Forge

## Family Members

**Relationship:** Shanna, Buzz

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### Freedom Day

Forge grew up on Level 14. On his Freedom Day, he went to a Level 1 beach and was caught when he tried to sign up for cliff climbing. He had to give his identity number, which revealed that he had no business being on Level 1, and was escorted home.

### Early Years

All through Teen Level he was Shanna's boyfriend and together they were the leaders of their corridor group. Since Amber was Shanna's best friend, the three of them were together a lot. It was because of Forge that Amber became such a good swimmer and it was also because of him that she attempted to cliff climb when she was 17, even though she was afraid of heights.

### Lottery 2532

Forge went through lottery with Amber and was assigned

* Health and Safety, Law Enforcement. Level 20. ARU77139.

Forge had expected to be assigned to his home zone's swimming or surfing team, but was surprised and delighted with the Level 1 Strike Team assignment. Forge was shocked and a bit apprehensive when he found that he was working in Amber's unit, but everything worked out well.

### Unit Responsibilities

Forge is imprinted for a Strike Team Leader and is one of the five candidates for the two deputy positions. He eventually earns the deputy Strike team leader in charge of the Beta Strike team.

Because of his swimming abilities and an unexpected need for the team to be able to swim well, he ended up by being instrumental in the rescue of a small child during *Telepath*. He was then tasked with providing swimming lessons for the rest of the Strike team members.

His climbing abilities also make him the unit's climbing specialist, an ability he showcases in *Telepath* (inside the structural column) and in *Defender* (swinging among the girders of a power hub.) In Hurricane, he helps Amber manage the steep ladders of a beach maintenance area.

Through hard work he is eventually chosen for the Beta Strike Team Leader position and Adika's third-in-command.

## Summary

### Perilous

Forge uses the inspection hatch in Amber's room to explore the air vents. Amber catches Forge's first attempt, but reluctantly gives him permission to keep using the hatch. He is again exploring the vents when the massive power failure in Blue Zone occurs and the lights are out for days.

It isn't until *Borderline* that Amber discovers that Forge was playing the Teen Game Blue Upway at the time he was exploring the air vents. Because he was in the vents when the power cut happened, he was awarded the title of Blue Upway Champion.

Amber helps Forge get out of the air vents and to the park safe zone. After the power failure is over, Forge attempts to go back and get his supplies. He is caught by a hasty and taken back to the park where Buzz sentences him to wearing a child's tracking bracelet for a month. She makes a strong impression on him.

### Telepath

Forge is instrumental in saving a small child that was unconscious and underground in a Level 84 Park.

He is promoted to deputy Strike team leader, in charge of the Beta Strike team team.

When Forge tries to visit Shanna, she immediately rejects him. This leaves Forge with a significant amount of wariness over relationships.

During the chase outside he helps to rescue Eli, when Eli fell into a river outside and was swept away by the rapids, and was seriously injured.

In this book it is discovered why Amber found it hard to say no to Forge, had a strange fixation on him all through her years on Teen Level, and why all the Strike team members were selected to look like Forge. The unit's knowledge of this strange fixation is crucial to detecting the danger that is threatening Amber.

Forge went to visit Shanna, but she didn't give him a chance to explain that he was level 1 before she was rude to him, so when she was brought to Amber's unit for protection]] and she discovers that Forge is a member of Amber's unit and level 1, she tries to make up with him, but he wasn't having any part of her.

### Defender

Forge met Buzz again and starts to help her acclimate to going outside. She makes it very clear that she is interested in Forge and he doesn't seem to object to getting to know her better.

When the Strike teams train in Hive Futura's power nexus, Forge acts as the sample target.

### Hurricane

Forge plays a nosy while the unit is at the sea farm. He meets again with Atticus, his best friend from Teen Level.

### Borderline

A little more about Forge's & Buzz's relationship is revealed in this book. They wish to keep their relationship as sexual rather than romantic as neither one is ready for commitments.

It is also revealed that Forge had been playing the Teen Game Blue Upway during the events of *Perilous* and became the Blue Upway Champion when he was caught in the air ducts during the Blue Zone Power Cut.

When Amber's unit is tasked to shut down Blue Upway, Forge and three other Beta Strike team members go undercover on teen level to infiltrate Blue Upway, to learn who the current Game Commander is. Unfortunately, the Game Commander recognizes Forge and sedates him, then dumps him in a crate on the Hive freight system. He is rescued and uninjured.

He joins Amber's friends and family (which includes Buzz) for the coming of the New Year.

### Adversary

Forge stays on level 27 to celebrate the New Year with Amber and Buzz. When Amber and Lucas determine that they have to go on an unexpected Check Run with a seriously depleted strike team, Forge has the opportunity to lead the five man chase team to assist the Hazard team check for environmental problems or an emerging wild bee, while Adika leads the team guarding Amber.

During the Circle of Life service on New Years day, he walks the steps as a New Adult with Amber and the other members of the strike team that had come to celebrate with Amber's family. Amber commented that he should have been walking the steps in front of his own family and he told her that he was as his family had come down to level 27 because they wanted to check out Buzz, so they were hiding in the back. Adika had ordered Forge and Buzz to walk the relationship steps with Amber and Lucas even though they are ready to declare that they were in a relationship and Forge was nervous that his family would think that Buzz and he are serious. Just before walking the new relationship steps, his old girlfriend Shanna called him, making another pitch for them to resume their old relationship. But Forge told her that he had given her a thought and he was about ready to walk the relationship steps with his girlfriend. Just has Buzz joined Forge, Shanna accused him of pretending that he had a girlfriend, so she took his dataview.

The next days after Amber recalled her unit to active duty they had what they thought would be an easy run, a teen kidnapped his ex girlfriend and was planning on killing her and leaving her body for the Hasties to find. As the two teens were on the express belt, with the boy holding a knife against the girl to keep her under control, Forge was dressed as a nosy with wings and lowered from the ceiling in front of them, when the boy got close enough he swung out and kicked the boy in the head, breaking his neck. Buzz had a dreadful shock in the park before leaving the New Year celebration then just a few hours later seeing Forge kill a teenage boy, caused her to have serious emotional issues and she broke up with Forge. Forge was furious at Keith for causing Buzz's trauma earlier that day and circumstances where she witness the death of the teenager, but he also knew that there was noting he could do about it and that Buzz would have to work through her emotions on her own.

Weeks later after more issues that Keith causes, Buzz finally accepts that Keith is the cause of her current trauma and not Forge, so asks to talk to him later that day.

## Trivia

* He has commented a couple of times that he is living his ideal life.

## See also

* Amber's Teen Corridor Group
* Blue Zone Power Cut
* Amber's Unit
* Teen Games

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Telepath (Hive Mind Book 1) (p. 337). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Adversary (Hive Mind Book 5) (pp. 180-181). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.

### Bibliography

* Edwards, Janet. *Perilous (Hive Mind 0.5)* (2017). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
* Edwards, Janet. *Telepath (Hive Mind 1)* (2016). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition
* Edwards, Janet. *Defender (Hive Mind 2)* (2017). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition
* Edwards, Janet. *Hurricane (Hive Mind 3)* (2018). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition
* Edwards, Janet. *Borderline (Hive Mind 4)* (2019). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition
* Edwards, Janet. *Adversary (Hive Mind 5)* (2023). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition