Code Xana Episode 38: I Think We're Alone Now
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 1-37
Redoing with new ideas... skipping Lyoko Action
Krieger and Sanne are training in the gym. "Glad to see you were able to make time for me." Krieger grabs Sanne's arm and flips her over.
"You're the one who is always busy with Skitz." Sanne puts her legs up and wraps her ankles around his neck and pulls him to the mat. "You're out of shape."
"You're getting better." Krieger rolls back on his shoulders and uses his hands to propel himself to his feet. "Need a hand?"
"I got it." Sanne tries to copy Krieger and lands on her butt. "Ow." Krieger sticks his hand out and helps her up.
"Yep you sure have it." Krieger smiles and laughs.
"I'm sure you get it from Skitz all the time." Sanne's comment catches Krieger off guard and she kicks him in the gut. "I got you now Krieger!" She spins around and pulls him to the mat pinning him. "I'm the greatest in the world!" She stands up and raises her arms like she just won a championship.
"You have gotten better Sanne. Been training while I've been busy?" Sanne nods. "Good." Krieger tackles Sanne and pins her to the mat. "I guess I'm the best now." He gets off of her and helps her up.
"For now." Sanne looks at him, studies him, and catches thoughts going through her head she doesn't like. "How about we take a break? It hasn't been this warm for awhile." Sanne smiles as she walks towards the door of the gym not waiting for Krieger's answer.
He follows her and they take a walk in the woods. "So Krieger, how are things between you and Skitz?"
"Um, good, I guess." Things are getting weird. It started off as a plan to make you jealous but Skitz has always been cool. We are friends and now that we pretended to date... Krieger looks around the woods. It had been awhile since he had gone in them since it had been so cold. "Pretty good."
"Just good? I heard Ark walked in on you two doing things that would probably get you detention if not suspended." Sanne laughs as Krieger blushes and looks away. "So it was true?"
"No. You know my weak point is tickling. Skitz knows that too. We were supposed to be arm wrestling to see who paid for the next date and she cheated. I tried getting back at her when Ark walked in on us." It was fun. Is fun. We get along so well because we've been friends since diapers.
Sanne laughs again. "Come on, I'm so jealous of her." Sanne realizes how this sounds. "I mean, she, she's know, um, built bigger. You know what I mean." Sanne laughs trying to make a joke of it. "So are you planning what to call your kids?" Sanne laughs for real when Krieger looks like he just swallowed a box of nails. "I'm kidding Krieger, unless you really were."
"We aren't! It isn't that serious. We have fun. It's like being friends just with kissing and stuff."
Sanne continues to laugh as Krieger's face turns bright red. "That's so…" Sanne stops when something hits her from behind. She falls flat on her face as the thing attacks Krieger. "No, Xana, I…" The thing jumps and attacks her again. She had left her Jpocket and phone back at the school. She tries to fight it but it knocks her out.
"Whoa, what the heck?" Skitz is on her bed watching a movie when the Super Scan goes off.
It takes her a second to recognize the sound. "Oh, um, that's Sanne's computer." Skitz goes over to it. "Oh, the Super Scan is going off." It clicks in her brain. "Xana attack! Um, I better call Sanne." Skitz calls Sanne and doesn't get a response. "She was at the gym with Krieger."
Skitz runs to the gym. "Where is she?" Skitz calls Sanne's phone again and hears it ringing. "Maybe she's in the locker room." Skitz goes back there and finds no one. "Krieger, answer, damn it!" She doesn't hear his phone but he doesn't answer it either. "We need Sanne with out her we can't deactivate the Tower, unless…" Unless we tell Samantha. She shakes her head. There was no way they could call Samantha. She would freak out again and it wouldn't be worth the return to keep her from telling the other Original Lyoko Warriors.
"What?" Ark and Mira are having a fight. Ark was still mad at Mira for turning on him so quickly when his sister called.
"Xana's attacking and I can't get a hold of Sanne!" This ends the argument between Ark and Mira immediately. "We have to look for her."
"Um, I'll check the gym."
"Already went there. Krieger is missing to."
