Chapter 94

  "Your arrogance is your weakness" Those words roll out for all the Jedi to hear. Their confusion is well earned as the doppelganger that had protected and fought with them, eyes turned yellow and the once smooth voice twisted and crocked to sound like their terrible foe.

  Their confusion jumps up a further level when other doppelgangers speed towards the yellow-eyed one and slash at him with their lightsabers. The yellow-eyed doppelganger turns to vapour, becoming one with the force.

  A doppelganger that just dispatched the yellow-eyed one is now infected with the same yellow-eyed treatment: "HEHEHEHE..."

  The Jedi haven't a clue what's going on, all they see are dopplegangers destroying each other. At first it was a simple one sided fight with a twitching doppleganager arkwardly fighting off skilled force users but as each one is dispatched the changes become more and more shocking.

  The army of the new Republic seem to have a better understanding and lower pay grade for them to interfere with force users fighting and make them selfs busy away from the battleling lightsabers. It was the correct move.

  Doppleganger vs doppleganger. When one fell, anouther was an unwilling contaner for Palpatines spirit. The Jedi was stunned, they couldn't take action, they didn't know who was the enemy.

  A young padawan desperate for action and to finish the fight rushed towards a newly yellowed-eyed doppelganger ready to strike it down. With a swift flick Palpatine was able to disarm the padawan and slice at the same time. Thankfully a Jedi master was able to pull the padawan back as a small coin floated towards the deadly strike and immited a force field that was able to protect the padawan.

  "Stay out of this, kid" yelled the master as he tossed the padawan back.

  As he flew back the padawan expect the master to join the fight but instead he follwed the padawan away from the dopplegangers. The master wasn't a coward, he could hold his own in a lightsabers fight but he knew that this was just the beginning.

  The master had once been a padawan and had been taught a few things by the people who were fighting at the moment. He rememberd how frightningly fast Bee was, he rembered the amazing flips and cuts that Bee did but what stuck with him for all of these years was the illusions that encompassed the whole training yard and fooled padawans and Jedi alike.

  The master wasn't a coward but he didn't want to be ingulfed by those illusions only to strike down his fellow Jedi thinking they were the enemy.

  The Jedi retreated further away, enough distance to see the fight but hopefully not enough to be affected.

  Just in time as Palpatine's spirit became more aware of the abilities of the doppelgangers and started to warp the area around him to inficlet illusions of terrible pain and suffering, of images of death and gore. It started small with blood seeping from non-existing wounds, then a few fingers crawling out of blood and flesh. Palpatine with all his power engorged himself with the delights of sicking illusions.

  This did nothing to the doppelgangers as Palpatine had missed the rules of inflicting illusions on the masses.

  Palpatine was cut down again and as his spirit left the doppleganger, he now understood that illusions wouldn't work on the dopplegangers but that didn't matter as he found somthing better.

  The newest victim of Palpatine was the fastest possion to date as the doppleganger only shuddered as he took over. Almost emmitealy Palpatine was attacked but this time he retreated up the stone steps of the collesem to buy time.

  Thick lightning passed through his new fingers to slow his persuers and he hopped futher up the stone steps. Palpatine marvoraled over the raw power of each dopplegangers body as he jumped away without any force powers. His leg would scap at the stone because of a miss step but instead of bonceing off the strong stone, chuncks of stone would break off at the amazing strenght of his new body.

  Palpatine was pleased with the doppelganger's power but he did wonder what the real body was like. With that momentary lapse of concentration, both of his legs were blown off, and yet instead of pain and anger, there was a soft smile. A hand was placed on Palpatines shoulder from behind and the soft smile on Palpatines face twisted into an evil grin as he turned around to meet with a doppleganger who looked just like him, twisted smile and all.

  "Hello me" Palpatine giggled.

  "Hello you" replied the newly formed doppelganger

  Palpatine had made his own doppelganger.

  This was the worest thing that could happen. A force user that was able to tie the surrounding force in to powerful dopplegangers. Self replacating Palpatines, each one with the will power to surive and creat massive suffering to the galaxy.

  The new doppleganger kicked the spirit Palpatine at the advanceing enemy. Palpatine's crulity and brutality was legdendary, even to him self.

  Palpatines doppelganger split the air with his laughter. The course noise burst through the air to be met with new laughter and then another as more Palpatine doppelgangers were created.

  The Jedi that were watching and didn't like what they were seeing. Palpatines doppleganagers were muiltplyiong out numbering their allies. It became clear that the once one side fight had turned on its self and now Bee's doppleganger were the ones being out numbered.

  The Jedi fired apoun the expanding crowd and laughing dopplegangers. A wall of laser fire caused any new dopplegangers from being created and made the old ones take cover.

