- ✹ after a lab-created mold that eats gasoline was released into all the major cities of the world, left to spread, the world spiralled into chaos, and without their oil humans panicked. soon the world discovered it's stupidity and quickly reformed it's ways of life. there was birth control, and everything had to be recycled. good news for the scientists, who developed hover boards that ran with magnets that were buried in the ground and after another fairly long testing period, the first ever hole-in-the-wall appeared. everyone loved this new technology, but only the richest and most favorable were allowed to use it. with this many people protested and soon the government knew it had to do something about equality. soon the idea for completely separate towns evolved, and towns broke off from each other with no outside contact. people started to protest again, and some started to break all the rules, just because they hated the government. that started the department of homeland security thinking, and they came up with a solution:
✹ when a child turns sixteen, they receive a surgery where they become pretty. their skins are peeled off, muscles replaced with stronger replicas, and everything altogether beautified. people flocked to become perfect, not knowing all the time that the "surge" also included a lesion, or scar of sorts, on their brains. pretty faces came with easy, obedient minds. nobody knew this, of course and soon the demand for surgery became too great. the government made the age limit sixteen for the surge. eveybody won. everybody was happy. everybody was pretty.
✹ now, almost a hundred years later, the way of life has changed dramatically. pretties and uglies are separated, parents from children, everyone in their place. but everyone is ok with it. they all know that when they turn sixteen, they'll get the surge, and everything will be ok. they will be able to party all night and hang out all day. totally bubbly-making, right? wrong. people still don't know about the lesions, and they still think it doesn't effect anything but looks. dr. cable, head of special circumstances, has kept them a secret while giving the rest of the combined government a new look. beautiful but terrifying at the same time. they have super senses, super abilities, all packed into one super-evil body. basically, the wrong person to get in a fight with.
✹ right now special circumstances is working on a mission that they can never seem to complete. "operation smoke out" has been nagging them ever since the surge began. a group of runaways who gather at a self-made camp called "the smoke". no one but the mythical specials and the smokies know about them unless they have the courage to board out to the rusty ruins and meet david, a smoke-born boy who teaches them about the wild and leads them to the smoke. then you live like rusties- people who lived before high-technology was invented.
✹ so what will happen to you? will you choose a life of bubbly-making parties with pretty friends, or will you find out about special circumstances and fight back. or will you slip away to the smoke and live normally? truth is, you can't stay ugly forever.
