We ran across the hangar to the elevators, leaving R2 and R7 behind with a commlink incase of emergency.

I hit the button for the elevator, just as the doors open Anakin warns us:

"Destroyers!" The three of us only are able to block their blasts as we back up into the elevator.

The door closes and we begin putting our lightsabers away and going up. Then the elevator comes to an abrupt stop.

"Did you push the stop button?" I look at Anakin,

"No, did you?" He asks Obi-Wan. Obi-Wan frowns and shakes his head. He takes out the commlink to talk to R2.

"Well there's more than one way out of here." Anakin says, taking his saber out again he starts a circle in the roof.

"We don't want to get out we want to get moving." I protest,

"R2, activate elavator 31174." Obi-Wan speaks into his commlink.

The circle Anakin made fell and almost killed us.

"Sorry, are you okay?" He asks me, I nod.

"I'm doing great, by the way." Obi-Wan rolled his eyes.

"Come on." He says, jumping through the hatch. I look between the two trying to decide what to do.

"R2, do you copy-" Obi-Wan tried him, but he was cut off by the elevator going down quickly.

"I think he heard you!" I said, picking myself back up.

"Yes but we don't need to be going down, we need to be going up! R2!" Obi-Wan yelled, I thought immediately of Anakin.

"Anakin!" I yelled through the hatch above.

"R2, we need to be going up!" Then even more abrupt than the stopping we start racing up.

"What about Anakin?" I walked to the front of the elevator to join Obi-Wan. Then behind me I heard a thud, my first instinct was to ignite my lightsaber in case of danger.

"Good to see you, too." Anakin brushed himself off.

"Oh, good it's you." I sighed, relieved, "Are you alright?"

"I just had two guns pointed at me, but thats a normal day for me." He smirked, "What happened here? I'm the one who should be asking that to you."

"Well R2 has been-" Obi-Wan started, but Anakin cut him off:

"Buh, buh-buh, no loose wire jokes." He said,

"Did I say anything?" Obi-Wan defended,

"You know, he's trying." Anakin defended his droid, I had to smile at his sweetness.

"I didn't say anything!" Obi-Wan whined. I smiled at my friends. I felt the need to hold Anakin's hand quickly.

I grabbed his hand and stared ahead, he accepted it and from the corner of my eye I saw him look at me and smile. It was moments like these that I cherished. Even for a second.

The elevator doors opened and I let go of his hand. We walked out and no one was there, this must be the trap. Something felt suspicious and odd since there were no droids here. From the balcony we could see Chancellor Palpatine spin in his chair, his wrists bound to the arm rests.

"Chancellor!" I ran to him, happy to see he was well.

"Be careful, my dear." He said, when Anakin and Obi-Wan joined, "Dooku."

We turned around to see the Sith Lord with 4 of his minion super battle droids following him. Obi-Wan stood his ground. I walked to stand beside him and drew my weapon.

"This time, we do this together." Obi-Wan told Anakin and I.

"I was just about to suggest that." Anakin said.

"Get help, you're no match for him. He's a Sith Lord." Palpatine told us, concern in his voice.

"Chancellor, Sith Lords are our speciality." Obi-Wan assured him, smiling. We took off our cloaks now.

"You're swords, please. We don't need to make a mess of things in front of the Chancellor." Count Dooku spoke,

"You won't get away this time, Count." Anakin said as the three of us approached him.

We attacked him from all sides but he was able to block our blows. He put is all on one side.

"I've been looking forward to this." His eyes scan from Obi-Wan, to Anakin, to me. I remember the fight we had on Geonosis now.

"Our powers have doubled since the last time we met, Count." I told him.

"Good, twice the pride, double the fall." He smiles proudly.

Then he flys Obi-Wan and I to the side and Anakin is left fighting him. While he is, Obi-Wan and I attack the droids and easily slice through them. When we join Anakin and Dooku again, its not long before he throws Anakin across the room, me to the side wall, and Obi-Wan he holds in the air, choking him before throwing him near Anakin.

Dooku drops a platform on them before I can get up to stop him. He flips over the railing, and I jump after him. We are caught in a hold, Dooku's defense meeting my offense.

"I sense much fear in you, (Y/L/N).. You have hate, you have anger. But you don't use them." He tsked. I released a little bit of it, using the Vapaad style Master Windu taught me.

"How's the whole love affair going? Still pining after Skywalker?" He asked me.

"How's the whole taking over the galaxy going? Winning?" I hit his lightsaber multiple times. I was mad. I was frustrated with him.

"I see the Masterless Padawan has grown into a much more mature knight. We need a new name for you." He stood back.

Anakin was able to wiggle out of the platform and join me. Together we were able to overpower him. We both were fighting him until Anakin caught him at a weak point, cutting off his hands with his saber and then holding both his own blue lightsaber, and Dooku's red one in his hands and around Dooku's neck.

Looking at him it feels right. Anakin Skywalker is the man to bring balance to the force, in his hands he holds both the light and the dark side and carefully intertwines them. Delicately he keeps them separate and together.

"Good, Anakin, good!" Chancellor cheers, "Now, kill him, kill him now." He spat on him. Surely, driven by the mistreatment he held against the Chancellor.

"I-I can't." Anakin pulled away his sabers, "He must withstand trial."

"Anakin! What are you doing? He's far too dangerous to be kept alive!" Palpatine panics.

"He's right, Anakin." I chime in.

"No, I won't." He walked away to go help Obi-Wan. He hung his head in defeat.

"(Y/N), you must do this, you know how dangerous this man is. He'll escape before we even leave the ship." The Chancellor chimed in my ear. I felt conflicted, Anakin was right, he should withstand trial for the Republic, but the Chancellor was here telling me to kill him. And Dooku had done millions of horrible acts, millions of murders. "Think of all the pain this man has caused you alone." The Chancellor whispered.

I didn't say anything but I did ignite my lightsaber as I approached Dooku. I felt over run with hatred for all the people he has harmed and for little of a reason. He had taken peace away from this galaxy. He was behind Master Unduli's killing. He took Anakin's hand. He took away my confidence and I remembered flashes of the fight we had. He had made Caleb question the Jedi and leave me. I thought of my future family who might not have a good life because of the pain he started. I blamed him for everything. I would be doing the galaxy a service.

I was about to strike when my saber flew out of my hands and into Anakin's.

"(Y/N)! Don't!" Anakin yelled from Obi-Wan's unconscious side. But I was too overcome with hatred, I felt Dooku's throat in my hands. I used the force to squeeze it tighter. Despite the absence of skin on fingertips I felt the organs in his throat close. I felt this way until Anakin pulled my hands away. He held me to his chest and away from the situation.

"What have you done?"