Code Lyoko Episode 148: Drop the Bomb
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, 53-147 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…
At the Andrew's Air Base in Ohio USA something strange was going on. "Another night test? None was on the schedule." Two soldiers come out when they hear the roar of a jet engine.
"Maybe it is an emergency test, or the real deal." They had been doing test runs on getting the U-2 Stealth Bomber up in the air within minutes of a nuclear strike on American soil.
"If it was the real deal the alarms would be going and we would have received word from the Secretary of Defense." A soldier goes over to a base phone. "Sir, a U-2 is on the run way yet no test was scheduled. What are the orders?"
"What? No test was scheduled, get to the plane and get the pilot out."
"Yes Sir." The soldier hangs up. "We have to stop this, it isn't a test or the real deal."
"You don't think one of the pilots got drunk and decided to take joy ride in the plane do you?"
"The stealth's are equipped with the new system to keep anything like that from happening." They run after the U-2 Stealth Fighter but it takes off! "That's not possible!"
"This is bad man, this is really bad." The plane needed to go down the runway to take off yet they just saw it lift vertically into the air and take off. Sirens go off as the nation is set to Code Red. The politicians are evacuated from Washington D.C. to secret underground bunkers. Radar is useless, the point of the U-2 Stealth Fighter was to be unseen by radar.
"Mr. President, we don't know the target. We do know it was carrying a payload of two three megaton warheads."
"What do we do? We can't evacuate every major city Secretary of Defense. Even if we could where would we put them? There'd be millions of people misplaced by the evacuation."
"We don't even know if an American city is the target. We have alerted the Canadian Prime Minister to the threat."
"What's the limit on the plane?"
"It could go anywhere in North America, parts of South America, Europe, and parts of Africa."
"How do we alert the world without causing a panic? How did this even happen?"
"We're not sure and we're not sure. We've started alerting the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, and France…"
At a school in France the students are waking up ready for the weekend. "Ulrich, what are you doing this weekend?" Odd sits up and yawns.
"Whatever Sissi makes me do." Ulrich doesn't want to wake up. He didn't hate Sissi he just didn't want to deal with her anymore. She fought against Xana, she saved his friends so he couldn't hate her. "Yes Sissi." Ulrich sits up. "She always knows when I'm awake." Ulrich shakes his head.
"Man just wait once we get rid of Xana we can free you from Sissi. If I was you I'd just enjoy the physical part knowing in the future you'd be free." So odd and the others hoped.
"You don't understand how it is Odd. Could you do this when S.S. was so close? When all you wanted to do was hold S.S. and tell her you love her?" Ulrich didn't know how to make Odd understand how bad it was.
"As long as she knew I wanted to be with her and she was going to free me I guess. Well, it would be bad I guess." Odd grabs some clean clothes. "Are you getting a shower?"
"I don't have to, watch." Ulrich closes his eyes and uses his powers to make him cleaner then any shower. "Maybe if I imagine she's Yumi it won't be so bad." Ulrich breaks into a black mist and goes to Sissi's room.
"I can't wait until we get rid of Xana. Hopefully Sissi won't take his place." Odd goes to the boys' shower room and takes a shower.
At breakfast Odd grabs a tray and fills it up like always. "So what's everyone doing today?"
"Odd we can't do anything." Jeremie was eating a light breakfast. "The nation has been put in an emergency stance. No going to stores, restaurants, movie theaters, nothing."
"Why are we in a state of emergency?" Jeremie shrugs his shoulders. "Well, I can think of plenty to do in my room, right S.S.?" Odd leans over and kisses her on the cheek since her mouth was filled with food.
"Not now Odd."
"What, why? Did I forget an anniversary or something?" Odd thinks about it but can't remember anything.
"No it's a personal thing." S.S. blushes.
"You can tell me anything S.S. you know that."
"Not right now, later." S.S. picks up the orange on her tray and starts to eat it. "Trust me Odd."
After lunch Odd and S.S. leave S.S.'s dorm room. "Perfect timing as always S.S. We can't go out and do anything and you have to go on you're…" S.S. pushes Odd to shut him up.
"Shut up Odd it's not my fault!" S.S. laughs. "Don't worry Odd you just have to wait three or four days. Hmmm, let's see what Jeremie and Aelita are doing." S.S. was already bored.
"Homework." Odd rolls his eyes. "I don't get why we can't leave. What is so bad that the city has been shut down."
"I don't know they aren't releasing anything. It's not just us though every country in Europe, America, Canada, a ton of others are shut down to. Probably a terrorist threat or something."
"Well, I'm bored, let's go to the Hermitage and see what Samantha is doing." It had been awhile since they saw her.
"How are we getting there?"
"Sewers, duh."
"Oh yeah. Ok, let's go." The two leave for the Hermitage as the nation gets a warning.
"Sir, a sighting has been made by a pilot. A black triangle flying for Paris. Should we send the jets?"
"Immediately. Shoot that thing out of the sky." The French Air Force is alerted and sent to the area where the black triangle had been seen.
"Uh oh." Jeremie hears a beeping noise. "What happened now?" He lifts his laptop and opens it. "Aelita, what's going on?" Jeremie shows the screen. The Super Scan was showing a Tower being activated then another, then another, but every time a new one activated the old one deactivated.
"I don't know. Maybe it has something to do with the state of emergency." Aelita looks over at the Super Scan when it stops. "Wait, let me try something." Her fingers fly over the keyboard. "Ok just wait for a couple minutes." They do wait and soon the Super Scan beeps. "Xana's a Genius. He's activating a Tower, then another one, so the Super Scan won't detect it. I guess he slowed down and the Super Scan caught up."
"Well, if that's what he is doing we're screwed. How do we get you to a Tower before it deactivates?"
"I have an idea. It will take awhile but it should work." Aelita gets her phone out. "Mom, Xana's attacking."
"Ok honey, we'll be there." Sanne and Aelita hang up. "Jim, I'm sorry but Xana is attacking."
"Ok, I'll give you another massage later Sanne." Jim leans down and kisses Sanne between the shoulder blades. "I don't have my massage table like I did when I worked in a massage parlor back in, well, I guess we don't have time to talk about it." Jim gets off the bed and Sanne gets a bra and shirt on.
"My shoulders and back feel so much better, thanks Jim." Sanne kisses Jim on the lips. "We need to get Samantha." Sanne and Jim leave their room and go down the hall to Samantha's room. Sanne knocks on the door. "Samantha, Xana's attacking. We need to hurry."
"Ok, I'm ready." Samantha's door opens and Samantha comes out. "Any idea what the attack is?"
"Probably has something to do with the state of emergency." Jim leads the girls out of the house incase Xana attacked. He would protect Sanne and Samantha with his life. Sanne was his future wife and Samantha was like a daughter to him. They take the Hermitage sewer passage to the Factory.
"Ok, well, I have to get out of the house, to a sewer entrance, without getting caught." Yumi looks outside her window and sees a police car driving down the road. "The police are enforcing the lock down."
"Please be careful Yumi." Aelita and Yumi hang up. "Jeremie did you get a hold of Odd and S.S.?" He nods. "Ok the only ones left are Ulrich and Sissi." Aelita stars to head to their room when Jeremie speaks up.
"I'll call them."
"Let's just go to their room. It's right down the hall." Aelita starts to walk when Jeremie grabs her by the arm.
"Remember what they were doing last time?" Aelita blushes. Jeremie calls Ulrich. "Ulrich, this is a Xana attack. We're not sure what he is doing but he's doing something."
"Ok, thanks for the call." Ulrich and Jeremie hang up. "Sissi, Xana is attacking we have to go to the Factory."
"Figures it would be him. Are you sure you don't want me to finish?" Ulrich nods, he was ready to go now. "If you say so." The two turn into black mists and go to the Factory.
Yumi looks around and sees another police car coming. She hides in some brushes and waits for it to drive by. Once it turns the corner and goes out of sight she runs over to the sewer cover and lifts it. She climbs down to the sewers and runs for the Factory.
Samantha, Jim, and Sanne get to the Factory. Jim climbs out first and hears jet engines over head. "Those are way to low over the city." He watches as more then a dozen fighter jets break formation. He watches them more when he sees a black triangle. The fighter jets attack the black triangle but an energy shield comes up. "Xana." Jim helps Sanne out of the sewer then Samantha and points. "Xana possessed that. I bet it's a Stealth Bomber."
"Ok if he only possessed one plane what is the big deal?" Samantha watches the jet fire missiles at the black triangle and sees them do nothing. "It's just one plane who cares?"
"In America the Stealth Bomber is used to carry a nuclear payload." Samantha's eyes get big.
"Oh, um, then we better deactivate the Tower as soon as possible." Samantha and the other two run into the Factory, swing down, and get to the elevator. They take it down to the Control Room.
"I should have known you would beat us here." Sanne steps off the elevator and goes over to the computer chair. "Maybe you could help. Xana possessed a Stealth Bomber. It probably has nuclear weapons on it. The French air force can't take it down since Xana is protecting it with an energy field."
"Ulrich, destroy it." Sissi would have gone but she knew she was pushing her luck already. Recently even the least little use of her powers caused the corruption to activate.
"Yes Sissi." Ulrich flies up through the ceiling like a ghost. When he reaches the surface he sees the seven jet fighters firing bullets at the Stealth Bomber. They had used all of the missiles they had and were down to bullets. "Poor saps, they couldn't hurt it unless Xana wanted them to." Ulrich flies up and morphs into Lyoko gear. "Man they're fast I'm going to have to use a lot of energy to catch up." Ulrich sparks with energy and chases after the Stealth Bomber.
"Ground control we have a bogey at six o'clock. I'm not sure what it is." The pilot looks at Ulrich.
"Describe it pilot."
"It looks like a guy flying with something. Swords, I'll get closer." A jet flies towards Ulrich.
"What is he up to?" Ulrich sees the jet fighter fly towards him. "Get out of here! You can't hurt it!" Ulrich yells but the pilot can't hear him. Ulrich waves his arms but it does nothing. "Screw it I have to stop Xana." Ulrich uses more power and feels the corruption. "Come on Stern you can do this." Ulrich flies as fast as he can and catches up to the Stealth Bomber. He uses his swords to break through the shield and attacks the Stealth Bomber.
"Hello Ulrich. So sad, you'll be the first to die." The words formed in the air next to the Stealth Bomber.
"Xana!" It then takes a nose dive for the ground. "No!" Ulrich tries to stop the Stealth Bomber but can't. "Sissi, tell Sanne to launch a return!" Ulrich won't give up and keeps trying to stop the stealth fighter.
"What?" Sissi looks around. "Ulrich, what happened?" Sanne and the other two stare at Sissi. She was talking to herself.
"He's going to crash the plane and detonate the bomb! Tell Sanne to launch a return!" Ulrich screams as loud as he can not that he needed to. The mental connection needed just the thought.
"Sanne launch a return Xana's going to crash the plane!" Sissi's warning gets Sanne's fingers flying over the key board. "Hurry Ulrich says he can't stop it, hurry!" Sissi is starting to panic.
"No, shield." An energy shield comes up around Ulrich and he flies away from the Stealth Bomber. If Sanne was too late he didn't want to die. He might hate what was going on in his life with Sissi but he didn't want to die. He wanted to live to be with Yumi again. The Stealth Bomber slams into the ground and two bright green flashes are all Ulrich sees before…
"Return to the past now!" The white bubble comes up reversing time. Was it in time?
"Whoa, did Sanne go?" Jeremie looks around. "Aelita, what do you think it was? Sanne knew we were coming."
"I don't know, I'll call her." Aelita gets her cell phone out and calls her mother. "Mom, what happened?"
"I had to do a return. Xana was about to detonate a nuclear weapon. Get to the Factory, the attack is still going on but now we have time."
"We'll be there mom." Aelita and Sanne hang up. "Jeremie, we have to go to the Factory."
"Ok Aelita." Jeremie and Aelita head for the Factory.
"Come on, answer, answer!" Sanne had called Ulrich but was getting his voice mail. "No, Ulrich, pick up!"
In Sissi's room Sissi is standing over Ulrich. "No, Ulrich, Ulrich!" Sissi sparks with energy. "Wake up!" Sissi slaps him but he doesn't wake up. "I, you're breathing, you're not dead." Sissi hugs him. "I can't lose you." Sissi sparks with more energy and the corruption creeps into her brain stem. "I won't lose you!" Sissi starts to cry as she sends her own energy into Ulrich.
"What? Ok mom, we'll go back." Aelita and Jeremie were at the sewer entrance when Sanne called. Sanne was worried that Ulrich had been hurt by the attack before she could launch the return. Jeremie and Aelita run back to the dorm building and go to Sissi's room. They open the door without knocking.
"Ulrich, no, you're breathing you can't be dead!" Sissi is crying as her energy spreads around her. She tried to bring him back but nothing worked.
"Sissi, is he really breathing?" Sissi nods. "Take him to the Factory so we can use a Scanner." Aelita wasn't sure what was wrong with Ulrich but was positive the Scanners would heal him.
"You'll do that?" Aelita nods. "Thank you." Sissi breaks apart into a black mist with Ulrich and takes him to the Factory. "You'll be ok Ulrich you'll be ok." Sissi hugs Ulrich's body as Aelita calls her mom.
"Mom, scan Ulrich. Something is wrong with Ulrich but he isn't dead. Sissi's bringing him right now."
"I see them." Sanne brings up the Scanning program. "See you soon Aelita." Sanne and Aelita hang up. "Sissi, put him in the middle Scanner." Sissi follows Sanne's orders. "Ok, this should heal him." Sanne was scared. What would a nuclear strike do to someone even if they used powers to protect themselves? Nuclear power, the power of the sun, Sanne doubts even Xana could have blocked that. The Scanner doors open and Ulrich falls out.
"Ulrich, please, say something!" Sissi shakes him and his eyes open.
"Sissi, what happened?" Ulrich saw a bright green flash then woke up with Sissi kneeling over him crying.
"You're ok." Sissi hugs him. "I was so scared." Sissi feels the corruption creeping farther into her brain. It had been affecting her the whole time with her energy use to try and save Ulrich. "I love you and can't lose you." Sissi kisses Ulrich and the corruption goes away, mostly.
"Thank you Sissi." Ulrich isn't sure what is going on but felt his own corruption. He had used a lot of energy for his shield knowing a nuclear blast was about to happen. "What's going on?"
"I did a return. We still have to deactivate the Tower." Sanne informs the two through the headset. "The others will be here soon."
"Ok Sanne." Sissi hugs Ulrich and doesn't let go. She had been so scared of losing him.
Yumi gets to the Factory and takes the elevator down to the Scanner Room and sees Sissi holding onto Ulrich. "What happened?"
"We almost lost him." Sissi looks over at Yumi. "He almost died for me." Sissi gives a death stare to Yumi.
"I doubt it was for you." Yumi feels energy surround her. "I hate you. He hates you to."
"I know and I could crush you but I won't. Ulrich might still love you and killing you would hurt him. That's how much I love him." The energy from Sissi surrounds Yumi and makes her hair stand on end. When Sissi calms down the energy goes back and Sissi hugs Ulrich more.
Odd and S.S. make it to the Factory and take the elevator down to the Scanner Room. "Whoa, Sissi, um, hi." Odd sees she is hugging Ulrich and sees Yumi giving a death stare to Sissi. "What happened to Ulrich?"
"He was hurt but he's ok now." Yumi answers for Ulrich. "Sanne you can send us now."
"Well, ok, doesn't matter which Tower though." Xana was still activating and deactivating the Towers back to back never keeping one activated for longer then five seconds. Yumi, Odd, and S.S. get in the Scanners. "Transfer Yumi, Transfer Odd, Transfer Sandra, Scanner Yumi, Scanner Odd, Scanner Sandra, virtualization." They land on Lyoko in front of a Tower.
"Where's the activated Tower?" Yumi looks around.
"That was activated, you'll see." Less then two minutes later the Tower activates then deactivates.
"What is he doing?" Yumi and the other two were confused. "I mean, how is he doing it?"
"He made it so the Super Scan didn't detect the activated Towers. We're not sure how to stop the attack." Sanne was worried that this was it. If they couldn't find a way to deactivate the Tower then they would have to launch a return to keep the possessed Stealth Fighter from detonating a nuclear weapon.
Jim and Samantha show up at the same time as Jeremie and Aelita. "What are we going to do?" Jim had talked to Sanne and didn't understand how they would deactivate the Tower.
"I have an idea." Aelita jumps and swings down to the Factory floor as do the others. They run to the elevator and take it down to the Scanner Room. "Ulrich, so he's ok?" Sissi nods. "Good, mom, send us."
"Get in the Scanners."
"No, I'll take them." Sissi breaks into a black mist and takes the four to Lyoko. Ulrich breaks into a black mist and follows.
