Uglies/Twilight crossover
Disclaimer: As much as I want to, I do not own Uglies or Twilight.
Chapter 1
The sky was the colour of cat vomit. The pinks and oranges meshed in a way only high-altitude winds or a cat's gag reflexes could create. Marisa laid in the grass staring up at the sky, absorbing the beauty of nature and the joy of a clean get-away.
After the mind-rain Marisa's city had tried to reconnect with its Rusty roots, its super-hero in the sky worshipping roots. Before the oil-bug her city had been an important centre for a certain religion. The city was the home of the president of the faith and many beautiful paintings and buildings were made there to commemorate this. Of course the explosion had destroyed most of these, leaving crumbling ruins of a Rusty past. The city had mostly tried to forget about them before, setting up a society like the rest of the world. An operation had been invented soon after the apocalypse and was used in every city. The operation changed everything, destroying people's differences by making them all beautiful, calling those who had gotten the operation Pretties, but also making them easy for the authorities to control. But you had to wait until you were sixteen until you were allowed to be changed and were called Ugly regardless of your appearance. The mind-rain changed all that, exposing the truth of the operation and passing out the cure for a pretty-mind. Now all the cities throughout the world had to start fresh, with their own thoughts in their heads, and build a new society. For Marisa's city that meant building churches, studying ancient texts and singing in Latin.
Just as it was back in Pretty-time though, all those under sixteen were still stuck with the boring jobs. Marisa had escaped a particularly tedious cleaning task where she would have to systematically organize all the books. The texts were deemed so sacred that no cleaning-bot would be allowed to touch them. But that rule didn't stop Marisa from putting up a hologram around the bot and letting it complete the pointless task. As long as no one touched it she would never be discovered. Just to be sure she left a spy-cam in the room and had her eye-screen set to her feed so she could see if anyone was coming. Marisa was thankful that her city still allowed eye-screens, infrared vision and skintenna because it made tricks much easier to pull off. Most of the other operations, the appearance changing ones, had been forbidden in her city because they "destroyed god's vision", leaving everyone in the city ugly but connected.
The sun had almost set by now, pulling the warm colours along with it. As darkness set and stars emerged Marisa flexed her finger and checked her eye screen. It was 8:09 and her bot had almost finished it's job. Marisa stood up, shook the grass off her body and was beginning to head indoors when she heard a rustling in the forest behind her. She figured it was just an animal but for some reason she felt like she should check anyways. Her infrared vision was activated and the forest turned into a screen of blue blobs. No where could she see orange or yellow that signalled a living creature. She had almost blamed her imagination when one of the blobs moved. It moved much too decidedly to be a tree swaying in the wind or any other sort of random motion. Marisa knew of no living creature that could survive being that cold. But what climbed through the trees into the clearing was far more spectacular then Marisa could have imagined.
I wonder what it could be ;)