Uglies Oneshot.
I stared at the girl in front. She was waiting to get her hoverboard repaired. I wasn't waiting for anything other than answers.
Recently, I'd been finding a lot about my past that I had never known. The Smokies did their research well, sneaking into government discussions and searching through old documents. They found out things that those stupid officials would never discover.
I was a Rusty. They knew that as soon as they saw me. Even though I had gone through the operation, years of genetics could not be reversed. Instead of the same blue eyes and fair, sandy coloured skin that all the Pretties shared, my own skin was ivory, my dark eyes still almond-shaped. Even my body shape. I was too different. The Smokies brought me to the Smoke, to try to find out more about the Rusties and, more importantly, how I had survived the War.
They found something bigger than they could have imagined. And I had come to see it.
The Smokies had their own base, right in the city. People went there for all kinds of things. The least illegal thing you could go there for was getting your hoverboard fixed, the most illegal : getting the famous "cure". I might be new to all this, but I knew that the "cure" made you real again. I didn't need it though, because my genetic background was too overpowering.
Finally, the queue had subsided. In their underground lair, the Smokies had stored something that could tell me everything about my strange past. The only reason the smokies managed to do all that, right inside the city, was that they had an official on their side. It was the official who greeted me. The tall, blonde, middle pretty had the looks but not the lesions. "If you'd care to follow me", he said.
I did as I was asked. We went right down to the basement. I had a feeling of unease: my friends had begged me to let them come, but I refused. I wish I hadn't. What I saw in that Rusty aircraft hangar shocked me. I had to blink, to rub my eyes. It couldn't be true!
But it was. The thing in front of me was a spacecraft. It was huge and white, an angel locked in this underground cavern. The man helped me into a protective suit and forced the lock. "We've been waiting for you, before opening this. I will come with you, but no one else is to be admitted until further notice has been given".
I could only nod. My power of speech had died.