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Forte's pod slowly gathered dust in the desert as time passed by. Centuries passed after centuries.
Forte didn't want to be weak when he woke up, he upgraded his pod so that it will slowly scan the technology of other robots/reploids and upgrade Forte automatically.
The Sigma wars have ended and he slowly gained more power. His pod was lost for a long time and nobody has even seen it, that is until today…
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Reploid Base (After the Beginning of Rockman Zero 3)
"Zero! Cereveau wants to see you, he has a new weapon for you." Ciel informed the crimson reploid as he came back.
"Alright, just let me get some repairs done."
First Copy X, then Elpizo, and now this. The war hasn't gone anywhere since I joined the Resistance. It seems that ever since I joined the Resistance, nothing's really changed. How much longer must I fight before this ends.
After Zero finished his reminiscence on the events that has happened, he went into Cereveau's lab.
"Zero, I've created the Recoil Rod, do you want to hear the explanation?" Cereveau seemed very enthusiastic.
Zero remembered the last two hour explanation that Cereveau gave about the Chain Rod.
"I'll just go and test it out in combat." Before Cereveau knew what happened, Zero grabbed the Recoil Rod and ran away.
"Guess he's not called the Legendary Reploid for nothing."
Zero was walking along the base when a out-of-breath Ciel approached him.
"Zero, pant Alouette is missing."
"WHAT!!?? How did that happen?"
"I was looking for her but she's not in the base. She can't be too far away, please find her Zero."
The Crimson Reploid dashed away outside the Resistance base to start looking for Alouette.
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In the Desert
Alouette aimlessly walked around in circles not seeing any change in scenery. She saw an object that peaked her curiosity, it was a white cylindrical pod. Before she could get a closer look, an attack that barely missed her was fired.
"Well, well, well, look what we have here," a huge violet reploid appeared. "I am one of Weil's reploids, Vulgan Kumaton. A hostage from the Resistance will certainly help Lord Weil's plans."
This violet reploid had two gun barrels on top of his arms and took the shape of a gigantic bear. As Vulgan came closer, Alouette's eyes widened in fear and she let out a scream hoping Zero would hear it and rescue her.
"It's useless, just come a long peacefully and maybe I won't have to hurt you, at least not too much." Vulgan menacingly said as he moved closer and chuckled.
"It takes a real man to frighten a little girl."
"Who said that?" Vulgan was afraid the owner of the voice was Zero.
Suddenly, the white pod was destroyed and a black reploid with purple markings on his face came out. His armour is black with orange stripes. Right now, his armour slightly resembles Zero's and you can see that both his arms doesn't have a cannon … yet.
"Who are you?" Alouette questioned her saviour.
"That's not important right now, just get out of the area while I take care of him." The ebony reploid told her still facing Vulgan.
Alouette ran to the sides and watched as the two reploids stared at each other.
"A weak reploid like you won't be much of a threat to Dr. Weil." Vulgan sneered as he eyed the reploid. "The only person who's even close of a threat is Zero."
"Zero?" Forte's curiosity was peaked.
"We'll take care of him later." Vulgan got raised both his cannons at Forte. "DISRUPTOR BLAST"
Two beams of energy made contace with Forte, as he stood there.
Alouette looked worriedly at the smoke and Vulgan just sneered. Both their eyes widened when they saw the black reploid coming out unharmed.
"I guess I overestimated you if that's the best that you can do." Forte calmly raised up his hand and transformed it into a cannon, shooting two shots and destroying Vulgan's guns.
Vulgan blindly charged at Forte and poured all his strength into one punch but was stopped by Forte's right hand.
"You're gonna need to do better than that to beat me."
Vulgan roared in anger and his body changed. Guns came out of every part of his body and he blindly shot everywhere. When the smoke cleared up, the black reploid was nowhere to be seen.
"HAHAHAHA! I blasted him so hard, he's nothing but dust now." Vulgan laughed and he suddenly felt a breeze behind him.
He turned just in time to see Forte transforming his hand into a purple sword and Vulgan was sliced cleanly in half. Forte absorbed Vulgan's powers from his remains and left.
Alouette was shaken up after seeing that battle. She has never seen a battle firsthand herself, but knew that the black reploid she saw could be as powerful as a guardian, and perhaps even Zero.
That reploid was really strong. Oh wait! I forgot to thank him properly. I guess I'll just have to thank him the next time we meet. I wonder if he'll help us just like Zero did. With him and Zero, maybe we will finally be able to achieve peace.
"ALOUETTE! There you are," Zero finally spotted Alouette, but noticed the damage around the area. "Did something happen here?"
"A reploid came; he said he was Dr. Weil's. He attacked me, but a strange black reploid came and saved me."
"Dr. Weil's huh?" Zero sighed. "This could be the beginning of another war. Come on, let's go back to the base."
I wonder who could've saved Alouette. The damage around the area looks pretty bad, and the fight couldn't have lasted too long. I guess I'll meet the Reploid who saved her sooner or later.
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