Code Xana Episode 34: Phobia
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 1-33
Krieger and Sora are making out in his dorm room while Ark was at band practice with Skitz. Her hands explore so he follows suit. He was still nervous about doing things, he was only thirteen but she was fifteen and had already done things with another boy. He had graduated from Junior Kadic Academy last year and was now going to Senior Kadic Academy so they broke up. "Mmmm, go ahead Krieger." She had felt his hesitation when his hand got… The door slams open interrupting them.
"Leave me alone!" Ark slams the door shut. "Oh, Krieger, hi Sora." Ark blushes as Krieger and Sora pull away from each other.
"What's going on?"
"Nothing, aaaa! What the frak was she thinking?" Ark punches the door with a little force. "Um, I'll go and leave you two love birds alone."
"Well, I'm kind of out of the mood now." Sora rolls her eyes. She knew it had to be a fight between Ark and his girlfriend. She'd seen and heard enough of them herself to know what they looked like. "Ark whatever it was get over it." Sora goes to the door then turns around. "See you tomorrow Krieger." She blows a kiss then leaves and finds Mira at the door with a red face. "I was right." Sora walks away. Ark goes to close the door Mira puts her foot down and stops him.
"What do you think you're trying to do?" She pushes her way in. "What was it that I walked in on? You're brother and sister!" She pushes Ark and ignores Krieger.
"Nothing! She, she, it wasn't like that Mira. She was bit by something and wanted me to look at it. She swears a rat bit her. She has this thing about rats and mice and was really worried about it."
"Bit her? How could it bite her…" Ark interrupts Mira.
"If you had paid attention she had her back to me and she did have a mark that didn't look human. I can't believe you'd think we'd, that we'd, that's disgusting."
"Well with the way she acts I wouldn't doubt it, on her end. How do you know she didn't do it to herself?"
"Mira it was on her back how could she?"
"Maybe, maybe Barack did it."
"Oh great she's taking off her shirt and showing her back to Barack. Great image for me."
"Ark I, I hate your sister!" Mira walks out of the room in a huff.
"What the hell happened?" Krieger sits in a way to hide what Sora had done to him.
"Nothing. Skitz said she felt something bite her then said she saw a rat. I asked her where she got bit and she said her back so I said I'd look at it. She, she took her shirt off and I looked at it and that's when Mira walked in. She flipped and now this is happening."
"Wait, she just took her shirt off?"
"What? We're brother and sister. We use to bath together and she really did have something that looked like a bite mark. Not like I saw anything more then what we'd see at the pool and even if I did she's my sister. She could walk naked in front of me and the only reaction she'd get is me yelling at her and trying to cover her up before some guy saw her." Ark sighs. "I can't believe Mira would think that."
"Well you guys are from America."
"Not from the Republican controlled parts. Are you kidding? As much of a dare devil as our parents are they won't go anywhere near Texas or New Mississippi or Northern Louisiana. Don't mess with Texas it's not nice to mess with the retards." Ark laughs but Krieger doesn't get it. "Krieger you really need to learn about America. Interesting history, two Civil Wars, countries still split in two right now. Although President Smith says it will be about another twenty years before the inbreeding and lack of using medicine will wipe out the new Confederacy." Common Cold was a major killer since things like medicine were considered the Devil in the New Confederacy.
"Yeah why I'm glad I live in Japan for most of the year then sometimes in France." America was still Thee World power but it had a lot of problems in the southern parts. "So what are you going to do?"
"Give her time to cool off." Ark doubts Mira would break up with him. He was afraid that would happen if he told her about Lyoko but she didn't. "Sorry about interrupting you man, how far were you?" Krieger stares at Ark. "Come on, second base?" Krieger looks away. "Alright man she has some nice ones to."
"What are you doing looking?"
"Hey I have eyes man I can see. Like you still don't look at Sanne that way?"
"No!" Not as much as I use to. "What about you and Mira?"
"Well, she's not ready for that." Krieger laughs. As much of a lover boy as Ark made himself out to be it was all show. "Be quiet." Ark gets a magazine out and reads it waiting for Mira to cool off.
