Code Xana Episode 35: Skinhead
Author: James the Lesser/The Bunnyman
Disclaimer: I Do Not Own These Characters! Moonscape Does! Actually, I own most of these characters, I made them up, but the place and the settings and the back round stuff is Moonscape.
Please read my episodes, 53-119 plus the OVA of Code Lyoko to know what is going on. Oh and Code Xana the Movie and Episode 1-34
Sanne is bored. Krieger was on a date with Sora, Mira and Ark were out as was Skitz who was with Barack. "I guess, no, take a break." Sanne rubs her temples. She spent nearly six hours in front of her computer working on a program and needed a break. "Go to the gym and work out, not really a break though is it? Should I really be talking to myself?" Sanne sighs and leaves her computer to get her gym clothes. She leaves her room and closes the door. She walks down the hallway not thinking about what she had left behind.
Krieger and Sora are coming out of a movie and see Ark and Mira. "Hey Ark, Mira, what movie did you see?"
"Spiderman 8." Ark and Mira walk over hand in hand. "You?"
"Same." Krieger is holding Sora's hand.
"Cool, that was so cool when Shocker blew apart that door and Spiderman used his webbing to catch it."
"Uh, yeah, must have missed that." As the teens walk down the side walk they pass under a street light and Ark sees why Krieger missed it.
"Man you look like someone tried to strangle you." Ark and Mira laugh.
"They can't be that bad." Mira gets a pocket mirror out and Krieger looks. "Oh man, Sora, what did you do to me?" Krieger sees several hickies on his neck.
"No worse then what you did to her."
"Yeah but she can wear makeup to cover them up." Krieger pulls his shirt up trying to cover his neck.
"Krieger you can borrow some makeup from me. I'll even help you put it on in my room. Katie's out with her boyfriend…" Sora pulls on Krieger's shirt and leans down to whisper something into his ear.
"Uh, yeah, ok, um, I guess no dinner?" Krieger is nervous and excited by what Sora said and blushes.
"We can eat later." Sora smiles and laughs. "So what are you two doing now?"
"We're going to get something to eat. You guys can come with us if you want." Ark's offer isn't accepted and the teens go separate ways.
Sanne is on the exercise bike going at a slow but steady pace. "This just isn't any fun without Krieger to compete with." She gets off the bike. "I can't do the weights without him to help me, without Krieger I can't do anything but work on the Super Computer." Sanne stops and thinks about what she just said. "Whoa, no, he's just a friend. I, I can find something else to do. Sanne leaves for the locker room for a shower and to plan something to do. She gets out of the shower and notices her head still itches. She scratches and finds something. "What is this?" A small black dot, with legs. "Fleas? No, in the hair, lice!" She runs back into the shower and shampoos her hair. "Rinse, wash, and repeat." She scratches her head and finds more! "No, but, how did I get these?" She goes back into the shower and keeps washing her hair but soon more and more lice appear. Unfortunately she wasn't the only one.
"Aaaa!" Kids are scratching they're heads, teachers are scratching they're heads. Everyone is scratching and going insane from the lice invasion. Students run to the showers to try and wash the lice away but they soon become full. Some students, like Sora and Krieger, realize the gym locker rooms have showers. They run to the gym and go to the different showers.
"How did we get these all of a sudden?!?" Sora gets into the girls' locker room, undresses, and hears a shower going already. "Someone else figured it out to. Better have a shower head left for me." Sora goes into the shower room and finds Sanne. "You to?"
"What?" Sanne turns around and sees the older, better developed Sora. "Oh, um, what are you doing here?" Sanne turns away. She still didn't like showering with others. She could barely tolerate Mira and Skitz and now here an older girl, the one dating her friend, was in there with her.
"Everyone got lice somehow and flooded the shower room. I guess you got them to."
"Yes, I don't know how though I wasn't in contact with anyone." Sanne is scrubbing her head some more. Her scalp was getting sore from so much scrubbing but there were still lice left.
