Code Xana Episode 89: Welcome Back
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 1-88
Sanne and the others are on Lyoko fighting Sora and three Dragons. "Super Leap!" Krieger leaps at a Dragon using his shield to block lasers. He slashes at the Dragon clipping a wing. He reaches out with his legs and wraps them around the Dragon as it falls towards the ground of the Ice Sector. "Die!" He shoves his sword into the Eye destroying the Dragon before they land.
"Alakazam!" Dante fires at Sora who was being distracted by Ark who buzzed around her on his disc.
"Scattershot!" Sanne fires an energy beam at the remaining Dragons. They go to dodge her attack but Barack takes his chance and shoots one hitting it on the Eye and destroying it.
"Good job Barack." Mira flies by on the Overwing ready to attack Sora from behind who was dealing with Ark and Dante.
"I better go for it." Sanne gets off of the Overbike and runs for the activated Tower. With Sora distracted and the others going after the last Dragon now was her best chance.
"Sanne, no!" Krieger sees the Schipizoa appear from behind the Tower. She fires an energy beam at the Schipizoa but misses. It reaches out and grabs her. "Super…" Before Krieger can lunge at the Schipizoa Sora hits him with an arrow.
"Sanne!" Skitz dives at the Schipizoa and Barack fires energy beams at it. The Dragon flies at them and crashes into them knocking them off of the Overboard.
"Alakazam!" Dante fires an energy beam at the Schipizoa but Sora flies in front of it and blocks it. "Sora stop! If Xana gets Sanne then this is over!"
"No, please, help me." Sanne feels herself start to slip away. Everything goes black as the Schipizoa completes the transfer.
Sanne wakes up slowly. She opens one eye then the other. She hears a beeping noise and sees a bright light. The light hurts her eyes. "What's going on?" Her voice sound scratchy, like she hadn't spoken in awhile.
"Oh my Gods, Jeremie, she's awake!" Aelita gets out of a chair and goes over to Sanne. "Honey, can you hear me?"
"What, yes. What are you doing here?"
"You don't remember, the doctors said that might happen." Aelita hugs Sanne. "They also said you'd never wake up but we didn't give up on you." Aelita smiles at her daughter as tears form in her eyes. "You're going to be ok."
"What? But the Schipizoa got me."
"Honey, you, no." Aelita is confused. "You must have been dreaming. We noticed you twitched sometimes. Were you fighting Xana for us?" Aelita smiles brightly.
"Sanne," Jeremie stands up and goes over to Sanne. "Are you ok?"
"I, what's going on?"
"The Jjet crashed. We all had out seat belts on and the safety procedures kept us alive but you hit your head." Jeremie's words seem to be coming from far away. "They said you'd never wake up but here, you," Jeremie starts to cry.
"No, I, this can't be true."
"Honey its ok. It's only been," Aelita closes her eyes. "Seventy two days. It seems so much longer." Aelita hugs Sanne. "Jeremie, go and get the doctors then call the others. I'm sure they'll want to see her."
"But, what's going on?" Sanne is confused and wants to ask questions but there are too many to ask that she can't choose which one to ask first.
"Honey I'm so sorry." Aelita hugs Sanne again as she continues to cry. "We were all so worried! If I hadn't talked Jeremie into sending you to Kadic Academy this never would have happened!"
"Mom I did go to Kadic! I, we released Xana and we were fighting him then…" Sanne stops. She had memories of being on the Jjet.
What's going on? Daddy why is the plane shaking like this? Aaaa!
"Oh my Gods." Sanne remembers the crash. The engine had stopped and the Jjet went down. Its safety procedures had activated so instead of slamming into the Earth killing all on board it glided down. But then it rolled and slammed into the edge of the forest they had landed near. Sanne reaches to the back of her head and feels the long scar where she had hit her head.
"Honey its ok. The others have been coming to see you as much as they could. I, we're ready to take you home as soon as the doctors release you."
"I don't want to go home. I, I want to go to Kadic Academy." Sanne is scared. What if this was a trick? She had to go to the Factory. She had to see Dante. Dante would know if this was a trick or not. "Where am I?"
