Code Xana Episode 78: Ctrl, Alt, Delete
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 1-77
After the last couple of attacks Dante had been spending more time with Naia since Sanne was working on the search for Franz. They had to be careful that Xana didn't find Franz first and destroy him. So Sanne would work, then Dante, then Sanne again. This way Sanne had time for homework, Krieger, and training while Dante had time for Naia who had been shaken up by what Sora had done to her. "I know it isn't her, its Xana. I just wish we could save her now. Why waste time looking for that Franz Hopper guy when we could be trying to save Sora?"
"Finding Franz will save Sora. Franz will help us destroy Xana once and for all so Sora will be free." Dante kisses Naia on the forehead. "I'm sorry I couldn't help you Naia. I was needed on Lyoko."
"I know, it isn't your fault." Naia kisses him on the lips. "It is Xana's fault that Sora does these things." Naia sighs. "I like cuddling with you Dante. Your strong arms wrapped around me." Naia kisses him again.
"Once Xana is defeated maybe I could convince Sanne to let me go to school here so we could spend more time together."
"Maybe. You might not like going to school. You'd have to learn Italian and history, things you don't know about."
"I know. I've been borrowing Sanne's history book and reading it sometimes. Its interesting what has gone on in the past."
"Yeah, maybe if you're reading it for fun. If its homework and school work then you just don't want to read it." Naia smiles and laughs. "Thanks Dante you always know how to make me feel better." Naia snuggles against Dante.
Sanne and Krieger are working on homework in Sanne's room. Sanne had set up a program earlier from her Jtop to try and find Franz when Skitz comes in. "Oh, hi Sanne, Krieger." Skitz sits down on her bed. "What's up?"
"We're doing homework, what are you doing?"
"Barack and I went out and did uh, something fun." Skitz laughs giving the other two an idea of what they had done.
"Skitz should you and Barack really be doing that? I mean you're only fourteen and what if…" Skitz cuts Sanne off.
"No we weren't doing that we were doing something else." Skitz rolls her eyes then giggles. "I'm sorry I interrupted you two." Skitz leaves the room before the other two could tell her that she hadn't interrupted anything. Once Skitz leaves Sanne notices a strange odor.
"What's that smell?" Krieger shrugs his shoulders.
"I don't know. Maybe they went to, some place, I have no idea." Krieger and Sanne go back to their homework.
Ark and Mira are in Mira's room but they are not working on homework. They are very much going against the school rules…
Xana however was not concerned with homework, comforting a loved one, or other activities. He was planning a way to eliminate the new Lyoko Warriors in one fell swoop. If he did this then he wouldn't need Sanne as a new host as there would be no one left to stop him from taking over the world and eliminating anyone and anything he considered weak.
Sanne is almost finished with the last of her homework when the Super Scan detects an activated Tower. "Crap! I hope we don't need a return I was almost done." Sanne opens her Jtop and sees where the activated Tower is, Sector 5. "Wow, it's been, a long time since we went there. Wait, no, it's a trick." Sanne shakes her head. "We, the Super Scan doesn't detect the Tower in Sector 5."
"Maybe Xana wanted us to know." Krieger looks at the screen but isn't able to see how Sanne knew it was the one in Sector 5.
"Then it won't be good." Sanne gets her Jcell out and calls Skitz. "Skitz, Xana is attacking." Sanne hears laughter. "Skitz?"
"We'll be right there!" Skitz laughs some more then hangs up. "Barack, Xana's attacking."
"Ok, tickle attacks will resume after the attack." Barack and Skitz kiss then head for the Factory.
Krieger calls Ark while Sanne calls Dante. "Hurry Ark we don't know what the attack is all we know is that Xana wants us, Sanne, in Sector 5."
"We'll be there." Ark and Krieger hang up. "Mira find your shirt we have to go to the Factory."
"Aw, and we were just getting to the good part. I love when you give me massages." Mira and Ark laugh and kiss each other.
"We'll be there Sanne." Dante and Sanne hang up. Dante is about to tell Naia that Xana was attacking when he notices her stare. "What's wrong Naia?"
"You still have a crush on her don't you?" Naia had watched Dante's face as he talked to Sanne and didn't like it. "Tell me Dante, do you still have a crush on Sanne? Tell the truth."
"Well I, yes. She saved me from my father, she trusted me. She looked past what my parents were, what I was."
"Just like I have?"
