Code Xana Episode 60: Add
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 1-59
Skitz is in Barack's room arguing with him. "I'm sorry Barack!" Skitz was getting frustrated. "Sanne called and told me, um, I can't tell you!" After Skitz ignored the others when Xana attacked and merged three of the warriors they cornered her and yelled at her. Since then she hasn't ignored the SOS XANA calls.
"You can tell me you just don't want to!"
"Because I can't! I, they, I'm sorry!" Skitz starts to cry then runs out of the room mad at herself and the others and Barack. She had to choose between Barack and her friends, or did she?
A few minutes later Skitz comes out of the girls' shower room after washing her face. "They let Sora in they should let Barack in." Skitz goes to her room and finds it empty. "She's probably at the gym." Skitz goes off to the gym looking for Sanne. If she convinced Sanne to let Barack in then Krieger and Dante would agree definitely. Sora, Skitz wasn't sure about since they didn't talk much and when they did it was usually Skitz saying something mean to her. As for her brother and Mira… If Skitz gets the rest those two wouldn't matter. Skitz gets to the gym and sees Sanne and Sora sparring while Krieger watches.
"Come on Sanne keep your guard up!" Krieger is cheering Sanne on. "Ouch, Sora your legs!" Krieger tried to be fair though and give Sora help also. "Ok, Sanne keep your hands up!"
"Hey!" Skitz yelling distracts Sanne who is kicked hard by Sora.
"Ow, that hurt!" Sanne rubs her thigh where she had been kicked. "Oh, Skitz, what do you want?" Sanne and Skitz were roommates and friends but lately things hadn't been good.
"I, I want um, to end the fighting between us, um," Skitz tries to think of a way to put it so the three would agree. "The reason we fight is because I'm tired of fighting with Barack. When I get done fighting with him I fight with you. So if we let Barack into the group we'd have a new warrior to fight Xana and the fighting would stop. Please?" Skitz hopes for a good reaction.
"Well, um, can he keep a secret?" Sanne wasn't sure about this. She barely knew Barack. Skitz and Barack didn't hang out with the group at all. "He won't go and tell anyone or surrender will he?"
"I, no. I know he won't."
"Can he fight?" Krieger wasn't so sure about adding Barack either. They had gotten lucky with Sora. He knew her, Sora had been a great help. Sora hadn't turned on them like Sissi did on their parents. Would they have as much luck with Barack? "Sora could fight before she joined us."
"I don't know. But, Sanne couldn't fight before she went to Lyoko." Skitz tries to think of something to turn this around.
"Yeah but Sanne was already in the group wasn't she?" Sora thinks about a new member. It wouldn't hurt her in any way that she could think of and if she agreed to it then maybe Skitz wouldn't hate her so much. "But after dealing with Xana myself I know we need more help. If he wants to join let him."
"Really?" Skitz stares at Sora not sure what to make of Sora's response. "I mean, that I, um, you know."
"Haven't been nice to me? Have acted like a bitch to me? Well lets just say my skin is thicker then that and really if you want your boyfriend in the group who am I to say no? Let him in."
"Well, we did kind of let Sora in." Sanne bites her lower lip as she thinks. "But that was because Xana kept attacking her."
"Xana attacked Barack like two attacks ago!" Skitz puts a hand over her mouth. "And uh, he could be attacked again."
"Well, um, I guess." Sanne also wanted to end the fighting with Skitz. Skitz was her best friend and things had been getting hard staying in the same room. If Barack would get the group to not fight anymore it would be worth it to Sanne. "Ok, Barack can come in the group but it will be like um, probation. If he messes up I'll do to him what I'll do to Sora if she turns on us."
"What?" Sora doesn't understand what Sanne meant. Sanne didn't tell Sora about the program that would delete Sora's memory if she turned on the new Lyoko Warriors.
"I'll kick his and your butt." Sanne didn't want to Sora to know about the program. "Krieger?"
"Well, I guess, I mean, I don't know him. I don't know if we can trust him." Krieger looks at Sora. "I knew we could trust Sora."
"She attacked Sanne."
"Because Xana did something to her. She hasn't since we scanned her and fixed whatever Xana did to her."
"So you want to wait for Xana to hurt Barack before we let him in? Why not keep Barack from getting hurt?"
"Well, ok. You have our votes."
"Then that's all we need!" Skitz is happy. Finally the fighting with Barack and Sanne would be over.
"We should ask Dante and the others though. We can't just surprise them with Barack." Sanne gets her phone out and calls Dante. "He must have gone back to Lyoko already." Dante had gone to eat. He loved chocolate and he loved fries, and burgers, and apple pies, and food in general. But no matter how much Dante ate he always stayed in shape. "Skitz, call Ark I'm sure Mira is with him."
"Ok." Skitz calls Ark. "Ark, is Mira there?"
"Where else would she be?"
"Ok, go to the Factory."
"There's an attack?"
"No just go to the Factory, now." Skitz hangs up on Ark. "I'll, no, I'll get Barack." Skitz leaves the gym going to Barack's room.
"What?" Barack goes to his door and isn't surprised to see Skitz. "What do you want? Come to hang out for a few minutes before running off on me again?" Barack lets Skitz in then closes the door. "Because if you are you should just leave right now. I'm tired of…" Skitz kisses Barack interrupting him.
"They let you in!" Skitz hugs Barack hard. "I, I asked them and they let you in now I won't have to run off!"
"In? In what? Skitz you've never told me why you ran off." Barack pushes Skitz away. "What are you talking about?"
"Barack the reason I keep running off is because I'm in a group, a very important group. I, well, it's hard to explain and you won't believe me if I tell you. You have to come with me." Skitz grabs Barack's hand and goes to leave but Barack doesn't follow her. "Come on Barack."
"Do I look stupid to you?"
"No, Barack, please come with me. They said you can join the group! That way I don't have to leave you!"
"And what? What are you going to do to me?"
"Scan you so you aren't affected then you can go to Lyoko with us and fight with us and get Sanne to the Towers and…" Skitz rambles on at a word a second and soon Barack can't understand what she is saying.
"Ok, look, just slow down Skitz. What are you saying?"
"I can't explain to you what it's all about. You have to see it all for yourself. Please Barack follow me!" Skitz continues to plead with Barack. "You'll never believe me unless you see it."
"Fine but if this is some trick we're through." Barack was worried about following Skitz. She had run out of his room then came back happy about him getting in to a group. He's worried she went to her friend Krieger and he was being set up for an attack. He could fight, kind of. He took Tae Kwan Do when a kid but hadn't for years. But Krieger was a lot stronger then he and Skitz had told him about Krieger's parents. "Skitz where are we going?"
"Into the woods, we need to take the sewers to the Factory."
"Wait, sewers? I'm not going into the sewers." Where no one will hear me scream. "Why can't we go another way?"
"Because we'll get caught. This is going to be so cool! I can't wait to see what you will look like on Lyoko."
"Lyoko? What's Lyoko?"
"You'll see just follow me!" Skitz gets to the sewer entrance and climbs down. "Come on Barack. We'll walk since you don't have a skateboard." Barack hated skateboarding. He saw it as a dangerous hobby. Writing was much more safe and writing had a career.
"In the sewers?" Barack climbs down the ladder. "Well, it doesn't smell, much." Barack makes a face.
"This is a water sewer not a sewage sewer." Skitz runs down the sewer path and Barack chases after her still unsure of what was going on.
"What's going on?" Ark and Mira make it to the Factory and go down to the Control room to find everyone but Skitz.
"We're having a vote about someone and we..." This gives Ark the wrong impression and he cuts Sanne off.
"We're not kicking my sister out."
"No, we're not kicking anyone out. We want to add a new member." Ark rolls his eyes.
"Like who, Barack?" Sanne nods. "But, I, I was just kidding. We can't let him in he's, not, not one of us."
"Neither was I until Krieger saved me from whatever Frankenstein experiment Sanne and Dante were going to do to me."
"It wasn't an experiment it was a way to make you safe from Xana." Dante still didn't want Sora in the group. "And with Barack I, well, why should he be in the group? I don't remember him ever being possessed."
"He wasn't but he has been attacked by Xana. Skitz thinks, and I agree, that to keep Barack being hurt he should know and fight with us. That way he will at least be able to defend himself incase of an attack."
