Name: Maple Forest
Affiliation: SOCKs

Maple Forest is the small wooded area at the end of Sunnydale Drive in Elmcrest. It is the secret location for Kid Combat's base - The Playground.

The forest itself, was massive. Acres and acres of trees backed up behind people's homes and ran along the banks of Pepper Creek. Thick maple trees grew for a hundred years all over the south part of Elmcrest. Families, for years, would walk up and down the forest having a good time with their children.

Jones changed that. Jones wanted that land. He wanted it bad. It was acres and acres of unused land. He could take that land, chop down all the trees, plow the baseball diamond, and build acres and acres of wealth for himself.

To Kid Combat and the rest of the kids in town, it was a place to be a kid, something a greedy man and an evil corporation knew nothing about. During the summer, the boys would play baseball from sunup to sundown. The girls would have tea parties and take long walks through the forest, picking wildflowers and talking about the boys. It was a state of bliss, and no one would take that away from Kid or his friends.

Jones didn’t care about any of that. He had to have that land, at any cost.

He went to work schmoozing city hall officials and council members to approve the proper permits for Jones Industries to acquire the park. He even started hiring crews and drawing up plans for his new purchase. It would cost him dearly.

Closer and closer Jones came to getting the park. Then Kid Combat happened.

It took some time, but eventually, Jones learned that it was Kid who had blocked the deal. Envelopes full of documents showed up on the final court day and blocked the purchase of the park to Jones. If that wasn’t enough, it was deemed that no work was to be done on any part of Maple Forest for the next ten years.

Jones was furious. All the time and money he had put into the development of that forest were now gone. And it was all because of this boy.

How he hated Kid Combat. Jones became obsessed with finding out his true identity. He would spare no expense and exhaust every resource. Then he would expose Kid and end his reign of fame.

Now, Maple Forest hides the entrance to Kid Combat's secret base - The Playground. Located in a small set of thick trees in centerfield of the baseball field, The Playground is now the stronghold for SOCKs.