She slowly walks at the back of her family and friends as they were all sitting down for a talk from the primaries winner of a political party. To her, this was just propaganda and the last thing she was going to do was listen to their beautiful and heavenly promises. She didn't think the same of the simple-minded locals around her and her family too.
The young man with a clean-shaven face and sharp eyes slowly addressed the audience. He went on and on with his pitch and felt that he was gradually convincing the people. He smiled and pointed at something behind him which was a flat object which was like a huge screen. The people gasped at it.
The man smiled. He introduced the object to them as a plasma TV and the people clapped in wonder and glee. He pressed a button on a remote in his hand and the screen lit up. It was a presentation of how he was going to contribute to the lives of the locals and they were moved, some were even sniffing like they had been given a new lease in life.
The girl scoffed internally. 'All stupid shows '.
There was something about her that the others did not know and it was that she had lived in the future before. She knew all these tricks and psychological talks. She was totally adept at them and could see through the young man's talks. To her, his eyes alone couldn't cover his greediness and excitement. She was going to strip him off his elevated platform though.
Her name was Xana back when she was in the future but since she woke up in this era, she was called Deanna and was not satisfied with the name one bit.
She was a psychologist, neurologist and robot dealer. Everyone in Thidas, were she came from was good in martial arts and robotics. Then one fine day in her office, a room with robotics suddenly exploded and killed her along with it as she was, at that moment, locked down by her massaging robot. After the pain of skin burning hit her, her mind went blank and she opened her eyes to this primitive era. Plasmas were a total thing of the past and super screens were used. Now she was in an era were the position of the shadow was the only way to tell the time. She couldn't stay here forever and was going to rise to becoming the best in this world. But first, she needed a host, that is, someone to grow on. She snickered in her heart as she watched the comedy on the stage.
' A platform for this handsome fool! Ha!'
Yes, she realized that the people around her were very natural in looking and did not have stiff faces like the people of Thidas. There were also plasmas. Well, she could start from somewhere.
She smiled at the young man on the stage as his eyes met hers. She will help this fool reach his position and use him as a stepping stone.
The young man on the stage, Ronald, shivered as he met a preying gaze on him. He turned towards were he thought it was from and saw a very ugly girl with haggard clothes like the rest smiling at him. He managed to smile back.
Xana kept on smiling even though she knew how ugly she was with that wide smile, well, she was ugly without it nevertheless.
' This is why plastic surgery is such a blessing', she thought.
This was something people from the future struggled a lot about. Everyone was born freakishly ugly. It was because of the elixirs and syrups the once beautiful mothers, had to take.
The transition from grass to glory was written in every child's brain and that was the first information all children knew, including her. She even helped in the input of the information on her free time too.
There was once a scientist who made a breakthrough in his research and the leaders of the world approved of the distribution of these pills that actually improved the brain capacity and reflexes. Pregnant mothers were first forced to ingest it and then all other women, children and men. This pill made the bodies of the pregnant women change and their children were extraordinary. The pill worked slowly on other people but eventually worked. Everyone was glad and that was just the first step taken. Other scientists started making breakthroughs and the super screen came up, and all the other miracles of the future. It was later on that people started to notice that there were no more handsome and beautiful adults, pretty children or cute babies. Everyone was ugly along with their superpowers. Then, there came a solution, plastic surgery. Everyone in the future had done plastic surgery, it was even done to babies.
Now everyone became pretty. But it was not Natural no matter how good it was. It was a relief seeing pretty people around her. It was a pity though that she, even in this life was still ugly.