"Hey Aelita," Odd waves. "What's the plan?"
"Mom, tell me when this Tower is activated." Aelita walks in to the Tower and goes up to the second platform. She stands and waits, and waits. It feels like forever until…
"Now!" Aelita brings up the screen, presses her palm, but is to slow. "Aelita we have a couple of hours so don't worry." Aelita and Sanne wait. "Ok Aelita, right, now!" Aelita tries to deactivate the Tower but isn't fast enough.
"Sanne, next time warn us about ten seconds ahead of time." Sissi has an idea. It would take power but they had to deactivate the Tower.
In Sector 5 Lynnette and Xana are watching the Lyoko Warriors. "Master Xana I want to fight them!"
"As amusing as it would be I'd rather see what they do. Imagine if they find a way to deactivate it? I doubt they will. Besides Aelita is already in the Tower. No point in sending you Lynnette." Xana puts a hand on Lynnette's shoulder. "Even if they deactivate the Tower I'll crash the plane wherever it is and detonate the nuclear weapons."
"Yes Master Xana whatever you say." Lynnette and Xana continue to watch the Lyoko Warriors.
"Ok, ten seconds." Sanne sends the warning and Sissi points both hands at the Tower. She sends her energy around the Tower when it activates. "What are you doing Sissi?"
"Aelita hurry!" Sissi uses her energy to cut the cables and isolate the Tower. "I don't know how long I can hold this!" Already the corruption had reached her brain stem.
"Tower deactivated!" The screens fall around Aelita and she sighs. "Thank you Sissi." It was close but they did it.
"Yes, thank you." Sissi turns towards Yumi. "Die!" Sissi attacks Yumi. The corruption had taken control.
"Stop it!" Yumi was caught off guard and can't defend herself. Ulrich jumps on top of Sissi and wrestles her off of Yumi. They roll around on the ground until Ulrich uses his energy to pin Sissi.
"It's the corruption. She, she used to much power." Ulrich can see Xana's symbol in Sissi's eyes. "Yumi, I'm sorry but I have to." Ulrich leans down and kisses Sissi. He pulls away and sees Xana's symbols are still in her eyes. "Sissi, that, that should have healed you!"
"It went away a little Ulrich." Sissi was moving in and out of control. Ulrich kisses her again and keeps kissing her until he feels her arms wrap around him. He pulls away.
"Sissi, what was that?" A kiss should have healed her but it took two this time. "You should stop using your energies."
"I had to use them. I used them to save you then to help the others." Sissi sits up. "Sanne, what is happening on Earth?"
"I don't know. There is nothing in the news." Sanne is flipping through channels when a news flash comes up.
"A nuclear explosion more then three hundred kilometers off the coast of Portugal in the Atlantic Ocean has caused the deaths of millions of sea life. The water that was vaporized has caused the water level to lower but the water in the area is now polluted." The report continues.
"I'm sorry. We need to do another return." Sanne launches a return and reverses time.
Two days later reports were still coming in. The strange disease had killed seven French pilots and now seemed to have spread to sea life. Thousands of fish, whales, and dolphins were washing up on shores all across Europe, Africa, and America. "This is bad. Xana was trying to kill us and everyone else around here." Aelita sets the newspaper down. "Mom, we have to do something."
"Like what Aelita? There is nothing we can do. Xana's even stronger then before. If we don't get a miracle soon we, I, I'm sorry." Sanne stops. She was not going to give up hope. "We will do this. I will get married, you will have a father. You will grow up and marry Jeremie and have kids, a life. Xana will lose."
"Mom, that's, well, probably true." Aelita smiles as her cheeks turn red a little. "I want to marry Jeremie, when we're older, and Xana is gone."
"When you're old enough to marry Jeremie I know Xana will be dead." Sanne says it as much to give Aelita hope as to affirm it in her own mind. "You should be going back to school soon." Sanne and Aelita hug.
"Ok, I love you mom."
"I love you to Aelita." Sanne kisses Aelita on the forehead. "Have fun tomorrow."
"Italian and science, lots of fun." Aelita and Sanne laugh then Aelita leaves the Hermitage.
A/N Another title named after a song. I must have about a dozen or more CL stories named after songs. Just a little Easter Egg I guess for the fans.