Code Xana Episode 74: Dirty Rain
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 1-73
Krieger and Sanne are making out in the woods. Krieger missed Sanne so much and was glad to have her back. "Tonight is the Christmas Dance. I can't wait to go with you Sanne." Krieger moves his lips down to her neck.
"Holiday Dance, you can't call it Christmas Dance." Sanne shivers as Krieger kisses her neck. "I love you Krieger."
"I love you too." They continue making out not realizing the danger they were in or the spectator that they had.
"So easy right now. But only need to do this…" Sora points her arm at the two and sends energy at them. Instead of attacking Sanne and Krieger it moves into their pockets and destroys their Jcell's and Sanne's Jpocket.
Xana is floating over the southern shore of France. "I did it wrong didn't I? Relying on a monster made of sand. I needed more sand, much more sand." Sand starts to swirl around Xana. "Trillions more!" The beach disappears as the sand moves up into the sky. The clouds darken as more sand moves into them.
Dante and Naia are in the movie theater watching a movie, mostly. After the last attack Naia was scared about going back to Lyoko and continuing the fight against Xana. "Why don't they just call their parents?"
"Because they fought for years and beat Xana. Their parents have jobs, careers, and lives now. It would probably hasten the victory but it would also hurt them. The last time the parents knew… It wasn't pretty."
"But, but, what if he kills one of us? Or someone else?"
"He, Xana has killed before. He killed several of my friends."
"But they're alive, that doesn't make sense."
"The Scanners can be used to bring you back. As long as we have a hair or skin or drop of blood we can bring you back." Dante sighs. "But if my parents do kill someone and we can't bring them back then we've already agreed that they would call their parents."
"And what about you?"
"I don't know. Their parents know me as Xana's son, an enemy. And I'd miss the others a lot. If they all left you'd be the only one here and they might not let you fight because you're a teen."
"They'd have to do more to keep me away from you." Naia kisses Dante. "You and your friends are so brave to fight Xana. I, I would have probably done the same though."
"Really?"
"Well if my parents had to fight Xana for years I, I wouldn't want to drag them away. Especially if it was my fault for him being back."
"It wasn't Sanne's fault!" Dante's yell gets several movie goers to shush him and he quiets down. "It wasn't her fault she wanted to save me."
"But she did let Xana out." Naia kisses Dante again. "And she got you to Earth. I guess that is better then anything bad that will happen." Naia leans her head on Dante's shoulder and snuggles up against him.
"Yeah, I guess."
Sora goes into Sanne's and Skitz's dorm room and hears the Super Scan beeping. "Oops." Sora sparks with energy and short circuits the Jtop. "Now as long as Dante doesn't go to the Factory we should be good." Sora breaks apart into a black mist and disappears back to her dorm room as the door opens and Skitz walks in.
"Barack I have to get ready!"
"The dance isn't for another few hours!"
"I know I have to hurry now!" Skitz closes the door and starts to get prepared for the Holiday Dance.
Two hours later Sanne rushes into her room and nearly knocks Skitz down. "Oh, Skitz, are you ok?" Skitz grabs Sanne.
"What have you been doing? The dance is only an hour away!" Skitz pushes Sanne down onto her bed. "I already picked out your outfit but your hair and makeup need to be done and…" Skitz rambles on.
"Black?" Sanne picks up the top Skitz had picked out for her.
"Black and red make you look sexy for Krieger." Skitz smiles then grabs a hair brush and starts to brush her hair. "Get dressed then I can work on your hair!" Sanne flinches then follows Skitz's orders.
Forty minutes later Krieger goes into his dorm room and takes five minutes to get ready. "Have ten more minutes before I'm supposed to meet Sanne." Krieger was nervous. He couldn't dance at all and didn't want to embarrass himself in front of everyone but he was going with Sanne so that made up for some of it. "I might as well go now and wait for her." Krieger leaves his room. As he walks outside he doesn't look up to see the strange looking clouds as the last light of day disappears.
