Lance White (Earth-74)

*"Yeah I wasn’t the brightest kid——scratch that. I was the kid who seemed the dimmest but had a lot of hope."*
—Lance White
**Lance Shiro**, born **Shiro Ransu** (**シロランス**) and better known as **Lance White**, is a man residing in New Arkadea on Earth-74. The descendant to a clan known as the **Koga Ninja**, Lance was trained by Leo Clark to fight crime under the moniker of "the **Seven**."

Eventually, Lance founded the Ark Rebels under the new codename, **Argent**. He and his team also allied with the EPF.

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Medical Wonder

Shiro Ransu was born in the crime-ridden Collingswood, Virginia to Shiro Hiroto and Shiro Akari, who had immigrated from Osaka to the United States four years prior. When he was eleven months old, Ransu was diagnosed with congenital analgesia after he only showed mild discomfort from a broken finger. During his diagnosis, his parents also learned his son's blood type was C-, the rarest blood type of all due to its unique properties of converting toxins into glucose.

Ransu mastered the Japanese language by the time he was five years old, and quickly learned English when he began kindergarten. Though his parents only spoke Japanese, he would gradually teach them English, too.

After kindergarten, Ransu's name was legally changed to Lance Shiro, but he went by "Lance White."

#### Young Defender

In sixth grade, when he was 11, Lance had a friend who would often be late to class and come up short on lunch money, which raised his suspicion. He decided to follow his friend before class began one day, until he saw him around the corner being confronted by bullies for his lunch money.

Lance tore down a flag with the number "7" across it and wore it as an improvised mask to conceal his identity. He then charged the bullies with a heavy book, beating them away and protecting his friend. Lance's friend was scared yet grateful for what he had done, and he ran back to class. Lance decided to go home after the incident.

#### Learning his Heritage

Upon his return home, Lance told his father about everything that happened. His father then divulged that Lance was born a "Koga Ninja," something he swore not to tell him until he was 14.

### Training

#### Meeting Leo Clark

Three years later, when he was 14, he was walking home from school one day when he was stopped by a man in a greenish black leather pilot's jacket. The man insisted that Lance not go home because his parents weren't there, and instead come with him because Lance was in "great danger." Lance was unconvinced, until the latter told him that he was a Koga Ninja, something only he would know.

Lance followed the man, whose name was later revealed to be Leo Clark. Leo worked as a private investigator back in Japan, and had helped his father Hiroto solve his problems with Yakuza loan sharks. However, his old foes allegedly followed him to America, the great danger Lance was initially warned of.

Leo brought Lance to a dilapidated suburban house and sat him down in the garage. He then gave Lance a bō staff, telling him he could not save his parents until he was ready.

#### Facing the Yakuza

Lance trained with Leo for the next three years. When he was 17, Leo told Lance that he had completed his training, despite not feeling any different. Leo assigned him to head over to a bar in downtown Collingswood, where the Yakuza were scheduled to make a supplies deal with the Aviator Mafia. However, Lance inquired for a method of identity concealment, preferably a mask or a bandana.

Leo gave Lance a blue, blacked out visor motorcycle helmet with the number "7" adorned on it. With that, Lance went to the bar and found the gang had kept an after-hours bartender hostage in a van. Lance took a motorcycle and sped after them, and though he was shot at from the back of the van he persisted nonetheless.

He leapt from the motorcycle into the back of the van, dispatching the gangsters and securing the hostage. He tumbled out the back of the van with him as they passed by Collingswood University. The bartender was still scared due to the whole event, and questioned who Lance was and what to tell the police. Lance told him to call him "the Seven," and left the scene with a bullet in his shoulder.

### Conflict with Maelstrom

#### The Care Package

Lance was brought into a conflict when Doug, a drug-runner, informed him that he had unknowingly been carrying a bomb instead of drugs one day. Lance seized the "care package" and left the case behind, only for Doug's boss, Maelstrom, to send her goons after him in response. Lance fought off "Stitch" Mason Bailey (Maelstrom's top roller) and a chainsaw-wielding goon.

### New Decade

When Lance's mind was placed in an android body, he began leading the Ark Rebels.

## Personality

*"Lighten up, babe. I just want to get you a little loose... you seem tense."
"Nah. Just cold. Always cold. It's this damned android body."*
—Cynder North and Lance White
Lance is a defender at heart. He rushed to save his friend from a bully without hesitation, and took up Leo Clark's offer to train to save his family, even if it meant he couldn't see them. On his first mission, Lance charged headfirst into gunfire to save a hostage.

In addition to his selfless protection of the innocent, Lance fights crime for an adrenaline rush. He is especially against criminals who target senior citizens.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Pain Suppression:** Lance feels only mild discomfort instead of experiencing pain, having been analgesic since birth. As an infant, he broke his finger and bewildered his parents with the lack of a reaction. He had no exclamation of pain when he was shot at by the Aviator Gang from the back of a van, and only winced when he ran home with a bullet embedded in his shoulder.
* **Poison Immunity:** Lance's astronomically rare blood type takes in toxins, venoms and poisons and converts them into chemical energy.

