Rex Salazar

## Powers and Abilties

### Abilities

TechnopathyEnhanced StrengthEnhanced DurabilityMachine GenerationNanite Manipulation

## Relationships

### Alternate Counterparts

Ben TennysonSteven UniverseAlternate Ben Tennysons

## Rex Salazar/Gallery

*"I already fixed one mess caused by my brother, now i'll have to deal with another."*

-Rex Salazar

**Rex Salazar** is one of the main protagonist of 5 Years Later Alpha.

After getting into an accident, Rex's parents, Rafael and Violeta Salazar injected him with nanoscopic machines known as Nanites to repair the damage to his body. The end effect was Rex becoming the first E.V.O. to be made, allowing him to control technology both apart of his body and outside. Soon after a large accident caused trillions of unstable Nanites to be spread across the Earth, infecting every living creature at the time. Rex has since spent years curing anyone who had mutated into an E.V.O., while also trying to regain his lost memories since he gained amnesiea after the Great Nanite Event.

After finally Curing every living thing infected with Nanites with the help of the Meta-Nanites, Rex was the only one with active Nanites and continued to work for the organization Providence. He has spent years acting as the last resort or "heavy backup" for the agency until an accident brought both Steven Universe and Max McGrath into his universe. Prompting the Nanite warrior to act as the lead in this new group, as to deal with the return of Alpha and his secret plan.

## **Appearance**

Rex is a tall, muscular Hispanic male with long black hair and brown eyes. He usually wears a red jacket with orange stripes with a blue and white T-shirt underneath. He also has black gloves and goggles on top of his head. On his feet are blue boots, and around his neck a silver necklace.

## **Personality**

Rex is very self-confident and comedic. He used to be impulsive and rebellious, but learned to plan his next moves and listen to others.

He's very empathetic and risked his own life to save others on countless occasions.

## **Abilities**

* **Natural Abilities-** Even without his Nanite powers, Rex has shown a majority of skills and talents at a high level for a human.
	+ **High Inteligence-** contary to popular belife, Rex has been shown to be very Inteligent even at a young age, being able to understand complex Trigonometry and use it in battle.
	+ **Enhanced Acrobatics-** Rex has been able to dodge lazers, cure EVOS in mid-air and do skilled flips and dodges without fail.
	+ **Hand-to-Hand Combat-** Likley due to his upbringing in Providence and under the turorledge of Agent Six, Rex is a skilled fight and was able to handle himself in a fight with several Providence agents while restrained.
* Nanites**-** Rex's body contains several million Nanites grant him his E.V.O. abilities.
	+ **Machine Generation-** Rex's main ability is to use his Nanites to generate different types of mechanical body parts, which he uses as either weapons or vehicles.
	+ **Enhanced Durability-** Rex's body has a very high level of durability, even without his builds. Being able to be smacked into buildings and cars without damage, to even being able to handle the crushing pressure of an underwater trench.
	+ **Technopathy-** Rex can use his nanites to control machines, allowing him to reprogram or deactivate any computer he touches.
	+ **Nanite Manipulation-** Rex can cure E.V.O.s by reprogramming the nanites of EVO's using his own nanites. Rex can also communicate with other nanites via the same method.
	+ **Nanite Healing-** Nanites in Rex's system allow him to heal faster such as fixing his broken bones or give Rex enhanced durability.
	+ **Nanite Immunity-** Rex's Nanites can destroy pathogens that would be deadly to normal humans. However, there is a limit of what Rex's Nanites can handle.
* Omega Nanite**-** Also known as **Omega-1 Nanite**, It's a large grey control nanite that controls Rex's active nanites.
	+ **Omega Builds-** The Omega Nanite allows Rex to create blueprints in his mind from which he can forge his Nanites into very powerful builds. After Rex creates the build for the first time it can be accessed easily like his other builds.
	+ **Self-Replication Program-** The Omega Nanite has a self-replication program that generates more active nanites for Rex when there's a small concentration of Nanites in his system.
	+ **Enhanced Nanite Healing-** The Omega Nanite just like every single Nanite in Rex's system can help heal his body, however, the Omega Nanite is more powerful than a normal nanite. For example, the Omega Nanite was able to restart Rex's heart when he drowned and it commanded Rex's other Nanites to transport his blood in place of his heart.
* **Equipment-** Along with his Builds, Rex has used several pieces of tech on missions or in his daily life.

## **Weaknesses**

* **Overloading-** Rex can overextend his abilities, causing him to shut down if he uses too much power at once.
* **Emotions-** Rex Nanites don't function properly when he's under extreme emotional stress.
* **Nanite Disrupter-** Rex can be rendered temporarily powerless by a Nanite Disrupter.
* **Nanite Vulnerability-** Rex's nanites can be stolen by powerful E.V.Os like Van Kleis and Alpha.
* **Nanite Buildup-** After Rex cures so many E.V.O., their nanites start to collect all inside of Rex. And if Rex doesn't regularly offload his nanites at facilities Providence built for him, Rex's body will begin to generate tumorous sacks.
	+ However, this hasn't been a problem for Rex for a long time after he cured every E.V.O. on Earth.

## **History**

**Pre Five Years Later Alpha**

**Tne Injection**

Rex was the second son born to Rafael and Violeta Salazar in Geneva, Switzerland, where he lived with them and his older brother Caesar. Rafael, Violeta, and Caesar were brilliant scientists who had traveled all over the world before Rex's birth. As a 12 year old child, Rex spent every summer in a small South American town, where he played with his best friend, Federico.

Prior to the Nanite Event, and during the Nanite Project which his parents and brother worked on, Rex was critically injured in an industrial accident caused by a dispute between the many scientists about how the nanites were to be used. The scientists—among them Violeta, Rafael, Caesar, and Gabriel Rylander—injected Rex with the original batch of fully programed nanites, hoping to save Rex's life and to make the other scientists see that their ways were for the greater good. It was a major success as Rex was able to be saved. However, Rex's new abilities, courtesy of the nanites, only reinforced their beliefs. While Rex, Gabriel, and Caesar were able to survive the Nanite Event by blind luck, Rafael and Violeta were killed as a result of the massive nanite explosion.

A few years later, Rex transformed into a giant bio-mechanical form and went on a rampage in Mexico. Providence sent a group of soldiers—including Agent Six and White Knight—to contain the menace. After sustaining heavy damage, Rex crashed into a building and reverted to his human form, forgetting everything that happened before he turned full EVO Six discovered the young boy beneath the wreckage and helped him to safety, not knowing that he was the EVO that had just attacked him. Although Six was initially reluctant to look after Rex, he felt sympathy for him when he discovered that Rex was suffering from amnesia.

**Joining Providence**

After Rex saved Six from a dangerous EVO by curing it, Six took Rex to Providence to show his incredible curing capabilities to Dr. Holiday, who had been trying to find a way to revert EVOs' mutations instead of killing them. While hopeful by the discovery, Six did not trust the current head of Research and Development, Doctor Fell, and his then partner, White Knight, and asked that the discovery be kept under wraps. Six's suspicions were confirmed when White kidnapped, interrogated, and later caged Dr. Holiday to discover the reason why Six had brought Rex to Providence.

White Knight, with Dr. Fell, kidnapped Rex while he was sleeping and attempted to dissect him molecule by molecule to reverse-engineer his unique curing capabilities. They failed, however, when Rex's nanites subconsciously reacted to the danger. In the resulting struggle, White was trapped in the chamber during an overload, and Fell was later fired and replaced by Dr. Holiday. With White Knight's body bleached and his nanites destroyed, he was declared head of Providence. Rex was inducted into Providence for his curing powers.

As Rex lived in Providence, he came to see it as his home and developed close bonds with the people there, particularly Agent Six, Dr. Holiday and Bobo, openly acknowledging them as his family. After finding his older brother Caesar, Rex was glad to be reunited with a family member. However, he admitted that the people in Providence were the ones he really had a family-like connection with.

**Working For Providence**

Rex eventually unveiled himself to the public as Providence's secret weapon during a battle in the city. Tired of his treatment at Providence, Rex and Bobo ran away and met teenager Noah Nixon. Located by Agent Six, Rex was subsequently taken to Abysus by the Pack. There, he was introduced to the Pack's leader Van Kleiss. Van Kleiss turned on him and attempted to drain his nanites—but with the help of his friends, Rex escaped.

**The Omega Nanite**

After years of working for Providence Rex found one of the first clues to his past Dr. Rylander one of the scientists working on the Nanite Project. Rylander also revealed that Rex has a brother and gave Rex an injection containing an unusual nanite. When he asked Rylander what he just injected him with he responded with "everything".

This nanite injected into Rex was later discovered during the attack at Providence HQ after Rex's nanites were all siphoned away from him, except for that special nanite. Later after Rex acquired a new batch of nanites from the Providence Offload facility the special nanite allowed Rex to create a new set of very powerful builds.

The special Nanite was later revealed to be the "Omega-1 Nanite" by Caesar when he returned after a few years stuck in hyperspace.

**Heroes United**

One day a wormhole appeared above New York. Rex and his team went to investigate it shortly after. After Rex flew up to it and tried to punch it Humungosaur jumped out at him. Rex tried to punch him tho he caught his fist and punched him back to the ground. Later Ben used Diamondhead, Lodestar, and Rath to fight Rex in New York. After Rex and Rath save the civilians from the falling debris, it is revealed to Rex and all the people around that the creature Rex thought was an E.V.O was actually Ben Tennyson. After going back and forth, Ben and Rex learned of Caesar's creation Alpha.

Later on in the Bug Jar, formerly the city of Kiev, Alpha absorbed Rex's Omega Nanite and with it Rex's access to his Omega Builds. In an attempt to even out the odds Ben transforms into Upgrade and merges with Rex upgrading his original builds with advanced alien technology. After the upgrade approach fails, Rex has an idea to shot Ben through Alpha as Cannonbolt. After doing so Alpha becomes unstable and Caesar recovers Rex's Omega Nanite. Rex then uses his nanites to compress Alpha into a heavily compressed sphere. After that Caesar uses the Null Void projector to send Ben home. As he is leaving, Ben transforms into Upchuck and takes the compressed Alpha with him.

## **Appearances**

**5 Years Later**

* Chapter 9: Time Out (Future, FLashback)

## **Trivia**

* Rex was first teased by Kuro The Artist to be in 5YL on March 31, 2018, as an April Fools Joke.
	+ He was officially revealed in april 1, 2020.