A turn for the best

This is the alternate story, what if General Grievous had killed Obi Wan on Utapau, how will that affect the Galaxy—will the Clone Wars be turned on its head from an almost certain Republic Victory to a Separatist Victory or will it not change the face of the Galaxy at all. I've added a few other new things to the story as well.

Dramatis Personae

Aayla Secura; Jedi Knight (Female Twi'lek)
Ahsoka Tano; Jedi Knight (Female Togruta)
Anakin Skywalker; Jedi Knight (Male Human)
Barriss Offee; Jedi Knight (Female Mirialan)
Cad Bane; Bounty Hunter (Male Duros)
Coleman Kcaj; Jedi Master (Male Ongree)
General Grievous; Supreme Commander of the C.I.S
Luminara Unduli; Jedi Master (Female Mirialan)
Nute Gunray; Viceroy (Male Neimoidian)
Quinlan Vos; Jedi Master (Male Kiffar)
San Hill; Separatist Council Member
Shaak Ti; Jedi Master (Female Togruta)
Wat Tambor; Separatist Council Member (Male Skako)
Yoda; Jedi Grand Master (Male Unknown)

Chapter One: A turn for the best

Obi Wan was crouched on the railings that hung from the ceiling, watching and listening to the Separatist Leaders talk and argue amongst each other. He had arrived here on Utapau, searching for General Grievous, who was now the main leader of the Separatists after the death of Count Dooku. It's Grievous we need to end the war, the other Separatist Leaders will surrender, but it wouldn't do any harm to bring them all to justice at once. But there won't be anyone left to control their armies, Obi Wan thought to himself. Before Obi Wan had decided what would be the better course of action, the Separatist leaders were now leaving in a shuttle to the planet Mustafar, apparently.

General Grievous stood watching with his four magna guards as the Separatist Council members and the Viceroy's new guard—Cad Bane, made their way through into the next room where their shuttle—the Lapiz Cutter was waiting to take them to their base on Mustafar. Grievous stood watching as the shuttle took off, and flew into the air and then space. His four Magna Guards stood on guard behind Grievous as well as thousands of other battle droids that were on this level of the city. Grievous stood silently in his own thoughts. So the Jedi are sending Obi Wan Kenobi to fight me, without that interfering Anakin Skywalker and is even more annoying apprentice Ahsoka Tano, Grievous thought to himself. He then heard something behind him drop behind him, but that didn't bother him until it spoke.

"Hello there," Said the familiar voice of Obi Wan Kenobi.

Grievous instantly turned around. "General Kenobi, you are a bold one. I've been waiting for your arrival." The Battle droids, Droidekas, Crab droids and Super battle droids in the room instantly stepped towards Obi Wan, aiming their weapons and the Magnaguards activated their own electrostaffs.

"Ah a nice warm welcome then," Obi Wan remarked with a grin.

"Kill him." Grievous ordered the Magnaguards as he stepped backwards. The four Magnaguards moved towards Obi Wan, who took out his lightsaber, ignited it and stepped into the normal Soresu Form III stance. As they came closer to Obi Wan, the Jedi Master raised his free hand and pointed it at a huge crate thing hanging from the ceiling above and used the Force to make it come crashing down on the droids; breaking them instantly.

Jedi trickery, despicable, Jedi scum, Grievous thought to himself as Obi Wan stepped around the huge crate thing and moved towards General Grievous.

"I'll deal with this Jedi slime myself," Grievous announced to the droids.

"Your move," Obi Wan said confidently.

"You fool I've been trained in your arts by Darth Tyrannus," General Grievous said as he placed his hands in his cloak, took out four lightsabers and split his two arms into four arms. Obi Wan smiled briefly at this, with his lightsaber still activated he held his defensive position.

"You mean Count Dooku? The one my apprentice just killed." Obi Wan said confidently.

Grievous raced forwards, spinning all his lightsabers so fast that it was like a vertical shield.

