I was walking down the hall in low and flickering lighting of a place I had never been before. I kept walking and walking, and I heard voices ahead of me. I went into a light jog to see who was talking. I finally found the source of it: that same man with the blue eyes glowing menacingly standing behind a middle aged male with darker skin wearing a flack jacket. The man pulled out a gun and pointed it at the military man's head. I inhaled sharply and squeezed my eyes shut knowing what was going to happen. I heard a BANG of a gun and woke up with a start.

I heard a few more bangs on my door and the burly guard yelled at me to get up. I jumped out of my cot and walked towards the door. I was then escorted down the hall to an experimentation room. I was instructed to sit on the bench and wait for the doctor. He left and I waited on the bench, going into my meditation. I felt him coming, so I quickly snapped out of it. He opened the door and walked in.

"So you seem to have turned tome heads of those who are higher up, hm?" He asked. "This will be interesting to see if my research can finally be recognized."

I just sat there listening, not saying a word. He mumbled a few more things under his breath and pulled out some syringes. I cringed a bit, but decided to calm myself down in my meditative state so he could do what he needed and I could go on my merry way.

It didn't work very well. I was soon growling and cringing as needle after needle was inserted into me, the contents pushed into my bloodstream, and retracted. Pretty soon I was screaming in pain, and I blacked out. But instead of just being dark, I saw the energies of the other people in the area. I had since realized that the patterns of their flickering told me many things about them.

I reached out further and further, and found that there were more people than I thought in the station. Some were being tortured, some were dying, and the rest were the guards, trainers and scientists. I guess I was the only healthy subject around. I then came across a very curious presence. One that seemed familiar somehow.

This person was different. His energy seemed... dark. He had something inside him that was almost... cold and robotic. Before I knew what was going on, the energy seemed to know I as there, and I saw it floating towards me. Not that the person was coming towards me, but the essence itself. It suddenly shot towards me at incredible speeds. It got to me and touched my energy, and made me cringe. It was searing and at the same time freezing. I flared up my energy, trying to deflect the perverted energy, but it seemed to shrug it off.

I started to panic now, as it continued to be exposed to me. As a method of last resort, I let my core energy burst out with everything it had, and that seemed to scare it, but it was too late. A little bit of it was absorbed into me, and what was once blue, began to turn a very striking violet color. Before the darkness left, I heard a rumbling voice in my head.

"As you pitiful humans say, you may have won the battle, but you will not win the war."

I woke up with a gasp, and realized I was back in my cell. I must have been dragged back by the guard. I thought about what had happened, and I came to the conclusion I must have been touched by something much more powerful than myself, or even humanity as a whole. What it was, I may have to find out, but for now, I had to survive this hell for a little while longer until I was strong enough to escape.

I focused on accessing my power, and found it much easier. I simply had to think about it and I was glowing. However, I was glowing a violet hue, the same as my inner energy when it was touched by the evil energy. How was I going to hide this? Perhaps I could say it was caused by the experiment. Either way, training tomorrow could tell me how my powers had changed. I went back to sleep in preparation for tomorrow.

As I thought, the general was pleased that I could use my powers with more ease. He kicked up my training a notch so that I had to learn to use my powers in creative ways. For example, when I had to go through obstacle courses, I had to jump using my power to give my muscles a boost in strength. I also had to climb up areas that normal people would not be able to, again, using my power to energize my muscles. This helped me exert them for much longer than I normally would be able to.

This took a few more weeks for me to fully master and to extend my power capacity. I would occasionally overextend myself and black out. This would lead to me waking up groggy and annoyed as I had very high goals for myself. I was determined to be the best I could in order to escape. However, I would soon find out I didn't have to wait long for an opportunity to do so.

A/N: Hey everyone! I think it's a new record for me for updating! Thank you everyone for such nice reviews! I'm back in the groove and I have more free time (because of a no job situation :P) so I'll hopefully have an update every few days or so. I know that there are many reviewers, but many of them say the same thing. So, to mix it up and make y'all have some fun, I'll add a little poll at the end of each chapter. The first one is (drumroll please): Do you prefer Shepard as male or female, and why? See ya next time!