"Ranma and kenshin are strong in their own right but I think Nabiki should join the team too. You never know when you're going to need brute strength" said Fujisawa "Tests have shown that she's potentially capable of lifting several tons, running as quickly as a sports car and bulletproof to boot..."
Kasumi frowned, sending her sister in the field now didn't appeal to her "Let's not forget she has minimal combat training and still has troubles controlling her strength. She had always disdained violence and to throw her in a fight like that..."
Fujisawa snorted "You can't baby her forever, Tendo-san. Sooner or later, she'll have to go out there. Her mutation makes her a frontline fighter, whether you like it or not" He gulped a glass of water, he had to renounce to alcohol and tobacco at Shiro's demand to maximize his powers.
"Then you'll have to step up her training in that case" Yomiko said and turned to look at Sunfire "I'd like you to consider adding Mutsumi to the team roster as well, sir" It was an old habit of her to call him sir, a leftover of her career as an agent of the British Library.
"Could you tell us your reasons for this ?" asked a curious Shiro.
The paper mistress adjusted her glasses and ruefully smiled "A telepath can do many things : search for information, maintain communication between teammates, sense danger, etc... That's why Xavier's X-Men had always a telepath in their team"
"I see..." Sunfire admitted the usefulness of a mentalist in a super-hero team "So the Ekusu-Hito for now are Ranma, Kenshin, Nabiki, Fuujin, Mutsumi and Millia. Are we all in agreement ?" The teachers nodded their approval but Kasumi did it a little reluctantly "Our next topic, codenames" Everyone groaned.
*****
"So what is your verdict, doctor ?" Keitaro was putting his clothes back on after another battery of tests "What is my power ?" He and other students wondered why he had seemingly unrelated capabilities : near-invulnerability, flying (insect-like diaphanous wings could sprout out of his back, they weren't energy as he first believed) and the capacity to emit bio-electric shocks.
Yui ikari scratched her chin in concentration, sorting throughtest results on her computer "This is mostly an hypothesis but I think your mutation is... the ultimate immune system for a lack of better words"
Keitaro blinked "Come again ?"
"Well, all your abilities seem all to be counters from something in your life. Mutsumi told me your old girlfriend struck you often , sometimes to the point of sending you flying" Keitaro winced and asked himself one more time how Naru could be this strong, being a normal human without martial arts training "Your power reacted by toughening your skin and evolving wings to fly and land safely"
"What about the electric shocks ?" asked Keitaro.
"That one was to allow you to fry the dampener your kidnappers put on you. In short, if you're exposed to a harmful stimulus long enough, your body modifies itself to resist it. The changes brought to your metabolism look like they are permanent too" She showed him pictures of his retinas "Your eyes are slowly mending and improving themselves at the same time. Soon you won't need your glasses anymore..."
"So that's why I had trouble seeing anything recently..." He smiled. That benefit of his mutation wasn't bad.
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