Disclaimer:
I reinterate. I do not
own Megaman. And don't bother
saying I claim to in a pathetic attempt to
scrape a bit of cash. I'm flat broke.

Author's Note:
Who was Mia?
... well, no one from Megaman, that's
for sure. Hope that "original character"
didn't tick anyone off (though it really
shouldn't.)... You should have probably also
noticed the apperance of three Navis from
Megaman games that never appeared in the
Batlte Network series (Pirateman,
Springman, Geminiman) ...
Mia isn't from .hack =P Sorry. But nice
guess, I forgot about her. Think more along
the lines of Xiao from Dark Cloud, with black
hair and Forte's armor, with pink instead of
yellow.
Anyway, I skipped the whole fight with
megaman thing. After all, the truly epic
battle will take place after Forte is
revived with his old faithful hound
Treble, aka Gospel. Bass... that still
sounds funny to me...

To wrap up the MMBN3 plot, you'll find
a few game quotes, including one that
doesn't belong in this game. Can YOU
spot which one doesn't belong? =P


AUTHOR'S RANT:

I can't believe the audacity of some. If you're
going to go into a story and pollute its review
board with false information without reading the
tale, for the sole purpose of arguing with the
author, atleast save shaming your account and do
an Unsigned Review .... Serenade is a WOMAN. All
who know jack squat about Megaman know this, despite
all those who are confused.

Keep a look on the reviews, because chances are,
Captain Leecher will come back, infuriated at this
rant. If not, well, we shall all rejoice.

Sorry for taking this so personal. I've been tormented
by many fools reviewing without even reading a fic, just so
they can argue with me or be an imbecile. Most of them
were unsigned so I could delete them, but it really makes
me mad when someone makes a signed review of this sort.
Enough wasting words, on with the only reason you're still
here....

Jeeze ... Serenade is a girl, people ... get over it.



(Warning: Spoilers, as always)



[Chapter Three: Birth of a Monster]




Forte had finally found who he was
searching for. After months of training
against the Blue Navi, Megaman, Wily had
finally shown up and locked the WWW from
outside access after he'd come in.


The old man stood before Forte now, with
wild, spiked-up grey hair and the typical
mad scientist getup. "You don't look like
any sort of Navi I've ever seen.." Forte
muttered, staring at the man with a look
of distrust. "Identify yourself."

"I am Doctor Wily, and I'm only here
to help you." the evil genius replied.
Forte grinned slightly. "So, you're the
old man who owns this dump.. How did
you get into the Net?"

"Easy. I've made a device that allows
humans to transport themselves into
the internet." Wily said with a proud
grin.

".. could you make such a device that
transported Navis into your world?" Forte
asked.

"Well, I don't have the technology at
the moment - "

"Then you've wasted my time long enough." Forte
muttered, discontented with his answer as
he began waking away.

"Wait!" Wily shouted. "Give me time, and I'll
make such a device possible. All I need is
a little help from you."

Forte stopped, then turned around to face
the old man again. "... you've got my attention..."







Serenade sighed, walking towards her
throne. Currently her palace looked
quite unusual; instead of the golden
helmet she usually had, she wore a
yellow hard-hat. Her followers walked
around with many tools, from jackhammers
to drills and screws. And half of her
wonderful palace had been rebuilt.

She pulled up a blueprint and looked
around at five of her followers, who were
struggling to carry a large platform over
to where it belonged; Serenade waved her hand,
a pink glow enveloping the block as it soared
into the air and moved itself into place.

It'd been very dull since Forte had been
defeated. The only Navis that attempted to
duel her were stopped and deleted by the
eerie Navi, Darkman, who she'd agreed to
duel could he delete 10,000 Navis. Currently
he was on number 3,542.

In a way, she was glad of this; the palace
didn't need another outrage at this point,
as it was still being rebuilt. But at the
same time, something in her missed the
sinister Navi. She always did see the better
side of Navis, even if they seemed to have
none, and Forte was no exception.


