September 28 - Last issue of Forte

October - Defense attorney James Avalon of Archibold, Tanner & Creighton's SVD (Super Villain Defense) Division becomes legal assistant to Sebastian Chambers, and together, they dramatically reduce sentences for villains and get many charges dropped, and begin to become infamous in the city and among its heroes and UNCLE.

October 8 - Eclipse accepts a suggestion/invitation from Telestar and Vanguard and moves to New York to join Angel Flight to be nearer to Captain Thunder. While Chill helps her move and spends some time there, she does not accept her own invitation, not wanting to move away from her parents full-time.

October 23 - Anvil's ex-wife Kelly Rader finally dies from her injuries. Anvil, having already left Forte months before when her accident happened, begins raising his daughter Bree full-time in Minneapolis. Soon after, Erin O'Day moves to Minnesota, engaged to Anvil.

October 29 - Matt Collins, already retired from his heroing days as Hammer, sees his powers disappear after yet another physiological morphing takes place. He's happy, frankly, to be rid of them, and goes on with his life as a financial planner and husband.

November - After a period of soul-searching, Lightsedge (Jeremy Talix) leaves Seattle, and Forte, to travel the world and find himself and his life purpose.

December - Moondancer leaves Forte and Washington to explore her destiny.

December - Tracker of the former Armor Security has been working with Reed Richards in L.A. and has gotten the job handling security at the upcoming FantastiCon '96, a high-tech expo to be held and hosted at the Baxter Building. He contacts his former teammates about getting in on the job. Grav and Riptide accept, while Triphammer and Shockwaive, having found a market for their failed TV pilot in Japan, decline.

January - Thinking that Twostep has died, Anvil leaves his family for a time and travels to Texas to keep his promise and take up his friend's crusade against the Bane family, only to find that Telesis and her son have been found by the Banes, and Telesis is targeted for extermination. A race across the country ensues to save her, with Anvil's path eventually joining Twostep's. Telesis is saved. Twostep kills Mind Warp. Telesis and her son go back into WEAVE relocation. Erin O'Day and Bree, on the run from Mind Warp's assassins, survive together...Bree finally accepts Erin (see "The Jennifer Sanction").

February - After a period of time teaming with Electro Man, Tomarssuk, realizing Forte is over, leaves for Canada and Alaska to seek a new path.

March - With his powers diminishing again, the last active Forte member, Electro Man, ends his hero career and goes back to running his company, Wood Scientific, full-time. Forte is officially no more.

March 22 - Tracker, Grav, and Riptide successfully fend off a heist attempt by The Angler (recently acquitted of wrong-doing in Seattle by James Avalon of Archibold, Tanner & Creighton), and Shawn Strickland - Son of Sonic-Man (another Avalon client… they met in the office) at FantastiCon. Protecting the lives and property of Richards, Johnny Quest of Questar, Dr. Emil Hamilton of S.T.A.R. Labs, and the primary objective of the heist: Maxwell Ravenscroft of Calantha Air, and his operational model of a laminar flow control system – a quantum leap in reducing drag on an airfoil (see Forte #324 for history). The assembled press has one question: Is this the start of a *new* ARMOR?

June - Wally (Electro Man) Wood's wife, Rose, is diagnosed with inoperable cancer, and he and his teenage daughter, Holly, prepare for what's to come.

June - Finally armed with the resources (start-up capital, technology, and several floors of the Baxter Building from Reed Richards) and credibility (their success at FantastiCon and the attachment of the Reed Richards name) needed to pull off a “hero-for-hire” business, the reformed Armor Security opens for business in Los Angeles with much fanfare, currently made up of Grav, Riptide and Tracker. Other company employees include Matt Collins (formerly Forte's Hammer, now Armor's head of financial services) and Clark Davis (the paraplegic who used to wear the armor of Energon in his days as one of the original Paragons, now Armor's head of technical sciences).

