."
"Why should he bother?" Mon countered. "As a practical matter-as of this morning-the Senate no longer exists."
"But what can we do about it?" Senator Terr Taneel asked.
"That's what we're here to discuss," Mon informed. "What we're going to do about it."
Padme rose an eyebrow and a few of the others began to look uncomfortable.
"It has become increasingly clear that Palpatine has become an enemy of democracy." Mon said. "He must be stopped."
"Stopped!" Padme repeated. "The Senate gave him these powers. The Senate can rein him in."
"I fear you underestimate just how deeply the Senate's corruption has taken hold," Senator Giddean Daru said. "Who will vote against Palpatine now?"
"I will. And I will gladly find others that feel the same way."
"You do that," Bail said. "Keep Palpatine watching what you're doing in the Senate. That should provide some cover while Mon and I begin building our organization-"
"Organization?" Padme asked, suddenly suspicious.
"Stop!" Terr rose from the chair she was sitting in. "I think it's better to leave some things unsaid. Right now it's better we all don't know anything about...anything."
Bail looked confused for a moment but then nodded as if understanding. Padme meanwhile remained suspicious.
"I am very grateful to be included here," Senator Chi Eckway said. "I speak directly only from my own sector, of course, but I can tell you that many Senators are becoming very nervous indeed."
Padme looked up from the document reader in her hands. "I have reliable information that General Grievous has been located, and that the Jedi are already moving against her position. The war maybe over in a matter of days."
"But what then?" Bail asked. "How do we make him surrender power make to the Senate?"
"There are many who are willing to do just that," Chi Eckway said. "We are ready to make him surrender power."
Padme snapped her document reader closed and brandished it as though it were a weapon. "This is a very dangerous step. We cannot let this turn into another war."
"That's the last thing any of us want," Bail said with a disapproving look at Chi. "A political solution is our only option."
"Which is the purpose of this petition," Mon said. "We're hoping that a show of solidarity within the Senate might stop Palpatine from further subverting the Constitution."
"When you present the Petition of Two Thousand, many things will change," Senator Bana Breemu said.
"But," Giddean Daru said, "will they change for the better?"
Bail and Mon shared a look that shared some type of secret, causing Padme to be even more suspicious.
A shot of General Arica Grievous walking down a boarding ramp appears.
"Welcome General," San Hill, Head of the InterGalactic Banking Clan, greets.
Arica merely gives him a nod before continuing on.
As shots of Arica slaughtering countless Jedi appears this voiceover is heard:
"With Count Dooku dead she is officially the new leader of the Confederacy of the Independent Systems," the voice of Palpatine says. "And I can assure you that the Senate will vote to continue the war as long as Grievous is alive."
"Then the Jedi Council will make finding Grievous our highest priority," the voice of Mace responds.
A shot of Obi-Wan jumping down behind Arica appears.
"Hello there!"
Arica whips around in surprise.
"General Kenobi. You are a bold one." She motions to her droid army." Kill him!"
Shots of Obi-Wan and Arica engaged in a lightsaber duel appear. This soon changes to the Republic army arriving and shooting down various droids.
Arica glares at Kenobi. "Army or not, you must realize you will die."
Obi-Wan gave a slight smirk. "Oh I don't think so."
Obi-Wan Force pushes Arica onto a higher level landing platform.
"Darth Lady Baynetta?"
"Master?"
"It is time."
"In the name of the Galactic Senate of the Republic, you're under arrest Chancellor," Master Windu said, activating his lightsaber. His three fellow Jedi, Kit Fisto, Agen Kolar, and Saesee Tinn, did the same.
"Are you threatening me Master Jedi?"Shots of Palpatine and Mace fighting appear.
"What if I told you my father was Lord Sidious?" Lady Baynetta asks her husband.
Vader's face takes on that of shock.
"Rise Darth Ladies Veradisia and Zenevieva," Sidious says to two of his new apprentices.
They both do so.
"Go to the Republic Command Center and bring all the clones you can find with you to the temple," Sidious orders.
Shots of four Sith Lords marching an army of clonetroopers up the stairs of the Jedi Temple appear."Master Skywalker, there's too many of them. What are we gonna do?" a little Padawan asks of the respected Jedi Knight.
