Code Xana Episode 82: Zombie Jamboree

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 1-81

Sanne is working on the Super Computer with Dante looking for Naia. Sanne is starting to get tired when she starts to feel cold. The air around her just seems to have the warmth sucked out of it. "Dante, is Xana doing anything?"

"No, why?" Dante is in the Way Tower in the Forest Sector.

"Things just got really cold. Maybe I'm just feeling things." Sanne tries to ignore the feeling. They continue to work when Dante gets an idea.

"Sanne, why don't we try to materialize her? If she was sent to Lyoko then we should be able to bring her back like a normal person."

"Dante that's the most…" Sanne thinks about it. "That's brilliant." Sanne laughs. "So simple I never would have thought of it."

"How would you do it?" Krieger is watching over Sanne's head working on her shoulders.

"Well, her profile was deleted but I could mimic the keystrokes and hope it works." Sanne's finger move over the keyboard. "Dante, if this works, what do we do? We already told the school she went home due to family problems and told her family she was sent on a special trip where she couldn't contact them."

"Just tell her school she's back and her parents the trip is over." Dante's hopes rise. This could be it!

"Well I think if," Sanne stops when there is a loud banging noise. "Krieger, go check it out." Krieger walks over to where the noise came from and feels really cold. "What's there?"

"Nothing, cold though." Krieger walks back to Sanne. "Should we call the others?"

"No, I don't want to get their hopes up." Sanne knew how high her hopes were and knew it would be devastating if this didn't work. "Dante, I'm ready."

"Ok." Dante waits for Sanne. Sanne waits for results.

"And, enter." Sanne hits the last key and something does happen. She looks through the security camera and sees the doors close. "It's working!" Sanne claps her hands in excitement. "Oh my Gods it's working!" Sanne waits for the doors to open and have Naia step out. "Dante I'll bring you back as soon as she's here!" Sanne is so excited. Something so simple was going to bring Naia back! As the doors open Sanne can almost feel the excitement in the air. But the person who steps out of the Scanners was anyone but Naia.

"Franz!" Krieger and Sanne yell this at the same time. "How did he, how did that, no." Sanne is confused.

"Maybe Naia is in Xana." Dante immediately thinks of what happened. "Since she was possessing him when she, disappeared, when she didn't appear she staid in Xana. So when you tried to bring her back it brought Xana back."

"Oh crap." Krieger nearly lifts Sanne over the back of the chair to get her to the elevator. "We have to get out of here."

"I know!" Sanne and Krieger run onto the elevator and take it up to the Factory floor. They start to run when the elevator runs again.

"Sanne, keep going I'll keep Xana busy."

"No, keep following me!" Sanne grabs at his arm and pulls on it. Krieger runs with her and as they are climbing up the ropes the elevator comes back up and opens to reveal Franz Hopper, Xana. Krieger and Sanne get off the ropes and start to run down the bridge. Sanne doesn't notice that Krieger stopped running until she makes it to the sewer cover. "Krieger!"

"Keep running Sanne. I won't let him hurt you." Krieger gets into a fighting stance expecting Xana to fly up to him. But strangely Xana climbs up the rope. "Sanne go!" Sanne ducks into the sewers.

"Hello Krieger." Xana looks down at himself. "This is strange, being almost human."

"What?" Krieger backs away slowly unsure of what to do.

"Whatever my future host did to me has made me more human then I've ever been. It is strange not having my powers. But this does lead to a slight predicament." Franz holds a hand up then pulls the sleeve back. Krieger sees rotting flesh spreading. "I was infected with the Solanum virus a few months ago. Damn virus is so powerful I was barely able to keep it from infecting my hosts. But now that I am here on Earth as a human, mostly human, it is spreading. Imagine if I decided to attack without a Tower? Just went out and started infecting people?"

"You wouldn't. If anyone died we'd call our parents and you'd get your ass kicked."

