He didn't go bonkers, Morph. He tried it the Professor's way, and it didn't work out. Sometimes goin' by the playbook don't fit with what's happenin', and you gotta rearrange your strategy.

[ but ending the planet and do a complete reset? well... maybe it would have been for the better to start everything from scratch and rebuild the world again.

if one screws up on a drawing or a project, why try to save it when it's easy to take it from the top? second or third times a charm, as they say. despite rouge's harsh words, her tone is at least calm and civil. the very last thing the two of them need is for them to split up and having to fed for themselves alone. ]

... I had no idea if it was him or the Professor liftin' that giant rock, but... I'm glad he isn't gone forever.

[ at least she hopes so. ]