Vader merely glared and activated his lightsaber.
The boy, along with the other children in the room shrank back, looking at him in confusion.
Vader gave the boy one final glare before slicing the kid's head off.
All the children in the room began to scream.
Vader felt a tugging on his arm, and looked down to see five-year-old Cynthia, a girl he'd gone quite close too, looking up at him, tears flowing down her little face, looking scared. "Anakin?" she cried. "Why are you doing this?"Vader merely laughed before yanking his arm out of the girl's grasp and using the dark side to choke her to death. She tearfully clawed at her throat before falling to the floor dead.
"Antellica! Stop this madness!" a Padawan yelled.
"The name Antellica no longer has any meaning for me," Veradisia spat as she advanced towards the Jedi. Screams and the sounds of blaster fire could be heard all around the area now as clones shot down Jedi and they screamed at them to cease-fire or deactivate. "You may call me Darth Lady Veradisia."
The Padawan looked confused. "That sounds like the name of a female Sith Lord."
Veradisia smirked. "But of course."
The Sith Lady then sliced the traitor in half.
"Sorry to interrupt the duel kids but it's time to die," Baynetta sneered. "Eat lightsaber little girl."
The female Jedi Padawan that had a moment ago been sparing with a fellow Padawan and a Jedi Master had a lightsaber thrown inside the back of her throat a second later. She fell to the floor dead almost instantly.
"Bene!" the other Padawan yelled.
Using the Force to call her blade back Baynetta caught it in her hands a second before the two Jedi stroke at her. She easily sliced down the Padawan but the Jedi Master, a lightsaber instructor, was proving to be an interesting challenge.
"Senator Amidala," he growled while paring off the swing of one of her attacks. "I always knew never to trust politicians."
"Wise man," Baynetta jeered before killing him.
"How many other Jedi managed to survive?" Obi-Wan asked as he strolled down the white walled hallway of Tantive IV.
"I saw hundreds of troops attack the Jedi Temple," Bail informed, "some strangely enough were being led by General Grievous."
Obi-Wan stopped dead in shock. "That's not possible! I killed her on Utapau!"
A shot of the Galactic Senate Building appears.
"We will celebrate the anniversary of this day as 'Empire Day'," Palpatine, his face hooded in shadow, was thundering from his podium. "For the sake of our children. For our children's children. For the next ten thousand years! Safety! Security! Justice and Peace!"
The Senate went berserk."I will rule this Empire as Supreme Ruler, but I will not do it alone. My daughter, Padme Zandeleigh Naberrie Palpatine Amidala Skywalker, otherwise known as Senator Amidala of Naboo or Lady Baynetta, will rule by my side as Empress."
While most of the cheering continued, Antellica couldn't help but notice a few Senators here and there whispering among themselves.
"Welcome Lord Vader, Lady Baynetta," Viceroy Nute Gunray gave a nod to both. "We have been expecting you."
The smaller of the two cloaked figures stepped forward and threw back their hood to reveal...
Gunray stumbled back in shock. "Senator Amidala! What did you- How did you- You're not Lady Baynetta!"
"Ah, but indeed I am Viceroy," She said beginning to circle him. "You don't know how long I've longed for this day Viceroy. For years and years and it's finally come at last."
"Please," he began to beg. "The war is over. Lord Sidious-promised us peace."
"Your transmission was grabbled," Vader said from behind Baynetta, "he said you would be left in pieces."
"We only want-"
With a slash of Baynetta's lightsaber across his throat Gunray fell to the ground dead.
"If into the security recordings you go, only pain will you find," Yoda cautioned.
"I must know the truth master."
Obi-Wan turned on the security holo recorder. Various images of the Jedi massacre were shown:
A twenty something male slicing down and ruthlessly killing a group of younglings while they screamed in terror,
A teenage girl of 16 slicing down various Padawans in the hall outside the cafeteria,
A black haired girl in her teen years barging into various Jedi quarters and either killing them in their sleep or waking them up and then killing them,
A dark haired woman in her late twenties slicing down Jedi in the entrance hall of the building like they were merely sticks of butter.
