Hey, sorry I wasn't able to update yesterday, I had to study for a science test. Anyways, here's the new chapter:

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Giant Elevator

Forte arrives in the giant elevator and the operators have just reached him through the communicator.

"Forte, Neo Arcadia has just completed a giant elevator. It seems that they're using it to bring something deep from underground. We need you to find the purpose of the elevator."

"Alright, I'm on my way." Forte turns off his communicator and heads forward. Later, he found himself stuck on a gigantic elevator. Two platforms appear and mechaniloids starts to drop rapidly from both directions.

Forte transforms his hands into busters and aims them in both directions, destroying the mechaniloids. Looks like they're still dropping down, guess I'll be spending a bit more time here.

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20 Minutes Later

Forte fires his buster at the last shielded mechaniloid, ripping through the shield and destroying it completely, the elevator screeches to a halt.

"Well, I've stopped the elevator, do you have all the information you need yet?" Forte turns on his communicator and speaks.

"No, it seems that we can't determine anything yet. Continue your investigation a bit longer." Forte turns and sees a door.

"Alright, I found another room. I'm going in." Forte turns off his communicator and goes in the room.

Forte enters the room and looks around. That's strange, there doesn't seem to be anyone around here. Just as he said that, a huge blue dog-like reploid appears and lands on the ground, almost causing Forte to lose his balance. The blue reploid looked like he had three heads, his two shoulder pads looks like a smaller version of his head.

"Grrrr… so you're one of the reploids causing Weil trouble? You're so tiny, I almost stepped on yah! I Tretista Kelverian, of Weil's numbers, will be the one to crush you. You're so tiny. I'll snap you with one chomp! Grrr!" Forte got out his buster and launched a blast at Kelverian's body.

"Didn't even hurt," Kelverian appears to be undamaged at all. He's too heavily armored, looks like I'll have to hit him in his weak point. Kelverian jumps up and grabs a pipe, he tosses it in the direction of Forte.

I don't have enough space to dodge it, I'll have to hit it back. Forte transformed his arms into sabers and deflected it. Kelverian was hit in the head and was slightly stunned by the attack. I see, so his head is his weak point.

"Grrrr… you'll pay for that." Kelverian jumps up again, and this time throws a crate down. Forte jumps out of the way and lands between Kelverian and the crate now on the ground.

Kelverian leans forward and prepares to charge at the crate. I can't avoid this attack! Forte was sent flying back against the wall and Kelverian laughs.

"It looks like I'lll crush yah now." Kelverian jumps up and prepares to land on Forte. I only have one shot at this. Forte aims his buster and fires, hitting Kelverian's head and knocking him back.

"Grrr… that does it, sic him!" Kelverian's two shoulder pads came out, transforming into two hounds. The two hands attacks Forte and he was caught by surprise. I didn't know that he could do that, I need to be more careful.

Forte stands up from the attack and aims a charged shot at Kelverian's head; Kelverian just raises his arm up and blocks it. Kelverian turns and starts to shoot energy balls out of all three of his heads. It hits the ground and starts rolling in every direction.

"GOSPEL!" Forte transforms and stays in the air and avoids all the attacks. Forte transforms his arms into sabers and slashes Kelverian's head between the blasts.

"Grrr… You're nothing more than an annoying fly. You're attacks won't work for long." Forte lands on the ground as Kelverian throws another crate from the air. This time, Forte fires upwards and destroys the crate; Kelverian follows up with a ram. Forte manages to move backwards to dodge it and launches a fully charged blast in Kelverian's face.

Kelverian stands still for a while and detaches his two hounds from his shoulders. Forte jumps high into the air and activates his jets, jumping behind Kelverian. It seems that he's immobile when he uses that attack. Forte transforms his arms into swords and uses a uppercut and spins in the air, damaging Kelverian.

Now that I know his weakness, I'll be able to defeat him. Forte transforms his arm into a buster and prepares to attack. What!? One of the hounds leapt onto him and the other hound followed, damaging Forte's wings, they then returned to Kelverian.

They can reach me here? That means I won't be able to attack him if he uses that attack or else I'll get hit. Kelverian turns and starts launching energy balls on the ground again. Forte tries to take flight but his jets weren't working properly. That last attack damaged my wings too much, guess I'll just have to try to avoid it for now.

Forte gets hit three times in the beginning, but got the pattern and was able to dodge the rest of the blasts. After Kelverian was finished, he briefly turned around.

Forte saw his chance and quickly dashed there, slashing at Kelverian's head. Kelverian flinched and became angry.

"Grrr… Most people would be crushed by now, just DIE!" A purple blade appears on Kelverian's fist and he thrusts it in Forte's direction. Forte transforms his arm into blades and tries to push it back, but failed and was stabbed in the chest.

