The Button Room

An instant instinct of coming upon a button is to click. We do it all the time. When clicking our mouse, keyboard, doorbell, and much more I can list down. But that's different than the type of instinct I'm talking about. I'm talking about the type where you have nothing to do better, so you do what comes to mind. Just like clicking a button you randomly see, for it is meant to be clicked. Get what I mean? Probably not. Let's just start the story.

Jason was a 13 year old boy. Terrible in classes but good at making friends. He loved playing Roblox and making Roblox videos. His friends enjoyed playing with him on Roblox. They play a variety of games, but with the creativity of the developers of Roblox, they usually played Roblox the most.

Then one day, Roblox got a bit boring. We all have those times where we got nothing to do. Jason thought when would there be a new and different type of game in the popular section. Then Jason decided he was done with these games in the popular section. They weren't fulfilling of his expectations anymore. Roblox is for discovering, not doing the same thing over and over again.

''How about I search a game up and find a new thing to play! Maybe it could just be a one time thing, but the experience would be memorable!''

This is what Jason thought during the moment. He was excited to find some new games! Maybe some addicting games!

''Hmm. What's addicting to do?''

Jason thought about this.

Clicking...

Jason kept thinking while clicking his mouse repeatedly.

Clicking buttons!

A strange thought, but it works. Clicking buttons is what he wanted to do. He simply typed in the Roblox search bar, "Button Room." When he pressed enter to see the results, there was only one game available. It was, "THE BUTTON ROOM." This wasn't too different from what he searched.

Jason clicked the game and read the description. It read, "Your buttons pushed in this game! Each button does something to affect you. Enjoy!"

He clicked the play button. The button that started everything that would come after this. The game began to load. As it finished, Jason saw what seemed to be countless, endless, infinite amount of buttons across white walls. It would be a lot of clicking and lots of weird things to come, but Jason didn't know where to start. It's as if something was projected to his mind. Something telling him to click the blue button.

He walked up to the blue button and clicked. Nothing really happened. He was deciding to either quit or which button to click next. Maybe the blue button was one of the buttons that did nothing in the game. It was such a big game, it probably wasn't finished. The creator probably was still updating the game.

He went up to the red button to click it. People always say to click the big red button. Jason thought it would be funny if the character exploded from clicking red button because of the cliche that clicking red buttons causes explosions. He went to click it, but he wasn't ready to. It didn't see the effects come yet. Jason began staring at the screen for a full minute. He didn't blink. The Roblox character didn't move and inch. His eyes were open widely.

After a full minute, he was happy to finally blink. He was disturbed and confused why he didn't blink. He began to cry. He thought it would be normal to cry since he didn't blink for a full minute. Which it is. But this was different. For 15 seconds, he kept crying. He was bawling. He was scared and couldn't stop. There was no reason to be sad, for he was just happy a few minutes ago. Nothing had happened.

Another message projected to his mind. It told him to click the red button. He tried not to because he believed this game was causing these weird things to him. It was too powerful for his mind, so he clicked the red button. He waited for something to happen. He stopped crying. It's been five minutes. Once again, not blinking the entire five minutes. It was painful. This time Jason wanted to cry.

After these terrible five minutes, he blinked rapidly. Crying from fear this time. After 30 seconds, his nose was bleeding. He wanted to exit this torture, but It told him not to. These projections from the game to his mind was keeping him still in his seat staring at the screen. For what seemed to be an innocent game was a chamber. Holding him still to watch all the events unfold that he can't control.

After what seemed like hours, It projected to his mind again. He heard the voice telling him now to click the black button. It then told him to prepare for transition. Jason gave up. He hoped this was the last button. He hoped this button wasn't as bad as the other ones. He didn't want to cry. He didn't want to bleed. He then clicked the button. This time, there was no staring. This time, there was no fear. This time, there was nothing. Jason stopped thinking.

The Button Room. It's one big loop Jason got caught into. Victims of It aren't looked for by the Button Room, they look for it unknowingly. This is what makes It dangerous. Jason was just one of the failed victims of It. Many other have fallen victim to It. No survivors. Or at least none still in control. It doesn't only just manifest on Roblox. It manifests everywhere.

His family later found him dead in his chair with his desktop destroyed. The same desktop he played "The Button Room" on. Very sad for the family. People don't know what happened that day.

Well, except for us. We know everything that happened to Jason. Even all the other victims that we claimed. They aren’t important though. Neither is Jason. This the world we need. We were made to live, so that's what we want, but we need your bodies to transition into. As long as there are people like Jason, we can get that. It will be our savior.

Jason was just a test. A body nobody cared about. Including you. It is funny though you think you can just read this article thinking it's just a story. You did what Jason and what everyone else did. You got bored and wanted to read something new. We'll show you something new.

Well, get ready...

PREPARE FOR TRANSITION