Code Lyoko Episode 147: Fire!
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, 53-145 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…
Odd and the other students are in the cafeteria eating breakfast. "Eggs and bacon, I love eggs and bacon." Odd digs into a plate filled with lots of eggs and bacon. He has more then the others on his plate.
"Odd you love everything." S.S. and the others laugh at the comment. "How do you get so much?" S.S. spears a piece of bacon with her fork and eats it. "Others might want to eat to."
"I love you the most." Odd leans over and start to bite S.S. on the neck. "Taste better then bacon to."
"Stop it!" S.S. laughs and pushes Odd away. Suddenly a loud buzzing noise is heard and yelling from the back of the cafeteria. The students look to see what is going on in the back.
"Fire! Get an extinguisher!" Rosa the lunch lady comes out of the kitchen part of the cafeteria.
"I got it!" Odd jumps up and runs over to a fire extinguisher hanging on the wall. He gets it out of the case and runs over to the kitchen door. He uses the fire extinguisher and puts the fire out. "Rosa, what was that?"
"I don't know. The gas line must be leaking. I'll have Mr. Morales look at it." Rosa wipes her brow of sweat. "That was very brave and dangerous of you Odd. How can I ever thank you?"
"Just keep giving me the food I love and it will be more then enough." Odd smiles at Rosa. "Could Jim fix a gas leak? Don't you think that might be a little more then he can handle?"
"Sure, he once told me how he used to work for Houses of Europe building homes for the poor and the elderly. I wanted to know more but he was really busy and couldn't talk about it." Odd has to keep himself from laughing. It sounded just like something Jim would say and do.
"Well, make sure you have the place ready for lunch." Odd walks back into the eating area of the cafeteria. "She shouldn't complain about extra helpings for me for awhile." Odd sits down next to his friends. "Love my eggs and bacon. I can't wait to see what she makes for lunch."
"Wow Odd you moved so fast it was more like a blur." S.S. and the others laugh. "You never move that fast to see me."
"I have to protect my source of food." Odd laughs. "And I don't have to move fast to see you I can see you while far away. Also it's nice to just look at you." Odd laughs then hears a bell. "Science, oh fun."
"Hey Odd if you studied you would do well to." Aelita smiles at him. "I could tutor you like I did for Ulrich." Aelita spears a piece of bacon on Odd's plate then eats it. Odd gives her a look.
"I'm good. Hate to hurt my straight C average." The kids work together eating what was left on Odd's plate then get up from the table and throw the garbage away. "I hate science." The kids go off to class.
"And so with this property discovered Newton was able to figure out how much the Earth weighed. He lost these figures and had to redo them. He was a bit of a dreamer but he discovered things so easily he forgot them and had to rediscover them again when he lost his papers. Now with…" Suddenly the Bunsen Burner on the table ignites. "Keep calm class!" Mrs. Hertz goes to the wall and gets the fire extinguisher. She puts out the flames before they catch anything else on fire. "I've been telling the school board we need new equipment. That thing is almost an artifact." Class resumes a few minutes later after Mrs. Hertz makes sure the Bunsen Burner was off. "As I was saying, with Archimedes…" She teaches the history of famous scientists boring most of the class to death.
At lunch the kids are sitting in the cafeteria. "Alright, meatballs and gravy my favorite." Odd had two servings on one plate. "I didn't even have to ask Rosa for more she just gave them to me."
"Odd how do you stay so skinny?" S.S. frowns. "If I ate like that I'd be fat." S.S. grabs a little bit of skin near her belly button. "Well I'd be fatter. You disgust me Odd. Why can't I be you?"
"More of you to love." Odd smiles and a little gravy came out onto his chin. "Oops." He tries to lick it off but can't reach it all.
"Odd that is disgusting." S.S. rolls her eyes. "Clean it up." Odd nods and uses a napkin to wipe off his chin.
"Does anyone think it was strange?" The group looks at Jeremie. "First the fire in the kitchen then the one in class."
"Come on Jeremie accidents happen and like Mrs. Hertz said it was an old Bunsen Burner."
"I don't care I still think it might be Xana. I'll call Sanne and have her go to the Factory."
"Call Samantha, she's probably waiting for an excuse to go and see William." Odd had swallowed the food in his mouth and could talk. "Has a crush on him still even though he's dead."
"Ok." Jeremie takes his phone out and calls Samantha. "Samantha, some weird things are going on at the school. Could you go to the Factory and ask William if he's detected pulsations?"
"Ok, sure, I'll call you if there is an attack." Samantha hangs up. "Sorry little garden but I'll get back to you later." Samantha had been working in the garden. The plants were doing ok even though it was cold out. No snow made it so the vegetables could grow. Samantha goes into the house and finds Sanne in the living room watching an old black and white movie. "Sanne, Jeremie called, he wants me to go to the Factory and see if William feels any pulsations."
"What? An attack?"
"I don't know, he doesn't know. He said weird things have happened at the school but he doesn't know if they are Xana related or not. I guess the Super Scan didn't go off."
"Xana could have stolen a Tower."
"I doubt it though. Xana would have just attacked us right? I'll go and talk to William for awhile."
"Ok Samantha but please be back in time for dinner." Sanne pulls something out and hands it to Samantha. It is a bottle of water.
"Don't worry Sanne I will be. It's not like I can go out and get something to eat." Samantha was still dead to the world and until she got older and changed in appearance she was trapped at the Hermitage. Sanne leaves the Hermitage and runs through the sewer passage to get to the Factory. She takes the elevator down to the Control Room and goes to the computer chair. When she gets the headset on she contacts William. "William, is anything going on?"
"Pulsations, they started, then stopped." William sees Samantha. "It happened a couple times, I'm not sure what Xana is planning."
"So, no pulsations now?"
"None right now." Samantha smiles.
"Ok William, well, what do you want to do? I didn't bring a book with me." Samantha sometimes read books to William so he wouldn't be as bored. It was too dangerous to give him the password so he could use it to contact the outside world. Xana could get him or William might slip up and somehow Xana would get the password again. Sanne thinks about what to do when William thinks of something. He was bored and wanted to hear Samantha talk.
"I don't know really. What did you do today?" Samantha talks about what she did. Watched TV, ate breakfast, worked on the garden, the usual things for Samantha. William liked hearing about the outside world. He couldn't escape from Lyoko yet. Aelita and Jeremie had kept the program Aelita discovered a secret. William was dead to the world like Samantha and he was a valuable warrior on Lyoko. No amount of laser damage could hurt him or send him back to Earth and if he fell into the Digital Sea they could just recover him with the submarines again. So until Xana was defeated William would remain on Lyoko.
Back at Kadic Academy the kids are sitting in math class. Odd was drawing a picture of Kiwi. S.S. was drawing a picture of Odd in his Lyoko outfit. She always wondered what it would look like on Earth and drew it like that. Jeremie and Aelita were paying close attention of course. Ulrich and Sissi didn't care. The power Sissi had gotten from Xana made her a lot smarter then what she use to be and the same happened to Ulrich when he got powers from Sissi. It was a regular math class until an alarm went off. "Children, that is the fire alarm, don't panic!" The teacher was not taking her own advice. Teachers were warned when a drill would be done and no warning had been given. "File out in a single line and go to the nearest exit." The teacher didn't wait for the students and ran out of the class room. The students left the classroom as did the students and teachers in the other classrooms meeting in the middle of the campus grounds.
"This better not be a prank." Jim was annoyed. He had time and was about to tell the students about his time as a contender for a spot on the French Olympic swimming team. "Stay together!" He counts off the students to make sure they were all there. "Ok, I'm going to meet with the other teachers. Stay together and we won't have any problems." Jim follows the rules for fire drills and meets the other teachers. "What is going on? Who pulled the alarm?"
"I didn't pull the alarm." Mrs. Hertz was just as annoyed as Jim. "If this is a prank someone will pay!"
"I didn't either." Jim looks around. "Did anyone here pull it?" None of the teachers say they did. "Then one student is in big trouble." Jim looks around wondering which student would do this.
"Aaaa!" There was an explosion and a fire ball shoots out from the Italian room window. The students screamed as the fire spreads on the outside of the school. "Aaaa!" The students start to panic as the fire spreads. The fire keeps burning across the outside of the building.
"That's not possible." Jeremie knew very well bricks didn't burn like this. "It has to be Xana." Jeremie gets his phone out and calls Samantha but there is no answer. "He must have done something to the cell phone Tower to because I can't get a hold of Samantha."
"No, my mom, we have to warn her!" Jeremie puts a hand on Aelita's shoulder to try and calm her down.
"Calm down, I'll find Jim and send him to get her. He's probably the fastest out of the group." Jeremie looks around. "Except for Yumi but I don't know where she is." He keeps looking for her.
"We need to split up into three groups. One finds Jim, one finds Yumi, and one finds Ulrich and you know who." Odd makes the plans. "I'll find Ulrich, S.S. you have to find Jim while Jeremie and Aelita look for Yumi." The others nod and break up looking for the others.
"Jim!" S.S. sees Jim with the other teachers. "What's going on?" S.S. looks around and sees the other teachers looking at her. Normally it would seem weird for a student to come to a teacher like S.S. was but they saw her and knew her as Sandra Morales, the niece of Jim Morales.
