Basics: a devious group is experimenting on humans trying to find the secret of why some of them have such great spirit powers. They have narrowed down their fields of research a bit and have located a subject that might just be the human they are looking for. They send a small retrieval team, not expecting much resistance because said subject is just a young house wife who's husband is stationed overseas and who is all alone at home.

However, they do not take into account that being a bored house wife gives her plenty of time to practice her hobby: martial arts and swordsmanship. Since she is mostly self taught she is not that good, but they weren't prepared for any fight at all so she had the element of surprise instead of them. She disarmed one and took him down one with his own dart gun and shot another with it after that. Third "thug" lost his temper and started assaulting her with his sword even though they were supposed to take her alive. She grabs down some ornamental swords from the wall and defends herself rather well, but gets wounded here and there anyway.

She gets a rather large cut on her upper right arm, but the rest are mere scratches. She is disarmed, but before the thug can finish her off a fourth appears and stops him before shooting her with a dart. She manages to rip the dart out of her collar and toss it away where it slides under the closet door. They don't notice that, or the fact that the dart was only half emptied as she collapses. They have to hurry and retrieve their companions and the darts they could see before grabbing her and retreating, for the neighbors had alerted the police.

Later, she woke up somewhere dark and cold to voices "You morons nearly screwed everything up! What the hell were you thinking? I told you to take her alive and unharmed and you bring her here all cut up and bruised to hell?!? Damn it!!" an irate voice exclaimed somewhere nearby. "She's alive isn't she? Your lucky at that, the bitch knocked out two of my men and almost beat Hiriki with a dull bladed ornamental sword! Your intelligence fucked up admit it!" the voice was growly and rough "Fuck it! Just get your damn experiments over with already!" it barked.

She felt herself being lifted and carried a short distance. Then she was sat down again somewhere lighter and slightly warmer. The surface under her felt smooth and the air smelt slightly like antiseptic. Still unable to move and feigning unconsciousness she waited, trying to orient herself to her surroundings by other senses than sight. Small noises all around her sounded like machinery, the kind of quiet whirrs that came from the fans in computers, small beeps, and occasional clicking like on a keyboard. The smell of the air was artificial, like it was re-circulated, and it was very dry.

Suddenly there was a kind of hiss, like something depressurizing, and the light striking her eyelids changed from a fairly bright white to a more mellow green. She could no longer feel the breeze from the air circulating and the sounds were cut off. Now she could only hear her breathing and it sounded like she was contained in a smaller space. Daringly, she cracked open the eye on the side she was laying on. She saw a greenish Plexiglas like tube surrounding her. Beyond it she could barely see humanoid shapes that were probably in white lab coats from their colors. She also saw a shape apparently bickering with one lab coat that was obviously not human.

The new shape had a purple-green skin, though the green was probably from the tube, and pure black eyes. As in eyes with no whites, and three of them. About six feet tall, slits for a nose, and a mouth full of sharp teeth, it gestured angrily with a clawed hand with three finger digits and two thumbs. It wore some sort of uniform and she could see some strange weapon at it's hip along with a more ordinary whip. The one he was snarling at was one of the figures in a white lab coat. He, or rather it, was not human either. The "Doctor" was a bald gray-green (again, probably the glass) little creature around four feet tall with a row of stubby knobs running down the middle of it's head. It had fairly normal black eyes (with whites) and nose, but had a rubbery looking beaky mouth as well as pointy ears. Looks like a little goblin.

Her assessment was interrupted as she heard a soft hum coming from the floor. She closed her eye and tried to remain limp as a strange floating feeling touched her senses. When she felt herself come to a stop she realized that she was now floating vertically in the center of the tube. There was another hiss, this time quiet and continuous. The air began to feel thicker, but it caused her no discomfort. In fact, it kind of felt good like she had been breathing smog and suddenly found herself in clear air. She became disoriented a moment while she adjusted, but then…

Even though she hadn't opened her eyes, it was like she could see! Everything was a little hazy at first, then she got the hang of it and it cleared up. She could also hear too, like she was standing right next to the arguing pair. "Just get out of my way! Because of your damn bumbling men Akudama, Koenma will now be alerted and send out his pet spirit detective! I am going to have to rush everything and get half as much data as I want, probably killing the subject, just so we will have time to get away!" the Doctor snapped. "Fine Gikan! I'll go set up the perimeter defenses and make sure that the tunnel car is ready to haul ass at a moment's notice. Either the moment your done or the perimeter is breached, I am setting the self destruct. No matter what!" the big purple guy growled back before stomping out a previously concealed door.

The Doctor swore and griped as he came over to a control panel right in front of the tube facing her and began to type in some commands. Suddenly, she felt a strange tingly sensation over her entire body. She instinctually became calm, knowing that if she fought it would just make things worse. Hmmm, if I fight it I get pain, but it's going to get worse anyway I bet. What can I do to stop it?, she thought hard. Shifting the focus of her new sight inward she inspected herself, trying to think of a suitable solution. To her astonishment and joy she saw herself filled with light and color. She felt some of it, the deeper bit, and knew that it was her life force. The outer and more vibrant energy she knew she could use somehow. It was like it called out to her and said "I'm here! Lets do something!" What if I used my own energy against the foreign? Not directly opposing it but…I know I'll change it into my energy!

She took a piece of the energy she felt demanding to be released and shaped it just under her skin. Somehow, she gave it a little twist that said "This is what I want you to do. This is how. Just so." and made the second skin transform the enemy energy into her own. For every bit of energy used she gained twice as much back. She vaguely heard an exclamation of alarm from outside herself, but she ignored it. Her reservoir to hold energy was almost full, but the outside energy was even stronger now. Instead of feeling a sickly yellow-green it now pulsed a malevolent green with yellow and black swirls. She had to hold more, but how? I need more room to put it. If I can't put it inside me, I'll just have to make somewhere else.

Inside, she once again took hold of the ever increasing power demanding release. She told it to make a container without end, something that energy could pour into forever and never fill, that she could access anytime she needed. Then she wrapped it in seals so that no one else could tap and linked it to her life force energy. It took almost all the power she had gained to do so, but that was a good thing. Once again she heard sounds of excitement form outside herself before the power assaulting her increased drastically. The foreign energy burned almost completely black now, with only a few swirls of dark green. On and on the power flow went, flowing into her endlessly.

Then there were sounds of alarm and she opened her eyes. The Doctor called Gikan and the three eyed guard were fleeing down a hallway while pounding started at the door Akudama had left through earlier. She also noticed a blinking red alarm on the console in front of the tank: Self destruct in- 10... 9...8 …Just then the door was busted in by a motley assortment of young men and women. They rushed over to the console, but she could see the terror in their eyes as they thought it too late. One looked up into her eyes and the despair there hit some cord in her. 3... 2... 1.…