"Yes but that, that is different. You didn't know about them, about me, until after we started dating. Sanne knew right from the start that I had killed my own mother, slaughtered children at the school, was going to kill her parents." Dante closes his eyes trying to push the thoughts away. "I'm sorry Naia I, I like you a lot and there will never be something between me and Sanne like what we have but she does have a place in me that won't go away."
"I, I understand." Naia says this coldly. "We have to go to the Factory because Xana's attacking right?" Dante nods. "Then find your pants and let's get going." Naia ignores Dante for the time being. Dante wants to say something but knows why and believes Naia is right for being mad at him.
Sanne and Krieger are the first to the Factory. "Maybe we should wait for the others. What if Sora attacks us while we are in the Control Room?" Krieger looks around for Sora or any sign of an attack.
"I don't think that will happen. He wants us, me, in Sector 5. He'll probably plan on attacking, trapping, then possessing me."
"Then don't go. Dante can deactivate the Tower." Sanne shakes her head. "What, why not?"
"If Xana realizes I'm not on Lyoko he may change his attack. I'll have Dante stay on Earth to set up, set up something, special." Sanne didn't want to even think about it but she knew if there was the chance she'd be caught and made Xana's host that she would be willing to die if it meant destroying Xana. They run into the Factory and wait for the others in the Control Room.
Skitz and Barack get to the Factory walking slowly. "We better hope they don't find out what we did." Skitz and Barack were getting paranoid. "I bet the Scanners will fix us though."
"Yeah which would be a good and bad thing." Barack laughs getting Skitz to laugh with him. The two go into the Factory and wait for the others with Sanne and Krieger in the Control Room.
Ark and Mira climb out of the sewers. "No attack so far. I wonder what Xana is doing." Ark looks around for the attack.
"I'd rather we get to Lyoko before the attack hits us." Mira and Ark run into the Factory and wait with the others in the Control Room for Dante and Naia.
Dante and Naia climb out of the sewers and Naia still wasn't saying anything to Dante. "Naia please I'm sorry. I can't change how I feel about Sanne. But you know I would never do anything with her. I, I like you, a lot." Naia ignores him as they run into the Factory and go down to the Control Room.
"Finally." Sanne had already sent the others worried Dante and Naia were the targets. "What took you so long?"
"Nothing. Just send us."
"Actually Dante will send us. Dante," Sanne stands up and walks over to him then whispers into his ear.
"Ok, be careful Sanne." Dante goes over to the computer chair and sits down. He waits for the two girls to go down to the Scanner Room. "Transfer Naia, Transfer Sanne, Scanner Naia, Scanner Sanne, and virtualization." They land on Lyoko in the Forest Sector. "Just move east a little and I'll send the Transporter." Dante watches the others on the screen wondering what the attack was.
A black mist appears in the Super Computer room. It moves into the Super Computer.
"Are you ready?"
"Yes Dante, send us." Sanne is getting worried. She knew this was a trap, she knew Xana wanted her in Sector 5. Dante enters the code and soon the Transporter appears and takes the group to Sector 5.
"It's a maze but first you need to find the Key." Dante looks at the map. "I think you need to go through the first door, turn right, then go straight for two rooms. The Key should be there."
"Ok." The group on Lyoko runs through Sector 5. When they get to the room Dante said the Key was in they stop. "Dante are you sure? There aren't any monsters here."
"The map shows it is there. Maybe he is trying to trick you or he wants you to get to the Key so he can, can, get you." The group looks around for the Key.
"There!" Naia sees it. "How do we get to it?" The Key was up high on the wall. "We don't have our vehicles."
"I got this." Krieger walks over towards the wall slowly looking for monsters, a trap, anything. "Been awhile but Super Leap!" Krieger goes flying into the air and makes it to the Key. He pushes it and as it changes a bolt of energy comes out hitting him. "Aaaa!" Krieger falls and lands hard. The others run over to him but then energy bolts come out from him and hit the others.
"This could be bad." Red Exclamation points appear on the screen over each profile. "What's going on?"
"I don't know." Sanne looks at herself. After the initial shock nothing seemed to have happened. "How many life points did we lose?"
"None, I think. There are errors popping up and it might take me some time to fix them. Head for the activated Tower while I do this." Dante's fingers fly over the keyboard as his friends go down a hall looking for the activated Tower.
As the group runs and Dante works on fixing the errors Xana activates his attack. It took awhile but he just had to wait patiently.
"There it is!" Sanne and the others run into a room and see the activated Tower. "That was easy, too easy." Sanne looks around for Creepers. "This could be bad." Sanne slowly walks towards the Tower. "Bubble." The shield comes up around her. "Still nothing."
