Code Xana Episode 97: Remix Part 1- Gravity Well

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 1-96

After the many, many returns Xana was stronger and the group was weaker. Krieger was disturbed by his weakness. He had dreams of the razor in his hand and him slashing his wrist. He'd never do such a thing. Even when affected by the error returns he couldn't do it. He is in the woods now wondering about what he should do.

Ark is more disturbed by what he did. Amanda was a little girl. She didn't deserve what he did to her. Or what he was planning to do to her. He didn't even think she was that cute or good looking but now he wasn't being affected by error returns. "What was I thinking? What was I doing?" Ark is horrified by his actions. If he had gone to the Factory with the others he wouldn't have been there with Amanda.

Sanne and Dante are taking a break after working for nearly seventeen hours straight. "This is a much better way to spend a Saturday isn't it?" Sanne cuddles with Dante on the Factory roof.

"Yes, much better." He snuggles in closer glad to feel her warmth. It was getting harder and harder for him to be on Lyoko. No smell, no air, no warmth. "Sanne I was wondering if maybe I could maybe go to um, Central Academy."

"What, why?"

"I, I hate being on Lyoko. Now that his castle is gone I don't need to stay there. But it isn't comfortable staying in the Control Room."

"Well, we could get you a bed." Sanne thinks about it. "We can't risk you doing something strange around the students there and if you got detention or stuck in class, not a good thing. But we could get you a bed, a mini fridge, stuff like that. I'm sorry I didn't think of it earlier."

"I didn't ask for it. You're not side kick."

"What?"

"You know, see the future, read minds."

"Oh, psychic." Sanne laughs a little. She sees the look on Dante's face. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to laugh at you."

"Don't worry I know I make mistakes. Probably a good thing I don't go to Central Academy."

"You could use the human interaction. I know how about we go to the mall tomorrow? I'll make you talk to people and stuff. I'll be there to help you but you would be able to handle them."

"That might be fun." Dante isn't sure if it's a good idea but for Sanne he'd do it. "While there we could get me the bed and things."

"I'm not sure how we'd move it all though."

"Well, could activate a Tower and use the ghost to make the person strong." Dante says this as a joke but his tone of voice is off.

"Yeah, that would work. Anything to make things better for you Dante. I know you have it hard being stuck in the Factory and I want things to be better. Once we beat Xana I promise to get you into Central Academy."

"I, thank you Sanne." They continue to hold onto each other.

Xana is planning his attack. But something is wrong. He didn't know it but his attack was something different but something repeated. No not repeated, remixed.

Sanne and Dante are climbing down from the Factory roof when the pillow they had floats out of Dante's hands. "What the? It has to be…" Before Dante says any more Sanne's Jpocket starts to beep. "Xana."

"Yes. But how did he do that?"

"I don't know. We need to call the others, now." Dante fells something tugging at him. He and Sanne hurry down to the Control Room and make their calls.

Ark is going slowly to the sewer entrance. He hoped not to see Amanda. He avoiding going out onto the campus so he wouldn't see her. She wouldn't remember anything that had happened but he sure did.

Krieger doesn't want to go and is going slowly also. He was in the woods and is almost to the sewer entrance when he sees the lid fly up into the sky. "What the? I guess that's Xana's attack." Krieger runs over to the entrance not realizing the danger. When he gets close he feels his feet lift off the ground. "Whoa, hey!" He flips upside down then falls to the ground. He scrambles over to the sewer entrance. He grabs a rung when he feels himself lift into the air. "Help!" Krieger feels his grip loosen. A shoe slips off and goes up into the air.

Mira is hurrying to the sewer entrance when she sees Krieger. "Krieger what are you doing!?"

"Oh yeah I want to do this, NOT!" Krieger hopes Mira can help him but worries that she would also be pulled up.

Mira goes over to Krieger and feels her feet lift off of the ground. She reaches down and grabs the grass. She continues to grab it until she gets to the sewer entrance. She reaches down into the sewer entrance and grabs Krieger's arm. She pulls herself into the sewer and grabs the rungs pulling herself into the sewer. "Krieger give me your other hand!" He grabs her hand and she pulls him down into the sewers.

At the bottom Krieger gets his phone out and calls Sanne. "Sanne, Xana's attack seems to be sending us into the air?"

"What do you mean?"

"Mira and I were being pulled off the ground by nothing."

"What? Like anti gravity? But Xana he, he did this years ago against our parents." Sanne is stunned. "Ulrich almost lost his parents. Let's see if we can't do better."

"Ok." Krieger hangs up on Sanne.

Ark ignores his phone ringing as he walks through the woods to the sewer entrance. "I'm coming I already said I was leave me alone." He is about to go into the clearing where the entrance is when he starts to lift in the air. "Hey, put me down!" Ark tries to see what was picking him up but there is nothing there! "Help!" He reaches out and grabs a tree branch. He positions himself underneath it and crawls to the trunk of the tree. The branch starts to bend as the force lifting Ark increases. "This is bad, please stay strong Mr. Branch." Ark hangs on for his life.

Barack is going through the sewers after using the school entrance. He is about halfway there when he hears a noise. At first he expects to see a Xana attack but soon recognizes the sound as wheels on the sewer pavement. He goes around a corner and sees Krieger and Mira. "Hey, is Ark coming?"

"We think so. At least he said he would." Mira wasn't sure now.

The branch starts to bend more and Ark is afraid it is going to snap. He reaches out and grabs another branch hoping to relieve his current one of some weight. "Come on Ark you can do this!" He pulls on it just as the branch he was on starts to crack. "You can do it!"

Sanne and Dante are waiting, and waiting. "What's taking them so long? We all read the log my father made after Xana's first attempt at this. People nearly died when they were sent flying off into the sky." Sanne leans back in her computer chair and looks up at Dante.

"They may be having problems with the attack Sanne or hurt. We must be patient." Dante kisses her lightly on the lips to try and calm her down. "They can handle this Sanne."

"But what about anyone who gets caught up in the attack? What if Jim or Samantha see it?"

"Then we'll need to launch a return."

"But what if someone dies? Someone outside of the group? If that happens I won't be able to talk the others into not calling our parents and I'll lose you."

"You won't lose me. We can always blank their memories. Not all of them just say, for today."

"We can't do that we don't know how."

"I've been working on that. Sanne I've been worried about losing you and I, I've been doing some work on my own. I can delete a person's memory as little as three days. It may be hard to explain why they can't remember three days though. Can work on it more."

"But, why didn't you tell me?"

"Because I was worried you'd yell at me for wasting time. We need to find a way to stop Xana and find Naia. I still haven't heard from her since we used the virus."

"And the virus was our solution to Xana. I don't know if we can stop Xana. I mean, like stop stop him. We may have to try and lock him in another Tower. Unless we want to risk another virus."

"We can't. We barely saved Lyoko last time." Neither teen notices how they talk about themselves as we, not I or you. "We will find a way."

"We better. The others are mad at us, except Mira. But that makes things hard between her and Ark."

Speaking of Ark… "Help!" The branch he grabbed had broken and Ark had to grab another. He crawled all the way to the trunk and tries to climb down the tree. The lower branches were thicker and if they did break he'd have a better chance of grabbing another branch.

Barack, Krieger, and Mira climb out of the sewers and run down the bridge. When they get close to the Factory entrance Barack feels a pull and lifts off the ground. "Help!" He reaches out and Krieger's quick reflexes allow him to grab Barack's hand. Unfortunately now Krieger starts to lift into the air. Mira grabs Krieger by the waist of his pants then grabs a rope.

"Reach back for my hand!" Krieger twists but can't reach his other hand back for Mira's. His pants start to slip.

"Grab onto something else!"

"You don't want me to Krieger!" Mira blushes as Krieger's pants slip more. "Barack climb down Krieger!"

"I'll try!" Barack reaches and grabs Krieger's elbow. He pulls himself and grabs Krieger's shirt, bad move. The shirt slips and Barack nearly loses his grip. He reaches out and grabs Krieger's hair.

"Aaaa!" Krieger screams in pain but soon Barack starts climbing back down Krieger. He reaches Mira and grabs the rope. He has to climb down the rope forcing himself all the way.

"Ok Krieger you can do this!" Krieger struggles and grabs Mira's hand. He climbs down her then down the rope. Mira follows the boys and when she touches the Factory floor the pull disappears. "That was close."

"Yeah, thanks." Krieger pulls his pants up glad he was wearing clean underwear. "Don't tell Sanne about that."

"Don't worry I didn't see anything." Mira had but wasn't going to say anything about it. "We better hurry." They run over to the elevator and take it down to the Control Room.

"There you are, where's Ark?"

"We don't know. Did you warn him?"

"We tried but he didn't answer his phone." Mira gets a grim look on her face. "But I'm sure he just wouldn't answer a call from me." Sanne looks at the monitor. "Dante is already in the Mountain Sector."

"Wait, Mountain Sector?" Krieger closes his eyes as he concentrates. "Isn't that where it was when he used this attack on our parents?"

"Yes. Hurry before someone gets caught in the attack."

"Someone else." Mira is worried about Ark but knows the safest and best thing to do is to deactivate the Tower. She and the others get on the elevator and take it down to the Scanner Room.

"Transfer Mira, Transfer Barack, Transfer Krieger, Scanner Mira, Scanner Barack, Scanner Krieger, and virtualization." They land on Lyoko in the Mountain Sector. Soon Sanne sends the vehicles then herself.

"Where to Sanne?" Mira wants to get going.

"East, mostly. I, well, you see." The Mountain Sector has been changed. When the virus hit it warped it. The paths were gone and now it is mostly a bunch of floating platforms. "We have to be careful." Sanne puts the rocket boots on as Dante gets on the Overwing with Mira. Barack gets on the Overboard and Krieger on the Overbike. They take off for the activated Tower.

On Earth Ark is panicking. He is getting tired from gripping the branches and is starting to lose his grip. "Help, please, someone." Someone does appear to help but not someone Ark wanted.

"Hello Ark." Xana appears. "Would you like to be saved?"

"Go away Xana!"

"That is no way to speak to the man who is here to rescue you. Tsk tsk, Sora appreciated my saving her."

"I don't need to be saved by you!"

"Oh you expect the people who hate you to save you? Sanne sent your sister home and Mira hates arguing with you. Krieger seems to be the only one who doesn't want you out of the group but he is only one vote."

"What about Barack?"

"He still doesn't trust you of course. After all he was sleeping with your sister. What would you do if you found out?"

"They what!" Ark almost loses his grip. "Shut up liar!"

"Oh no, they have been doing that for awhile. Well, not lately as she is away in America. I've thought about going to her and helping her but she is too strung out on drugs to be of much use."

"She is not! She wasn't addicted!"

"Still in denial I see. Well if you do not want to be saved then I will leaves you here." Xana turns into a black mist and disappears.

"Help!" Ark hangs on for dear life not regretting turning Xana down. He wasn't going to be the next Sora.

Meanwhile back on Lyoko the Lyoko Warriors see the activated Tower and its guards. "Mega Tanks and Kankrelats? Xana is planning something." Sanne looks around for a trap.

"Mega Tanks are dangerous and Kankrelats in a large group can be dangerous." Krieger gets his sword and shield out. "And we're down Sora, Naia, Skitz, and Ark. I don't think he needs a trap."

"Well we still need to be careful." Sanne closes her eyes and concentrates on her energy. "Scattershot!" The energy beam comes out and splits apart. It destroys two Kankrelats leaving three left. Sanne dives on the rocket boots and fires energy beams at them.

A Mega Tank is acting strangely. The other two were firing at the Lyoko Warriors but this one remained waiting.

Sanne fires and destroys another Kankrelat.

Krieger does a Super Leap off of the Overbike and lands on a Mega Tank. "Come on, open up."

Barack fires energy beams at the second Mega Tank that was firing. His beams miss the Eye.

Mira jumps off of the Overwing after using her stealth first. She goes over and destroys a Kankrelat. "Good job Mira." Sanne decides to go for the activated Tower. She is so focused on it she doesn't see the third Mega Tank open and aim. "Aaaa!" She is hit by the blast and sent back to Earth.

"Sanne!" Barack points his wand at the Mega Tank and fires energy orbs hitting the Eye and destroying it. "We're almost done with this." He stays on the Overwing and prepares to dive into the activated Tower when two Assassins virtualize. "Crap." Dante fires energy orbs at them.

Sanne goes up to the Factory floor. "I have to find Ark. He could have been hurt or, no, he's ok." She climb up the rope then starts across the bridge when she feels a pull. "No, no!" She lifts off of the ground. She reaches out and is able to grab the supports of the bridge. She tries to get a better grip but feels her muscles strain. Since she had broken up with Krieger she hadn't been to the gym and worked out. "No, I can hang on!" She grabs an edge and hangs on.

The last Kankrelat is destroyed by the stealthed Mira. This leaves one Mega Tank and the two Assassins. "Dante stay back!" Krieger blocks lasers with his shield. "We need you!"

"I know." Dante pulls back but keeps firing energy orbs at the monsters. He had to help since Sanne wasn't there.

Sanne feels her arms tire, her hands start to hurt. "No, I can't let go." She strains but knows her muscles won't do what her brain tells them. "No!" She loses her grip and goes off into the air.

"Alakazam!" The energy beam comes out of Dante's wand and destroys an Assassin. "I have to hurry. I have to make it." Dante charges for the activated Tower. Barack fires lasers at the Mega Tank keeping it closed. A stealthed Mira attacks the last Assassin and cuts an arm. It lashes out with its other and gets her with its claws but the distraction is long enough for Dante to get into the Tower. "The Tower is deactivated." The screens fall around him. "We may not need a return. I will wait." Dante sends the others then himself back to Earth.

"What's going on?" Mira was concerned for Ark. "Are we launching a return? I mean, what if, you know."

"Call Ark. I'll call Sanne." They get their Jcells out. Ark answers his phone telling Mira he was tired but fine. But Sanne does not answer her phone. "Krieger maybe, well, could you go look? If she is not in the Control Room maybe she is on the bridge."

"The bridge?" Krieger knows the attack affected the Factory and he takes the elevator up to the Factory floor.

Sanne is falling from the sky. She was already over the Factory roof when she started to fall. "Aaaa!" She slams into the concrete of the bridge. Her skull makes a sick cracking noise…

Sanne opens her eyes and finds herself in her dorm room. "They must have launched a return." She sits up and looks over at her roommate. "Wait, that's not Mars." This girl was a blonde not a red head. "Skitz?" The girl turns over.

"What is it babe?" Skitz smiles at Sanne.

"I, I had a nightmare." I think it was a nightmare. I hit my head didn't I? Maybe I died in that world. If I did does that mean I'm here for good? Memories flood Sanne's mind. She sees two attacks, classes, stuff with Skitz. She sees a fight with Krieger, talking with Dante, another fight with Krieger.

"Oh babe I'm sorry." Skitz gets out of her bed and goes to Sanne. "I know you've been having them. You can tell me, you know I'll listen." Skitz hugs Sanne. This reminds Sanne of the Skitz who would hold her as she cried after a nightmare. This was the Skitz she was confused about months ago. No, now, right? This world was, well, Sanne wasn't sure. They lie down on the bed and fall asleep. Sanne doesn't dream, or return to the world she knew.

A/N ok this leads to Episode 2 of Code Xana Other World and so forth.

Also, I jsut worked a 6 day week for 51 hours, so not much writing has been done. So might be awhile cause I want to either get an episode done or a new chapter of my original done before updating here.