Mira is storming through the woods mad at Ark, Skitz, and herself. She didn't mean to say she hated Skitz, she really didn't. She might not get along with her as well as she could but her jealousy got to her. "Stupid!" She kicks a tree. "What the hell was I thinking?!" She kicks it again. "Stupid, stupid, stupid!" She kicks it three times and something drops out of the tree. "What the, Aaaa!" She screams and throws it off of her. "Sn, Snake!" She backs away from it. "But, they, they aren't around here. It has to be from the zoo or something." She backs away quickly then trips over something and falls. When she looks she sees another snake much larger then the last one. "Aaaa! Snakes, no, Aaaa!" She was terrified of snakes, a phobia of snakes. She had seen Snakes on a Plane 3 when she was younger and it scarred her for life. She gets up and runs away scared out of her mind.
Back at Kadic Academy Skitz walks into her dorm room and sees Sanne sleeping at the desk. "Sanne it's only five in the afternoon." Skitz shakes her shoulder and Sanne wakes up.
"Huh? Oh, hi Skitz." Sanne yawns then opens her Jtop. "Still defragmenting." The biggest problem with a Jtop was the massive hard drives took forever to defragment. "How was band practice?"
"It was going great until a rat bit me." Sanne is confused. Rats were very rare as were most wild animals except for South America and the preserves in Africa. Most had been moved there or to the largest preserve in the Solar System, the moon. "I had Ark look at it then Mira walked in and flipped out on us. I don't know what her problem was."
"Where were you bit? If you were bit by a wild animal you might get an infection." Skitz turns around and pulls the back of her shirt up. Sanne sees the marks. "Ouch, it might be infected Skitz you should see Nurse McNamara." Sanne touches the marks and Skitz pulls away.
"Yeah, probably." She puts her shirt back down. "If Ms. Delmas was still the principal I might sue for this." Ms. Delmas was taken away as a lunatic and the new principal was still getting use to his position.
"Skitz you have enough money as it is."
"This coming from the Billion Dollar Princess? How much is your dad making on the new communication deal he made with the UN?" Sanne looks away from Skitz and blushes. Her father had made billions more making sure he stayed as the richest person in the world. "That's what I though." Skitz laughs. "I guess I'll go to the nurse it does feel sore." Skitz leaves.
"Well, maybe Sora wouldn't mind." Krieger calls Sora. "Hey, want to go to the gym and work out?"
"I, let me get my history homework done and I'll be there Hunk." Sora kisses into her phone so Krieger does the same then they hang up. Krieger goes to the gym and warms up with stretches.
Mira continues running through the woods getting tired. "Oh crap I'm lost." She looks around not recognizing where she was. "No snakes, that's an improvement." She sighs and sits down to rest. She rests for a couple of minutes when she hears a rustling noise. She looks over then hears a rattling noise. "Ow!" Something bit her! "Ow, no, a snake, get away from me!" She kicks the snake and feels herself become light headed. "No, I…" She stumbles as she tries to get away. "No, I hate snakes…" She falls forward as the world spins around her. "Nooo…" She passes out.
"What the heck is that noise?" Krieger was in the exercise room doing a slow pedal on the exercise bike when he hears a strange noise. He stops and hears the noise again. "Sora?" He gets off the bike and opens the exercise door. "Aaaa!" Three needles stick into Krieger and inject something then pull out. "No, needles, no." Krieger had a phobia of needles. Needles in his world were associated with steroids and drugs. Something his parents had sometimes literally beaten into him during training. His dad got to the Semi Finals in the World Martial Arts Tournament when he was beaten. Later when the drug testing was done the guy was caught using steroids so was stripped of the title and the prize money. His dad wanted to make sure Krieger never took a short cut like drugs. "Whoa, what was that?" Krieger falls backwards into a treadmill. His vision becomes blurred but he sees more needles coming towards him. "Nooo…" He feels the needles stick into him and inject more into him.
Sanne stares at her computer screen. "Come on, defragment. You know you want to." She stares at the screen as it gets to 79. "So close, just defragment so I can turn stuff back on like the Super Scan."
Skitz is at the nurse's office as the nurse looks at the wound. "You say a rat did this?" The nurse injects a cure all liquid into the wound.
"Yes." Skitz feels the needle but doesn't care. Needles were no big deal to her.
"Well whatever it was that should keep it from getting more infected. Don't take a shower for six to twelve hours or let it get wet. Bacteria like a moist place to spread." The nurse puts a square bandage over the marks. "That should do it."
"Thanks." Skitz puts her shirt back on and leaves the nurses office. She walks outside and goes to the gazebo. It was a strangely warm day in early November. "Maybe if I'm lucky whatever caused Mira to snap will get those two to break up. She knew it was my time with him for band practice yet she just had to come. Maybe when it is her time I'll follow them so she knows what it is like." Skitz leans back and looks at the roof of the Gazebo. "What is that?" Something drops from the roof. "Aaaa!" It was a rat!" She throws it off of her. "What's going on!?" She freaks out and runs out of the Gazebo.
Sanne is in her room bored. Her Jtop is at 99 defragmented. "What, no, no!" Her screen went blank. "No, don't, I can't lose this!" Sanne tries to get her Jtop back on but can't. Her worse phobia had happened, her precious several thousand Euro computer died on her. No Super Scan, no way to work on programs from her room, no way to stay in contact with her parents. Well, her mom. Her dad was busy with his new deal with the UN. "I better go to the Factory." She puts a hand on her Jtop. "I, it wouldn't be selfish to do a return right? This costs more then a semesters tuition. And, it, the data I have on here is priceless. Maybe if I scan it, maybe if I use a Scanner it will be fixed." Sanne seriously thinks about this then leaves without it. "No, returns are bad, they make Xana stronger. I'll have to buy a new one. My dad could probably fix it but if he saw the information I had on it I'd get us all in trouble." Sanne grabs her Jpocket from the charger and turns it on. "Oh, an attack, wait, if Xana did this then a return would fix it! No, you can't do one just to fix it." Sanne gets her phone out and calls the others as she runs for the Factory.
"Xana!" Skitz figured this out already when more rats appeared. "I'll be there as soon as possible." Skitz tried to take the sewer entrance but the rats caught up and bit her a couple times. They hang up and Sanne calls Krieger, no answer. She calls Ark and does get a response.
"Really? Ok, I'll be there." Ark was getting worried. Mira wouldn't answer her phone and wasn't in her room. Was she really that mad? Would she really break up with him over something that was only in Mira's mind? He knew Mira didn't like his sister but she said she hated Skitz. Was she really so jealous of his sister as to break up with him over that? And if that did happen would she stay in the group or leave it?
"Mira won't answer either." Sanne hangs up her phone. "Krieger and Mira, we need them. Maybe, if his phone isn't near him at the gym." Sanne runs to the gym and finds Sora kneeling next to Krieger. "What happened?"
"I, I don't know. I came here and found him like this." Sora checked his pulse, he was alive, but he wasn't moving. "I, I found these next to him but they can't be his." Sora shows several needles to Sanne. "He, he doesn't do drugs does he?"
"No, he'd never do drugs. He cares too much about his body to pollute it with those." Sanne thinks this is the attack. "Call for the nurse I, I have to go and call his parents." This has to be the attack. She was right, partially, but this left Mira alone in the woods.
Mira is in the woods. The poison was wearing off. "Uh, where am I?" She finds herself inside of a cave. "What is that?" She sees something move. "Aaaa!" A snake! "No, no, uh, I feel sick." She turns her head and throws up. "Xana, this has to be Xana." She reaches for her phone and can't find it. "No, they took it." Mira curls up into a ball. She was scared. She hated snakes, she hated Xana, and now both were after her. "Ark, I'm sorry. I didn't mean I hate your sister!"
Sanne was running to the sewer entrance in the woods when she hears yelling. "Hello!" She waits for a response.
"What?" Mira thinks she hears yelling. "Is anyone out there!" She hears a response. She crawls on her hands and knees towards the entrance of the cave. She feels sick again and throws up as a snake crawls towards her.
"Mira!" Sanne yells this as she walks towards where she thinks she heard the yelling. It sounded like Mira's voice but she isn't sure where it came from.
"Sanne…" Mira was bit again and passes out.
