The Other Code Xana Episode 7: Degrees of Separation
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 Moonscoop.
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 1-126 and OWCX 1-6
Sanne is outside of a mall store watching the TV. A man was making a speech that worried her. "You say you want a revolution? Well you know. We all want to change the world. You tell me its evolution. Well you know. I still want to change the world. But when you talk about J Inc don't you know that you can count me out. You say you want a real solution. We'd all love to see the plan. We're doing what we can. But when you want money for people with minds that hate." A picture of Jeremie appears. "All I can tell you brother is you have to wait!" The man appears. "J Inc is going to take over the world! With his money he could buy half the world but he doesn't need to!" A map appears. "These countries are totally dependent on J Inc for power, food, everything! That is twenty seven countries already under his control!" The map disappears and the man reappears. "That is a total of over four hundred million people! Not only that he has control of most of space and is the lead developer of the moon sanctuary! The UN has made him special ambassador to the world! This man could snap his fingers and the UN would turn over control of the world to him!"
"Not this crap." Sanne rolls her eyes. "My dad doesn't want to control the world he says it would be too much work."
"We must stop him! He and his family!" Pictures of Aelita appear. Then a picture of Sanne when she was younger. Jeremie tried his best to keep Sanne out of the public eye but the Paparazzi had slipped by and gotten one several years ago. "Pink hair? What kind of women is he creating? This isn't normal!"
"Creating? He, gah this idiot is even worse then the last one." Sanne walks away not caring about the man and his revolution.
Xana cares though and gets an incredible idea… He will have to wait to implement it.
Sanne gets back to school and to her dorm room. Skitz is doing homework but stops when Sanne comes in. "Hi Sanne." Skitz closes her book.
"Skitz, it's ok." Sanne sits down on the bed next to Skitz. "I, I'm sure um, the Sanne from this world loves you. I won't mess things up for you two. As soon as I can find a way to go back things will be normal for you."
"I still don't understand it. Different worlds and how you're able to jump back and forth. And on your world you're with Krieger and stuff. Why is that world so different?"
"I don't know. That plane accident changed so much in this world." Sanne puts a hand on Skitz's arm. "But in my world, they, they're gone."
"I don't think so."
"Really?"
"You aren't sure why you come here right? Maybe it's because of something that person Xana took or whatever did?"
"Naia, and she isn't being controlled by Xana we killed him. She was corrupted though by the evil."
"Whatever." Skitz sits up. "I still love you even if you're not the Sanne I know." Skitz hugs Sanne and Sanne tenses up. "Sorry."
"No it's ok. You don't have to stop feeling the way you do because I messed things up." Sanne backs away when Skitz goes to kiss her. "But I am here and I am messing things up." Sanne gets off the bed. It had been hard explaining to everyone what was going on and make them believe her. But eventually they got it. Although Skitz still had a little trouble keeping her feelings for the Sanne she knew separate from this Sanne.
"Ok." Skitz gets back to her homework.
"Sorry." Sanne leaves the dorm room and decides to go to the gym.
Krieger is working out alone when Sanne comes into the exercise room. "Hey Sanne."
"Krieger, um, can I work out with you? It's been awhile since I came here and stuff but in my world you and I would work out a lot."
"From what you said we did a lot more then work out." Krieger laughs as Sanne blushes. "Sorry."
"Don't be its true. In my world we are together." Sanne walks over to Krieger who is on the weight bench. He nearly drops the weight bar when she leans over and kisses him. "And I want us to be together here."
"No way Sanne, Maria is my girlfriend." Krieger gets the weight bar in its holders then sits up. "We are nothing more then friends here and when you get sent back to your world I don't know." The others still didn't know about Skitz and Sanne. They had suspicious thoughts but Skitz and Sanne had been able to lie. "I doubt she would be with me."
"What if I never go back? What if I can't? I'm dead in that world I know it. If I won't be going back then I can at least be happy here." No, Skitz is the one I love! Sanne shakes her head. Did she just hear a voice?
"I'm happy with Maria."
"No you aren't!" Sanne feels something snap in her head and a flood of emotions and memories hit her. She grabs her head then looks at Krieger and is unable to control herself. "I love you Krieger!" She throws herself at Krieger kissing him hard on the mouth just as the exercise room door opens.
"You two cut that out right now!" Jim yells at them and Krieger tries to push Sanne off but she is out of control. "Now Sanne!" Jim goes over and pulls her off of Krieger. "What is wrong with you two?!"
"It wasn't me!" Krieger backs away from Sanne. "She, she went crazy Jim! She just threw herself at me!"
"Right I'm sure come with me both of you!" Jim drags them both out of the gym and to the teacher's dorms. It wasn't a school violation what they were doing but he was not going to have his little girl doing what she was doing.
As Sanne gets ready for bed the rumors of what happened between her and Krieger has spread to one person who took it very hard. Sanne doesn't even hear the door open as Maria comes in. "Sanne!"
"Huh?" As Sanne turns around Maria punches her in the side of the head. "Stop it!"
"You slut! He is my man! He told me how you threw yourself at him! What is wrong with you!?"
"Leave me, us alone!" Sanne stops. Why did I just say us? "He is with me now! Did you think you could really compete with a billionaire?" Stop saying this! You won't mess things up for Krieger.
"He loves me! He doesn't need any of your frakking money!" Maria goes to punch Sanne again but Sanne kicks her in the stomach first. Sanne and Maria attack each other pulling at each other's hair, scratching, cat fight.
"Sanne!" Skitz is coming back from the shower room and sees Sanne and Maria fighting. She attacks Maria from behind and pulls her off of Sanne. "Leave her alone Xana!" Skitz is mistaken.
"It's not that it's something different." Sanne pulls away from Maria. "I'm sorry Maria I don't know what that, what I was doing." Skitz, she's so close. I love you… Sanne shakes her head. "There's something wrong with me. Krieger pushed me away he didn't do anything."
"Huh?" Now Skitz is confused. She, unlike everyone else, hadn't been talking with anyone else or hearing rumors.
"Leave him alone!" Maria storms out of the room as Skitz goes to check on Sanne.
"Sanne are you ok what happened?"
"I don't know." Sanne feels a little blood on her hand. She touches her face. "Did she get me bad?"
"No babe." Skitz kisses Sanne and Sanne doesn't push her away.
Yes what I love. "No!" Now Sanne pushes Skitz away. "I'm sorry. I don't know what's wrong with me."
"What? Is it Xana?"
"No." Sanne shakes her head as a headache starts. Her heart pumps harder. Leave! "Aaaa!" Sanne falls to the ground grabbing at her head.
"Sanne!" Skitz hugs her. "What's wrong!?"
"I don't know!" Leave! She's mine! "Stop it! Make it stop!" Sanne shakes her head as a loud noise screams in her head.
Behind Skitz a black mist appears. It moves past her shoulder and attacks Sanne. "No, Xana leave her alone!" Skitz is knocked away by Sanne who flails out trying to resist the possession.
Krieger is going to Sanne's room to talk to her about what happened when he hears Skitz screaming. "What's going on!?" Krieger runs to the room and sees Sanne struggling as the black mist attacks her. "Get away from her Xana!" Krieger tries to attack the black mist but it doesn't do any good.
"She's being suffocated!" Skitz tries to save Sanne but the black mist can't be touched by them. "Sanne!" Skitz shakes her but Sanne can't be saved…
I'll be back! You go home! Sanne starts to black out.
She wakes up… No where! Everything is black it reminds her of another time this happened. "Are you here?" No response. "I guess this is death. My world and the other world are gone." Sanne looks around but there is nothing to see. "Is this all there is? Eternity of darkness?"
"No Sanne Belpois. You are not dead you are just stuck between worlds." Sanne looks around for the source of the voice.
"Where are you?"
"No where. We are in neither world. The world you are from is currently unavailable even to I. The world you were in is currently being blocked by the Sanne who is from that world."
"So it was her I was hearing? And affecting me?"
"It is unstable at this point."
"Why are you doing this!? I don't want to be going from world to world!" Sanne screams but the voice remains calm.
"You have no choice. I have no choice. I am not real, this is not real."
"That doesn't make any sense!"
"To you it does not. Your mind is trying to comprehend but it can not. I can not help you as I am your mind. I am simply your way of trying to comprehend what is going on."
"Aaaa!" Sanne snaps as a bright light blinds her. "What's going on now?" Sanne sits up and sees Skitz and Krieger.
"You were attacked by Xana! We were worried when you stopped breathing but I gave you CPR. Are you ok Sanne?" Skitz is almost in tears.
"I'm fine but if Xana is attacking we need to get to the Factory." You need to go back I need to go to the Factory! "Shut up!" The other two stare at her. "I'm sorry I didn't mean you." The two are confused but before they can ask any questions Maria reappears.
"Die!" She attacks Krieger.
"Damn it! You two get Ark and get to the Factory!" Krieger and Maria wrestle on the floor of the hallway as the two girls run out.
Ark is with a girl when his Jcell rings. "Hey Skitz what's up?"
"Xana!" Skitz and Sanne are already in the woods running for the sewer entrance. "Get to the Factory now!"
"Ok you don't need to yell." Ark and Skitz hang up. "Hey honey I'm sorry but that was my sister and she is yelling about something. Probably something stupid but I have to go or she'll tell our parents."
"That sucks." The girl smiles. "I know something else that sucks." Ark smiles and squirms.
"As much as I'd love to find out what that other thing is I have to go." Ark kisses her then runs off.
"A vacuum cleaner!" The girl yells after him laughing. "Snap!" Ark actually likes the joke but has to keep from laughing as he is running.
"She's pretty funny should try and remember her name sometime." Ark goes around the corner and into the woods.
Skitz and Sanne make it to the Factory first where Dante is waiting for them. "About time you got here. Where are Krieger and Ark?"
"Krieger is dealing with the attack and Ark is coming." Sanne stops and looks Dante over. She didn't know what was wrong with her. When she threw herself at Krieger she had just snapped. And right now her head was starting to fill with memories as emotions flood her. No I have Skitz Dante is just a tool! "He is not he's a human being!" Dante and Skitz stare at her. "Don't pay attention ok? It's something in my head."
"Xana?"
"No, something else." You like him? He's the son of Xana! "He is not!" Sanne grabs her head. "Shut up! You're a bitch!" I see what you did. Krieger and Dante? I've been loyal to the person I love. And I never loved that half virus tool. "Shut up don't say that about Dante!"
"Sanne no one said anything." Skitz puts a hand on her shoulder but Sanne shakes her off.
"It's not you it's me." Sanne closes her eyes as she tries to make the voice shut up. "I'm sorry I'll leave your world as soon as I can but until then leave me alone! And even when I do leave you better treat Dante better!"
"I'm getting scared." Skitz backs away from Sanne. "Dante can you send me first? Or scan her first to see if there is anything wrong with her?"
"There is nothing wrong with me! It's her!" Sanne screams in frustration. "Sorry she is coming through."
"She? You mean my Sanne?" Sanne nods. "Let her!"
"I don't know how. If I did I wouldn't be here. Dante I'm sorry about how she's treated you."
"Its how I deserve to be treated. After what I did and what I am."
"No! Don't you dare think that Dante! You are a better human being then most are! You are risking your life for people who treat you like shit just because of who created you! Xana is not your father just the thing that created you." Sanne starts to calm down. "You are a human being and my friend. In my world I confide in you about everything and helped you with Naia. You loved her and she loved you. She loved you because you were the best human being she knew. When I leave make sure you tell this world's Sanne that if she doesn't treat you right you won't treat her right. Do unto others and stuff."
"Get to the Scanner Room." Everything Sanne said seems to have no affect on Dante. Sanne and Skitz take the elevator down to the Scanner Room. "Transfer Skitz, Transfer Sanne, Scanner Skitz, Scanner Sanne, and virtualization." They land in the Desert Sector as the vehicles appear. "I'll wait for Ark for a few more minutes then we can get going."
"Ok Dante." Sanne starts to go over to the Overboard then stops. "Skitz, since I'm not the Sanne you know I'll take the Overbike."
"Fine." The resentment in Skitz's voice is not unnoticed by Sanne.