I can't go on like this much longer. Forte takes a look at Kelverian. What a monster, I've never fought someone with so much endurance. Kelverian started advancing on Forte again.

"TAKE THIS!" Forte fired a stream of plasma into Kelverian's eyes.

"ARRGGH! I can't see… stop hiding and come out so I can crush you." Forte changed his arm into a buster and started shooting at Kelverian's head. He got three shots in before Kelverian started to move and attack everything in his way.

Kelverian jumped up and got a huge pipe, throwing it in Forte's direction. It's too big, I can't dodge this. Forte fires three blasts at the pipe, and sends it flying back with an uppercut from his saber. It hit Kelverian on the hound's head attached to his shoulder, but still seemed to hurt him.

Kelverian wiped his eyes for a bit and paused. "Looks like I can see again, I'll make you pay for what you did back there." Kelverian detaches his hounds again and sends them at Forte.

My last attack damaged him when it hit that hound on his arm, I wonder… One of the hounds came flying at Forte, he dodged and put his back to the floor. During that movement, he also launched a fully charged shot at the hound's head.

The two hounds and Kelverian both flinched, and they returned to him. He seems to share damage with those two hounds. That must be why his endurance is so high. Now I know he has three weak points.

"Grrr… Enough playing around, I'll crush you right now." Kelverian threw another crate, which Forte intercepted with an upward saber attack.

Kelverian got his purple beam saber out again and charged at Forte. Kelverian charges at Forte, but before he could react, a blade pierced him through his chest.

"You may be big, but that also means that you're slow. It was a mistake to try and meet your attacks head on." Forte raised his saber up, slashing Kelverian's head.

"Grrr… My whole body hurts. Why can't I crush you?" Forte transforms both his arms into a wolf's head.

"GOSPEL BLAST!" Kelverian met the full force of the attack head on and was destroyed. Just then, his communicator beeped.

"Forte, we have finished gathering data in that area; prepare to return back to base."

"Alright, transfer me." Forte disappeared in a bright light, leaving the Giant Elevator.

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Resistance Base

Forte transfers in to find the three Guardians and Zero waiting there. Ciel and the operators started talking about what they found out.

"From the information we have gathered, we are still unable to find the location of Dr. Weil, but we have figured out what he may be attempting to do." Ciel paused for a moment. "Before we begin, I'll show you the file Fefnir found on the Elf Wars:

Near the end of the Maverick Wars, many Cyber-elves were used... The period from this time until the end of the fighting is referred to as the Elf Wars, as a result.

In particular, the use of the gigantic elf known as the "Dark Elf," and copies of this elf, known as "Baby Elves," to amplify the power of the Reploids... while controlling said Reploids at will... made this the worst war in recorded history...

While use of the Dark Elf brought the war to an end in four years... Approximately 90 of all Reploids, and 60 of all humans were wiped out."

Ciel waited a moment waited for all that information to sink in before she continued. "It seems that Dr. Weil is planning to use the Baby Elves to control reploids once again."

"Hehehe… Excellent work, Dr. Ciel, but I'm afraid it is already too late." The operators seemed to sound different, almost as if possessed.

"Weil!" Zero and the others prepared to attack but Ciel stopped them.

"This time, Omega is absolutely perfect. I no longer need the Baby Elves to control reploids any more. Time to start, Omega, and make those pitiful humans pay for banishing me."

A bunch of controlled Resistance soldiers appear from the doorway and prepares to attack Ciel and the others.

"This isn't good, if we attack, then we'll only be attacking our own allies." Harpuia observed as they've been cornered."

"Stop now!" A light flashed from the cyber-elf form of X and the soldiers drop to the ground. "I've been able to undo the power of the Dark Elf, but I can only protect this base."

"X, have you found out where Weil is?" Zero was eager to stop the madman once and for all.

"He's in Neo Arcadia's underground power system, Sub Arcadia. Omega is there as well, transmitting the power of the Dark Elf." Zero turns to the operators.

"Transfer me there." Ciel tries to get Zero to reconsider.

"Maybe it would be a better idea to wait for the others to recover and all of you can go together." However, her efforts were in vain.

"There's no time for that, we have to stop Weil before he does anymore damage." Ciel was still worried, but can see that his mind is made up.

"Alright then, transfer him." The operators punched in the co-ordinates and Zero disappeared. "Be careful, Zero, come back safely."

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If you're wondering whether Zero will take Omega by himself or not, the answer is no. He's going to fight one more boss and return to base, and everyone will rush Omega. If you've played MMZ3, then you should know who Zero fights next.