Obi Wan stepped back to try to maintain his balance, then as Grievous came racing towards him; he dashed forwards Grievous and met him straight on. Obi Wan parried Grievous first strike, as the two blue and green lightsabers came at him. Grievous then thrust two of the lightsabers straight at Kenobi, with the other two aiming for his legs. The Jedi Master jumped back to avoid the strike, rather than parry it all together. Obi Wan then raised his free hand, and force pushed Grievous sending him up to the ceiling; in the process he dropped his lightsabers, and he came back down to the ground. Grievous rushed towards his Cloak as the Jedi Master rushed towards the unarmed Cyborg. Grievous jumped into the air, landing just behind his cloak. Grievous picked up the cloak, and took out his blaster and fired several shots at Obi Wan that made him stop moving. Grievous then took out another lightsaber that was concealed in the cloak. Grievous watched as the Jedi Master was on the move again; he came rushing towards Grievous. Grievous ignited the lightsaber and still held firmly onto the blaster. Grievous once again charged towards Obi Wan to meet him. The two lightsabers clashed; blue clashed against blue. The two lightsabers held against each other, Grievous pushing it towards Obi Wan, then with his other free hand fired two shots with his blaster at the Jedi Master. It was a dead eye shot—straight into the chest. Obi Wan faltered now, he stepped back, and released his grip on the lightsaber.

"It looks like I win," Grievous said as Obi Wan dropped his lightsaber; it fell to the ground. Grievous instinctively picked it up and ignited it.

"You'll never win," Obi Wan said.

Grievous stabbed Obi Wan through the neck with both lightsabers and then across the chest. The famous Jedi Master fell to the ground and slumped in a heap. Grievous then heard blaster fire as the Clones had arrived.

"Damn, his Clone Army," Grievous said, he quickly collected his cloak and retrieved his lightsabers and added the new one to his collection. He summoned his vehicle that came up from the lower level, to this level. Grievous hopped on board and drove off out of the bay and outside, down below; passing and knocking over several Clones in the process.

Quickly enough Grievous arrived at his secret landing pad, where his personal starfighter—the Soulless One was waiting. Grievous climbed into the starfighter, started the engines and took off. He soared up into space. As he flew into space, his small tactical display was showing the Republic fleet that were here invading Utapau. Grievous set lightspeed co-ordinates to a random but known planet in the Outer Rim, to hide from the Republic—if they were tracking him. Then he would set his co-ordinates for his real target, Mustafar.

Commander Cody and his squads of clones fought fiercely against the droids on these upper levels. Cody saw further on this level, what looked like the body of Obi Wan Kenobi.

"Move out!" Cody called the order to the other clones that were behind him. The Clones fully armed with their blaster rifles, and grenades raced forwards—but the droids were putting up an even, good fight. Cody finally arrived at the corpse, and indeed it was Obi Wan Kenobi. I just saw Grievous go by on his bike, we could have shot him, but he was too fast for us, Cody thought to himself.

It was now late afternoon on Coruscant. Anakin stepped up the set of stairs that led up to the Jedi temple. As he came to the entrance, he felt a strong disturbance in the Force, but couldn't pin point what had happened. Anakin entered the Jedi temple where Jurokk was standing at the gates.

"Young Skywalker," The Gate Master Jurokk greeted.

"Hello gate master Jurokk," Anakin greeted. "Have you seen Master Windu anywhere?"

"He was preparing to go and pay a visit to Chancellor Palpatine," Jurokk answered. "He could be still in the hangar bay."

"Thanks." Anakin replied. Anakin hurried as quickly as he could to the hangar bay in the Jedi temple.

Anakin came into the hangar bay of the Jedi Temple, where there were a large number of Jedi starfighters parked and ready to go, along with supplies. There was also a Republic Attack Gunship near the hangar bay doors. Mace Windu and several of the other council members were stood waiting with him such as Shaak Ti, Agen Kolar, Saesee Tiin, Coleman Kcaj and Kit Fisto.

