Sally AcornVoice Actor (English)Ashleigh BallVoice Actor (Japanese)Rikako AikawaSpeciesSquirrelGenderFemaleAge16 or 17Color SchemeBrown squirrel with dark red hair and blue vest and bootsEye ColorBlueLikes, flowers, poetryDislikesN/ASkillsNoneSally Acorn is a guest character in the fan fiction series, The Adventures of Amy and Tiff. Her only appearance was in, thus she never appeared with or any of the secondary/minor characters.AppearanceIn The Adventures of Amy and Tiff, Sally has longer legs, just like in the.Counterparts.
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Sally's Online AvatarFull Name: Princess Sally Alecia AcornAlias: Juice Bean, D.J. Aelita, LightrunnerRace: Genetic Hybrid, chipmunk/squirrel 'Fuzor'Age: Not givenD.O.B.: April 25th, XXXXFur: brown and creamHair: maroonEyes: blueInate element: noneHybrid ability: Temporal Perception Manipulation (TPM); able to alter her own or others' perception of timePrefered equipment: OGPX issue Overdrive Sandals, OGPX issue bioware self-assebling memory-cell alloy nanofiber suitPrefered weapons: C.H.R.O.N.U.S.
Utility watch (equipped with cuttinglaser, Micro Shuriken Launcher, ultrasonic generator, energy blade 'Quick Sword', grappling hook/stinger, Quantum Discus, AEON Clipper,etc.Other: C.I.P.H.E.R. Portable megaframe hololythic projection computerVehicle of Choice: UCIAT Prototype Vehicle, 'Wheels', 1970 Ford MustangFavorite Food: Protein Bars, Protein Milkshakes, Roast DuckFavorite Music Genre: Speed Metal, Electronica, TechnoFavorite TV Show: Overdrive Grand Prix (O.G.P.X.), Turbotropolis Speedyway Light Cycle Grand Prix, Pro HyperballTheme A: by Judas PriestTheme B: by Michael JacksonPersonality Profile:Sally Acorn is not the person she used to be. She has long sincereinvented herself and rebooted her life. And many would never believeshe was of royal heratage.
But as she will testify, those days are deadand buried with the ashes and dust of her kingdom and its people. Whileher story may seem familiar to anyone who has heard the tale oflong-lost heirs to the throne of a kingdom, Sally is the real deal.However it's a story Sally has closed the chapter on, only looking backwhen she has to. Too many painful memories and too many loved once gonefor her to bear, Sally asks herself if she's running away from the pastor toward the future.or just.running.Sally has lived the majority of the 'after times' of her life inTechnopolis, Neo Arcadia having found her future as an athlete in theprototype, powered, foot race known as the Overdrive Grand Prix-a sportwhich makes use of a universal bio-electric field runnjing the planetin a grid to fuel superenhancing bioware suits and solar-fusion powered,speed-boosting Overdrive Sandals. This equipment radically amplifies awearer's enate abilities to supersonic levels with capacity for shortbursts of quantum-level speed, greatly augmented jumping, intensifiedacrobatic ability, and strengthened durability to withstand theincredible stress levels from the power generated. And supplementingthat is an OGPX issue, self-assembling nanofiber jet suit made frommemory cell alloy, digitally stored as data and recalled as matter fromher utility watch, CHRONUS. When deployed, this suit allows Sally totake flight using jet burner 'moth wings' in combination with boosters,and thrusters, allowing her to pull of many aerial stunts in thegravity-twisting, magnetic-assisted EMF 'matter wave' race track of themad, bad, and crazy rollercoaster tracks of the OGPX-tracks whichrandomly and spontaneously alter their own obstacles and racingconditions multiple times per lap. A feature which makes it less a footrace and more like a gauntlet obstacle course.
Some even claiming it tobe right out of a video game.Sally has raced her way into the pros and is now two-time OverdriveGrand Prix Pro Circuit Champion. Having been located by Princess Violet,Sally has been reunited with her friend and confidant, fellow Ecotropiasurvivor, Bunnie Rabbotou.Those who know Sally now describe her as bold, confident, and laid backwith a free-spirit's drive and one to give a 'Heh.' Grin when things lookchallenging or complicated. On the surface, Sally may seem like areckless risk-taker who's as bad as Ripper when it comes to showing offand pulling stunts. But Sally spends an inordinate time behind thescenes, planning out her moves and her methodologies while consideringsafety measures and dangers, often coming up with contingiencies for theunexpected. To date Sally has had no incidents of recorded accident orinjury nor any cases of property damage.
While some will call it theDevil's Luck, those who know better confirm that Sally is a lot morecareful than she's given credit for. Sally lives by the motto 'Speed isno substitute for common sense.'
Underneath the surface, Sally is an educated scholar and a verymeticulous planner. Versed in many sciences and excelling especially inkinematics and the physics of speed, motion, and probablistic behaviorof moving objects, Sally runs 3-D computer model simulations of many ofthe moves and multiple-step manuvers in her repetoir in advance beforeattempting them in the field. Whens he's not actually zipping around,leaving neon blue light contrails, Sally is one to put her mentalprowess to the test, offering her insight and helping UCI strategizeduring pre-planning for major missions.Sally's friends all know her to be quite the go-getter. Having therecord for most number of accepted UCI Fieldwork in the team, no one canaccuse her of slacking off. As easily one of the hardest workingmembers of the action team, Sally easily redefines the wordoverachiever. When off the track and not on mission, Sally seeks thelights and sounds of the nightlife as 'D.J.
Aelita', spinning her soundson the twin turntable mixer-board.History:That Guy.and Sally. And Other Friends, Too:Sally's beginnings were certainly not humble. As the daughter of KingMaximillian Acorn and Queen Alecia Acorn, Sally was born with a silverspoon in her mouth and would grow into the mold of the typical spoiledroyal. Being quite smart for her young age, Sally was a promisingscholar. Her teachers loved her because she'd often prove smarter thanthey were. A lot of the students found her to be the proverbialteacher's pet and a know-it-all goody-two-shoes.
That coupled with beinga princess had made her a little stuckup. Fortunately she had achild-hood friend who'd prove to be her foil, reeling in her Mary-Suetendancies. And the two of them would argue off and on. And usually he'dend up winning the arguement the cheap way-by running off in themiddle of Sally's lecture. And that always proved aggrevating because ofhis Hybrid Ability of super speed. If that weren't bad enough, he wasalways eating those disgusting cheese coneys.
How could anyone possibleeat those things? As if that weren't enough was it REALLY necessary forhim to belch their stench in her direction? He was SO not Sally's dreamprince charming.That guy wasn't the only headache in her life. There was that squire.Antoine D'Cooliette.
His father was one of King Acorn's closest friendsand by extension that meant he and Sally would see a lot of each other,much to Sally's frustration. It wasn't any one thing in particular thatbugged her about him. He was the foreign kid. Sure his accent was exoticand most would find it romantic. But not Sally. And he was alwaystrying to prove himself the brave soldier.but he was always jumping athis own shadow. And boy was he ever accident prone!
Just how manypriceless vases had he shattered in a domino effect because he trippedover his own feet?! Then there was his overbearing need to be a littletoo friendly if not brown-nosing. Yes, as a member of the royal court itwas understood that the proper level of formality had to be show to themembers of the Royal Family.
But he just insisted on taking it too far.If it weren't for the fact that he was 8 and she was 5, Sally wouldhave probably concluded he was trying to woo her.wait, that wasexactly what he was trying to do. Oh, Sally was soooo not interested.About the only strength she could ascribe to him was that he had.' And that was a forced compliment.Not everyone she knew drove her nuts. The Minister of Science had anjunior assistant shadowing him named Rotor Walrus. But his friends hadnicknamed him Boomer.
A little shy but that was one of hislikeable characteristics. And he was just a loveable goof. And easier toput up with than that incorrible mutual friend of theirs. Why he andRotor were friends often seemed a mystery but Rotor insisted he was acool guy. He was just.impatient and a little rambunctious. Sallywarned that he was going to get Rotor in trouble by association butRotor at that early point in his life lightheartedly replied that he'd take his chances.And then there was the baby. A cute lil fox born to Amadeus and RosemaryPrower.
The lil' guy was cute as a button and seemed to be happy aroundSally. But it was unnerving that the little guy was equally comfortablearound that.that troublemaking mutual friend of theirs. Oooh, he madSally so mad that she'd go for lengthy periods of time pretending not toremember his name.oh wait, that's right.
Cute as abutton. Looked at Sally with lil' brotherly eyes. Had and extratail-HELLOOOO! That was probably not normal. And even daddydearest didn't have an answer to give Sally what that was all about.And lastly there was the new girl. Bunnie Mei Rabbotou. Finally someoneSally's own age and gender.
And she was so cool. Bunnie was from theoriental country of Jang and had seen all kinds of fascinating thingsthat Sally was overly curious to learn about. Obediently, Bunnieanswered all of Sally's questions and catered to her needs as she hadbeen trained and instructed to do.
Though Sally wasn't comfortable withBunnie being just a mere servant. She was hoping Bunnie would see hermore as a friend and open up to her on a personnel level, even remarkingonce that Bunnie didn't have to act 'like a robot' around her. Aftersome coaxing and persuading, the young Rabbotou agreed to go beyondLady-In-Waiting and be Sally's best friend.Brother Dearest:Elias was always busy with his studies. Being the elder sibling, thePrince didn't get to see as much of Sally as he would have liked to.Maybe the lack of sibling companionship was an issue, maybe it wasn't.But Elias tried to be a good brother when he could and was alwayslooking out for lil' sis. But he had learned early on that his life waspretty much already planned out. Something young Sally was stillignorant-she was at that age where being a princess was the same asbeing on top of the world. And hopefully Elias would get toguide her through the ups and downs since he was already living thatpart of life.