July 3 - Time is rewritten across dimensions thanks to a man called Dr. Eugene Splicer...a.k.a. Dr. Tempest. Reality-altered forms of Dr. Jackal, Cincoflex, Chill, Hornet, Hologram and Vice Grip are called upon by the Vanguardian of Time to era-travel and fix the damage created by Tempest. The heroes succeed and their realities are returned to normal (see Clobberin' On Infinite Earths VII: Time Tempest).

August – Holly Wood’s latent superpowers begin to manifest themselves as she saves a family trapped in a car fire. Unaware that her father was a superhero, she is not sure how to cope with her new abilities, deciding instead not to use them.

August - With the cancellation of their Japanese television show, Triphammer and Shockwaive decide to rejoin with their former compatriots and become part of the new Armor Security. They both elect to take a guaranteed paycheck in lieu of partnership in the company.

August 18 - Chill's parents are murdered by a stalker of hers that she and Seattle police were unable to find in time. She finds the killer, and her dead parents, in her family's home. Instead of exacting revenge, her mind shuts down, and she simply leaves and disappears. Police arrest the stalker. Friends and teammates begin the search for her.

February - Dr. Jackal has to pick something up in the closed-down and unused Forte base, and finds Chill there in hibernation. Her physiology after the accident that gave her her powers made it appear that she didn't have to sleep, but in fact her body eventually requires it. Jackal wakes her and stays with her there for several days, helping her come to terms with her anguish and loss. He finally takes her in the Silver Bullet and delivers her to New York to her friend Eclipse, where she stays. Eclipse and Vanguard, and her new friends in Angel Flight, begin the long process of helping her recover.

May 12 - A mystical threat unites former Paragons Starman and Knightmare with a group of newer heroes--Blaze, Import, Avatar and Helix. With Cleveland, and the world, saved, the group stays together and forms the New Paragons.

May 25 - Bree Rader graduates from high school and is accepted to Xavier. Anvil, Erin and Bree relocate to Cincinnati, Ohio.

June 3- Electro Man's daughter Holly Renee Wood graduates high school.

June 22 - Electro Man's wife, Rose Wood, passes away.

September – Holly Wood starts at the University of Washington.

November - Anvil travels to Texas to pull an intervention on Twostep, who has gone over the edge after the death of his beloved Marisa. Anvil brings him back, and together with Twostep's allies, they take down the Bane family once and for all. Joshua Bane is killed in the Bane estate on the final night. Massive arrests result in the whole of the Bane family and their organization going up on trial, with James Caleb Bane (Twostep) as the star witness.

January 1998 to February 1999 - The Bane family trials

January – Wally (Electro Man) Wood sells Wood Scientific at the height of the “dot com” bubble and moves from Portland to Seattle in order to be closer to his daughter while she attends school.

February - Chill officially joins Angel Flight.

April 12 - Dr. Jackal, Mist, Phantasm, and an other-Earth Phantashia unite to stop Lucifer D'Arque from merging all his selves across the multiverse and conquering all reality. D'Arque is defeated and wiped from existence on all Earths. A version of Dr. Jackal's daughter Samantha Parker aids in the victory and returns with her father to Forte's Earth (see D'Arque Dominion).

July - The first sightings of the hero Seahawk over the night skies of Seattle.

July 6 - On the day of Knightsabre's 35th birthday, a plot by villains from four different Earths begins to break down the walls between realities. Members of Forte, MAGIC, The Questors and Crusade stop the plot and save all universes, and their four Earths become linked by a dimensional door (see Clobberin' on Infinite Earths IX: The Jericho Effect).

November 3 - Dr. Jackal makes the mistake of accepting The Questors' Vice Grip's invitation--also extended to MAGIC's Wingboy and Crusade's Lionheart--to come to the Questors' world for a poker night. The foursome end up involved in an invasion of the Free and Independent State of Texas and are held as political prisoners in El Paso before escaping and causing a huge escalation in hostilities between the U.S. and its former state. Dr. Jackal swears to never travel to Vice Grip's world again.

March to July - The trial of James Caleb Bane

June 6 - Eclipse and Captain Thunder marry in a private ceremony attended by close friends and family.

July 17 - Forte members Dr. Jackal, Vanguard, Phantasm and Cincoflex are drawn into an inter-dimensional adventure with the Questors' Sabot and Vice Grip, MAGIC's Wingboy and Hologram, Crusade's Silent Knight, and Stormguard's Galeforce, where they avert a war between angels (see Clobberin' on Infinite Earths X).

July - The new hero Max begins to appear in Seattle and becomes a press and public favorite.

July - Wally "Electro Man" Wood is asked by Dr. Jackal, Mist and Vanguard to head up the proposed Forte Museum and become chair of the Forte Foundation.

July - Samantha Parker secretly approaches Electro Man to help her learn to properly use her powers. She doesn't want her father to know she's considering heroing, something he's against, not wanting her in harm's way and not wanting to lose her a second time.

September to October - The trial of Twostep

September 8 - An attack on the University of Washington campus leads student Samantha Parker to teleport home, put on the costume she'd designed, and show up for the first time as the new heroine Nightsable. Due to his teaching a class there, Wally "Electro Man" Wood is present and secretly assists. Dr. Jackal accepts the fact that Samantha is going to be a heroine.

September 28 - Seahawk meets and ends up fighting a teenage girl calling herself Thresher, who's attempting to blow up an oil tanker. She turns out to be the sister of the deceased Forte hero Thresher. He also meets Kell, her lover, prince of the Cassian peoples that secretly live beneath the sea off Seattle's coast.

October 2 - While telling her about the Forte Museum offer, and that he's accepting, Wally Wood reveals to his daughter that he is/was Electro Man. Holly reveals to her father that she has powers (see "Coffee on a Rainy Morning").

October 12 - The assassination of Twostep on the Seattle courthouse steps.

October 18 - The funeral of Twostep is attended by all living Forte members, many of the world's other heroes, SHIELD and THUNDER.

October - Eclipse becomes pregnant with her first child and retires from heroing, leaving Angel Flight.

November 13 - Anthropology grad student Davis Alexander, researching the native American legend of the guardian protector god Ta-co-bet, finds a hidden cavern within Mount Rainier and a coal urn that releases the spirit of Ta-co-bet, which, in turn, inhabits Davis. He gains the powers of Rainier, but hides this fact and does nothing with them for the time being.

January 18 - The Karrigon invasion of Seattle. New heroes Max, Rainier, Seahawk and Tinker join forces to save the city, rescue Forte alums Dr. Jackal, Cincoflex and Electro Man (along with Nightsable, daughter of Dr. Jackal) and repel the invasion (see Forte 2000 #'s 1, 2, and 3).

February 1 – The members of Forte, in a Forte Chat Room meeting, vote to give the new Seattle heroes the blessing to use the Forte name (see “Forte 2000 Chat”).

February 4 – At an after-hours meeting at the Forte Museum, Electro Man, Dr. Jackal, Anvil, Mist, Cincoflex and Vanguard offer the Forte name to Seahawk, Tinker, Rainier and Max. The new foursome accepts and become the new incarnation of Forte.

April - Holly Wood contacts L.A.'s Armor Security and wants to join up, seeing it a logical place to learn to properly use her powers. After a tryout, she is accepted, and takes on the name Dyna Girl and starts her tenure with the company (see "Kid, You Could Be Making HUNDREDS of Dollars Playing in the Pros" and "Tell Her What She's Won, Bob..".).

June - Moondancer returns to Seattle and teams up with the new Forte...and begins a stormy romance with Rainier.

August 17 - The presumed-dead hero Diamond Fist's soul inexplicably returns, in the body of a brain-dead young woman named Erica Vaughn, who went into a coma the same day the new Paragons formed in 1997. He returns to Cleveland with his old friends Knightmare and Starman and eventually joins the New Paragons, and the lawsuit by her family to get their daughter's body back begins.

