usCode Xana Episode 80: In The End
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 1-79
It was three days after the hard fought battle on Lyoko. They were feeling fine, more alive than ever, when problems came up. First Sanne started feeling sick. Then Krieger fainted in gym class. Soon all of the Lyoko Warriors were falling ill again. Sanne goes to the Factory at night to check on Dante who she finds with Naia. "Dante, Naia, are you two feeling ok?"
"No, we're both sick again." Dante coughs. "I do not know what is going on. I fixed us we should be ok now."
"But we're all sick. Maybe something, something, didn't go right. Like it was a patch that didn't do what it was supposed to do."
"Well that's great to say but then how do we fix it?" Naia wipes sweat from her brow. Having a fever was horrible and her whole body felt like it was on fire. "We tried the Scanners and they didn't work."
"We might have to do what we did before, again." Sanne snaps at Dante being in a bad mood.
"And what? Just keep doing it every few days? How long until Dante messes up or Xana takes control of the Tower?"
"No but it would make us feel better until we found a more permanent solution." Dante looks at Naia. "I could do us right now then we could get the others to come. We could then take our time finding the cure."
No. The three turn and look at the black mist. That will not work. We must cure you now once and for all.
"And how do we do that Franz?"
Sanne, activating a Way Tower wasn't enough. We must try to activate all four then use the combined power to cure you.
"And how do we activate all four? Ask Xana for help?"
Use me give me the password to the Super Computer. I can activate two while you and Dante activate the other two. Instead of scanning you and the others I will send a ghost to, collect the damaged parts of your DNA and transfer it to myself. Being a digital being, not a human as of yet, I will not be affected.
"Franz you know I won't give you the password." Sanne wanted to trust Franz Hopper but he was at fault for everything that had happened.
You must give it to me if you want to save yourself and your friends. Call them, have them come, and we can do this right now before Xana even knows what's happening on Lyoko.
"I, ok." Sanne sighs. "The password is…" Sanne gives him the password. "Dante, call Ark, Naia, call Skitz, I'll call Mira then Barack." They make their phone calls and wait for the others to come.
As Mira walks down the hall a dorm room door opens. "Hmmm, and what is she doing out of bed this late? Xana isn't attacking." Sora opens it a little more. "Probably just going to the bathroom." She starts to close the door when the voice appears in her head. Follow her! She has already passed the bathrooms. "No, leave her alone." Xana will hurt you if you don't. "He can hurt me all he wants." He may kill you if you don't follow her. "He didn't give me an order he can't do that." Sora closes the door and goes back to her bed as a very concerned roommate fakes sleeping and wonders what was going on with her friend and roommate.
Soon the Lyoko Warriors arrive at the Factory and go down to the Control Room. Sanne and Dante explain to them what was going on. "So we need to activate the four Way Towers, use them to heal us, and hope Xana doesn't posses one while we do it." Sanne turns to the screen. "Franz will activate two of them while Dante and I activate the other two."
"Wait, Franz? Can we trust him?" Krieger doesn't want to put Sanne's life in the hands of the man who caused all the trouble to begin with.
"Yes we can. Without him we won't be cured." Sanne walks over to the screen. "Franz, are you ready?"
Yes, go down to the Scanners with Dante. I will send you both at the same time so it won't take as long.
"But we have to go to different Way Towers."
I know that Sanne. I made the Super Computer so I know what I can do. Far more than what you or your father could do. Sanne and Dante take the elevator down to the Scanner Room and get in the Scanners. Soon the doors close and they find themselves landing in front of different Way Towers.
"Amazing." Sanne runs into the Way Tower in the Forest Sector as Dante runs into the one in the Desert Sector.
Good, once the four Way Towers are activated I will send you back to Earth then I will start the process. Franz activates the other two Way Towers. Sanne and Dante activate the others and soon materialize back to Earth. They hurry up to the Control Room and wait with the others.
"What is he waiting for?" Ark is holding his side trying to fight the pain. "A countdown? Well three, two, one." A black mist comes out of the control panel. "It worked, cool." The black mist flies at Sanne and enters her.
