Code Xana Episode 26: Litter Bug
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 1-25
A week after the last attack things between Skitz, Ark and Mira are better but still a little strained. Ark settled things between the two girls in his life by setting up a schedule. Although he had kind of gotten it messed up… "Ark if you wanted to skip band practice you could have called me!" Skitz was mad and Ark was sorry but Ark wasn't going to be given a chance. "Instead you're here doing who knows what with her!"
"Skitz we're in a library we were working on homework! I forgot it was your band practice night to!"
"I'm sure you forgot! Like you didn't know it was my night!"
"Stop yelling at me! Just because you have nothing to do between Xana attacks doesn't mean your brother doesn't."
"I do have something to do and it is more important then teaching some public school retard!"
"What? Still trying to get Sanne and Krieger together? Why don't you leave those two alone?"
"No! I have a friend who I, I can't talk about it." Sanne was still having nightmares but Skitz was there for her. Skitz did all she could to help Sanne but for Sanne it was enough to have someone's shoulder to cry on.
"What you have a boyfriend? What's his name?"
"No I don't have a boyfriend! Ark, band practice, now!" Skitz grabs Ark by the wrist and drags him out of the library.
"What? She has a girlfriend? At least she'd leave her brother alone." Mira turns to the books on the table. "Back to the speed of light and how gravity affects it even though light photons have no mass." Mira sighs and wonders why Skitz is such a… "Whoa!" Something breaks through the side of the library. "Xana!"
"Xana!" Sanne had been training with Krieger when she heard a loud noise. "But my Jpocket didn't go off." She runs over to her bag and pulls it out to find dead batteries! "I forgot to charge it last night." They hear another loud noise and her phone rings. "Mira? I guess you know…"
"Xana is attacking!" Mira was running from a monsters that just barreled through anything that go in its way. Mira had seen books, bricks, even the grass the monster stepped on absorbed straight into the monster. "Call the others I can't!" Mira hangs up on Sanne as she continues to run.
"Call Ark I'm calling Skitz." Krieger nods and gets his phone from his gym bag. As the two run outside they see the monster chasing after Mira. "Skitz attack!"
"Ok, we're on our way." They hang up. Krieger has already called Ark.
"Mira over here!" Mira runs towards the two. "Sanne, you and Mira get out of here." Krieger would try to hold the monster off so the girls could get away.
"Be careful Krieger." Sanne backs away slowly as Mira get to them. As Mira runs past Krieger, Sanne turns and runs with her.
"Whoa, fast for a big guy." Krieger dodges the next blow and the monster hits a light pole. The pole is absorbed into the monster! "I guess I shouldn't let you touch me." The monster punches at Krieger and misses. When the monsters fist hits the ground the grass and dirt is absorbed. "I know I shouldn't let you touch me." Krieger distract the monster as the other head for the Factory.
Miles away the police arrive at the scene of a crime. The Green Labs had been working on a top secret project. They were working on a machine they could send into space or into the oceans to absorb the litter left behind. Whether it was space junk or debris of sunken ships the project would absorb it. The only problem was it absorbed everything else. It was to dangerous to use just yet but someone had stolen it! It would absorb anything. If put in the ocean now it would absorb all of the water. It would absorb the walls of a building, like that of a bank also. It would absorb right through the thickest safe walls. But it was far too dangerous to be driven by anyone. The slightest mistake, the slightest touch, and a human would be absorbed.
"Xana is against our band I know it!" Skitz finally drags her brother away from Mira and Xana attacks. "Or, remember when Xana said Mira was working for him? Maybe she is and didn't like I…" Ark interrupts his sister.
"She is not working for Xana!" Ark knows his sister doesn't like Mira but hoped she'd get along with her since he was seeing Mira and Mira was a Lyoko Warrior. "Can't you at least pretend not to be jealous of her?"
"I'm not jealous I don't like that you always seem to know when it's time with her but band practice? Oops I forgot silly me. I hope mom and dad cut your allowance for forgetting moms' birthday."
"I'd rather have that. They gave me the sex talk with holograms." Ark rolls his eyes. "Like I don't know to get the shots and all that." Skitz punches Ark in the arm hard.
