"What is this?" Narina muttered as she stared at the bulletin board inside the her homeroom. "An.. Internship?"

A large add had recently been placed on the bulletin board, showing a signup sheet.

"Oh that?" said Greg with a shrug. "That's something all you newbies have to sign up for after a little bit. You know how we sometimes go out on field missions right? Well.. this is how. We sign up for an internship with a certain Hero Job. An actual hero will show us the ropes as we complete actual jobs in the field with him or her.. see, I'm Interned with a Private Investigator named Sally. Nue's the only one whose never actually interned with anybody before.. she needs to.. or she's not going to have enough credits to graduate.."

"None of the internships interest me.. mmmm.." said Nue simply as she perused her textbook.

"So this is a graduation requirement?" Narina muttered.

"Not only that." said Greg. "But you can also earn school credit on missions to buy stuff around the 5th Floor.  It's highly convenient for the ones who got here from the Roots."

"By the way." Narina said. "I never asked.. but.. is there anybody besides me in this class that's from the Roots?"

"Nope.. just you." said Greg. "Roots Students are pretty few, why do you ask?"

"Just wonder-" Narina began.. right before the door was wrenched open.. and several students walked in, smirking.

Uh oh.. they were from the Academy Magazine committee.

"Time for you to go to your photoshoot.. Narina-chan!" said a girl, giggling as she grabbed Narina's arm.

"Oh no.." Narina whispered.

"OH YES!!!" The others exclaimed, before carrying Narina and running off with her.

"JUST SIGN ME UP FOR ANYTHING!!!" Narina yelled at Greg. "I-I THINK I'M GOING TO BE A LITTLE BUSY!!!"

"Heh heh!" Greg chuckled as he got out a pen and put Narina's name on the sign-up sheet. "Can't wait till that magazine comes out.."

Nue glared at Greg.. then whacked a textbook over his head. "Pervert.."

The Academy Magazine had it's own building thanks to it's popularity all over Varus City, and around the world really.

Fact was, Rebirthed Heroes had Celebrity Status, even the ones whom were students still in training. Fate Rider was a good example of this.

However, the fact remained, that Narina, much to her chagrin, had grown in popularity so rapidly, she had been put on practically horrifying things, like 'Most Eligible Girlfriend' or 'Cutest Face' and also 'Girl you most want to see hug a giant plushy'.

It had been Narin Jousuke's dream to become a famous hero of course.. But this was not the kind of fame he had in mind.

When Narina arrived at the inside of Academy Magazine headquarters, the students working there, which were comprised of upper and lower classmen, had already set up a large virtual room, much like the Training House's virtual environment simulator. However, instead of battle environments, this room was simulated to look like a nice beach.

Narina had to admit, as she walked through the sand. That it was a nice place.

All over the virtually made beach's shore, there were camera crews, sets, props, and other girls in swimsuits chatting with each other.

A girl with long brown hair, and glasses, wearing an ordinary school uniform suddenly sped over to Narina, leaving a dust cloud of sand in her wake.

"Nariiiinnaaaaa!!" The girl said, breathing hard, steam shooting out of her nostrils, her glasses flashing. "Eheheheheheh!! Welcome! I am Tiffany Silas!!! Head of the Swimsuit Covers for Academy Magazine! EHEHEHEHEHE!!!"

"Is.. that a keychain that says... er.. 'I love Kuroko Shirai?' " Narina muttered, pointing at Tiffany's pocket.

Tiffany giggled as she stuffed her keychain further into her pocket. "W-well!! Eheheheheh! That's because I am a self proclaimed! PROUD.. YURI!!!"

"WHO SAYS THAT OUT LOUD!!?" Narina exclaimed.

"I DOOOOOOO!!" Tiffany squealed thrusting her hands out and spinning around, her cheeks going red. "HEHEHEHEHEHEHE!! You see! Guys aren't allowed to be the photoshoot directors, as a way to make the models feel more comfortable!! But TEEEEHHEEE!! Lucky for me! I like GIRRRRRRLLLLSS!!!"

"Oh dear God no.." Narina muttered.

"NOW! Without further ado!!" Tiffany exclaimed, going red as more steam whistled out of her nose. "WE MUST GET TO THE INTERVIEW!! you see. there's always an interview piece for the Cover model of our pieces!! Alright.. here are the questions!! Ehehehe.. now.. Fans want to know.. why is your hair white? Do you dye it?"