"Like Naia? She is dead you know, I killed her."

"No you didn't! We won't give up on her." Krieger suddenly feels cold. "I won't let you infect anyone."

"Or you will die once I infect you."

"I'll stop you."

"Or you could give me twelve returns and Sanne. With that I will leave you alone."

"Hell no." Krieger lunges at Xana with a vicious kick. Xana grabs the leg and sinks his nails into it. Krieger leans forward and punches Xana in the face. Xana punches Krieger back dazing him. Xana lunges at Krieger and knocks Krieger down. Krieger goes to block a punch but Xana doesn't try that. Instead he bites Krieger hard drawing blood. Franz gets off of Krieger and runs away. Krieger stands up and runs after Xana.

A few minutes later Sanne is meeting Sora in the sewers. "Sora, you can use your powers and kill Xana." Sanne and Sora were arguing.

"I'm not killing him! I'm not a murderer. Xana never ordered me to kill anyone and I won't have you telling me to kill someone."

"But Sora if you kill him it's over. No more attacks, no more Lyoko trips, no more monsters."

"Then you kill him. I'm not killing anyone." Sora didn't want blood on her hands. Even if it was Xana's.

"I can't I'm not strong enough! You are, with your powers. Sora please we can end all of this if you kill him!"

"No!" Sora sparks with energy. "I am not going to kill anyone! Xana never made me kill anyone! Are you worse then Xana?!"

"No but, but, if he is dead then we're free."

"Then YOU kill him." Sora turns into a black mist and disappears.

"No, Sora." Sanne shakes her head. "I can't kill Xana I'm not strong enough." Sanne runs through the sewers towards Kadic Academy.

Krieger is keeping up with Franz when he starts to feel weak. Krieger stumbles and lands on his hands and knees. A sharp sudden pain in his arm makes him look at it. What he sees scares him. The place where Xana bit him was starting to turn black and rot. "No, maybe he is infected with Solanum." Krieger starts to get scared. Anyone infected with Solanum was put into quarantine and kept until they changed then shot. Krieger has to be very careful.

Xana turns a corner and sees a police car. This gives him an idea. "Officer!" Franz waves his uninfected arm getting the officers attention.

"What is it?"

"This kid, he, he attacked me!" Franz breathes hard to make it look like he was tired. "I, I fought him off but I don't know how long it will be."

"Sir I'm sure…" Before the officer can tell Xana off he sees Krieger coming around the corner. "Stop right there!"

"Oh crap." Krieger turns around and starts to run away. The officer chases after him and when he gets close uses a tasar on Krieger dropping him to the ground. "No, no please." Krieger tries to hide his arm but knew it wouldn't work.

"You're under arrest!" The officer pulls Krieger's arms back ready to cuff him and notices the rotting flesh. "Solanum!" The officer pulls back and grabs his sidearm out. "You're infected!"

"I'm not I swear!" Krieger rolls over and sees the gun pointed at him. "Please, let me go."

"No! Protocol call for an emergency broadcast and for the infected to be taken into custody." The officer keeps his gun pointed at Krieger as he reaches for his radio. "I, I have a code 91337." Krieger hears static. "Yes I said 91337!" More static. "No he didn't bite me he hasn't changed yet." More static. "Ok, send the biohazard team and, wait," The officer looks behind him expecting Xana to still be there but the man was gone. "I think another infected is loose." More static. "I didn't know he was infected! Just get the biohazard team here!" The officers hand shakes making Krieger even more worried and scared. If the man's finger slipped he'd be shot.

Sanne makes it back to the school. She looks around and doesn't see Franz. "Krieger better be ok." Sanne gets her Jcell out and calls him.

Krieger reaches for his phone. "What are you doing!?"

"My phone is ringing. Let me answer it, please."

"Don't try anything!"

"I won't." Krieger gets his phone out. "Sanne, I," Sanne interrupts him.

"Krieger are you ok!?"