Ark and Mira notice as they leave the restaurant that they're heads started to itch. They scratch and both find lice. "Ah, those seats at the movie theater must have had them. Remind us never to go there again." They run for the school both thinking about getting a shower. When they get there they find the school shower rooms are full. "What do we do Ark?"
"I don't know these things are driving me crazy!" Ark scratches his head more and cuts his scalp with a fingernail.
"Um, are you sure this isn't a Xana attack?" Mira scratches her head some more.
"I don't know, Sanne would have called if it was. Well, unless…" Ark thinks of a shower that might be open. "If we go to the gym and no one sees us we can use those showers." Ark whispers this and the two walk away slowly.
"Sanne, I have a few questions." Sora was use to going to Kadic Academy and had no problem taking showers with others and as long as she had Sanne alone there were some questions she needed answered. "What is it between you and Krieger? You call, he runs off no matter what we're doing."
"Um, I can't tell you about that but know he likes you, a lot. We're just friends but there is something that is um, I can't say what it is." Sanne does not want to talk to Sora in the showers.
"What, some kind of exclusive club?" Sora doesn't mind talking. "Why won't you look at me? Do you like Krieger as more then friends?"
"No, I, I'm use to being alone, I, not use to others." Sora laughs.
"I use to be like you but then I realized," Sora stops as she scratches at lice in her hair. "We have the same parts so what's to be embarrassed about?" Sora walks over to Sanne. "Come on, turn around. If you're going to be coming here you have to get use to this unless you want to go around smelling." Sora laughs again. Sanne turns around but looks at the floor. "Is it because you're still young? Don't worry these things are more of a burden then anything else." Sora puts a hand on Sanne's hair and messes with her hair. "Geesh you have more then I do." Sora shakes her hand trying to get rid of the lice that had climbed on.
"Um, ok, um, do you know how to get rid of these?" Sanne continues to wash her hair using more shampoo.
"Uh you can shave your head for the quick way or use expensive shampoos that take weeks. But maybe they will get bored," Sora scrubs her head hard. "These things are driving me crazy! It's like we're under attack." Sora laughs and walks back to the shower head she had on.
"An attack, but, maybe." Sanne turns the shower head off. "Um Sora, I, I'm glad you're with Krieger. He's a lot happier now and you're because of it." Sanne leaves the shower room and gets a towel before going out into the locker room to dig through her gym bag. "I only have my phone, Xana could be attacking." She scratches her head. "I have to get dressed and get to my room." Sanne dresses when Mira comes in. "Mira, this is probably an attack by Xana."
"What? Oh, um, ok. Call me if it is." Mira starts to undress needing to get under a shower head. Maybe she can scrub the lice out of her hair.
"Sora's in there so be careful about what you say." Sanne is dressed and runs out of the girls' locker room for her room.
A few minutes later Sanne gets to her room and hears a beeping noise. "It is an attack. I have to call the others." She calls Mira who answers, then Skitz who answers, but neither Ark or Krieger answer. "Well, I know Krieger is in the boys' locker room." She blushes as she thinks about Krieger in the shower. "And so is Ark, how do we get a hold of them?" Sanne runs back to the gym and sees Mira standing there scratching her head. "Mira we have a problem."
"What? Besides these damn things!" She scratches more.
"Um, both boys are in the boys' shower room. Uh, how do we tell them?" Sanne and Mira both blush thinking about the boys in the shower.
"Well, I, um, I'm not going in there."
"But, haven't you and Ark, you know, done things?"
"Nothing like that! Ah, these things are driving me crazy!"
"We need them, um, but I'm sure not going in there. Maybe Skitz would, he's her brother so it wouldn't be that big a deal, right?" Sanne starts to scratch her head.
"I don't know." Mira continues to scratch her head.
"Well, um, I know someone who might." Sanne sighs. "Mira I'll be right back."
"What are you planning?" Mira sees Sanne run to the girls' locker room. "Maybe Jim could get them." Mira runs out of the gym.
