The Other Code Xana Episode 29: Choice
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 1-28
Sanne was in a world that reminded her of her own, mostly. The parts she could remember. Some things were different like Ark's powers on Lyoko or Skitz's outfit but many things were normal. She was with Krieger. Ark was with Mira and Skitz was with Barack. Dante was free from Lyoko and she suspected he met Naia. Several times she had gone to the Factory and he wouldn't be there. She didn't mind though. She was confident of what she could do. She had done it many times already before. "Xana you've met your match."
Sanne relaxes on the grass under a tree with Krieger. After some very stressful worlds she needed a break. "Krieger, I love you." She cuddles against his body.
"I know Sanne you've been telling me that a lot recently." Krieger runs his hand through her hair. "And you know I love you." He kisses her lightly on the lips. "My beautiful Goddess." He kisses her again.
"You're beautiful Goddess." Sanne kisses him back harder.
Sanne is in the Control Room with Dante. Sanne has a childish smile on her face. "Dante, what have you been up to?"
"I'm still working on the program like you told me too."
"No, I meant when you're not working on it. I've noticed you've been missing a lot." Sanne knows why but she was having fun teasing Dante about it.
"I, I've been going to the mall, and stuff." The tone of voice concerns Sanne. "I'll stop if you," Sanne cuts him off.
"Great! About time you went out and got a life." Sanne laughs silently too herself. "Meet any one special?"
"Well, um, there is one person." Dante blushes.
"Good. Don't worry about the Xana stuff ok? When we beat him you'll want a life outside of this. I'm glad you're finding one." Sanne smiles at him and he smiles back.
"Um, thank you Sanne." Sanne leans back in the computer chair. This was a world she could learn too love.
After a Xana attack Sanne is frustrated. She wanted a break but Xana interrupted it. But if she defeated him then she would either die or be taken back by the voice. Sitting under a tree she looks up at the moon. "If I beat Xana I'll leave this world. If I don't I'll have too fight him again and again." She rests her head against the tree. "Stuck between a rock and a hard place."
Another attack, another fight, and another distraction. Sanne tried to spend as much time with Krieger and her friends but Xana interrupted it. "I have to stop him. I'll never get a break as long as Xana exists." Sanne curls up on her bed hugging the pillow. She buries her face in to it so she won't wake Skitz up with her crying.
Sanne is alone in the Control Room. Dante was missing again. "Xana, I hate you and want you destroyed." Sanne doesn't expect a response.
"Too bad Sanne I won't die." Sanne turns around and sees a black mist. "I will never give up my plan." Xana laughs evilly.
"Yes you will. I refuse to lose." Sanne doesn't back away. "You can either kill your self or let me kill you." Sanne clenches her hand in to a fist. "I was sent here too destroy you by a power far greater than you. He, they, it, entrusted me with this mission. I have completed that mission many times now and I will do it again."
"You speak strangely. But it matters not I will kill you." The black mist forms in to a person, Krieger. "I will kill the ones you love." It morphs in to Skitz, and then Ark. "And the ones you call family." It morphs in to Jeremie and then Aelita from when they were teens, when they fought Xana. "I will kill them all and take over Earth, the Solar System, and eventually the Universe." The black mist morphs in to a darker version of Sanne. "And there is nothing you can do about it."
"I will do some thing about it and win." Sanne looks at the monitor when the Super Scan appears. "If this is your attack I am not impressed."
"Oh no I was just coming here too talk to you. My son and his friend are my targets." The black mist disappears.
"Frak, not what we need." Sanne gets her Jcell out and calls Dante. "Please answer…"
Dante and Naia are at the mall eating ice cream. Dante feels his phone vibrate and takes it out. "Sanne, what's wrong?"
"You know what. He said he's targeting you and your girlfriend." Dante almost drops his phone.
"She's not, I mean, ok, I understand." Dante hangs up on Sanne. "Um, Naia, I'm so sorry." Dante pushes away from the table.
"What is it?"
"I have to go, now." Dante looks around for the attack. "Before it gets here." He starts to back away.
"Before what gets here? Dante what's wrong?"
"Stay here I can't let him hurt you." Dante turns and runs away.
Sanne calls the others and waits. She chews on a nail in worry. She didn't want Naia to get involved like that time. Last time ended very badly for Naia. "Please get away Dante." Sanne's leg bounces on the balls of her foot.
Dante makes it out too the parking lot when he sees two black mists in the sky. They morph in too Hornets. "This I can handle." Dante dodges a laser and continues running for the sewer entrance.
Dante sees the entrance and the guard, a Kankrelat. "Not too dangerous." Dante flinches when a laser flies over his shoulder from a Hornet. "Except I'm surrounded, damn." He dodges a laser from the Kankrelat.
The other Lyoko Warriors make it too the Factory. "Sanne we're ready." Krieger steps in to the center Scanner.
"We should help Dante. He was with his girlfriend and Xana is targeting them." Skitz and Ark both laugh. "What?"
"Dante has a girlfriend?"
"How the hell did that happen?"
"Just, ok we need too deactivate the Tower." Sanne brings up the transfer programs. "Transfer Ark, Transfer Krieger, Transfer Skitz, Scanner Ark, Scanner Krieger, Scanner Skitz, and virtualization." They land on Lyoko in the Desert Sector. Sanne sends the vehicles then readies the auto transfer for herself.
Dante jumps and rolls on the sidewalk after the Hornets and Kankrelat forced him away from the sewers. He gets up quickly and runs for a building but a Hornet flies ahead of him and blocks the door. "I can't let others get hurt." He dodges another laser and takes off down the sidewalk.
The Lyoko Warriors are on their way to the activated Tower when four Hornets appear behind them. "Split up!" Ark on the Overboard veers right.
"Skitz, Sanne, get too the Tower I'll distract them." Krieger activates the fly controls on the Overbike and takes off in to the air.
Dante runs past a group of people and the screaming starts. People run out in to the street not caring about the cars. "I'm sorry!" Dante pushes a person out of his way. "Look out!" A laser flies over his shoulder and almost hits a different person. "Run!" He goes around a corner and starts down a different street.
Krieger flies between the different Hornets slashing at them with his sword. Two had gone after Ark and so he only had two to deal with. He clips one with the Overbike and is able too strike it. "One down three to go." A laser hits him on the back. "Don't get cocky." He turns the Overbike and goes after the second Hornet.
Skitz and Sanne see the activated Tower and the guards. "With out Dante I need too make it. But you can't tackle two Mega Tanks alone."
"The others should get here soon." Skitz pulls out a club. "We'll wait for them." Skitz flies the Overwing around the Tower not getting close.
Ark dodges laser after laser. He was flying the Overboard towards an outcropping of rocks. "Come on a little bit closer." He dives towards the rocks. The Hornets dive after him. He flies under a rock and stops. When the Hornets fly under they are caught off guard. Ark grabs both and smashes them together on the Eye destroying both. "Nyuk nyuk nyuk." Ark laughs at his joke the flies away.
Krieger turns sharply and the Hornet flies by. Krieger continues his turn and throws his sword at the Hornet hitting it from behind and cutting it in half. He dives down and catches his sword.
Dante turns down an alley and the Hornets fly after him. Dante is almost too the other end when the Kankrelat walks in too view. "Trapped, I need a weapon." He looks around quickly and sees a trash can. He grabs the lid and uses it as a shield. He blocks a laser. "I still need a weapon." His back is against the wall as the three monsters fire more lasers at him.
Skitz lets Sanne off the Overwing then takes off again.
Ark and Krieger make it too the activated Tower. "Mega Tanks, this should be fun." Ark spins on the Overboard. "Sis, Krieger, you tackle the one on the left." Ark dives at the closer Mega Tank.
"Like I need help!" Krieger charges the other Mega Tank. "Skitz go help your idiot brother!" Krieger dodges a Mega Tank blast.
Dante pushes past the Kankrelat knocking it over. He takes two lasers too the back but keeps running out of the alley.
Sanne watches her friends fight the Mega Tanks worrying about Dante. "Come on, hurry up who knows what Xana is doing too him."
"I know what could I be doing too him?" Sanne is so stunned by Xana's appearance she is speechless. "I think sending monsters after him is the best thing too do don't you?"
"Xana!" Sanne takes two steps back. "Leave Dante alone!" She clenches her hands in too fists. "Why don't you fight me instead? Or are you scared?" Sanne smiles. "Come on Xana fight me!"
"I would crush you easily." The black takes shape in to Dante. "Do you want Dante too die so easily? If you do not deactivate the Tower then he dies."
"I won't need too after I destroy you!" Sanne sparks with energy. "I know some thing you don't know." Sanne had been practicing every time she went too Lyoko. She just had to wait for the right moment.
"It won't matter I will crush you as easily as you crush a fly!" Xana sparks with energy. "Dante is not needed for this." Sanne is confused until she sees the Tower deactivate.
"You just couldn't handle fighting me and killing Dante at the same time." Sanne's hair starts too turn darker.
Krieger, Ark, and Skitz are stunned when the Mega Tanks disappear. "Wait, the Tower deactivated Sanne what's going on?" Krieger turns around and sees Sanne and Xana circling each other. "Xana!"
"Back off Krieger I can handle him!" Sanne has energy charged in too her hands. "Xana this is the end for you!" Sanne leaps at him and lashes out. Her arms are pink blurs as the energy makes her faster.
Xana backs away. "I may have underestimated you."
"No I was always more powerful than you!" Sanne has a pink aura surrounding her. "I just had to bring it out!" Energy sparks around her arms. "Hai!" Energy shoots out from her right arm and strikes Xana in the chest.
"But I am faster!" Xana starts too turn in to a black mist but Sanne attacks.
"Faster?" Sanne slashes through the black mist. Her energy pushes it apart tearing through it. An energy orb drops on to the Sector. "Good bye!" Sanne kicks it away. The black mist tries to get away but Sanne's energy is too much for it. "Krieger, throw that in to the Digital Sea!"
"Ok Sanne." Krieger is slow to move. He was worried about Sanne. Her hair grew darker and darker. Her outfit was getting black areas on it. Her pink energy sparking around her was starting too turn darker.
"Now!" Sanne's yell gets Krieger working.
Dante runs for the Factory after a return hadn't been done. He knew the Tower had been deactivated but wondered why a return hadn't been done.
The black mist breaks apart and another energy orb drops on to the Sector. Sanne grabs it and throws it as hard as she can towards the edge.
The black mist flies away for Sector 5. "Not so fast Xana!" Sanne flies after him. It doesn't occur to her that she doesn't have wings in this world just her energy. "There is still one last energy orb!" Sanne catches up too the black mist and she sends an energy bolt through it splitting it in half. "A different world and a different Xana!" She strikes one half of the black mist. "Not there." She strikes the other half. "There it is!" She focuses on the other half. "Give me that energy orb!" Sanne slashes through the black mist cutting it in to smaller and smaller pieces. "There is the last energy orb!" Her hand snaps out and grabs the last energy orb. "I'll take it for myself, good bye Xana." Sanne shoves the energy orb in too her chest.
"Damn it." Sanne was in the nothingness again. "I messed up. I got corrupted, I'm sorry."
Oh do not worry. You destroyed Xana and your friends destroyed you, eventually. It was all balanced out.
"Oh, good. Um, now I guess I have to choose another world?"
No.
"Really? Why?"
Our plan is ready.
"The one you won't let me in on? That's nice but I want in on it."
Of course you do Sanne. You are the key part that we kept in the dark for a reason. We were afraid of what you would do if you knew what the plan was.
"Why? What's your plan?" Sanne is starting too get nervous.
Too remove evil you must remove good. You understand, don't you Sanne?
"Yeah you told me that before. Why you keep killing me when I kill Xana." Sanne looks around and notices there are no glowing orbs. There were no other worlds around her. "So what's the plan?"
I wanted too keep this from you as long as possible. I didn't want too scare you. But now I can no longer keep it from you.
"Tell me! Come on I want too know."
Sanne, you are our plan.
"I know that. It's why you've sent me from world too world fighting Xana." Sanne feels better. "I've been doing that."
You don't understand Sanne. You are our plan. We made you a force of good for a reason.
"Because too remove a force of evil you need too remove a force of good. I know that already. What's so scary about that?"
You don't understand Sanne. We needed you to be an equal force of good too Xana's force of evil. Once you achieved that level of good we would tell you our plan. That time is now.
"Then tell me some thing I don't know."
Our plan is too remove both. Not over an infinite amount of time with you traveling you too an infinite upon infinite amount of worlds. We will remove you, and Xana. But it is your choice.
"My choice? So like you'll just um, do what?"
Remove you from every world, except the worlds you've interfered with. And we will then remove Xana. This way the balance is kept and the fight is over.
"Wait, you mean like, I'd stop existing?" Sanne is starting too tremble.
No you would never exist. It will be as if you were never born. Except for the worlds you have already been too. You will cease too be. Sanne Belpois will never be born. She will never be a daughter or a friend or a sister or a cousin or any thing. The many forms of her from Sanne too Samantha too Sam too every other name.
"But, then, what about me?"
I just said what would happen.
"No I meant me, like, me, this me." Sanne pats her chest. "What happens to me? Do I go back to my world?"
No. You will also cease to be. So all the damage that was done in that original world of yours will be undone.
"What about my mom and dad? Or Krieger?"
What about them? They will never miss you because you will never be born. You will never be held in Aelita's arms as she breast feeds you. Jeremie will never hold your hand as he walks you down the stairs for Christmas. Krieger will never kiss the lips of his girlfriend.
"But, no. I don't want that." Sanne feels her legs give out.
Then you will keep fighting? Knowing it is pointless as no matter what you do there will always be another world with Xana in it? Is this your choice?
"I, I don't want that either. Why can't I go back too my world?"
After we eliminate you that world will be different. You can not exist.
"Then why not one of the worlds I went too before? Why can't I go to one of the ones where I lived?"
Because that would force the Sanne of that world too disappear. This is your choice Sanne. This all revolves around you.
"I won't exist? Ever?"
There will be no photo, video, memory of you. No article of clothing worn by you. There will be no friendship made with you. There will be no family with a Sanne Belpois in it. But there will also be no memories of Xana. There will be no friends or family hurt or killed by Xana. Every decision you made that affected others will no longer happen. Every decision made by others that were because of you will never happen. Sanne Belpois will never exist.
"No, I, I can't," Sanne starts too cry. "I have too fight Xana."
Forever? And what happens when you go insane? You are already unbalanced. Partly my fault as the worlds interfere and your mind is strained but also from your actions. Every time you see the ones you love you do not want too leave them. But you know you must because you must defeat Xana and go too another world. Our plan makes that fighting unnecessary.
"But I won't exist, ever. Why? Why do I have to disappear? Why can't you make some one else disappear?!"
It is obvious too us. But your mortal mind may not be able too handle it. First and foremost because it is your choice. Second because of the actions taken.
"Actions taken?" Sanne realizes what a world with out Xana would mean. Aelita would never go too Lyoko and never meet Jeremie. Just like in a world where Aelita chose Odd and she would never be born. But this would be on a scale she couldn't fathom. No Xana, no Aelita on Lyoko, and no Sanne. "I, I can't do it, either one."
Then you will remain here until you can decide.
"But, I, can't I go too a world with out Xana? Until I decide?"
No. You must either fight Xana or commit too our plan.
"But I could have chosen before."
Before you were informed you did not know of our plan. We are sorry but this is what we must do. I do not wish too limit you like this but it must be done. I am sorry Sanne.
"I," Sanne's sobs shake her. "I know what I have to do but I can't do it. I can't not exist. Please don't make me do this."
I am not making you do it. It is your choice. Fight Xana forever until the strain on your mind makes you insane or agree too our plan. Those are your choices. I'm sorry your choices, either one, are hard.
"I, please, another choice. Give me time, please."
You can have all the time you need.
Sanne hears a popping noise. "Voice?" No response. "He left me here." She looks around the nothingness. She was completely alone.
Sanne sits in the nothingness crying. Even when she ran out of tears she continued. She knew the answer. She knew the choice. She just couldn't bear too think of it. "I can't fight Xana forever and I can't not exist. I don't want too be here I don't want too be the one." She is able too pull up the memories of her world.
Sanne's mother and father. Her grandparents that she loved very much even after finding out Jim wasn't her grandfather by blood. She remembers the smile on his face when she was growing up. He loved her like a granddaughter. He didn't care that it was only by marriage.
Her friends loved her. Skitz was her best friend who she could share any thing with. Ark was always fun and made her happy. And Krieger, her Krieger. She loved him for years. Even when she insisted she wasn't going too date she knew she loved him. She had just been distracted. This brings up memories of Dante. The first time she saw him on the monitor. The first time she brought him too Earth. The first time he ate ice cream. His first time with her after he lost Naia. She loved him too she knew it.
Could she really remove all of that love? Could she really remove her self from that world and every other world, except for the ones she interfered with and most of those she was already dead. Could she make herself not exist?
Sanne closes her eyes as more memories come too her. Some are from her world and others from the worlds she visited. She made people happy. Except for two worlds. The worlds she visited where she was evil. But she did the right thing and changed them. Or tried too at least.
Sanne remembers a world where she wasn't Sanne. The boy she met loved the girl she leapt in to so much he knew right away she wasn't the girl. Sanne wonders what that world was like. It had to be a world with out Xana. It had to be a world with out danger. Why couldn't she go to that world for awhile before making this decision? She could relax and take her time. But in that time how many more worlds would Xana take over, kill, win.
"Voice?" Sanne's voice is weak and trembles. "I, I think I made my choice." Sanne hugs her knees too her chest.
Very good Sanne you have done well. I know both choices are hard for you and I wish it didn't come too this but it has. What is your choice?
"It is this or that, right? There are only two choices?"
Yes. I am sorry but there are only two choices. Fight Xana forever or finish it now. You could save an infinite amount of lives in one choice. The other puts things up too chance. The last world you visited your friend's needed your parents help. They killed you after you had killed others.
"But if I choose the other way I kill myself."
No. You will never be born so you never shall live. The events leading up too your creation shall never transpire.
"Then, I, can't I go to a world where there is no Xana? Give me that much, please. Just for a few years.
No. Make your choice.
"If I continue fighting and become more good then more than Xana could be eliminated right?"
Yes. That would be a very noble thing to do Sanne. Is that your choice?
"I don't know."
Then make up your mind. You have an infinite amount of time. You will not age in here. Do you need more time?
"I, no."
Then what is your choice?
"I know what I have to do. Make it so I-"
A/N And so now we see the end. Sanne is removed, as is Xana. With Xana's removal Aelita never meets Jeremie and so Sanne can never be born. Aelita never has too fight Xana. The world is never in danger from Xana. But it never knows the light that was Sanne. Except for the worlds she's been too. Why I had her go to CN, CLS5, and even our world(girl and the boy that had nothing to do with Lyoko) to make sure they would exist after this moment. Sanne made the difficult choice and chose too not exist, ever. But where is she now? Could she really just disappear? Maybe. My Muse had an idea for a Code Shift but IDK if it will work out. She gets some very amazing, detailed, and complicated ideas some times. IDK if I could make it work. But now I have time too focus on CN and CLS5.
Also, I know I just did Code Xana in a row, but that was cause I was so close with it. But in a thank you for reading I will update Code Naia on Friday, and Code Lyoko S5 on next Tuesday.