Code Lyoko Episode 131: Sunny Side Up
Author: James the Lesser/The Bunnyman
Disclaimer: I Do Not Own These Characters! Moonscape Does!
A/N ALL PEOPLE WHO SAY I SPELLED XANA WRONG. READ MY OTHER STORIES, 53-122 PLUS THE OVA FIRST SO YOU KNOW WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!!! Actually, I probably don't need this anymore since Xana is Xana…
A/N Ok, starting the series back up. I'll be putting the Code Xana Episodes up still but remember they happen after 119 and not 119X. Everything after 119X does not happen in the Code Xana world! This is just me not being able to stop writing about our favorite Lyoko Warriors!
It was a normal day, as normal as it got for a Lyoko Warrior. Jeremie and Aelita finished the test early, like always, and were excused so they went to the Hermitage. "Mom, I beat Jeremie this time." Sanne smiles and hugs her daughter.
"But did you get the answers right?" Aelita nods her head. "We'll see." Jeremie double checked his equations to make sure he got them right while Aelita was positive her equations were right. "How are Samantha and Jim doing?"
"They went out into the woods for a walk. Samantha hates being cooped up in here all day but we can't just let her go out on her own."
"Xana or because you don't trust me?" Sanne turns around and sees Samantha and Jim walking in.
"Both. I know it's hard for you since you're use to running around doing anything you want but this is to keep you safe and to keep people from wondering how you're alive."
"I know that and I don't want to cause any trouble for you guys." Samantha goes over to the couch and lies down on it. She grabs the remote and turns the TV on. "So what are you doing here munchkin? Don't you have school?" Samantha had set herself as the older sister of Aelita and calls Aelita by a nickname she had been called by her older brother before he was arrested and went to jail.
"Mid Term Exams. We finished them already." Aelita sits down on the love seat and Jeremie sits next to her holding her hand. "Anything good on?"
"Soap, news, soap, talk show, no. Man, what's with this glare?" The glare off the TV from the sun was bothering Samantha. "It's never this bad."
"This is what happens when you're up before noon Samantha." Sanne and Jim laugh a little. She had become like a daughter to the two, not that they were acting like husband and wife. "Since you're up you could help with the dishes from last night and this morning."
"It's the 21st Century get a dish washer."
"I did, the brand name is one you've probably heard of, Samantha Knight."
"Alright, I'll do them, after lunch and dinner so I only have to do them once today." Samantha continues flipping through the channels going over the same shows. She gets bored and goes out into a garden she and Jim had started.
After an hour or so Jim comes in from the garden with Samantha. "Sanne it's almost lunch time I have to be getting back to the school, so do Aelita and Jeremie." Jim had spent the morning working on a garden Sanne and Samantha had planted. Sanne and Jim tried to find things for Samantha to do to keep her from being bored and thought a garden would be nice. Grow there own food to save money and gave Samantha time outside.
"Ok Jim." Sanne walks outside to where Aelita and Jeremie were. "Honey, Jim says you have to be going." Sanne leans down and kisses Aelita on the forehead. "What's your next exam?" Aelita and Jeremie look at each other and both sigh.
"Italian."
"So I shouldn't be seeing you until sometime next week." Sanne knows both kids had trouble with Italian. "You'll do fine. A bad grade will only show you're human. But not to bad of a grade."
"I know mom." Aelita and Jeremie head out for Kadic Academy with Jim. "Wow that sun, is it brighter then usual?" Aelita puts a hand over her eyes.
"It just seems like that since you were inside and your eyes haven't adjusted." Jim has a hand over his eyes.
"Uh Jim we didn't go inside we were outside." Jeremie looks towards the ground to keep the sun out of his eyes. They get to the school and go to the cafeteria.
"Jeremie desiderate alcune punte prima del exam seguente?"
"What?" Odd and the others laugh.
"Jeremie did the real Einstein have such problems with Italian?" Jeremie shrugs his shoulders. "You're so going to fail."
"Not if I sit next to you and copy off of you." Everyone looks at Jeremie. "He does it to me all the time."