She looked off in the distance and saw
a bubble suddenly appear a ways off.
The queen of the undernet looked closely,
trying to make out the figure inside the
orb. She could tell it was cloaked... and
had two somethings poking out like large
pointy ears..

"Forte?" Serenade asked herself; at first,
with a certain joy that he'd returned, before
she remembered the direness of the situation;
if this was Forte, chances were he was here
for revenge.

But as the bubble got closer, she realized
it wasn't Forte; the cloak was a bit lighter
than his had been, and the pointy objects projecting
from the head of this Navi were feline ears, not
a helmet.

As the bubble was nearly right above Serenade's
head, she sent a small wave of force at it,
just enough to pop the bubble and create a
small twister of energy to slow down the Navi
inside's impact. The cat navi landed softly on
the platform in front of S.

"Who are you?" Serenade asked, tossing her
hardhat aside. The young Navi on the floor
stood up and brushed herself off.
"I'm Mia." said the feline Navi. "And.. you are?"

"Serenade." said the pink Navi. "What
business do you have here?"

"No business really, that jerk threw
me here in a bubble." Mia growled. Serenade
looked a bit bewildered.
"Could you be a bit more descriptive, child?"

And so Mia told Serenade everything that'd happened
the last few days. The pink navi grinned at
the tale. "So, he's not as heartless as he
leads others to believe, is he..."




(AN; This will leave a plothole, if such
bothers you, pretend this AN is a rather
large time lapse.)



An anguished scream echoed throughout the
undernet as Forte blasted another helpess
Navi into oblivion. Not heartless? Maybe when
he's in a really good mood. But right now, his
mind was too distracted to be in such a mood.


Forte had just found out about Wily's control
over NetMafia Gospel. About the clones being
his idea. "That rotting weakling ... Human!" he
he muttered, venting his anger before he went
back to the WWW base again. "Manipulating brats
as if I really cared..."


The cloaked Navi held out his hand and shot a large
blast into a high platform, decimating the Navi
that had the misfortune of being there. "But breeding
copies of ME! THAT I cannot permit... Humans.. worthless
creatures..."



He stared up at the staticy void above him, taking a
deep breath in an attempt to calm himself. He just needed
some time to think...


Unfortunately for Forte, this was time he wasn't
allowed. A screen popped up in front of Forte's face
with a familiar old man in it.

"It's been a while." the white-haired scientest
said, though it was hard to see him due to the darkness
of the room he was in.

"How dare you contact me directly, human?!" Forte
said, annoyed. Wily chuckled dryly at his words.

"I see your despise of mankind has not changed. However, do
you remember our little agreement? In exchange for giving
you the power to terrorize humans... you will assist me
in accomplishing my goal."


Forte narrowed his eyes and stared at Wily. The old man
began to laugh madly for a moment or so, before
continuing.

"The time has almost arrived to implement Cybergeddon! I just
thought you should know..." Wily said. Forte smirked. "So...
you will awaken Alpha..."


"Yes, but first I must obtain the final TetraCode. I may
need to employ your services in the near future. I will
contact you again when the time comes."



Forte nodded. "Fine." And with that, the transmission ended
and the window in front of Forte vanished. The cloaked navi
slammed his fist into the platform he stood on, a huge shockwave
causing a disturbance in the entire Undernet.


He heard a familliar voice in the distance. "I just sensed
something... Some kind of immense power which I've felt
somewhere before..."


Forte grinned and began to float away from the shattered
section of platforms towards the blue Navi whom just
entered the area. "It's him again ... he's probably here
interfering with the old man again ..."

Forte held out his hand towards the platform and send a
wave of destructive force at it.






"An earthquake!!" Megaman shouted, jumping back as the
Undernet quaked from Forte's power. The invisable wave
of energy slammed into the platform, causing a large
ravine through the middle of it. "Whoa ... That tremor
was massive ... Lan, the path tore open! If I had taken
one more step, I might have been a goner!"


"Megaman, are you OK?" came the voice of Megaman's
operator. "We'll have to had back the way we came and
find a different route!"

"Right! But... I've never heard of an earthquake in
Cyberworld! There must be some incrediblie force at
work here."

"An incredible force? I wonder what it could be..." Lan
pondered.

"I don't know. I have no iea what may happen next... Still,
we have to find FlameMan immediately! Come on, Lan! Let's
go!"

"Yeah!"




Forte hovered, stalking Megaman throughout the Undernet
and watching his progress. "I dueled that navi once .."
he muttered. "The most powerful Navi to ever have an
operator ... but the fact remains, he's still a slave...
I have no reason not to get him out of Wily's way."



Megaman slowed down to a halt and looked around as
Forte vanished into the shadows below the Undernet
walkways. "Megaman, now what!?" Lan asked.

"Don't you feel it, Lan? Ever since we came into this
area..."

"Yeah, there's that immense power, then the earthquake
that tore apart the path ..."

"No, not that!" Megaman said. "Like something's watching
us ... This whole time I've felt someone's eyes on me..."

"We're being watched ...? Now's not the time to get
spooked, though! Let's find Flameman!" Lan said.

"Right!"




Forte teleported up high above the Undernet and
decided to see how Megaman would do against this
WWW Navi before he decided to strike. "After all,
why waste the energy on a slave if there's no
need..."



After watching Megaman find and duel with Flameman,
he noticed something was wrong. Megaman was easily
wiping the floor with Flameman. The WWW Navi didn't
stand a chance. Yet, somehow, it didn't die ...


Forte squinted his eyes, then glared. "That wretched
coward..." he said with a scowl. "He can't Netbattle,
so he designed a Navi with an insane endurance, masking
it so no scanners could detect it ... I think it's
time I stood in."





"Burn'em to cinders, FlameMan!!" called the fire navi's
operator. The hideous flaming creature roared and reared
back, ready to blow, Megaman letting out a startled cry
as he prepared himself.

"I feel the power of the strong ..."



The flame beast turned to look around, confused.
"Flameman! Where are you looking!? This is your chance!
Hurry up and finish off MEgaman!!"

The creature let out some odd noises. "What's wrong,
Flameman!?"


"Th... This feeling..." Megaman said, taking a step
back. "It's that pressure I've been sensing ever since
coming into this area! Lan! Something's coming!!"



Forte hovered down to the platform in front of FlameMan.
"Let us battle... You who emits the power of the strong..."


"YOu want to fight us!?" Match shouted. "FLameman! Take
care of this guy first!!"


The creature roared and prepared to assault Forte, who
glared icily at the monster. "Stand aside... You who
are weak..."



Forte raised his fist and slammed it into Flameman,
the Undernet quaking in his power once again as the
WWW Navi was obliterated in seconds with a hideous,
blood-curling roar if agony.


"H-How can a Navi possess this much power?" Megaman
said, staggaring back a few steps.

"The peon is gone..." Forte said with a smirk. "Time
now for battle..."




Forte held out his arms and began the fight by sending
a barrage of energy blasts at Megaman. The blue Navi
dodged as best as he could, pulling out an Elecsword
and charging at Forte, slashing his shield to no avail.
The elecsword shattered as Forte held his hand out,
blasting Megaman to the ground.



The Blue navi coughed and staggared up, using cannons,
longswords and every chip he owned in a futile attempt
to stop Forte.


Forte's life aura flickered from a few of the stronger
assaults, but never once did it fade as he slowly walked
towards Megaman. "I had much higher expectations ..." Forte
said, remembering their last fight. Unfortunately, Forte
had grown stronger since then, and Megaman had not.

"I must have made a miscalculation. Time now, for deletion."




As he held his hand up, ready to end this short rivalry of
power, a normal netNavi walked up behidn him. "At last
I have found you, Forte!"



The black-clad Navi turned to glare at the newcomer. "How
is it you know my name? Who are you..?"


"Does the Alpha Rebellion ring any bells?"

"Alpha Rebellion...! You were sent from SciLab. So there
is still a human after me." Forte said dryly.