"No.. er.. my hair isn't made of the normal Keratin that regular hair is, instead it's a tough fiber that uses bio connecters that transfers electric charges  around, allowing me to sense electrical signals directly from my brain." said Narina. "Er.. it grows and feels like regular hair, but, it doesn't have pigmentation.."

"Next question!!" said Tiffany. "Are you single!? Ehehehehe!!

"Y-yes.." Narina said.

"Are you a Lesbian by any chance!?" Tiffany said, putting her face really close to Narina's.

"WWWAAAGGHH!!!" Narina jumped back. "Uh-..c-could we do these kind of questions!?"

It went on like this for 15 minutes. With each question being stranger than the last.

Finally, after the questions were finished, Narina sighed with relief. "Okay.. so.. er.. I guess it's time to get this over with.. is there like a changing room I can-?"

"STRIP HER!!" Tiffany roared.

"Wait WHAAAATTTTTT!!?" Narina screamed as a bunch of girls in suits and shades dove on her and began tearing her clothes off.

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One day later, the September Swimsuit edition of the Academy Magazine came out, sporting an embarrassed looking Narina posing in a purple bikini.. and much to Narina's complete irritation, Everyone in the school had bought an issue..

There were other sections dedicated to Narina as well, including the interview, and a Baking section which had some of Narina's own self invented recipes. But.. everyone was all about Narina's photoshoot, and how cute she looked.

When she came into class the next day, every guys was holding an issue of the magazine, discussing the cover excitedly.

Meanwhile, all the girls were muttering jealously about how Narina had the perfect body.

All and all.. Narina wished she could just pop in some headphones.. and completely IGNORE the situation.. but that wasn't going to happen of course..

"NARINA-CHAN!! how do you keep your skin so smooth!?"

"Narina-chan! Do you have sort of special diet or something!? Could you email it to me!?"

"Narina! h-hey! Nice photo! Say you think you and I could get some dinner some time?"

"Narinaaaaaa-san!! Please, I'm begging you.. how do you do it!? Give me a diet list, an exercise routine! Anything!"

"Class! Settle down!!"Irishi entered the classroom as his students hurried to their desks. "As you all probably know.. Starting this week, we'll be sending you off to your first internships of the year. Respect your elders.. Understand?"

"Yes sir!" everyone exclaimed.

Irishi grinned. "Then without further ado! Go on out, and don't forget to have fun! The addresses are on sheets I'll be passing out.. now.. come up when I say your name!"

Narina's head was elsewhere that day, as Irishi called out names. She just couldn't help thinking about last week, when she had confessed to Nue.. about the truth.

The funny thing was, Nue just smiled, and nodded, she didn't even respond verbally. She just hugged Narina, and asked Bella for some juice.

Narina really didn't understand the way Nue thought, but she knew Nue was the kind of girl who made a very wonderful friend.

"Narina Yukata! Nue Elise!" Narina was shaken out of her thoughts by Irishi who held up an assignment sheet and a map. "You two have been assigned to the same Internship!"

"Oh.." said Narina, feeling pleasantly surprised. "Well I guess you actually signed up. that's great!!"

"In truth, I only signed up because you did." said Nue.  "I do not like the prospect of internships. But if I'm with you, I suspect I can bare with it."

"Oh.. well okay." said Narina. "That's good too.."

After retrieving the assignment sheet, Narina and Nue looked over the details.

"Okay.. so the Headquarters is located on the 2nd Floor of the Trunk.. it's.. oh my.. We're going to the Powers Society Headquarters for this city!" Narina blinked with surprise. "S-something that big!? I.. wow!!"

"It seems we need to take several stops on the way... mmm." said Nue. "Take several connecting trains.. and.. eh? You look excited all of a sudden."

"I-I've never taken an Air Train!!" Narina said with excitement. "I lived in the roots, so we always had a subway!.. We never took a train that could fly!"

The Air Train was a magnetically powered train that flew from station to station in the walls of the Trunk. Since the Trunk was basically 5 massive artificial environments and cities, an underground train made no sense..

