Code Xana Episode 77: Atomic Shake Up
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 1-76
Sanne was becoming paranoid. She not only carried her Jpocket with her everywhere she usually had it out and was staring at the screen. She missed class assignments, was lost in conversations, all because she would sit and stare at the screen waiting for an activated Tower. Krieger tried to distract her but this led to a fight and Sanne walking away, still staring at the screen and nearly tripping down the stairs. The others were starting to worry but Sanne ignored them and simply stared at her Jpocket waiting for the Super Scan to find an activated Tower.
Dante was getting annoyed however with this. Sanne stopped all work on the Super Computer. No looking for Franz, no looking for a way to free Sora, nothing. He decides he needs to get Sanne and force her back to the Factory to make her work on something other than burning her eyes out staring at a small screen.
Sanne is trying to do homework in her room but is distracted. She'd do a math problem then stare at the Jtop screen for a few minutes then do another math problem. She is getting into a rhythm when there is a knock at her door. She ignores it so the person opens the door. "Sanne, you need to come with me." Dante walks over to her and looks over her shoulder to see her homework. "Sanne, that's wrong, and so is that one." Sanne ignores him so Dante grabs the homework.
"Hey give that back!" Dante raises the homework over his head so Sanne can't reach it.
"You had the first three wrong and I'm willing to guess that the others are wrong." Sanne gives up and Dante looks at the homework. "Every single one of these is wrong. Sanne, if you come with me to the Factory I'll do your homework as you look for Franz."
"I, if I do that then Xana attacks and we have the Super Scan off then he'll win. We can't spend our time on that."
"But weren't you the one who said that finding Franz meant defeating Xana? We need to find him. I've been working on it on Lyoko so I've been able to work twenty four hours a day but I need help. Franz talks to you and tells you things that he doesn't tell me."
"But you know that to do a deep search on Lyoko and the Digital Sea we need to turn certain programs off like the Super Scan. We can't do that. Sora can't warn us anymore or Xana will kill her!"
"I know Sanne but if you come with me to Lyoko then we can work in different Way Towers. If we work directly from Lyoko then we will feel the pulsations. That way we won't need to Super Scan."
"I, well, what about my homework?"
"We'll work in shifts. You can go first and I'll fix your homework."
"I can't believe I got them all wrong. This is simple math stuff I already know." Sanne sighs and shakes her head then looks at her Jtop. Dante grabs her head and turns it away from the screen.
"You can go five minutes without staring at a screen. You've had to if you've been taking showers and sleeping."
"Jpockets are water proof and I've had the volume up all the way when I go to sleep to make sure I'll hear the Super Scan go off." Sanne looks at the screen again frustrating Dante.
"Ok we'll take both, I'll carry your Jtop and you carry your Jpocket. We'll go to the Factory and you'll go to Lyoko while I fix your homework. We'll work for four hours then switch. Is that a good plan Sanne?"
"I, well, I guess. If I'm at the Factory I won't have far to go to get to the Factory." Sanne grabs her Jpocket as Dante grabs her Jtop. They leave her dorm room and head for the Factory.
Krieger is doing laps around the school campus when he sees Dante and Sanne. "Dante's here? He knows if Jim sees him that he'll be recognized. But he got Sanne out of her room. Maybe there's an attack." Krieger runs after them and catches up with them at the sewer entrance in the woods. "What's going on, a Xana attack?"
"No we have to do work on the Super Computer. You can come if you want Krieger but it will be mostly one of us on Lyoko and the other at the control panel looking for Franz's information."
"Well I can always do my homework. You guys go without me I'll be there soon with my school stuff." Krieger runs to the dorm building as the other two take the sewers to the Factory.
Sanne goes down to the Scanner Room once Dante and her make it to the Factory. She steps in the middle Scanner. "Transfer Sanne, Scanner Sanne, and virtualization." She lands in the Forest Sector outside of the Way Tower. She runs in and goes up to the second platform and goes over to the control panel.
"Ok Dante, fix my homework while I'll do this." She gets to work looking for Franz Hopper's information.
Xana is watching wondering what to do. He had an idea but wasn't sure if it would work. There was only one way to find out though.
