Code Xana Episode 36: Snow Bound
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 1-35
Krieger and Sora are walking through the woods as a light snow falls. "It' so beautiful Krieger." She rests her head on his shoulder. They were both amazed at first since it very rarely snowed anywhere below the Artic Circle.
"It is. The last time I saw snow I was in the cottage with the Belpois when my parents visited them after Christmas a couple years ago."
"Belpois? Oh, Sanne." Sora squeezes his hand. "So you two have always been close?"
"We've been friends for years. Her mom had her a few months after my mom had me. They were always friends since school and spend a lot of time together so me and the others did to."
"Friends, Krieger let's make a snowman!" It had been nearly a decade since Sora had seen snow. It had been nearly a decade since she got to make a snowman.
"Ok but we might need more snow for that." Krieger and Sora start making a snowman as the snow falls.
"Come on Mira snow is great!" Ark had thrown a snowball at Mira and Mira had been mad since then. "Don't make me do this."
"Ark I don't want to play in the snow, its cold." She was about to find out how cold when Ark got a snowball and shoved it down the back of her shirt. "Ark!" She turns around and pushes him into the snow. He laughs so Mira grabs and throws some at him. He throws some back. They start a snowball war when a civilian is hit.
"Hey, no fair, my back was turned!" The student grabs some snow and throws it at Ark. More students join in the fight including Barack and Skitz.
Sanne is sitting in her room staring at her computer screen. "Why, won't, it, work." She takes a breath between every word as she gets frustrated. "I hate you." She taps the screen of her Jtop. "I could replace you in a minute. My dad probably has a better one out right now." She closes it. "Oh hey, it's snowing." She had been inside since she woke up that Sunday morning working on a program to save Dante and hadn't even looked out her window. "Just like home." Sanne sighs as she thinks about being back home at her cottage with her mom and dad. She remembers a couple winters ago when Ulrich and Yumi visited with Krieger. That had been a great winter and she thinks about Krieger some more. "Whoa, no, he's just a friend." She shakes her head. "Dante is counting on you to rescue him. You can play in the snow when he's freed from Xana." She opens her Jtop again and continues to work on the program. She had worked on every part and couldn't find a way to expand the program outside of a Tower.
"Ha, you look so cute like that." Sora had reached up and hit a branch causing snow to fall on Krieger's head.
"Thanks, cute, I'm a guy you know." Krieger smiles at her. He was really starting to like Sora. He had problems at first but the more he was with Sora the easier it was to think of Sanne as just a friend. "But you…" Krieger picks Sora up then tosses her into the snow. She laughs and throws a snow ball at him. He tackles her then leans down and kisses her. "You feel so warm."
"I may feel warm to you but I'm starting to get cold." Sora and Krieger get up. "Hmmm, I dare you to…" She whispers into his ear.
"No way, it is way to cold for that!" Krieger laughs and pushes Sora away. "Hey, what was that?" Krieger turns around after feeling something tug on his leg and sees nothing.
"Won't trick me." Sora gets Krieger in the face with a snowball.
"Cheap shot!" Krieger picks up a handful of snow and packs it into a snow ball. "Whoa!" He feels something tug on his leg again. He looks down but doesn't see anything. Sora looks down and Krieger takes his chance. He pulls on her shirt and hits her in the chest with a snowball.
"Aaaa!" She pulls away. "That's cold!" She laughs as does Krieger.
"Well that's for the tree branch." Krieger laughs then stops when he feels something tug on his leg again. "What is that?" He looks down and sees the snow creeping up his leg! "No, Xana…"
"What?" Sora thinks she heard Krieger say something.
"Um, I have an idea. Go to my room and I'll meet you there in ten minutes ok?" Krieger feels the snow creep up his leg more. This had to be Xana, snow didn't do this and he wasn't going to let Sora get involved.
"Oh Krieger that's so romantic." She rolls her eyes and laughs. "Should I wear anything special? Or not wear anything?" She laughs again as she sees Krieger blush. "I know I know you're not ready for that, neither am I. But maybe…" She pulls her shirt up over her chest and reveals a red bra. "They could have some fun?"
"Uh, yes, just go, ok?" Sora nods and pulls her shirt back down the walks away. He waits for her to get out of hearing range and gets his phone out while struggling with the snow. "Sanne, attack!"
