Altered Code Xana Episode 29:
Author: James the Lesser/The Bunnyman
Disclaimer: I Do Not Own These Characters! Moonscape Does! Actually, I own most of these characters, I made them up, but the place and the settings and the back ground stuff is Moonscape.
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 1-27
Also, this is because as I re read the series I came up with completely new ideas. Go a different direction/drama/character arcs with the group. To do these faster all Lyoko will be "They go, go to Tower, fight, Sanne barely makes it" as I want to focus on the story and drama. Stupid idea? Yes. But I have too many ideas!
"Ok mom, see you tomorrow." Sanne hangs up her phone. "Wow, it's been twenty years since they graduated from Senior Kadic Academy." There is a twenty year class reunion coming up and her parents, along with the others, are coming. "Please don't let Xana attack the reunion, please don't attack the class reunion." Sanne leans back in her chair. She has been working on homework when Aelita called. "I wonder what they'll be doing before and after the reunion." She gets her phone out and calls Skitz. "Hey Skitz, my parents our coming out for the class reunion tomorrow. When are your parents coming?"
"I think they said they were coming tomorrow too. They wanted to get here a day or two early to hang out with your parents and Krieger's parents." She laughs. "I think Ark is going to disappear for a couple days."
"What, why?"
"Our parents want to meet Mira." Skitz sighs. "Hey, stop that."
"Huh?"
"Oh, uh, Krieger and I are supposed to be working out. He's making faces at me."
"Oh." She knew she was busy but Sanne is a little upset she wasn't invited. She is the weakest and needs training the most. "You two are spending a lot of time together."
"Yes, yes we are." Skitz waits for Sanne to put two and two together.
"Hey, if it keeps you from bugging me that's good."
Skitz scowls. "Yes, well, what do we do about our parent's?"
"If I use a different code than my dad's they'll be even more suspicious. I'm going to get my computer chair out and hope maybe I can make it look like the original just like broke off or something." Sanne sighs. "What are you doing later?"
"Probably get something to eat with Krieger."
"Okay, well, I have time to get things set up so they don't suspect anything."
When Sanne hangs up, Skitz puts her phone down. "I swear Sanne is smart but she's so dense."
"What?" Krieger had been trying to distract her with funny faces.
"I might have to step up my plan to make her jealous."
Krieger shakes his head. "Skitz, it isn't working." He smiles. "But I have to admit hanging out with you is pretty fun. If you beat me in the bike race I'll pay."
Skitz smiles back. "You better set your resistance higher."
"Of course." They walk over to the exercise bikes and hop on ready to race.
The next day the kids are taken to the airport by Samantha and Jim as they wait for their parents to arrive. "So who do you think gets here first?" Ark nudges Krieger in the side as they wait.
"Sanne's parents. They have the Jjet."
"Naw, I think yours since they don't have as far to fly. And Jeremie will wait awhile since he knows his Jjet could get him here in two hours."
"No way I agree with Krieger, Sanne's parents will get here first." Skitz leans over. "Twenty Euros says it's Sanne's parents get here first."
"Thirty its Krieger's." Ark and Skitz shake hands. Sanne is at the window watching the airplanes when she sees American Airlines Flight 127 land. She walks over to the others.
"Fifty your parents get here first." Sanne smiles sweetly at the twins.
"Fifty each or fifty split by us?"
"Fifty each, or are you unsure of your bets?" Sanne sticks her hands out so she can shake the hands of the twins to confirm the bet.
"I know Krieger's parents will get here first." Ark takes a hand.
"Nope it's going to be Sanne's parents first." Skitz takes a hand. Sanne shakes their hands and waits about twenty minutes before Odd and Sandra Della Robbia walk out of the exit.
"Thank you." Sanne collects the money. "Just so you know I saw the plane land while you two were arguing."
"That's cheating!"
"No it's smart betting." Sanne keeps the money laughing at the twins. "Come on don't be sore losers. You would have done the same."
"Just because I would have done the same doesn't mean, shut up." Ark smiles at Sanne to show he is kidding around. For these kids fifty Euros wasn't a lot of money. When your parents made millions off of work and investments what was fifty Euros? "Hi mom, hi dad." Ark and Skitz go over to their parents and hug them. "Long flight?"