"I'm sorry I'm not her but she will be here and she keeps telling me that," Skitz stops Sanne then points up. Dante was listening. "I'm sorry." Sanne and Skitz wait for Ark to get to the Factory.
Krieger wrestles with Maria. They slam into a door and the two girls inside open it to see them fighting. "Stop it!" They try to pull the two apart but Maria sparks with energy shocking them both.
"Maria fight him! I'm sorry he keeps using you!"
"Don't be Krieger I enjoy playing with her. I'm still surprised she hasn't been brought into the group. From what I saw in Sanne's mind there are more new members then original members!"
"She killed you in her world!"
"And she won't do it in this world!" Maria sparks with more energy and shocks Krieger until he passes out. Maria stands up as more doors open. "Enough of this." A black mist pulls out of Maria and disappears into one of the overhead lights.
Ark makes it to the Factory just in time to see Krieger standing in front of the Factory covered in blood. "Whoa are you ok!?"
"Help me Ark." Krieger looks seriously hurt. "I had to hurt Maria bad. She, we'll need a return."
"It's ok man she was possessed by Xana so she was a lot stronger then normal." Ark helps Krieger down and to the elevator.
Dante hears the elevator running. "Ark is here." The elevator stops at the Control Room and both Ark and Krieger step off.
"Hey look what I found!" Dante turns and sees Ark with Krieger.
"And Krieger made it. How did you get away?"
"I, I hurt Maria. The black mist left her after that. We need a return soon I don't know if she will make it."
"Ok Krieger." Dante is suspicious. How could Krieger have hurt Maria when she was possessed?
The two take the elevator down to the Scanner Room. "Transfer Krieger, Transfer Ark, Scanner Krieger, Scanner Ark, and virtualization." They land on Lyoko next to the others. Soon Dante lands on Lyoko.
"Sanne what are you doing?" Krieger sees her sitting on the Overbike.
"Um, you weren't supposed to be coming so I was going to take the Overbike." Sanne doesn't move.
"I want to drive."
"I will, get on behind me."
"I don't think that's a good idea." Krieger backs away from Sanne. "Dante you ride with her I'll take the Overwing."
"Krieger that wasn't me! There's something wrong with me. The other Sanne, your Sanne, she's interfering with something in my head. I can't control it when it happens."
"Then maybe you shouldn't be on Lyoko." Ark sets his claws. "Who knows what you might do on Lyoko."
"I don't hear her here. Something about Lyoko blocks her out." Sanne waits for Dante to get on the back of the Overbike then revs the engine. "Where to Dante?" Sanne feels a rush of feelings as Dante wraps his arms around her waist. Maybe it was the other Sanne interfering or maybe it was just her. She had been alone for more than a month on this world. It was the longest time she had been in this world. It might be why this world's Sanne was starting to come through. And might be why the emotions and feelings were starting to grow inside of her.
"We need to go north." Sanne revs the engine and takes off. The others follow her worried about her.
Jim shows up to the dorm building and finds three girls passed out next to each other and Krieger. "What happened here?!"
"Um, Maria was fighting with Krieger."
"You kids are too young for all of this." Jim shakes his head. "Hormones. I've been saying for years they need to have separate buildings for the boys' and girls' dorms. Well why are they all like this?"
"I don't know it was really weird. Like energy shot out of Maria and hurt Mindy and Cindy then like hit Krieger and he passed out then a black mist…" Jim cuts the girl off.
"Xana!" He runs out of the dorm building calling his wife.
When the Lyoko Warriors see the activated Tower two Tarantula's appear. "This should be easy." Sanne feels Dante squeeze her waist.
"Don't say that it never is."
"Just watch!" Sanne focuses on her energy. "You will have to take control soon." She focuses more and feels it rise. "Now!" She jumps off of the Overbike just as her wings appear. "Scattershot!" She fires at the Tarantulas but misses they're Eye. They lean back and start to fire.
"Time for some fun." Ark runs at the two Tarantulas dodging lasers.
"Yes it is." Skitz gets her spear out. She uses it to block lasers as her brother gets closer to the Tarantulas.
"Yes, time for fun." Krieger sparks with energy. "Hai!" He throws his Zanbouto at Sanne and clips a wing cutting it off.
"Aaaa!" Sanne falls to the Sector below. "Krieger, what are you doing!?" She turns and sees him coming straight at her. "Xana!" She fires an energy beam but only hits the Overwing.
"Yes."
"Where's the real Krieger!?"
"How do you know I'm not him?"
"He's too strong to be possessed and would never willingly join you!" Sanne fires another energy beam but misses.
"After what you did? And after Maria the girl he loved broke up with him because of what you did? Revenge sounds like a wonderful thing." Krieger charges at Sanne.
"Leave her alone!" Skitz breaks off from her attack on the Tarantulas to fight the Krieger copy.
"Bring it Skitz!" Krieger fires an energy bolt at Skitz but she blocks it with her spear. Sanne takes her chance and flies at the Krieger copy.
"Scattershot!" Twelve beams fire and Krieger copy cheats making an energy shield around himself.
"You'll have to do better than that Sanne!" Krieger copy keeps the energy shield up as he flies at Sanne.
"Skitz leave them alone take care of the Tarantulas!" Dante has activated the flight controls and flies around in the air watching the fighting. He has to wait for the right time to dive for the activated Tower.
"Don't lose to him Sanne!" Skitz turns and goes back after the Tarantulas.
Samantha and Jim make it to the Factory. "This is a trip I didn't want to make, ever." Samantha grabs Jim's hand in hers. "Please let this be a lie."
"It isn't." Jim and Samantha cross the bridge and go into the Factory.
Sanne flies away from Krieger copy leading it away from the activated Tower. "Scattershot!" Krieger copy uses his powers to block the attack.
Ark runs circles around the Tarantulas getting closer and closer as Skitz comes in on her Overboard.
"Who the hell is on Lyoko right now!?" Sanne is so distracted that she doesn't notice that the Krieger copy flinches at the sound of Samantha's voice. Sanne recovers before Krieger copy does and attacks.
"We don't have time to explain things right now Samantha." Dante waits for his chance. The Twins were doing their job and soon he would make it to the activated Tower.
"Who are you?"
"Dante." Samantha tells Jim the name.
"Jim says no Dante goes to Kadic Academy."
"I don't go to that school."
"Who else is there?" Samantha looks through the profiles. "Ark, Skitz, Sanne, Krieger, and you. No one else?"
"No. I need to wait for a chance to deactivate the Tower."
"You can do that? It's impossible for someone, a stranger, to do that." Dante knows he has to lie.
"There is something different about me. Xana saw it and chose me. Sanne saved me and now I deactivate Towers when she can't."
"Why can't she?"
"She's fighting Xana." Dante keeps watching the Twins fight the Tarantulas. "I need to be ready."
"Ready for an ass kicking, all of you." Samantha rips the headset off. "I can't believe them." Jim hugs Samantha from behind.
"It's ok Samantha. We'll handle this." They watch the screen.
Ark goes at a Tarantula as Skitz throws her spear. A Tarantula tries to dodge the spear but Ark cuts it from behind taking a leg off. The spear hits the Tarantula in the chest missing the Eye but enough damage was done and it is destroyed. The second Tarantula fires at Skitz and hits her knocking her off of the Overboard. Ark runs in and cuts both arms off.
"Now!" Dante dives at the activated Tower.
"No!" Krieger copy turns and flies at Dante.
"Leave him alone!?" Sanne flies after Krieger copy and tackles Krieger copy from behind. They fall to the Sector and fight.
"He made it." Samantha clenches her hand into a fist. "When they come back I'll punish them."
"The Tower is deactivated." The screens fall around Dante. "Return to the past now!" The white bubble comes up and reverses time.
Sanne goes to the gym to see Krieger and apologize. "Krieger?" She sees Krieger and Maria making out. "Oh, um, I'll come back later."
"A lot later." Sanne leaves the gym hoping Krieger wouldn't stay mad at her. She couldn't control herself and she had an idea why. He hates you now leave so I can come back! "If I knew how I would!" Sanne runs into the woods as memories, emotions, and the voice of other Sanne floods her mind.