"Well, I guess, when you put it that way." Even though Sanne and Dante had been fighting about Sora, Dante still had a crush on Sanne. "I guess I'm for it, who else is for it?" Sanne, Krieger, and Sora raise their hands. "And with Skitz that gives us a majority." Ark doesn't like this.
"It should be a unanimous vote! All or none!" Ark did not want Barack in the group. "We can't trust him, he's hiding something I know it!" Barack was hiding the fact he was related to Ms. Delmas but Ark thinks it is a bigger secret. "I vote no and that should be the end of it!"
"I vote no too." Mira was agreeing with Ark because she liked him and because she still didn't get along with Skitz.
"Well the majority rules. I'm sorry Ark, Mira, but I agree with the others. If I had been let in earlier I might not have been Xana's target so much and I wouldn't have attacked Sanne." Or I wouldn't have had an excuse for why I did. "I like you two but logic and my history with Xana shows he needs to be in the group. Ark isn't the only reason Mira is in the group because Xana attacked her and hurt her badly? Why wait for that to happen to Barack?"
"Because we can't trust him!"
"You can't trust him because you don't know him. Ark this is so hypocritical of you. Krieger and Sanne told me about how you got Mira in the group." Sora crosses her arms. "So he is in the group since the majority of us said yes." Sora turns to the elevator doors when she hears them running. Soon they open and Skitz with Barack step off into the Control Room.
"Whoa." Barack looks around the room. "Skitz, you weren't kidding." Barack sees the group standing around a computer chair. "Um, hi, I know you, I think." Barack recognizes the group except for Dante. But he didn't really know them since Skitz kept him separated from her friends. "Uh, Skitz said something about scanning me, it won't hurt will it?"
"Once I'm through with you it will!" Ark was still against letting Barack into the group. "You're not getting into the group!"
"Ark we voted, you and Mira lose, and he is in!"
"In what?" Barack was still confused.
"Our group, the uh, Lyoko Warriors." Krieger gives it a name and the others nod. "We voted, you're in, don't listen to Ark or Mira."
"Don't listen to us? FINE!" Ark storms over to the elevator and Mira follows him. They get in it and take it up to the Factory floor then leave.
"They'll get over it once Barack shows how good of a warrior he is." Skitz holds Barack's hand in hers. "Right Barack?"
"Warrior? Who do we fight?"
"Xana, now in Ms. Delmas's body."
"What?" Barack looks at the screen and Sanne brings up a picture of the new Xanafied Ms. Delmas. "Aunt Sissi?"
"What? Aunt?" Dante stares at Barack. "You're related to her?" Barack looks over at Skitz.
"I, uh, yes. She's actually my third cousin or something like that. But she hates me because of my father. You can guess why."
"She's racist we know that." Krieger rolls his eyes. "Barack you have to know she isn't evil she's just possessed by Xana. We will free her."
"Like I care? She hates me your Xana guy can keep her for all I care. She wouldn't even go to my mom and dad's wedding." Barack's response stuns the other Lyoko Warriors. "So what's this scan process do? Do you like have a device up here or is it somewhere else?"
"Uh, it's, uh down the ladder. You just step in a Scanner and I'll scan you so you won't be affected by the returns."
"I have no idea what that means but ok." Barack climbs the ladder down to the Scanner Room and sees the three Scanners. "Wow, big. Go for the middle one I guess." Barack gets in the Scanner and waits.
"Skitz, did you know he was related to Ms. Delmas?" Skitz nods. "Why didn't you tell us?"
"Same reason I didn't tell him about Lyoko it was a secret." Skitz looks at the screen. "Are you scanning him?"
"Yes." Sanne sits down in the computer chair. Her fingers fly over the keyboard as she scans Barack. "Can't wait to see what he looks like can you Skitz?" Sanne laughs a little as Skitz nods.
"That was it?" Barack looks at himself as he steps out of the Scanner. "I don't feel any different." He looks around the Scanner Room. "What is this place? What has Skitz been up to?" He goes over to the ladder and climbs up to the Control Room. "Was that it?"
"For now. When Xana attacks you'll go to Lyoko. When that happens you'll have to be ready ok?"
"Well can I go now? Like, train?" Barack looks at Skitz. "And how do we get to this Loco place?"
