Sal Walters
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| Sal Walters |
| First Appearance: Roomies! November 20, 1997 |
| YOB: 1980 |
| Height: 5'7'' |
| Weight: 130 lbs |
| Relatives: David Walkerton (twin brother), Linda Walkerton (birth mother), Charles Walkerton (birth father) John Walters (adoptive father), Martha Walters (adoptive mother) |
| Squadron(s): 128 |
| Abductee powers: Strength, durability |
To strike fear into everyone's hearts, Sal Walters became a creature of the night. Something dark. Something fierce. Something to wrap around herself so that she wouldn't be hurt by anyone anymore. In a way, Sal is almost the antithesis of Joyce. She's frightening and dangerous on the outside, but deep down, she's more a confused young girl than anything else. The major difference is that Sal is aware of this dichotomy of character. It's something she knows she can't hide behind forever, but as it turns out, the only thing she's afraid to face is her own life.
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History
Roomies!
A goofy and impulsive free-spirit, she was a perfect balance to Danny's stoic and sensible nature, despite her friend Mary's objections. However, this was little more than a facade used to get her friends in between moves from town to town. After Danny moved to college, she ended up moving with her parents again, much to her anger. When the Head Alien crashed their car, she rejected his offer to join him and left them to die, stating "See if Ah care." Taping this, he killed them and taunted her with it. Saved by the Man in Black, she ran away.
After meeting up with Danny, she moved on to Colorado, knowing that Danny couldn't possibly understand her situation. Here, she met Jason and was attacked again by the Head Alien. Saved by SEMME, she joined them on a mission later that night and met Tony and saved Walky and Beef. Joining Squadron 128, she began dating Tony because of his strong mind and body. She later helped save Joe and Joyce from the Aliens, taking Joyce with her SEMME despite Joe's objections. She also helped recover the Power Booster Rod from the Aliens, who insisted she was really Salvador[1][2].
It's Walky!
Kill Your Friends
At the start of It's Walky, the Head Alien began Year Zero and made all abductees comatose. Disappearing at the start, Sal saved Jason, Joyce, and Walky from the aliens at the Alien base. Destroying the control device for the abductees, she ended up preventing them from being stopped. As the abductees approached Washington D.C., Sal, Jason, Joyce, and Walky went to head them off. Attacking them, Walky was almost killed by Tony until Sal shot him in the back. After Walky stopped the abductees, Sal prevented Joe from joining SEMME by flying him back to Indiana in a hovercraft. She was later interrogated over killing twelve mind-controlled SEMME agents, including Tony.
Twin
Later, Sal saved Walky again when he went to confront the Head Alien over the missing Nachitos. Here, it was revealed that they were twins and that Sal had been swapped with Beef as a child. After destroying the Alien HQ in anger, Sal and Walky made up and accepted each other. However, her new-found humanity lead SEMME into a trap in Miami, and only Joyce in a blind rage could stop the Head Alien.
Walky, Beef and Sal went home for Christmas, and she first met her real parents, Linda and Charles. Linda told her of her past as a SEMME agent and revealed how she killed the Martians - all of them. Doing some deeper digging, Sal found that Linda had been discharged after this mental episode. During an attack upon SEMME HQ by the Head Alien and Monkey Master, Sal found herself unable leave Big Boss behind, and bemoaned herself almost comprising the mission.
During the Melonpool crossover, Sal helped out the crew of the Steel Duck save Ralph alongside the rest of Squad 128. After witnessing the cost of repressed secrets first-hand in the case of Anti-Joyce, she told Linda the story of her past, including the death of her parents and saving Walky and Beef from the Aliens. When the Head Alien lured SEMME to the the Martian Embassy, he used a tape of her parents' death to trick her into a trap. However, Jason stopped her and sent Walky in wig instead. Whilst fighting Monkey Master, the resurrection chambers containing the bodies of her parents dropped from the ceiling, after Walky had dropped them onto the Head Alien. Saving Dina instead of Big Boss, she went into shock after seeing what had happened.
