Code Xana Another World Episode 2: Rebirth Part 2

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.

Sannesits in the computer chair. "Hello?" A screen pops up and the boy appears.

"Hello Sanne."

"Xana's Son, well, we need a better thing to call you."

"Have you thought of a name?"

"Junior? No that is too American." She had been looking at books she read hoping to come across a name that sounded right. "What do you think of the name Dirk?"

"Like the weapon?"

"No, well, I don't know how he got his name. What about Booth?"

"Like the," Sanne cuts him off.

"Ok nothing that is after an item. Religious like Samuel or David?"

"Religious?"

"I took religious studies from one of my tutors. It seemed like a waste of time at first but some of those things are actually interesting."

"I have not read any religious texts so the names do not sound familiar."

"Some are really cool. Or you have books and characters about religion stuff. Like Dante from Paradise Lost." Sanne smiles. "That was a really weird and twisted story. The nine circles of Hell were all based on certain sins and stuff."

"Do you like the name?"

"Sure. He was an interesting character who wasn't two dimensional and the story stuck with me for years. It is probably my favorite book."

"I'll take the name Dante then." He smiles at her and she smiles back.

"Ok then Dante did you get the vehicles working then?" He shakes his head.

"There is a lock I can not access but you can." He uses his control panel to bring up another screen. "At least I think you can access it."

"Yes I can." She starts working on the vehicles.

Kriegeris hanging out with Ark. "So are you and Sanne gonna officially date now or what?" Krieger shrugs his shoulders.

"We've you know talked over the internet and phone for years you know? We know each other so well it is like you take out half the point of dating you know?"

"I hardly get to know my dates but yeah if I was dating Sanne it would be a lot easier. I'd probably get to second base on..." Krieger clears his throat. "Hey I haven't heard you guys are exclusive." Ark laughs knowing he was getting on Krieger's nerves.

"Just for that I'm leaving." Krieger leaves their room.

Sannehears the elevator running. "Ok Dante one of my friends is here so you have to," She presses a key and his screen closed. "Disappear."

When the elevator stops and the door opens Skitz steps off. "Aw, why isn't Krieger here?"

"Why would he be here?" Sanne keeps focused on the vehicles.

"Two teens off alone in a Factory it could lead to all kinds of fun." Skitz laughs as Sanne turns around in the computer chair.

"Yeah I guess." Skitz frowns.

"What's wrong there? Haven't you two been talking for years?"

"Well yeah we've been friends and stuff and he's so good looking."

"He's dreamy. All those muscles and his abs are yummy." Sanne raises an eyebrow. "He's single as far as I know and so good looking like you said." She smiles as Sanne laughs.

"Hands off of him Skitz or you'll lose them." Both laugh.

"Well what about my brother?" Sanne makes a face. "Really he's that bad?"

"All I've heard from you and Krieger is about all the girls he's kissed. I'm surprised he hasn't gotten a cold sore." The girls laugh some more. "So why did you come here?"

"I wanted to go to Lyoko. I'm sure I have some powers. I can't just be a sexy cat woman with dagger fingers. Right?"

"I guess. I'll send you to Lyoko and keep working on the vehicles."

"Vehicles? Oh that could be awesome! Totally calling the Overboard."

"Well you called it before Ark did so I guess it is yours." Skitz gets back on the elevator and takes it down to the Scanner Room.

Sanne watches her get in the middle Scanner. "Transfer Skitz, Scanner Skitz, and virtualization." Skitz lands on Lyoko in the Desert Sector. "Have fun and I might get you the Overboard while you're there."

"Awesome." Skitz runs around climbing walls and doing other things you couldn't do on Earth.

Krieger is at the gym when the lights go out. "That was weird." Emergency lights turn on. "I don't need light to ride an exercise bike." He leaves the main area of the gym.

Arkis in his room working homework when the power goes out. "Rolling black outs? It isn't that hot out so it isn't like a lot of people are using up the A/C." He opens the blinds to the window letting more natural light in.

