Code Xana Episode 40: School of a 1000 Corpses
Author: James the Lesser/The Bunnyman
Disclaimer: I Do Not Own These Characters! Moonscoop 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 1-39
Sanne is beating her head against the wall. She had been caught sneaking out of her room to get a soda after curfew. She was told to stand in the corner as the Groundskeeper got the principal. She is standing next to a machine and wants to get something to drink but follows her orders to stand in the corner. She was whispering to herself. "Stupid," hits head against wall. "Stupid," she does it again. "Stupid," She does it again then feels a hand on her shoulder.
"Sanne Belpois?" She turns around and sees the new principal. "Please explain to me what you were doing."
"I was thirsty and wanted I really something to drink. I don't have a cup in my room so I couldn't get one from the sink in the girls' shower room. I know its past curfew and I shouldn't be outside right now and I'll take whatever punishment you have."
"Really?" Sanne nods. "Well, you've been truthful and know what you've done was wrong. Get a bottle of water from the machine and then I'll lead you back to your room." Sanne gets a bottle of water even though she really wanted a soda then goes back to her room as the principal follows her. When they get to her room she opens the door and the principal stops her. "Keep that bottle and fill it with water before you go to bed next time so I don't have to be woken up this late. Go to bed, you have classes tomorrow." Sanne nods and closes the door.
"Whew." She wipes her brow. "That was close." Sanne goes over to her bed after drinking some water.
"What was?" Sanne is surprised that Skitz is still awake. "Sanne I know you're awake. What was close?"
"I, I got caught getting something to drink."
"Sanne if you get a detention Xana will attack and we won't be able to get you out." Skitz sits up in her bed.
"I know but I didn't think I'd get caught." Sanne sighs wanting to go to sleep now that she wasn't thirsty.
"You got that right you didn't think Sanne." Skitz isn't yelling at Sanne but wants to make sure Sanne knows how stupid she had been. "Sanne, every one of us is expandable but you. You can't be in a position that we can't get a hold of you or you can't go to the Factory." Now Skitz smiles. "Now I wouldn't be so mad if you were sneaking off to meet Krieger for some fun but…" Sanne throws a pillow at Skitz. "Just saying Sanne."
"I, I," Sanne was about to say she only liked Krieger as a friend but she now knew that wasn't true. She did have feelings for him but keeps trying to tell her self that it was because Krieger was taken and she couldn't have him. It was like when she had a computer game. She would play it then stop when she was bored with it. But once she deleted the game to make room for something else she'd want to do nothing but play that game because she couldn't play it anymore. "Shut up we have classes tomorrow." Sanne downs her bottle of water then puts the bottle on the floor. She turns over a couple times then falls asleep. She falls into such a deep sleep she doesn't hear the Super Scan when it goes off.
The next morning Sanne hears her alarm, which was next to her head, beeping. She reaches over and hits it turning it off but still hears a beeping noise. "Uh, Skitz, turn your alarm off." Sanne sits up, rubs the sleep out of her eyes, and yawns. "Skitz, turn it off!" She yells and sees Skitz stir.
"Shut up Sanne it isn't my alarm." Skitz yawns and knows what her alarm sound like and it didn't sound like that. "It sounds more like the…" Sanne finishes the sentence.
"Super Scan!" Sanne gets out of bed and opens her Jtop. "Forest Sector, crap, uh, I'll call Krieger and you call Mira." Sanne finds her phone and calls Krieger. "Krieger, attack!"
"Ok, you don't have to yell." Krieger looks over at a sleeping Ark. "I'll tell Ark and get him moving."
"Ok, see you soon." Sanne hangs up and sees Skitz hasn't gotten up. "Fine I'll call Mira." Sanne does. "Mira, there's an attack."
"Already? I don't even get a shower." Mira yawns. She had been getting clean clothes together to take a shower but now that Xana was attacking she would have to change her plans. "Let me get dressed into my clothes from yesterday and I'll be there." Mira and Sanne hang up.
"Skitz, we, we should probably change."