"Be careful Sanne I still haven't fixed the errors." Dante had fixed a couple but there were major ones left.
"Well once I deactivate the Tower and stop Xana's attack you'll have plenty of time." Sanne runs towards the Tower then lowers the Bubble when she gets close. "Ow!" Sanne bounces off of the Tower! "Dante I, I can't get in!" Sanne puts a hand against the Tower.
"Maybe one of the errors changed your information. I, I'll have to work on that first." Dante brings up Sanne's profile and sees a number. "Ninety nine? No, not life points, percent?" He sees the number drop. "Sanne do you feel any different?" Dante watches the number drop again.
"No, should I?"
"Maybe. There's a second number on the screen. It's not your life points but its dropping." Dante looks through but can't tell what it is.
"What is it at?"
"Ninety Six percent."
"Is it going up or down?"
"Down."
"I don't know what it could be." Sanne leans against the Tower. "Don't worry about it I can't deactivate the Tower until you fix me." Sanne and the others wait as Dante works on fixing Sanne.
Sora is watching the group. She wants to tell them, warn them, about what Xana is doing but doesn't want to die. "Come on guys notice it, realize what he's doing to you." Sora crosses her fingers hoping Xana wouldn't complete his attack. If he did it would be over and she'd be his slave forever.
As Dante works and the others sit around waiting a door opens and three Creepers walk in. "I guess Xana didn't want us to be bored." Ark gets his disc out and jumps on it. He creates his spear. "Mira hop on the go invisible."
"Ok, Stealth." Mira disappears.
"Those are ugly." Naia looks for a way to get close enough to a Creeper and posses it.
"Be careful guys." Sanne backs away knowing it wouldn't do her good if she got devirtualized.
"Naia if I take you up there you can posses one but I don't know how to carry you." Krieger is blocking lasers with his shield.
"Put your hand out and I'll grab it." Naia still didn't understand how or why the others saw her as a white mist when she clearly saw herself with a body. Krieger sticks his hand out and Naia grabs it. Krieger can "feel" a kind of pressure on his hand but nothing else.
"Super Leap!" Krieger goes flying into the air with the white mist. He lands near a Creeper and feels the pressure on his hand go as the white mist floats away. He blocks lasers with his shield until the white mist disappears into a Creeper.
This is so cool. The Creeper turns and attacks another Creeper. The two remaining Creepers are easily destroyed and soon the possessed Creeper explodes. "Well now what?" Naia looks over at Sanne and notices something strange. "Sanne aren't you supposed to have longer hair?" The other look at Sanne and notice her hair was shorter and not as pink.
"Hey, my tail, it's smaller." Ark unwraps it from around his waist.
"And my arms feel weird." Skitz moves them around not sure what it was that she felt.
"Dante something is going on." Sanne is worried. Whatever was happening to her and the others wasn't normal.
"I, well, maybe…" Dante looks at the smaller numbers. "You're at eighty four percent. No, he's deleting you!" Dante forgets all the other problems and focuses on Sanne's program. "He's deleting you and that's why you couldn't go into the Tower. The Super Computer is deleting you so you're not recognized as Sanne, or a Lyoko Warrior."
"No, Dante you have to fix us!" Sanne looks at her friends. Was this it? Would her friends be deleted? "Call my grandmother if you have to."
"I can do this." Dante's fingers fly over the keyboard. "Just stay there. Xana can't hurt you, send you back, I don't even know why he sent the Creepers now." Dante tries simple fixes first then gets into more complicated solutions.
"I know." Krieger looks at the others. "We would have noticed we were disappearing so he sent them to distract us." Krieger realizes how heavy his sword and shield feel now. "If Dante can't fix us we, we're dead."
"He won't let us down." Naia looks up hoping she was right.
When the numbers get to seventy percent Dante starts to worry. Maybe he should call Samantha. She could help, maybe. But he was the son of Xana, part virus, if he couldn't do this no one could. Except maybe… "Franz, Franz Hopper are you there?" A screen appears on the monitor. Yes. "Sanne and the others are being deleted. I don't know how Xana did it." He affected the Super Computer. "I know that but I don't know how he did that." He sent a ghost and corrupted part of the disk that carries the information. "Then I can't fix this." No. Dante feels all his color disappear from his face. He will fix it but you must give up my granddaughter. Don't do this! "But she'll die!"
