Ch. Resolution

"AAAWWWW Bendy do you have to go? Why can't I come along?" Sasha whines as Doctor Tige checks her injuries.

"Because you're hurt and I don't know what I would do if something else happened to you." Bendy says making her smile a little, "I appreciate the concern but I can handle myself." Sasha says sticking her tongue out at the little devil.

"I'm sorry Ms. Sasha but you aren't going anywhere with a concussion. Under doctor's orders you are to remain here for a couple of days so we can monitor you safely." She huffs as Bendy smiles shrugging, "Doctors orders Sasha." The fox frowns as she points to Karma.

"But she's hurt and she gets to go."

"Yes but I don't have a concussion." Karma says snickering at the disappointed diva.

"Fine but you better call me when you get to Toon Town."

"Sure thing sweetheart." Bendy says kissing Sasha's hand before waving goodbye.

"We better hurry guys if we want to get to the machine before they do." says a concerned Felix.

"Fine just go." Sasha pouts crossing her arms over her chest, Bendy winks at her.

"We'll call you, bye!" Felix says hurriedly shoving their little group out the door.

"I wonder how Cups and Mugs are doing." Karma sighs sadly.

"I'm sure they are fine, they are tough dudes. They can handle themselves. I'm sure they are doing just fine and that cups is thinking about how to get back to you right now." Bendy said placing a comforting hand on her shoulder squeezing it gently she smiles a little.

"Thanks Bendy, I'm sure your right….I just hope nothing's happened to them..."

"Me too…" Bendy whispers giving her a hug before catching up to Felix and Boris.

'Who knows what Black Hat's been doing to them…don't worry guys we are on our way!' He thinks worriedly keeping a close watch on Karma as she wipes away a stray tear.

"Alright everyone the next train to Toon Town should be here any minute, here are your tickets. We should be at the machine in the matter of a couple of hours…let's just hope the guys are ok and the machine is still in one piece." Felix says handing everyone their tickets, as the train roars into the station Felix grabs Karma's hand and squeezes it lightly. She smiles, nodding to him as she boards the train with Felix, Bendy and Boris close behind. They pick their seats and Bendy spots Karma sitting alone by a window as Boris and Felix sit in the next booth over.

"May I sit with you Karma?" Bendy asks drawing her gaze, she nods.

"Hey bendy…?"

"Yes?"

"How close are you to Sasha?" Karma asks glancing at Bendy, he face flushed with the sudden question making her giggle.

"Um….pretty close…"

"Do you love her?" Karma asks facing him fully, his face a deep red making her smirk as he looks away.

"W-Why do y-you ask?"

"Just curious…You two make a cute couple…" Karma says smiling a little bit as Bendy stares at her a little surprised, "She seems like the perfect fit for you. I mean you work off of one another really well especially when it comes to music…"

"Yea…what about Cups?" He asks trying to change the subject, her ears flatten.

"What about him?"

"Do you love him?" Karma's eyes widen with surprise as she turns back toward the window and nods trying to hold back tears.

"I-I do…and it hurts to know that he's in trouble and I can't do anything to help them…you know?" Bendy smiles sadly he gently places his hand on her cheek and wipes the tears away.

"I know and we'll get them back." He cups her face lightly making her look at him, her big blue eyes glassy and filled with tears, "We're going to get them back Karma…we're going to save them…we're going to save everyone and stop Black Hat." She remains quiet and nods, Bendy pulls her into a gentle embrace as Boris and Felix look over at them and chuckling. Bendy looks over at the two glaring as the two boys 'awwww' at them before Bendy lets go of the saddened fox. As they pull away Karma's ears twitch realizing that Boris and Felix were cooing at them she blushed and turned back toward the window watching as the landscape passed by.

"Now arriving at Toon Town Station." The conductor's voice rang overhead as their little group looked up at the ceiling of the train before catching a glimpse of Toon Town as the train rounds the bend.

"You ready?" Bendy asks as Boris and Felix join them, Karma sighs and nods.

"Let's do this."

As the little group leaves the station, they notice that it's really quiet and then all at once they hear screaming coming from the area where the arena is. People are running past in a panic and Felix stops them.

"Hey, what's going on?"

"T-There are demons tearing up the arena!" Felix looks at Bendy; Boris comforts Karma as she starts to cry.

"What did he do to them?" Felix says under his breath.

"We need to get over there pronto!"

~Fast Forward to the Arena~

Inside the arena darkness reigned, lights were broken as claw marks streaked across every wall. Karma huddled close to Felix as Boris and Bendy led the way, evil laughter echoed through the corridors as they walked closer to the arena center.

"Well, well, well….it looks like we have visitors' boys." Black Hat says smirking from the stage as Mugs and Cups turn around to see the new intruders. They both have evil grins on their faces, their friends are horrified.

"Well, boys lets have some fun….go play." Black Hat smirked as Cups fired up his gun and Mugs cracked his knuckles.

(fight scene)

Bendy's eyes glow red as his body begins to shift, Boris and Felix positions themselves to fight as Karma clenches her fists lighting them on fire.

Cups smiled and fires.

Mugs smirks and disappears.

Bendy makes a run for Black Hat on the stage but Mugs appears out of nowhere punching him into a wall.

The cement breaks and falls to the floor with Bendy's body.

Karma snaps her fingers creating a ring of fire at the young boy's feet.

He growls.

Cups runs after Boris as he darts through a nearby doorway.

Echoing laughter bounce off the walls as a broken light dangles down from the ceiling.

Flickering lights plunge the hallway in darkness as Boris rounds a corner grabbing a broken beam as he hides around the corner.

Cups fires up his hand again. He rounds the corner. Boris slams him in the stomach with a large metal beam knocking him to his feet before darting back to the center ring.

Sitting up he spits as the taste of bronzed nickel filled his mouth. Standing up he screeched. He was pissed.

Wiping his mouth he dashed through the doors he had before cornering Boris as he made for another run.

Boris was trapped.

He took a step back. Cups took one step forward.

The young wolf gulped as his back pressed against a set of broken bleachers.

He smiled.

Raising a clawed hand he went to strike.

A flamed fist punched him into a wall. His cheek was cracked.

Boris runs off as Karma took his place.

"Wanna dance big boy? Let's dance." Karma smirked.

Cups lunged forward with a clawed hand.

She ducked out of the way.

He swiped at her catching her back. She yelped. He smirked.

She ran to Felix nodding as she did so. He punched Mugman in the face and darted the other way.

Mugman caught himself, grabbing Bendy as he did so. He threw him into Karma knocking her on the ground and into Cups' path of destruction.

Her ears rang. A searing pain pulsed in her right ear. She opened her eyes and was face to face with Cups.

He smiled.

She dodged.

He missed.

Black Hat's smirk wavered as the boys suddenly disappeared from view. He was not pleased.

Cups grabbed her tail and flung her out of the smoke and into the third row bleachers. She coughed, trying to catch her breath.

Mugman appeared and punched her through the floor into the lower level below.

Twisting metal broke underneath her as she collided with broken beams and solid concrete. He laughed. She cried.

Cups emerged from the smoke. Black Hat grins for a moment and directs Cup to go help his brother.

Cups picks up Bendy and throws him against the bleachers.

Bendy plays dead.

Cup runs over to help Mugs. Tap, tap, tap, tap, his feet tap loudly as the soles of his shoes smack the concrete.

Mugman jumps down into the lower level with the weak fox. Grabbing her collar he throws her into a wall, a sickening crack echoes.

She winces holding her arm. Mugs smiles cracking his knuckles again, she backs away.

Bendy bolts for Black Hat.

Cups disappears from his brother and hang lines Bendy.

He coughs.

He smirks slashing Bendy.

He dodged.

He missed.

Felix throws something at Cups diverting his attention.

Mugs forces Karma against a wall. His hand squeezing tightly around her neck, she can't breathe.

"Mugman!" Black Hat calls, he jumps back onto the main floor with Karma still in hand.

Bendy dodges a hit as Cups comes after him again.

SLASH!

Direct hit.

Boris signals Felix.

Felix kicks Mugs, he drops her.

Boris swings a broken beam slamming Mugman into a wall.

Mugs is down.

Karma coughs wheezing as she tries to catch her breath but it's not over yet. Black Hat huffs at the sight of Mugman down.

Cups notices but is drawn away from his brother.

'MUGS!' Cup internally cries as his body is called away.

Standing before Black Hat, Cups takes a defensive stance to protect his master.

Bendy looks around at their battered group and nods to Karma, she nods back flaring up a ring of fire around Cups' feet.

Boris runs to fix the machine as Felix runs off toward another part of the arena.

"Cups please you don't have to do this." Karma pleads with Cups standing firm in his position, his eyes narrow at the fox.

They're locked on target.

A solitary tear slides down his face as he jumps through the fire and slashes at her.

She jumps back.

He missed.

As Karma leads Cup around Felix unhooks a hanging light and throws it at Black Hat.

SLASH

The light is gone and but he has Black Hat's attention.

Black Hat grins and lashes out at Felix, he misses and Bendy replaces Felix as he slams a large inky fist into the man.

Black Hat stumbles back and for a second he loses control over Cups but he lets go of Mugs.

Karma's eyes widen when she sees the momentary break before getting punched into a wall. She cries out and He powers up his hand gun pointing it at her head.

She dodges and Felix tackles him causing him to lose balance and shoot at the ceiling. A piece of debris hits Black Hat in the head and he glares at Cups.

He shrugs and Cups is suddenly thrown into the same wall he just threw Karma to.