The stations themselves looked a lot like subway stations, with track running through a tunnel in front of a platform. But with the difference that the tunnel track cut off into a preset magnetic current that ran invisibly through the air, and kept the train on it's route.

In any case, Narina was not disappointed. After Nue purchased their tickets She sat in the train, looking out the window with excitement as the Train flew through the tunnel, and into the sky of the 4th Floor of the Trunk.

They had to make two stops. As there was only one train in each  floor, so people would inevitably have to switch whenever making their way to new floors.

"Can you believe it!?" said Narina. "We're flying so fast! Much faster than an air ship!"

"They can afford to fly faster." said Nue. "Mainly because they have a fixed route they can't travel off of, so there's less of a chance of flying off and crashing.. mmmm.."

"You ride this often?" Narina ask.

"Not really, before I attended the Academy, my parents didn't approve of letting me out of the house often. I was sickly and often I needed servants to push me around on a wheelchair.. I had an incredibly weak immune system.."

"Who are your parents?" Narina asked.

"You would know him as King Var.." said Nue.

Narina's jaw dropped. "Wait.. Y-YOU'RE THAT NUE!? Pr-Princess NUE!? FROM THE ROYAL FAM-MMMFFF!!"

Nue put  her hand over Narina's mouth, a panicked expression on her face. "Not here!!! My family doesn't know I attend this school.. nor that I rebirthed."

"Really!?" said Narina. "But.. how.. did you afford to get Rebirthed then, if your parents didn't-?"

"I'm only telling you this, because I trust you.. " Nue said. "I ran away from home.. because I was being forced into an arranged marriage.."

"That's... so cliché." said Narina.

"Tell me about it..mmmm.." Nue said. "But that's how it worked out. I'm.. trusting you with my secret, because you trusted me with yours. And frankly, your secret is worse than mine."

"You could say that again.." Narina muttered.

"When you become Rebirthed, you can completely change your legal identity, your name, your history.. only the deepest Order of the Flame, the government secret agency knows your true identity from before.." said Nue. "Not even my father can go against that.. that is why I chose to become a hero.. to leave royalty behind.. I despise it.. the belief that somebody can stand above another because of their bloodline."

"Nue.. quick question.. I've.. been suspecting this from the time we met.. but.. did you know I was a was a guy?" Narina asked.

"No.." said Nue.

"Oh.." said Narina.

"I knew you WERE a guy." said Nue.

"Eh!?" said Narina. "Th-that's the same thing!!"

"Narina-chan.. " said Nue, giving Narina a strange look. "Can you honestly say that Narina Yukata and Narin Jousuke are still the same person anymore? Have you really not changed?

Narina went quiet..

Just.. what did Nue mean by that..?

Narina spent the next few train trips, considering Nue's cryptic words..

Biology of Super Humans

Super Humans tend to have a mutated biology based on their power. Before they become Super Humans, they appear as normal humans, but if something were to activate their Super Gene, like radiation, or any of the generic things that tend to create superheroes in the comics.

The Super Gene activation is an instinctual response to dangerous biological harm. Radiation for example, cannot be healed normally, so the body uses the Super Gene to respond. As a result, all Super Humans are resistant to Radiation to a degree. The abilities that result however, are a latent ability that results from the stress that occurs during the dangerous situation, and the body's automatic attempt to adapt a defense mechanism.

The result of the mutation doesn't tend to change the human's appearance. In fact, they retain most of their humanity, including human reproductive organs and processes. But their hair will tend to change color, especially element conductors.

Element Conductors, like Narina and Ezra, as well as Mizo, are known to be able to control forms of energy or matter at will, like fire, water, lightning, plasma, gamma radiation, even organic matter. Their hair changes color as a result of their proteins creating complex connected networks in their bodies designed to manipulate the control of these elements, including the keratin in the hair. Mizo has no changed hair color, because her pigments didn't change to transfer heat.

While the powers of Super Humans in general are very diverse, some of them not classifiable like Zanna, White Mask, and Greg, The most studied type is Beast Transformation.

Nue, and others like her, gain animalistic traits from their mutation, due to the aliens that visited eons ago, and experimented with select early humans, manipulating their Super Genes and putting various animal DNA in their bodies. Nue's DNA has a combination of many kinds of predatory felines, such as Sabertooths, Lions, Jaguars, and etc.