"Lyoko. Through the Scanners. It's hard to explain but I think you have a good point. Sanne, can you send me and him to Lyoko for some practice?" Sanne nods. "Ok, come on Barack."
"Wait, I'll come with you." Dante goes over to the elevator and pushes the button. "Three Scanners three should go." The elevator doors open and the three get on. They go down to the Scanner Room and get in the Scanners.
"Transfer Skitz, Transfer Dante, Transfer Barack, Scanner Skitz, Scanner Dante, Scanner Barack, and now, virtualization." The three land on Lyoko. "So Barack what do you think about the Desert Sector?"
"Whoa." Barack looks around the strange land. "I, I can't breath!" Sanne and the others laugh.
"You don't breath on Lyoko." Skitz looks at Barack checking out his Lyoko form. Barack had on military fatigues that were perfect for the Desert Sector. She looks for a weapon and sees a large knife. "Is that it?"
"Is that what?" Dante looks at where Skitz is staring and sees the knife. "Barack take your knife out."
"Knife? This is a BFK," The others only stare. "You know guys, a big frakking knife." Barack picks it out of the belt loop it was in. "Hey, what the heck is this?" Barack looks at his left arm and sees something sticking out of where the wrist would be. "Cool, looks like a blaster from Ultra Mega Uber Super Boy 2525!" Barack points it at a rock. "But I don't know how to make it fire."
"What? You get a close combat weapon and a distance weapon? Sanne this is so unfair!" Skitz laughs. "I'll still beat him with my clubs."
"Wait, crap, activated Tower." Seconds later pulsations tell the others on Lyoko that the Tower in near them. "Um, we'll be there in a minute." Sanne turns to Krieger and Sora. "Mission time. Don't call Ark or Mira they probably won't come. Just let me set up the auto transfer and we'll be there." Sanne gets ready to set up the auto transfer when the Super Computer beeps and a red exclamation point appears on the screen. "Damn it he's not letting us go!"
"What?" Dante hears Sanne through the headset.
"You're on your own. Xana messed up the transfer program, or maybe the Scanners, we can't come." Sanne looks for a solution but doesn't see one. "Krieger go down and check the Scanners." Krieger goes to the elevator but it doesn't work. He goes to the ladder and instead of climbing down finds a barrier.
"Sanne I can't climb down." Krieger is standing in mid air, or so it looks, over the ladder space.
"Crap, um, I can send the vehicles I think." Sanne loads the vehicle programs and sends them to Lyoko. "Head north you aren't far."
"Ok, be careful Xana might try something. If you guys can't escape the Control Room you're sitting geese." Dante's mistake gets a laugh from Sanne.
"That's duck, sitting ducks." Sanne rolls her eyes. "Just hurry and Barack be careful. You must protect Dante or Xana will win."
"Ok." Barack looks at the vehicles that had appeared. "Uh, who rides on what?" Skitz runs over to the Overboard and jumps on it.
"Mine!" She does a twirl in the air. "I guess you get the Overwing since Dante will be on the Overbike." Barack looks at the two remaining vehicles and assumes the one with the wheel was the Overbike. He goes over to the other vehicle and gets on it not sure what to do.
"Uh, what way is north on here?" Barack looks around. "Like, do we have a compass?"
"Sector 5 is that way," Dante points at Sector 5. "So north is that way." Dante points another direction.
"Sector 5? Uh, what Sector is this?"
"The Desert Sector. There is also the Forest Sector, Ice Sector, and Mountain Sector." Dante takes off on the Overbike and the other two follow him hoping the others would be ok.
Back on Lyoko Krieger and the others aren't sure what the big deal was. "We're stuck in the Control Room." Krieger is sitting on the floor. "What's the big deal about that?" Sanne shrugs her shoulders. "Well, I don't know. Sora do you have any cards on you? This is boring."
"No." Sora is lying on her back. "This is boring. Sanne can't you do something? You're the computer whiz. Bring up World of Epic Craft or something so we can do something."
"This isn't like that. Although I bet the graphics would be amazing on here. We can watch TV if you want." Sanne turns the TV Program on and starts to flip through the channels. "Repeat, sucks, hate it."
