A/N: Sorry for the last chapter's scene switching seem a bit confusing, the spacing I used didn't come out for some reason, anyway hopefully this one is better! I'm using ~~~~~~~ lines when representing a new scene now. As always, if anyone wants to give me any criticism/possible advice, or anything, please do so!

SearchMan kicks his feet up on his desk while reading the letter from his NetOp, Raika. Suddenly the door barges open, Forte walks in, looking rather flustered, holding a small slice of chocolate cake.

"Hello there, you look like you just saw some girl in her panties, what's up?" SearchMan watches as Forte slowly closes the door and turns to the sniper Navi.

"Well," Forte begins "I've come to a conclusion."

"And what's that?" SearchMan asks, sitting up in his chair.

"Walking into a bathroom someone is using, but not realizing they're there, and jacking off, isn't the greatest way to introduce yourself..."

"Forte...you didn't-"

"It was a girl too...she said she was gay though, and she yelled at me..."

"Oh dear, seems like you met QuakeWoman."

"Yeah she's not nice!"

"But you know all the bathrooms around here have stalls, right?"

"Nooooo." Forte snaps sarcastically.

"Well excUSE me, princess!"

"Princess?!"

"Reference, doubt you would get it though."

"Whatever, anyway, she threatens to tear my dick off! Like what gives man?!"

"She despises you, apparently you raped her boyfriend."

"Raped? I never raped anyone."

"That's what she said though."

"I mean...who's her boyfriend?"

"Uh, gosh what was his name, seems to have slipped my mind, but Quake's real cool though, totally chill, but she's expressed her hate for you a few times. Most of us never believed her, as most people here didn't think you existed up until your stay here."

"Wait, if she's a lesbian then why does she-?"

"She was in denial, realized she liked chicks, she's real confusing though, on one hand she thinks dudes are real cool and acts like one of us, on the other she's a hardcore feminist who despises penis completely. But, yeah, she's got a girlfriend back home, real sweet too, met her once, my NetOp knows her NetOp."

"Well that's dandy and all, but she's accusing me of something I didn't do!"

"Did you ever get drunk?"

"I never drank alcohol once in my whole life, not that I remember, amnesia is killing me, but I really don't think I did…."

"Hm, ever take any medication?"

"No, well, painkillers a few times, but I had one bottle, that's it."

"Well, ever sexually abuse a Navi?"

"Uh, there was one time, I forced this dude to give me some head."

"That might've been him."

"The dick was a total, well, dick! He was such an excellent cocksucker, I'm surprised he had a girl at the time! Besides after insulting me he deserved it. Thinking about it, the guy sucked my cock so well he might as well have also been gay and in denial!"

"Calm down, Forte. Geez. Just avoid her, ok?"

"Alright, alright."

SearchMan turns back to his letter for a second before snapping it back at Forte "Hey, you forced some dude to suck you off? You told me the other night you never had any sexual activity ever!"

"Oh, I lied, I gave handjobs to BombMan, StoneMan, I kissed Serenade-"

"You kissed Serenade?!"

"Heh, long story, maybe I'll tell ya some day!"

"Well I lied when I told ya I wasn't a virgin."

"Who did you lose it too?"

"Someone you don't know, met her years ago."

"Were you two together?"

"Yeah, but she was deleted, didn't have any backups, she was never recovered."

"Oh, I'm sorry."

"Don't be, it was Gospel's doing."

"Gospel…"

"You remember that group?"

"Not…really. But I think I fused with Gospel."

"You fused with Gospel? The actual beast itself?"

"Yeah, I think I was trying to save my life, what happened though, all I can see in my head is this thing…it was devouring the whole area! Rockman was there, we were consumed, but we both lived, I think. I must've found remnants of Gospel, I was broken, so I fused with them."

"That explains your memory loss."

"I don't think I helped it much when I ate three-hundred BugFrags…"

"No, I'm pretty sure those only amplify certain traits."

"But they made me stronger, I had no choice, ironically it was that meddling Rockman who gave them all to me. Of course I hid inside a BugFrag Trader."

