Code Xana Episode 55: Turn the Page
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 1-54
Sanne and Krieger are still fighting. Krieger had no idea what Sanne was mad about now and Skitz was on Sanne's side. Skitz and Sanne are in their dorm room working on homework. They had to study American history for a large project later that month. As they read they also talk about Krieger. "I can't believe he'd go to her after what happened." Sanne pushes down hard on the paper and breaks her pencil. "Even if he wasn't cheating on me with her why did he have to go to Sora!? He should have come to me!"
"Exactly. If you're fighting over something you don't go and do that thing. Er, not do, you know what I mean." Skitz rolls her head stretching her neck. "My neck hurts from reading these stupid books." Skitz yawns and stretches her neck some more. "I hate reading from books."
"I'll give you a massage if you give me one." Sanne stretches trying to make her neck feel better.
"You first." Sanne gets up and starts to massage Skitz's neck and shoulders. "That feels so good."
"Thanks. You hair smells good what shampoo do you use?" Sanne can smell Skitz's hair as she leans down.
"Just some strawberry banana mix stuff. You can use it if you want some time." Skitz leans her head back and nearly hits her nose on Sanne's chin. "That feels so good, thanks Sanne."
"You're giving me one after. I hate homework. At least with home schooling I did a lot of it on my computer." Sanne keeps working on Skitz's shoulders and neck. "You know what I mean?"
"Yeah. I hate writing with a pencil. Hand cramps suck and having to look down at a book instead of straight at a screen." Skitz leans forward so Sanne moves her hands down Skitz's back to massage her back. "Miracle fingers." Sanne laughs a little. "Don't stop, ever."
"I wouldn't mind doing this forever but my neck is killing me and we have homework." Sanne pulls her hands away from Skitz. "It's my turn now Skitz." Sanne sits down in her chair and waits for Skitz.
"Just let me enjoy this for a little bit longer." Skitz moves her head around a little. "Feels better."
"Good to hear but you need to do me now." Sanne is about to say something else when she hears a beeping noise. "Not now! Damn you Xana!" Sanne opens her Jtop to check the Super Scan when a black mist comes out and attacks the two. "Aaaa!" Sanne feels something like a hook behind her navel then is dragged away. Where she isn't sure as she blacks out.
On the boy's dorm floor Krieger is talking with Ark about his problems with Sanne. "I don't know why she's mad at me so I can't apologize! Why she is mad at me period is a mystery. I told her I wasn't cheating and I wasn't! We know it was Xana yet she's still mad at me!" Krieger was more yelling to get his frustration out then talking but it was working. "What the hell am I supposed to do? Are all women this, this, I don't know." Krieger sits down on his bed in a huff. "You don't have these problems with Mira do you?"
"Yes actually I do, or did. Remember when Xana used the models from my magazines to attack us?" Krieger nods. "Mira thought I was cheating on her with Miss October even after I told her there was a Xana attack. She didn't trust me even though I trusted her over Skitz when she said Xana said Mira was working for him. Talk with Sanne. Get her in a position she can't run away from and talk to her. If she doesn't understand after that then you're in trouble." Ark laughs a little. "Girls, can't live with them, can't fit them in a garbage disposal." Krieger stares at Ark. "What? It's a joke. Lighten up man."
"I just hate this. Sanne's probably in her room doing homework." Krieger gets off his bed and leaves his dorm room. He goes to the girls' dorm floor and goes to Sanne's room. "Sanne?" He knocks on the door. "Sanne are you in there? Skitz?" Krieger puts his ear to the door and hears a noise, a beeping noise. He opens the door and sees the Jtop is open and that the Super Scan had detected an activated Tower. "Crap, where's Sanne?" He looks around her room and sees two history books are open on the desk. "Ok so she was doing homework with Skitz. Where are they now?" He leaves the room calling Ark.
Sanne wakes up in the middle of a forest. "Skitz?" She looks around and sees Skitz is starting to wake up. "Where are we?" Sanne stands up and looks around. "What's that smell?" She sniffs the air. "No, what's that lack of, I don't know, it doesn't smell right."
"Ouch." Skitz rubs her back. "You're right this doesn't smell right." Suddenly both girls jump when they hear a loud boom. They look around and see a hill. They run up the hill and see on the other side something that was impossible. "Sanne, blue uniforms and grey uniforms. I, I think, uh, this is the first American Civil War." Skitz's jaw dropped as another cannon fires.
"No way. Xana he pulled us into our books!" Sanne looks up and sees that the sky was actually the dorm room. "No way is this possible." Sanne flinches when several cannons and muskets fire.
