"Oh, don't worry darling, it won't hurt. Before long, you won't even know better." Selena teased.
'PERMANENCE MATRIX AT 15%'
Ruse felt helpless, and the sense of increasing panic that she was feeling wasn't helping anything. Her body felt so foreign, so impossibly heavy. She could feel the whole weight of her bread slices, feel how her insides seemed content to eek out of the side due to the pressure of her top slice.
"Please don't." Ruse protested, though the robotic voice that she had been given did not convey how scared she was. Whatever the machine was doing to her, she could feel it invading her thoughts. "I do not want to... 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥... a sandwich." She said, finding that she couldn't even recall the word she had been looking for.
'PERMANENCE MATRIX AT 30%'
"See, it's already working!" Selena giggled madly. "Pretty soon you'll be a big, fat, dumb sandwich and you won't even know any better." Ruse's 'eye' was still there on her top slice, pointed up at the ceiling. She saw herself - Selena wearing her form - step into view, scoffing at her. "Besides, you ASKED for this! Make me a sandwich, you said..." She smiled wickedly, leaning down to sit on the massive sandwich's top slice.
"𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 did not 𝘫𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘺 for this." Ruse said plainly, desperately trying to get her voice to convey any kind of real emotion. All that she could conjure was the same robotic monotone, as she unwittingly replaced more words. "𝘚𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘩." She said finally, and she wasn't sure if it was her or the strangeness that was taking her over.
Selena cooed down at the massive sandwich, stroking the fluffy top slice. "See? Though, I suppose you did want more peanut butter, no? I bet we can sneak some more in before you're done."
'PERMANENCE MATRIX AT 60%'
At the machine's announcement, the ruse double giggled. "Whoops, better hurry!"
The sandwich squirmed underneath her, trying to do anything to prevent the abomination from doing anything else to her. Unfortunately, the process was already well through scrambling her brain, and her next plea came out mangled and twisted. "𝘗𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 do anything 𝘫𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘺 to 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘩! Please 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 back!" She was finding it harder and harder to keep her thoughts straight.
Several tubes dropped down from the ceiling and Selena happily slipped them between the slices of bread. Ruse felt as they pumped more and more peanut butter sludge into her body, but could do nothing to combat it. More and more oozed from inside her slices, until it became a steady flow.
'PERMANENCE MATRIX AT 85%'
Ruse could hardly think now. Her eye had disappeared somewhere in her top slice. Her thoughts were clouded with what she was made of, thick bread, slathered in heavy peanut butter, gooey jelly... When she was able to get the willpower to speak, she could barely come up with words. "𝘚𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘩. 𝘗𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳. 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥. 𝘑𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘸𝘪𝘤𝘩."
Selena had long pulled the tube from the sandwich, but peanut butter still overflowed her slices. "Hmm, real quick before you're done for good...." She walked over to the counter and clicked a few buttons that made themselves visible. Beneath Ruse, hands lifted the edges of her bottom slice up so they met the top one. Another device ran along the outside of her, fusing the two crusts into one massive crust as it traveled around her. When it was finished, The sandwich that had been Ruse was noticeably tidier with no way for the massive amount of peanut butter that she was stuffed with to eke out of her crusts.
'PERMANENCE MATRIX AT 100%'
Selena took a step back. "Hmm... I guess that's less of a sandwich than what you asked for, but oh well." Indeed, the former Ruse looked less like a sandwich and more like someone had taken a giant slice of bread and stuffed the middle of it, creating a huge bulge. Still, Ruse didn't complain. Even if she was still in there somewhere, fusing her bread slices had effectively fused her lips as well.
Selena looked to the massive sandwich, now permanently sealed into her form. She was already feeling at home in her new body. "Hmmm.... What now?"