"Forte! I am going to delete you! Indeed, I must delete you!"
the Navi exclaimed. Forte laughed.

"Navi slave to the humans, do you think you can defeat me!?"
Forte mocked.




"In order to fight you, I of coarse did not come unprepared.
Gather to me, power of darkness! Haaaa! DarkAura!"


A dark purple aura materialized around the Navi's form as
it grinned at Forte. "Forte! You don an aura yourself, so
you must be aware... The defensive strength of this DarkAura
far surpasses that of the LifeAura!"


"An aura of darkness." Forte said boredly. "How impudent..."

"So long as I'm protected by this aura, I could survive even
if Cyberworld was annihalated. In short, you cannot harm me!"



Forte began to hover towards the newcomer. "Hmm. Interesting.
I shall enjoy testing out your theory."

"Be my guest!"



Forte held both his arms back and focused his power, before
slamming his fist into the DarkAura, a blinding flash and a
deafening explosion filling the Undernet as the concentrated
blast slammed into the hapless Navi victim.


As the light faded, the assaulted Navi could be seen
gasping for air, on his knees. "Even wearing the aura...
the impact was ... so powerful ..." he said in between
breaths.


"You've managed to withstand by Earthbreak..." Forte
said with a hint of amusement, "But will you survive
my next attack?"




He held his hand up and prepared to attack, when suddenly
Forte's hideous mug appeared above Forte once more.
"Forte, do you hear me? This is Wily." the old man said.
Forte halted his attack and looked up with a scowl.

"I have just gathered all four TetraCodes."


"Not that feeble-minded idiot again... Hmph." He glared
at the Navi. "I have matters to attend. Our confrontation
shall have to be postponed." Then he glared up as if
staring at the man controlling the Navi. "Hear me,
Operator!! I will have my revenge on the human race!!"


ANd with that, Forte covered himself with his cloak
and vanished into thin air.





Forte appeared inside the new WWW server, looking around.
"Why have I been called here now..."


Wily walked up to Forte in his virtual form. "I have sent
my minions to retrieve Alpha for me ... all I need from
you is to keep an eye on my hapless minions. They've all
lost to that Megaman so far, and I doubt if this time will
be any different."


"Pitiful." Forte said with a laugh. "I would think you
of all people could create stronger slaves to do your
bidding ..."

"Yeah, well, I haven't had the time to program anything
spectacular."

"You'd just best remember our agreement, old man." Forte
said. "Else things will become very difficult for you."

"Don't worry, research to reverse the process of transferring
humans to the Net is already underway. With a little more
time, you'll have your wish." Wily said with a wicked
grin.


Forte nodded before wrapping his cloak around himself once
more and vanishing into thin air. Wily scowled as the
'Ultimate Navi' left. "Just a little longer and I won't have
to bother with that fool any longer..."







Forte reappeared in the Scilab computer, thankful of Mia's
teachings. She may not have been as good of a battler as
Forte, but she did teach him how to hack servers to teleport
from place to place with the greatest of ease, and with a
little of his own mighty touch Forte was learning how to
use it even better.



Forte monitored Wily's minion, DrillMan, finding him very
amusing. "Megaman has already begun chasing him down..."
And in no less than five minutes, Drillman had failed.

(AN; I know, it's rushed, but after this there's a lot more
left open .... which is very, very good. So bear with me.)




Forte laughed began creating a hacked teleport to where
Megaman was. The SciLab server flickered for a moment before
Forte appeared near Megaman. "I cannot allow you
to have Alpha.." he said, snatching up the sealed creature
and smirking at Megaman.


"No! He's got Alpha!" Lan shouted.
"... ... Lan! Let's use you-know-what!"

"You mean the Forbidden Program?" Lan asked.

"Yes! It's our only chance!"

"OK! this had better work!"

"Right! .... GigaFreeze!"



Megaman hurled the Gigafreeze at Forte and Alpha. Forte
held out his hand as a flash of light illuminated the
entire server. "Did we get him!?"



The light began to fade, revealing Forte, holding Alpha
in one hand and Gigafreeze in the other.