Infatuated with the old-fashioned and traditional ways,daddy-dears would probably not hear of Elias' true sentiments on hisfuture as king. Elias just wasn't that into being king. Besides.he hada feeling that Sally would make a better ruler than him.
Elias justdidn't wish that life on his little sister, either.The World Ends With Who? Not Us, Fools!:It was as the song lyric went: 'Nothing ever lasts forever. Everybodywants to rule the world.' And that's exactly the fate Vorostovianleaders had scripted for their neighbor kingdom. Ecotropia had lived in arather comfy paradise in a not-so-comfy location. If things had beendifferent, their land would have been part of Neo Arcadia and notVorostov territory.
But Vorostov was forming a nice little fissurebetween Neo Arcadian soil and the golden kingdom. In the Legion ofNations, Neo Arcadia maintained strong healthy ties with Ecotropia andEdoropia. For Vorostov to make a move on their neighbors would drawplenty of suspcion.As a country, Vorstov's people weren't necessarily evil or prejudice.But like any people all it takes is the right campain, the rightpropoganda, and the right incentives.and the flock of sheep wouldfollow its lead into the ninth circle of Hell. The situation however wasvolatile. Just marching into Ecotropia territory and pillaging themblind would be a horrid move and the entire Legion of Nations would eatthe whole country alive; someone would most assuredly scream 'hatecrime' above the masses and Vorostov did not need its reputationtarnished with that kind of global media circus. But if left alone, theterrible famine and the increasing poverty within Vorostov would meanits people would call its leaders on campain promises they failed todeliver on. And a lot of greedy politicians were not about to be knownas the men and women who let Vorostov get sucked down into the ninthcircle of Hell.
'It was either us or them. And we choose them.' Ecotropia had to be sacrificed for the good of the larger, moredesparate country.But a treasury of riches would only keep the economystimulated for a short time before equilibrium set in. And a city offood and cuisine wouldn't be nearly enough to ration to a whole country.The lesson to be learned was simple-give a man a fish and he'll be fedfor a day; teach a man to fish and he'll never starve.
So th e questionwas: what did Ecotropia know that skyrocketed it to its success?RPM:Royal Portable Megaframe. What was the Royal Portable Megaframe? Inshort: the Genie's Lamp. The Golden Goose. The Holy Grail.It was the answer to everything. It was a seed in the form of anartificial intelligence which controlled a database.no.it controlledTHE database.
It held Ecotropia's very legacy; its past, itspresent, and the blueprint for guiding its future. Every drop of wisdomevery guru in the city-kingdoms history, every scientific discovery andtheory every scientist had ever come up with, every cure for diseaseseven Vorostov hadn't eradicated yet, every stock market model, everycorporate plan, ever conceiveable weath of information from what popsong was in that year to secrets that only the Royal Family was trustedto. Ecotropia's very culture, history, identity and its secrets tosuccess were right here, ripe for the picking. Enough collectiveknowledge, wisdom, and data to reboot a city from its ruin to once againthriving within a compressed period of time. Or evolve a city's growthand expanding, taking it far beyond the rest of the world's progress.The route to Megalopolis.
It sounded more like a fairy tale thananything. But it was real. And Vorostovian leaders wanted it. Theywanted it enough that they were desparate to rip it from King Acorn'scorpse and hold it aloft.
But that was just as bad for image aspillaging the city.Sally had been told not to go near it let alone touch it. But thecomputer's A.I, known as Next-generation Intelligence ConstructHololythic Operations Library Element (N.I.C.H.O.L.E.) was.nice totalk to. And Sally curiousity just couldn't be contained. HoweverMaximillian was adamant that the RPM was to be handed down to herbrother, Elias on the day of his coronation; a responsibility he wouldhandle with honor and pride. Ecotropia's future would be in his hands.Some Don't Seek Anything Logical (They Only Desire to See the World Burn):A select number of Vorostovian leaders was projecting a bleek future for the country unless something drastic was done.In the cover of night, in the dark recesses of a secret chamberunderneath their capital's government citadel, a Secret Society tookshape. It was an insult; a proud nation like Vorostov playing secondfiddle to a kingdom infested with talking porcupines in high tops andmange-ridden walnut-eaters who dared to wear robes and crowns.
And whoknows how many other species of filthy Hybrid beasts. They needed to beput in their place and spend a few humbling centuries in Vorostov'sshoes. Some poverty and famine and sickness of their own would do thetrick. But first the country's heart had to be cut out.
That RPM was thekey to everything. Now how to get it without Neo Arcadia or the rest ofthe world catching them in the act?The name of the mercenary outfit the Vorostivian Secret Society hadcalled on has since faded from the pages of history but they claimed tobe the best and seemed to have the credentials to back it up. And theirfee was unusually cheap.
