Chapter 4: Explanations

As school went on, the three brothers sat in their classes, taking notes and talking to their friends. At lunch, they met up in the cafeteria and saw Crimson and Cream walk up with some other people.

Crimson smiled at them. "Hey, guys. I wanted you to meet the others."

A few more people walked forwards, and Crimson introduced them. "I'd like you to meet Ivory, Iris, Cyan, Ao and Damson."

They smiled. Ivory was a female albino teenager with white hair, and wore a white skirt. Iris and Cyan were female also, and had blue and light blue colored hair, wearing the same things as Ivory. Ao was an Asian teen, and had green hair while wearing a kimono. Damson had purple hair, wore a sweatshirt, shorts and sandles. He smiled at them.

"It's nice to meet you," Silvond said.

"Same here," Damson said, holding out his hand. "Crimson's been telling us a lot about you three."

"Like what?" Shade asked him.

"Like that you can help us."

"Help you?" Confusion came to Maurice's face. "With what?"

Damson looked at Crimson. The human looked at them. "You know who Ivo Robotnik is, I assume?"

The brothers' eyes widened, and they nodded. Their last names were Robotnik.

"What about him?" Silvond asked.

"He's trying to gather the...us, so he can do something. All we know is that it isn't good," Ao said.

"Why does he want you seven?"

"We don't know. It isn't good, but that's all we could figure out."

Silvond nodded. "We'll help. Ivo Robotnik is related to us, anyway."

A look of shock came across Crimson's face. "He's related to you?"

"Yeah," Maurice said. "He's our uncle."

Crimson nodded, still shocked. It had to be the mental change; they had different memories as humans. "And you're fine with going against him?"

"We are. He's done many evil things, and really, we don't like him at all."

"That makes sense."

The three brothers smiled, and Crimson walked away, followed by the others.

Chris looked at Maurice. "What did they mean by that? That Eggman wanted them?"

"Maybe there's something special about them," Maurice said.

"There's something special about you three also," Chris said. "But I can't put my finger on it."

"Something special about us?"

"Like I said, I don't know what it is."

The bell rang, and they all hurried to their next class. After school, they met up with Chris again.

"So, what are you doing after school?" Maurice asked him.

"Homework."

"Same here. We'll see you tomorrow."

Chris smiled and they left. Maurice, Silvond and Shade ran home and began their homework. As they did, they were thinking about what Chris, and Crimson had told them.

"Anyone have any ideas on why he would want those guys?" Silvond asked.

"They said something about something to gather," Maurice said. "Maybe Eggman wants them for something."

"But what? Don't you guys want to come up with theories?"

"We did sense strange auras in their bodies. Maybe it has something to do with that."

"Like living weapons or something?" Shade asked. Silvond and Maurice nodded. "That's interesting."

"What should we do?" Maurice asked.

"We could always just ask them about it."

"Sure."

They finished their homework, and were about to go out for a walk when they heard a knock at the door. Silvond opened it to see Crimson. "Hey," he said, inviting the human in. "What are you doing here?"

"I wanted to talk to you. Hang out for a bit...if you guys don't mind," Crimson said.

"Yeah, that's great. You can hang out."

Crimson smiled and nodded as he sat down on the couch, looking at them. "So, how do you like school?"

"It's nice," Shade said. "We like it a lot. How long have you and your friends been going there?"

"A few weeks."

"How long have you lived here? Your whole life?"

"More or less."

"What was it like growing up here?" Silvond asked him.

"Not that much fun, really. Nothing's changed much in the last sixteen years. I still have the same friends as when I was younger, and school's like it's always been."

"That's nice. So, what did you want to talk to us about?"

"Earlier."

"Go on," Shade said.

Crimson nodded and began to explain. "I was wondering if you had any questions about it. We didn't really explain much of anything."

"We did, actually," Maurice said. "Shade, Silvond and I came up with some theories about you seven. We think that our uncle wants you because you're some sort of living weapons."

"Living weapons?" Crimson's eyes widened in surprise. "What makes you say that?"

"We sensed the energy that you have. It's incredible."

Crimson looked at them in curiosity. These three humans could sense Chaos Energy? "You're right; we do have a lot of Chaos Energy. But how can you three feel it?"

Maurice looked at his brothers, who looked at Crimson.

"We're not sure," Silvond said.

"This is interesting." Crimson smiled. "Oh well. At least it'll be helpful."

"So, why do you have massive amounts of Chaos Energy?"

"We're...special beings."

Silvond cocked his head. "What do you mean?"

Crimson bit his lip. He wasn't sure how much he should tell them. They weren't supposed to know in these forms. He sighed and looked at them. "You'll find out when the time is right."

"All right," Maurice said. "When will that be?"

Crimson shrugged. "Sometime soon."

"Is there anything else that you can tell us?"

"You turn into anthropomorphic hedgehogs every night."

Shade looked at him. "We do? Why?"

Crimson thought about it. "I don't know how to explain it to you."

"That's interesting."

The human smiled and stood. "I suppose I should probably be going now."

The brothers smiled as Crimson left.