Bendy's eyes glow bright red, as he slashes at Black Hat who dodges and catches the young devil on his back.

He yelps.

Black Hat smirks.

He growls and goes for another hit knocking Black Hat off the stage.

Black Hat slashes again toward Bendy but he grabs his hand and throws the madman into the ceiling causing the already unstable roofing to creak and shift.

Bendy sees the shifting material and uses it to his advantage.

Black Hat smirks for a moment before surprise overtakes him.

As ink dripped from his body, Bendy held him down with all his might until a loose beam fell.

At the last second Bendy rolled out of the way as the beam impaled Black Hat.

He coughed blood and laughed.

"You think you're rid of me? You'll never be rid of me!" Black Hat smirked looking at Cups who had just thrown Karma into another wall and had his hand glowing blue.

Bendy and Felix's eyes widened.

Cups fired.

He laughed.

Cups turned back to normal.

Direct hit.

She screamed.

He fell.

Bendy using the last of his power drowned Black Hat in ink before passing out and falling to the ground covered in the sticky mixture.

"BENDY! KARMA!" Felix exclaims as Boris comes running up from the machine with a smile on his face.

"Felix I fixed it! The Ink Machine is working!" Felix smiles weakly, tears brimming as he nods.

"B-Boris we need to get them down to the m-machine." Boris's face pales as Felix points to Bendy as he carefully picks up Karma.

Boris runs over to where Bendy is laying, he sees the large gash in his back, he gently turns him over and notice his brother's eyes are closed.

"No…no…NO! BENDY YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DIE!" Boris cries as he hurriedly picked him up and runs back to the machine with Felix following close behind.

Boris kicks on the machine and holds Bendy under the ink that flows making his body glow a soft blue before fading back to normal. Boris moves aside so Felix could put Karma into the mixture and she glows a soft red before fading back to normal, the two look at one another solemnly.

"Come on we need to get everyone out of here." Felix said placing a gentle hand on Boris's shoulder as he stands cradling his cousin. Boris nods teary eyed and follows Felix back up to the first floor after turning off the machine.

Back in the arena the boys look sadly at the mess, the ceiling has a large hole in it and each wall has a large whole or cracks running along the rims down to the floor. Mugs is laying not far from the hole in the floor where he punched Karma through concrete, his face is bloodied a little with a few bruises and cuts on his body he lays unconscious. His vibrant blue eyes closed tight. Cup on the other hand is not as lucky. He is unconscious as well with a large crack running along the right side of his face down to his chin; large gashes litter his body as broken bones lay untreated and bruised. Blisters develop on his shoulders and arms from where Karma's fire hit him; his breathing is labored and rigged.

Sirens sound outside in a slow wail as Mickey and Oswald appear at the entrance with paramedics and police, Felix sighs sadly as he looks down into the sleeping face of his cousin. Blood dripping through his paws as he tries his best to cradle her blast wound, gashes and scrapes cover her from head to toe with a couple on her face, her white fur being stained red as he holds her.

"FELIX! BORIS!" Mickey called out as him and Oswald ran over to help. Boris is in tears as he holds Bendy's unconscious body in his arms.

"W-What happened? Is everyone ok?" Mickey asks worriedly as a paramedic rushes to Cuphead's side as his partner runs to Mugman.

"We had to fight against Black Hat and Cuphead and Mugman, who was under his control…B-Bendy over powered himself." He paused as the paramedics rushed passed with stretchers with the boys on them as another ambulance showed up. "Boris fixed the machine in time so Bendy and Karma don't have it anymore…" Felix explains as a paramedic gently takes Karma out of his grasp while another takes Bendy and rushes them back to the hospital.

~Time Skip a few hours later~

A soft sigh is heard as Mugman is the first of the group to open his eyes, he squints at the bright light for a second before he adjusts. His eyes are back to a stunning blue as he surveys the room around him. A long blue sheet is hanging from the ceiling with a soft beep of a heart monitor being muffled from behind. He groans as he tries to sit up, feeling bits of pain here and there but nothing he couldn't get passed.

"H-Hello?" Mugs asks getting out of bed, curiosity gets the better of him as he cautiously and quietly draws back the curtain revealing his brother passed out on the bed behind it. His eyes widened in shock as he dropped the curtain and stared at his brother, Cups had several machines hooked up to him with medicine and different colored liquids flowing into him. Beside him the heart monitor beeped every few seconds saying that he's alive, bandages covered the young cup from head to toe as his leg was in a cast and up on a sling. He breathed very shallowly but breathed all the same, Mugs stood in such shock that he didn't notice a familiar fox come up from behind him.

"Mugs, honey are you alright?" Sasha asked lightly patting him on the shoulder, he shook his head and the water works started. His shoulders began to shake as the tears flowed down his face, his heart was broken.

"N-No…I-I'm not alright," He whimpers as Sasha pulls him for a hug, "I-I did this to him."

"No you didn't sweetie, Black Hat did." She paused stroking his back trying to get him to calm down, "None of this is your fault."

"N-No I did it….w-when he was controlling me…I was under his control but saw and heard everything….C-Cups….he was just trying to help…..b-but…" He starts to sob as Sasha led him away from Cups and into the hallway; "He made me hurt him…..a-and I-I'm the reason he's like that…"

"He's going to be okay Mugs, they all are. Come on let's go see your friends." Sasha said just as Raully and Nurse Fanny walked out of Karma's room closing the door softly behind them.

"How is she?" Sasha asked sighing, she patted Mugs' shoulder as they began to talk.

"Well she's stable, the blast wound to her shoulder took a lot out of her but Fanny here says she should be awake within the next few hours. Although…" He sighs and Fanny softly places her hand on his shoulder, he reaches up and grasps it lightly.

"She no longer has the ink illness but her color loss is permanent. And there's no way to get it back." Sasha nods and Mugs starts to cry again, "C-Can we see her?"

Fanny gives Mugs a hug and nods before quietly turning and opening the door to Karma's room. Her room was a lot smaller than his and Cups, since it was just her in there she a little bit more room to move around if she wanted. She was fast asleep hooked up to a heart monitor machine as well, but she didn't look near as bad as Cup. Her left arm was bandaged and in a sling with a couple smaller bandages on her cheeks, her chest was wrapped up in bloody bandages but that was the extent of it. Mugs sighed sadly remembering back a few hours ago when he threw her around like a ragdoll, he looked down and was about to turn to leave when a light cough caught his attention. Sasha gasped making him turn around to see a very tired fox starring at him, she smiled lightly.

"H-Hey Mugs, what's up?" He started to cry as he walked over to her and blubbered numerous apologies.

"I'm s-so s-sorry Karma! I-I…w-we…I'm so sorry!" He bowed his head and shame and cried, she smiled and gently tugged him down to her level and gave him a soft embrace.

"Shhh shhh…none of this was your fault Mugs, all that matters is that everyone is okay." His looked up with large eyes and nodded as she just let him cry into her shoulder, Sasha smiled softly and left the room.

"Hey Fanny! Can I get up yet?!" Karma yelled out to the hall where the bunny was standing, she sighed smiling. Let me get you a wheelchair and you can move around.

"But my legs are fine." She whined and Fanny shook her head wheeling in the chair with a happy Raully and Felix following.

"Hey look who I found wandering around the floor." Raully chuckled as Felix appeared beside him and waved excitedly smiling, happy to see his cousin was finally awake. The cat walked over to her bedside and gently helped Fanny move her down to her chair before kneeling down and hugging her softly. After a moment he stood up and gave Mugs a hug and a friendly smile.

"Come on let's go see the others. Boris, Mickey and Oswald are all in Bendy's room." Felix smiled lightly and wheeled the fox to the next room down, Boris was asleep in a chair by Bendy's beside and Mickey and Oswald was sitting on the couch watching TV.

"Oh so you'll chill in Bendy's room and not mine? I see how it is." Karma said sarcastically drawing their attention.

"KARMA! YOU'RE AWAKE!" Felix and Mugs chuckled as Mickey and Oswald bombarded her with hugs, she laughed and hugged back before glancing worriedly at the sleeping devil on the bed.

"How are they doing?" Boris had tear stains on his cheek but had yet to stir as Bendy rested peacefully with his eyes closed.

"Boris hasn't left his side since we go here a few hours ago. Poor dear must have cried himself to sleep." Sasha said appearing behind the little group, she sighed sadly. "He hasn't woken up yet and Boris is worried that he might not." The fox wiped a stray tear away from her cheek as she bent down and gave Karma a gentle hug around the shoulders.

"He's a tough cookie, there's no way he'd go down that easily." Karma said patting her shoulders as she stood back up. The room was silent for a while when Boris began to stir, "K-Karma?"

Karma's ears perked up at her name and turned toward the sleepy wolf, she smiled and rolled over to him. "Hey sweet pea how you doin'?" He smiled sadly and sat up stretching before laying his head back down on the bedside.

"I'm happy to see you're alright and Mugs…I'm happy you're back to normal." Mugs and Boris share a sad smile. Mugs looks down and nods, "I'm happy to see you're alright Boris…I'm sorry about what happened."

Mugs began to cry again, Boris looked down as well before standing up and pulling his friend into a tight embrace. "It's okay Mugs none of this was your guys' fault. Black Hat is gone and we don't need to worry about him anymore." Mugs nodded and happily hugged him back before sighing.

"I-I'm going back to my room…"Mugs glanced at Karma and she nodded, "I'll come to. I want to see how Cups is doing." He nodded lightly and with a solemn face left the room.

*Ch. 10 End*