"It's Xana anything is possible." Both girls scream when the ground near them explodes. "They're firing at us!"
"No they're shooting mortars!" Sanne points at an area where indeed the blue coats were firing mortar shells.
"We have to get out of here before we get killed!" Skitz and Sanne run back down the hill trying to get away from the battle. They continue to run and soon the scenery around them changes.
"I don't remember seeing that." They come up to a large pile of rocks and hear the sounds of marching. The two climb up on the rocks and see grey uniforms marching towards them.
"We better hide." Skitz climbs down between two rocks then curls up into a ball trying to become as small as possible.
"I think this is Devils Den." Sanne drops down next to Skitz. "We're at Gettysburg. I, I think the first battle was Bull Run. We must have run from one page to another."
"So we're in the history book? If we keep running we'll get home?" Sanne shrugs her shoulders. "We might as well try it." Skitz and Sanne climb between rocks until they got out on the other side. "They're close Sanne should we stay and hide or should we run?"
"The Confederates and the Union will fight here. We'll be killed if we stay." Sanne turns to Skitz. "You're the American shouldn't you know this stuff? It's your history."
"No one really cares about the first Civil War after the second one happened." Skitz takes a deep breath then runs out from the pile of rocks known as Devils Den. Sanne runs after her when they hear yelling.
"Scouts! Them blue coat yanks sent scouts forward!" Several grey coat soldiers aim their muskets at the two girls and fire.
"Aaaa!" Both girls scream in terror but soon find the scenery changes again. "That was close." Skitz looks around. Where do you think we are now Sanne? Atlanta? Richmond?"
"I think, I, wait." Sanne looks around and sees something. "That looks like a river. Maybe we're near the Potomac River." Sanne and Skitz run over to the river and see a camp.
"They're wearing blue coats so they must be the good guys." Skitz climbs up a tree. "And there are the grey coats. No, not Potomac River, Sanne I think we're near Antitem." Skitz climbs down. "If we keep running we should get to a peaceful time right?" Sanne nods.
"We have to be careful though. If we run to far we'll run right into the first World War." The two run through the woods hoping to find a peaceful time. Of course history books cover history and what is historical about peace? What is historical about nothing going on?
Back on Earth Krieger is worried as is Ark. They had been joined by Mira in the sewers. "They're probably just being held somewhere." Mira was trying to calm the two boys down.
"Xana wants Sanne on Lyoko so he can posses her. If she isn't there then she is in a lot of trouble." Krieger and the others get to the end of the sewer passage and climb out to go to the Factory.
"Ask Dante first." Ark was worried sick over his sister. "If the girls' are there then we need to get them first."
"Dante? Can you hear me?" Krieger has the headset on. Soon a screen comes up and Dante appears.
"Hello Krieger, where is Sanne? And Skitz?" Dante looks around the room to see if the others were there.
"They're not on Lyoko?" Dante shakes his head. "Damn then Xana did something to them." Krieger sighs. "We better go to Lyoko. Dante I'm bringing you back so you can go back under your own profile. You'll have to come up and do it because I don't know how."
"Ok Krieger." Soon Dante steps out of a Scanner. He climbs the ladder up to the Control Room. "Go down and I'll send you first along with the vehicles." Krieger and the others get on the elevator and take it down to the Scanner Room then step in the Scanners. "Transfer Krieger, Transfer Ark, Transfer Mira, Scanner Krieger, Scanner Ark, Scanner Mira, virtualization." They land on Lyoko and soon the vehicles appear near them in the Ice Sector.
"Wait." Before Dante sends himself to Lyoko a voice is heard. "Sanne is in grave danger! You must find her!"
"No, Franz. If I get to the Tower and deactivate it she will be ok." Dante starts up the auto transfer program.
"What if you fail? Or are too late? We can't lose Sanne! I need her, you need her."
"You need to go to hell Franz." Dante slides down the ladder and jumps off at the Scanner Room. He runs to the middle Scanner and throws himself into the Scanner as the doors begin to close.
"Who were you talking to Dante?" Krieger and the others heard Dante talking through the headset.
"No one. We have to hurry, south of here." Dante wanted to tell everyone about Sanne but she made him agree not to. Maybe Franz really had changed. Maybe being killed by Xana changed him. That and as Sanne explained to him 'the enemy of thy enemy is thy friend.' But if Franz did anything to hurt Sanne or his friends he would be the first to stop Sanne from bringing Franz back. "I will take the Overbike since I need to be fast."
