Code Lyoko Episode 144: Mad World
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, 53-143 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…
Yumi is on her bed doing homework. She has her headphones on since Hiroki was playing some new video game with the volume at the loudest he could get it. She takes them off when the cd ends and goes to switch it when she hears yelling. "Why can't you ever have dinner ready when I get home!"
"Because I have my own job to do!" Her parents were yelling at each other, something Yumi never heard. They would argue but they would be quiet about it. Suddenly she starts to feel angry that they were fighting. They were adults why did they have to fight over something like dinner?
"Shut up you two! You're grown ups act like it!" Yumi shakes her head. She didn't mean to yell.
"Yumi, you're grounded!" Both parents yell at the same time.
At Kadic Academy Odd and S.S., now Sandra Morales are arguing. "I can't believe you think that would be a good idea. We have to keep this a secret!"
"I know that's why we should do it as a movie! It's a great idea!" Odd thinks the adventures on Lyoko would be a great idea. Lots of drama, romance, angst, perfect for a movie.
"You moron what the hell makes you think any of this is a good idea? Who the hell would watch some movie that involves a virtual world? They'll just say you're copying the Matrix!" S.S. shoves him. She doesn't know why she was so angry it just seemed to flare up.
"Don't push me!" Odd gets close to S.S. and tries to stare her down not willing to hit or push her. "What's wrong with you!?" Odd was getting angry to but really didn't know why. He brought it up as a joke but S.S. snapped.
"Wrong with me? You want to expose our secret to the world to make a quick buck! I'm sure the others would just love to hear this great plan by you dumbass."
"Shut up!" Odd grabs S.S. by the arms. "I, I," Odd's anger grows to a level he never felt before. "I wish you were still dead!" S.S. replies by kneeing him in the groin then in the face when he bent over.
"Fine!" She kicks him knocking him to the floor and storms out of the dorm room. Her head starts to hurt but she ignores it as she storms out of the dorm building into the woods.
Down the hall Jeremie and Aelita are having an argument. "Aelita that would never work."
"How do you know if you won't test it?" Aelita was getting frustrated. She had a great idea but Jeremie was being as stubborn as a fool. "At least test it."
"Why? It won't work, it will be a waste of time. That is just a stupid idea."
"A waste of what time? You aren't doing anything!" Aelita stops when she yells. "I, I'm sorry." She was getting angry but was trying to keep in control. "I know you're doing a lot but right now the computer is just running scans on data. While it does that maybe you could work on this and see if it works."
"I, I'm sorry to, I shouldn't have said it was stupid." Jeremie had been getting furious with Aelita. He was working hard trying to stop Xana but Aelita was annoying him with a program to get William back to Earth. He didn't think it would work and where would William go? He was long dead and would be stuck at the Hermitage like Samantha. But he calms down trying to stay in control. "But where would William go?"
"The Hermitage."
"I'm sure your mom and Jim would love another mouth to feed. Well, maybe, he is dead so maybe he wouldn't eat."
"Yeah, but, this would…" Aelita hands a CD to Jeremie and he understands now what she had done.
"Yes, actually, yes that would work. Aelita you're a genius!" The program wouldn't work with a dead William but with a living William it would. The program would work and it would make William a living being again. "I'm so sorry I yelled at you." He hugs her and feels the anger go down and be replaced with love.
"I didn't explain it well did I?" Aelita hugs him back. Her anger is gone and she feels her love warm her up as she hugs Jeremie. "But you're right, we better not do it now. William, I know he wants to be back but he's a great warrior on Lyoko and we don't have a place for him at the Hermitage unless he sleeps on the couch." She kisses Jeremie lightly on the lips. "I was the one who yelled, sorry." She feels a twinge of pain in her head. "Jeremie, I'm getting a head ache, I'm going to lie down for a little bit." She goes to his bed and lies down.
"You know what? I am to. Maybe I need to take a break from staring at a computer screen." Jeremie lies down next to her and they cuddle on the bed.
On the other floor a couple was having a problem. "I sensed Xana was near but nothing happened." Sissi was looking around as her energy sparks around her. "I know I felt him."
"I did to Sissi but the others didn't call so there can't be an attack."
"Unless it is a weak attack and doesn't need an activated Tower."
"Do you think he's gained that power back?" Sissi shrugs her shoulders. "Well, the others would call if there was an attack so maybe he just got sloppy spying on us."
"He wouldn't be sloppy. He's up to something." Sissi closes her eyes and concentrates searching for Xana. "There's something out there I can feel it!" She sparks with energy and it expands.
"Sissi be careful." The energy spreads as Sissi searches for what it was that she felt.
"He did something I know it!" And Sissi was right.
A security guard at a chemical plant was arguing with an officer. "I didn't see anyone! I don't know how several tons of that crap they made got out."
"Well they had to have inside help and you're on the inside. You're under arrest…" The security guard hits the officer with pepper spray.
"Not so tough now are you!? I didn't steal it pig!" The security guard is going insane with anger and rage. He didn't know what the chemicals that were made here did but a scientist who had been called when after the police did. He has on a mask to protect himself.
"No, that much, who could need that much?" He was concerned. The chemical that was stolen had serious side affects. The main one was affecting the medulla oblongata causing mood swings. "We need to evacuate the area incase there was a leak. This has to be a leak, no one could have stolen that much." The scientist gets to a phone and calls the head of operations.
"Jim why aren't you at the school?" Sanne was rubbing her temples trying to fight back a headache.
"It's a Saturday Sanne no school."
"Well you're annoying me. Go away." Sanne was getting mad at Jim for no reason she could think of. He had come back from the school after grading papers and made her lunch but now she was getting mad at him.
"Sanne I thought since we're alone for a change maybe we could go out and do something. Maybe catch a movie or something."
"No, you're still annoying me, leave!" Sanne pounds a fist on the table. "No, I'm sorry. What the hell is wrong with me!" She pounds on the table again. "Maybe internally I aged on Lyoko and this is menopause." Sanne squeezes her fist as she gets madder and madder. "Jim I said go away!" She gets up pushing the chair out and it falls over. "No, I don't know why I'm acting like this, I'm going to take a nap my head hurts!" Sanne storms up the stairs.
"Maybe I should get her some Tylenol." He decides not to. Sanne seemed mad enough at him, for what he didn't know. Maybe he should have cut the crusts off of the bread. He picks up the dirty plate and takes it to the sink to clean it.
Things were about to get a lot worse for Earth. An orange mist enters the vents at the UN Headquarters in New York City. It spreads through the building and gets to the main meeting room were hundred of delegates were debating a resolution on Iran. The debate had been calm but after this orange mist enters the room a paperweight is thrown and soon dozens of dignified men and women are attacking each other as the pressure of international debate is affected by a chemically created rage.
Samantha is going to the Factory when she starts to get a headache. She immediately feels angry. She doesn't know why, maybe she was mad at herself for not seeing William for over two days. She gets angrier and angrier as she goes down the sewer passage. By the time she gets to the end to get out and climb to the Factory entrance she's clenching her fists trying to keep calm. She jumps and swings down to the Factory floor and runs to the elevator she takes it down and steps off at the Control Room. She goes over to the chair and sits down. "William!" She yells loudly in anger.
"Huh what? Finally." William had wanted to contact the Lyoko Warriors but they weren't responding.
"Finally? So I took two days to myself! What the hell I don't even have to be here!"
"No, Samantha, there's an attack. I don't know why the others haven't come."
"Attack? Wait, what?!" Samantha shakes her head as her head starts to hurt more. "Damn it! I knew this wasn't normal!" She pounds her fist on the arm of the chair. "I'll call the others." Samantha gets her phone out and calls Sanne who doesn't answer.
"Samantha, what the hell does she want? She went to the Factory didn't she? Whatever it is it can't be too important." Sanne puts her phone down and continues rubbing her temples as the head ache gets worse.
"Hello?" Odd had seen Samantha's number and answered. "Did S.S. go to you?"
"Uh, no. There's an attack, Xana activated a Tower. Get here now!" Samantha yells mad at Odd for no reason. "I, damn it I know this is why I'm so mad! Xana did something to me!"
"He did something to me and to miss center of the universe!" Odd hangs up on Samantha. "Oh, wait, damn it I'm an idiot!" If Xana had done something to him and Samantha he probably did something to S.S. "She won't answer her phone if I call that idiot! She should have known this was a Xana attack!" Odd throws his phone breaking it. "No damn it that was stupid, stupid!" Odd pulls at his hair as he tries to calm down. "No, Factory, Lyoko, come on calm down." Odd kicks the door as he leaves in anger putting a hole in it. "No, damn it you moron!" He runs down the hall getting madder and madder at himself.
"Ok, I'm grounded, but, ok." Yumi hangs up. "I should have known, Xana, I would never have yelled like that. My parents wouldn't have acted like that towards each other." Yumi climbs out her window and runs for the Factory wondering who else had been affected by this attack, however it was Xana was doing it.
At the site of the chemical plant a phone rings. "Yes?" The Supervisor of Operations answers it.
"Sir, I think I know where it was released. On, on the news there has been a huge fight at the UN Headquarters. Someone stole it and released it there. If we don't tell people this could start several wars!" So far except for the immediate area no one knew of the theft.
"I, ok, send out a Code Blue 99 to the media and try to contact someone who has connections to the UN so they can explain what happened."
"Yes sir." They hang up wondering if the chemical stolen was going to start World War 3.
"Ok, I'll get Sanne. She might have turned her phone off since she was trying to take a nap, get rid of a headache." Jim hangs up with Samantha and heads for the Hermitage. He gets there and goes to Sanne's room. "Sanne, there's an attack."
"What!? Oh great an attack! Just what I don't need with this damn headache!" Sanne gets off her bed and goes to the door. She opens it and Jim sees a glass of water and a bottle of Advil next to it.
"I think Xana might be responsible for that headache." Jim puts a hand on the side of Sanne's face. "Deactivating the Tower will get rid of it." Jim smiles ate her but she knocks his hand away.
"Don't touch me! We have to go to the Factory!" She yells at Jim in anger but Jim lets it go. He figures this is part of the attack.
"Hmmm, she's acting like I did when they were testing that chemical, oh, what was it called, I can't remember but she's acting just like…" Jim thinks he's figured out. When he was younger he was a test subject for a mood enhancing chemical. The scientists were trying to make a liquid that could be drunk from a bottle with no side effects as an anti depressant. The problem was the only emotion they could get was anger and resistance was built up after only four doses.
"What? I knew he was up to something!" Sissi had been called by Samantha. Sissi and Ulrich weren't Lyoko Warriors but they were considered allies. "We'll be there in a few seconds." Sissi hangs up and turns to Ulrich. "Ulrich there is an attack like I thought." Sissi and Ulrich break into black mists and go to the Factory.
"Hi Samantha." Ulrich sees her grasping the arms of the computer chair. "What's wrong?"
"I, Xana did something to us. I'm really mad and I don't know why!" Samantha yells at Ulrich who backs away.
"Well, Sissi and I could probably get the others and get them here now."
"Oh yes thank you your highness we can't even run to a damn Factory!" Ulrich backs away some more.
"Sissi, lets get the others." Ulrich breaks apart into a black mist as does Sissi. Ulrich comes back with Yumi and Sissi comes back with Odd.
"I'm surprised S.S. wasn't with you."
"That stupid little, aaaa!" Odd yells in anger. "Find her she wouldn't answer her phone!" Sissi nods then breaks apart into a black mist. Ulrich breaks apart a second later and comes back with Sanne and Jim.
"Thank you Ulrich but that wasn't needed. Odd, Yumi, where's S.S.?" Sanne was trying to stay calm after Jim told her about the chemical testing he went through and how he thought this might be it.
"She went running off to who knows where just because we got into a fight over something stupid!" And Odd said he wished S.S. was still dead but in his blinding rage he didn't remember that.
"Odd calm down this is Xana making you angry." Jim goes over to Odd. "Breath, deep breaths should help clear some of the chemicals fumes." Odd backs away from Jim and takes deep breaths.
"I'll get Aelita and Jeremie." Ulrich breaks into a black mist and goes to the school. When he forms in Jeremie's room he sees Aelita and Jeremie are curled up on the bed holding onto each other. "I feel bad for doing this but we need Aelita." Ulrich puts a hand on Jeremie's foot and shakes it. Jeremie's eyes open and he looks around. Jeremie gets his glasses and puts them on. "Ulrich?"
"Xana's attacking."
"But, the Super Scan didn't go off." Jeremie points to his computer as he whispers.
"William felt pulsations and earlier Sissi felt Xana's presence. I'm sorry to wake you up but we need Aelita." Jeremie nods and wakes Aelita up.
"Aelita, there's an attack. I'm guessing Xana stole a Tower and took it to Sector 5 so the Super Scan wouldn't detect it."
"Uh, I don't want to go." Aelita was having a wonderful dream. It was of her and Jeremie in a cottage much like the one she grew up in when she was younger and there was a little pink haired five year old running around in the snow. Aelita hopes she was having a vision of what life would be like in the future. A future without Xana, where she and Jeremie are together, a world with a little daughter they would love forever.
"We have to Aelita, we can…" Before Jeremie says anything else Ulrich uses his powers to turn the other two into black mists and takes them to the Factory.
"Thanks Ulrich." Aelita sits down. She was still a little sleepy. Her headache was gone so that was good. "Where's S.S.?" She saw Odd but no S.S.
"I don't know and I don't care where that stupid little…" Yumi puts a hand over Odd's mouth.
"Calm down Odd this is Xana making you mad." Yumi looks up at Jim. "I don't get it, I, I was really angry earlier but it went away. You don't seem to be mad but Odd seems to be going insane."
"His smaller body is probably why it affected him more then you. And I, well, it's a long story we don't have time to talk about it."
"Oh no, it's not just us." Sanne had turned the TV program on the Super Computer and she sees the news flash.
"Several were arrested but more were sent to the hospital after a fight broke out in the meeting room of the UN Headquarters. China is already claiming this is part of the Western Countries aggressive plans and has threatened action against Russia."
"He must have released some there to." Jim and the others watch waiting for Sissi to get S.S.
Sissi is searching for S.S. but can't find her. "That foolish girl must have gone into the woods." Sissi uses her energies to fly into the woods. Soon she finds S.S. in an old tree that was rotting and had a hole big enough for a teenage girl to crawl into. "S.S. come on!"
"What the hell do you want!" S.S. spits at Sissi.
"You must be affected to. S.S., Xana is attacking. He's done something to you and the others. What I'm not sure but you're all acting crazy." These words are heard by S.S. and she thinks for a second about what Odd had said. If it was Xana… Her anger explodes leaving logic behind.
"I'm not helping you or that stupid purple son of a…" Before S.S. finishes her sentence Sissi turns her into a black mist and takes her to the Factory.
"Found her, explain what is going on." Sissi uses her powers to keep S.S. quiet so she won't interrupt Jim.
"Xana got a hold of this chemical that affects the brain. It was supposed to be used as a mood enhancing drink but never got past the testing stage. I'm sure you've all noticed you got head aches recently. This is a side effect along with uncontrollable rage." Sissi lets S.S. go.
"Fine! Whatever, send us to Lyoko then!" Her anger was still strong.
"Ok, get on the elevator and I'll…" Before Sanne finishes Sissi and Ulrich turn into black mists and take the Lyoko Warriors to Lyoko. "Fine, I'll send the vehicles unless you plan on carrying them." Sanne sends the vehicles. "Go due east, be careful though." They were in the Forest Sector. The most dangerous Sector now that the Mountain Sector was destroyed due to narrow paths and nothing but the Digital Sea below.
Halfway around the world China is arguing with America and the other Western countries. China threatens a nuclear strike if its demands are not met. Normally they would never act like this but with the chemical influence the Chinese Government and military was ready to fight. In America and other countries it was no better. Riots broke out in cities, fights broke out all across the world. People were killing each other over normal, petty arguments as they were affected by the chemical. Even worse its effects were not just on humans but animals as well. Normally peaceful animals were attacking each other. Zoos were being closed as the animals attacked each other and some even escaped and attacked people who were already fighting with each other.
"I feel better at least." Yumi had no headache and no anger. None of the others had headaches or anger, at least not from the chemicals. S.S. couldn't believe what Odd had told her. She understands it was Xana's attack, his uncontrollable rage, that made him say it but she didn't care. He had still said it to her, still said he wished she was still dead.
"Yeah, much better." Samantha had stayed calm counting in her head. She had gotten to over three thousand before she got to Lyoko. "Sissi, Ulrich, you two sense anything?"
"Yes." Sissi was using her powers and could sense a mighty warrior. "Lynnette is waiting for us with…" She closes her eyes and concentrates. "There's a Dragon, maybe two, and something else."
"Well we aren't there yet." Yumi revs the engine on the Overbike. Yumi didn't ask why when S.S. stopped Samantha, whispered something to her and then took Samantha's place on the back of the Overbike. She was curious and wanted to ask S.S. but figured it wasn't her business.
"We're getting close, turn here." Sissi leads the group using her powers to feel where the Tower was. They go down three more paths and see the Tower. "Two Dragons, one monkey." Sissi gets her axe out as she continues to fly to the Tower. "Ulrich, let's clear the way for Aelita." Sissi speeds ahead flying over gaps between the paths with Ulrich following her.
"Hello traitors." Lynnette has her mace out. "Long time no see."
"Hello monkey." Sissi smiles as Lynnette reacts.
"I'm a Gorilla not a monkey you dirty human scum!" Lynnette flies at Sissi and attacks. Ulrich uses a Triplicate and goes after the Dragons. Ulrich has a little trouble with the Dragons since they were upgraded and a clone is destroyed before he can destroy one Dragon. The Lyoko Warriors get to the Tower and assist Ulrich.
"Hai!" Yumi throws her fans at the remaining Dragon but it shoots them out of the air. She uses her psychic powers to catch them and bring them back to her.