"Well, I don't know. Xana could have taken them anywhere." Ark thinks about it. "Well, her phone has a GPS unit on it right? We could track it, I think."
"Great idea, except I don't know how."
"I do, I think. Dad did it to you and me enough times I think I could do it. We need a computer though."
"Um, Sanne's would work."
"Ok, we'll meet there."
Skitz starts to pull the phone away from her ear when she stops. "Wait, I called her and hear the phone but can't find it. Try tracking Krieger's phone."
"Okay, get to your room."
Skitz gets to her room and sees Ark and Mira sitting on different beds. "You really are fighting."
"Your brother is being stupid."
He shouts at her. "You're the one who turned on me because of Xana. Who is the stupid one?"
"Ark stop it and do whatever it is you have to do." Skitz hands the Jtop to Ark and he goes to work. He had spied on his dad who used a website to find Skitz once or twice when she ran off without permission.
In the sewers Krieger and Sanne are tied up back to back. "What do you think he's planning?"
"I don't know. I can't deactivate the Tower and he can't posses me if I'm not on Lyoko." Sanne's nose itches and she is squirming trying to scratch it with her shoulder since her hands are tied to Krieger's.
"Exactly. Unless, unless he holds us hostage for the password." Krieger struggles not physically but emotionally. If this is it, if Xana is about to win, he didn't want to die without telling Sanne the truth.
"It looks bad." Xana has made it so Sanne can't go to Lyoko so he could do anything he wanted now. He could be killing the others right now or be holding her and Krieger for the password. If he does get the password then Xana would probably do returns to make himself stronger.
"Krieger, um, I'm sorry." Sanne too is scared. She thinks this might be it for her and her friends. "I let him go, I released him. This is my fault. And, I…" She stops. "I'm sorry."
He shakes his head. "No, I'm sorry. I said we should have turned the damn thing off but I didn't. If I really wanted to I could have turned it off and kept you from turning it back on."
"I would have done something to turn it back on. When I saw Dante, I, I was reminded of my mom. I know you were jealous of him but I don't have feelings for him like that. I just couldn't stop thinking about my mom and dad. I wanted to save him so badly I, I ignored you."
"What?" Krieger isn't sure where Sanne is going with this.
"I, I like you Krieger. You're my friend. You saved my life. You protect me. I ignored you but you still protected me. Even when you were jealous of Dante you protected him so I wouldn't be hurt. I, I shouldn't have been so mean to you." Sanne leans her head back so it touches Krieger's. "I'm sorry for that."
"I, I, please don't be saying this." Krieger is torn inside. He liked Sanne, he likes Skitz, but Sanne is his dream, Skitz is… His friend. One who wanted to help him with her plan to make Sanne jealous. "Why now? We're, we're not done, we can get out of this." Krieger can't let Sanne die, he can't lose to Xana.
"I can't deactivate the Tower from here can I? I'm sorry Krieger I kept telling myself we had to save Dante and beat Xana. I yelled at you because you liked me when I should have told you how I felt."
"Sanne its ok, we won't lose."
Yes we will." She sighs. "I want to say this Krieger. I, I don't expect you to drop Skitz, she's a good person. I just want you to know I'm an idiot and I shouldn't have been so mean to you."
"Skitz is a good person but I, I could never tell her, I mean, I don't think I love her." Do I? Hanging out with her these past few weeks have been some of the best of my life. But we're friends, friends do that. She is only dating me as a plan to trick Sanne. Sanne, I…" Before Krieger says the three words he had wanted to for so long Sanne starts to laugh. "Sanne?"
"I played you so easily." Sanne breaks the ropes tying her hands to Krieger and then morphs into Dante! "You sap, she's already on Lyoko scared out of her mind. She's hiding in a Tower right now hoping you'll come and save her." Dante laughs some more as Krieger gets mad. "She's calling out for you. She wants her knight in shining armor to come and save her. Too bad you won't be able to."
"Shut up!" Krieger attacks Xana. "Shut up!" He punches Xana but does little damage.
