Code Xana Episode 61: Subtract
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 Moonscoop.
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 1-60
The new Lyoko Warriors are in the Control Room after an attack. "He was a freaking hazard! He nearly shot me!" Ark points at Barack. "He's not helping us he's hurting us!"
"He destroyed an Assassin all by himself and he helped me get that Mega Tank." Skitz defends Barack.
"He got lucky! I want him out of the group!"
"We voted he's in!"
"Then I'm out!" Ark goes to the elevator and gets on it. Mira runs after him hoping to talk some sense into him. The elevator doors close and they leave the Factory mad at the others.
"He can't be out, they can't be out." Krieger is worried. Ark wasn't hot headed, he was a goofball, and this was not Ark. "We need them. Ark with his disc is a good vehicle and even if Mira's a ninja scum she's a good member."
"Let's just give them time to calm down." Dante was worried too. Xana might attack the two even if they were out of the group.
"Yeah, time." Sanne gets out of the computer chair. "Well, I hope Xana didn't do any damage."
"Samantha and Jim would have been here by now if they thought it was Xana." Krieger takes Sanne's hand in his. "Want to go to the movies?"
"Sure. Dante you want to go to Lyoko or stay on Earth?"
"Stay on Earth. I feel like candy." Dante smiles and laughs a little. "I need to find a place to stash it so you don't always have to bring me chocolate."
"If you found a way to transfer it to Lyoko I bet it would never go bad." Sanne and Dante laugh. "Krieger, what movie do you want to see?"
"I don't know. Um, Pirates of the Mediterranean 3 came out today. Want to see it?"
"Sure. Although I bet you want to see it so you can look at Jenny Repp for a couple of hours." Sanne smiles at the joke.
"Well I'll have to find a way to keep myself from watching the movie then." Krieger smiles but Skitz makes a gagging noise.
"You two are so sappy." Skitz goes to the elevator and pushes the button. "You two have fun Barack and I have homework."
"Oh homework I'm sure that's what it is called." Sanne and Krieger laugh. "I just hope Ark and Mira don't do anything stupid."
"Well, he's my brother and he's with Mira, I'd say that is stupid." Sanne stares at Skitz. "What? She's a public school idiot. Did you know they hadn't even…" Sanne cuts Skitz off.
"I don't care. She's a good warrior and Ark likes her. She's my friend and she doesn't say stuff about you."
"That you know of." Skitz gets on the elevator and is followed by the others. "Are you around her all the time?"
"No but she stopped fighting over the Overboard, she stopped arguing with you about band practice. Skitz, give Mira a chance. If we lose her and your brother we'll be in a lot of trouble."
"Yeah yeah, whatever." Skitz stops talking as they leave the Factory.
Krieger and Sanne go to the movies. Sanne feels safe turning her Jcell and Jpocket off. Xana had just attacked there was no way he would attack so soon. Dante has gone to the mall to raid a candy store and the food court. Ever since he came back to Earth he couldn't stop eating. The flavors, the smells, it overwhelmed him. Thankfully his body remained strong and his muscles didn't give way to fat. While at the mall he sees something strange. "Sanne?" Dante sees a girl with pink hair walking into a clothing store alone. "I thought she went with Krieger to the movies." Dante goes over to the store to talk to Sanne but can't find her. "Maybe they had a fight and she went into a changing room." Dante leaves the clothing store and goes back to the food court to finish his pizza slice. "Need more mustard." Dante had found mustard was the best topping for everything. Pizza, fries, eggs, ice cream, everything.
Mira and Ark are in the woods after leaving the Factory. "Ark we can't really quit. We need to fight Xana."
"If they aren't going to treat us like members of the group then we aren't going to be members of the group."
"But Ark what if Xana attacks? We can't just ignore that. And you share a room with Krieger. You'll have to talk to him eventually."
"Not if I can help it." Ark and Mira turn and see Krieger. "Ark do you really think you can just quit the group?"
"I can do whatever I want!"
"No you can't. If you aren't going to be in the group then you won't know about the group."
