The Virtual Room, as always, always allowed the Challenger to pick the environment. The environment being Ruined City.

Ruined City was a popular selection among those seeking to level up their profiles. victories in the Ruined City granted higher amounts of Experience Points, and even losses made you lose less experience points than normal losses.

However,  the problem was, those who relied to heavily on this environment, lost real world combat experience by only learning to fight in one type of environment, so people were encouraged to select other areas by banning this environment on random days of the week.

The Ruined City's appearance was that of a decayed old 21st Century City. New York in the aftermath of Nuclear war was supposed to be it's theme. (Of course the real 23rd Century New York looked far more spectacular, actually rivalling Varus City in it's size.)

And here Narina Yukata and Ezra Tobuki faced each other.

Narina in her training Suit, and Ezra wearing her own training outfit. This consisted of Nanofiber dark blue pauldrons and black hand guards. She wore only a blue Nanofiber breast band on her top torso, and  metallic armored faulds of interlinking scales over her black pants. Her boots were blue and armored with Nanofiber as well.

To Narina, it looked like she was looking at a Sea Goddess.

"E-Ezra.." said Narina. "I'm.. n-not sure I should be fighting you.."

"Narina.." Ezra said simply, her expression unreadable. "Right now, like every other match, plenty of people are watching the onboard screen, watching our fight.. which means.. if I were to say something in here, everyone would know... And I know.. your secret.."

Narina gulped. "Eh.. l-listen! I can explain!"

"Here's how it's going to go.." said Ezra, completely bypassing Narina's plea. "If I win this fight.. I'll announce your secret right here, and pull away this shroud of deception... If you win.. you get to keep your secret."

"EZRA!! PLEASE!" Narina shouted. "Just LISTEN!!"

Outside, in the main entrance room, crowds of students and androids watched, and among them.. was Mizo.

"N-Narin.." Mizo stammered. "Oh no.. what do I do?"

"Do you know why they call me Rain Storm?" said Ezra as she held out a hand. "My Rebirthed Hero.. Hydro Seeker, she was known for her control over moisture.. however.. I took it to the next level.. Just controlling water is nothing.. when you can't get creative!!!"

Ezra held out a hand, and moisture condensed around her hand as water swirled around, and turned into a trident shape. The trident than solidified into ice.

Ezra slashed the ice Trident down at the ground, rupturing the street with it's points. "OCEAN TREMORS!!!"

The entire city shook in a category six earthquake, as water exploded out from under the ground.

"WHOAH!!" Narina charged electricity into her muscles and expelled them from her feet as well, propelling herself into the air to avoid a massive geyser of water and the chunks of building sized rubble that was smashing out.

"I can condense moisture in the ground as well as the air." said Ezra. "And then pull water molecules together with absolute control!!!!"

Ezra slashed her trident at Narina's direction. "OCEAN CANNON!!!"

Water swirled out around Ezra, and turned into a giant swirling tornado of liquid that blasted itself at Narina, who was still in the air.

"STORM ART: ELECTRON CANNON!!" Narina fired an electric blast down at the water blast. The electric beam split the water apart.. but the water turned into steam upon impact as Ezra dodged the electric blast which exploded at her feet.

The steam cloud then quickly converged right behind Narina, and turned back into a swirling vortex of water, that crashed into Narina and blasted her into the ground.

Narina coughed up water, sopping wet as she stood up gingerly. "She.. rerouted her attack behind me?"

"Water is highly versatile as a weapon if you can control it in all it's forms, Gas, liquid, and solid." said  Ezra. "It might even be more highly versatile than Electricity!!"

Ezra lashed a hand out. "CRASH DOWN!! OCEAN PRESSURE!!!"

A giant steaming cloud condensed overhead, and turned into a giant downward water blast that exploded down at Narina from above..

"STORM ART: DRAGON'S REVENGE!!" Narina crossed her arms together, and a ginormous Chinese dragon made of electricity blasted out from around her body, and wrapped it's coils around the water blast ripping it apart.

"She's gotten better over the weeks.." Ezra muttered.

"Lightning Cloak!!" Narina's body was surrounded in electricity, as she crossed her arms together. "THUNDER ROCKET!!"

A burst of electromagnetic propulsion sent Narina hurling at Ezra at incredible speed, leaving a sonic boom in the wake of her attack.

"STOP FIGHTING AND JUST LISTEN TO ME FOR A SEC!!" Narina roared, hurling a metal coated fist at Ezra.

"Why should I?" said Ezra. "When you never see it fit to speak in the first place?"

Ezra whirled her Trident around skillfully, blocking the metal clad punch, sparks grinding from the friction.

"Th-the ice is holding!?" Narina stammered as her electric coat disappeared.

"I told you, I have absolute control over water molecules, which means I can constantly use my power to pull the molecules together when under pressure, surpassing the normal brittleness of ice, and creating an indestructible armor." said Ezra.