Sanne runs into a problem. "Skitz I don't have a place to put my Jcell or my Jpocket on here!" Sanne was looking for an excuse to not wear the outfit Skitz picked out. It was practically a skin tight black tube top with a black skirt that had red stripes on it and black shoes with red laces.
"I do. Give them to me." Sanne hands her Jcell and Jpocket to Skitz. "Krieger won't be able to keep his hands off of you tonight."
"What do you think made me so late coming here?" Sanne blushes not believing she just said that. "I mean we were just making out and stuff!"
"Stuff? Like when…"
"No!" Sanne puts a hand over Skitz's mouth. "I told you about that in secret you better not tell anyone else!"
"As long as you don't tell anyone about me and Barack."
"As much as I'd love to see Ark going to jail for murder I think I can hold it back." Sanne and Skitz smile knowing the other wouldn't expose their secret. "We better hurry!" They run out of the dorm room to meet their dates.
At the dance the teens are enjoying themselves. Jim was standing over the punch bowls to make sure no one added anything to them. The music was loud and bumping and the teens danced and danced. But one student wasn't there. She was floating in the air over the gym watching what was about to happen. The strange clouds form over the gym then it starts to rain. But instead of drops of water it is drops of sand. No one inside the gym notices this, not even as the sand rises over the gym doors…
Mrs. Jonde goes to leave the gym when she finds the door won't open. She pushes against it but the door refuses to open. She goes to another door assuming the door had been locked but soon she finds none of the doors will open. "This is against fire regulations." Mrs. Jonde goes over to the punch bowls and finds Jim. "Mr. Morales the doors appear to be locked."
"Locked? I didn't lock them." Jim gets a key ring out and picks one of the keys. "This should unlock them." Mrs. Jonde takes the keys and goes to the nearest door but it won't open.
"Mr. Morales," Mrs. Jonde hands the keys back to Jim. "The door won't open." Jim goes over to the door with Mrs. Jonde, leaving the punch bowls unguarded, and pushes against it. A little crack is made between the double swinging doors and sand starts to come in.
"This can't be good." Jim throws his shoulder into the door and opens it a tiny bit more and more sand comes in. "Maybe someone is playing a prank on us." Jim and Mrs. Jonde go to another door, and then another, and then another but find the same thing. Sand, sand, and more sand.
As the dance continues the sand gets higher and higher but no one worries except the teachers who were trying to figure out what was going on. The new Lyoko Warriors are oblivious to Xana's attack as Sanne's Jpocket was fried earlier by Sora. But when the sand gets up to the windows the weight is too much and they break. The music stops as sand starts to fall into the gym. "What are we going to do?" The principal goes over to the oldest and most experienced teacher at Kadic Academy, Jim Morales. "Morales what is going on?"
"I'm not sure. The doors are blocked by sand and now it's coming in through the windows. We better get out before the windows are blocked."
"How do we get the students out?"
"There is a ladder in the maintenance closet. We go to the one of the locker rooms and break a window out then have the kids climb out. If the sand is as high all around the gym they won't have to drop far."
"Good plan Jim."
It's nothing more than what I did when I was a volunteer fire fighter, not that I have time to talk about it." Jim goes to the maintenance closet and gets the ladder out as the principal explains the plan.
Once the news spread about the sand Sanne and Krieger look for and find Skitz. "Skitz give me my Jpocket!" Skitz pulls it out and hands it to Sanne. Sanne goes to check the Super Scan but her Jpocket won't turn on. Sanne checks the battery pack then tries to turn it on again. "What's wrong with this?" Sanne shakes her Jpocket but it refuses to turn on. "This has to be Xana."
"Ok but then what do we do?" Krieger looks around. "We're supposed to go to the boys' locker room. I think I saw Jim taking a ladder back there so I guess that's the plan." The three head for the boys' locker room hoping to get out soon so they could get to the Factory.
Sora is floating over the gym and sees the students climbing out of a window. "Hmmm, if they escape, well, Xana only told me to watch so if I don't act then I will only be following his orders." Sora sighs. "Please guys get out and get to the Factory." Sora continues to watch following Xana's orders very specifically, watch and observe the attack.
