Maria laid on the bed immobile for an indeterminate period of time before she heard one of the women instruct her to get up. Maria tried standing but collapsed almost immediately. The two women helped her up and walked with her to another room.
In the center of the room was a large circular table with straps and a set of stairs affixed to it. Maria was barely coherent but managed to blurt out her confusion.
"What the hell is that?"
"That, Ms. Castillo, is the Vertical Readjustment Tool." a middle-aged man in a lab coat said as he walked in. "Hi, I'm Dr. Robert Shephard. You've met my associates Ms. Wolker and Ms. Carrera. We are going to begin the process of readjusting your body shape."
"What exactly does that mean?" Maria asked nervously.
"You'll see. Don't worry...it'll be a good thing. Now please step into the machine."
Maria gently walked up the stairs into the device and laid flat down on the table. Wolker and Carrera tied her down with the straps. They brought over a giant needle and gave Maria another mouth guard. This injection into her spinal column was unsurprisingly no less painful than the first was. This time they also gave her a vial of some weird, pink fluid. Maria hesitated before drinking. There was no turning back at this point.
"Okay, now Maria please relax. We are about to begin vertical readjustment. This is not a long process, but it can be if you don't cooperate" Shephard said.
Shephard went over to a computer monitor in the room. He rapidly typed for a minute and then loudly exclaimed "INITIATE!"
Maria felt the table start to spin. At first it was a slow, rotation of about a minute. Maria felt very bored. It started to pick up. 45 seconds. 35 seconds. 30. After a few minutes, Maria couldn't see anything. The table span rapidly. The straps on Maria's body started to pull outward. She tried to ignore the immense pain she was in. At brief intervals, Maria was able to look at her body which caused her great confusion. It almost seemed as if her arms and legs were getting...longer?
Eventually, after about 15 minutes, it came to a stop. Wolker and Carrera untied Maria and walked her over to a mirror. Maria, felt, very odd. Something was off. She quickly realized what. When Maria looked at herself in the mirror, she saw a woman standing about 6"0, about six inches taller than when she came in. Her skin tightly stretched against this new frame made her look very bony.
"What the heck did you do to me?" Maria asked, baffled.
"We made you taller." Dr. Shephard replied. "One of the aspects of the makeover package you selected was body readjustment. The first step of that was to grow your skeletal frame. The new height is going to work wonders for you. We'll let you rest for a few minutes before moving onto to Mass Integration."