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It was quiet in the council room, giving Anakin time with his thoughts. Palpatine was a Sith Lord, how could he not see it with all the time he spent with him. All this time looking for the Sith that was causing this war, and he was right in front.
But did it matter? Did it matter if Palpatine was a Sith Lord if he could save Padme?
Anakin ran his hands through his hair. Getting up from his seat, he walked over to the window and looking at the traffic. He had spent most of his life following the Jedi path, but would it cost him more than he wanted to pay?
"I will not lose Padme; I will deal with the consequences for my actions after she is safe. Nothing was worst than losing her." Anakin turned to leave but stopped after only a few steps.
How did Palpatine know that he had a wife. Palpatine told him that he could show him a power great enough to save his wife.
Anakin never told him he had married Padme.
He and Padme both agreed to keep that a secret. But Palpatine know and he also know that she was in danger. He hadn’t told him about his visions either.
After his mother died Anakin had investigated how focus visions worked, they were warnings sent through the focus. But he had found rumors that powerful focus users could place false visions in a person’s mind. He hadn’t given this much thought because there was no record of that ever happening. However, it was impossible to see the vision of another focus user unless they showed it to you.
"Could Palpatine put visions in my mind?"
With that thought, Anakin started thinking about his interactions with Palpatine. Thinking on them he relieved something that he hadn't before.
"Palpatine had been manipulating him from the beginning."
Anakin felt a rush of anger, but he took a deep breath. Master Windu was right; it was best that he does not go to confront Palpatine.
Palpatine wanted him to give into his anger, and doing so would play right into his hands. Anakin did not know if he could be in the same room as him without losing control.
He would have to let Windu and the other masters handle this.
Anakin walked back to his chair and sat down. The wait was harder than he thought it would be. The more time that passed, the more he wondered, what if he was wrong. He gut told him he wasn’t, but if he was he could lose his chance to save Padme.
Anakin watched as the sun set in the sky. A loud blast went off and the room he was in shook.
"That's coming from inside the Temple," Anakin realized.
He called his lightsaber to him and ran out of the counsel room. Across the hall from him he saw a padawon fighting a clone. Another clone came out from behind him and shot the padawon in the back, causing him to fall to the floor. The first clone shot him again to make sure he was dead, and Anakin felt him become one with the focus.
Anakin ran over and cut both clones down. Anakin could feel through the focus Jedi dying throughout the temple. He could see clones fighting Jedi all around him. Anakin engaged the first group of clones he came across.
“Why are they doing this? We have fought side by side throughout this war?” Anakin thought.
There appeared to be no end to the clones as they made their way into the temple. Which made since. The clones where the grand army of the republic, there where thousands stationed on Coruscant. With the war efforts there were only a couple hundred Jedi at the temple. The clones out number them 10 to 1. And many of the Jedi at the temple where noncompetent, like the younglings.
As if hearing his thoughts, a voice rang out. “Get the younglings to safety.”
Looking at the up to the level above him, Anakin saw a group of younglings being leading out. Using the focus Anakin jumped up to help get them out.
They were quickly met with a large group of clones. While Anakin and the other Jedi knights were able to put up a good fight, but the number of clones were too much for them to overcome. As the knights fall around him, Anakin tried to keep the clones away from the younglings.
Just as he got them to the lift, hoping to get the younglings to the landing pad. A group of clones came out of the lift. Firing blasters before Anakin could react. Shooting the group of younglings down.
Anakin quicky cut down all those clones. As blasters came from behind him. Looking back he could see that all the Jedis and younglings that were on the floor with him where dead. The clones focused Anakin to retreat into the lift. There Anakin closed the door and cut down the clones in there.
With little idea on what to do Anakin pushed the button to take him to the landing pad.
This gave Anakin a moment to catch his breath.
"Why did the clones turn against us?" Anakin asked out loud.
Then he remembers that Five had shot and killed Tiplar in battle. They were told that it was a problem with his inhibitor chip. Could the chips be making them do this?
When he got to the landing pad it was just as covered with clones.
Anakin was able to fight them off as best as he could, but he was the only jedi up there and he was outnumbered. While trying to reflect the shots the clones corralled him to the edge of the platform.
It was bound to happen eventually, a shot got past his lightsaber, hitting him in his shoulder. This caused him to drop his lightsaber. Two more shots hit him, one in his chest and the other in his arm. The focus of which caused Anakin to fall over the side of the platform.
The clones looked over the edge, Anakin had disappeared through the traffic below. Sure, that he was dead the clones went back into the Temple hoping to finish off the rest of the Jedi.
A few blocks from the Jedi Temple, Padme looked out her window watching the smoke raise from the temple, unable to do anything but watch.