September - Well-known villain defense attorney Sebastian Chambers dies of heart failure, and his protege, James Avalon, is asked to take over his cases as lead counsel. Avalon discovers a package left for him by Chambers, one with a spider-looking mask with mysterious powers, and a note from Chambers about the mask and about how he's been gathering information on their clients to do good with. He passes the torch to Avalon. James Avalon becomes a tenacious defense attorney for villains and a thorn in the side of Forte, while also becoming the mysterious hero Moonspider.

October 9 – Having built enough trust with the new Forte heroes, former Forte heroes invite each of the foursome to their homes for dinner to get know them better. Jared Banks (Seahawk) has dinner with the Parker family (Dr. Jackal, Knightsabre, Nightsable, and the twins, Monique and Nikki) (see “Meet the Parkers”).

November 12 – The new Forte heroes are invited to visit the old Forte base “unsupervised” for the first time, and are given full access to its systems and databases (see “The Keys”).

December - Rumors of the mysterious Moonspider and his quiet war against Seattle crime begin to surface, and the local press takes notice.

March 25 - Dyna Girl explodes onto the international media scene when, during an assignment, she saves the life of Hollywood icon Timothy Cruz at the Academy Awards on live television (see "Hooray for Holly Wood").

September 11 - A terrorist plot to use highjacked airliners to kill thousands is averted by the combined forces of Angel Flight, Captain Thunder, Captain America, Vanguard, and Secret Service super-powered agent Prime.

March - In Gotham City, GCPD bomb squad officer Paul Seaborn attempts to disarm a bomb in Gotham's nuclear power plant. The device goes off, killing his team, but a freak accident involving chain lightning gives him super speed and spares his life. He takes stress retirement over the guilt and moves to Seattle, where he will soon take a job teaching high school chemistry and start heroing as Vortex.

June - A secret romance begins between Seahawk and Nightsable (see "Glen and Joe", "Uncle Jared" and "Four's Company"). After spending so much time with the new Forte team, Nightsable finally officially joins.

July to August - Dyna Girl's romance with a popular baseball player ends in scandal, causing her to leave Armor Security. After a period of seclusion, she emerges when a young fan of hers is near death from cancer. In part due to the dying girl's wishes, Dyna Girl joins Forte after the girl's passing (see "Yesterday's News", "There's GOT to Be a Morning After..." and "Intervention").

July 13 - The bachelor party of Vanguard, attended by a multitude of heroes from this Earth and a number from other Earths as well (see "The Bachelor Party of Vanguard").

August 3 - The gala New York wedding of Vanguard and Telestar

September - Armor Security recruits pop star-turned-superhero The Voice to replace Dyna Girl.

September 9 - During the annual cross-worlds summit, Vanguard, Chill and Lightsedge, along with Armor Security's Grav and The Voice, travel to Crusade's Earth. During the meeting, all members of Crusade except the newest member, Quiver, disappear. The heroes end up back in the Dead Zone again, to find that an old Crusade nemesis, Quentin Saint, has taken over the Nexus and plans to conquer all realities. Together with other-Earth heroes Shockwave and "John Smith", and Lightsedge's Order of Light, they defeat the villain's demon army and free Crusade, and a seeming attraction sparks between Lightsedge and Quiver (see Clobberin' On Infinite Earth XIV: The Jericho Effect II: Return of the Saint).

September 16 - The long-time nemesis of Seahawk, Stingray, in retaliation for the death of his lover (which he blames on Seahawk) discovers the hero's identity and blows up his ex-wife's home with her and their young son inside. She escapes with minor burns, but the child ends up in intensive care. Insane with guilt and rage, Seahawk stalks Stingray, and his fellow Forte members race to find him before he can kill the villain. After a battle to the death, Seahawk stops short of murdering Stingray when his teammates intercede. He reveals to his ex-wife that he's Seahawk and takes a leave of absence to travel to Boston with his ex and his son, where his son will receive treatment and rehabilitation (see "The Storm", parts 1 and 2).

October 4 to 5 - A jailbreak linked to a mysterious sarcophagus that everyone seems to want joins Forte with the heroes Vortex and Moonspider, both of whom end up joining the team (see Forte 2000 #'s 140 and 141).

