"Shock Therapy.. you on mark girl?"

Narina put a finger to the com unit in her ear. "We're a go Red Leader.. Just say the word.."

"Alright, mission is hot.. be careful, we don't want you dead on your first week."

Narina Yukata.. formerly known as the boy Narin Jousuke, was now a beautiful 15 year old girl with white medium length hair, and violet eyes, as a result of an abysmal mistake made by the Rebirth Company... 

And currently, she was on a job. 

After her graduation, Narina had been assigned to a highly professional group of what could best be defined as a Black Ops division of the Powers Society. The job was a high paying one.. but thanks to the nature of the missions, it was grueling, and dangerous work, taking on the most vicious and powerful organizations and super villains the world had to offer.

Before Narina was even allowed on the team, known as Phantom Crow, she had to take numerous aptitude tests, a written exam, and then spend 2 months in basic training, before taking another written and physical exam. 

After that, she became what was probably the youngest person to ever pass and become a member of Phantom Crow. The second youngest being 20. 

Narina was currently dressed in a Muslim outfit, meaning her hair was covered, as was most of her face, and body. The outfit was extremely exhausting to wear in the desert.. but it was necessary for the mission. She rode a camel next to a handsome man with a half shaven face, lazy eyes, sunglasses, and a small turban and outfit to match meant for his mission of course. Usually he actually wore a Batman t-shirt and raggedy jeans. 

Jack Nils, AKA the Swarmer. He had rebirthed into a hero named Robotomic, a man who could control electronics at will using a brain suited to hacking electronics at any distance, using a unique telepathic wave that couldn't be blocked by any electrical means. Hoever, instead of just using it to fight robot related crimes like Robotomic did.. Swarmer instead created his own miniature insect-like robots, which he controlled in the form of a massive swarm..  Narina admired him for his creativity, and not allowing his abilities to be purely defined by his Rebirthed body's past.

On this mission.. Narina was playing the part of Jack's wife.. and honestly, considering the part of the world they were in.. it wasn't that uncommon for a girl Narina's age to be married.

They rode their camels into a large encampment.. filled with Arabic people, armed to the teeth with all sorts of weapons.. 

Terrorists? Well that would be a fair guess.

A small snake poked her head into Narina's head covering. 

"You had better keep your wits about you.." Sandy's grass snake form hissed. "These guys have some pretty serious tech here.. probably stolen.."

"You have the goods?" said Jack to one of the men as he walked up to meet the duo.

"Well, that depends! You have my money?" said the man.

"Darling?" Jack grinned at Narina.

Narina got off her camel and pulled a large suitcase out of one of the big saddlebags. She opened the suitcase and showed the stacks of cash inside.

the terrorist leader nodded. "Very well. Come with me.."

Jack dismounted as well, and followed Narina and the terrorist into one of the larger tents.

"Might I say.." said the terrorist leader as he led Narina and Jack past large crates of weapons and men on satellite holo computers, "you have a beautiful wife.. I can tell by her eyes alone.. pretty stunning.."

"Yeah she's great.. but I'm more interested in a different kind of beauty right now." said Jack. "Namely one with a large barrel, trigger, and dozen 50 caliber plasma rounds.."

"Right here.." said the terrorist leader walking over to a case.. and pulling out a large plasma rifle. "You can clear a bunker with this baby.. perhaps even put a dent in some serious Heroes too.. it was battle tested on the Adamantium Queen version of Shock Therapy's Prism Dragon form, guaranteed!! She's secretly in a hospital right now, the Powers Society had to cover it up!"

"Oh.. really?" said Jack, raising an eyebrow as Narina sighed and shook her head. Blatant lying to advertise a product, this was probably common in this sort of business.

The Terrorist Leader suddenly narrowed his eyes. "Wait.. girl.. are those.. contacts?"

"What the hell are ya talking about?" said Jack. "She's got beautiful violet eyes.."

Suddenly the terrorist jabbed a finger at Narina's eye.. and a contact lens fell out, revealing a bright yellow dragon's eye with a slit pupil.

Narina sighed and pulled out the other contact lens.

"You're not who you say you are!!!" The terrorist leader growled, pointing the plasma gun at Narina, as many other terrorists pointed their weapons too. "WHO ARE YOU!?"

One of the men pointed at the sand, showing large three toed footprints trailing from Narina. "This girl! She isn't human!!"

"Wait!!" said Jack. "Listen.. don't do this! She's-"

"BLAMMM!!" The Terrorist leader shot Narina right in the chest with a plasma shot. .. Narina doubled over... and.. began to laugh.

"HAHAHA! Oh gosh! That tickles! Heehee!!"

The terrorists stared with shock.. as a large scaly diamond dragon's tail tore out of Narina's clothing, ripping off the disguise, and revealing the diamond mesh and titanium plated one piece-like 'clothing' underneath.. as well as the heavy metal dragon talon feet.

Narina ripped off her shroud and grinned at the terrorist leader, displaying her full Adamantium Queen form. "Now now.. don't tell me you just provided false advertising? "

"Heh heh.." Jack chuckled. "Ya see, Narina's Prism Dragon forms, whether it's her speed, defense, or attack version, has the drawback of ripping off clothes, but then we had the brilliant idea of putting the disguise on her AFTER she transformed.. a little contingency to surprise our lovely baddies."

"You were trying to stage a false sale so you could arrest us!" growled the Terrorist leader. "Well too bad! We haven't even exchanged money yet!"

"Who says that was our plan?" said Narina. 

Suddenly, the light shifted next to one of the computer servers in the room, and a large chameleon wearing black padded pants appeared in the room,  The giant chameleon licked  it's eye a little before morphing into a young guy with green hair, a pony tail, and alert eyes, with a hawaiin gecko tattooed on his chest. 

"Well well.." said Corey Travis, AKA the Slizard, tossing a flashdrive over to Jack, "Looks like I managed to download many many records that tell us a whole host of little bad things you've done.. Rape.. lots more rape.. assault.. illegal arms dealing.. bombings.. more rape.. man you love rape don't you? Okay new girl, wanna tell em what they won?"

"Sure thing.." said Narina. "Let's see, that's around 20 Life Sentences right? 20 life sentences for ALL our little friends!"

"Bravo.. Bravo!" said Jack. "Now for a bonus round! Tell us who supplies your arms, and you MIGHT just get that sentence cut in half! Whoo!!"

"SHOOT THEM!! SHOOT THEM NOW!!!!"

Plasma rounds fired everywhere, as Jack held out his hands, and swarms of robotic bugs flew out from under his sleeves, expelling knockout gas from their bodies.

Corey, turned into a massive Horned Lizard and slammed his body into some of the terrorists..

Meanwhile, Narina's tail moved with vicious speed, deflecting the plasma shots mainly to cover Corey and Jack.. not having to focus on protecting herself, as the plasma shots just fizzed out on her torso.

"Narina! Anytime!" said Jack as he used a swarm of robo bugs to slam some terrorists to the ground.

"Got it!" Narina let out a massive shockwave of electricity, immediately frying all the weapons, and knocking out the terrorists.

"Didn't expect them to try and go out fighting.." muttered Corey. "Usually people who know about one of the Former Emperors like Narina tend to go quietly."

"They tried to pass off one of their guns as being able to fry her Adamantium Queen form.." said Jack. "I don't think these guys are the brightest bulbs in the box. Speaking of our lovely electric dragon girl.. you okay Nar? "

"Yeah, not a scratch." said Narina.." though staying in this form so long is a bit exhausting.. got my extra clothes?"

Corey tossed Narina a bag, which she caught. "Thanks. I'm going to change over there, don't peek!"

A few moments later, Narina came back in her normal form, wearing a pair of cargo pants and utility belts and a black tank top, more suitable clothes to the desert. Jack was on the phone by now.

"Look! Seriously! I know what you think Red Leader, but I'm telling you, these guys aren't gonna talk-.. oh.. fine.. damn it! I hope you've got a conscience ma'am.. cause this is just bogus."

"What's wrong?" Narina asked.