Renegade
In the wake of this tragedy, Sal's resolve hardened and she cursed her selfishness. After handing over Joe to SEMME, she found out that Linda was the new Big Boss and quit SEMME in order to fight the Aliens on her own terms. Later, she was found by Jason, Walky and Joe fighting Monkey Master. When Squadron 135 arrived in order to bring her, she fought them off but was subdued by Beef. Eventually she broke free, and attacked all of them. Walky fought her off, and the fight turned into a bloody mess. Remarking on how they were trained killing machines, she kept beating on him until Monkey Master escaped, at which point she chased after him.
Later, Sal waited outside the Martian Embassy for the resurrection of the Head Alien to finish. As he exited the Embassy, she attacked him, but was attacked by the resurrected Tony, who was still under the Head Alien's control. She defended herself from him atop the Martian spaceship that attacked Denver, but refused to fight back, not wanting to kill him again. Eventually her resolve hardened more as she refused to have any weaknesses, and she finally fought back, knocking Tony off the ship. Turning her sights on the Head Alien, she revealed that once SEMME HQ was destroyed she would kill every abductee on earth and purge the world of evil. Sending the Tarantuguns after the SEMME planes, she was confronted by Joyce. Fighting Joyce, she beat her in order to bring her rage to the surface again. Yet Joyce refused to go down to Sal's level, accusing Sal of being a little girl afraid of her emotions. After a SEMME ship fired upon the Martian spaceship, Sal found herself inside the ruined SEMME HQ and made for the archives to retrieve the Power Booster Rod. As Joyce and the Head Alien arrived, she used its power to turn North America yellow.
No revelation could stop her, not even the revelation that her mother was framed for the death of the Martians. A force of nature, she intended to purge the world of the abductees. Yet Joe saw through her flimsy mask, her cry for attention. When Danny arrived, she couldn't be her dishonest self in front on him and broke down, dropping the Power Booster Rod. Comforted by Danny, she felt shell shocked by what had happened. When The Chesse arrived, she ushered out of the room. Yet Danny's words to Joyce rang true, that she needed to balance her logic and her emotion, and she gained depth perception. Attacking The Cheese, she used a Mind-wiper to confuse his circuits and used the Power Booster Rod to knock him out.
Guilty
Pleading guilty to six counts of attempted murder, she was sentenced to five years in jail. Surprised by the level of support that Danny showed her during this period, she told him she loved him, leading to his troubles with Billie. However, she meant it as a thank you for his support, a sign of her appreciation, not love.
At the dawn of 2003, Sal was shocked to find that Jason had returned with some disturbing revelations. He claimed her crimes were not done of her own free will, but were the result of brainwashing at the hands of a sinister foe. However she refused to accept that she had been brainwashing claimed she wanted to serve her punishment for her crimes. However, when Jason revealed that JFO would soon go after Walky, she reluctantly agreed and was "kidnapped" by Jason. Injured during the escape, Jason needed medical attention, so Sal brought him to an old friend, Mary. With the help of her husband, she fixed up Jason then called the cops on Sal after they left.
Arriving in New York City, Sal and Jason attack the building of the organization that brainwashed Sal, run by his father, Dargon Chesterfield. Confronting Jason's old flame, Penny, she reveals that their organization is made up of illegal trespassers from another universe. Undetectable by The Cheese, they have manipulated all around them. When Dargon Chesterfield calls telling Penny to attack SEMME, the two of them flee for Denver in a JFO plane.
To SEMME with JFO
Arriving with JFO hot on her tail, she heads down to the ground whilst Jason lands the plane. Going back to meet him, she arrives back with Jason to find Walky mourning Dina's death. Confronting him, she tells him not to like her, to stand up and pull through this. When Penny tries to mind-wipe Walky, she tells them to get what they fear the most. Getting Joyce to use the Power Booster Rod, she ends up calling The Cheese who discovers the trespassers in this universe. After the attack, Sal and Jason told Linda that JFO were the ones who had framed her for the Martian genocide.
