Lance West

&nbsp Lance West is the main character of the series, at first he is seen as a shy but cheerful person who was the first to discover his mutant ability along with his close friend Jake Masters. However after the death of his parents and the discovery that everybody had been captured again he blaimed himself for it and his personality took a radical change as he became merciless and some viewed him as emotionaly void. Although it is suggested in several sections of the book that he is just trying to surpress his emotions until he can gain full control of his powers and he occasionaly shows points of his old personality returning.

Lance seems to have many different fighting styles most likely due to his DNA replication copying other peoples styles. In his first Emes match with Rosie, he goes all out agressive but in a later fight against Cecily he tries to confuse and confound his opponents more. Then in the finals against Dave Walker he uses a much more defensive technique in an attempt to tire Dave and gain enough strength to use a successful pure energy beam attack on him.

Lance's power is empatic mimicry or DNA replication, this allows him to "copy" other peoples powers so that he can combinde them. However he can not use their powers to full extent due to the mysterious Oxirixium in his body which prevent his powers from getting to full strength. In the second book "A Twisted World" it is revealed that this power also causes him to regain memories about the spercfic person after he suffers amnseia.

Lance plans to get equality between humans and mutants as he has forseen that the two kinds wouldnt get along with each other ( ie humans would fear mutants because of their immense powers, mutants would see themselves as superiors and would seek to destroy the humans). However he does also want to discover what his real past was and he wants to start a future family.