"What?" She rubs her eyes. She had fallen asleep due to boredom. The Super Scan is beeping. "Oh, um, I'll call the others."
"Ok, be careful the snow is attacking."
"What?" Krieger hangs up so Sanne doesn't get an answer. "Ice Sector, great, snow outside snow inside." She calls Skitz. "Skitz, attack."
"What? Aw, we're having fun." More then three dozen students were involved in a snowball fight and even a couple teachers were getting involved. "Let me find my brother and Mira, I saw them around here somewhere." Skitz ducks a snowball and throws one back at Jim. "Got to go." She hangs up and looks for her brother and Mira while dodging snowballs and throwing more back.
Krieger, in the woods breaks away from the snow that had gotten up to his knee. "Let go!" He took a step and the snow surrounded his foot. "Ok, enough time's passed." He gets his phone out as he looks for the sewer entrance in the snow. "Sora, I can't make it." He tries to sound calm but the snow trying to cover him is making it hard.
"What? Why?" Sora was waiting for Krieger in her room wondering what the surprise would be. "Your stupid club? What's more important me or that club of yours?"
"You have no idea how much I want to say you are but I can't. I'm sorry Sora I'll, if this doesn't take long I'll make it up to you."
"Really? How? You're ignoring your girlfriend for some stupid little club."
"I know and I wish I wasn't but I have to right now. Trust me I'll make it up to you, I have to go, bye." Krieger hangs up and breaks away from the snow that was moving up his legs. "I can't find it in the snow I need to get to the sewer entrance at the school." Krieger runs but has problems with the snow wrapping around his feet and legs with every step he takes.
Ark, Mira, and Skitz are running through the sewers for the Factory. "This sucks it's snowing out and it's Xana?" Ark loved playing in the snow.
"Sanne didn't say that though. Krieger said he was being attacked and it was the snow. But I didn't notice anything." Mira at first was annoyed but then she got into the snowball fight.
"Well what do we do if it is the snow? A return or what?" Skitz gets to the ladder and climbs up it. She pushes on the sewer cover but can't move it. "Ark you're a man you do this." Skitz climbs down and Ark climbs up. He pushes on the sewer cover and can't move it.
"Come on, you can do this, heave!" He pushes hard with his shoulder and moves the cover. He raises his right hand up and pushes again then slides the cover over. "Snow was that heavy?" He climbs up and sees there wasn't that much on the cover. "So ladies now that the man has done his job are you coming?" Ark laughs and as he waits for the girls to climb up he feels something wrap around his leg. He looks down and sees the snow wrapping around his right leg and moving up. "Aaaa!" He tears his leg away and trips. The snow covers over his body as he tries to get back up. Skitz climbs up and sees her brother fighting with the snow.
"Ark!" Skitz runs over and tries to help him up when the snow attacks her. "Get off of me!" Skitz falls down as a glob of snow slams into her. Mira climbs out of the sewer and sees Skitz and Ark flailing about on the ground.
"What are you guys doing?" Mira puts a hand down on the ground and the snow covers it immediately. "What's going on!?" She tries to pull her hand away but the snow moves up her arm quickly getting to her elbow. The snow continues to attack the three as Krieger gets to the school entrance to the sewer entrance as Sanne is moving down the sewer passage on her skateboard.
Sanne gets to the end of the passage and hears Mira yelling. She looks up as she climbs up the ladder and sees Mira's legs kicking. "Mira! Where are the others?" Mira doesn't answer, she is to busy yelling and fighting the snow. Sanne gets to the entrance and has to block Mira's legs with her arm. She gets out and sees Mira from the waist up is covered with snow. She grabs a leg and pulls on it and Mira is freed.
"Sanne, Ark, Skitz, they're in there somewhere." Mira spits snow out of her mouth and shakes her head to get it out of her hair and points to the bridge.
"Ok, um, maybe that?" Sanne points to a mound of snow and Mira shrugs. She had lost where Ark and Skitz where when she panicked with the snow that was attacking her. Sanne gets out of the sewer entrance and runs over to the mound. She starts to dig in the snow unafraid. Xana would want her to go to Lyoko and wouldn't take her, so Sanne thinks. But now it seems Xana has other plans as the snow she is digging out attacks her. "Aaaa!" She falls over when the snow gets to her knees and knocks her over.