Told by Linda to unofficially spy on JFO with Jason, Sal makes a brief detour to the apartment of Danny first. Meeting Billie there unexpectedly, she is attacked by her and Sal is astounded by the lengths she will go to defend Danny from Sal. Leaving the couple alone, she goes on a guilt trip about how alone she is, until Jason brings her back down to earth with his own situation. Apologizing later, the two head for London.
Here, they discover the origins of JFO in this universe, and why they framed Linda. Meeting up with Squadron 128 again, Sal has a disagreement with Walky and knocks him out the window. She confronts him on his depressed attitude towards the upcoming Martian invasion and tells him to enjoy his last moments with Joyce. She makes a promise to him that she can change the future and make sure they both live for a long time after the Martian invasion. The next night, she sleeps with Tony and tells him not to tell Jason.
The next day, SEMME is shut down by the government. That evening, as she and Jason help clear out the building, SEMME comes under attack from JFO. Joining Linda in finding Professor Doc and Alan Rees, they rush to the labs together with Squadron 135. When Beef kills Professor Doc, she tries to keep him occupied while the brainwashing antidote is administered. Unfortunately, Beef wasn't brainwashed; he had willingly joined JFO because he was frustrated by the attention laid upon her and Walky.
As Penny taunts Sal for abandoning everyone she has known, she explains the history of SEMME. Once finished, the remaining agents attack her and Beef. Sal first attacks Beef, then Penny in an attempt to save Jason. Ironically, it ends up being Jason who saves Sal from Penny. He is frustrated with his lack of faith in his abilities, and tells his biggest secret: he loves her. Not sure what to do, she follows him outside and tells him that she likes him back, but that she slept with Tony the night before.
Mars Attacks!
Unexpectedly, the Martians attack. She decides to fulfill her promise to Walky and deny any selfish urges otherwise. When the Head Alien takes over The Cheese, she is the first to try and attack him whilst he inhabits the body of his Anti-self. However when the Head Alien drops a Martian spaceship onto the fighting Jason and Tony, apparently killing them, she goes into shock. When Alan forces the Head Alien's soul out of The Cheese, Sal plunges a Martian Fork into the Head Alien's back, killing him despite the fear her anger provokes in everyone.
Feeling as though she no longer has any purpose, Sal is left depressed until she spots Tony lifting the Martian spaceship from the rubble and allowing Jason to escape, shortly before he succumbs to the weight and is crushed beneath it. Glad to have him back, they join Joyce in prayer at the fallen body of The Cheese as they wait for Walky's spirit to inhabit it. After Walky-as-The-Cheese eliminates the Martians, Sal stands and smiles, the threat finally gone. Unfortunately, as she can't go back into action herself, she becomes bored and restless, eventually leading her to gatecrash Jason's attack upon the renegade Monkey Master and inadvertently allowing his escape. Angered by her continued lack of faith in his abilities, Jason dumps her, saying that until she believes in him they can't have a proper relationship.
Joyce and Walky!
Moving in with Joyce and Walky, Sal gets a job at Pluto 9571, a themed restaurant at the local mall, and continues to hook up with Jason on occasion, but strictly on an "ex" basis. Her difficulties in adapting to civilian life intensify when she finds herself working with aliens at Pluto 9571 and watches Jason become romantically involved with Marcie. She attempts to change her situation by applying for government field work, only to be told that she's getting too old, and by proposing marriage to Jason, which he refuses.
Shortly thereafter, Sal starts to find something like purpose when she meets and interrogates D.J. Wilcox (Alternate)... but before she can learn of his alternate future, her place in it, and the danger he's now fleeing, the Head Alien II catches up with them both. Hit from behind with a powerful death ray, Sal appears to die instantly.
Trivia
- Sal has an apparent aversion to the use of doors. Sometimes it seems that she is more likely to exit a building via a window or wall than via a door. Could this be the result of a bad Jim Morrisson experience? Probably not.
- Sal has been referred to by her full name (Sally) exactly three times. [3][4][5]
- An Alien once insulted her by calling her "Salvadore".
