#captains crew

Basic premise for the AU: It’s my take on a next gen type of thing! It’s just none none of these guys are ship kids (nothing against ship kids or anything! I just wanted to have as much creative freedom as possible!).

During the final battle against Dr. Robotnik and entire city gets decimated. Leaving a lot of people displaced, including these guys, but as infants. During the battle a few members of the normal cast of heroes (haven’t decided exactly who yet) rescue them and hand them off to those evacuating. Checking up on them after the battle is over to help find their parents. They’re stationed at one of the refugee camps. At least until Team Dark hears word that some factions within the criminal underworld have become very interested in them. A few shenanigans later and the group is split up between all of teams (keeping them all in the same place is a bad idea, for obvious reasons). They still see each other and such but everyone’s very cautious, at least when their younger.

Now as to why the Crimean underworld is so interested:

To make a long story short, a incredibly power organization called The Eighth Wonders (which is made up of almost exclusively Mobians with powers) figured out that if you expose people to a lot chaos energy before their born, they’ll come out into the world with extremely powerful abilities (as well as being able to boost preexisting powers similar to how the Chaos emeralds do, I think, maybe, idk I’m not super caught up on emerald lore). Team Synthesis are all byproducts of this process, almost all of their biological parents being high ranking members of TEW.

During the final confrontation with Eggman, a rival organization to the TEW, the Council of the Universe, took the opportunity to assassinate said biological parents, dealing a huge blow to TEW. Their plan was to also get ahold of Team Synthesis, but that obviously didn’t pan out.

This all leaves a massive power vacuum, and also inadvertently leaks the info that Team Synthesis like exists, so now every criminal worth their salt is trying to get a hold of them because you’d basically be undefeatable with them.