"What? You can't do anything to me."
"Yes I can. Sanne has the Scanners ready for you two. We'll blank your memories so you can't rat on us to Jim or Samantha."
"We wouldn't do that!" Mira backs away from Krieger after he gets into a fighting stance.
"We can't risk that."
"It will take more then you to take us both to the Factory!" Ark gets between Mira and Krieger.
"I can take you both." Krieger attacks Ark. He goes to knee Ark who blocks it with his hands but leaves his head unprotected. Krieger head buts him dazing him. Krieger thrust his elbow up and hits Ark under the chin. Krieger swings around with a roundhouse kick hitting Ark in the head.
"Ark!" Mira lunges at Krieger and tackles him to the ground.
"I'm not afraid to hit a woman." Krieger punches Mira in the face knocking her off of him.
"What the heck?" Sora was bored and walking through the woods when she hears yelling. She runs over and sees Krieger on top of Mira hitting her. "Krieger what are you doing!?"
"Good, you can help me." Krieger stands up. "We decided that if they are going to leave the group then we will delete their memories." Krieger looks at his shirt and sees blood. "They refused so I had to make them."
"Oh, um, I, I guess I'll carry Mira." Sora doesn't like the sound of this. She liked Ark and Mira they were ok. Ark was a good skater and Mira was fun. But if the other members agreed on this then she would go with it. She was a new member and wasn't about to question the older members. "Man, she's heavier then she looks." Sora struggles but is able to get Mira up onto her shoulders. "I can't believe it. I thought we were giving them time."
"We were but then Ark called and said they quit and they weren't going to change their minds." Krieger easily picks Ark up and puts him over his shoulder. They walk towards the sewer entrance with the two.
Dante is about to leave the mall, pockets filled with chocolate, when he sees Sanne and Krieger leaving the movie theater. "Wait, but, I saw her go into the clothing store. Unless there are two girls with pink hair." Dante jogs over to Sanne and Krieger wondering what was going on. "Sanne, Krieger, hey!" They turn and see him.
"Oh hi Dante." Sanne smiles when she sees candy sticking out of his pockets. "Headed back to the Factory?"
"Yeah. Um, I was wondering, did you go to the clothing store?"
"What?"
"The clothing store, next to the food court."
"No, why?"
"I swear I saw a girl with pink hair."
"Really? But that can't be. Maybe she had on a pink hat."
"Yeah, I guess. Well, you two enjoy the movie?"
"Uh, yes." Sanne blushes. "Um, we're going back to the school to work on homework."
"Ok, I feel stupid now." Dante laughs a little. "Homework, I could probably finish it all in five minutes. Xana made sure I was as smart as a Super Computer." Dante laughs again.
"We can do it just not that fast. Kadic Academy isn't as good as my private tutors." Sanne and Krieger hold hands as they walk down the street for the school as Dante goes the other way for the Factory.
Dante gets to the Factory and sees something unexpected. "Sanne, Krieger, Sora, what are you doing?"
"Ark and Mira called. They said they were going to tell Jim and Samantha about Xana since they were leaving the group." Sanne doesn't move from the computer chair. "So we're blanking their memories. You can probably do this faster then I can." Sanne gets up and motions to the chair. "Hurry Dante before they wake up." Dante goes and sits down in the computer chair. His fingers fly over the keyboard.
"We need to go into the secure part of the Super Computer." Dante enters the password and notices something. "Hey, why did you turn the sound off?" Dante leans over and turns the volume up only to hear beeping. "The Super Scan, Sanne Xana is attacking!"
"I know." Sanne punches Dante in the back of the head.
"Whoa hey stop that Sanne." Sora goes to tackle Sanne when Krieger attacks her. "Get off of me!"
"My plan worked! He entered the password giving me access to the Super Computer!" The fakeKrieger knocks Sora out then changes into wooden doll dropping to the floor as does the fake Sanne. A black mist comes out of the screen and Ms. Delmas forms.
"Yes, perfect. Return to the past now!" The white bubble comes out reversing time.
