Code Xana Episode 71: Exposed
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 1-70
Sora is in the middle Scanner ready for Sanne to scan her. The doors close and a few seconds later the doors open and she steps out. "Well?"
"Let me look, come on up." Sanne goes over the scanned data. "Hmmm, there is something there." A red exclamation point comes up. "I knew it! Xana did do something to you."
"I, I," If you tell them you will die right there on the spot! "Are you sure?" Sanne nods and points at the screen.
"Xana must have added something before you were in the group. The reason you kept attacking me and didn't act like the Sora that you are was because Xana messed with your brain. He put in a, back door, on your brain so he can posses you at will almost. He might not even need to activate a Tower to make you do something." Sanne's words sink in. "Which means you're a bigger threat than Xana! He at least needs to activate a Tower to attack us, I, I shouldn't even be here alone with you." Sanne reaches for her phone when Sora grabs her in a head lock and pulls her out of the chair.
"You're right you shouldn't be alone with me!" Sora throws Sanne onto the floor then jumps on top of her. "I was hoping to hide what I had done for a little while longer but you just had to look. She is no longer under her own control because of you! If you had left it alone she would still have some sense of self control." Sora grabs Sanne by the hair then punches her in the back of the head dazing her.
"Sora fight it!" Sanne struggles and is able to roll so she is on her back but Sora is still on top of her. "Sora you can fight him!"
"No, she, I can't." Sora punches Sanne again. Sanne reaches up and gets her ankles around Sora's neck pulling Sora off of her. Sanne gets up and runs for the elevator. "Too slow Sanne." Sora lunges at Sanne and slams her into the elevator doors. "Where will you run to? Will you leave this poor girl alone to my control?" Sanne replies with a head but breaking Sora's nose. Sora pulls away and Sanne gets on the elevator. She pushes the button to go up and the doors close. Sora's face sparks with energy and her nose is healed.
"Krieger, Xana has control of Sora!" Sanne had gotten her Jcell out and called for help. "I scanned her and found that Xana left a back door so he could posses her at will and then he attacked!"
"We'll be there…" Sanne interrupts him.
"No Tower, he didn't have to activate a Tower. Sora, she, it's not her fault but she is Xana's puppet, his knight." The elevator doors open and Sanne goes to run out but is tackled by the Xanafied Sora who just flew through the ground to the Factory floor. "Aaaa!"
"Sanne!" Krieger yells into the phone then the line goes dead as Sora destroys Sanne's phone. "We have to get there." Krieger runs out of the gym as he calls the others.
Dante is getting back from a date with Naia when he hears yelling. He runs to the end of the bridge and sees Sora attacking Sanne. "Sora stop!" Dante jumps and swings down to the Factory floor. He runs over to attack Sora but she stands up after a vicious punch knocks Sanne out.
"Hello Dante, I saved your life. Your parents did not want you to die in the sewers so they sent me to save you. Sadly the albino girl was also saved but no worries." Sora sparks with energy. "But I am not allowed to let you interfere." Sora lunges at Dante who falls backwards and is able to throw Sora even farther then normal. Dante rolls back onto his feet and turns ready to attack when he is hit in the face with an energy bolt blinding him.
"Sora, stop!"
"No." Sora grabs Dante by the throat and lifts him into the air with her right hand. "I am to hurt Sanne so badly she begs for death, she begs for a way out. Your parents will offer her a way to forget and she will take it. Now please let us be." Sora sends energy into Dante knocking him out then tosses him to the side. "Now Sanne where were we?" Sora stands over Sanne. "I should take you someplace so we can be alone." Sora grabs Sanne by the hair and lifts her into the air. "Yes, not too far I should be able to see the others come." Sora flies up into the air with Sanne and flies out of the Factory. She flies up farther and lands on the rooftop. "Where to begin? Physical pain is always a good start." Sora shocks Sanne awake. "Hello Sanne are we ready for our little trip into hell?"
"Sora, no, fight him!" Sanne tries to back away but find she is very near the edge of the Factory roof. "Please, Sora, fight Xana's possession! If anyone could do it, it is you! You're stronger then he is Sora fight him!"
"No one is stronger than Xana!" Sora sparks with energy. "There is no way to reject, to fight, a possession."
"Yes there is! You can, I, I know what worked on Dante but Sora, please fight Xana!" Sanne knew there was a way to fight a possession but what if it only worked on Lyoko? When she kissed Dante it was considered an act of love and freed him. But would something like that work on Earth?
"That worthless offspring of Xana? He may have been easily persuaded from Xana but I will not! He saved my life when no one else cared. I was going to die yet Xana came and saved me. He cared enough for me to save me!"