Ezra whirled her trident around like a bo staff, lashing out furiously powerful attacks as water enveloped the end of the trident, leaving a beautiful swirling liquid trail, like a ribbon dancer.

Narina enveloped her arms in stainless steel and lashed her arms out, using pure hand to hand combat skills to parry each blow.

"MAGNET ART: STUN GUN GATTLING PUNCH!!!"

Narina charged more electricity into her arms, nerves, and muscles, and let out a vicious barrage of high speed punches at Ezra, electricity blasting out from her metal fists.

Ezra swung her trident upwards, and a large Ice Shield erupted up in front of her. "Crab Exoskeleton!!"

The powerful punches slammed against the impenetrable shield.

"Damn!" Narina said as she leapt back from a large crash of water that exploded from the ground.

"Ocean TREMORS!" Once more, Ezra stabbed her trident into the ground, and another devastating earthquake followed.

"EARTHEN DESTROYER: KRAKEN BOMB!!"

Four massive pillars of water exploded rom the ground around Narina as the Earthquake threw her against the ground.

The pillars of water arched into each other in mid, blasting themselves into a giant mass of water the size of several buildings.

The giant blob of water fell on Narina, exploding into a massive flood.

However, when the flood cleared, Narina was on her knees, holding a massive dome metal shield over herself. "Magnet Art: Umbrella Bunker!"

"Not bad.." said Ezra as she watched the shield disintegrate. "You've gotten good at combining Shocker Girl's old skills with your own self made Magnet Art."

"Ezra.." said Narina. "Please.. let's talk.. "

"You're asking to talk?" said Ezra. "When you could've done so before!?"

Ezra dispelled her trident, and ice formed over her fists as she launched herself forward on a massive blast of water on her feet.

Narina  re-coated her arms in metal and sent electromagnetic propulsions from her chest and back to cushion the blow as she crossed her arms together and blocked Ezra's speeding ice punch.

Narina supercharged her entire body, turning her into a living stun gun as she sent out a furious barrage of punches at Ezra, who dodged each attack.

"You can't attack me with physical blows!" Narina growled. "You'll just hurt yourself if you do it now!! MAGNET ART: VALKRYIE KICK!!!"

Narina enveloped her right leg in metal and sent a round house kick right into Ezra.

Ezra blocked with an ice covered forearm. "You keep saying 'let's talk.. let's talk..' when that's all you ever needed to do!"

"I-I don't understand!!" Narina stammered. "look! I'm sorry I lied okay! I-.. I thought people would hate me if they-"

"IT'S NOT ABOUT THE LIE!!!" Ezra exclaimed, a giant tidal wave exploding out of the earth behind her, sweeping away a few ruined buildings.

The water made to crash down on Narina. But she crossed her arms. "STORM ART: DRAGON'S REVENGE!!"

Once more the giant lightning dragon appeared, coiling around Narina protectively this time,  using it's electrical body to shield Narina from the waves crashing down upon them.

Ezra held out a hand, getting ready for another attack as soon as the dragon uncoiled.. but.. the dragon uncoiled.. to reveal, that there was a hole in the ground.

"She dug down a bit?" Ezra muttered.

"BOOOOMMMMMMMM!!!" Narina shot out of the ground right below Ezra, her metallic fist aimed at her jaw.

Ezra leapt back just in time, the metal fist nearly missing her face.

WHAT!? Ezra thought. D-Did she punch her through the ground at that great a distance!? How tenacious is she!?

"RRRRAAAAHHHHH!!!" Narina leapt forward aiming a metal punch at Ezra, lighting rippling from her body.

"GIANT CLAM WALL!!" A massive clam made of ice appeared around Ezra, and shut it's giant mouth over Ezra, becoming a shield to the punch.

"PHANTOM..." Narina growled, as the fist that was connected to the ice clam began to charge up electricity.

"She's about to use Phantom Lightning!" Ezra growled. "I can't block that, I need to dodge!"

"LIGHTNING!!" Narina finished.

Ezra leapt back from where Narina's fist was pointed.. but no lightning came at her..

"Eh!?" Ezra suddenly felt the hair raise up a little as static approached her from behind.

She had forgotten about the lightning Dragon.. which hadn't yet dispelled.

The dragon of pure lightning roared as it phased through the ice armor like it was a ghost, colliding with Ezra from behind, throwing up rubble as electricity exploded within.

The ice shattered as Narina dashed into the smoke, charging up electricity in her steel fists. "YOU'RE DONE!!"

Ezra appeared in the dust, looking stunned, her body bruised, and electrical burns on her skin. "Sh-she tricked me!?"

"HYAAHHHHHHHHHH!!! DRAGON CLAWS!!!" Narina's  metal fingers sharpened into long talon-like claws as she sent out a powerful series of electrically charged palm thrusts. " DRAGON'S SECOND COMING!!"