"Whoa." Krieger is in his room and sees Ark. "Hey, what happened?" Ark's answer isn't what Krieger expected.
"You son of a bitch!" Ark punches Krieger in the face. "You were going to delete my memories! Well guess what it didn't work!" Ark jumps on Krieger and starts to hit him some more when another white bubble comes reversing time again.
"Whoa." Sanne finds herself in the gym with Krieger and Sora. "What is Dante doing?"
"I don't know but you better tell him to stop." Krieger puts a hand on his face. The return had fixed it. "Ark thought we were trying…" Another white bubble comes up reversing time again.
"Stop!" Sanne finds herself in the Control Room. She looks and sees a black mist come out of the computer screen and form into Ms. Delmas. "How? How did you get access to the secure part of the Super Computer?"
"Dante gave me access. He's such a good boy. Offered him all the candy he could eat for it."
"No, he wouldn't."
"Then how else would I have gotten access? How else could I have gotten the password?" Ms. Delmas smiles. "You lose." Ms. Delmas points her hand at the keyboard and energy comes out typing the keys to launch a return.
"No!" Sanne attacks Ms. Delmas. "It's not true!" Tears form in Sanne's eyes as she punches Ms. Delmas.
"It is true! He loves his mother!" Ms. Delmas uses her energy to force Sanne off of her. "Stay down I'll need you for my host after I give myself more power." Ms. Delmas goes to launch a return when the screen goes blank. "What? What happened?" Ms. Delmas taps on the screen. "It was turned, turned, turned off." Ms. Delmas breaks apart into a black mist and goes back into the Super Computer.
"How?" Sanne gets up ignoring the pain from the energy attacks Ms. Delmas used. "How could he turn on us?"
"Who turned on us?" Dante is climbing up the ladder after sending himself to Earth and turning the Super Computer off. He is about to tell Sanne about Ms. Delmas tricking him when Sanne attacks him.
"You bastard!" Dante and Sanne fight until Dante grabs both of her wrists and pins her to the floor. "Let me go!"
"Sanne Xana was attacking! Stop fighting me!"
"You gave her the password! You turned on us!"
"I didn't! She tricked me! I thought it was you! You, fake you, said that Ark and Mira were going to turn us in to Samantha and Jim and we had to delete their memories so I got on the computer and started the process…"
"No!" Sanne slams her forehead into Dante's face. She thought he had actually deleted their memories and this causes her to snap. "How could you! They're our friends!" Sanne punches Dante who was still dazed from the head but.
"I didn't! Ms. Delmas launched a return! She used returns to make herself stronger."
"You gave her the password!"
"I didn't! Please believe me!" Dante grabs Sanne's wrists again and tries to pin her but she fights him off. They continue to fight when the elevator runs and soon Krieger and Sora step off seeing the two fighting.
"Get off of her!" Krieger attacks Dante pulling him off of Sanne. "What the hell are you doing!?"
"He gave Xana the password!" Sanne gets off of the floor. "He gave Xana the password so he could get stronger! And he deleted Ark's and Mira's memories!" Sanne kicks Dante while Krieger held his arms. She kicks him again hitting her target dropping Dante to the floor.
"But, no, he failed. Ark said we tried to delete his memories but we failed." Krieger gets his phone out and calls Ark. "He won't answer."
"He probably thinks we were in on it. Damn it Dante!" Sanne pulls her leg back to kick Dante again when a bolt of energy hits her.
"Leave my son alone!" Ms. Delmas appears. "He only did what his mother asked him to. You can't blame him for choosing family over friends can you?" Ms. Delmas smiles evilly. "Come Dante." Dante is turned into a black mist then Ms. Delmas turns into a black mist and they leave the Control Room.
"No, he, he turned on us." Sanne starts to cry. "No, how could he?"
"Wait, um, we did take them here to delete their memories." Sora looks at Krieger. "You knocked them out and I helped carry Mira."
"What? No I didn't." Krieger doesn't know what Sora is talking about. "I was at a movie with Sanne."