Sanne is still in the Way Tower and she feels pulsations. "Dante there's an attack!" She yells but gets no response. "Dante!" Sanne yells again but still no response. Sanne tries to send herself back but finds she is unable to. She goes down to the first platform and tries to run out when she runs into something, a Guardian. "No, I, I can't get out. If I start the Super Scan then it will alert Dante." She runs back inside the Way Tower, goes up to the second platform, and finds the control panel gone. "No, no!" She waves her hands around but the control panel won't appear. "Dante!" Sanne yells as loud as she can but Dante can't hear her. The Guardian around the Tower blocked all sound and energy from coming out.
Dante finishes Sanne's math homework and sets it down. "History? I don't know history. Maybe Sanne or Naia will let me borrow their history books sometime." Dante stands up and goes over to the computer chair. "Sanne I'm done with your math homework." No response. "Sanne? Hey Sanne can you hear me?" Still no response. "No this can't be happening." Dante tries to launch the Super Scan but Sanne's work on the Super Computer was taking to many resources. "Sanne stop your programs! I can't find the Tower with the Super Scan!" Dante yells in frustration.
"I can't." Sanne can hear Dante but he still can't hear her. Unfortunately whatever the Guardian had done made it impossible for Sanne to cancel the program searching for Franz. "Franz can you hear me? I need help." Sanne waits for a response and soon the screens to her left change. Sanne I can do nothing. Xana is looking for me. If he finds me before you do he will kill me, again. Dante will call the others and they will come to save you. They love you Sanne and will do anything to save you. "But the Super Scan, it's off and the program won't stop running. They'll have to look for the Tower the hard way." Yes but they will find it. "Well, I just sit here then?" I can not tell you what he is doing. He may be doing this to slow you down. Giving himself more time to find me. Or he may be attacking your friends. "I know Franz." Call me grandpa. "We talked about this you're not my grandfather, Jim is." I was married to Sanne, I am Aelita's father. "You killed your wife and sent Aelita to Lyoko. Jim loves Sanne and Aelita, he loves me. You were willing to kill your wife for this stupid computer." It was a mistake! Please believe me. "I do but you're still not my grandfather." Sanne sits down and hopes the others will be able to save her. Unless Xana was now attacking her friends…
Krieger has his homework when he gets Dante's call and starts to head for the Factory when he steps in a hole. No, not a hole, the ground was solid, so it looked. Krieger pulls his leg out and sees no hole. "What the?" He reaches his right hand towards the spot and moves it through the ground like it wasn't even there. "This can't be good. How could Xana do, Aaaa!" He pulls his hand back and finds clumps of dirt sticking out of his hand like it had grown from his hand. "That hurts, that really frakking hurts." Krieger pulls some of the dirt away but finds his right hand had fused with the dirt. "How did he do this?" Krieger stares at his hand in shock when he feels the ground below him weaken. He jumps back and soon sees the ground disappear into thin air. Before Krieger can react he feels like he is choking. He takes a few steps back and can breathe again. He keeps backing away when he feels a suction pulling him towards the dark spot as it forms in the air above the missing ground. "Is he making a black hole?" Krieger watches as the black spot gets bigger and more ground disappears. He is so lost in this that he doesn't hear Ark and Mira running up from behind.
"What's that?"
"I don't know." Krieger tells the two about the ground and how it had been like air then solidified before disappearing.
"Well um, I'm not sure but didn't Einstein or someone say something about Atoms not being solid?" Ark and Krieger stare at Mira. "What? I've been reading my books and others trying to catch up with you guys. You know public schools in America suck."
"Ok what was that about Atoms?" Mira shrugs her shoulders.
"I'm not sure. Something about how you don't sit on a chair you actually float above it because Atoms aren't solid and it's the negative and positive and neutral energy that keeps things from just passing through each other." Mira moves her hands together so her finger intertwine with each other.
"I have no idea what that means." Ark is dumbfounded.
"I know what she's talking about but that would mean Xana is destroying Atoms." Krieger looks at the black spot as it grows larger and more ground disappears. "I couldn't breathe because he destroyed the oxygen Atoms in the air. Which means if that grows any bigger the whole school could be destroyed."
"Then we better hurry." Ark and the others go around the dark spot and continue to the sewer entrance in the woods.
Skitz and Barack are running towards the Factory from the mall when they see Naia. "Naia what are you doing?"
"Look at that." Naia points at a dark spot over the Factory. "Is it a black hole? Is Xana that strong?"
"I don't know." Skitz and Barack stare with Naia for a few seconds then run across the bridge into the Factory.
When Krieger and the others climb out of the sewers they see the dark spot Naia had seen. By now it has grown and was starting to destroy part of the Factory. "He, he just wants a return." Krieger sighs. "He wouldn't dare destroy the Factory or the Super Computer but he knows we'll have to do a return to fix the damage. He's already won, this time."
