The Inky World Of The Ink Machine

Chapter 2 - Walking with the Demon

As we stopped hugging, I looked up at him. He was looking sad. I didn't knew exactly why.

"Is something wrong, Bendy?", I asked him. He looked down at the floor.

"Is it about Henry and so?", I asked. He looked up at me, answering:

"Yes. You see, I thought Henry knew about us and also that he had betrayed us by leaving this studio. I thought he worked along with that traitor, Drew. But then you mentioned him, telling me that Joey tricked him. I then realized how stupid he was trusting him."

"Should I tell you something?"

Bendy nodded.

"It wasn't even the real Henry. It was only an ink-copy of him. Drew wanted to torture him in this cycle 'cause he blamed him of the studio's end. Not himself."

"I thought so. As we got captured by those Keepers, I saw Henry sometimes. They never gave him food. I thought he would die there because of hunger. Do you know, how I could make it better?"

"You can try asking him for forgiveness. I think he'll understand it. Even though he'll be shocked from it. He won't expect it to come out from you. {whisper} Neither I expected that."

"I'll try my best, but after we free him."

I nodded. I think it meant something for him to be forgiven by Henry. I don't know how Bendy feels towards Henry.

Before I even got here, I was thinking they could be in a father-son relationship, after this issue of this studio would be over. But how they actually would feel to each other after Henry would forgive Bendy is still a question and a matter of time. I just hope it'll end up positively.

It was then I felt an unknown aura. It felt dark, stinky and deadly. Since when can I feel auras?

I stopped thinking about it and a few minutes later, Bendy stood up and helped me get up. I took a glance of him. He looked much scarier and creepier in person, than in the game. I had creeps, but I thought, after some time this feeling would go away.

Bendy showed me with a gesture to follow him. I did what he showed me to do. I was next to him, still having creeps. We went towards the exit, as suddenly I remembered that here would break the floor.

I grabbed Bendy by his arm and told him not to go any further because of that. He seemed to believe me. He went to the big room where the projector, which was on earlier, but was now off somehow, grabbed a chair and threw it at the place where it should break.

As you can think, it actually broke.

We stared at the hallway from where we came from and saw a wave of ink coming from there.

That was different. In BATIM, the ink was supposed to come out from the ground and slowly fill up the room.

Here on the other hand, the ink just comes as a wave very fast.

"Shit."

We couldn't avoid it and we got pushed into the hole, falling into the fast filling ink, which made the landing safe. We couldn't lose much time. We had to turn the valve on as fast as we could, before we would drown. Bendy ran through the ink, I suppose it's because he's out of ink, and turned the valve on, making the inkdrown away.

I thanked him. He didn't respond to it. He looked like he was glad he did it on time. We calmed down, especially me. As all of this happened, I started panicking. I didn't showed it. Only my heart did. It was beating fast with fear.

After that, I noticed something. The ink wasn't on my clothes anymore as I thought it would.

"Why didn't the ink stay on my clothes?", I asked loud. I wasn't planning on finding an answer now. I turned to Bendy, who shrugged his shoulders. He didn't knew as well.

We went down the stairs and turned another two valves on. Each valve was on one floor. We didn't had to hurry 'cause the ink was no longer flowing out of nowhere. After the ink disappeared, we could open a door, that was at the end of the stairs.

In the room was on my left side a wall with the words written on it, saying THE CREATOR LIED TO US. If I would have the glass, that you get from Allison in chapter 5, I could have seen the words, saying JOEY LIED TO US.

It's so freaking true. He lied about the machine, about it's purpose, about that the characters, Bendy, Boris and Alice where his, even though they weren't. Henry was the one, who made them. Thomas Connor built the machine. There are many other reasons why Joey is a liar.

I looked at the table next to me. There was an axe laying on it. I grabbed it and freed the path in front of us. I felt so good to have a weapon in my hands. I felt almost unstoppable. Maybe 'cause I never had a weapon before.

We went through the hallway and found another door, this time boarded up. I cut the planks and we entered the new room.

On the floor was a pentagram, I suppose it's what you call it, and three coffins. Two of them leaned against the wall. In those was Norman's body and Grant's body. The third one layed on the ground. I don't know to who this one belonged.

I came closer to the pentagram. I wasn't paying attention of what Bendy was doing then, so I can't tell you ehat he did, but as soon as I touched the pentagram, I fell unconscious. I don't know what happened through the time.

I didn't saw any visions like in the game. Though I think, that only Henry has them. Why could we see them? We play as Henry in BATIM, so we automatically see through his eyes.

My head hurts. It doesn't stop. But I can feel something bad. What is it that my gut tries to tell me? I can feel that aura again. This aura...It feels evil.

As I woke up, I looked around the room where I was. I was at the infirmary. How did I get here? Did Bendy brought me here? Had he taken care of me, meanwhile doing almost all the things you have to do in chapter 2 of BATIM? And had he, if so, protected himself and me from the searchers on the way here?

If that's right, then he had done so much by himself. Poor Bendy. He must be tired right now wherever he is. The axe layed on the ground next tovthd bed where I was sitting.

"Where could he be?", I asked myself.

I thought I would look for him. I stood up, grabbed the axe and went down the stairs. The first place I was going to check was the utility shaft 9, which is located downstairs at the infirmary.

I went down the stairs and walked through the tunnel. As I approached the end of the tunnel, I was where Jack is being pinned down by a platform containing a box, that was controlled by two levers.

The lever on the left will raise the platform, while the lever on the right will drop it suddenly.

There I've found Bendy again, looking bored from the work he had done. Bendy noticed me standing in the room with them. He waved to me. I waved back, greeting him.

"Hi Bendy. What's up? How are you?"

"I'm good. But you should try to stay conscious for more than a half hour."

He giggled, by which I had to giggle as well. I was happy he was fine.

"Thank you for doing all of this and protecting me at the same time. It must have been hard for you, wasn't it?"

Bendy laughed at that one. He seemed to take it as a joke. As he finished, he answered:

"No. Not at all. It might have been harder, if I would be my previous self. Don't worry."

"Ohh. Ok. If you say so.", I said, smiling.