Ava is a black American girl with red hair and dark brown eyes and is 16 years old and was adopted by the striders at age 4 before the aliens came to earth and started put themselves inside of humans. Ava was closer to Jeb, Melanie,and Jamie and and the aliens had release a virus that only effects teenager and kids and Jaime was immune to it but Ava was not. All the aliens took the teenagers and kids and Ava that were infected by the virus to camp if teenagers and kids were blue it means telekinesis or if they are yellow it means electricity manipulation or if they are red it mean fire manipulation and super strength or if they are green it means super intelligence or if they are orange it means mind control. The aliens take the blues,yellows,reds, and the oranges memories. Red and orange are the dangerous and if kids got orange the aliens will kill them and if they got red the aliens would control them and make them weapons and the blue,yellow and green are prisoners until there was this one boy name Liam set all of them free and Ava meets Liam,Charles,Ruby,and Suz and they escaped together. Liam is blue, Charles is green, Suz is yellow, Ruby is orange, and Ava is red the only red and they have traveled, protected, and love each other. Liam and Ruby are dating Ava is closer to Ruby and Suz and one day the van breaks down in the middle of the Grand Canyon and they started walking and they get dehydrated and pass out until another group of people that survived the alien attack.