Chronologically this takes place before my previous pic. several days after the botched mission at Robotropolis, Sally is suffering from severe depression, blaming herself for the mission failure. (resulting in her robotization and partial robotization of sonic) To top that off aside from her closest friends, the majority of knothole's inhabitants are afraid to even get near her, fearing she might turn on them any moment. The premise of the pic here was that sally had gone to a secluded area of the great forest to be alone with her thoughts. when tails approaches her (he secretly followed her) and tries to help her feel better. (initially he too was afraid of her when he saw her robotized form, but came to the realization that besides being metal she was still the same person she always was.