Alpha (Minecraft)

*This article is about the character of The Altered Adventure Minecraft series. For his novel counterpart, see **King Alpha**. For the episode, see "**The King of Altered**". For another known king of Altered, see **Gizzy**/**Canine**.*

King **Alpha** of the Altered Universe, formerly known as the Earth Guardian, is a character on *The Altered Adventure* Minecraft series. He débuts in the third episode of the second volume. He was voiced by Tom White in the Prequel series, and is currently voiced by KidMisfit.

## History

Before Gizzy's Arrival

Alpha is proclaimed king of the Altered Universe. He uses his crown as source of his powers, truly making him the rightful king. Without the royal headpiece, Alpha becomes an ordinary NPC, losing all of his powers. ("Jungle of Hope")

At some point, King Alpha meets a woman named Jen at a special pink tree. From there, the two fall madly in love and start spending more time with each other. The lovers partake in many different activities, all of which strengthen their love for each other. ("Yandere Crypt")

Eventually, Alpha marries Jen and the two have a son named Brayden. To give their son a normal life away from danger, Alpha and Jen decide to give up Brayden to Divine, a noble knight and a close friend, who swears to protect Brayden with his life. ("Five Nights at Freddy's", "Origin")

After giving up Brayden, although being the wife of the king, Jen denies becoming the queen of the universe, turning down the offer of royalty, wanting to live a separate life from anything involving monarchy to make everything easier. ("Friends with the Enemy")

King Alpha learns that a demon from the Nether plans to travel through dimensions to wreak havoc on the land. He gathers his bravest knights, comprised of Barath, Voice and Divine, to fight off the evil creature. At the meeting, Jen rushes in to say goodbye to her husband, and has Rascal escort her to safe location. Elizabeth, a female knight, enters the discussion, wanting to fight in his army against the Demon. Barath scolds her for being a woman fighting in a war, but Alpha allows it. Before heading out, Alpha orders having a private conversation with Divine. As they the soldiers leave, Alpha requests Divine that if anything were to happen to himself, that he should take care of his son Brayden, as he always has. He tells him that if he dies, his powers are to be given out to the four strongest soldiers around his body. Divine tells him to never think like, but if it ever happens, he promises to follow his request. The two leave the kingdom and join the group waiting for them outside. He realizes that Elizabeth is missing, but can't wait for her as they must go now. The army marches to Dawn's Opening, a volcano from which the Demon will emerge. At the volcano, they see Witch and his servant Ratchet are already there, using magic on the lava. Voice suggests that he's helping the Demon in his escape, but Alpha defends him saying he's actually slowing him down. Elizabeth soon catches up to them and prepares his troops as the Demon finally rises from the fires. The Demon explains his intentions of destroying everything they hold dear. He points to Alpha, the leader, saying he's no match for his powers. A battle soon ensues as the king's army retaliates against the beast. The battle is long fought as King Alpha fights with his mighty sword, but eventually, the Demon weakens Witch. He tries to finish the sorcerer off with a fireball, but Alpha sacrifices himself to save him. Upon his death, his powers are split into four elements, just like how he predicted, and are given to Barath, Elizabeth, Voice and Witch. The four become empowered with the elements, and manage to defeat the Demon with a spell cast by Witch. ("Origin")

After the battle, Alpha is buried with the King Sword at the Jungle of Hope. With his body buried, an enchantment known as the King's Curse is placed on the Alpha's skull, making it so that upon the touch of a power born on his corpse, King Alpha will come back to life again. At some point, the ghost Shadow enters King Alpha's tomb, where he steals the king's sword from his grave. ("Sanctuary", "Fight Your Demons")

Volume Two

A power born named Gizzy arrives at the jungle to retrieve his belongings. Making his way to his items, he stumbles upon the skull of the king. Voices begin clouding Gizzy's mind and tempting him to touch the skull. Finally, he touches it. At first, nothing happens. He quickly gets his stuff and leaves the tomb. After a while, the King awakens from his slumber and comes back to life. ("Jungle of Hope")