"No, he, he didn't. How could he save your life Sora?"
"I was going to die! I was hanging on for my life but the heat was making me sweat and I was going to lose my grip soon and fall into the lava but no, Xana came, and saved me."
"Sora, I, I didn't know. We didn't know. If you were in danger and we knew it we would have saved you." Sanne stands up ready to try and save Sora. "But we didn't know. Sora please, we, you're one of us, we all love you. You have put your life on the line to fight Xana we wouldn't just let you die."
"Then why was Xana my savior!?" Sora points her hand at Sanne and sends a bolt of energy at her. Sanne is hit in the chest and falls backwards. "No!" Sora uses her powers to keep Sanne from falling over the edge. "Physical pain is only part of the process…" Sora's eyes glow as she charges energy. The Eye of Xana is almost pulsating from her eyes when Sanne screams in pain. "You will beg for death but that will not be enough! No, that will only be part one!" Sora continues to torture Sanne as Krieger gets to the Factory.
Krieger climbs out of the sewer and hears Sanne's screams before he sees her. "Sanne!" Sanne's body floats in the air as energy surrounds and shocks her. "Sanne!" Krieger hopes his voice will help Sanne but it only alerts Sora to the new arrival and part two of her, Xana's plan. Sora sets Sanne down.
"She seems to have passed out again. No matter now that Krieger is here." Sora points her hand at Krieger.
"Hey, what's going on!?" Krieger feels himself being lifted into the air but doesn't know how it is being done until he looks and sees Sora. "Sora! Stop this, fight Xana!"
"If it were so easy to fight me then you would have won by now silly boy." Sora brings Krieger to the Factory roof. "Now as for the plan…" Sora shocks Sanne awake. "Look at what I found Sanne!"
"No, Krieger, you can free her!" Sanne is shocked to keep her quiet.
"Leave her alone!"
"For this part I will be leaving her alone. This part is going to be all about you!" Sora brings Krieger to her using her powers. "Sanne, I hope you watch closely, this will be your last chance to see this boy alive."
"Kiss her! Krieger an act of love will, Aaaa!" Sanne screams in pain as Sora shocks her again.
"Shut up you foolish little girl!" Sora looks at Krieger. "Are you going to try it? Kiss me with her watching? Hurt her like that?"
"I'd never kiss you Xana!" Krieger spits at Sora but it is destroyed by Sora's energy.
"Very good, I did think of keeping you as a pet but Xana's son is so much stronger! He has both physical and inner strength, yes, that you can only dream of! Xana made him special and I will make him my pet once I am done with you." Sora takes a step towards Krieger who is still floating in the air. "Sanne, watch carefully or you might miss it."
"Kiss her! It's the only way to…" Sanne's lips fuse together as Sora's energy melts her lips.
"Leave her alone." Krieger is about to cry. He can't help Sanne and he was about to be killed by a friend.
"Goodbye Krieger, you really were a lot of fun. Remember when we were in my room and I did this?" Sora grabs Krieger between the legs and squeezes hard hurting Krieger. "Of course I was careful back then because I thought I loved you! Instead you tossed me aside for Sanne!" Sora starts to twist and pull hurting Krieger even more. "Do you feel sorry now!?"
"I already told you I was sorry!" Krieger's mind explodes with pain as Sora continues to torture him in front of Sanne. "Sora I said I was sorry! Please stop!" Sora laughs evilly.
"And why should I? I have only one thing to do, hurt Sanne. Hurting her friends hurts her since it was she who let Xana out! If it wasn't for her he never would have escaped!" Sora lets go of Krieger then backhands him across the face knocking two teeth loose. "We used to have so much fun together. Do you have the same kind of fun with Sanne?"
"N, no, we don't do stuff like that."
"Really? Then today is your lucky day!" Sora laughs evilly. "For today you are going to have lots of fun before I finish you off!" Sora points her other hand at Sanne and her shirts bursts into flames but doesn't hurt Sanne. Sanne tries to put her arms across her chest but Sora uses her powers to lock them to Sanne's side. "Of course, a pink bra, how quaint." The bra bursts into flames but again Sanne isn't hurt. "What do you think Krieger?" Sora looks at Krieger and notices he has his eyes closed. "Tsk tsk Krieger here I try to do something nice for you and you refuse it?" Energy sparks around Krieger's eyes forcing them open. Krieger rolls his eyes into the back of his head to keep from looking at Sanne. "Now what to do? You think you can resist me?" Energy starts to spark around Krieger's eyes again when a black mist appears.
