I do not own any of the characters from Tenchi Muyo. They are the intellectual properties of
their creator. No profit is being made from this story. The only intention of this story is to bring
(possibly) some enjoyment to the people who read it.

Mihoshi's secret
by Weirdbard
Chapter 1.


It had taken Washu months to gather up all the rare and extremely hard to find items to go into
this experiment but it was all going to be worth it! Finally she was going to be able to prove that
she had been right all those years ago at the science academy. Oh they had laughed at her then.
All of them, even that strutting ridiculous Dr. Clay. They said her experiment was a fool's wild
goose chase but she knew better. Today with this experiment she would prove that the universe
itself was not only intelligent in nature but also musical! As soon as she finished building the
incredibly fragile crystal lattice work of her device and then installed the frighteningly rare
quantum harmonic sphere in place she would be the first sentient being to hear the music of the
universe!

Washu glanced once around in the small subspace lab she had specially built for this
experiment. The only access to the lab was through a dimensional door. A door shielded against
Ryoko's abilities to phase through objects. Just on the off chance that her wayward daughter
might pick this time to visit her. Washu knew that was highly unlikely. Ryoko showed an
aversion to being around her. "Probably because she knows that I find Tenchi to be a fascinating
subject of study." Washu thought to herself. "That and he's not bad looking at all for a human
male." Washu thought with a grin. It had been so long since Washu had felt even the slightest
interest in male companionship but she had to admit that she found Tenchi to be attractive on so
many levels. He was shy and reluctant around women but at the same time the power of the
Light Hawk Wings he carried inside of himself made him a formidable opponent against his
enemies. There were times Washu could not make up her mind what she would like to do to
Tenchi more. Study him and discover the secret of the Wings or just jump the poor boy's bones
and ride him till he passed out from sheer sexual exhaustion.

Washu double checked the door one more time. She had even shielded it so it would stand up
against the full force of the Light Hawk Wings, at least for a short time. The thought of Tenchi
using his full force to break into her lab was such a long shot that it was in the ludicrous range
but Washu didn't become the Universe's Greatest Scientific Genius by taking any chances, no
matter how slim or even silly. Washu turned to face her experiment but then frowning she turned
back to examine the lock on the door.
"Yes the coding is still in effect." Washu mused out loud. "That lock is specially genetically
enhanced to keep one person beyond all others out of my lab!" That one person being a certain
blond headed Galaxy Police officer named Mihoshi.

"Not even Mihoshi with her bumbling luck can disturb me today!" Washu muttered with
satisfaction.

Turning to her device she carefully slid the last fragile crystal lattice into place. She dared not
even to breathe on it while she pushed on it with just the very thin edge of one finger nail. As the
crystal slid into place Washu could not keep her hands from trembling slightly. She was going to
be the only entity to ever hear the music of creation! Would it be a grand symphony? Or perhaps
a very militant march? Or a swelling opera that builds till it reaches the final crescendo when all
of creation ends as the fat lady sings? Even Washu could not guess.

Washu turning picked up the small ball of glowing energy. The Quantum Harmonic Sphere. It
had taken months and many times during those months Washu had despaired of ever finding it
but find it she had.

"Now all I have to do is carefully slide it into the center of the lattice." Washu muttered to
herself.

"And what will that do?"

"It will activate the lattice work and allow the music of the universe to be heard." Washu
answered distractedly.

"Ooh! What kind of music is it?"

"If I knew that Mihoshi I wouldn't go through all this trouble to be able to hear it!" Washu
angrily told the voice behind her.
"MIHOSHI?!" Washu screeched as she spun around to find the blond standing behind her
peering at the crystal machine that looked like a stack of delicately balancing glass logs.
"Ooh what is that?" Mihoshi asked as she started to reach out and touch the sphere in Washu's
hands.