"Can't be!!" Megaman shouted.

"He caught it in one hand!? Why doesn't he freeze!?"

"Don't tell me he's a Chosen One, too!?"




Forte absorbed the program and looked at Megaman with
a hint of amusement in his eyes. "You can use the
Gigafreeze? Hmm... That means you... This is getting
interesting! I will let you live for now... Farewell."
Forte said with a laugh, before vanishing into thin
air once again.





The cloaked Navi reappeared in front of Wily in the
server. "You were right... your pathetic little minions
failed you. Fortunately, I did not." he said, handing over
Alpha. Wily took it and began to laugh maniacally as he
jacked out of the Net. "We did it, FOrte!!" he shouted.
"Alpha is mine at last!! How I have dreamed of this day! The
end of the Net society is finally at hand!! Gather to me once
more my WWW Operators!!" he said, his mad laughter not
halting for a moment.







Forte watched with a sadistic grin as Wily continued to decode
Alpha. At first, it was dull and boring to him, but after some
bugs from Alpha had enough room to escape, things in the 'real
world' began going hayware ... especially the military programs.


He pulled up countless screens from the WWW server, watching
weapons around the world go haywire and attack innocent civilians.
"Now this is more like it... maybe the old man wasn't as much
of a fool as I imagined..."



A new screen opened up nearby showing the WWW base. Forte mostly
ignored that screen, however. He was too busy watching mankind
suffer for the first time in his life.


"Welcome, WWW Operators!" Wily shouted to his subordinates as
they entered the room. "Thanks to your efforts, Alpha is now
under our control!"

"And now, Lord Wily, we may proceed with our plan?" said one
of his minions.

"Precisely!! We shall now free Alpha from SciLab's imprisonment!"
the old man said with glee.

"This will be the event of the century! This was definitely worth
breaking out of prison for!!" the ex-convict said with a guffaw.

"So, Net society will finally come to an end!?" another one asked.


"This will be the end of the world... Heh heh heh... I'm gettin'
hot! Just burnin', baby!" Match said with a grin.


"Lord Wily, I can't seem to find Inukai, BeastMan's operator..."


"Inukai?" Wily said, before smirking. "He failed his mission.
So I deleted him."


They all looked shocked, before Sunayama spoke up.
"... ... ... Hail to Lord Wily! The evilest of all! The perfect
king for our new world of chaos!!" said the escaped con. Wily
began to laugh maniacally.


"Your new mission, my followers, is to protect Alpha... Protect it
from those Net society fools! A new world awaits us! And it will stand upon
the ashes of Net society!! It is time to crush Net society with an iron fist
of wrath!! Delete it!!"


His minions began to cheer and chant "Delete It!" around the time
Forte began to tune out the monitor completely. He watched the tanks
around the world going haywire, along with a few appliances and other
things as the Alpha Bugs began to get out of control.

"Poor, pathetic humans." he said with a cruel grin, his arms glowing
as a small keyboard appeared onscreen, using a trick Mia had taught
him. The cloaked navi begain to laugh as the monitors switched over
to show a lot of missile bases. "Only a matter of time before they
all malfunction ..."



And them, much to his discontent, Wily replaced every monitor with
his ugly mug. "Forte, the meddlers are already inside the base, and
given time they'll have the elevator working! Go to the computer
controlling the elevator and stop the fools!"

"Bah, old man, you had better be grateful that I need you..." Forte
muttered as he vanished into the shadows.







Forte faded into an endless void with a small platform below him,
a few control panels here and there. Below, he saw what appeared
to be a human in the Net. The screen flickered a bit as Forte
cracked his neck. "Another pitiful human phased into the net ...
unfortunately for him, he has nothing of value to me ..."



"Hmm ... Just my imagination, I guess." the human said, as
he turned to leave, only to be cut off as Forte teleported
directly in front of him, the server flickering once again.

"So, a puny human dares to come into my world... Have you
come to die, Cossak?" Forte said with a cruel grin.

The human looked shocked. "Forte...! So you ARE here, as I
suspected! Why are you helping Wily!?"

