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QUEEN of PAIN

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At the start of the reboot era in Archie Sonic, there had been what seemed to be a major side quest arc that got kicked off when Wacky Wally (Naugus) touched Nicole's hand-held and somehow caused her to spontaneously become a discharge foci for residual Genesis Wave energy. Prior to that point, the only people with pre-reboot memories had been Sonic, Eggman, Orbot, and Cubot, and none of these four had any memories of the reboot timeline until this sidequest was started.

And then, within a week or two of in-game time upon the last of the residual Genesis Wave Energy being distributed, with everyone that could regain their pre-reboot memories getting those memories, those same memories faded away and everyone, even the original four to have nothing but reboot memories, only remembered the new timeline as the old one was seemingly completely forgotten.

So let's explore what might happen if there had been an actual purpose to this abandoned side quest (instead of the writers deciding that it wasn't actually going anywhere). A purpose that an Outsider got dragged into, told nothing about, and made a receptacle of those lost memories, all hosted in a body that does not belong to the new iteration of Mobius: that of Metal Sally…
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Why "that" scene was included in Metal Sally's background when it was never directly shown in the official comic New
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Hey, I've been trying to find the source for this image, do you have it?
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It's from issue three of Sonic Retold, a fancomic continuation of the pre-reboot timeline by Chris "Glitcher" Reavey. Specifically pulled from a flashback scene covered in pages 5-8 that was heavily implied by canon events to have happened at the end of issue 232 of the pre-reboot timeline, but never officially shown on panel for understandable reasons. It's a powerful scene, highly evocative of how Eggman was during that particular time in the official pre-reboot timeline, and while not explicitly canon because it is only ever alluded to rather than explained directly, fits Eggman and Snively as presented in the main comic so well that I like to include it in my own personal head-canon as to how those events went down.

Bit of a warning though: Sonic Retold is a "fix-it" fic in which Glitcher includes several non-canon elements that "correct" issues with the comic he didn't agree with, such as the Echidnae not being banished in his version of events. Which, fine, it's his story, most of it is handled well, and it gives us a timeline where the Echidnae were not banished. But it also includes more questionable scenes that, while they are plausible as something Eggman would do, were never even alluded to in the official comics. Such as the scene depicted on pages 3-4 of the same issue in which Eggman has Lien-Da come to him while Orbot, Cubot, and Metal Sally are attending to him while he bathes. Which, sure, fine, I can see it as something Eggman would do, but that particular conversation with Lien-Da could have literally taken place anywhere else and not lost any plot elements.

I like to include the scene from pages 5-8 as part of the background of my versions of Metal Sally specifically because, between the implications hinted at in the main comic and the comparisons between Mecha Sally (the Sally Acorn from immediately after being hit by the effects of the World Roboticizer) and Metal Sally (the Sally Acorn from after Eggman explicitly rebuilt and weaponized Sally around her core components), a scene very much like this one had to have happened off-panel. Glitcher's scene has Eggman listening to opera as he works. I like to think that Eggman listens to something a bit more Metal instead, or at least closer to his themes from the videogames.

But the specific reason I gravitate towards using that scene and that particular image to represent a very traumatic point in Metal Sally's experience is that it is the minimum that Eggman had to have done to her for Mecha Sally to become Metal Sally.
 
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