Aboard the Venator class star destroyer of Admiral Yularen, the Jedi knight Anakin Skywalker and his
master Obi-Wan Kenobi, had been surprised to discover the return of the former Jedi Ahsoka
Tano, asking for their help in capturing the renegade Sith Maul. Meeting together with Bo
Katan and her group of Mandalorians, the Jedi are reluctant to assist the neutral planet,
but send a division of the 501st legion to aid them. Their decision is made easier by an alarm
screaming through the ship, and the dramatic news that General Grievous had just attacked Coruscant,
and they had to rescue Chancellor Palpatine. The Jedi navigate through the chaos of the airspace,
and skidded into Grievous’ flagship, the Invisible hand and battle through every droid crossing
their path, before finding the Chancellor at the summit of the ship. To their annoyance,
Dooku blocked their path to a successful mission, and Anakin is left to fight the apprentice alone,
as Obi-Wan had been knocked out earlier in the duel, but he used his dark side to overpower
the separatist leader. Anakin was reluctant to kill Dooku, as it was not the Jedi way,
but encouragement from his friend Palpatine forced him to cut his lightsabers across Dooku’s neck.
But what if Anakin never killed Dooku? How would this impact Palpatine’s plans?
As you are going to find out, the initial survival of Dooku could have saved more lives than one…
The Jedi knight ferociously attacked his familiar foe, giving in to some of his dark
side anger and hate, and finally found a flaw in the aging Sith’s technique, severing his arms.
Catching the fallen lightsaber, and crossing it against Dooku’s throat, Anakin could end the war
here, but he looked at Obi-Wan and decided that he needed to help him first. Ignoring the not
so subtle hints from Palpatine, he pushed Dooku into the hard floor, and rendered him unconscious,
before lifting the railing trapping his master. Anakin the freed Palpatine, who did not approve
of his decision, but thanked his rescue attempt, as the Jedi knight carried the injured duellists
on each of his shoulders, as they ventured through the ship for an escape. On the way, Obi-Wan was
horrified to find a Sith beside him, before they were trapped by the ray shield set by Grievous.
The cyborg was surprised to see the body of Dooku, and ordered his Magnaguards to deal with the Jedi.
Grievous himself saw the chaos, and smashed all of the windows to depressurize the area,
and he grabbed the fallen Dooku, and scrambled to an escape pod. The Jedi inside had found a section
of the ship with enough air to breathe, and R2-D2 sent an emergency signal to the Jedi Council.
In the Jedi temple’s communication centre, the Jedi had been awaiting for news of the
Chancellor’s rescue, and the one they received was not one they had expected.
Master Ki Adi Mundi is dispatched to rescue the Jedi and the Chancellor,
taking a group of clones in Republic gunships to the burning dreadnought. The Jedi had been
on the verge, until they saw Master Mundi, and held onto his shoulders, and returned
to Coruscant. The Jedi left the shuttlebus to a hero’s welcome, but the missing Dooku meant that
there was no time for celebrations, and they began to plot a trap for the Sith apprentice.
Anakin and Obi-Wan stood around the holotable, and felt certain that Grievous would have taken Dooku
to have cybernetics arms implemented, pointing to the planet of Geonosis. Master Windu is unwilling
to commit resources to what could be a chase of false hope, but Anakin and Obi-Wan are dispatched
to pursue the Separatists, as their initial plans of having Anakin spy on the Chancellor,
had been scuppered by the escape of Dooku. Back in the office of the secret Sith Lord, Palpatine had
not thought Anakin could resist the temptation to kill Dooku, and perhaps he did not have the dark
side to become his future apprentice. Finding the holographic code to Grievous, the cyborg had been
repairing Dooku, just as the Jedi had sensed, and he ordered the Kaleesh duellist to move
the remainder of the Separatists to Mustafar, and await further instruction. From his medical bay,
Dooku could hear his master, and staggered to meet his hologram, disbelieving of what Palpatine had
order Anakin to do on the Invisible Hand. Sidious claimed that it was a warning Dooku, and what
would happen if he failed him again, before the Separatists were interrupted by a tactical droid.
The Jedi had arrived on their planet of Geonosis, and Dooku flexed his new arms in
anticipation of revenge. The Count of Serenno ordered for the Geonosian army to be deployed
and delay the Jedi, as he prepared the massive droid army from outside of the planet,
and continued to adapt to his cybernetics. Outside of their secret base, the Jedi heard a loud buzz,
and prepared their blades, as Geonosians rose from their hives on the orders of Dooku,
and attacked. Lifting a group of fallen rocks, Obi-Wan and Anakin repelled them, as the clones
fired at rapid speed, and they slowly retreated back into their catacombs. As they did so, the
Jedi thought they were free to advance, until they heard a loud rumble from the skies, and a large
group of Separatists ships dropped into view. That is it for part 1 what if Anakin never
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