It was perfect. As long as they kept theirmouths shut, delivered the goods (and maybe some spoils of war along theway), and disappeared for good, then Ecotropia's days were trulynumbered. And Vorostov wouldn't have any blood on their hands, let aloneanything to tie them to Ecotropia's inevitable downware spiral. WhileNeo Arcadia's satellite province would be left to bleed a slow death,Vorostov would slowly ascend to greatness without drawing suspicion.And so it was that the mercenary army was assembled and set up theweapons, gear, and equipment needed to cut Ecotropia off from the worldwith its allies being none the wiser and Vorostov itself not having anyknowledge of the operation.
With Ecotropia falling into anelectromagnetic dead zone and every method of contact with the outsideworld suddenly vanishing this was the prelude to the storm. And it wasthen they swept into the city. Too numerous for words, too powerful tostop, too well armed for Ecotropia's military to withstand.
And toobrutal for any man, woman, or child to ever grasp. The palace walls werebreached and everything had fallen into place like clockwork. Victorywas at hand and Vorstov's Secret Society were the big winners.NOT. The double-cross was upon Vorostov's leaders. The people theythought they had entrusted to do the job were not who they said theirwere. And it was made clear when the fee that they had innitally takenwas dropped in the society's laps-burned to cinders. It was then clearthat Vorostov's politicians had gotten themselves in over their heads.The lesson to be learned was that there was a breed of being with whichthere was something fundamentally wrong.
This kind of person was lessthan human.morally depraved.and utterly ruthless. They had quicklylearned that there were people in the world.people who could not bebribed.could not be bought.could not be bullied.could not bereasoned with.
They sought nothing logical. The mercenaries that theSecret Society had unleashed had only one goal: to erase Ecotropia offthe face of the planet just for the sport of it. And no one would liveto tell the story.The slaughter would have been too much for a horror movie.
Nothing andno one was spared. Destruction and death echoed through the city wallsuntil the walls themselves were gone.Destiny Changes Hands:Sally's wake-up call to reality was cruel but she didn't deserve it. Not like this. First her mother and then.Frozen in fear and covered in her father's blood, Sally could only lookat his murder like a deer facing approaching headlights. This was theend of the road.
But at the last moment the road took a detour with awell placed katana cleaving a monster in half. It was impossible to tellwho was more stunned-Bunnie or Sally.
But there was no time to argue.The girls had to escape. In her haste, Sally was very reluctant toleave. Before Bunnie finally dragged her out of the room, Sally hadtaken the Royal Portable Mainframe from her father's lifeless body, eyesfilled with tears.The escape through the fiery inferno was death-defying at every turn.For a brief moment, Sally and a fleeing Elias under the protection ofwhat few Royal Guards were left, would make eye contact before moreenemies would give chase. It was the last time Sally would see herbrother alive. Wishing she had gone back for him, Sally begrudginglyfollowed Bunnie onward.
But then someone showed up that made Sally stopin her tracks. That mutal friend of theirs. Sally had gotten into theworst argument of their lives with him earlier that day. She had toapologize but now wasn't the time.
She had to get to- Too late. Theceiling had collapsed, cutting them off from each other. And with thatSally was devastated that her first friend was gone.and she never toldhim that she was sorry.The two girls had made it outside and away from the city moments beforethe massive ball of light swallowed up the city.
By then most of themercs had gotten out and were sweeping up whomever was attempting to getout of dodge. When the last of the smoke cleared only a deep,disturbingly spherical crater had swallowed up any existance of the onceglorious kingdom and its surrounding area.Parting Ways:Bunnie had managed to get Sally to a tiny group of survivors of theRoyal Court who swore on their lives to get the Princess to Neo Arcadia.Sally was disturbingly silent the whole time and emotionlessly followedher benefactors, not arguing or protesting once. The princess wasoverwhelmed by the realizations that set in and fell into a deep funk,painfully humbled by the experience.Sally's trek from the borders of Ecotropia would lead her across theVorostov territory. Her benefactors promised to get her to Neo Arcadia.It didn't matter to Sally.
She had nothing to live for. At least she hadthe company of NICHOLE.to keep her anchored to some semblance tosanity.Unbeknownst to Sally, Elias would survive but it would be brought to hisattention that even his little sister had been taken from this world.Stained by hatred, Elias had lost everything. There was nowhere for himto go but into the abyss. And he'd be taking the guilty ones with him.In short, the only thing left was revenge. Elias gathered survivors-menwho were willing to follow him into Hell for the cause if need be.
Theplan was simple: round up the mercenary guerillas and do unto them whatthey had done to their kingdom. It was a long and arduous plan spanning alengthy amount of time in which many of Elias' men did pay the ultimateprice. But it culminated into the final step in his plan. The mercscould not pass up the chance to eradicate another Hybrid city.
Lured todomed city and into its very epicenter, the tables would turn as Elias'strap was sprung. With blood and vengeance already on his hands, Elias'grasp on the world had slipped away as had his health. There was justone last play to make and it would be one that crossed the line andcould potentially endanger the whole planet.
