Code Xana Episode 95: iNFECTION
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 1-94
Sanne and Krieger are on the Jjet alone. Jeremie was at work, Aelita was busy at something or other, and the Sterns had left the day before. After a week that started badly things only got worse. Sanne kept trying to fix things but Krieger kept pushing her away. Sanne gave up after four days and locked herself in her room for the rest of the vacation. She was able to use a computer in there to talk to Dante and work on a new program. After a couple attacks while away it was needed more than ever. What she and Dante hoped would be the end all to everything. Sanne is now on her Jtop working on a final touch ignoring Krieger who was staring out the window wondering how much longer it would take.
At Kadic Academy Ark is beating the Jpocket against a wall. "She's coming back today and I haven't been able to do a damn thing!" He hits it again. "Stupid password. Should have tricked Mira into getting it somehow." Ark slams the Jpocket down again. "Damn it!" Ark gives up.
An hour later the Jjet lands in Paris. Jim and Samantha pick the two teens up and take them back to Kadic Academy. "So did you two enjoy your vacations?"
"Yes." Both teens sound horribly unconvincing.
"What all did you do?" Jim tries to make small talk but it doesn't get anywhere with the two.
Soon they arrive at Kadic Academy. Krieger goes to his room as Sanne goes to her to find a surprise. "whose stuff is this?" The bed had been used, there were clothes that she knew weren't hers on the floor. She finds a book and looks at the name inside the cover. Mars Jacobson?" A student she didn't know. "What is her stuff doing in my room?" Her question was soon answered when the door opened and a girl with bright red hair comes bounding in.
"OhhiyoumustbeSanne!" She smiles and sticks her hand out. "I'mMarsIwasinasingleroombutthenyourroomopenedup!" Her bubbly voice gets on Sanne's nerves immediately. "YouwereawayonvacationIheardyourlastnameisBelpoislikeJeremieBelpoisisthattrue?"
"Uh, yes. I," Before Sanne can say anymore Mars bursts into giggles.
"Mymomanddadbothworkforhim! Wowwe'relikesisters!" Mars hugs Sanne hard. "Iknowwe'relikegoingtobethebestoffriends!"
"Uh, speaking of friends I need to go see mine." Sanne rushes out of the room not taking time to pack.
Mira is in her room when Sanne knocks on the door. "Hello?" The door opens. "Oh hi Sanne you're back."
"Yes, um, where's my Jpocket?"
"Oh Ark has it. It was the only way I could get him to go to Lyoko." Mira sits up from her bed. "Is that ok?"
"I, what did he want it for?"
"I don't know. But he never figured the password out."
"You never told him the password?"
"I couldn't, I forgot it." Mira looks away a little embarrassed.
"But, how? It's so easy."
"Why I didn't ask. Just waited for it to beep then hurry to the Factory." Mira smiles. "Are you mad?"
"No. I, where's Ark?"
"Probably in his room." Mira rolls her eyes. "He doesn't even want to talk to me much. He really hates you."
"I know. I wish he didn't."
"What about Krieger? Did you work things out with him?" Sanne slowly shakes her head no. "Well, what did you expect?"
"I don't know. I love him. But he hates me. I still have Dante though." Sanne sighs
"Do you? I mean you two, have you done stuff?"
"Well yes but never past second base." Sanne blushes a little. "I don't want to talk about it."
"Ok, well, I'll call Ark." Mira gets her phone and calls Ark. "Ok, she'll be right up." They hang up. "He's waiting." Sanne leaves Sanne's room and goes up to Ark's room.
"Here," Ark shoves it into her hands then slams the door shut in her face nearly hitting Sanne.
"Thanks." Sanne knew both boys didn't like her but she didn't expect the door slammed in her face. She goes down the hall and calls Dante needing to hear his voice. "Dante?"
"Yes Sanne, are you ok?"
"Yes Dante I got back a few minutes ago. I finished some touchups on the new program."
"Good, if you want you can come here now."
"Ok, I'll be there in a few minutes. I love you."
"I love you too, missed you so much Sanne." They hang up.
Sanne heads for the Factory. Krieger sees her running into the woods from his window. "Couldn't even wait an hour." Krieger lies back down on his bed. "I knew it." He sighs.
Sanne gets to the Factory with her Jtop. She takes the elevator down to the Control Room. When she sees Dante her knees go weak. She runs over to him and kisses him hard. "I missed you so much.
"I did to." Dante and Sanne kiss for a few minutes. The world is gone, Xana, friends, Krieger, Naia, all don't exist as they kiss.
"Ah, isn't that adorable?" Xana watches. "Should I attack? No, too obvious." Xana stops watching and goes back to Lyoko.
After they kiss, and grope, and kiss some more Sanne tells Dante about how she finished the program. "Now all we need to do is set it into the Core of Lyoko. Doing that will infect Xana fast and destroy him."
"Are you sure Sanne? If it infects the Super Computer we will be destroying Lyoko."
"I am sure." Sanne opens her Jtop and shows the program to Dante. "See? Perfect."
"Wow Sanne if we, if we got it to the Core it would work!" Dante hugs Sanne and kisses her. "We should do it as soon as possible!"
"Yes, before Xana realizes what we have." Sanne gets her Jcell out. "I'll call Krieger while you call Barack, then Ark. I'll call Mira." They make their calls. It is a little hard to convince Ark and Krieger but when they hear The End they go.
Sanne is starting to get nervous. She loads the new program to the Super Computer from her Jtop. "If this works we'll be able to dedicate our time to finding and getting Naia."
"I know." Dante also knows that Sanne is scared about that.
"I, what will you do?" Tears start to form in her eyes.
"I am sorry but I, I would have to tell," Sanne is about to break down. "Tell Naia that I love you Sanne." Dante kisses Sanne on the forehead. "I was in love with you first. I will always love her but not as much as I love you."
"I, I love you too Dante." Sanne hugs him hard and knows this is it. Things with Krieger were over. Even if he wanted her back she wouldn't go to him. Dante loved her so much and there was just something there. What she didn't know. "I love you so much. I, not tonight, I'm sorry but they moved someone into my dorm room." Sanne sighs.
"They did? While you were gone?" She nods. "That takes in air, no, sucks." Dante laughs a little.
"Yes it does take in air." Sanne laughs more at the joke. "The others will be here soon. But Dante I, this weekend, I could sneak out and we could go somewhere." Sanne hopes Dante gets what she is implying but he doesn't.
"There are many places to go. But at night it is dangerous."
"No Dante somewhere, like a hotel." Sanne emphasizes the last word. "A place with a bed."
"I think I know what you are implying. Um Sanne I do not know if I am ready for that."
"Are you sure? I, after a week without you I know I am ready."
"If that is what you want."
"And what you want."
"Then ok." Dante and Sanne hug when the alarm sounds. "Mira made it. We just need to wait for the others." The elevator moves and soon Mira joins the two in the Control Room.
A few minute later Barack arrives and even before he gets off of the elevator the other two arrive. "Ok, um, Scanner Room." Sanne sits down in the computer chair and the other pile onto the elevator. They take it down to the Scanner Room and soon get in the Scanners. Transfer Dante, Transfer Mira, Transfer Barack, Scanner Dante, Scanner Mira, Scanner Barack, and virtualization." They land on Lyoko in the Forest Sector. Transfer Ark, Transfer Krieger, Scanner Ark, Scanner Krieger, and virtualization." They land next to the others. Soon the vehicles then Sanne appear.
"We're going to the Core. You turned the program on right Sanne?" She nods. Dante gets on the Overwing. Sanne starts to go over to the Overbike when Krieger glares at her. She goes over to Dante on the Overwing.
"The core? That means the maze, and the traps." Mira goes over to Ark and gets on his disc. "I hate that place."
"But we set up a program to lead us to the Core." Sanne and Dante take off for the Castle in the Sky. The others follow after them.
When they get to the entrance of the Castle they see a white line leading into the Castle. "We know what to do." They all get off of their vehicles and climb single file through the entrance.
"Wow, he changed it again." Sanne looks around the new entrance chamber. "We better be careful." Sanne stops as Krieger and Ark take the lead. She couldn't be taken out. She would be the one to put the new program into the Core. The virus program would infect Xana and destroy him once and for all!
"What is this?" Xana notices the presence of the Lyoko Warriors in his Castle. "Why are they here? Curious isn't it?" Xana talks to himself as he feels the Lyoko Warriors move through his castle.
Traps are activated but Ark is using his spear to tap the floor to make sure no one is taken out.
After awhile the Lyoko Warriors start to get worried. "Are you sure we aren't lost?" Mira has her Kodachi out.
"I'm sure. He made the Castle bigger on the inside." Dante knows they were close though. He could feel the Core of Lyoko calling out to him. "Sanne, do you hear it?"
"Is, is that the Core?" Sanne could hear a whisper but wasn't sure if she was really hearing it. Dante nods. "We're close." Sanne gets even more nervous. This would be it, the end of Xana.
They keep going through the maze and then it opens into a chamber. "There it is." In the middle of the chamber was the Core and Xana.
"And what do you think you are doing?"
"Destroying you once and for all Xana!" Sanne sparks with energy. All she had to do was touch the Core. "This is it Xana, surrender and I might make it painless!" Sanne concentrates on her energy and emotions. She just had to remember how much she hated Xana for her powers to grow.
"Oh no I am so scared, not!" Xana sparks with energy.
"You should be." Dante steps towards Xana. "I may not be as strong as Sanne but I can hurt you." Dante has to try harder but knowing when he was first on Earth that Xana made him kill people he starts to spark with energy. "I hate you!"
"But without me you would not exist."
"Shut up!" Dante turns towards the other Warriors. "Kill him!" Dante charges Xana. Mira and Barack follow. Sanne's wings explode from her back causing Ark and Krieger to charge Xana.
"Kill me? That is impossible!" Xana sparks with energy and attacks the Lyoko Warriors. His energy quickly knocks Barack and Mira away. Dante is able to use his limited energy to block an energy bolt. He lunges at Xana.
"Die!" Dante struggles but Xana is too strong and knocks him away.
"Super Leap!" Krieger lunges and shoves his sword into Xana's chest. "I see your orbs!" Krieger slashes Xana's chest open and reaches for an orb but Xana sends an energy bolt out knocking Krieger back.
"You bastard! My sister never would have done drugs if it weren't for you!" Ark attacks with his spear.
"Oh she would have. Your sister is weak. She would have fallen to the temptation sooner or later." Xana grabs the spear and rips it out of Ark's hands. "You can't destroy the Core!"
"Who said that was the plan?" Sanne dives for the Core. She reaches out for it but Xana sticks his hand out and forms a shield around the Core.
"You won't touch it!"
"I will! It is calling out to me!"
"It is not it says nothing!"
"Just because you can not hear it does not mean I can't." Sanne sends an energy beam at Xana but he blocks it.
"Foolish girl!"
"No foolish Xana!" Dante sparks with energy and attacks Xana. Xana is distracted and drops the shield around the Core. Sanne flies down to it and places her palm on it. A screen appears and data scrolls across it.
"It is done, we win." Sanne is ready to celebrate. But it would be too soon. The screen closes as Xana starts to shake.
"A, A virus? No, won't work." Xana sparks with energy and tries to fight the virus. He explodes with energy knocking everyone away from him. "It will not work!" Xana goes to the Core and touches it. A new screen appears. "Run Clearance System, Activate, Scan, run!"
"No, stop him!" Sanne takes off into the air and goes after Xana again. "You won't fight it Xana!"
"Oh but I will. In fact I may have already cleaned myself of it." Xana starts to laugh when the screen flashes. "What is this?" The screen flashes again. "Oh no, you fools!"
"What?" Sanne stops and hovers over Xana sensing something was wrong. "What did you do?"
"It is what you did! The virus, I fought it off but now it has infected the Super Computer! Lyoko will be destroyed!"
"You fought it off it is your fault!" Dante can hear from the Core the pain it felt. "You have destroyed Lyoko!"
"Shut up Son! This is your fault!" Xana's Castle starts to break apart. "My home is falling apart! You fools!" Xana turns into a black mist and disappears.
"We need to get out of here." Krieger jumps out of the way of falling section. "Now!"
"What is going on?!" Mira shouted as she tried to clear the glare from her eyes. the castle was falling apart, huge stone blocks broke free as it crashed onto the floor of the Forest Sector. Sanne stood up and looked back at the core. As the virus spread and mutated it took on a crystalline property, spars of bright neon crystal shot out of the core and impaled the floor of the Castle.
"I need to get to a control panel!" Sanne starts to run for the tunnel they came in from when a section collapses in front of it. "Frak!"
"Sanne we need to get off of Lyoko! If it disappears while we are on it we will die!" Dante doesn't want to lose her.
"I won't leave, I will save Lyoko. If we lose Lyoko we lose Naia." Sanne sparks with energy and flaps her wings moving up towards the ceiling. More sections fall until there is a hole. "You can go back to Earth I will save Lyoko." Sanne flies out of the Castle and sees the Forest Sector. Vines seem to be growing out of the trees as the trees grow branches and warp. The Castle starts to fall out of the sky and merge with the Forest Sector. Suddenly monsters appear everywhere but instead of attacking Sanne they attack each other!
Inside of the castle Krieger strikes Ark, then Barack. "Come on Mira get over here!"
"We have to do something!" Mira wants to help save Lyoko but is helpless. "Dante what do we do?"
"You go back to Earth." Dante points his wand at Mira and hits her with an energy orb. "You to Krieger."
"Don't talk to me scum." Krieger is hit with an energy orb and goes back to Earth leaving Dante and Sanne on Lyoko.
"I must do something." Dante isn't sure how to get out when a tree breaks through the bottom of the castle and makes an opening. He runs, jumps, and then slides down the tree.
Sanne flies looking for the Way Tower dodging branches and vines as they appear. "Aaaa!" Sanne clips her wing on a branch and falls towards the Sector. She flips over and opens her wings gliding down.
"No, those fools, they won't listen to me!" Xana flees Sector 5 when his monsters turn on him. "I will need help!" He goes back to the Forest Sector and finds his son. "Dante, you need help!"
"Stay away from me Xana!"
"No, you don't understand! My monsters won't listen to me! If I can not control them then they will destroy Lyoko! I will make a deal posses you and use my powers to save Lyoko and I will leave you afterwards!"
"If you want to save Lyoko you must get something out of it. Maybe we will need it to be destroyed."
"No! What about Naia? What if the virus spreads to her?" This gets a reaction from Dante. "That's what I thought, my deal still stands!"
"Ok Xana." Xana turns into a black mist and enters Dante. They fly for the Way Tower not having clumsy wings to worry about.
Sanne dodges another branch when she gets tangled in vines. "I need help!" She struggles when someone appears.
"I don't know what you did but I'm back!" Naia appears! But she is not the white mist. She is in the form that she saw. "I'll help you!" Naia tears at the vines and finds she has incredible strength. She sparks with energy, white energy. "No, you deserve to die!" Naia attacks a helpless Sanne.
"No!" Sanne sparks with energy and pushes Naia away. "I need to get to the Way Tower!"
"I'll kill you!" Naia lunges at Sanne again.
"Stop it!" Sanne feels energy pulse into her wings and breaks through the vines. "I have to save Lyoko or you'll die!"
"I don't care!" Naia has an aura of white energy around her. "I'll take you with me!"
"No, the virus." Sanne understands the virus has infected Naia. "Naia you'll be destroyed! We, we have to fix you first!" Sanne has to find the Way Tower to try and do to Naia what Xana had done to himself. But this would not be made easy as more trees and vines grow turning the Forest Sector into the Rain Forest Sector and Naia chasing after her.
Dante, Xana, enter the Way Tower. They go up to the second platform and go to the control panel. "Yes, fix Lyoko, and take Sanne's powers!" Xana activates the Way Tower and uses its powers to try and stop the spread of the virus.
Sanne dodges more branches and vines with Naia hot on her trail. "Naia stop this!"
"Never Sanne! You stole Dante from me! For that you will die!"
"You're only saying that because of the virus!" Sanne dives and goes below the Sector and finds fewer branches and vines. She had given up on finding the Way Tower. She had gotten lost in the Rain Forest Sector. Now she just wanted to live and save Naia from certain death.
Dante/Xana is fighting the virus. They use the Way Tower's power to slowly clean Lyoko. "Ice Sector cleaned." They start on the next Sector.
In the Ice Sector giant ice pillars have formed.
In the Mountain Sector the paths have all but disappeared leaving only floating platforms.
In the Desert Sector these missing paths appear to have moved there as mountains form. Ridges, cliffs, rock formations form all over changing the landscape of the Desert Sector.
And in the new Rain Forest Sector trees and vines form making it hard to fly for Sanne.
In the Way Tower Xana/Dante clean the Mountain Sector. The monsters still attacking each other realize where Xana is and attack the Way Tower. Most of the lasers just hit it harmlessly but the Mega Tanks roll up and fire. "We must hurry!"
Sanne clips a wing on a branch and starts to fall towards the Digital Sea. "Aaaa!" She tumbles helplessly.
"Die Sanne!" Naia starts to laugh evilly but the Digital Sea starts to change! The incomprehensible information changes and turns solid! Sanne bounces off of it hard but not dead!
"The virus did this? Incredible it was more powerful than I thought. But Xana was more powerful." Sanne takes off into the air. She looks up and sees the sky has changed into a strange static. "Oh Gods what have I done?" If Lyoko was destroyed it would be on Sanne.
Xana/Dante cleans the Desert Sector and now work on the new Rain Forest Sector.
"Get back here!" Naia chases after Sanne. "You must pay for what you have done!"
On Earth the Lyoko Warriors start to worry. "What are they doing on there?" Ark shrugs.
"Couldn't tell you Barack. The traitor is probably trying to find a way to hurt one of us."
"Ark, Sanne is not a traitor." Mira rolls her eyes. "She's our friend. Skitz needed help and I'm sorry Krieger but she does seem to love both of you."
"How would you know Mira?" Krieger stares daggers at her.
"She told me. She loves you more. She would break up with Dante if you would take her back." Mira doesn't know Sanne had made her decision.
"Well too bad. She cheated on me I will never forgive her." Krieger crosses his arms not worrying so much about Sanne or Dante.
Xana/Dante finishes the clean of the Rain Forest Sector and works on Sector 5. "Almost done then I will trick Sanne! She will kiss me and I will enter her!" Xana/Dante laughs evilly.
Sanne turns in the air and sends an energy beam at Naia. "Stop this Naia! I don't want to hurt you!"
"You already have!" Naia tackles Sanne and they fall through the air. They slam into the hardened Digital Sea.
"I'm sorry!" Sanne sparks with energy and pushes Naia off.
In the Way Tower Xana/Dante finish. "That was easy. Now I must go find, no!" Xana/Dante shakes then breaks apart.
Dante falls out of the Scanner unsure of what had happened.
Sanne and Naia continue to fight when Xana appears. "I had to keep my end of the deal! But I will have you now!"
"No she is mine to kill!" Naia turns on Xana and attacks him. They wrestle and Sanne flies away. She dives through trees and vines finding a Tower. It wasn't the Way Tower but any would do. She flies inside and uses the control panel to send herself back to Earth.
In the Control Room the group discusses what happened. "And he kept his deal? Wow." Mira and the others are stunned.
"He had to." Dante knew this. "Remember Franz said he built an honor code in Xana."
"Well yeah but he absorbed Franz." Sanne sighs. "And Naia, I saw her."
"I don't know what to do though. She is on Lyoko but we can't bring her back. And you said she was infected."
"Well, as amazing as all this is." Ark stares at Sanne and Dante. "I don't understand most of it. Since I can't do anything I'm going back." Ark gets on the elevator.
"I, I want to help but can't." Barack gets on the elevator.
"Neither can I." Mira gets on the elevator.
"We'll leave you two, two," Krieger doesn't want to say the words that he wants to. "Frak you, have fun together." Krieger gets on the elevator and pushes the button. The doors close and the group leaves the Factory.
"Sanne, it's ok." Dante puts a hand on Sanne's shoulder.
"I am ok." She turns around and hugs Dante. "I have you, love you."
"I love you two." They kiss. "We need to get to work."
"We need to see any changes that were made and maybe find Naia." Sanne sits down in the computer chair as Dante stands over her shoulder giving details and ideas.
A/N I would like to thank my Muse for help on this episode even if I only used a little bit of her suggestions to tweak this. Also my muse asked why it was so easy for Xana to fight off the Virus. They wanted to at least see Xana struggle a little. But I wanted to crush the group. They think a virus will destroy Xana. They take time, make one, and… Xana shrugs it off like nothing. Crushing the group's dreams of a quick ending and showing that a virus was not the answer. Also, sorry it took so long to update I've been so frakking busy I completely forgot about this. Working on my original so look for that by probably Sunday