"You really don't like Rockman, huh?"

"All I know is I am strong, I must've been born to fight, he is strong too, so I have to defeat him."

"I have no doubt in my mind you were created to fight, Forte, but fighting doesn't have to be all you have."

"Well I do have this cake!"

SearchMan sighs, "So much for this deep moment, look, if you ever want to talk, I'm always here."

"Ok," Forte shrugs and starts to open up the plastic wrapping that concealed his cake tightly.

"Good." SearchMan picks up the letter again and continues where he left off.

"What's that?"

"A letter from my NetOp."

"What's he like?"

"He's a real cool guy, the coolest, gosh I miss him...funny how he gives commands and then goes against them on accident, he gets so embarrassed afterwards."

"Oh...is he alright?"

"Dealing with some heart ache, between being away from me and having his girlfriend die on him."

"How'd she die?"

"Cancer...he was with her till the very end, died last week, her funeral was two days later."

"Well he sounds like a very good man."

"Forte, don't you ever get lonely out on your own?"

"Nah, I've given up on humans, they're not worth my time. They're all horrible. That's another thing I seem to remember, well my dreams told me."

"Raika isn't, many other humans are good too."

"Surely he's done bad things, something."

"We've all done bad things, but we need to do bad things in order to learn. Humans can be really nice though. Trust me."

"It's hard to trust when you trusted in the past and that trust was broken. I have this human come to my mind, part of me says "Hey, you need him," and another part of me says "Hey, he doesn't need you," it's all confusing. I think I was involved in an incident, can't quite remember it all in detail, but it made me hateful."

"Alright, about that event, what do you remember?"

"I rather not explain now...I can't get myself upset again..."

"Oh, sorry if I struck-"

"It's ok! Really. I don't even feel pain anymore, that's how strong and immune I've become! I swore I would try to not think too hard on it! I can't remember much and that is that. Still, I find myself confused often."

SearchMan finishes reading quickly and places the letter in a drawer. "So, mind telling me where you got that cake?"

"Oh! It was given by some NetNavi I forget the name."

"That was CrashMan, I saw you leaving his room...making friends are we?"

"Well...no, I don't need anyone. I just cleaned and he gave me cake in return."

"Alright, seems reasonable, but you know you're not supposed to ask for payment, your payment is spending time here with a nice roof, a warm area, a bed, and free food."

"Yeah and that's nice and all, but slice of cake man! Plus I didn't ask for it, he gave it to me."

"Seems awful nice of him, he was never the nicest guy around."

"Is he bisexual? Cause he was really staring at me, but he was also talking about whores, and tits, and whatnot."

"Yeah, he is, he's ok though he and I never really spoke."

"Ok..." Forte went over to sit on SearchMan's bed, he starts to eat his cake, licking the fork enthusiastically after shoving a piece into his mouth.

"Geez! Like you've never eaten cake before!"

"I hadn't in YEARS!"

"Heh, you're silly, ya know that?"

"I am?"

"Yeah. You know what, you're not so bad."

"Oh?"

"I kinda enjoy having you around now."

"Is it because I'm your little slut?"

"That was once."

"It can happen again, if you want."

"Not tonight, I'm not in the mood."

"Alright."

SearchMan was on guard duty outside when it all had happened.

"So wait," he scratches his head in confusion "you mean to tell me that Forte was flirting with Colonel?"

Blues lightly shrugs "It appeared so, I'm afraid to tell you that Colonel also appeared to be interested."

"Ok, well, this news could be worse, Colonel is our friend, we have to respect what he desires."

"Yes, but, I left out the part that they were dirty talking right before me, they were serving scotch that night, Colonel had just a pint too many."

"I see...but they didn't sneak away?"

"No, Forte got ill and went to sleep."

"Well this isn't really concerning, Blues, thanks for filling in what I missed though."

"No problem, hopefully next time I will be on guard shift." Blues rolls his eyes and leaves the hall to go get a shower.

SearchMan enters his room behind him. "Forte, Forte..."