"What are you doing!?" Krieger goes over to Sanne wanting to protect her. From what he wasn't sure.
"Stay back." Sanne shakes as the ghost Franz sent starts to clean her body of damaged DNA. "No, Xana has activated a Tower. I must hurry." Sanne's eyes close and soon the black mist leaves her body. It travels to Krieger and starts to cleanse him when another black mist comes out of the control panel and attacks Krieger. "Krieger, no leave him alone!"
"Help! Stop, stop, stop him!" Krieger drops to the floor when several black mists shoot out from his body. The black mists enter the other Lyoko Warriors, except Sanne and Dante. They scream as pain erupts from their bodies.
"No!" Sanne runs over to Krieger as Dante goes to Naia. "Franz what are you doing?!"
"I am not doing it! Xana activated a Tower and used it to subvert the energy and attack your friends. I believe he is speeding the process up." Naia collapses onto the floor.
"No! Wait, they can't die on Lyoko." Dante turns to Sanne. "If we get them to Lyoko they can't die."
"If I get you to Lyoko, I'm cured you're not. Xana must have not wanted to kill you because you're his son. Help me get them on the elevator then I'll send them and you to Lyoko." Sanne and Dante drag, push, and pull their friends onto the elevator then the others take it down to the Scanner Room. Dante struggles to get three into Scanners. "Transfer Naia, Transfer Skitz, Transfer Mira, Scanner Naia, Scanner Skitz, Scanner Mira, and virtualization." They land on Lyoko where the pain is less but still there. Once Dante struggles to get the next three into the Scanners Sanne starts again. "Transfer Barack, Transfer Krieger, Transfer Ark, Scanner Barack, Scanner Krieger, Scanner Ark, and virtualization." They land on Lyoko next to the others. "Ok Dante, your turn." He steps into the middle Scanner. "Transfer Dante, Scanner Dante, and virtualization." He lands on Lyoko. "Franz what do we do!?"
I don't know Sanne. You are safe, you were healed.
"I need my friends! You have to help me fix them!"
I can do no more. I was able to deactivate the Way Towers before Xana took control of them. After that we can do nothing for your friends.
"No, Franz, you're the genius. Grandpa I need you!" Sanne starts to cry. "Please there must be a way!"
Well, there is, but I won't like it. Sanne rubs her eyes getting the tears out. Sanne, granddaughter, I love you. I love your mother. I even love your grandmother. The black mist disappears as Franz plans to make his sacrifice for the new Lyoko Warriors, for his granddaughter.
Sanne doesn't know what's going on but soon sees something horrible on the Lyoko map. Near her friends Ms. Delmas, Xana, appears. "Ah yes, look at you. Such a sad and pathetic group!" Ms. Delmas laughs evilly. "It was nice knowing you all but you will soon be dead."
"Shut up!" Krieger gets his sword and shield out. He is weak and hurt but he won't go down without a fight.
"Pathetic Krieger. You are on death's door and where is the woman who loves you? Safe on Earth, healed. And here you are ready to fight me and be sent back to Earth to die!"
"I won't die! She'll heal me!"
"She can't! I stopped the only way there was to fix you! Well, except one." Ms. Delmas's smile sends chills into the group. "Join me and I will heal you. If you don't then you will die."
"Don't!" The group turns to see Franz Hopper! "Xana, I will make a deal with you. I will join you. Merge with you, if you heal these children."
"And what makes you think I would keep that bargain?"
"Because I wrote into your programming an honor code. I just wanted to see if it would work I never thought I would ever see it tested but it has in the past and it worked. Merge with me and save the children."
"No!" Sanne hears this over the headset. "Franz, without you we can't stop Xana! Don't do this!"
"It is the only way my Dear." Franz opens his arms to show he was hiding nothing. "Well Xana? Take me, merge with me, and you will be rid of me." Franz walks towards Xana.
"And getting rid of you will help me but why not just get rid of you now?" Ms. Delmas opens her hand and an energy orb forms.
