Life with the Video Game Cast

Chapter 4

After leaving those lockers, I felt somewhat relieved but that was before I realized that the ink creature who collects souls just dragged me away. Suddenly he stopped and began taking deep breaths. "A-Are you ok?" I asked timidly. Once he caught his breath, he looked at me guiltily. "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to drag you here. I was just mad and I needed to get away, I didn't want you to put up with him either." he replied and looked away. I could tell he felt bad already so I decided to just let it go. "It's alright, I get it. By the way, can you tell me where the art and designs class is?" I asked remembering that I needed to get there. Bendy looked at my schedule and was surprised to see my instructor. "I have the same class, just come with me." he replied before walking off. I followed him down the hallway and finally, we walked into a classroom where there were tons of characters already in the room. "Can you sit next to me?" he asked shyly. "Sure, if you want me to." I replied.

The minute we walked in the room, all of them looked towards us, smiles to frowns in a heartbeat. As we took our seats, I looked over at Bendy who seemed to just sit down and look down at his sketchbook that he took out. "H-Hey, um, Bendy, why is everyone looking at you?" I asked. "Oh um... they just do." Bendy replied sadly and began to draw some more. That's when we saw someone walk into the class. "Hello, everyone. I'm glad you could make it again. Bendy, could you please shift to your other form?" the man who walked in demanded. I could hear Bendy's grumbles and watched as he shifted from his fan art view to his normal form. The kind he looked like in the normal game. "Thank you. Now, we will focus on how normal forms show us how we can't be changed easily and how our codes can't be encrypted." the man replied. That's when I figured out that the teacher was Joey Drew... Bendy's creator.

He rambled on forever at this point. I understood some of the things. But I was worried about Bendy since he looked sad the entire time. Out of the blue, someone threw a piece of paper at him, hitting him in the head. "Liar!" they shouted tauntingly and laughed at the same time. "Class, please compose yourself." Drew said calmly before going on about stuff. I looked over to see Bendy trying to wipe his face while drawing something. Peaking over his shoulder, I saw the thing he was drawing. It was Cuphead from earlier. I couldn't help but feel bad. When the bell rang, we left the room and he transformed into the other form that he preferred. That's when I decided to check up on him. "Hey... you ok?" I asked at last. "Y-Yeah. I will be. Who are you? I've never seen you around before." he asked back. "Oh, well, my name's Derrick! But the rest is a long story! But... I'm not really from this world." I replied. "That's so crazy! But, I'll be your friend. You were nice enough to sit with me." he replied. I couldn't help but smile and explode on the inside.

"Before we split, do you know where this class is?" I asked pointing to coding class. "Just take a right and then go down that hall, it should be on the left." he replied, pointing to the hallway I should go down. "Thanks! Hope to see you soon!" I told him before running off. Making it to class I just sat down at a seat before looking up to see who the teacher was. "Good morning, I hope everyone was able to recharge. Before we get started you might as well go over your personal codes. Just practice memorizing yours." he told us. How was I not surprised the coding teacher was Baldi. I mean being here all day, not much was surprising me anymore. Right when I thought we'd be good, I heard someone cry out behind me. "OW! Cut it out Monika!" a girl snapped. I noticed the girl that happened to get hit in the head with a book, happened to be Ayano. "Or what!" she snapped. Both of them started lunging at each other, then knives were being summoned out of nowhere. Baldi looked down though, he slapped his forehead frustrated before pulling out a remote. "Girls please don't start this up again!" he sighed annoyed.

When they didn't let up, he clicked a button and suddenly they just stopped in midair. It was so weird, I wish I had one of those back home. "Now sit down and apologize and stop giving me a headache!" Baldi demanded. "Sorry." Monika grumbled. "Hmph," Ayona told her and then whipped her head away. Once they settled down, Baldi allowed them both to sit down and he continued explaining our "binary codes" as he called them. Just hearing him talk about it made me so much more intrigued about everything in the video game universe. "There's no homework for today's class other than practicing your normal codes. See you all tomorrow!" he told us after the bell rang. After leaving the classroom, I noticed that Ayona seemed to be happier than before as she walked off into the distance. That's when I noticed Monika looked at her, longingly and upset. I wondered what might be happening and I walked over. I know it might not a good idea to approach a character who can kill me, but I never think straight anyway. "Um, hello there! Is everything cool?" I asked her. She looked at me, giving off somewhat of a negative vibe, but she didn't seem like she was going to hurt me or something.