"I... I... I lost... I lost..." Darth Sidious sat on the ground, coughing up blood and gasping loudly. "I'm... going to die now..."
Arden Lyn looked at him with great interest and sneered. "So even you have a day like this, Palpatine."
"I... I'm injured... Hurry, save me..." Darth Sidious raised a hand toward Arden Lyn for help. "I lost. You can have... everything you want... Cough, cough, cough..."
Arden Lyn walked over, grabbed him by the collar, and lifted him up. "Since you recognize your failure, good. Be obedient and hand over this Empire... Hehehehe..."
At that moment, her heart was filled with wild joy. Not only had she defeated one of the Milky Way Galaxy's most formidable beings, but the one holding the Galactic Empire's highest authority was now completely under her control!
The Empire's supreme power was right before her eyes!
Very soon, she would be able to take whatever she pleased throughout the Milky Way Galaxy. She was about to reign over the entire Milky Way Galaxy!
Darth Sidious keenly noticed the fervor in her eyes, yet he continued gasping for breath, his chest heaving violently as broken-bellows sounds came from his throat. "I... I can't go on... I... I'm very weak... Hand me... over to Marshal Zaarin. He... he will become... the Empire's new Emperor..."
"Very well said." Arden Lyn carried Darth Sidious toward the warship's Hangar Platform.
The Majestic Star Destroyer, especially its bridge, had suffered severe damage and could no longer be used. It would have to enter a shipyard for major repairs, so she had to transfer Darth Sidious elsewhere.
After leaving the bridge, she saw the bodies of Emperor's Guards in red armor strewn across the floor. Other Imperial Stormtrooper soldiers were carrying the corpses away. The Imperial insignias on these