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Sidious activated his hologram.
“Commander Cody, the time has come, execute Order 66.”
Bzzzt ”I’m sorry, sir, what was that?” Bzzzt
“I said, execute Order 66.”
Bzzzt “Execute Order 6? Okay.”
“What? No!”
And as Order 6 dictated, Cody threw his comm away.
“Damn this interference! I thought they fixed that.”
He contacted Commander Bacara.
“Commander, execute Order 66.”
Bacara and his troops started break dancing.
“No! I said Order 66, not Order 67!”
The clones were too busy dancing to hear.
Sidious turned his hologram off.
“Why do we even have that Order?”
A few attempts later…
“I said. Execute. Order. 66,” Sidious said through gritted teeth.
Bzzzt “I’m sure you said Order 37.”
“How… Wait, Order 37 is the Order to make mass arrests and threaten the execution of civilians in order to capture a fugitive.”
Bzzzt “Yes, sir.”
“But there is no civilian population on that planet.”
“Yes, sir, bzzzt we had to improvise.”
He showed Sidious a group of B1 Battle Droids being held on their knees with their hands restrained.
“This is weird,” one of the Droids said.
Sidious's mouth dropped open.
“...forget it.”
He ended the call and rubbed his head.
“He got a call from Mas Amedda.”
“What is it?”
“Chancellor, we have an issue in the Senate.”
“What is it now?”
“Well, a group of clones arrived and claimed that Order 4 has activated, which, as you know, is the Order that, in the event you are incapacitated, command of the GAR goes to me, the vice chair. And another group of clones has claimed Order 5 has been activated, in which you have been declared unfit to issue orders, and command goes to the chief of the Defensive staff. Naturally, the Senate is in an uproar.”
Sidious sighed, “How could this get any worse?”
A group of clones broke the door down.
“Under the authority of Order 65, you’re under arrest.”