October 5 - With Vanguard, Lightsedge, Anvil and Tomarssuk in town for interviews for an upcoming HBO Forte docudrama, Dr. Jackal is poisoned and lies near death. These former Forte heroes join with the new Forte, Armor Security's The Voice, as well as the new Thresher and Prince Kell of the Cassians to uncover the conspiracy and save the hero's life (see Forte 2000 #143).

October 5 to 15 - Moondancer returns to Seattle a changed woman. The boy-god Horus is awakened from the sarcophagus, and claims to be laying in wait for the return of his brother Anubis, who is set to arrive in Forte's time from the past and destroy the world. The new, larger Forte team has its first real battle test when they face the return of the Deviators, the super-powered criminals from another galaxy (see Forte 2000 #'s 144 and 145).

October 20 to 22 – Forte ally Blind Faith mystically feels the death of another Forte ally from the team’s earliest days, a man called Shade. The current Forte team teleports to Rome to find his body, and find themselves in a middle of a war between the secret ancient society Shade belonged to—the Blade Runners—and the Runners’ sworn enemy, the Knights of the Light. Shade had been tracking a man known as Memphis, an Egyptian who seems to be a new ally of the Knights. Forte has tense relations with the self-important Blade Runners, but joins them on a raid and capture many Knights, and get info out of a captured Knight named Decker about a scroll that was taken. Decker bursts into mystic flames and dies before he can finish telling the whole tale. Forte attends the funeral ceremony for Shade in Rome. Nightsable and Vortex end up kissing (see Forte 2000 #146).

October 23 to 25 – Forte meets with the Brotherhood of Horus and many of the Earth’s great mystics to discuss what they’ve found, and it’s discovered that Priests of Anubis are using existing cults to track down three mystic scrolls for them, scrolls that will apparently raise a demon called the “Stormbringer” that will destroy all life on Earth. After the meeting, the visiting Mist encourages Moonspider to trust his new teammates and reveal his identity to them, Nightsable and Vortex discuss their discovered feelings for each other and decide to put them on hold until the crisis ends, Rainier and Moondancer admit their love for each other, and Tinker realizes she’s grown to love the boy Horus and wants to adopt him…and she and UNCLE’s Captain Jack McNeal come close to admitting their growing attraction to each other. Forte has video conferences with most major Earth hero teams to warn them of what may be coming, and investigations of cult activity led them to Guatemala, and to a battle with the Cult of the Scorpion, a nemesis of the former Forte team (see Forte (original series) #287), who are currently looking for one of the three scrolls. After defeating them (and rescuing Johnny Quest), the Forte heroes find the second scroll, and take it back to UNCLE HQ in Seattle for safekeeping and study. Back at Tinker’s home, Tinker’s dog is run over by a car and killed, but is resurrected by Horus, who finally shows his divine power. As Tinker weeps and thanks him, Horus’ eyes go wide and blank, staring at the sky. He has sensed his brother’s presence, and tells Tinker that Anubis has finally returned from the timesteam and into the present (see Forte 2000 #147 and “Interlude”).