"No the plane was normal sized." Odd rubs Ark on the head messing up his hair. "I see Krieger and Sanne, where's the lovely Mira?"
"Uh, she couldn't come." Ark did not want Mira to meet his parents. He liked his parents, they were awesome parents, but he is still a teenager and they are still adults. "You cost me fifty Euros."
"What? You know betting is a suckers sport."
"Who was it that bet on the..."
Odd cuts him off. "Like I said it is a suckers sport." Odd and the others walk over to the other kids and Samantha and Jim. "Hi Jim how's things going working for Sissi?"
"She's an okay boss if you avoid her." Jim laughs and shakes Odd's hand then hugs Sandra. "As beautiful as ever. I'm glad to say your kids have been well behaved."
"You mean you haven't been able to catch them." They all laugh together. "When are the others getting here?"
"I don't know. When they get here I guess. Ulrich and Yumi said their plane was supposed to land at four." Jim lifts his right arm and taps on his watch. "But it is already four thirty."
"Airports are as reliable as ever." Odd and the others go over and sit down waiting for the others.
About an hour later Ulrich and Yumi walk through the exit and see the others. They all talk. Ulrich and Yumi hug Krieger, and give him an early issue of Marital Arts Monthly. When Krieger finishes it he gives it to Sanne who digs into it. "Sanne you know Jeremie doesn't want you to do martial arts." Samantha pulls the magazine out of Sanne's hands.
"But, if you don't tell them they won't know." Samantha points a finger and Sanne looks to see her parents. "Thanks grandma." Aelita and Jeremie walk over and the Lyoko Warrior Reunion is complete. They don't know that the kids know this is more than a Class Reunion. They don't know the evil they fought and defeated is loose once again. Right now they are happy to see each other again, all together, going to the Hermitage where so much has happened in their past.
At the Hermitage the group is eating dinner with the kids. "Thanks Samantha this all looks so good." Odd spears a meatball with a fork.
"It's been over a year since we all got together I wanted to have something special." Samantha, the original Sanne, sets out another pot of meatballs and gravy while getting glasses out. "Wine anyone?"
"Don't touch the stuff you know that. I'll get the milk." Ulrich gets out of his chair and goes to the refrigerator.
"You're a guest let me get it." Ulrich waves Samantha away as he gets a half gallon bottle of white milk out and pours two glasses. One for him and one for Yumi.
"So what are you guys doing before the reunion?" Sanne is getting a glass of soda and decides to see what the plans of the parents are.
"Probably go into town for awhile. It's been awhile since we last came here." Aelita takes a glass of wine from her mother. "So honey how has school been?"
"It's been like a vacation for me. The classes here are a lot easier then all of the tutors dad hired for me. But there is twice the homework."
"As long as you get the education you need to take over when I retire."
"Dad I said I want to make a cartoon show of all your stories."
"You can do that in between meetings. Maybe make an animation branch of J INC." Jeremie pronounces the company as one word. It sounds like Jink to the others.
"You mean S INC." Sanne smiles as she says it as one word. It sounds like Sink to the others. "But dad how can I be as good as you at making new things? Unless I figure out how to duplicate the Scanners healing powers like you always talked about. Hmmm, make the Jesus Miracle Healer 3000. You know, name a fake thing after a fake person." The parents laugh.
"Did we ever tell you about the time Xana…" Sanne stops her dad.
"Yes dad we've heard everyone of your ridiculous stories." And ridiculous they are. They had been edited to a point they barely resembled what the logs had. Krieger nudges Sanne in the side and motions her to follow him.
The two walk away so the parents can't hear them. "What are you doing?"
"I have to act like I normally do and making fun of the "stories" is what I normally do. If I act differently my mom and dad might wonder why. Well, my mom might wonder why, my dad is usually busy with work or inventing something else to spend much time with me." Jeremie tried but as a man running a company what little time he could get away from the office was usually spent on sleep. He has been able to make more time for himself as his business grew and became almost self sustaining but now Sanne is far away from Russia.
