Code Xana Episode 69: Ho Ho Ho
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 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 1-68
A/N Get your head out of the gutters! Episode 69, Ho Ho Ho
Sora is in her room wondering what was going on. Since Naia was made a new member Sanne forgot to Scan her and see if there was something wrong with her. There wasn't, at least Sora was almost sure there wasn't. But the last time they had been on Lyoko she nearly shot Sanne and twice she had wanted to go up to her and push her down the stairs while on Earth. Before she thought she just wanted to get her revenge on Sanne for taking Krieger away from her but now she was having violent thoughts towards Sanne that weren't normal. Besides she almost knew Krieger would break up with her once Sanne confessed to her and wasn't even really that mad after she cried a little. But now she just wanted to trip Sanne one of the times they were going up the stairs together or get a little too violent while sparring in the gym. And she started to hear voices when on Lyoko. It wasn't normal it had to be Xana had done something to her but this made Sora even more nervous. If the others thought she would turn on them would they delete her memories? Would they decide to delete her memories instead of trying to fix her? Even now she wanted to call Sanne and see if she wanted to train so she could hurt her. "This isn't normal but I can't tell them. They'll delete my memories and I can't let that happen." Sora shakes her head then lies down on her bed hoping a nap would make the violent thoughts go away.
Across the city a mall was getting ready for Christmas shopping. "Its 21 degrees Celsius out and we're putting up fake tress and a robotic Santa Clause. What's wrong with this picture?"
"Hey just because global warming screws up the weather doesn't mean it screws up the Christmas shopping."
"I know but it snowed last month then the temperatures went up. We should have done Christmas last month so we had some snow. It just doesn't look right to have elves and reindeer but no snow." A second employee plugs in the robotic Santa Claus.
"Well, just twenty days of shopping. I can't wait the customers always buy more around Christmas. Last year the ElectroShack sold out on PS5's! Those things cost over eight hundred Euros!"
"Yeah but they have the most power and games and options. If we sell enough at B. Daltons my Christmas bonus might get me one of those." They continue to set up the Christmas decorations in the center of the mall when a black mist comes out and possesses the Santa Clause.
Sanne is working on homework when the Super Scan comes up on her Jtop. "Crap, Xana's attacking." Sanne turns to Krieger who was on her bed reading a book assigned for history class. "Xana's attacking, call Ark and I'll call Skitz."
"Ok, I'll call Sora after."
"And I'll call Dante." They make their phone calls. Sanne hits a snag when Dante doesn't answer. "Maybe he's on Lyoko. Wait, I don't have Naia's number." Sanne bites her lower lip in worry. "We just have to hurry to the Factory so Dante can call Naia."
"Ok." Krieger and Sanne hurry for the sewer entrance in the woods.
Dante is not on Lyoko but is in a movie theater with Naia. His phone was turned off because there were signs that said to turn them off. He was holding her hand and she leaned her head on his shoulder. After she was brought into the group Dante was worried about what Naia would think of him. He wasn't completely human, part Xana. He was the son of the enemy. His father and mother were trying to kill him and his friends while trying to posses Sanne. Naia seemed uncomfortable at first but she didn't want to stop dating Dante. Dante hears screaming that didn't seem to be coming from the movie. He turns around and sees the doors open and a giant robotic Santa Clause bursts through them. It has a large red sack with boxes in it and the Santa Clause robot starts to throw these boxes at the people in the theater. "Xana!"
"What?" Naia had been so comfortable with Dante she had started to space out. "Oh crap."
"Yeah, get out of here Naia and call the others."
"What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to fight the, the, I think it's called Saint Nicolas?"
"Santa Clause. Ok, um, don't get hurt."
"Don't you get hurt." Dante kisses her on the cheek then turns towards the Santa Clause robot. "Hey Xana, looking for me?"
"Ho ho ho, Merry X-Mas!" The Santa Clause robot starts to laugh. "I have a special package with your name on it!" It throws a box at Dante who ducks. The box flies over head and hits another person knocking them down. "They made these boxes out of metal. Perfect for hurting my enemies!" The Santa Clause robot throws another metal box at Dante who dodges it.
"Out of the way!" Naia looks back and sees Dante dodge another metal box. "I want to help him. But, if Sanne deactivates the Tower he will be saved." She wants to stay and fight but knows fighting on Lyoko will help Dante more. "Get out of here the Santa Clause went nuts!" People are running and panicking to get away. Naia goes with the crowd and is able to make it outside. "I don't know how to get to the Factory from here. Maybe, well, if I go this way," Naia points to a street. "Yeah, that road should lead to the river so I can get to the Factory." She runs for the Factory forgetting to call the others.