Skitz is climbing another wall digging her claws deep in to it when she feels the Sector shake. "Hey Sanne did you make Lyoko shake?"

'What do you mean?"

"The whole thing just shook like an earthquake." Skitz waits a few seconds but nothing happens. "It only did it once."

"Uh I shouldn't have done any thing that would make Lyoko shake. I'm working on the vehicles so I don't know why that would make the Sector shake."

"Well it only shook," The Sector shakes again. "Twice. Are you sure you didn't do any thing?"

"I was just talking to you the second time it shook." Sanne sets the mic to mute. "Dante are you there?" A screen comes up and he appears.

"Hello Sanne what do you need?"

"Skitz says the Sector shook twice. Was it just in the Desert Sector or did it shake in the Forest Sector?"

"Yes. I thought at first it was an activated Tower but Lyoko would continue to shake with every pulsation."

Sanne is confused. "I didn't do it and it can't be Xana. He's locked in the Tower with you or some thing." Sanne had been weary about talking with Dante. Dante was Xana's last host but Dante swore he wasn't possessed by Xana any more. Yet there had been no sign of Xana.

"I do not know what caused it either. My father has not shown himself to me since you turned the Super Computer on."

"What about when my parent's turned it on?"

"I don't remember that. My father may have possessed me at that moment."

"What about when we turned it back on?"

"I remember. As far as I think I can remember."

Sanne taps her fingers on the arm of the chair. "He must have left you when my parents turned the Super Computer on. Why you didn't remember that but do remember when I turned it on." Sanne starts to get worried.

Skitz sees some thing move off in the distance. "Hey Sanne did some one else come?" No response. "Sanne? Sanne!"

Sanne and Dante continue talking when she puts the headset back on. "Skitz I,"

"There you are! Sanne did you send some one else?"

"No, why?"

"Some thing is moving in the distance." Sanne brings up the map and looks it over. "I'm not seeing any thing on here."

"It is getting closer."

"What direction is it?"

"In front of me."

Sanne rolls her eyes. "I meant on Lyoko. North? South?"

"Like I know."

"Where is the bright light coming from."

"To the right of me."

"Ok so..." Sanne checks the Holomap in the middle of the Control Room. "Desert Sector would make it east." She rechecks the map but goes farther out and finds a red circle. "Skitz? Is it a monster?"

"A monster? Like a Xana monster?"

"No like a werewolf. Duh of course a Xana monster."

"But Xana is locked up right?" Sanne doesn't respond. "Right Sanne?"

"His son is and can't get out so I wouldn't think Xana could either."

Dante comes up in a screen. "My father could still interact with Lyoko through this Tower. I think."

"Can you?"

"I can use this control panel to do some thing yes. But I'm not sure if I could send a monster or attack the outside world from here."

"Well, try." Sanne leans back in the chair and waits.

Arkis almost done with his math homework when he hears a weird cracking noise. He looks around and sees the window has a large crack right down the middle of it. "Did some thing hit it?" He stands up and looks closer as smaller cracks split across from the main break.

A few seconds later the window shatters. "Aaaa!" Ark grabs at his face as glass flies out and cuts him.

OnLyoko Skitz and Dante feel the Sectors shake again. "Ok Sanne this is getting weird."

"What about the monster? Is it closer?"

"Yes and it is large and orange."

"Like a Krabe?"

"Yes!" Skitz runs to the edge of the rock she was standing on. "It is a Krabe! Oh Ark going to be so jealous." Skitz points a finger at the Krabe and fires a dagger.

The dagger goes too high and right over the Krabe. "I got this." Skitz leaps off of the rock and lands on all four. "Huh, more cat like than I thought." She stands up and starts running at the Krabe.

The Krabe stops and fires a laser. Skitz ducks and it goes over her. "Ha he's as bad as I am." She continues running planning her attack.

Sanne is scared. Xana should have been locked up in the Tower with Dante. Was he really sending a monster to attack Skitz? What if he could attack on Earth? They should shut down the Super Computer. "Skitz I'm bringing you back."

