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Description
Forte WITH his cape.

Name : Forte AKA Bass
Codename : DRW-002
Date of Activation : Unknown
Age : Around 300 years
Creator : Designed by Cossack Levinsky, constructed by Albert Warrenheit William (AKA Willy)
Construction : Fortinium Alloy, later on, Cyber Alloy
Power Output : Fortinium. (Later on replaced a nuclear engine before destroyed.) Now, limited on the Output of the Generator connected to his body via cable
Feature : DNA Absorb
Gospel Primal Elf Fusion

Story:
DRW-002 Bass AKA Forte once was a mecharoid, created by Dr. Albert Warrenheit William, a (mad) Genius German Scientist, to match up Rockman, a Mecharoid created by Willy’s rival, Thomas Light. Unlike Rockman though, Forte was born by purely incident. When Willy is studying a stolen data from one of his former Russian colleague, Cossack Levinsky, he accidentally fused some of a mysterious energy crystal with his experimental materials, creating a new material with an almost everlasting fusion energy, which he called Fortinium. Hence, the name Forte came to being, as he is the first Mecharoid Willy created with the new material. Gospel, Forte’s companion, was created at almost the same time. Thus, the two become friends afterwards.

However, Forte was proved to be too dangerous as he disobeys Willy’s order all the time. Forte considers himself to be the strongest robot in history. To prove it, he destroyed all of Willy creations to prove how weak all his creation are. Enraged, Willy put the rebellious Forte into a cryo chamber. Despite his anger towards his masterpiece, Willy was intrigued at the same time with Forte’s strength. Thus, he put a failsafe on Forte’s chamber, along with the other 8 of his creation.

At one time, Willy was imprisoned, the failsafe then opened, and Forte’s unleashed. He had heard about the existence of ‘Rockman’ and wished to challenge him. In order to do so, Forte pretend to be a Mecharoid that was chasing after Willy. Fooled, Rockman took Forte to Dr. Light’s Lab. There, Forte bare his fang, and rampage throughout the lab, nearly killing Roll and Light during the process. While in the process he stole the adapter program which he’ll incorporate into Gospel, his primary goal is mainly one: to make Rockman angry enough, so that when they meet again, Rockman will show his true power; which he did. Much to Forte’s surprise, he lost, even after he fused together with Gospel. Disbelieving, Forte seemingly ran in shame. That was, until he saw Willy is trapped and Rockman almost killed him. Much to his surprise, Rockman self-shut down before he did what he tried to do. Forte then understand that Rockman had a failsafe that forbid him to kill any human being. He laughed at Rockman’s softness, took Willy’s away, and ran away.

After Forte took him to safe place, he began to question Willy’s true capability as a robotics expert. Willy, in his anger, told him that he was worthless and weak for not being able to kill Rockman. Enraged, Forte set out to defeat Rockman to prove that he’s the strongest robot. He attacked cities, time and again, only to bait and challenge Rockman. At one point, he suddenly met Protoman AKA Blues. Blues questions Forte’s true reason to fight, and what will he do after he achieved his goal. A question which got Forte for good. He continues to neglect any order given by Willy, and make his way to become a rogue robot.

One day, he heard a Robot, under the name of King; declare a war with the human. Forte found this interesting, and set out. Strangely enough, he found himself at Rockman’s side as an ally. During the time, Forte was reaccepted back at Light’s laboratory. Light, intrigued by Forte’s strength and complexity, requested his permission to study Forte’s system and the mysterious Fortinium material. At first, Forte declines. But Thomas finally made an offer that he can’t refuse: the same DNA Remake Ability program installed on Rockman. Forte agrees with one condition: Light must not put the same failsafe he did on Rockman. Light reluctantly agreed.

The combination of the rivaling duo made it to King. The two defeated him, with a little help from Blues, only to find that the person behind all this… was WILLY!! Enraged, the two charged head on to Willy’s palace. There, Forte defeated Willy, and mocked him as the most incompetent scientist ever. He yells that there is no way Willy had created him. Willy simply laughs and said that it’s true. Fortinium, the material in which Forte was created, was invented by pure accident. The truth was, Forte was Cossack’s designed mecharoid that was intended to be given to Russia’s defense force. Willy had stolen Forte’s design, created, modified and armed him with the accidentally created Fortinium.