"No. Xana infected me with Solanum." Sanne doesn't respond. "The Scanners will heal me right? Well, I can't get away."

"What do you mean?"

"Xana found a police officer. He, he must have told him something and the officer went to arrest me when he saw the infection."

"No, I, a return will fix you."

"Ok. I love you Sanne."

"I love you to." Sanne and Krieger hang up. "I have to hurry. He didn't sound bad so the infection might be going slow but we can't waste any time." Sanne climbs back into the sewers and hurries back to the Factory.

At the Factory Dante sends himself back to Earth and goes up to the Control Room. "It didn't work but we got Xana to Earth. Maybe I can look for Naia without worrying about Xana interfering." Dante brings a screen up. "What? Power, resources, we have plenty." Dante's fingers fly over the keyboard. "No, when we took Xana out it hurt the Super Computer." Dante looks for a way to get more resources. He cancels the Super Scan and a few other programs but still doesn't have enough resources for a search. "Wait, does that mean, no!" Dante looks at the Return Program. "If anything happens we're in a lot of trouble. But Xana's on Earth, what can he do?" Dante doesn't worry, much, and thinks everything will be ok. He closes his eyes when he starts to feel cold. Then suddenly he hears a voice. He can't tell what it's saying or if its even male or female but he hears it.

Sanne climbs out of the sewers and runs into the Factory. After swinging down to the Factory floor she runs over to the elevator and takes it down to the Control Room where she sees Dante. "Dante?" Dante's reaction gets Sanne to laugh. Dante falls backwards on the computer chair and tips over. "Are you ok?"

"I uh, yeah." Dante stands back up and sets the chair up. "What's going on with Xana?"

"It's bad. Xana infected Krieger with the Solanum virus." Dante's reaction tells Sanne he doesn't know how serious this is. "Solanum, the Zombie Virus. One Hundred Percent death rate, incurable. We need to launch a return since Krieger was arrested and put somewhere to keep him from infecting anyone else."

"We can't do that."

"Why? I know it will make Xana stronger but we can't lose Krieger to Solanum. Just let me…" Sanne tries to get to the control panel but Dante blocks her way. "Dante get out of my way!"

"No Sanne you don't understand. When we took Xana out it weakened the Super Computer. We can't launch a return." Sanne's face goes white. "But if we get Xana back here and sent to Lyoko we'll be able to."

"And how do we do that?" Dante shrugs his shoulders. "Damn it Krieger is going to die!"

"We could just scan him."

"No we can't. He was arrested. People with Solanum are taken into quarantine then kept until they change. Once they change they are shot and the body is burnt. We have to launch a return!"

"If you can figure out a way to get Xana back to Lyoko we could." Sanne stares at Dante. "I'm sorry I'm not thinking." Dante hugs Sanne. "It's going to be ok we will save Krieger." Sanne hugs Dante back. They continue hugging then jump away from each other when a loud banging noise scares them.

"There it is again!" Sanne starts to feel cold. "Something strange is going on." Sanne looks around but doesn't see a source for the loud bang or the cold. "Maybe I could call the police and put out a message that my grandfather," Sanne shutters trying to think of Franz as her grandfather. "Got out and is lost because he has Alzheimer's disease."

"Or we could, could, wish?"

"Oh yeah, I wish for Xana to get a hold of me so we can make a deal and send him back." Sanne rolls her eyes when her phone rings. She gets it out. "What?" Sanne is annoyed now.

"Hello Sanne." It is Xana! "I was just wondering what you are going to do about your little boyfriend."

"Xana, I, come back." Sanne squeezes her eyes shut trying not to sound desperate. "We'll send you back to Lyoko."

"And why would you do this for me? What do you get out of it?" Xana chuckles. "Is Krieger unable to get to the Factory? Why not just launch a return? I will gladly accept the power."

