Code Xana Episode 46: Iron Man
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
Sanne is at her grandparents house watching TV after dinner. "Thank you grandma it was so good. Much better then the stuff school serves as food."
"I'm glad you liked it." Samantha is standing behind Sanne and puts a hand on her head. "How have you been doing with your martial arts?" Samantha messes with Sanne's hair.
"Good. I'm no where near as good as Krieger but I'm working on it." Sanne flips through the channels looking for something good. "What's this?" She stops on a talk show with the headline Man From the Future Interview.
"So you're saying you predicted the second American Civil War? If you did why didn't you try to prevent it?"
"I did but no one would listen to me. I also tried to warn NASA about the Columbus II explosion but again no one would listen to me. But there is something the people need to know." The man, supposedly from the future pauses for dramatic effect. "There is a third world war coming. It will be started by a small group. Right now they are only teens but they will launch a war that will kill billions! Right now we all know who Jeremie Belpois is but we don't know much about his family."
"Oh what is this loon going on about?" Samantha wasn't paying attention to the TV until she heard Jeremie's name. "Just because Jeremie is the richest man in the world and owns just about all of it doesn't mean he is trying to take over the world."
"He has a daughter. She may be innocent now but in the year 2046 her father will die. She will inherit the company and use the money to launch a war. She will start with…" Sanne changes the channel.
"Sanne I'm sure the guy is just some nut." Samantha was unsettled by the man making accusations about her granddaughter. "Like Jeremie would die so young."
"I know its all bull. Why I changed the channel it wasn't interesting." Sanne was a little uneasy after what the guy said. She loved her father and didn't want to hear about him dieing and her inheriting the company.
The next few days were usual school days. Sanne would bring Dante to Earth so he could go out and do things. They went to movies, ate out, even went to a skate park. They did a lot more when they could. Sanne was having fun knowing Dante was on Earth. She didn't even do it though. It was all because Xana ripped from Dante whatever it was that kept him bound to Lyoko when Xana was transferred. But she didn't care. They were at the pool and Sanne was trying to teach Dante how to swim. "Just lie on your back and take a deep breath. You'll float, trust me."
"I do trust you but it's not working!" Dante hadn't left the shallow end yet since he was still having problems with floating. "Why does it have to be so hard?"
"So it's worth learning. How about you try the dead man's float." Sanne demonstrates.
"I don't like the name of that but ok." Dante tries it and floats.
"See? Now do the same just on your back."
"If I drown will the Scanners heal me?" Dante smiles and laughs a little. "Ok, take a deep breath and float." Dante sinks like a rock and thrashes about in the water. Sanne walks over to him and pulls his head up.
"You're hopeless." She smiles at him to show she was joking. "Stand up." Dante does and is about three inches taller then Sanne. Sanne laughs and turns to see Sora and Krieger coming to the pool. "Want to go do something else?"
"Sure, um, you know Earth better then I do." They use a ladder to climb out of the pool.
"What's this?" Sora sees Sanne with a boy she didn't recognize. "Krieger, who is that?"
"A friend of Sanne's." Krieger didn't want to talk about Dante. Apparently Xana had not wanted a fat host and Dante was as muscular as Krieger was if not more. Sora walks over to Sanne and Dante.
"Hello Sanne who's your friend?"
"Uh, this is, um, Dante." Sora looks Dante over.
"Does he have a last name?"
"No." Dante had been told not to talk with others outside of the group but didn't want to be impolite.
"What he means is uh, Dante we'll go to the skate park again." Sanne walks away before Dante says anything else. Dante goes to the boys' locker room. As Sanne goes to the girls' locker room she passes a TV.
"Belpois with her husband will use money from J INC to buy weapons of mass destruction and hold the world hostage. When America attacks she will use one and wipe out New York City. Soon after Russia falls when she threatens to destroy the economy China is hit with a plague that was linked back to Sanne Belpois who used her money and scientists to bio engineer the flu virus to become stronger and kill. I have been sent back in time to stop her and other things."