"Yeah but what if they weren't thinking about going to the Factory but now that you've talked about it they will?"
"Yeah, well, being stuck between a rock and a hard place sucks for a reason." While the two whisper to each other the parents watch. Odd looks over to Ark as the two teens remind him of something.
"So Ark when can we meet Mira?"
"As soon as Antarctica freezes over again."
Sandra laughs. "Come on Ark you missed my birthday for her I want to know why." Sandra smiles showing she wasn't angry about it. She wasn't going to blame Ark for not being there for the video call when she didn't want to be there altogether. Getting old is embarrassing for her.
"I was helping her with her homework."
She smiles. "Yes, I remember all the times your Father helped me with my homework." The parents laugh as Ark blushes.
"He really was probably. She went to a public school before going to Kadic Academy. She needs all the help she can get." Skitz smirks as she glances over at Ark.
"Oh so your dropping grades are because you're helping someone else with their homework when you should be doing yours?" Skitz drops her spoon.
"But, Ark, I told you not to waste your time on that public school retard. If your average drops below a B…" Skitz does not want to lose her brother just because he is too busy helping Mira with her homework to do his own.
"I know and it hasn't."
"Yet, Ark, it's nice that you're helping her but you know the rules."
"The one about not waking you up if we're sneaking in after midnight?" Ark's joke falls flat. "I know, B average or I'm back home getting home schooled." Ark mumbles something else under his breath.
"What was that young man?" Sandra leans over to give Ark a stare she knew would get the truth out of him.
"I, I called you hypocrites. You barely got a C average and dad, well; D didn't stand for Dazzling Work back then did it?"
"Yes but our parents didn't spend money on private tutors and the best learning programs. We expect more of you because we've given you more." Ark sighs and gives up. He loves his parents and they are great parents but sometimes they have to act like all parents do and put their foot down on an issue.
"Ok fine, I'll make sure to get my homework done first so I'm not doing it at three o'clock in the morning." Things settle down between the Della Robbia family but the Stern and Belpois family are watching their kids. Krieger and Sanne are still over in the next room whispering about something.
"Ulrich I know we're good friends but I don't know if I'd want to be related to you by marriage." Ulrich and Yumi laugh.
"I see I'm good enough to save your life but not good enough to be a relative?" The table laughs. The laughing gets the attention of the two teens that see the parents watching them.
"Oh man this looks bad." Sanne glances back over at the table. "I have an idea." Sanne tells Krieger her plan then they walk back to the table. "Um, dad, while you're here, I wanted to ask you something."
"Yes dear?"
"Um, well, I wanted to, you know. Learn martial arts and Krieger said…"
Jeremie slams his hand down on the table stopping Sanne. "No, it is too dangerous. If you were to get hurt it would distract you from your studies."
"Jeremie she's a genius I doubt anything could hurt her studies. Besides my parents trained all the time at her age and never got hurt. Besides I wouldn't mind a training partner. It would be better then having her watch me train complaining about how you won't let her learn martial arts." Krieger tries to sound as authortive as possible.
"No, and any more talk during this wonderful meal at this table will not be allowed."
"Daddy you're to overprotective of me what are you going to do when I turn eighteen and can make decisions for myself?"
"No more talk about it is allowed." Jeremie gets a forkful of food and puts it in his mouth to show he was done.
"Jeremie I'm sure if she wanted to learn it would be okay. I don't think Krieger would let her get hurt. Martial arts could help her focus on something besides school work. You had your robots she could have that." Aelita waited for Jeremie to have his mouth full to say anything. Jeremie chews his food then swallows it.
"My robots had a future. NASA uses my new ones to explore Mercury, Venus, and have sent one to study Pluto. Martial arts have no future." Ulrich and Yumi both make noises. "I mean, for her it has no future."
"Neither did our band we tried to set up but we had fun and did it anyways."
"You did, I was busy with you know what."
"Jeremie I don't see any problem with her doing martial arts. I think it's nice she asked us for permission instead of doing it behind our backs." Aelita's words make Sanne feel bad. Her mother is sticking up for her and Sanne has lied. "If she gets bored after doing homework I think training in martial arts would be a good way to release her energy in a much better way then others."
