Anakin chopped off Dooku's hands and caught his lightsaber. He put both lightsabers in an cross, with Dooku's neck in the middle.
"Good, Anakin, good," said the voice of Chancellor Palpatine, "Now kill him."
Dooku looked at the chancellor in horror.
"Master, why?!"
Anakin turned to the chancellor as well.
"Did he just call you Master?"
Palpatine was visibly uncomfortable a this point.
"Ermmm...no he's crazy! Going senile I think!" he said nervously.
"Bantha crap!" yelled Dooku, "You are Darth Sidious and you know it! How else would you get captured."
"He's lying Anakin! Just kill him already!"
Dooku turned to Anakin.
"Over three years ago, I told that idiot Kenobi that the Sith controlled the senate. Apparently you Jedi can't take a hint. He wants to kill me just so you can become his apprentice."
Anakin removed the lightsabers from Dooku's neck.
"You're seriously not going to listen to him, are you?" asked Palpatine, his voice full of fear.
"I can tell he's not lying, Sidious," said the Jedi.
Anakin walked over to the Sith, who was still bound to his chair.
"I can save the woman you love! Come join me and she won't die!" said the sweating Sith Lord.
"Why, what's wrong with her? If you've touched a single hair on her head, I got bad news for you," said Anakin angrily.
"No, no, no, I didn't mean it like that, I mean just in case you would have visions of something happ.."
The Sith was cut off by lightsabers placed on his shoulders, the same spots where they had been placed a few moments previously on the Count.
"You can't kill me, I'm an unarmed prisioner!" said Palpatine desperately.
"You didn't seem to have any problem with me doing the same thing to Dooku." replied Anakin.
Anakin sliced off the Sith's head and deactivated the lightsabers.
"You just killed the chancellor," said Dooku, "You'll be executed."
"I'll just say that I couldn't save him before he was killed by you," said Anakin, "Who're they gonna believe, a Sith or the handsomest Jedi to ever live?"
"Sure, blame the dude with no hands."
"You cut off one of mine. Count yourself lucky to still be alive."
Anakin snickered.
"See what I did there?" he said, "Count yourself lucky?"
"Very funny," Dooku said, rolling his eyes.
Anakin walked to the fallen Obi-Wan and lifted him. He began to walk out.
"Hey!" Dooku called, "What about me?!"
Anakin stopped.
"I said I wouldn't kill you," he said, "But I didn't say I'd save you either."
The ghost of Qui-Gon Jinn wondered where he'd heard that phrase before.
