Code Xana Episode 41: Aftermath

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 1-40

Dorm Building

Skitz wakes up and gasps, clutching at her chest. "No, no, frak, no." She rolls out of the bed and falls on the floor.

"Stop!" Sanne wakes up to the sound of Skitz falling off her bed. "Mira, where is she? Ark, he's bleeding. We have to help him."

"My brother? Ark, no!" Skitz scambles off of the floor and throws the door open.

"Skitz, wait!" Sanne chases after her.

She throws the door open and sees Krieger shaking Ark. "Krieger."

He turns and sees Sanne in her over sized sleep shirt and Skitz in her underwear. "Ark, he isn't breathing. Please, help me."

"I know CPR." Skitz shoves Krieger out of the way and starts. "Krieger, press on his chest three times every time I tell you."

"Got it."

Skitz blow into his mouth after plugging Ark's nose. "Now."

She watches Krieger pump Ark's chest before breathing again into Ark's mouth. "Now."

Sanne starts to sweat as Skitz's attempt to bring Ark back fails. "DNA. If we have his DNA we can save him. Scan him back." She looks around the room and sees a hair brush with the hair of Ark.

Ignoring the other two, she grabs the brush and checks it. "No dark hair, none of Krieger's. Good. I can use this."

Skitz stops the CPR as she breaks down and sobs on Ark's unmoving chest.

Krieger watches as Sanne walks out and doesn't stop her. He had been so focused on the CPR he didn't hear what Sanne said.

As Sanne makes her way to the Factory, Skitz starts to replace her sadness with anger. "Mira, that bitch. She killed him!"

Krieger isn't quick enough to stop Skitz as she runs out of the room.

He chases after her and tackles her to the floor. "Skitz, it wasn't her fault! We know Mira would never do something like this. It had to be Xana."

She struggles against Krieger but can't fight him off. "It was her! I saw her face after she stabbed me. She stabbed me in the chest and said Xana Wins then pulled it out."

I saw her face too. "It wasn't her. Xana made it look like her." She isn't working for Xana. Please don't let her be the new Sissi. "Even if it was her, Xana must have done something to her."

"Whoa!"

Someone had heard the commotion and sees Krieger on top of a girl in her underwear.

"Shit, this looks bad." Krieger feels the reaction now that his concentration has been broken.

"Son of a bitch." Skitz relaxes under Krieger. "Well, we're getting detention."

Krieger gets off of her. "We're getting sent home. No way we keep this from our parents. We have to tell them." He feels tears in his eyes. "Ark's dead." He sits down on the floor next to Skitz. "We frakked up."

Skitz sits up from the floor and hugs him. "We should have listened to you."

The two cry together as Sanne makes it to the Factory.

She sets the hairbrush in the Scanner. "This has to work."

Going up to the Control Room, she sits down in the chair. "Just a few minutes ago I was on the floor suffocating in my blood." She closes her eyes. "I can do this. I can save Ark."

She starts the scanning process and soon sees... "Ark?"

"Sanne? What am I doing here? I was in my room fixing my hair and now I'm here."

"Ark, um, you died. Mira, she, she," Sanne starts to cry. "I don't know what to do with your body. It's on your bed. Your sister and Krieger tried to perform CPR but it didn't work."

"Mira? What did she do?"

"It can't, she didn't betray us. She, she killed you. Then me. She slit my throat." The memory of feeling her hair being pulled back and feeling the knife pierce her skin haunts her. "I don't know why she did it." The tears blur her vision. "I'm so sorry."

"No, it can't be." Ark sits down. "She didn't betray us."

"She killed you! And me." Sanne starts to sob as the memory of the darkness overtaking her...

"I don't care. It wasn't her." No matter what she wouldn't betray us. Not even seeing, frak. She killed me. Why would Sanne lie about it? Xana must have done something to her. "Xana possessed her. Or, something."

"I hope so." Sanne wipes at her eyes. "We, we need a return." I can do this. Even if I launch a return, his body...

The white bubble comes up reversing time.

"Aaaa!" Ark freaks out as he sees his body. "Holy shit. No, no." He feels his heart race. "It's not me. I'm here. I'm not dead." He feels his pants get wet. "Mom, dad." Not caring, he sits down, and starts to cry.

Skitz, not caring why a return was done, goes to Mira's room.

Mira opens the door when Skitz starts pounding on it. "What the,"

Skitz punches her in the face. "You killed him!"

Mira's roommate freaks out as she sees Skitz pounce on Mira.

"You killed him you killed him you killed him you..." Skitz repeats this with every blow to Mira's face and body.

Mira tries to back at Skitz but can't as a punch finds her in the throat.

Finally, Mira's roommate tackles Skitz and fights with her taking punches and scratches to her own face and body.

Krieger makes it from the gym and hears crying in his and Ark's room. "Ark?" He opens the door slowly. "Ark!"

Ark doesn't respond as he continues to cry.

Krieger sees the body on Ark's bed. "We have to get rid of this. Now."

Ark is of no use, so Krieger has to pick the body up by himself. "Hopefully no one sees me."

Sanne hears screaming coming from down the hall and runs to it. "Skitz, stop, he's alive!"

