The Other Code Xana Episode 28: The Sickness Within
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 1-135 and OWCX 1-27
Sanne is in the bathroom throwing up. "I hate this world." She flushes the toilet and uses mouthwash. "I hate chemotherapy." She looks in the mirror. She was bald. Her parents had bought several wigs but she refused too wear them. The cancer and the chemicals used affected her personality.
Sanne lies in the tub as it fills with warm water. It was the only thing that made her feel good. When she tried any thing else she became sick.
As she lies in it she hears her parents fight. She heard it twice before. "Do they think I'm deaf? Maybe in this world I am." Sanne listens carefully.
"Jeremie please we just turn it on for a few minutes and Scan her! She's sick and getting worse! She's your daughter how can you stand there and watch her die?!" Sanne hears some thing break.
"She is not! The chemotherapy is going fine. And with the shot J INC is working on we may be able too just inject the tumor and it will destroy itself."
"The Scanners will heal her! She looks horrible and feels even worse! I can't believe you'd let her suffer like this!" Sanne hears a smacking sound. "How can you hate you're own daughter that much!?"
"I don't! I love her too much to risk letting Xana out! If he gets out a lot more then Sanne will die!" Sanne hears some thing else break.
"He's trapped! How do you think he will get out? He won't!"
"Shut up Aelita! I won't let you do it! I know the passwords and the codes and you don't! She'll continue the treatments and if the tests work she'll get the shot! After that she will be cured with no risk of it coming back!"
Sanne ducks her head in to the water too escape the yelling. The water muffles the screams but Sanne knows they are still fighting. There was only one way to stop it but she couldn't do it. She was too sick, too weak, to do it.
As Sanne goes back too her room she hears the sound of a door slam. "Jeremie she's going too die if we don't do this! I can't wait for your shot too work! The doctor said the chemotherapy is only slowing the cancer!" Aelita turns and sees Sanne. She puts a hand too her mouth. "Sanne I," Aelita looks strangely at Sanne's head. "Oh, it's not on." Aelita does some strange hand motions. Sanne ignores her and continue too her room.
Sanne is curled on her bed. She was starving but if she ate any thing she would only throw it back up. The fighting had gotten worse over the past few days and Aelita left the house. Sanne didn't care. She was too sick to care about her mother or even herself. The treatment she had earlier in the day only made her feel worse.
The fighting and arguing gets worse when Aelita comes back. Aelita and Jeremie sleep in different rooms. After even more fighting Aelita moves out of the house again for good.
Sanne sees the sun coming up. "He wanted me too change this. He wanted me too fix this. But I can't do any thing. I'm too weak." The sun continues too come up. "I need help." Sanne gets an idea.
Sanne is on her phone. Her voice is hoarse and weak. "Krieger?" She bites her nail in worry. "Krieger, are you there?"
"Sanne? Whoa, um, a long time since you uh, called me." Krieger's voice is weak. "Um, yeah, hello?"
"I know. I'm sorry." Sanne coughs. "Um, I need help."
"With what? Sanne any thing you need." Sanne hears the tone in Krieger's voice. He loved her in this world. Some memories come too her but they are vague.
"I need to get too France. I know where the Factory is, the Super Computer, and the Scanners."
"Sanne um, are you ok? That stuff isn't real." Sanne grips her phone tighter. "Sanne are you still there?"
"Yes, and it's not fake. My parents are, were, arguing about taking me. My dad says no because he's worried about Xana escaping."
"Oh um, and Aelita?"
"I don't know any more. She moved out."
"I um, Sanne, I'm so sorry."
"Help me. If I am Scanned I'll be healed."
"Wow um, how do I um, do it?"
"I'll tell my dad I want too see you. Um, could you convince your parents too come here?"
"I could come. They'll send me alone if I want."
"Ok, better. Do you know how too drive?"
"Yes I have my license. You want too drive to France?"
"Yes. We have plenty of fast cars. If we leave our phones behind they won't be able too track us. Please Krieger I need this."
"I, what if you're wrong?"
"I'm going too die. They think I'm deaf or some thing and scream at each other, screamed." Sanne feels her tears start.
"Wait, you don't have your headset on? Sanne, I'm confused." Sanne doesn't respond. The memories flooding her mind shock her. She was deaf. Not completely but too use a phone or hear most normal conversations she needed too wear a headset Jeremie invented. She had seen the device before. She didn't know what the device was and ignored it after leaping in to this world. "Sanne?"
"I, um, Krieger just get here. I have to go I um, need to throw up." Sanne hangs up on Krieger. "That's why they yelled so much. I'm not supposed too be able to hear it." Sanne curls in to a ball and cries.
Three days later Krieger arrives. Sanne was feeling worse then ever after another treatment. But when she saw him she couldn't help but smile. "I'm sorry I look so hideous." Krieger hugs her gently.
"It's not your fault and you don't look that bad." Krieger kisses her on the forehead. "You're still Sanne." Sanne has the memories come too her more now. Before they were vague and hazy but now seeing Krieger they came clearly. They had been dating before.
But when she was fifteen she got sick. The worse she got the farther apart they were. Finally after starting chemotherapy she felt too sick and told him she didn't want to be with him. They hadn't talked since. But all it took was one call too him and he came for her.
"I hope so." Sanne pushes at the device. She didn't have it turned on but she knew it would be suspicious if it wasn't on her head. Even if it was itchy and annoying her. "Um, well, are you tired?"
"It was only four hours. Your father sent the Jjet." Krieger's smile makes Sanne's smile brighter. "Are you feeling ok?"
"No. But you make me feel better." Krieger blushes. "And if we get too the Factory I'll be cured." Sanne puts a hand on Krieger's shoulder. "Then we can go out and celebrate." Sanne pulls her hand away and puts it over her mouth. Knowing she would never make it too a bathroom she grabs a vase and throws up in it. "I'm sorry Krieger."
"It's not your fault." Krieger rubs her back gently. "Um, let's wait a day or two ok?" Sanne nods not able too speak for fear of vomiting again.
The next day Sanne is soaking in the bath after a sleepless night. "I don't get it. I'm not deaf but I have cancer. Why is it only part of me seemed too leap in to this body? Why can't I be deaf and not have cancer?" Sanne sinks her head in to the water trying to feel better.
Sanne is in her robe when she goes back too her room. "Oh um Sanne, I uh," Krieger blushes. Sanne sighs but pulls the robe tighter.
"What do you want?"
"I thought we should talk. I didn't know where you were and uh, thought I should wait for you." Krieger keeps his gaze on the floor.
"It's ok. Talk and stuff I'll change in the closet." Sanne goes too the two large doors and opens one. She steps in and closes the door behind her.
"Are you sure you heard right? We could be taking a huge risk. What if you didn't hear what you thought you did? What if Xana and the Super Computer are not real? Sanne I don't know if I can risk killing you for some thing that was a dream." Sanne leans against the door.
"I know it's there. I'm going to die no matter what happens. Jeremie keeps talking about a shot his company is making but who knows when it will be done. Until then I have to go through chemotherapy. But I heard them it isn't working. The tumor went too my brain and will kill me."
"If you die your parents will blame me. I'll blame me. I can't do that too you Sanne I can't let that happen."
"I'll die if we don't do this. I'm so sorry too ask you for this Krieger. I haven't been myself, you know that. I never should have broken up with you." Sanne starts too cry. "I'm so sorry."
"Sanne it's ok. I knew it was hard on you. I hoped when you were better you would um, want to be together again. But if you aren't getting better…" Sanne hears Krieger start to cry.
"The only way I can get better is if I am Scanned." Sanne gets some pajama bottoms on and a tshirt. "Krieger please I'll die if we don't do this." Sanne leaves the closet and walks over too him. "Please I don't want too die."
"I don't want you to either Sanne. But if this doesn't work if it isn't real then I might be the one too kill you." Sanne shakes her head.
"No, the cancer would. It's going too kill me no matter what happens. At least this way I have a chance. And I get too spend some time with you." Sanne puts her hand on Krieger's. "Try to make up for lost time."
"I, ok Sanne. Tomorrow we'll um, leave."
"Why don't we leave tonight? I have another appointment tomorrow for more chemotherapy. I don't want too go I always feel worse."
"Um, ok. We'll pack some stuff and leave ok?" Sanne nods and sits down on the bed. "Are you able to pack?"
"I can do my stuff. Um, could you get the rest?" Krieger smiles and kisses Sanne on the forehead.
"Of course Sanne." Krieger leaves Sanne's room.
Less then an hour later Sanne is sitting in the passenger seat of a car. "Are you sure you can handle this car Krieger?"
"The XZ-90 ST Class is insanely fast. It's probably the fastest one in Jeremie's garage." Krieger turns the key and the engine comes too life.
"But can you drive it?"
"Of course. All cars are well, cars." Krieger backs the car out of its spot and accidentally drives it in to a different car. "I just have to get used to the feel of it." Krieger shifts gear and goes forward.
Sanne rests in the passenger seat. She watches through the sun roof the clouds passing by. She looks over at Krieger and sees the look of concentration on his face. When she looks at the speedometer she sees why. "Krieger I know I want to get there fast but I think going over three hundred kilometers an hour might be a little much. What if the police see us?"
"They'll have to catch us. If I felt safe going faster I would." Krieger keeps his eyes on the road. He zooms around traffic heading west.
When Krieger sees a sign telling him Paris was close he slows down. He had driven for hours with out a break. His hands hurt from clenching the wheel and he was starting to get a headache. "Sanne is it ok if we take a break?"
"Um, sure, ok." Sanne looks around. She had fallen asleep. "Where are we?" Things looked familiar but she wasn't sure.
"Just outside of Paris. About five more minutes and we'll be there." Sanne looks at the clock and her jaw drops.
"Um, Krieger you must have been going a lot faster then before. I mean, we only left like five hours ago." Sanne hears his laugh and it makes her smile.
"I decided too see if I could top the speedometer. The needle only goes a little past five hundred." Krieger sees a fast food place and pulls in.
"Um, I'm not really hungry but I need too use the bathroom." Sanne slowly gets out of the car feeling weak. She was hungry but knew she would throw it up if she tried. "If you need money for stuff I brought some with me."
"I'm good, thanks any ways. I just need to get up and walk a little." Sanne nods and goes inside.
When Sanne comes out she sees Krieger doing stretches. "Wow um, you look good doing that." Sanne's cheeks flush with color. "Maybe after I'm scanned we can um, do what we used to do."
"I loved training with you Sanne. It was fun doing it and trying too hide it from Jeremie." Krieger stands up. "Um, are you ready?" Sanne nods. "Then let's hurry. You need too tell me where to go."
"I know right where we need too go." Sanne gets in the car.
Krieger drives slowly around the city. "Turn left." He does and Sanne sees the river. "Just follow the river. I'll tell you when to stop." Sanne watches the buildings pass by. "We're almost there."
"Sanne how can you know this? Even if your parents said it was real how can you know this is the right street?"
"I just do. Keep going." This is what the voice wanted me too fix. "In a few minutes I'll be healed."
"Sanne, I, I hope so. I don't want you to get your hopes up just too find nothing but if this is real um, then, yeah." Krieger looks over at Sanne. Her face shows no doubt. "I hope you're right."
Krieger goes around a curve and Sanne sees it. "Krieger, that big grey building is the Factory." Krieger pulls up too it and parks the car.
"Are you sure?"
"I'm positive." Sanne gets out of the car. She wants too run but knows she is too sick and weak. "Help me." Krieger gets next too her and helps her across the bridge.
When they get too the elevator Sanne is stumped. The voice had erased most of her memories of her old world including the key code. "Um, give me a minute."
"Sanne it could be any combination. Maybe we could ask your grandparents. They would know right?"
"I can do it." Come on voice give me this one little memory. If I don't have it then I can't fix what you sent me too. "I got it, one, one, two, seven." Sanne enters the code and the elevator starts too move.
"How did you do that?"
"I don't know." Sanne sighs. "I told you it was real."
"Well just because there is a factory and it has an elevator doesn't mean this is it. That our parent's story was real." When the elevator doors open Sanne steps out.
"And what's all of this, a car painting machine?" Sanne sees the computer chair and sits down in it. "Two floors down is the Super Computer. Could you go down and turn it on?"
"Um, uh, yes Sanne." Krieger pushes the button and the elevator doors close.
A couple of minutes later Sanne sees the screen flash. A few seconds later the holomap appears. "I can do this." Sanne starts too enter the auto scanning program when a screen appears.
"Hello? Who is there?" Dante sees Sanne. "Who are you?"
"I'm sorry but I'm not here for you." Sanne ignores Dante. She couldn't remember him as her friend. She had to forget him and her connections with him. "Krieger, mom, dad, I hope this works." She waits for the elevator to come back up.
"Sanne, did it, did it work?"
"Yes. I have the scanning ready I just need to go down now." She hits the last key and goes to the elevator.
Sanne takes the elevator down to the Scanner Room. She goes to the middle Scanner and soon the doors close. When they open she steps out. "Krieger," She takes the hearing device off. "What do you think?"
"You, you're hair is back."
"And I can hear perfectly." Sanne's stomach grumbles. "And I'm starving." Sanne smiles at Krieger brightly. "I'll pay if you go with me to the fanciest restaurant we can find."
"Sanne I'll do any thing you want." Krieger goes too her and hugs her tightly. "I missed you so much."
"I missed you to." Sanne hugs him back.
A few minutes later Sanne and Krieger are at a restaurant. Sanne orders her favorites while Krieger orders his. After eating Sanne gets her Jcard out and uses it too pay for the dinner.
Jeremie's Jpocket beeps. "They're in Paris France. What are they doing there?" Jeremie calls the airport to get the Jjet ready.
Sanne and Krieger are back in the car as the sun sets. "Krieger, I'm still sorry about what happened. I was just so, ew, you know? I didn't want to burden you with it. I always loved you and it hurt to do it but I felt I had too." Sanne cuddles with him in the back seat.
"I forgive you Sanne. I have no idea what it is like to go through what you did. I missed you so much and hoped when you got better you would be yourself again." Krieger brushes his fingers through Sanne's hair.
"I am better, and I am myself." Sanne kisses Krieger lightly on the lips. "My parent's house isn't far from here. I know the passcode so we could get in, go up too my bedroom and…" Sanne's smile finishes her sentence.
"Are you sure? Sanne I, I don't know."
"We could just cuddle if you wanted too. I just need to be with you." Sanne presses her face against his chest.
"Ok Sanne, ok." Krieger gets out of the backseat and in to the driver's seat and takes off for the house.
Jeremie is on the Jjet when his Jpocket vibrates. "Some one is at the house. What are those two doing? She is far too sick for this! She could die." Jeremie puts the Jpocket away and waits for the Jjet to complete its less than two hour flight.
Sanne and Krieger are messing around on the bed when they hear a knock on the door. Sanne and Krieger both freeze. "Who ever is in there please come out." It is Aelita's voice.
"Oh frak." Sanne looks at the door. "I didn't think she would be here." Sanne gets off the bed slowly. "Um, mom?"
"Sanne!?" Aelita throws the door open and sees her daughter, and Krieger. "What are you doing here? You're too sick to be traveling!"
"No I'm not mom, look at me!" Sanne runs too Aelita. "Look at me, touch my hair, I'm healed!" Sanne grabs Aelita's hand and brings it up too her scalp. "Feel it, please." Aelita's hand grips Sanne's hair.
"It's not a wig." She pulls on it. "But how? I saw you less then two weeks ago. How can this be?"
"Mom I did what you wanted me too do. I went to the Factory, turned the Super Computer on, and Scanned myself." Aelita pulls away from Sanne.
"How? How did you know where it was?"
"That's what I asked." Krieger has redone his zipper and button and gets off the bed. "She just seemed to know. And she had this scanning program ready and every thing. It was amazing."
"I, I just knew. Maybe you're psychic mom. Yeah, that's it! You psychically told me where it was and how to do it. That's the only thing I can think of." Sanne hugs Aelita. "And now I'm better."
"Yes you are Honey." Aelita hugs Sanne back. "I'm so happy."
"Don't cry mom, don't cry." Sanne feels tears in her own eyes.
When the Jjet lands Jeremie gets in the back of a car that is waiting for him. It takes off for his house.
Aelita, Sanne, and Krieger are in the dining room sitting around a large table. "You stole one of Jeremie's cars and drove all of the way here?" Krieger nods. "Because Sanne asked you too?" Krieger nods again. "Even though all she was saying was that the stories were real?"
"I know it sounds stupid but she seemed so sure of it. I couldn't tell her no." Krieger looks over at Sanne. "And she was right."
"And now I don't have cancer and I can hear! This is amazing right? When I go back home I can tell dad you were right and you two will make up and every thing will be like it was before, right?"
"Um, Sanne, what happened between your father and I was a bit more serious then you think. Maybe he and I can talk things out but some things were said and done that might be a little more complicated."
"Don't say that mom. Every thing will be fine now. We should call him and let him know where we are."
"You should?" The three turn and see Jeremie walking in to the room. "You never should have left! Aelita how could you do this? What if Xana gets out!?"
"I didn't do this! Sanne some how figured it out on her own! And now she's healed and we can turn the Super Computer off again!"
"Like I'd believe that! How can you lie too me like that? There is no way Sanne could have gotten past the security and known how too work the programs! I can't believe you did this the whole world is in danger!"
"Dad I did it! Mom didn't even know we were here! Hell I didn't even know she was here!" Jeremie glares at Sanne.
"Don't stick up for her! I know you're probably glad you were scanned but what will happen if the whole world is destroyed by Xana? Your mother did the wrong thing and I won't tolerate it!"
"She didn't do any thing!" Sanne walks up too her father and gets in his face. "I did it all! Leave her alone she was right and I knew it and I did what she wanted me too do! I'm sorry you were willing to let the cancer eat my frakking brain but mom and I weren't! Now please stop acting like this and be happy that I'm healed!"
"I am happy you're healed but I won't be happy when Xana kills you and every one else."
"Xana won't daddy I promise. He is still locked in the Tower." Sanne hugs Jeremie. "We can go and turn it off right now."
"I'll go and do it. You stay here. Krieger, I'll be calling your parents. You stole one of my cars, took my near death daughter on a joy ride, and who knows what else." Aelita smacks her hand on the table.
"He only did what I told him too!" Sanne turns towards Aelita.
"Mom don't do this," Aelita cuts her off.
"I wasn't going to let you kill my baby. I told Krieger too kidnap Sanne and bring her here. We went too the Factory and I healed her. If you have a problem with saving our daughter then I want a divorce and full custody because you clearly don't have her best interests at heart!"
"I won't allow it! I have to go and turn the Super Computer off before Xana kills any one!" Jeremie turns and leaves the room. Sanne and the others flinch when they hear the door slam shut.
"Mom, why are you doing this? I, you, you can't get a divorce. It's my fault not yours please don't do this."
"Honey I'm sorry I said that. I wasn't going too let your father blame you or Krieger for this. His stubbornness was going to get you killed. If he still wants too fight about it we will but I won't let you near him."
"But I, I love him, and you, please don't make me choose."
"I won't Honey. I just don't want you around him until he shows he won't hurt you. He was going to let you die what will he do if some thing else happens? I can't lose you Sanne I simply can't."
"I, mom, I-" Sanne blinks and when her eyes open she is in the dark. "Oh, wow, um, voice is you here?"
Yes. Very good Sanne. I am sorry about what happens too your parents but your life being saved needed to be canceled out. Balance is the key.
"But then, they, they got a divorce?"
Yes. It was not your fault or that other world's Sanne's fault. It was going to happen no matter what you did. This time there is not a dead child involved.
"So I would have died."
Yes. But now you living has made an infinite upon infinite amount of new worlds. Some of the worlds they don't divorce. Others they do but realize they love each other and remarry.
"Oh, wow. But in that world, the one I went to, they do divorce."
Yes.
"And they don't get back together."
No they do not.
"I can't believe it. I, wow. I fixed it right? I fixed what you wanted me too right?"
Yes.
"Ok then um what's next?"
You are getting close. Soon you will be ready if you keep succeeding.
"Ready for what?"
For the Final Solution. Please, choose a new world.
"Then um, ok. How about a world where I don't have any thing wrong with me and every thing is normal I just have to go and-" Sanne disappears.
A/N And so we see what was so urgent. But wow really, Jeremie and Aelita get a divorce? No way right?
Also, I was just thinking about the last couple of episodes of Code Naia. Like if it had been a movie/show, the music/way it would have been shown. Sanne ready too sacrifice herself. I can hear Amazing Grace playing in the backround as a little montage played. I once, was lost, Montage of her treating Arrow poorly, ridiculing his faith, But now I'm found Her holding his cross in her hands. Was blind, More of her being mean too Arrow, but now I see. Her holding Arrow in her arms as a red glow comes from the cross signifying heat/warmth. Just more monatage of her being mean, then nice, as the song plays out, then the last line she runs out and sacrifices herself.
Or when Arrow went to kill NAIA, can see/hear The Battle Hymn. Especially at the end with the line As he died to make men holy, Just see a glowing cross on his chest where no cross actually is because his was used to make the bomb. Let men die to make man free, He reaches for the watch and says the final words, "Forgive me Father" then black screen as you hear Our Lord is Marching On then when the line fades out you cut on Jeremie and Aelita watching the dark shimmer in the distance as the bomb works. Also I know the line was originally Forgive me Father if this doesn't work But looking back on it I would cut out the if this doesn't work because I think just the Forgive me Father is so much more moving right before he dies.