"What's going on?" Anakin asked Mace Windu.

"We have received grave news, Anakin," Mace said grimly.

"What, what is it?" Anakin asked, looking from one master to the other.

"General Grievous has killed Obi Wan, and has escaped us again," Saesee Tiin told him.

"Obi-Wan's dead?" Anakin said, with a tear or two forming in his eyes.

"I'm sorry Anakin," Shaak Ti said.

"No, I'm fine," Anakin said. "We will hunt Grievous for his crimes. However there is something else I must tell you Master Windu. I have learned the truth about the Chancellor."

"What do you mean Anakin?" Mace Windu asked.

"Palpatine is the Sith Lord we've been looking for, he won't give up his power," Anakin informed them. He looked at them; each of them looking surprised and shell shocked.

"You are sure, Anakin?" Mace Windu asked.

"Yes, Master," Anakin answered.

"Saesee Tiin, Agen Kolar, Kit Fisto and I will go to pay a visit to the new Sith Lord, while you, Shaak Ti and Coleman Kcaj stay here." Mace Windu said. "You will lock the gates until we return."

"No, you shouldn't rush into anything master," Coleman Kcaj debated. "You should contact Master Yoda first, and decide what to do then."

"What if you don't return?" Shaak Ti asked.

"Then you three are in charge of the temple till Master Yoda returns, as you are the only other Council Members here, including Anakin," Mace Windu replied, grimly.

"I should be going with you," Anakin said.

"No, I have made up my mind young Skywalker," Mace Windu said.

"He is the chosen one," Kit Fisto said. "He should go instead of me."

"Palpatine will have to give up his power," Mace Windu said.

"What about General Grievous if he is still alive?" Coleman Kcaj posed another question.

"We shall have to recall all the Jedi Knights and hunt solely for General Grievous, even if it takes every single Jedi Master," Mace Windu answered gloomily. "We shall leave now."

"Sorry to bother you Masters," Said a new voice, a male voice.

Mace Windu turned to look round and saw that it was Nejaa Halcyon.

"Master Halcyon, what is it?" Windu asked.

"Master Yoda has just made contact with us, and requests to speak to you urgently," Halcyon informed him.

"I will go speak to him," Windu told him. "Wait here till I return."

Nejaa Halcyon led him to the communications room within the Jedi Temple, and went inside one of the chambers. There was a large holoprojector in the middle of the room, and it was a hologram of Master Yoda.

"Master Yoda," Mace Windu greeted.

"Master Windu," Yoda greeted him in the same tone of respect. "Felt I have, the death of Obi Wan, pains me, it does."

"We believed if any Jedi could've defeated Grievous, it would've been him." Mace Windu said.

"Made the mistake we did, pay we have to for making it," Yoda said.

"Anakin Skywalker has found out the truth regarding the second Sith Lord that we have been looking for." Mace Windu told him.

"Yes," Yoda said simply.

"It is Chancellor Palpatine, I believe the boy is telling the truth," Mace Windu told him.

Yoda was silent for several moments, and blinked a few times. "Very disturbing this new discovery is. Certain are you?"

"We are going to arrest the Chancellor now," Windu said. "Then we will be certain."

"Too dangerous, he is," Yoda said. "Managed to keep his identity secret, he did, for too long. Wait you must, for me, and the other Masters to return to Coruscant."

"What do we do about General Grievous?" Mace Windu asked.

"No master Grievous will have, along with the other separatist leaders, once Palpatine has been taken out of office." Yoda said. "The War will be over. Young Skywalker must not be allowed to interfere, if you go to arrest him now."

"I had already decided that Anakin should stay at the temple with Shaak Ti and Coleman Kcaj." Mace Windu said.

Yoda nodded in agreement.