"Now that I know that's what you're going to do I'll just write Jeremie is a big idiot when it comes to Italian and laugh when the teacher wonders why you wrote the same thing as I did." Odd and the others laugh. "Now if Aelita wants to copy off of me I might do a little better."
"Really? I don't need your help Odd." Aelita had studied Italian and would probably at least get a C.
"Come on, I'll make sure to write something nice for you to copy. Like Aelita may be beautiful and smart but she needs help when it comes to Italian or something." Odd and the others continue to laugh.
"As beautiful and smart as she is she won't need to copy off of you." Jeremie takes Aelita's hand in his. "Because I'll be sitting next to her to copy off of her." Jeremie joins the others in the laughter. They keep making jokes about how bad or good they were going to do on the next exam when Ulrich and Sissi come over.
"Hello losers." Sissi motions to Ulrich and he goes up to the table. "How did you bring Jim back?"
"None of your business."
"Really? Well, what if I told you Xana was attacking?"
"But, the Super Scan, and the Mini Scan, they haven't found an activated Tower." Jeremie reaches for his laptop to make sure.
"You better figure it out then shouldn't you?"
"Taken Tower, ow!" Ulrich tries to tell Jeremie but is shocked.
"Now now Ulrich dear we wouldn't want to make it to easy for them. We'll have to go to my room and find a better use for that mouth now won't we?" Sissi grabs him by the back of the head and French kisses him deeply.
"Stop it!" Yumi grabs a fork and starts to go after Sissi when Odd grabs her arm to pull her back.
"That's what she wants you to do." Odd keeps Yumi back as Sissi breaks the kiss with Ulrich.
"Gee Odd maybe you're smarter then I gave you credit for." Three seconds later two teachers come into the lunchroom. If Odd hadn't stopped Yumi they would have seen Yumi trying to stab Sissi with a fork.
"We can't go now can we? We have exams in," Jeremie looks at his cell phone. "Twelve minutes. Unless we have to do a return to the past."
"I don't think there is an attack Jeremie Sissi is trying to get us in trouble. Either that or Xana is waiting for us to be in the exam to launch so we'll be stuck. We skip the exam and go to the Factory to find out there is no attack or we stay here and Xana then launches an attack while we can't get away." Aelita bites a nail in worry.
"No, we can call your mom and have her go to the Factory and check the scans to make sure they are working right." Jeremie gets his phone out and calls Sanne. "Sanne, get to the Factory and see if there is an attack."
"Wait, is there an attack or isn't there?"
"Sissi and Ulrich told us Xana was attacking but the Super Scan and the Mini Scan don't show that. We think it's either a trick to make us miss the exam or Xana wants us to go to the exams then launch an attack while we can't get away. You have ten minutes before we have to go to the exam."
"I'll go and call you if there is an attack. If I don't call go to the exams." Sanne hangs up. "Samantha ready to go to the Factory?"
"I just found something good to watch." Samantha sighs and turns the TV off. She had to go with Sanne she wasn't allowed to be alone except when she slept and when she showered. The others didn't trust her to stay at the Hermitage. Jim had even nailed the window of the guest room shut. Samantha knew they had good reason. She had tried to escape twice but was caught. But now she was behaving, she would stay, if they trusted her enough to leave her alone. She liked Sanne. Sanne was more of a mother to her then her own mother. "I'm ready." Samantha and Sanne run out of the Hermitage and go to the sewer entrance. They head for the Factory as fast as possible.
"Come on, two minutes until we have to get to exams." Jeremie is looking at his phone waiting for it to ring while debating on the inside. Why would Sissi and Ulrich tell them that Xana was attacking? Sissi was a Knight of Xana, she couldn't betray him could she? Unless Xana wanted them to miss the exam with an attack that didn't require a return. It would be like him to mess with the group like that. The time goes to one minute. "We have to head to class for our exams I guess Xana isn't attacking.
At the Factory Sanne was checking both scans for errors. "I can't find anything wrong with them." Sanne feels a weird pain on her neck and face but ignores it.
"Ow, why do I hurt so much?" Samantha's skin though dark has a strange tint to it.
