Code Xana Episode 39: Freak Out!
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 1-30
"Be very careful with them. These specimens were very hard to find." A man in a white lab coat fixes a Preying Mantis to a clip as an associate fixes a Dragonfly to another clip. "The Genome Reconmbulator, set it to twelve percent, and then brings up the mirrors." The scientist walks away from the Preying Mantis and goes to the door when he finds it is locked. "Hey, unlock the door!" He hears the humming noise of the Genome Recombulator warming up. "This isn't funny! Let me out!" He pounds on the door having no idea what had happened. Five other scientists were knocked out by a black mist and now the mist was controlling things. The scientist inside the test chamber yells and screams but no one can hear him. "Dear God what are you doing? You can't do this to me! This is my project!" He pounds on the door as he hears a high pitch whine. "No, no!" The Genome Recombulator hits the Dragonfly and Preying Mantis then branches off and hits him. The three are fused together and soon a freak of nature is made.
"Perfect, now let's see if I can posses you!" The black mist moves into the room and attacks the freak of nature. It struggles but the black mist is able to invade the body and take control. The human will to resist was no more as the combination with the insects destroyed it. "Yes, a nice body, let's see what they do now." The freak of nature turns into a black mist and escapes the room.
At Kadic Academy Sanne sits in her room flipping a coin. She catches it and it comes up heads. "But I can't, I, it's being selfish. Try it again, heads I, I tell Krieger tails I don't." She flips it and it comes up heads again. "No, I can't. Third times the charm." She flips the coin and this time it lands… "Heads, shut up, you're just a coin." She puts the coin on her desk. "This is stupid. All that time you kept yelling at him because he wanted to date and now that he's off limits you want to go out with him. That's it, I, I just want to go out with him because now I can't. Yeah, that has to be it. I just thought he'd always be there and now that he isn't I want him. That came out wrong." She shakes her head. "Hey, it's done." Sanne hears a beep noise indicating her Virus Scan was done. "Three files, hmmm, delete, delete, and delete." She deletes the files the Virus Scan found and turns other programs back on. "Oh crap." The Super Scan had discovered an activated Tower. "He picks the perfect time to attack. Well, he probably watches me and the others." Sanne shivers thinking about it. There were times she would not want to be watched, showers, getting changed, and other moments that she sure as heck didn't want the enemy to be watching. She gets her phone out and calls Skitz and hears the phone ringing outside the door. "Skitz!"
"Sorry Sanne." Skitz opens the door. She had heard Sanne talking to herself and listened to her. "Um, I," Skitz looks away as Sanne stares at her.
"How long were you there?" Xana was the enemy Sanne could expect him to spy on her but her own friend?
"Um, I'm sorry. I didn't want to interrupt you."
"So you stood there and spied on me?" Skitz shakes her head. "I'll yell at you later but right now we have a Tower to deactivate." Sanne calls Ark, then Krieger, then heads for the Factory with Skitz following.
Krieger gets to the woods after telling Sora it was a call from his parents. They were on a date at a movie, not that they were really watching it. He hears a weird buzzing noise and looks around. He wasn't at the sewer entrance yet and had to be careful. If someone was watching then he would have to get away. He starts to run but the buzzing noise follows him and gets louder. He keeps running but doesn't seem to be fast enough as the buzzing noise gets louder. He turns around and sees a monster. Not a Xana monster but a monster from horror movies, a four year olds imagination. "What are you?" Krieger doesn't know whether to be afraid or to feel pity. The monster looked like it was in pain as the wings on its back allow it to fly over to Krieger. Its hands are misshapen and look like crab pincers but green with a pink tint. The knees are twisted and make it impossible for the monster to walk. The eyes are split apart and moved to where the temples on the head would be. Its mouth are the jaws of a Preying Mantis, they open and close as it speaks.
"I am my newest creation. Beautiful isn't he?"
"Xana!" Krieger gets in a fighting stance. "What did you do to him? Her, it, whatever."
"I modified his genes using a man made machine. I'm sure he would have died shortly after the accident but I possessed him and gave him my power." The monster laughs. "Try it Krieger and witness my power."
"I won't try it I'll do it!" He lunges at the monster and kicks him in the chest. The monster flies backwards but isn't hurt. The mutation has given him a hard thick shell. Krieger goes to punch the monster but the monster swings a right arm and uses the pincers on its hands to slash Krieger across the face. "Aaaa!" He falls backwards grabbing his face. Blood comes out of the wounds.