"Sora, Sora!" Sanne yells and hears the shower head turn off.
"What?"
"Um, I kind of need Krieger and Ark to um, do that thing that's important and we can't tell you about. But they're both in the other shower room next door and I, um…" Sanne blushes.
"You want me to get them? What makes you think I would?"
"Well, um, you and Krieger, uh, do things don't you?"
"We do but I don't think Mira would like me seeing Ark like that would she? Why not send her back there?"
"She, her and Ark don't do things like, um, you know, yet."
"And how do you know Krieger does things like that with me?"
"Well, you're, older, more mature and uh, maybe do more." Sanne blushes bright red as the images enter her head. "If you won't maybe I can convince Mira to go back there."
"Is this thing really important?"
"Yes."
"Will you tell me what it is?"
"No, I can't. No one is allowed unless they're voted in."
"So Mira was voted in?"
"No Ark got her in another way and was nearly kicked out until uh, it was voted to keep Mira."
"So it isn't up to Krieger is it?"
"No, he can't get you in unless everyone votes you in." Of course Krieger had never even brought it up. He didn't want Sora to be in the group it was to dangerous and his feelings for her weren't as strong as Ark's were for Mira. Maybe with time his feelings will grow and he will ask the others to let Sora in but for now no.
"You and Krieger are really just friends?" Sanne looks up and sees Sora, wrapped in a towel, walking towards her.
"Yes nothing more, never have and never will."
"Well hell, been a couple hours, I'll do it. Tell Mira any checking out of Ark is for comparison only." Sora scratches her head as she goes over to a pile of clothes and changes.
"Thank you Sora, um, thanks." Sanne smiles at her as she scratches her head.
"Hey you answered a question I've been wanting to ask for awhile. And if you're best friends with Krieger then we better get along right?" Sora and Sanne leave the girls' locker room and Sora goes into the boys' locker room. A few minutes later she leaves and soon after that Ark and Krieger, both blushing, come out.
"Why did you send her back there? Why couldn't you or Mira?" Ark scratches his head.
"Well I wasn't going back there and Mira said you two haven't, you know, and I asked Sora and she said she'd do it."
"For what?"
"Um, nothing." Krieger is surprised by this answer. He figured Sora would have gotten something out of Sanne for this. Krieger liked Sora, he really did, but he was having trouble liking her as much as she liked him. This however was just another thing to make Krieger realize how nice Sora was and make him try harder for her. "Thank you again Sora but we must be going."
"Ok you kids bring Krieger back safe for me!" Sora smiles and laughs. The gang runs out of the gym and meet with Skitz and continue for the Factory. "Ah, this is driving me crazy, I should just shave my head. I wonder what Krieger would do if he saw me with a bald head?" Sora scratches some more then goes back to the girls' locker room to take a shower and continue washing her hair. She calls Mira telling her the boys were out of the shower room. Mira meets up with them in the park outside of the sewer entrance.
"Sanne what did you do?" Mira was wondering what Sanne did to get the boys. "I don't mind if you saw Krieger but if you looked at Ark I'll make sure you wake up tomorrow morning in nothing but your underwear in the middle of campus." Mira laughs a little showing she was joking, mostly. She knew Sanne and the others were close friends who've known each other for years and probably took baths together, when they were little.
"I didn't get them." Sanne leaves it at that as they get to the end of the sewer passage and go up to the Factory. They take the elevator down to the Control Room. Sanne goes over to the control panel. "Ok, I found the Tower, Ice Sector, small barrier so Xana probably has a trap waiting." Sanne's fingers fly over the keyboard. "I'll send you guys then I'll send the vehicles and myself." Sanne sits down and scratches her head.
"Hey, will the Scanners heal this?" Ark is scratching his head going insane from all of the itching.