"We can't take em in.." said Jack, nodding at the terrorists that were now tied in a corner. "We've gotta eliminate them and leave.. apparently they don't know enough to be much use, so taking em would saddle too many of our resources.. and leaving them would allow their other cells to talk to em, and they'd know we were here."

"Wait.. KILL THEM!?" Narina stammered. "All because we don't want to saddle too many resources!?"

"If we spend too many resources on one op Narina, it'll compromise the others.. ops that could be even bigger and more important than this.." Jack said. "I don't like it either.. but this is what we signed up for.."

Narina clenched her fists, gritting her teeth as a few sparks of frustration radiated from her body. "Wh-why..?

"You'll get used to it New Girl.." said Corey. "The somewhat unbearable decisions.."

"REALLY!?" Narina growled. "Then which one of you wants to be the one that kills these guys!?"

There was a pause.

"I'll make it quick and painless." said Jack. "Narina, you can go outside and wait.."

"No.." Narina muttered. "If.. if we're going to have more missions like these.. I need to be prepared to face the worst... go right ahead.."

Jack sighed, and pulled out a hand gun. "you're right.. wish you weren't though.."

Narina gritted her teeth as each gun shot rang out.

When she left that tent, she felt sick to her stomach...

"If it helps.. " said Corey. "I threw up my first time. They don't handle killing too much in Basic Training, just that it's a rare thing, but you'll have to do it if things turn sour.

A large hover shuttle suddenly dived out of the sky, landing in front of the three man team. At the cockpit, was a red haired woman in a silver jumpsuit. She walked over to the ramp of the aircraft and called out. "Hey! You all done yet? Cleanup crew's coming in 2 minutes! So we've gotta be gone by yesterday!"

"Yeah Red Leader we know! We're coming, we're coming!" said Jack.

"Chikushou.." Narina muttered (Japanese for "Damn it")

"Hey.. seriously, you'll get used to.. and usually it's with a pretty good reason.. specially considering these people would've probably got the death sentence anyways." said Jack as he let Narina board the craft first.

"I didn't become a hero to become Judge, Jury, and Executioner." said Narina.

Waiting in one of the seats of the shuttle, was a 18 year old girl, perhaps the second youngest person in Phantom Crow.

Her hair was green thanks to the large amount of chlorophyll in her body.. cut in a bobbed fashion. She wore gardening clothes and gloves, with a spade attached to her belt.  and Several living vine-like plants slithered around her arm, whispering to her..

Sunny Mcgarden looked up and smiled at Narina, a flower suddenly growing out of one of the vines slithering around her wrist.  "How was the third mission Nari-.. oh.."

Sunny frowned as she noticed Narina's expression. "I'm guessing this was your first kill mission.."

"First is always the worst and the last goes away fast." said Corey. "That's a motto in the Powers Society Covert division. Like I've been saying, she'll get used to it."

As the ship left the ground.. Narina tried to calm her conscience... but with every lurch of the craft, she began to wonder.. did they had any right to do what they just did?

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"Tadaima.." Narina said quietly as she opened the door to her apartment. "Oh.. right.. nobody's here.."

"rrowll.." Astralis the dragon, in her shrunken form, leapt down from a book case.

"Oh.. sorry, wouldn't want to forget you." said Narina, as she bent down to scratch the silver dragon behind the ear.

Sandy slithered out from Narina's pocket, and in a second, morphed back into her human form, stretching. "Well, stressful day huh?"

"If you want to sleep over, I've got a futon somewhere." Narina said.

"Nah.. I'll turn into a python and sleep in a drain somewhere in the city." said Sandy. "You know, I think this is quite an interesting turn.. you thought the Silent Circle was the only ones doing distasteful things to help the world.. and yet here you are, starting to question the actions of your own bosses.."

"We don't work with serial killers." Narina growled.

Sandy shrugged. "Fine.. keep thinking that.. the thing ya gotta remember though.. nobody's clean and perfect in your little fantasy world.. especially not your friend Zanna.."

"You know.. I keep on hearing about Zanna having some sort of dark secret, and yet nobody comes out and says what it is!" Narina growled. "So unless you have some sort of evidence.. stop badmouthing her in front of me!"