Enraged even further, Forte seeks to kill Willy here and now. Much to his surprise, Willy had put a failsafe inside his basis program that unable him from doing any harm to Willy. The mad scientist laughs and tells him that he had created another mecharoid, far stronger than both Rockman and Forte combined. That mecharoid was DRW-XX-000 AKA: Zero. Forte seeks to destroy the new mecharoid. Much to his surprise, Zero woke up and attacked him. In the ensuing conflict, the weakened Forte was severely wounded. Before Zero can do any more harm, Gospel took Forte to safety. In the hideout, Forte contemplates to find his true ‘Father’. With the help of Gospel, he managed to make his way to the snowfield of Berlin. There, he met with Cossack’s youngest son, Mamoru Levinsky. Mamoru took Forte to safety, where finally, he met his true father and family.

Cossack was very happy and sad when he saw his ‘child’ in such state. Cossack studied Forte’s condition and tried to fix him afterwards. Despite his best effort to do so, the complicity of Forte’s Fortinium confuses him to no end. Eventually, Forte must make two choices: The erasure of his combat ability program forever and continue a normal life with them, or, undergo a risky operation to remove the Fortinium from his power-core and the basis of his constructions that had a chance of very well destroy him utterly. Forte, despite the fact that he was happy that he finally found a true family, pick the second option. The operation occurred. Much to Cossack’s surprise, thanks to the DNA Ability Copy installed by Thomas, the Fortinium’s ability was able to be copied, and the removal of the true Fortinium core was a success. The copied Fortinium managed to sustain Forte’s life for a moment until Cossack put a Nuclear Compact Fusion Reactor on Forte. Forte then lived with the Levinskies for some time, working as Cossack’s assistant and bodyguard.

There, he learned the true purpose of his existence. He was initially designed to be a companion for Kalinka, Cossack’s daughter and act as a little ‘Brother’ to her. At that time, due to the lack of fund, Cossack had signed an agreement with Russian Defense Force, where they will pay his bills if he was to create him as a Battle Purpose Mecharoid; something that did not really bode well with Cossack’s true intention. But the will to give Kalinka a friend was strong enough to force him to agree. During the process of recreating Forte as a battle mech, Cossack had secretly created another Mecharoid; designation DRC-324-S AKA Serenade. A Female Mecharoid which was intended to be a replacement for Forte’s role. When Forte’s initial design was stolen, the funding stopped, and Serenade were left unfinished.

After learning his existence, Forte decided, for now, to live up his initial purpose: To be Mamoru’s friend and Kalinka’s brother. He kept his existence hidden, for fear of what the Russia government would do to the Levinskies if they ever find out that he’s exist. Meanwhile, Zero had already been set loose to the world. He proved his definite superiority by wiping out a huge army from UN government flawlessly. Every country entrenched in fear of this new terror, including Russia. The fear of Zero’s onslaught was enough reason for the government to refund Cossack’s project. With the new fund, Cossack continues its development on both Forte and Serenade. He massively upgraded Forte by giving him Dual Forte Buster and the powerful EarthBreaker, while finishing and modifying Serenade at the same time into a battle purpose mecharoid. The two eventually joined the special UN army, where he met Rockman once again, after promising that they will return to the Levinskies. A promise that finally left unfulfilled…

After a long battle, Forte meet with Zero once again. There, he learned that Light had been killed by Zero. The enraged Rockman charge head on. After a ferocious battle, the damaged Rockman sacrificed himself by self destruct along with Zero, in hope to destroy him along. The explosion managed to severely injure Zero. Zero ran towards Willy’s palace and Forte gave chase, followed along, was Blues and Serenade. The three eventually met up with Zero. At that time, Zero had been modified by Willy with a virus program called Zero Virus; a virus which, upon exposure, would turn any machine to berserk. Serenade was the first to fall victim to said virus. It drives her insane that Forte was forced to destroy her. But not before Serenade gave him all her strength, her ability: the dreadful Sonic Blast attack and another of her prized weapon: the Panzer Beam Deflection Cloak, which transform into the black cape for Forte.