"Want to try that again?" The monster lashes out and cuts Krieger across the chest drawing more blood. "But now that you are injured I must make it so Sanne has no body guards to protect her." The monster grabs Krieger by the arm and squeezes. The claws dig in cutting Krieger down to the bone. "I'll make sure they know how badly you are hurt incase I fail again." He drops Krieger who grabs his arm trying to stop the bleeding. The monster flies off for the sewer entrance leaving a hurt and bleeding Krieger.
Sanne and Skitz get into the sewer entrance in the woods and see Mira's skateboard is gone but Ark's isn't. "I figured they would have been together like always. I guess Ark called her and told her since I didn't even think of it." Sanne gets her skateboard as does Skitz and they head down the sewer in silence. Sanne was still mad at Skitz for spying on her.
Mira gets to the end of the sewer passage to the Factory. She and Ark had gotten into a fight again and she went for a walk. When she saw his number she thought it was to apologize but it was only to tell her to get to the Factory because of an attack. "Whoa, what the heck is that?" When she climbed out of the sewer she saw a strange looking being flying over the bridge. "That must be Xana." She looks down the bridge, to the Factory entrance, and wonders how fast she could run.
"Ah, try it, I want to play a game." Xana sees her and waits to see what Mira does. "Hmmm, she is alone. She must still be fighting with Ark, good." Xana watches as Mira runs across the bridge for the Factory. He flies down behind her and after she jumps for the rope he punches her knocking her to the Factory floor. She falls four meters and lands on her back.
"Xana, what the hell is that?" Mira backs away from the monster as it flies down to her.
"Ah, so curious as you're about to be hurt." The monster reaches towards Mira and she kicks it away. Before she can bring her leg back Xana grabs her leg with is other hand.
"Aaaa!" He lifts her into the air and squeezes her ankle with his claws. They severe her tendons and bloods starts to pour out. He throws her up into the air, flies after her, and catches her with both hands on the same leg. He hangs her upside down letting her blood flow down her leg, to her body, and then down her neck to her head. The blood stains her hair red then drips down to the Factory floor below.
"Two injured, this should keep them busy." Xana laughs. "Once Sanne is alone I will have her!" He shakes Mira and the blood flies about. "Now where to put you?" He looks around. "Yes, there is a nice spot." Xana flies up to the rafters and uses his power to bind Mira to the rafters upside down so the blood continues to flow down her leg. Some of it goes down her chin and into her nose as Xana flies away and waits for the others to show up.
Ark gets to the Factory after leaving a movie theater. He was mad at Mira, she just kept saying she was sorry but didn't understand why he was so mad. She thought it was because she accused him of cheating when really it was that she didn't trust him. He told her and it didn't seem to get through. He went to a movie theater that was showing foreign films so he could be alone and think about a major decision. "Thanks Xana." He was annoyed that even when he was alone Xana could creep into his life. He runs to the Factory entrance and jumps grabbing a rope. When he does energy comes down and shocks him causing Ark to let go and drop to the floor.
"Hello Ark." The monster flies down and stops in front of Ark.
"Xana, nice body, got tired of your old one?" Ark's comeback makes Xana smile. As well as the mutated body could smile.
"You're doing better, not as good as your father but better." The monster grabs Ark by the shirt and lifts him into the air. "Look up." Ark does and a drop of blood lands on his forehead.
"Mira, you bastard what did you do to her?" Ark is tossed away by Xana.
"Whatever I wanted to. If you had been with her she might have stood a chance."
"No!" Ark lunges at the monster but is knocked away easily.
"Ark!" The monster turns around and sees Skitz and Sanne.
"I am behind on my time limit. I must stop playing with these weaklings." Xana turns to Ark and attacks him. He uses the claws to pin Ark's arms to the floor then bites him on the neck. It looks like gallons of blood coming out of the wound as the blood pools around Ark's body.