Sanne has a little trouble climbing out in the dress she was wearing and is reminded of the time she had to climb out when Xana was attacking with spiders and her pants got caught and were pulled off. "Come on, be careful." Sanne carefully lifts a leg through the window then the other and drops a meter to where the sand had risen. Sand is still falling from the sky and covers her as she climbs down. Soon Skitz, Barack, and Krieger get out.
"We need to wait for the others."
"What about Dante and Naia?" Skitz knocks some sand from her clothes. "This stuff is everywhere. My hair was so beautiful to." Skitz shakes her hair knocking sand down from it.
"I don't have a phone, Krieger do you have yours?" He shakes his head. "We need to find a phone."
"Go to the dorm building and get one from one of our rooms, if we can make it." Barack looks over at the dorm building and sees sand piling up around it. "I'll be right back." Barack runs over to the dorm building, climbs up the sand then slides down to the door. He runs in and goes to his dorm room to get his phone. "Sora!" Before Barack can say anything else Sora grabs him by the neck.
"He gave me new orders." Sora shocks Barack until he passes out. She tosses him to the floor. "Must make it as hard as possible." Sora turns into a black mist and floats up to the roof. She looks and sees the cell tower on the school's roof. She points her hand towards it and energy comes out destroying it.
"What was that?" Ark is climbing out of the window when he hears a crashing noise. When he gets out he looks and sees the cell tower lying on the ground. "That's not good." Another student climbing out from behind him sees the cell tower and points to it.
"The sand must have made it too heavy or something." The student pulls a student out, his date, and then they climb down past Ark.
"Frak." Sanne puts a hand to her mouth. "I mean um, what's taking Barack so long?"
"Maybe the sand fell on the doors and now he can't get out." Skitz was getting worried. "I'll go look." She runs through the crowd of students and gets to the sand around the dorm building. She climbs over it and slides down to the door. She runs into the dorm building and runs into Sora.
"Skitz, run." Skitz turns and does run. "Faster!" Sora twitches as she tries to fight Xana's powers but finally his symbol appears in her eyes. "This way it will be more fun to chase you down!" Sora floats after Skitz who was trying to climb up the sand but failing.
"Sanne! Run! Get to the Factory!" Skitz yells hoping Sanne would hear her over the crowd. "Aaaa!" Skitz screams in pain as Sora attacks her.
Ark and Mira find the others. "Where are my sister, and Barack?"
"They went into the dorm to get a phone so we can call Dante and Naia." Sanne looks over at the dorm building.
"Both of them?"
"Well, Barack went first then Skitz."
"Why?"
"Barack hadn't come out yet."
"What if he's stuck in there and now my sister is?"
"Oh." Sanne looks back at the dorm building. "If they're stuck they can still find a phone and call the others."
"We can use my phone." Ark gets his Jcell out. "Uh, what's Naia's number?" Sanne takes the phone from Ark and calls Naia.
"Naia, Xana's attacking. Is Dante with you?"
"Yes, um, we'll be at the Factory as soon as we can."
"Ok, be careful the attack seems to be focused on the school here but might spread." Sanne and Naia hang up.
"Um, Dante, wake up." Naia and Dante were sleeping. Well Dante was Naia was cuddling with him after a date and some fun in her dorm room. "Dante," She shakes him until he wakes up.
"Huh, what?" Dante rubs the sleep out of his eyes. "Oh hey Naia. I guess then that was a dream." Dante yawns. "How come my dreams never make sense? Or are about things I know?" Naia shrugs her shoulders.
"My dreams are usually pretty weird too. Anyways Sanne called and said Xana is attacking." This helps get Dante alert.
"Ok we better hurry. Where's my shirt?"
"Here." Naia grabs it off the floor and hands it to him. "Your swimming trunks are, were, over here." Naia turns a light on and finds Dante's swimming trunks. "I can't believe you have so many muscles. You sit in front of the computer all day and night and eat like a pig."