"We still have to deactivate the Tower." Ark pulls himself out of the sewers. "We better hurry or the rafters the ropes are attached to won't be there." Once Mira climbs out they run across the bridge but even before they get to the entrance they start having problems. Ark nearly breaks his shin when the ground becomes like air and he steps in it. His shin slams against the concrete that hadn't changed.
"Son of a bitch!" Ark grabs at his shin as tears start to form in his eyes. "Ow, ow, hurts really bad." Ark starts to pull his leg up when the concrete changes back. "Aaaa!" The other three grab Ark and try to pull him free but can't. "Make it stop make it stop!"
"This is really bad." Krieger's right hand still hurt really badly but that was just some dirt. This was solid concrete that had melded with Ark. "We can't leave him here." Krieger already noticed it was getting hard to breath as the oxygen atoms in the air broke apart. " Ark I'm sorry but we, we'll have to, we're going to have to you know, cut it off."
"Are you frakking crazy!" Mira puts a hand to her mouth after her outburst. "I, Krieger we can't cut his leg off!"
"He'll die if we don't. The oxygen will disappear and he'll suffocate to death. We need to find a saw or something in the Factory fast."
"You, you can't cut it off." Mira looks at Ark who was crying in pain. His leg was starting to change colors as blood flowed to his leg but didn't flow back out. "But he will die if we don't. I'll go look while you try to get him out before I get back ok?" Krieger nods as Mira runs into the Factory.
The alarm goes off alerting Dante and the others of someone entering the Factory. "It's Mira. Wait, what is she doing?" Instead of running to the elevator she goes off to a different part of the Factory. "Something must have happened. Maybe the dark spot you saw got bigger and did something."
"I'll go up and look." Naia gets on the elevator and takes it up to the Factory floor. She runs across the floor and finds Mira. "Hey Mira what's going on?"
" Ark got his leg stuck and, and Krieger said, I need to find a saw or something." Mira had found hammers and screw drivers and other odds and ends but nothing that could be used to cut.
"I'll help." The two continue to look and Mira finds an old saw. It is rusty but the Scanners would heal Ark. Mira and Naia climb up the ropes and go over to Krieger. Mira hands the saw to Krieger.
"Thanks." Krieger looks at the saw then at Ark. Ark was still crying due to the pain and Krieger knew this would hurt him even more. He moves the saw close to Ark's leg then stops. He couldn't do it. He had to save Ark but he couldn't use the saw to cut Ark's leg off just below the knee. "I, Ark, I can't." Krieger drops the saw and backs away from Ark. "There has to be another way."
"There is." The three turn and see Sora. "How about I help?"
"You can't help, Xana will, would hurt you."
"Oh I didn't say I'd help you." Sora smiles evilly then points her hand towards Ark. Energy sparks around his knee then the sound of bone breaking and muscle being torn is almost loud enough to drown out Ark's scream of pain as his leg was ripped off at the knee. Blood pours out and flows down the bridge to the edge and pours into the river. "He might live if you hurry. But that would be one more warrior to deal with so I think not." Sora sends an energy bolt at Mira and knocks her away. She goes to hit Krieger next but Naia throws herself in front of it.
"Naia!" Krieger kneels down next to her. Naia was now lying in the pool of blood around Ark.
"Hurry. I can't carry Ark you can." Naia cringes as pain shoots from her wound to her brain. Krieger looks up and sees a look on Sora's face that scares him. It wasn't evil, it wasn't rage, it was an innocent smile. Krieger wasn't sure but he thought that Sora had saved him. Krieger couldn't cut Ark's leg off so she freed him. She did it in a way that wouldn't get her killed. When Sora notices Krieger is looking at her face it changes.
"Hurry Krieger while I play with these two." Sora laughs and sparks with energy. Krieger picks Ark up and hurries into the Factory running past Sora. Krieger could feel the energy coming off of her.
"Don't kill them." Krieger hopes that Sora wouldn't kill the others but if she refused Xana's orders then she would be killed. Would she die rather than kill someone? Krieger didn't want to find out. He gets Ark on the elevator and takes it straight down to the Scanner Room. He carries Ark over to the middle Scanner and stuffs him in it. "Dante send Ark he's lost a lot of blood!" Soon the Scanner doors close and Ark lands on Lyoko.
"Whoa, thanks guys." Ark moves his leg up and down glad to have it back and that the pain was gone.
