Aya, her brother, and two friends hide through the night after nearly being kidnapped by the odd shaped people Aya saw in the train tunnel. Aya is overwhelmed by the attention, but what really shocks Aya is when she gets a ping from Tally Youngblood urging her to hide.

When Aya kicks the story about the City Killers, she is instantly famous. A short time later, the Sly Girls learn of Aya's deception, but they give her a chance to prove her theory before cutting her out of the group and disappearing. Aya comes to the conclusion that the cylinders are missiles designed to destroy whole cities. A few days later, Aya returns with the Sly Girls where they find hundreds of metallic cylinders in a large room beside what Aya later learns is a mass driver. That is, until Aya and the Sly Girls happen onto something strange in a mag-lev train tunnel.Īya's first time mag-lev train surfing with the Sly Girls, the train stops inside a tunnel and strange looking creatures open a door hidden by smart matter. Aya cannot understand how anyone could not want to have their face rank raised and thinks the Sly Girls will eventually appreciate her kicking their story and making them famous. The Sly Girls take Aya in, but only after she allows them to drop her hovercam into a reservoir to prove she is not interested in kicking them.Īya uses spy cams and her rescued hovercam to make videos of the Sly Girls without their knowledge. To this end, Aya seeks out a group of girls known as the Sly Girls who she saw surfing mag-lev trains, the super-fast trains that transport goods from city to city. Aya wants to find a hot story to kick that will raise her face rank up closer to her brother's level. Aya's face rank is just below half a million, making her an obscure extra. Aya's brother, Hiro, is a successful kicker, a reporter of sorts, who has a high face rank. Extras is a post script to the Uglies series that shows readers changes that have happened throughout the world since the mind-rain that fell in the final book of the trilogy.Īya lives in a city in Japan where currency is based on a person's face rank. Instead, Aya stumbles across a story that is far bigger than mag-lev train surfers that will change not only her life, but will bring her face to face with the most famous person in the world, Tally Youngblood. When Aya sees a group of girls surfing the super-fast mag-lev trains, she infiltrates their group in order to kick their story. In this book, Aya is the younger sister of a highly successful kicker who wants to come up with a face changing kick of her own. Extras by Scott Westerfeld is the fourth book in the Uglies Series.

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