### Android Powers

* **Android Physiology:** Like his primary counterpart, Lance's mind was placed in an android body. He can survive falls from great heights, and he has blue blood (Thirium-310).
	+ **Enhanced Strength:** Lance's android body has far greater physical strength than his human body. Inside Ivory Stadium, he was able to break a goon's teeth with little effort, and rip chains off a gate.
	+ **Enhanced Agility:**
	+ **Enhanced Stamina:** Lance does not require nourishment nor rest.
	+ **Regenerative Healing Factor:**

### Abilities

* **Master Martial Artist:** Under Clark's training, Lance would become an extremely skilled hand-to-hand combatant. Even at a young age he had an aptitude for fighting, as he quickly dispatched a bully with a book as an improvised weapon. After three years of training with Clark, Lance was able to fight off a van full of gangsters, and even later fought off Maelstrom's goons, including her top roller, "Stitch" Mason Bailey with ease. In addition to Bōjutsu, he also appears to have training in Kenjutsu (as he can wield his katana, Unmei, with ease) as well as Shurikenjutsu (as he can throw his customized shuriken and kunai) and Shinobi-iri. He quickly defeated two of Red Wax's henchmen with a metal bat, despite one of them being a flash-stepper, meaning he can quickly change his combat tactics to suit differently-abled opponents. Leo suggested that Lance beat the information out of the "Big Q" as a first resort. Inside Ivory Stadium, he easily defeated a group of goons. The person who has given him the most trouble is Dead-Eyes (Don Tekor), but he was able to eventually overpower him in an alleyway. Of his own admission, Lance tends to taunt his enemies in battle.
	+ **Knife Mastery:** Lance is a master with wielding and throwing knives. Outside of Ivory Stadium, he was able to throw one of his trick kunai into a janitor's leg.
	+ **Star Mastery:** Lance is even more accurate with throwing his trick shuriken. Inside Ivory Stadium, he was able to boomerang a series of trick shuriken to temporarily paralyze a group of goons, and one shuriken knocked an iron pipe out of a goon's hand.
* **Expert Marksman:** Lance is highly accurate with projectiles and firearms. He shot Autumn Stone in the knee with his 18-gauge shotgun, and can pump it with one hand.
* **Stealth:** Lance was able to quietly infiltrate Chris Felix's apartment and steal a beer from her fridge without waking her up.
* **Bilingualism:** Lance speaks his native Japanese as well as fluent English.

### Human Abilities

*"If only I was human again..."*
—Lance White
* **Peak Human Condition:** After training with Leo Clark for three years, Lance is in top physical condition. He was able to fight off "Stitch" Mason Bailey, despite the latter's inability to feel pain and superior stature. He was also strong enough to knock down the General with his katana, even knocking his helmet off. He can generate the pressure to break human bones (150 megapascals/21,755.7 psi), as seen in his fight against Red Wax's henchmen.

## Equipment

### Attire

* **7 Flag:** Lance first used a flag decorated with the number "7" across it to conceal his identity when saving his friend from a bully.
* **Motorcycle Helmet:** Lance wore a blue motorcycle helmet with a blacked-out visor to conceal his identity when saving a bartender from the Aviator Gang.

### Weaponry and Gadgets

* **Staff:** Leo Clark trained Lance with a bō staff. He used it to fight off "Stitch" Mason Bailey after he seized Maelstrom's explosive, and deflected a chainsaw used by another of her goons.
* **Unmei:** As Argent, Lance's weapon of choice is a katana, which he named "Unmei."
* **Metal Bat:**
* **Shuriken:**
* **Kunai:**
* **Trick Shuriken:**
* **Trick Kunai:** In addition to conventional kunai, Lance uses trick kunai, such as a sleeping agent kunai, electric, net, and incendiary kunai.
* **Firearms:** Lance has used a variety of firearms, including an 18-gauge shotgun, and his STSR semi-automatic rifle.
* **EPF Holocommunicator:**

## Relationships

* Akari Shiro - Mother

Allies* Leo Clark - Mentor
* Bartender
* Ark Rebels
	+ Cynder North
	+ Jason Kade
	+ Chris Felix
* Nakamura - Informant
* Yakuza
* Aviator Mafia
* Maelstrom
	+ "Stitch" Mason Bailey
	+ The General
* Ankou
* Red Wax
* Red Q
* Praetors
* Dead-Eyes

## Trivia

* Lance exhibits several rare superpowered mutations.
	+ Pain Immunity/Congenital Analgesia: only 20 cases are known. They can feel touch, but not pain. It may be dangerous without knowledge of internal bleeding. The probability is 1 in 350,000,000 (0.000000002857143%).
	+ Poison Resistance/AS3MT Mutation: examples include Tim Friede, whom had endured 700+ snake venoms willingly, and Dean Sheldon, whom puts scorpions, which toxin would kill most people, in his mouth. The probability is the same as Pain Immunity/Congenital Analgesia.
	+ Alcohol Immunity/ALDH2 Mutation: one example is Ozzy Osbourne, a pop star whom partied almost every night and drank so much alcohol, doses that would kill a normal person, almost daily. The probability is 1 in 1,000,000,000 (0.000000001%).