Chapter 1: Pilot

Hey there, boys and girls! Ladies and gentlemen! I'm Captain Cole!

You may know me from such episodes of 'Bendy the Dancing Demon' as 'Bendy in The Great Cape Caper' and 'Bendy in Fright Or Flight' presented on Sillyvision!

This is my exciting origin story! You all know me, right? I'm the dashing hero designed to fight that dastardly devil Bendy! Ooooooooh, he gets me all riled up with his cheeky antics, that Bendy!

So! Are you sitting comfortably? Do you have enough popcorn? Great! Then relax, and let me tell you my tale...

I was first conceived by a wonderful young lady named Emily Walters! She's my creator! She initially started work as a humble helper for the company. Y'know, making coffee and stuff! But she had biiiiiiiiiig ambitions! She wanted to make it in the animation industry! But to even start dreaming about all that fancy stuff, she needed to get the top guys attention! She needed to hit 'em with a bid idea that would really wow them!

So, she made me! Yaaaaaaaaaaay! I was just a simple little hand drawing on a scrap of paper at the time. Emily wasn't very good at drawing, so I came out a little messy, but she still spent hours and hours designing me and working on me. Good gum, I could feel all her love just pouring into me! She even spent ages just trying to decide on my name! I'm glad she gave me the one she did!

Emily presented me to Mr. Drew the day after she finished in a super special pitch, and Mr. Drew loved her idea, a.k.a, me! And I was gonna be put on the show, and that meant Emily could help out with episodes!

...Uh...heh...yeah, thing is. Um...know how I said I was a hero? well, that kinda makes me the...villain of the story. Because, y'know, Bendy is the lovable little imp, right? Emily did have that purpose for me when she designed me, so I still like it, it's just kind of a downer remembering it. But I play a great villain! Some changes had to be made to my personality to fit the supposed bad guy role. I was supposed to be more vain, a bit more pompous...y'know, that kinda thing. It wasn't so bad, and if I could be a star, then it was fine by Emily!

I got a whole new, super design as well! Of course, I have the same gloves and eyes as all the other characters, and a super big, confident smile! I've also got a big 'C' badge in a diamond on my chest, and on my head I've got my black helmet with my big round goggles! And you know my favorite thing? It's my scarf! it's super long and the two ends always flutter behind me, even when there's no wind blowing! because that's how...uh...vain I'm supposed to be.

I had a super cool design, a part on the show, and a voice actor! I was so super duper psyched for my first episode! It was one just to introduce me as well! It was 'Bendy vs. Captain Cole'! You remember it, don't you? I mean, you HAD to have seen it, right?

But anyway, that was my first role, and my first time really acting! That was the first time I also met him as well...Bendy.

We met on storyboards prior to the animation starting. he seemed like a really nice guy. Sure he was a bit annoying at times what with all the tricks he pulled, but he was always happy and loved to make folks laugh! It wasn't long after that when our story was all planned out and we were getting animated.

Now, juuuuuuuuuuuust in case you didn't see the episode (but you totally did, right?) it started out as any normal Bendy episode, with him just causing mischief. In this one, he had just stolen a whole batch of pies from a salesman, and this was my big entrance!

"Stop right there, villain!" I cried as I jumped into the frame.

"Waaaah!" Bendy cried out, throwing his last three pies into the air, and having to catch them by assuming a comical position to catch them all. "Who are you?"

"Who am I? How could you not know who I am?" My voice actor said it in this really...stuck-up, voice, so I had to follow suite. "I am Captain Cole! Defeater of bad guys! Rescuer of cats in trees! Handsome hero all round!" Then I had to pull out my hand mirror out of my pocket and flash myself a grin, a little star shining in my teeth before I put it back. I didn't like that mirror.

"Cap'n? What are you cap'n of?" Bendy asked on cue.

"It's 'Captain', and a title, you foolish fiend." I berated him. "But anyway! You stole those pies from that citizen!" I then snapped my fingers and held out my hand. "Give them to me so that I may return them!"

Bendy looked down at his pies, then at me. "Give 'em to you?"

"Indeed." I nodded.

"...Okey-dokey!" I would then brace myself as he splatted one of them in my face, having to remain stone shocked still as he stuffed the other two in his mouth and run off. I would then shake my head frantically to throw off the cream.

"Come back here you dastardly devil!" That. that right there. That was my catchphrase. My 'scwewy wabbit'. I basically had to say it every episode I was in. Anyway, I ran after him, only for him to hide behind an impossibly thin tree, and for me to screech to a halt and look around annoyed. "Where did he go?" I would huff in an annoyed manner.

