Disclaimer: I don't own anyone you see here. At all. Also, I will tell you now…while I'm not particularly fond of Miss Sally, I DO RESPECT HER. Blame my friend for the idea (if you read this, you know who you are. Don't deny it.) Also, I don't know a lot about the SatAM, Fleetway, OR Archie worlds, so don't yell at me for getting some facts wrong. Just tell me and I'll try and change them.

Blackness. That's all she could see.

"Wha…where am I?" she thought. "How did I get here? Wasn't I just…" A sudden sharp pain stopped her mid sentence.

"Ow! What the…" Suddenly, the blackness seemed to be fading. In it's place was a white light, and it continually got brighter, and brighter, until it was blinding, but she couldn't close her eyes or turn her head. Brighter, brighter, brighter…

Her eyes snapped open. Through her left eye, she saw that she was back in Knothole. Judging by the sight of Dr. Quack, she was also in the infirmary. Funnily enough, she could see nothing through the other, but she dismissed her concern for now. "Uh…Dr. Quack? What happened? Why am I here?" The doctor seemed…distraught, to say the least. "Hmm…I take it you don't remember, then." "Remember? Remember what?"

The good doctor seemed to have difficulty getting his words out. "Er…you see, you, Sonic, Bunnie, and Antoine recently went on a mission to Robotropolis to-"

"Try to destroy a new high-speed Swatbot factory he'd built!" Everything had suddenly come rushing back. The plan was simple. Get in, plant a bomb, distract the guards long enough so that they couldn't disarm it, and get out before everything was blown to bits. Everything had gone smoothly, until it was time to get out. She and Sonic were to escape last together, to make sure everything was all good, but by an unfortunate twist of fate, Sonic was clear across the expansive room being forced to dodge massive laser fire from a half dozen Swatbots, and time was running out. Bunnie and Ant had gone already, and if they didn't too, they would be nothing but blackened stains.

In a near suicidal move, she had raced across the room, and managed to take out two of the Swatbots before they turned on her. The last things she saw was Sonic rushing to her as she felt a sharp pain in the back of her head…

"What all happened? I remember Sonic, fighting Swatbots…a sharp pain…then nothing. What's going on?"

With a sigh, Quack seemed to just give up. "I…I really don't know how to say this…so I won't. Just… look at your right hand." Lifting it up, she was beyond shocked.

Her entire right arm was metal.

He handed he a small mirror. "Look in it." Feeling a sense of dread, she took the mirror. What she saw chilled her to her bones.

Half of her face was roboticized. With wide eyes, she looked down at her body, to find out that the same thing happened to the right half of her torso. Shell-shocked wasn't even the word. She was immobilized with fright. "Wha…how did…?" She couldn't finish the sentence.

Fortunately, Dr. Quack helped her out. "How did you become like that? Well, according to Sonic, you got knocked out by a lucky-or in this case, unlucky-blast from one of a team of backup Swatbots that had arrived. Sonic lost all rational thought, and jumped to save you, but in his lapse of judgment, he was shot and knocked out too."

This snapped Sally out of her shocked state. "What? Shot? Where is he? Is he okay?" Dr. Quack held his hand out in front of him as if physically warding off the barrage of questions. "Whoa! Don't worry, he's fine now. That escape from Robotnik's fortress took a lot out of him."

Once again, Sally was confused. "Escape? Now what are you talking about?"

Dr. Quack sighed. "I should've expected this." Getting a slight glare from Sally, he cleared his throat, and continued. "Er, anyway, according to Sonic, you both were captured and taken to Robotnik's lair, where he attempted to roboticize you both. You were unconscious, so he went for you first…Sonic couldn't quite escape from his restraints in time…" "I see…" "He thinks it's all his fault. He's holed himself up in his hut, and won't come out." "Oh…it's not his fault! I was the one who-" The doctor shushed her. "Now, now, there's no use in placing blame." The important thing is that you're alright…relatively speaking. Now tell me…Can you see anything out of your right eye?

Sally shook her head. "No, just black." Quack nodded. "I thought so. I don't think the roboticized parts of you are fully functional yet. They may take a while to kick in, or they may just not work without a bit of tampering."

"So…unless I get work done, I may not see out of my right eye again?" That's right."

She sighed. "…Well? Get Rotor in here." As Quack sent one of the nurses to fetch Rotor, she couldn't help but feel that things were never going to be the same…