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7.12.4

A few seconds earlier...

The Sister paid no attention to Tyrannus but responded to Skywalker alone. She stood up straight and held one end of her lightsaber beside her. "If he means so much to you, then fight for him."

"I will," threatened Anakin in a low voice. He turned away from Dooku, and although the Sith wanted to kill Skywalker he did not try to stop the fight. He would let Skywalker kill the Sister, and then he would get back to the plan, right after he dealt with the other Jedi.

Anakin stared at the Togruta standing in front of him, his head pounding, his heart racing. The Inquisitor would die for threatening the Chancellor, nothing would hold him back from killing her now. He pointed his lightsaber at her, and she ignited the other end of her lightsaber.

The end that was pointed directly at Palpatine's chest. He gasped for air, and Anakin felt something in his head freeze.

No, not him too!

Anakin wanted to scream, but he couldn't move. His limbs were still, and he could have sworn his heart slowed down. The Chancellor looked down at his chest, saw the red blade piercing it, and stared up at the Inquisitor, who had turned to face at him and was no longer looking Anakin.

"I promised you," she said slowly, "I would see your plan through...to the END."

As he stared at Palpatine, at his dying body, Anakin felt his fear, he felt anger, his wrath, his disbelief. As he opened his mouth, the word that slipped out was barely audible, but Anakin would never forget it because only he knew the word that was supposed to come after it.

"You...." ....traitor.

As the Chancellor took his last breath, and he slumped over to the side. The Sister deactivated both ends of her lightsaber and turned to the other five occupants in the room. She bowed and muttered but two words: "You're welcome." And she meant it.

Unfortunately, her voice broke the spell cast on the others by Palpatine's death. Anakin snapped out of his daze and narrowed his vision at the Inquisitor. "You...how could you?" His voice was tainted with Darkness, with hate, with fear that wasn't altogether his. All he knew was that she deserved to die for what he had done.

The Sister knew this and wasn't about to wait for it to happen. She reactivated her lightsaber and threw it at the window behind the desk. It shattered the glass and she jumped after it, removing herself from the late Chancellor's office.

Anakin screamed and sprinted after her. She wasn't about to get away that easy. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!?!?" He shouted after her, but the Inquisitor didn't bother to respond. She needed to get back to that ship before Tyrannus came to his senses.

After the Inquisitor left her Sith Fire died down, and the Jedi Masters were free to move about the office. They encircled Dooku and tried to trap him, but he ran after the runaways seeing no other option. He couldn't fight three Jedi Masters, not without Sideous. He had to escape, he had to get back to his ship.

His ship. The Inquisitor was going to steal it.

As he fell to the ground and caught himself with the Force, he fumed, his anger building inside. The Sister may have taken his glory, his pride, and his master, but she would not take his ship, not while he had breath in his lungs. He ran after her, and immediately realized a few problems with that plan.

One: His master's death had weakened him. He had depended on his power for too long; now that he was gone, his strength was limited. Two: The Sister was much faster than him, in his weakened state, there was no way he could catch her. Three: Skywalker was also chasing her, and Tyrannus was very reluctant to follow his master to death. Sideous had always said that death was the only thing worth being afraid of, which was why he had spent so much time trying to learn how to live forever. If death could take his all-powerful master, then what did that make Tyrannus, his apprentice?