Alexis Allaband

Alexis Allaband, or Lexi, is a Lieutenant of Team Lucifer. She is one of the 12 current Level 5 superhumans at H.E.R.O.

## Background

Before joining H.E.R.O. 5 years ago, Alexis was a therapist. It is assumed that she was infected around that time period and gained her power, Iron Heart. She didn't really enjoy being a therapist, only thought the psych stuff was interesting.

### **Frat House Massacre**

Alexis and Clark Cabellero are first seen waiting for Ella Vulpe after she leaves the MC to deal with the rampaging Kenny at the frat house. They had been being tipped off by fellow Team Lucifer member, Lochan Deus. Announcing that they knew Ella was a superhuman, they demanded she come with them. Ella promptly refuses, beginning a fight.

Over the course of their fight, the duo assumes that they have her, but she sneaks underground laying in waiting for Alexis. Then she appears, grabbing her by her throat as she squeezes hard, but Alexis powers activate underneath. iron being too thick for her to penetrate. She then uses her blood iron to rip off Ella's arm.

Knowing that they lacked the powers to track and catch Ella if she decided to run, Alexis decides to take the Evolution Serum Bramon Xanthe gave them. Clark is not being thrilled with being a test dummy for the new drug but follows suit. The duo rapidly evolve to Level 5, terrifying Ella. As she prepares to flee, Clark imbues Alexis with his energy allowing her to summon a massive skyscraper tall "Blade Spire" out of the ground. The emergence causes a magnitude 7.0 earthquake and blasts Ella into the clouds and obliterates her form. While she ultimately survived, she drops her pills resulting in a surge of monster across Sector 1 over the following weeks.

### **Therapy Sessions**

After the massacre, Alexis, along with Clark, is tasked with finding out the identity of the MC. Using her past profession as a therapist, she goes undercover to help students at R&X University recover from the massacre. She also teaches a few classes. As his temporary teacher, she learns the MC's partner for his project is Tiffany Miliken and warns him about getting dragged in her mess.

A few therapy sessions later, finding out Jake is a superhuman, and a trip back to the frat house, she's ordered to pull out and return back to H.E.R.O. Before she leaves, she has one last session with MC. Showing surprise at his eyes when he offered to show her them. She asks if he wants to talk about it, but he declines. They bid each other farewell, for now.

### **H.E.R.O. Base Infiltration**

A couple weeks later, Alexis can be seen giving Jake a tour of H.E.R.O.'s base. She meets up with Clark and they talk about how H.E.R.O. operates as they're entering the lower levels. It is here that Nicolette Heart appears, teasing her about being too violent and that being why she'll remain single. Alexis responded by saying she's single because she's too lazy to find someone. A comment that makes their newly arrived Captain, Malik Drexel, laugh.

As Nico and Malik leave for another mission, Alexis and Jake continue their tour. She, unknowingly, being under the influence of his power. After bringing him to the main lab, Clark arrives, asking her why she's showing him this area. Noticing her own behavior, she breaks free from Jake's power. Lashing out at him, leaking suffocating amounts of red bloodlust and power, she threatens to kill him if he does give her answers. As she strikes out at him, Ella appears from his torso. She mocks Alexis and then pushes her through dozens of rooms. Before Alexis can go back to the fight, Ella summons a M33: Hexenringe to hold her off.

After chatting with Clark, Ella flees with Jake. Alexis now being freed up, tries to hit them underground with her network of iron veins. They manage to survive her iron death trap, reaching the surface before Ella's massive worm body is bisected by her colossal blade. When the other duo reached the surface, she tells Clark to go all out to kill her since hiding their powers is pointless now. Clark agrees and fires his gun at the flying Ella and Jake. They ultimately escape after Ella reveals she stole an Evolution Serum.

### **H.E.R.O. Recruitment**

Alexis can be later seen taking a break after being up for 48 hours. It is here that she meets the MC again, who recently joined H.E.R.O. after his identity was reveal. She, along with Clark, reintroduce themselves to him, her telling him he could call her Lexi now. She comments that she should've known it was him and that she couldn't believe he fooled her. She leaves to get some sleep but before going she tells the MC it's good to see him again and that he should work hard so she can work less.

