章節 23: Chapter 23:Darth Sidius

As soon as Palpatine sees the Jedi surrounding him, he totally freezes, his senses firing danger signals, but he forces himself to remain calm, at that moment he still had a slight hope that the Jedi were not here for him, but when he scanned the room and eventually fixed his eyes on me, and saw my defensive stance against him, he realized he had been discovered, but he had no idea how it happened.

'' Senator Sheev Palpatine, you are under suspicion of being a sith, surrender now ... 'a human jedi that I don't recognize, tries to convince Palpatine to surrender, but before he can finish his speech, Palpatine extends his left hand, and from it a huge amount of blue lightning bolts come out and hit the Jedi, electrocuting his body in moments, he falls directly on the floor and shakes a few times before being completely immobile.

"..."

Everyone in the place is completely stunned, nobody expected Palpatine to attack without any hesitation, the Jedi just stare at the body of the fallen companion, not knowing how to react.

Palpatine remained calm at that moment, his mind racing through all his schemes, deciding the best action plan to be taken at the moment, he already accepted that his main plan to take over the republic and slowly lay the groundwork for his empire has already fallen, his only option now is to flee and go by the most difficult method, through war, fortunately for him, he already had some plans for such a situation to happen.

Taking advantage of everyone's stupor, he silently signaled with his hands, and from this several dozen hooded figures that he had planted beforehand as the bodyguards of several key people in the senate stand up, before raising arms and shooting the jedis, who leave the stupor at that moment, lighting their lightsabers and deflecting the shots, before engaging in battle with the figures that can be identified as killers and bounty hunters.

'' Give up Sith, you are surrounded, there is no escape, '' said Mace Windu, as he jumped from platform to platform deflecting shots and heading for the palpatine, with Yoda and Count Dooku following behind.

Ignoring the approaching jedi, Palpatine turns to me with pure anger on his face, he is not sure why, but something is saying that this boy is to blame for his plans gone wrong, so without any hesitation, he drew his lightsaber, before swinging horizontally, trying to cut the boy in two.

As I was already on guard against him, I immediately use 2 'Orochi' strokes to defend his saber, while the third tries to surround his arm, but with reflexes that a man his age shouldn't have, Palpatine hits Orochi easily, and seeing that the jedi are approaching he takes a super jump towards the chancellor's platform, which is not far away, before extending his left hand to me in midair.

Knowing what that hand gesture means, I immediately make the mental image of a semi-circular shield in front of me, and use the force to materialize it, forming a shield of the force, palpatine didn't care when a huge amount of lightning came out from his fingers and impacted on my shield, which just wavered and remained steady, even when he landed on the chancellor's platform, he kept releasing lightning.

* DING *

[NEW FORCE SKILL LEARNED]

********

I ignore the system warning and focus on keeping the shield and holding on until the Jedi arrive, but even in smaller numbers the bounty hunters are using all kinds of dishonest tactics to delay the Jedi, like using their own customers as hostages and shields while shooting.

Seeing that Windu, Yoda and Dooku were getting closer every second, even with the killers delaying them,and that he's attack was not working, he smirks in my direction before directing the lightning bolts towards the platform, which just begins to fall the moment it is hit.

Seeing this, I release the force shield and turn to Padme and hug her, before teleporting us to one of the platforms that a female jedi was fighting with two assassins using blades capable of resisting lightsabers, and as soon as I appeared behind them, I threw Orochi around their bodies, giving the female jedi enough time to decapitate them both, she gave me a nod of recognition before jumping onto another platform and helping her companions.

.....

Palpatine frowned when he saw me disappear and appear in the distance, now that he was no longer hiding, he could feel my power in the force, and thinking that I could become a problem for the future, he wanted to eliminate me at once .

But soon, he was taken out of his thoughts by a purple lightsaber, Mace Windu was the first to arrive and launched an aggressive attack directly, assuming Form 7 that he is specialized and very powerful, both start a duel of sabers that looking from outside they looked like colorful blurs as they launched attack after attack, at incredible speed.

Soon yoda and Dooku also arrived at the platform, and Yoda was ready to light his saber and join Mace Windu, but in that moment he felt a sense of danger coming from behind and jumped up and away from a red lightsaber that just passed where he was a second ago, turning around, he saw his ex-disciple Dooku, wielding a red lightsaber while doing a vertical saber posture, characteristic of the Form 2 Makashi, which he specializes in.

Yoda's eyes showed pain and confusion for a moment before asking, "Why?"

'' Now is not the time to discuss this, but know that for a long time I am dissatisfied with the Jedi and the republic that get more corrupt with time, now without further ado, let me show you how strong I have become in embracing the dark side, 'Master' '', he says the last word sarcastically, before launching a quick lunge attack, which is quickly defended by Yoda and both of them also engage in a battle of saber skills.

...

While Palpatine, Windu, Yoda and Dooku were dueling fiercely, I was using Orochi to deflect several shots coming towards me and Padme, it seems that Palpatine had placed her as a priority target, and even with the Jedi slowly capturing or killing the killers and bounty hunters, shots still came from all directions.

Although most of the senators and representatives managed to evacuate, many were still in the middle of the battle and screams drift into the chamber, causing tremendous confusion and chaos, looking in the direction of the Sith he still seemed to be holding against Windu, he had already pulled a second red lightsaber, and used both to defend against the Jedi master, looking from the outside they both seemed to be tied.

(AN: there are several theories on the internet that Palpatine had a second lightsaber and he was just pretending to be weak when he lost against windu, and wanted to use this to pull Anakin to the dark side, I don't know if this has already been confirmed but I'm using this here, although both are tied for power)

Seeing that all of this wasn't going anywhere, I find a platform farther from the battle and grab hold of Padme again before teleporting to it, as soon as we show up I turn to Padme, '' I will help the Jedi Master, stay down here, '' I say as I removed Maul's lightsaber from the inventory, and when I prepared to teleport to the chenceler's platform and join the fight, Padme grabbed my hand and gave me a concerned look, before smiling softly, "Take care," she says softly.

I look at her before a smile also forms on my face, giving her a nod, I turn my attention to the fight, the four of them are lightsaber masters, so it didn't look like a winner would come out so soon, concentrating on Palpatine I am waiting for an opening in his duel against Windu, and as soon as I find one, I teleport directly on his back, turning on Maul's lightsaber, and swinging diagonally aiming his shoulder to try to split him in two.

But as soon as I turn on Maul's lightsaber, a flood of negative feelings tries to dominate my mind, but it is immediately negated by my 'Mind Shield' skill, but that was enough to freeze me for 1 second, and with Palpatine reflexes increased by force he was able to avoid a fatal attack, but still loses his right arm in the process, Mace Windu's eyes shine when he sees this, and he tries to take the chance I gave him to finish the Sith, but as soon as he was going to move ..

* BOOOOOMMM !! *, the roof of the Senate chamber is blown up and a medium-sized miltar ship enters, carrying several figures in black military clothes, who immediately open fire on the Jedi as the ship approaches Palpatine.

Windu is forced to defend himself from the shots, giving Palpatine time to get away.

'' DAMN BRAT, HOW DARE YOU !!! '', Palpatina howls with pure hatred as he looks at me, I can feel his power in force increasing as he uses pain and anger as fuel, before extending his left hand in mine. direction.

Already being prepared, I again create a shield in front of me to protect myself and as soon as I finish materializing the shield, another flood of lightning strikes the shield, causing a huge ripple, but It still stand firm, requiring a lot of effort, seeing that he was blocked again he directs the lightning bolts towards Windu, who uses his lightsaber to defend himself, meanwhile Dooku also casts lightning bolts towards Yoda, while walking away with Palpatine.

Palpatine begins to age visibly while still maintaining the lightning, but unaware of the fact or not caring, he keeps the lightning on me and Windu until many wrinkles form on his face completely deforming him, but soon the ship arrives behind the platform that Palpatine and Dooku stepped back, both leaped at it while the troopers opened fire on Yoda, Windu and me, forcing us to defend.

'' listen to this Jedis, it doesn't change anything, one day, I Darth Sidius will dominate this galaxy, and exterminate all of you '' He says, his eyes turning a sickly yellow, and his voice dripping hate, when he turned to me , '' and you boy, I will take my revenge! ''.

As soon as he says that, the ship begins to retreat towards the hole in the roof, while still holding the barrage of fire towards all the jedi in sight, the killers who have not yet been captured or killed use the barrage of fire and the chaos of the battle below to escape.

Windu and Yoda wanted to try to stop the ship from escaping, but with so many shots coming towards them, they could only defend themselves, while I was more worried about Padme, so as soon as I saw that there was no way to stop him from escaping, I I teleported to Padme's side again, as soon as I show up, a warm hug greets me, a smile appears on my face, "I'm fine," I say softly, as I hug her back, looking at the ceiling, a frown appears on my face, * (this old goat is really cunning, so many distractions just so he can flee, Humph, just wait, soon I will be able to crush you like an insect) *.

As soon as the ship leaves the roof,Mace Windu turns to Master Plo-Koon who seemed to have been shot in the shoulder, '' Give the order to block the exit of the planet, we cannot let him escape! he says with a serious expression.

'' No use, he cut off the communications around the area, that sith was well prepared, '' Plo Koon replied with a grimace just as seriously.

Looking at the dead and wounded, most of them being killers and bounty hunters, with a few Jedi killed and others wounded, Yoda let out a heavy sigh before saying, '' dark times await us, prepare ourselves we must ...