Obi-Wan gaped in shock because he recognized all four of the Sith.The recordings then changed to the actual room they were in now from earlier that morning. The dark haired women greeted a figure donned in black with a hood over his head with a nod.
"Master, I have encrypted a message to all surviving Jedi that the war is over and to return to the temple at once."
"Good," the figure, Darth Sidious cooed. "You have done well my apprentices. Now Lord Vader and Lady Baynetta, go and bring peace to the Empire..."
Obi-Wan collapsed against the wall in a state of shock.
"Destroy the Sith, we must," Yoda firmly stated.
"But we are outnumbered Master Yoda," Obi-Wan pointed out. "There are five of them and only two of us
Yoda seemed to go over these words a moment. "Together I think it would be better to do this."
"Good evening Emperor," Yoda greeted.
"Or should we call you Darth Sidious?" Obi-Wan asked in a sarcastic tone.
Yoda's slammed into a wall with Force lightning and crumples to the floor. At the same moment Obi-Wan's thrown up against a wall and knocked unconscious.
While Arica and Sidious laugh Antellica remains expressionless.
Image zooms in on Obi-Wan unconscious on the floor.
Antellica is seen sneaking out of Padme's Crouscant house at midnight, into the Senate Building, and onto an unknown level of it that's a prison level. She's seen going into Obi-Wan's cell and awaiting him from his unconscious state.
"Antellica, how could you!" Obi-Wan cried. "All these years! You lied to us! And helped betray the Jedi Order!"
"Come with me." She reached her hand out to him to accept it.
He suddenly grew suspicious. "Why should I?""Please, no one will know. And It would mean a lot to me..."
The two are seen sneaking out of the building and entering an elegant hotel suite.
"Obi-Wan, listen to me, I don't want to see you get hurt and-"
"You already have hurt me Antellica."
Antellica looked at him a moment.
"You've fallen in love with me, haven't you?"
"How did he escape!" Baynetta boomed, lifting the clone lieutenant up by its throat.
"Well I'm not sure how, but all I know is that when I got here the clones were on the floor snoozing and Kenobi gone," Veradisia said.
Sidious struck the remaining clones in the prison with lightning and then cackled.
"Fine. Let he and frog Yoda hide in exile. We shall find them eventually. They cannot hide forever."
A shot of the festivities of the Empress being crowned is shown while a crowd of people cheer their approval.
"I missed you a lot over the past three years," Arica whispered.
Anakin put his forehead against hers and gazed into her eyes. "I missed you too Arica. And I meant what I said aboard The Invisible Hand. About you being more beautiful since last I saw you."
This brought a small laugh from Arica. "You don't mean that."
"Of course I do."
"I hereby pronounce you the natural born Queen of Naboo, long live Queen Amidala!" Emperor Palpatine pronounced.
The shot changes to nighttime where hundreds of gungans can be seen being slaughtered.
"Ani. Ani stop this!" Jar Jar sobbed looking up at him with tears flowing down his face. "Yousa a nice person. Please come back from this wickedness life yousa are leading."
"Shut up!" Vader roared, punching the freak hard in the face, causing his skin to tear slightly. The freak clutches it while yelling, "Ani. Ani stop!"
"SHUT UP!"
Jar Jar is seen being thrown into a nearby statue of a royal gungan clutching a baby. When the freak hits it, it splits in two.
Various shots are then seen:
The Planet of Labor is massacred.
Padme screaming on a birthing table.
Jar Jar electrocuted by Force lightning.
An army of clones shooting down Neimoidians on their native planet.
Arica crying into Anakin's shoulder.
Antellica is dragged out of Padme's Naboo home by her hair and thrown in the middle of the street.
Arica runs away from Anakin in tears.
Anakin collapses to the ground with the anguish of a broken heart.
Padme screaming at her twin babies to shut up and slapping them when they don't obey her.
Anakin Force choking Padme.
Antellica dumps a can gasoline around the house.
Anakin trashing Padme's house by breaking windows and up turning sofas.
Antellica running through a smoky house with detonator bomb in hand.
Anakin and Arica share a passionate kiss.
The Amidala Lake Estate explodes.The Lure of the Dark Side: Chronicle 1-The Turning of an Era: Episode V-Revenge of the Sith
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