"Sanne, get to the Factory!" Mira runs over and tackles Sanne knocking her free. "Get to the ele…" The snow covers Mira and she struggles with it.
"I can't go alone!" Sanne grabs Mira's hand and pulls Mira away from the snow. They run to the Factory entrance and Sanne stops. "Mira, we need to get Ark and Skitz." Sanne turns around and sees the snow coming at them.
"Deactivating the Tower will save them!" Mira jumps and swings down the rope and soon Sanne follows. They run over to the elevator when they hear a yell.
"Krieger!" Sanne runs back but Mira stops her.
"Deactivating the Tower will save them! Don't waste time fighting the snow!" Mira has to pull on Sanne's shirt to get her to follow to the elevator. Mira hits the button and the doors open as another yell is heard. Sanne sees Krieger jumping for the rope and missing! Krieger falls to the floor and even with his training can't brace himself for the fall. He hits hard and his skull bounces off the floor.
"Mira, we can get Krieger." Sanne runs over to Krieger and Mira follows. They drag him to the elevator and take it down to the Control Room where Sanne gets off. "Get him in a Scanner who knows how badly he was hurt." Sanne waits for what seems to be a life time before she sees Mira and Krieger through the security camera. She sends them then sets up the auto transfer for herself. She soon lands on Lyoko next to the Overbike, Overwing, and Overboard.
"Alright only three of us I call the Over…" Sanne runs past Mira and jumps onto the Overboard. "Board."
"I have to be fast incase Xana come after me. Get on the Overwing and let's go. The Tower is west of here. Dang, leave the snow of Earth for the snow of Lyoko." They were in the Ice Sector and after Mira gets on the Overwing and Krieger on the Overbike they take off for the Tower.
On Earth the students continue playing in the snow except for one who has become annoyed. Sora goes to Krieger's dorm room and finds it unlocked. She goes in and looks around the room. "There has to be something about that stupid club in here. Sora you shouldn't be doing this it is such an invasion of privacy!" She had been arguing with herself the whole time. She wanted to know what was so important Krieger would ignore her but she didn't want to snoop around. "Flip a coin, heads I snoop, tails I don't." She flips the coin, catches it, and slaps it on her arm. "Heads, no, I won't snoop." She disagrees with the coin and flips it to tails. "Well, maybe a little." She shakes her head. "No, I can't do that! How would you like it if he went through your room? Hmmm, having him go through my underwear drawer…" She looks around. "Well, hmmm, maybe if I just looked a little, but not to find something about that stupid little club. Where would he hide something?" She looks at his bed and lifts the mattress. "A diary? No, journal." She picks it up. "No lock on it, I could just look at the first couple of pages. See if he wrote anything about me." She starts to flip the cover then stops. "No, invasion of privacy." She closes it. "Why won't he tell me about that stupid little club!? It's driving me insane!" She puts the journal back under the mattress and turns around. "Hmmm, wonder if Ark has one." She lifts his mattress and finds magazines. "How does a thirteen year old get these?" She pulls one out. "She was obviously airbrushed. Whoa, he's, whoa. Maybe Ark wouldn't notice one of these going missing." She looks through a couple more pages then she puts the magazine back. "I better go. Don't look, stop it!" Her hand was reaching back under the mattress of Krieger's bed. "He'll tell you when he can. Patience, relax, why won't he tell me?!" She yells in frustration then leaves the room. Her mind was going crazy. She had gone to her room and was waiting for Krieger when he called about something more important then her. She was close to just tying him up and tickling him until he told her what it was. His one weak spot was how ticklish he was. She leaves the dorm building and is hit with a snowball.
"Sorry Sora!" A girl picks a handful of snow up and throws it at someone else never seeing the snowball Sora made to get back at her and increasing the snowball war.
On Lyoko the three were making good time hoping to save Skitz and Ark from a cold frozen tomb. "There's the Tower, and the Schipizoa. Sanne stay back!" Krieger uses the flight control on the Overbike to go up in front of Sanne.
"Normally Xana tries to trick me and capture me. He has to be around here somewhere." Sanne looks around wary of Xana.
"The Schipizioa isn't alone." Mira gets her Kodachi's out as they get closer and see four Krabes. "Weird, I, I don't remember seeing these guys."
"Krabes, wow, usually he uses Tarantulas or Assassins. Maybe Xana is using to much power to control the snow." Krieger gets his sword and shield out. "Sanne, Plan A please."