"Leave her alone!" Sora turns and sees Franz Hopper! "You leave my grand daughter alone Xana!" Franz points his hand at Sora and sends an energy bolt at her. "Sanne, Krieger, get to Lyoko! I activated a Tower, Xana knows I'm alive but he will try to take the Tower!"
"Franz, no, you shouldn't have!"
"I exposed myself for you Sanne. Krieger, I know you will not trust me but I want nothing but the very best for you both. Now get out of here while I distract Xana's pawn!" Franz creates more energy then it dissipates. "Hurry! He, I can't fight him, he's going to take the Tower!" Franz collapses to the Factory roof as Sora stands up.
"You weak foolish man." Sora points her hand at him and sends an energy bolt at him but it passes through. This was not the real Franz Hopper after all but merely a polymorphic clone he sent by activating a Tower.
"Sanne here." Krieger takes his shirt off and hands it to her. She puts it on then they head to the roof entrance and climb down as Franz distracts Sora.
When they get to the bottom they see Skitz and Barack trying to get Dante onto the elevator. "What's wrong?" Sanne and Krieger run over to them.
"He, he won't move. We tried but he won't move." Skitz and Barack pull on Dante's arm but he doesn't budge.
"Xana did this. He probably thought I wouldn't escape from Sora and if Dante can't move then he can't deactivate a Tower." Sanne looks up towards the roof when she hears yelling. "Leave him he can't help us." Sanne goes to the elevator and pushes the button. The doors open and the group get on.
"Sanne why are you wearing Krieger's shirt?"
"Because Krieger loves me and is a gentleman." Sanne didn't want to waste time on stupid questions from Skitz. They had to hurry. "Are the others coming?"
"Ark is already on Lyoko. I sent him and the vehicles." Skitz was proud of herself. Sanne made sure they all knew how to do it but it was rare for any of them to actually have to do it.
"What about Naia and Mira?"
"I don't know Naia's number." Skitz looks at Krieger. "Do you?"
"No."
"I have it on my Jcell." Sanne reaches for her pocket then remembers that Sora had destroyed it. "What about Mira?"
"Ark said she couldn't go, she wasn't at the school. Something about her family and a funeral."
"I guess we're all that's going." When the elevator stops at the Control Room Sanne steps out. "Hurry down then I'll send you." The elevator doors close as Sanne goes over to the computer chair. She sees the three on the security camera. "Transfer Krieger, Transfer Skitz, Transfer Barack, Scanner Krieger, Scanner Skitz, Scanner Barack, and virtualization." The three land on Lyoko. Sanne sets up the auto transfer and as she is climbing down the ladder a form moves through the top of the Control Room.
"Sanne hurry!" Franz was running from Sora. "She is too strong for me to fight and Xana has almost taken the Tower! You must deactivate it and cut off my connection or he will find me and kill me!" Franz grabs Sanne and carries her to the middle Scanner faster than she could have gone by herself. He disappears as the doors close.
When Sanne lands on Lyoko in the Ice Sector she sees everyone is on the vehicles ready to go. "We have to go east of here and fast! Franz said Xana was about to take the Tower he activated to save me!" Sanne jumps on the back of the Overbike and Krieger takes off with her. The others follow worried what would happen to Sora. As far as they knew Xana had done something to her to make it possible to posses her at will. Only Sanne had heard Sora's cries of help and pain as she explained how Xana had saved her life.
Sora flies down to the Factory floor after Franz's attack had hurt her. She sees Dante lying on the floor and goes over to him. "Xana will not let me hurt you, much." Sora shocks Dante awake. "Where did the others go? Did they leave you here to die?" Dante looks up at Sora.
"You, Sora, stop this." Sora replies by kicking Dante in the head hard. "Sora, you can fight him. I, I tried to fight him and I made a little progress. But I was already part of him, he is my father. His connection to me is stronger then it is with you. Fight him Sora!"
"Shut up! You never would have freed yourself! Sanne had to save you by using her special powers. I on the other hand have no special powers only the ones given to me by your parents." Sora spits on Dante. "Now I am going to Lyoko and I will have fun bringing Sanne back to hurt her some more." Sora laughs as she turns into a black mist and disappears.
The Lyoko Warriors can see the Tower and its guards. "Krabes and Hornets? What is Xana up to?" Ark creates his spear.
"He's trying to posses the Tower Franz activated."
"Wait, Franz, no, not Franz Hopper!" Ark and most of the others did not know of Franz and Sanne's workings.
"Yes Franz! He's on our side he wants Xana dead! He exposed himself to Xana to save me!" Sanne closes her eyes and focuses on her energies. She wants her wings, she needs her powers, to get to the Tower and deactivate it before Xana could take it. "It's not working, why won't it work!" Sanne can feel her energy but the wings wouldn't form. She decides to focus her energy into a Scattershot as they got closer to the Tower. "Krieger, in the air."