Using forbidden technologyto create a self-sustaining solar fusion reaction at the epicenter ofthe city and activating a powerful forcefield shield around the wholedome which would hopefully protect the planet from the intense heatspike from within-one that would likely reach the ignition point of theatmosphere itself. The process was offset just such that by the timethe heat spike was at its peak, the self-sustaining process wouldcollapse on itself. Anything in that dome would be completelydisintegrated. With a final parting message, Elias bid his city'smurderers goodbye.
There was a flash and then nothing. The shield hadheld up and Elias' plan had worked. Blind from the flash, Elias slippedout of consciousness as his life processes shut down. At least Sallywould never know of his black deed.she would never see him again.notwhere he was going.Into the Void:Vortex Labs. It was funded in secret by the most influential members ofthe Secret Society. And they did not take the betrayal well at all.
Andfurthermore the merc group dropped off the face of the planet. Somebodyhad to be punished. Neo Arcadia could not know about this. Not even one. The convoys of survivors migrating to themother country had to be silenced. And that was where Vortex came in.Life was harsh for Sally and she had grown increasingly withrdrawn.
But the worst was yet to come.Picked off one by one her guardians were helpless by Vortex's securitygestappo. And Sally was quickly siezed up and taken to the undergroundlaboratory facility. At first Sally was grouped with the others, slatedfor standard proceedures until the director had discovered that she wasthe lost heir to the Acorn Family.and she had the RPM in herposession.Happy days were here again for Vorostov's Secret Society. The plan wasback on and Vortex was to be commended for their excellent work.
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Notwilling to waste an opporunity, the director had special plans forSally.X-Factor:It was called Cybermorphic Nanoplasm Strain: X (CNS-X). It was the grandexperiment. A viscous plasm saturated with the latest, mostexperimental nanite Vortex had spawned yet. If it worked then Sally wasto become the greatest bio-weapon in history.
If not.oh well.herdemise would be considered.' Very satisfying'.But that was the icing. The cake lay in an interface cradle in thecenter of a supercomputer platform, jacked into the entire lab's centralmainframe. The same mainframe directing the infusion process on Sally.All it had to do was crack NICHOLE's firewalls, decipher her language,decompile her bit-by-bit, and finally mass-download ever last nibble ofinformation to Vorostov's mainframe to be packaged up and sent to theSecret Society for their benefit.
NICHOLE would prove to be a stubborn(and in the director's opinion, quite rude) A.I., denying thesupercomputer's infliltrations and waging war with the mainframe itselfin realtime. The supercomputer would have to eventually adaptfaster than this stubborn RPM was adapting.
For a computer program, itwas showing an alarming amount of self-preservation.It was a routine proceedure. It was a routine method. But what wasn'troutine was the laboratory specimen that had gotten loose and now wasproceeding to raise havoc on the lab's systems and equipment. Theresulting malfunctions chain-reactioned into a domino effect as thesupercomputer had closed in on cracking NICHOLE's code at the same timethe scan of Sally's life essence, DNA, and mental imprint had beenassembled for programming the nanites. The resulting implosion of energybuild-up, data collisions, and malfunctions surged straight into theinfusion machine only moments after Bunnie Rabbotou had manged to yankSally out of the capsule.
And just in time as they had narrowly averted aviolent explosion which consumed the machine and ruptured the storagetanks. As Bunnie had led Sally away from the blaze, she could have swornshe caught sight of someone else in the room by the nanite tanks.Bunnie quickly snatched up a badly scrambled RPM and breached thedefenses of the facility, getting Sally to safety.Again Sally and Bunnie wold part ways and once again the princess was on the run.It Was.an Angel.a Blue Angel:Sally did the only thing she could at that point. It was anightmare. It was impossible. Now in her teens, the princess was on acrash course to staying alive. There was no chance she could make it toNeo Arcadia on her own.
And it seemed to be confirmed when Vortex'sSecurity Force caught up with her. This was the end and Sally counted inher head the seconds to invevitability.' What happened? I just blinked for a moment.' Sally's enemies had beensubdued and out cold. Her vision was blurry at best and she was tryingto push herself up from the wasteland's ground. She wasn't alone.Someone.was there.'
Hey, are you alright?' A gloved hand was outstretched toward her. A blurry shape. A blurry.and very blue shape? Sally foundherself behing helped to her bare, aching feet. Hunger and weakness wasmaking it difficult to focus.
Was this a hallucination? It was real.Someone was helping her.
You should be more careful, it's dangerous out here.' Sally was at aloss for words and still unable to clearly see who it was. Thevoice.it was older but.she had heard it before.' Well, gotta juice! Take care now.'
And he was gone before Sally good get the words out. It had to be. Who else could it be. But.wasn't he.?I Am No One:Sally pressed on, stumbling along the way until she found herself facedown and dragging herself to the first sign of hope she had comeacross-a puddle of water just large enough for- That reflection. Who was that? Sally didn't recognize who was staring back at her.And when she realized she didn't recognize herself.the last remnantsof her grip on the world slipped away with her very identity.
To add tothat, it set in that when.he rescued Sally, he didn't recognize hereither. It was like she was a total stranger to him. And he wasso.nice to her. No snappy comments, no banter.