Angered by the death of his ‘sister’, Forte attacks Zero and managed to damage him badly only to be stopped by Willy who used Forte’s Failsafe program to stop his movements. Being unable to move, Zero severely damage him in return, making Forte lose his right eye. That is, until Blues take up the action and kills Willy on the spot, angering Zero to no end. Forte and Blues was no match for the enraged berserk future Reploid. Eventually, Forte contemplates to fight Zero alone, giving Blues some time to destroy the Palace’s support structure. After a while, the palace began to collapse. Forte, knowing that his fate is sealed, overheat his nuclear core and self destruct the miniature nuclear engine in his body to destroy Zero. The explosion occurred, but much to his surprise, Forte survives as well as Zero, but both were wounded heavily. Gospel immediately helps his master by fusing together with Forte, sharing Forte his Fortinium energy to prolong his life and took him to safety. The Willie’s Palace collapsed burying Zero and Willie’s ambition for good. The world recognizes Rockman, Blues, Serenade, and Forte as fallen heroes. However, Forte continues to live on the sewers of Willy’s fortress, but barely, while Blues’ whereabouts are still unknown.

For the next 100 years, Forte was clinging to life and he was unable to move from his spot. During the time, he occasionally sends Gospel to bring him energy tanks and to see what had happened for the last century. There, he learns that Light had made one last master piece before he died, which is X. Much to his surprise, Gospel informs him that X resembles Rockman and himself combined. Forte laughs at ‘Thomas Light’s geniosity and cunningness’ as he continues to wait patiently to find a way to restore himself. Then, Gospel brought him some disturbing news: Zero’s alive and well. Burnt with hatred, Forte tried his best to restore himself, but failed miserably as most of his limbs are damaged beyond any conventional repair. Much to his surprise, Gospel brought the news that Zero was doing very well and titled as the friend of humans. That confuses Forte to no end. The only thing he can do now is to trust Gospel’s report and finds a way to fix him as quickly as possible. 30 years pass, and nobody knows his existence. Then, Gospel brought more disturbing news: a War had begun between human and robots, the Maverick War. During the time, the war rages for about 20 years. After that Gospel make another report that, the first war had ended only to be continued with another war: The Elf War.

Forte was confused to no end. But eventually, he had decided to ask Gospel to continue his search, and try to find any usable part that he can use to prolong his survival. Much to Forte’s horror, one day Gospel return, wounded and dying, carrying a pack of energy crystals enough to fuel Forte’s need for a few decades. Gospel died soon after he gave his findings to his master. Forte cries in anguish as he lost his best friend. Using Gospel’s last gift, Forte manages to prolong his life for 50 years, without any knowledge of what happened outside now that his messenger is gone. Then, after another 20 years of dying life, he feels that his time has come, and prepares to shutdown completely. All the sudden, instead of the sudden darkness, he felt power growing. Forte open his eyes to see a flock of illuminating wisps cover him. The Cyber Elves. The elves fused with him, and a new Forte was reborn.

After more than 200 long years, Forte finally prepares to step into the new world, with the help of his newly reborn Gospel, which now had taken a form of Cyber Beast Elf. Although his energy output is far below that of his previous life, it’s still enough for him to walk around and find a way to fix him up. Then, he learned the hard way that he had gone for more than 200 years and mankind is now blaming likes like him as the cause of war. Ironically, they used another robot to hunt another. Disgusted, Forte seeks out a hideout, which, he found to be a Reploid graveyard. Forte used the parts he found in there to restore his battle capability. Soon, Forte had a pair of Quad Buster, Proto-Sodom and Proto-Gomorrah, to replace his damaged Forte Buster. He continues to live in the junkyard for another 10 years, restoring his body and power as much as he could. During one time, he managed to find a secret society comprised of runaway Reploids of the previous war. Forte was delighted. The society is wild. No rules. Only the strong survives. Those who prevail, have the right to keep parts from his enemy as a trophy. For Forte, it’s a perfect place for him. Participating in the underground gladiatoresque arena, he defeated countless opponents, utilizing the DNA remake ability to absorb their strength and abilities, building his own. Pretty soon, the ancient robotmaster has gained a notorious record for being an undefeated champion in countless battles and Forte himself had already recovered most of his parts, until he was introduced by a new force called the Neo Arcadia. Forte managed to defeat hundreds of thousands of the Arcadian army, until he face the leader, which none other than X. After a long brutal fight, Forte runs out of energy, and learn that if he fused with Gospel like he usually did, Gospel will slowly deteriorate. Thus, he refused to do so, resulting in his demise.

Forte was defeated once again, and he was banished to an abandoned power plant ruin and left there to die. Much to his surprise, inside the power plant, hundreds and thousands of Cyber elves had took refugee there. They help Forte by nourishing him back to health. Forte tried to fix himself again like he did before, but found that the one problem that keeps nagging him, despite how many times he fix or upgrade himself, is his lack of energy source. Thus, he connects himself with one of the active reactor. He refuses to use any Cyber Elf to refill his energy, and told them to live up their life as he will protect them, since they had helped him countless times. The Cyber Elves thanked him and then together with him, lived inside the core of the reactor.

Forte however, refused to remain idle. Inspired by the life he went through during his days in the Underground arenas, Forte decided to set up the new tower as his base. Carefully he began spread rumors and a little tall tale, inviting many reploids into the tower. Once he gathered them, he arranges them to fight with each other. The rules remain the same with a little addition: the winner can keep the parts of the loser for himself and those who make it to the finals can choose: live and be ready for the next tournament, or try their strength and fight Forte. Well most of them obviously choose the latter… and most of them ended up in the scrap yard and chop shop, drained and dead. By doing this periodically, Forte choose the strongest reploids and building up his own power. The cycle continued for several years until suddenly a reploid appeared and rampaged through the tournament. The said reploid possess an ability that truly caught Forte’s interest. He had an ability to literally copy the ability and appearances of other reploids. With this ability, the said reploid shape shift and defeat every opponent but refused to take any parts from his enemies.

When the reploid finally won the tournament, obviously he challenged Forte. The robotmaster simply accept. The battle lasted for days. At first, the reploid seem to be winning, he simply used every shape and ability he has in his repertoire. But as the battle comes along, Forte simply absorb and copy all the battle data and use every ability he had gained, and along with it, he gained new ones. As the battle progressed, Forte managed to make his stand… but he couldn’t copy the reploid’s copying ability and neither can the shape-shifter turned into another Forte. After a long arduous and brutal fighting, it ended with a standstill. Finally, the reploid decided to call it a day. After learning his name, which is Axl, Forte finally learned the true nature of the tower in which he, and countless other Cyber Elves, resides. Forte and Axl finally struck a deal: Forte will protect the Cyber Elves AND the tower, and Axl, whose profession was a thief for hire at the time, will become Forte’s ears and eyes as well as his herald. Following Axl’s advice, Forte searched for reploids whose power close or equals his by using the tournaments. He increased the entry requirements and the level of brutality of each match. Forte’s strength continues to grow with each reploid he conquered.

After he felt powerful enough, Forte ask Axl to spread an invitation to the underworld bosses. All the greatest of mavericks and the most notorious underlords were invited to enter the tournament, and Forte himself will get personal and enter the tournament as a single entree. The winner will take command of the tower. The plan was a risky one, but highly effective and quite simple. The tournament is a chance for Forte to gain more powers from the strongest mavericks and reploids, and among them he can find the reploids he needed. As an addition, he will have the chance to wipe out all those who would try to overthrow him. And unlike before, instead of gaining the parts from the loser, he prefers to have their allegiance. The plan worked and at the end of the day, Forte stood victories once again, but this time, he had selected the worst of the worst mavericks and reploids to serve him as his lieutenants and he had amassed an army of his own. 4 among them, namely: Epsilon, Juno, Nebula Grey, and the infamous Sigma are those whose strength he recognized to be close, or equal his and named them the Darkmasters. From this point onward, Forte’s name is known far and wide as the absolute iron clad ruler of the underworld.

But how could a centuries old robotmaster gained supremacy over obviously more high tech and updated reploids? Well, the case of Forte’s origin came up once and ONLY once. The day Forte selected the Darkmasters. One of them simply protested and brought the case forward. His response? Look at the picture above again. As for the remainder of the body… well… let’s just say that, the Underking won’t be running out of PAPERCLIPS anytime soon.

Ability:
Despite the fact that Forte’s mobility is now limited by the wires on his back, he’s still a force to be beckoned with. His EarthBreaker is insanely devastating. The dual Quad Busters are able to shred any target to pieces within a few seconds. With the additional skill from Serenade, which is the dreaded Sonic Blast, the Panzer Beam Deflection cloak, and Serenade’s battle data, Forte’s power are more than doubled. Moreover, Forte still have his ability to fuse with Gospel, forming the almighty Gospel Forte. However, his lack of energy and the fact that he was born far before his present time, thus making him an ancient and outdated robot, and many unfixed damage he had suffered could very well serve as his major drawback.