"Mira! Mira answer me!" Sanne could have sworn she heard Mira but now couldn't get a response. "No, Xana has her around here and stopped her from responding. She has to be around here somewhere." Sanne looks for Mira and soon finds a cave opening. "Mira?" She looks in and sees dozens of snakes. "Ew, snakes. I didn't know there were any around here. Well, if this is a cave they've been hiding in they can't have had to much contact with people. If I'm not afraid of them they shouldn't be afraid of me." Sanne walks into the cave and smells something awful. She gets her Jpocket out and uses the light from the screen to look around. She sees what looks like vomit. "I don't think snakes throw up. Mira!" She yells but her only response is a bite on the shoulder. "Ouch, sorry I yelled but…" She stumbles. "No, poison, have to get away." Sanne stumbles out of the cave then falls down. She throws up. "Xana, I have to get to the Factory." She crawls trying to get to the sewer entrance but passes out.
"No, I need her on Lyoko so I can posses her!" Xana is in Sector 5 and uses a snake to watch what was going on. "I already eliminated two warriors. I, yes, perfect." Xana laughs then sends several snakes out to carry Sanne to the Factory. He couldn't posses her on Earth and needed her on Lyoko. "Which one bit her?" He uses his powers to find out then kills the snake. "Fool, I can't allow her to die because you got to ambitious." Xana waits for Sanne to come to Lyoko.
Skitz is in the Factory waiting for the others. She messes around with the Super Computer and brings up the security cameras. "Oh, Ark, he made it." She sees him swing down and run for the elevator. Skitz rubs her right arm where she had been bit. She was able to fight off the rats but had been bit multiple times. The elevator comes down and Ark steps off of it when the doors open.
"Hey Skitz are you ok?" She nods. "Where are the others?"
"I don't know. Sanne said she was coming."
"I tried calling Mira but she won't answer."
"Ark why don't you just break up with her? She's crazy or something." Skitz rubs her right arm again.
"What's wrong with your arm?"
"Oh, I got bit." Skitz rolls her sleeve up and Ark sees several bites.
"Wow, looks like the one on your back." Skitz really had been bit by something then.
"Hurts a lot more." Skitz rolls her sleeve back up as they wait for the others.
Soon the snakes carrying Sanne make it to the Factory. Xana uses his powers on them to allow them to float down with Sanne. They carry her to the elevator that had been sent up by the Twins. One snake pushes the button and the doors open. They carry Sanne into the elevator then a snake pushes the button to make the elevator go down. "What the?" Ark sees the doors open and Sanne being carried by snakes. Soon a familiar face appears on the screen.
"Hello children." Xana! "She was bit by an overenthusiastic snake. But if she does not go to Lyoko I am unable to posses her. Get her in a Scanner and send her to Lyoko. The poison hasn't killed her, yet." Xana laughs. "But Mira may not be so lucky."
"No!" Ark punches the screen and it cracks.
"Yes Ark, she's been bit twice. I think that might be lethal. If it isn't I can have her bit again to see if three is the charm." Xana smiles at Ark's reaction. "Hurry they may get hungry." Xana laughs as he closes the screen.
"Mira, Skitz, get her to the Scanners. I'll send you two then I'll send myself."
"Ok Ark." Skitz drags Sanne to the elevator and takes it down to the Scanner Room. She drags Sanne over to the left Scanner and gets her in it. She then gets in the right Scanner and the doors close.
"Ok, time to send, ouch!" Ark reaches to his left shoulder where he was bit by a snake. "Guys, I, I'll try to make it." Ark starts the auto transfer and goes to the ladder. He takes it down and tries to get to the middle Scanner but the poison affects him. He falls to his hands and knees and as he crawls towards the Scanner the doors close. "No, to slow." He throws up. "I hate that." Ark falls over onto his side and soon passes out.
"Ark?" Skitz yells but doesn't get a response. "Xana must have gotten him."
"He, he wanted me here alone. He's going to try and posses me." Sanne looks around. "Where's the Tower from here?" Skitz shrugs her shoulders. "I guess we have to track the pulses." Skitz and Sanne see the pulses.
"I guess we go north?" Sanne nods and they go north following the pulsations.
"Xana…" Krieger's eyes flutter as Sora waits with him in the gym. Sora thinks he is trying to say Sanne.
"No Krieger it's me, Sora." She leans down as his eyes start to open. "Krieger can you hear me?"
