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Alex Summers is the lost younger brother of Scott Summers. He was found in California when a villain attempted to capture him and now attends Xavier's School.

Background
Alexander Summers was born the second son of Christopher and Katherine Summers. He has an older sibling named Scott, of darker coloration than him. Their father was a test pilot in the Air Force. He always flew privately, and took the boys up many times in his vintage plane.

Things changed quickly for the Summers boys, when returning from vacation in their plane when they got attacked by some strange craft. Alex barely remembers it, and just knows that the plane caught fire. He lost his parents that day, when they pushed him and his brother out of the plane with a single parachute, and rode the plane to the ground. They didn't land very well, Scott was unconscious and Alex was forced to figure out how to keep them alive. It took about a day for them to be found, long enough that little Alex had to build a shelter and a fire to keep them warm. There was no family to take them in though, so Alex went to the orphan and Scott went to the hospital, where he stayed in a coma.

Alex stayed at the orphanage for a few months before being moved at the request of someone. He went to Omaha, Nebraska to a different orphanage, or so he thought. A evil mutate named Mister Sinister was running tests on those with the mutant gene, and he snagged Alex to do so. Blood was drawn from him, and many things were done to stress his body, in an attempt to get his powers to emerge early. It was torture at some points, weird experiments and then being tossed into a dark room.

It was terrible, and then his brother showed up as well. They were kept in the same dark cell but things looked brighter for the youngest Summer, at least he had his big brother to look after him. Slowly, they began to plan an escape from this complex of despair. They managed to attack and put down the guard that was to transport them from their cell to the lab, and they made a run for it.

Things didn't work according to plan though, when Scott was disabled by some sort of beam that caused his leg to become paralyzed. He forced Alex to leave by himself, even when he came back to try and get his brother. He went from test subject, to runaway. He stuck around in Omaha, as if Scott was going to escape but had to flee once he realized Mr. Sinister's goons were looking for him. A truck was his escape and he rode it west, then rode another and eventually ended up in California.

He got caught up by the police though, who got his story out of him...crazy labs and what not. No one believed him and he was tossed back into an orphanage again. This time he was adopted though, by a family that had lost their son in a car accident and seemed to be looking for someone to fill the void left by his absence. The family was the Blandings, the epitome of a regular suburban family.

His assimilation into normal American life didn't go too well for awhile. He had this plan to save his brother and began trying to teach himself the things he needed to know. Which, of course, were things that was illegal. He started to learn to lock pick and hot wire cars from the age of 11, getting picked up here and there by the police and brought home to his confused and frustrated new parents. The Grand Theft Auto was what did him in, after four months of community service after that and the promise of jail time if he did not straighten up, Alex stopped. He figured he wasn't going to be able to save his brother if he was locked up in jail. So he straightened up, began paying attention in school and doing things that were expected of him. Church was easy, but boring, it was made more fun by the fact he was part of the choir and so were a significant portion of the similarly aged girls. Football and surfing became his non-school fun, and as a reward for him straightening up.

All seemed well, Alex was 2 years away from graduating and disappearing without a trace from his family to track down his brother. Until the young man who had killed Todd showed up, deranged and half-mad to kidnap him and his sister, Haley. They were taken to a power transformer station, without any sort of knowledge of what was going to happen. The plague of headaches he had been suffering for a months disappeared as the man drew a gun and pointed it at Haley. The plasma that burst from his hands incinerated the man. The blast kept going and hit a transformer station and that's when the chaos began, explosions and what not. Haley and himself barely managed to get away before the entire station went up in a huge ground shaking explosion.

The police ruled that it had been the gun to hit something important and start the chain reaction. Haley, protecting her brother, agreed completely and Alex was safe from people knowing about his mutant powers. All is not well though, since Alex has started spotting a face that he recognizes from his past, the white face of the monster in charge of the lab that kept him and his brother. Alex tried to pursue the man several times and couldn't catch him, hes been on edge for a few days now, waiting to see what will happen.

Personality
Alex has two fronts to his personality. The first is the one he keeps forward, towards his friends and family and the people he interacts with. It is a content, jokester sort of guy. Tha'ts the easy to get along with, Alex.

The real Alex is soul torn by guilt for having left his brother behind and not being able to convince anyone to help him. He broods on the weakness in his life, and strives never to be found wanting again. Particular delight is found in accomplishing tasks and goals by means that an ordinary person wouldn't have thought about or even attempted.

Willingness to get it done: For Alex, there aren't many lines he won't cross to accomplish his goals. He won't hurt people that he knows and cares about, but property damage is fine.

Willingness to break the law: For Alex, the law has just been a soft line that people without determination were unable to cross. A mere suggestion, he feels that his moral system is better suited for the real world than a government's laws. He does not feel badly about the death of the man who tried to kill his adopted sister, for instance.

He is still a good soul though, willing to step up to protect the weak and his friends. He is calm in the face of enormous pressures and is always one of the first to jump into a broiling bad situation. If, given no powers or anything of the sort, a life of service for others was probably in his future.