"What?" Krieger and the others aren't sure what is going on. They couldn't see what Franz was saying.
Yes, she will. But you mustn't do what Xana wants. He won't let Sanne die. "He might fix her but he won't fix the others." True. "Damn it Franz you made the damn thing tell me how to fix it!" You would be risking everything. If you did something wrong you'd kill your friends. "They're going to die anyways! Just tell me how to fix it!" Tears form in Dante's eyes. Very well. Go to the Super Computer and I will tell you what to do. Dante gets up from the computer chair and goes down the ladder to the Super Computer.
"Dante?" Sanne calls out his name. "Dante! Where are you?" No response. "What is he doing?" Sanne sits down on the ground and starts to rock back and forth. Her hair was gone and her arms were starting to disappear. Krieger goes over to Sanne and sits down next to her. He had taken his sword and shield off since they were too heavy for him.
"It's going to be ok. Dante will save us." Krieger smiles. "You look like you did when we shaved our heads."
"I looked horrible then."
"No you didn't. Your hair doesn't make you Sanne." Krieger kisses Sanne. "It's weird kissing on Lyoko."
"Yeah but, it might be, the last chance we get." Sanne hugs and kisses Krieger. "I love you."
"Don't say that." Krieger pushes Sanne away. "We'll live. Dante will fix this and we'll be back on Earth." Krieger was sure of it, had to be, or he'd break down. He had to have hope.
Dante is in the Super Computer room and opens a panel. "Ok Franz what do I do?" Take out the red chip and clean it. Before you put it back you must clean the slot. Any of your oils will destroy the chip. "Then why take it out?" You must remove the panel and get into the circuits behind it. Dante does as Franz says and sees the insides of the Super Computer. "This is amazing." Dante reaches his hand into the Super Computer. "Lyoko, Xana, my friends are in there." Not there, move your hand to the right. Do you feel the heat? "Yes." That is the disk your friends programs are on. Take it out. "It won't hurt them will it?" It might, a lot. But you want to save them don't you? "Of course I do." Dante grabs the disk and pulls. It slides out and Dante nearly drops it due to the heat.
"Whoa, what's wrong?" Ark drops to his knees and holds his stomach. The others all react in the same way. Soon they all change and they almost appear normal. Which was abnormal on Lyoko.
"I hope Dante did this and not Xana." Sanne looks at herself. "It looks so weird. I'm normal but not."
"I know. Your hair is back to." Krieger puts a hand on Sanne's head and messes with her hair.
"Maybe he fixed us but deleted our profiles." Sanne tries to think of how Dante, or Xana, could have done this. "Or Xana deleted them and now, I don't want to die." Sanne grabs Krieger and hugs him hard. If they were on Earth she would have been crying.
"You won't Sanne. Xana won't let you die." Krieger hugs Sanne back. Sanne was safe he was sure of it. He didn't know that Xana wanted to kill the Warriors off. Without them there would be no need for a new host. Dante didn't know the numbers of the parents and if he tried to warn Jim and Samantha they would probably attack him since they think he is Xana.
Now take the green and blue chips out. Careful, too much pressure will break them. Franz is helping Dante but was getting worried. Xana knows I'm helping you. If he finds me I will die. "Then keep telling me what to do so you can go back into hiding!" Dante was frustrated. I am but you must be careful. Franz continues but it is slow and they both worried about the ones on Lyoko.
Sora is still watching her friends when Xana appears next to her. "Sora my dear, Dante is trying to fix my damage. Stop him."
"But, I, if Sanne dies you can't use her Master Xana."
"If she dies with her friends I will have no need of her. Now go!"
"But I," Sora grabs her chest. "Ok I'll go." Sora didn't want to die, not like that. She turns into a black mist and disappears.
Very good. Now put the chips back, close the plate, insert the panel and do the same with the orange chip and that panel. Dante was almost done and goes to put the plate back on when Sora appears.
"I'm sorry Dante." Sora kicks Dante hard.
"Sora, stop!" Dante stands up. "If I don't do this the others will die!" Dante lunges at Sora.
"I know but I don't want to die!" Sora sparks with energy and wrestles with Dante before pinning him to the floor. "Stop me!"
"I can't!" Dante struggles but Sora's powers make her stronger. "Disobey his order, die, or the others will die."
"I don't want to die! I didn't choose this, I didn't want this!" Sora starts to cry then energy sparks around her eyes and Xana's symbol appears in them. "But they will die and I will live. Master Xana will take control and make you my mate." Dante tries to head but her but her head is too far away.
"That won't happen!" Dante spits in Sora's face. Energy sparks around the spit and destroys it.
"It already has. Less then twenty percent before they disappear. Xana will have control. The alternate will be great as your friends are deleted."
"If it's too late then let me up. You wouldn't be breaking Xana's orders if it's too late to save them and you let me up." Sora twitches then lets Dante up. He goes over to the computer parts and works on them.
"You won't make it." Sora cringes in pain. Xana wasn't happy with her but she hadn't broken any order. "Prove me wrong." Sora screams in pain as Xana wasn't going to let his Knight cheer Dante on.
I must do something. I can't let my granddaughter die. A Tower in the Ice Sector activates. A greenish mist comes out and possesses Dante. Franz was in control now. He could do the rest of the fixes faster than Dante. Using energy and enhanced speed Dante's hands insert chips, connect wires, and slide the final panel into the Super Computer. The green mist leaves Dante and he collapses. The activated Tower goes back to normal.
On Lyoko the others are terrified. Dante wasn't talking to them. They didn't know what was going on. They are breaking up, both mentally and physically. Sanne was little more then an outline when she pops back into existence in her Lyoko attire. "He did it!" Sanne runs into the activated Tower and deactivates it. "Dante are you there?"
"Yes Sanne, did it work?"
"Like a charm."
"Charms don't work they are a grigri like a lucky penny or a rabbits foot." Sanne laughs.
"Dante it's a saying. Anyways do we need a return?"
"No, I, somehow I fixed it." Dante doesn't remember the last few seconds as he was possessed. He thinks he went into a trance.
"Ok, bring us back once I deactivate the Tower." Sanne runs into the Tower and soon deactivates it. Dante brings the others back to Earth.
The group is standing around in the Control Room after the attack. "That was dangerous. That was the most dangerous thing Xana ever did. He, he never sent the Schipizoa or came for me."
"It was as if he was trying to kill all of us." Krieger holds onto Sanne comforting her and for support. "But he can't kill Sanne."
"He could if he killed all of you." Dante sighs. "He may not be wanting you as a host anymore Sanne. He might be trying to kill you so your powers won't be a risk to him anymore."
"But, he needs me." Sanne squeezes Krieger.
"If he kills you, all of you, there will be no one left to call your parents. If I tried to warn them they either wouldn't believe me or they might kill me. I am Xana to them after all."
"We have to do something!" Naia was getting frustrated. "Find Franz, save Sora, stop Xana. Let's stop talking and start doing!"
"What do you think we've been doing?" Sanne was scared, frustrated, and annoyed. She had been giving away hours, days, and weeks of her life for this.
"I don't know! You two are together all the time yet we don't have any results! Maybe you haven't been working on the Super Computer!" Naia's words set both Sanne and Dante off.
"Naia please don't say that!" Dante puts a hand on Naia's shoulder but she shrugs it off.
"Shut up Dante!" Sanne goes over to the two. "Naia, Dante is a friend, someone who helps me with everything here."
"He has feelings for you! You know it I can tell by the way you look at him! You know he likes you and you like him!"
"I do! So what? He's my friend, he's there for me. He's the only one I can talk to about the Super Computer and programs. But guess what?" Sanne gets in Naia's face. "I know I love Krieger, I might like Dante a lot but I love Krieger. Dante might like me a lot but he loves you! Get that through your head!"
"Get away from me!" Naia pushes Sanne away. "Don't talk to me!" Naia goes over to the elevator and gets on it.
"Naia wait I," Naia doesn't wait and the elevator doors close before Dante can get on the elevator. Unfortunately for Dante and Sanne Naia wasn't the only person upset by what had happened.
"Sanne, is it true?" Krieger stares at her.
"I, yes." Sanne looks into Krieger's eyes. "I do like Dante but I love you. There is nothing romantic or physical between me and Dante. I know I like him as more than a friend but I know I love you."
"You know a lot then don't you?" Krieger's tone upsets Sanne.
"I do know a lot! I'm not confused, I should be but I'm not. Please don't be like this Krieger. After what we've done, what we've been through, you know I love you." Sanne goes to hug him but he puts a hand up.
"I'm confused then." Krieger goes to the elevator and pushes the button. The elevator comes down and he gets on. He looks up at Sanne hoping she'd follow him but the doors close. "I'm so confused." Krieger takes the elevator up then leaves the Factory trying to get away from Sanne.
A/N Next episode will be on October 4th