"Just choose something." Krieger looks at the screen. "That looks good." Sanne stops on a sports channel.
"Sumo? Fat guys in diapers." Sanne makes a face.
"Those guys are in better shape then I am. You'd have to be to carry around three hundred fifty pounds." The three watch TV not noticing something strange, odd, was going on in the room.
On Lyoko the three see the Tower. "Whoa, that's a Tower?" Barack feels chills as he sees the black aura.
"That's an activated Tower. The regular towers don't have a black aura around them." Dante looks around for monsters. "Be careful Barack the monsters can come from any direction."
"Monsters?" Barack looks around. "Like werewolves and stuff? Or something different?" Barack is scared.
"No a lot worse because these monsters are real." Dante gets his wand out as he keeps looking for monsters.
On Earth in the Control Room the three Lyoko Warriors start to feel weird. "Does anyone else feel like they're light headed?" Sora laughs a little feeling weird. "Like they're really high up?"
"Yeah, now that you mention it I'm starting to feel a little light headed." Sanne puts a hand on her head. "I'm not sick. It must be sitting here for so long with out doing anything." Sanne gets out of the computer chair and stretches. "See I feel better already." Sanne laughs a little.
"I don't know Sanne. I don't feel weird." Krieger felt fine. "If you want to work out while we wait we can."
"No I'll keep watching the screen." Sanne sits down in the computer chair and puts the headset on. "You guys ok?"
"So far no monsters." The three warriors on Lyoko are near the Tower. "Crap, I'll shut up next time." Dante's words seemed to have activated a trap as two Assassins and a Mega Tank land on Lyoko in front of the Tower.
"Whoa, those are monsters?" Barack looks the monsters over. "Uh, are they dangerous?"
"Yes Barack if they weren't Xana wouldn't send them." Skitz gets her clubs out. "Watch and learn." Skitz dives at the monsters on the Overboard. She blocks lasers with her clubs while dodging the Mega Tank blasts.
"Skitz!" Barack is scared for Skitz. He points his left arm with the blaster at the monsters. "I can't fire, what do I do?" Barack squeezes his hand and a laser comes out. "Ok, uh, hit them." He fires at the Mega Tank but only hits the metal shell. "Why won't it die?!"
"Hit the Eye, that symbol." Dante fires energy orbs out of his wand. "Alakazam!" The energy beam comes out but the Assassins dodge it and the Mega Tank closes. "Hitting the symbol will destroy them!"
"Ok!" Barack fires more lasers but only causes the Mega Tank to close up and the Assassins to jump around.
"Barack fire at the Assassins!"
"Which one is the Assassin!?"
"The ones those aren't round!" Barack fires lasers at the Assassins keeping them busy as Skitz gets closer. "Extend." Skitz's clubs get longer. "Die damn it!" Skitz jumps off the Overboard and slams a club into the Eye of an Assassin. She jumps up into the air looking to get back on the Overboard when the second Assassin lashes out with its claws. "Aaaa!" Skitz is pinned to the ground and the Assassin digs its claws into Skitz's back.
"Stop it!" Barack fires more lasers at the Assassin but can't hit the Eye. "Let her go!" Barack flies at the Assassin not paying attention to the Mega Tank.
"Barack watch out!" Dante tries to warn Barack but is too late. Barack is hit by a Mega Tank blast but doesn't go back to Earth! "Whoa, wait, Xana messed up!" Dante realizes that whatever Xana did to the Scanners made it so the Sanne couldn't set up an auto transfer or let the warriors on Lyoko go back to Earth. "Barack stay back I'm going for the Tower!" Dante revs the engine of the Overbike and charges for the Tower. The Mega Tank fires at him and the blast hits the Overbike. Dante goes flying into the air then tumbles on the ground. Dante gets back up and runs for the Tower knowing he couldn't be sent back to Earth.
On Earth Sanne, Sora, and Krieger are getting worried. All three were light headed and Sanne figured it out. "Xana, he sealed off the room with his powers. It wasn't to keep us from going to Lyoko it was to kill us."
"But he can't kill us. Well, he can't kill you." Krieger looks at Sanne but has trouble as his vision blurs.