"No! You bastard!" Skitz jumps and swings down on the rope. When she lands she attacks Xana as Sanne lands near Ark. Sanne grabs Ark by the leg and drags him over to the elevator as Skitz attacks Xana. Xana should have been able to knock her away easily but she was defending her brother, she was trying to save his life and it powered her. Sanne takes the elevator down to the Scanner Room and drags Ark over to the right Scanner. A trail of blood is left and as Sanne goes back into the elevator she stands in a pool of blood that was left behind by Ark. She takes the elevator up to the Control Room and goes to the control panel. She sends Ark to Lyoko hoping she was in time. She turns the security cameras on and sees the monster has Skitz by the back of the head. The monster flies over to the security camera and shows the deep gashes across Skitz's chest. Sanne isn't sure but she thinks she can see Skitz's heart and lungs.
"You bastard, what are you doing?" Was Xana powerful enough to just kill them? Where were Krieger, and Mira? Had he already gotten them? The monster drops Skitz to the Factory floor and looks into the camera.
"Go to Lyoko. I think you have about twelve minutes to save Skitz, maybe less for Krieger and Mira." The monster laughs.
"He wants this, I'll have to do a return." If I make it. Sanne shakes her head. She would make it, somehow. She wouldn't be possessed by Xana. Sanne sets up the auto transfer after sending the Overbike and hurries to the Scanner Room getting in the middle Scanner seconds before the door closes. She lands on Lyoko next to Ark. "Ark are you ok?"
"I think so." Ark was checking himself out for any damage. "Where's my sister and Krieger?"
"Your sister, she'll be ok and I don't know about Krieger. What about Mira?"
"I saw her. Xana had her up in the rafters. We better hurry cause I don't know how long it will take us to get her down and she, she might." Ark can't bring himself to say it. "Are you sure my sister is ok?"
"Yes but we need to do a return." Sanne gets on the Overbike as Ark gets his disc out. "Follow me and be careful. I'm sure Xana wants to posses me and made sure I wouldn't have a lot of protection." They take off for the Tower as Krieger is found by someone who was bored since her boyfriend ran off.
"Hey, hello?" Sora had started back to the school from the movie they had gone to when she heard what sounded like crying. "Hello?" She walks towards the noise and finds Krieger holding onto his arm. The bleeding had stopped but it still hurt. "Krieger, what happened? Are you ok?" She goes over to him but he doesn't answer. "Oh Krieger, I'll, I'll call for help." Sora gets her phone out and calls for an ambulance. She looks down at Krieger and looks at the wound on his face. "Ouch, Krieger, what was it?" Sora assumes he was attacked by an animal. She isn't sure what since wild animals were rare and she didn't know of any that would leave wounds like this. "Krieger, do you know I'm here?" Krieger wasn't responding but keep crying as the pain gets to his brain. It hurt badly and worse on his mind was that Xana would use his injuries to make Sanne do a return. He hears Sora but can't respond. If he did he'd cry even harder. He was straining trying not to, he had to be strong, but he was still just a teen who had been attacked by a monster. Sora sits down next to him and puts a hand on Krieger's shoulder. "Come on Krieger you can make it. I'm, I'm sure they can fix your face. Although a man with scars can be sexy. At least it will give you something to talk about with all the pretty nurses." Sora smiles and hopes what she is saying will help Krieger. She hears sirens off in the distance. The emergency services had her location through the GPS chip on her phone. They would get here soon and help Krieger, she knew they could, they had to.
Back on Lyoko Ark and Sanne see the activated Tower and the welcoming committee. "Sanne you were right." Ark and Sanne see the Schipizoa and three Dragons plus a squad of Kankrelats. "Normally I'd say stay back but I need your help, there are too many of them." Ark closes his eyes and concentrates forcing the spear out from his hand.
"Ok, I can help, I'm as much a warrior as you are." Sanne hated being told to stay back and now she could fight. "Watch and learn Ark I'm not the damsel in distress." Sanne closes her eyes and charges an energy blast. She concentrates more and more before opening her mouth. "Scattershot!" She fires off nine beams at the Kankrelats. They are to slow and the beams destroy all of them. "See?"
"I could have taken them. The Dragons and the Schipizoa are the big problem." Ark takes off on his disc using his spear to block lasers. Sanne on the Overbike activates the flight controls and takes off. She fires laser beams at a Dragon while the other two chase after Ark.
"Oh what's this?" Xana was bored and had gone back to where he left Krieger to find Sora sitting next to him.
"Where are they? The ambulance should have been here by now." Sora was getting distressed when the sirens stopped. "Krieger they're coming I know they are. It's what they do." She had been talking to him constantly trying to get through but she gets no response. He stopped crying but that was because he passed out. "Krieger I know you can hear me. Come on Krieger, squeeze my hand." He doesn't but she squeezes his. "I'm still here. I won't leave your side. They better let me go with you. I want to ride in the ambulance." She laughs trying to make a joke but Krieger doesn't respond. "Ok Krieger? It's going to be ok."
"Hmmm, should I make an appearance? Yes, incase they decide not to do a return. That is of course only if my Angel makes it to the Tower." Xana flies down to Sora scaring her.
"No, you're the one that attacked Krieger." Sora starts to back away but wouldn't let go of Krieger's hand.
"Yes I am." Sora is stunned that the animal, monster could talk. "And you know why?" Sora shakes her head. "Because of what he does. Because of what he ran off to do."
"I, he said it was a call from his parents."
"He lied to you. Although he really did have too. His friends wouldn't let you in especially not Sanne." He smiles at Sora's reaction. "Haven't you ever wondered why he's never said he loved you? He loves another woman and she loves him back. You're just a play thing. Although I doubt you'll remember any of this."
"What are you talking about?" Sora hears what the monster says but isn't sure what to believe. There was a monster talking to her telling her about Krieger and what his club did.
"A return to the past will, no, would blank your memories. "I guess I'll have to wait until next time." He reaches towards Sora and puts a hand on the side of her head. She would have run away but she wasn't going to leave Krieger behind to this monster. She wasn't sure what it would do to Krieger.
"Whoa, what happened?" Ark dodges a laser as the three Dragons explode leaving the Schipizoa.
"I don't know but I don't like it." Sanne dives for the activated Tower on the Overbike but the Schipizoa moves in to intercept her.
"Sanne no!" Ark throws the spear at the Schipizoa hitting it on the large bubble but not doing much damage.
"Scattershot!" Sanne fires four beams at the Schipizoa and it flies back. She fires a single beam aiming for the small green part with the Eye but misses. A tentacle reaches out for her but Ark jumps off the disc and uses his claws to cut the tentacle. Sanne gets to the Tower and a minute later the Tower deactivates. "Return to the past now!" The white bubble comes up reversing time but for someone it doesn't modify their memories like a normal person.
"What?" Sora shakes her head. She is in the movie theater with Krieger. He loves Sanne. He'll never say he loves you. You're just a piece of meat to him. She shakes her head wondering where the thought came from. She talked to Sanne, they were just friends.
"What's wrong Sora?" Krieger noticed she started to act weird. Krieger was glad a return was done since Sora saw him.
"I, um, Krieger, do you love me?" This catches Krieger off guard.
"I, um, you know, I, uh, I'm only thirteen I, um, you know." Krieger stumbles over his words.
"Really? You can't say you love me because you're young? Then I guess you can't do anything with me."
"No, I, I like you, a lot. But I, I don't just want to say those words here. I want to say them to you when we're having dinner, a romantic dinner, you know, not some run down theater we snuck into. You know? I want it to be special not just some words we throw around." Yeah right, you can't say them because you won't lie to her. You do like her but you know who you love. Krieger ignores his inner thoughts as Sora leans down and kisses him.
"You're so sweet!" She kisses him again. "I like that, you don't want to just say them you want it to be special. I knew I liked you for a reason, besides that great hunky body." She laughs quietly then kisses him again ignoring the scene in her head. She must have fallen asleep, that would explain the monster and Krieger being hurt that was in her mind. She decides she wasn't going to fall asleep again by keeping busy with Krieger during the rest of the movie. It was an empty theater since it only played bad black and white foreign films.
Well, not completely empty. A blonde boy sits near the front row debating what to do about his relationship. He liked the girl he was with, he trusted her with his life. But the problem was she didn't trust him. She had turned on him in an instant. He had protected her when his sister attacked her because she was told by a good friend that his girlfriend was working with the enemy. He trusted her even though his best friends and his own flesh and blood said she was a traitor. She turned on him after she was told of an attack and then a strange naked woman kissed him. She turned on him, she hated him, she didn't trust him. Could he be with someone who didn't trust him? They had a secret but would he stay together with a girl because of a secret? He liked her a lot but she just seemed to be having fun with him.