"Ok Krieger." The gang had talked about plans and Plan A involved… "Scattershot!" She fires one and hits the Krabe on the farthest left destroying it. The other three Krabes break formation and start to fire lasers. Krieger blocks with his shield as Mira blocks with her Kodachi's. Sanne pulls back on the Overboard and keeps an eye on the Schipizoa.
"Fall back, we got this. This shouldn't be too hard if there are only Krabes." Krieger charges on the Overbike like a royal knight on his steed. "Super Jump!" He tries using it and finds it works! The Krabes blast the Overbike as Krieger flies through the air. He flips and drives his sword through the back of a Krabes back destroying it.
"Stealth." Mira goes invisible and jumps off the Overwing. The remaining Krabes blast it and destroy it but soon one more is destroyed as an invisible Mira shoves a Kodachi into the back leaving one left.
"This is too easy." Sanne looks around for Xana as Krieger and Mira destroy the last Krabe. The Schipizoa hadn't moved the entire time.
"Sanne get to the Tower!" Krieger yells this since Sanne was to busy looking for Xana and watching the Shipizoa.
"Oh, sorry." Sanne takes the Overboard to the Tower then hops off. She starts to enter the Tower when a black energy knocks her backwards. The Schipizoa sweeps in and wraps its tentacles around her.
"Sanne!" Krieger goes to save Sanne when a blast of energy hits Krieger knocking him back. The blast had hit his shield and was the only reason he wasn't destroyed outright.
"Oh so nice. I will soon leave this body and be in a new more powerful host." Xana forms out of the black mist and appears next to the Schipizoa. "Krieger don't attempt it I would just destroy you." Xana laughs. "How nice to see you watch the girl you love become me!"
"I, I, shut up!" Krieger couldn't say he didn't love Sanne. She was his friend and even after his time with Sora he still had feelings for her. "No!" He swings his arm and throws his shield at the Schipizoa but Xana knocks it away with his energy.
"Watch." Xana not only sees but feels his energy draining from Dante as it goes into Sanne. "Yes, my host, my new host." He drops to his knees. "So close, yes…" Suddenly the tentacles are cut! "No, no!" He looks around but sees no one! "How did that happen?"
"Mira, what took you so long?" Krieger would have been crying first from the loss of Sanne and now in happiness as the invisible Mira cuts the tentacles freeing Sanne. "Die Xana!" Krieger charges Xana who was still weak from the partial transfer into Sanne. Krieger strikes Xana with his sword knocking him back. Krieger strikes him again when Xana reacts.
"No!" Krieger is knocked backwards by the energy blast and goes back to Earth as Xana tries to send the rest of himself into Sanne.
"Tower De…" Sanne falls to her knees as the screens fall around her. "Deactivated." She falls over onto the platform as she feels an evil rise through her body towards her brain. "No, stop, stop!" She closes her eyes and concentrates. She tries to fight the energy but struggles as the evil force is to strong. "Help, Krieger, please help me." She gives up as the evil force breaks through into her brain.
"No Sanne, uh, materialize her, uh she told us how to do this!" Krieger slowly hits the keys he's supposed to as Sanne's profile flashes and a black Eye of Xana appears on it. "No, Sanne!" He hits enter and the profile flashes. "Sanne, come on, Sanne you have to make it!" Krieger runs to the elevator and takes it down to the Scanner Room and sees the pink haired one. "Sanne, you're ok." Krieger walks over to her to give her a hand when she looks up at him.
"Krieger, die!" Sanne attacks him as the Eye of Xana appears in hers.
"No! Sanne stop!" Krieger and Sanne wrestle on the floor of the Scanner Room. They wrestle some more when Krieger pins her. "Sanne you can't beat me!"
"No, it wasn't enough, I'll kill her so you can't deactivate Towers anymore!" Sanne roars like a demon as a black light comes out from her mouth and eyes.
"No! Xana leave her alone!" Krieger leans forward and uses his forearms to pin Sanne's arm so he can use his hands to grabs her head. "Sanne fight him! I can't lose you!"
"What do you care? I saw what you did with that other girl!" Sanne laughs deeply, evilly. "Embarrassed are we? Don't be I've watched your parents for years and saw them do all kinds of things to each other when they thought they were alone. To see your parents blush when they tried to advance the relationship by getting naked, I believe that was when I sent the clones of them to Earth just to mess with the heads of the little love birds!" Sanne head buts Krieger but he doesn't let her up.