"I have no interest in that fools plan!" Forte said, his
grin quickly fading into a scowl. "There is only one thing
that I desire! Absolute power! Power to destroy you humans!!"


The server began to tremble as an aura surrounded Forte,
his power alone almost too much for the small computer to
handle. "Arrgh!! I can't believe this power!! He's become
even stronger!"


"On that day that the Navi Elite Corps attacked me, the day
you abandoned me, I crawled, near deletion, through the
Internet, and found my self in the Undernet... Behold!"



Forte held his cape up, revealing a deep gash he'd kept
hidden untill now, an old scar that'd been on him for
a whlie now. "This scar remains to forever remind me of
your betrayal! But unfortunately for you, I survived,
thanks to the "Get Ability Program" you installed
into me ..."


"The program that allows you to take on others' powers!?
But, how could you become so strong?" Cossak asked,
at the moment horrified at Forte's power.


"Day after day, I was attacked by hordes of foolish
Undernavis, feeding upon the power of their shattered
remains... I gained this power through my own hard
work and determination..."


"All of that, just for revenge on humans?" Cossak
said with a sigh. "Forte, it seems that we have become
totally different... You will become a threat to mankind.
So before that happens, you must go down with me!!"

"ANd just what does the puny human think it can do
to ME!?" Forte mocked.

"Yes, I'm a human. But a human in Cyberworld! And I can
do this!"



The human raised his arms up, as he began charging up
some kind of energy. Forte tilted his head a bit. "Hmm..?
What's all this pwoer you're building up...? Do you intend
to self-destruct? Human fool!"

"Yes, I was a fool to have created a thing like you...
And now I make my penance!" Cossak shouted as his body
began to let off countless explosions. Forte semed
insulted at this futile effort, and became enraged. "You
cannot delete me with such pitifully small power! Wake up,
human! Time to die."


Forte's right fist began to glow as he prepared to
finally have his revenge on his former operator. And in
mere moments, there was a flash of light as the entire
server began to quake and flicker on and off, nearly
overloading from the power of Forte's furious assault.



And as the blinding light faded, the Server, though still
flickering a bit and badly glitched, still remained.
Cossak's form lie on the ground, parts of him shattered
as the rest was emitting a faint glow. "You pitiful fool...
This is what you get for abandoning me, Cossak."

"Forte ... I never abandoned... you..." Cossak coughed.

"Lies! You would have been sentanced to a life behind
bars had you not handed me over to the Officials!" Forte
shouted. "And had you listened to me back then, you
wretched human..."

"Yes, you.. you suggested acquiring ammunition and
slaughtering any who opposed us..." Cossak said dryly.
"Which would have gotten us in worse trouble..."


"It would have been better than doing nothing!" Forte
yelled, his aura fading. He glared angrily at the
human dying before him, Cossak's virtual body slowly
vanishing pixel by pixel as his body was dying in
the real world.

"You really haven't changed a bit... have you..?" Cossak
said with a cough. Forte smirked. "No, human, once
again you're wrong. I have always hated humanity. I have
always hated how these pathetic Navis let themselves be
controlled by humans. But you, at one time I thought you
were different than most humans, that you actually found
Navis as your equal. But I was wrong about you as well.
Now, you see, there is nothing holding me back. Now I
live for the destruction of mankind, to rebuild a new
world for the strong..."


"Forte ... you'll never succeed ... Lan... and
Megaman ... will stop you..." Cossak said. Forte scowled.
"Silence, fool! My power grows every day! I am
unstoppable! I am the Ultimate Navi!" And with those final
words, he smashed what remained of Cossak's digitalized
head, ending his life once and for all in one mighty stomp.



About this time, Wily's ugly mug appeared in front of him
on a small popup screen once more. "Forte! We were too late,
but it matters not. Get back here in the server we're containing
Alpha in, and wait for further instruction."


"I tire of your countless orders..." Forte said with a scowl.

