June 1995
Time to close out "Deadliest Of The Species" folks! Fake Sally and crew are in the middle of their assault on Robotropolis. Fake Sally saves Hamlin from getting shot to death for some reason. Anyway they barge into a room where Robotnik and GEOFFREY ST. JOHN are waiting. Hamlin (who turned out to be correct in his suspicions) jumps him but Fake Sally forces him off. Robotnik then reveals that she is a fake, using the substation ploy to give him time to complete and test the model out. Proven successful, we see other Freedom Fighter duplicates in construction (this would be a cool issue if it happens). Robotnik starts the roboticization process on the real Sally, but it short-circuits. Turns out that Fake Sally was actually Real Sally the WHOLE TIME, so the machine shorted out because the Sally in the pod was the fake. Also this meant that GEOFFREY ST. JOHN has reached Revolver Ocelot level of double-crossing as he was on Sally's side.
Robotnik pulls out Plan B, which consists of Stealthbots emerging to take out the crew. However GEOFFREY ST. JOHN signals for his fellow rebels, who appeared from underground to launch an assault (Arlo and Penelope are part of this group, telling us they are okay. Damn it). Sally kicks Robotnik in the nuts. One last trump card for Robotnik: he sets the fortress to self-destruct in 30 seconds and escapes in some tube. Luckily, and conveniently, the entire gang find some air cars that allow them to escape just before the fortress blows up. This means all the robot duplicates of the FF went down as well. Sally promotes the trainees to full-fledged Freedom Fighters as I punch myself a few times. Then we're told about Sally and GEOFFREY ST. JOHN's plan: turns out that the substation missions from the first two issues were actually led by Fake Sally, so the switcheroo at the end of the last issue reawakened the real Sally, who pretended to be the duplicate in order to fool Robotnik.
Sally wants GEOFFREY ST. JOHN to join the FF at Knothole, but he turns it down saying the rebel underground needs him. Before he takes off though, he grabs Sally and MAKES OUT WITH HER HARDCORE!!! What a stud. Seriously if you want to learn how to be an alpha, be like GEOFFREY ST. JOHN.
The issue ends with a brilliant line from Sally as she is walking back to Knothole, "And what of my heart? Where once there was one...now there are two." OH **** things are about to heat up!
A 14 year old kid asks Sally to be his girlfriend. He loves her pretty eyes and beautiful red hair. I wish I was making this up. Would you have any idea what the term "furry" meant if you were asked in 1995?
That wraps up the mini-series. I was surprised to find how good it was, I definitely like Sally a lot more than I ever had (I always thought she was alright but nothing too special until this point). Also I just want to say this one more time since I might be able to for awhile: GEOFFREY ST. JOHN! Totally made the series. I really really hope there's a fight scene between him and Sonic somewhere down the line.
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