Valeria Richards, a little girl who in her few short years of life had had more than her fair share of run ins with things weird and dangerous, was jolted awake by a coarse scream and promptly jumped from her bed with an alertness that would have put most Special Forces Soldiers to shame...only to land unusually heavily and almost overbalance.
Just managing to catch herself, Val’s eyes instinctively went to the large mirror on the far wall...and FROZE. Valeria’s mind was preternaturally advanced for her age, not yet even 5 years old and she could already hold her own with the likes of her farther, largely regards as one of the greatest scientific minds EVER...but now that intellect failed her as it simply couldn’t process what she was seeing...
The least of it was that overnight, and for no reason she could comprehend, she had joined the ranks of the Child Obesity Epidemic they were always talking about on the Television; a child of her age and height should weigh roughly 31 lb, and previously she’d hit that almost on the button, now she had noticeably lost some height (probably the extra mass causing her hips to spread, possibly even her spine to compress, some clinical part of Val’s mind noted) and conservatively must weigh TWICE what she had, putting her on the hefty side of what a SEVEN year old should weigh while she was barely more than a toddler!!
Val had gone to bed in a loose pink Hello Kitty T-Shirt and baggy sleep pants, she still wore them but they were no longer loose; now the T-Shirt was pulled tight like a second skin over her new bulk, the sleeves digging into her husky upper arms, a prominent and fleshy gut pushing it up and the image of Hello Kitty stretched into obscene illegible, while her sleep pants looked like lycra bike shorts, desperately trying to contain her massive rear and thighs...
But this was all background, what Val’s eyes were locked on in horror was her FACE; she had been doubly blessed by taking after both her parents, her farther in intellect and her mother in looks, she’d been a genuinely beautiful baby and a pretty little girl...now she had a face only a mother could love...and as she felt a gnawing panic raise in her expanded guts, she couldn’t be too sure of even that...
Her head was now topped with a greasy rat’s nest of tangled black hair, and framed by two absurdly large ears that stood out at almost 90 degrees form her head. Her face was taken up mainly by a massive crooked nose, with huge flared nostrils, and a prominent, dark mono-brow beneath which her eyes were lopsided; the left was slightly lower down than the right, with its eyeball BULGING unpleasantly from its socket, while the right seemed to be drawn almost completely shut.
On her right cheek, a large mole with coarse inch long black hairs sticking out of it, while on the other side of her face she has a severe hair lip exposing her yellowing, slightly crooked upper left canine and much of her gum...
Val’s mind stuttered to a stop, unable to keep listing her suddenly myriad imperfections, and then she did what any little girl, genius and child of superheroes or not, would do....
“MOMMMEEEEEE...”