"What? Why?" She was dodging lasers and getting closer. "This is fun!" She springs in to the air over the Krabe and fires another dagger. The dagger hits the Krabe on the Eye and soon the Krabe explodes. "I did it!"

"You're coming back now." Skitz crosses her arms and pouts as Sanne materializes her back to Earth.

Sannecalls the others to the Factory. When the others see Ark they ask him what happened. "The window broke."

"How?"

"It just broke." Sanne looks at the control panel.

"We had two pulsations on Lyoko and a Krabe attacked Skitz."

"And I kicked his ass." She pumps a fist in the air.

"But isn't Xana in the Tower?" Sanne nods.

"Yes Krieger but he seems to be able to interact on Lyoko."

"And do stuff on Earth." Ark touches a couple of the scratches on his face.

"Yes. I think we should turn the Super Computer off. It is too dangerous to leave on." Every one groans. "Xana could kill some one!"

"Yeah right. He broke a window and sent a Krabe after my sister." Sanne's back is turned to the control panel so she doesn't see Dante appear. "Xana!"

"Where?" Dante looks around. "I do not see him."

"You're Xana." Krieger turns and sees Dante. He immediately grabs Sanne and puts himself between her and the monitor. "What are you doing?! How did you attack Ark!"

"I did not. My father may have but it wasn't me. Sanne calls me Dante. You are Krieger correct?" Every one looks at Sanne.

She steps out from behind Krieger sheepishly. "Uh every one," She walks over to the monitor. "This is Dante. Not Xana."

Every one is confused. "Sanne how long have you been talking with him?" Krieger can't help but let jealousy drip from his words.

"Only a week or so. He's been helping me with the vehicles and stuff." Sanne looks down at her feet suddenly interested in the way she tied her shoe laces that morning. "I tried but I'm not as good as my parents."

"How do we know he's not Xana?" Skitz gets closer and leans forward. "Dante correct?" He nods. "Where is Xana?"

"I don't know. We believe he still possessed me when Aelita and Jeremie turned the Super Computer on to fix Sanne. But before they turned it off he must have left me."

"We should believe you why?"

"You have no reason to Skitz Della Robbia. You do not know me as more than Xana's son and host. Sanne does not trust me as well."

"He means I won't give him the passwords to access certain parts of the Super Computer." Dante nods.

Ark walks over to the elevator. "Can I get Scanned? I don't want my pretty face looking like this." He smiles as he presses the button.

Jim is puzzled. "Power went out in every building and then multiple windows broke." He kicks at some broken glass.

The science teacher is on his phone. "There was a minor earthquake in the area."

"I didn't feel the ground shake."

"You wouldn't have. It happened deep underground. It would have caused certain buildings to shift." He points towards the dorm building. "The heavier they were the more they'd shift. Causing stress weight to move to different points. Instead of being squarely on the frames and support pillars it moved to the outer walls. This shift caused the windows on the southern facing wall to shatter."

"Mother nature sure is scary. Heck it reminds me of a time when I was in Canada. I was on fire watch and I came across a," The science teacher walks away. "Some one who'd rather not talk about it."

Sannescans Ark and he comes back up to the Control Room. "So now what?"

"Sanne wants to vote on it. I say we keep it on." Skitz raises her hand.

"Same here." Krieger raises his.

"I didn't get to fight the monster so until I get to kill one I say we keep it on." Ark raises his hand.

"Well I'm outvoted." Sanne goes back to the control panel. She looks up at a screen on the monitor. "I think I have the vehicles almost ready."

"I call the Overboard!"

Skitz laughs. "Too late little brother. I called it already."

"You are less than five minutes older than me!" The two siblings start to bicker.

Krieger walks over to Sanne while the Twins fight. "You named it Dante?"

"Well calling him Xana's Son all the time was a little weird. I'm sorry I didn't tell any one else but I wasn't sure how you would react. He is Xana's Son but I don't think Xana is in him any more."