The Soulless One came out of hyperspace, in the Mustafar system. General Grievous saw that there were three Trade Federation Cruisers up in the Planet's orbit. Grievous flew the specialised starfighter down into the planet's atmosphere. The Soulless One landed on a small landing pad, outside the Separatist bunker. General Grievous climbed out of the starfighter and walked over to the entrance to the bunker and walked inside. Grievous walked down the corridor and came into the main chamber where all the other Separatist leaders were waiting for him.

"General Grievous, you are still alive," Nute Gunray greeted, sounding slightly surprised.

"Thank you for your concern Viceroy," Grievous said, staring at him.

"Did you fight Kenobi then?" Cad Bane, the famous Duros bounty hunter, who had been hired by Dooku and the Separatists.

"Yes, here is his lightsaber," Grievous took out Obi Wan's lightsaber from in his cloak. "That Jedi won't be bothering us again."

"That is excellent news," San Hill said.

"I always doubted your capability, but now you have added one of the greatest Jedi to your trophy collection. We may still win this war." Gunray said.

"What is our next move?" San Hill asked.

"Contact Lord Sidious," Grievous decided. He took out his personal commlink, and activated it. Lord Sidious appeared on screen.

"General Grievous," Lord Sidious said in a surprised tone of voice that brought frowns from some of the other Separatist Leaders. "You defeated Obi Wan Kenobi then?"

"Yes, here is his lightsaber," Grievous showed him his lightsaber, as he was still holding it. He then placed it back inside his cloak.

"This is good news," Sidious said. "The war is almost over. The final move is about to happen."

"What is that?" Grievous asked.

"The capture of my new apprentice," Sidious said.

"And who might that be?" Grievous posed another question.

"Skywalker," Sidious told him, as it would do no harm, and as this is a private channel, there was a slim chance anybody was listening.

"Skywalker," Grievous repeated in disgust.

"You have made it easier for me to convert him, without the influence of his master," Sidious said. "You will all be rewarded for your hard work, during the Clone Wars."

"That's good to hear," Gunray said, listening into his conversation.

"What about the other remaining Jedi?" Grievous asked.

"They will be all destroyed," Sidious replied. "As they will be outlawed in my new Galactic Empire and the Jedi religion will be no more."

"Empire?" Gunray asked.

"Yes, it will do no harm to know that," Sidious said. "End transmission." The hologram went blank.

"Empire," Gunray repeated. "We were fighting for Independence, not an empire. We didn't want anything to do with the Republic."

"Do you think Count Dooku knew about this?" Cad Bane asked.

"I do not know," General Grievous said honestly.

"What happens to us when he turns the Republic into the Empire?" Passel Argente asked.

"What about Chancellor Palpatine?" Gunray posed another question.

"He'll probably kill him, if he has any sense," Cad Bane answered.

"Unless," Grievous said, theorizing.

"He is the Chancellor," Cad Bane offered.

"W-what?" Both Gunray and San Hill spoke up.

"We've never seen Sidious face," Grievous said. "He always wears that hood like the Jedi. What has he got to hide? His identity."

"You're only realising this now, after several years of fighting in a war for him?" Gunray demanded.

"Well yes," Grievous answered. "Why do you think he was surprised to speak to me?"

"I don't know," Gunray said.

"Because he expected Obi Wan to kill Grievous on Utapau," Cad Bane said. "The Chancellor is the only one who can give orders out to the Jedi."

"How did Sidious know that the Council were going to send Obi Wan to fight me unless he actually had direct contact with the Jedi Council." Grievous said.

"How come you're working this all out now then?" Gunray asked again.

"Well who else strong in politics could be Darth Sidious?" Grievous answered with a question.

"Okay, let's assume Chancellor Palpatine is Darth Sidious," San Hill said. "But we and the Jedi and the rest of the Republic have been following his sole orders, in a two war, but if you're right it was a one way war."

"Why would anyone conduct a war for two or three years, if it's against yourself?" San Hill asked.

"To weaken an opponent," Grievous said.

"What opponent?" Gunray asked.