Description
Forte WITH his cape.

Name : Forte AKA Bass
Codename : DRW-002
Date of Activation : Unknown
Age : Around 300 years
Creator : Designed by Cossack Levinsky, constructed by Albert Warrenheit William (AKA Willy)
Construction : Fortinium Alloy, later on, Cyber Alloy
Power Output : Fortinium. (Later on replaced a nuclear engine before destroyed.) Now, limited on the Output of the Generator connected to his body via cable
Feature : DNA Absorb
Gospel Primal Elf Fusion

Story:
DRW-002 Bass AKA Forte once was a mecharoid, created by Dr. Albert Warrenheit William, a (mad) Genius German Scientist, to match up Rockman, a Mecharoid created by Willy’s rival, Thomas Light. Unlike Rockman though, Forte was born by purely incident. When Willy is studying a stolen data from one of his former Russian colleague, Cossack Levinsky, he accidentally fused some of a mysterious energy crystal with his experimental materials, creating a new material with an almost everlasting fusion energy, which he called Fortinium. Hence, the name Forte came to being, as he is the first Mecharoid Willy created with the new material. Gospel, Forte’s companion, was created at almost the same time. Thus, the two become friends afterwards.

However, Forte was proved to be too dangerous as he disobeys Willy’s order all the time. Forte considers himself to be the strongest robot in history. To prove it, he destroyed all of Willy creations to prove how weak all his creation are. Enraged, Willy put the rebellious Forte into a cryo chamber. Despite his anger towards his masterpiece, Willy was intrigued at the same time with Forte’s strength. Thus, he put a failsafe on Forte’s chamber, along with the other 8 of his creation.

At one time, Willy was imprisoned, the failsafe then opened, and Forte’s unleashed. He had heard about the existence of ‘Rockman’ and wished to challenge him. In order to do so, Forte pretend to be a Mecharoid that was chasing after Willy. Fooled, Rockman took Forte to Dr. Light’s Lab. There, Forte bare his fang, and rampage throughout the lab, nearly killing Roll and Light during the process. While in the process he stole the adapter program which he’ll incorporate into Gospel, his primary goal is mainly one: to make Rockman angry enough, so that when they meet again, Rockman will show his true power; which he did. Much to Forte’s surprise, he lost, even after he fused together with Gospel. Disbelieving, Forte seemingly ran in shame. That was, until he saw Willy is trapped and Rockman almost killed him. Much to his surprise, Rockman self-shut down before he did what he tried to do. Forte then understand that Rockman had a failsafe that forbid him to kill any human being. He laughed at Rockman’s softness, took Willy’s away, and ran away.

After Forte took him to safe place, he began to question Willy’s true capability as a robotics expert. Willy, in his anger, told him that he was worthless and weak for not being able to kill Rockman. Enraged, Forte set out to defeat Rockman to prove that he’s the strongest robot. He attacked cities, time and again, only to bait and challenge Rockman. At one point, he suddenly met Protoman AKA Blues. Blues questions Forte’s true reason to fight, and what will he do after he achieved his goal. A question which got Forte for good. He continues to neglect any order given by Willy, and make his way to become a rogue robot.

One day, he heard a Robot, under the name of King; declare a war with the human. Forte found this interesting, and set out. Strangely enough, he found himself at Rockman’s side as an ally. During the time, Forte was reaccepted back at Light’s laboratory. Light, intrigued by Forte’s strength and complexity, requested his permission to study Forte’s system and the mysterious Fortinium material. At first, Forte declines. But Thomas finally made an offer that he can’t refuse: the same DNA Remake Ability program installed on Rockman. Forte agrees with one condition: Light must not put the same failsafe he did on Rockman. Light reluctantly agreed.

The combination of the rivaling duo made it to King. The two defeated him, with a little help from Blues, only to find that the person behind all this… was WILLY!! Enraged, the two charged head on to Willy’s palace. There, Forte defeated Willy, and mocked him as the most incompetent scientist ever. He yells that there is no way Willy had created him. Willy simply laughs and said that it’s true. Fortinium, the material in which Forte was created, was invented by pure accident. The truth was, Forte was Cossack’s designed mecharoid that was intended to be given to Russia’s defense force. Willy had stolen Forte’s design, created, modified and armed him with the accidentally created Fortinium.