"How can you know? He could be lying to you."

"His voice sounds normal." Krieger giver her a quizzical look. "In all of our parent's stories when some one was possessed their voice sounded weird. His doesn't."

"You paid more attention to your parent's stories than I did mine." He laughs quietly as he leans closer to Sanne's ear. "How about we get out of here? The power is out at most of Kadic so I was thinking a movie."

"Finally asking me out?" She kisses him on the cheek. "About time." She turns to the control panel and closes a few programs.

Jim comes to Ms. Delmas with the costs of replacing the windows. "It is a little expensive but we really can't do any thing until a building inspector comes in and makes sure the building is safe to inhabit."

"Fine! Call one and get him here now!"

"I already called and they can't make it here until tomorrow around noon."

"Then where the hell are they going to sleep?"

"I could make accommodations in the gym."

"Do it!" Jim leaves quickly.

Sanne and Krieger are at the theater arguing with the ticket seller. "I am fourteen!"

"I.D."

"I don't have it on me." Sanne leans in close to the window. "My father could buy every thing in this mall including the people."

"When he buys you an I.D. Then come back." Sanne and Krieger walk away. Sanne smiles a little when Krieger takes her hand in his.

"Arcade?"

"Sure Sanne." Krieger stops and thinks for a second. "Babe?"

"I'm not ready for you to call me babe." The two laugh.

"Fine Billion Dollar Princess."

Danteis busy perfecting the vehicles after every one left. Or so he thought... "Hey, uh, Dante right?" He comes up in a screen on the monitor.

"Oh hello Skitz." Dante is confused and a little curious. "Do you need help?"

"I wanna ride the Overboard. Is it ready?"

"No. Sanne won't give me the passwords needed for me to get in to other parts of the Super Computer that I would need to finish this."

"Oh. Well I want the Overboard." Skitz starts typing away at the keyboard. "Would these help?" Skitz rattles off some numbers.

"Yes, thank you." Dante's screen closes.

A Tower activates.

Sanneis getting frustrated. "Stop beating me!"

"Excuse me if I drive more like your mom than you do." Krieger had beaten Sanne in four races in a row. "Just imagine you're your mom and you should leave me in the dust."

"Hey my mom has done a lot better after the last ticket she got put her one point from getting her license suspended." Sanne puts two Euro in the machine and then steps inside of the pod. "Drive like my mom." She waits for the countdown and slams the accelerator.

The racing pod she was in starts to shake. She was still in second behind Krieger but getting closer. "Hey!" The screen went blank. "I was going to pass him on the next lap!" She goes to open the pod door but can't. "Did Krieger lock me in here?" She kicks at the door but can't get it to open. "Krieger!"

Krieger laughs as he sees Sanne go from second to eight. "She must have crashed on that last turn." He keeps going winning easily.

The pod starts rocking back and forth. After one violent push it breaks from the secured anchoring and starts rolling. Sanne slams in to the ceiling and then the wall and then the floor. This continues until the pod hits the wall of the arcade.

Krieger gets out of the other Pod and sees what happened. "Sanne!" He runs over to the pod and tries to pull the door open but can't.

Dantedeactivates the Tower. "So Skitz do you want to try out the Overboard?"

"You got it working?"

"Yes."

"Send me Dante!" Skitz runs to the ladder and slides down it instead of using the elevator so she can get to the middle Scanner as fast as she could.

Sanneis pulled out of the pod. "Are you ok little lady?"

"What the hell happened?" She sees two technicians standing in front of Krieger. "Krieger?"

"We had an energy spike to Unit 1 and it caused the servos to over rotates causing the pod to tilt harder and faster than industry standards."

Sanne smirks. "A power surge made the pod go crazy. Thanks for the explanation." She turns back around and looks at the pod. "Unfortunately this is one of my dad's games or I'd sue." The technicians eyes go wide with shock.

