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Jeremie, Aelita, Odd, Ulrich and Yumi were sitting once again in the conference room they had met Dr. Janeway in, what seemed like an eternity ago.
"I see everybody survived the return," he said, "Odd, how do you feel?"
"Great!" he replied. "hey Ulrich, I'm really sorry about..."
Odd stopped when he saw that Ulrich and Yumi had resumed what they had been doing when the return hit.
"Aw, c'mon! Get a room, you two!" he exclaimed, earning a laugh from the rest of the room.
"Jeremie, you okay?" Janeway asked next.
"Physically, I'm fine," he replied.
"And I can live with that," Janeway said, "well gang, congratulations, you just saved the world again. Now, you have to spend the rest of your lives keeping quiet about it."
"Do your really think we can keep this secret that long?" Aelita asked, "I mean, contact with alien life is a world changing event! Everybody's got to know..."
"That there are aliens who ravage worlds for their technology and natural resources?" Janeway replied, "what you think the reaction to that will be? No, when it does happen, it will be traumatic enough for Earth; there's no need to compound matters with the Borg. Now, I suggest you go and have a good time, you certainly deserve it. But, remember, even though you're the Champions Of The Moment, you still have classes tomorrow."
With that, the group broke up.
Things went back to normal after that, at least as normal as things ever got for the Lyoko Warriors. Juan Janeway stayed on for the rest of the year, as he promised the principal, counseling the students as best he could. For the most part, he didn't meddle too much, but occasionally he did perform a significant alteration of a subject if that person looked to be about to do something stupid and terminal.
It took another two years for the gang to finally defeat XANA. All the while, Jeremie held his resentment of what Janeway did, until the time came that Jeremie needed XANA's help to keep Aelita from dying. After that incident, Jeremie moderated his opinion of Janeway's actions, just a little.
In all, Juan Janeway remained at Kadic for six years, keeping watch over the Lyoko Warriors, and counseling them when things got rough. He got a regular apartment in the area, so he could entertain guests without blowing his cover. And, every now and then, he would have the most unusual guests in his home, and when he did, he made it a point to invite the gang over to visit.
One time, he introduced them to a man named Flint, who knew more about ancient history than all of their teachers combined. He spoke of things that happened during the glory days of Rome like they happened just last week. After the man left, Janeway told the kids that Mr. Flint was thousands of years old, and would live for several hundred more years before passing away.
Another person he introduced the to was a woman, Roberta Lincoln. He wouldn't say what she did, but he did tell them that if anything strange ever happened around them after he had gone to call her. Fortunately, none of them ever had to do that.
The most memorable person he introduced them to wasn't human. It took a lot to tell, but the pointed ears and the slight greenish cast to his skin did tend to give it away. Janeway just introduced the man as a castaway doing his best to survive on a desert island.
Time marched inexorably on, and the time came for graduations. Yumi graduated first, being a year ahead of the others, and that set off one of the biggest rows in Kadic Academy's history.
Her parents insisted that she return to Japan for her college education. The Ishiyamas had scrimped and saved for years, calling in any and every favor owed them to get their daughter enrolled in Tokyo University. They didn't take it very well when she told them that she had no intention of returning home or going to college; she was going to remain in France and marry Ulrich.
Yumi and Ulrich were as close as two people could be without engaging in sex. The promise that the woman gave them was still etched in their souls, that if they did things the right way, they could once again become one flesh. After the Borg incident, the couple could be found in secluded spots, holding each other as close and as tight as they could as they embraced. They would snake their hands under the other's clothes, not to excite them, but to feel their skin and, for a moment, surmount a small barrier that kept them truly apart. Even Sissi Delmas, who had been chasing after Ulrich for years, finally recognized the bond between the two and backed off.
Yumi's parents went ballistic when she told them she wasn't going to college, but not near as ballistic as Ulrich's parents did when he told them he was dropping out of high school to marry Yumi. Besides not wanting their son to quit school, Ulrich's father said he would not all his son to marry any 'Jap whore' and sully his family with half-breed children.
Rather than expend a lot of energy arguing with people who could not be swayed, Yumi and Ulrich did the only thing they could, they ran off together the day Yumi graduated. The gang didn't see them again for years, but a day and a night after they ran off, a YESSSSS!!!!! screamed down the interlink that the nanoprobes maintained between each other. Jeremie and Aelita, who were making out themselves at the time, silently wished the bride and groom all the best as they redoubled their efforts.
Odd, Aelita and Jeremie graduated the next year. Odd disappeared soon after that, leaving Jeremie and Aelita the last two Lyoko Warriors in Paris. The couple went on to college, but not in the fields everyone expected. Jeremie majored in Electronic Engineering, and Aelita in Music Production. They made their livings acting as DJs for various events. Aelita had always had a gift for mixing music, and loved how the crowd reacted when she performed. Jeremie supported her by building and maintaining the equipment she needed, utilizing technology he got from a certain inactive supercomputer the couple knew about. Later on, they patented some of the designs found in the computer, and lived comfortably off the royalties.
Dr. Janeway stayed at Kadic for another two years after the last of the Lyoko Warriors graduated, and then announced his resignation. Mr. Delmas and the Board of Governors tried their best to keep him, even offering him the principal's job, but Juan said no, it was time for him to 'amble on.'
The day Janeway left, Jeremie and Aelita met him at the edge of the pond where his ship was buried.
"Are you sure you have to go?" Aelita said, "we're getting married in two years and we had hoped you would come to the wedding."
"I wish I could, but no," Janeway replied, "I've been taking too many chances already, playing temporal tourist. The last thing I need to do is screw things up just when things got straightened out."
"What will you do?" Jeremie asked.
"Sleep," was the reply, "I'll download my consciousness to the Collective, then dematerialize my body, just like I did with the Borg crew. I'll ride out the years, safe in my little hole in the world, while the world gets on to the business of maturing. Have a good life, you two; if anyone on this rock deserves it, you do."
He was about to turn and teleport to his ship when he remembered something.
"Oh, I almost forgot! One of the things I did was program the nanoprobes to allow you and your descendants to come here to download your consciousness. I'm not stealing your soul or anything like that, but I am giving you the opportunity to add your diversity to ours. In a sense, I'm allowing you to live forever as part of the Collective. You'll know when the time is right, and you'll come back here and be transported to my ship. Whether you do the download or not is up to you, but I'll give you the opportunity. Goodbye, my friends."
With that, Janeway vanished.