Krieger and Sanne are at the Factory and swing down to the Factory floor. They run over to the elevator and take it down to the Control Room. "Dante?" Sanne puts the headset on. "Dante are you there?" No response. "But, if he isn't there then he's on Earth. Why didn't he answer his Jcell?"
"Maybe Xana attacked him." Krieger looks at the screen. "What's that?" Krieger points to a small box. Sanne clicks on it and a message comes up that was written by Dante.
Going to movies with Naia. You can call her at 456-789-0123.
"Well at least he left her number." Sanne gets her Jcell out and calls Naia. "Hey, Xana's attacking."
"I know! He attacked the mall with some Santa Clause robot!"
"Where's Dante?"
"He's fighting it. He, he told me to go to the Factory."
"Good, the more warriors here the faster we can deactivate the Tower. Hurry, so far only Krieger and I made it to the Factory."
"I'm working on it!" Naia hangs up on Sanne and continues to run to the Factory as do the others.
Dante is ducking behind seats waiting for the Santa Clause robot to run out of metal boxes to throw at him. "Ha, can't touch this!"
"We'll see how long that lasts." The Santa Claus robot reaches into his sack and finds no more metal boxes. It tosses the bag to the side then rips a theater seat out of the floor.
"Crap." Dante drops to the floor as the chair flies overhead. "Ew, gum, I think." Dante looks up and sees another seat being ripped out of the floor. "Well, he'll run out eventually." Dante continues to dodge chairs.
At the Factory Naia swings down to the Factory floor and runs over to the elevator. She takes it down to the Control Room and steps out. "What are you doing? Why aren't you on Lyoko?"
"I send everyone at once and until everyone is here there is no point sending anyone." Sanne smiles seeing the worried look on Naia's face. Sanne wondered about Naia. Was she really the by product of her mother? And she really did seem to like Dante and even knowing the truth about him Naia stuck with him. "Calm down, Dante can take care of himself no matter what Xana throws at him."
"Right now he's throwing boxes out of Santa's sack." Sanne and Krieger stare. "He possessed the Santa Clause robot at the mall. He had these boxes, gifts, in a big red sack."
"Oh, crap. This means a return will need to be done." Sanne sighs. "Why can't it ever be simple? When our parents fought Xana it was just changing the weather or possessing a teddy bear."
"A teddy bear?" Naia had not heard about any of the attacks on the original Lyoko Warriors. "How is that dangerous?"
"Try a fifteen meter tall teddy bear."
"Oh." Naia sits down on the floor. "Where are the others? What's taking them so long!?"
"They're coming Naia." Krieger goes over to her and sits down. "This sucks I know but you have to wait. I've known Dante for awhile and I know he can handle himself."
"I, but, it was a Santa Clause robot. Not like you've ever dealt with anything like that before." Krieger laughs. "What?"
"You know when Sanne and I went with you and Dante to the Medieval Fair?" Naia nods. "Well, that was after a return to the past. The first time we went Xana possessed a Merlin and a Dragon animatronics."
"So you guys have dealt with something like this before." Krieger nods. "What did I do? Like, when the attack happened."
"You staid until I told you to help this guy out. He was wearing armor and couldn't run very fast. I bet if I didn't tell you to do that you would have staid wouldn't you?" Naia nods.
"I wouldn't want to run away. I mean, if you and Dante and Sanne were there I would have been there."
"Dante and Sanne ran for the Factory. I stayed behind and fought them. Not very well but I did fight them." Krieger and Naia continue to talk to help her stay calm and wait for the others.
Soon Sora makes it and goes to the Control Room and waits for the others to make it.
Dante runs out of the movie theater through the fire exit. This sets the fire alarm off. "Ok not the kind of attention I wanted!" Dante looks around for a place to run when the Santa Claus robot breaks through the wall next to the doors. "What was that about Dad? Not good enough to use the door?"
"Shut up Son. You won't make it this time. I don't have that girl's emotions holding me back!"
"Naia's emotions? I guess she really likes me." Dante runs away from the Santa Claus robot.
Ark and Mira get to the Factory at the same time as Barack and Skitz. They get to the elevator and take it down to the Control Room. "Hey, what's the attack?"
"Ho, Ho, Ho." Ark stares at Sanne. "Santa, Xana possessed the Santa Claus robot at the mall."