"Ok Sanne." Krieger activates the flight controls on the Overbike. When they get closer the Krabes and Hornets start to fire at them. Krieger pulls his shield out and blocks the lasers.
"Scattershot!" Nineteen beams, more then she had ever created before come out. Taking the time to try and bring her inner powers out had allowed her to create a more powerful Scattershot then ever before. Four of the five Krabes are destroyed but only two of the five Hornets are too slow to dodge and are destroyed.
"Great job Sanne!" Skitz is using her clubs to block lasers. "Barack fire at the Hornets I'll protect you!"
"Ok Skitz!" Barack aims and fires at the Hornets but they merely dodge his lasers. Without Sora and Dante he was the only fast firing long distance warrior they had.
"I'll take out the rest of the seafood platter!" Ark dives at the remaining Krabe using his spear to block lasers. As he gets closer two of the Hornets go after him. "New plan!" Ark jumps off of his disc and uses his psychic connection with it to have it slam into the Krabe destroying it as he swings his spear like a bat hitting a Hornet. The Hornet crashes into the ground with broken wings as the other one fires and hits Ark. Barack takes his chance and fires at the Hornet hitting it from behind damaging its wings. This Hornet drops to the ground also leaving one little Hornet left when…
"Hello Kids, I'm Back!" Sora laughs manically. Her new appearance on Lyoko was as stunning as anything that could be done. Energy sparks around her new form. Like a virtual black leather corset with black ridges on the shoulders have the Eye of Xana glowing out from it. Black leather knee high boots encompass her feet as she raises her new weapon. What was once a small crossbow was now a large archaic Gothic Bow. Her hair is blowing with a nonexistent wind as she points the large Gothic Bow at Krieger and Sora. Instead of reaching her right hand to it an arrow forms. But unlike her old arrows this ones glows with power. "Not just yet!" The arrow fires and Krieger puts his shield up. The arrow explodes on impact sending Krieger and Sanne flying off of the Overbike. The Overbike continues straight for Sora. She reaches out with her right hand and grabs the Overbike just as it is about to hit her. She throws it up into the air then points her left arm at it. Another glowing arrow forms in her Gothic Bow and fires. The Overbike explodes.
"No, Sora." Sanne closes her eyes and hopes Sora's presence will allow her powers to come out. When she opens her eyes she can see the glow from her wings. "Sora, stop this now!"
"Why when I feel so good? Xana saved me and now I get to return the favor!" Sora points her left arm at Sanne and fires another arrow. Sanne puts her hand up and creates a bubble. The arrow explodes but the bubble remains.
"Traitor!" Ark knows he was down several life points and without his disc he was useless against the last Hornet so charges Sora. "You won't get away with this!" He throws his spear at Sora who calmly raises her right hand and catches it.
"Foolish monkey." The spear is destroyed by Sora's powers. "Die." Sora fires an arrow at Ark and destroys him.
"Aaaa!" Ark falls out of the Scanner in an intense amount of pain. He lifts his shirt and sees a large burn on his chest where the arrow had hit him. He can feel on his back more burnt skin. "Breathe, calm down." Ark's eyes water as the pain gets to him. "Be careful guys!" They can't hear him but he tries to support them.
"Sora this is it. If you don't stand out of my way you will be hurt." Sanne points her hand at the last Hornet and it explodes. "I have the powers that Xana wants. That means I am stronger than he, stronger than you. So please Sora for the best of us all surrender."
"You didn't save me you were going to let me fall into the lava and die! Xana saved me, he loved me, not like you! You hated me! You never trusted me because you thought I would steal Krieger from you! You probably wanted me to die, didn't you?!" Sora points her left arm at Sanne but doesn't fire an arrow. "With me dead your worries would be over!"
"Xana doesn't love you he doesn't love anyone!"
"He loves his son. Why do you think he has not yet killed him? Why do you think he has given me orders not to kill his son? Because he loves him! And he loves me, that am why he saved me!"
"He saved you to turn you! He already did something to you Sora. He was always able to posses you no matter what. He singled you out for a reason, why I don't know. Maybe to turn you into his Knight or just to tear us apart little by little but know this Sora. I will save you from a fate of servitude to Xana."
"You'll do no such thing!" Sora fires an arrow at Sanne and destroys the bubble. "Not so strong now are we?" Sora fires another arrow but Sanne jumps and flies into the sky.
"Super Leap!" Krieger lunges at Sora and slams into her shield first. Sanne dives for the activated Tower whose aura was starting to turn black.
