"Hey what the fuck is happening" Ari said feeling herself slide down what felt like the inside of a pillow.
Kicking and screaming she watched as her view of the cabin was slowly slipping as she was completely submerged into Buttons' stomach.
As soon as her head was the only thing sticking out she felt herself moving lower and lower to the ground.
As she moved closer and closer to the ground she felt the cotton like interior of Buttons begin to move in closer around her.
Soon it was closely placed around her arms and legs and she felt his mouth wrap around her head.
[Activated companion ability: Body morph]
"Huh?" she said left confused about everything that had transpired.
Left standing feeling herself warmed from the frigid weather she walked around the cabin.
Passing by a broken mirror she made out her vague reflection.
"Oh shit!" she said seeing herself wearing Buttons as a body suit.
Turning on the spot she looked at his black and white polyester skin placed around her body with it's cotton interior shaped like muscles.
"What's with the fake abs though" she said chuckling to herself as she looked down and saw six perfectly shaped abs down the front of the suit.
"Get off my case it was an artistic choice" Buttons replied m
"What you mean artistic choice?" Ari asked aloud.
"Wait how are you talking with my head in your mouth?" Ari asked aloud a second time.
"Down here" Buttons voice sounded.
Looking down at her hand Ari saw it positioned like a hand puppet.
"Haha check it out, pretty cool huh" Buttons voice said emanating from the moving hand.
"This is so freaky" Ari said looking on in awe.
"Hey you were cold weren't you? So this is the solution, my first ability unlocked on the skills tree. I present to you: Body Morph!" Buttons said flexing the fake pectorals he put on the body suit.
"Eww no stop it" Ari said slapping them down.
"Pfft hater!" Buttons shouted.
"Yeah whatever, what's the next mission anyways" Ari asked rolling her eyes.
"Oh yeah that, walk over to the cabinet" Buttons said.
"Which one? The one you fell out of yesterday or the one you fell out of today?" Ari asked snarkily.
"The one I fell out of today" Buttons said as Ari looked up towards the open cabinet door.
Walking over to it she felt herself get elevated to the top shelf.
Looking down she noticed her feet morphing into foot long heels.
"Okay this is not a comment on my height" Ari said reaching into the cabinet.
Feeling around through the cookie crumbs she pulled down a note and got lowered back down to the ground.
"Stephanie Gomez, bullying" she said aloud looking at another crude drawing with writing around it on a crumpled page.
"Yeah terrible story. The poor girl was just twenty, sole provider for herself, her baby sister and her sick grandmother" Buttons said solemnly.
"Oh damn, and she got bullied?" Ari asked looking at the page.
"Yeah she spent every waking minute trying to support her family" Buttons heartbroken voice said coming from Ari's hand.
"She just happened to end up working at a fast food place working with some monsters. They verbally abused her, tried to burn her with cooking oil and locked her in a walk in freezer" he continued solemnly.
"This sounds really personal to you..." Ari said tentatively.
"I mean I never met her but... bullying sucks cause I remember those nights you cried as a kid" Buttons said to Ari's surprise.
"Oh" she said as the back of her head warmed up as she shrugged and chuckled.
"I mean I got through it and no one put me in a fucking freezer" she said looking at her hand.
"But no one should be made to go through that shit, let's get it" she said raising her left fist up to her right.
"Yeah" Buttons said as he stretched one of Ari's suit fingers out in the shape of a small fist and bumped it to Ari's outstretched fist.
"Bit off kilter but we move" she said as she turned and walked over to the door and a now familiar blue writing popped up.
[Welcome to the 4th Dimension! You and your guide Buttons are about to begin your mission! Ready to Start?]
Looking underneath the writing she saw a flashing button with the word 'start' on it.
Looking down at Buttons she nodded and clicked it.
Reaching forward a tinge of nervousness struck her.
As she reached for the handle she swallowed spit and turned the doorknob opening the door.
The second she stepped out she was struck by the frigid temperature.
"Holy fuck" she said as the below zero degrees air struck her in the face.
Looking out Ari saw a grayish fog through the drizzling snow.
"So this is cause of the freezer" Ari said covering her bare face with her hands.
"Yeah guess so" Buttons replied as he stretched his mouth covering Ari's head to cover her face leaving just her eyes exposed.
"Thanks for that. Your breath smells like chocolate chip cookies" Ari said patting Buttons' head.
Looking out at the baron snow capped mountains Ari made her way through the snowing quiet open field.
Step after step, minute after minute Ari walked aimlessly toward the mountains.
"You sure it's this way?" she said aloud to Buttons.
"No I just thought it'd be fun to get lost in the snow" Buttons replied sarcastically.
"Okay smartass no need to-" Ari said as she cut herself off as a sharp sense of unease came over her.
Turning on the spot she looked around her semi visible surroundings.
"What is it-" "Shhh" Ari said holding the hand Buttons was talking from to her chest.
"I think someone's watching us" she said lowering her stance as she continued to turn.
Gritting her teeth she shrugged off her paranoia and continued on her endless walk.