"Don't touch it!!" Washu screamed and then spun around so her body would protect the sphere
from Mihoshi's probing finger.
Not sensing Mihoshi behind her, Washu turned her head to see where the ditzy woman had gone
to and was just in time to see the crystal lattice work explode in a flash of glittery dust as
Mihoshi poked at it with her finger.

"MIHOSHI!!" Washu yelled in rage. So lost in rage she didn't even realize what she was doing
Washu threw the Harmonic Sphere at what was quickly becoming the bane of her existence.
Mihoshi instinctively reacting ducked and the glowing orb flew through the air and suddenly
disappeared into a subspace portal, as though it was insulted to be handled in such a manner and
had left in a huff. Washu stared in shock at the now empty space which a matter of moments ago
had held her lattice experiment and the harmonic sphere.

"Mihoshi! Do you know how long and what effort it took for me to get those supplies?!" Washu
asked in a cold voice devoid of all emotions.

"Um, a long time?" Mihoshi asked her in a subdued nervous voice.

Washu briefly enjoyed a mental fantasy where she killed the bungling klutz of a police officer
and then dumped her body into subspace to float forever. "Hardly anyone would notice that she
was gone." Washu argued with herself. "Tenchi would, of course. And Mihoshi's partner Kiyone
would as well. Tenchi would be upset when they never saw her again. And Kiyone ? Kiyone
would probably go on a month's drinking binge to celebrate Mihoshi disappearing." Washu
thought to herself.

Out loud all she said was. "Yes Mihoshi. I spent a long time getting that together."

"I'm sorry!" Mihoshi said with tears filling her eyes.

"How did anyone like you ever get into the Galaxy Patrol? Let alone even survive their first
mission?" Washu shouted.

"I'm sorry!" Mihoshi sobbed again.

Washu stopped her shouting and suddenly frowned. "How did she get into the Galaxy Patrol
anyway?" Washu thought to herself. Sensing a mystery even greater than the possible musical
composition of creation, the pint sized Genius of the Universe summoned her hyper dimensional
computer keyboard and began tapping on the keys. Within seconds she had Mihoshi's police
record before her. Washu's frown deepened as she stared at the screen a moment and then
glanced over to where the still sniffling blond was standing. "This can't be right!" She argued
with herself. "These records show that Mihoshi graduated from the police academy with one of
the highest scores in the history of the Galaxy Patrol in all areas."

Washu brought up the police woman's IQ scores. Those scores were carefully protected and
hidden from prying eyes in the Patrol to keep students from lording over the lesser gifted ones
and later from trying to avoid their duties by pretending to be dumber than they were. But the
Galaxy Patrol's computer protection schemes were child's play for Washu. Washu had them up
in seconds and was reading them. Washu's eyes bugged out of her head slightly as she read
Mihoshi's test scores. According to the report Mihoshi was at genius level!

"Not quite up to my standards of course but not all that far away either!" Washu thought stunned.

Quickly scanning the official police records of Mihoshi's career Washu read the reports that
Mihoshi had sent in on the crimes she had investigate and solved. The reports were precise and
succinct. Washu frowned as she noticed that suddenly the records stopped and there was a gap of
almost a year's time before they resumed again. After the large missing gap in the records,
Mihoshi's reports steadily got worse and worse till they were not much better than what a 12 year
old could have written. Along with the deteriorating reports from Mihoshi, the record reflected
her rapidly falling scores in all areas of testing. Along with the falling scores in the reports were
the listings of where Mihoshi had been stationed.

"When she first started as a patrol officer she had been assigned to some of the most trying and
difficult areas of space. Then whenever what it was that must have happened to her, they started
assigning to the more outlying regions of space till she was cast off into the most dull (and safe
areas of space) that there were." Washu mused to herself.

"Hey Mihoshi? Can you tell me what happened at this date?" Washu called out to the woman
and turned her computer's monitor so she could see the date where her official record suddenly
disappeared into the missing gap.