"You two better not be needing the shots! You're too young for that." Ark on his skate board nearly falls off when Skitz punches him again.
"We're not! Stop hitting me." Ark rubs his arm. "Mira has no problem with you why do you have such a problem with her?"
"Because she doesn't have to deal with a missing band member all the time for band practice."
"Well if she was in the band that problem would be solved."
"What does she play?" Ark looks down at his feet. "That's what I thought. Or are you going to spend more time teaching the public school retard how to play an instrument?"
"Don't call her that! If she was stupid she wouldn't be doing so well."
"C average is doing well?"
"It's what our dad got, and Ulrich, and Yumi. Oh and didn't mom also just get by with a C?"
"They had to deal with fighting Xana, Mira is just an idiot!"
"What are we doing right now? We're skateboarding to the Factory because Xana launched an attack."
"Shut up!" Ark and Skitz remain quiet the rest of the way.
"Krieger what is going on?" Krieger turns and sees a girl from class.
"Get inside! This, I don't know what it is but it's after me, for now. Just get inside!" The girl runs into the dorm building as Krieger runs by. "Great, well, we're already doing a return so no big deal." Krieger runs towards the woods hoping the others have made it to the Factory or were at least on their way there.
Ark and Skitz get to the Factory and find Sanne and Mira are already there. "Where's Krieger?"
"He stayed behind to distract the monster. Ark, Skitz, Mira, go down and get ready to be Transferred." The three get on the elevator and take it down to the Scanner Room. They step into the Scanners. "Transfer Mira, Transfer Ark, Transfer Skitz, Scanner Mira, Scanner Ark, Scanner Skitz, Virtualization." They land on Lyoko as the vehicles appear. Skitz runs over to the Overboard and gets on it. Ark gets his disc out. "Come on Mira how about a race?"
"If you feel like leaving her in the dust on the Overwing." Skitz laughs as Sanne appears and drops down on Lyoko in the Ice Sector. Sanne goes over to the Overbike and gets on it.
"We have to go east. The barrier wasn't that large but I'm guessing Xana will have more monsters." Sanne had been comparing the attacks from her father's attack logs and noticed the smaller the barrier the more monsters or the more likely it was a trap.
"Ark can I ride with you?" Mira did not want to ride on the Overwing.
"Mira use the Overwing it isn't as bad as I make it out to be." And Ark wants to race everyone to see how great his disc was. He was sure he could beat the Overwing and probably the Overboard but the Overbike was a problem. Mira goes over and gets on the Overwing. "On three, one, two," Everyone takes off. "I meant after three not on three!" Ark takes off after the group.
"Ha, let's see him get me now." Krieger had made it into the sewers. He sits down to take a break. He wasn't that tired but he had been running and dodging this monster for about twenty minutes. As he takes deep breaths to oxygenize his muscles he hears a weird noise. He looks up and sees the monster was absorbing straight through the ground! "That's different." Krieger gets up, stretches a little, then takes off before the monster gets through and into the sewer.
"Ha!" Ark is next to his sister who is on the Overboard. "Bye sis." Ark is flying backwards as he passes his sister so he can wave at her and see her reaction.
"Ark look out!" Ark turns around on the disc slowing down at the same time. Skitz flies past him laughing. "Sucker."
"Cheater!" Ark picks up speed and passes Skitz again.
"Guys pay attention." Sanne sees the Tower and three monster virtualize. "Mega Tanks and Tarantula."
"I'll take the Tarantula out." Mira was going as fast as the Overwing could but was not able to keep up. "How did your parents do this?"
"They didn't race to the Tower they stuck together more. Although that was because Xana would try to intercept them before the Tower. It wasn't until he escaped from the Super Computer that he'd wait till they got to the Tower to stop them." Ark tries catching up to Sanne on the Overbike but the Overbike is to fast.
"It gives him more control. The closer to the activated Tower the more control he has." Something Sanne had learned by reading through the logs her father left.
Back on Earth Krieger climbs out of the sewer with the monster hot on his heels. "Factory, I have to hide." Krieger had brought his skateboard up so he could go faster but was now starting to get a little tired from so much running away and decides hiding is best. He skateboards into the Factory jumping off and swinging down the rope. "Where?" He looks around for a couple of seconds and decides to run to the boiler room.