"I don't know." Sanne waits for the group to go down in the elevator and get in the Scanners. "Transfer Ark, Transfer Krieger, Transfer Skitz, Scanner Ark, Scanner Krieger, Scanner Skitz, Virtualization." They land on Lyoko. "Transfer Mira, scanner Mira, Virtualization." She lands next to the others as the vehicles appear. Sanne loads the auto transfer program and soon lands on Lyoko next to her friends.
"Maybe we can stay here for a few weeks." Ark and the others no longer had lice as they were on Lyoko. But when they went back would they still have them? Only time would tell. They get on the vehicles and take off for the Tower.
On Earth Jim has his hair trimmer out. "Ok kids anyone who wants to stop all of this itching sit down in this chair. I'll shave your heads and this will give them nothing to feed on." Some boys walk over and get they're heads shaved. "Reminds me of when I was in Arlen with Bill working on the US military base as a hair cutter." He continues shaving heads as more and more boys decide no hair is better then the itching. However the girls are reluctant to do so. After a few more heads shaved a girl walks over. "Oh, uh, Sora right?"
"Yep, just a little off the top please." Jim starts cutting her long red hair off. "Do you think Krieger will stop liking me after this?" Sora, as most of the school, knew about Jim and his connection to Sanne and her friends.
"If he really likes you he won't care what you look like. Although I do think you're a little old for him."
"It's only a two year difference. You're just protective of him." Sora laughs a little.
"I have a right to be. I'm practically his uncle." Jim shaves the rest of Sora's hair off. "Take a shower, use lots of soap and shampoo. You see where Krieger and his friends went?"
"No, they ran off into the woods saying something about an important thing to do." Sora gets out of the chair and puts a hand on her head. "This feels so weird. Hopefully Krieger won't mind." She goes back to the gym. This time people see her and realize what she is doing. Soon the gym is flooded with students wanting to shower and get rid of the lice. These are mostly girls who do not want to get they're hair shaved.
Back on Lyoko the group has made it to the Tower after a short trip and find trouble. "Two Assassins and a Mega Tank." Something else moves from around the Tower. "Sanne get off, that thing looks dangerous." It looks like a turtle with spikes coming out of its shell. It is about the size of a Krabe and moves slowly. The Eye is on the top of its head. Sanne gets off the back of the Overbike and Krieger drives towards the new monster. "Whoa!" When he gets close the air and land of Lyoko warps around him.
"Krieger!" Sanne and the others see the air around Krieger move.
"I'm fine." Krieger gets his shield and sword out. "He hasn't done anything." Krieger runs at the new monster when it opens its mouth. It fires an energy beam and Krieger uses his shield to block it. The beam bounces off but instead of continuing and hitting something else it bends as the air moves and comes back at Krieger. He blocks it again with his shield. The air moves and warps and causes the beam come back at him. "What the heck is this?" He blocks with his shield then runs at the new monster. The laser bends in the warped air and comes at Krieger. "Got you!" Krieger jumps and the laser moves under him and hits the new monster. The monster explodes and dozens of lasers come out. Krieger uses his shield while Skitz uses her clubs to black lasers. Sanne uses her bubble up to stop the lasers and Ark uses his disc as a shield but Mira is to slow and is hit multiple times being sent back to Earth.
"Aaaa!" She scratches at her head which was still infested with lice! "Make it stop, Aaaa!" It has gotten worse as Xana sends more powers to the lice and the burns from the lasers burn her.
Back on Lyoko the two Assassins and the Mega Tank remain. "Sanne stay away we can't let you get hit." Ark flies over the Assassins using his disc to block the lasers. The Mega Tank fires but misses its targets. "I have an idea, Skitz be ready!" Ark dives towards the Mega Tank and stops right over it. The Mega Tank opens and fires the semi circle blast. But with Ark so close the circle blast hits his disc and he tries to push down onto it. Skitz gets ready to destroy the Mega Tank when a laser beam from Sanne destroys it.
"Get the Assassins!" Sanne ducks lasers and dives behind a chunk of ice.
