SALLY not SALLY (a broken SI in the Archie Sonic setting)

[Tangent]

The MISSING VARIABLE
A Sally not Sally side story by Tangent​

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Dr. Julian Ivo Robotnik idly mused as he ate the meal he had been served in his cell.

Which was certainly of much better quality than the food he bothered to feed the prisoners he kept. The little freaks even gave him a daily menu of options to choose from for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and an evening snack. Sentimental idiots, the lot of them - even the ones that wanted him dead. They really should have killed him while they had the chance.

Not that he was going to complain overly much about that if they didn't. Although he planned to thoroughly rub it in their faces at the next practical opportunity.

Here he was supposedly at their mercy, and yet he lived solely because he was no longer roboticized. He remembered them being far more ruthless when he was a robot. But no, he was currently tragically organic, so as long as he was caught, they were actually treating him by their rules: as a prisoner awaiting trial.

Amusingly enough, his pending trial was shoved to the backburner by the ongoing trial of that fool, Geoffrey St. John. The skunk had tried too hard to be like his father and had been easy for Robotnik to manipulate in much the same way he had manipulated the old regime. And it was fairly obvious that Naugus had done the same thing once Robotnik was done with the fool.

The trial of St. John would be over already if he wasn't such a politically charged figure that many still thought of as a war hero.

Granted, the delays were the main reason Dr. Robotnik hadn't bothered to leave yet. They may have changed the security procedures since the last time he had been a prisoner, but he had already figured out how to bypass everything within four days of being here.

The simplest one being the Tails Doll that the rabbit child was carrying around, but he has plenty of other options as well.

No, he could have left as early as last week. He stayed solely because he was fishing for information.

Why had the Genesis Wave Device failed to activate? Conclusion: it hadn't. Something had happened to undo his glorious Mobius Without a Sonic.

Why had the World Roboticizer failed so spectacularly as to produce such an anomalous result as the Mecha Sally without actually converting Sally Acorn into Mecha Sally? Conclusion: He had tried to activate it too soon after the Genesis Wave had readjusted reality and the one wavefront disrupted the other, producing unexpected results.

Why did the control overlay program fail to place Mecha Sally under his command? See conclusion 2 for the most probable cause. Still, it might be interesting to get ahold of the rogue unit to see what had actually happened.

Well, he was done with dinner, and he wasn't likely to learn much more just sitting here. Setting the tray neatly to the side and slipping the small device he had assembled from parts of the very cell they were holding him in, Dr. Julian Ivo Robotnik pressed the button and simply walked out as the nanites that made up this ridiculous city moved aside for him.

Idiots, the lot of them. Exiling the one asset they had that could have prevented exactly this…

Spoiler: Dr. Julian Ivo Robotnik of House Ivo

 

[Tangent]

Bernie & Jules Hedgehog

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Just thought I'd share what Sonic's parents in the Archie Sonic setting look like.

And yes, they do currently wear Power Rings on their wrists as wedding bands (their original wedding rings were lost at some point).

 

[Tangent]

Here, have some silly sisterly nonsense involving Sally and Autumn:

 

[Tangent]

Yeah, I couldn't figure out a name for Autumn's hoverbike, so I thought that I'd ask you guys for suggestions.

Autumn's hoverbike is now The Blue Rose.

It is NOT the Marvelous Queen (Nack the Weasel still has his beloved hoverbike). In fact, it's not even the same model as the Marvelous Queen (Autumn misremembered its appearance and currently believes that they are the same model when they clearly aren't).

Spoiler: Riding a little low...

Spoiler: Autumn Rose Acorn's hoverbike

 

[Tangent]

After reading over a bunch of suggested names, themes, and the reasonings behind some of them on SpaceBattles, Sufficient Velocity, and Questionable Questing, I have finally felt the spark of inspiration and picked...

The Blue Rose​

 

[Tangent]

I present to you Elias and Megan Acorn with their daughter, Alexis, in the new Village of Acorn:

And yes, Elias adopted his sister's style little Alexis, so she is an official member of House Acorn if not a bloodline heir. As far as succession goes, currently that means that Elies is Heir Presumptive, becoming a secondary heir if Sally ever has children of her own, with Alexis currently being ineligible as a potential heir due to her not being an Acorn by bloodline. Not that her parents want her involved in politics, given all the headaches Elias had during his term as King.

Spoiler: Rosie babysitting Alexis

Alexis: "Aunt Rosie! What big hair you have!"

Rosie: "All the better to be an Eighties Rock Star!"

 

[Tangent]

Here, have a nice visual of how big and battle-worn Peggy Puma is:

And Rosie threw her across a street...

Not that Peggy was resisting that toss very much, so I'm not sure how that counts.

Anyway, yeah, she's... missing a few pieces. Had a few replacements. Her color coat is basically long gone. And it fell off, okay?

Not the leg, that was pulled off. The other thing fell off...

 

[Tangent]

Meet the seamstress who is going to be resolving Rosie's issue with pants.

She is very short (shorter than Cream).

She is a mole.

She...

Unidentified Mole Seamstress: "Let's not beat around the bush, Dahling - I design for Gods! But the Walkers have terrible fashion sense, Enerjak is too difficult to work with, and the closest thing we have to superheroes either run around willy-nilly wearing nothing but shoes and gloves or is a hologram who wears holograms. And my first actual challenge went out and bought her own clothes without considering how she would get them on and off every day."

Spoiler: I design for Gods! But I suppose that you'll have to do...

I'm trying to avoid the obvious pun (and apparently blatantly losing in a most glorious manner).

But if anyone wants to avoid having her named Edna Mole, now's your chance.

But make your suggestions quick, because she's appearing in the very next chapter!

 

[Tangent]

Training with d'Coolette

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Believe it or not, Antoine d'Coolette is actually pretty good with a sword.

 

[Tangent]

Training with Monkey Khan​

Well, if Antoine seems to be lackluster as a combat mentor, how does everyone feel about Rosie being trained by somebody who actually does fight off entire armies by himself?

Very few individuals are on a level where they can hold their own against Sonic the Hedgehog without actually having the required speed.

Monkey Khan is one of those very few who hold that distinction.

Spoiler: Monkey Khan

 

[Tangent]

Sally does, in fact, wear pants. She considers them part of her duty uniform for her position in the current government of the Republic of Acorn.

She's also wearing the actual Crown of Acorn, not the dinky little decorative circlet her mother wore as queen, nor the very same circlet from the 35 years in the future stories where either Sonic or Shadow wear the Crown of Acorn instead.

Anyway, this outfit is based on the outfits that Max and Elias wore when they were kings. Which is why Sally chose to have hers made along the same lines.

Also, she can fight in this outfit. If she wore a dress, she'd have to figure out how to fight in it.