"Because your honor code I built in…"
"Only applies if I accept the deal!" Ms. Delmas throws the energy orb at Franz and hits him. He is knocked backwards but before he hits the ground Ms. Delmas turns into a black mist and attacks him.
"No!" Ark creates his spear and goes to attack Franz when an energy shield forms around him knocking Ark back.
"Save Franz! We need him to stop Xana!" Sanne screams into the headset hoping beyond hope some miracle would happen. The heroes in movies always miraculously live. The heroes in movies always save the day. The heroes… Were not real people in the real world.
"Xana, stop this!" Dante pushes against the energy shield. "If you merge with him he will affect you just like a host does!" Dante is ignored as Franz shakes and energy sparks around him.
"Damn it tell me what's going on!?" Sanne can only see circles on the map, numbers on the profiles.
"This is bad." Krieger is in a lot of pain even on Lyoko but he tries to tell Sanne what is going on. "Xana attacked Franz, as a black mist. He's trying to merge or consume Franz, I don't know."
"No! You have to stop him!"
"There's an energy field around them we can't break through."
"But you have to! Without Franz we can't beat Xana!"
"We can't do anything." Krieger falls onto his knees gripping at his chest as the pain gets worse.
"Then it looks like I win." Franz stands up. "Hmm, this is new, different, I like it." Taking control of Franz Hopper has given Xana access to new powers, new knowledge. He knew everything that Franz Hopper knew. He knew the codes, the information, and the lines of data that made everything possible for the Super Computer. "What to do though with my old host?" Franz sparks with energy and Ms. Delmas forms then drops to the ground. "She is rather useless to me now." An explosion wipes Ms. Delmas away from Lyoko.
"You, you won't win." Barack fires a laser at Xana but it merely bounces off. "You can't win!" Barack snaps and gets his BFK out and charges Xana. "We won't let you win Xana!"
"Boy do you not understand?" Instead of attacking Xana simply waves his hand and the ground reaches up and grabs Barack by the legs. "I control Lyoko now. You have lost, I have won. The end is here and now."
"Never!" Skitz runs at Xana but is stopped when a tree forms in front of her and its branches reach around her.
"I can do anything now. I know everything and everything is I, Xana, Lord of Lyoko!" Xana laughs evilly.
"So cocky yet you aren't attacking us." Krieger gets his sword out and ignores his pain. "I think you're still weak. Or is it like Dante said? Merging with Franz means you are affected by his emotions? He was willing to die to save us so you can't kill us? Super Leap!" Krieger lunges sword first looking to plunge his sword deep into Xana's chest but a rock forms and he slams into it.
"I am merely playing with my new powers. You know now I can simply erase Lyoko right? I can start anew, or I can make it even better! I may need the Towers for more power but here, on Lyoko, I am God. I am Zeus, Jupiter, Odin, Shiva, Buddha, Alah, Hurn, all rolled into one person."
"You're nothing." Dante sparks with energy. "You're nothing to me! I hate you Xana!"
"Son be quiet. You must be upset over your mother's death but know she was useless, unlike you."
"She wasn't useless!" Dante walks towards Xana as Naia sneaks up from behind. She had never met Xana before, in person, and wasn't sure if her possessing powers would work on him.
"Come on Dante keep him distracted." Naia knew she'd have only one chance to posses Xana.
"She may have just been an incubator but she did give life to me! Without her I never would have existed." Dante sparks with more energy as he tries to feel something, anything, for his mother. If he could find even the tiniest spark of love then her death would drive him. "If she hadn't been my mother, hadn't given birth to me, I never would have lived! I never would have met Sanne, Krieger, Naia! I never would have tasted chocolate, candy, popcorn, none of that! If she hadn't been my mother I never would have felt love, fear, happiness, sadness, joy, anger, nothing!" Dante sparks with more energy as he finds reasons to love his mother. "I hate you!" Dante charges energy in his right hand when he sees a white mist fly towards Xana from behind. "Naia!" The white mist touches Xana then disappears.
"I, it worked." Xana looks at his hands as though he were seeing them for the first time. "How come all I see are ones and zeros?" Xana looks around at Lyoko seeing it in a new way.