"Yeah, running around in my underwear is not something I want to do." While Sanne wore a long pink shirt with the letter A on it that used to belong to her mother Skitz slept in her underwear. Skitz and Sanne get the clothes they wore yesterday on and run out of the room. While they run for the sewer entrance Ark and Krieger catch up to them.
"Hello ladies, whoa." Ark makes a face at his sister. "Maybe I should make sure Barack sees what you look at without any make up."
"Oh sure send him into my room when I'm sleeping and all I have on is a bra and underwear." Ark stares at his sister as she sticks her tongue out at him. Skitz laughs knowing it got to her brother.
"Stop!" Krieger had run ahead of the group and sees several people standing around the sewer entrance. "Did Xana get strong enough to posses people?" Krieger backs away from the group.
"I don't know, they, they aren't moving like normal people." Sanne walks forward trying to get a better look. She sees one person walk towards them with a weird gait. Suddenly the right arm falls off! "Oh crap I, I think they're dead!" Sanne covers her mouth knowing that yelling wasn't a good thing.
"What? Solanum Virus or Xana?" Ark sees another person coming from the woods. "We should probably run."
"Probably Xana unless he found someone with Solanum and released it." Sanne hears a groan. "I, we have to run!" Sanne and the others run for the school to use the school's sewer entrance.
After the kids get to the sewer entrance the possessed dead make it to the school. "Aaaa!" A student sees them. "Solanum!" This sends the school into a panic. The Solanum Virus had no cure. If you were bit or scratched you were killed before the Virus turned you into the undead.
"Don't panic! Leave the school and meet outside the gates!" Jim takes charge trying to keep things calm. "Call your friends and make sure they know to leave the school! Don't go to your rooms they can break through the doors!" Jim looks around. "This is like the Solanum Virus outbreak me and Sanne were caught up in 2016…" Jim realizes what would happen. When he and Sanne went on vacation a Solanum outbreak happened near the hotel they were in. They were evacuated and the place was fire bombed to destroy the victims. "Get away from the school! Go into the city. Get as far away as possible!" Jim gets his phone out. "Samantha, get out of the Hermitage, get as far away from there and the school as possible!"
"What? Jim, what's going on?" Samantha was making a sandwich for lunch when Jim called.
"Solanum outbreak at the school. If they, if they do like they always do the whole area will be fire bombed!"
"Ok, I'll, I'll go to the Factory."
"Yes, great idea!" Jim looks around. "I'll find the kids and get them there." Jim and Samantha hang up and Jim looks for the kids.
"Jim, he's calling." Sanne answers her phone. "Grandpa?"
"Sanne, get out of the school! Where are the others?"
"We're all together, why?"
"Solanum outbreak at the school. Get out, don't go to the Hermitage. Meet me, meet me at, um," Jim thinks about where the kids should meet him. "Meet me in front of the gates!" Jim was panicking even though he told others not to. He didn't want his wife or granddaughter to get hurt.
"Grandpa we're all together and we're fine. Don't worry about us just get out. Um, where's grandma?"
"I told her to go to the Factory!" Jim slips and says this. "I mean, I, I told her to go somewhere safe."
"Ok Grandpa, um, we're all ok and we'll see you soon. Just make sure you don't get hurt." Sanne and Jim hang up. "Guys my grandmother is headed for the Factory so we better hurry." They all knew what would happen if Samantha found the Super Computer was on.
"Oh great. Lock the elevator down so she doesn't come down and see us on Lyoko." Krieger wasn't too worried about it. They'd deactivate the Tower soon and get out before the attack got serious.
"It doesn't matter we have to do a return. The possessed got to the school." Krieger almost falls off his skateboard.
"Um, I, I need to make a call, you guys should go ahead of me." Krieger wanted privacy for his call. The others are confused but keep going as Krieger gets his phone out. "Sora, are you ok?"
"Yes, I, where are you?" Sora like the other students were scared. A Solanum outbreak hadn't happened in France for nearly a decade.
"I'm ok. Sora trust me Just stay away from those things. I, I'm sorry but I have to go."
"Krieger where are…" Krieger hangs up on Sora. Sanne already said they were doing a return so Sora wouldn't remember this. He just wanted to make sure Sora wasn't going to be hurt. Krieger hurries after the others.