Not even a wisecrack.Why didn't he recognize her face? They had grown up together. How couldhe not know who.no.it wasn't him who was at fault. She reallyhad fallen this far.Why was she alive? Desparate for answers she opened up NICHOLE, hopingfor advice. That's right. She was still carrying Ecotropia's seed.
Itwas an incredibly long shot, but somehow, someway maybe she couldrebuild Ecotropia. It was her royal duty, after all. Her lineage had togo on. Even if it took decades, she had to at least try. Certainly allwas not lost.
NICHOLE would know what to do.But.what she was greeted with was an error screen.which eventually flickered out.She was gone. The database was gone with her.
All of it gone. Her friend was gone. Then there was nothing else left.Ecotropia really was dead and Sally's only hope at rebuilding it wasgone. Sally felt her knees buckle and the puddle coming up fast. Asplash then.darkness.You're Not Alone:A cough and a sputter.
'Didn't.Didn't I drown?' Something else hadhappened. Sally found herself starring into eyes of someone new. Sallywas quickly informed that her life function were nearly terminated. Thatwas an unusual way of putting it.
Who really talked like that? And whydid she talk with an electronic reverb to her voice? Another hybrid.
Green eyes.no, not Bunnie. Someone else? Those ears.cat-like.No.these were the ears of a lynx. Someone else had escapedVorostov?Sally found herself in the care of a hybrid lynx with a rather blankexpression.
Sally would learn her rescuer called herselfNikita. But there was something.off about her. Off and familiar. Itlooks like the two of them were surviving together.
The more Nikitaresponded to Sally's questions, the more artificial she seemed. And itwouldn't be long before the answer hit Sally like a ton of bricks.Ripples.ripples in a sea of mercury. That's what it looked like. Thescorpion's sting didn't pierce her flesh like it should have. And thenher other hand had siezed the creature and yanked it roughly from herarm, the venom being forced out.but with no blood accompanying it.This went far beyond a Hybrid ability.no.she wasn't a hybrid at all.She was.?' Sally had offered. Nikita considered the word fairlybefitting.
A few more rounds of 20 questions and it was all clear toSally. NICHOLE wasn't gone. She was standing right in front of her. It had become a new lifeform. LIke a shapeshifter. But herfriend had been changed. She had taken on a life spark.As it turned out her entire database collective was intect.
The goldengoose had evolved into quite the beautiful swan.well.lynx. And itseemed NICHOLE's protocols and prerogatives were still in place.
And herpriority was ensuring the princess' survival.The Favor Returned, A Promise Kept:Sally was still clinging to a shred of reality and dangling precariouslyclose to the pit of insanity. But she was at least sane enough to knowthat someone had saved her life.twice, now. If there was a chance shewas still alive, Sally had to help her. But how?With Nikita's help, Sally's survival changes were marginally higher butshe was still weak and starving. And yet she couldn't think of herself.There was a girl who needed to be saved. And somehow she had to make ithappen.Miracles were bound to happen every so often and this miracle came inthe form of Sally and Nikita reaching the Neo Arcadia border.
Sallybegged Nikita to help her keep her promise. Not certain while she'chose' to agree to Sally's plea, Nikita used her nanite collective tolocate a buried fiber optic communication cable, infiltrate it andaccess Neo Arcadia's global internet system. In a period ofmilliseconds, Nikita had scoured the Neo Arcadia cyber-matrix anddiscovered the UCI and its covert Action Team. Taking images and datarecovered from the Vortex Labs Mainframe and composing a desperate pleafor help, Nikita dropped the call for help onto the personal computersof the UCI founders and as a final message relayed Sally's specialrequest, asking the powers that be to fullfill a promise for her.Remaining annonymous and not sticking around, Sally and Nikita vanishedoff into the night, now bound for.?Home Sweet Technopolis:Sticking to the shadows, the princess and the program had avoideddrawing attention to themselves. They were at least in friendlyterritory now but neither felt like explaining things to theauthorities.
The only thing Sally wanted to do now was fade toinvisible. Continuing to follow and interpret her program directives,Nikita siezed the first opportunity she could to again access the NeoArcadia global internet system. But this time for a differentpurpose-namely slipping into Technopolis' computer systems newidentities for themselves as well as registration as citizens ofTechnopolis.Before long Nikita had managed to hack ID's and account information aswell as various accounts and a credit line. Ultimately, two people whodidn't exist without any proof of identity or any financial assets inthe world.sudden did.In short order, Nikita had secured the deed to a beach condominium onTechnopolis' beach outskirts where she and Sally would take up residencetogether.
Encouraged to stay inside and out of sight, Sally wouldremain bed-ridden (or at least couch-ridden) while Nikita set aboutexploring the city and securing more necessities for survival.Still an empty shell, Sally would barely spoke let alone asked Nikitajust what she was doing in the outside world. As time went on, Nikitawould nurse her back to health but there was nothing she could do beyondthat; her program was to ensure Sally's survival but ther was nothingin her software collective about humanoid emotions and healing adevastated heart.