"Naia, what have you done?" Dante sees the energy shield drop and runs towards Xana, Naia.
"I have saved us. I, Xana can heal us so I can heal us." Xana closes his eyes and concentrates. A strand of energy comes out and touches Dante. He feels cold then hot as the energy spreads through him. Another strand of energy comes out and touches Krieger. More come out touching the others.
"Wow, I, I feel great!" Ark jumps up and down. "Great job Naia!" Ark does a back flip. "Good as new!"
"Yeah, incredible." Mira hugs Ark after he stops jumping around. "We did it, Naia did it."
"Yes I did. Now when two minutes pass and I blow up will that mean Xana is dead?" The others shrug their shoulders. "I guess we get to find out."
"Hey, I'm still stuck." Barack points to his legs that had been encased by the ground.
"Oh, here." Naia waves her hand and frees Barack.
"Help here to." Soon Skitz is freed.
"I'm starting to heat up, about to blow up." Everyone watches Naia, Xana, feeling great to see a smile on Franz's face. Naia was happy she could help so much and was ready to celebrate with the others once they got back to Earth.
"Great job Naia." Dante smiles at her never thinking he'd be happy to see Franz Hopper smiling.
"Not so fast." The group is stunned by Naia's change in voice. "You didn't really think I would die so easily did you?" Franz's smile turns evil. "Poor thing never saw it coming I'm afraid. Oh well, one warrior down. Now I just have…" Franz explodes. Floating in the air where he once stood were three orbs.
"Those are what make Xana so powerful!" Dante reaches towards one and grabs it. "If we destroy these he'll be dead!"
"On it." Ark uses his spear and stabs one but doesn't destroy it. He pushes his spear as hard as he can but energy emits from the sphere pushing Ark away. "Help me guys!"
"Extend." Skitz lengthens her clubs then start to beat on the orb far enough away to not be pushed away by the energy.
"Die damn it!" Krieger wields his sword like an axe over his head and brings it down on the orb. The three Lyoko Warriors focus on the orb as Mira and Barack attack another orb.
Dante still holds the first orb trying to find a way to destroy it. He thinks of his mother and how much she really did mean to him. She was his mother after all. She never had a chance to love him. He had killed her then her memory of him was deleted. Maybe she had loved him and Xana never gave her the chance to tell him. His hand sparks with energy and he tries to crush the orb with it but the orb's own energy comes out and fights back.
"Guys, what's going on? Hello?" Sanne is left in the dark.
A black mist starts to swirl in the air then flies down at Dante. It snatches the orb out of his hand and the black mist grows larger and starts to take a form. It attacks Mira and Barack knocking them away from the second orb and the black mist grows even larger.
"Throw it into the Digital Sea!" Dante runs towards the last orb that Krieger, Ark, and Skitz had been trying to destroy. The energy sparks around him trying to push him away but Dante presses on until the orb is within reach. He reaches out and grabs it then runs towards the edge of the path. He throws as hard as he can hoping the black mist wouldn't be able to catch it in time. The black mist flies over the side and chases after the orb and is just about to catch it when it lands in the Digital Sea. A black mess forms on the surface and spreads.
"What's going on!?" Sanne is crying wondering what has happened to her friends and fearing the worst.
Around the world websites crash, servers are corrupted as the Digital Sea is corrupted by the energy and evil in the orb that landed in it.
"That should hurt him." Krieger stands near the edge watching the black mist swirl around the black mess that was still growing on the surface of the Digital Sea. "Naia, good job." Krieger turns around to say something else when he notices that the white mist that was Naia wasn't there. "Naia?"
"Krieger, you're there, tell me what happened!" Sanne was relieved to hear Krieger's voice but still wondered what was going on.
"I don't know. Did you bring Naia back to Earth already?" Krieger looks around some more.
"No, she's on Lyoko according to the Super Computer."
"Then where is she?" Krieger and the others look around but don't see the white mist that was their friend.
"I, well, she's not showing on the map." Sanne and the others start to worry. "Maybe there's an error. Maybe she did come back and the Super Computer didn't register it." Sanne takes the headset off and goes to the ladder. She looks down into the Scanner Room and doesn't see Naia. She goes back and puts the headset on. "She's on Lyoko."
"We don't see her." The warriors start to look and forget about Xana until the black mist flies up and forms into Franz Hopper.
"You bastards! You may have hurt me but I won't lose!" Xana's energy comes out so fast it destroys the Lyoko Warriors before they can react. "I did manage to get one of them though." Xana laughs evilly then turns into a black mist and disappears into Sector 5.
On Earth the Lyoko Warriors are in the Control Room wondering what happened to Naia. "I tried calling her Jcell and she didn't answer." Dante is rubbing his temples trying to think. "And she won't respond on Lyoko. She has to be somewhere. Everyone has to be somewhere."
"I know but the Super Computer shows she is on Lyoko. I can't find her though. I'll try to bring her back." Sanne attempts materialization when the profile for Naia flashes and disappears. "That's not right." Sanne's fingers fly over the keyboard. "No, that can't be right." She continues to talk to herself but Dante knows.
"She's dead." Dante puts a hand on Sanne's shoulder. "Naia died. Xana killed Naia." Tears form in his eyes. "When she possessed Xana he must have been able to kill her, absorb her, something."
"Don't say that Dante it's ridiculous." Sanne wasn't going to give up hope. "She just, she's just, something."
"No! She's dead!" Dante pulls on the computer chair spinning it so Sanne is facing him. "Naia is dead!" Energy sparks around Dante. "She's Dead! It's all your fault! If you hadn't looked for this damn Factory and released me this never would have happened!" More energy sparks around Dante.
"Dante back off." Krieger goes to grab Dante when he is shocked by energy and pushed backwards.
"Damn it Dante leave her alone!" Skitz goes to pull Dante away but she too is pushed back by his energy.
"No! If it weren't for her Naia would still be alive!" Dante raises his hand back ready to punch Sanne when a black mist forms and grabs it. "Let me go!" More energy sparks around Dante as he loses control.
"No." Dante can't break the persons grasp so he turns to attack them. "Hello Dante."
"Sora! Xana killed Naia! And here you are protecting the, the, die!" Dante attacks Sora.
"This is bad, really bad." Sanne gets out of the computer chair. "Dante's lost it. We have to, no, I won't run."
"Dante calm down!" Sora and Dante wrestle on the ground when she rolls him over and pins him. "Damn it Dante calm down or I'll hurt you!"
"And we'll hurt you." Krieger gets into a fighting stance.
"No you won't." Sora looks at Krieger. "Whatever you guys did to Xana hurt him. He, he isn't controlling me." Sora turns back to Dante. "Why are you so mad? What's wrong?"
"Xana killed Naia! If Sanne hadn't found this place Naia would still be alive!" Dante's energy tries to push Sora away but her powers are stronger and keep him down. "Let me go!"
"Not until you tell me what happened. Naia can't be dead what really happened?" Dante doesn't respond. "Someone tell me what happened."
"I, we aren't sure, yet." Sanne looks at the monitor. The profile of Naia was still gone. "We were still feeling sick…" Sanne explains to Sora what had happened. "And then Dante snapped and attacked me. It's not his fault his powers, virus part of him, is making him act like this."
"Naia, she can't be dead." Sora looks down at Dante. "She isn't dead. Xana wouldn't kill her without killing all of you."
"What?" Krieger isn't sure what Sora means.
"Xana always planned on killing you but all at the same time. He can't risk you going to your parents. Naia isn't dead." Dante's energies fall away. "Are you ok Dante? Naia isn't dead." Dante goes limp so Sora stands up.
"Are you sure?" Mira wasn't about to trust Sora at her word.
"Yes. He couldn't kill just one of you he'd have to kill you all, except Dante." Everyone looks at him. "Xana loved you, I think. Maybe it was Ms. Delmas that loved you but it kept you safe."
"But Ms. Delmas is dead. Xana killed her once he took over Franz."