"Oh crap." The others had made it to the end of the sewer passage but saw more of the possessed dead waiting for them. "Sanne is the important one." Ark was already making plans. "But she can't go alone. When Krieger gets here we'll go and distract these guys so you girls can get to Lyoko."
"Be careful Ark." Mira and Skitz say it at the same time then stare at each other. "If you get hurt I'll beat you up little brother." Skitz sticks her tongue out at Mira. "I promise.
"If he gets hurt and you beat him I'll kiss his wounds to make them feel better." Mira sticks her tongue out at Skitz.
"Then I'll make sure to do…" Ark tired of the bickering and fighting stops his sister and Mira.
"Stop it you two there's an attack and Krieger just got here." Ark waves to Krieger. "Krieger, the undead are up above. You and I need to take care of them so the girls can get to Lyoko."
"Ok, I'll go first." Krieger climbs up the ladder quickly. "Hey, over here!" He yells and waves his arms. The possessed dead see him and a loud long groan comes out. "Creepy." Krieger had read about the zombie groans in previous attacks. How people had gone insane hearing the groan of a Solanum victim alone and now he knew how that could happen as the other possessed undead groan. Ark climbs up hearing the zombie groans.
"Krieger, man, that's creepy." Ark feels his skin crawl as the entire possessed dead groan together. "Come on, get us! That's why you're here right!?" The possessed dead walk towards the two boys. They couldn't run due to decomposition. "Girls when you can get to the Factory!" Ark yells but the girls already knew to run when they had the chance.
"Wait Ark, I have an idea." Krieger looks around. "These guys should be slow, weak, I can take them." Krieger runs over to the lead possessed dead and kicks it knocking it over. "They aren't really Solanum Virus victims. There's no danger of being bit by one." Krieger kicks another possessed dead knocking it over. "They can't even get up! Ark go with the girls I'll take these guys!" Ark doesn't move. He wasn't going to leave Krieger to deal with the possessed dead.
"Krieger that's stupid you need help." Ark sees Krieger do a round house kick knocking the head off of a possessed dead. "Ok maybe you don't need help." Ark runs over to the sewer entrance. "Come on Krieger has these dusty boned losers busy." The three girls come up and run with Ark to the Factory entrance. They jump and swing down to the Factory floor, except Sanne.
"Krieger be careful!" Krieger ignores Sanne. He was busy dealing with the possessed dead. Several dozen groans are heard as more possessed dead show up walking down the road. "Krieger don't do anything stupid!" Now Krieger responds to Sanne.
"I won't do anything Ark would do!" Krieger's joke eases some of Sanne's worries but not all of them. Sanne jumps and swings down to the Factory floor. She joins the others in the elevator and takes it down to the Control Room. "I'll send you guys then the vehicles then I'll go." Sanne gets off and sits down in the computer chair she brought since the original seat was destroyed. She waits for the others to go down to the Scanner Room and get in the Scanners. "Transfer Mira, Transfer Ark, Transfer Skitz, Scanner Mira, Scanner Ark, Scanner Skitz, virtualization." They land on Lyoko. "I'm sending the vehicles now." They appear on Lyoko and soon Sanne lands on Lyoko next to the others.
"I called it this time Skitz!" Skitz and Mira were arguing over the Overboard again.
"There's no calling it is my vehicle!" Skitz pushes Mira. "Get to your Overwing before I send you back!"
"I'd like to see you try Skitz! I called the Overboard you get on the Overwing this time!" Sanne rolls her eyes and goes over to the Overboard and jumps onto it. "Hey, no fair!"
"Last one to the Overbike gets stuck with the Overwing." Sanne smiles as the two girls realize that they just got put in their place. Mira starts to run for the Overbike but stops when Skitz doesn't chase after her. When Mira stops to turn around and see what was wrong with Skitz she sees Skitz jump and is knocked down Mira before Skitz runs for the Overbike.
"Sucker." Skitz gets on the Overbike and revs the engine. "Where's the Tower Sanne?"
"We have to go south then east a little. With the way the Mountain Sector is I couldn't make it a straight shot."
