Code Xana Another World Episode 3: Rebirth Part 3

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.

Sanne is in the Forest Sector outside of Dante's Tower. "I can't get in and you can't get out." She places her hand on the Tower and pushes but the wall stays solid. "Good."

"I know you still don't trust me but I would like to one day leave this Tower."

Sanne walks away from the Tower. "Well it won't happen any time soon." She walks over to another Tower and uses it to send herself back to Earth.

As Sanne walks away from the bridge and to the sewer entrance Skitz sneaks in to the Factory.

Skitz takes the elevator down to the Control Room and goes to the control panel. "Hey Dante! I made it."

"Hello Skitz. I am happy to see you. I was getting worried you would not make it."

"Pff, I just had to wait for Sanne to leave." Skitz checks the time. "Since it took her so long I gotta leave soon."

"That is fine. It is nice speaking with some one who is kind to me."

"Hey you got the short end of the stick." Dante gives her a quizzical look. "It wasn't your fault you were Xana's son."

"No it was not." The two continue talking.

Sannemakes it back to the dorm building. "Where's Skitz? I just came from the shower room and she wasn't there." Sanne flops down on her bed. "What ever."

Skitz is playing on the control panel when she finds codes. "Huh."

"Yes Skitz?"

"I found a list of codes. Lyoko, Aelita, Cold, Wasteland, Xana, Franz, and a few others." She scrolls through the list. "What are they all for? Didn't Lyoko deactivate Towers?"

"Yes it did. I don't know what the other codes are for."

Skitz highlights the word Aelita and sees a description. For the most beautiful of Sectors I shall name it after my Daughter. The Forest Sector will be like that of the fairytales I told her.

Skitz highlights the next word, Cold. I will make a Sector of Ice and caverns to hide the Towers.

She highlights Wasteland. I like the idea of a mountain region or a desert like region. I think I will start with this Sector.

Skitz smiles. "They are codes Franz Hopper used in making Lyoko and stuff." She highlights Xana expecting it to be about the AI but is surprised.

Code Xana will be used to unlock all Towers at once so I may activate them for use with my newly formed return program. I am not sure why the return seems to interfere with the Towers. It makes it difficult to activate any Tower after using a Return.

"Huh. I guess that's why Xana couldn't attack really soon after a first attack. When he did the attacks were usually weak."

"What is it?"

"Code Xana apparently unlocks Towers. Franz needed it so he could use the Towers after launching a return."

"Really?" Dante disappears from the screen.

"Dante?" No response. "Dante? Hey buddy where did you go?"

A new screen comes up with Dante in it. "Sorry I was checking the time."

Skitz looks down at her phone. "The time is I am so in trouble." She gets out of the chair and runs to the elevator.

Skitz gets back to her dorm room and sees Sanne is fast asleep.

Thenext day Sanne gets up and shakes Skitz awake. "Time to get up and tell me what the hell you were doing." She shakes Skitz harder.

Skitz rolls over turning her back towards Sanne. "None of your business."

"Is it a guy?"

"No."

"A girl?"

"No! It is Sunday leave me alone."

"You've been out late three nights in a row. If I didn't lie and tell them you were taking a shower before bed you'd be serving detention." Sanne pokes Skitz with a finger. "So what are you doing?"

Skitz rolls back over. "Ok fine it is a boy."

"What's his name?"

"He doesn't go to school here."

"So? I still wanna know his name."

"Don't worry about it. It isn't any thing serious just some one to hang out with." Sanne tries getting more out of Skitz but Skitz ignores her.

Kriegeris at their usual table when he sees Sanne and Skitz. "Hey," He pulls out a chair for Sanne. "Good morning Babe."

She sticks her tongue out. "My name is Sanne not babe."

Skitz looks around for Ark. "Know where my brother is?" Krieger shrugs his shoulders. "What is that goofball up to now?"

Arkis sneaking to the Factory. Jealous of his sister getting the Overboard he wanted to get to Lyoko and learn if he had any powers besides being a large speedster. He would invite his sister out to the Factory and face her on Lyoko and surprise her with any new found powers.

He takes the elevator down to the Control Room and walks over to the control panel. "Hey Dante can you send me to Lyoko?"

Dante appears in a screen. "Of course Ark. Is your sister with you?"