Forte, lying awake on SearchMan's bed rather than his own, looks up from twiddling his thumbs. "Finally!" he exasperates "I've been waiting forever! You shouldn't be letting a man hang this long!"

"Look, let's just get this over with."

"Oh come now, you know you like it."

"I've never blown a man before, Forte."

"It's not difficult really, I mean if you don't then I won't cover you, you want to sleep those three extra hours, don't you? I mean you were so busy last two days! You missed the party yesterday! You were too busy sleeping! You want enough sleep today, right? Then you can have fun without being a tired-"

"Alright," he says, hoping Forte would stop talking, "I'm far too sleep deprived to pass this up..."

Forte smirks as SearchMan gets down on his knees before Forte, finding the independent NetNavi's erected arousal before his face. With a sigh, SearchMan starts to take it slowly into his mouth.

Forte makes his grin noticeable with ease and grabs the side of SearchMan's helmet, pulling him ever so slightly up and down his heated length. Forte shudders lightly and attempts to shove more of himself into the warm entrance, but SearchMan growls at Forte, which sent more pleasure surges to the Navi, but also showed him he better not go too deep.

"Use your vocal cords, again, please dear goodness do it again." Forte moans out lightly as he felt vibrations swirl all around his needy arousal. Forte, getting more and more pleased by the minute, threw himself backward, landing his back on the mattress below. Suddenly, Forte bucks his hips up into the warm cavern, which earns a gag from SearchMan, as well as a big punch on the stomach of the smaller Navi.

"Ouch!" Forte sits up as SearchMan stood up. "What was that for man, I'm still using that!"

"I told you to not gag me!" SearchMan semi-shouts, "Now I feel like I might vomit!" The taller Navi took a moment before heading into the bathroom.

Forte sits there, he could hear the sickly sounds of SearchMan even from behind the locked door of their private bathroom. The darker Navi did feel a tad guilty for losing himself in his own pleasure, he even forgot in his ecstasy that SearchMan even had a gag reflex, like all Navis are created to have.

'Alright, he can have his extra hours of sleep, but damn I need to teach him to ignore those reflexes...'

Two days later.

"Hey SearchMan!"

SearchMan, from his position in line waiting for a chance at the candy bar machine, turns to see none other than his love, SplashWoman. "Oh, hey!" he greets happily.

"Quite the hot day, isn't it?"

"That it is, real shame a lotta guys are off in another invasion, luckily I get to stay here, but I have guard duty in half an hour."

"Daddy was talking about you and Blues and Colonel, you do realize you guys are his favorite workers, right?"

"Yeah, I know, they know it too."

"By the way, where has Forte been lately? I didn't see him at breakfast this morning?"

"He's suffering from a hangover, your father will be furious to find the janitor has not swept the floors since last night."

"He will, that's why I'm worried for Forte, he's in trouble!"

"I'm sure he'll be fine."

"SearchMan, you don't like Forte, do you?"

"I look at it this way, he's ok, even tolerable, sometimes. But you do realize what he's slowly becoming right? Have you heard what he's been doing? You even know where he got all that whiskey last night? General didn't allow him in the bar! He scammed it off others. He's selling his body for, well, food and drinks mostly."

"Why is he doing that?"

"Cause he's a fat ass."

"That's not nice, he's got a very thin appearance."

"Not for long..."

"You seemed real buddy-buddy with him a few days ago at lunch though."

"As I said, sometimes he's ok."

"Well, I honestly think he's cute!"

SearchMan couldn't help but raise a brow, "Cute, huh...I don't see it."

"He's nice to me too."

"He ogles you, quite frankly I don't like it."

"Oh come now Searchy, don't be jealous!"

"I'm not jealous! I just don't like men like that, that's all."

"Look, you don't have to worry, I'm kinda used to having men stare at me anyway, and if it becomes a problem I will tell my Daddy!"

"Or me, there's me too."

"Alright, maybe you too, depends where you are. Anyway, I have to leave Searchy, forgot that my Daddy wanted to speak to me, I'll try to catch you later!"

"See ya..." SearchMan sighs as the blue Navi disappears from sight.