Enraged even further, Forte seeks to kill Willy here and now. Much to his surprise, Willy had put a failsafe inside his basis program that unable him from doing any harm to Willy. The mad scientist laughs and tells him that he had created another mecharoid, far stronger than both Rockman and Forte combined. That mecharoid was DRW-XX-000 AKA: Zero. Forte seeks to destroy the new mecharoid. Much to his surprise, Zero woke up and attacked him. In the ensuing conflict, the weakened Forte was severely wounded. Before Zero can do any more harm, Gospel took Forte to safety. In the hideout, Forte contemplates to find his true ‘Father’. With the help of Gospel, he managed to make his way to the snowfield of Berlin. There, he met with Cossack’s youngest son, Mamoru Levinsky. Mamoru took Forte to safety, where finally, he met his true father and family.

Cossack was very happy and sad when he saw his ‘child’ in such state. Cossack studied Forte’s condition and tried to fix him afterwards. Despite his best effort to do so, the complicity of Forte’s Fortinium confuses him to no end. Eventually, Forte must make two choices: The erasure of his combat ability program forever and continue a normal life with them, or, undergo a risky operation to remove the Fortinium from his power-core and the basis of his constructions that had a chance of very well destroy him utterly. Forte, despite the fact that he was happy that he finally found a true family, pick the second option. The operation occurred. Much to Cossack’s surprise, thanks to the DNA Ability Copy installed by Thomas, the Fortinium’s ability was able to be copied, and the removal of the true Fortinium core was a success. The copied Fortinium managed to sustain Forte’s life for a moment until Cossack put a Nuclear Compact Fusion Reactor on Forte. Forte then lived with the Levinskies for some time, working as Cossack’s assistant and bodyguard.

There, he learned the true purpose of his existence. He was initially designed to be a companion for Kalinka, Cossack’s daughter and act as a little ‘Brother’ to her. At that time, due to the lack of fund, Cossack had signed an agreement with Russian Defense Force, where they will pay his bills if he was to create him as a Battle Purpose Mecharoid; something that did not really bode well with Cossack’s true intention. But the will to give Kalinka a friend was strong enough to force him to agree. During the process of recreating Forte as a battle mech, Cossack had secretly created another Mecharoid; designation DRC-324-S AKA Serenade. A Female Mecharoid which was intended to be a replacement for Forte’s role. When Forte’s initial design was stolen, the funding stopped, and Serenade were left unfinished.

After learning his existence, Forte decided, for now, to live up his initial purpose: To be Mamoru’s friend and Kalinka’s brother. He kept his existence hidden, for fear of what the Russia government would do to the Levinskies if they ever find out that he’s exist. Meanwhile, Zero had already been set loose to the world. He proved his definite superiority by wiping out a huge army from UN government flawlessly. Every country entrenched in fear of this new terror, including Russia. The fear of Zero’s onslaught was enough reason for the government to refund Cossack’s project. With the new fund, Cossack continues its development on both Forte and Serenade. He massively upgraded Forte by giving him Dual Forte Buster and the powerful EarthBreaker, while finishing and modifying Serenade at the same time into a battle purpose mecharoid. The two eventually joined the special UN army, where he met Rockman once again, after promising that they will return to the Levinskies. A promise that finally left unfulfilled…

After a long battle, Forte meet with Zero once again. There, he learned that Light had been killed by Zero. The enraged Rockman charge head on. After a ferocious battle, the damaged Rockman sacrificed himself by self destruct along with Zero, in hope to destroy him along. The explosion managed to severely injure Zero. Zero ran towards Willy’s palace and Forte gave chase, followed along, was Blues and Serenade. The three eventually met up with Zero. At that time, Zero had been modified by Willy with a virus program called Zero Virus; a virus which, upon exposure, would turn any machine to berserk. Serenade was the first to fall victim to said virus. It drives her insane that Forte was forced to destroy her. But not before Serenade gave him all her strength, her ability: the dreadful Sonic Blast attack and another of her prized weapon: the Panzer Beam Deflection Cloak, which transform into the black cape for Forte.