October 26 to 27 – Anubis appears from the ancient past into the present, and quickly disappears from Earth to the plane to Amenti…but not before causing the deaths of 10,000 Egyptians to announce his return. Forte races against time to find the last scroll before Anubis’ people do (and before Anubis comes back to Earth), and their desperate search leads them to Buenos Aires and Alexandria, and finally to seek information from their long-time nemesis Nicholas Ares. They make it to Chicago, and to the Field Museum, in time to head off The Legacy Club (mystic-obsessed young billionaires, a group the new Paragons faced in their first outing as a team) as they, too, seek the final scroll…but also in time for Anubis to appear to seek it himself. An epic and terrible battle ensues, Forte against Anubis, with the Paragons and former Forte members Nightshift and Anvil joining. Most of the heroes are seriously wounded and soundly defeated by Anubis. Starman of the Paragons has his back broken. His teammate Helix is impaled and near death. Anubis viciously breaks Dyna Girl’s arm and throws through the entire museum. At the moment of his seeming victory, as Memphis brings him the scroll, Nightsable teleports in, knocks Memphis out and throws him through a portal to an unknown destination, then drops the scroll into another portal. In his rage, Anubis beats her unconscious, and nearly to death, before casting her through a portal of his own to Amenti, where he says he will make her tell him where he scroll is. Sensing the second scroll, he reappears at UNCLE headquarters in Seattle, where Rainier and Moondancer have remained to guard the scroll. After failing to reason with the evil god, Rainier battles with Anubis, and their devastating combat destroys most of UNCLE headquarters. When Rainier falls, Moondancer faces Anubis alone, bravely and savagely battling with him on the Seattle streets, seemingly coming near to defeating him. In the end, Anubis overwhelms her and kills her before the waking Rainier’s eyes by ripping her soul from her body. Taking the second scroll, he tells Rainier he will return in two day’s time to collect his brother, Horus (whom Forte has been mystically hiding from him), and before disappearing again, he collapses what remains of the UNCLE Seattle building. Downtown Seattle, and Forte, are left in ruin and devastation (see Forte 2000 #148).

March 14 - On their way to a good will summit with the Cassians, Dyna Girl, Anvil, Tomarssuk and Lightsedge, while aboard the Mariner, are warped to another galaxy and into the middle of an inter-stellar war. Joining with the Realmwatch, they invade the homeworld of the seemingly-mad Harcor Empire, only to find an old villain from the Protectors era, who nearly killed Dyna's father, Electro Man, in the 70s, is behind it. They avert all-out war and are heralded as heroes of the Realm (see "Forte Chronicles #1: Into the Realm", "A Hangover Far, Far Away" and "R.C.D.G.".

April 10 – A record-store employee and bass player named Matt gets his hands on the secret phone number for the Forte/Seattle PD hotline, and calls the Forte base and attempts to ask Dyna Girl out (see “Hotline”).

April 16 – The disgruntled ex-Seattle PD employee who originally stole the Forte hotline phone number is sharing it with people at a party, and drunken youth are calling the base. Assuming Matt’s involvement, Dyna Girl angrily calls him, finding he has nothing to do with the party. Matt assists Forte with information on the number-thief, and Vortex arrives at light speed in the middle of the party and takes the number. Later that night, another call comes in from elsewhere, showing that the number has gotten around (see “Hotline 2: Redial”).

April 18 – Another call comes in to the hotline number from two dudes, but Dyna Girl and Nightsable are ready, forcing the reluctant Rainier to let himself be teleported to the apartment to get the number and put the fear of God into the pair (see “Hotline 3: 976-FORTE”).

April 22 – Alone at the base after a night where she may have crippled a minor villain, an emotional Dyna Girl ends up calling Matt, lacking anyone else to talk to. The two have a long conversation (and even watch a film together while on the phone), and an unlikely (phone) friendship begins to form (see “Hotline 4: Midnight Caller”).

June - With Tracker playing an ever greater role in the administrative side of Armor Security’s operations, the team decides that it needs another field operative. Armor begins a highly publicized (and highly CRITICIZED) recruiting drive. “Who Wants to be a Superhero?” premieres as a ten week summer television event on Fox. The very successful show uses HBO’s “Forte: For a Day or a Lifetime” mini-series as a lead-in and pulls in favorable numbers. The show culminates with a former punk-rock guitarist (that gained superpowers late in life) joining the team as the diminutive Pixie.

June 3 – Out on patrol one late Seattle night, Dyna Girl and Vortex visit one of Dyna Girl's favorite haunts, an all-night diner called “Sal’s Place”, meet up with one of D.G.’s buddies—retiring (that day) Seattle PD sergeant Antoine Baines (and his buddy, F.B.I. special agent Nick Verducci)—help a stranded waitress and get spied on by “HeroicCity.net” blogger (and Dyna Girl fan) David Trent (see “After Hours”).