Then, as I was looking around, he would pop out behind me and blow a raspberry, making me whip my head around only to find nothing there. "I know you're here!" I cried out, as he appeared behind me again and hit a whoopee cushion, making me jerk up. "Stop messing around you irritating imp!" Now, I'm sure you guys know the rule of three joke, well, the third time he popped around behind him, he straight up kicked me in my caboose, making me fly forward with my goggles covering my eyes as plane noises played in the background, watching as I 'flew' across the ground from the force of the kick and making me crash into a tree, upon which two eggs would crack over my goggles, making it look like I had eggs for eyes.

I obviously don't need to tell you the rest of the episode, right? It was such a cracking good watch, you couldn't have missed it! It was a big success! I was a good character! I was part of the Sillyvision crew!

From then on, I appeared in more episodes, I had a whole tone of appearances, I appeared on plenty of storyboards and character reference sheets, I felt like a celebrity! I got to meet Boris and Alice, boy golly, it was like a dream come true!

Of course, I would always have time for Emily. She carried a little drawing of me wherever she went, so I could see her whenever I wanted.

Sometimes, late at night, she'd pull me out and talk to me. She'd talk to me about all her hopes and dreams, how she wanted to start her own cartoon, and how she had all these ideas in her head. Occasionally she'd tell me whole episodes she had lined up, and described each sound effect in explicit detail. And then she'd laugh and call herself silly for talking to a picture. Yet I didn't mind. I loved hearing to her talk, about her dreams, her ambitions, because she made me into what I was then.

...Unfortunately...I'm reminiscing on golden days.

Things...began to happen. Mr. Drew began acting weird, hiding himself away, mumbling to himself, locking doors. Then Bendy went missing, which I thought was impossible, there were pictures of him everywhere! But each one I saw, I couldn't feel his presence, he just remained lifeless. Then, these pipes began appearing all throughout the studio. They were big, ugly, pulsating tubes that pumped non-stop, like the veins of some kind of creature. Boris and Alice followed shortly after...then even people in the studio began to disappear...I didn't know if they were leaving or if it was...something else.

One night, Emily talked to me again. She told me how worried she was about all the things going on, and that she was a little scared. She said she was going to talk to Mr. Drew tomorrow about leaving, even though she wasn't confident enough to start on her own yet. It had become SUPER scary. For both of us.

The next day, I felt utterly alone. I didn't want to intrude on her, it felt like she had to do it alone...but at the same time, I was so lonely...so empty.

Then I heard her scream. It echoed throughout the walls. I panicked. I went over to her little picture of me as fast as I could.

But she wasn't holding me. I was on the ground. Had she dropped my picture? Where was I anyway? I looked around as best I could from within my small space. I seemed to be in a circle, it was painted on the ground in ink. It had candles around it as well, and it looked like it had a star in the middle of it. I'd never seen anything like it before. Then I heard her scream again.

"Emily!" I pushed against the edge of my paper. She was in trouble! I had to do something! Anything! I was frantic, I didn't know what to do!

Then, I felt something splash onto me. Something heavy too. It was ink. I was completely splattered in the dark, familiar liquid, and that solid...something. At the time, i didn't know if it was a broken pipe or some divine intervention, but i had to help Emily right away.

Using as much strength as I could muster, I pushed against the paper, and I could feel it melt away. I was pushing myself upwards, the ink around me clinging to me, forming around me, molding me. I was rising up, up out of that darkness. I was being born.

I rose up, the sound of splattering and spitting echoing around as I was formed. It was...odd, to say the least. I felt different...whole, yet also uncomfortable.

I tried to move my arms, but I found I couldn't. I looked down and found that they were stuck to my sides with ink, the 'C' on my chest had melted into a mess, as I also felt ink drip down from my forehead, making my goggles stick themselves to my eyes. My scarf somehow pulled through, but big black ink splotches had stuck to the ends, and they fell limp behind me in the black liquid.

I tried to take careful steps. it was hard, I wobbled a lot, but I could do it. I was walking, existing, in this plane of existence. Moving, breathing, feeling...

The scream resounded a third time, and I instantly remembered the situation. I ran forward, looking around desperately.

"E...Eeeeee...!" I tried to speak, finding it difficult. "Eeeee...Eeeemiiiiilyyyyy! Emiiiiiilyyyyy!"

A fourth scream. To the right of me. I ran down the corridor as fast as I could, only to screech to a halt at what I saw.