"Working on it." Krieger uses his shield to block lasers and tries to get closer. Skitz flies on the Overboard trying to get closer but the Assassins are able to fight them off with lasers.
"I have another idea." Ark smiles as he flies up into the air. "Kamikaze time." He grabs the edge of his disc and dives down towards the Assassins. One turns around and starts to fire at him. Ark dodges the lasers then sticks his arm out and imagines the spear that sometimes worked. He concentrates and it does come out and hits an Assassin on the Eye. He pulls the disc up and slams into the other Assassin as the first one is destroyed. "Go!" Ark uses his claws as the Assassin uses its claws to fight. The Assassin quickly destroys Ark but Skitz and Krieger are there to fight as Sanne gets to the Tower. The Tower is soon deactivated and Sanne sends everyone back to Earth.
"Aaaa!" Ark is scratching at his head. "Stupid Scanners! I want to go back to Lyoko!" He keeps scratching as does everyone else.
"Well, we could do a return to get rid of these." Sanne scratches at her head thinking about it. "But there are other ways to get rid of these without making Xana stronger."
"Like what?" Mira is scratching at her head going just as insane as everyone else.
"Shave our heads or get that shampoo stuff that takes a couple weeks to get rid of these guys." The lice, not powered by Xana, were still as annoying as ever.
"Shave our heads?" Ark grabs his hair where the purple spot was. "No way, return."
"Yeah, a return." Mira scratches her head some more.
"No way, I can just shave my head." Krieger usually kept it short anyways but was never bald.
"I, I love my hair, but it will grow back." Skitz sides with Krieger. The only one left was the pink haired one, Sanne Belpois.
"I, but, we can't make Xana stronger." Sanne scratches at her head as she gets up from the computer chair.
"But, my hair." The three who voted to get the hair cut stare at Ark. "Fine." Ark sighs as he continues to scratch his head. "Where do we find a barber?"
"I, I bet Jim could do it for us." Sanne and the others take the elevator and go to Kadic Academy.
"Whoa." Krieger and the others see dozens of students with shaved heads.
"I guess we're late for the party." Ark is still scratching his head.
"There you are!" The kids turn around and see a bald Jim. "I know you might not like it but you have to get your heads shaved or leave the school for a month until the lice is gone."
"We were looking for you Grandpa." Sanne goes over to him. "I, it's just hair right?" He nods. They follow him into the school and get they're heads shaved.
An hour later Sanne comes out of a girls' bathroom after looking at her new head. "Oh, hi Krieger, Sora." They were walking down the hall hand in hand.
"Hi Sanne, look at that." Sora says this in a disgusted way. Sanne thinks Sora is trying to insult her even though Sora herself had her head shaved. "I get my hair cut and now every guy and girl copies me. Everyone is trying to look as good as me and make us look like everyone else." Sora smiles and laughs at the joke.
"Do I look hideous or what?" Sanne smiles and tries to pose.
"Your hair isn't what made you beautiful." She stares at him. "I mean, your hair, it isn't important you're still Sanne."
"Easy for you to say you never have your hair long enough to care." They laugh. "I'm, um, going to work on something."
"Ok. Is it for your club?" Sanne nods. "Must be cool to be part of a secret club."
"Not really, someone's always out to get you." Sanne and Sora laugh a little. "Um, you two have fun." Sanne walks away from the couple and goes to her room. She was still bored but she had to find a way to stop Xana. He had made everyone bald at Kadic Academy. She lost her hair, her pink hair, something that made her unique. Now she did look, like Sora pointed out, like everyone else.
A/N Ok, first. When Jim refers to Bill in Arlen I am making a reference to Bill Doherty from King of the Hill. Second, I liked the scene between Sora and Sanne. Sanne doesn't like to shower with others and Sora helps her with that a little and they talk about Krieger. Also it leads to the embarrassing moment, well, moments. Ah, Xana wanted a return done but the gang took one for Earth. What will happen next? Read Snow Bound to find out!