"Ok, I call overboard!" Mira runs over and jumps on it. "I guess Krieger gets stuck with the Overwing."
"It's ok. Just go slow so I can keep up with you guys." Krieger jumps on the Overwing and takes off for the activated Tower.
"Hey wait for us!" Mira and the others chase after him.
"Aaaa!" Sanne and Skitz ran from one hellish war to another. They were stuck in a trench now as bombs exploded around them. "Sanne we have to get out of here!" They were in World War One.
"I know but how! If we come out of this trench we'll be shot! Hell if we run into a French soldier we'll be shot! Look at us, our clothes, just being here is wrong! They'll kill us!"
"Aaaa!" A bomb blows up mere meters from the girls and shrapnel hits Skitz. "My face!" Skitz falls over grabbing at her face. Sanne stops running and kneels down next to Skitz.
"Oh God Skitz. Don't touch it!" Sanne smacks Skitz's hand away from her face. Sanne sees a piece of metal sticking out of Skitz's face. "We, you have to leave that in there. If we move it you might bleed to death or it might hit something." Sanne helps Skitz up and they keep running.
Back on Lyoko Krieger was keeping up with the others as best he could. "Please no Dragons. Without Sanne's Scattershot we'll be in trouble." Dante looks back on the Overbike.
"I can do well with my wand. I'm more worried about what Xana is planning. He always wants Sanne on Lyoko. Why did he do an attack that didn't involve Sanne coming to Lyoko?"
"I don't know." And that's what really scares me." Krieger shakes his head. "Why we have to move faster!" Krieger leans forward trying to go faster. "We really need to find a way to make this thing faster!" This gives him an idea for later. "Wait, there's the Tower!"
"No Schipizoa. He knows Sanne isn't here. What is Xana up to!?" Ark creates his spear. "We'll find out soon."
In the history book Skitz and Sanne have escaped the hell of WWI. "Where are we now?"
"I, I think we're in the beginning of the Great Depression." Sanne looks around the town they were in. "Does it hurt?"
"I have a chunk of metal sticking out of my face and you want to know if it hurts?" Skitz stares at Sanne.
"I mean, maybe, a doctor or something could remove it and give you stitches." Skitz shakes her head.
"In the 1920's a doctor would give me opium and morphine and cocaine then rip it out and tell me to have a good day." Skitz looks around as they walk down the road. "I think we should hurry."
"Yeah if anyone sees us they'll call us witches or something." Sanne chuckles nervously.
"Sanne I think that was the 1720's not 1920's." But Skitz laughs nervously to. "Let's run." They run hoping to soon make it to a time that they wouldn't be out of place.
"Xana!" As the gang got close to the activated Tower Ms. Delmas appeared. "What did you do to Sanne and Skitz?!" Krieger gets his sword and shield out. "Where are they!?"
"Lost in time." Ms. Delmas laughs. "They are getting hands on research on history."
"I don't know what that means and I don't care. You're going to lose again Xana!" Krieger charges Ms. Delmas on the Overwing ready to strike. "We'll save Sanne and Skitz!"
"I'm surprised you still care. After what Sanne has done. She doesn't trust you I doubt she could love you." Krieger gives out a primal scream as he jumps off the Overwing.
"Die!" He swings his sword at Ms. Delmas but she uses her powers to block his attack. "Fight me!"
"Oh I will. Hopefully you will realize I can not lose and surrender to me. Then I will bring back Sanne Belpois and Skitz Della Robbia." Ms. Delmas charges with energy as the fight starts.
Back in the history book Sanne and Skitz were stuck in another war, World War Two. "We just have to keep running!" They were in Russia during the NAZI's failed push into Soviet territory. The snow was bogging them down but soon they run past the page and are now near the northern border of France. "Sanne look, the English Channel." Skitz points it out. "What is this?"
"I don't know." It is dark out but soon Sanne sees things dropping from the sky. "D-Day!" This was it. They would soon be between the invading English and Americans and the German NAZI's.
"Damn. We have to get out of here!" Skitz trips and falls forward. "Aaaa!" The chunk of metal in her face moves and causes her an immense amount of pain. "Aaaa!" She keeps screaming in pain.
"I hear screaming! Medic check if a soldier broke his leg on landing!" The sound of boots is heard by Sanne.
"Skitz be quiet!" Sanne puts a hand over Skitz's mouth. The sounds of boots go by them. "Skitz be very careful. We're surrounded by armed men who are looking for any reason to shoot their very big guns." Sanne feels something wet on her hand. She pulls it away and sees blood. When the metal chunk moved it caused Skitz to start bleeding. "What the hell are we going to do?" Sanne tries to think of a way to stop the bleeding when she hears a clicking noise. "What was that?" She turns around and sees a gun pointed at her face.