"And he's now where?"
"At the mall fighting Dante." Naia gets off the floor. "We better hurry so Dante doesn't get hurt." Naia goes over to the elevator and gets in it. "Come on we have to hurry!" The others, minus Sanne, get on the elevator and take it down to the Scanner Room.
"Transfer Krieger, Transfer Barack, Transfer Ark, Scanner Krieger, Scanner Barack, Scanner Ark, and virtualization." They land on Lyoko in the Ice Sector. "Transfer Mira, Transfer Sora, Transfer Skitz, Scanner Mira, Scanner Sora, Scanner Skitz, and virtualization." They land on Lyoko and soon the vehicles appear. "Ok Naia are you ready? Get in the middle Scanner and I'll be right down." Sanne starts up the auto transfer and hurries down the ladder to the Scanner Room. She gets in the right Scanner and soon the doors close and both Sanne and Naia land on Lyoko. Sanne looks for Naia to see what she looks like. "Whoa."
"What the, what happened?" Ark tries to see Naia but can't because there is a white mist surrounding her. No, she was just a white mist!
"Aaaa!" Naia sees the bright light shining on Lyoko and puts her hands up. She wasn't used to being in that bright of light without sun screen. "I'll get a sun burn, my skin burn too easily!"
"What? You're in there somewhere aren't you?" Krieger waves his hand through the white mist. "We can't see you."
"What do you mean you can't see me? I can see you." Naia sees Krieger's hand waving in front of her face. "You get any closer and I'll bite your hand." Naia looks down and sees a white, tight shirt and short skirt with high white boots and white gloves with black trim on everything and a black belt. But the other Lyoko Warriors only saw a white mist floating in the air.
"But, we, all we see is a white mist." Ark creates his spear and pokes the white mist. Naia is almost poked in the behind and grabs the spear.
"Be careful!" Naia pulls it out of Ark's hand.
"Hey, my spear disappeared!"
"No, here it is." Naia throws it at Ark's feet.
"But, that is strange."
"Um guys, we have to go deactivate the Tower." Sanne gets on the Overbike. "Naia I, I don't know how you can ride a vehicle."
"I don't get it. You guys say I'm just a white mist but I can see everything. I have arms, legs, head, everything."
"You can see your head?"
"I, not what I meant Sanne." Naia watches as the Lyoko Warriors get on different vehicles. She goes over to the Overwing since it was the only one open since Mira got on Ark's disc. The others take off following Sanne as Naia figures out how to work the Overwing. Soon she flies after the others trying to catch up to the others.
Dante runs through the parking lot of the mall when a car flies overhead and crashes near him. He turns around and sees the Santa Claus robot lifting another car into the air. "Ho ho ho, you've been a very bad boy Dante! Disobeying your mother and father!" It tosses the car at Dante who jumps out of the way. "I just wanted to say that." The Santa Claus robot laughs evilly. "Here comes fatty with his sack of shit!" It grabs another car and throws it at Dante.
"Xana what the hell is wrong with you?" The way the Santa Claus robot was talking was definitely not the way Xana talked.
"Wrong? Well, it seems there was a side effect to the way I possessed your little girlfriend. I seem to have taken on some of her, characteristics. It will wear off sooner or later but as for now let's play a game of Father and Son catch!" Another car is thrown at Dante.
On Lyoko the warriors see the activated Tower. "Creepy. But, I don't see a door." Naia looks around. "And I don't see any monsters. Dante said Xana would send these monsters to protect the Tower." Everyone looks at Naia knowing she had just cursed them all as two Assassins and a Mega Tank appear. "Oh hey, there are the monsters." Everyone wants to strangle Naia but know they have the monsters to take care of first.
"Naia, be careful the round one has a one hit knock out and the Assassins explode when you destroy them." Ark yells out a warning after he recreates his spear. He's ready to fight and wonders what Naia would be able to do.
"Ok, um, I don't know what to do." Naia flies around on the Overwing but doesn't attack. She doesn't know what she can do or what her weapons are. Dante explained to her what his powers were, what Sanne's were, and the others but she had no idea what she could do. As she flies she gets close to the Mega Tank. It fires at her and hits the Overwing destroying it. As she falls one of the Assassin fires at her but the lasers pass through her! The Lyoko Warriors see the lasers pass through the white mist while Naia sees them pass through her body. "Hey, they can't hurt me, cool." Naia lands on the ground gently. She doesn't seem to notice that she should have slammed into the ground and bounced instead of just gently landing on her feet. She runs over to the Mega Tank which fires at her. Naia flinches but the blast passes through her.