"Man this is almost too easy!" Skitz flies around a Mega Tank moving to fast for the Mega Tank to hit her.
"Yeah but you haven't taken it out!" Mira was climbing higher and higher before going into a dive. "Ark distract the Tarantula!"
"Got it." Ark flies in front of the Tarantula dodging lasers.
"Yehaaaa!" Mira crashes into the Tarantula destroying it and the Overwing. Mira bounces along the ground before coming to a rest. "Ha Skitz I don't…" Mira is hit by a Mega Tank blast sending her back to Earth.
"I don't get hit." Skitz throws a club at the Mega Tank that fired on Mira and hits it in the Eye destroying it.
"Weee!" Sanne was having fun also. She tried to be serious but when she got on the Overbike she couldn't help but have fun. She drives in circles around the Mega Tank. "Come on open up!" Sanne fires a laser beam at the Mega Tank but the hard shell protects it.
"Sanne watch out!" Ark charges Sanne on his disc and grabs her off the Overbike as the Schipizoa reaches out for her. "Sanne just get to the Tower. We'll take care of the Mega Tank and Schipizoa." Ark sets Sanne down and goes back to the monsters. "Skitz I got an idea!"
"I hope you do because I sure don't!" Skitz is trying to get at the Mega Tank but is unable to get close enough.
"Hey, Schipizoa! Over here!" Ark gets the attention of the Schipizoa. "That's right, bring it!" Ark unwraps his tail and hits the Schipizoa with it. "Skitz fly towards me." She looks and gets the idea. She flies over the Mega Tank and stops next to Ark.
"Where's Sanne?"
"I put her down over there." Ark points but Sanne isn't there! "Uh oh, well, whoa!" Ark pushes his sister and this pushes the two apart as the Mega Tank fires. The blast hits the Schipizoa breaking through tentacles and slamming into the Schipizoa. The Schipizoa backs off and flies away.
"Sanne where did you go?" Skitz and Ark look for Sanne worried she was hit by the Mega Tank.
"Over here." Skitz and Ark turn around and see Xana with Sanne! "To think I would just let you walk into the Tower." Dante is holding Sanne by wrapping his arm around her neck. "Foolish girl. The Schipizoa was a distraction. You ran right into my arms."
"Let her go!" Skitz flies up to Xana until a barrier blocks her way.
"I will, when she becomes my host."
"Never!" All three Warriors left on Lyoko yell at the same time.
"My first host was female, her grandmother. Then I had another female host, her mother. After some time in a male body I quickly discarded it and came out in my own form, how I saw myself. Then this host was supposed to be my perfect form but no, there were complications. I need a female host, the last female in the line of hosts. I need that power!"
"I would rather die then join you. Just like my mom, just like my grandmother."
"Accept me. If you fight me I won't be able to get the power I need." Xana leans in and whispers into Sanne's ear so only she can hear. "Accept me, free Dante. Do you not feel he can save you? He loves you, he trusts you, do you not love and trust him back?"
"Let me go!" Sanne starts to charge energy in her mouth.
"You can not hit me so why do you attempt to use your attack?" Sanne charges more and more energy when she explodes! "Aaaa!" Xana flees since his target had escaped. Sanne is sent back to Earth, free from Xana's grasp. But the Tower was not deactivated.
"What's taking them so long?" Krieger had continued to run when hiding was impossible from the monster. "There has to be a way to get away from this thing." He runs and decides if he gets to Lyoko he will be safe. He can send himself with the Auto Transfer Program but he has to make it to the Control Room. He runs and gets to the ladder and slides down it. The monster grabs the top of the ladder and it starts to be absorbed into his body. Krieger jumps as the he was being pulled towards the monster. When he lands he hears a voice. "What?"
"Krieger are you ok?" Sanne was in the Control Room waiting for the cool down to end. Mira was sitting in the Scanner Room with a burn across her body. Sanne said she could send Mira back as soon as the cool down was over but Mira said she couldn't. Sanne tried to ask her why but Mira rejected any attempt.
"What, why aren't you on Lyoko?" Krieger doesn't understand the situation and thinks Sanne and the others haven't gone to Lyoko yet. "I'm running from that thing and here you are sitting in the Control Room."