"What does it feel like?" Sanne goes over to Samantha and looks at her arm. Looks like you were got a sun burn."
"You do to. Your face is getting really red."
"What? I wasn't outside at all for most of the day." Sanne gets her phone out and takes a picture of her face. She then looks at the picture. "Wow, but how? I wasn't outside for more then ten, maybe fifteen minutes. The longest was from the sewer entrance to the Factory."
"I was outside with Jim and the others and didn't get burned then. Maybe, maybe Xana is attacking."
"I'll send you to Lyoko to look around." That should heal your sun burns."
"Ok, I'll take the ladder." Samantha takes the ladder down and gets in the middle Scanner.
"Transfer Samantha, Scanner Samantha, Virtualization." Samantha lands on Lyoko and sees pulses.
"Pulses!"
"What? But the Super Scan, wait." Sanne concentrates on the Super Scan and counts the Tower. As the Super Scan scans through the four sectors she finds one is missing! "He took one to Sector 5 that way we couldn't find it. Damn, we find a way to keep him from using the Tower in Sector 5 for sneak attacks and finds another way!" Sanne gets her phone out and calls Aelita, then Jeremie, and then Jim when the first two don't answer. "Jim, attack, why won't Aelita or Jeremie answer?"
"We take the cell phones of the students to keep them from cheating. I can't even excuse them from class and I can't get out until the gym exam is over."
"We need to get to Lyoko! Are you saying I'm relying on Aelita and the others to finish the Italian exam early?"
"Uh, I guess."
"Damn Xana! I, I should have sent Samantha earlier. What was that sound?" Sanne hears something weird.
"Oh, we couldn't have the exam outside the sun, it's, Xana." Jim figures out what the attack was. "I had to bring it inside since the sun got really bright."
"It's not that hot out."
"No, it's just really bright. I got a sun burn and so did some of the other students before we even got to the track."
"Samantha and I got sun burns to. Stay away from the windows that the sun shines through. Sun burns can get really bad."
"We need to get to Lyoko but the exams. Maybe I can get Aelita and Odd out. Aelita can't be doing well on the exam anyways and Odd 's grade in it is so high his grade won't be hurt that much if he doesn't finish it."
"How will you get them out?"
"Family emergency." Jim and Sanne hang up. Jim looks at his students. "If I leave and come back and you haven't left or destroyed anything you'll all get A's." Jim leaves the gym making sure to avoid the long hallway with big glass windows facing west and takes a longer route to the Italian room. He knocks on the door and the teacher comes over.
"Jim, we are taking an exam we must have no interruptions."
"Family emergency, Odd Della Robbia and his cousin Aelita Stones are needed."
"Emergency?" The accent the teacher has is thick and makes it a little hard for Jim to understand him.
"Yes, the parents, their parents were coming for a visit and were hit by a car. They could die at any moment."
"Odd Della Robbia and Aelita Stones you are to turn your exams in and take them at another time."
"What?" Odd looks up and sees Jim making weird hand motions. "Oh, um, ok, just us?"
"Emergenza della famiglia." Odd leans over to Aelita.
"Family Emergency."
"I knew what he said." Aelita stands up and gives her exam to the teacher as does Odd. As Odd walks out he grabs Jeremie's bag with the lap top in it.
"He said what? I though he said elephant artists." Jeremie was going to fail miserably.
Odd and Aelita follow Jim through the school as he explained what was going on. "We all could have come then since we'll need a return."
"Oh, well, we were hoping not to do one."
"Jim, Xana could do a lot of damage with this attack."
"Not if people stay out of the sun. Couldn't you do something like send out an emergency signal telling people to go inside and avoid the sun?"
"That's, that's a good idea. If I had Jeremie's lap top I could." Odd hands the bag to Aelita who finds Jeremie's lap top. "I need to stop and…" Jim picks her up and sets her on his shoulders.
"My head is pretty flat. In fact when I was the teacher at a manners class I…" Jim stops. "No time to talk about it." They run to the basement sewer entrance and head for the Factory.
"Error? What's going on?" Sanne was watching the news when an error message came up. Soon a message scrolls across the screen.
Stay indoors, avoid windows or any other inlets of sunlight. The suns rays have become dangerous due to an influx of Neon rays piercing through the ozone and refracting. Any skin or eye contact is to be avoided at all costs.
"That much scientific mumbo jumbo has to be either Jeremie or Aelita." Sanne smiles and laughs a little. Xana's attack could do nothing if people weren't outside. She turns the security cameras on and tries to look outside but can't see anything but a bright light.
"Ok this is the dangerous part." Jim, Odd, and Aelita have made it to the end of the sewer path. "Um, my coat could probably cover both of you."
"But then you'd be hurt."
"I can handle it. You kids need to be protected." Jim takes his coat off and hands it to Odd. Odd looks at it and tries to give it back to Jim but he won't take it back.
"Big guy we'll need you."
"I can handle it." Jim waits as Odd climbs out of the sewer.
"Whoa, man, Aelita close your eyes before you come up." Odd uses the coat as a shield. "Jim, stay down there."
"I'm good just hurry up." Jim now waits as Aelita climbs up the ladder and Odd covers her with the coat. Odd and Aelita head for the factory when they hear yells.
"Jim I said stay down there!" Odd and Aelita see Jim run by as boils break out all over his back and neck and arms. Jim jumps and swings down and goes to the elevator. Sanne had sent it up earlier in anticipation of the coming warriors. He pushes the button and gets in the elevator taking it down to the Scanner Room.
"Jim? What are you doing?" Sanne sees him in the Scanner Room through the security cameras. "Oh, that's bad." Jim gets to the closest Scanner, the one on the right, and gets in it. Sanne sends him to Lyoko.
"Aelita, take the coat." Odd and Aelita would not be able to jump down and swing while hanging onto the coat at the same time.
"Odd, I, I'm sorry." Aelita takes the coat as Odd told her and uses it to protect herself as Odd holds in screams of pain. They swing down and see the elevator come back up. They get in and go down to the Scanner Room.
"Aelita, are you ok?"
"Yes mom, Odd's hurt, is Jim ok?"
"He's on Lyoko already. Odd, Aelita, get in a Scanner and I'll send you." The two get in the Scanners. "Transfer Aelita, Transfer Odd, Scanner Aelita, Scanner Odd, Virtualization." They land on Lyoko next to Samantha and Jim.
"Jim you big idiot I told you to stay in the sewer!"
"Odd I'm still your teacher."
"You're still a big idiot." Odd and Jim were going to continue but the Transporter comes and takes them to Sector 5. "Uh, my stomach." Odd holds his stomach as the room stops spinning.
"Hah, there's a trail, I can tell you guys how to get to the Tower. Heck, you might be able to get Aelita there without hitting the switch since Sissi and Ulrich are stuck in exams."
"We still need to hit the switch." Odd and Samantha lead Aelita while Jim covers the back with his big size. "Sanne any idea where the switch is?"
"Take a right." They do and go down the hall into another room. "Keep going straight." They go through and find a room creeping with Creepers. "High to your right."
"Yeah that's nice but there are a lot of Creepers. Aelita stay back."
"I can help."
"We need you to deactivate the Tower."
"I can do it!"
"Aelita stay back!" Odd yells at her not knowing what she was trying to do.
"I won't listen to you Odd I can help."
"Don't act as stupid as Jim did."
"Jim didn't act stupid he knew the Scanners would heal him."
"I don't care what if he didn't make it? What if you don't make it?"
"But I can!" Aelita has a spark of energy near her head. "I can do anything you can do, watch!" Aelita sticks her arm out and blasts three Creepers with energy.
"Whoa, Aelita, calm down." Odd didn't mean to make Aelita that mad not knowing she wanted to be mad.
"Don't tell me what to do!" Aelita sends another bolt of energy out and destroys two more Creepers.
"Ok I won't." Odd backs away and looks to see how he could help. He runs out towards the switch firing Exploding Arrows.
"Sonic Boom!" Jim pounds the ground and an energy wave comes out hitting and destroying a Creeper.
"Leave him alone!" Samantha throws daggers at Creepers that get to close to Odd. Odd fires Exploding Arrows either destroying or at least knocking back Creepers. Normally Xana would send more but it seems this room is closed off and he is unable to send more. Odd's exploding Arrows, Aelita's energy, Samantha's daggers, and Jim's powers soon destroy all of the Creepers and give Odd enough time to hit the switch.
"Follow the new door to the next room then go left." Sanne sees the trail coming from the Mountain Sector leading to where Xana has taken the Tower. The group follows the trail as things get worse on Earth.
Even with Aelita's warning she sent out the brightness of the sun can not be avoided by everyone. Cattle and sheep and other livestock were burnt by the suns rays. In Africa places that don't have television the people huddle in huts trying to escape the blinding burning rays of the sun. Wild animals howled in pain as their skin broke out in boils. They tried to hide but on the Savannah the tall grass gave little protection.
"You're almost there just go left up here and you should be at the Tower." Sanne leans back in the chair as the kids find the Tower. "No monsters so just go on in." Aelita goes up to the Tower and runs into it like a wall.
"Mom, there's a problem." Aelita knocks on the Tower.
"What? But, this is where the trail stops. Maybe, Xana, he tricked us." Sanne had laughed when she saw the trail but the whole time Xana was laughing. He had led a false trail to a fake Tower. The real activated Tower was still somewhere in Sector 5 they just had to find it. "Ok guys go back and go right instead of left." Sanne leads them through Sector 5 looking for the Tower as the exams end at Kadic Academy.
"You losers didn't leave with your friends. They probably already lost by now." Sissi bumps into Jeremie. "Your girlfriend was probably hurt badly by Xana before being sent back to Earth.
"Shut up Sissi." Sissi sticks her leg out and trips S.S.
"Watch your mouth little girl."
"Sissi can we go?" Ulrich wants to keep his friends safe from whatever Sissi was planning.
"Yes, after all those stressful tests I could you a good massage." Sissi looks out of the corner of her eye and sees Yumi coming. "Then since my shirt would already be off we could have more fun." Sissi French kisses Ulrich hard but Yumi keeps herself from pounding Sissi into the floor. When Sissi breaks the kiss she makes sure Yumi sees her tongue was in Ulrich's mouth. "Oh hello Yumi I didn't see you coming."
"He hates you, he'll never stop loving me." Yumi turns her back on Sissi. "Where's Odd and Aelita?"
"Jim got them, Xana probably attacked once we got in the exam. He said there was a family emergency but we both know that isn't true."
"I told you Xana was attacking. Why do you think they had to close the blinds?" Sissi smiles evilly. "Ta ta losers, Ulrich and I are going to have fun." The lost shot Sissi gets on Yumi gets a reaction but S.S. stops Yumi from attacking.
"We have to get to the Factory." They start walking when an announcement is made over the PA system.
"Students, do not leave the building you are in. Do not go near the windows. Any student attempting to do so should be stopped for their own safety." The new principal's announcement is over and the Lyoko Warriors at Kadic Academy were trapped.
"Where could it be? Where in the hell could Xana have hidden it?"
"Sanne if I can't say hell you can't either." Samantha thinks she's about to get Sanne but Sanne has her covered.
"Samantha watch your mouth." Sanne moves the map around but can't find the Tower. "Go to the outside and see if you find anything."
"Ok mom." Aelita and the others run and get to the outside. They jump on the elevator and take it to the hallway to the control panel. "Sanne send the vehicles." Sanne sends the Over vehicles.
"Aelita what are you thinking?"
"Yumi told me about a weird hole on the bottom of the sphere. Ulrich and Yumi saw it awhile ago." Aelita jumps on the Overboard. "Been awhile since I rode this." Aelita takes off while Odd and Samantha watch.
"Hey, I was going to take that." Odd looks over at the Overwing and Overbike. "Last one there gets stuck with Jim on the Overwing." Odd and Samantha run over to the two remaining vehicles and Odd beats Samantha. Samantha starts to walk over to the Overwing where Jim already was when Odd flies over to her on the Overbike. "I was kidding, hop on." Samantha gets on behind Odd. They take off after Aelita who is flying under the sphere.