"In a hospital, near Paris. They were afraid to move you." Aelita looks up at the door when it opens and Jeremie comes in with a hassled looking doctor.
"Well I'll be the little girl has woken up." The doctor smiles at Sanne. "Dear do you know how you got here? What do you remember?"
"I, I remember the plane shaking. Something was wrong then I, I," Sanne wasn't sure. "I guess I woke up here."
"Alright. Thankfully you were close to here. Dear how many fingers do you see?" The doctor holds three up.
"Three."
"What year were you born?"
"2017."
"What is your name?"
"Sanne Rose Belpois."
"Ok, memory seems to be intact. Sanne move your legs." Sanne does. "Ok, so test results were right. Let me take these out," The doctor goes over and takes a tube out of Sanne's arm. "With the electrolysis machine your muscles should be strong enough to hold you up. If this accident had happened five years ago you would be in a wheelchair for months until your muscles got strong enough." Sanne sits up then gets off of the bed. She feels a breeze and pulls the back of the hospital gown close. She takes a few steps towards the door. "Very good. Go back to the bed." Sanne turns and goes back to the bed.
"Doctor will she be ok?"
"Well as I said all of our tests showed no major brain damage and as you saw her muscles haven't deteriorated."
"The best treatment money could buy." Jeremie had spent more then a million dollars already. Three surgeries, life flight, private room, the electrolysis machines, flying in two head trauma experts, he spared no expense.
"Yes, in a week, two at most she may be out of here." The doctor smiles at Jeremie and Aelita. "Your daughter is a lot tougher then she looks. I never would have expected this. At least not this early."
"But, Xana." Sanne is in shock. She had just spent months fighting Xana, right? But now that she was awake her memories were fading. Dreams after all were kept in the part of your brain that covered short term memory.
The next day her friends and their parents make it to the hospital. The doctors would only allow four people in at a time and first was Krieger with his parents. "Krieger!" Sanne hugs Krieger then kisses him on the mouth. He pushes her away and backs up.
"Whoa Sanne I'm happy to see you to but I don't think Maria would like me kissing you." He smiles. "I'm so glad to see you're awake."
"What? Maria?" Sanne shakes her head. Krieger wasn't her boyfriend. That was… What was that world? Sanne was sure this had to be a trick but Dante hadn't called her yet. And now Krieger was acting like this.
"My girlfriend. She said she couldn't make it. She's been wanting to meet you though. Says if she's going to date me she should meet my sister."
"Sister? But, but," Sanne can't believe it. She had been in love, was in love, with Krieger but he saw her as a sister. "Where's Dante?"
"Who?"
"Dante, I," Sanne leans in and whispers into his ear. "What's going on? Did you guys get me from the Schipizoa? Did Dante deactivate the Tower?" Krieger pulls away from Sanne with a confused look on his face.
"Sanne we don't know anyone named Dante. And Schipizoa? Sanne you were dreaming. Aelita told me about what you said to her."
"But, it was real." Sanne's eyes start to tear up. "I, we were dating. We loved each other. I love you."
"Dating? Sanne that's just weird. We've known each other since we were babies you're like a sister to me."
"But, no." Sanne hugs him and starts to cry. She had just lost Krieger. But according to him, her parents, and the doctors everything she dreamed of hadn't happened. Now she needed to get to the Factory and see Dante. If she had lost both Krieger and Dante… Well Dante might not even exist in this world.
"Sanne honey its ok." Aelita puts a hand on Sanne's shoulder. Sanne had told Aelita a long fanciful story. Aelita kept telling her it was all a dream. Sanne had never made it to Kadic Academy. She couldn't be fighting Xana since he wasn't real. Sanne knew that was a lie, Xana was real. But she had been shown a calendar so she knew it wasn't January almost February. She had never been to Kadic Academy and never been to the Factory.
"Sanne we're glad to see you're ok." Yumi looks at Aelita. "We're so glad she's ok. How long until she is out of the hospital?"