"I just got sent back. Xana had me and I had to blow myself up to get away." Sanne calms Krieger before his temper gets worse. "Where is the monster?"
"Up on the Factory floor but I doubt it will stay there for long." Krieger had seen everything absorbed by the monster and doubts the monster would wait to get them. "What are you waiting for?"
"I have two minutes before I can go back."
"You might not have two minutes." Krieger walks over to Sanne when a loud crashing noise comes from the elevator shaft. "I'm guessing that was the elevator." Krieger turns around and sees the ladder was gone. It had been absorbed by the monster. "You don't have a way to get back down."
"If you help me down I do." Sanne waits until there is thirty seconds left before the cool down ends. "I'll climb down where the ladder use to be. If you hang on to my hand I should be able to get low enough to drop without being hurt. Then you can send me."
"Ok Sanne." Krieger and Sanne go over to where the ladder used to be and Krieger helps Sanne down. He goes over to the control panel and sends Sanne.
"Krieger, can you send the Overbike?"
"I don't know how to."
"I made it pretty east click on the OV button and follow the instructions." Sanne waits for a few seconds and soon the Overbike appears. "Too imagine I had so much trouble getting the programs to work. Although I didn't have the power to run them before." Sanne revs the engine and takes off for the activated Tower.
Skitz and Ark are sitting in front of the activated Tower. Sanne had told them to wait but are scared of what could happen. Xana wouldn't wait again, would he? He wanted Sanne as a new host and they doubt he would stop just because Sanne said no. "What's that noise?" They hear a humming noise and look west to see Sanne on the Overbike going as fast as she can.
"She came back, foolish girl." Xana comes from the top of the Tower and destroys Skitz and Ark. "Come to me my little butterfly." Sanne is set on driving right into the Tower. "Your body is mine!" Xana blasts the Overbike and Sanne goes rolling across the ground. "You can refuse me but it would be better if you surrendered."
"Never." Sanne hits Xana in the face with a laser beam. Sanne gets up and runs for the Tower. Xana uses his powers to move faster then Sanne and get in front of the Tower.
"If you join me willingly it will allow me to reach the depths of your power. If you refuse me then I shall have to fight you and take it by force." Xana grabs Sanne by the arms. "Kiss me so I may transfer myself into you. This will free Dante."
"And give you power? Power I don't have?"
"Oh you have it. I have seen it, you fought me off, you just don't remember it." Xana leans towards Sanne and closes his eyes. If he hadn't he might have seen the Knight in shining armor coming up with his sword out.
"Hands off of her Xana!" Krieger strikes at Xana with his sword. Xana lets go of Sanne and she runs for the Tower. Krieger strikes Xana again.
"Her knight, is she your princess?" Krieger stops in mid swing at Xana's comment. "No, of course not, you're "just Krieger" are you not?" Xana blasts Krieger with an energy bolt and turns to see Sanne run into the Tower. "Next time dear, I have all of the time in the world." Xana breaks apart and goes to Sector 5 as the Tower is deactivated.
"Anyone there?" No response. None of the group was able to make it up to the Control Room after the elevator and ladder were destroyed. "We have to do a return." Sanne launches the program and reverses time.
"Alright." Ark and Mira are in Mira's room. "As much as I'd like to stick around but tonight is my sister's night. If you want you can come to the band practice."
"No, I still need to do my homework. I need to do it again, at least I remember most of it." Mira kisses Ark on the lips. "Thanks for helping the public school retard." Mira and Ark laugh.
"She's not use to having to share her brother with someone. We used to do everything together but since we started going here I've been kind of separating myself from her. I don't mean to but, well, we're getting older we can't be joined at the hip like we use to."
"Tell her that. Tell your sister that even if you skip practice and stuff you still love her. And maybe get her a boyfriend or something to take her mind off of practice all of the time." They laugh a little.
"I'm sure she'd like that. Having me going around on campus to see if any of the guys would go out with her but no kissing or holding hands."
"No, in the showers, check for the guy with the biggest…" Ark punches Mira in the arm lightly. "You are too easy." Mira laughs.
"I have to go practice. I'll see you later." Ark kisses Mira and leaves.