Mihoshi happy that Washu was no longer shouting at her, started to move over to her side and
then hesitated. Washu had never felt like a threat to Mihoshi before but Mihoshi wasn't too sure
that Washu wasn't planning on doing something to her in revenge for wrecking whatever those
shiny clear things were she broke.

Washu glanced up when she noticed that Mihoshi had not only not answered her but was still
standing a distance away. "Oh come on. I'm not mad any more." She called out to her. Inside her
own mind she thought. "There is a mystery here and I want to solve it."

Finally Mihoshi moved over to her side and peered at the monitor. "No. I give up. What
happened at that time?"

"I'm asking you!" Washu raised her voice slightly and then lowered it again. "Let's try this again.
Do you remember what you were doing at his point in time?". Pointing to where the official
police records started up again. Washu asked in a voice like you would use to ask questions of a
child

"Yeah I think so. I had just got back from medical leave I think." Mihoshi said in a not too sure
voice.

"Medical leave?" Washu asked in surprise. "What happened to you that you needed medical
leave?"

A look of intense pain and confusion crossed Mihoshi's face. 'I don't remember!" Mihoshi
answered in a panicky voice.

"Okay, okay! How about this then. How did you get into my lab past all my precautions?"
Washu asked her to change the subject.

Mihoshi screwed up her eyes as she tried to concentrate. "I don't know. I found the door and
tried to open it but it wouldn't open. I was staring at it real hard for a moment and kind of
blacked out. When I came to, the door was open." Mihoshi finally explained.
Washu couldn't understand it. Even if she could have figured out the combination lock on the
door. (A one in a billion shot) She shouldn't have been able to overcome the genetic coding that
was set up to keep anyone but Washu from entering the room.

Washu frowning pressed a few buttons on her keyboard. With a whooshing feeling as thought
they had crossed vast areas of space and yet at the same time had not moved at all, Mihoshi and
Washu found themselves back in her main lab.

Mihoshi glanced around in surprise but didn't seem too confused or upset to suddenly find
herself in another area.

"I want to do some tests on you Mihoshi." Washu said and pressed a button on her keyboard.

"I don't think that is a good idea Miss Washu." Mihoshi said backing away quickly. Galaxy
patrol headquarters made it quite clear to me that I was never to allow anyone but certified
Galaxy Patrol doctors to examine me."

Behind Mihoshi Washu's medical scanner machine reached out with metallic tendrils and
prepared to grab the young woman up. It was the same machine that Washu had used to examine
a very reluctant Tenchi several months earlier.

Washu brow furrowed when she heard Mihoshi's explanation. "Kiyone recently caught the flu
right? She went to a earth doctor and was treated. She didn't go back to headquarters for
treatment. You and Kiyone 's physical makeup is close enough to human that no earth doctor
would notice the difference so why should you be instructed to always seek Galaxy Patrol
treatments?" Washu wondered out loud.

"I don't know but I know what I was told to do!" Mihoshi got out before the scanner's arms
grabbed her up and quickly placed on her head the brain wave analyzer.

"Miss Washu! This is interfering with a duly designated Galaxy Patrol officer!" Mihoshi warned
her sternly.
Washu punching a few buttons on her keyboard quickly had the machine put her into a light
sleep so she could study the test results in peace.



Up in the Masaki residence life was progressing as usual. Which of course meant that Ryoko and
Ayeka were watching soap operas on tv while Sasami was going about getting lunch ready.
Suddenly the door to Washu's lab opened and Washu came walking out with a puzzled look on
her face.

"Oh there you are Washu!" Sasami called out. "Have you seen Mihoshi? It's almost time for
lunch. Kiyone has been worried about her and looking for her all morning."

Washu could see out the front room's window to where Kiyone was sitting on the porch in the
sunlight with a peaceful and happy smile on her face.

"Yeah I can see she's all broken up over not being able to find Mihoshi." Washu said to herself.
Raising her voice she called out to everyone in the house. "Can you all come to my lab for a
moment. It concerns Mihoshi."
"Can it wait Washu? We're watching tv." Ryoko called out from where she was lying on the
couch.