Angered by the death of his ‘sister’, Forte attacks Zero and managed to damage him badly only to be stopped by Willy who used Forte’s Failsafe program to stop his movements. Being unable to move, Zero severely damage him in return, making Forte lose his right eye. That is, until Blues take up the action and kills Willy on the spot, angering Zero to no end. Forte and Blues was no match for the enraged berserk future Reploid. Eventually, Forte contemplates to fight Zero alone, giving Blues some time to destroy the Palace’s support structure. After a while, the palace began to collapse. Forte, knowing that his fate is sealed, overheat his nuclear core and self destruct the miniature nuclear engine in his body to destroy Zero. The explosion occurred, but much to his surprise, Forte survives as well as Zero, but both were wounded heavily. Gospel immediately helps his master by fusing together with Forte, sharing Forte his Fortinium energy to prolong his life and took him to safety. The Willie’s Palace collapsed burying Zero and Willie’s ambition for good. The world recognizes Rockman, Blues, Serenade, and Forte as fallen heroes. However, Forte continues to live on the sewers of Willy’s fortress, but barely, while Blues’ whereabouts are still unknown.

For the next 100 years, Forte was clinging to life and he was unable to move from his spot. During the time, he occasionally sends Gospel to bring him energy tanks and to see what had happened for the last century. There, he learns that Light had made one last master piece before he died, which is X. Much to his surprise, Gospel informs him that X resembles Rockman and himself combined. Forte laughs at ‘Thomas Light’s geniosity and cunningness’ as he continues to wait patiently to find a way to restore himself. Then, Gospel brought him some disturbing news: Zero’s alive and well. Burnt with hatred, Forte tried his best to restore himself, but failed miserably as most of his limbs are damaged beyond any conventional repair. Much to his surprise, Gospel brought the news that Zero was doing very well and titled as the friend of humans. That confuses Forte to no end. The only thing he can do now is to trust Gospel’s report and finds a way to fix him as quickly as possible. 30 years pass, and nobody knows his existence. Then, Gospel brought more disturbing news: a War had begun between human and robots, the Maverick War. During the time, the war rages for about 20 years. After that Gospel make another report that, the first war had ended only to be continued with another war: The Elf War.

Forte was confused to no end. But eventually, he had decided to ask Gospel to continue his search, and try to find any usable part that he can use to prolong his survival. Much to Forte’s horror, one day Gospel return, wounded and dying, carrying a pack of energy crystals enough to fuel Forte’s need for a few decades. Gospel died soon after he gave his findings to his master. Forte cries in anguish as he lost his best friend. Using Gospel’s last gift, Forte manages to prolong his life for 50 years, without any knowledge of what happened outside now that his messenger is gone. Then, after another 20 years of dying life, he feels that his time has come, and prepares to shutdown completely. All the sudden, instead of the sudden darkness, he felt power growing. Forte open his eyes to see a flock of illuminating wisps cover him. The Cyber Elves. The elves fused with him, and a new Forte was reborn.

After more than 200 long years, Forte finally prepares to step into the new world, with the help of his newly reborn Gospel, which now had taken a form of Cyber Beast Elf. Although his energy output is far below that of his previous life, it’s still enough for him to walk around and find a way to fix him up. Then, he learned the hard way that he had gone for more than 200 years and mankind is now blaming likes like him as the cause of war. Ironically, they used another robot to hunt another. Disgusted, Forte seeks out a hideout, which, he found to be a Reploid graveyard. Forte used the parts he found in there to restore his battle capability. Soon, Forte had a pair of Quad Buster, Proto-Sodom and Proto-Gomorrah, to replace his damaged Forte Buster. He continues to live in the junkyard for another 10 years, restoring his body and power as much as he could. During one time, he managed to find a secret society comprised of runaway Reploids of the previous war. Forte was delighted. The society is wild. No rules. Only the strong survives. Those who prevail, have the right to keep parts from his enemy as a trophy. For Forte, it’s a perfect place for him. Participating in the underground gladiatoresque arena, he defeated countless opponents, utilizing the DNA remake ability to absorb their strength and abilities, building his own. Pretty soon, the ancient robotmaster has gained a notorious record for being an undefeated champion in countless battles and Forte himself had already recovered most of his parts, until he was introduced by a new force called the Neo Arcadia. Forte managed to defeat hundreds of thousands of the Arcadian army, until he face the leader, which none other than X. After a long brutal fight, Forte runs out of energy, and learn that if he fused with Gospel like he usually did, Gospel will slowly deteriorate. Thus, he refused to do so, resulting in his demise.

