Author's note: Hi, so this is the first story i've ever published, anywhere. Honestly i'm not even sure what i'm doing so please try to be gentle with the criticism (though I still encourage it because I want to get better at writing). Also i wrote this rather more rushed than i would've liked but i really wanted to publish something to kinda see what other people thought of my writing (besides my sister and a few friends) and also because I have a huge star wars obsession right now to the point where i couldn't study or focus on anything else, because of all the stories and ideas i have in my head. Also if anybody is interested in beta reading this story that would also be great. Ok that kinda got long haha

Disclaimer: Not entirely sure why people put this in a fan fiction site but here goes... I own nothing in this story.

Anakin sat silently in the Jedi Temple, trying to meditate.

He was never much good at meditating but he found himself anxious and with little else to do as he waited for news of Master Windu's arrest of Chancellor Palpatine. Palpatine. The very name evoked rage inside the young Jedi Knight. He deceived them all, HE was the cause of this terrible war. Still, what most frightened Anakin was Palpatine's voice in his head:

If the jedi destroy me, you will lose any chance of saving her…

Her. Padme. His wife, carrying his child! His world. He can't lose her, he wouldn't be able to bear losing someone else he cared about. Like he lost master Qui-Gon or his padawan, Ahsoka… Like he lost his mother.

Palpatine said he had the power to save her, that he could teach this power to him but how could he know this was the truth? After all the lies the Sith Lord had fed everyone, even master Yoda had not seen through the lies, or felt his presence before! No, he couldn't be trusted. Master Windu was right, Anakin couldn't face Palpatine, and he couldn't clearly decide what to do if he did, not to mention he was in nowhere near focused enough to face a Sith Lord right now. Huh, caution. Maybe some of Obi-Wan's lessons really did reach me. Anakin smiled at the thought of his old mentor and best friend, the only one in the Jedi Council who truly seemed to trust him.

Then he remembered his friend's situation in Utupau, and decided to see if he could find any updates as to Obi-Wan's status. As he started to walk across a hallway which overlooked the entrance to the Jedi Temple, a very powerful and terrible tremor in the force hit him and he felt as all the air escaped his lung. A freezing cold chill ran up his spine. He felt a presence, a pure dark side entity more powerful than he could've ever imagined. Terror dawned on him as he realized, Master Windu is dead, and he has failed.

Suddenly he heard steps, no, marching, he looked down at the steps of the Jedi Temple as he saw the 501st, his own legion of clone troopers, following a dark hooded figure. No, how had he failed to feel it, how had he fail to sense master Windu's defeat earlier?! How strong could this monster be that he hid his signature all that time?

Anakin looked on hopelessly as he saw Master Jurokk, the temple's gatekeeper bravely approach the dark lord with two temple guards flanking him, lightsabers ignited. "What's going on here? Chancellor? Is that you?" Anakin barely made out what master Jurrok said when suddenly the cloaked figure extended his hands and used force lightning to shock the jedi master and guards to death while cackling loudly and yelling: "KILL THEM ALL! HAHAHA".

As he saw this, Anakin let out a deafening "NOOO!" and Palpatine increased the intensity of his sick laugh, the clone troopers now rushing inside the temple and shooting anything that moved. Anakin ran down the hallways and corridors until he reached an opening and saw that it was too late, the jedi were being overwhelmed, most still shocked at what was happening, then he heard many boots halting to a stop in unison, looked ahead and saw a squad of clone troopers,his clone troopers starting to aim their blasters at him. "Stop! I'm ordering you to stop! It's me! General Skywalker, your commander! Remember!?" Anakin desperately said. The trooper's faltered for a moment as if realizing what they were doing. Then, as if snapping into a trance, they trained their weapons on him again. "Good soldiers follow orders" said the squad leader before giving the order to fire.

Anakin's force-enhanced reflexes are all that saved him as his mind flashed back to clone trooper Tup, killing jedi master Tiplar; and the ensuing chaos that followed leading to Tup, and Fives' deaths. Fives was saying the truth, the chancellor did manipulate the cloning process, this is what he tried to warn them about. By now, Anakin outright hated Palpatine and wanted nothing more than to kill him.

Anakin used his newfound rage to ignore the pain of killing his former soldiers. He searched his feelings in order to find Palpatine and moved as a machine annihilating any clone in his way, cutting a path straight to the sith lord. He didn't notice as many jedi were now composing themselves and rallying behind the young jedi knight inspired by his brave push against the clones.

As he reached Palpatine, he saw him in a saber lock with both lightsabers, one against master Cin Drallic, and the other against Serra Keto, while master Shaak Ti charged at him from behind. Palpatine simply laughed as he unleashed a force repulse which pushed away the three masters. Then he turned his head in Anakin's direction and grimaced in annoyance at the small army of jedi that followed him. He looked up and collapsed the archway they were passing under with the force. Anakin was able to jump out of the way and pull a jedi padawan that was next to him just in time to avoid the debris, but the rest of his small army was not so lucky. Half had been crushed and the other half was trapped on the other side with clones still pouring in. He looked at who he saved, a young blue twi'lek boy who he had recently given some lightsaber lessons. He knew the boy was strong in the force but not the most talented when it came to lightsabers and felt a little proud that perhaps Anakin's lessons had helped the boy survive so far.