"I, we can't." Sanne wants to lie but know if Xana hangs up on her Krieger would die. "Without you on Lyoko we can't launch a return. The Super Computer is too weak."

"I see so you need me." Xana pauses as he thinks. "Let's make a deal shall we? A deal that will benefit me most."

"I, what is it?" Sanne crosses her fingers and hopes it is something she could agree to.

"Twelve returns and you become my host."

"No, 4 returns and that's it."

"I see, you want Krieger to die? The last conversation you had with my son was interesting but I didn't know it was that interesting."

"I don't want Krieger to die but we can't do that. Four returns."

"No, twelve returns." Xana leaves off Sanne becoming his host so Sanne knows he is willing to deal.

"I, six returns. I'll do them I swear. You keep your deals I'll keep mine. Six returns if you come back here."

"Then I guess Krieger gets to die." Xana hangs up on Sanne.

"No!" Sanne screams into her phone. "Xana!" Sanne throws her phone on the ground. "Damn it I should have agreed!" Sanne starts to cry knowing Krieger was going to die. There was no way to get him out of quarantine. They didn't even know where he was. Dante hugs Sanne letting her bury her face into his chest.

"We'll think of something. Krieger is strong he should be able to fight the infection for awhile."

Skitz and Barack are walking down the sidewalk unsure of what was going on. Police seemed to be everywhere driving slowly down the streets. Skitz swears she saw one looking at a picture but couldn't see what it was. "I smell soy pork." Barack laughs at Skitz's joke.

"That's mean Skitz." Barack leans close to her ear and whispers an even meaner joke.

"I can't believe you said that!" Skitz laughs. "Let's take a shortcut. I don't like all these police officers watching us."

"Sure." They turn down and alley and go around the corner where they see an old man huddled behind a dumpster.

"Maybe we should go back." The old man turns around when he hears voices and the two teens see it is no ordinary old man.

"Franz! Wait, Xana, Franz?"

"I escaped!" Franz, Xana, Franz? Walks over to the two. "Xana took what he wanted from me then sent me back to Earth. Please help me you two." Franz reaches for Skitz when his lab coat sleeve moves and they see something on his arm.

"What's that?" Skitz tries to get a better look.

"I, I hurt myself. I am not used to being on Earth yet and am quite clumsy." And seeming to prove it Franz trips and falls on Skitz knocking her to the ground.

"Aaaa!" Skitz screams in pain when Franz bites her hard on the left shoulder. "Get off of me!" Franz quickly jumps back up. "What did you do!?"

"Call Sanne and tell her I just bit you." Franz smiles showing blood in his mouth. He had taken a deep bite, much worse than Krieger's, out of Skitz. Franz turns and runs away as Barack gets his Jcell out.

Sanne grabs her phone off the floor and answers it. "Xana! I'll do them!" Sanne screams into her phone not looking at the caller I.D. to see who it was.

"No, this is Barack."

"Oh, um, I'm busy and I need the phone open."

"Franz told us to tell you that he bit Skitz, why? What did he do, how did he get on Earth?" Sanne nearly drops her phone. "Sanne?"

"No, get Skitz here, now!"

"What, why?"

"She's infected, Solanum! Just get her here so we can use the Scanners to heal her! You have to hurry!" Sanne continues to yell orders nearly making Dante go deaf. "Now!"

"We're on our way." Barack and Sanne hang up. "Skitz we have to hurry to the Factory?"

"What? Why?"

"Just hurry!" Barack and Skitz start to run for the Factory but when a police officer sees Skitz is bleeding he stops the two teens.

"What happened?"

"I uh, fell. We're going to my house so I can get some band aids and stuff." Skitz knows it doesn't sound convincing but hopes it will fool the officer. Unfortunately he sees the edge of the bite wound where the skin was starting to turn black and rot. "So if we could just go, we don't want to bother you." Skitz never sees the tasar come out and drops to the ground.