The entire floor was flooded with ink. Big, gloopy black ink that looked like it would swallow me whole, as the walls were smeared with it, the walls oozed it from those pipes that crawled across every surface.

And in the center of this swamp of darkness, I could see her in the middle. Emily. She had short, light brown hair in a nice little bob cut, now splattered with black, and clear blue eyes stricken with fear as her t-shirt and jeans were drenched in ink.

Holding her by the neck was...I initially didn't know what it was, and I didn't want to believe what I had the tiniest hint it could've been. It looked like a monster melting as ink covered its entire body. All that could be seen was a recognizable cheeky grin.

"...B...Bendy?" I managed to speak.

It turned to look at me, as well as Emily. "Oh...god...Cole?" Emily asked.

"Emily!" I gasped as it stepped towards me, making me step back out of pure fear. Ink dripped from its body like blood as it moved towards me, still holding Emily. I had to question whether this was really Bendy or not.

"Ah...Aaaaahhhhhh!" Emily screamed as its grip seemingly tightened.

"Emily!" I cried out desperately. I had to save her! I was Captain Cole! What kind of hero was I if I couldn't save the person who made me!?

I don't know if it was pure will, or some other force, bu the ink on the ends of my scarf molded itself into sharp, dark claws, and I could suddenly move my scarf ends as if they were my own arms. Thinking quickly, I jumped forward and pushed into its chest using one of my new arms, making it drop Emily as I shoved it all the way to the back of the room and pinned it against the wall.

"Are you...really Bendy?" I tired to study it as it thrashed around in my grip, and Emily picked herself up out of the ink, coughing violently. I looked back at her. "Emily! Run!" She stumbled for a second, but then turned and began running.

However, 'Bendy' sank into the ink out of my grip, and resurfaced in front of me, making her scream! "Emily!" Thinking quickly I jumped back and slashed forward with one of my claws, making it sink back into the ink. I then used my arms to pick her up bridal style. "Don't worry, Emily, I've got you!"

"You're...Cole...my Captain Cole..." She breathed, obviously traumatized.

"Yeah. Don't worry, I'm gonna get you to safety!" I began running through the corridors, looking for the exit.

"How can you be here...how is any of this possible?" She panted.

"I don't know." I told her. "Don't talk, you need your energy."

At that, she gave a weak laugh. "You...you have the personality I wanted for you...not that stupid stuck-up one."

"Of course. You made me like that." I told her.

"...But god...what happened to you?" She asked.

I looked down at my condition. "I must've messed up or something...all I wanted to do was save you."

"...Why?" She asked.

"You made me." I gave a toothy smile. "And I loved all the stories you told me at night.

"Oh god...you heard those?" She chuckled lightly. "...That's embarrassing..."

"I loved them." I told her, making her smile.

Suddenly, we heard crashing behind us. "Oh god, it's coming!" Emily instinctively grabbed my chest, only to recoil at the ink melting on her.

I ran as fast as my legs would allow, until we made it into the main hall. "The exit is over there!" I ran towards it, only to trip and drop Emily as ink formed around my legs and sucked me in.

"Cole!" Emily had also been caught by ink.

"Emily!" I desperately tried to pull myself out, but to no avail.

The thing emerged in between us, smiling down at our misery.

"Cole! It's pulling me in!" Emily shrieked as she clawed at thew ground.

"Emily! Hold on, Emily! I'll come save you!" I again pulled, but nothing budged. "Come on! Move!"

"Cole! Cooooo-!" I could only watch as the ink pulled her into the ground, swallowing her up completely.

"EMILY!" I screamed as the ink pulled me in further. "Nooooooo! Emily! Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!" I pressed my scarf arms against the ground, and using all of my strength I pushed upwards and erupted out of the ink. "What did you do to her!?" I slashed at it, only for it to sink into the ink again. "Give her back!" I smashed my arms into the ground, making ink splatter everywhere. "Give Emily back!" I smashed the ground again in anger.

"Emily...Emily..." I fell to my knees as something began to leak from my eyes. It was ink. It was all ink. I was completely surrounded by liquified darkness.

"Emilyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!" I cried in sorrow as I fell to my knees and began sobbing violently.

And that's my story! The origin story of Captain Cole! Exciting, isn't it!? Sorry if any of you younger viewers got scared by that, should have mentioned that...

After I lost Emily...I retreated back into the darkest corners of the studio, to look for that thing that was 'Bendy'...

But I won't say what I was gonna do to it. I'm a kids cartoon after all!

...Emily didn't really say 'oh god' to be honest...she was a lot more sweary...

Because she was scared...very, very scared...

Emily...

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