Skirmish in the Senate

"You will not stop me."

- Emperor Palpatine

Yoda, the Jedi Grand Master, managed to enter the Chancellery Secretariat undetected, determined to kill the new Emperor, Palpatine, who was revealed to be the shadowy Darth Sidious. Inside the Chancellor's holding office of the Senate Building, the Jedi Grand Master came face to face with the Dark Lord of the Sith after making short work of his guards. Realizing that this would not be a political dispute but a battle betweeen two masters of the Force, Mas Amedda left the office. This was the beginning of the Duel in the Senate, or the Skirmish in the Senate.

The Emperor struck down Yoda with Force lightning and Yoda retaliated by throwing the Sith backwards with a very powerful Force push. Palpatine attempted to flee, but Yoda blocked his way and ignited his lightsaber. The Emperor realized he would have to fight the tiny Jedi Master blade-to-blade. He ignited his own lightsaber and the two greatest duelists of the Jedi and Sith Orders respectively, engaged in an epic lightsaber duel.

The battle moved on to the Chancellor's podium that rose through the retractable ceiling into the Grand Convocation Chamber. The combatants then leapt to the repulsorpods and it was at that part of the battle that Sidious got the upper hand. Using Dun Möch to overpower Yoda with an avalanche of Senate pods while he himself levitated on one, seeming to grow more amused as the battle progressed. Sidious almost defeated the Jedi Grand Master, who seemed to grow tired instead.



But the tiny Jedi managed to hold one pod with the Force and send it back to Sidious, who avoided it and retaliated by hurling Force lightning at him so intense that it knocked Yoda's lightsaber from his hand. Again finding himself attacked with great intensity, Yoda used the same method to overcome the attack: he turned his enemy's weapon's against him. The Jedi Master reflected the Force lightning back to Sidious in a blast so powerful that it pushed the two masters apart. But while this may have saved Yoda's life, it cost him his last chance of obliterating the Sith. He fell down to the holding office while Palpatine held on to the pod they were on. Yoda didn't have any power left to continue and fled, the Emperor cackling behind him. He crawled through the ventalation shafts and dropped into Bail Organa's airspeeder.



"Into exile I must go. Failed, I have."

- Yoda

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith