This is justthe informative portion of the story. To answer some of the unanswered questions, and to leave a few more questions(I'm evil aren't I? Brew Ha Ha Ha!).

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Chapter 2: Past Revealed

Twenty years ago, Jeremie found the key to freeing Aelita and destroying XANA once and for all. Their final battle on Lyoko went pretty easily, which had Jeremie and Aelita a littleconcerned. Finally, Jeremie discovered that his calculations were inaccurate. What he discovered was that they had only weakened so severely enough to trap him back into the supercomputer. The five friends weren't going to argue with that decision. They had already freed Aelita, and they just wanted it to be over. Jeremie, Aelita, Ulrich, and Odd were nearing the end of their last year in high school. Yumi had decided to hold off on college until XANA was destroyed. They were all pretty tired of XANA, even though he was the only thing holding them together at this point. When you spend that much time with each other trying to keep something as big as XANA a secret, you begin to become annoyed by it all. His presence had put so much strain on their friendships over the years that they were beginning to get sick of each other. The day they shut down XANA was the last time they were really together. Of course after that, there was nothing else to say to each other. The glue that was XANA was gone. Their friendship had become dull and lifeless, as dull and lifeless as the yellow-gold panels on the exterior of the deactivated supercomputer.

At nineteen, Yumi went back to Japan with her family and attended a four year college where she studied to become a teacher. No one really knows why she decided to take a career in education. Her friends who fought to death with her on Lyoko say it's because she has seen too much action and danger in her lifetime so she chose a career where the most danger she could come across would be fire drills and angry parents.

At the age of eighteen Ulrich went back to live in Germany with his family. He went to school and got a business degree. He later became a successful real estate agent with his own office building and everything. He was finally proving tohis father that he is not a worthless shell of a man. No one argued with him on the subject again.

Odd decided to follow his dreams. No one was surprised when he enrolled in an art school in central Paris. Although, while attending the school he discovered something about himself that he just couldn't tell his best friends. Not because he was ashamed, but because he was afraid of what they would think of him. But he decided not to let it get him down; he continued to have many romantic relationships in what the rest of the world described asthe city of love. He became a well known artist, an artist in many different fields. In one museum there is a whole floor on the west wing dedicated to his works.

However, Jeremie and Aelita were still going strong and in love. But they were very aware of the possibility that XANA could come back. They became paranoid and went to what some people would consider extreme. They moved to America. They both attended the College of William and Mary until graduation. Jeremie took a job at the Langley Air Force Base in Newport News, Virginia as a computer consultant for his excellent skills with multi networks and the uncanny way he knew his way around a supercomputer. Aelita ran a popular internet search engine called "A Line" from the home she and Jeremie shared in the suburbs. They were married two years aftergraduation so they could get their careers in order. They had their last names legally changed to DeMeire just so they could be sure XANA wouldn't find them should he suddenly return.

Over the twenty years, the five friends tried to keep in contact through internet, but their efforts where futile. XANA had taken their friendship by neck so many times that it was numb. It was battered and abused beyond repair. They eventually drifted apart completely. Ulrich and Yumi had both gotten over each other and moved on. They married other people and were happy with their lives. Odd, being the flake that he is managed to avoid marriage for those twenty years, but that does not mean he didn't end up with anyone. He managed to stay in a monogamous committed relationship for four years to the present. Yes, they have all moved on and are very happy. They refuse to let that machine ruin their entire lives. That's all it is, a machine. A ten foot tall computer sitting in a lonely old factory never to bother them again. Never…

I hope you enjoyed that. I of course will need some collateral before I continue on with the story, 5 reviews. Remember, Odd was living in Paris at the time of the disaster. You wanna know if he lives? What his secret was? Please review, I've got something you won't expect.