"It hurts doesn't it? Sanne finally says the words you want her to say and it's me!" He laughs evilly as Krieger continues to attack him. "Fool I have grown in power because of you kids. You are not able to hurt me." Xana blasts Krieger with an energy beam. "Cower before me and beg for mercy, Krieger Stern."
"Blow me."
"I'm sorry I'm not Skitz."
"She's never done that." Krieger spits at Xana. "You're good, I'll admit it. I never suspected this. Was it Sanne I was training with?"
"Oh that was her. But now she hides in a Tower crying out your name for help." Xana laughs. "Oh, when none of her friends show up will she attempt to go to the Tower on her own? She can see it from the Tower she is hiding in but she waits for help. But once she realizes none is coming will she go on her own? If she does my Schipizoa will get her and she will be mine!" Xana punches Krieger in the stomach knocking the wind out of him. "Oh wait, I think your friends may have found us."
Back at Kadic Academy Ark has finally figured out how to locate Krieger. "I think he's in the sewers unless Xana has him stuffed in a box." Ark points out on the map where Krieger is. The point is near a warehouse next to a sewer entrance. "Come on we have to get them."
The three run out of Ark's room for the sewer entrance in the woods and go to where they think Xana is holding Krieger and Sanne.
On Lyoko, Sanne sticks her head out of the Tower she Is hiding in. She sees the activated Tower in the distance. "I, I could probably make it." She walks out of the Tower. "No, it's a trap. I can't risk it." She goes back into the Tower. "Hurry Krieger, you're my knight in shining armor."
The kids are on skateboards going down the sewers. "I think it's a right up here." They turn right and see Krieger and Sanne passed out on the sewer floor. Ark gets off his skateboard and goes over to Krieger. "We either wake them up or carry them." He nudges Krieger with his foot but Krieger doesn't move.
Skitz goes over to Sanne and kneels down. She shakes her. "Sanne, wake up." Sanne mumbles something as her eyes open. "Sanne are you ok?"
"I think so." She rubs her head. "Krieger, is he ok?"
"He's out but he's breathing." Ark lifts Krieger up over his shoulder. "Ok he's heavy. Why can't he be fat? Fat weighs less than muscle." Ark is slow carrying Krieger so Sanne goes up and grabs his legs to try and take some weight off of Ark's shoulders.
The gang walks down the sewer getting to the Factory after about twelve minutes.
"Ok how do we get him up?" Skitz looks up at the sewer entrance. She climbs up and takes the cover off and looks around. "Ark can you get him up here?"
"Maybe, Sanne, Mira, catch him if he falls." Ark positions Krieger on his shoulder and goes up the ladder slowly. He dumps Krieger off after getting out of the sewer. "Skitz, you drag him for now on." Ark climbs the rest of the way out and lies down on the ground. Ark is in good shape but he had to carry the heavier Krieger through the sewers and up a ladder.
"I can try to carry him." Sanne climbs out of the sewers followed by Mira. "I've been working out for a reason." Sanne looks down at Krieger and smiles. She bends down and picks him up. "Whoa, wait." She stumbles a little as she tries to get use to carrying him. "Ok, let's hurry." The group runs into the Factory, go down, and get to the elevator.
They take it down to the Control Room. "Desert Sector, hurry down, I'll send you to Lyoko and then send myself." The group nods and takes the elevator down to the Scanner Room. Krieger is put in the middle Scanner as Ark and Skitz get in the Scanners on the side. The doors close and they are sent to Lyoko. Mira gets in the middle Scanner and lands on Lyoko.
Now Sanne goes to Lyoko but not through the Scanners. She turns into a black mist and goes to Lyoko.
"Krieger!" Ark kneels next to Krieger who hasn't come back after being sent to Lyoko. "Sanne something's wrong."
"I know." Sanne comes out of the Tower and sees herself.
"Xana!" The other Sanne gets in a fighting stance. "What do you think you're doing?"
"I'm Sanne." Tower Sanne gets in a fighting stance. "What did you do to Krieger?"
"I didn't do anything to him!" Other Sanne walks towards Tower Sanne. "Guys we have to get to the activated Tower."
"I know we do." Tower Sanne walks towards Krieger. "He better be ok."