Sandy frowned and turned into milk snake before slithering out the door.

Narina sighed. Despite Sandy being part of the Silent Circle, she actually rather liked her. She'd have to apologize for snapping later..

Narina's apartment was decent, large, and well furnished. The large amount of pay the Covert Division of Powers Society provided was no joke.. but an apartment this big, with her the only one living in it besides Astralis, was rather lonely. 

She video called her friends a lot of course..  Nue nearly twice a day.. Violet as well.. and Ezra, and Zanna too.  Stoor, and Nina sent plenty of postcards and photos of what she was missing in Varus City..  And with Sora only 30 minutes away by train, Narina visited him, and he visited Narina very frequently... but.. it wasn't the same as the Academy, where they got to hang out all the time.. or as when she lived in the Roots of Varus City, and she (or he) and Stoor would get to all kinds of no good, and Nina would give them such a tongue lashing.

Growing up wasn not easy, that was probably the summed up lesson here.

Narina sighed, locked her door pulled off all her clothes  till she was only in her bra and underwear and collapsed on the couch, taking out a bag of chips.

That's what Narin would do when he was feeling just OUT of it. Strip down to his underwear and just start hogging down tortilla chips and Doctor Pepper

(pretty much what my sister does when there's NOTHING to do.. and then I'm like "Put on a shirt!" and she's like, "No.. it's hot out.. get me the cheese dip..blllaaaahhhh")

Narina reached for the remote and turned on the holo television, flipping over to BBC which ALWAYS had Star Trek the Next Generation on.

Narina sighed, trying to will herself to forget her troubles.. but just as she was about enter a state of complete relaxation, there was a stumbling sound in the house.

Astralis growled a bit, leaping onto Narina's lap.

"Don't know girl.." Narina whispered in response to Astralis's questioning growl. "Damn it.. if it's the Rufus kid again.."

Narina quickly pulled on her shirt and pants and got up. Last week, Narina had caught her neighbor's son trying to take pictures of her in the shower to sell online.. Narina had sworn to the kid that if she saw him in her home again, she would use her electric powers to turn him into a railgun and fire him to the moon.

Of course, she wouldn't REALLY do something like that.. but all the same.. Narina was starting to feel sorry for all the times when she was a small boy, and Stoor dragged Narin to bath houses to try to look at girls (they never succeeded anyways.)

Narina sniffed the air.. didn't smell like that kid.. huh.. somebody else?

Narina stopped in front of the door to her bedroom, it was closed. Narina narrowed her eyes. She smelled blood in there..

"Goddamn it.. if somebody got murdered in my house it's going to be a total-" Narina began to rant as she opened the door...

Narina stopped short, there were two people in her room. One was a girl sitting on the bed, with silvery blue hair, and loose fitting edo period clothing.. she had her arm out as another, a boy with spikey black hair, who looked around a month holder than Narina wrapped a wound in bandages.

The girl already had a number of bandages around her legs and other parts of her body, some of them reddish in appearance from the bleeding they were made to stop.

The boy and girl stared at Narina for a second, than the boy yelled and ran at Narina, his right arm turning emerald colored and scaly, his fingers extending into black dragon talons.

Narina's own right forearm turned slightly scaly in texture, as diamond shards covered her wrist and fingers, and the ends of her fingers extended into stainless steel claws, she used her arm's Partial Prism Dragon form to grab the boy's wrist before his claws could reach her face.

"What!?" the boy stammered. "You're.. one of us!? Only.. your scales are like jewels."

"I'll take that as a compliment." Narina muttered. "So what the hell are you doing in my apartment? And dear god, please tell me you didn't get blood on the carpet, cause the carpet cleaner will probably think I killed somebody in here."

"N-Narin Jousuke!" the girl, Mitsuki stood up hastily.

"Huh? It's Narina Yukata now.. but..  do I know you?" Narina asked, letting go of the boy's arm.

"I.. am your fiancé!" said Mitsuki.

Narina stared at Mitsuki for a few minutes.. then.. she opened her mouth.. and said...

"Bull Sh*t."