Disclaimer: I do not own Uglies.

McKenzie woke up to a day like any other, not knowing that it would end quite abnormally.

Today was just a normal day for her. She got up, went to her classes, blah, blah, blah. After her classes she went to see her friend Sasha, who loaded her with the latest gossip about teachers, their fellow uglies, and the supposed doings of new pretties in New Pretty Town. Honestly, she didn't care. She just wanted to get out to the Ruins and try her new hoverboarding trick. When she got to her dorm room, though, someone was waiting for her. It was a middle pretty, a doctor by the looks of him.

"Hello McKenzie," he said. "How was your day?"

"What are you doing here?" she asked.

"Sorry to bust in," he said, "but I have an offer to make to you. We would like for you to come with us, for we have an opportunity for you."

"What opportunity?"

"The opportunity to make you pretty early."

"Pretty early?" said McKenzie, confused. "I thought the operation only worked at sixteen."

"We have been able to change a few of the aspects of the surgery. We are 98 percent sure it will work, but we need a willing test subject. We believe, based on your measurements, that you will be the most likely to work."

McKenzie couldn't believe what she was hearing. A pretty at 15? Why not?

"Sounds great," she said.

"Wonderful," said the doctor. "We would prefer that you keep this information to yourself. Good evening. Oh, and I'm Dr. Blanch, by the way."

McKenzie daydreamed about her new life in New Pretty Town until curfew. The next day, the doctors took her to the hospital. They put her under for the surgery. The last thing McKenzie remembered before blacking out was the smiling face of Dr. Blanch. But his smile seemed almost smug…

Hours later, McKenzie woke up in a padded cell.

"Dr. Blanch? Where are you? Why am I in here?" Her voice sounded different. Not sweet, like a new pretty's voice. It was…sharp, grinding. Like a razor.

McKenzie looked in the mirror in her cell, and gasped in horror. Staring back at her was a face with wolf like features, harsh, and sharp. A cruel pretty.

"What did you do to me?"