Sally was broken inside and showed no signs of movingforward.The One Critical Thing Sally Missed:Television-there was no shortage of it and Sally wasn't exactlydiscouraged from watching it. Nikita went about her business in theoutside world whether bringing a steady income or groceries or goingabout affairs she kept secret from even Sally as per the scope of herprogram. It was not like she was even remotely curious, in fact it was awonder if anything was really sinking in. The former princess was in astrange land with no purpose to serve.The People vs. There was no one in the city who hadn'theard about it.
Almost no one. Sally's depression had sunk so low thateven TV didn't hold her attention and she spent much of her time curledup under the covers and crying herself to sleep. The trial of thecentury had exploded across the world but Sally paid no heed. Had shewould have watched it, she would have witnessed the fall of her captorsand in all likelyhood she would have inferred from the testimony theidenty of the mysterious star witness, 'Miss X' and she would have knownthat the promise she had delivered to the UCI founders had been kept.The one thing that would at least steer her on the road to recovery andshe'd never know about it.She Went Insane.But She Grew Bored of That and Went Sane. Very Sane:Even depression doesn't last forever. While the trial had come and goneand Nikita wasn't inclined to tell Sally about it-it wasn't a requiredsub-routine after all-things were very much settled in the mundane.Sally was slowly slipping out of disconnection with the world, findingit harder to remain an empty shell.
Time was healing her whether shewanted it to or not. Nikita had started to notice the change and whileshe evaluated it as positive, her struggle with understanding emotionsor the Hybrid psyche would not let her say she was 'glad'. It was okay.For a time.Sally had forgotten what the word even meant. In all thetime that went by, Sally did not leave the house once.
And despite theimprovement she stuck to that. But something in her had a problem withthat; she just didn't know it yet. It was then she noticed NICHOLE's oldshell.wait.had it been repainted? When did Nikita do thatand.why?Opening up the portable mainframe, the princess was greeted with 'USER REGISTRATION UPDATING, FACIAL AND RETNA SCAN COMPLETE. OPERATING SYSTEM CONFIGURING. Hello, Sally Acorn.
I am the voice of Construct Intelligence Program Hololythic Encyclopedic Retrieval (unit).' Nikita had replaced the operation system of the Royal Portable Mainframe?
But.the database? Was-?Further inquiry would reveal Ecotropia's entire collective had beenerased from the unit during Bunnie's attack on the lab. The onlysurviving copy of it was now in Nikita's head. She really was the girlthat knew too much. And if anyone ever learned who and what shewas,their lives could be in danger. What if Vorostov's secret societycame after them again?Was Vortex Labs still hunting them down? But what about rebuildingEcotropia?
The temptation to use Nikita's knowledge was too great.And even so, they were now in a new home in a country that alreadyexisted with a government, culture, and life all its own. It was time toface reality. There was no choice but once and for all conclude thatEcotropia was and always would be 'past tense'. Her mind was made up.Sally was princess no more.From that moment, Sally had decided that this was a secret she had tokeep protected with her very life. No one could know the truth to thisstory. Not even any other Ecotropian survivors.if there were any leftalive in the world.It was strange. But for a brief moment, C.I.P.H.E.R.
Had sounded likesomeone Sally knew long ago. Someone who had always watched out for her.Little did she know that a secret was already being kept from her.
Onewhich Nikita had promised C.I.P.H.E.R. To never to reveal to Sally.Cryptically, C.I.P.H.E.R. Had sealed the promise with the partingafterthought 'So this is my punishment for my dark sin.
What a trulycruel fate worse than death.at least I can still watch over her.' Nikita's next gift was a little stange.
An oversized, heavily modded watch. Was its designation.It was short for Chronometer (and) Hololythic Repository (of) Omnifunctional New-Tech (deploying) Utility System.Nikita told her it was a time piece remotely linked to Technopolis' supercomputer atomic clock,Atomic Era Omnitemporal Neo-architype or A.E.O.N. Besides itshololythic time displays Nikita had modded it with a number of featuresincluding matter-data conversion storage-a technology which seemedremarkably similar to the E.N.G.I.N.E.
System that had recently beeninvented. But this feature wasn't Neo Arcadian in origin. Was itsomething from Ecotropia's R&D before its fall? Time wasone thing Sally had a lot of.Sally grew restless of being cooped up indoors. She needed to get outand see her new home.well.it would be new to her if she ever saw it.Speed World:Sally had been doing a lot of thinking and reflecting. And oneparticular memory kept coming to mind. The one she spent herchildhood arguing with.
The guy she kept telling to 'slow down' and'wait for me' and 'you're so impatient'.The guy that had to have been the one that saved her life. Sally spenther whole childhood irrate at him, feeling he was living in his ownworld. A world she refused to accept or understand. But maybe.maybe itwasn't unreasonable to at least try to put herself in his shoes.Considering she had no shoes (or much of anything in the line ofclothing aside from the rags that Vortex Labs had forced her to wear anda few very basics Nikita had brought home), it seemed now was probablyan appropriate time to stop living in absolutes and rethink her oldbeliefs, likes-and-dislikes, and philosophies on life.
