บท 35: Omake: High noon on Coruscant
Coruscant Senatorial Landing Pad
The Shiny craft from Naboo gently set down on the pad as the VIPs started to exit the waiting area to greet the new arrivals, chief among the Important personages was Chancellor Finis Valorum and Senator Sheev Palpatine. They waited patiently as the ramp lowered and the Queen from Naboo walked out with her entourage. Greetings were exchanged and condolences for the Trade Federation were expressed, as well as the usual formal political small talk. while this was happening more ships landed, first up was a luxury machine that unloaded the form of a Hutt, who was quick to announce that she was Gardulla, here to speak to the Chancellor about an important matter, and generally proceeded to try and throw her considerable mass and political weight around. Then a cargo drop ship arrived and out spilled a bunch of ratty looking kids that ran towards the Naboo entourage and started speaking all at once with a kid in the Naboo group. Also from the drop ship a bruised looking Gammorian stepped out and started bellowing about chasing after a Lilly livered yellow belly red energy sword using freak.
Palpatine kept to the side as he was still seething under the surface at how his plans had not gone according to his wishes. He thought he had things under control when all of a sudden a Gungan walked up to him and started to be far too familiar then possible, as Palatine did not know this Gungan, and in fact secretly hated the species. In fact to be honest Palpatine had little use for any alien species, viewing them only as tools till they stood in his way enough to earn his ire.
"Sheevy, mesa glad to sees you, meesa been having a bombad time, wissa invasions, explosions, and muay muay badness. First there was the bots carshing though the trees and then..." The Gungan continue to speak, barely stopping to the quickest of breaths and unleashing a verbal tide of accented and hard to understand speech. Each word seeming to grate on his sensibilities and digging into the thin shield keeping his anger at bay. Palpatine clenched his hands together out of site in his robes sleeves to contain his reaction, as letting loose with two Jedi standing right there would be disastrous.
"Jar Jar, you know Senator Palpatine?" The Queen asked in surprise.
"Yesa, hesa want to make the bombad chancellorshipness" Binks turned quickly to address the question, his quick movement of his head causing his long ears to fly about and smack the gobsmacked Senator in the face, the sound seeming to echo in the silence brought on after this as everyone turned to see what caused the sound.
Palpatine was agog, his anger shattering his control and raging even into visibility. His long strained veneer of a kindly Senator from a peaceful planet gone, his eyes bleeding yellow into the iris as the dark side took over, and his face still covered by the Gungans ears started to draw deep creases as the dark side took its toll as Palpatine, now Darth Sidious reached up with his hand sparking insidious looking tendrils of lightning and grabbed ahold of the Gungans ears and clenched them causing the Gungan to start screaming. The Jedi were quick to react igniting their light sabers and moving in a smooth pincer movement as the now uncovered face instantly reminded them of the one that attacked them on the desert planet. Sidious threw the Gungan at the younger Jedi and brought two light sabers from his sleeves and ignited the red blades and attacking the older Jedi.
Obi-wan caught Binks with one hand and quickly lowered him to the ground before moving to support his master in melee against the now reveled Sith. Qui-Gon was hard pressed defending against the Dark Side user, the sheer anger and emotion swirling around the yellowed eyed figure was almost painful this close, but he knew that if he was distracted for even a moment then he would be doomed. As Obi-wan joined the Melee this seemed to be more balanced for a moment, but it was clear to those watching that the blurring red blades were slowly beating the Jedi's blades back and it was only a matter of time before someone got injured. During this time the Gammorian fiddled with the settings on on of his guns and then after waiting for a clear shot blasted into the Melee.
Sidious delved deep into the Dark Side, both his blades seeming to sing their anger and wrath with their movements, battering the strength and defenses of the Jedi down, soon there would be an opening as he could feel a future echo of the Jedi's shock and confusion. Batting both Jedi's blades away Sidious made for a finishing strike when from the side a rippling bolt of energy flew towards him and blasted one of his sabers out of his hands, the metal chattering as it bounced along the landing pad, the blade hissing shut as it went. The shock and confusion became present for not just the Jedi, but for himself... how did he miss the force warning him of that possibility. Sidious looked to where the bolt had come from and saw the Gammorian pointing a weapon at him, the barrel wide enough to fit his entire hand down. Rage poured forth as Sidious shot his hand at the one who DARED to attack him and lighting leapt to the armed figure.
Qui-Gon and Obi-wan moved as one, their force bond allowing them to co-ordinate in a manner that allowed them to land simultaneous attacks meant to disarm the Sith. Sidious so preoccupied with dealing with the blindside attack missed this and was unhanded of his remaining weapon... and both hands. This caused shock and the lightning that was flowing down the one arm to splay wildly out of the cauterized stump. Captain Aphab grunted in pain from the lightning attack, but still stood and adjusted his aim slightly then pulled the trigger again. the bolt flew true and struck dead center of mass to the de-handed Sith. The concussion bolt blasted the Sith back to near the edge of the landing platform.
Sidious felt the pain from the impact, but maintained his balance while sliding back. Now he was injured and started to back slowly away from the Jedi with their light sabers ready to cause him even more harm. Unfortunately for Sidious was that he was already near the edge of the platform. Normally this would not be any problem as the safety shield barriers would prevent anyone falling off the side, but with the draw of the Dark Side going wild, the discharge of lightning was coming from both stumps of his arms and shorted out the field. Sidious had just enough warning from his foot slipping off the edge to try and fall forward and stay on the platform. This would have worked if he could have found a handhold to hang onto, but as both his hands were detached all he could do was scrabble his stumps as he slowly slid off the edge of the multi kilometer drop into the abyss of Coruscant.
Mortis
Three figures sat watching the events play out, the Dopplering final scream of the Sith as he fell sounding slightly tinny.
"Okay, I call Bantha-pucks on that." The figure known as Son declared pointing angrily at his sister.
"Now Son, you did bet your Sister that she could not cause your chosen champion to unveil himself quicker then normal. Though I will say Daughter, that was a bit faster then I had thought."
"Yeah, but on first meeting? I still call Bantha on that." Son seemed to sulk at the results.
"It was not exactly easy, though if you wanted to up the stakes and forfeit some of your original stakes directly, I would be willing to undo the last move and not force the issue on first meeting." The third figure said with a smirk.
"... fine, double or nothing... and I will stop keeping the dark side calm for my champion... still think its a big fat load of Bantha though." Son grudgingly agreed.
"That is fine by me, if you would Father?" Daughter nodded towards Father.
"As all are in agreement, things shall be replaced, and in a way to prevent that meeting." Father waved his hand over the image and things went back to when the traveling ships re-entered normal space, though this time they popped back in with a slightly different order and position. "That should do it". The old looking figure chuckled and brought out a bucket of popcorn and started snacking as things started going forward again, what would happen this time, he wondered.
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