June 28 – Matt ends up getting shot outside the club he’s playing at while trying to protect two young people. In the ER, he gets unexpected visitor in Dyna Girl (in their lengthy phone friendship, they’ve never actually met in person), and an even more unexpected twist when the rest of the Forte team shows up with her to hunt down his shooter. Dyna stays behind with him, scolds him for his foolish bravery, cries, and, as the friendship now grows even closer, reveals her real name to him (see “Hotline 6: 911”).

February 7 - Andy Clayton (the once and future Shrike) manifests his sonic powers at the age of 12.

September - With things going bad in San Francisco, and with UNCLE overwhelmed, Commander Sydney Todd-Strange starts costuming up and going back to being Mist after hours, teaming up with another Forte alum living in San Fran, Secundus (see "Forge, Things Change, Chapter One: 'Alamo by the Bay'").

July – Weak from recovering from an appendectomy (which required a mystical suppression of her powers), Dyna Girl insists on making a promised appearance at the Northwest Young Women’s Expo. At the site, former Dyna nemesis Menagerie attacks, intending to kill Dyna publicly. To make sure no other Forte heroes or UNCLE interfere, the villainess arranges a distraction by talking her partner/lover Brickhouse into attacking the Seattle Post-Intelligencer building downtown. While the other Forte heroes (and Dr. Jackal, editor of the P-I) face off with the 50-foot tall stone woman, Menagerie seriously wounds Dyna Girl, but with an assist from the Four Aces’ Maelstrom, and a final and unexpected save from Stacy McKone of the Forte Museum, who uses an archived sonic villain weapon, Menagerie is brought down, as is Brickhouse. While recovering at UNCLE’s med bay, Dyna Girl is scolded by team leader Tinker for her (continuing) recklessness, for even showing up at the event in her condition. Tinker suspends her from the team. Stacy McKone receives a very unexpected visit from several retired Forte heroes at her home, who officially make her part of the Forte family for her bravery and continuing friendship with the team. She’s given a Forte radio watch, and the heroes reveal their real names to her (see “Family Matters”).

December 23 – After spending part of her suspension time staying with Maelstrom and her mother, Windstorm (a former member of the classic hero team the Protectors with Dyna Girl’s father, Electro Man), Dyna Girl heads back to Seattle for Christmas, but ends up crossing paths with the villainess Missile Toe…and then ends up helping her reunite with her daughter before the villainess escapes. Holly shows up at long-time friend Ken Hollenbeck’s home and finally admits her feelings for him (see “Mistletoe and Holly”).

December 24 – After Armor Security’s Grav is arrested by UNCLE for breaking into a lab in Seattle, his former teammate Dyna Girl is called in. It’s revealed that Grav is actually a clone of the original Grav that Forte first met years ago, who (it's now revealed) died as a result of the genetic augmentation that gave him his powers (powers given by Maxwell Ravenscroft). The clone that Dyna Girl has always known is dying, and the only way to save him is to get unaltered DNA from the original Miguel Garcia (Grav), which is impossible…on this Earth. Nightsable and Dyna Girl travel to Nightsable’s alternate future, join up with the older Dyna Girl of that world (known as Dynamo, a member of an L.A. Forte spinoff team called Force) and find Father Miguel Garcia, an Army chaplain. They return him to Forte’s world and Grav’s life is saved (see “A Friend in Need”, chapters one, two and three).

March 12 - Nicole "Nikki" Parker, daughter of Dr. Jackal and Knightsabre, gets Jackal-like super-powers a month shy of her 15th birthday (see "Good Girls and Bad Guys" and "Daddy's Girl").

June – At a Forte family gathering, Nightsable sees young Andy Clayton tortured over his unrequited love’s (Monique Parker) interest in Caleb Strange and decides to secretly take him over to her alternate future Earth and show him evidence that he does, at least in her reality, end up with Monique, and reveals that her world’s Andy Clayton was her own unrequited love (see “You’re a Good Man, Andy Clayton”).