"My plans are almost complete, and then you will be greatly
rewarded for your trouble." Wily said. "Now hurry. That meddling
brat will be here any minute now."


Forte nodded. "Fine." before pulling up his cloak and vanishing,
reappearing in the Alpha server where the creature was being
decoded. He slowly walked down the path, looking down to the other
side of the server where a large monolith stood above the start of
a quickly spreading red organic moss-like substance that was covering
the platforms. "Looks like the human was right..." Forte said, taking
his time as he walked towards the monolith.


After a minute or so, Forte stood before the black program. Wily
appeared nearby in digital form once again. "So glad you could make
it, Forte. The decoding is 80% complete... I just require a little
more help from you."

"Let me guess, your pitiful WWW operators failed." Forte said
with a smirk. "Doesn't surprise me."

"Good help is so hard to find these days. I am very fortunate to
have you here, otherwise my plans would be all for nothing now." Wily
said. "This tower is the one thing keeping Alpha contained now..."

Forte looked back at the black statue. ".... What is this thing?"



"Forte! That is Dr. Hikari's greatest protection program.. "Guardian"!
If you destroy it, absorb it with your Ability Program... You'll have
even greater powers!

Forte looked at Wily oddly. "Old man! What are you planning,
making me stronger?"


"I desire only chaos and the destruction of Net society... Why else
would I desire to make you stronger?" Wily said.

"But you are mistaken ... It is not Net society that I hate, but you
humans!" Forte said, before pausing a moment. Where did that come
from...? Forte realized that. for a brief moment, he had become soft,
felt the need to spare the Net, if just to keep Mia safe. And besides
that, there was Serenade ...


... he had a score to settle.



"It is your desire for revenge that brings us together. What do I
care if this aged body is destroyed...? As long as you fulfill your
desires I will be satisfied." said the mad scientist, breaking
Forte's train of thought.


"So you would sacrifice even your life for this? You amuse me..." he
said with a smirk as he popped his neck and began building power. "Just
watch, old man! Watch me become even stronger!" he yelled as he
smashed his fist into Guardian, shattering the outside and leaving only
the glowing core program of it.


"So this is the Guardian's core... If I absorb this... Nothing in Cyberworld
will be stronger than me!" he said, as the core merged with his form, an
intense aura of power surrounding him as Megaman/Lan ran up to them.

"Wily!!" Megaman shouted.

"You again! So you dared to pulse in!" Wily yelled back.


"You again!? The Navi with the idiot of a human operator!" Forte said,
turning to glare at the pair.

"Forte!! Humans aren't as stupid as you think they are!" said the blue
Navi.

"Humans think of Navis as merely tools to be used. Navis who don't
realize that are just as foolish." Forte said coldly.


"I have never thought of Megaman as a tool! We're true partners, who
trust and respect each other!! Even COssak, who created you.." Lan
said, before Forte interrupted his speech.


"Silence!!" Forte yelled, the server somehow strong enough to
take the immense power he was emitting. "Exactly whatw I would
expect from a human... Navis have no need for operators... All
we need is the strength to exist on our own! Absolute power, so
that we need cower before none. I will weed out weak Navis who
cannot fight on their own!"


"Forte, look back!" Megaman said. "I know that you once felt it!
A feeling of trust for Cossak!"


"Hah!! You think that I retain such pathetic emotions!?" said Forte,
though he knew it wasn't the complete truth. "Time for you to
be deleted!"


"C'mon, Megaman! Let's show him how strong we are! Battle routine,
set!"

"Execute!" Megaman shouted, as he began setting up his battle chips.
Forte's fists charged up as his aura strengthened, and he sent a
barrage of energy at Megaman, cauasing countless explosions behind
him, wrecking many of the server's platforms.

A time bomb appeared near Forte, blasting away his aura in three
seconds as Megaman vanished. "What the..." Forte muttered, before
suddenly an Elecsword tore through his form. "Gah!! You insolent
Navi!!" Forte shouted, leaping into the air as Megaman reappeared.
He slammed his fist into Megaman, sending him tumbling backwards
and shattering the platform he once stood on.


