"Ugh...Anybody get the number of that bus that hit me?" Surge muttered as she awoke, holding her throbbing head in her hand. Working past the pain she felt while sitting up, she tried to remember how she got here. *She remembered fighting Sonic and Eggman with the help of the Dynamo cage. Yeah, she'd had that hedgehog on the ropes! She was just about to end him!

But...Then what happened?

"I wouldn't worry about it too much." A familiar voice said from behind her. Startled, Surge whipped around to see the ghostly visage of Dr. Starline mocking her while leaning on a street sign. "After all, it's not like lost memories are a new concept for you." He finished with a smirk. Surge just growled and ignored him before looking around her new environment.

All around her, pristine buildings practically shined in the afternoon sun, and supposedly happy people simply walked by each other, as if in a gleeful daze. Signs advertising "CWC Cola," and "Dating Education Classes" littered the tops of those buildings. "Cwcville Mall." Surge read off the top of the tallest building towards the center. "Cwcville?" She'd never heard of a place like THAT before. And the serene nature of the place was starting to put her on edge.

"Hmm. That mall must be the center of the town. Perhaps you should go there." The apparition of Starline suggested. Surge REALLY didn't want to listen to this guy at the moment, but at the same time, it wasn't like she had any better ideas, so she relented and began walking toward the mall.

Inside of the mall, the walls were somehow even brighter than they were outside. Through means the green tenrec couldn't even BEGIN to imagine, the people in charge of painting these walls had found the most bright and reflective shade of white they could find and plastered it all over the walls between stores. Surge had to squint her eyes to prevent being blinded as her eyes adjusted, but that took just long enough that she ended up running straight into a pink hedgehog of some kind.

"OH NO! I'm SO sorry!" the pink hedgehog said, as she picked up the bags of clothes she had dropped when running into Surge. "Uh, yeah! You SHOULD be!" Surge replied, deflecting the fact that SHE was the one who caused this little run-in, before grunting and helping the pink hedgehog pick up her bags. "Huh. These don't seem like YOUR type of fit." She remarked, observing the hedgehog's more conservative manner of dressing, vs the clothes in the bags that even Surge would raise an eyebrow at the thought of wearing. "Yeah, well, it's the type of stuff I NEED to wear to get past all of those things people are saying about me online."

"Oh? Got yerself some damn dirty trolls, do ya?" Surge asked, crossing her arms. the pink hedgehog nodded sadly. "Yeah. Lots of people look at me in the most disgusting ways. Call me weak, say I'm just some dumb bimbo..." The pink hedgehog trailed off, before looking Surge up and down. "But I bet nobody picks on YOU like that."

"Oh, I don't know about THAT..." Surge said, somewhat embarrassed. "No, I'm serious! You look SO cool! OH! Can you teach ME how to be like that? We can go over to MY house, and I'll make cookies!"

Surge initially wanted to deflect and decline the offer...But then she saw the reflection of Starline in a nearby shop window, staring at her like she was a delicious morsel he was about to consume. "Uh...Yeah, that'd be...Great."

"GREAT! My name's Rosechu!"

"Surge." the tenrec reluctantly replied, before being whisked away by the pink hedgehog.

*IDW Sonic's "Overpowered" arc