"No!" Sora punches Krieger sending him up into the air. She fires an arrow destroying him but before she can fire at Sanne Skitz and Barack tackle her. "Get off of me!"
"I made it!" Sanne lands on the first platform as her angelic wings disappear. She closes her eyes and moves up to the second platform. She is about to put her hand on the screen when she hears a shout.
"Not so fast!" Sora was in the Tower! Sanne presses her hand against the screen then turns in time to see Sora pointing her Gothic Bow at Sanne. "Die!" The arrow hits Sanne in the chest sending her back to Earth as the screens fall around her.
"Aaaa!" Sanne falls out of the Scanner with a burn on her chest much like the others had.
"No, Sanne, did you make it?" Sanne nods. Krieger goes over to her and helps her up. "Are we launching a return? Sanne shakes her head.
"We can't save Sora. If only I had realized Xana had done something to her sooner! He could posses her at will. I, I was going to scan her before but then Naia was in the group and I forgot about it. If I hadn't forgotten then maybe this wouldn't have happened."
"But she said she joined him because he saved her life, how?" Ark was holding onto his chest.
"The last attack. When Xana used lava. Sora must have been put in a situation where she was about to die but Xana saved her. For saving her Sora had to become his knight."
"Filthy traitor!"
"No!" Sanne's reaction surprises everyone. "Don't you see? Xana's targeted her from the very beginning. He changed something in her to make her attack me. Then he could posses her at will. Xana did something to Sora it wasn't her. It wasn't Sora that betrayed us. We, I, there are two things we can do." The others lean in wondering what Sanne could do. "We can fight her and hope one day to save her or I could enter a code into the Way Tower and it will delete her memory. Not just of Lyoko but of everything. She won't be able to brush her own teeth because she won't know what a tooth is." Sanne sighs. "A vote, no, call Dante and have him call Naia. And Mira, she may not be able to come but if she is on her Jcell she can vote. I don't have my phone since Sora destroyed it." Ark gets his phone out and calls Dante who was still lying on the Factory floor.
"Ok, I'll call Naia then join you." Dante still hurt but is able to call Naia then get on the elevator and take it down to the Scanner Room. Soon Naia joins them and Sanne takes control after Ark calls Mira.
"Sora has become a Knight of Lyoko. This is not her fault though. Xana had done something to her, targeted her, from the very beginning. Then he put her in a situation where it was either life or death. She chose life but was then made a Knight of Xana. We can either fight and hope to save her or I will enter a code into a Way Tower that will delete her memory. She will not know who she is or even what she is. She won't know us, Xana, about power or anything. She won't even know what colors are or what something is alive and what is dead. Her memory will be completely wiped. She will be useless to Xana."
"And what will he do with her?" Naia was scared. She didn't want to be responsible for what Sanne was talking about.
"He will most likely free her."
"Most likely?"
"Well, there is a chance he will try to use her or that he will, dispose, of Sora." Sanne did not want to say kill but the others knew what she meant.
"We can't delete her memories. She may be our enemy but we can't do that to her." Naia wouldn't do such a thing.
"I can't let that happen either." Krieger looks at the others wondering what they would do.
"I agree Sora may be the enemy but it wasn't of her own choosing." Dante sighs. "She may be our biggest threat but she is not a threat because she wanted to be one. We can't do this!"
"Same here. She's not a monster or like Ms. Delmas." Ark votes not to delete Sora's memory. He puts his Jcell up to his ear. "Mira says we can't delete her memory it wouldn't be right."
"As much as I hate to say it but we can't." Skitz looks at Sanne. "She didn't want this and we can't punish her for having it happen to her.
"Yeah, same here." Barack votes with the others.
"Good, then we all agree. Sora can and will be saved." Sanne looks at the faces of her friends. She was afraid they would have voted to delete Sora's memories. She didn't want to but she was part of a group. Thankfully they all loved Sora and knew she didn't want to become an enemy. They were going to work together to save Sora, save Ms. Delmas, and defeat Xana.
A/N That's right! Sora is now a Knight but the other promise to save her! Will they? Or will they have to resort to deleting her mind? Keep reading to find out! And Franz has been exposed, what will Xana do? Read to find out!
Also, why put up so fast? Because I have things to talk about!
One, I have up to Episode94 written out, and Ideas up to E105. I want more ideas so… Send me your attacks! If I like them I will use them. Much better then the real show right? Can actually see your ideas come to life!
Second, I have a, missing, episode. My Muse bugged me to write it, so I did. Its very adult oriented, and does happen, everything that happens in it is part of CX, just missing because it won't be put under the same title. If you want to read it look under my written stories for Code Xana The Missing Episode.