"Xana, not, not Sanne." His eyes open and they are blurred. "What?" He is confused. There is a ringing in his ears and is vision is so blurry he can't see who it is over him.
"Krieger, are you ok?" Sora moves his head with her hands trying to look in his eyes but they move around rapidly. She sees the pupils are dilated. "Krieger!"
"So, Sora." Krieger has a hard time breathing. "Sora, get away." Krieger's mind is trying to go on full alert. Xana had to be attacking and if he was then Sora had to get away.
"What? Krieger you're hurt. You don't know what you're saying." Sora does not understand Krieger. She thinks he is telling her to go away and calling out for Sanne. "Krieger, I, I should get the nurse but I can't leave your side." Sora holds his hand and squeezes it. She doesn't notice a needle float in the air behind her. Krieger starts to sit up. "Krieger stop you're hurt." Sora tries to push him down but he is to strong.
"No, Sora, you have to get away. It's dangerous to be around me." Krieger looks up and sees her smile and the floating needle. He throws himself at her and knocks her to the mat. Sora is about to yell when she hears a thud noise.
"Krieger?" She looks over his shoulder down his back and sees a needle sticking out of him pumping air into his blood stream. This could kill him! "No, what happened, how did that get there!?" She gets out from Krieger and pulls the needle out. "I, I have to get the nurse. Don't die Krieger, please, don't die." Sora runs out of the gym for the nurse's office.
On Lyoko Skitz and Sanne have followed the pulsations to the activated Tower. Now they had a new problem, two Mega Tanks. "They, they won't fire at you Sanne." Skitz gets behind her. "Xana wanted you on Lyoko so sending you back to Earth wouldn't work for him. If you run with me behind you they won't fire and you'll make it to the Tower."
"Ok Skitz, on three."
"On three like…"
"Shut up you know what I mean. One, two, three!" The two girls run for the Tower and the Mega Tanks open but don't fire.
"It's working." The Mega Tanks can't risk hitting Sanne. They're aim wasn't good enough to hit Skitz but not Sanne. This however was not true of a new monster. Skitz gets hit by a large red energy beam sending her back to Earth.
"Skitz!" Sanne turns and sees… A walking Mega Tank! Xana had pulled out the Franz Hopper version of a Mega Tank. "Whoa, crap." Sanne was alone on Lyoko surrounded by two Mega Tanks and one Walking Mega Tank.
"No this is great!" Xana flies down to Sanne. "You will be mine Sanne. I will take the child and grand child of former hosts and reach my true power! This body became so weak it is little more then a shell compared to you."
"Stay away from me, I'll blow myself up!" Sanne starts charging an energy beam.
"And let both Mira and Krieger die?" Sanne stops. "That's what I though Sanne. My Angel, join with me, if you don't fight I'll save them to be your slaves, our slaves."
"I, I can't, they wouldn't want that." Sanne fires a small beam and runs for the Tower. She hopes the Mega Tanks and the Walking Mega Tank won't fire.
"Tricky tricky but I won't go that easy!" Xana uses his powers to get in front of Sanne and grabs her. "Kiss me Sanne, my Angel." Xana leans down to kiss Sanne. She struggles but can't break his hold. She could destroy herself but Mira and Krieger would die. "Yes…" Xana puts his lips onto Sanne's and kisses her. He continues to kiss her trying to transfer himself into her but finds a barrier. He could not posses a human host on Earth, he could not use a Ghost to posses a human, and even on Lyoko he could not posses a human! He breaks the kiss and throws Sanne towards the Tower. "My Angel, deactivate, launch a return, I need more power!" Sanne gets in the Tower and does just that. Not to give Xana more power but to save her friends.
Sanne is in front of her computer. It is defragmenting. "No, one percent?" She gives out a cry. "This takes forever." She rests her forehead on the desk and takes a nap.
Skitz and Ark are practicing when Mira shows up like before. This time Skitz was never bitten and no fight breaks out. Instead Mira apologizes to both. She wasn't sure why she had reacted like she did. She had just snapped for no reason she could think of.
Krieger is in the exercise room when Sora shows up in her gym clothes. "Hey Sora." Krieger remembered that Sora had stayed by his side. She really did care for him, he had to work harder to find feelings for her and forget Sanne who was just a friend.