Forte was defeated once again, and he was banished to an abandoned power plant ruin and left there to die. Much to his surprise, inside the power plant, hundreds and thousands of Cyber elves had took refugee there. They help Forte by nourishing him back to health. Forte tried to fix himself again like he did before, but found that the one problem that keeps nagging him, despite how many times he fix or upgrade himself, is his lack of energy source. Thus, he connects himself with one of the active reactor. He refuses to use any Cyber Elf to refill his energy, and told them to live up their life as he will protect them, since they had helped him countless times. The Cyber Elves thanked him and then together with him, lived inside the core of the reactor.

Forte however, refused to remain idle. Inspired by the life he went through during his days in the Underground arenas, Forte decided to set up the new tower as his base. Carefully he began spread rumors and a little tall tale, inviting many reploids into the tower. Once he gathered them, he arranges them to fight with each other. The rules remain the same with a little addition: the winner can keep the parts of the loser for himself and those who make it to the finals can choose: live and be ready for the next tournament, or try their strength and fight Forte. Well most of them obviously choose the latter… and most of them ended up in the scrap yard and chop shop, drained and dead. By doing this periodically, Forte choose the strongest reploids and building up his own power. The cycle continued for several years until suddenly a reploid appeared and rampaged through the tournament. The said reploid possess an ability that truly caught Forte’s interest. He had an ability to literally copy the ability and appearances of other reploids. With this ability, the said reploid shape shift and defeat every opponent but refused to take any parts from his enemies.

When the reploid finally won the tournament, obviously he challenged Forte. The robotmaster simply accept. The battle lasted for days. At first, the reploid seem to be winning, he simply used every shape and ability he has in his repertoire. But as the battle comes along, Forte simply absorb and copy all the battle data and use every ability he had gained, and along with it, he gained new ones. As the battle progressed, Forte managed to make his stand… but he couldn’t copy the reploid’s copying ability and neither can the shape-shifter turned into another Forte. After a long arduous and brutal fighting, it ended with a standstill. Finally, the reploid decided to call it a day. After learning his name, which is Axl, Forte finally learned the true nature of the tower in which he, and countless other Cyber Elves, resides. Forte and Axl finally struck a deal: Forte will protect the Cyber Elves AND the tower, and Axl, whose profession was a thief for hire at the time, will become Forte’s ears and eyes as well as his herald. Following Axl’s advice, Forte searched for reploids whose power close or equals his by using the tournaments. He increased the entry requirements and the level of brutality of each match. Forte’s strength continues to grow with each reploid he conquered.

After he felt powerful enough, Forte ask Axl to spread an invitation to the underworld bosses. All the greatest of mavericks and the most notorious underlords were invited to enter the tournament, and Forte himself will get personal and enter the tournament as a single entree. The winner will take command of the tower. The plan was a risky one, but highly effective and quite simple. The tournament is a chance for Forte to gain more powers from the strongest mavericks and reploids, and among them he can find the reploids he needed. As an addition, he will have the chance to wipe out all those who would try to overthrow him. And unlike before, instead of gaining the parts from the loser, he prefers to have their allegiance. The plan worked and at the end of the day, Forte stood victories once again, but this time, he had selected the worst of the worst mavericks and reploids to serve him as his lieutenants and he had amassed an army of his own. 4 among them, namely: Epsilon, Juno, Nebula Grey, and the infamous Sigma are those whose strength he recognized to be close, or equal his and named them the Darkmasters. From this point onward, Forte’s name is known far and wide as the absolute iron clad ruler of the underworld.

But how could a centuries old robotmaster gained supremacy over obviously more high tech and updated reploids? Well, the case of Forte’s origin came up once and ONLY once. The day Forte selected the Darkmasters. One of them simply protested and brought the case forward. His response? Look at the picture above again. As for the remainder of the body… well… let’s just say that, the Underking won’t be running out of PAPERCLIPS anytime soon.

Ability:
Despite the fact that Forte’s mobility is now limited by the wires on his back, he’s still a force to be beckoned with. His EarthBreaker is insanely devastating. The dual Quad Busters are able to shred any target to pieces within a few seconds. With the additional skill from Serenade, which is the dreaded Sonic Blast, the Panzer Beam Deflection cloak, and Serenade’s battle data, Forte’s power are more than doubled. Moreover, Forte still have his ability to fuse with Gospel, forming the almighty Gospel Forte. However, his lack of energy and the fact that he was born far before his present time, thus making him an ancient and outdated robot, and many unfixed damage he had suffered could very well serve as his major drawback.