"How do you plan to, uh, stop her? If she's just a kid and hasn't done anything what can you do?"
"Stop her." The man stands up from the chair and looks at the screen. "I will hunt her down and stop her as I have been programmed." The man starts to shake then reveals something about himself. Half of his face peels away and reveals he is an android. His arm explodes and reveals a gun with a small dagger attached to the end. "I will stop the third world war as I have been programmed to do!" He shoots the camera.
"Crap." Sanne runs into the girls' locker room and hears a beeping noise, the Super Scan. "I knew it had to be Xana. But how has he kept the Super Scan from detecting it?" Sanne gets her Jpocket out and sees where the Tower is. "Ice Sector, I hav to get the others." Sanne looks down at her bag and decides to change first so she wasn't running around in her swim suit. After she changes she goes back out into the pool area. "Krieger!" She waves to him.
"What?" Krieger and Sora were racing each other back and forth.
"It's you know what!" Krieger stops swimming. "Sorry but we have to go."
"Wait just a minute!" Sora grabs Krieger by the arm. "Where do you think you're going?"
"I, uh, the thing I do. I'm sorry Sora."
"Please take me." Sora pouts. "I don't want you running off with her." Krieger doesn't catch how Sora says the last word but Sanne does.
"He'll be running off with me and Dante." Sanne emphasizes Dante's name hoping Sora would assume she was seeing Dante romantically even though she wasn't. "Come on Krieger change so we can get going." Sanne runs around to the doors of the pool building and sees Dante waiting for her. "Dante, Xana is attacking."
"Ok. I'll be able to test out your new program for me." Dante smiles at Sanne.
"Our new program for you. We worked on it together." Sanne smiles at him then stops. She was starting to feel Dante had a crush on her and liked like her and didn't want to give him any signals. "I'm calling Skitz can you call Ark?"
"Sure." Dante got his new Jcell out. Sanne used her money to buy one for him. They call the others and tell them to head to the Factory as Krieger comes out of the pool area. Sanne is about to tell him what is going on when her phone rings. She looks down and sees it is from Samantha. "Grandma what is it?"
"Where are you?!"
"At the pool, why?"
"Get here now!"
"I can't I'm busy."
"I said now!"
"Sorry Grandma." Sanne hangs up on Samantha and ignores her phone when it rings again.
"What's the attack?"
"Xana sent something after me." Sanne explains the story of the guy from the future out to stop Sanne from starting world war three. "But the second he exposed himself the Super Scan detected a Tower so it was just Xana. We better get to the Factory as fast as possible incase anyone else saw that show."
"A taxi, guy would be driving and not watching TV." Krieger and the other two run down the road until they see a taxi and wave it down. They take it to the Factory.
At the Hermitage Samantha is worried out of her mind. She had been watching the program amused by how a show would let anyone so crazy on. But when the man turned into some cyborg and said he was going to "stop" Sanne, Samantha started to worry. Samantha calls Jim. "Jim she won't answer her cell phone. She said she was at the pool. If she doesn't know this loon is after her she could get hurt."
"Ok I'll go to the pool and check on her and take her back to the Hermitage."
"No, wait. This nut job probably knows that we're her grandparents. Take her somewhere safer." Samantha thinks about it. "Sewers or the Factory. No, not our Factory but that area."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes! I can't lose my baby's baby." Samantha was debating whether or not to call Aelita to tell her about this psycho. "I, Jim I have to call Aelita."
"Ok, I'll get Sanne." Jim and Samantha hang up.
"Hi mom, how are you?" Aelita was surprised by a call from her mother. It was almost one in the morning where she was and Samantha would know that.
"I'm ok but Sanne could be in trouble."
"What did she do?"
"Nothing. Some psycho on TV said he was sent from the future to stop Sanne from causing world war three. I, I saw him on a show a few days ago but he was just making stuff up. But a few minutes ago he turned into something saying that he was going to stop Sanne."
"Where is she?" Aelita wakes Jeremie up and turns her Jcell to speaker phone.