"We'll be there as soon as the others get here." Dante was waiting for Mira and Naia. Krieger climbs up the ladder.
"Dante we better hurry. Naia and Mira are, are, with Sora." Krieger didn't know how to put it but Dante kicks into action.
"What are you doing standing around? Hurry to the Scanner room so I can send you!" Dante brings up the transfer program as the others hurry down to the Scanner Room. "Transfer Barack, Transfer Skitz, Transfer Krieger, Scanner Barack, Scanner Skitz, Scanner Krieger, and virtualization." They land on Lyoko next to the others. Soon the vehicles appear then Dante after starting an auto transfer.
On Earth Sora has moved Mira and Naia away from the dark spot that had grown a little more destroying the Atoms making up the Factory. "What to do with you two?" Sora is using her powers to float the two in the air.
"Let us go! Please Sora you don't want to hurt us!" Mira was trying not to cry after having both of her hands broken into pieces.
"I don't that's true but Xana's orders must be followed." Sora looks around the street they were on. It was the middle of the day so people should have been out but none were. "This is too exposed lets go somewhere else." Sora turns herself and the other two into black mists and disappear.
On Lyoko the warriors are near the activated Tower. "Sora will be busy with the other so we should be safe from her." Dante looks around. "And no monsters." Dante should have kept his mouth shut as three Mega Tanks appear.
"Dante stay back. Without Sanne you're the only one who can deactivate the Tower." Dante hangs back on the Overwing as the others rush in.
Sanne is still stuck in the Way Tower when she notices something. The control panel pops up and she looks at the program running. It is the one she and Dante had made to look for Franz. "Wow it's moving really faster. At this rate we should find him in no time." Sanne smiles then stops. "Xana! If, he's taking control of the program to find Franz!" Sanne tries to cancel the program but can't. "No, we need Franz to defeat Xana. We can't let Xana get Franz!" Sanne continues to try and cancel the program with the same results.
The other warriors are troubled. The Mega Tanks focused on Dante. They would open, fire, then close before the others could attack the symbol. "We need more distance fighters." Barack fires lasers but the Mega Tank closes.
"Sanne's in the Tower and we need Dante to deactivate the Tower." Krieger tries to get close enough to strike with his sword but the Mega Tank closes before he can get close enough.
"Alakazam!" Dante fires from the Overwing but misses. He tries again but is so far away that the Mega Tanks have plenty of time to dodge it.
Sora has Mira and Naia twirling in the air awake. "What to do with you? Mira you remember what we did?"
"Remember what?"
"Before the dance when Xana had the Factory locked down? I was crying and you comforted me."
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"Well maybe I'll have you and Naia duplicate it."
"No! Sora please set us down. You, you haven't killed us so obviously he didn't order you to kill us."
"He doesn't know what I would do. I just might fight that order and thus would be killed. He doesn't want to lose his Knight so won't order me to do that, yet." Sora sparks with energy. "But I am to hurt you. Make you question your existence in the group."
"We won't quit!"
"Oh but you can quit. Xana would let you go. He wants to be nice and allow you a chance to just walk away. If he had let me go I might not be a slave right now. Will you let this chance go?"
"Shut up! We won't quit!" Mira struggles but can't escape the power. "You suck Sora we could take you out but we haven't because we want to save you! Let us go Sora!"
"You can't hurt me when I have these powers!" Mira screams in pain as Sora shocks her. "Naia?"
"I can't quit." Naia has many reasons but wouldn't go into it. "I'm sorry about what happened to you Sora." Naia wasn't going to insult Sora. "Could you please let us go?"
"Hmmm, no." Naia screams in pain as Sora shocks her.
On Lyoko the warriors are getting frustrated. The Mega Tanks were faster than regular Mega Tanks and making it nearly impossible to destroy them. "Dante let's switch." Krieger drives over to Dante and gets off of the Overbike. "Use the fly controls and fly into the Tower." They switch vehicles and Krieger flies back towards the Mega Tanks.
"Damn it!" Sanne hits the control panel cursing some more. She hadn't controlled herself and was cursing worse then a sailor. "Frakking frak me! I can't stop it I'm sorry Franz!" Sanne smacks the control panel again. "I hate you Xana! I'll frakking kill you!" Sanne continues to curse and rant getting worse and worse.
The Lyoko Warriors were getting just as bad. Dante had tried to dive into the Tower but the Overbike was destroyed. "Alakazam!" Dante fires but only hits the hard outer shell. He continues to run dodging the other Mega Tank blasts.