"Hey what are you…" Barack is hit next and drops to the ground. The officer rolls both of them over and puts elastristraints on them. He gets his radio out. "I have two more, I repeat, I have two more Solanum infections." Static comes over the radio, or so it sounds like to Skitz and Barack. "Ok, biohazard to Quadrant four." The officer stands up and waits for the biohazard team to arrive.

Sanne is panicking even more now. Krieger and Skitz were infected and would die unless they scanned them or did a return. Sanne waits and waits for Skitz to get to the Factory but after a few minutes wonders what is going on. "Dante maybe something happened. What if she already changed?" Sanne's eyes are red from crying and Dante's shirt is soaked.

"I doubt it. Call her and see where she is." Sanne calls Skitz's phone but Skitz can't answer.

"She won't answer. Dante we have to do something!"

"We can't give Xana twelve returns. We finally hurt him, a lot. We can't make him that strong again."

"We can't let Krieger and Skitz die!"

"I know we can't." Dante hugs Sanne again. "We'll figure something out. We could always lie to Xana."

"I, we could, but what would he do?"

"He'd probably kill us. I don't know how or why but if Xana really tried he could kill us. Why he hasn't I don't know."

"But, he, returns. He doesn't have the password or access to the secure part of the Super Computer. He's playing with us isn't he?"

"Probably. He's doing everything he can for more returns. I, we should do it then." Dante squeezes Sanne in his arms. "If he calls back tell him we'll do it. We can't let Krieger and Skitz die." Dante kisses Sanne on the forehead. "It will be ok Sanne, stop crying."

"I, I can't." Sanne sniffs as more tears flow. "I don't want them to die. If they die it will be my fault."

"It was my idea that brought Xana to Earth."

"It was a great idea but Xana must have done something." Sanne looks into Dante's eyes. "Don't blame yourself. We just have to hope Franz calls us. I looked at my caller I.D. and saw he used a pay phone. Maybe he'll use it again or a different one to call us." They stand and wait. Sanne holds onto Dante for support. She doesn't even notice how cold it got.

Skitz is thrown into a bare cell. Her hands are still being restrained behind her back. "No! Let me out! Please let me out!" Skitz cries as the door is locked. "No, I don't want to die!" Already the wound had spread. Her left arm was decaying as she slowly changed.

Franz looks around a corner and sees no one. He runs over to a phone booth and gets in it. He puts in some change he found in the alley and calls Sanne. "Sanne dear, have we changed our minds yet?" Xana was worried. Franz's body was being turned. Xana was able to slow it down but he knew if he wasn't fast he'd be turned and the returns would be useless.

"Yes, but, not twelve. We can't do twelve."

"Ten then?"

"I, how about eight?" Sanne tries not to cry as she is on the phone with Xana. "Please? I promise we'll do eight returns if you come back."

"Very well, eight returns it is."

"Please hurry! If Krieger and Skitz are dead the deals off!"

"I'll be there as soon as possible." Xana hangs up on Sanne. "Better hurry I don't know how long I can keep the infection from killing this host." Xana leaves the phone booth and runs down the road.

Krieger is sitting on the floor in his cell. The infection had taken his arm and was spreading across his chest making it hard to breath. He prays to any Gods that will listen not to let him die. Or to at least let him see Sanne one last time and tell her he loved her. He wanted that at least.

Skitz is shaking on the floor of her cell. Her wound was worse and the infection spread faster. The infection is almost to her heart. Once it gets here it will move through the blood stream and she would be dead in less then a minute.

Xana is almost to the Factory when a police officer spots him. The officer checks the artist sketch of the infected person they were looking for. "Hey, you, stop!" The officer pulls his tasar out. Xana is faster then a normal man would be with Xana's slight boost but he wouldn't be able to get far enough away to make it safely into the Factory, get to the Scanner Room, be sent back to Lyoko and launch a return so he stop. "Good, down on the ground!"