"Us, or the Jedi," Grievous offered.

"Ah, what do we do now?" San Hill asked.

"We have a number of different choices, we could stay here," Cad Bane offered. "Better we could leave this planet and restart our organisation somewhere else and begin to fight back against the Chancellor. We could even join the renegade Jedi, who will probably be destroyed. Or we could stick with the Chancellor and be deceived by him again and again. Or most likely he will kill us all if we stay."

"Jedi..." Grievous said out aloud, thinking in disgust of joining the Jedi.

"We should go and warn the Jedi, and rescue them from Coruscant, so they can fight against the Chancellor or Emperor." Cad Bane suggested.

"Fight alongside the Jedi?" Nute Gunray exclaimed in disgust.

"Or we fight alone, the Separatist army has been almost drained from this war as have the Jedi." Cad Bane said.

"If you want to work alongside the Jedi General, I'm afraid; Count Dooku did alter your mind." San Hill told him, stepping a few feet away from the General.

"W-what!" Grievous demanded in outrage. "I told them not to change my mind."

"Sidious and Dooku went against your and my wishes," San Hill half-lied as he did agree to the mind altering but there was no one here to disagree with him who was there at the time, apart from Poggle the Lesser, but he kept quiet. "We can have it removed."

"Be quick, and remove," General Grievous said.

"Come with me, and we'll go into the medical room, where the droids can remove it from your mind." San Hill said.

Grievous followed San Hill out of the main conference room, and down the hall.

"Maybe he'll get some manners," Nute Gunray said after he had left.

"We must prepare to leave this planet, and head elsewhere," Cad Bane said. "Sidious knows we are here, he'll probably send his new apprentice to kill us. I would rather not have to deal with Skywalker again for the time being at least."

"I guess you are right, but you aren't in charge," Shu Mai agreed with him.

"We need to rescue the Jedi," Cad Bane.

"Why?" Gunray asked.

"One of the two most annoying Jedi is dead and the other's about to become a Sith, so we won't have to deal with them again. Most of the other Jedi we haven't even met, they maybe more approachable than Skywalker and Kenobi." Cad Bane said. "We need them to help us to fight the new Empire."

The Separatists waited in the conference room for General Grievous to return from his new surgery. Grievous and San Hill returned to the conference room.

"We have successfully removed the chip," San Hill announced. "So you should be less aggressive towards the Jedi and other people in general."

"Good," Grievous replied. "I'll take one cruiser to Coruscant and try to contact the Jedi."

"Where will rendezvous?" Gunray asked.

"A good place would be Nar Shaddaa," Cad Bane said. "I have many associates there that can help us, and its way away from Coruscant."

"Good," Grievous repeated. "I will bring as many Jedi as I can before the rest of them get exterminated." Grievous then turned and headed out into the corridor, and then to the exit.

"I hope he knows what he's doing," Gunray said after he had left.

"He does," Cad Bane said.

Mace Windu had indeed decided to go and arrest the Chancellor, to end the Clone Wars; once and for all. Mace Windu was stood in the Republic Gunship, alongside Saesee Tiin, Agen Kolar, and Kit Fisto—who had to come as Anakin Skywalker was not allowed to face the Chancellor. I hope we've made the right decision in going to the Chancellor's office, Mace Windu thought to himself. May the Force be with us all, or this could turn out very bad. I hope we don't come to regret rushing into arrest the Chancellor without the guidance of Master Yoda. Mace Windu thought to himself.

Shaak Ti was meditating in one of the many chambers in the temple. She sensed the confusion within Skywalker. She sensed the anticipation and concerns from the Jedi Masters going to face Palpatine. She sensed all the Jedi inside the temple were worried about the outcome, as they had all been informed that the Chancellor was the Sith Lord all the Jedi had been looking for. She came out of her trance as she heard the chamber door open. Coleman Kcaj was standing in the doorway.