"The doctor says eight days. I, I don't know what to do now. Jeremie wants her to go back but Sanne says she wants to go to Kadic Academy like we planned." Aelita hugs Yumi then Ulrich. "Thanks for coming, and bringing Krieger."
"He missed his sister." Ulrich looks at Krieger and Sanne who were hugging. "We've been worried as much about Krieger as we have been about Sanne. He just hasn't been himself without his sister."
"I bet. Odd and Sandra told me Skitz has been having problems. We know how close those two are. But she'll be here soon with the others. I'm so glad Kadic let them out of class for the day to see Sanne."
"Sissi is still a bitch but she wouldn't dare make us mad. We could easily get a dozen kids taken out of every grade if we complained and took our kids out." Yumi squeezes her hand into a fist.
"I guess. Thanks." Aelita wipes her eyes trying not to cry. She had been scared for seventy two days straight. She was still scared but hope and happiness had exploded inside of her.
"Hello," Jeremie knocks on the door. "Odd and the others are here."
"Oh, well, we'll go out, send the kids in." Aelita and the other adults leave the room and Ark and Skitz go in.
"Hi Sanne." Ark hugs her then Skitz does.
"If you're done sitting around all day you have lots of homework to do." Skitz smiles. "I could help you if you need it."
"I, I don't know if I'm going to Kadic Academy. I still want to but my dad says no."
"Can you blame him?" Ark is fighting back tears. "We missed you Sanne. We were all so scared."
"I'm sorry." Sanne starts to tear up again. She was scared. Was the life she knew a dream? Had she lost the men she loved? And what would happen now? Would she be allowed to go to Kadic Academy or go home far away from her friends and the Factory?
"Don't be buddy." Skitz hugs Sanne hard. She whispers in her ear. "We all love you and are glad you're ok."
"I know Skitz. I love you to." Sanne is able to hold back her tears as she hugs Skitz.
The next few days were lonely and slow. The others would be back on the weekend but for the rest of the week it was just her parents. Sanne and Aelita had talked with Jeremie and he had agreed she could go to Kadic Academy after spending a week at the home in Paris once she left the hospital.
The week at home was incredible for Sanne. Her room was nice and comfortable. She could wear what she wanted, eat what she wanted. She could do what she wanted. Of course that was to go to the Factory but her parents wouldn't let her leave the house unless it was to go to the hospital.
Finally the day came. She was going to go to Kadic Academy. "Who's my roommate?"
"Well, we aren't sure." Jeremie smiles. "But I'm sure you'll get along with them." Jeremie still didn't want Sanne to go but he also wanted Sanne to live a normal life. She wanted to go to school like a normal person and so he was going to let her go. "Are you ready?"
"Yes daddy." Sanne hugs her father. "Thank you."
"You're welcome Sanne." Jeremie kisses her on the forehead. "If you ever need anything just call ok?"
"Ok daddy." Sanne and Jeremie take Sanne's things out to the car. Aelita was already behind the wheel ready to go.
"Aelita could you please go slow?" Jeremie gets in the passenger seat and puts his seatbelt on.
"Ok." Aelita takes off for Kadic Academy at an extreme speed.
At Kadic Academy, after Jeremie catches his breath, he helps Sanne carry her things up to the room that was to be her home for the rest of the school year. "Sanne!" Skitz jumps off of the bed and nearly tackles Sanne.
"Skitz, I, you're my roommate?"
"I guess." Skitz hugs Sanne hard. "Hi Aelita, Jeremie, what's wrong with you?" Aelita laughs.
"Jeremie told me to drive slowly so I only went one hundred fifty instead of two hundred kilometers an hour."
"On those roads? Psycho." Skitz and Aelita laugh.