"Then we're still calling our parents?" Skitz turns to Sanne. "Ms. Delmas, she doesn't count does she? I mean, we said if anyone was killed we'd call our parents but Ms. Delmas, does she count?"
"Yes. But we won't call our parents." Sanne sighs. "Ms. Delmas was crazy. If Xana had just released her it would have been even worse for her. Death was a better option for her. Xana showed her mercy."
"But, Naia." Dante sits up. "If the Super Computer deletes her profile it is because she is dead."
"But she isn't." Sora kneels down next to Dante. "Naia is as alive as we are. We just don't know where she is."
"Like that will matter to her parents? She's still missing." Krieger looks at the monitor. "Naia might not be dead to us but she will be missing to everyone else. Especially her parents, whoever they are."
"We, well, we call them and uh, Dante who are Naia's parents?" He shrugs his shoulders. "She never mentioned them?"
"No."
"I'll have to find out." Sanne goes over to the computer chair and sits down. She goes through and hacks into Central Academy's database. "Hmmm, what was her last name Dante?"
"Cawasaki."
"Ok, Cawasaki, Naia. Good grades, lots of sunburn, parents are…" Sanne stops when she sees the names. "William and Samantha? No, that, it's just a coincidence." Sanne finds a number and looks it up. "Hmmm, France number, somewhere in the west though. Let's see if I can find anything on her parents." Sanne searches and finds two pictures. "But, she was an albino. How could her mother be black if she was albino?" The pictures of Naia's parents show a white male with black hair and a black woman. "William Cawasaki? No, his last name was, was, what was William's last name?" No one responds.
It couldn't be, could it? What the gang didn't know was William Dunbar had a fight with his father and changed his last name to an Asian name after he married an Asian woman. Later they divorced and he moved back to France where he met and fell in love with Samantha Knight…
The next few days Dante and Sanne spent at the Factory trying to figure out what had happened to Naia. Dante wouldn't talk to Sanne unless necessary. Not because he hated her but because he felt bad for yelling at her. He had been close to attacking and hurting her. Sanne didn't blame him but his powers but it was still him. He still wanted to hurt her at that moment.
A/N So Naia is… not dead? Where is she? How badly hurt was Xana and what will he do with his new powers? Read to find out! Ok, I know way early but I figured today get the #3 Biggest twist out of the way then on the 8th put up Code Lyoko Mark II Episode One. Here is a preview
Code Lyoko Mark II Episode 1
Author: James the Lesser
Warning, I do not own the characters except the ones I made. Moonscoop owns them, made them, and the original idea. They are Awesome.
Read Code Lyoko 53-150 plus the OVA and the Movie before reading this.
Sanne is trying to feed Aelita but having problems. Aelita twitched and shook too much to eat by herself. Her hands shook, her arms shook, she couldn't hold on to the utensils. "Come on Aelita, hold it." Sanne grabs Aelita's chin in one hand then gets the pasta into her mouth. "There we go." Aelita chews twitching the whole time, and then swallows the pasta.
L.S. and Krieger are in the woods making out. They knew if they were around any electrical objects then Xana could watch them and they didn't want that. "The grass isn't as soft and comfortable as your bed." Sanne giggles as Krieger kisses her neck.
"You're still comfortable." Krieger continues kissing her neck.
Skitz is in her dorm room bored. She had done her homework already and didn't have a boyfriend and her friends were busy doing other things. "This sucks." She rolls a sock up into a ball and throws it towards the ceiling then catching it.
Ark and Sam are in Sam's room doing homework and talking about Sam's parents. "So far no Xana attacks. The way our parents talked about it I'd expect three a week if not more."
"Yeah, Sam number two." Ark laughs when Sam stares at him.
"I never thought I was named after my mother. And I didn't know my dad's real name was William. Can't believe I said it was a stupid name."
"William is. I mean, people call you Willie, Billy, Bill, Will, Billiam. Why I like Ark, no weird nick names."
"What about me? Samantha, Sam, Sammie, right?" Ark shrugs his shoulders. "Well we need to get this homework done. Almost wouldn't mind a Xana attack right about now." Sam doesn't know she is about to jinx the group.