Code Xana Episode 93: Check Mate
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 1-92
Sanne wakes up on the floor of the Scanner Room. Dante is over her shaking her. "Come on Sanne, wake up!"
"I am." Sanne sits up quickly. "Where am I?"
"In the Scanner Room." Sanne looks at Dante and sees bruises, cuts, and some dried blood. Krieger and Ark had beaten him pretty badly. "Are you ok? What happened to you?"
"I, Xana, my brain." Sanne touches her head. "He did something to my brain. I, I couldn't control myself then I felt something explode and I woke up in the other world." Sanne tells Dante what happened. Well of the attack. The rest she keeps out.
"I see. He sent you there. Maybe he wants you out of this world. Or he doesn't know that's where you go and, or," Dante thinks for a minute. "He could be trying to go there to join himself Or bring his other self here. With the added power he'd be unstoppable."
"So you think that world is real? What about this one?"
"I don't know Sanne. They could both be real." Dante hugs Sanne. "I'm sorry. I, I should have pushed you away. Said it was Xana."
"It was but it wasn't." Sanne hugs Dante back. "I love you Dante. I, Xana didn't make me kiss you he just made it so I didn't care that Krieger was there." Sanne kisses a bruise on his cheek. "I, you need to be scanned."
"I had to make sure you were ok." Dante kisses Sanne on the lips. "But yes I could use a scanning. My head hurts."
"It, it looks like they used it for a soccer ball." Sanne gets a bad look on her face that Dante doesn't like.
"Don't be mad at them. Krieger, he loves you. To see you kissing me made him mad. But I don't know what is going to happen now."
"I don't know either." If Krieger won't have me what will happen when we get Naia back? Will Dante leave me? "But let me go up to the Control Room so I can scan you ok?"
"Yes Sanne." Dante goes into the middle Scanner as Sanne goes up to the Control Room. She sits down in front of the control panel and scans Dante. "Thank you Sanne. Do you want to go do something?"
"I, not right now. I need to find Krieger and talk to him."
"Be careful Sanne. He hit you."
"He didn't hit me he pushed me. He won't hit me he loves me."
"I, yes. I'll, I want to go to Lyoko."
"Ok, get back in the Scanner and I'll send you." Dante steps into the middle Scanner again. "Transfer Dante, Scanner Dante, and virtualization." Dante lands on Lyoko in the Forest Sector and runs into the Way Tower. Sanne leaves the Factory to look for Krieger.
Krieger and Ark are in their room talking. "I told you man. My sister wasn't lying. For all we know Sanne lied about Skitz doing Jazz to get her sent home so she wouldn't tell you."
"I, I don't think Sanne would do that."
"You didn't think she'd cheat on you either."
"Damn it Ark I know! Alright? I'm sorry I didn't believe your sister. Sanne did cheat on me but why? And she kissed Dante when I was there. Do you really think Sanne would do that? Xana did something to her I know it."
"She's a slut. She's probably been having sex with Dante for weeks now if not months."
"No, she, she was a virgin our first time." Krieger clenches his hand into a fist. "Damn it!" Krieger punches the wall. There is another hard knock as Sanne knocks on the door. Krieger opens it and sees her. "What the frak do you want?!"
"I'm sorry Krieger! Please, listen to me."
"Why should he slut?" Ark stands up. "First you send my sister home then you cheat on Krieger! Or the other way around wasn't it?"
"Ark this doesn't involve you! Please, Krieger, I, alone."
"Fine, five minutes." Krieger follows Sanne to the stairwell.
"Krieger, I, I'm so sorry. I've been seeing Dante as more then friends for about a, well, since Naia disappeared. Never before that. And we've never had sex. I love you Krieger I really do but I also love Dante. I love him, but I love you! I really do love you and I don't want to break up with you. I'm so confused because I love you so much but then I love Dante and I, I," Sanne starts to cry. "Please don't break up with me. I'm so sorry but please don't break up with me. I need you! I really do Krieger but I'm, I, I'm sorry!"
"Frak you. How can you say you love me yet be with Dante? How can you say not to break up with you yet say you love Dante? Frak you, frak him. I hope you're happy with that half virus bastard. Love to see you bring him home to mom and dad. See how long it takes them to kill him thinking he's Xana."
"That's just it Krieger I, I don't want to marry him. I, it was stupid I'm sorry I'll break up with him! Please, Krieger, I love you." Sanne goes to hug Krieger but he pushes her away.
"Don't touch me." Krieger turns and walks out of the stairwell and goes back to his room.
"No, please." Sanne continues to cry. She never sees the black mist appear and attack her.
Dante is on Lyoko talking with Naia when he feels pulses. "Crap, have to go to Earth and call the others."
"Ok Dante, I'll go to the Tower and scout it out." Naia runs for the activated Tower following the pulses. Dante goes up to the second platform and sends himself to Earth. Before he gets his phone out a black mist attacks him.
Krieger is in his room punching his pillow. "She actually said she loved him!" Krieger punches the pillow hard imagining it was Dante's face.
"Man I'm sorry. We got to kick Dante's ass though. Notice that Barack and Mira didn't try to stop us?"
"Yeah!" Krieger punches the pillow again. "That bastard! He knew she was my girlfriend and he still went after her! He forgot about Naia and went after Sanne! She probably felt sorry for him!" Krieger punches the pillow again. He pulls his hand back to punch the pillow again when a black mist comes out and attacks him.
"Hey stop!" Ark goes to try and fight the black mist away when another one comes out and attacks him.
Mira is staring up at the ceiling wondering what was going to happen. The group was falling apart because of Skitz being sent home and now things were getting worse. Krieger and Ark beat Dante badly. Mira was scared they would kill him. She wanted to stop them but if she had tried she might have been hit. "What's going to happen? I don't want the group to fall apart. We need to stick together or Xana will win." Mira sighs and closes her eyes wondering more when a black mist comes out and attacks her.
Barack is in his room writing a letter to Skitz. He couldn't email her since Odd and Sandra had taken her computer. "She was right. I never would have thought that Sanne would cheat on Krieger. Things are going crazy." He continues to write when a black mist comes out and attacks him.
Sanne wakes up on Lyoko. "What is Xana doing?" She looks around and sees a strange tile. She looks down and sees herself in a dress. "What am I wearing?" She looks and sees Dante. He has a crown on his head and is wearing royal purple clothes. She continues to look around to sees two Krieger's in their Knight outfit, two Barack's standing strangely, and two Mira's wearing what looks like Bishop clothes. She looks in front of her and sees a bunch of Arks dressed in his regular outfit. "Guys, what happened?"
"I don't know." Dante is trying to stay calm. He looks at the different tiles. "Black and white, what is Xana doing? What has he done to Lyoko?"
"I have decided to play a game in my castle." Xana appears over the group. "A game of skill and team work. I have studied this game of royalty and I believe this shall be fun. If you are able to get the King to the other side of the board or get a check mate then you will be able to deactivate the Tower. If you fail, you die."
"Yeah right!" An Ark takes a step forward.
"You have made your first move, my turn now." Kankrelats appear, then two Blocks appear on the other side, followed by two Tarantula's, two Mega Tanks, an Assassin, and then Xana takes his place.
"Chess." Sanne is stunned. "Xana wants to play a game of chess." Sanne starts to panic. She was horrible at chess. "What do, can we do?"
"I play chess but Krieger beats me every time." All of the Ark's turn to the Krieger's. "What do we do?"
"I'll give you the orders. We have to wait for Xana to make a move." Krieger's and the others watch and wait. Soon a Kankrelat, Pawn, moves forward.
"What now Krieger?" Barack's are anxious to move.
"Ark uh, B3 to B4." An Ark moves forward. Soon another Kankrelat, Pawn, moves. "D2 to D4." Another Ark moves forward. Now a Tarantula moves forward as a Knight. "Uh, A2 to A4." Another Ark moves forward. Now a Block, Rook, moves forward then stops behind a Kankrelat. "A1 to A3." A Barack moves as a Rook. Now the Block moves to the side.
"Krieger he's going to take me." An Ark gets nervous.
"So? There are lots of you." Krieger has a plan. "A3 to F3." Barack moves. Now the Tarantula, Knight, moves so it will be able to take Barack next turn. "F3 to F4." Barack moves out of danger.
"Ah, a nice tactic. But not good enough!" Xana starts to laugh as a Kankrelat moves forward.
"He's going to use his Queen." Krieger gets nervous. "E2 to E4." An Ark moves. The Tarantula, Knight, pounces on it destroying him with lasers.
"Why did you do that?" Mira's get worried for the Ark.
"Because, watch. E1 to E4." Sanne moves forward and takes the Tarantula.
"Ah, yes. I was too anxious to take a Pawn and lost a Knight. But you are going to expose the King like that? I know you do not like him but if he dies I win." The Mega Tank, Bishop, moves.
"You'd like that wouldn't you? C2 to C3." An Ark moves forward.
"Krieger what are you doing?" Dante starts to get nervous. He was going to be exposed if Xana moved his Bishop to the right spot. "I, I'm sorry for what I did but you can't," Krieger cuts Dante off.
"Shut the frak up you bastard! You're lucky I don't kill you myself!" Krieger turns when he sees the Mega Tank move to where he wanted it to. "F4 to F9." Barack moves and takes the Mega Tank, Bishop.
"I again made a mistake. Too anxious to end this and win. I must be more patient." The Assassin, Queen, moves.
"C3 to C4." The Ark moves.
"Ah, not this time." Instead of moving his Queen to take the Pawn Xana moves a Kankrelat.
"Ok, I can't look into his eyes to try and see what he is looking at." And this was how Krieger always beat Ark. Ark would look at the piece he was planning on moving and Krieger was able to react like he was psychic. "E4 to G4." Sanne moves. Xana laughs and sends his Block out putting Sanne in danger. "I, no." Krieger looks at the Block. "G4 to F5." Sanne moves. "Nice try Xana but if I had tried to take it your Bishop would have taken her."
"But wouldn't you like her to be hurt? Revenge for what she did? Playing you like a fool. You won't hit her as you are too much of a gentleman but you could always get her hurt by me."
"No way. She's a Queen we need her." And that's the only reason I don't let her get taken by a pawn. "What's your move?"
"Impatient? Well then." The second Tarantula moves.
"F5 to D7." Sanne moves again into danger!
"Ah, take her and lose my Knight? Oh wait, it would expose, yes, I see your trap." Xana moves his Knight away.
"Damn." Krieger tried to end the game right then and there but Xana saw it. "D2 to D3." An Ark moves.
The next few moves pieces move across the board. Xana takes an Ark, Krieger takes a Kankrelat. Xana takes a Barack and Krieger takes the second Tarantula. A few more pawns on each side are lost until Xana moves a Mega Tank. "Check."
"Ha, D1 to D2." Dante moves. Xana moves the Mega Tank again.
"Check."
"G4 to H2." A Bishop, Mira, takes the Mega Tank.
"Damn." Xana starts to get mad. He sends his Assassin, Queen out.
"B5 to E5." Barack moves right in next to the Queen one tile diagonally.
"Krieger I am not that stupid." The Queen moves two spots forward.
"Yes you are." Krieger sends Sanne to take the Queen.
"Damn it! I should have taken the damn Rook!"
"Yes you should have."
"Ah, but you leave yourself open." The second Mega Tank moves and takes a Krieger. Xana has a new plan. First he needs to eliminate Krieger so the others will be leaderless.
"Crap." The last Krieger looks around. "If I move I lose Sanne. If I move her I lose the last Rook. Mira, uh, H2 to D6." Mira moves. A Pawn moves. "Ok, E4 to B4." Sanne moves. "Check."
"Ah yes. Well then." Xana moves.
"B4 to, no, A2 to C2." Barack moves. "Check."
"Good, goodbye." The last Mega Tank moves and takes Barack.
"I don't think so." Krieger pounces on the Mega Tank. "What happens if we wipe out all of your pieces?"
"A stalemate? Well, I'd lose I suppose." A pawn moves putting Sanne in danger. "Your move."
"I know." Krieger looks and decides to make a sacrifice. "D5 to E6." Sanne takes the pawn.
"So you did want her to hurt." A Block moves and takes her.
"Aaaa!" Sanne feels intense pain then blacks out.
"Got it." Krieger pounces on the Block. "Check." Xana moves. "H4 to E1." Mira moves. "Check."
"Hmmm, I see." Xana moves his last Block.
"I, no. E1 to D2." Mira moves. Xana moves the Block again. "D5 to D6." An Ark moves.
"Well if you won't do what I want then we'll do it like this." Xana moves the Block again putting Krieger in danger.
"Crap." Krieger knows this is it. If he moved Dante would be in danger and be taken. But if he doesn't, well, "Ark you take over. E3 to E4." Dante moves. "Don't let him move the Block again!"
"Shut up!" The Block moves and takes Krieger.
"Ah hell Krieger." The three remaining Arks look and wonder what to do. "Well, he said don't let the Block move again." Ark moves and takes the Block. "Come on Xana what now?"
"You will lose." Xana moves a pawn having lost all of his other pieces.
"Yeah right all you have are pawns! Uh, crap." Ark didn't know the coordinates of a chess board. "Uh, you," Ark points at a Bishop. "Move there." The Bishop, Mira, moves and takes a pawn.
"You are horrible at this game." Xana moves the same pawn. Ark moves some pieces, taking more pawns until there is only Xana and one pawn to go.
"Xana give up. All I need to do is move Mira down and take your pawn."
"Pawn? Obviously you have forgotten one rule of Chess. Once a pawn makes it to the other end I can replace it with any piece I want." The Kankrelat moves and morphs into the Queen, an Assassin.
"Of frak." Ark tries to think of a way to stop this. "Uh, you, over there." He moves a Bishop but the Queen takes it. "Crap." Ark is down to three pawns, a Bishop, and the King. "Uh, well, two can play at that game." An Ark moves forward. The Queen moves.
"Check."
"Uh, um, I guess you move there." The King moves. The Queen follows.
"Check."
"Uh, ok." Ark moves the King again but the Queen follows. "Damn it. Dante you're a genius get us out of this!"
"I have never played this game before. I do not understand the rules or know how to end this game."
"We have to get his King, Xana, into Check Mate. If we do then we win. Or get you to the other side of the board."
"I see. Well, I still do not know what to do."
"Fine, leave it to me." Ark growls a little. "Some genius you are." Ark moves Dante again but the Queen moves diagonally. "Crap if I don't stop the Queen it will get too close and be able to take the King." Ark moves Dante back. The Queen moves diagonally to get even closer and put the King in check. "I, no wait! B2 to E5!" The last Bishop moves and takes the Queen. Ark had almost missed it as he was focused on moving the King out of harms way. "Well Xana, that's not check mate that's stalemate." Ark gloats.
"Yes, yes it is. Very well. I made a deal. Of course how long will it take to deactivate the Tower? You will have to find it, get Dante there safely, all before I kill your friends."
"You wouldn't dare!" The chessboard shimmers then disappears to reveal a large room. The extra Arks disappear leaving Ark, Mira, and Dante. "Well Dante I guess we need to move fast." Mira takes the lead. Dante and Ark follow. Dante is nervous about Ark as the last time he has seen him Ark nearly kicked his head in.
Sanne and Krieger are on Earth arguing. Barack was trying to get them to stop but they wouldn't. "I can't believe you Sanne! You kissed him first! Why!?"
"Because I knew he needed it! I'm sorry Krieger I, I never meant for this to happen! I was planning on breaking up with him soon and then telling you! I swear I was going to tell you!"
"Yeah right you frakking liar! You cheated on me! How do I know you two didn't have sex!?"
"Because I, we didn't! I've only been with you Krieger and you're the only one I want to be with! Please, please don't break up with me. I love you, need you!" Sanne gets to close to Krieger and he pushes her away.
"Don't you touch me! Never touch me again Sanne! Next time you do I'll break your frakking hand!"
"No you won't Krieger you love me!" Sanne reaches for him but Krieger smacks her hand away.
"I thought I loved you. I thought you loved me. I thought we made love, had something special. But it was a lie!"
"No it wasn't! Please," Sanne starts to cry. "Krieger you can't leave me. I need you. I," Krieger cuts her off by putting a hand over her mouth.
"Shut, up. Never touch me or frakking say those words to me again. You don't love me. If you did you never would have kissed Dante and when you did you would have come to me and told me. Instead you sneak around behind my back!" Krieger pushes Sanne away.
On Lyoko the three are going through the maze quickly. "I think we take a left up here." Mira turns and activates a crushing trap. She jumps out of the way of the falling ceiling. "Yeah just like I thought." Ark and Dante wait for the trap to move up then follow Mira.
They continue through the maze dodging traps when they come out into a large room with several doors. "Ok, now where?" Mira looks around. "I don't remember this room."
"I do." Dante closes his eyes and concentrates. His powers were nothing like Sanne's. His powers had weakened over the years he was trapped in the Tower. It was after all why Xana left him. But he still had a connection to Lyoko. It was his home and he was part Xana no matter how many times Sanne said otherwise. "Follow me." Dante takes the lead now and runs through a door.
As Sanne and Krieger continue to fight Xana sends a black mist into Krieger. Sanne nor Barack see it. Krieger's emotions had driven Krieger crazy making it possible for Xana to posses him and so when Krieger punches Sanne hard in the face they believe it is Krieger. "Stop it right now!" Barack tries to push Krieger away from Sanne but Krieger kicks him between the legs dropping him to the floor.
"I can't believe it. She gets your girlfriend sent home and you protect her? We don't even know if Skitz was doing Jazz!"
"She was! We, I had stopped but she didn't." Barack holds himself trying to will himself to ignore the pain.
"She still ratted her out! And she was cheating on me the whole time and Skitz was the only one who knew!"
"Krieger I already said I was sorry!" Sanne is stunned that Krieger hit her. And this was no sparring punch this was a punch meant to hurt her. "Please forgive me! I love you!"
"I said never to say those words again!" Krieger lunges at Sanne and tackles her to the floor. "I'll make sure you don't say them again!" Krieger wraps his hands around Sanne's throat and starts to choke her.
"Stop!" Sanne struggles but can't break his grip. She wasn't strong enough. She can't breathe. Her head starts to spin. And that's when her mind flashes to a time she was training with Krieger. Sora had been watching. Krieger had her in a hold she couldn't break physically so had to try something different. So now Sanne starts to tickle Krieger hoping it would work.
"Not going to work you little slut!" Krieger stops choking Sanne but does this so he can use both fists on her.
"No!" Barack ignores his pain and jumps on Krieger. "Stop it Krieger you'll hurt her!"
"She hurt me first!" Krieger struggles with Barack and soon elbows him in the face breaking his nose.
On Lyoko Dante continues to lead the other two when they come out into another large room. "There it is." Dante points but the other two don't see it.
"What do you mean? There's nothing there." Ark walks forward and then falls through the floor! No, not the floor…
"It's an illusion. There is a bridge over there." Dante points then leads Mira over to it.
Ark falls out of the Scanner and sees Krieger on top of Barack punching him in the head. Sanne was on the ground curled up into a ball crying. "Krieger stop it!" Ark tackles Krieger to the floor. "What the hell are you doing? Barack isn't Dante!" Krieger struggles with Ark.
"He protected her! I was going to give her what she deserves and he stopped me! If you stop me I'll hurt you to!"
"Just try it buddy!" Ark and Krieger continue to wrestle on the floor.
Dante and Mira walk on the illusioned ground after Dante finds the bridge. They walk slowly when a Dragon appears. "Keep going Dante I'll block the lasers." Mira gets her Kodachi out just in time. The Dragon fires lasers and she blocks as best she can. "Hurry!" Mira takes a hit to the leg.
"Almost there." Dante zig zags with the bridge. "Made it." Dante enters the Tower as Mira is sent back to Earth.
"Aaaa!" Mira steps out of the Scanner to see Krieger beating on Ark.
"Stop it Krieger!"
"Another one, damn it how many do I have to beat down before I can give Sanne what she deserves?" Krieger's fists are bruised and covered in blood. Ark isn't moving on the ground. He stands up and walks towards Mira.
"No, Krieger, stop!" Mira is backed into the middle Scanner as Krieger advances on her.
"The Tower is deactivated." The screens fall around Dante. "I should go back." He uses the control panel to send himself to Earth.
"Dante." Mira turns and sees him step out of the left Scanner. "Krieger, he, he, look." Mira doesn't have to say this. Dante sees how badly beaten Barack, Ark, and Sanne are.
"This, no." Dante looks at Krieger who was passed out on the floor. "Did you hit him?"
"No he just collapsed!"
"Then it wasn't Krieger. Xana did something. Maybe, maybe Krieger couldn't, or didn't want to fight off a possession. So Xana was able to posses him and make him do this." Dante goes over to Sanne. "Sanne, are you ok?" She shakes her head. "You will be. Mira, help me." Mira helps Dante get Sanne, Ark, and Barack in the Scanners. Dante takes the ladder up to the Control Room and scans the three. "You guys should be ok now."
"What, what happened to Krieger?" Sanne looks down at him.
"Xana was able to posses him. Whatever he did to you wasn't him it was Xana. Get him in a Scanner so I can scan him."
"I, I'm not touching him." Sanne walks around Krieger to get to the ladder. She climbs up to the Control Room and goes over to Dante. "I, are you ok?"
"Yes. Krieger, then Ark, beat Xana." Dante scans Krieger. "Krieger do you feel alright?"
"Shut the frak up!" Krieger goes over to the elevator and pushes the button. The doors open and he gets on. Ark, Barack, and Mira follow him. They take the elevator up to the Factory floor then leave.
Back in the Control Room Sanne and Dante hug. "I, I'm sorry Sanne. Did you talk to Krieger?"
"I did and I, I," Sanne buries her face into Dante's chest. "I still love him but he hates me!"
"He doesn't hate you. He may hate me but he loves you."
"No he doesn't." Sanne cries. "I, you love me. I love you. Krieger hates me! And I deserve it!"
"No you don't Sanne. You're filled with so much love," Sanne finishes the sentence.
"That I can't give it all to one person." Sanne hugs Dante hard. "But it's all yours. Krieger hates me he doesn't even want me to touch him. But you do. You love me." Sanne kisses Dante hard on the lips. When they break the kiss Dante's heart is pounding fast.
"Yes I do love you Sanne." Dante puts a hand in Sanne's hair. "I want to make you feel better. Do you want to go out and eat?"
"I, give me a minute." Sanne stops crying. "I must look like a mess."
"You look beautiful." Dante kisses her lightly on the lips. "Where do you want to go?"
"Anywhere as long as you're with me."
A/N So now what? We shall see… Also, read my original! I put up a new chapter! R&R PLEASE!!!!