Alpha is resurrected and is revealed to have changed appearance due to having now powers. He goes to Voice who planned for Gizzy to bring him back from the dead for the purpose of stopping him to reach the Prophecy. Alpha insists that he first finds his crown and sword to get his powers back and become king again. Voice says he doesn't know where they are since they were both lost in the battle. ("The King of Altered")

Knowing he'd still be living in his hut, Alpha comes to Witch to see if knows where the crown is. Witch replies saying he doesn't know. Before Alpha leaves, Witch removes his body and turns him into a voice to prevent him from interfering with his plans. He stores the coordinates to his body on a sheet of paper inside his chest. ("The Power Born")

Alpha's voice goes to the Air Kingdom to tell Voice what happened to him. When Voice goes to Witch's chest, he can't find the coordinates. Ratchet appears with the paper and then tears it up, so now he's the only hope of finding the king's body. In exchange for the location of his body, Ratchet demands that he be re-instated as the earth guardian. Voice agrees to the deal. ("Ratchet and the Ritual")

Ratchet successfully leads them to his body. Voice then breaks the deal and teleports Alpha and himself away from Ratchet. After getting away, the earth begins to shake because the position as the earth guardian is vacant. The king suggests that his son could be the next earth guardian. To find him, he tells him he's with Divine. He says he can't go with him because he needs to see someone who might know where the crown is. He reveals to Voice his son's name is Brayden. ("Take Back Your Life")

Alpha goes to see his wife, Jen, at her house and asks if she knows where his crown is. Unfortunately, she doesn't know either. Voice returns and meets Jen for the first time. He says that Brayden has never been with Divine since the battle. As for the matter of the earth guardian, Voice suggests that Alpha becomes the next earth guardian. ("Five Nights at Freddy's")

He rejects the idea seeing that being a guardian is a step down from being king. Jen decides to be the guardian seeing her husband isn't willing enough. Alpha re-thinks the idea decides to be the earth guardian. Voice and Alpha then hurry to the earth element, before the earth collapses entirely. ("Waiting for Superman")

Alpha is taken to Cloud Temple, along with the other two Guardians, Inferno and Letvia, for the ceremony of the new Earth Guardian with the Guardians. He accepts becoming the Earth Guardian seeing that there's no hope of finding his crown and is given the earth element which alters his appearance. Unable to handle the guilt, Letvia reveals that Inferno destroyed the crown. ("Passage of the Earth")

Alpha is furious at Inferno, and Voice wants to de-summon Inferno for treason. Voice defends Alpha saying that he would give up his powers as a guardian to make Alpha king again, calling Alpha the "history" of the universe. Inferno tells Voice he should let Alpha know what is inside the prophecy. Voice warns him he will not like it, but continues. Alpha is fuming when he discovers the demon who killed him is still living, even though it it trapped behind the gate. He discovers the Prophecy is at the battleground there he died. He soon manages to put the pieces together and realize that the Prophecy contains the Demon that he thought was long dead. Unable to hand the truth, he leaves the temple, telling Voice he'll never forgive him for this. ("What Lies Below")

Volume Three

Returning to his wife's house, Alpha calls for Jen multiple times, but figures she's not home. Having nothing else to do and thinking it would help stabilize his marriage, he decides to hunt for his lost sword. Presuming that it's located at his grave, King Alpha travels to the Jungle of Hope, completes the lava parkour and returns to his former tomb. Before he can open the chest, a ghost of his former kingly self appears to him. The spirit explains that he's the embodiment of what he could've been if he didn't die at the battle, and that all those possibilities and hopes died with him. The Earth Guardian remains focused on his objective of retrieving the sword and killing the Demon, but his former self suggests the chance of him losing to the Demon, dying again, and having the creature roam the land, destroying everything in its path. The spirit manages the convince his living counterpart and make him realize that he should be spending time with Jen, not fighting wars. Still with the sword in mind, the spirit tells him that a ghost named Shadow took the sword while he was dead. Before leaving to go find Shadow, he thanks himself for helping him realize what's really important.

On his new mission, he stumbles across Inferno, who attempts to apologize for what he did to him, but Alpha refuses to listen. Inferno reveals that he was the one who freed the Demon, but didn't know that it was still living. Although he can never forgive him, Alpha hopes that he can still make amends for them. Knowing of his quest for Shadow, Inferno points out that he lives in the Abandoned Mansion. ("Fight Your Demons")

He finds the Abandoned Mansion, and enters. As he walks through the rooms of the house, Alpha is suddenly shaken by a voice clouding the entire residence. The voice tells him his name is Shadow and starts to taunt him even more. Eventually, the two talk face to face, where Alpha starts questioning him about his sword. Changing the subject, Shadow shows the king to a room holding a dying Ratchet in a cage. He is surprised by the condition he is in, and is accused of betrayal, saying that the ghost kidnapped him shortly after him and Voice left him in the forest. King Alpha agrees to free Ratchet once he finds his sword. The two lean close to the bars, and Ratchet informs him the sword is on the wall. Alpha tries to stall for time by telling a story to Shadow, and begins edging closer towards his sword. He grabs it and slays the ghost. He frees Ratchet, and teleports him and himself to Letvia for help at the Water Kingdom. They ask for her about Voice's help who can heal Ratchet, but she replies that he went into hiding. Fortunately, before he left, Voice gave her a magical pendant which can trace his current location. With the item, Letvia tells Alpha that he's hiding at the Broken Church. Knowing the hideout, Alpha and Ratchet head off to the church, before it's too late. ("Haunted House")

Arriving at the Broken Church with Ratchet, Alpha spots Inferno, Gizzy, Witch and Divine already there. He then finds Voice, but unfortunately, he lay on the ground, deceased. He overhears Gizzy mentioning that he was Voice's probable murderer. The killer runs away from the group while the king tries to go after him, but he's stopped by Witch who says he'll deal with Gizzy himself. ("Hear My Voice")

Following Voice's death, Alpha, Ratchet and Witch bury him at the Graveyard where they each pay their respects to the Air Guardian, friend to all of Altered. King Alpha apologizes to Ratchet for not being able to save him in time, but luckily, Witch learns of Ratchet's misfortune and decides to help his former servant. Ratchet refuses to receive the sorcerer's help after seeing the true nature of his voodoo magic from being his Right-Hand Man. Even with everything that's happened between the two, Witch reminds the Green Blood the promise he made about protecting him when they first met, while he reveals the story of how he saved Ratchet from the Bowsmen to Alpha. Not wanting the blame for his death, the Earth Guardian makes Witch save him. Being Witch, the magician asks only to get something in return for his services. In exchange for saving the Green Blood, he asks to become the next Air Guardian. Seeing as how the air will start to dissolve without the Air Guardian, Alpha reluctantly agrees and plans a ceremony for his enthronement in the future. With the deal made, Witch decides to save Ratchet, but unfortunately, Ratchet's body is too weak to be helped, but what can be done is having his body removed, turning him into a conscience, and to live on forever. They all settle with the treatment and Witch commences the spell. Once he uses his magic, Ratchet is turned into a voice. Immediately after, Alpha receives a distress call from Letvia saying she's under attack. Witch, who has no business in participating in a war, leaves Alpha to handle it on his own. Before going, Ratchet makes a strange realization that if there truly was no Air Guardian, then the ground should've collapsed on itself. Figuring that Voice's Aura is also the Air Element, they discover that Gizzy is currently the Air Guardian, and doesn't know it. ("The Green Bloods")

Forgetting about Letvia and returning to Jen's House, Alpha bids farewell to Ratchet, hoping they could still be friends after everything that's occurred, to which the conscience hopes for as well. Entering the residence, the Earth Guardian stores his sword in the house, believing it would safer. Alpha searches for Jen throughout the home assuming she'd be back, but to no avail. Alpha tries to looking for her at the pink tree where they first met, but no use. He thinks of how she might be in danger, but soon Alpha remembers Letvia's distress call involving her being under attack. He quickly teleports to the Water Kingdom, before it's too late. ("Yandere Crypt")

