He was singing. It took him a second to realize that he was singing. And so he sung. Jeremy sang, while smiling down to his sister and the love of his life.
"Obieta mezuki de iradatsu omoi uwaki na kaze ni hakisutete
hibi-wareta rojou ni toketa SHIGUNARU wa kizuato dake nokoshite-iku!"
(With a terrified look in the eyes, spit those irritated feelings into the fickle wind
The signal that melted into the cracked roadway is leaving only a scar behind.)
"Madoronda NOIZU ga asu o keshi-saru mae ni
yabou ni hibiku kutsuoto o oikakete."
(Before the drowsy
noise blurs away tomorrow, chase after those ambitiously resounding
footsteps. )
"Doko ni mo tomaranai
mitasanai Emotion SHIKATO kimete oikose yo
furueteru SHAI na seikai no nuke-michi o neratte
tadoritsuku basho e."
I WANT NEW WORLD.
And as the crowd grew into it, he saw their reactions as
they would have been if Xana hadn't interrupted him, technically,
Xana hadn't. Because all traces of Xana were gone from the world
and from the Super Computer, it seems, Xana was Omnipresent. He was
every when at once somehow. Gone from one time, gone from all.
The song finished, and Jeremy left the stage to a round of obliging applause. He walked straight up to Aelita, and, conscious of his sister, of Sissi, Odd, Olric and Yumi, pulled her into a tight hug. "Then it's over Aelita, we're all safe. Now, how about some cotton candy, on me everyone." A happy group disappeared through the crowd to test their taste buds, and prove that despite all their pain, despite all their suffering, each and every one of them was still completely real, still Human.
Jeremy was alive.
Aelita was on Earth.
Yumi and Olric were finally
together.
Sissi finally had Odd.
All was right with the worlds, both Earth, and Lyoko, which never saw monsters again.
Well, not for years… at least.