Chapter 83

Two force users looked at each other, me clad in black armour without my lightsaber against Emperor Palpatine who now held my weapon as well as his own. The vicious angry face of Palpatine had converted back to his smug face.

"Now what will the great Grove Collection representative do, no allies, no weapons, no power" Palpatine twisted the lightsabers around like playthings

The Deathstar's lights turned red and flashed warnings of an attack. The total rebel army hadn't caused the Deathstar to go into full-on defence, but now something had changed.

The floor trembled as the whole moon base rumbled.

Without missing a beat I answered "Now my old enemy, Now it gets interesting"

Ribbons of lightning rolled over my body and transformed into biting snakes and snapping dragons.

That smug look drained from Palpatines face like water going down a drain only to leave a pale cold face devoid of anger and ego. The Sith craved power, but this was something Palpatine had never seen before. He had more power but right in front of him there was someone who knew the force better and had greater control over it which made him feel small and wasteful.

I adjusted my armour so I was more comfortable "Do you feel that" I asked Palpatine through the rumbling Deathstar "That is the end. Right now, your super weapon death star is being conquered by my super weapon killer"

Palpatine didn't say a word, he only changed his stance and circled.

"You've made a powerful weapon but no matter how big or strong your creation is there is always a counter, even elephants will run from a hoard of bees" I gestured outside to the hyperspace exit that had refused to close.

"Hundreds of thousands of itty bitty ships packed with simple directives are passing through and making connections with your Deathstar" I knew the Death Star was coming and had retrofitted one of my Dyson swarms as a counter to the Deathstar. My swarm of energy-collecting ships, no bigger than an escape pod had been turned into a death swarm of exploding tiny ships that now swarmed the death star and detonated causing the moon-sized base to shake.

"It's only a matter of time, before you have lost" Palpatine didn't like hearing those words as he lunged at me but to his great surprise a shield made from lightning rippled as his weapons bounced off. To Palpatines great credit, he didn't give up but used telekinesis to throw whatever wasn't nailed down. Lightning shield dashed away all of the projectiles but even that didn't stop the Emperor as he closed the gap and used twin lightsaber techniques to assault my lightning.

"How are you so powerful" yelled Palpatine as he leaned against his duel lightsabers against my lightning shield.

"The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities, some of which are considered unnatural" I mocked using the same words that Palpatine had once used.

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While Palpatine was furious his tactical mind was still intact and working with his powers. With a twist of his lightsaber, he stabbed into my stolen lightsaber and caused an overload that rippled my shield away. If Palpatine thought that this was going to be the winning stroke he was sorely wrong as I started to throw punch after punch towards the now single lightsaber-wheeling Emperor.

Surprised, Palpatine defended expecting to cause some damage but my fist that could dent steal and crush stone came out unhurt due to the rolling power of my electrical fists. With well-placed strikes, I was able to push Palpatine back into a corner and with a swift sweeping attack to his legs I was able to take the old man's footing.

To my surprise, Palpatine used my own move against me. He let go of his lightsaber and attempted to kick it at me. By pure luck he hit my underarm and cut my arm off, he might have gloated but my unhurt arm broke his jaw with a counter. Neither of us would back down and like true warriors we found counters and weak points in everything we did, even losing an arm or having your face crushed.

Twisting in the air, Palpatine pulled his lost weapon towards him and jabbed it upwards to slice under my helmet. My helmet held against the power of Palpatines lightsaber but he had a focal point where he used his hilt on my helmet and with immense strength gained from the force and the heat from the lightsaber was able to rip half of my helmet off. He was rewarded with a hard roundhouse kick that crushed his arm and caused him to fly across the room.

Again, we were separated but unlike before we both had suffered injuries. Palpatine crushed arm and broken face and me with my sliced off arm.

Palpatine pain was great but that gave him more power. A deep growling laugh mixed with gurgles of phlegm and blood pooled in his mouth only to be quickly spat out onto the floor. "Good, good. You fight well. Become my apprentice and we will rule the galaxy"

My back was turned to Palpatine but my voice still carried "I know more about the force than you, I'm the master...." at this time I decided to use my strongest abilities cleverly.

My decarded arm floated up to my stump and reached itself, I slowly turned to the amazed Palpatine while my attached arm flexed and my next words shocked Palpatine to his core.

"....my young apprentice." my face distorted and my height increased, my armour fell away and a heavy cloak sat on my shoulders

Palpatines face dropped and he almost lost control of his lightsaber. Fear rolled off his mind and his mashed-up tongue became numb. Right in front of him was an image of his long-dead master, Darth Plagueis.

Darth Plagueis the wise floated off the ground and inched ever closer to Palpatine.

"This is impossible, i killed you, I KILLED YOU" Yelled Palpatine through the gargling mess

I knew how Darth Plagueis died and it wasn't through the skill of the force or lightsaber "Strike me down and I will rise stronger, I can manipulate all life, including my own. When you struck me down in my sleep did you think I didn't have a way back? Death has no grip on me"

Darth Plagueis could will the very force to make people live, this was one of the stories that Palpatine told Anakin to persuade him into betraying the Jedi to save his wife so when I lied and told Palpatine that his master had never died and was waiting to get his revenge, he believed it, he believed it with his whole heart.

At this point, Palpatine was on his ass with his one good arm held up high to use it to protect himself, his lightsaber fell from his grip that quickly flew to my hand. I stood over him, my shadow blocking out his light.

My hand lowered slowly and tapped his flailing hand away. It flopped to his side to stabilise his body. Palpatines eyes never left my face and the fear was clear as crystal, even when my hand wrapped around his throat and squeezed. Every Sith was afraid, it was the nature of the dark side. The Sith were afraid of losing power, losing ability, becoming sick, dying......and Palpatine was just the same. Fear no longer rolled off his mind, instead it filled his mind. As the air failed to gather in his lungs and his vision went dark, the fear he had caused the galaxy never once popped into his mind, only his fear of dying was there. All Sith are afraid but this one Sith Lord would soon be free.