Appearing at the Water Kingdom, King Alpha arrives just in time to halt the attack from the Rebellion as they have Letvia, along with her two children, Vantor and Gail, completely surrounded. Making his way through the crowd of soldiers, Alpha comes to Letvia's side and the leader of the attackers, Tayren, surrenders upon seeing the king alive. When Gail hears Alpha mention the name Jen, she reveals that she met her and saved her from the men that gave her powers. The Earth Guardian thanks the girl for her heroism, but Letvia interrupts them by stating that they're in currently in a battle. Speaking to the whole army, Alpha renounces his claim to the throne, and fully commits to being the new Earth Guardian to rule over the universe, along with Letvia and Inferno. He lets the soldiers retreat, but arrests Tayren for his crimes against the Guardians. The Water Guardian comforts him by saying that Brayden would be proud of him. Upon hearing the name, Tayren guiltily tells him that for killing two of his guards, Tayren murderer Brayden, not knowing he was the prince of Altered. Suddenly, Alpha grabs a sword from one of the dead soldiers and holds it up to Tayren's face. With his decision made, the former king swiftly carves the blade through the commander's chest, killing him, and avenging Brayden's death. Alpha then falls to his knees, mourning the death of his only child. ("Guardians vs Rebellions")

Following the Rebellion battle, Inferno arrives to apologize to Letvia for not helping her in combat, but the Water Guardian understands his situation, learning that he was under the signature agreement with Commander Tayren. Having more important matters at hand, King Alpha turns to the Fire and Water Guardian, only to reveal to the that he recently made a deal with Witch, promising the magician the next Air Guardian, in exchange for Witch saving Ratchet's life. A vote is then cast, with Letvia against the idea, but Inferno and Alpha vote in favor of the enthronement, giving him another chance to redeem himself. Letvia says her farewells to her children as she must go to Cloud Temple to host the ceremony, but before departing, the mother gives her daughter the Pendant of Love, in case anything happens to her. In a hurry, Inferno, Alpha and Letvia, along with Rascal, proceed to teleporting to Cloud Temple, and find that Witch has been waiting for them. The Guardians quickly get onto the ceremony, but when Alpha grants the sorcerer the Air Element, he realizes that nothing happened. The Earth Guardian explains that when Gizzy picked up Voice's Aura, he inadvertently became the Air Guardian, later discovering that the aura is also the Air Element. Angered by his deception, Witch casts a spell which imprisons Alpha and Letvia within a Lucky Block cage to hinder their powers. As his father foresaw, Witch reveals his master plan to become the new king of Altered, with the Demon at his side, ruling the universe together. In order to achieve his goals, he must first obtain one of the four elements. Using Rascal's life by threatening to throw him flying off the temple with magic, Witch asks Letvia for the Water Element. Not being able to handle the blood on her hands, she relinquishes the power to him, making him the Water Guardian. As for Rascal, Witch still decides to send the servant off the temple to his death as penance for Alpha deceiving him in the first place. The prisoners try begging Inferno to help them, but Witch states that the Nether Champion would much prefer to liberate the Demon, his father. To affirm which side he's on, the Fire Guardian reveals that it was not Gizzy that killed Voice, it was himself. ("The Final Betrayal")

With Letvia and Alpha imprisoned, Witch asks Inferno to be one his allies, but the Fire Guardian denies the offer, and storms out of the temple in anger and grief over Rascal's death. The sorcerer, with no one stop him, continues with his plan to have Gizzy open the Prophecy and later take over the universe with the liberated Demon as the king of Altered. The former Water Guardian turns to Alpha for ideas on how to defeat Witch, but the Earth Guardian is clueless, now believing it to be the end of Altered. ("The Spirit World")

Witch still remains at the Cloud Temple watching over the imprisoned Letvia and Alpha, waiting for Gizzy to open the Prophecy. Letvia asks Witch how he will be able to know when it will open, and Witch answers that he will sense the Prophecy opening because it is his creation. Then, Witch and Letvia hear Gail calling for the former Water Guardian. Witch is confused on who Gail is, and Letvia accidentally reveals that she knows the girl. As a result, Witch teleports Gail up to the Cloud Temple, and Gail reveals that she is Letvia's daughter. Gail demands Witch to release her mother, and Alpha and Letvia warn her to run. But before anything else can happen, Witch throws a spell at the young girl and kills her out of sadism. Then Witch, sensing the Prophecy open, teleports away. After his departure, Gail is revived again. Letvia is glad that her daughter is safe and tells her that Witch has taken her throne as the Water Guardian. The former Water Guardian comes up with a plan where she and Gail will break the Lucky Block cage and then Alpha, able to use his powers again, can teleport them all to Witch to stop him. ("Demon Slayer")

