Alex Mason

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**Alex Mason** is the deuteragonist of *Theta Fighters* and a major secondary character in *Alpha Rangers: Evolution*. A recent graduate from the same class as Caleb, he's responsible for Caleb coming out as gay and the one who taught him how to Duel Monsters. He's a rather carefree individual, but tries to be a loyal friend. Though he's easily scared, he's a lot easier to believe in things like reincarnation.

However, Alex becomes a completely different person whenever his father is around or with GEIST, being more submissive and fidgety.

## Theta Fighters

Alex receives a note from his father to come back to Frond Bay, and while in Crestpeak, he gets caught in the middle of Sachiel's attack. After being picked up by Mira and taken to GEIST HQ, he's told that he's the Second Child, and is to pilot Evangelion Unit-01. Refusing at first, he realizes he has to when he sees the state a blue-haired girl is in. Inside the EVA, he battles the Fourth Angel, and through synchronization, feels his eye getting gouged out. He passes out when the EVA goes berserk.

Waking up the next day, he's assigned to live with Mira, going home with her and seeing what she's really like.

## Alpha Rangers: Evolution

Alex is first seen in Chapter 10 of *Alpha Rangers: Evolution*, where he, along with a few other of Caleb's classmates, were held hostage by F.E.A.R. as a distraction while they climbed Mount Chimney to awaken Groudon. When he tries to speak out against  Zaros, the oldest Argent sibling exposes him to mutagen, turning him into an anthro fishman, nearly suffocating to death due to his mutant form having gills. However, he's quickly changed back after Zaros retreats when he's losing against Dayton Argent in a duel, which is where Dayton gives him the Retro-Mutagen.

He stays behind after Caleb's group heads back to Frond Bay, where he quickly starts to be uncomfortable around Alpine Graywolf thanks to her talking about how great it is to be a mutant. When he goes to Seacrest City to take part in the tournament, he briefly gets away from the Rangers because of teleportation sickness, where he meets Shinji Weber and loses against him in a duel. At Hari's,  Ashley makes an incredibly insensitive comment regarding  Wallace's PTSD from the events of Sahara City and being forced to kill his own brother, which makes Alex more reluctant about being part of the team. He witnesses Laila and  Jennifer's duel, along with Jennifer being mutated into a foxgirl, but after Ashley apologizes for what she said, he stays with Shinji for the night.

On the day of the tournament, he is scared by and immediately distrusts Shezoth thanks to his arachnophobia, and pretty much plays peanut gallery during the tournament itself.

During a break in the tournament, he defeats Kamryn in a duel, while Shinji saves him from being mugged afterwards.

Alex witnessed  Yuya and Zuzu defeating  Astrix in a duel, along with Skylar defeating Osran Raven and Theodore defeating Zaros. While he, Shinji, and Theodore don't learn about the truth of the Thornhearts and McCharm families, they *do* watch the finals, and when Astrix turns into a feral manticore mutant, Alex can barely watch, running out of the arena and hearing security put Astrix out of his misery. This led to him beginning to wonder what would have happened if *he* had gone feral and become a monster as a mutant beneath Forina, which nags at him when he visits Blue Ridge High and duels Budd Dashner, another ex-mutant. He acknowledges Alpine's character development, and in the library, after a startling visit from the rhino mutant Alfie Grant, does some research on the Cat Kingdom in Sahara City, making both him and Shinji start thinking the city is corrupt for prioritizing the rich and special families descended from Falzur's allies. Fortunately, Laila redirects their anger towards the Osirix family, the most corrupt of the bunch. A few hours later, they leave for the city.

Shortly before the blackout needed for Operation Rock Smash, Alex is called by Caleb, who's checking in on them.