"Pig? Oh, mammal, used to make bacon and pork and ham. Considered dirty by some religions but the pig…" Dante trails off when Naia gives him a stare. "Sorry I was looking up information on the real world and was working on animals. I'm on snakes. Did you know…" Dante stops when Naia clears her throat. "I uh, never mind. Why do you wear those?" Dante holds up the boxers Naia had been wearing. "I've read women are supposed to wear panties and something called a thong. Boxers are what men wear like mine."
"Boxers are more comfortable than butt floss." Dante is confused. "A thong, I, I just like boxers better." Naia and Dante get dressed then head for the Factory.
Sora tosses Skitz on top of Barack. "Please don't wake up. If you do then Xana will make me hurt you again. And resisting his orders gets me hurt." Sora knew she'd be punished even for the few seconds she gave Skitz to run away. "I hope they're already on their way. So much sand soon this building will collapse as will the others. Not that it matters they will do a return and Xana will get what he wants." Sora sits down next to her former friends and waits for a return to be done.
Sanne and the others get into the woods and as they run the sand gets less and less. "The sewer cover should be open. I can't go to Lyoko and get possessed if I can't get to the Factory."
"Don't even joke about that Sanne." Krieger looks around as they run and sees the cover. "Over here!" He runs over and pulls it off. "Uh, the girls, since with what they're wearing uh, should go down first." The girls do go down then wait for the others to climb down before heading for the Factory.
Jim is trying to get the students organized when he notices his granddaughter is missing. "Sanne? Has anyone seen Sanne?" A student raises his hand.
"I saw her and her friends go running off into the woods."
"That doesn't sound like her, are you sure?"
"How many other girls with pink hair go here?" Jim gets worried. Why would his granddaughter go running off into the woods?
"Which friends?"
"Uh, Krieger, uh, Ark and don't know that other girl's name."
"Ok." Jim thinks about why they would go running off into the woods. What would be in the woods? The sand was falling everywhere from what Jim could tell. But if it was only focused on the school… "Xana, no, it couldn't be. Xana's trapped on Lyoko in a turned off Super Computer. It was to be something else." Jim worries as he gets the other students lined up by grade.
Dante and Naia get to the Factory first and go to the Control Room. "I wonder what the attack is." Naia lies on the floor staring up at the ceiling. "They better be ok, they will be right?"
"They will. Xana needs Sanne on Lyoko or he can't posses her. But he might try to hurt the others to make it so Sanne has fewer guards."
"Well if it's only a few of us she can stay and we'd go so she can't be possessed." Dante shakes his head.
"Xana might change his attack to make her come and we need her she's a good fighter."
"Ok." They wait for the others.
Krieger and the others get to the other end of the sewer passage and find the cover is off. "Ok, girls go up last, Ark first."
"Hey just because I'm a guy doesn't mean I'd look up…" Ark is jabbed in the ribs by Mira. "Ow, ok I'm going." Ark climbs up, then Barack, then Krieger. The girls climb up after them and they hurry towards the Factory as sand starts to fall on the Factory. Xana had followed them.
"They're here." The alarm alerts Dante and Naia. "You can take the ladder down and get in a Scanner."
"Ok." Naia kisses Dante on the lips then takes the ladder down to the Scanner Room. The elevator runs and soon it stops and the doors open at the Scanner Room. "Whoa what happened to you guys?"
"Dirty rain." Sanne shakes her hair and sand falls onto the floor. "This stuff is everywhere, even in my teeth."
"He used another sand monster?" Sanne shakes her head.
"No he, he did something. Sand's falling from the sky. It nearly trapped us in the gym during the dance."
"Oh, well, Naia is waiting for you guys."
"Ok we're going down." Sanne and the others get on the elevator and take it down to the Scanner Room.
"Transfer Naia, Transfer Sanne, Transfer Mira, Scanner Naia, Scanner Sanne, Scanner Mira, and virtualization." They land on Lyoko. "Transfer Ark, Transfer Krieger, Scanner Ark, Scanner Krieger, and virtualization." They land on Lyoko in the Desert Sector as the vehicles appear. Dante starts the auto transfer program then hurries to the Scanner Room and gets in the middle Scanner seconds before the Scanner doors close. When he lands he sees the others are waiting for him. "We just head south. The Tower isn't far from here." Dante runs over to the Overwing and gets on behind Mira. The group takes off.