"He might be mad at me." Sanne's vision blurs and she feels herself start to black out. "Hurry Dante…" Sanne blacks out from lack of oxygen.
"No, Sanne, don't die." Krieger is so weak he can't get up to check on Sanne. "Don't die Sanne…"
On Lyoko Barack is back up firing at the Assassin which seemed to be enjoying itself as it tortures Skitz. "Let he go!" Barack charges the Assassin firing more laser beams. "Leave Skitz alone!"
"Help!" Skitz screams in pain as the Assassin digs its claws into her back. The Assassin keeps Barack from hitting its symbol and then fires lasers back at Barack. Barack is hit in the leg and falls.
"Bloody buggering hell that hurts!" Barack is hit again and drops to the ground hoping the Assassin will stop firing at him.
"Almost there just need a distraction, Barack!" Dante looks back and sees Barack lying on the ground. "What is Xana doing to us?" Dante thinks Barack was affected by Xana and not just hoping for the Assassin to stop firing lasers. "I can't get there without help." Dante dodges Mega Tank blasts trying to get to the Tower.
On Earth in the Control Room Krieger is struggling to stay awake. He didn't want to fall asleep scared he would die if he did. Sanne and Sora weren't moving and he could see that their skin was starting to change colors. "No, guys, hurry." Krieger closes his eyes and prays for a miracle.
On Lyoko Barack looks up. The Assassin had stopped firing at him. "Good now I can take my time." Barack aims at the weird symbol Dante told him to shoot. "Now!" Barack fires and hits the Assassin on the Eye destroying it. Barack gets up and runs over to Skitz. "Skitz, babe, are you ok?"
"No." Skitz doesn't get up. After the claws dug into her she went limp. "I can't move, go help Dante."
"Ok." Barack looks and sees Dante dodging Mega Tank blasts. Barack fires lasers at the Mega Tank distracting it long enough for Dante to get into the activated Tower. The Mega Tank turns and fires at Barack. He dodges the first blast but is hit by a second blast. "Aaaa!" Barack slams into a rock pinned between the Mega Tank blast and the rock.
"The Tower is deactivated." The screens fall around Dante. "Sanne can you hear me?" Sanne doesn't respond. "Sanne are you there? Sanne should I launch a return?" Still no response. "Xana must have done something to her." Dante uses the control panel to launch a return to the past.
"Whoa." Barack finds himself in his room with Skitz. "Uh, Skitz, what happened?" Barack isn't sure if he dreamed what happened or not. "I mean, did I fall asleep or did that stuff really happen?"
"No what happened was real. Dante must have launched a return to the past after he deactivated the Tower." Barack stares at Skitz. "A return to the past is something we do to erase the damage Xana does."
"Oh, sure. I think I understand. So like we're in the past?" Skitz nods. "Like we traveled back in time?" Skitz nods again. "Like we…" Skitz kisses Barack to shut him up.
"Yes, we're in the past. And you're part of the group now. I love you." Skitz puts a hand to her mouth. She had never said that to Barack before but it just slipped out of her mouth.
"I, I um, love you to Skitz." Barack kisses her back. "Man that hurt." Barack rubs his back. "But it doesn't now."
"Don't worry about the pain. Either a return or using the Scanners will heal you." Skitz smiles. "Mister military man."
"My dad was in the army. I guess I wanted to be like him." Barack smiles. "Miss futuristic knight."
"Is that what you think I look like?" Barack nods. "Maybe that's what I was. Wanting to be a knight, a protector. But Krieger's the real knight." Barack raises an eye brow. "You'll see when he's on Lyoko."
Three rooms over Ark and Mira are on Ark's bed. "I can't believe she let him in! They all voted for him." Ark was mad about Barack and didn't even care that a return was done.
"I know Ark it sucks. He'll probably go running to his aunt the second she asks him to join her." Mira looks out the window. "He is frakking related to Ms. Delmas. No way will he fight her."
"I know. Maybe they did a return to blank his memories because they realized that." Ark sighs. "I hate them."
"They went with Barack over us."
"I know. Skitz chose some guy over me, her own brother. She needs a good smack upside the head."
"Don't Ark she'll probably get the others to yell at you. We'll just have to hope Barack doesn't turn on us."
"Yeah, hope."