Code Xana Episode 35: Skinhead
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 round 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 1-34
Again, restarted at a certain point because I have too many ideas.
Sanne is bored. Krieger is on a date with Skitz, Mira and Ark are out as well. "I guess, no, take a break." Sanne rubs her temples. She spent nearly six hours in front of her computer working on a program and needs a break. "Go to the gym and work out, not really a break though is it? Should I really be talking to myself?" Sanne sighs and leaves her computer to get her gym clothes.
She leaves her room and closes the door. Walking down the hallway not thinking about what she had left behind.
Krieger and Skitz are coming out of a movie and see Ark and Mira. "Hey Ark, Mira, what movie did you see?"
"Spiderman 8." Ark and Mira walk over hand in hand. "You?"
"Same." Krieger feels Skitz grab his hand. What is she doing? We aren't really dating.
"Cool, that was so cool when Shocker blew apart that door and Spiderman used his webbing to catch it."
Skitz laughs. "Uh, yeah, must have missed that."
"What? No we," Skitz squeezes his hand hard getting him to stop talking.
As the teens walk down the side walk they pass under a street light and Ark sees why Krieger missed it.
"Man you look like someone tried to strangle you." Ark and Mira laugh.
"They can't be that bad." Mira gets a pocket mirror out and Krieger looks. "Oh man, Skitz, what did you do to me?" Krieger sees several bruises, that Ark and Mira think are hickies, on his neck.
Ark looks at his sister and sees no marks. "Where did he leave hickies on you?"
Skitz smirks. "None of your business." That would be none. I gave him a choke hold while training earlier. Can't believe he didn't tap out with how tight I was squeezing his neck.
"Yeah but she can wear makeup to cover them up." Krieger pulls his shirt up trying to cover his neck. Except she doesn't have any.
"Krieger you can borrow some makeup from me. I'll even help you put it on in my room. Sanne's out at the Factory…" Skitz pulls on Krieger's shirt and leans down to whisper something into his ear.
He whispers back. "Uh, yeah, ok, um, I guess no dinner?" Krieger hates what his neck looks like. Man, if I didn't know how to break a choke hold she would have taken me down.
"We can eat later." Skitz smiles and laughs. "So what are you two doing now?"
"We're going to get something to eat. You guys can come with us if you want." Ark's offer isn't accepted and the teens go separate ways.
Sanne is on the exercise bike going at a slow but steady pace. "This just isn't any fun without Krieger to compete with." She gets off the bike. "I can't do the weights without him to help me, without Krieger I can't do anything but work on the Super Computer." Sanne stops and thinks about what she just said. "Skitz is right. I need something other than the Super Computer."
She thinks about Skitz and how she is on a date with Krieger. "I can't bother them right now. Or Ark and Mira." She sighs. "I'm and idiot." Skitz tried to tell me about how great Krieger is and now she's dating him instead. "Whoa, no, he's just a friend. I, I can find something else to do."
Sanne leaves for the locker room for a shower and to plan something to do. She gets out of the shower and notices her head still itches. She scratches and finds something. "What is this?" A small black dot, with legs. "Fleas? No, in the hair, lice!" She runs back into the shower and shampoos her hair. "Rinse, wash, and repeat." She scratches her head and finds more! "No, but, how did I get these?" She goes back into the shower and keeps washing her hair but soon more and more lice appear. Unfortunately she wasn't the only one.
"Aaaa!" Kids are scratching they're heads, teachers are scratching they're heads. Everyone is scratching and going insane from the lice invasion. Students run to the showers to try and wash the lice away but they soon become full.
Skitz and Krieger make it to Kadic and are already scratching. After trying to go to the regular showers and finding them packed, they realize the gym locker rooms have showers.
They run to the gym and go to the different showers.
"How did we get these all of a sudden?!" Skitz, gets into the girls' locker room, undresses, and hears a shower going already. "Someone else figured it out to. Better have a shower head left for me." She goes into the shower room and finds Sanne. "You too?"
"What?" Sanne turns around and sees her friend. "Oh, um, what are you doing here?" Sanne turns away. She still didn't like showering with others. "I thought you were out with Krieger."
"We were," She scratches at her head more. "Everyone got lice somehow and flooded the shower room. I guess you got them to."
"Yes, I don't know how though I wasn't in contact with anyone." Sanne is scrubbing her head some more. Her scalp is getting sore from so much scrubbing but there are still lice left.
Ark and Mira notice as they leave the restaurant that their heads start to itch. They scratch and both find lice. "Ah, those seats at the movie theater must have had them. Remind us never to go there again." They run for the school both thinking about getting a shower.
When they get there they find the school shower rooms are full. "What do we do Ark?"
"I don't know these things are driving me crazy!" Ark scratches his head more and cuts his scalp with a fingernail.
"Um, are you sure this isn't a Xana attack?" Mira scratches her head some more.
"I don't know, Sanne would have called if it was. Well, unless…" Ark thinks of a shower that might be open. "If we go to the gym and no one sees us we can use those showers." Ark whispers this and the two walk away slowly.
Back in the gym shower room... "Sanne, I have a few questions." Skitz keeps scratching at her head. "What were you doing while we were out?"
"Well, my eyes burn from staring at a screen so I went to the gym. Without Krieger I could only do some stretches and use the exercise bike."
Something is up. "Why not hang out with..." She remembers Ark and Mira were at the movie theater too. "Oh, so we were all out at the movie theater. You had no one to hang out with."
"Hey, I wasn't going to interrupt you and Krieger. Or Ark and Mira."
Skitz walks over to Sanne. "You could have. You're our friend, Sanne. Seriously, I didn't think about it. If you ever want to hang out, just ask." Skitz feels awkward trying to talk to Sanne while in the showers. "You do all that work with the Super Computer and we're out going to the movies or arcade."
Sanne turns around. "Don't feel guilty! I, I mean, I know you want to help but you can't. You can run a computer but the Super Computer is something different. I'm working on super complicated programs even I'm not sure how to run."
Skitz's shoulders slump. "I can help during an attack." She scratches harder. "So can Krieger when he's not in the boys shower room doing the same thing we are."
"An attack, but, maybe." Sanne turns the shower head off. "Um Skitz, I, I'm glad you're with Krieger. He's a lot happier now and you're because of it."
Sanne leaves the shower room and gets a towel before going out into the locker room to dig through her gym bag. "I only have my phone, Xana could be attacking." She scratches her head. "I have to get dressed and get to my room." Sanne dresses when Mira comes in. "Mira, this is probably an attack by Xana."
"What? Oh, um, ok. Call me if it is." Mira starts to undress needing to get under a shower head. Maybe she can scrub the lice out of her hair.
"Skitz is in there so be careful about what you say."
"We don't fight that much. I'm too busy," She scratches at her head. "Dealing with this."
Sanne is dressed and runs out of the girls' locker room for her room.
A few minutes later Sanne gets to her room and hears a beeping noise. "It is an attack. I have to call the others." She calls Mira who answers and tells Skitz.
Neither Ark or Krieger answer. "Well, I know Krieger is in the boys' locker room." She blushes as she thinks about Krieger in the shower. "And so is Ark, how do we get a hold of them?"
Sanne runs back to the gym and sees Mira and Skitz standing there scratching their heads. "Mira we have a problem."
"What? Besides these damn things!" She scratches more.
"Um, aren't both boys are in the boys' shower room?" Mira and Skitz nod. "Uh, how do we tell them?" All three girls blush thinking about the boys in the shower.
Mira shakes her head. "Well, I, um, I'm not going in there."
"But, haven't you and Ark, you know, done things?"
"Nothing like that!" Mira scratches harder. "Ah, these things are driving me crazy!"
Sanne gets more concerned. "We need them, um, but I'm sure not going in there. Maybe Skitz would, he's her brother so it wouldn't be that big a deal, right?" Sanne starts to scratch her head again.
"Krieger and I, I mean yeah we date but we aren't doing stuff like that." She smiles. "What the hell? I'll do it."
Sanne's cheeks flush red. "After you get dressed."
Skitz rolls her eyes. "Duh."
Sanne follows her out and watches her go in. Seconds later she hears shouts that sound a lot like Ark and Krieger.
Skitz saunters out with a smile on her face. "The boys will be ready in a minute."
Two minutes later, both boys walk out of the locker room. "Sanne, Skitz says this is an attack." Krieger scratches his head hard.
"It is! Please, we have to hurry."
"Hey, will the Scanners heal this?" Ark is scratching his head going insane from all of the itching.
"I don't know." Sanne and the others run out of the locker room for the Factory.
They go, beat Xana, find the lice don't go away but can't launch a return.
When they get back to Kadic Academy, they find several students walking around bald. "We should get out heads shaved, too."
"Are you sure Sanne?"
"Yes Skitz."
They find a line of students leading to Jim.
"Ah, about time you kids showed up."
"We were looking for you Grandpa." Sanne goes over to him. "I, it's just hair right?" He nods. They wait in line to get their heads shaved.
An hour later Sanne comes out of a girls' bathroom after looking at her new head. "Oh, hi Krieger, Skitz." They are walking down the hall hand in hand.
"Hi Sanne, look at that." Skitz says this in a disgusted way. "I get my hair cut and now every guy and girl copies me. Everyone is trying to look as good as me and make us look like everyone else." She smiles and laughs at the joke.
"Do I look hideous or what?" Sanne smiles and tries to pose.
Krieger smiles. "Your hair isn't what made you beautiful." She stares at him. "I mean, your hair, it isn't important you're still Sanne."
Skitz smiles at Sanne who blushes at Krieger's compliment. "You're still our friend." She didn't blush before. Is she finally starting to like Krieger as more than friends? About time my plan worked. Not that I want it too as much as I did before. "Now what?"
"I should work on the Super Computer. If I stop Xana I stop all of these attacks. We can be normal teens." Sanne looks down at her feet. "I'm sorry."
Skitz and Krieger hug her. "Don't be!"
"You're our friend, Sanne."
They hold her as she starts to cry.
"I was so excited to go to the Factory. Find the Super Computer. I caused all of this. I let Xana out. We're dealing with all of this because of me."
Krieger hugs her a little tighter. "I didn't turn it off. I could have turned it off."
"I could have too." Skitz hates herself for getting jealous over Sanne. It is her plan to get Krieger and Sanne together. "It isn't your fault or anyone else's. We're all in this together, got it?"
"Thanks you two. You're the best."
A/N Ah, Xana wanted a return done but the gang took one for Earth. What will happen next? Read Snow Bound to find out!