"Hi SearchMan!"

SearchMan sees Forte walking up from the far side of the cafeteria, "What are you doing, thought your headache was killing you."

"It was, yeah, but I'm better now, so now I can clean! Hurray!"

"Oh, yeah, better get to work on that."

"Say, I'm still really sorry about the other night-"

"Forte, for the hundredth time, it's ok, ok? At least I got to sleep in a little."

"It was rude of me to forget my manners like that. So I wanna make it up!"

"How? This outta me amusing."

"Well, I don't know yet, but I shall think of something!" With that said Forte takes the broom in his hand and starts to sweep away, leaving the line of Navis as it diminishes.

The skirmish hasn't lasted too long, Colonel led the group into victory, and apparently they won't be coming back to Home Base for a while. SearchMan remains in his seat at his given position, at the very top of the base where snipers usually go. He has some of his other buddies with him, though they weren't allowed to speak much, so no point in bringing up some jokes.

Suddenly, however, the door slams open. Instinctively, SearchMan sits up from his slouched position in his chair, and using his Search Rifle, continues scanning the far areas. However, despite his thoughts that the guy entering was General, he was surprised to find another voice breaking the silence.

"SearchMaaaaannn!" Forte calls happily.

"Forte!" SearchMan spins around in his chair. "What are you doing here? Leave! If I get caught-"

"Only worried about yourself, huh? Well then!" Forte folds his arms over his chest and pouts. "I just wanted to ask what type of cookie you like best, but if your boring job is more important."

"It kinda is!" SearchMan turns back and gazes out the window. "Now leave, if General sees you-"

"What would he even do? Delete me? Please. The bounty for me is so large now the worse he would wanna do is hand me over to the SciLabs, I would just escape again anyway!"

"Forte, I mean it-"

"Do you prefer chocolate chip, ginger, or snicker doodle?"

"Chocolate, now leave."

"Geez, fine, that's all I wanted, cranky..." Forte shuts the door behind him as he leaves. 'What a grouch, I just wanted to know what kind of cookies he liked!' Forte finds himself wandering around base. On days like this almost everyone was kept busy, leaving very few to no Navis around the halls. Some battles are going on, and others are patrolling.

'It's just so boring...' Forte heads back to the cafeteria. He figures maybe he could see if the lunch lady would give him some leftovers. Yesterday she did, and all Forte had to do was ask someone out for her. He did but the soldier Navi turned her down, leaving her upset, all he got were some French fries. They weren't the best, but they were something.

"Hey Forte."

Forte smiles and turns, "SplashWoman."

The female NetNavi walks up to the darker NetNavi, she wore a wide grin on her pretty face, it made Forte melt a little on the inside. He also couldn't help but note the jiggle of her breasts with every step she took.

"Forte, I wanna know if you would like to hang out! I have nothing to do, Daddy is busy in his room talking to, well I don't know who, and you seem to not be busy!"

"Actually you're right, I'm not busy."

"You wanna come back to my room and, I don't know, just talk?"

Forte nods, "Sounds good."

SplashWoman starts to lead the two of them outside. Forte's mind drifts, he was gonna be in her room, 'Just talk,' he thought to himself. His eyes remained glued to her cute little butt the whole time until they arrive at the little cabin outside the backyard to the base.

"I know it's small," she explains as the door opens, "but this is it."

The place didn't look big from the outside, and it looks even smaller on the inside. It fits a bed, which sports light blue pillows and blanket, and a treasure chest in the corner. There is a tiny dresser with what looked like a telephone beside the bed.

SplashWoman sits down on her bed. Forte sits down beside her. "Ok," she begins, her hands clapping and folding onto her lap. "So, first off, I'd like to know where you come from."

"I really would rather not explain my story, don't bother asking me where I come from, who created me, or why I left, in fact, don't ask anything about my past." The blue Navi gets a look of slight offense on her face, more so out of embarrassment, but Forte sees this and adds "I simply don't remember, I have amnesia."

