Code Xana Episode 43: Why Can't We Be Friends
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 1-42
Sanne and Sora are fighting. "Ha you'll have to do better then that!" Sora blocks a kick and punches Sanne.
"Try hitting harder!" Sanne punches Sora then tries to do a leg sweep but Sora jumps and lands pinning Sanne.
"Pin!" Krieger calls the pin. "Good job Sora, Sanne." Krieger helps both girls up. "Ok since you won it will be me versus you." Krieger and the girls had been training together in the gym.
"Give me a minute." Sora was a little tired from fighting with Sanne. "You're better then I thought you would be."
"I was taught by the best."
"My mom taught you? When?" Krieger and the others laugh at his joke. Krieger had been nervous at first when Sanne said they should call Sora to join them but the two seemed to be getting along just fine. "She's small but she has a lot of energy, don't you Sanne?"
"Hey I'm only thirteen I still have time to grow." Sanne sits down and hears her Jpocket beep. At first she was about to yell Xana Attack but the beeping was a different tone. She gets her Jpocket out of her gym bag and sees a birthday cake with candles. "Oh, the Twins, they turn fourteen tomorrow." Sanne had set her Jpocket to remind her of birthdays and other important days. "I, we should probably get them a gift or something." She shows Krieger her Jpocket.
"Like what? Those two were spoiled by their parents."
"Like you weren't?" Krieger stares back at Sanne. "I know I know I was probably spoiled to."
"Probably? You have a pool in your room." Sanne looks away when Sora laughs.
"She's not spoiled, I mean, every kid has a pool in their room. Now if it was Olympic size then she'd be spoiled." Sora laughs at her joke. "Wow, well, I can't help you guys with this. Get them some cards or something to show you at least remembered."
"Yeah, no point in giving them anything." Krieger sighs. "It was easier when we only saw each other twice a year. Sure it was usually for a couple months at a time but still. Didn't have to worry about birthdays."
"But it's nice being around you all the time. I missed Skitz. She was like a sister when we were together."
"Krieger, I'm ready." Sora decides to keep the two old friends from talking anymore about old times. Sanne said it herself she liked Krieger as more then friends and this made Sora nervous. She really liked Krieger, loved him, and had been cheated on before. She didn't want this to happen again but she couldn't really tell Krieger he couldn't hang out with someone he'd been friends with for over a decade. "Unless you're scared."
"You've never been able to pin me what do I have to be afraid of?" Krieger gets in a fighting stance.
"I've pinned you before, on the bed." Sora looks out of the corner of her eye to see Sanne's reaction. This distracts her and Krieger lunges pinning her in a matter of seconds.
"Pin!" Sanne calls the pin. "At least it took Krieger more then a minute to pin me." Sanne smiles then stops. She wasn't trying to compete with Sora for Krieger. She messed up and pushed Krieger away. When he tried to kiss her she bit his head off and ignored him. That wasn't even his fault since Skitz told him to do it. If Skitz had kept reading her diary she would have known… Well, now Sanne wasn't so sure about her feelings. "Well, exercise bike race?"
"Sure. Sounds like fun." The three go into the exercise room and get on the exercise bikes. Sanne is ready to race and forgets to grab her gym bag with her Jpocket in it.
As they race each other they get an unexpected spectator. "Hmmm, look at that." Xana watches as Krieger gets kilometer ahead of the girls but the girls compete against each other. "Why can't they be friends? So much in common. Oh that's right because of what I'm about to do!" Xana chuckles to himself. "What to do, yes, wait." Xana continues to watch.
"Ok I just hit twenty kilometers you girls lose." Krieger knew he'd win but when he looks at the distance on the other exercise bikes he is surprised. The two girls are both over thirteen kilometers and neither one were slowing down. "Sanne, Sora, I win. You can keep going but you can only get second place." They ignore him and continue until one of them gets to twenty kilometers.
"Ha! I win again." Sora beats Sanne by less then a kilometer. She raises her arms in victory.
"Put your arms down or get a shower." Krieger makes a face getting Sora to laugh.
"I do have science homework I need to do." Sora only put it off because Sanne called and said she and Krieger were going to train and work out. "I guess I'll take a shower first."
"I will to." Sanne gets off the exercise bike. "I have lots of math and history homework to do and so do you Krieger." Sanne decided she wasn't going to stay alone with Krieger. Sora had punched her once, not that Sora remembered, and it hurt. If not being alone with her friend kept that from happening Sanne didn't mind. "We can work on it together."
"I'm going to do some reps on the bench before I tackle any homework." Krieger flexes his muscles and feels a hand on his arm.
"You're already so strong and muscular but don't over do it Krieger." Sora kisses him on the lips then leaves the exercise room to go to the girls' locker room. Sanne follows and grabs her gym bag thinking how stupid it was to leave it in the gym. She probably wouldn't have been able to hear the Super Scan beep if Xana had attacked while she raced on the exercise bike.
In the locker room Sanne is showering with her back turned to Sora. Sanne was still kind of uncomfortable showering with others and especially the girl who was dating her best male friend. Unfortunately with her back turned she doesn't see the black mist come out of a light and attack Sora. With the water running she also doesn't hear the Super Scan beep on her Jpocket in the front of the girls' locker room. As Sanne gets the sweat off Sora walks up behind her. "Sanne?" Sanne turns around and sees Sora is right behind her.
"What? Hey, back off."
"No." Sora quickly knees Sanne in the gut. Before Sanne can block or react Sora does a palm thrust to the back of Sanne's head dazing Sanne. "You stupid little bitch I saw how you looked at him! He's mine stop looking at Krieger that way!" Sanne swings her right arm at Sora not going to let Sora use her as a punching bag but Sora dodges the punch. Sanne tries to kick Sanne but slips on the wet shower floor and falls onto her back. "You're weak, you're small, he'll never like you the way he likes me." Sora spits at Sanne.
"Sora I already told you I won't mess with you! I swear I won't. Stop." Sanne puts her arms up to block a punch.
"Shut up! I'll do what ever I want!" Sora jumps on top of Sanne and punches her three times in the face. "Poor thing never stood a chance." Xana's symbol appears in Sora's eyes as she stands up. "Better dress them both so we won't be stopped." Xana, in Sora, uses the powers to dress both Sanne and Sora in seconds. Sora throws Sanne over her shoulder and starts to pixelize when Sanne is dropped. "Not strong enough yet must take her by foot." Sora picks Sanne back up and leaves the girls' locker room taking her to the sewer entrance in the woods.
Krieger comes out of the exercise room and sees the girls' locker room door is open. As he walks to the boys' locker room he hears a beeping noise. "No, Super Scan." He goes to the door of the girls' locker room then stops. "Well, I, I don't hear the shower running. Sanne! Sora!" He yells into the girls' locker room but doesn't get a response. He sighs. "Please don't be in there." He runs in and finds Sanne's gym bag. He opens it and pulls her Jpocket out. "Forest Sector, crap, where's Sanne?" Krieger looks around and sees Sora's gym bag. "If Xana kidnapped them he'll have hell to pay!" Krieger goes to his gym bag in the boys' locker room and gets his phone. "Ark, Xana, he's attacking and has Sanne and Sora."
"Ok, we'll be there." Ark and Krieger hang up. "Sorry Mira we have to go. Xana kidnapped Sanne."
"Ok, you can finish later, thanks." Ark had been massaging Mira's shoulders and back but now they were interrupted.
"Skitz, attack!" Krieger had called Skitz immediately after hanging up with Ark. "Xana has Sanne and Sora."
"Ok I'll be there in a minute. Well, as soon as I can make it." Skitz hangs up. "I'm sorry Barack, um. I'll do my homework later." Skitz had been doing homework with Barack.
"What is it?"
"I can't tell you, sorry."
"Skitz I don't like that answer. Tell me." Barack grabs Skitz by the wrist keeping her from leaving. "Who was it that called?"
"Let me go!" Skitz pulls away from Barack. "I can't tell you I'm sorry but I have to go." Skitz runs out of Barack's room.
"What in the bloody buggering hell is she hiding from me?" Barack sighs. He was getting frustrated. When one of her friends called Skitz she would run off and Skitz never gave him a reason why. "This can't continue. I'm not going to let a girl treat me like this." Barack looks at his Francois homework. "This is even more frustrating." Barack goes back to work on his homework as the possessed Sora carrying Sanne gets to the Factory.
"To play my cards right she must play the helpless victim. I might not be a Hollywood actor but I think I can make this poor girl cry." Metal wires come down from the Factory floor and bind Sora's hands behind her back. Another piece wraps around her ankles. Sora lies down on the floor then a spark of energy comes out and wakes Sanne up.
"Huh, what?" Sanne looks around and sees Sora passed out on the floor with her wrists and ankles bound. "Sora, she, wait. How did we get dressed?" Sanne crosses her arms across her chest. "Xana, you pervert." A black mist comes out of the control panel and forms into Xana.
"Hello Sanne." Xana looks down at Sora. "Such a beautiful creature. No wonder Krieger couldn't resist her charms. But…" He looks at Sanne. "You want Krieger. Join me and kill this girl. Then with my powers you can have Krieger." Xana smiles and leans down towards Sanne.
"Stay away from me Xana!" Sanne spits at Xana. "And leave Sora alone! She's not part of the group!"
"Now Sanne I'm here to be helpful. I'm here to help you Sanne. Help me help you." Xana grabs Sanne by the neck then lifts her off the ground. "Or I'll kill her and you won't get any benefit from it." Xana sends a spark into the helpless Sora, or so Sanne thinks.
"Help!" Sora rolls around on the ground. "Help! Please, someone, what's going on!?" "Sanne who is that!?" Sora starts to cry.
"Sora it's going to be ok, for Sanne." Xana shakes Sanne by the neck. "But you? I doubt you'll leave this room alive." Xana laughs when he drops Sanne to the floor. "But I am going to hurt you first. You see, I want Sanne, as a host. But she refuses to join me. I will make her a deal though. I kill you and she gets Krieger, for becoming my new host."
"No, Sanne, please." Sora starts to cry more. "Sanne I, I know you like Krieger but don't kill me."
"I won't join him."
"Then I'll kill her if you don't join me. Sanne you have no choice. One way or the other she will die. But whether or not you become my host willingly or I force myself inside of you is up to you."
"I'd rather die then join you!"
"Oh? But I saved you. When Sora attacked you I came to your rescue. I can't be having her damaging my host body can I?"
"Sanne I'm sorry I, I lost it I'm sorry." Sora continues to cry. "Please you can have Krieger I don't want to die!" Sora starts to cry. "I'm sorry for attacking you. Please save me!"
"It is too late for that Sora. No one can save you now." Xana leans down while thinking to himself. What is taking the others so long? "Or maybe not." The Super Computer starts to beep as the alarm alerts the people in the Control Room to someone entering the Factory. "Leave my host alone I want, need, that body intact for when I posses her." Perfect. Sanne will hate Sora even more. Please keep fighting so when this group falls apart I can use that to my advantage." The elevator moves and when the elevator doors open Krieger, Ark, Skitz, and Mira come out to find Xana standing over Sora and Sanne.
"Get away from them!" Krieger charges Xana but is stopped by the energy shield.
"Oh even better." Xana uses his powers to raise both Sanne and Sora into the air. "Which one will you save? I want to kill Sora but maybe, yes, if I killed Sanne I would no longer have to worry about her energy being used against me. Choose which one lives and which one dies Krieger." Xana closes his eyes and activated another Tower. He sends a Ghost out from the control panel. He makes it invisible so no one sees it. "Well? Which one lives and which one dies?"
"I, I," Krieger feels something swell in his brain. "What are you doing to me!?" Krieger drops to his knees as it feels like his brain is going to explode. "Leave me alone Xana! Leave them alone!"
"Stop stalling and answer me. Which woman in your life dies and which woman lives? You choose!"