"Sanne fight him! You have to Sanne you can't let Xana do this!" The light comes out of Sanne's mouth and he feels his skin turn to ice, his veins start to slow down. "He's, he's trying to freeze her to death. I, Sanne, no, I, you know how I feel about you." Krieger hugs her and feels how cold her skin is. "Sanne fight him." Krieger is affected by Xana as the cold escapes Sanne's body and moves into his. His breathing slows as he starts to slip into hypothermia. "Sanne I can't lose you." He falls asleep as his body slows down, his heart slows down.
"Whoa, hey, Skitz." Ark breaks free of the snow. He shivers but he's able to move. "Skitz!" He yells and hears a muffled noise coming from another snow mound. He goes over and digs into it and finds his sister huddled trying to stay warm. "Sis, come on, the Factory is probably warmer." He helps his sister up and they go to the Factory. They take the elevator down to the Control Room expecting to see Sanne but instead hear yelling.
"Hello? Anyone going to bring me back?!" Mira was still on Lyoko.
"Mira?" Ark puts the headset on. "Where are the others?"
"Sanne and Krieger were sent back by Xana I think. Aren't they there?"
"No, um, I'll bring you back." Ark taps the keys and a couple minutes later Mira comes out of the Scanner.
"Krieger, Sanne!" She sees the two, Krieger laying on Sanne, on the floor. She goes over to them and puts a hand on Krieger's arm. His skin feels colder then ice. "Guys, something's wrong with them!" She rolls Krieger off of Sanne and feels Sanne's forehead. Sanne is also cold as ice. The elevator runs and soon Skitz and Ark come down.
"Whoa, what's wrong with them?" Ark and Skitz go over to the two on the floor. Ark kneels down and puts a hand on Krieger's arm. "Ow, geesh he's frozen."
"So is Sanne." Mira shakes Sanne but she doesn't move. Her arms don't even move as she is shaken. She is frozen solid. "Um, get them in the Scanners, we can heal them right?" Skitz and Ark nod. Ark gets a frozen Krieger into a Scanner as Mira gets Sanne into one. Skitz is taking the elevator up while the other two work on getting her other friends in the Scanners. She gets to the control panel.
"Are they in?" Skitz doesn't waste time on bringing the security cameras up.
"Yes scan them!" Skitz's fingers move over the keyboard as she runs a scan on all three Scanners not sure which ones her friends are in.
"Aaaa!" Sanne falls forward as the scanner doors open. "What, what happened?" She remembered her body slowing down. She could hear Krieger calling for her but then he went away. Then there was a light, a white light that offered warmth and comfort. She could have sworn she saw her grandparents on her dad's side but they were dead… "I died." She realizes what happened. Her body had been frozen like when someone gets cryogenically frozen. They don't die but they aren't alive. "Krieger, where is he?" Her vision was blurred and still trying to recover from the Scanning process that brought her back from being frozen.
"I'm right here." Krieger hugs Sanne and feels her warmth. "Sanne I'm sorry I couldn't save you." He squeezes her hard in his arms glad she was ok.
"It wasn't your fault. I should have known he was planning something like that." Sanne hugs Krieger then let's go. "I'm an idiot!"
"No you're not Sanne." Krieger let's her go. "You do your best."
"My best isn't good enough. I spent all day working on the program and all I have is bloodshot eyes and a sore back."
"Not anymore." Krieger smiles at her. "But maybe you could take a break?" Krieger puts a hand on Sanne's head. "But you should get a hat. Your hair is starting to grow back but not all there yet."
"Um, if you guys don't mind I could take a break." Sanne wanted to help her friends. To her that meant working on the Super Computer and freeing Dante from Xana.
"No, it's not ok with us." Sanne looks over at Ark. "Wow you were really asking us? Sanne you don't need our permission to do something." Ark rolls his eyes. "Be a teen for once."
"Well, I, ok, I'll take a break." Sanne smiles. "Snowball fight?"
"If one is still going on at the school we can join forces and crush everyone!" Ark raises a fist into the air. "Lyoko Warriors unite!" The group laughs as they get on the elevator. They leave the Factory and head back to Kadic Academy to join in the snowball fight that had grown and taken in the whole school, students and teachers.