"Extend!" S.S. flies up into the air ready to do her favorite attack. "Retract!" The pole shrinks and she starts to fall. The Dragon sees her and fires lasers at her. She blocks the lasers but is hit in the leg causing her to flip in the air and lose control. When she gains her control she sees she is falling into the Digital Sea! "Extend!" She extends her pole out and it goes past the pathway but there was nothing to catch it on.
"Samantha take control!" Odd jumps off the Overboard and falls towards the other end of the power pole. He grabs it and soon the pole is leveled out over the Digital Sea. "S.S. I got it, retract it!"
"Retract!" Odd is pulled to the pathway and he gets back on it. He hangs onto the power pole and S.S. is pulled back to the pathway.
"S.S. are you ok?" She pulls the other end of the power pole out of his hands and walks away. "I'm sorry I didn't mean it!" She continues to ignore him. "Samantha I need a lift!" Samantha stops throwing daggers at the last Dragon and flies down to Odd. Odd gets on the Overboard and flies up into the air. "Speed Arrow!" He fires the Speed Arrows at the Dragon and it uses its upgraded agility to dodge them.
"Sissi get out of the way!" Jim had gone back down the pathway then started to run. His speed and momentum built and he yells at the last second. Sissi flies up into the air and Jim tackles Lynnette. "Aelita go!" Jim and Lynnette wrestle on the ground as Aelita runs into the Tower. Seconds later the Tower is deactivated.
"Those idiots, they'll kill us all!" Sanne brings up the return program. "Either they'll launch nukes at each other or this will make Xana so powerful we won't be able to fight him anymore." She sighs. "I hate humans, why do they have to be so stupid?" She launches a return and time is reversed.
"S.S., wait, stop!" Odd tackles her to the floor. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it, I, I can't believe I said that!"
"Let go of me!" S.S. struggles but Odd keeps her pinned.
"I would have done anything to bring you back. I was going to join Sissi when she said she could bring you back. Hell I would have joined Xana, I would have joined him and helped him take over the world if it meant having you back. I love you Sandra Morales, Sandra Smith, you know I do. I would never want you dead, I'd rather die then lose you again."
"Let me go your knee is on my stomach." Odd looks down and moves his knee. "Odd, I love you to but you said it. Why, as mad as I could get I'd never say I wanted you dead."
"I know why I said it," S.S.'s eyes get wide. "Because Xana was affecting me." Odd leans down and kisses S.S. "I'll always love you S.S. If, no, when we beat Xana and graduate we're going to grow up, get married, have kids, retire, and die at the age of one hundred and fifteen on Mars in our vacation home." Odd smiles as S.S. laughs.
"Kids? Retirement? Do you have our kids names picked out to?"
"Well, I always though Ark was a cool name…" They laugh some more as tensions ease between the two.
Down the hall Jeremie and Aelita are talking in Jeremie's room. "I don't get it why didn't it affect us like it did the others?" Aelita had gotten a headache, she had gotten angry, but then it went away.
"I don't know. I was getting mad at you but then I realized how incredible that program was and how incredible you are and how incredibly lucky I am to have you. I love you to much to be mad at you."
"Maybe that was it." Aelita smiles and kisses Jeremie lightly on the lips. "Our love was too much for the anger to handle." Jeremie smiles at her now.
You know what? I think you're right. I could never be mad at you my love for you wouldn't let that happen." Jeremie hugs Aelita. "I love you so much Aelita. I thank all the gods and goddesses out there for letting you contact me all those years ago. If, if you hadn't, if you hadn't contacted me I never would have been able to do this." He hugs her harder then let's go. "I doubt I'd have as many friends and I know I wouldn't have a girlfriend as great as you."
"Well," Aelita thinks about it. What would have happened if she hadn't contacted Jeremie? No returns, no powerful Xana, no deaths. Well, not more deaths, maybe. Xana had crashed planes into buildings, had started a war, all before the returns were done. "You'd still have friends and a girlfriend but you're right she wouldn't be as great as me." Aelita kisses Jeremie again on the lips. "The next vacation is coming up soon, maybe, maybe instead of staying here I could stay at the Hermitage and maybe…" Aelita blushes. "Maybe you could stay over for a night or something."
"I like holding on to you when we sleep."
"I like it to but, I, what if I wanted to do more?" The look on Jeremie's face is that of pure terror and makes Aelita laugh. "I'm kidding Jeremie I just wanted to see how you'd react." Aelita kisses him on the lips. "I love holding onto you, you're like a big warm Mister Puck."
"Great comparing me to a doll." Jeremie laughs a little.
"Well, Mister Puck is better in one way," Aelita smiles. "I don't get hit with morning breath when I wake up with him." They both laugh as they continue to talk.