"He better be Xana or I'll hurt you!" Other Sanne fires an energy beam at Tower Sanne who sees it coming.
"Bubble!" The bubble comes up and blocks the energy beam. Tower Sanne fires a Scattershot at Other Sanne who jumps out of the way.
"What do we do?" Mira looks between the two Sanne's confused.
"Test them." Skitz gets her clubs out. "Sanne, what's your best class?"
"Math!" Both yell.
"Um, well, I don't know what else to ask, um…" Skitz thinks and thinks and then remembers something that happened when they were kids. "Sanne when your parents visited mine which arm did you break while trying out the new hover board?"
"Uh, my right arm." Tower Sanne reaches for her right arm as does other Sanne. "Don't copy me!"
"You're copying me, that is why you paused before you answered!" Other Sanne fires an energy beam at Tower Sanne who dodges it.
Tower Sanne tries to convince her friends. "Guys it's me, I've been hiding in that Tower waiting for you guys to get here."
"How did you get here?" Other Sanne yells at Tower Sanne.
"I don't know. Something attacked me and Krieger in the woods." Tower Sanne remembers waking up in the Tower.
"And why were you in the woods? We went training when something attacked us." Other Sanne runs at Tower Sanne and attacks her.
They wrestle on the ground and soon the others don't know which Sanne is which.
"You know what?" Ark walks towards the fighting Sanne's. "I know how to end this." He concentrates and the spear comes out from his arm. "Xana will be too strong to beat but Sanne will go back to Earth." Ark runs, jumps, then shoves the spear through both Sanne's.
One goes back to Earth as the other starts to laugh.
"Very good but too late!" Other Sanne turns into Xana! "I have the password. The reason Krieger won't wake up is because I did a little damage while I was diving in his brain. I don't need you anymore I will make myself more powerful!" Xana blasts Krieger then Ark then Skitz then Mira.
They go back and get the Tower deactivated.
"I lose? Maybe so, but Krieger, well, he won't be so well I imagine." Xana breaks apart into a black mist as Sanne sends the Lyoko Warriors back to Earth to check on Krieger.
"Krieger?" Ark goes over to Krieger who is sitting on the floor leaning against the wall. "Are you ok?"
"No." Krieger stands up and goes over to the elevator. He pushes the button and the elevator doors open. He gets on and the others follow him.
"Krieger are you sure you're ok?" Krieger ignores Sanne. "Krieger?" He continues to ignore her and as the elevator goes up and opens the door as they get to the Factory floor. "Krieger what happened?" He walks away ignoring her and the others.
Skitz tells the others to stay back and follows him in to the sewers. "Krieger, please, stop!" She catches up to him and grabs his shirt. "What happened?"
He turns around. "I hate him! He, he pretended to be Sanne. She finally said the words I've been wanting to hear and it was him! I feel like shit because I still like her but I like you too. We have been having so much fun together but you don't like me like that either. You're just trying to make Sanne jealous so she'll date me and it isn't working." He clenches his hands in to fists. "So how about that? Two amazing girls who only see me as a friend."
No! Krieger I do like you as more, now. It did start as a plan to make Sanne jealous but dammit it made me like you as more! If I tell him we can stop the plan and actually date. "Krieger, I'm so sorry Xana did that to you but," She reaches for one of his clenched hands. "I am amazing, I am a girl, but I don't see you as just a friend." She kisses him on the lips. "I don't know when it went from dating you as a plan to me actually liking you as more but I do. I just didn't tell you because I didn't want to screw up the plan for you."
"Really?" She nods. "Wow, I, I don't know. Ever since I was nine I've had a crush on Sanne. It kind of blinded me."
Skitz smiles. "I'm glad it did or I bet Sora would have snagged you by now."
"Sora?"
Skitz is about to laugh when she sees the look of confusion on his face. "The fiery red head with emerald green eyes that drools over you when she flirts with you."
"She flirts with me?"
Skitz busts out laughing. "Oh gods Krieger, you really are blinded by Sanne." She laughs so hard she has to hold her stomach as she bends over. "You're lucky she didn't drag you to the garden shed and have her way with you." She wipes tears from her eyes. "I guess love does blind you."