"No you weren't. Sanne was here and I helped Krieger get Mira and Ark here. Then Dante came from wherever he was and helped Sanne."
"We weren't here. We were at the movies. I can tell you what happened in Pirates of the Mediterranean 3. Well, parts of it." Krieger looks at his feet.
"But, then, it was a trick."
"It might have been. It had to be. We wouldn't delete their memories. Damn it Xana was probably able to get more power when he had access to the secure part of the Super Computer to make fake versions of us."
"Like the polymorphic clones?" Sanne shakes her head.
"No these were obviously able to touch things. These were better. Maybe, maybe he made clones of us."
"Well, what do we do now?"
"I have to change the password first of all." Sanne quickly changes the password. "Call Ark, I'll call Mira. We have to tell them it was a trick by Xana." They call Ark and Mira but neither one answers.
"I guess they're mad. I would be to if you guys attacked me and tried to delete my memories."
"Wait, you said you helped me, the fake me, why?"
"Well, I'm new. If like, you guys said to do something I wouldn't go against it." Sora feels bad now. She had been working with a fake Krieger to hurt Ark and Mira. "I'm sorry."
"Don't be. It's Xana and you're new. But next time you might want to call one of us to make sure it's really us."
"Ok." The group leaves wondering what to do. They believe Dante had turned on them and that Ark and Mira were leaving the group.
Skitz goes to Mira's room expecting to find Ark there. Odd and Sandra had called and wanted to talk to both of them. "Hey, Ark, mom and dad are on the video conference and want to talk to you." No response. "Ark I know you're in there." Skitz opens the door and sees Mira and Ark standing in front of the door. "Look I know you're mad about Barack but mom and dad don't know that."
"Get the hell away from us! You tried to delete our memories and messed up! Like I'd fall for a stupid trick!" Ark slams the door in Skitz's face then locks the door. "Go away!"
"Ark, its mom and dad not a trick! And I didn't try to delete your memories! What, you think those returns were an attempt to do that? I don't know what they were doing but they weren't going to delete your memories!" Ark doesn't respond. "Fine, I'll just tell them you're busy with Mira." Skitz storms off mad at Ark.
"Skitz!" Sanne sees Skitz walking out of the dorm building. "Do you know where Ark and Mira are?"
"They're in Mira's room!" Skitz yells at Sanne then continues walking away.
"Wow, that was uh, not expected." Sanne goes into the dorm building and goes up to Mira's room. "Ark, Mira, it was a Xana trick! Dante turned on us and gave Xana access to the secure part of the Super Computer. We weren't trying to delete your memories I swear!"
"Go away! We quit!"
"You can't quit! We need you, now more then ever since Dante turned on us! Please, open the door." Sanne tries to open it but finds the door is locked. "Ark, Mira, we need you!"
"We quit!" Sanne jumps back when Ark slams into the door. "So go away! Like we'd believe that Dante would turn on us! We're not that stupid!"
"But, he, he did." Sanne feels like she is about to cry. Dante turned on her, Ark and Mira quit the group, maybe it was time to tell the adults.
In Sector 5 on Lyoko Ms. Delmas has Dante in a cage. "You see? They believe you turned on them. Join me since they have left you. I'm all you have left after all, family."
"Never! You tricked them! I would never join you after what you made me do!" Dante wants to attack Ms. Delmas but is stuck in the cage. "They'll save me. Once I don't attack, if I tell them what happened."
"That won't happen. In fact I think you'll attack them next time they come to Lyoko." Ms. Delmas laughs evilly as black mists appear. They enter Dante and he struggles to fight them off but can't as more and more Xana Ghosts enter Dante. "How do you feel now my son?"
"Better, much better." The cage breaks apart. "Mother, Father, what shall I do for you?"
"Just wait son and you will see." Ms. Delmas floats down to Dante and hugs him. "Welcome back to the power, the greatness, and the evil."
A/N Ah so does the Subtract mean the loss of Ark and Mira or the loss of Dante or both? Will the group fix their problems or will the old Lyoko Warriors come to save the day? Read to find out!