She has to grab Skitz hard by the hair and rip her off of Mira's roommate. "Stop! Ark is alive. I saved him. I scanned him. He's alive but I don't know what we should do with his body."

Skitz punches Sanne so hard in the stomach that Sanne pukes. "Frak you!" She storms away leaving a beaten and bloodied Mira, roommate, and a hurt Sanne behind.

When Skitz does calm down, she goes to Ark's room and finds him on the floor still crying. "Ark, I'm so sorry." She sits down and hugs him. "I love you little brother." She squeezes him tighter in her arms.

Krieger dumps the body deep in the woods. "Now what? I don't have a shovel to dig a hole." He trembles as he looks at the body. "It's not him. He's back in our room. This just, it used to be him."

Using every self control technique his parents taught him, Krieger keeps the tears away as he finds brush and sticks and other foliage to cover up the body.

Sanne recovers and goes to Ark's room finding the twins together. Both sobbing as they hold each other. "Ark, it worked."

Neither twin responds.

"I'm doing another return. I have to. Mira, she, Skitz you almost killed her. Her roommate saw it. I'm so sorry I don't want to do this but I have to."

Silence.

Sanne walks away leaving the two twins to grieve.

Krieger is about to walk away when he sees the white bubble. "Another? But it wor-"

Krieger, Sanne, and Skitz rush to Ark and find him with his body. "Krieger, I'll help this time."

"Ark, man, you don't have to." Krieger has to focus on his breathing to keep calm. "If Sanne acts as a look out she can make sure I'm not spotted with it."

Ark shakes his head. "No way. I, I need to do it."

When there is another knock, the four teens panic until they hear Mira's voice. "Guys? I, can I come in?"

Skitz's hand balls up into a fist but Krieger grabs her by the wrist. "Let her in."

Sanne opens the door and quickly closes it behind Mira.

She sees Ark, and his body. "Oh god, I, did I do that? I went to brush my teeth and then I was in the Control Room. I dropped the knife when I heard Sanne. I, I don't know what happened. I'm so sorry. I swear I don't know what happened."

When she goes to hug him, Ark puts his hands up stopping her. "Mira, help Sanne and Skitz be look outs. We need to get my body out of here ASAP."

Mira bits back a why? Why won't you hug me? And nods her head.

Instead of the woods, the teens take the body in to the sewers and dump it in the water.

All five are too traumatized to talk.

Krieger is the first to go back to the ladder, followed by Sanne.

When Mira doesn't leave, Skitz glares at her. "Leave, bitch."

Mira almost weeps as she talks. "Skitz, I swear I didn't do it! At least, I didn't mean to. I don't know what Xana did to me."

"You killed my brother. You almost killed me. I want to kill you back but Sanne would probably save you." She spits at Mira. "Go!"

"Yes, please Ark, call me later." Mira goes to the ladder leaving the twins behind.

Skitz leans against her brother resting her head on his shoulder. "I'm so sorry. I, I," She feels tears in her eyes again. "I love you, Ark. You're my best friend. When I saw your body I was ready to join you. If I didn't want to kill Mira first I would have. I can't live in a world without my brother."

"Don't say that. I'd never want you to do that. I love you too, sis."

Both stand silently, holding on to each other, wondering what fresh hell was coming next.

Sanne starts to worry as curfew nears when Skitz makes it. "Skitz? Are you okay? Your brother?"

"No. How could we be okay?" Skitz opens a drawer. "I need a shower."

"Skitz, please." Sanne gets off of her bed. "If you want to talk I'll listen. I know I'll have nightmares tonight. I know you will too." Sanne hugs her. "I'll hold you if you hold me."

"I will, after a shower."

One floor away, Ark returns to his room and finds Krieger. "So, are you good, man?"

"Hell no. I need therapy and drugs and whatever other bullshit they claim helps." He sits down on his bed. "I died. I have no idea how. I was brushing my hair and then I see my body on my bed. This bed. We just dumped my dead body in the sewers." He shakes as he tries to fight back even more tears. "Not like I can tell a shrink, is it? I talk with my dad about everything and I can't talk about this." He sighs. "When I saw my body all I wanted was my mom and dad to hug me and tell me it is going to be okay."

Krieger puts a hand on Ark's arm. "It is, got it? I have no frakking idea what Xana did to Mira but it wasn't her. She would never do this to you or us."

"Frak her. I don't care anymore. She killed my sister. Tried to. And you. And Sanne. If we can kick her out of the group, do it. I shouldn't have dated her in the first place." He leans back on his bed.

"Hey, again, it wasn't her fault. When Xana possesses people it isn't their fault."

"She wasn't possessed. He can't posses us."

"He's found ways around it in the past. Our parent's had to deal with it."

"Frak, you're right." Ark grabs a pillow and hugs it. "I'll try and talk with her tomorrow."

On the girl's dorm floor... "Join me. They hare you because you murdered them."

"No! Never!" Mira wants to fightr Xana but knows it is pointless. "Skitz almost killed me. I could barely breathe. I tried but my throat, it, it was broken or something."

"I could make it so she never hurts you again."

"No! Now leave!"

The black mist breaks apart a few seconds before Mira's roommate makes it back from the vending machines.

A/N And so they are back. How will the trauma of what happened affect our heroes? Wait to find out!