"Wait, if the monsters can't hurt her then is she immortal on Lyoko?" Krieger gets his sword and shield out. "Good, let her destroy the Mega Tank while I take care of an Assassin."
Naia runs right up to the Mega Tank then stops. "How do I destroy you?" It opens up and charges an energy blast. "The symbol!" Naia goes to punch it but her hand passes through it. "Ok how can I destroy them?" Naia tries to destroy the Mega Tank again but still can't. The Mega Tank closes up and Naia is inside of the shell. "Whoa, hey, what's going on!?" Naia feels herself break apart.
"Hey, what happened to Naia?" Barack was firing lasers at an Assassin but keeping an eye on Naia. When the Mega Tank closed the white mist disappeared. "Did she go back to Earth?"
"I don't know." Sora points her left arm at the Mega Tank and fires an arrow. Leave it alone! You know you want to attack Sanne! "No, shut up!" Sora shakes her head trying to ignore the voice in her head. Do it! Get rid of her! If you help Xana he will help you. "No!" Sora creates an arrow but instead of shooting it she shoves it between her eyes trying to kill the voice. This sends her back to Earth. "Ow." Sora rubs her head and feels scar tissue where she hit herself.
Back on Lyoko the Mega Tank starts to spin wildly. Krieger and the others have no idea what has happened to it or Naia and are scared for her. "We better destroy it! If she didn't go to Earth who knows what happened!"
"You try to destroy it while we handle the Assassins." Skitz blocks lasers with her clubs.
What happened? Where am I? What happened to me? Naia was confused. She seemed to be inside of the Mega Tank. No, she seemed to be the Mega Tank. Stop! The Mega Tank stops spinning. Now what do I do? Naia sees all around her at the same time and has a hard time understanding it. She does understand seeing a knight in shining armor with shield and sword raised was a threat. Krieger, don't attack me! The Mega Tank opens up and fires at him. No don't attack Krieger! Krieger dodges the Mega Tank's blast.
"Nice try but you'll have to be better than that!" Krieger is about to attack when a voice enters his head.
Don't! It's me, Naia. I don't know how but I'm in here! Krieger pulls his sword back. Thank you.
"But, Naia?" The Mega Tanks rolls a little. "Well, um, can you control it?" The Mega Tank moves again and spins around. "Then attack the Assassins." The Mega Tank rolls around until it is pointed at an Assassin.
I don't know how to fire.
"You fired at me."
I was scared I thought you were going to hurt me.
"Then get scared again."
I'm not scared though. Maybe, maybe if I, I don't know. Krieger thought he knew and raises his sword to strike Naia, the Mega Tank. No! An energy blast comes out and destroys the Assassin. The second Assassin starts to fire lasers at the Mega Tank but hits the outer shell. Barack takes his chance and fires at the Assassin hitting it on the Eye and destroying it. Sanne runs into the activated Tower once the path was clear. Wow, um, I'm starting to feel really hot. Suddenly the Mega Tank explodes and all that's left is the white mist. "Hey cool, I'm back."
"Tower deactivated." The screens fall around Sanne. "Return to the past now!" The white bubble comes up reversing time.
Sora is in her room again after the return. "That damn voice. At least I was able to control myself that time." Sora lies down on her bed and stares at the ceiling. "What if I attack Sanne when she's the only one on Lyoko? What if the voice makes me attack her when she's on Earth? I have to do something but what if they just decide to delete my memory so I won't be a threat? Maybe, maybe if I just tell Sanne. I have to make her promise she won't hurt me though." Like you want to hurt her? Yes, get her alone so no on can stop you. "Shut up!" Sora puts her pillow over her ears but it doesn't block out the voice.
Dante is with Naia who is confusing Dante. "No, Santa Claus isn't real. We aren't even really celebrating him. What we celebrate is the birth of a guy named Jesus Christ."
"Is he fictional to?"
"Well, depends on who you asked."
"I don't understand. Either something exists or it doesn't. Or is he like imaginary numbers in math where you can write them down they just don't exist?"
"Now I'm the one who is confused."
A/N See? I said get your mind out of the gutter. I could have gone real slutty with this episode. I mean, Episode !69! with a title Ho Ho Ho? Lol, I had fun writing this one. And poor Sora, what will she do? I don't know yet either! I shall write and you shall read to find out! Also, Next EPisode is out on September 8th