Celeste floated through an island forest, heading for the center before slowing to a stop, seeing the lone figure on the boulder,  sitting there with his eyes closed, his expression full of lament. The woman slowly floated towards him, wrapping her light green arm around her friend and sitting beside of him. "... It isn't your fault, Rodo... You could have never foreseen this..." She urged, looking down to him, as the process of fusing with Lucario's DNA had altered his height slightly. Celeste herself was surprised to have grown taller from receiving the code of Celebi, a very petite pokemon. "... If it wasn't for you, we wouldn't have escaped..."<br/><br/>"If it wasn't for me, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place..." the other replied softly, sighing. "... To think, I let Giovani trick me into doing this research..."<br/><br/>"... Rodo... If I had a brother, I would have..."<br/><br/>"... You wouldn't have done the same thing, don't even try to say you would..."<br/><br/>Celeste fell silent, then slowly lifted her arm... It was obvious Rodo needed time to get used to all of this... At such a young age, he was already a prominent scientist, and a former employee of Team Rocket... He seemed to have everything, except the funds to research a cure for his terminally ill brother. He believed that mixing pokemon and human genes could create a cure, but he never dreamed this would happen... She sighed before floating off, looking back at him a last time with her emerald eyes. "... I'm going to patrol the forest... Rumors of normal humans are spreading like wildfire, and I have to find out if they are true... Be careful, okay?" Rodo nodded before the girl flew off, and he let out a laborious sigh.