During Tiffany's wedding, MC is spotted by Alexis as he's asking for a drink. Like him, she's also waiting for the ceremony to start. They talk about things with the newly arrived Clark. About how they made their own clothes from their powers and so on. After Clark leaves, the remaining duo decide to have a more personal discussion. MC having the option to ask her if she's really a therapist or about her piercings. Both choices can lead to casual sex, if MC accepts her offer.

**Asking if she's really a therapist**

She tells the MC a bit about her backstory and details her experience as a therapist. This leads into 3 responses from him.

* He can tell her he's sleeping with multiple women to which she tells him he's playing a dangerous game. She gives him some advice before calling him a manwhore and leaving.
* He can state that he's afraid of the future. She tells him to just do what's best for him and that helping them is what's best for them all. As for monsters, she tells him he'll be fine, his body being pretty resilient, and he would more than likely survive the encounter. Even if it's something he can't handle. She ends by saying that if he can get to the 5th level, he won't really have to worry anymore. That it's better to don't think about it all and just go with the flow like she does.
* MC says that he's good on the therapy. He responses instead by asking if Alexis needs to get anything off her chest. She gets slightly offended but relented when he states that he just wants to hear her out and let her vent some. She tells him a bit about her stress from overworking. She also gives him some info on how she ranks among the others and that she has figured out how to prevent Nico from teleporting her back. MC gives her a good idea on how to get out of work which is helpful to her. As a thank you to him, she offers him sex.

**Asking about her piercings**

Asking Alexis about them prompts her to wonder if MC really wants to know or is he trying to make conversation. Nonetheless, she tells him they're outlets, for all of the iron in her body and help prevent her internal iron production from hurting her (see Weaknesses). Alexis continues, saying that it's still dangerous for the people and that the problem is much worse when she's out fighting since her iron production was higher. With Xanthe's help, the piercings, and suppression rooms she hasn't had an attack in almost a year. Before the solutions she was only ever able to hang around people who could take being stabbed, like MC himself. Changing gears, a bit, after talking about her powers more, she asks him if he has any issues with his powers to which he responds that he gets stabbed, shot and sliced a lot. This causing her to respond with sympathy at him being pretty squishy and telling him they all have it rough. After she says this though, he asks her if her nipples are also pierced to which she asks if he wants to find out. Being bored from being able to drink and the wedding taking forever to start. If he says yes, he has sex with her.

After the Ceremony has finally begun, Alexis can be seen sitting with MC, Malik, Nyx Elis, and Lucius Valentine. They talk for a bit before Alaric Howard and Tiffany arrive. As the bride and groom are about to kiss, Alaric is killed by an S Rank monster, interrupting the wedding and sending everything into a frenzy. Neither Malik, Lucius nor Nyx sensing it. Nyx being the most shocked that she didn't and still don't sense it. Deciding that it doesn't matter, she goes to kill it before Lucius stops her. Alexis then jumps into action and goes to kill it herself with Malik following her. The wedding being pretty much over.

### **Battle of the Diamonds**

At the start of the Battle of Diamonds, Alexis is tasked with eliminating the stronger monsters to open up a path for the rest of the H.E.R.O.'s agents on the ground. She takes Deus with her on her floating iron disk. He requests to corner Hex before she begins to slaughter waves of monsters. After she does that, she resumes her rampage across the battlefield. Slaughtering several monsters of varying ranks, including A-Rank monsters like Hrungnir that was targeting the exhausted Alice Alderman and Laurie Kernz.

Annoyed with Alexis persistent killing, Ella sends Goliath out to hold her off. Alexis being shocked by the sudden appearance of the humongous figure and it's two companion A-Rank monsters, M17: Himavat. She does battle with the trio, struggling to penetrate Goliath's hide with her power, the monsters on the other side struggling to hit her. She decides to create a massive iron vein within one of the Himavat's to control it and kill the other. Goliath, however, kills it with no hesitation, shattering it with his fist. A punch so strong, it hit with the force of a nuclear bomb, sending her across the crater and destroying her iron network. As she's running out of options, not having the time to build up a large enough network of iron in the earth to hurt him, Malik arrives. He uses his Burning Tower attack to burn and melt Goliath's impenetrable skin. With that gone, she has no problem hurting him with her blades. Before she could land a potentially devastating blow, Hex teleports him and the other important monsters out of his dimension as he's collapsing it.