"Yes and its just getting to the juicy part." Ayeka said from where she was sitting in a chair, her
shoulders hunched over as she leaned forward in anticipation of the heroine of the show being
kissed by the hero. Straightening her shoulders she corrected herself. "I mean this dramatic
program is reaching the climax."

"Now Ryoko, Ayeka." Washu said in a voice brooking no arguments.

Tenchi coming in the front door with Kiyone could see concern and worry on Washu's face.
"What is it Washu? Is Mihoshi hurt?"

"Not at the moment Tenchi." Washu assured him.

"She wrecked one of your experiments didn't she?" Kiyone asked her. "That bubble head is
always blundering into things and doing damage. We will pay for the damages." Kiyone politely
said but secretly was hoping that Washu would not hold her to it. Their economic situation was
always bordering on extreme poverty. What with Mihoshi clumsiness threatening to lose her her
job and her lack of financial planning it was all Kiyone could do to make sure that she and
Mihoshi had food once in a while.

"Yes as a matter of fact she did wreck a delicate experiment I have been spending months to set
up." Washu said distractedly. "But that is not important now. Something has been done to
Mihoshi a long time ago and I want to find out why and who did it to her." Without saying
another word Washu turned and went back to her lab leaving the others looking stunned.

Quickly racing down to Washu's lab they entered to find a unconscious Mihoshi hanging from
Washu's medical scanner.

"Hey! Is she okay in that thing?" Tenchi asked nervously remembering his brief stint in it.

"Hmmm? Oh yes she is perfectly all right. I just put her to sleep because she was getting upset
by my scanning her." Washu answered Tenchi's question.

"Now Washu. If she didn't want to be scanned you shouldn't have done it by force!" Tenchi
started to complain.
"Look at this Tenchi." Washu said pressing a few buttons on her floating keyboard. Suddenly a
large holographic display appeared floating in mid air.

On it everyone could see a diagram of Mihoshi brain.

"I'm surprised she has a brain large enough for Washu to find, let alone scan." Kiyone muttered
loud enough everyone could hear. She had the decency to look guilty when Tenchi glared at her.

Tenchi looking at the floating picture noticed that Mihoshi's brain looked pretty much like the
human brains he had seen in his biology books from high school, except for one thing.

"Washu? What is that large black mark at that one point in the brain?" He asked her.

Washu was pleased that Tenchi had spotted the obvious abnormality in the picture and was
slightly annoyed that her daughter Ryoko had not noticed it first.

"That Tenchi is where some brain surgeon for reasons I haven't been able to find out yet has
hacked and slashed Mihoshi's brain." Washu said as she looked at the brain scan that had so
shocked her when she had first seen it.

"Miss Washu! Please don't use terms like hack and slash with Sasami here! It will upset her."
Ayeka said pulling Sasami to her.

"I find it slightly upsetting myself." Washu replied. "Why would anyone do that? Kiyone what do
you know of Mihoshi's career before you met her?"

"Nothing really. I was just assigned to be her partner and after meeting her I figured that I was
just the latest in a long line of baby sitters assigned to make sure she didn't destroy herself or the
universe. Its no secret that her grandfather is the grand marshal of the Galaxy Patrol. Everyone
assumes he managed to get her into the Galaxy Patrol and kept her abysmal performance from
getting her kicked out." Kiyone said dissmisively.

"Oh really? I will have you know that I have seen Mihoshi's secret official records. Her scores
were all consistently higher than yours Kiyone ! In some case by as much as 40% In
marksmanship she scored a perfect 5000. No one has ever done that then or since. Your highest
score I believe was a 3200." Washu replied in annoyance.