"We have to do something." Krieger is trying to make a plan. "They close up when we attack but we can't get close enough or have enough long distance fighters to attack all three at once to make them close." Krieger hovers on the Overwing when he sees Ark fly by on his disc. " Ark, get off of your disc and use it to shield Dante. If you can block, no, wait. Ark, send your disc at the Mega Tank on the right, Barack fire at the one on the left and Dante fire at the one in the middle. When you do they should close up giving the rest of us time to dive at them and get close. If they open up we will attack them and destroy them. If they don't open up Dante can run into the activated Tower and deactivate it." Krieger gets ready to dive as the others follow the plan.
"Go!" Skitz dives on the Overboard as Barack fires at a Mega Tank. Like Krieger said it would close up and soon Skitz jumps off of the Overboard and lands near the Mega Tank. "Come on open up." It doesn't.
"Alakazam!" Dante fires at another Mega Tank and Krieger soon lands next to it after jumping off of the Overwing.
"Not going to work!" Ark's disc was too slow and the Mega Tank charges a blast. Ark moves his disc so it will be flat against the blast when the Mega Tank fires. Ark cringes when the blast hits and is powerful enough to send pain into his head. He struggles for a few seconds when the Mega Tank explodes.
"Good job guys." Krieger is proud they figured a way to beat the Mega Tanks and Dante runs into the Tower.
Sanne is freaking out now. Her powers had activated and she tried to use them to save Franz but with no luck. The Guardian was too powerful for her to break out of and she couldn't stop the program. "I'm so sorry Franz." Sanne puts a hand on the control panel knowing any hope of defeating Xana was about to disappear.
"Return to the past now!" Dante activates a return and the white bubble comes up reversing time.
Sanne finds herself in her room staring at the screen. "They did it!" She jumps up from her chair knocking it over. "They frakking did it!" She puts a hand over her mouth. "I really need to stop cursing." Sanne sighs. "But they did it. Franz will be safe, for now." Sanne is about to cry when the door opens. Soon she feels arms wrap around her from behind.
"Are you ok?" Sanne shakes her head. Krieger kisses her on top of the head trying to comfort her.
"You will be."
"I, what was the attack? Did he just trap me in the Tower?"
"No." Krieger explains what happened.
"Wow, that's, that's powerful. I mean, if a human were to try that he'd be killed in the explosion."
"What?"
"Splitting an atom, or making the bonds break, if we tried that we'd be killed no less then someone at Nagasaki or Nashville. But Xana did it and, well, he didn't want to kill us. He wanted the return to make himself even stronger." Sanne sighs. "But if he is strong enough to tear atoms apart without causing an explosion he doesn't need any more power."
"But, then, that's impossible."
"To us, yes. To Xana? Maybe he just, yes, that would work." Sanne thinks hard. "If he just stripped the electrons then he brought them together, using his energy, that would work. But why the dark spots?" Krieger shrugs. "I wasn't asking you." Sanne continues to think. "Well, Xana's energy is black, so as he pulled the Atoms together it would have used his energy, making the dark spots."
"What?"
"Never mind Krieger you wouldn't understand."
Naia is in her room crying. Sora had hurt her and Mira badly but the return healed them. It healed their physical wounds anyways.
Mira is holding on to Ark for comfort telling him what happened. "Well Mira we could always blank her memories."
"I know but it isn't Sora hurting us its Xana. She, she said he won't order her to kill us because she would refuse to and he'd kill her. He doesn't want to lose her so he won't order her."
"She won't kill us. We can't give up on her." Ark continues to comfort Mira hoping they would find a way to free Sora.
A/N As my beta said this attack is "impossible" because if you pull atoms apart there will be an explosion. But they are thinking like a human with human technology. Be like telling someone 1,000 years ago about TV, you'd be burnt at the stake as a witch. Still arguing with her, I keep telling her that just because it isn't possible now doesn't mean it will be impossible forever. "SETH YOU CANNOT REMOVE THE PHYSICAL BONDS THAT HOLD ATOMS TOGETHER AND EXPECT THEM NOT TO FLY APART" With today's technology! And that the hole would be clear, but As Xana destroys the Atoms he doesn't want them to explode on him so he creates a shield, as he destroys more atoms the more shields he makes thus creating a dark spot. We had a looooong argument about this and won't put it all here.
Also, Next E will be on Sept 30.