Princess Sally Mini-Series Issue #2
May 1995
Nice cover
"Deadliest Of The Species (Pt. 2)" gets things rolling once again. Hamlin and GEOFFREY ST. JOHN are jousting, with Hamlin getting his ass handed to him. Sally gets pissed and kicks GEOFFREY ST. JOHN in the face, because she wants everyone working together rather than against each other. They're off to destroy the third substation, which is heavily enforced. Sally's plan is to infiltrate the fortress by air via Rotor's new invention: hang gliders. Doesn't work though...they're spotted by a cannon, with one of its shots taking out Arlo. The rest of the group land unharmed and soon find Arlo, who suffered broken legs in the crash. Penelope offers to stay with him while the rest of the group takes off. Good, we got two of the lamers out of the way.
Sally and co enter the fortress and set the bombs, but before they can head out Sally is captured by an Otcopod (the thing on the cover). It also snatches up Hamlin and Dylan, but GEOFFREY ST. JOHN avoids its grasp and plants an explosive under it. Sally escapes the Octopod by spraying paint in its eyes, because of course Sally would just conveniently have spray paint on hand. They all escape before the Octopod (and the fortress) burst into flames. No saves the day bit yet...Arlo and Penelope have gone missing, with no traces of a struggle or footprints to be seen. Sally suggests they get the hell out of there, which pisses off Hamlin as he doesn't want to leave his friends behind. Sally wins out, and they head back to camp where they begin to search to no avail. Fast forward to night, and GEOFFREY ST. JOHN once again opens up a portal to his secret location, only this time he has Sally (still asleep) with him. He places her in a glass pod next to the other Sally from the end of Part 1. WTF TWO OF THEM!?
GEOFFREY ST. JOHN makes contact with a mysterious figure declaring Operation: Infiltration a success, and it's revealed that he is a double agent. We get a partial glimpse at the mystery person, who looks like Robotnik, only he has a cat on his lap (which has not appeared at all in the comics), so it makes me believe that it's not him, or at least not the Robotnik we know. The doppelganger Sally wakes up from the pod, so it looks like they're planting her in the camp to deceive the others. Fake Sally plans to lead the others into a raid of Robotropolis in broad daylight, with the idea that the destroyed substations completely took away its ground defense. Meanwhile, GEOFFREY ST. JOHN delivers the real Sally to his boss, who turns out to be Robotnik. I still think something is fishy about this, but we'll have to wait until next month to find out what it is.
Great issue highlighted by GEOFFREY ST. JOHN being a sly bastard and two of the loser FF trainees going off the map, hopefully roboticized. Things are about to get real crazy, I'm expecting an excellent issue to close out the series.
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