Barnaby Brooks Jr. is a Hero. No really, it's his job. He works for a company known as Apollon Media, and he saves people and takes down bad guys on camera for points.

He is known as a NEXT in his world, a human with powers that make him more powerful that other humans (or, as some normal humans think, less human than they are). His powers are the same as his partner, Kotetsu's--the ability to increase all his physical attributes by a hundred-fold for five minutes... and then he needs to rest for an hour. But with the right strategy, five minutes is all he really needs.

However, in Scorched his powers will be changing.
( Slightly spoilery stuff under here. )