Thread:PeaVZ108/@comment-30384301-20180212132228/@comment-26888167-20180215045722

Found it!

OK. I was trying to think of an explanation of why Red Fork, Blue Ocean and the others were nowhere to be seen during the events of AU Battles. Then is when I came up with this: They leaved the gang when things starting taking a turn for the worse.

When Jelo turns evil, Red Fork and the other members of the Red Crystals don't like where things are going, and decide to leave the Locked Room Gang and not get involved with them anymore. They formed their own separate faction, as they returned to be the Red Crystals (maybe with another name this time). This however, led the LRE to see them as renegades, as traitors, so the Red Crystals were now in danger. And with so many things going on, they considered that the best they could do was to stay hidden and try not to get involved with anyone else.

However, after the fall of the LRE, the Red Crystals find themselves free from their major threat. This leads them to feel a bit more free to get involved in the world's events. They'd be a neutral faction for the most part, but possibly, they might join the new Locked Room Gang at the end.