"Nope. She got the Overboard but I know I must have some powers. I want to find out what they are and kick her butt with them."

"Go to the middle Scanner and I'll send you."

"Thanks man." Ark takes the elevator down to the Scanner Room and soon lands on Lyoko in the Desert Sector.

He waddles towards the wall of a canyon. "I wonder if I can get up there." He tries activating his speed but just waddles in to the wall. "Concentrate Ark you can do this." He takes a few steps back and tries again.

He is a blur as he runs up the side of the canyon. When he reaches the top he stops and looks around. "Since I don't breathe on Lyoko I'm not winded. I wonder how far I can run before I have to stop." Ark looks down at the Sector below. "Lyoko physics here I come!" He jumps off the edge and lands down below with grace that would be impossible for some one his size on Earth.

Skitz waits for Sanne and Krieger to be distracted before running off for the school's sewer entrance. She wanted to go over more codes and see what they all were used for.

Kriegerand Sanne wait for Skitz to leave them alone before running off for the sewer entrance in the woods. Sanne and Krieger wanted to learn any new powers and do a two on two battle against the Twins and surprise them.

Dante sees Skitz. "Your brother is already here."

"Is that why he skipped breakfast?"

"I don't know what breakfast is but he came here and had me send him to Lyoko."

"Why?"

"So he could learn new powers."

Skitz scowls. "Send me as soon as I'm down there."

"Take the left Scanner." Skitz goes to use the elevator when it starts moving up.

Skitz is confused for a few seconds. "I figured Sanne and Krieger would want to be alone not come here." Skitz smirks. "I guess we're having a Lyoko Party." Soon the elevator doors open and Skitz surprises Krieger and Sanne.

Dante knows every one is on Lyoko. "I can surprise them! Prove to them I'm not some monster like Xana." He goes to the control panel in the Tower. He places his hand on it. "Enter Code, Xana." The screens flash multiple colors and then return to normal. "I guess I can see if the lock is off." He floats down to the bottom platform and walks to the exit.

Sanne and Krieger challenge the Twins to a fight. "So it will be the team of Light and Dark versus the Fatty and Hotty team."

"I'm not fat I'm just big boned." Ark is a blur as he runs behind Sanne. "Boo!" He bumps her with his stomach.

"Back off!" She holds her hands up and blasts Ark with light energy.

"Come on Ark we can't lose!" Skitz fires two daggers at Krieger.

Krieger pulls his sword out of nothingness just in time and deflects one but another hits him. He absorbs it but feels the hit. "I guess I lose points but you can't take the dagger back." He charges Skitz and slashes with his sword.

Skitz does a backflip and lands on her feet. Krieger slashes again and again but Skitz is far too agile.

Sanne blasts Ark with her powers. "Come on Fatty!" She blasts him again. "I thought you were fast!"

"I am but I must concentrate!" Sanne blasts him again keeping him distracted.

Dantesteps out of the Tower and sees the Forest Sector. "This is beautiful." He walks down the path looking around at the Sector.

Arkfinally gets out of Sanne's range and attacks Krieger from behind. "Switch!" Before Krieger can recover Ark slams in to him again knocking him to the ground.

Skitz fires a dagger at Sanne who holds up her hands and forms an energy shield knocking the dagger down. "Not good enough sparkly!" Skitz leaps at Sanne. Sanne tries to block her but Sanne is surprised when Skitz moves through the barrier and tackles her.

"How did you do that!" Sanne tries throwing Skitz off but Skitz is too strong and has her pinned.

"Don't know and don't care." Skitz struggles a little but gets Sanne's hands pinned with one of hers leaving one clawed hand free to attack Sanne with.

"Hello!" Every one stops and turn to see Dante. "How are all of you?"

"Dante!" All four teens shout at once.

"Yes that is what you call me." He waves at the four.

Sanne is stunned. "How did you get out of the Tower? How is this possible?"

"Skitz found the code and told me it. I wanted to surprise all of you with it."

Sanne turns towards Skitz. "Skitz!" Skitz flinches. "Why would you tell him the code? How did you even find it?!"

"I didn't!"

"Then how is he here?!"

"I don't know!" Skitz backs away as Sanne advances towards her. "Dante why would you say I gave you the code?"

"Because you did. Code Xana unlocks the Towers so I used it."

"I didn't know it would unlock you!"

Sanne pushes Skitz. "What were you thinking giving him the code? What if he's really Xana? What if you released Xana?"

"I didn't know it would unlock him! I was just reading off different codes I found and what they did I swear."

Sanne turns away from Skitz and walks towards Dante. "And you thought it would be a good idea to release yourself?"

"I know you don't trust me but I am here to show you I am not evil." He smiles and walks towards Sanne. "I wish to show you all I can be trusted."

"If you wanted to do that then why would," The ground shakes. "What was that?" The ground shakes again.

Krieger feels the ground shake again and looks down to see the pulsations. "What the hell is going on?"

Sanne had been told the stories for years. She knew what the ground shaking on Lyoko meant. "Some one activated a Tower."

"But we're all here Sanne." Krieger feels the ground shake again and starts looking around. "Any idea where the Tower is?"

Sanne looks down at the pulsations. "No. I don't know how to read pulsations."

Dante studies the pulsations for a few seconds. "East of here and on this Sector." Dante starts running.

Krieger runs after Dante. Soon Ark and Skitz follow him.

Sanne isn't sure what to do. She knew she hadn't activated a Tower and Dante had been standing in front of her when it was so it couldn't be him. The only one it could be was... "Xana. That idiot released Xana when he released himself if he isn't Xana himself!" She starts running after her friends.

Jimis leaving the Hermitage to check on a few things at Kadic Academy. "Honey you forgot your cellphone!" Samantha comes running out of the house with it.

"Thanks." Jim walks to her and takes it from her. "I'll only be gone for an hour or two. The teachers are having a meeting about Ms. Delmas."

"Are they finally going to Unionize and get her fired?"

Jim shakes his head. "She can't be fired her family owns the campus." He smiles. "But we can get the State involved and keep her from doing some of the more extreme things she has planned." Jim turns to go back down the path to the campus.

A rat scurries across the the grass when a black mist finds it and possesses it. It grows to over a foot long and is fast as it goes across the back lawn of the Hermitage.

Sanneand the others see the activated Tower in the distance. "A red aura? Isn't that how they looked when Xana activated them?" She feels chills even though she knew she couldn't feel on Lyoko. "You released Xana. Dante you released him!" Sanne screams at him ignoring what was coming towards the group.

Three Hornets buzz through the air and start shooting lasers at the group. Krieger has his sword out and blocks a laser. "Sanne we need to deal with this we can worry about kicking Dante's ass later." He blocks another laser.

Jim is near the campus when the rat runs and climbs up his pant leg. "Hey, get off!" Jim reaches down and grabs the rat. It bites deep in to his hand. "You're no beaver." He rips the rat from his bitten hand and tosses it easily twenty meters back in to the woods. "Thing must have been starving to attack a human." He holds his bleeding hand and runs to the nearest washroom to clean the wound.

Skitz and the others scramble when one of the Hornets dive bombs the group and sprays acid. "Some one shoot it!"

"You and Sanne are the only one with a long range weapon idiot." Ark is hit by some of the acid. "I'll get you for that!" He is a blur as he runs after the Hornet and actually catches it. "Gotcha!" It struggles in his hands. "Now what?" Some thing in his mind tells him to...

"Ark did you just eat it?" Skitz and the others are disgusted.

Ark looks at the two remaining Hornets. "Get down here! I'll eat you both!" The Hornets stay out of his range but...

Krieger's jaw drops as Hornet wings sprout out the back of Ark. "Dude you have wings." Ark turns his head trying to see them but can't because of his size. "See if you can fly."

"I've seen a House Fly and I've even seen a Horse Fly but I've never seen a Fatty Fly." Skitz laughs at her own joke.

"I'm not fat I'm big boned." Ark concentrates and feels himself lift in the air. "And I can fly!" He flies a few meters higher when the Hornets target him.

Sanne focuses on one Hornet and then sticks a hand out. A burst of light shoots out from it and hits a Hornet. The Hornet spins a few times and then explodes. "Ok this is pretty fun." She aims at the next one and fires but misses.

The last Hornet flies back so Ark is between it and the others. It fires lasers at Ark hitting him as he flies closer. Ark may be able to fly but unlike on the ground he couldn't gain any speed boosts.

Krieger looks at the activated Tower and then at Dante. "Dante can you deactivate Towers?"