As Forte began to charge up, he suddenly felt his power drain
away as he fell to the ground. "What the...? What is this...?" he
said, as a sharp pain began to surge through his form. "No...
It must be the Guardian program...!! That fool Human..."


Megaman recovered from Forte's assault and charged up his Buster,
nailing Forte in the face and sending him flying backwards onto
where the Guardian program once stood. "I cannot .... I cannot
have lost..." Forte muttered, infuriated at the unfairness of that
battle.


"Hmm... And I was hoping that you'd delete each other..." Wily said
discontently.

"What...!?" said Forte, glaring at the scientist.


"Forte, as I said, the Guardian program that you destroyed... It was
the final protection placed on Alpha! It takes a lot to destroy it,
you know. So I used your power. It's the reason I used Gospel to make
a copy of you! Just to bring back Alpha!!" Wily explained with
sinister laughter.

"Wily... You..."


"Navis are, after all, just tools to use!! Do you see now!? I would
use anything to complete my plan!" Wily said, cackling madly.




The Server began to tremble at these words. "Here it comes!! HEre
it comes!! Finally!!" Wily shouted with twisted glee. "Alpha's
awakening! It's the end of Network Society!"



Forte's vision blurred as he glared at Wily with pure loathing,
as a part of Alpha began to surround his form. "Graagh... You...
you wretched ... humans ..." Forte said, his voice too weak to
be audible as everything began to fade into darkness.



Forte drifted through the empty darkness inside of Alpha, too
drained to even move. "This... this can't be... the end..." he
said, breathing heavily. "... no... I have no emotion ... my
only regret is that I wasn't around to watch humanity fall..."


He closed his eyes and began to give into Alpha's hold, beginning
to dematerialize into Alpha bit by bit, pixels beginning to rain
from his form starting at his toes and working their way up.


He knew very well he was lying to himself, however, and he saw
images of Serenade polluting Mia with kind heartedness, he saw
Megaman destroying Alpha ... he knew all of this would come to
pass should he vanish now.

"No... Mia..." he said. "... she was like a daughter to me... I
won't let some pathetic wretch Navi take her from me..." Forte
said. "And Serenade.... if I die now, I'll never... I'll
never get to ... have my revenge..." he said with an empty
laugh. "And Megaman .... I have to defeat you..."


His body was halfway absorbed now. "... Alpha .... You will not..
Destroy me...!" Forte said, as he began to use what little energy
remained to try to hack his way out of the beast.


"... where did I learn all of this...?" he said, before shaking
his head. "No.. it was her, that girl .. why can't I remember
her name..!?"


Forte became quickly annoyed, but continued his attempt to escape
none the less. He struggled to retain his memories as Alpha's
absorbsion began to slow down and stop, Wily's anguished cries
filling the void as it began working on the easier prey instead.


"That Blue Navi... Must get revenge .... but what.. did he
look like... Agh!"


Forte began to become enraged at his inability to remember such
things. "Alpha, you have no hold on me...!!!" he yelled into the
darkness. "I WILL escape you... I have you!!"


Alpha roared as Wily's cries ended, then all was engulfed
by an eerie silence once again. "... revenge ... who was I
going to aven- no, get revenge upon ... Grr..."

Forte began yelling out swears, as Alpha tried to resume
absorbing his form, his memories fading away worse. "I've
got to get out of here ... but where is here anyway ...
Wh.. Who am I..? No.. All of this will come back to me..
I just have to get out of here... wherever this is, it's erasing
my memories one by one ..."

One memory remained, however.
".. maybe one day you'll realize the error in your
ways... should that ever happen, you will still be welcome
here, you know."

The soft, female voice rung through his mind, as he began to
set the end of the hacked escape route. ".... maybe whoever
told me that ... can help me regain my memory ...."



His body began to glow as he finished his teleportation path,
using the last of his energy to teleport out of Alpha's form.





((Author's Note: Over so soon? Nahh... We still have the little
matter of Forte's return to cover, don't we? That will be a
duel worth writing ....))