"Fine, but if she gets hurt I won't let her slack off from her studies." The dinner continues with no more arguments.
The next day while the kids are in class and the adults decide to take a little road trip. "It's been so long since we went there I can barely remember what it looks like." Aelita is in a car with Jeremie, Samantha, and Jim. Ulrich and the others are in another car driving to the Factory.
"We've been keeping an eye on it." Samantha looks out the window at the passing buildings. "No activity, he's been locked up." Samantha tries to ignore her memories of the sensations she's been getting. There were multiple times she thought Xana was back the feelings were so strong but Xana never attacked. They get up to the bridge leading to the Factory and park the cars.
"Not now, he can't be attacking." Sanne in science class pulls her Jpocket out. "Mountain Sector, crap." Sanne goes to nudge Krieger when her Jpocket stops beeping. She looks at it and finds the Super Scan was off. "He's too slow, lets see, load, and…" She goes to bring the Super Scan back up when she finds she can't make contact with the Super Computer. "What's going on?"
Back at the Factory the original Lyoko Warriors were in the Super Computer Room. "There it is, in all its glory." Jeremie runs a hand over the Super Computer. "As cold as it always was. How Franz kept it cold as it ran I still haven't figured it out."
"Could we turn it on?" Jeremie and the others turn to Samantha. "To use the Scanners. Who knows, if Jeremie had used them before maybe he wouldn't have had his appendix burst."
"The Scanners aren't a toy Sanne." Jeremie calls Samantha by her real name.
"And neither is a disease or cancer you don't know you have." Samantha sighs. "Maybe they could fix the hot flashes I've been having." The group laughs. "Yumi don't laugh you're almost thirty seven years old another couple of decades you'll be dealing with them to." Samantha smiles and laughs.
Back at Kadic Academy Sanne is panicking. It is as if Lyoko is destroyed! She taps her foot as she waits for the bell to ring. There was three minutes left to class so no reason to try and get out early. The others already knew and were waiting for the bell to ring also. She waits, and waits. The seconds seem like hours as they watches the clock. When the bell rings Sanne and the others run out of the room.
The Original Lyoko Warriors leave the factory. "It was nice going back but I'll feel better when we're far away from that place." Aelita is in the backseat of the car. She is having memories, both good and bad, flood her memory.
Meeting Jeremie for the first time, going to Earth, finding out Xana was her mother, losing William. These memories hit the others just as hard. The Super Computer and Lyoko had brought them all together but in the process had nearly killed them multiple times. It had killed Aelita until her mother brought her back.
The new Lyoko Warriors climb out of the sewer and run to the Factory. They jump and swing down to the Factory floor below and run over to the elevator. Sanne pushes the button and the doors open but when she pushes the button to go down the elevator doesn't respond. "What is this?" She pushes the button again and still nothing. "If they came here they would have unlocked then locked the elevator." Sanne thinks and thinks but can't remember what the code was.
"Sanne why isn't the elevator moving?"
"They locked the elevator down."
"They? Wait, you mean our parents?" Sanne nods. "Uh, then, maybe they turned the Super Computer off."
"If they had found it on they probably would have called us to find and punish us." Sanne gets her Jpocket out. "I'm glad I decided to keep the code on here." Sanne gets the code and unlocks the elevator. They take the elevator down to the Super Computer Room and find the Super Computer is off. "But, they had to at least think it was us." Sanne turns the Super Computer back on.
"Does that mean everything's fine?" Sanne nods. Mira looks over to the elevator. "Are we going to Lyoko? You said there was a Tower activated."
"Let me check." Sanne looks at her Jpocket and sees the Super Scan won't turn back on. "I have to start it back up from the control panel." Sanne and the others take the elevator up to the Control Room. Sanne goes over to the control panel. "I didn't bring my computer chair." She has to stand as she restarts the Super Scan and goes through information to make sure nothing was damaged. As she goes through something comes out of the monitor, Xana!
"You fools they almost found me!" Xana uses his energy to create a shield around him and pushes Sanne away. "If I had not reacted in time they would have found the Super Computer was on!"