After being broken out, Alpha teleports himself, Letvia and Gail to Dawn's Opening. There they met a surprised Witch, Gizzy (who was knocked unconscious by the Demon), Benji, Divine, Ratchet, Inferno, and Jen. Alpha has a flashback to the Battle and his death, and suddenly feels fear and reluctance to face the Demon, so he runs and hides. After the Demon kills Witch and leaves the volcano, Alpha comes back out to the open and is reunited with Jen, who gives him his sword. Then Alpha regains his courage to stall the Demon and Inferno until Gizzy wakes up. However before that, he notices Divine leaving. The Earth Guardian insists his friend to stay and fight. Divine admits that he only came to guide Gizzy and nothing more. Alpha is angered that Divine is not willing to fight for the sake of the world, and calls him a failure for betraying him and losing Brayden. Divine leaves heartbroken.

The Demon briefly returns to Dawn's Opening to meet Alpha, and the Earth Guardian is afraid again. To make matters worse, the Demon grabs Jen, takes her to the sky, and drops her. Fortunately, Vantor arrives to save Jen. Vantor then flies to stall the Demon, only to be hit and fall to the ground. Alpha, Jen and Letvia help him recover.

Once Gizzy recovers, Benji and Alpha encourage and cheer for Gizzy to become Canine and save the world. Then Canine goes after and attacks the Demon, also revealing that he has control of the water element. Alpha gets an idea and gives up his earth element to Gizzy. He also convinces Inferno to give the fire element to Gizzy, making him into the new King of Altered. With the strength of the four elements, and the help of Voice, Gail, Letvia and Benji, Gizzy kills the Demon. Alpha congratulates the new King of Altered.

After the fight, Alpha drags Inferno to Gizzy's kingdom. He proposes that Gizzy executes Inferno for his crimes. Instead, Gizzy decides to let Inferno live, but in exile to the Nether, which Alpha respects.

Gizzy prepares to leave Altered, and offers Alpha to become King of Altered again. However, Alpha refuses because he wants to settle down with Jen after everything that happens. This causes Gizzy to give the role to Gail instead. Alpha, along with Pluto and Aurona, swears that he will support the new Queen. ("The Prophecy")

## Physical appearance

### King Form

As king of Altered, Alpha dons green and gold armor. He also wears a black cape with a bright green creeper face on it and a crown above his helmet. His eyes are red and his complexion is black.

### Revived Form

Alpha has an "incomplete body" as his resurrected form's skin is mostly transparent. Only his lower chest, hands, and most of his head are visible, making him almost appear as a floating ghost. His limbs are gray with speckles of black and lighter gray. There is a speck of red on the lower back of his head and blue on one side of his head.

### Reformed Form

Alpha has a complete body now after receiving the earth element. He wears new armor that is completely dull green with brown, black, and gray speckles and gray plating. He also wears white gloves and gray boots. There are spots of blue on both side of his head. His defining facial features are almost completely hidden.

## Personality

King Alpha has demonstrated to be a determined and unwavered person. As king of Altered, Alpha is portrayed as a natural born leader, able to motivate any audience in need like his army before the battle versus the Demon. He holds a lot of pride when he was the king and sometimes, his ego can get the better of him. For example, immediately after coming back to life, Alpha's first instinct was to regain his power by finding his crown. This also implies that he has a sense of insecurity and helplessness hidden within himself. ("The King of Altered", "Origin")

Although his job was to rule and entire universe filled with dangerous creatures and innocent villagers, Alpha can be a really calm and collected person most of the time, unless he's faced with a great dilemma. As a result, he can be very rational and emit an atmosphere of courage to those around him. Alpha is shown to be brave, bold and clever in perilous situations, such as when he tricked Shadow by telling him a tale and later killed him with the King Sword. ("Origin", "Haunted House")