"At the pool. I called her and tried to warn her but she ignored me. Jim's going over there now to take her into the sewers or into the Factory. The area not the actual Factory."
"Ok, um, do we need to come?"
"I don't think so. I called to let you know incase some crazy person goes after you kids. Increase your security at the headquarters Jeremie and Aelita please don't leave the cottage or let anyone in."
"Ok Mom, um, call us when Jim finds Sanne."
"I will. Love you Aelita Dear."
"Love you too mom." Aelita and Samantha hang up.
Jim runs into the pool building and sees a student floating on her back. "Uh, oh, Sora. Have you seen Sanne?"
"She ran off with Krieger and some Dante kid." Sora was still mad about it and was trying to cool off in the pool.
"Did they say where?"
"No. Sanne has Krieger wrapped around her finger about some stupid club. I bet that Dante kid got right in since he's, well, better not talk that way about your granddaughter." Sora smirks as Jim runs out of the pool building. "Why is everyone running away from me? Do I smell or something?" She sighs then goes underwater to swim some more.
"What do you mean she wasn't there!?" Samantha was not happy with what Jim had discovered. "She ran off with two boys? What is she doing?! She has some nut job out to kill her and she runs off with two boys! She is so grounded when you find her!"
"Ok Samantha but let's find her first. You check the woods around the Hermitage and I'll, I don't know."
"Check the arcades, restaurants, where would a teenager go to make out?"
"Samantha I highly doubt little Sanne would run off with two boys to do that." Jim knew Krieger was dating Sora and knew he wouldn't have run off to do something like that with Sanne. "I'll start at the arcades, bye Samantha."
"Bye Jim." They hang up.
At the Factory Sanne, Dante, and Krieger are waiting for the others. "Ok Dante when they get here I'll send you first. You're going to look cool I hope." Sanne and Dante had not yet seen what Dante would look like with the new program she made for him.
"So, you guys were having fun at the pool?" Krieger wasn't sure if the two were dating or if Sanne was just trying to show Dante the world. Why it mattered well, Krieger knew. Jealousy was an ugly green eyed monster even though Krieger kept telling himself he shouldn't be.
"One of us was. I was trying not to drown. My father made sure I knew advanced quantum physics but I don't know how to swim." Dante laughs a little. "I think Sanne is just trying to make me look bad." He smiles at her to show he was joking.
"All you do is take a deep breath and then lie down on your back. You may be a genius but a baby can swim better then you." They joke back and forth some more when the alarm goes off. "Ark and Mira made it. I wonder what's taking Skitz so long." Ark and Mira take the elevator down to the Control Room as Skitz was getting in trouble.
"I don't know where she is!" Skitz was backed up against a wall by something she'd never seen before. "Please, if I knew I'd tell you!"
"Liar! You are one of her friends you know where she is!" The Ironman grabs Skitz by the front of her shirt and picks her up. "Where is she!?" It slams her against the wall.
"I don't know! Last I heard she was going to the pool!" Skitz knew where Sanne was but was trying to keep whatever this thing was from wondering around. She didn't know what it would do if it ran across someone innocent. "I mean, she was but…" Skitz is punched in the stomach then tossed into a garbage can near the vending machines.
"It wasn't that hard now was it?" The Ironman walks away looking for the pool.
"She won't answer her phone. Maybe that thing Xana sent found her." Sanne puts her phone away. "Dante I'm sending you now ok?"
"I'm ready." Dante steps into the middle Scanner.
"Ok, come on, work. Transfer Dante, Scanner Dante, add new program, and virtualization." Dante lands on Lyoko in the Desert Sector. "Are you ok?"
"You'll see when you come here." Dante looks down at himself. "I look awesome, thanks Sanne." Dante says it to himself so she doesn't hear him.
"Ok guys please don't tell me what he looks like I want it to be a surprise." Sanne starts sending her friends. "Transfer Ark, Transfer Mira, Transfer Krieger, Scanner Ark, Scanner Mira, Scanner Krieger, virtualization." They land on Lyoko. Sanne sends the vehicles then herself. "Wow! You look amazing!" Sanne runs over to the new Dante.
"As sharp as Merlin." Dante was wearing a deep blue cloak that seemed to sparkle with silver stars that moved across the cloak randomly. He has a wizard's hat that is the same color with the same silver stars. But what was in his hand made him a true Lyoko Warrior. What looked like a thin stick was charged with energy. "Watch this Sanne." Dante points the wand at Krieger and fires an energy orb that Krieger blocks with his shield. "I don't even have to run anymore." The cloak or Dante's new powers Sanne wasn't sure, allowed him to float.
"Well as cool as you look we need to get to the activated Tower." Sanne looks around at the different vehicles. "Um, Mira you take the Overboard so Dante can take the Overwing. This should be super easy with two people who can deactivate the Tower." Sanne goes over to the Overbike to get on behind Krieger while the others get on the other vehicles.
"Sanne why are you trying to curse us? You know Xana's going to make it that much harder on us because you said that." Krieger wasn't superstitious but he'd said enough things just in time to jinx a Lyoko trip to worry. They take off for the activated Tower as the Ironman Xana sent makes it to the pool.
"Back already Krieger?" Sora was lying on a chair waiting for Krieger to get back. When she heard footsteps she assumed it was him. "Krieger who the hell do you think you are?" She sits up and turns around to see the Ironman. "What the hell are you?"
"Where is she!?" The Ironman points the gun arm at Sora. "Where is Sanne Belpois?!"
"She ran off with Krieger and some other boy. What the hell are you?"
"Where did they run off to?!" The Ironman advances on Sora. "I asked where they ran off to! Tell me now!" The Ironman reaches for Sora with his regular hand and she knocks it away.
"Don't touch me perv!" Sora kicks him between the legs and instead of hurting him she hurts her leg. "Ow, what the hell are you made out of?!" Sora falls backwards into the pool. The Ironman grabs her by the hair and pulls it above the water.
"Where is she? Tell me or you drown."
"I don't know! Sanne ran off after something happened. I don't know what it is but she…" The Ironman dunks her head under the water for a few seconds then pulls it back up. "I don't know please don't…" Sora is dunked underwater again longer then last time. He pulls her back up. "I swear I don't know! Please stop this!" She is dunked underwater again for nearly a minute before being brought back up again. "Movie, they went to a movie." Sora was lying but it was all she could think of. She didn't want to die. "I don't know which theater but they went to the movies."
"Where is the closest theater from here?"
"Um, about four, maybe five blocks from here. Just take…" Sora is dunked underwater again. Sora struggled but knew she couldn't break free so stops. After nearly three minutes she feels the hand move off her head. She does a dead mans float and gets a little air through her nose. The Ironman walks away looking for his target thinking the witness was dead.
"There's the Tower and there's Ms. Delmas. She probably knows sending monsters is a waste of time." Krieger revs the engine of the Overbike. "Sanne, Xana might still be after your body so be careful."
"We have an extra warrior and I don't need to do anything suicidal since he can deactivate the Tower." Sanne closes her eyes and concentrates energy into her mouth. "Krieger after I fire I'm going to jump off and join Dante on the Overwing. He's new to fighting and might need some protection incase Xana wants his old body back." Sanne fires an energy beam at Sissi then jumps off the Overbike. She spins in the air and sees the Overwing. "Dante catch me!" He turns the Overwing towards Sanne and she lands on the back of it.
"Oh you made it I thought you might. My son and Sanne you two look so cute together. It makes me just want to cut your heads off and stick them in the freezer so I can see the smiles on your faces when you look at each other." Ms. Delmas laughs.
"What do we do? I'm not sensing any other monsters around us. If my mother is the only one here then we should split up."
"You're new to fighting and she might want you back. I have an idea." Sanne whispers her idea into Dante's ear. "Ok?"
"We can try that Sanne." Dante pulls up on the Overwing and goes into the air where Ark was. "Ark we have a plan." Dante and Sanne tell him the plan.
"Got it." Ark closes his eyes and has a little trouble creating his spear but it finally came out. "Note to self worrying over my sister makes it harder to get my spear." Ark dives on his disc at Ms. Delmas. "Hey there, you ever read the book Wrinkle in Time?"
"Why would I have read a book like that?" Ms. Delmas, Xana, was confused. What was Ark talking about?
"Well I'd read a book that was all about my face!"
"My face is pure and smooth! I am not old!" Ms. Delmas goes after Ark.
"Ok here goes nothing." Ark flies away from Ms. Delmas. "You're so old a butterfly moves faster then you! Maybe you need to make a virtual wheelchair!" Ark turns and sees Ms. Delmas was catching up to him quickly. "Come on with those saddlebags under your eyes one would think you'd have a couple of horses around here to ride!"
"Die!" Ms. Delmas explodes with energy and destroys Ark. "I am not old!" Ms. Delmas turns around to go back to the Tower but sees Dante and Sanne running into the Tower. "I knew I wasn't old they were just saying that to distract me!" Ms. Delmas gets to the Tower as it deactivates. "I'm sorry but I will get this pleasure." She destroys Mira and Krieger who were outside of the Tower. "What will they do? A return to make me stronger or not?" Ms. Delmas floats in front of the Tower waiting to see what Sanne and Dante would do.
"People will wonder though. What if he hurt someone?"
"If he did we'll find out on Earth. Right now you need to go back though."
"You're staying here? You could come back and we could do something. I don't have curfew for awhile."
"I'll stay here. You need to spend your time making sure no one was hurt." Sanne nods and Dante sends her back to Earth.
"Skitz?" Sanne had called her and Skitz answers.
"That sucked. Garbage all over my clothes, ugh. You do it though?"
"We did it. Do you know if anyone was hurt?"
"I don't think so. I'll ask around." Skitz hangs up. Sanne feels a tap on her shoulder and she turns around to see Krieger.
"Sanne, I called Sora and uh, after some choice words she said some freak was looking for you."
"She's ok then?"
"He, uh, well, Sora says she's fine but I might not be." Krieger shakes. "I'm going to be hurt, protect me." Krieger smiles a little showing he was partially joking. "If you did a return I wouldn't be crushed like a little bug."
"Don't say stuff like that it might give Xana ideas. If I were you I would apologize and come up with a good excuse and maybe get her flowers. Although if you got a cast everyone would have fun signing it." Sanne smiles. "Wait, Samantha's calling." Sanne answers her phone.
"What were you doing little girl? Jim told me you ran off with two boys after I told you there was some nut case chasing after you!"
"What? Grandma I didn't run off with two boys it was just Krieger and some guy friend of his."
"Just Krieger? It better be just Krieger! I want you to come over here now! That guy is still out there!"
"What guy grandma?" Sanne knows but she has to play innocent.
"That guy we saw on TV a few days ago. He's after you for some reason. Get over here now!"
"Yes grandma I'll be right there."
"If you're not here in ten minutes I'll ground you!" Samantha hangs up on Sanne.
"Krieger I'm on the clock so I have to get out of here."
"Ok Sanne." Sanne runs off for the Hermitage. "Just Krieger, well, Sora is going to be mad at me. I should get her flowers and stuff. Not roses though, Sora might find a use for the thorns." Krieger walks off looking for a place that sold flowers.
At the Hermitage Samantha and Jim kept Sanne overnight. In the morning they watched the early news and saw the "crazy man" had been captured at a movie theater with no memory. "I guess I got lucky." Sanne wondered why Xana didn't just send him to the Factory. Maybe it was something different. Maybe Xana wasn't controlling him like when Xana used a professional wrestler to go after her parents all those years ago.
A/N NO! Not Terminator, Iron Man! You know, the song by Ozzy Osborne! You know, sent back in time to save the future of mankind, Iron Man!!!!! Beta said Terminator so I made sure to add this. Iron Man, the song, not Terminator.