Code Xana Episode 115: Bleed Like Me
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 1-114
Ark, a little miffed, at Barack and Mira decides he wanted to play a game. "Yes Naia a game."
"Will there be blood?"
"Yes there will be blood. Lots and lot's of blood." Ark smiles evilly.
Sanne beats her Jpocket against the desk. "Don't die on me now!" A screen appears. "I know I know. Just wait." Sanne tries to finish a program but the screen goes blank. "Damn it." She takes the Jpocket over to the charger and puts it on. "Need longer battery life on them. Maybe dad will be able to work on that." Sanne goes to her desk and works on homework.
Krieger is training when Zen shows up. "Oh it's you."
"I have as much right to be here as you do. More since last time I checked I beat you last time we fought."
"I wasn't going to hurt a little girl."
"Don't think of me as a little girl think of me as the person who kicked your ass." Zen starts to stretch.
"I won't spar with you again."
"It's ok I wouldn't want to lose to me again either."
"You really think you can beat me when I don't hold back don't you?" Krieger stands and looks at Zen.
"I know I can because I did last time."
"No you didn't."
"Want to make a bet? One more time and if I win you do my homework for a week."
"And if I win?"
"I don't know, what do you want?"
"Hmm, how about if I win you shower every day for a week. I'm tired of hearing Sanne complain about how bad you smell."
"So she finds time to talk when she's with you? Figured you two would be too busy frakking each other."
"First of all aren't you a little young to be cursing? And second what Sanne and I do is none of your business."
"I can't believe she goes out with a weakling like you. Not me no way. If the guy can't beat me in a fight he'd never be good enough for me." Zen does a couple of mock punches in the air. "Is it a bet?"
"It's a bet." Krieger gets into a fighting stance.
"Then bring it little boy." Zen blocks Krieger's first punch. He goes for a roundhouse kick but she ducks under his leg. Before he can get his stance ready for another attack she goes low and comes in with an upper cut. Catching Krieger off guard he tries to dodge it but this only makes her punch hurt even more. She aimed for his stomach but his try at dodging made her punch land elsewhere. "I see you don't wear a cup when you spar." Zen laughs at Krieger as he holds himself. "I'll go get my homework while you try to pull yourself together." Zen whistles as she walks out of the gym.
Sanne is working on her homework when a black mist appears behind her. "Hello tramp." Before Sanne can react Naia grabs her and turns Sanne and herself into black mists disappearing from the room just as Zen opens the door.
Barack and Mira are walking through the woods hand in hand. They had snuck out after classes for a date and were coming back when a black mist appears. "Hello, look at the happy couple." They turn and see Naia.
"Naia!" Barack gets in front of Mira. "Stay back!"
"Or what?" Naia smiles evilly. "It is time to play a game." Naia attacks Barack and Mira turning both into a black mist and disappearing from the woods.
Krieger starts to recover from the punch below the belt when a black mist appears. "Hello old friend." Krieger looks up and sees Ark.
"Get away from me!" Krieger struggles to get up and is too late to block Ark when he attacks. Ark turns Krieger and himself into a black mist and disappears from the gym just as Zen gets back.
"He ran off. What a loser." Zen puts her homework down then goes to the exercise room.
Sanne wakes up in a room. She tries to move but when she moves off of the square she was on she is shocked. "What are you doing!?" A black mist appears and turns into Naia.
"We're playing a game. You must get out of this room before Dante deactivates the Tower. If he does before you do you will be trapped here."
"He'll launch a return."
"If he tries that then you will find out I have put a guardian over this place and it will do you no good. Now find a way out. The door is over there," Naia points to one. "But certain squares are electrified. Sometimes they will change. Yours could change at any moment. Have fun tramp."
"Frak you Naia!"
"No frak you. Every five minutes the shocks will get stronger until they are lethal. Not only that but you first need to get the key. There are three in this room. Choose the wrong one and you will speed up the process that the squares change." Naia turns into a black mist and disappears from the room leaving a worried Sanne behind.
Barack wakes up alone. "Mira!" He looks around and sees dozens of pipes. He feels something in his pocket and pulls it out, a valve. "Ark what did you do to Mira!" A black mist appears and forms into Ark.
"Hello Barack. She is in her own room. As for you I would worry. This room will start to fill with water. The only way to stop it is to find the right valves and turn them off. But if you turn them off too early you will find you can't reach the escape hatch or turn it as it is only able to open once all the valves have been turned off." Ark laughs a little. "Will you live or die?"
"They'll launch a return."
"That won't work. We put a Guardian up to block that." Ark turns into a black mist and disappears as water starts to shoot out of the pipes.
Krieger wakes up in a dark room. He starts to stand up when he catches himself on barbed wire. "Ow!" He drops back to the floor. "Hello!" A black mist appears and forms into Naia.
"Hello Krieger."
"Naia, where's Sanne?"
"She is in a room of her own. If I were you I would be more worried about yourself. If Dante deactivates the Tower before you escape from here… You will die here."
"Not if they launch a return."
"I have put up a Guardian. A return will do nothing. Now find your way through the wire and get to the door or die here as you starve to death."
"I just have to climb through?"
"Every ten minutes the walls will come in. Making the path through the barbed wire smaller. If you are caught in them well, you won't live." Naia turns into a black mist and disappears.
Mira wakes up in a room so brightly lit she can't open her eyes. "Hello! Barack are you there?!" She gets a response but not from Barack.
"Ah, Mira how I have missed you."
"Get away from me Ark!"
"Don't you love me any more?"
"Yes, no, I love my Ark not you."
"Yet you are with Barack right now."
"He didn't betray us."
"Well no matter. You must realize these bright lights are not just bright but hot. You will cook to death, be burnt to death. Unless you find the right key and then the door. Of course you can't use your eyes as you would be blinded. But I am sure walking around blindly and reaching out and touching one of these lights would be highly painful."
"Why are you doing this?!"
"Because I can."
"Frak you." Mira walks around the room and feels a key hanging down from a string. She pulls on it. "What was that!?"
"Every time you pull the wrong key the lights will get brighter and hotter. I hope you find the right key before you are burnt to death." Ark laughs evilly before turning into a black mist and disappears from the room.
Dante tries calling Sanne again but gets no answer. "Damn it answer, one of you answer!" He throws his Jcell down in frustration. A black mist appears behind him and forms into Naia.
"They are not coming Dante."
"Naia!" Dante backs away from her. "Why wouldn't they? What did you do to them!?"
"Ark and I are playing a game. They have been put in separate rooms and given a chance to escape. But if they don't they will die. You must deactivate the Tower and launch a return before they die. Will you be able to do it? I think you will but Ark says no."
"I'll do it!"
"That's what I wanted to hear." Naia turns into a black mist and disappears from the Control Room.
Dante starts up the auto transfer after sending the Overbike and hurries down to the Scanner Room. He gets in the middle Scanner and soon lands on Lyoko in the Rain Forest Sector. "I better hurry." He takes off hoping he would be fast enough to save Sanne and his friends.
Ark and Naia watch him and the others on different screens. "That was cruel telling him if they died it would be on him. Maybe we should have told him if he deactivates the Tower his friends will die."
"No Ark I'd rather make the game interesting." Naia smiles evilly as she watches Sanne try to get to the key and door in her room.
"Aaaa!" Sanne jumps back off of the square. She moves her foot onto another square and isn't shocked. She moves to it. "What would happen if I grabbed all three then ran for the door?" Sanne carefully chooses the next square.
Krieger is crawling through the path slowly. He puts his hand out first to check for barbed wire. "Ow!" He pulls it away then moves it around finding a path to the right. As he goes around the corner he hears a grinding noise as the walls come in. "Frak I have to get out of here!" He crawls a little faster.
Barack tries the valve handle on several spigots but so far had only turned two pipes off. The water was already up to his knees and rising fast.
Mira wonders around the room blindly. She feels keys all around her but after touching several she knows it would make more sense to find the door first. Some keys were small, some were large, and some were oddly shaped. If she found the door she would feel the lock to see what kind of key was used.
Dante is going through the Rain Forest Sector as fast as he can. He continues towards the activated Tower until a Snake monster comes down from the trees and vines. It fires lasers at Dante and chases him. He pulls his wand out and fires energy orbs at the Snake monster. "Alakazam!" He fires an energy beam but misses the Snake monster's Eye. "I have to make it." Dante fires more energy orbs and beams at the Snake monster keeping it at bay.
Sanne jumps across a square and lands on the one right next to a key. "Aaaa!" She jumps back onto the square she just leapt across. "Aaaa!" She jumps again to another square. "Frak that hurts." Sanne kneels for a few seconds to catch her breath. "The shocks should change squares pretty, Aaaa!" She leaps off of the square she was on and lands on the one next to her right. "They changed maybe now I can reach the key." She continues going for the key.
Krieger cuts his arms and back badly as he tries to crawl, bend upwards, and over to where the path led in the barb wire.
Mira feels a cool spot to her right. She goes towards it and finds a blank spot. She moves her hands over this spot until she feels a handle. She moves her hands some more when she finds the lock. She rubs her thumb over the lock trying to tell what kind of key it would take.
Barack struggles to turn a valve as the water rises to his waist. "Frak!" He drops the valve handle. He scrambles to find it and grabs it a few seconds later.
Dante destroys the Snake monster finally but is not in the clear yet. Before he can start to run two Mega Tanks appear in front of him blocking the way. "Please, please move. I can't let my friends die!" A Mega Tank opens and fires at Dante. Dante dodges the blast and fires an energy orb hitting the Eye and destroying the Mega Tank. The second Mega Tank opens and fires nearly hitting Dante. "Alakazam!" He misses and the Mega Tank fires again.
Barack turns the handle and nothing happens. He removes the valve handle and places it in another opening and turns it. "Frak!" Two pipes start spitting water out. He quickly turns it back and continues trying to turn off all of the valves as the water gets to mid chest.
Mira feels a key and thinks it is the right size. She pulls it free and walks back to the door. "Frak." She throws it away and goes searching for another key.
Krieger hears the walls coming in closer. He feels the barbed wire get closer to him he is cut even more as he crawls through the maze.
Sanne grabs the key and starts towards the door. "Aaaa!" She collapses and falls onto the electrified square. She continues to scream in pain until she is able to roll onto another square. Before she can catch her breath it is electrified and shocks her badly. She screams in pain and rolls off onto another square. "It was the wrong key." She throws it against the wall and gets up. She has to try and get to one of the other keys before Dante deactivated the Tower.
Dante dodges the Mega Tank blast and fires more energy orbs but the Mega Tank closes up. "Frak this is taking too long!" He runs at the Mega Tank firing energy orbs. The Mega Tank remains closed but the Mega Tank is no longer alone. A Dragon appears from the trees and vines and starts to shoot at Dante. "Leave me alone! I can't let them die!" He fires energy orbs at it missing.
Sanne grabs the second key when the lights in the room go out. "What the frak? Maybe this is the right key and she did this to make it harder. Have to find the door in the dark, great." Sanne takes a step and is immediately shocked. "Aaaa!" She drops the key. "No, frak!" She reaches down for it and puts her hand on the electrified square. "Aaaa!"
Krieger feels an open space in front of him. He crawls through it and drops down nearly four meters. "Ow!" He grabs his wrist. "Gods I hope I only sprained it." Krieger feels around the area finding no barb wire. "Maybe I made it out." A bright light turns on and Ark appears.
"You made it through the first test. Your second test will be a little harder. Enjoy it old friend." Ark turns into a black mist and disappears as another black mist forms into a Krabe.
"Frak." Krieger dodges a laser.
Mira is feeling her skin burn. When it brushes against her clothes it hurts so badly she starts to cry. She grabs a key, causing more pain, and then goes back towards the door.
Barack is swimming while trying to turn the valve handle. Three pipes stop flowing. "Come on how many more can there be?" As the water level rises the answer was at least one more.
Dante hits the Dragon on the wing causing it to crash into the branches of a tree. It explodes and Dante takes off for the activated Tower.
Naia continues to watch the Lyoko Warriors go through their tests. "It will be interesting to see if he makes it." Naia points at a screen that shows Krieger fighting the Krabe.
Krieger dodges a claw then rolls on the ground to get under the Krabe. The belly starts to glow. "Frak!" Krieger leaps out from under the Krabe before he can be hit with the belly leaser.
"What about this one? Her skin is already blistering. Did you come up with this by thinking of a past experience Naia?"
"Yes actually. A very bad sun burn, horrible it was. Had to go to the hospital. What will happen to Mira?"
"If she escapes? Who knows, we will find out though." Ark points at a screen that shows Mira.
"Aaaa!" Mira had gone to far left of the door and touched a light bulb. "Frak, frak!" She pulls away from the light bulb and looks for the door.
"Stupid girl. Will she find the right key? Oh well how is Barack doing?" Naia points to a screen showing Barack.
"Turn damn it!" He struggles with the valve as he tries to keep his footing on the lower pipes. "Aaaa!" His hand slips. Dante cuts himself, and loses the valve. "No!" He tries to grab the valve but it sinks farther. He drops down into the water and swims after the valve.
"Poor Barack to die alone in a watery tomb." Ark points at a screen that shows Sanne. "As for Sanne…"
"The tramp." Naia corrects Ark.
"As for the tramp she seems to be doing well." Ark enlarges the screen and using his powers is able to see Sanne in the dark.
"Aaaa!" Sanne screams in pain as she steps on an electrified square. "Frak!" She gets to the next square. "The door has to be around here somewhere." She takes another step. "Aaaa!"
"What about Dante?" Naia points at a screen with Dante in it. "I think we need to wait for him to get to the Tower before sending anymore."
"Yes, let's wait Naia." Ark and Naia watch Dante run to the activated Tower as fast as he can.
"There it is!" Dante sees the activated Tower and runs for it. Before he gets there two Frogs appear. "Alakazam!" Dante destroys one monster but the other jumps away before Dante can hit it. It fires a laser but misses Dante.
Mira feels a key, small and round tip. She pulls it free from the string and goes back to the door. She fumbles with the lock but when the key slides in… "Yes!" Mira unlocks the door and opens it. She runs out of the room and slams the door shut behind her. She slowly opens her eyes but can't see. Even with them closed the lights had been bright and her eyes would take time to adjust. "Just have to wait I guess." Mira stands not daring to sit down. She was so badly burnt it hurt to even breathe as her clothes rub against her skin.
Dante fires energy orb after energy orb at the Frog but it moved too fast for him. He tries an energy beam but the Frog was too fast.
Barack swims in the water and finds the valve handle. He swims back up to the valve he was trying. He puts the valve handle in and tries to turn it but it won't move. "Turn damn you!" He tries to loosen the valve by turning the other way and finds it moves! "It's backwards. I got it!" He turns the valve and the water stops rushing into the room. "I did it, finally. Now I just need to get the hatch, open it, and get the hell out of here." He swims to the middle of the room and works on opening the hatch.
Dante dodges a laser and fires an energy orb back. The Frog is hit in the leg and instead of landing lightly it slams into a tree branch then falls down onto the path. "Alakazam!" He hits the Frog on the Eye and destroys it. "Yes!" He runs into the activated Tower…
"Aaaa!" Sanne falls down and slams into the wall being shocked again. She loses the key and scrambles for it only to be shocked again.
"Aaaa!" Krieger is hit by a laser on the knee then slammed by the Krabe into the ground. "No, please," Krieger begs as the Krabe fires more lasers at him at point blank range.
"The Tower is deactivated." The screens fall around Dante. "We need a return. I hope I'm in time." He launches the return program and the white bubble comes up reversing time.
Mira finds herself in her room. "Ouch." She feels her skin and finds it is ok. "A return. But, I, was I out?" Mira rubs her arms trying to make sure she was ok.
Barack finds himself in the boys' shower room. "Aaaa!" He screams and nearly falls over as he scrambles out of the spray of water. "No, I got out. The damn hatch wouldn't open but I stopped the water." He shakes as he leaves the shower area and gets a towel.
Krieger finds himself in a dark space. "Hello?" No response. "Hello!" Still no response. He looks around and sees a red glow. "What is that?" He reaches for it and… Falls out of bed. "Wait, I, they said if a return was launched before I escaped then I would die."
Sanne sits up in bed. "I, was it a dream?" She shakes her head. "Was I dreaming?"
"No, it wasn't a dream." Naia appears. "I was messing with you. I told Dante if he didn't do a return soon you would die. But I told you if he did one you would die." Naia smiles evilly.
"But, how? I thought you had a Guardian up."
"How could I after the Tower was deactivated? Tramp you never thought of that did you?" Naia laughs a little before turning into a black mist and leaving the room. Soon Sanne's phone rings.
"Hello?"
"Sanne are you ok?" It was Dante.
"Yes, I, I'm ok. Are you?"
"What about the others?"
"They are ok Dante what about you?"
"I'm fine. I just wanted to make sure."
"Ok Dante, um, thanks."
"No Sanne don't thank me. I would have done it for anyone I cared about as much as I care about you."
"Dante don't, don't say that." Sanne fights back tears. "You're my friend, I still love you you know that."
"I know Sanne and I still love you." Dante hangs up on her. "I'm glad I was fast enough." He lies down on his cot wondering what he should do.
A/N Yes a knock off of the Saw Series. I liked them. Also, why updated so early? Had a rough day, need something to cheer me up. Seeing my fans happy makes me happy. So be happy and review! Lol.