Alpha genuinely loves his wife Jen and all he wants for her is to be safe. Not only his wife, but according to the Rebellion, he cared for the people of his land, and in return, they adored him. Due to this, Alpha feels obligated and responsible of the lives of others, such as when he sacrificed himself for Witch at the battle and refused to let Ratchet die, feeling awful for Ratchet and his dying state, mostly because it was his fault. ("Waiting for Superman", "Origin", "Haunted House", "The Green Bloods")

When it comes to his priorities however, Alpha has troubles balancing them, sometimes placing his need for power above his family or vice versa. But after becoming the Earth Guardian and on his quest to regain the things he's lost, King Alpha's priorities start shifting, as Alpha's need for power diminishes and starts to emphasize the importance of family in urgent situations. Alpha is a real hero with all these traits, but heroes can also have their dark sides. Alpha's dark side was truly brought out when he learned that Tayren killed his son Brayden, and then killed him as vengeance. Most of the time, Alpha is a forgiving character and knows how to show mercy, like when he forgave Inferno for destroying his crown and spared the Rebellion. He also trusts a lot of people, like Divine, Voice, etc. A naïve complexity may also be shown in his character when he doesn't suspect the evil in people, like Witch. ("Origin", "Fight Your Demons", "Guardians vs Rebellions")

Because of the whole ordeal of the Prophecy, the Demon, and the deaths involved, Alpha reflects about how truly precious life is. As a result, he no longer feels fit to rule and protect a universe which deserved a better ruler. This shows that he has gained humility and wisdom. (The Prophecy)

## Powers and abilities

### Current

* **King powers:** Prior to his death, King Alpha's powers and abilties were unspecified. As of now, his powers appear to be a mastery of fire, water, air and earth.
	+ Geokinesis
	+ Aerokinesis
	+ Pyrokinesis
	+ Hydrokinesis

### Former

* **Standard Guardian abilities:** As a Guardian, Alpha possesses multiple unique powers attributed to all four Guardians of the universe.
	+ **Guardian detection:** Guardians are able to sense when another Guardian is nearby. ("Jekyll and Hyde")
	+ **Teleportation:** Guardians are able to teleport, meaning that they can move themselves or others instantaneously from one location to another without physically occupying the space in between. However, this power is limited as they can only teleport others once a full moon occurs, and they must wait another full moon until they can teleport again. On top of that, teleporting others to their location has a certain time limit, and when this time limit is reached, the teleported will return to their previous location. Also, Guardians can only teleport to location they've been to. ("Cruise", "Higher Rank", "Guardians vs Rebellions")
		- **Tracking teleportation:** Guardians can teleport to any person one desires to find, unless the target is in the presence of Lucky Blocks or holding a Pendant of Luck. ("Lucky Block Cavern", "The Power Born")
		- **Summoning:** Guardians are able to selectively summon other Guardians from any other location, at any time, to another specific location to host a type of meeting or trial. Although unclear, it seems that Guardians can only use their summoning powers at Cloud Temple. ("The Last Warning", "The Power Born")
	+ **Signature agreement:** Guardians are able to perform the signature agreement, a sacred bond, with another being. Should this agreement be broken by any of the participants in any way, shape or form, they will be punished by death. ("Cruise")
	+ **Respawn disabling:** When a player is killed by a Guardian, they're not able to respawn and remain permanently deceased. ("The Last Warning")
	+ **Storage sealing:** A Guardian's chest is specially sealed, making it impossible for someone to open it, except the owner, the other Guardians and former Guardians. ("Higher Rank")
* **King's curse:** Upon his death, King Alpha is cursed on his grave and to remove this curse, a power born must touch his skull which can bring him back to life. This touch works because the moment he died, Alpha's soul was split into four elements. However, once he's revived, the king isn't brought back with his powers and still requires his crown to restore them. King Alpha was later resurrected by the power born Gizzy. ("Sanctuary", "Jungle of Hope", "Divine")

## Trivia

### Production

* King Alpha is featured on the thumbnail of "The King of Altered".
* King Alpha narrates the "Previously on Altered Adventure" segment of "Divine".
	+ King Alpha doesn't appear in the episode.

## Appearances

Note: In "Divine", Alpha doesn't appear in the episode, but instead narrates the "Previously on Altered Adventure" segment.