After explaining her plan to Buttons Ari was neck deep inside his stuffing. She'd told Buttons to swallow her feet first and 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 woolen 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.
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.
"Haha it worked!" she said seeing herself wearing Buttons as a body suit. Turning on the spot she looked at his black and white cloth 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. "Right" Ari replied sarcastically.
"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.
"You were right it's just like the Finn wearing Jake" Buttons said as he flexed his muscles in the mirror.
"Pfft, eww stop it" Ari said with a grin on her face as Buttons flexed in the mirror and made his stuffed pecs dance.
"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 looked around for another one of Buttons crumpled papers. "Oh" Buttons said as he heard her take a step and hear a crunch.
Ari picked up the crumpled piece of paper and looked at the hand Buttons was speaking through. "You're all over the place today what's going on" she asked. "Well I'm an extension of your subconscious so what's going on with you" Buttons retorted.
"...fair enough" Ari responded before looking at the page. "Stephanie Gomez, bullying" she said aloud looking at another crude drawing with writing around it on the crumpled page.
"Yeah terrible story. The poor girl was just twenty, sole provider for herself, her baby brother and her sick grandmother" Buttons said solemnly.
"I'd ask who would bully someone like that but people suck so what happened to her" Ari asked bitterly.
"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 and-" Buttons said to Ari's surprise.
I mean I got through it and no one put me in a fucking freezer" she said, cutting him off. "But no one should be made to go through that shit, let's go" she said feeling awkward and so she raised her left hand up to the right thay Buttons controlled and they fist bumped.
"Not gonna lie that was kinda lame of me but let's go" 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 and she clicked it without hesitation.
Reaching forward a tinge of nervousness struck her however. 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 in the form of her hood. Looking out at the baron snow capped mountains Ari made her way through the snowing open field.
Off in the distance however Ari and Buttons could hear a faint voice. Between the two of them they could piece together the words 'cold' and 'help'. "Sounds like that's Stephanie, let's get going" Ari said as she made her way towards the voice through the thick storming snow.