  It was then the Palpatine dopplegangers disapeared, thier images warped and faded away. Palpatine was making a run for it, better to live and create many more doppleganger to take over the galaxy than chance a defeat here.

  Palpatines laughter echoed as he made his way and yet the force whispered to him. Something deadly was coming for him. He looked around to witness a starship ramming his way. The ship landed at great speed causing the ground to buckle, it turned on one side and flipped crushing any number of doppelgangers and before the sparks from the rushing movement of the ship could stop, Bee ripped through the metal like it was tissue, twisting in the air like a circus performer shooting from a blaster, hitting every mark and never hitting his men. Landing beside a Palpatine doppelganger, catching the wrist of a badly thrown punch only for its head to be causally kicked off with a roundhouse kick.

  Even the invisible Palpatine doppelgangers that had tried to escape had holes blasted into their chest, not a single doppelganger was missed. A bunch of new Palpatine doppelgangers worked together and ejected a giant slice of the colosseum towards Bee, who jumped onto the rock, stamped it down into the ground and with the crumbling rock he shot out ground missiles that blasted Palpatine doppelgangers head away. It was an amazing use of the force. Very little was being used but each use caused a doppelganger to fall. A Palpatine doppelganger who had gained a lightsaber challenged Bee with a swift swipe only to find his hand ripped off by the more deft, powerful hands of Bee. Nothing was being wasted by the actions of the real Bee, the blaster shots that coloured the air that the panicking Jedi and republic released were redirected like any force user that had a glancing understanding of form three but the way Bee did it left Palpatine's jaw opened like a fish. It was causal, something that took no effect but the results were staggering. Blaster shots would clip off doppelgangers and hit multiple targets leaving them crippled and easy pickings. Palpatine spirit was dispatched from a doppelganger by a bolt of hot blaster energy that he had redirected only for that same bolt to be redirected not by a lightsaber but from a second blaster bolt.

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  Refilling into a new doppelganger, Palpatine felt anger but also immense joy and eagerness. The doppelgangers were great containers for his spirit but just imagine what he could do with the original. His jaw became stoic and his lips became tight, Palpatine licked his lips as he shortened the distance between his new prey. He was wary as he watched the original use force powers together like it was nothing. Three Palpatine doppelgangers rushed Bee, each one possibly with the same idea as the spirit Palpatine and yet without mercy they were destroyed. Jaws were ripped off, eyes were gouged, and one unlucky doppelganger mistook an illusion for his target only to have his balls kicked so hard that it crumpled the whole body and caused the doppelganger to thankfully turn into mist.

  Palpatine focused, gently he moved closer watching his doppelgangers becoming mist in more brutal ways, and then he pouced. Glee was all over Palpatines face as his falling body dropped on his target. The cowardly ability to hide himself that he had stolen from the doppelgangers was now the creator's downfall. It brought joy to him that he would take over the original's body with the same abilities that had vexed the whole of Exegol for the last ten-plus years.

  Palpatine was so close, all he had to do was grab hold of Bee and drain him, wipe out his mind and take over his body. He was meters away when a sudden stillness surrounded him. It felt cold and lonely, Palpatine didn't know what was going on. It scared him more than death, at least with death he could take over a new doppelganger but, this was different.

  To add more shock to his fear, Bee swiveled on the spot with great speed and caught Palpatines hands. The fear turned into joy as it didn't matter who touched who, Palpatine was in striking distance and yet he still felt cold.

  Bee gave Palpatine a toothy smile "Hello again, old man" Bee's hands gripped ever harder over Palpatines wrist "You look better as a doppelganger"

  Palpatine wanted to sneer at him but found his legs being snapped apart by a deft kick from Bee. "I wonder if you can leave a doppelganger at will or do you have to die first, what would happen if I broke you and trapped you in this body"

  Palpatine ignored the threat as there were any number of ways to kill himself. Instead, he concentrated on taking over Bee's body with his spirit.

  Another snap caused Palpatine's arm, wrist and shoulders to become useless.

  Pain was nothing to a Sith and Palpatine worked ever harder to take over.

  "You seem to be having trouble there" called out Bee "Haven't you caught on yet? You must have asked why every shot I made and every single stone I threw made its mark without interruption from the very skilled doppelgangers"

  Palpatines mind was devoted to its task but a small part of him was desperate to know why a stone from Bee was able to kill a doppelganger with vast experience in form three of lightsaber techniques, something a padawan could deflect with little effort.

  "Are you understanding yet? Do you feel that cold, lonely feeling of being truely alone" Palpatine allowed his enemy to monologue, the longer his enemy talked the more time he would have to take over.