"I, what's going on officer?" Xana walks towards the officer. "I'm just out for my afternoon jog."

"I said get down on the ground!" The officer runs over to Xana and when he gets to close Xana punches him in the face. Before the officer can use his tasar Xana knocks it out of his hand. Xana then kicks the officer hard in the stomach then kicks him in the head when the officer bent over holding his stomach.

"I have a deal to keep." Xana runs to the Factory and goes in.

"The alarm, he made it." Sanne is sitting in the computer chair waiting to send Xana to Lyoko. The elevator runs and soon Xana runs over to the middle Scanner. "Transfer Xana, Scanner Xana, and virtualization." Xana lands in the Ice Sector. "Are you there?"

"Of course, and I am not human again. Launch the returns now."

"I am." Sanne's fingers fly over the keyboard and she launches a return hoping she was in time.

Sanne finds herself in her room. She looks over and sees Skitz lying in her bed. "No, Skitz, no!" Sanne gets up and shakes Skitz but she won't wake up. "No, I was too late." Sanne starts to cry. Skitz was dead, she had been too late. If she had just done what Xana wanted the first time then Skitz would be alive. "Skitz please, please wake up." Sanne shakes Skitz again.

"Huh?" Skitz eyes open. "Sanne, what's wrong?" Skitz was so tired after sneaking out with Barack and going to a club it took awhile for her to wake up. "Sanne why are you crying?"

"Skitz!" Sanne hugs Skitz and kisses her on the lips. "You're ok! I'm so, you're ok!" Sanne hugs Skitz so tight Skitz can barely breath.

"I won't be if you don't let me go." Sanne does. "I, wow. That was close." Skitz shakes her head trying to wake up. She had been on the floor of her cell. She felt her body go cold as the virus spread. She was close to death, as close as she had ever been since Xana had killed her before.

"Yes, yes it was." Sanne looks around and finds her phone. She calls Krieger. "Krieger, you're ok?"

"Yes. Thanks Sanne I knew you could do it." Krieger sighs with relief. "How did you do it?"

"I promised Xana eight returns."

"But, that, I guess if that's what it took. I'm sorry Sanne."

"Don't be it wasn't your fault. I, I have to go and do more. Xana has seven more returns coming."

"Ok, once you're done I need…" Krieger is cut off by a return.

"Whoa." Sanne finds herself in the Control Room. She grabs the headset and puts it on. "Dante was that you?"

"Yes. We have six more to go." Dante launches the next return.

After the next five returns Sanne and Krieger are in the woods. "I was so scared Krieger. I thought I lost you."

"I thought I was never going to see you again. I wanted to see you at least one more time." Krieger kisses Sanne. "But you did it. Even if we had to make a deal with Xana."

"I know. I, I was, I felt so stupid. He said twelve returns and I tried to negotiate so he hung up on me. I thought I had killed you. Then Barack called and told me Skitz was bitten. I was going to be responsible for two deaths." Sanne starts to cry. "I don't want anyone to die."

"I don't either Sanne." Krieger holds onto Sanne comforting her. "And it won't happen. We'll beat him."

In the Control Room of the Factory Dante is setting up the auto transfer. He had gone back to a point that he was on Earth. Before he starts it he starts to feel cold then hears a whisper. Wh wha was tha? Wha hat wi you and San? Dante shakes his head. "I can't be hearing voices. Xana has done something to me." Dante hears more whispers but ignores them as he hurries down to the Scanner Room sending himself back to Lyoko.

A/N Another song turned attack. Also my muse wanted this attack for a long time. Next episode on Oct 19th. Also, I did an original. I tried putting it up on FF dot net but some douche flamed me so I took it down. So got an account on Fictionpress dot com. Have to wait three days though. Grrr… It's a good story to. 2 chapters done and have finally started the main part of it, the dramatic adventure deal. So when I get it up maybe you all can read it and review it and tell me it sucks.