"Jedi knight Aayla Secura and Barriss Offee have made contact with us, and request to speak to you as well as me," Coleman Kcaj said.

"Okay," Shaak Ti said, standing up to her feet.

Anakin was sat alone in the Jedi Council chamber. He was sat with his thoughts racing through his mind. 'I have the power to save the one you love,' Palpatine's words raced through his head, 'The Jedi are planning to betray me, they plan to overthrow me,' I can't sit here and allow the Jedi to kill him, he has the power to save Padme, I must do something to stop this madness, Anakin thought to himself. Anakin got up to his feet, he sensed someone at the chamber entrance door. He saw the door open and standing in the doorway was Ahsoka Tano.

"Anakin," Ahsoka greeted.

"I'm kinda in a rush at the moment, Snips," Anakin said.

"I'm sorry to hear about Obi Wan," Ahsoka said. "I've not spoken to you for a while; you've been off hunting down the Sith Lords and what not."

"We'll talk later on, okay," Anakin said.

"Alright, I hope you keep your promise," Ahsoka said.

"I'll try," Anakin replied. Ahsoka turned and left the council chamber.

Anakin rushed out of the council chamber and headed as quickly as he could to the temple doors.

Anakin came to the gate doors and Jurokk was standing there on guard.

"Open the gates, I need to leave," Anakin said.

"Master Windu gave me strict orders to make sure you remain here while they deal with the Chancellor," Jurokk said.

"Let me go," Anakin said. He couldn't be bothered dealing with him, he felt his anger rising inside him.

"No sorry Anakin," Jurokk said, shaking his head.

"Just let me go," Anakin said. "Fine, I'll open the gates myself." Anakin moved towards the door, but Jurokk stood in his path, taking out his lightsaber and igniting it.

"You can't leave." Jurokk said.

Anakin took out his own lightsaber and ignited it. "You can just walk away, and let me pass."

Jurokk shook his head. "Sorry, Anakin." Jurokk stabbed the lightsaber, towards Anakin, Anakin parried the strike. Anakin struck the lightsaber upwards, that cut his arm as Jurokk tried to parry it but he was the one with hardly any space. Jurokk dropped the lightsaber.

"Can I go now?" Anakin asked.

"If you must," Jurokk said, stepping out of the way. Anakin opened the gates, and rushed outside into the night.

Mace Windu and the four other Jedi Masters arrived in the Senate building, and they walked down the corridor to the Chancellor's office. Mace sensed the Chancellor sat inside his office, but his mind and thoughts were very hard to read. The four Jedi came into the Chancellor's office and saw him swivel around in his chair to face the Jedi Masters.

"Master Windu," Chancellor Palpatine said. "Did you manage to defeat General Grievous?"

"In the name of the Galactic Republic of the Senate, you're under arrest," Mace Windu said as he and the other Jedi took out their lightsabers and ignited them; all four—two blue, one green and a purple buzzing to life before the Chancellor.

"On what grounds?" Palpatine demanded.

"For being a Sith Lord," Mace Windu said. "The Senate will decide your fate."

"I am the Senate," Palpatine growled.

"Not yet," Mace Windu shot back.

"This is treason. How dare you go against the Chancellor and the Republic?" Palpatine howled.

"You have remained in office for too long, we have reason to believe you are the Sith Lord that we have been looking for." Mace Windu said.

"You are traitors of the Galactic Republic!" Palpatine exclaimed, and he stood up.

Mace Windu watched as a lightsaber appeared in his right hand, concealed from his robes, and he ignited it. He force jumped into the air, while emitting a loud animal like roar, as he swirled through mid-air. Palpatine landed on the ground in front of Agen Kolar and stabbed him through the chest so fast that, he didn't have a chance to react. Kolar's body fell to the ground; Mace Windu stepped back and took a swipe at Palpatine but he just blocked it and then moved onto Saesee Tiin. Palpatine slashed Saesee Tinn; his head dropped from his shoulders so fast, before he really had a chance to react.