Okay, you knew this day would come . . . and I warned you at the beginning . . . this is the final chapter of "Return to Kadic." Don't cry. I'm working on the next instalment of my "Kiko" series "Disappearing Act". It'll be a little different, because the kids will be all alone at the beginning . . . hey? What am I doing? You'll just need to wait for me to post chapter 1.

I'm gonna dedicate this chapter to magicalfairy12, Raven's Wolf, InuGhost,and Fox Fang. They know why.

Chapter Seven

Happily Ever After Part II

"Is that how it ends, Mom?" A young blonde girl looked up at her mother. They were sitting in a rocking chair, in a light orange nursery. "Are you positively sure?"

"Yes honey. I'm sure." The mother answered. "Now go to sleep." The child reluctantly obeyed, and her mother left to check on her other child, a son who shared her pitch-black hair. The girl was her youngest, only two years old, and her son was three.

The apartment door shut, and the man walked up to his wife with a single, red rose. "Do you remember what today is?"

"How couldn't I? This day, 16 years ago, I destroyed X.A.N.A. for the final time. I've been thinking about it all day, and it was even the story I told our two little monsters to get them to go to sleep."

Her husband looked at her, shocked. "Did you tell them everything? Word for word? Remember we made a . . ."

Kiko cut Od off (c'mon, like you didn't see that coming). "I know, a pact not to tell our children about Lyoko until they are at least 13. Don't worry, I told Christine and Zach that it was a story I wrote while I went to Kadic for an extra credit English assignment. When are we all going to go to Lyoko again?"

"As soon as Jeremie and Aelita come back from their honeymoon, and Yumi has her baby. I can't believe that we all got married, you would've thought that Jer and Aelita would've gotten married first . . . or at least before us." Od responded.

"Whatever." Kiko yawned. "I swear those kids got their hyper-activeness from you . . . today Zach put up 'streamers' in the bathroom . . . five rolls worth! And Christy gave herself a make over. There was makeup all over in our bedroom! Then she decided to taste some of my strawberry smoothie lipstick!" The exhausted woman sighed, and sank into an overstuffed easy-chair.

"I can't believe that you always top my day, and I have to take care of more kids than you!" Od huffed.

Kiko giggled. "Now you know how Jim felt when he taught us. Why did you even apply to fill Jim's job when he retired anyway?"

Od shrugged. "I guess I liked Kadic more than I thought. They really wanted Ulrich to do it, but he was too busy earning 50 million dollars for signing a piece of paper!" Od kicked the wall, and hurt his toe. "OOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW!"

"Shhhh, the kids'll wake up. You were exaggerating, Ulrich only got five million for signing on with that soccer team, but I do agree, that's pathetic. Yumi said that Ulrich didn't want the money, but he had to take at least five mill . . . it's in the rules or something. Then again . . . when did any of us start caring about the rules?"

Od chuckled. "When we became parents. That's when we started making our own rules. C'mon, let's go to sleep."

As the pair walked to their room, the phone rang . . . Kiko grabbed it. "Hello? Ulrich, calm down. What is it? Really? Okay, we'll be there soon. Bye."

"Well, what is it?" Od asked urgently.

"That was Ulrich, Yumi's having her baby. They just got to the hospital, and the doctors say the baby should come soon." Kiko replied. "Call the baby sitter, and see if she can come keep an eye on the kids. I'll go tell them what's happening."

The baby sitter came, and then Kiko and Od left for the hospital. When they walked into the maternity ward, Ulrich was there to great them. "Hi guys, thank you so much for coming. Yumi's been asking for you, Kiko."

"Okay, where is she?"

"Room 175. I told the doctors to let you in." Ulrich informed Kiko. Kiko nodded and walked down the hallway.

"How are you holding up? Do you need something to drink?" Od asked his friend.

"If I have any more to drink, I'll be in the bathroom for the next three years. Yumi kicked me out because of all of the slurping sounds I made while drinking my soda."

In room 175, Yumi was trying to keep from letting every dirty word in her vocabulary form bursting out. "Kiko, how did you stand having two kids? I swear Ulrich is going to . . ." Yumi trailed off.

"Just chill out. You haven't even reached the hard part yet." Kiko said calmly.

"You've got to be joking!" Yumi groaned, but Kiko's face showed no joke.

An hour and 99 swear words (no, I'm not going to print them) later (yes, Kiko counted), Yumi and Ulrich had a baby girl. They named her Megan. "Well, now we just need to wait for Jeremie and Aelita to come back before we return to Lyoko. Did anyone call them?" Ulrich asked.

"I did, but Aelita said she wanted to hear from you guys personally." Kiko spoke up.

"Okay, I'll call them now, at least we can call them in Silicon Valley with 1800-CALL-ATT, it'll be free for us, and cheep for them (I'm sorry, I couldn't resist . . . don't flame me!). I always knew those two would get into computers, but I didn't expect them to go to a computer expo for their honey moon."

A month later, all four parents arranged for baby sitters, and then all six met at the factory, which Ulrich had bought with part of his $5 million. Everything was dusty, and the ropes were beginning to fray, but the elevator still worked. Down in the scanner room, every member of the gang stepped into his or her scanner. A computer (not the super computer) analyzed the content of the scanners and spoke in a mechanical voice. "Transfer, Yumi. Transfer, Ulrich. Transfer, Od. Transfer, Kiko. Transfer, Aelita. Transfer, Jeremie. Scanner. Virtualization."

THE END