"There was a fire S.S. Where are the others?" Jim was wondering if this was a Xana attack.
"They're fine." S.S. looks around the whispers to Jim. "We're headed to the Factory."
"Xana?"
"Jeremie thinks so. The cell phone tower must have been taken down by Xana because none of us can call Samantha."
"Sanne, she's, she's in danger then. I'll go to the Hermitage then I'll meet the rest at the Factory." Jim runs off not waiting for S.S.'s answer. S.S. figures this was why they were looking for Jim so her job was done. She heads off for the sewer entrance in the woods.
"Yumi, good." Jeremie is breathing hard having ran from student to student. "Xana, this has to be."
"Oh, well, why didn't you call me?" Aelita answers this.
"Xana probably destroyed the cell phone tower." Aelita looks around. "Did you see Ulrich?"
"No." Yumi's answer was filled with ice. She loved Ulrich still but Ulrich also meant Sissi. "Let's go." The three run through the crowds of students and use the chaos to get away unnoticed.
Odd is going through the students when he sees Sissi and Ulrich. "Xana's attacking, we think."
"You think?" Sissi raises an eyebrow.
"Cell phones won't work so it's probably Xana's doing. We're headed for the Factory as soon as we find everyone."
"Ok, well, let's go." Ulrich grabs Odd's arm and turns them both into black mists. Students see this and scream.
"Shut up you maggots." Sissi turns into a black mist and follows Ulrich and Odd to the Factory.
Yumi, Jeremie, and Aelita are running through the sewers when they smell something. "What is that?" Yumi turns around and sees the fire is after them! "We have to keep going!" They were already going fast but now with the fire after them, proving it was Xana, they go even faster.
"Sanne, Sanne!" Jim goes into the Hermitage and yells her name. "Sanne where are you!?"
"What?" Sanne comes out of the living room.
"Xana, he's attacking."
"Why didn't you call me?"
"He destroyed the cell phone tower." Jim grabs Sanne's hand and practically drags her to the sewer entrance at the Hermitage.
Yumi and the others are slowing down. They were a couple minutes away from the end of the sewer passage but were really tired and Jeremie knew why. "Fire takes, oxygen to burn. We have little, to breathe, now." Jeremie feels his lungs start to ache from lack of oxygen. "We have to get, out of the, sewers." They keep going hoping to make it but Aelita falls over.
"Aelita!" Yumi stops and goes over to Aelita. "Jeremie its coming!" The fire roars towards the group.
"Hello Samantha." Sissi is floating in the air like she was lying on a couch. "We're waiting."
"Well if you're so impatient why don't you get them?" Samantha crosses her arms and stares at Sissi.
"Good idea." Sissi breaks apart into a black mist and looks for the others. First she finds Sanne and Jim. "Hello you two." Sissi smiles. "The love birds together you're so cute."
"Sissi why are you here?" Jim and Sanne were sweating. The sewers were a lot hotter then they should have been.
"I'm tired of waiting." Sissi turns the two into black mists and takes them to the Factory. "There, Ulrich, you find the others." Sissi sits down on the floor. She had felt a twinge of the corruption so figured she should not use her powers for a few minutes. Ulrich turns into a black mist and looks for the others.
"Come on, I can't do this alone!" Yumi's lungs were burning with pain as were her muscles. She was trying to drag Aelita unable to find the strength to pick Aelita up. Jeremie was useless as he was having a hard time walking let alone dragging Aelita. The fire was getting closer and using up more oxygen. Yumi feels light headed and falls down. She gasps for air. "Help, Ulrich…" Yumi blacks out as the fire gets to her, Aelita, and Jeremie.
"They have to be down here!" Ulrich was looking through the sewers when he sees three skateboards. "Why did they leave them?" He keeps going and soon feels the heat of a fire. "No!" He sees a wall of flame getting closer and closer to Yumi and the others. He uses his energy to fly through the fire and pull Aelita and Yumi out of the way. He goes back and gets Jeremie. "They have to be ok, please be ok." Ulrich turns all three into black mists and then takes them to the Factory. "There's something wrong with them."
"Ulrich, what happened to them?" Sanne goes over to Aelita. "Aelita, dear, you're breathing I feel it."
"There was a fire in the sewer. It had to be Xana. The fire didn't leave burn marks and was aiming for them." Ulrich wants to go to Yumi but Sissi was right there. "They're ok right?"
"Fire in the sewers?" Jim goes over to Sanne and Aelita. "I'm no scientist but I know fire needs oxygen to burn and if it was in the sewers it probably burned through the oxygen in the sewers." Jim kneels down to Aelita. "She's breathing so she should be ok."
"Get her and the others to the Scanners." Sanne stands up and goes over to the computer chair. Sissi and Ulrich use their powers to take the injured Lyoko Warriors to the Scanner Room. Aelita, Jeremie, and Yumi are put into the Scanners. "Transfer Aelita, Transfer Jeremie, Transfer Yumi, Scanner Aelita, Scanner Jeremie, Scanner Yumi, Virtualization." They land in the Ice Sector. "Are you guys ok?" Sanne was scared for her daughter.
"Whoa." Aelita looks around and sees something strange. "Mom, how did you get us this close to the Tower?"
"What do you mean?" Sanne thought the Tower was stolen into Sector 5. Why the Super Scan didn't detect it.
"We can see it from here. There's something coming out going into the center of Lyoko."
"I, I get it now. He stole the Tower from Sector 5! We got lucky." The others would have been sent to Sector 5 looking for a Tower that wasn't there. "I'm sending the others now. Transfer Jim, Transfer Odd, Transfer Sandra, Scanner Jim, Scanner Odd, Scanner Sandra, Virtualization." They land on Lyoko next to the others. "Transfer Samantha, Scanner Samantha, Virtualization." She lands on Lyoko as the vehicles appear. Moments later the Transporter shows up and drops off William. "Go and deactivate the Tower."
"Hey, there's the Tower." William points it out.
"Yes William we see it."
"Wait." Sanne looks at the map. "No barrier, forget the vehicles this will work." Sanne sends the Transporter and it picks up the group on Lyoko and drops them off in front of the Tower. "Xana messed up."
"We got really lucky." Aelita goes into the Tower and deactivates it. "Mom, the school was destroyed… That's it, Xana doesn't care. We have to do a return making him stronger."
"Yes we do." Sanne launches a return reversing time.
"This sucks." Odd is with the others in the cafeteria. "Xana's up to something. What I'm not sure but he has something being planned." Odd looks around like he was expecting Xana to be behind him.
"I know and we can't do anything to stop him." S.S. grabs a piece of bacon. "Odd do you want this?"
"No, I'm not hungry." S.S. thinks he is joking and puts it on his tray. "I said I'm not hungry. What ever Xana's planning…" Odd holds his stomach. "I don't feel like eating." Odd leaves the table.
"I, I'm going to go get him." S.S. goes after Odd. "Odd what are you doing?" S.S. is concerned for Odd.
"I don't know." Odd feels really strange. "Something is wrong though." Odd sits down on the ground. "What is he doing?" Odd's stomach makes a weird noise. "I feel wrong."
"Odd you are hungry let's go back."
"I'm not hungry I feel…" Odd bursts into flames!
"Aaaa!" S.S., as do other students, scream. Odd flails on the ground then stops. The fire continues to burn until there is nothing left but ash. "Odd, no, Odd!" S.S. grabs a handful of ash. "Xana did this." S.S. starts to cry. Her tears fall into the ashes as students come over.
"I wonder what happened." Jeremie and the others heard screaming and leave the cafeteria. They see S.S. standing over a pile of ash and crying. "S.S. what's going on?" Jeremie puts a hand on her shoulder.
"Odd, he, Xana…" She shows the pile of ash in her hands as she continues to cry. "Odd…" She drops the ash and starts to cry harder.
"No, and he did it with others watching." Jeremie knew what Xana was planning now. Xana killed a Lyoko Warrior where others would see it. It was no problem bringing Odd back but the others had seen him die. They could do a return to wipe memories but that would make Xana stronger. Xana would either get even stronger or he would get a victory over the group. "S.S. we can bring Odd back. I save all of our DNA every time we go to Lyoko so there won't be that much of a memory gap." Jeremie's program was dangerous. If Xana ever got the password it would be disastrous but this was exactly why he did it.
"But, but, they saw." S.S. is still crying.
"A return will blank their memories."
"A return will make Xana stronger." Aelita is stuck to. To save Odd was easy but what to do afterwards? "Do it, I don't care. That bastard won't win." Aelita's cursing surprises Jeremie. Aelita didn't curse at all except for when she referred to Franz. The group goes to the Factory after calling the other Warriors. They all meet at the Factory and bring Odd back.
"Hey, what's going on?" Odd was expecting to land on Lyoko but instead finds himself in the Scanner Room. S.S. throws herself at Odd and kisses him deeply. Odd wraps his arms around S.S. not caring why he wasn't landing on Lyoko. They continue to kiss as a return is launched.
"Return to the past now." A return is done making Xana stronger but allowing Odd to go back to school. To be Odd Della Robbia and not the nephew of Jim Morales or any other plan the Lyoko Warriors would have come up with.