"What are you doing?"
"I, I…" Three more troops come over with rifles raised.
"We don't speak Francois!" Sanne nearly passes out when she sees his finger is on the trigger. "Speak English!"
"I, my friend was hurt and we were trying to find a doctor then got lost." Sanne hopes they believe her. "What is going on?"
"Stay down!"
"I, but my friend is…" Sanne is hit on the back of the head with the butt of a gun. She falls forward as she is knocked out.
"Leave her alone!" Skitz is just as scared as Sanne and is in a tremendous amount of pain. "Please. You're Americans right? Here to save us from the Germans? Thank you but I need to see a doctor. Please help me and don't hurt my friend." Skitz tries to talk to the troops hoping they won't hurt Sanne or her. "You're liberators. We were hoping this would happen. You'll be greeted as liberators by our village." Skitz lies but hopes the soldiers believe her.
"Shut up! We'll call a medic over but stay down and don't make another noise!" Skitz nods and cowers as the man keeps pointing the gun at her. "Johnson look at this girl." A medic comes over and sees the chunk of metal sticking out of Skitz's nose and the blood on her.
"What happened girl?"
"I, me and my friend were looking for food when a bomb went off." Skitz starts to cry. She can't help it anymore. Being shot at in three wars and trying to ignore the pain was too much.
"Settle down girl. I have to remove the shrapnel then use stitches to close the wound or you'll bleed to death." This did not help Skitz calm down and only made it worse for Skitz.
Back on Lyoko Krieger, Ark, Mira, and Dante are fighting Ms. Delmas. "Why do you even call this fighting!" Ms. Delmas laughs. "Your parents did much better when they were younger than you!"
"Shut up Xana!" Krieger's anger was controlling him as he swung his sword at Ms. Delmas.
"And you, why do you fight? Sanne has given up on you and her heart belongs to someone else!"
"Lie! Sanne doesn't love me!" Dante fires energy beams at Ms. Delmas but misses.
"Who said I meant you?" Ms. Delmas uses her energy to block all of the attacks. "Sanne is confused. She is so weak. Why I am glad I do not posses the weakness of human emotions!"
"Shut up!" Krieger swings his sword and breaks through Ms. Delmas's energy shield. "She loves me I know it!" He swings at Ms. Delmas again nearly hitting her. "Die damn you die!"
"Take this!" Ark throws his spear at Ms. Delmas.
"Eat this!" Mira attacks with her Kodachis.
"This is nothing! I can kill you all right now!" Ms. Delmas charges with energy and destroys the Lyoko Warriors. "Very well then. Now that this is over I can force them to make a deal."
"I wasn't attacking you." Ms. Delmas turns around and sees Dante run into the activated Tower.
"No! Damn you!" Ms. Delmas growls then turns into a black mist and disappears into Sector 5.
"Aaaa!" Sanne and Skitz suddenly find themselves falling onto the floor of their dorm room. "What happened?" Sanne rubs the back of her head and feels a large lump from where she was hit.
"I don't know. I, I guess the others deactivated the Tower." Skitz feels her face and can feel the stitches. "Sanne will the Scanners heal these?" It would be hard to explain the stitches.
"I think so. Let's go to…" Before Sanne finishes her sentence a white bubble comes up and reverses time.
"Whoa." Skitz looks around the room and sees the clock. "I guess they didn't know where we were."
"Yeah." Sanne sighs. "He's stronger now. Damn it." Sanne looks at Skitz. "At least your beautiful face is fixed."
"Yeah." Skitz laughs. "I hate history. How about we go do something? Take a break from homework?"
"Sure Skitz that sounds good." Sanne gets off the floor then helps Skitz up. As she reaches for the doorknob the door swings open. "Whoa! Krieger?!" Sanne is shocked by Krieger.
"Come with me." Krieger grabs Sanne by the wrist and drags her out of the room forcibly. "We need to talk."
"Krieger wait I," Sanne stops when he tugs on her arm and starts to drag her down the hallway.
"Wow." Skitz is amazed by what she saw. "I hope they work things out. It almost gives me hope." Skitz closes her eyes and thinks about Barack. "I should talk to him. We can work things out if those two can." Skitz gets her phone out and calls Barack hoping things could be patched up. She really liked Barack and hopes it will be enough.
A/N Another song turned Story. By Bob Seger, never heard it listen to it, great song.