"Wait, you, you activated a Tower to turn the Super Computer off?" Xana nods. "But, that means you don't want them to know you're back." Xana blasts Sanne with an energy bolt.
"Hey!" Krieger leaps at Xana but hits the energy shield. "Chicken, coward, attacking a woman then hiding behind that shield."
"Coward? Fine." The shield is dropped. "Now are you willing to attack me? Or will you not as now I can and will fight back?" Krieger answers with a flying kick. Xana knocks him away when there is a beeping noise, the Super Scan finds the Tower.
"Sanne, get the others to Lyoko and deactivate the Tower." Krieger attacks Xana again but Xana merely waves a hand to knock Krieger away.
"I, we can't, ow." Sanne is hurt by the energy blast Xana hit her with.
"I'll do it." Skitz goes over to the control panel. "Um, Mountain Sector. Guys get to the Scanners!" Ark and Mira pick Sanne up and carry her to the elevator. They take it down to the Scanner Room and get in the Scanners. "Ok, come on, hurry up, send them!" Skitz watches as her friends are sent to Lyoko. "Ok, me and Krieger…"
"No, go, I'll deal with Xana." Krieger wipes blood from his mouth with the back of his hand. He spits a tooth out at Xana. "That's the best you got? My dad hits me harder when we're training."
"I'm toying with you like a cat toys with a mouse."
"What?" Mice are animals no longer found on most of Earth. The Tom and Jerry days were long gone and Krieger does not get what Xana said.
"Krieger are you sure?" Skitz is worried about Krieger.
"Yes, just get to Lyoko and deactivate the Tower." Skitz starts up the auto transfer and takes the ladder down to the Scanner Room. She gets in the Scanner moments before the Scanner doors close. "So Xana this is just like the first time."
"Except this time you will die!" Xana and Krieger fight as the rest run to the Tower as Skitz did not send the vehicles.
Samantha and the others are at the Hermitage when Samantha gets a strange feeling. "Xana…" She puts a hand over her heart. "No, it's not Xana. It can't be, I just saw the Super Computer, and it's off." Her mutterings are heard by her husband.
"Samantha are you ok?" She nods then shakes her head.
"I don't know. I just had the feeling that Xana was nearby."
"Probably going back to the Factory. I know I have a lot of memories coming back that have me feeling like Xana is still around." Jim puts a hand on her shoulder and leans down to kiss her on the lips. "Feel better?"
"A little. I don't know if I should have gone with you to the Factory."
"It wouldn't be right without you. You are a Lyoko Warrior."
"So was the girl whose name I've taken. Jim, I, I want to stop talking about it." Samantha closes her eyes and sighs.
"Ok Samantha." Jim leans close to her ear. "You'll always be Sanne to us. The mother of Aelita and my most wonderful woman."
"Thank you Jim." Samantha kisses Jim. "I knew I married you for a reason." They laugh.
Back at the Factory Xana shows he isn't kidding about toying with Krieger. "I want you to dance!" Xana forms energy around Krieger's legs and make him "dance". "To think you thought you had a chance to defeat me." Krieger's legs bend back at the knees shattering both knees.
"Aaaa!" Krieger screams in pain as his legs are broken more.
"Krieger!" Sanne hears his screams. He was nowhere near the headset yet they were loud enough for the Lyoko Warriors to hear. "I don't care if this is a trap he's hurting Krieger!" The Lyoko Warriors had made it to the Tower but there were no monsters guarding it.
"Sanne you can't if we lose you…" Sanne pushes Ark out of the way.
"My mom and grandmother are here they can deactivate the Tower." Sanne runs into the activated Tower.
"Goodbye Krieger." Xana has broken most of his bones, as the Tower is deactivated. "I've had fun. When I activated the Tower to turn the Super Computer off I had time to think of what I would do once they others left. I think this was a good use of that power." Xana breaks apart into a black mist and enters back into the Super Computer.
"Krieger!" Skitz runs over to a broken bloodied Krieger. "He's still breathing. If we get him into a Scanner we can heal him."
"Whoa, he feels like, I can't think of anything." Ark tried to pick Krieger up but find it is hard to get a hold on him. His bones were broken in multiple places making it hard to get a grasp on his arms or legs.