"Whoa." Aelita points not that she needed to since the hole was large and it made noise as it opened and closed.
"Yeah, whoa."
"What is it?" Sanne can't see what the others do.
"Mom, its, I don't know how to describe it." Aelita flies up close to it. "If we go through as it opens we should be able to get through."
"Yeah, great plan, but what's in there?" Odd fires a Laser Arrow and it hits the doors as the close. "Jim, the Overwing might not be fast enough with you on there."
"I can do it." Jim and the others time the doors and charge when they think it is the right time. Odd and Samantha get through easily on the Overbike and Aelita is right behind them. Jim sees the doors start to close so stops and waits to go through before joining the others.
"What do you guys see? I lost you on the map." The others don't answer, they can't hear Sanne.
"Whoa, hey, there's the Tower. Come on Aelita do your thing." The group flies through a shaft into a large room. On one side is the Tower Xana stole but in the middle is a weird white box inside of two other boxes.
"What do you think that is?" Jim scratches his chin looking at the white box.
"I don't know and really as long as it doesn't attack us I don't care." Odd points his arm at it as Aelita gets to the Tower.
"Tower deactivated." The screens fall around Aelita. On Earth the sun instantly goes back to normal. "Mom, do we need a return?"
"I don't think so your little warning seems to have done the trick." Sanne brings her daughter and the others back.
The next day the kids meet at the Hermitage. "Anything on the news?" They were worried about injuries and deaths from the last attack.
"So far about thirty people went blind. Some need surgery, but no deaths."
"But, we need to do a return while we still can. Those people who went blind weren't supposed to go blind." Jeremie's concerns do not move Sanne.
"No Jeremie. Xana is to powerful as it is we can't be making him more powerful."
"People went blind when they aren't supposed to be!"
"They'll live." Sanne's blunt answer gets to Jeremie.
"How can you be so cold? These people were hurt by Xana! If we don't heal them are we any better then Xana?"
"No, we aren't better then Xana. You released him, I was Xana, and this attack is our fault. Next time maybe we'll be a little faster, a little smarter, and realize when Sissi tells us Xana is attacking we'll believe her."
"How can we believe her Sanne? She's a Knight of Lyoko!"
"She wasn't sent to defend the Tower this time was she?" Jeremie shakes his head. "Xana doesn't trust her anymore. Something happened to Sissi and now she's able to defy Xana's orders. Next time Sissi gives us help accept it."
"That doesn't mean we shouldn't do a return mom." Aelita backs Jeremie up. "These people are blind, others need surgery to repair their skin."
"You gave a warning to stay indoors and out of the sun. If they are too stupid to follow that warning then they probably deserved it." Sanne was firm on her no return stance. "If you do a return I'll change the password and lock you out if I have to. Xana is to strong as it is we don't need to be making him stronger!" Yumi raises her hand.
"Um, maybe we should vote on it." The others nod. "I vote to do a return."
"So do we." Aelita and Jeremie raise their hands.
"I vote we don't." Sanne looks at the remaining members. "Well?"
"I, it sucks that they went blind but Xana's strong enough as it is. I vote no return." Samantha and Sanne stand next to each other.
"I, I agree. He's killed me and Samantha with another return he might kill one of you in a way we won't be able to undo." Jim joins the two girls.
"I don't want to make Xana stronger but really would we notice the difference? How much stronger could he get? I vote we do a return." S.S. raises her hand as Odd goes over to Jim and the others. "Well, if it's a tied vote what do we do?"
"Same thing we've been doing, nothing. If, if more cases come of people who were blinded or more serious injuries I'll vote for a return." Odd looks at Sanne. "How long until a return can't be done?"
"Another three days." So the gang waits for another three days and while a couple more reports come of blindness caused by the attack it isn't enough to change Odd's vote. The gang does nothing, no return, so thirty seven people go blind and remain blind because of a Xana attack and a rift between the group.