Chapter 26(Volume 1 Epilogue)

"May I... ask what are you?" asked Yoda as an awkward silence suddenly engulfed everyone. The jedis praised their grand master for his bravery on even asking something to the man in front of them and not getting immediately one shotted and probably thrown straight to space.

"I am the Emperor of Mankind. A good dad to my sons and has a little power." answered the Emperor with a a majestic voice. The jedis was mesmerized by not only his appearance but also his voice. Before, they can't imagine a perfect existence, but seeing the appearance of the Emperor. They finally can imagine what a perfect existence is.

"Yoda's your name, am I right?" asked the Emperor to Yoda while looking down at him literally, this made the all the jedis extremely cautious. Not only is he a perfect existence but their information network is also vast.

"And you must be Obi-Wan Kenobi, your master is Qui-Gon Jinn. You're..." as the Emperor slowly enumerated every personal information regarding each one of them made them fearful. They felt like an open book in front of the Emperor and can only bow and evade his gaze.

Yoda looked at the Emperor seriously, he's trying to sense the Emperor's full power through the force but all he can sense are almost the inexhaustible amount of the weird energy perpetrating and coursing through his, and every body of the people from the Imperium. In fact he doesn't sense anything other than the weird energy. As if the man before him is a pure energy on a shell of a human.

At this moment, the entourage of Mace Windu has arrived as they sensed the epicenter of the golden beam was in front of the jedi temple. Mace Windu requested Ki-Adi to escape and bring the padawans to safety using the safety escape tunnels.

Mace Windu ran towards the entrance and was stunned on what he saw before his eyes. A man, yes, a man standing 14ft tall wearing golden armor with a glowing light halo and a golden crown with the design of leaves.

Mace Windu stopped as so do his entourage as their originally ignited lightsabers was turned off by them in fear of offending the tall golden man.

"You must be Mace Windu, your master is..." the golden man started to tell the newly arrived entourage of Mace Windu their personal information which made them open their eyes widely in fear and shock.

The Emperor gave them a soothing smile which dispelled their fear and shock. They're mesmerized by this smile as they slowly walk towards the Emperor as if he's waiting for him to preach the truth about the universe.

"You're the jedi order, defenders of peace of the galaxy." said the Emperor to the jedis which listened attentively.

"But how do you define peace?" asked the Emperor as they fell into deep thought on how they can answer this question. His voice changed from the before friendly and amicable to a deep and fear inducing one.

"Your majesty, peace is something that gives everyone the right to live, enjoy, and choose." answered a female jedi knight.

"Your majesty, it's tranquility, a freedom from violence." answered another jedi knight.

"So, do you think you can protect this peace?" a question boomed on their ears as they find it hard to answer. They believe themselves to be an invincible existence, they categorize themselves to be like the Emperor in front of them so they didn't think anyone can defeat them. They're sure that they're more thsn enough to protect this peace.

"Si vis pacem para bellum." as the words of the Emperor were spoken, an artillery barrage hit their position causing deaths of some of the jedi. The jedis felt the force warn them about something but only the high ranking jedis and experienced one can react fast enough.The high ranking jedis such as Yoda and Mace Windu managed to evade the barrage but some of weaker jedi knights was unfortunate as they got turned to blood mist.

The barrage only hit the jedis as it luckily didn't hit the Emperor or his custodians.

The custodians suddenly went on full alert as they immediately covered the Emperor with their bodies guarding him with their lives as they observed the surrounding.

"My liege, the clone army of the republic managed to set up an artillery battery position near you. The aerial squadron is en route to bomb their position." informed the Captain General Kit... to the Emperor which just nodded as he looked at Vulkan and nodded.

"It looks like It's time to meet him and bargain that kid. Have those torpedoes just in case." ordered the Emperor to the Captain General which immediately complied.

"I suggest all of you to evacuate, a large battle might unfold." said the Emperor as he smiled at everyone and nodded at Vulkan, signalling him to join his entourage.

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Moments ago before the artillery barrage....

"The Emperor? The man in charge of the Imperium has personally came? I see, I'll deal with this." said Palpatine to one of his spies as he looked totally excited beyond belief.

The information from his spy confirmed the extremely strange but powerful energy he felt earlier was from the Emperor himself. Palpatine can't wait to meet him face to face and strike a deal with him. The Emperor might be powerful but he's certain he can go toe to toe with him using the power of the dark side of the Force. That energy earlier is a little bit stronger than his ultimate attack so he's hoping that's the full power of the Emperor.

He then looks at the military officer inside his office and orders. This officer ismind controlled by Palpatine to do everything he orders so he's extremely loyal.

"Have the an artillery battery ready and send in a barrage of strike to the position of the enemy! We can't let them have a proper meeting." ordered Palpatine which made the officer salute and immediately relay his orders to the clones on the battlefield.

"Your Imperium really is something else, giant warriors capable of overpowering hundreds of thousands of clones easily." mumbled Palpatine, he'll have this Imperium for himself one way or another. If he can't, then he'll make sure they'll collapse. But now, he need to get the attention of this Emperor guy and try to have him accept him as a part of the Imperium to try if his plan a will work. What else is a better way of hetting the attention of someone than firing a barrage at them.

Palpatine laughed lightly as this laugh slowly became loud and turned into something sinister.

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The squadron of aerial vehicles received the order of bombing the artillery battery near the jedi temple. It's only about 10 kilometers away from the temple and this battery fired a barrage to the Emperor. This information made them angry as they overloaded their engines to the max to reach and destroy the artillery battery position quickly.

But something caught their eyes, a meteor quickly penetrated the atmosphere heading for the jedi temple. It's as big or probably bigger than the drop pods. It suddenly hit the crust causing defeaning shockwaves.

The squadron leader was the first to get out of this trance as he reminded everyone of their mission.

"Snap out of your trance! We're on a mission! If you won't then I'll make sure to personally shoot you down myself!" the growling voice of the squadron leader sounded on the communication equipment of everyone which made them exit the trance and ready their weapons.

Seeing this the squadron leader was satisfied as he started to perform nosedive which everyone followed. The whistling of the planes of engines sounded as the anti air weaponry of the clones sounded.

But the quickness of the planes proved deadly for the clones as they got bombed to hell without successfully shotting down a plane.

...

The Emperor looked at a distance with a smile. His eyes gazed at the chancellor's suite. He looked at Palpatine directly in the eyes as he disappeared in golden light.

Palpatine on the other hand was gazing at the digital window of his bunker. But as he looked at the digital window, he felt someone looking at him. He searched for it but can't find it anywhere in the room.

Someone's looking at his soul, yes directly at his soul. He felt it, he felt naked in front of him as if he can't hide any secret whatsoever.

As he stumbled back he felt something hard behind him as he slowly turned to look at it. What he saw frightened him, a man around 8ft tall with golden armor and claws looking down at him. He has this majestic aura that of a royalty which is something Palpatine aims to be one. The title of royalty brings fear to a magnitude, something he wants for everyone to feel.

"You're Sheev Palpatine, or should I call you Darth Sidious?" asked the Emperor as his armor suddenly glowed in gold realeasing immense amounts of psychic energy. At this moment, the Emperor and Palpatine suddenly warped out of the bunker as Palpatine who waa free falling was suddenly choked midair by the Emperor who was flying with his psychic energy made wings. Fear perpetrated all throughout the body of Palpatine.

They're currently floating in the sky near the low planet orbit of Coruscant. The scenery of the distant battles on land and air are clear as day in this height. The oxygen is also thinner as Palpatine had a hard time breathing, couple it with the choke of the Emperor, he almost passed out.

But palpatine can't help but struggle on this choke of the Emperor. He can't properly move nor breath as his life was held at a sword's point by the Emperor.

He can only agree lest the man in front of him suddenly decided to once again warp them and drop him to a black hole. Not that he's afraid of falling into a black hole but escaping it with the man choking him ensuring his death are for impossible tasks.

"Palpatine, you're quite the man I must say. You managed to strike a deal with us before, how about we have a simple deal again as I need something from you or do you want me to poof you out of existence?" asked the Emperor with a smirk in his eyes as he performed a snap which made Palpatine struggle even more. As if he saw the devil, Palpatine wanted to escape this planet as soon as possible. He's no fool, he can't fight this man right now, probably in the future he can, but now, it's still impossible.

If Palpatine understands that motion of the snap, it simply means that he'll yeet him out of the universe and literally destroy the matter he's composed of.

"Anakin, I know you have an interest on this boy, I can give him to you in exchange for a simple thing. That thing is, knowledge about the Force and all the abilities..." said the Emperor as he looked at Palpatine who's midair being choked, almost inches away from his death.

As they're talking amongst themselves, the space marines has started to launch a counterattack against the clones who's sieging them.

The clones didn't stood a chance against the space marines as they either got burned to death, had their whole body obliterated by a heavy bolter, or something else.

After hours of extermination, the planet has formally fallen to the Imperium as Palpatine's starship was given the special treatment of letting it pass the cordon of ships of the Imperium. This was done by the Emperor out of goodwill as he duped Palpatine on agreeing to his wants. With the knowledge of using kyber crystals and knowledge about the force, the Emperor will surely cultivate a new set of force powered primarchs if he feels it's needed.

The jedis was also given the pass by Vulkan, he wanted to ensure the safety of his friends at least. The Emperor didn't mind such things at all as it's too trivial.

As the Emperor was looking at the departing starship of Palpatine from the deck of his flagship, one of his custodians walked near him and told him something.

"My liege, the planet has fallen before your might. What should we possibly do to this planet? The cyclone torpedoes are ready, the virus bombs too are ready." reported Constantin Valdor as he whispered it to the ear of the Emperor.

"Let this planet be, we're done with our mission here. We don't need to destroy a planet pulverized to the ground. As destroying the planet would give them ideas of our other capabilities. You can't reveal all your cards in one go." chuckled the Emperor as he walked out of the deck to search for his son Vulkan and have a heart to heart talk with him.