Back on Earth the sand falls on the Factory harder and faster. The old building starts to creak and groan as the weight builds.
On Lyoko the warriors see the Tower and its guards. "Wow Xana must be desperate." Three Mega Tanks, two Assassins, and a squad of Kankrelats surrounded the Tower.
"I'll go fist since they can't hurt me." Naia using the rocket boots flies forward in front of the others. When she gets close the monsters start to shoot at her but the lasers and Mega Tank blasts pass through her. She flies down at a Mega Tank and when she touches it possesses it. The other monsters fire at her but the Mega Tank shell protects her.
"Good, while she's distracting them we can take our time." Krieger turns to Sanne. "Charge up a Scattershot." Sanne points to her mouth indicating she already was making one.
"Scattershot!" The blast comes out and destroys the Kankrelats and destroys the leg on an Assassin. It hobbles a little bit but then Ark's spear goes flying and hits it in the Eye destroying it. The last Assassin turns away from Naia and fires on the other Lyoko Warriors. Dante aims his wand at it.
"Alakazam!" An energy beam comes out and strikes the Assassin across the chest knocking it backwards but not destroying it.
Now's my chance. Naia possessing the Mega Tank opens up and fires at the Assassin. It isn't able to stand up and get out of the way and is destroyed. Now for those two and we'll… Naia explodes. "Be done."
"Not so fast!" Sora appears! "Time to have some fun." Sora points her Gothic Bow at Naia.
"Alakazam!" The energy beam comes out of Dante's wand and hits Sora. "Naia posses another one!" Naia flies over to a second Mega Tank and possesses it.
"That won't stop me!" Sora fires an arrow at the Mega Tank and instead of bouncing off the arrow pierces the shell and destroys the Mega Tank.
"Stealth." Mira turns invisible above Sora on the Overwing. She jumps off and is ready to strike with her Kodachi when Sora reaches her arm up and grabs Mira by the ankle.
"Nice try Mira." Sora creates an arrow in her right hand then skewers Mira with it. "You were always my favorite out of the girls." Mira devirtualizes back to Earth. "But Krieger was my favorite out of the boys. Or should I say men now that you have all…" Sora is interrupted by energy orbs being fired out of Dante's wand. "Insufferable little punk. If you parents didn't love you I'd take you somewhere alone and ravage you." Sora points her Gothic Bow at Dante and fires.
She didn't see me! Naia has possessed the last Mega Tank and aims at Sora. She fires and Sora turns around just in time to be hit.
"That one actually hurt." Sora sparks with energy. "For that you will pay!" Sora points her Gothic Bow at Naia and creates a new kind of arrow. She fires it and when it hits Naia ice forms around the possessed Mega Tank. "Now for the fun part." Sora flies down and grabs the frozen Mega Tank. She flies away from the Tower.
"What is she doing?" Sanne is too stunned to realize the Tower was undefended. Thankfully Dante runs into it.
"Now Naia lets see if your body can survive the Digital Sea." Sora tosses Naia off the edge of the Sector.
"No!" Sanne fires an energy beam at Naia but the energy beam merely bounces off. Naia continues to fall towards the Digital Sea.
"The Tower is deactivated." The screens fall around Dante. "Return to the past now!" The white bubble comes up but would it be in time?
Sanne finds herself back in the woods with Krieger. "Wait, I, I need to call Naia." Krieger takes his hands off of Sanne and she calls Naia. "Naia are you ok!?"
"Yes. That was freaky though. Once Sora froze me I couldn't see or hear anything." Naia never knew how close she had been to dieing.
"Oh, ok. Well, have fun with whatever you're doing."
"I will, you have fun with whatever you're doing." They hang up. "So Dante where were we?" Naia laughs a little as she and Dante continue their activity.
"So Krieger where were we?" Sanne laughs a little as she and Krieger continue their activity.
A/N Ok, next episode out on the 20th. Hope you enjoyed this episode and enjoy the next one. I have so many twists coming up… I can't wait for you all to read them!!