Code Xana Another World Episode 1: Rebirth
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.
A/N Ok reread through the whole series and it gave me a bunch of ideas. Mainly, there are so many worlds that I could redo all of Code Xana with the exact same characters... Just different. Maybe one is gay/lesbian, or Sanne is the spoiled Billion Dollar Princess, or Krieger and Skitz from the very beginning and Sanne with Dante or hell the parents get brought in early or a Solanum outbreak interrupts things. I could do ANY THING with the Series. We could see a Code Xana world that Sanne doesn't interfere in so is totally separate from the O Sanne and OW Sanne or CN Sanne or any other. Hell maybe not even follow Sanne but Krieger, Skitz, or even Dante! I also upon rereading the ending felt sad for her. She's just gone, forever, in an infinite amount of Universes. In any case I felt like she deserved more after sacrificing so much. So this is it...
The Power that Be was guilt stricken. They had removed a force of good that was really even greater than they thought. They were all about balance and yet had removed more good than evil. Sanne may have been on the same level as Xana before she made her decision but after? She was worth a dozen Xana's if not more. They had to rectify this action. But they know if they so much as create one new world with Sanne it would create an infinite amount more. An infinite amount of which would have Xana...
She was far too great for us to even comprehend. She sacrificed not herself but every thing she was or could ever be. She did not throw herself on a grenade to save another. She did not put herself between an attacker and a child. She gave up anything that could ever or would ever be her to save every thing.
But if we create one world with her in it we will create an infinite amount.
I know brothers but we removed Xana for her sacrifice when her sacrifice was far more than Xana. She deserves more than that. She deserves love and kindness and friendship.
In an infinite amount of worlds she will be evil. In an infinite amount of worlds she will not be so heroic.
And in an infinite more she will be more than most could ever dream of being. She showed all of us the good of one being can counter the evil of all.It is the honorable thing to do!
Will you stand in the ashes of a trillion souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters? It will be on you what Xana does. This is your Universe you have the final say.
Then I say let there be light!
Sanne is on the Jjet. "Daddy I know you don't want me to go to Kadic."
"Honey it will be fine. All your friends will be there." Jeremie and Aelita argued for a few weeks over it but Sanne was the deciding factor.
"And so will Ms. Delmas. All the stories you told about her and you think she'll be a good principal?" He shrugs his shoulders. "How did mom finally convince you to let me go?"
"Because Dear you need social interaction." Jeremie checks his watch. They would be landing in a few minutes.
"I get that when the others visit." Jeremie said the same thing but Aelita knew Sanne would need to meet other people eventually. He couldn't keep her locked up in their home forever.
"More than that." Jeremie looks out the window as the plane shakes. "Sanne get your seat belt on now."
"Ok." She sits down and puts the seat belt on as the plane shakes again.
The pilot comes over the intercom. "We're experiencing some slight turbulence." A loud whining noise fills the cabin. "And we may have sucked a flock of birds in to the engines on the right." Jeremie realizes this was serious.
"Sanne hang on tightly." Jeremie gets his phone out. "Aelita?"
"Yes Jeremie?"
"We just hit some birds near landing. Right side engines are blown and we're," The plane drops suddenly. "Losing altitude."
"Sanne?"
"She's fine. Strapped in and waiting for the emergency landing procedures." The plane drops again. "I love you Aelita, Princess."
"Don't say that you'll be fine."
"I know but I still love you."
"I love you too." Aelita starts to worry. "Can you put Sanne on?"
"Of course." Jeremie hands the phone to Aelita.
"Mommy?"
"Don't worry Sanne you'll be fine. Your father invested in enough safety equipment you could," Aelita hears a scream. "Sanne?" No response. "Sanne!" The phone cuts out.
Skitz and Ark are at the hospital with their parents when they see Krieger. "Hey buddy!" Ark runs over to him. "How long have you been here?"
"We were in Germany so it didn't take us that long. Hell we got here before Aelita did." Krieger looks at a door.
Odd and Sandra walk over to Yumi and Ulrich. "So what's going on? Are they going to be ok?"
"Last we heard from Aelita is that Jeremie being larger let more of the force spread out. He'll be in the hospital for a few days but shouldn't be worse for wear." Odd and Sandra wait for more but Yumi remains quiet.
"Sanne?" Yumi looks away. "Ulrich what happened?"
"She hit her head multiple times. They're working on her right now. With modern medicine the way it is I'm sure, we're sure," Ulrich takes Yumi's hand in his and squeezes it. "That she'll be fine."
"Is it just her head?" Ulrich nods.
"She has bruises and may have broken her nose but her spine is ok."
Kriegerwakes up early the next day and wakes Ulrich up. "Come on maybe she is better. Maybe she woke up."
"Calm down Krieger we know Aelita would call us if any thing changed." Ulrich yawns and sees the time. "Go back to bed."
"Can I take a taxi then? Or walk? The hospital isn't far from here."
"Just, just go." Ulrich turns over and puts an arm around Yumi who hadn't woken up.
Kriegeris at the hospital and bugs a nurse for an update. "Surgery ended a couple hours ago and that is all I can tell you."
"Only a couple hours ago? But they started yesterday."
"I can't tell you anything more." Ulrich walks away and sits down in a chair and waits hoping for more good news.
When Ulrich and Yumi show up Skitz and Ark are there but their parent's aren't. "Any news?"
"The surgery was done at like five but she didn't wake up." Krieger had started pacing when he couldn't take sitting any more. "And they won't tell us any thing since we aren't family."
"Where's Aelita?"
"We don't know they won't tell us since she's now a patient." Ulrich and Yumi are shocked and look for the nearest doctor or nurse.
Kriegercontinues pacing back and forth getting on the Twins nerves. "Krieger sit down already you're giving me a headache."
"What if Sanne never has a headache again? What if she doesn't wake up? Or she does but has damage? We don't know if she'll ever wake up. She was so happy to come here even if she was scared at first." They always talked over the internet or phone.
"And didn't you help talk her in to coming? We all spent last year at Kadic and," Krieger glares at Ark. "I'm not saying it is your fault. Dude some birds got sucked in to an engine how is that your fault?"
"Because I told her how great Kadic was. Being away from our parents and how easy the classes were. I convinced her to come here and now, now," Krieger punches the wall.
"She'll be fine." Skitz starts chewing on her thumb after chewing all of her nails of. "She has to be fine."
Ulrich and Yumi come back after finding a doctor. "Mom? Did they tell you any thing more?" Yumi nods.
"Aelita had a small breakdown from stress and lack of sleep so they gave her some medication and a place to lie down."
"Sanne?"
"Nothing new." Yumi hugs Kreiger. She knew how excited he was that Sanne would be coming to Kadic Academy. He was partially the reason why Sanne wanted to come. "But I'm sure she'll be ok. Jeremie and Aelita already spent a small fortune flying in some neuro," Yumi has to hold back a sob. "Specialists in brain injuries."
"So her brain was hurt?"
"No, just as a precaution." So they all hoped.
A few days later summer break was almost over. In two days school would start back up. "I don't want to go." Krieger refused to pack his things.
"If Sanne wakes up while you're at school we'll send Jim to get you as soon as we know." Ulrich grabs a book and throws it on Krieger's bed. "You'll go and you won't complain got it?"
"Why? What does it matter? I could be killed just like," Ulrich slams Krieger's door as he walks away.
"She isn't dead!" He storms down the hallway.
"Yet." Krieger had been having nightmares since the plane accident. Going to Sanne's funeral. Sanne sitting up from her casket and blaming him. Right now he was alone in his room. When at Kadic Academy he'd be dealing with Ark. As much as he loved his best friend he didn't need Ark knowing how much of a wreck he was.
Thenext day Krieger is driven to school by his mother. "Thank you Krieger for not fighting with us about this."
"What's the point? You'd just make me go any ways." Krieger crosses his arms and glares out the window.
"We would." She reaches over and touches his arm. "We hope going back to Kadic will distract you."
"From what? Sanne, she, she could, what if she gets worse?" Krieger now has to fight back tears.
"If any thing changes we'll let you know as soon as we know." Yumi stops at a light and looks over at her son. "I know you love her but do you think she would want you like this?"
"I, she, we're friends of course I, I mean, no, she wouldn't."
"Then know, don't hope, but know that she will be sitting in class with you some day in the future." She pulls up to the gate of Kadic Academy and helps him get his things from the trunk.
Krieger leaves Kadic as soon as classes are over and hurries to the hospital. He gets clearance from a nurse to go to Sanne's room. When he gets to the door he hears yelling and stops.
"She could never recover!" Krieger recognizes Aelita's voice. "We need to scan her now."
"I know but it will be dangerous taking her there. She needs these machines to breath. If we take her off for even a few minutes she could die."
"Then we need to find a way of getting her there instantly!" Aelita grabs at her hair and starts pulling. "I need my baby to be my baby again!"
"I know Aelita and I want her back too but if we scan her she'll know they weren't stories." Jeremie looks down at his daughter. So pale, frail, and worries even more. "We'd have to keep her from telling the others."
"Who cares if she tell the others? Xana is locked away forever. We could," Aelita and Jeremie look at each other as they get the same idea.
Krieger hears them walking towards the door so he backs up a few paces and acts like he was just getting there. "Is she doing better? Did she move?"
"No but keep an eye on her we'll be back in a few minutes." The two adults rush past Krieger.
Krieger is confused. What had Aelita and Jeremie been arguing over? Scan? Stories were true? Did Aelita have another mental breakdown? But then what was with Jeremie?
Krieger was still trying to figure out what was going on when a black mist appears out of one of the machines hooked up to Sanne. His jaw drops as he sees it enter Aelita. It was exactly how he imagined it in his parent's stories.
Sanne sat up shaking violently. Krieger runs over to her and pushes her down on the hospital bed. He is shocked and pulls away. "Sanne what are they doing to you?" She continues shaking violently until the black mist leaves her body.
Her eyes open and she tries to take a deep breath but the tube in her throat keeps her from doing so. She starts hacking and choking on the tube. "Sanne!" Krieger doesn't know what to do and starts yelling.
Two nurses rush in expecting the worst. Instead they are surprised to see their patient flailing about pulling off tubes and wires. "Stop!" One nurse grabs at Sanne's arms.
"She's bleeding!" Krieger is freaking out even more. Had he really seen a Xana Specter? Was Sanne really awake? Had he fallen asleep in class and this was a dream? "Stop the bleeding!"
"It isn't major." The other nurse grabs the tube in Sanne's throat and puts it back in place. "Calm down!"
"I can't." Krieger knew he was hyperventilating.
"Not you." The first nurse struggles to hold Sanne down.
Aelita and Jeremie rush from the Factory and to Sanne's room. By the time they get there a doctor has taken the throat tube out of Sanne and is going over her vitals for a third time. "It just doesn't make sense. She had a spike on all screens but then they lowered almost instantly."
"What happened?" Aelita and Jeremie push their way in to the room.
"Your daughter is awake but we aren't sure why." The doctor is looking at the brain scan again. "She is showing no sign of damage that came up in the initial scan."
"Brain damage?" Krieger, and the other kids, had been told that there was none. The specialists were only called in as a precaution.
"The newest scans show none. This is amazing. It is miraculous."
Jeremie mumbles under his breath. "It is science." Jeremie and Aelita go to Sanne and hug her as tears flow down their cheeks.
Krieger waits for his chance to hug Sanne now that she was cleared for it. "I'm so glad you're ok." He hugs her lightly and she hugs him back.
"Why were you here? Where were my parent's?" Sanne is confused. She realized she was in a hospital but every thing else is a mystery.
"They went to a phone safe area to call the others."
"No, where were they? When I woke up you were here but where were they?"
"I'm not sure." He leans in and whispers in her ear. "You won't believe me. I don't believe it." She buries her face in to his chest and starts crying. "Did I hug you too hard?" He tries to pull away but she won't let go.
"Don't let go." Sanne was lost, confused, and terrified. She was on the plane and now she was in a hospital. Not only that but her first thoughts were of a strange looking forest with a young boy calling out for help. She didn't know who he was or what the Tower was but his fear mixed with her terror making it even worse.
Krieger had to be forced back to Kadic Academy. He didn't want to leave Sanne but was promised he could be right back as soon as classes were over the next day. Ark had to help drag him back to their dorm room. "Dude she looks fine. Hell I wouldn't believe she was in an accident. If you told me she was scanned at the Super Computer I'd believe you."
"Close enough." Ark gives him a quizzical look. "You wouldn't believe me." He still couldn't believe it. He must be dreaming. Any minute he would wake up and Sanne would still be in a coma at the hospital.
When he wakes up in the morning he skips breakfast and tries to go to the hospital but Jim is waiting for him at the gates. "Did you really think we wouldn't think of this?" Jim smiles showing he isn't angry at Krieger's attempt.
"I can skip class for a day."
"You can see my granddaughter after classes." Jim walks over to Krieger and puts a hand on his shoulder squeezing it. "She'll be fine until you get there."
"She better be."
"Don't worry." Jim and Samantha as well as the other adults had been told by Aelita and Jeremie what they had done. "Now how about we get you to breakfast?" Jim walks Krieger to the cafeteria.
Over the next few days passed Krieger was sure of what he had seen. With Sanne safe his mind drifted to what he had seen. The Super Computer must be real which means the Factory was real. If he could find it then... What? What would he do? Show the others? Like he could even run it. He could work a computer as well as any one else but nothing like the Super Computer. He needed Sanne but she was still at the hospital.
He is out in the woods. If the sewer entrance was real it would only help prove to himself he wasn't crazy.
Skitz was following him after Ark said Krieger had been acting weird. She sees him combing through the grass and tall brush. "Is he on some thing?" Her and her brother had done some Jazz and Zoner last school year but it didn't make them comb through the brush.
Krieger sees some thing that wasn't grass or dirt. "Found it." He pulls at the sewer cover. It had rusted on. "I need a crowbar. Groundskeeper shed should have it." He goes running back towards the school as Skitz hides behind a tree.
After Krieger is gone Skitz goes over to where he was and sees the sewer cover. "What the hell is he doing?" She kicks at the sewer cover. "What is he going to do? Skateboard to the Factory?" She laughs to herself. She starts walking back to her hiding spot when she stops. "It was as if she'd never been in an accident. What if they scanned her and then launched a return?" She shakes her head. "Those stories weren't real." She goes to her hiding spot and waits for Krieger.
He comes back with the crowbar and pries the cover off. "I'm an idiot. I was dreaming I had to be." He climbs down the ladder in to the sewers.
Skitz follows after him a minute later. "He's nuts." She looks around. "And I'm following him." She listens and hears his footsteps.