"It would be if we just flew over." Skitz activates the flight controls on the Overbike.
"That's too dangerous I don't want to risk it." Sanne wasn't going to lose a friend to the Digital Sea. They fly over the paths of the Mountain Sector as Krieger deals with things on Earth.
"How in the hell didn't anyone notice so many undead!?" Krieger was fighting and damaging more possessed dead. Once he broke a leg off the possessed dead was taken out of the fight. "There are no way these all came from the same cemetery." He dodges a grasping hand, grabs it, and rips the arm off. "This is ridiculous." He throws the arm away and kicks the possessed dead in the knee breaking the leg. The possessed dead fall over and start to crawl after him. Krieger kicks it in the head and the possessed dead stops. "I wonder how things are going at the school. Jim, Samantha, they better be ok to."
Jim was herding the kids away from the school as fast and calmly as possible. He had to get them as far away incase the government did the extreme and firebombed the school. Jim has the children two blocks away when several military vehicles appear. "Move out! You, are you from the school?" Jim nods. "Get down, all you kids, down on the ground!"
"Sir we aren't infected we are safe I…" Jim is hit in the gut with a gun stock interrupting him.
"Down on the ground! You will all be checked for bite and scratch marks. Any suspicious markings will get you put in isolation for a twenty four hour period!" The kids get down on their stomachs and are immediately restrained by elastistraints. These restraints replaced handcuffs after a metal shortage during the Second American Civil War. They were a rubber plastic mix that by pushing a button would expand then letting the button go made then shrink to restrain a person. Several of the younger students are crying as they are scared. The military didn't care that they were just kids they were put on a Solanum Virus alert. Any force, even killing, was acceptable in a Solanum situation. Until the kids and the staff were cleared they would be treated like they were infected.
On Lyoko the kids see the activated Tower and see monsters. "Sanne you know what to do right?" Sanne nods. She was to fire Scatter Shots and stay back. Sanne was the important member who could deactivate Tower. Ark continues to give orders as they get closer to the Tower.
Back on Earth two military jeeps pull up near the old industry district and see dozens of Solanum Virus victims. "Remember shoot them in the head!" Three troops jump off the back of a jeep and aim their rifles.
"Wait, sir, there seems to be someone in that mess!" In the other jeep a sniper had been using his scope to look through the masses of undead. "Looks like a kid, maybe a teen, he doesn't seem to be infected."
"He will be if we don't hurry. Help him out while we try to draw these maggot bags towards us." The leader in the group raises his rifle. "Poor kid, we'll probably have to kill him." He fires a shot hitting what he thinks is a Solanum Virus victim. The sniper shoots one in the head near Krieger.
"Whoa, what was that?!" Krieger turns around and sees the two jeeps. "Don't shoot me I'm not infected!" Krieger yells as loud as he can hope they hear him. It is doubtful as the troops open fire on the undead. They are good enough shots that they hit each one in the head with every shot.
On Lyoko the new Lyoko Warriors get to the activated Tower where two Assassins and a Tarantula were waiting for them. "Scattershot!" Sanne fires one immediately and the three monsters dodge the attack. She fires another one aiming for the Tarantula and a side beam hits it in the Eye destroying it. "Ok guys handle the Assassins." Sanne stays back since she was needed to deactivate the Tower. "This would be easier with Krieger."
"Extend!" Skitz extends her clubs as she charges an Assassin on the Overbike. It fires lasers and she dodges them. Mira goes after the other Assassin using her Kodachi's to block the lasers.
"Let's see if this works." Ark closes his eyes and concentrates. Soon he feels something slide out of his right wrist and he grabs it. "Yes, my spear, this is so cool." He flies after the Assassin Skitz was going after.
"Ouch!" Skitz is hit by a laser in the chest and is knocked off of the Overbike. The Overbike slides across the ground and the Assassin jumps out of the way. Ark takes his chance and throws his spear at the Assassin. The Assassin rolls out of the way of the spear but now Sanne takes her chance and fires a Scattershot. The Assassin is unable to dodge all of these and is hit in the Eye. It explodes leaving just one Assassin. "Sanne stay back! This will be easy."
"Not that easy!" Xana appears! "Like I would just let you get to the Tower so easily?"
"Sanne!" Skitz runs over to Sanne but knows she is to slow. Ark flies by on his disc but had no real weapon left.
"Ha I got you all by myself!" Mira had destroyed the last Assassin and felt good. The other one took three Lyoko Warriors and this one was done in by just her self. "Oh crap." She hadn't seen or heard Xana since she was focused on the Assassin. "Sanne get away!"
"Aaaa!" Sanne struggles and tries to fire an energy beam at Xana but he uses his powers to trap her.
"I wonder if I have more power now. No, wait, I will have more then enough power!"
On Earth Krieger had escaped the attack after the soldiers shot the undead. "Thank you." He is breathing hard since he had spent nearly ten minutes fighting the possessed dead.
"On the ground!" Krieger looks up and sees the end of a barrel pointed at his forehead.
"What? Wait, I wasn't bitten or anything."
"On the ground now!" Krieger hears a click when the rifle is cocked. "On the ground!"
"Ok calm down I'm getting down." Krieger lies down on the ground and is soon restrained. "Go ahead and check me but I wasn't bitten. Thanks for the help though." A soldier gets a knife out and cuts Krieger's shirt off. They turn him over checking for bites or scratches.
"Get his pants off!" A soldier removes them leaving Krieger in his boxers. "Ok, he's good, let him go." They turn Krieger back over and take the elastistraints off. Krieger gets his pants back on then looks at his shirt. "I could have taken my shirt off before you restrained me."
"It's just a piece of cloth you'll get over it. What the hell were you doing out here kid?"
"I, um, the school was attacked and my friends ran off. I went after those idiots but when I got here I couldn't find them." The look on the troops face tells Krieger they think his friends were probably in the pile of bodies they had just shot. Krieger isn't worried he knew where his friends were. He looks over at the entrance of the Factory then sees a pink head come up from the sewers. "Oh crap, Samantha. Hey, I need to um, pee, can I just go to the other side?"
"Sure kid. That was some good moves, great body, are you planning on joining the military?" Krieger shakes his head as he goes to the other side of a jeep so Samantha doesn't see him.
"Where do you live kid?"
"At the Kadic Academy. I, we were told to evacuate and my friends ran off on their own."
"Hey, you! Over there!" A soldier sees Samantha and yells at her. "What are you doing?!"
"I, I was hiding from the zombies." Sanne raises her hands when a soldier points a gun at her. "I swear, I, I live in a house in the woods. It's near the school where my husband works. He called and said I had to hide so I did." A soldier walks over to Samantha.
"Get on the ground, face down, and put your hands behind your back!" Samantha listens and soon has a set of elastistraints on.
"I wasn't bitten, I couldn't have been bitten! I was just in the sewers then climbed up here!" Samantha hears the sound of a knife cutting her shirt. "I could have just taken it off."
"Be quiet!" They turn her over and check for bite marks and scratch marks. "Sorry ma'am but this is protocol for a Solanum outbreak." A soldier removes Samantha's pants.
"I have underwear on and it's kind of flattering to have such young men looking at me." Samantha laughs trying to ignore what was going on. She was uncomfortable but was more worried about her husband and her granddaughter. She closes her eyes waiting for it to end.
"Whoa dude, her hair is naturally pink!" Samantha closes her legs now that she knows her panties weren't covering up as much as she thought. "Uh, sorry I uh, forget I said that."
"Yes it's naturally pink! Just get done checking me then let me go." Samantha rolls her eyes then is flipped back over onto her stomach. They undo the elastistraints and allow Samantha to get her pants back on. She puts her shirt on even with it being sliced in the back all the way. "I could have just taken my shirt off. This was a nice shirt."
"Protocol is to restrain as fast as possible incase of an infection. I'm very sorry ma'am but we don't make up the rules the government does." The soldier leads Samantha over to the jeeps. "We'll drive you to the school where your husband is. We got a student over here that needs to go back." Samantha walks over with the soldier and sees Krieger.
"Krieger Buke Stern just what do you think you're doing?" Samantha crosses her arms and stares at Krieger.