With a little more relief, and seeing a slight smile on Forte's face, she decides to ask about something else, "Well, tell me about yourself then! I mean, like, interests!"

"Fighting, sleeping, eating, oh and having some fun between the sheets, that's really it."

She was a little taken aback with his honesty, but she's aware of the large amount of sexual activity amongst the troops her father commanded, "One of these is not like the other," she smiles lightly, Forte does too, but her smile quickly fades as fast as it appears. "Fighting isn't good, it's wrong, the others are basic male traits."

"Male traits? Do woman not enjoy sleep, food, and getting freaky at all then? I find it hard to believe. Thanks for stereotyping though, speaking to QuakeWoman much?"

"Oh no, she's a bit mean, I heard she's nice to some, but she's also intimidating! But I heard she's real sexist at times."

"Do you ever notice all the creepy guys looking at you? SearchMan told me that you get starred at a lot."

"He's really protective, no one gives me crazy and uncomfortable stares! I get looked at yeah but not like that. My dad is protective too, I'm tough, I can fend for myself. Besides, I like most of the men here, very nice Navis! They appreciate my appearance, I've been told by some that I help relieve their minds with my singing."

"You sing?"

"Yup! I usually do when we throw large parties, I was going to sing for the party the other night, but I wasn't feeling well, and so I skipped out."

"Oh, well, I was there. I was supposed to be filling SearchMan's guard role at the top of the building, but I went downstairs with Colonel and a few others instead! It was fun, I drank for what I think was the first time, and CrashMan was singing drunken lyrics to some old romance song!"

"Filling SearchMan's role?"

"Don't tell him I didn't go, no one found out! I let him sleep in a little, he's been patrolling a bit lately, and having issues sleeping, so I said I'd do it. But that is such a boring job! So I went downstairs in the bar instead."

"Forte, that's wrong!"

"Again, don't tell him, I went to another party the following night, Blues was there this time, boy that guy doesn't drink much, but Colonel got wasted!"

"Hm, I don't remember another party scheduled after the one you just got done telling me about."

"Oh, that's cause we had it when most Navis were gone, your dad is bad at keeping track where his men are."

"He was attempting to contact the humans, it isn't always easy, they are busy and communication is getting weaker, our contact with the human world isn't strong."

"To think these Navis claim to be working alone, I doubt it, I mean who created them?"

"I don't know what's going on, Forte, but it's scary. Just when we thought we had peace too, I'd like to get a NetOp, and maybe a boyfriend, and live happily for the rest of my life."

Not knowing how to respond, Forte just nods and makes a "Hm" sound.

"What about you?"

"I don't know what my fate is going to be."

"Well, what do you want?"

"Be free, roam and find worthy opponents, get stronger, defeat Rockman."

"I think you can do better!"

"You think?"

"Yeah, I think you can live very happy with your creator, Dr. Cossak! He misses you."

"Dr. Cossak. You mean to tell me he misses me? How can you be so sure?"

"Well, he told me."

"He did?"

"Yeah, I was created by someone at SciLabs, and he told me all about you."

"He told you all about me, then why did you ask for my backstory earlier?"

"Well, ok, I exaggerated, he only mentioned how he thought of you as his son, and that you were a bit of a mischievous prankster. Once you apparently turned the lights in their bathroom off while someone was in there, all cause you were bored! But overall you took your job very seriously, too seriously."

"Anything else about me that I don't know?"

"What, do you not believe me or something?"

"It's not that, I'm just curious."

"Well, he said you also loved chocolate cake."

"Do I ever!"

SplashWoman giggles, "Don't we all?"

"SplashWoman, you're a very beautiful Navi."

"Oh? I get told that often, but thanks! Why the compliment?"

"I can't say a nice thing to a nice Navi? Hey, that wish were you get a NetOp and boyfriend, I hope you have them, anyway not to cut this short, but I need to take care of a few things, so I will catch you later." Forte stands up and heads for the door.

"Ok, bye Forte."

"Bye."

"Oh, wait a second!"

The shadowy Navi turns around just as he opens the door, "Yeah?"

"Thanks, and, I think you're cute."