  "You can't hear the soft murmurs of the force talking to you or the unexplainable warnings of the inevitable attacks. The force isn't saying anything to you right now, you are alone" gloated Bee

  The realisation that Palpatine hadn't heard anything from the force caused a cold dread to hit him.

  "That's good, I feel your dread, I like it" Gloatted Bee.

  "Impossible" muttered Palpatine through bruised split lips. "You don't have this power, you can't stop the force"

  A light chuckle left Bee's lips, he was enjoying this "My doppelgangers don't have this power but I'm not a doppelganger. Everything my doppelgangers understand, I know but they don't know everything I understand"

  Bee gestures out to the battlefield. Doppelgangers were being wiped out and the once-expanding army of Palpatine was whittled down.

  Each doppelganger that fell by Bee's hand didn't have his first unique skill, the ability to hide his force abilities. Be it Bee's or Palpatines doppelganger, neither knew this ability, only Bee. The ability's size started as a single coin but while it didn't grow in size it did grow in multiplication. Now, Bee was able to fire hot bolts of plasma and hide it from the force.

  Bee's hand grasped around Palpatines neck "With just a small squeeze I will paralyse you and contain your spirit into a broken mess"

  Palpatine noodle-like arms tried to grasp at Bee's arms. "Yes, struggle more. I like my enemies to cower, especially ones that give me as much trouble as you".

  The pressure built up over Palpatines eyes as Bee carefully increased his power. Death wasn't scary, he would just bounce over to a different doppleganger but as his neck started to click horribly he could see that the dopplegangers that had been fighting were all quite.

  None of them was here anymore, every single one of the were gone. Palpatines doppleganger had been destroyed and Bee's were dismissed so Palpatine didn't have a doppleganger to grasp onto.

  Desperation sweep through Palpatines mind. The unknown was burtal to a Sith Lord. He tried again to grasp Bee's hand, to stop him from imprisioning him in a wall of flesh.

  "I like the way you struggle" Bee whispered to Palpatine. The glow in Bee's eyes deepened and yellow eyes looked back at Palpatine. To his shock, Bee's face was smacked by Palpatine hand. A lesser person would have been sent flying by the blow but not Bee. He looked down to see what had hit him and there was a third, unbroken hand growing out of Palpatine.

  Palpatine had discovered a way to use the doppelganger's skill in a way that Bee had never thought of before. Many arms grew from Palpatines back and struggled to fight back. Each arm attacked Bee's grasping hands.

  When one wasn't enough then two and then three extra pairs of hands struggled to overpower Bee's vace-like grip away from his neck.

  "Not bad" nodded Bee "Not bad at all" A quick bolt of lightning caused Palpatine to seize up.

  An ulgy snap caused Bee to whines. The struggling Palpatine cause an odd twist and his neck broke cleanly. Palpatines doppleganger disapeared and only Palpatine's dark spirit was there hovering.

  "You stupid, weak....nerf herder" Palpatine's insult rocked Bee as he expected a deeper more animalistic insult. "What can you do now, there's nothing you can do. In death, I've become unstoppable, ultimate power"

  Palpatines laughter was shortly joined by Bee's laughter.

  Controlling himself, Bee answered Palpatines final question. "The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural" Palpatine quickly shut his spectral mouth after hearing his own words against himself. "That includes creating force wraiths"

  Palpatine of course knew about force wraiths. It was the defining force power of Darth Vectivus. That Dark lord of the Sith could have taken over the galaxy with his ability but he was too weak and allowed it to go to waste but there was no way that Bee was able to copy that skill. The dopplegangers didn't even know about it and yet they didn't know about the hidden force attacks Bee could create.

  To clear up any further questions, ghostly spirits were called from the depths of the dark side closing in to Palpatine. The fear in Palpatines face turned to pain as the wraiths clawed at him, tearing off pieces of spirit. Panicking, Palpatine desperately looked for a doppelganger to possess but to his horror, he didn't have the power or victim. Each swipe with a wraith's hand tore more power away. Each set of hands rooted Palpatine from escape and every tug caused him to fade. The wraiths kept on coming, more and more ripped at him and tore his essence. Each wraith took a part of Palpatine and flew away, they ripped and tore and within a couple of seconds, Palpatines spirit disappeared. If there was a way to come back from death then this was the answer, a brutal answer that destroyed the spirit never to be reformed again. Palpatine's spirit would become part of the force but not in the way of the Jedi but just as wasteful trash that the galaxy would recycle.

  Bee sighed, that was the end of Palpatine. The dark lord of the Sith was truly gone, and yet, the Jedi didn't know that.

  "FREEZE, DON'T MOVE. YOUR UNDER ARREST" Yelled a nervous Jedi master.

  "Not again" muttered Bee