"It does." Krieger had no idea that Sora had been flirting with him. She was just being nice. Except Skitz would probably know better than I do. "I feel weird about this because I do like you. We've known each other forever and now... I don't know. You're my best friend. What if Sanne, um, you know..."
I really don't know. I like Krieger but do I... I can't tell him that. "I'll kick your ass, her ass, and just for good measure, my brother's ass. Then be happy for you two."
"Really?"
She places her free hand on his arm. "Well, probably not right away. We have fun and I do like you but I know how you feel about her." Most girls would probably break up with a guy if they knew he was in love with someone else. "I'd be pissed and beat you all up but then be happy. I'm sure of it."
Krieger finally relaxes and he leans forward. "Sanne and your brother you could take. Me? I'd love to see you try."
She smiles wickedly. "I've taken you down before."
"Without cheating."
"That's no fun!" She hugs him briefly before taking a step back. "So, tomorrow, want to see who wins?"
This is what I like. We can joke and talk and be free with each other. "Winner gets all expenses paid trip to the mall."
Oh he is so cocky, isn't he? "You'll regret that when I decide I want new shoes and an outfit to go with it." She twirls as if she is showing off a new outfit. "I can't wait to see you pay up."
She knows who trained me and still thinks she can win without cheating? "Only if you beat me fairly. No tricks or tickling."
"It will be more than fair." Skitz feels his clenched hand relax. "Are you ready to go back now?"
He turns his hand over to take hers in it. "Yes. I, I felt like a fool. He played me so easily. I still hate myself a little for falling for it so easily but Xana is good at manipulating people."
"Yes he is. He probably watches us to figure us out like he did our parent's." Krieger makes a face. "What?"
"Dante watching me in the shower is not an image I need."
She smiles. "Like I want him watching me? Pervert."
Both laugh as they continue down the sewers for the forest entrance.
Two days later, Skitz and Krieger are making out on his bed when Ark walks in on them. "Really? And this is part of the plan, how?"
The two pull apart. "Aren't you supposed to be with Mira?"
Ark glares at his sister. "Don't change the subject."
"Don't look at me like that!" Skitz gets off of Krieger's bed and in to Ark's face. "It isn't my fault you two are fighting."
"No, it isn't." He crosses his arms. "Now, please tell me how this is part of the plan to make Sanne jealous?"
It takes Skitz a second to realize what Ark is talking about. "Oh, well, the plan didn't work." She blushes slightly. "So Krieger and I decided to date for real."
He looks at Krieger and then back at his sister. "Really?" She nods. "Oh, cool. You two have fun I'm going to go, uh, somewhere else."
"That's it?"
"Hey, you can take care of yourself. You know to be safe. Mom and dad made sure of that with both of us."
"Huh." He is being really mature about this. "Not that we need to be safe. We, uh, we aren't doing that any time soon." She feels her cheeks burn. Am I really talking about this with my brother?
"Hey, more power to you if you two go at your own pace." Please don't do that any time soon, sis! I so want to hit Krieger right now but dad would tell me I am not her protector or whatever. "So, yeah, I guess I'll go do something else."
After he leaves, Skitz sits back down on Krieger's bed. "Well, that ruined the mood a little."
"Yeah, well, we came here to do homework." He smiles. "Until someone distracted me with her new outfit."
She leans over. "That you paid for." She kisses him on the cheek. "You might want to watch out for my brother tonight."
He shakes his head. "Ark knows he doesn't need to do anything. You're your own person and can beat me up if I do something you don't like."
She puts an arm around him and leans her head on his shoulder. "I would say I got lucky you stepped wrong and rolled your ankle but I know I'm just that good."
"You are good, Skitz." He leans against her feeling the warmth and comfort from her he needs. This feels so good. "We're getting distracted from homework again."
"So?" She keeps her arm around him. "One more minute, okay?"
"I'll even make it two minutes." The two sit together with smiles on their faces.
A/N Oh no! Ark still fights with Mira while Skitz and Krieger decide to confess their feelings for each other. Having to write Sora/Barack out of the show has been difficult but doable so far!