The first week things were hard for Sanne. Dealing with classes, new people, and Ms. Delmas. But what was really hard was that the group wasn't a group. Ark was sitting with his current girlfriend. Skitz told Sanne it was his seventh one this school year. Skitz was the only one who would sit with her as Krieger sat with his current girlfriend, his third this year. When conversation came around to Skitz and her relationships she would change the topic. But a main problem was that Sanne couldn't get to the Factory. With so much back homework, special lessons from professors, and just plain life she never had a chance to get there. She was glad for the help from the professors. She was sure Jim had talked to them and they agreed to it. But she could never get a minute alone. It was also hard to explain how she knew where everything was. One time she knew where the girls' bathroom was on the third floor of the main school building when Skitz couldn't find it.
When Sanne did get time alone she looked for Mira, and found her. Mira had no idea who Sanne was and never even talked to Ark. Sanne then found Sora who turned out to have dated Krieger before he broke up with her and started dating her roommate. But she couldn't find Barack. Barack should have been there but for some reason he wasn't there.
Near the end of November Sanne got a chance. She couldn't get away from Skitz so decided to bring her along. Skitz had seemed to grow attached to Sanne. Sanne figured it was because of her near death experience and Skitz was scared that something else would happen to Sanne. "Come on Skitz I know this really cool place. I promise you'll like it."
"Oh fine. I can't believe you got through all of that homework already. I'd be doing it until the end of the school year."
"No you wouldn't Skitz. We knew that stuff already. The professors helped me to." Sanne leads Skitz to the woods and finds the sewer entrance.
When they get to the end of the sewer passage Sanne is starting to sweat. This would be it. This would prove whether or not it was all just a dream or not. "See Skitz? The Factory."
"What Factory?" Skitz is confused.
"Thee Factory." Now she gets it.
"Sanne those were stories. You were just dreaming."
"Come on I'll show you!" Sanne runs across the bridge and jumps down swinging on the rope. It felt incredible for her. She runs over to the elevator as Skitz follows her. "Crap I can't remember what the code is to unlock it. We'll just take the long way around." Sanne runs and Skitz continues to follow.
"Whoa." Skitz pushes the door in the boiler room open and finds a narrow hallway. They walk down it and it opens up into the Control Room.
"I told you!" Sanne runs over to the computer chair. "This, this isn't mine." It was the original one. She sits down and puts the headset on. "Dante, please answer me Dante." Nothing. "Skitz, go down and turn the Super Computer on." Skitz goes down to the Super Computer Room and when she turns the Super Computer on a screen comes up and it is Dante, or is it?
"What the hell do you want?!" It looked like Dante but his voice was anything but. "Little girl who are you!?"
"Dante it's me, Sanne." Sanne hears Skitz climb up the ladder. "And this is Skitz."
"How dare you call me be such a common name! I am Xana, Lord of Lyoko!" Skitz and Sanne back away from the screen. "Let me out of this Tower! I'll give you power, lots of power!"
"No way Xana!" Skitz yells at the screen. "Sanne you were right, Xana is real. Lyoko is real. But he's trapped in the Super Computer."
"But, Dante." Sanne reaches towards the screen and puts a hand on it. "Dante this can't be true."
"Stop calling me that!" Sanne jerks her hand away. "Let me out!"
"Never." Sanne knew the code, Code Xana, would release him. But unlike last time there was no innocent boy trapped in a Tower. This was Xana. The being that had killed thousands. The being that had spent months trying to… No, that world didn't exist. He had never tried to capture her. He had never caused a Zombie outbreak. He had never tried to kill her friends with loud music or possessed cars or killer snow. "Goodbye Xana." Sanne stands up and goes over to the elevator. "Come on Skitz." Skitz follows her.
"I can't believe you were telling the truth."
"I, it isn't, wasn't, completely." Sanne is confused. Xana was real but her world that she could remember wasn't. "So I guess you'll never meet Barack."
"I don't care. I wouldn't like him anyways."
"What? Skitz in my dreams you two were in love."
"In your dreams. This is the real world." Skitz turns towards Sanne. "And I, I'm in love with someone else."
"What? But you said you don't have a boyfriend."
"I know."
"Then how can you…" Sanne doesn't finish her sentence as Skitz kisses her. Sanne is so shocked she doesn't push Skitz away until a few seconds passed. "Skitz I, um." Sanne doesn't know what to say.
