"Clearly you don't remember anything" Henry stated
Sammy shuffled towards and almost fell onto Henry, who caught him just in time, and had him use his arm as support.
"Look, Joey found out how to do some crazy ass things and long story short it trapped dozens of employees souls including us in some weird version of the studio. He also kept me trapped in some sort of loop and after a few dozen attempts I managed to break out of it, now we're gonna make our way back up to the exit and give him what he deserves"
Despite Henrys help Sam gave him his signature glare from when he used to work at the studio and Henry introduced the group. Sammy recognized Allison Pendle immediately since she wasn't drastically changed from when she worked in the studio as a voice actor, he had a a bit of a harder time recognizing Tom though.
"And...who" Sam gestures vaguely to Thomas, both of their pie cut irises meeting.
"Thomas Connor, have you ever gotten a chance to meet him before?" Henry said
"Why should I even be surprised at this point, I can't exactly forget the mechanic who had to build that goddamn machine" Sam replied, eyebrows raised as he started at Tom.
'And I heard you were quite the grade A asshole, but I guess those rumors were blown a bit out of proportion, also I didn't know what I was getting into' Tom signed, scowling.
"Why did he wave his hands around?" Sam looked to Henry
"He's mute now, and he's using sign language" he explained as Tom was now glaring at Sammy. "He pretty much said that it wasn't his choice and didn't know what he was getting into".
"Oh...sorry about that" muttered Sam. Tom deemed it a good enough apology, and made a noise some where between a grunt and a growl to indicate he accepted it. The wolf man then stopped glaring but he still had that ever present scowl.
"Okay enough with all this junk, ain't we suppose' to be goin somewhere? Ya know, the whole we gotta escape from tha studio an' kick the ol' geezers ass plan?" Bendy loudly proclaimed, standing in between Sammy and Henry, snapping his fingers.
The little demon was tapping one of his hooved feet impatiently. He wasn't paid much attention until now since he was extremely short, coming up to the midway point of almost everyone's torsos, except Henry who towered over everyone. Short tail ending in an arrow tip swishing impatiently, pie cut eyes with black sclera and white irises looking between the two men. His widows peek furrowed, functioning as eyebrows. He looked like a child, swimming in Henry's ill fitting sweater.
"Bendys right, we need to get back on track" Allison said
She walked to and inspected the boat she and Tom used while ago next to the docks. Bendy motioned for Tom to follow as he joined Allison fixing up the paddle wheel and engine on the boat. When Henry joined in he made sure the engine wouldn't give out midway through the trip, since he didn't want a repeat of the giant inky hand thing in the river chasing him as his boats paddle wheel kept getting stuck. He shivered at the thought of the panic that would've happened. They put on the finishing touches and pushed the thing into the small murky harbor.
They all climbed in and there was a tense silence, waiting for something to happen, the only sound being the humming of the motor and the splashing of the paddle wheel. They rounded a few corners in the ink filled tunnel and all seemed well. But as the barge, their destination, came within sight a loud eerie groan rang out a little too close for comfort. Everyone silently panicked, Sammy not so much, Toms scruff bristled, a fierce growl ripped out of his throat as he swiftly pulled out an axe.
With a loud splash the large ink swollen hand emerged taking hold of the boat, jostling its passengers, even with full acceleration from Henry it wouldn't budge.
Tom without hesitation planted a few good wacks from his axe and it immediately let go, sinking into the river, making the boat practically go straight into the barge. Everyone scrambled out of the boat to the safety of the shore as the hand came back and dragged the boat down to the depths of the river.
After everyone was throughly shaken up, especially Sammy, they made their way down another hallway that ended in Tom and Allison's now abandoned safe house.
"I'm sorry we couldn't explain sooner but there are some dangerous things down here" Allison said to Sammy as she, Thomas, and Henry were tearing down dozens of boards, revealing a passage way off to the side.
Tom then tossed Sam a particularly long and slim board with nails coming out the end, he nodded to him silently thanking him for the weapon. Once the passage was cleared they made their way down the dim hallway that was now unobscured.
"Hey, if Sammy is normal now maybe we could check other spots, see if there's anyone else" Bendy suggested, who was once again latched onto Henry's back.
"We should probably do that, god knows how much they'll panic when they wake up considering how Sammy reacted, they might not even remember much from here" Henry agreed
They continued walking occasionally clearing crates or other debris, and going either right or left when encountering a fork in the road with the help of Tom and Allison who knew the layout well. Soon enough they were at the exit of the haunted house ride in Bendy Hell. Since there weren't any clear paths to get to the other end of the ride they had to walk though it. They paused in the ball room area, dusty, brightly lit, and open where Henry was forced to fight Boris, and found a familiar bubbling, human shaped lump of ink. Everyone looked at one another, agreed to a game of Rock Paper Scissors to resolve the small dilemma and Henry had to poke it this time. He was given a axe handle which was found during the walk there and practically shoved towards the mound, after all if his memory wasn't screwy this was Susie or "Alice" as she so frantically wanted to be. He sighed, for he always had to do most of the work.
"Please don't attack me please don't attack me" he whispered as he poked her with the butt end of the handle, after a few moments he picked her up a did the same thing he did with Sammy. He wiped the ink off her and helped her puke up most the ink in her system, although it was a bit more nasty. Mainly because she used a lot of chunky/ thick ink in order to try and become a "perfect" Alice Angel. Henry grimaced at the sight of what she managed to expel.
She still had her ragged black dress with the spaghetti straps and bow, along with her horns, halo partially in her head, and a pair of small, sickly, damaged wings. But the right side of her face, which used to look like it was melting, is now left with it being scarred and slightly sagged. It seamed her right eye was beyond saving though since it's pretty much missing, leaving an ink stain on her eye socket and upper and lower lid.
"Welcome back" Henry said solemnly as she started waking up
{{authors note: sorry if this is a bit short}}