Sometime after the battle is over, Alexis can be seen in a suppressor chamber, ejecting the buildup of iron in herself. As she exits, she spots the MC who is being shown around the prison by Kiri. She asks him if he's spying on her to which he states it's a coincidence and that he's here to see Valravn. She accepts his reasoning and goes with him to see Valravn together. If the MC successfully gets information out of Valravn, she thanks him for helping her. With that done, she goes to take a nap before anyone tries to make her do some work.

## Powers and Abilities

Alexis is a very powerful superhuman. She is one of 12 Level 5 superhumans at H.E.R.O. and a lieutenant of Team Lucifer. She implies that she is near the middle in terms of raw fighting ability amongst H.E.R.O.'s top echelon.

### Human Abilities

Alexis has nearly 5 years of experience as a combatant. Over that time, she has fought many different kinds of monsters and has shown to be quite knowledgeable and levelheaded. While on the lazier side, she was dedicated enough to have developed specific moves and applications of her powers to help her deal with different situations.

### General Superhuman Abilities

As a Level 5 superhuman, Alexis's body is incredibly durable. This is especially magnified since her powers have both a physical and supernatural component. She also likely has the standard suite of superhuman senses and enhancements.

### Level 5 Abilities

Alexis's ability is called "Iron Heart". The core function is that it gives her control of Iron. Passively, this means she has full control of the iron in her blood stream and constantly produces more. This creates her main defensive power: liquid iron flows beneath my skin and throughout her body, shielding her from any external damage. Her powers also supernaturally hold the iron together - even in liquid form - preventing the bonds from ever breaking. This makes her pretty much indestructible to anyone who's not significantly more powerful than her. She can also take control of iron in the soil to build vast networks of iron that she can manipulate.

This manipulation is Alexis's primary offensive technique: the extrusion of iron as an offensive tool. Typically, she forms blades or other sharp pieces of iron and launches them at opponents. She can also form the iron into swords, bars, or any other shape she can think off making her quite versatile. At the Battle of Diamonds she was dropping pillars the size of skyscrapers to destroy any monster that entered her effective range. She is also able to form a disc of iron underneath her and use the iron's magnetic properties to fly at high speed. Her manipulation is not limited to natural iron either, the organic steel the MC's arbiter form creates to stab her is instantly turned on itself as well. It does however take time for her to build up a network if she needs to manipulate truly vast quantities of iron.

### Weaknesses

Alexis herself has noted that particularly tough or regenerating foes are poor match ups for her. If an enemy just isn't concerned by getting stabbed or crushed, then there really aren't too many options open to her. She also doesn't seem to be able to directly manipulate liquid iron once its left her body, so she launches it in pre-programmed forms like a thicket of blades. She also can't seem to generate a lot of kinetic force with her abilities; her massive blades grown out of the ground to stab Goliath in the gut didn't get more than a groan out of him and were unable to penetrate his skin. Her powers are also highly geared towards physical durability and defensiveness; she has no built in defenses to Mental or Supernatural attacks.

Alexis also doesn't have full control of her power. She cannot turn off the production of iron which means if she isn't constantly fighting or exerting her powers the iron will continue to build within her body till it reaches a critical point. At this point, it will violently tear out of her body, ripping into her flesh and internal organs before exploding out of her. Before the power suppressing rooms at H.E.R.O. and her special piercings were designed, she was quite dangerous for other people to be around. Nyx Elis implies that these explosive episodes are a side effect of Alexis's corruption.

## Trivia

* Alexis and Clark's first appearance were actually during the first dead end where they hunt the MC. She is seen trying to kill him with her iron attacks. They get tired before calling Malik to burn the MC's body.
* She doesn't consider herself a goth, stating she's an emo and that goths don't cut themselves.
* According to Nyx Elis, Alexis isn't fond of the effects of corruption.
* She has piercings throughout her body. They act as an outlet for all of the iron in her body, it constantly generating iron.
* She suffers from attacks where her internal iron goes crazy and tears up her insides. The solution being the piercings, allowing the iron to go outward instead of inward.
* She technically has an S Rank kill from killing the monster at Tiffany's wedding but it's possible she gave the kill to Malik.