"You're Sanne Belpois?" She nods. "Uh, I, the energy surge was above any thing our protectors ever encountered. It shouldn't be possible especially since your pod was the only one affected. It just isn't natural." Both technicians sweat wondering if they'd need to get their resumes ready.

"Not possible?" Sanne shakes her head. "It can't be."

Krieger starts getting worried as well. "Sanne?" She doesn't respond. "We should go." He grabs her by the arm and the two start leaving the arcade.

Skitzflies around the Desert Sector on the Overboard. "Woohoo!" She turns sharply as she exits a valley. "Dante this is so cool!" He can't hear her but she doesn't care. "So totally worth it!" She flies up as high as she can until she can see all of the Desert Sector.

"Skitz? What are you doing on Lyoko and with the Overboard?"

"Dante sent me and the Overboard. It is so cool!"

"How? He, I mean, he shouldn't have been able to do that."

"Oh I gave him a couple passwords. He said he needed them to complete the vehicles and stuff."

"And activate Towers!" Sanne slams a hand on the control panel. "Dante you bastard! You're Xana!"

Dante quickly pops up in a screen on the monitor. "No! I did activate a Tower to finish the vehicles but I didn't attack and neither did Xana."

"How do you think I'd buy that? I'm bringing Skitz back and turning this damn thing off." Sanne's fingers fly over the keyboard and soon Skitz is stepping out of the middle Scanner.

Dante starts yelling at Sanne. "I didn't attack!"

"Then how do you explain the glass at school being broken? The power outages there? Or the race pod malfunctioning!"

"I checked the news. There was a minor underground earthquake near the school campus and another near the mall while you were there." Dante brings up several headline news articles. "See? The school shifts just a fraction of a centimeter and it changes how the weight of the building is held. It moves to the window panes on one side of the building and the glass shatters."

"And the mall?"

"The earthquake makes a transformer wire touch another wire inside and it sends a rare power surge to the nearest outlet." A new screen appears of a blueprint. "The first outlet from the basement transformer goes to the arcade."

"You found all of this in the few seconds I was bringing Skitz back?"

"Yes. I activated another Tower to speed up the search."

"So you can activate Towers?"

"I can now. But I would never attack you. If you turn this Super Computer off I will be cut off from the world."

"Skitz never should have given you the passwords."

"I know but don't blame her. I wanted to fix the vehicles and find a way to launch returns and activate Towers and many other things. I used her wanting of the Overboard to get the passwords." Sanne glares at Dante.

"You're manipulative. So was your father." She taps a finger on the control panel. "How do I know you didn't cause the earthquake?"

"The first one was before I had the passwords. I couldn't have attacked even if I wanted to. Which I don't."

"Still. You manipulated Skitz."

"I'm sorry. I know it makes me look bad but I just wanted to help you and your friends. You turned the Super Computer back on to use Lyoko as playground. One day I hope to leave this Tower and get to meet all of you face to face."

"The Tower is locked down. You aren't leaving it."

"Not today I know. I have made you mistrust me and I am sorry for that."

Sanne is taken aback by Dante's words. He could have just said them to say them but she could hear and almost feel the tone of his voice. He truly was sorry for making her mistrust him. "Not today." She gets up from the computer chair as Skitz climbs up the ladder and sees her and Krieger.

"So what are you two doing together? Did he finally ask you out?" Sanne smiles, nods, and laughs at Skitz's reaction. "I guess that means he's off the market." Skitz laughs with Sanne but Krieger remains silent as he stares at Dante.

Dante closes his screen so as to be out of Krieger's view. Sanne wasn't the only one he made uneasy with his actions. He had to be careful or else...

A/N Hey! Got another episode done even with working 6 days a week. Warm weather equals call offs which equal me getting called in. Don't mind the bigger paycheck but do mind all of the extra hours I'm stuck working. So was it really just a coincidence? Two pulses, two power outages and the glass breaking. Dante activates a Tower and the race pod goes ballistic. Could be as Dante said all just a coincidence. Right? Well hope you all enjoy this episode and review it if and when you have the time.