"Sora, leave her alone." Krieger puts a hand over his mouth after he says this. He didn't mean to say anything. He doesn't know why he said it. "I, I mean, no. Xana leave them…"
"Really? Well then." Sora drops to the floor. It worked. Sanne must be crushed by Krieger's choice even if I was the one to make him say it. "I'll let both live as I still want Sanne's power." Xana drops Sanne to the floor. "I'll even lower the barrier so you won't have as far to go to my Tower and my Schipizoa." Xana breaks apart into a black mist and leaves the control room.
"Krieger, I love you." Sora was still being used by Xana. "Thank you." She continues to cry.
"I, I didn't, I…" Krieger still doesn't know why he answered. His head felt like it was going to explode then he gave Xana an answer. "Sora are you ok?" Krieger hugs Sora.
"I knew you loved me Krieger. I, I was worried about Sanne but you do love me more then her." Sora stops crying. "Thank you Krieger, I love you so much." She kisses him on the lips.
"But I, I didn't mean to answer." Krieger feels a punch to the back of his head. He turns around and sees Skitz rubbing her hand. "What was that for Skitz?" Skitz stares at him.
"Bastard don't you talk to me. Or Sanne for that matter." Skitz gets back on the elevator. "Sanne can you send us?" Skitz was concerned how Sanne would be handling what Krieger said.
"I can do it. Go down so I can send you." When the doors close Sanne leans back. "He had to know Xana wouldn't kill me. That's why he chose Sora over me. Unless he doesn't care about me. Not that I blame him after the way I treated him." Sanne sees her friends get off the elevator and go to the Scanners. "Transfer Ark, Transfer Skitz, Transfer Mira, Scanner Ark, Scanner Skitz, Scanner Mira, virtualization." They land on Lyoko in the Forest Sector. "Transfer Krieger, Scanner Krieger, virtualization."
"You bastard I can't believe she didn't put you over the Digital Sea!" Skitz hits Krieger with one of her clubs. "You asshole!" She hits him again when he gets his shield and sword out.
"Stop it Skitz!" Krieger blocks a clubs then kicks Skitz in the stomach when Sanne lands on Lyoko as the vehicles virtualize.
"Skitz what are you doing?"
"Sanne how can you even look at this dujac!" Skitz attacks Krieger who blocks with his shield.
"Skitz, he tricked Xana. He knew Xana wouldn't kill me so he chose to save Sora. He outsmarted Xana." Both Krieger and Skitz look at Sanne confused. "Right Krieger?"
"Uh, yes. He wants to make you his host so there would be no way he'd kill you." Krieger feels like it's the truth but knew it was a lie. He said Sora because, well, he didn't know why.
"That sounds convincing." Skitz stares at Krieger. "Don't look at me." Skitz goes over to the Overboard and gets on as Krieger and Sanne get on the Overbike. Mira doesn't complain as she gets on the Overwing. She looks over at Ark and sees him smiling. He was happy she wasn't fighting with his sister over the vehicles and that made her happy.
"Where to Sanne?" Mira looks around and sees the activated Tower. "Wow, we're this close?"
"He probably wants the Schipizoa to get me. He's not playing around any more." Sanne looks around then wraps her arms around Krieger. "Krieger, if, if I am taken, please kill me. I don't want to be his host." Sanne was scared that she would be taken. "Then call my mom and tell her and the others to come, that we failed." She hugs him scared of what would happen.
"Don't worry Sanne I'll protect you." Krieger revs the engine and takes off towards the Tower. The others follow after him and soon three Blocks virtualize with a Dragon. "Sanne like you said he's after you so fight. He won't fire at you since he can't posses you on Earth."
"Right. I'll just stay here with you to guard me and fire energy beams and Scattershots." Sanne closes her eyes and charges energy in her mouth. "Scattershot!" She fires a beam of energy and two of the beams that break off from the main beam hit a Block destroying it.
"I got it!" Ark makes his spear come out. "I'm so glad I figured out how to make this thing come out. I am so awesome." Ark flies after the Dragon as Sanne fires more energy beams.