"I should be able to."

"Then while fatso distracts the Hornet why don't you go to the Tower?"

Sanne steps forward. "I'll do it."

"Are you sure Sanne?"

"Yes Krieger. If my mother could do it I should be able to do it." Sanne runs for the activated Tower while the others watch Ark get hit with lasers.

Jimmakes it to the meeting with his hand bandaged up. "Hello, sorry I was late."

"What happened Jim?"

"I thought it was a wild rat but no way one would attack a human." He shows his bandaged hand. "I think Ms. Delmas may have been dipping in to genetically altered animals."

"Is she using school funds to do so? This is why we need a Union so we can try and wrangle in some of her spending."

"I have no idea what money she may be using. But if she is I'm sure her father would disapprove of it." Jim hangs his head in sorrow with the rest of the teachers. When Mr. Delmas was diagnosed with cancer and retired to focus on healing was a dark day for them all. They all had loved Mr. Delmas and while happy he had recovered after several years of treatment were disappointed he hadn't returned.

Sannereaches the Tower and places her hand on the Tower and it passes through. "I guess I can deactivate Towers." She steps inside.

She floats up to the second platform and sees the control panel. "Just like my mother." She places her hand on the control panel. It glitches for a few seconds and then shows what she had been told of in countless stories from her parents.

Code Lyoko

She watches the screens fall around her. "Tower deactivated." She isn't sure what to do now. Her parents would launch a return but she couldn't do that. "Time to go back." She uses the control panel to send her friends and then herself back to Earth.

In the Control Room Sanne and the others glare at Dante. "You released Xana."

"I didn't mean to! You must believe me! I just wanted to meet you all face to face. He was not in this Tower so it did not occur to me he could escape!"

"He was hiding! Waiting for some one," Sanne turns to Skitz. "To give you the code that would release him!"

"I didn't know! I just found a list of codes and when I highlighted them it told me what they were for." Skitz flinches when Sanne starts yelling at her.

"What were you even doing here?! We were supposed to all go to Lyoko together so we could play and fight and do stuff we couldn't do on Earth."

"I just wanted to talk to Dante. He got me the Overboard and might be able to figure out if I have any powers."

"Like if I eat a Hornet I gain wings?"

"For how long though? Forever or just until you go back to Earth?" The Twins start getting distracted by the thought but Sanne brings them back.

"It doesn't matter! We will turn this thing off tonight!"

Dante is shocked by hearing this. "No!"

"Shut up! You let your father out!"

"I didn't mean too!"

"How do we know that?! How the hell do we know you aren't Xana?"

Skitz pushes her way between Sanne and the monitor. "He's not! Sanne haven't you talked to him at all?"

Sanne crosses her arms and glares at Skitz. "Only when I needed help with a program."

"He didn't remind you of your mom? That was the first thing I thought of when I saw him. Sent to Lyoko by his father and then trapped in a Tower."

Sanne smacks Skitz. "That thing is NOTHING like my mother! He is the creation of Xana! My mother is a human!"

"Your dad didn't know that. None of our parents knew that. They thought she was just a computer program."

"You KNOW he's a monster! And now Xana has been released." Sanne's face goes blank as some realization hits her. "Turning off the Super Computer won't work. He isn't tied to Lyoko. With the Keys to Lyoko he doesn't care if we turn it off." She starts crying.

"Sanne it's ok we can handle him." Krieger hugs her. "He has to be weak right? Or he would have broken the lock earlier."

"Dude are you kidding? We have to call our parents. They have to know."

Skitz punches her brother in her arm when he tries to pull his phone out. "Really? Dad is doing the IGPX tour for the magazine and mom is working on that new movie in Vegas. Should they just drop every thing and fly out here?"

"And my parents have a Dojo and magazine and videos to make. I can't have them close the Dojo or stop new issues because of this. We're the idiots who turned it on."

"I'm the idiot who found the codes. I had no idea they would let Xana out." Skitz looks at the screen. "Dante, what code did you use?"

"Xana. The one that Franz used to unlock the Towers after launching a return so he could use them as soon as possible."

Sanne pulls away from Krieger and smacks Skitz again and then storms for the elevator. "I'm not dragging my parents in to this! They turned this curse off as soon as they could! We shouldn't have ever turned it on!" Krieger runs after her as she gets on the elevator and presses the button.