"Tiger Style Kung-Fu!?" Ezra parried the blows just barely, gritting her teeth as she did so. "She's going in for a full on attack style.. taking advantage of my weakness!"

"Ultimate move!" Narina growled as she jumped into the air all of a suddenly, metal churning and twisting in her hand, until a giant metal shaft extended into the sky, and turned into a hammer the size of a two story building. "MAGNETIC STORM ART: THOR'S HAMMER!!!!"

Lightning exploded into the hammer.. as it turned into an electric metal meteor of doom, while Narina swung the ginormous weapon down upon Ezra.

"I-Impossible!! Even if she electrically charges her muscles to the maximum, and imbibes metal on her skin.." Ezra stammered. "There's no way she can swing something so heavy!!"

"You need to do some research on Shocker Girl!!" Narina roared. "She's not just an electric human!! Her anatomy needed to change from that of a normal human to be able to house the electricity in her body!! Her muscle fibers, her tissue, it's all made of a special mutated cell that can not only transfer highly charged electrical signals, but can continue functioning and adapt to differing alterations on her anatomy!! As a result.. I have two abilities... one... I'm immune to poison... and two.."

Narina roared her last words as she swung Thor's Hammer down at Ezra. "I CAN USE MAGNETISM TO FUSE METAL PARTICLES TO MY MUSCLES WITHOUT ANY INJURY!!!"

"BOOOMMMMMMMMMMM!!" The city shook in another earthquake as the lightning hammer collided with Ezra.

Outside in the main room, people jumped with fright.

"WHAT!? IS SHE ALLOWED TO USE A MOVE THAT DESTRUCTIVE IN THERE!?" yelled one guy.

"FORGET THAT! EZRA ALREADY WENT OVERBOARD WITH THE OCEAN TREMOR THING!!" Screamed a girl.

When the dust cleared.. Narina fell to her knees, panting..

"I see.." said a soft voice. "So.. you can grant yourself superhuman strength by using the iron in your body and outside it on Shocker Girl's unique anatomy.."

Narina looked up, her eyes widening as Ezra walked forward.

"She... shielded herself.. at the last second.. and I forgot to use Phantom Lightning.." Narina stammered. "Damn.."

"WHAMMMMM!!" Ezra punched Narina in the gut.. and she fell on her back.. defeated.

"It's okay.." said Ezra. "To be honest, if you hadn't forgotten to use Phantom Lightning so often, I think you might have won.. which is saying a lot, considering you're a rookie. That was a nice touch you did with confusing me with which direction your attack was coming from.. but.. in the end.. I was able to block your finisher with another ice shield.. "

Ezra smiled. "You did well."

"Ar-aren't you angry?" Narina groaned.

"Well.. actually, I'm just a little disappointed... DISSAPOINTED IN THE FACT THAT YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD TO CONTINUE LYING TO ME!!" Ezra roared.

"Eh!?"

"A-Aren't we friends?" Ezra said, wiping a tear from her eye. "I get it if you hid that secret from me when we first met, I mean, any girl would be alienated if you just right off the bat told them! But.. after this much time!! After being friends this long.. and you STILL haven't told me!? CAN'T YOU TRUST ME TO UNDERSTAND!?"

"E-Ezra.." Narina stammered.

"Don't hide things from me again!" Ezra said. "Because if we're as good friends as I think we are, and I think something's bothering you, I'll beat you up all over again just so I can get you to open up to me!! Narina-chan!! I wouldn't ever be so stupid as to judge a dear friend I have come to know!!"

Ezra took a deep breath, and smiled cheerfully, before picking up Narina in her arms, and hugging her. "Understand?"

"Y-yeah.." Narina stammered, wiping a tear from her cheek, embarrassed by the fact she was getting emotional. "S-sure..."

"Oh yeah.. " said Ezra. "I remember I said that if I won that I would reveal your secret to everyone.. didn't I?"

"WAIT WHAT!?" Narina yelled. "I THOUGHT WE WERE COOL!! HOLD ON A SECOND!!"

"Everyone!!" Ezra shouted, facing the general direction of where the recording devices of the room might be. "Narina... is... GOING TO POSE FOR THE SWIMSUIT EDITION OF THE ACADEMY MAGAZINE!!!!"

"Neh!?" said Mizo, blinking with surprise.

"HUH!?" said the girls watching.

"OH YEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!" The guys in the room all pumped their fists, their eyes turning to hearts as blood rocketed from their nostrils. "NARINA-CHAN!!!!~💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗"

"THAT'S AN EPIC AMOUNT OF HEARTS!!" Mizo screamed with fright.

"Wh-.. wh...? "Narina stared at Ezra, speechless.

"Well.." said Ezra with a wink. "I have to punish you for keeping things from me somehow neh? teehee!"