"Those records are suppose to be secret for a reason Washu!" Kiyone said miffed and then did a
double take. "You are telling me Mihoshi was a good detective?!"
"No. I'm telling you that Mihoshi at one point was the best and brightest that the Galaxy Patrol
has ever seen. Then something happens to her. The official records suddenly cut off and stay
missing for a span of almost a full year and then start up again. I have searched with all of my
substantial abilities and I can't find out what happened but its obvious from the records
afterwards that the brain surgery was done during that time.." Washu said as she walked over to
look up at Mihoshi hanging inside the medical scanner.

"Can you tell what it was that was done to her brain?" Kiyone asked as she came over to stand
beside Washu.

"Oh yes. That is not a problem. Mihoshi's brain had sections cut on it that effect long term
memory, short term memory and reasoning abilities. I just can't figure out why anyone would do
that." Washu mused as she continued to watch the peacefully sleeping Mihoshi.

"So Mihoshi's long term memories were destroyed?" Tenchi asked.

"Not destroyed. Merely made inaccessible to her conscious mind. They are still there waiting to
be recalled if I fix the damage that was done to her." Washu turned to look at Kiyone . "Do you
have any idea why the Galaxy Patrol would do this to her?"

"Whoa! Wait a minute! The Galaxy Patrol doesn't cut up it's officer's brains!" Kiyone yelled.
"What makes you think they had anything to do with this?"

"Simple deductive reasoning. If someone else had done this to her, there would be a mention of
it in the official record. Since her record has been wiped of the time when this had to have been
done to her, the Galaxy Patrol are the only ones who could have done it. Or at the very least
knew that it had been done and for some reason covered it up."

"Can you just fix the damage and then ask Mihoshi herself?" Tenchi asked.

"Of course! For a scientific genius like myself this is child's play!" Washu said as she
summoned her keyboard to her fingertips and tapped a few keys. The medical scanner hummed
for a few moments and then was silent.

"How long will it take for you to fix the damage?" Tenchi asked nervously.

"Its done already. As I said, child's play."

Mihoshi started to thrash around, moan and whimper in her sleep and suddenly with a soul
rending scream woke up.
"Mihoshi! Are you all right?!" Tenchi called out to the young woman.

Mihoshi hung limply in the scanner's tentacles. Her breathing very rapid and shallow. With a
effort she raised her head and looked around the lab. Her eyes were wild and unseeing, for a few
moments to Tenchi she looked like a small animal caught in a trap waiting for the hunter to
show up and put her out of her misery. Finally her eyes cleared with recognition.

"Kiyone? Tenchi? Washu? What happened? Why am I in this machine?" Mihoshi looking down
noticed the machines metal tentacles holding her in and she gave a violent shudder and some of
the haunted look came back into her eyes.

Washu quickly tapped a key on the keyboard and released her. Mihoshi started to slump to the
floor as her feet touched and Kiyone quickly stepped to her partner's side and supported her.
Kiyone could feel as Mihoshi wrapped her arm around her waist tightly and just clung to her for
a moment. She could feel Mihoshi's violent tremblings.

"Are you okay Mihoshi?" Kiyone asked her nervously.

Mihoshi finally nodded her head. "Just a little dizzy."

"Can you remember what happened to you? Who did the brain surgery to you and why?" Washu
eager to have a mystery solved asked her.

Mihoshi glanced at her watch and only said. "Kiyone we are going to be late for our next job if
we don't leave right now!" Straightening up, she adjusted her clothing and started to move off
toward the door to the lab.

"Hey! Wait a minute! I want to know what happened to you and why! Besides I need to do some
more tests to make sure you are all right!" Washu shouted to her but Mihoshi continued to walk
towards the door as if she could not hear her.

"Mihoshi?" Sasami asked her as she past her. Mihoshi didn't even glance down at Sasami but
Sasami could see tears in her eyes.

"Don't worry Washu. I will keep an eye on her and call you if anything happens." Kiyone
assured her and then raced to reach her partner as Mihoshi exited the door to the lab.

"Well. That was unusual." Ayeka muttered out loud.

"It was pretty damn strange if you ask me." Ryoko said loudly.