"Scattershot!" She aims for a block and hits it on the Eye destroying it. "Only one to go."
"No you now have four to go." Sanne and Krieger turn and see Xana with the Schipizoa behind him.
"Sanne stay on, he can't catch us." Krieger revs the Overbike and takes off with Xana chasing after them.
"I have to get to the Tower!" Sanne hangs on as Krieger drives down the narrow paths of the Forest Sector. An energy orb flies past her shoulder barely missing her. She turns and sees Xana flying after them charging more energy orbs. "What are you doing Krieger!"
"I know and I have a plan. You can beat the Schipizoa but Xana's too much for all of us combined." Krieger gets his shield out. "Take this Sanne." He hands it to Sanne. "When I tell you to jump, jump."
"Krieger what are you planning?" Sanne was worried he'd do something stupid and get hurt or worse.
"Something that will get that damn Tower deactivated." Krieger charges down the path until there is a fork in the paths. "Jump!" Sanne jumps off and Krieger drives over the edge.
"Krieger!" Sanne is too stunned to run.
"That foolish boy what could he have been thinking?" Xana laughs evilly. "He left you all alone Sanne. Come with me my future host." Xana's energy charges around him and grabs at Sanne. Sanne blocks it with the shield. Xana tries again and destroys the shield grabbing Sanne. He takes her back to the Tower where the Schipizoa was waiting for her.
"Sanne!" Mira was trying to make the Schipizoa go away with her Kodachis but the Schipizoa wasn't retreating.
"Here you go, make her me!" Xana hands Sanne to the Schipizoa and she goes limps. The Schipizoa starts to transfer Xana into her. "Yes! That power will soon be mine and I will rule the world!"
"No!" Ark comes back from destroying the Dragon to see Sanne being possessed. He throws his spear but Xana destroys it.
"I will be powerful once more!" He laughs then turns towards Mira and Skitz. "You're all that's left. Good bye!" He destroys both girls then turns back to the Schipizoa just in time to see Krieger coming from under the Sector and using his sword to cut the tentacles. "No! You died!"
"This thing flies Xana." Krieger flies at Xana after the Schipizoa drops Sanne. "Get to the Tower!" Krieger's plan had worked. He wanted Xana to grab Sanne and take her back to the Tower. Once the Schipizoa started the transfer he would cut the tentacles thus foiling Xana's plan.
"I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids!" Xana flies away knowing he'd have another chance. These kids could never kill him and really his original plan worked. Sora being possessed wasn't known to the group. Sanne still thinks Sora attacked her from behind and Krieger still chose Sora over Sanne like Xana wanted him to. Made him do. The infighting should be far worse then it ever was in the original Lyoko Warrior group.
"Tower deactivated." The screens fall around Sanne. "Poor Sora, I, return to the past now!" The white bubble comes up and reverses time.
Sanne and Sora are in the showers except this time Sanne is keeping an eye on Sora. "Why are you staring at me?"
"I, I was just, just wondering how I'll look when I'm older." Sanne doesn't take her eyes off Sora. If Sora attacked her Sanne wanted to be able to fight back. "If I'll look like you when I get older."
"From the looks of it you'll be smaller but I'm sure you'll be able to get your own guy. Someone as smart as you will get your own guy. The keyword of course being your own guy." Sora turns her back on Sanne. She was happy she'd been able to beat Sanne in front of Krieger in a sparring match and an exercise bike race. Sora didn't trust Sanne. Sanne said she liked Krieger as more then friends. Sora knew how she felt about Krieger and didn't want someone to mess that up. "Stop staring at my ass or I'll tell everyone you're a lesbian." Sanne looks away. She looks back every few seconds to make sure Sora wasn't going to attack her. When Sanne feels clean she turns the shower off and dries off before changing.
"Something must have been different this time. Probably keeping my eye on her kept her from attacking me." Sanne leaves the girls' shower room and runs back to her dorm room to do homework.
A/N You read it, Xana is strong enough to possess humans. But unlike before he doesn't do a frontal attack. Why? That never worked. Instead he decides to try and weaken the group from the inside.