"Whoa kid you're in trouble." Two soldiers laugh. "You know him?" Sanne nods.
"He's the son of one of my friends. Where are the others Krieger?"
"I, they, they ran off into the woods. I followed after them since I, if we, if we got in trouble I could fight. But I don't know where they went I swear." Krieger looks at the Factory but Samantha thinks he is looking at the dead bodies of supposed Solanum Virus victims.
"Oh my god, no, not, no." Samantha looks for a zombie with pink hair but some are piled on top of each other. "No, Sanne, no."
"I, I'm sure she's ok Samantha. They all probably ran into one of those warehouses. Of course, those places probably aren't too safe." Krieger laughs trying to make a joke.
"The Factory…" Samantha looks at the one Factory that held the Super Computer. The Factory that held Xana. "I'll have to check it later." She doubts the soldiers would let her walk away.
"Come on kid, ma'am, we're going back to the school." Samantha and Krieger get in a jeep and they are taken back to the school.
On Lyoko Xana completes his plan. He has an energy shield up to keep the other Lyoko Warriors from stopping him from possessing Sanne. "Yes, I was forced to stop my attack on Earth but I will now use the power from the Tower to posses you and make you my new host!"
"Damn this is bad." Ark turns to Mira. "Send me back! It's our only hope." Mira stabs Ark with her Kodachi's and send him back to Earth. Ark hurries to the Control Room. "Come on, come on, faster!" Ark sees Sanne is materializing but it was taking to much time.
"You're mine now. My new host." Xana kisses Sanne and feels himself transferring into her. The power from the Tower was enough and he would soon be in Sanne.
"No! Stop!" Skitz beats hard against the energy shield with her clubs but can't break through it. "Let her go Xana! Let Sanne go you son of a bitch!" Xana continues kissing Sanne when finally the materialization program works and brings her back to Earth.
"No!" Xana falls down and his energy shield goes away. "No, I can't, I can't lose more power and I need it back!" Xana uses the power from the Tower and goes to Earth. "There you are Sanne, my Angel." Xana floats over to Sanne and grabs her by the neck. "Maybe I can complete my transfer here." He kisses her but finds he can't on Earth. "Well then you're coming back with me." Xana uses his powers to bring Sanne back to Lyoko before her countdown was over. Since she wasn't put through the Scanners she is ok.
"Let me go!" Sanne fires an energy beam and hits Xana in the face. He doesn't let go.
"I will let go when I am inside of you!" Xana kisses Sanne again but this time there is a bad reaction. As Xana tries to transfer himself into Sanne her inner powers protect her and force the energy Xana already sent into out and into Xana. This hits the energy he was trying to send into her and causes the massive amount of energy to warp inside of Xana. "Aaaa!" Xana pulls away and grabs his chest. "No, no, I was so close!" He struggles as the energies move around inside his body causing him pain. Sanne takes her chance and runs into the Tower. Soon it is deactivated and she launches a return to the past.
"Whoa." Krieger looks around. He is in the gym with Sora.
"What's whoa?" Sora looks down at the numbers on the exercise bike. She was doing her normal speed and stats.
"Um, I, well. Sora I just, well," Krieger leans over to Sora and whispers something into her ear.
"Oh you naughty boy!" Sora laughs and pushes Krieger away. "I will if you will." Krieger laughs.
"I'm the dirty one huh?" She smiles. "Maybe tomorrow. Right now I'm thinking more along the lines of…" Krieger leans over and kisses Sora hard on the mouth.
"Mmm, ok Krieger, weight bench?"
"No, your room. I, I know what's been on the weight bench." Krieger kisses Sora. "Besides I wouldn't want Jim or Sanne walking in on us."
"Oh so it's much better that Michelle walks in on our make out sessions?" Sora laughs. "I guess it is better then Ark walking in on us when we get heated." Sora growls at him and Krieger laughs.
"Yeah, a lot better then Ark walking in on us." The two leave the gym hand in hand and go to Sora's room.
A/N Once again Solanum Virus is from the Zombie Survival Guide which acts like Zombies are real and caused by a virus. Also, the title comes from the Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses.