Code Xana Episode 96: Attrition
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 1-95
Sanne feels better now that she had decided to be with Dante and stop trying to fix things with Krieger. She had advanced her relationship with Dante physically and emotionally. Things were going better, somewhat. Ark still hated her. Krieger wouldn't talk to her, and her roommate… Well, Sanne was finding it hard not to make a deal with Xana to have him get rid of her. Right now she was dealing with what she called an invasion, playing off of the name Mars. "AndthenwecouldlikegotothepoolorsomethingcauselikeIdon'tknowtoomanypeopleherecauselikeIwasaloneinmyroomandpeoplealwayssaidtheywerebusywithhomeworkbutnowwecandoittogetherand…" For forty five minutes she had spoken and didn't seem ready to stop anytime soon. Sanne was wishing for a Xana attack when her phone rings.
"Hello?"
"Sanne, something strange…" It was Dante and Sanne cuts him off.
"I'll be right there!" Sanne hangs up on him. "I'm sorry Mars but I have to go." Sanne runs out of the room getting as far away from Mars as possible.
Once Sanne is well away from the Mars attack she calls Dante back. "What is it Dante?"
"Something strange is going on. I was going through the Super Computer and I found an error in the return program."
"Does that, does that mean we can't launch one?"
"I don't know. If we can't we're in trouble." Dante continues looking at the error. "Something we did with the virus."
"Something I did. It was my idea and my program."
"I helped you. It's on us if we can't launch one." Dante wasn't going to let Sanne take all of the blame. "Just, hurry here. We need to fix this."
"Ok, I'll be there as soon as possible." Sanne and Dante hang up. "This is so bad, no returns means, we have to be able to do returns!" Sanne hurries to the Factory through the sewers.
Xana was watching, wondering. "If they can not launch a return then I can threaten to expose myself to the original Warriors. What would they do to keep this from happening? I guess I am about to find out." A black mist comes out of a light and appears in the Control Room behind Dante. It forms into Xana. "Hello son." Dante turns around.
"Xana!" Dante gets out of the chair. "Stay back!"
"Oh Son you can not fight me. And neither can the original Warriors. I would like to seem them again after all these years. And you have to way to blank their memories now do you?" Xana smiles evilly.
"If you do that they'll beat you!"
"I doubt that. You children have not, at least the few remaining. How many have you lost now? Two dead and one in rehab? Tsk Tsk the others were so much better and they never had this kind of infighting."
"Shut up Xana! We'll win!"
"No, you will not. I however am going to Lyoko and think of an attack. I want it to be grand for when I expose myself to the original Warriors. Then they will come and destroy this group even more. And as for you, heh, they won't treat you as human will they? Would you try to be nice to them even as they treat you worse than an animal?" Xana breaks apart into a black mist and disappears.
"We can't let that happen." Dante needs to fix the return program as soon as possible. Of course he wasn't even sure that they couldn't launch one. The only way to find out would be to launch one but what if they found it had side effects? Or would only go back so far and it wasn't back far enough so they'd have to launch another? Either way Xana would get stronger.
Sanne gets to the Factory and takes the elevator down to the Control Room. "Dante get anything?" He shakes his head.
"Xana's planning an attack. He's going to expose himself to your parents. If we can't launch a return this could be the last time I get to see you." Tears start to form in Dante's eyes. "I, I don't want to be separated from you, ever."
"I don't either Dante. We have to fix this as soon as possible. I, go to Lyoko and I'll work from here. We can't let Xana do this." Dante gets out of the computer chair and takes the ladder down to the Scanner Room. Sanne sends him to Lyoko and he goes into the Way Tower in the Rain Forest Sector. "Ok let's see if we can't figure this bug out." Sanne and Dante get to work.
Thirty minutes later Xana is ready for his attack. Nothing major but enough. A Tower activated in the Rain Forest Sector.
At the Hermitage the house starts to shake. "What is going on?" Samantha comes down from her room and leaves the house. "An earthquake, well, out of the house." But the ground wasn't shaking. "This is not normal." She looks around for an explanation. A black mist forms in front of the Hermitage and morphs into a Block. "Xana!" Samantha starts to run away when the Block fires a freeze beam and gets her in the legs. "No, Xana, he can't be back!" Another black mist forms and morphs into Xana, Franz Hopper.
"Hello Sanne dear." Xana grabs Samantha's, Sanne's, face and makes her look him in the eyes. "Been too many years since I've seen you. I must say you have aged well. Few wrinkles here and there but no sagging and definitely do not look your age. Of course I have aged much better do you not agree?" Xana smiles evilly.
"You bastard how did you get out? Franz, Xana killed you."
"I am Xana you foolish woman. Franz was, sent away. I found him and now use him as my host. As for how I got out you can call our granddaughter and ask. Interesting story she will have to tell. As for I and my attack I must be off. Your new husband is still at Kadic Academy is he not?"
"Leave Jim alone!" Sanne spits in Xana's face.
"Foolish woman." Xana backhands Sanne across the face. It would have knocked her over except her legs were frozen. "You," Xana points at the Block. "Keep an eye on her." Xana turns into a black mist and disappears.
At Kadic Academy Jim is having his soccer team practice when a laser barely misses him. He turns around and sees a Block and two black mists. The black mists morph into two more Blocks. "Xana! Kids, get to the dorm buildings now!" Jim walks away from the students hoping to draw the Blocks away from them. "This can't be happening. Xana's dead." Jim dodges a laser but nearly hurts himself doing so. "I'm too old for this." Jim runs as the Blocks chase after him.
Sanne has called the others and is waiting for them when her phone rings. "Hi Grandma."
"You stupid little bitch! How could you let Xana out!?" Sanne pulls the phone away from her ear as Samantha continues to yell at her. Sanne puts it to her ear every few seconds to see if Samantha is done yelling. After about three minutes Samantha stop yelling.
"Grandma I'm sorry! We've been fighting him for months, I say we've been doing pretty well."
"That doesn't matter! You let Xana out! Now I'm stuck here frozen to the ground with a Block staring me down and I don't know what Xana is doing at Kadic Academy!"
"We're going to Lyoko to deactivate the Tower. Don't worry Grandma we can handle this."
"No you can't! How many are there!? What has he done!?"
"Well let's see," Sanne is trying to stay calm. If she panics it will only make things worse. "There's me, I deactivate Towers. So does Dante. Then there's Krieger, Ark, Mira, and Barack."
"Who is this Dante?"
"Uh, you know Xana's son?"
"Yes! Wait, why was Xana using Franz as a host!?"
"Because his son was weak from being locked up in the Tower. Xana left him, I freed him, and now he fights for us."
"You can't trust him!?"
"Yes, we can. He hates Xana as much as I do."
"He's his son he's tricking you!"
"He's been tricking us for months then. I know he hates Xana and loves me so don't worry about him."
"Loves you? What are you talking about!?"
"I, well, we're dating. Like my dad and mom."
"This is nothing like Jeremie and Aelita! What about Krieger!?"
"We broke up. Dante loves me and would never hurt me. Don't worry Grandma I'm sure whatever Xana does can be erased with a return."
"Oh but I will know, so will the others when a return is launched."
"I know but we've done well so far." Sanne crosses her fingers and hopes that if they could launch a return it would delete the memories of the parents. It would be horrible if they could launch returns but it didn't delete the memories of the Original Warriors. "I'm just waiting for the others to get here so we can go to Lyoko." Samantha continues to yell at Sanne.
Krieger gets to the Factory first. He doesn't want to go to the Control Room where Sanne would be but he wasn't going to stand around the Factory floor like an idiot either. When the elevator doors open Krieger steps off but doesn't say anything to Sanne. She turns around. "Krieger, I, go to the Scanner Room. I'll send you now." Krieger takes the elevator down to the Scanner Room and Sanne sends him.
Ark and Mira make it to the Factory and go down to the Control Room. Sanne tells them to go to the Scanner Room and soon they arrive on Lyoko. Now Sanne only needs to wait for Barack.
Barack is skating through the sewers after running into the Blocks at Kadic. He was burned badly by a fire ring but was able to keep going.
The alarm sounds alerting Sanne that Barack made it. She sends the vehicles then readies the auto transfer. The elevator doors open and Barack steps out. "Get back on, we're going now." Sanne starts the auto transfer and gets on the elevator with Barack. They take it down to the Scanner Room then run into the Scanners. Soon the doors close and they land on Lyoko with the others. "We have to go north."
"Wow." Barack and the others check out the Rain Forest Sector. Trees were thick with vines hanging down everywhere. Broad leaves blocked out the light coming from the center of Lyoko.
"Yes but we must hurry." Dante gets on the Overwing and Sanne gets on behind him. It was weird for both as the other Lyoko Warriors stare at them
Jim is running through the woods looking for the sewer entrance. Jim is getting tired already but the Blocks were after him. "Where is it? It was around here I know it!" Jim ducks as a laser flies overhead.
Samantha is getting cold. Her legs are frozen every few minutes as the ice melts. "Stop looking at me I'm not going anywhere!" Samantha yells at the Block but it doesn't move.
The Lyoko Warriors fly through the Rain Forest Sector being careful of the trees, branches, and vines. "At leas the monsters can't sneak up on us." Ark has his spear out and dodges a vine. "May not need them though."
"We still have to watch out for them." Dante is not going to be letting his guard down. Xana wouldn't make things easy.
Xana is watching using his powers. "Hmmm, something needs to be done." He sends monsters but not in the normal way.
As the Lyoko Warriors fly lasers start coming out of the trees. "Crap, how did he get them up there!" Barack dodges a laser. Sanne looks and sees them.
"Creepers!" She ducks a laser. "Bubble." The bubble comes up and blocks a laser. "This is bad, we should be able to outrun them."
"He's creating them as we fly." Dante gets his wand out and fires energy orbs into the branches.
"Scattershot!" Sanne fires and sees an explosion. But it didn't matter as Xana just made more.
Jim finds the sewer entrance and gets the cover off. As he climbs down a laser hits him in the side of the head and he becomes dazed. He loses his grip on the rung and falls to the sewer floor below. The Blocks can't fire down the sewer hole so Jim is safe, for now.
The Lyoko Warriors are dodging more lasers. Krieger has his shield up to block lasers. Sanne puts her Bubble up when she needs to. Barack just dodges them as does Ark and Mira.
Samantha is getting worse. "Please, I won't run away just stop freezing me!" Samantha is getting weak from being so cold. "I'm human you can't keep me this cold." The Block stares, Samantha thinks. "Please? I won't run away." The ice continues to melt and this time the Block doesn't freeze her legs. "Thank you." Samantha collapses to the ground.
On Lyoko the path opens up into a thinner group of trees. "The Tower is around here somewhere." Dante points his wand at a bunch of trees and fires. "He might be making it invisible."
"Got it," Barack fires lasers around seeing if he could hit it.
"Scattershot!" Sanne fires an energy and it breaks apart into several beams. One of them reacts strangely. "Found it!" Once Sanne says that three Dragons virtualize and the Tower becomes visible. "Crap."
"No problem, Super Leap!" Krieger leaps off of the Overbike. The Dragons scatter and he misses all three. He lands on a branch. "Super Leap!" He jumps off of it and slashes with his sword at a Dragon hitting a wing. The Dragon spins out of control firing lasers randomly.
"Alakazam!" An energy beam comes out of Dante's wand and misses the two remaining Dragon's.
"Mira, jump into the branches I need more maneuverability." Ark flies up to some trees and Mira jumps off of his disc. Ark takes off after the Dragons ready to use his spear on them if he is able to get close.
Xana, watching the Lyoko Warriors, decides to have some fun. Mira is in the trees with her Kodachi out but without a vehicle is pretty useless to fight the Dragons. A black mist appears behind her then forms into Xana. "And here you sit watching the action completely useless." Mira is scared so badly she nearly falls out of the trees. "Skittish little lamb aren't we?"
"Get away Xana!" Mira slashes at him but misses.
"I just thought you and the others would like to know that Sanne and Jim have been attacked." Mira is confused, Sanne is on Lyoko and Jim was, wherever.
"Xana are you stupid? Sanne's right here!" Mira slashes again then again. "Stand still!"
"No," Xana grabs Mira by the arm. "Sanne, the real Sanne, is on Earth. That second one is just pretending. She does not have the brains of the real Sanne. If she had made that virus I would be dead right now." Xana starts to laugh evilly when Ark sees him.
"Let her go!" Ark throws his spear at Xana. Xana catches the spear then skewers Mira with it.
"There Ark I have let her go." Xana sparks with energy then flies at Ark. Ark flies away on his disc and Xana gives chase.
Sanne realizes how stupid it was to have both her and Dante on the same vehicle. One hit on the Overwing and both she and Dante were stuck on foot. "I should have sent the rocket boots." Sanne's bubble protects the two but when they try to get close to the activated Tower the Dragons focused on them.
"Next time then." Dante fires energy orbs at the Dragons while Sanne keeps focus on her bubble.
Xana sparks with energy and freezes Ark's disc in the air. Ark flies forward and falls towards the path below. He reaches out for the edge and catches it. He starts to pull himself up when a Dragon shoots him in the hand and he loses his grip. "Aaaa!" He falls towards the Digital Sea. He tries to bring his disc to him but Xana is still using his powers to hold it in place. "Help!" Ark's shout alerts Krieger and Krieger jumps onto the Overbike. He activated the flight controls and goes after Ark but he can tell he'd be too late.
"Ark destroy yourself!" Ark doesn't have his spear and can't.
"Ow!" Ark lands on something hard. "Hey, what's this?" He stands up and finds the Digital Sea is hard, solid. "This is strange. Wait," Ark concentrates. "Sanne said the virus messed with the Digital Sea. Cool!" Ark jumps up and down on it as Krieger flies down.
"Get on you lucky monkey." Ark hops onto the back of the Overbike and Krieger flies back up to the battle.
Barack is firing lasers at the Dragons as Dante and Sanne use their distance attacks. When Krieger and Ark come back up Xana sends a bolt of energy at them and destroys the Overbike. "You must have dived fast to catch him."
"Surprised? Well Xana let me surprise you again, Super Leap!" Krieger slashes at Xana hitting him across the chest. Xana's chest spark and for a second Krieger can see two energy orbs.
"Nice attack, nice form. You are much better than when we first battled but I am Xana, God of Lyoko." Xana attacks Krieger.
"We have to do something!" Sanne doesn't want Krieger to fight against Xana alone. He would lose and Xana would hurt him badly.
"We have to deactivate the Tower." Dante stays calm and keeps control of the Overwing. "Alakazam!" He fires at a Dragon and the energy beam hits it. Missing the Eye the Dragon is only damaged. It fires at Dante and Sanne but Sanne puts her bubble up.
"Scattershot!" The energy beam breaks up into seven smaller beams and the damaged Dragon us unable to dodge them all and is destroyed.
"Sanne stay on I'm going for the Tower." Dante jumps off and lands near the Tower. Xana is busy playing with Krieger and Barack is attacking the last Dragon so Dante is able to make it into the Tower. He goes up to the second platform and puts his hand on the control panel. "The Tower is deactivated." The screens fall around him. "Return to the past now!" The white bubble comes up reversing time.
Unfortunately for Sanne this puts her in the middle of the Mars Invasion. "AndwecoulddoourhistorytogetherI'mnotverygoodwithitbutworkingtogetherwecangetitdoneextrafastthen…" Sanne grabs her phone and puts it to her ear.
"Uh huh, be right there." She pretends to hang it up. "Mars I have to go maybe another time."
"Ok and if you come back soon then…" Sanne runs out of the room then calls Dante.
"Dante it worked right?"
"As far as I can tell. I am not seeing any bad side effects. The error is still there. We should fix it in case the error takes time to show."
"Ok I'll be there." Sanne rushes off to the Factory.
Dante is getting worried. Xana had appeared just like before and said the same speech. How he was going to attack the original Warriors. But Dante knows Xana wouldn't attack so soon after. He leaves a message for Sanne and sends himself to Lyoko to get to work.
Sanne gets to the Factory and is working on fixing the error when the Super Scan detects an activated Tower, the same one! "What is Xana doing?" A screen appears on the monitor with Dante in it.
"Xana's attacking already. He might be planning something. You have to be careful Sanne."
"I know Dante I always have to be careful. I'm calling the others now we'll be there soon." Sanne calls her friends. They seem annoyed but it was Xana and they needed to stop him. Sanne sees Samantha is calling her and answers only to be yelled at. Instead of talking to Samantha or explaining things Sanne just hangs up on her. "Another return, damn."
The group is on Lyoko, this time Sanne sent the rocket boots and is trying to use them. "Hold on I'm having problems!" Sanne bounces off of a branch and nearly clothelines herself with a vine.
"We need to hurry we don't know what Xana is planning." Dante has his wand out already and is ready. Whatever Xana was planning couldn't be good.
On Earth the Hermitage shakes and Samantha leaves only to be frozen by a Block again.
Jim is running through the woods as three Blocks chase after him.
Back on Lyoko the Warriors with long distance attacks fire into the trees destroying Creepers. "He's repeating himself. Maybe he ran out of ideas." Ark makes a joke, a bad one.
"He does not run out of ideas." Dante fires energy orbs.
As they get closer to the activated Tower Sanne decides not to shoot the Tower. Last time it activate Xana's trap of the Dragons. If she just flies into it she should be able to deactivate the Tower without any monsters.
Sanne and the others get into the opened area. "Don't shoot!" She yells at Barack. "Last time it activated the Dragons. I'll just fly in and deactivate the Tower." Sanne flies towards where the Tower was and sure enough enters it. She goes to the middle of the platform but she won't move up. "What is going on? Why won't I go up?" Outside of the Tower things had gotten heated. When Sanne entered the Tower the Dragons appeared.
"Alakazam!" Dante fires at them and they scatter.
"Super Leap!" Krieger lunges at a Dragon and slashes it in half destroying it wondering what was taking so long.
Sanne is jumping up and down not able to get to the second platform. "Why can't I go up!?" She jumps then realizes the rocket boots weren't working either. "Maybe I can't have these on while in a Tower." Sanne takes them off and sure enough she floats up to the second platform. She goes over to the control panel placing her hand on it. Soon the screens fall around her. "Tower deactivated." She uses the control panel to bring up the return program. "Return to the past now!" The white bubble comes up and reverses time.
Sanne again lands in the middle of the Mars Invasion. Ark lands just as he is about to smash into a door. He isn't able to stop and slams face first into it. "Not again!" He rubs his nose.
Barack lands as he is writing a letter. "I'm never going to get this finished." Barack was writing Skitz, trying to.
Krieger finds himself in his room alone sulking, again.
Mira finds herself in the middle of homework. "I've done these questions already so I know the answer." Mira gets to work.
Sanne is going to the Factory hoping to get some work done when her phone rings. "Hello?"
"Xana's attacking."
"What? Again? But he, he can't do that. The power it takes to launch an attack makes it impossible! He'd have to wait at least four or five hours."
"I know but he is attacking. He wants another return." Dante was shocked when Xana came and made the same speech. It was strange it was as if Xana was on repeat saying the exact same thing.
"Well we better call the others."
"Yes, see you soon." They hang up. Soon Sanne gets the call from Samantha. Sanne ignores it and continues to the Factory.
The group goes to Lyoko, heads through the Rain Forest Sector, and makes it to the Tower. Sanne goes in, take the rocket boots off, and deactivates the Tower. "Return to the past now." Sanne lazily launches the return.
Sanne lands in the middle of the Mars attack. Fed up with it she yells at Mars then leaves the room.
Ark is rubbing his nose getting annoyed with the attacks and returns.
Barack is getting annoyed trying to write to Skitz.
Mira is getting annoyed doing her homework.
Krieger is still sulking mad at the world and especially two people he had to protect no matter how much he hated them.
Sanne is going through the sewers getting tired. She had made this trip three times now and was on the fourth one when her phone rings. "Hello?"
"He's planning to attack again!"
"What? But, he, its impossible! The power it takes to launch an attack makes it impossible to attack like this!"
"Yes but I have a theory. The return program has an error. He attacks and does the same, says the same, every time. What if he is unaffected by the returns? He doesn't know that he has attacked and so does the same attack again?"
"But that, if he's, if he is unaffected by returns then does that mean he's not getting stronger?"
"It might. I'm not sure. Of course this is only a theory he may be able to attack as much as he wants and is getting stronger every time."
"Frak, we have to call the others. With those Creepers in the trees its too dangerous for you to go alone."
"I know, I'll be waiting." They hang up then call the others.
This time Dante goes into the Tower and deactivates it. He launches a return as Samantha had called Sanne thus making it impossible to not do one. This time however Sanne and Dante call the others immediately and tell them to get to the Factory.
Unfortunately they are too late, Xana strikes, and another return is needed.
Next time Dante tries to go alone but is taken out by the Creepers so Sanne must go with the others. Another return is launched.
Dante tries again and fails again. Sanne and the others go and deactivate the Tower then launch a return.
This time Dante waits for the others and they go. They breeze through the Creepers, deactivate the Tower, but when they go back the alarm sounds. When Sanne looks through the cameras she sees Jim on the Factory floor. They were too late.
The group is getting frustrated and talk of letting the adults know comes in. "If Xana isn't afraid of them then it means we are too weak to fight him!" Krieger tries to stare Sanne and Dante down.
"Or he just wants to break us up! If we all get sent home we won't be able to see each other for months, maybe even years!"
"Like we want to see you?" This time Ark speaks up. "At least I'd be able to see my sister."
"What about me?" Mira is concerned. She doesn't want the group to break up. "You wouldn't be able to see me."
"We could Email each other and stuff and once our parents calm down I'm sure I'd be able to see you. My parents don't keep a temper long."
"But they'd have to interrupt their lives to fight Xana. Do you want to do that to them? They fought him enough as it is."
"We? What will we be doing to them? If I remember right I wanted to turn the damn thing back off!" Krieger yells at Sanne getting dangerously close to her. "You wanted to save that half virus freak! I should probably get myself tested since we don't know what diseases he has!"
"I never did that with him until after you broke up with me!" Sanne and Krieger are nose to nose. "I didn't want to break up with you because I still loved you but no you broke up with me!"
"Because you cheated on me!" Krieger gets too close to Sanne and Dante pushes him away. Krieger swings at Dante and hits him on the side of the head. Dante reacts and knees Krieger in the stomach. Dante is about to do a palm thrust to the back of Krieger's head when Ark tackles him.
"Stop it! We need to go to Lyoko!"
"You can go, with out me!" Krieger gets up and goes to the elevator.
"Or me!" Ark follows. Barack and Mira stare at them but don't get on. The elevator doors close and the two leave.
"Crap, we need to hurry. Jim or Samantha could be here any minute." Sanne quickly send the remaining Warriors to Lyoko then herself and the vehicles. They go to the activated Tower and as Sanne enters it sure enough her grandmother gets the headset on.
"What are you kids doing!? How could you…"
"Return to the past now." Sanne launches the return.
Krieger is done with it. He wasn't going to the Factory this time. He decides he was through with sulking and wants to find someone else. He goes out onto the campus and looks over the girls. Blondes, red heads, brunettes, some cute some not. Krieger knows another return would be launched so it didn't matter who he asked out. If they said yes he knew he could go to them and if they said no it didn't matter. He goes up to a girl from his year and asks her out. "Sure. Um, like, your friends won't care right? Like Sanne and stuff?"
"No. She cheated on me they don't like her much anymore."
"Oh well like, I'm sorry she cheated on you. Can't believe she would you're like such a hunk!" The girl grabs his arm and squeezes it. Krieger flexes for her. "Well you like you want to go and do something?"
"Later, I, I have to go do something I just wanted, needed to ask you now since I saw you." Krieger runs off to ask more girls. This girl was nice but well, like, you know?
Ark and Mira are arguing with each other. "Dante attacked Krieger for no reason and you took his side!"
"We need to fight Xana no matter what! It doesn't matter if I hated Sanne as much as you do I'd still go because Xana is more important!"
"Xana is going to win! We've been kidding ourselves all this time! We lose, he wins, we need to call our parents and tell them before Xana gets any stronger!"
"No way Ark they'll break us up and I won't see you." Mira hugs Ark. "I'm sorry but I need to go to the Factory."
"Go." Ark's short answer tells Mira he wasn't going to follow.
Barack throws the letter in the garbage. "I'll never see her again if they call their parents. Damn it Skitz why didn't you quit?" Barack is mad but he knows fighting Xana is more important.
Dante waits for Xana to appear. When he does Dante stops him before he can do his speech. "Dad end the attack now. We won't let the adults get involved. So attacking Jim and Samantha doesn't make sense."
"Shut up son! I will win! I will win and you will lose! The parents will come and treat you like an animal. Then you will come to me knowing I will take care of you." Xana breaks apart and disappears.
"Never, never will I join you." Dante waits for Sanne and the others.
Too bad though they are too slow. The Creepers destroyed the Overwing and Dante nearly fell over the edge. Sanne launches a return.
Krieger heads out and asks more girls for dates.
Ark slams into the door, curses, and then goes off avoiding Mira.
Barack throws the note away and heads for the Factory.
Mira wants to talk to Ark but he refuses to talk to her. So she goes to the Factory hoping they'd be fast enough this time.
Sanne runs out of her room ignoring Mars and heads for the Factory.
But they are too late, the attack starts, Samantha calls Sanne, and so a return must be done.
Dante is getting frustrated. Attack after attack, the same thing but they were always too slow. When Xana appears he tries to talk to him again. "Xana please don't attack. I, I will launch a return once the return program is fixed."
"No, I do not deal."
"Yes you do, three returns."
"No," Xana breaks apart into a black mist.
"Damn it." Dante waits for the others and once they get there they go to Lyoko. But again they are too slow. Before launching a return Sanne has Dante come into the Tower.
"Dante we need to do something."
"I tried going alone but couldn't make it."
"I know but maybe, if, we figure out how to send under other profiles you can go under mine and use my bubble."
"We can try that but we do not know how to do that."
"I know but it can't be hard." Sanne launches a return.
Krieger goes out onto the campus and sees Maria, Sora's old roommate. "Hi Maria um, what's up?"
"Nothing, what's going on?"
"Nothing. I was uh, wondering, are you seeing anyone?"
"No, why?"
"Well I, me and Sanne broke up and um, you're uh, cute." Krieger doesn't know why he got so nervous around Maria.
"You're asking me out? You dumped my friend for Sanne and now that she dumped you you're asking me out?"
"No I, I broke up with her and I, I'm sorry about Sora I really did like her. I didn't mean for that to happen."
"Well too bad. She's dead you know? I was told not to tell anyone but she is. They wouldn't tell me how she died but I saw a smile on her face. She probably overdosed on some drug. She was obsessed with you but couldn't have you. She died because of you!"
"She didn't die of a drug overdose! She'd never do that! But yes, it was my fault. I, I'm sorry." Krieger feels tears start to build. "I never wanted that to happen. I really did like her."
"Well not enough. Go away Krieger."
"I'm sorry." Krieger walks away feeling destroyed. The talk about Sora brought up all of his feelings about her and the memories of what happened.
Ark is mad and wants a release. He figures that anything he did would be erased so goes up to a younger girl. "Hey, what's your name?"
"Amanda, why?" Ark puts his arms on either side of her.
"You're cute, anyone ever tell you that?" She blushes.
"Y, yes."
"Well I think you're cute too. Can I kiss you?" She doesn't say anything so Ark starts to kiss her. She giggles a little but lets him kiss her. For a twelve year old to kiss a fourteen year old was something she'd tell her friends about.
Sanne, Dante, Barack, and Mira are on Lyoko headed for the activated Tower. Dante tells the others about trying to make a deal with Xana. "But he said no, should I go higher next time?"
"Well, yes. We need to stop this. I'm getting tired and it's taking me longer to get to the Factory." Sanne was feeling even more tired after more returns.
"Same here." Mira was hoping this would be it.
Unfortunately it isn't.
After the return Krieger stays in his room and cries. He tried to think of good memories of her but couldn't stop crying. He holds a hair brush in his hand. He continues to cry.
Ark finds the Amanda girl again and hits on her before kissing her.
Barack, Mira, and Sanne hurry down the sewers to the Factory. Sanne's phone rings and she ignores it knowing it is Samantha.
After the return Krieger wonders if he should be so mad at Sanne. He broke up with Sora, a girl who really liked him, for her. Maybe it was Karma coming back on him. Maybe…
Ark has Amanda pinned against the wall kissing her and starts to grope her when she pushes him away. "Stop it!"
"Why? I can make you feel really good." Ark gets her up against the wall and continues to kiss her. She struggles a little then stops and lets Ark do what he wants.
After another return Sanne notices her headache. She assume it is just from the trip from Kadic to the Factory.
Krieger is getting depressed knowing that he lost Sora because he dumped her then lost Sanne because he deserved it, or so he thinks. He doesn't care about his head ache as he goes to the boys' bathroom to wash his face and try to calm down.
Ark has Amanda against the wall kissing her and groping her hard. She struggled a little but stopped knowing he was stronger then her. Ark is so busy with Amanda he doesn't notice his head ache.
Another return, and then another. More are done and now Sanne knows her headache is more then being tired. "We need to stop this now!" Sanne calls Dante. "Dante the returns are doing something to us."
"Yes. So many so quick it was bound to do something. We need to get everyone here. I, I am waiting for Xana. I will offer ten returns."
"Ok." They hang up.
Krieger is in the boys' shower room with his razor. He had shaved earlier but that is not what he is planning on using the razor for.
Ark has Amanda against the wall. She is crying and begging him to stop but he doesn't. A vein is visible on his forehead and his eyes are red and bloodshot. "Shut up Amanda!"
Dante waits and soon Xana forms. "Dad, stop! We'll give you ten returns once the program is fixed!"
"Why so eager to do this?"
"We don't want you to attack the parents. Give us time, even help us and we will give you ten returns."
"Hmmm, ten returns. It would give me more power. Power I lost when I had an orb destroyed." Xana concentrates. "Yes, this is agreeable." Xana turns into a black mist and disappears.
Sanne, Mira, and Barack get to the Factory and go to the Control Room. "Well?" Dante smiles.
"Ten returns but he will help us fix the returns."
"Will they make us worse?" Mira rubs her temples.
"I think the error is what is causing the headaches. If we fix it a return, ten of them, will fix us." Dante lets Sanne sit down in the computer chair then goes over to the ladder. "I'll work on Lyoko."
"Ok, hurry." Sanne finds it hard to concentrate with the pounding headache. "Transfer Dante, Scanner Dante, and virualization." He lands on Lyoko then hurries into the Way Tower.
The two work on the error as does Xana. Sanne is surprised that Xana does not take this chance to get into the other secure parts of the Super Computer. But the deal made was to fix the return program and Xana would be bound by this.
Krieger's hand shakes. He has the razor out and near his wrist but he can't do it. Even with the error hurting him he is too strong to do this.
Ark pushes Amanda down to the ground. She screams loudly and someone hears her. "Shut up bitch! You want this!"
"Hey, stop that!" A student runs over and tackles Ark. Ark fights with them and is stronger.
"Leave us alone!" Ark turns to Amanda who is curled up into a ball crying. "Keep your mouth shut. I'll make you feel good." Ark laughs crazily as he attacks her again.
Sanne deletes a line of code, copies another, then hits enter. "Dante I think that did it."
"I believe it has. We need to do ten returns now. I'm sorry."
"Don't be. We'd still be working on it without his help." Sanne and the others didn't want to give him ten returns but they weren't about to break a deal. Xana made deals, kept them. They were better then he was. "Return to the past now!" The white bubble comes up stopping Ark from hurting Amanda even more. Keeping Krieger from changing his mind. Fixing the others.
Nine more later Sanne and Dante call the others and tell them that the attack, attacks, were over. Well, not all of them. Sanne was in the stairwell calling Dante back when Mars sees her. "OhheySanneIwaswonderingifmaybeIcouldmeetyourfriendssolikewecanworkonhomeworktogetherandgetidonefasterormaybehangout…" Sanne wants to run away but knows that would be rude and this was her roommate.
"I'm sorry but my boyfriend wants us to be alone." Sanne hurries down the stairs hoping Mars would accept her story.
A/N Why did it affect Ark and Krieger more? Not Scanned. The others were scanned so were less effected.