Krieger feels frustrated as he goes around another corner. "I'm crazy. This is a maze no way our parents could have ever found their way down here." He keeps going when he hears footsteps. He stops and hears a couple before they stop. "Echo?" He takes a couple steps but doesn't hear any echo.
Skitz is trying to be as stealthy as possible. She had to backtrack once when Krieger ran in to a dead end.
Krieger sees a purple cat person. No, a purple cat Odd. "Just like he described it." Krieger puts a hand on the painted image of Odd. "This can't be real." He keeps going.
Skitz stops and puts a hand on the paint. "A giant purple cat. He looks so goofy." She laughs then stops as she realizes she was being loud.
Krieger hears what sounds like laughter. "Hello?" His voice echoes around the sewer. No response. "Is any one there?"
"Me." Skitz walks around the corner.
"What are you doing?"
"You go in to the sewers and you ask me what I'm doing? Really?" She walks over to him.
"Ark says you've been really weird since Sanne woke up. Are you ok?"
"No." Krieger shakes his head. "You wouldn't believe me if I told you why I'm down here."
"Can't be any crazier than why I think you are."
"Which is?"
"I'll tell you why I think you're down here if you tell me why you are." Krieger simply nods. "It was as if Sanne was never in a plane crash. I think her parent's took her and scanned her and then launched a return."
"Close." Krieger laughs a little. "They went to the Factory and activated a Tower. They used a Specter to posses and fix her."
"Are you sure?" He nods. "Like you saw it?"
"With my own two eyes." Krieger looks over her shoulder. "Is Ark down here as well?"
"No, just me. He had..." She motions her hand in the air.
"Mira? Megan?"
"Some thing like that. Maybe it was Morgan." She shrugs her shoulders. Her brother was as bad as her father had been.
"So want to keep looking with me?"
"Sure. After seeing him as a giant purple cat and with what happened with Sanne I have no doubt there is some thing." Her curiosity had been peaked by the picture of her father.
The two travel around the sewers when they find a ladder and climb up it. "An alley." They climb back down.
It is getting late and Ark is starting to get worried so he calls his sister. "Hey Skitz what are you doing?"
"Following Krieger."
"And that took you two where?"
"In the sewers." Krieger was climbing up a ladder while she talked to her brother.
"The sewers? What are you, he, doing down there?"
"We're looking for the sewer path to the Factory."
"What Factory? Wait you don't mean that Factory do you? You do realize those were just stories." Ark is a even more worried now. "You aren't on any thing are you?"
"No I haven't touched any thing since last school year." Skitz hears Krieger's shout. "One second." She goes to the ladder. "Did you find it?"
"It has to be it! Get up here!"
"Ark I'll call you back later." Skitz hangs up and climbs up the ladder.
The two teens run across a bridge. Skitz is feeling excited and nervous. "My stomach's killing me."
"What?"
"Whenever I get nervous I get stomach cramps."
"I just sweat." Krieger wipes sweat from his brow. "A rope." Krieger jumps and grabs the rope sliding down to the Factory floor. Skitz follows him down and over to what must be...
"The elevator." Skitz puts a hand on the panel. "Do you know the security code?"
"No. But they said there was another way through the Factory." The two start looking for the second path.
Ark calls his sister twice but she doesn't answer. "It is near curfew get your ass back to Kadic before they do checks." He hangs up after leaving the voicemail and gets ready for bed.
The two find the second path through and soon are in the Control Room. "This can't be real." Skitz walks over to the control panel. "This is real."
"The Scanners are below us." Krieger looks at the ladder. Skitz starts to run for it but he throws an arm out and pushes her away so he can get to the ladder first.
"Cheat!" Skitz scrambles back to the ladder.
They stand in the middle of the Scanner Room. "This is all real." Skitz walks over and stands in the middle Scanner. "How many dozens, hundreds, of times did they go through these to Lyoko and back?"
"How many times did they get sent back by lasers? How many times were they scanned because they were hurt?" Krieger starts feeling scared. The stories were true. "We gotta tell Ark." Krieger gets his phone out and sees the time. "Frak!"
"What?" Skitz is confused as Krieger runs to the ladder.
"We're already late for curfew!" Skitz gets her phone out and sees Ark left a voicemail.
She calls her voicemail and hears it. "Ark tried to warn us." She follows Krieger up the ladder and both hurry back to Kadic Academy.
And were too late. Jim is at the doors to the dorm building. "Really?" He raises an eyebrow as he looks at Krieger. "Sanne wondered where you were today." She almost sounded heartbroken that Krieger hadn't visited. He hadn't missed a day. "Skitz?" He wasn't looking at her.
"It wasn't like that." Krieger takes a few steps back from Skitz. "Nothing like that."
It takes Skitz a couple seconds to realize what Jim was implying. "No nothing like that! We just uh, we, the time, nothing like that!"
"You are both out past curfew and a boy and girl out past curfew so two violations each." He turns to Krieger. "And you hurt my granddaughter's feelings. Double detention for both of you."
"But it wasn't like that I swear Jim."
"Now you will miss seeing Sanne because you're both in detention." He clears his throat. "Doing homework."
As soon as Krieger was in his dorm room he tells Ark what he and Skitz saw. "Seriously? You're not making this up are you?"
"No. We actually stood in the Scanners. We saw the control panel."
"Did you see the Super Computer?" Krieger shakes his head.
"We didn't have time to go to the level lower." Krieger prepares for bed mad he was stuck doing detention the next day.
After detention Skitz and Krieger went to dinner. Ark was waiting for them. "So when are you guys taking me to see the Factory?"
"I'm not going back." Krieger would spend all day tomorrow with Sanne and tell her what he and Skitz found.
"I guess that means I'll take you." Ark holds up three fingers.
"You guys aren't playing a prank on me are you? Or were sneaking off together?"
"No." Skitz holds up three fingers and touches Ark's. "Trust, trust, trust."
"Trust, trust, trust."
Krieger is at the hospital the next day as Sanne comes back from therapy. "Every thing ok?" She nods slowly.
"My muscles weakened when I was out but it shouldn't be too long until I'm able to go to Kadic Academy with you and the others." She doesn't look in his eyes.
"When you can come we have some thing huge to show you." Krieger looks around to make sure no one would hear him as he leans in closer to Sanne. "We found the Factory."
"I knew it." Krieger is confused.
"Knew what?"
"I've been having dreams of Lyoko."
"So I've had them too after all the stories." She shakes her head.
"No not like that. I can feel myself on Lyoko in the Forest Sector. I can see the light on the trees. Not like I imagined it you know? It was different and the Tower was different."
"Just one?"
"One with some one trapped inside."
"Your mom?" She shakes her head again. "You?" She shakes her head again. "Who?"
"A boy. I don't recognize him but he is scared and needs help." Sanne closes her eyes and tries to remember his face, his voice. "But I know it is real. I think my parents did some thing with the Super Computer."
"They did. I saw them send a Specter in to you and after a minute you woke up and it left you." Krieger hugs her. "I was so scared. I kept having nightmares where I was at your funeral and you would sit up and blame me for what happened."
"Because you helped convince me to come out?" He doesn't respond but she hugs him back. "Don't you're my best friend and I wanted to come out here I was just a little scared about it. You know I've never been away from my mom or dad for more than a few days." She pulls away.
"And I talked you in to coming out here to get away from them."
"You just told me all the cool things I could do if I was out here and not at home." She smiles as she tries to fight back tears. "Stuff I almost didn't get to do."
"But the stories were real and your parent's brought you back from, from," Krieger can't think of how she had been. "I was so scared."
"I wasn't." She laughs a little. "I had some weird dreams. I still remember some of them but more and more disappear every day." They hear a throat clear and turn to see Jeremie.
"Hi daddy."
"Hello Jeremie." Krieger and Sanne take a couple steps back from each other.
"Did Skitz and Ark come with you?"
"No. They had some thing planned. Or are planning some thing for Sanne. They wouldn't tell me because they know I'd tell Sanne."
"I hope it isn't at Kadic Academy." Sanne and Krieger are both confused. "Or did you think you would be going there still?"
"Daddy!" Sanne stomps her foot on the floor. "I want to go to Kadic Academy with the others! I nearly died getting there I want to make it."
"No. As soon as you are cleared you will be going home."
"No! No, no, no! I am going to Kadic Academy."
"What?" Aelita comes in with a candy bar.
"Daddy says I'm not allowed to go to Kadic Academy!"
"I, Jeremie we said we would discuss this and see what she wanted to do." Sanne quickly goes to her mother.
"And I want to go to Kadic Academy."
"I think it would be better if we took her home and maybe waited another year."
"She doesn't." Aelita puts a hand on Sanne's arm. "She's healthy and the doctors said she should have no problems going to Kadic Academy as early as the week after next."
"I want to go!" Jeremie glares for a second.
"If we did every thing you wanted you would be at a school for horse riding. Or one for marine biology. What was before that? Gymnastics? Or was it space aeronautics?"
"Jeremie this is different. All of her friends are there and my parents are there. It isn't like we're sending her off in to the wilds. My mom and dad will be there to take care of her." Jeremie bites back a few swear words.
"I want to stay here then for a few weeks just in case."
"We can stay at the house for as long as you want Sweetie." Aelita walks over and kisses Jeremie on the cheek. "And even have Sanne stay there until you think she is ready."
"I want to stay at the dorm with the others." Aelita winks at Sanne but Jeremie doesn't see it.
"You will Honey but not until later. We need to make sure you're all better." She looks at Krieger. "You'll make sure she gets around at school won't you?"
"Of course Aelita." Krieger blushes a little by Aelita's look.
As the week passes Krieger starts getting nervous. Sanne could trip and fall down the stairs on any number of stairways in the school. What if there was a bad batch of meatloaf and she got sick? What if some of the kids picked on her? She was short at just under one and a half meters. She was super smart and would probably be the smartest person at the school so that might breed jealousy.
Not to mention her reputation as the Billion Dollar Princess coined by the media years ago. She might be a little spoiled but she was his best friend. Maybe a little more...
Sanneis dropped off at the gates by her mother. "Bye Sanne."
"Bye mom!" Sanne hugs her through the window and then hurries through the gates in to Kadic Academy for her first day of school. No tutors, not at home, but at a real school with real teachers and other students.
After the first day of class Jim is walking Sanne to the gates. "Couldn't I hang out with the others for a bit? I only really got to talk to them during lunch."
"Your father wants you home as soon as possible." Jim looks and sees the car Jeremie sent. "You have homework to do but after that is done you could always talk with your friends over the internet." Jim smiles and laughs a little bit. "Did I ever tell you the time I helped with a surgery over a webcam? I was in Antarctica on a research mission when one of the scientists got cancer. Because of the weather we couldn't fly her out so we had to contact a specialist who," Jim sees the look in Sanne's eyes. "Who you probably don't want to hear about."
"Grandpa I've heard all of your stories. Unless this one ends with you in a shootout protecting the president of the United States of America or fighting off a rabid beaver in Canada it probably won't be very exciting."
"It wasn't rabid it was simply being protective of her young." He leads her to the car and opens the door for her. "You have a safe trip. Love you."
"I love you too Grandpa." The door closes and the car pulls away.
Sanne is on her computer and sees Skitz on the screen. "So? What is it like?"
"See for yourself." Skitz moves out of the way of the camera and picks the laptop up. "Can you see it?" Sanne leans closer to the screen.
"Those are the Scanners? They seem bigger than I thought they would be." Skitz moves the laptop around a little more and places it in the Scanner.
"They're real. Can you imagine that?"
"Did you guys try turning the Super Computer on?" Skitz gets back in the view of the camera.
"We wanted to but Krieger told us not to."
"Why?"
"Duh. Xana."
"He's locked in a Tower right? So it should be safe." Sanne waits as Skitz climbs up the ladder with the laptop.
"This is the Control Room." Skitz walks around showing Sanne as much as she could. "What do you think?"
"I want in that computer chair. I bet I could get all of us to Lyoko. I wonder what I would look like."
"I wonder what powers I would have." Skitz had a million ideas but couldn't know what the Super Computer would choose. "So what do you think?"
"The first chance I get I am going there and turning it on." The two continue talking until it is time for Skitz to get back to Kadic Academy for curfew.
Sannewas ready to leave home. Skitz's room was set for another roommate. The only problem was... "What if she has some thing the scans didn't pick up?"
"Would it matter? If she has a stroke or some thing at school does it matter if she staid here or at the dorms? Jeremie she wants to be like a real student."
"Majority of students live at home and go to school on buses."
"Not at Kadic Academy. They live in the dorms. She wants that and she is healthy. We made sure of that Jeremie." Aelita gets close to him. "She's probably in better health than you." Aelita pats his stomach.
"It is only a few pounds." Jeremie sucks in his stomach. "I just don't want to risk losing her again. It was so close." Aelita hugs him.
"It wasn't your fault. You couldn't have done any thing but tell her to put her seatbelt on and you did that."
"I should have had better safety padding or some thing. Or came up with a brace for hard impacts. Some thing." He rests his head on her shoulder.
"We can have her here until next week but after that Jeremie she should go to Kadic Academy and we should go back to Russia."
"I have been lagging behind on some projects at work."
"You also canceled a couple board meetings." Aelita breaks the hug and walks towards her door. "I'll go tell Sanne the good news." She leaves the room and closes the door behind her.
Sannemoves her last bag in to her new room. "It is so small." She was already starting to regret moving to the dorm. "Even if I had my own room," Krieger finishes her sentence.
"It would be smaller than most of your closets." He, Sanne, and Skitz laugh.
"Yes it would be." She sits down on her bed. "Where's Ark? I figured he'd be here to welcome me."
"I think he's on the N's now. Nancy?" Skitz rattles off a couple other names that begin with N. "He'll be around at dinner."
Krieger closes the door for more privacy. "So when do we go to the Factory?"
"Tomorrow." Sanne looks at the clock. "It is almost time to eat and then curfew is an hour after that."
"We'd have plenty of time to look around Sanne." She shakes her head.
"I want a lot of time to spend at the Control Panel."
"Why?"
"How else can I find out how to send people or the vehicles?" Krieger's eyes go wide with shock.
"You actually want to go to Lyoko?"
"Yes! Can you imagine what it is like? Well we won't have to any more. We can actually go there!"
"What about Xana?"
"What about him? He's locked up in a Tower. We can run around on Lyoko shooting at each other or sword fighting or what ever powers we have." Sanne laughs a little. "It will beat playing table tennis in the game room."
"That does sound like fun." Krieger imagines himself as a knight in shining armor. "So tomorrow after school?" Sanne nods. "Sounds like a plan." Krieger checks his cellphone. "Time for dinner." Sanne makes a face. "Hey you signed up for it." The three leave the dorm building for the cafeteria.
Afterclasses the four are going through the sewers for the Factory. Sanne was almost sick with anticipation. She'd only seen it through the webcam on Skitz's computer and now would see it all with her own eyes.
Sanne and the others go down to the Scanner Room after checking out the Control Room. Sanne steps in to the middle Scanner. "This is amazing." She leans against the back wall of the Scanner. "All those stories were real."
"And now we can make our own. Just with fewer Xana attacks and more time spent on kicking each others butts." Ark goes over to the ladder and starts climbing down to the Super Computer Room.
Sanne stands in front of the lever. She puts her hand on it. "Hold on to your butts." She pulls the switch turning the Super Computer on. "I thought it would be a little more dramatic."
"First one up to the Control Room gets to go to Lyoko first!" Ark starts running for the ladder when Skitz grabs his hair and throws him to the floor.
Krieger takes his chance and scrambles over Ark. Skitz is almost to the ladder when he grabs her by the shoulder and squeezes. "Ow!" The pain is immediate and intense.
"I'm first!" He leaps up to the fifth rung and starts climbing.
"Cheater!" Skitz rubs where Krieger had pinched her.
"Asian martial arts beats American kick boxing any day." Krieger disappears up the ladder and the other three follow.
Sanne sits in the computer chair. "This may be the coolest day of my life."
"It would be even cooler if you could send me to Lyoko." Krieger won the race and wanted to collect his prize.
"There is so much information. It could take me weeks." She sees a folder and clicks on it. "Or I guess two clicks." She reads through the data. "Wow this is actually pretty easy."
"Didn't your father figure it out right away as well?" Sanne nods. "So are you going to send me?" Krieger starts walking to the ladder.
"Stop." He does. "Why not take the elevator?" Jeremie had left the password on the Super Computer. She gets up and walks over to the elevator and punches it in. Soon the doors open and Krieger gets on.
"Since he cheated if you take the ladder down to the Scanner Room and get there first I'll send you instead." Skitz runs to the ladder and starts taking it down.
Krieger runs off of the elevator and runs for the middle Scanner. Skitz leaps the last few rungs and almost lands on him throwing him off balance and he stumbles.
Skitz leaps for the middle Scanner and almost faceplants in to the back wall. "I made it first!" Soon the Scanner doors close and...
"Aaaa!" Skitz is shocked by the landing. "Woo!" She jumps up and down. "I am awesome!"
Skitz landed on Lyoko as a cat woman. Not a big goofy purple cat but a slender cheetah spot covered leather clad warrior. Her hair is slicked back and falls down to the small of her back. She holds up her hands and sees dagger like claws. "I'm bitchin." She points a finger and a dagger shoots out. It doesn't grow back. "I guess I get ten shots every time I come to Lyoko." She looks up as Krieger appears.
He lands on Lyoko and looks down at himself. "Ok not exactly as I imagined." He thought of himself as a knight in shining armor. Instead he was in black armor that seemed to suck in the light around him. It was tight forming making him look almost like a solid shadow. He pulls out a large sword from nothingness. "Still cool."
"Not as awesome as I am." Skitz walks over to him and points a finger. Another claw shoots out and Krieger blocks it with his sword. It absorbs the claw dissolving it. "Or maybe you are." Both look up as Ark virtualizes.
He lands and starts screaming. "No! No! Why do I look ridiculous!?" He looks at Krieger. A black shadow knight. He looks at his sister. A sexy cat warrior.
"So Ark when did you stop working out?" Skitz and Krieger start laughing.
"What does he look like?"
"Remember those pictures we'd send of people shopping? How they needed electric carts to get around because they were so fat their knees couldn't hold them up?"
"Yes, why?"
"Shut up!" Ark glares at Skitz. He was now almost three meters tall and just as big around. "I'll crush you cat lady!" Ark goes to take a step and is a blur. Skitz is slammed by his large stomach and flies backwards sliding across the Ice Sector. "What the?"
"He's a big boy but he's fast." Ark takes a step towards Krieger but isn't a blur. "Some times."
"Why didn't you tackle him with your gut?" Skitz gets up and points a finger at Ark.
"Don't shoot me!" Ark takes a step to the side and is again a blur to the other two. Her dagger misses Ark completely.
"He only moves fast when he's focused." Krieger smiles. "Like when he's focused on crushing his sister or on dodging an attack."
"Cool." Ark waddles over to Krieger. "So Sanne when are you coming?"
"I'll be there as soon as I get this self scan figured out." Sanne was trying to set up the time limit for the self scan.
"Get here this is so cool!" Krieger leaps in the air doing a back flip and lands doing the splits. "I am awesome on Earth but here I am even better." He does a couple cartwheels followed by a high leap with two flips and landing gracefully on one foot while spinning and kicking out with the other foot.
Sanne takes the elevator down to the Scanner Room and gets in the right Scanner.
She lands on Lyoko and looks down at herself. "Huh." Her body sparkled like it was covered in glitter.
"And I thought you said you hated those books and movies."
"It is my subconscious that chose this!" She holds her hands out as Krieger walks over to her.
"You're my opposite." He was dark absorbing light. Sanne was bright and reflecting the light around her. "Really cool and so not like those books or movies."
"Thanks Krieger." She points her hands and a light force shoots out. Krieger brings his sword up and blocks it.
"Sanne." As she turns Skitz fires a dagger at her. Sanne puts her arms up and a light barrier forms blocking the dagger. It falls to the Sector.
Skitz walks over and picks up the dagger. "Hey I can reattach them." The dagger slides back on her finger. "Cool."
The four play around on Lyoko for a few minutes attacking each other. "This is just so cool!" Skitz shoots a dagger at her brother. He is a blur as he runs and gets behind her.
"Boo!" He bumps her with his belly.
"Boo this." Krieger moves silently across the Sector and attacks Ark from behind. His sword slashes through Ark's back.
"Weren't you playing with Sanne?"
"She went exploring." Krieger leaps back as Ark tries attacking him.
Sanne is running towards a Tower. "This is a Way Tower." She presses her hand on the wall and it moves inside.
She goes inside the Way Tower. "From here I can go to any Sector." She drops over the side and when she comes back up she walks out of the Tower and finds herself in the Forest Sector.
Suddenly she is hit with the visions from when she woke up. A young boy trapped in a Tower in the Forest Sector. "He's here." But who was he? How did a boy... "Xana!" His son was the host when he was trapped on Lyoko. "But why is he so scared? Why would Xana be scared?" It didn't make sense to her.
She goes back in to the Way Tower and goes back to her friends in the Ice Sector. "Where did you go Sanne?" The black shadow of Krieger walks over to her as Ark and Skitz continue to fight each other.
"To the Forest Sector."
"What does it look like?"
"Really cool." She looks up. "I wonder how long we've been on here?"
"No idea." He holds his sword out. "Want me to send you back?"
"Sure." He strikes her three times before she is devirtualized back to Earth.
Sanne sits down in the computer chair. "Guys we spent too much time on Lyoko." They had missed dinner and were minutes from being out past curfew.
"Then beam us up Sanne." Sanne's fingers move across the keyboard slowly. She was inexperienced and didn't want to screw this up.
She starts taking off the headset when a window pops up. "Hello?" She looks up at the screen and sees the young boy. "Who are you? Aelita?"
"No." She sets the mic to mute so the others wouldn't hear her. What is wrong with you Xana?"
"Xana? He was my creator."
"Aren't you Xana?" He shakes his head. "Who are you then?"
"I don't know. Xana possessed me but now he is gone." Dante tries taking a closer look at Sanne. "You are smaller than I remember Aelita."
"I'm not her I'm Sanne." Dante is confused.
"How long has it been Sanne?"
"Years." She looks at the time. "I can't be here for long my friends and I have to get back to school."
"Then go." Dante looks around the Control Room. He sees all the dust and cobwebs. "Many years must have passed."
"They have." Sanne readies the program to bring her friends back.
Krieger is in his room with Ark. "Man that was so cool I can't wait to go back."
"Even looking like I did it was really cool." Ark leans back on his bed. "Any thing like you thought it would be?"
"Kind of. I expected shiny armor."
"I expected Rambo or some thing not a blob."
"You're the fastest one though so that is cool." Krieger smiles. "And your sister was pretty cute."
"Dude that's my sister you're talking about."
"She's not mine so I can say whatever I want about her and how cute she looked." Ark throws a pillow at Krieger who throws it back.
Sanne stares at the ceiling as Skitz was still taking a shower. "What should I do? What if it really isn't Xana? Should I have told the others?" She can still feel the terror from when she awoke in the hospital. "He was so scared it can't be fake. He isn't Xana. He's like my mom trapped on Lyoko." She turns on to her side and looks at the clock. "Tomorrow I can talk to him more." She quickly falls asleep even before Skitz is back from the showers. Her dreams are filled with Lyoko and the scared boy trapped in a Tower.
A/N AAAA! I started Code Xana again! I can do any thing I want with it! What will I do? I don't know yet. But new adventures and new warrior profiles! Ark is Sloth from Fullmetal Alchemist. He was Sloth, the biggest, but also the fastest of the Homonculi. Sanne is stolen from the Twilight series being a bright glittery being but she has light powers. Krieger is the exact opposite being a shadow knight. His sword... I'm thinking right now can absorb laser shots or dagger and any thing else but not sure. And Skitz is just Cheetara from Thunder Cats with dagger claws that shoot out. Also I put the first word of the new section of the story in bold and size 14 instead of doing it like
Dorm room
then what ever happens. Why? Keeping it Code Xana style. Anyways I hope old and new fans come and read and review! Enjoy!