"Um, drag him over to the elevator instead of carrying him." Mira's idea works and soon Krieger is in the middle Scanner. The doors close around him and when they open he falls out healed.
"Ouch." Krieger had passed out from the pain earlier and had no recollection of what Xana said or how he got to the Scanners. "You guys did it, good."
"It was easy he didn't send any monsters."
"Heh, he was so busy making me dance he forgot to send monsters." Krieger says it seriously but the others think it as a joke.
"We have to get out of here. What if our parents decide to take another trip back here?" Sanne climbs down the ladder instead of waiting for the elevator to go up then take it back down to the Scanner Room where everyone else was.
"Ok, sure, I don't feel like sticking around here anyways." Skitz goes over to the elevator and waits for the others to get on.
While everyone is riding up, Skitz sees the look on Krieger's face. Wanting to be discreet, she texts him. What happened? You look scared.
As the elevator stops, the group walks off, and Krieger gets his phone out. Don't worry. I'm fine, now.
You better be. You're my friend.
You are too. I know Ark is your best friend since he's your brother but out of the group you've always been closest. Sanne... I like her as more than a friend and your brother is cool but too wild for my me.
Wild? I still refuse to sky dive and all he wants to do is go again.
Both smile at their phones, which Mira notices, and wonders.
Four days later after the Class Reunion Aelita is in the dorm room of her daughter. Aelita and the others would be going home the next morning and the kids had class then. Jeremie already said goodbye to his daughter and Aelita wanted to talk to Sanne alone. "So Sanne how long has it been?"
"How long has what been?" Sanne is nervous, did her mother know that Xana was back and was asking how long he had been back.
"Have you and Krieger been dating?"
"Um, we aren't, he's just a friend. Mom, I wanted to tell you something before you left." Sanne tries to take the conversation away from Krieger. "When I asked if I could, um, learn martial arts I, I lied to you. I've been learning Pencak Silat with Krieger and working out in the exercise room." The look on Sanne's face would get tears from a stone. "I felt so bad because at the dinner you said it was a good thing I asked first."
"Sanne dear I figured you were." Aelita leans forward and squeezes Sanne's arm. "Working on homework doesn't build that." Aelita laughs a little. "But you don't have to lie to me about you and Krieger."
Sanne is annoyed. She hears it enough from Skitz. "I'm not he's just a friend."
"Really? The way he was looking at you, it reminded me of how Ulrich looked at Yumi."
"I, I know he likes me, as more then friends. But I'm not ready for something like that." Sanne waits to hear the usual response she gets from Skitz, you're the same age but Aelita surprises her.
"Ok dear." Aelita puts a hand on her shoulder and kisses her on the forehead. "But don't let studying be your whole life. When I was your age I had a hobby I really liked."
"Being with dad?"
She shakes her head. "No, I, I use to do some mixing. I fixed a mixing board and they let me try it out." Aelita remembers being at the dance and playing for everyone, she loved it.
"Oh, well, I like training with Krieger. It's nice being more then a string bean for once." Sanne flexes her arms and a tiny bit of muscle can be seen.
"Ok Sanne, have fun with that, with Krieger." The way Aelita says the last part gets to Sanne.
"Mom we're just friends."
"You told me that Sanne. He's a nice boy and I'm sure he likes helping you learn Pencak Silat but try not to lead him on okay? He might think differently than you."
"He knows how I feel, I told him, he's okay with that." Sanne remembers the time Krieger tried to kiss her after he had her pinned. "I love you mom, it was nice seeing you."
"It was great seeing you dear. I miss not having you around all the time." Sanne and Aelita stand up and hug. "I love you Sanne." Aelita leaves the dorm room and goes back to the Hermitage.
Sanne lies back on her bed. "I can't believe Xana left them alone. He said he didn't want to be found by them. Does that mean we should tell them?" Sanne gets off her bed and looks out the window. She sees Ark and Mira with Odd and Sandra. Ark had been dodging his parents on the Mira issue but they weren't leaving without meeting her. "No, they have their own lives now. We let Xana lose, we will beat him. We will make a world without danger."