June/July - After inviting a number of Forte veterans to her home to discuss the idea, Mist goes on a recruiting trip and invites three former Forte heroes (Anvil, Nightshift and Secundus, one current Forte hero (Max), and one non-Forte hero (Heatspell) to join a new San Francisco hero team she's forming (see "Forge, Things Change, Chapter Two: 'The Big Pitch'"). Reactions are not initially positive, but each hero, for their own reasons, eventually accepts (see "Forge, Things Change, Chapter Three: "Choices and Closure'").

August – While Jennifer Chase—the former Forte heroine Telesis—has a contented summer day with her son in their new life they began through the WEAVE program, she reflects on her past and her unspoken love for the assassinated Forte hero Twostep…unaware that she and her son are being watched over by the still-living Twostep, now going by the name Travis Monarch with a new face and a new life of his own (see “The Jennifer Coda”).

August - Mist's new team joins up in San Francisco, moves into their new base, and becomes the new American hero team called "Forge" (see "Forge, Things Change, Chapter Four: 'If You're Going...'").

July 8 - Dr. Jackal is interviewed on the webradio show of Paragons heroine Import (see "Import's Export")

April 2 – Heroes of the modern Forte face a specter of the former Forte’s past as three dark young mages compete to prove themselves worthy to inherit the wand—and the power—of …The Sorcerer. The divided Forte team defeats all three, and in the end, …The Sorcerer surrenders his wand to Wally “Electro Man” Wood and leaves it up to him the find a successor. Before escaping (and retiring), the wizard leaves the former campground area he’d turned into his home to the Forte Foundation, and plans are announced for the opening of “Camp Forte” the following summer (see “…The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”).

April 19 – When Chill and the most of the rest of Angel Flight are taken captive in their own base by the sinister Doktor Geist and a cadre of united Angel Flight villains, Eclipse and Thunderbolt come to the rescue, and the Angel team wins the day (see “Angel Flight: Vengeance of a Ghost”). Afterward, Thunderbolt flies to Hawaii to check on the remaining Angels (Atom and Iris), who are there doing storm clean-up, and the trio ends up fighting the volcanic Keaukepo, god of rain of fire (see "Angel Flight: Island of Fire").

August 11 - When someone is traveling through time killing off Forte heroes, Vanguard, Anvil, Dr. Jackal, Lightsedge, Tomarssuk and Dyna Girl are pulled from the timesteam by future versions of Johnny Quest, Prime, Ravi Singh and Maxwell Ravenscroft and sent back to the day of Forte's birth--November 4th, 1987--to stop what turns out to be the Forte nemesis Octave (former Forte member Dash) from destroying Forte forever. Octave and his forces are defeated, and the splintered timeline returns to normal (see "Forte Forever").

September 8 - Senator Tracy Reid, secretly the long-time heroine Hornet, faces her final battle with the organization CHESS, finding that the lover she thought dead is its mysterious leader, and uncovering their final solution, the elimination of every super in America. Captured and beaten, she is aided by a suprise assault by various members of America's premier hero teams, including Forte's Dr. Jackal and Knightsabre. She chooses to sacrifice her own life to end CHESS once and for all, but is saved at the last moment by the Four Aces' Ghost Girl. With her ultimate goal finally fulfilled, she retires from heroing and accepts a position as the tactics and combat instructor for the Justice Squadron (see "The Last Hornet Story").

October 27 - November 4 - A week-long celebration in Seattle is held--one known as "Forte20"--commemorating the 20th anniversary of Forte. Media and fans and notables from around the globe descend on the city, where all manner of live events and television interviews take place, culminating in the "Forte20 Gala" on the evening of the anniversary, a televised tribute where all surviving Forte heroes are honored by celebrities, dignitaries, heroes and friends, and are each awarded the Medal of Freedom by the President of the United States, who also officially declares November 4th to be National Forte Day (see "20").

May 6 - After a devastating natural disaster in the nation of Bianmar, members of the Justice Squadron find a way to get around the politics that are costing lives by restricting relief efforts, moving into the ravaged region and rendering aid. They are able to do some good, but are soon asked by the nation's government to leave, and are forced to comply to avoid an international incident (see "The Rule of Law")