Skitz rubs her cheek where she had been smacked twice. "How the hell is this my fault? I didn't know what the codes would do. Hell ones like Wasteland weren't even used or what ever." Franz had made two separate Sectors instead of one desert region with mountains.

"I'm sorry. I didn't want this. I just wanted to meet you." Dante reaches out towards Skitz knowing it was impossible to touch her. "To show you all I wasn't evil. My father may have been but I am not him." When Skitz starts to turn around to look at the monitor he closed his screen.

"Lucky bastard. He doesn't have to share a room with Sanne."

"Neither do I." Ark waits for the elevator to come back down. "You coming Sis?"

"Sure." She looks back at the screen but Dante was still gone.

Sanne and Krieger go to her room where she slams the door shut behind them. "We messed up! We never should have turned it on!"

"We had no idea Xana would get out. Hell he wouldn't have except Skitz gave Dante the code. Why would she do that?"

"She's an idiot. Our parents paid for tutors and downloadable instaq files so we would be as knowledgeable as possible. Odd and Sandra were too old school and sent them to private schools in America."

"My parents don't like instaq. They say learning from a book is more real."

"You still had all of your French, German, and English downloaded in to your brain though didn't you?"

"Well yeah it was just easier than spending years trying to teach me all of that and Japanese." Krieger rubs a port just behind his left ear. "Same with world history. It meant I had more time for learning martial arts and stuff."

"That is still more than Ark or Skitz ever had." Sanne doesn't even realize she is doing the same as Krieger when her hand reaches up and touches her port. "I just wanted to hang out with you guys and get away from my parents and tutors."

"I know. I wanted you out here so you could see how awesome it was. I already know the majority of the stuff they're teaching so the classes are super easy. Classes are really just a way of dividing time between hanging out with Ark and Skitz."

"I had to go and mess it all up with a stupid plane accident. If I hadn't come out the plane never would have crashed and my parents wouldn't have activated a Tower. We wouldn't know the stories weren't stories and that idiot never would have given the code to Dante!" Sanne throws a pillow at Skitz's bed.

On Lyoko Dante hides in the Tower Xana had activated. "What do I do? I didn't mean for this to happen. I just wanted to meet them. Play with them." Dante's brain may have been created, grown, and warped by Xana but it was still very much the brain of a young teenage boy. His mother had been human and her humanity lived on inside of him even if it had died years ago in her. He was lonely being trapped in the Tower and had simply wanted to be friends with those who had found him.

A/N A look at how Franz made Lyoko. He came up with code names for things like the Sectors before he made them. He clearly changed his mind about Wasteland or maybe he found he could make a Desert Sector with mountains on it? Why there are large rock formations and canyons on it? And the Forest Sector was to once be a beautiful fairytale like forest but again some thing must have changed. Why did I change the meaning and use of Code Xana? I wondered what Franz was up to since he lived the same day countless times and yet Xana could still attack when he did. That and Franz used the Towers but again the show always made it seem like a return like, locked, them down for a bit. Or was it that the attack locked them down and the return didn't mean squat? Been a long time since I watched the actual series. And we learn a new Ark power! When he eats a monster he gains a part of them. So what if he are a Block? Could he shoot ice beams or fire rings? We must wait and see! Also wanted to show that Jim didn't think "Rat attacked me it must be Xana!" instead he thinks Ms. Delmas might be using school funds on genetic research and one of the animals escaped. That way hopefully no one will ask me "Why didn't Jim think it was weird he was randomly attacked by a rat? Also unlike the last series I have Downloadable Instaq Files. I read an article where they could teach people by literally just d/l the info in to their brain. The cool part? They could tell them that they were d/l say, piano lessons when actually d/l guitar lessons and the person would still learn how to play the guitar with out realizing that's what they were actually learning. So in this world Krieger's parents took a few shortcuts in teaching him multiple languages. How many did Sanne have d/l in to her brain? One would think Jeremie would have no problem with this technology. And trying to shape the personalities of the new Code Xana Warriors. Skitz is more compassionate, Sanne is more Billion Dollar Princess, Krieger more aloof and fun loving, and Ark... Is really looking to be like Ark with a little Odd thrown in. Well I look forward to your reviews! Please enjoy this episode and any future ones I get up.