"You okay, Zanat?" Anakin asked the boy while smiling a bit to try and comfort him.

Zanat grinned brightly, his hero and role model had just saved him! "Master Skywalker! Thank yo-" suddenly Zanat gasped and clutched at his throat as he was lifted of the ground and in two seconds his neck snapped. Anakin's look of horror morphed into one of pure hatred as he looked at Palpatine.

"MONSTER!" Anakin screamed at the top of his lungs as he noticed Palpatine had just impaled Serra Keto and what was left of Cin Drallic was a burned corpse, mangled by force lightning. Shaak Ti was standing in front of the doors to the council chamber no longer appearing calm and resolved as usual for her, but now appearing desperate. "Anakin we must not let him reach the younglings." Then Anakin felt it, a large group of younglings hiding in the council chamber. He stood up with an expression of pure determination in his face. "I WILL kill you, Palpatine." Laughter erupted once again from the corrupted chancellor. "My dear boy, Palpatine is a fictional character, my name is Darth SIDIOUS!" Palpatine placed a serious and deadly tone to the last two words.

Both jedi charged Darth Sidious at the same time, he simply grinned and force pushed Shaak Ti and focused on Anakin. The three lightsabers flashed at inhuman speeds as Anakin seemed impossibly focused, and pushed Sidious, even forcing him on the defensive. Each time Sidious attempted to mount an offensive Anakin quickly countered and continued his assault, showcasing his incredible mastery of Djem So. Despite being on the defensive, Sidious simply chuckled and continued taunting Anakin.

"Yess," Sidious hissed. "use your hatred, let it fill you with strength, feel the power of the dark side flow through you." Anakin's speed and viciousness only increased with each word.

Shaak Ti slowly regained consciousness and was amazed at the spectacle of lightsaber combat she witnessed before she decided she needed to join. She used the force to fling a piece of debris at Sidious, who was able to catch it with the force through his left hand but was enough to distract him from Anakin for a brief second. Anakin came down with a hard two-handed cleave, and Sidious was just barely able to block it in time with his free hand. However Anakin was able to slide down his blade and actually burn Palpatine's fingers as well as damage the lightsaber, rendering it useless. Sidious howled inhumanly in pain and dropped the saber as he force jumped well out of range of Skywalker, but just in range of master Shaak Ti. She engaged Sidious who was not as accustomed to using his left hand only and was not able to dispatch her as quickly as he would've liked. Anakin attempted to join with a leaping attack but Sidious saw this and intercepted him midair, kicking him into a wall.

Anakin's head throbbed. Ever since he had given in to his hatred he felt more powerful than ever before. He could see clearly what his opponent was going to do before he did it, and he barely even had to tell his body what to do, it knew what to do. Was this the power of the dark side? It almost felt like when he defeated Dooku. He had used his anger that time, but in a controlled manner, right now he was in a state of utter frenzy. And the result was him feeling ten times stronger than he ever had before! If this is the dark side's power, perhaps the jedi are wrong and they should study it. He would have to entertain those thoughts further on a later date, after he killed Sidious.

As his vision cleared, he saw Sidious overpowering Shaak Ti. He disarmed her and raised his lightsaber for the killing blow, laughing.

"NO!" Anakin reached through the force and pulled Sidious away and straight into the rubble of the archway that was brought down earlier. As Sidious stood with a growl on his face, truly angered for the first time in the fight, he pulled Anakin's lightsaber away from him before he'd even realized he'd dropped it and unleashed a barrage of force lightning. However Anakin was somehow using the force to block it and…

The Sith Lord couldn't believe it but it seemed either Anakin was redirecting Sidious's force lightning, or he was producing his own as Sidious felt the familiar burning sensation and screamed in anger and agony. However, Skywalker seemed to be suffering as well as he too was screaming in his great effort.

Suddenly Anakin turned to Shaak Ti and she gasped when she saw his eyes were yellow, but were returning to their warm blue color, as he gave her pleading look.

"Go! Take the younglings and get as far away from here as you can!" Anakin looked desperate as he struggled to keep Sidious at bay.

"But Anakin,"

"Please!" Anakin cut her off, and she nodded sadly, knowing the great sacrifice he was making.

She entered the council chamber and quickly ushered the younglings to follow her past Anakin, towards a secret emergency shuttle, on the way she encountered some clone troopers but easily dispatched them and finally reached the shuttle and punched in random coordinates to take her somewhere far away from the republic. As the ship was taking off she felt a huge tremor in the force and as she looked back she saw there had been a huge explosion in the section where Anakin and Darth Sidious where dueling.

A/N Okey obviously that's not really an ending, but i really want to know what people think of this small chapter before continuing, which btw i already have the rest of this story roughly planned out and in fact i have a bunch of other ideas i could do with the new alternate timeline i create in this story so let me know if anyone's interested, heck even if i only have one reviewer who encouraged me to continue i probably would haha