CB: Recently, I was given a complaint about brevity. This problem will be immediately fixed in this chapter! Disclaimer: I do not own Megaman of any products of Capcom.

Sounds filtered through the air dimly, as he regained consciousness he began hearing familiar voices.

"-uckily he only suffered minor damage." One said.

"Why did he get knocked out then?" Another asked. Blues perhaps?

"Have you ever been hit in the head with a frickin tree? You'd be out cold too. Besides, the strike did damage to his and Gospel's connection and caused some very painful feedback." A crotchety old voice replied. Forte was sure he knew that voice. His crimson eyes shot open, and were met with jade green ones.

"Good morning!" The one he knew as Roll greeted happily.

He tried to move, but when he looked down at his body, he noticed his arms and legs had been strapped to an operating table. He turned his head too see Dr. Wily and Dr. Light standing side by side.

"What the Hell?!" He shouted in disbelief.

"And a fine hello to you too" Wily replied.

"Cut the Crap! What's going on here, and why am I strapped against a table?" He asked while struggling to get free.

"Please, calm down!" Roll pleaded.

"Screw yo-" He was cut off as he felt a strong hand pin him too the table. He looked up too see Blues holding him down.

"Calm. Down." Blues ordered with deathly calm. Forte complied.

"Good" Wily started. "To answer your second question, so we could repair you, and so that you wouldn't react violently when you woke up here. To answer the first, a partnership between Thomas and myself."

"What?!" Forte shouted. How could he work with Light?

"I know this seems odd but-"

"Seems?!" Forte shouted. "You specifically built me to hate them! And now you switch sides?"

"I never once told you to hate them. You hate Rock of your own violation. All I ever did was program you with a large ego, and threw you in front of someone who I knew would beat you the first time you fought." Wily said.

"Why you…" Forte growled. With a loud grunt, he ripped off the steel cuffs that banded him to the table before bending over and ripping them off his legs.

"Forte…" Warned Blues.

"All the things you did" Forte started as he rolled off the table, "All the crap you put me through… do you expect me to change sides too?"

"It would certainly make things easier, but it's your choice, you never listened too me anyway." Wily explained.

"Because you always got in my way!" Forte retorted.

"All you ever did was try to get into fights with Rock. If you would have followed my plans, you would have gotten that anyway."

"I want a fair fight! You always wanted me to attack him when he was injured."

"And even then you couldn't beat him. Do you think you could beat him in a fair fight?" Wily asked.

"I could if you gave me a decent upgrade every once in a while!" Forte shouted in outrage.

Wily just chuckled at him. "You are still a fool. Even after three years. Go on, you have no use here."

"Albert." Dr. Light scolded. "We still need him to tell us what he knows about that strange robot."

"I don't know anything, and even if I did I wouldn't tell you." Forte said in defiance.

"Yes, you would act like an idiot and hunt them yourself." Wily said.

"Screw you old man!" Forte shouted as he stormed out of the lab.

"Forte! Wait." Rock started.

"Save it Rock. Next time I see you, I will kill you." He said without stopping.

He walked through the forest, fully aggravated by the recent events.

"He's right you know. He heard a voice behind him say before he had gotten very far away from Light's lab. "You are still a fool."

He turned around to see Blues behind him leaning against a tree. "What are you talking about?"

"You still do not understand why you can never beat Rock. At least not how you are now." Blues explained

"I can't beat him because I can't get upgrades."

Blues just chuckled. "Besides the Rush fusion, he hasn't been upgraded since the day you met him, and you were specifically built to be more powerful then him."

"The old man failed to do that." Forte shot back.

"Do you really believe that?" Blues asked. "Do you think power levels are what's holding you back?"

"What are y-" SNAP. He was cut off by the sound of a branch breaking in the woods.

"That's my cue to leave." Blues said before teleporting away.

"Gospel?" Forte asked in the direction of the noise, just then remembering that his robotic wolf wasn't with him.

"You're half right!" A cheerful voice responded. Roll, closely followed by Gospel, appeared in the direction of the noise, and Gospel ran up and rubbed himself against Forte's leg. Forte responded by rubbing the mechanical wolf's head.

"What are you doing here?" Forte asked Roll. "Gospel could had found his way on his own."

"Well you ran out in such a huff, and I wanted to see if you were alright." Roll answered.

"What?" Forte asked incredulously.

Roll let her head droop for a moment as she said, "Forte… I remember a time when we were friends. Even if it was an act to get inside our lab, I believe that it couldn't have all been an act. I still think you're my friend."

"You're wrong." Forte deadpanned.

Roll lifted her head with a small smile. "No, I don't think I am. I think theirs more to you than that. Anyway, where are you staying?"

"What?" Forte asked again.

Roll sighed and rolled her eyes. "You know, where are you living right now?"

"Why do you want to know?"

"So we can hang-out some time!"

"Again, what?"

"Oh come. Even if I didn't want to be friends, you are probably going to need help if more of those robots show up. Come on, no-one else will find out where it is."

Forte thought about it for a moment. The entire idea was stupid, at best, and yet, something about her just drew him towards her. "At Wily's old fortress." He said before he even realized he was saying it.

"Great!" Roll cheered with a large happy smile. "I'll see you tomorrow!" She said before running off.

Bewildered, Forte just walked of without a word.

CB: And there you have it. A timeline is set, one year after Megaman 8, and two of the most important characters come into play. I know at least one of my voices is happy about this.

Love: (Giggles with a slight blush upon her cheeks) Oh yes, I'm going to have fun with them.

Feral: Shouldn't we be doing something entertaining now?

CB: Screw that! Save it for the next update!