"I'm sorry!" Skitz hugs Sanne. "I shouldn't have done that. I don't know what I was thinking."
"No I, its ok Skitz." Sanne didn't know what to think. She had once felt something for Skitz, in the other world. She had been scared when Skitz read her diary that Skitz would read about how she felt for her. But then there was stuff with Krieger, and Dante. But Dante was still Xana in the real world and Krieger was with Maria. "I was just surprised." Sanne hugs Skitz back then kisses her on the cheek. "This is the real world. I, well, I don't know. We can um, I don't know."
"What do you know?"
"I know that I um, well you're my friend so of course I like you but I don't know if I like you like that." Skitz pulls away from Sanne blushing bright red. "But I might. I don't know." Sanne thinks about how she once felt about her best friend. The one who would hold her after a nightmare. The one who would comfort her after a Xana attack nearly killed her. She had felt so strongly for Skitz then but it was never more then a strong friendship. In that world, dream. But this was the real world. Here she didn't have Krieger or Dante. Hell she barely had her friends since they were busy with their girlfriends. All she had here was Skitz. Sanne starts to tear up. Here she didn't have Xana trying to kill her. Sora wasn't a slave to Xana. Naia was alive and well at her school. But she didn't have Dante or Krieger. She barely had Krieger and Ark in the real world. The attacks had kept the group close and without Xana the group was little more than a loose association. She didn't know what was worse. A world without danger or a world without her friends or her love. Sanne feeling alone and desperate hugs Skitz and kisses her. She couldn't lose Skitz. She was all she had in the real world.
That night Sanne was in her bed curled up into a ball crying. Sanne was confused and scared. She liked that Xana wasn't attacking in this world but she missed the closeness of her friends. She had fewer friends in the real world. Right now she only had Skitz who was taking a shower. Sanne never felt so alone.
The following week was a clash of emotions. Sanne hated the real world and loved it. She loved that Xana was not attacking. She loved that she was safe and never had to worry about her friends being killed by an attack. But she hated that the group wasn't a group. She hated that Dante was still Xana's host. She hated that Krieger was with another girl. Sanne had done things with Skitz but knew she didn't love her like she had Krieger, and Dante.
Finally Sanne can't take it anymore and goes to the Factory. She goes down to the Control Room and puts the headset on. "Xana?" The screen appears.
"What do you want?!"
"I want to make a deal with you."
"What can you offer me? What do I have that you want?!"
"I want Dante free and you want to be free. If you leave Dante alone and never make him your host again I'll let you out."
"You can't free me! You don't know the code to let me out!"
"Yes I do. I promise Xana, you let your son go and I'll free you."
"If you free me from this Tower I will leave this pathetic body. His powers have weakened being locked in this Tower. He's useless to me!"
"I know." Sanne brings up a screen. "Code Xana." The screen flashes and Xana starts to laugh evilly.
"Thank you little girl, you can have this boy." A black mist leaves Dante's body and exits the Tower.
"What, what is going on?" Dante looks around. "Who are you? What have you done!? You let Xana free!"
"Don't worry Dante we'll beat him." Sanne is ready to cry. "Dante I, I can bring you to Earth right now. Do you want to come?"
"Watch out!" Dante points behind Sanne and she turns around to see Xana.
"Xana I, what are you doing?"
"Now that I am free I am going to make sure I can take my time before exacting my revenge. First I must kill anyone who could expose me."
"No I, please Xana. You want me for a host. My powers will make you a God." Sanne can't believe she is saying this but she doesn't want to die.
"What powers could a little girl like you have?"
"I'm the daughter of Aelita, the granddaughter of Sanne. I have powers that scare you."
"Then we shall find out shall we?" Xana turns into a black mist and attacks Sanne.
"No, I didn't want this!" Sanne struggles but can't fight Xana off.
A/N That's right! Fake world first and now the real world. Or is it? Maybe both are real, or fake… Mwahahaha! Also, this episode was brought to you by 4 reviews on my original. So now next update on Nov. 4th