Jake

Jake Smith is a teenage boy who makes his first appearance in the second book. He meets Ben at Chen's Island and helps him to set Nadakhan free. He then becomes Ben's sidekick and helps with the fight against the ninja at the Wailing Alps. After everything went downhill with the fight, Jake became and ally to the ninja and was 'rescued' from Ben's clutches. During the investigation of Cliff's murder, the ninja follow clues that lead to Jake, but after saying that he had nothing to do with it, the ninja left him alone. He also made an appearance at Jay's welcome home party, when he planted the bomb in Jay's bedroom. He framed Darien for the death of Cliff and pretended that he had also killed Kai and Zane. Later on in the story, everything was revealed, such as how he had murdered Cliff, robbed the bakery in the city, and set off two bombs. It was also revealed that the death of Ben's sister, Lila, was because of Jake and his past actions. Jake also had the same intentions with Ben because he was known to be madly in love with him, but ended up killing him instead. Jake is now currently in Kryptarium Prison.

Jake is also based off a real life person, who was my best friend. He was obviously much nicer than the character but I wanted to find some way of commemorating him since he really liked this story. He sadly passed away from a car crash in mid-December 2019.