Was itunthinkable that maybe he knew something she didn't all this time?That day she had an epiphany. In her pondering the time she had spentchasting her friend about always being in a hurry; that he was missingout on life because he was impatient. How much went in one ear and outthe other because he was too eager for people to cut to the chase? Howmany details did he lose track of because he cut one too many corners.But.could it be, Sally was the one missing out on life?' And in some cases 'You're too slow.' She had heardhim say it too many to think straight. It wasn't Sally's fault that shedidn't have super speed.
In fact as far as Sally knew she didn't haveany hybrid powers. Or maybe they hadn't manefested yet. Which made it aproblem if she was making up her mind to at least attempt to see theworld through his eyes. It's not like she could just put on a pair ofsuper-speed sneakers and see it for herserlf.
She was a smart girl.It would take a lot more than just something on her feet to achievethat kind of speed. There was countless things to consider.
Stresslevels on muscular tissue, tendons, and bone. Being able to even moveher limbs at that speed without injury. Reflex times, frictioncoefficients, heart and respiratory functions. In short her whole bodywould have to be superenhanced to even come close to matching him. Butsomehow it all worked out for him and he wasn't exactly the guy who'dknow what a coefficient was. For him speed was just second nature; assimple as breathing. And he had another advantage that Sally didn't.
Heran on instinct. He had a sense about how things went down at highspeed. Sally didn't have that instinct. She was too logical.
Shecouldn't be impulsive. But she was intelligent and a meticulous planner.That had to count for something. So how would someone who spent herlife shunning that speed world go about entering it for the first time.The Speed Philosophy (The Bowl Metaphor):It was a simple question to Nikita.'
What is it that my life lacks?' Nikita wasn't sure how to respond. There were either too few answers togive.or way too many answers to give depending on what exactly Sallywas implying. The answer was simple: speed. It was hardly the wordNikita was expecting and she couldn't even begin to go about asking forclarificaition.
And thus Sally detailed her epiphany and the philosophyshe had been pondering for some time now.' What do you think of speed?' Nikita frowned and replied that King Frederick I had said that 'Hastiness was the enemy of good politics.' To which Sally mused that it's a good thing she's not a politician. Sheturned serious and detailed her thoughts, defining hastiness as'speed beyond one's capacity'. Nikita nodded in agreement.
' If one's bowl is full, then the faster the speed, the better.' 'Then for great cause, the one with the greater speed has the bigger bowl.' Sally concluded.
And with that she slipped on her favorite blue vestwith a pair of old blue boots Nikita had very recently brought home toexpand Sally's very limited wardrobe and headed for the door. Wheninquired where Sally was going, the former princess replied 'To find speed.' .and gave a thumbs-up.Kick Into Overdrive:Nikita found herself accompanying, at some points being about draggedalong for the ride; kind of a role-reversal considering she had ledSally by the arm out of Vorostov and into Technopolis. It was a long dayand the varying places to find speed neither impressed nor interestedSally. If he was still around he'd probably call it kiddy stuff. A citythis big and advanced had to have something adequately speedy. LadyAcorn knew that there was no substitute for his style of 'juice and jam'but it's not like.wait, she already drove off that metaphoricalbridge before.Turbotropolis Speedway.
It was the last major stop on the list. Did shereally have to consider autoracing? So not hopeful about it. Well therewere the racers.annnnnnnd.their vehicals were.where? And werethose.sandals on their feet? Why would anyone go into an auto racewith metal sandals on their feet? Was this some kind of footrace?
What kind of foot race-.blink. Uhhh.where did they.? Sally'seyes must've pentupled in size when she saw it. And the feeling of dejavu smacked into her like a fiery backdraft. They were running. Atsupersonic speed. Their racing suits were lit up with neonpseudocircuitry and their sandals were just blurrs-each racer leaving adifferent colored neon light contrail as they followed the contours ofthe twisting, turning, bending, and gravity-defying roller coaster of a'matter-wave' track.
And more than that the track itself was alteringitself, causing obstacles and hazards to spring up without warning. Andthe racers were all adapting to it. This was like.some big life-sizedvideo game. No.this was like a page out of her past. And this wasexactly what she was looking for.The Fall Comes Before the Pride:Sally would need to prepare herself before she got into this. But where to get a proper education?Ultra Crew Institute Academy of Online Higher Learning? What a concept!Kindergarten through college through the internet.just the thing andNikita would prove to give the young Sally an edge.
And before long,Sally had a high school diploma and an accredited degree in kinematics.Now there was just the matter of getting into shape. Months at the gymeventually paid off and Sally was feeling a whole lot better than whenshe first walked through the door of her condominium home. Now she'djust have to figure out how to get her start in the sport.
First she'dhave to research it.Apparently the sport was a prototype new-age entry into the list of'extremes'.