Impish Animator
A Bendy and the Ink Machine Story
Chapter 14: The Ram's Outta Here
It all happened way too fast for Boris, one moment they're walking to Joey's office, the next Henry had fallen into an ink puddle and hadn't yet come back up to the surface. Boris had tried reaching in, but Raquel was stopping him.
"But Henry-"
"You'll fall in too, and I'm not going to explain to the demon what happen-Boris!" Boris ignored the angelic ram and reached into the pool of ink and moved his arm around, hoping and praying that he wasn't too late. Raquel made an overdramatic sigh as Boris felt something strong grip his hand. Without even hesitating, Boris started to pull the thing out. "What in the sunny days?! Who is that?!" Boris again ignored the angel as he continued to pull before the no-longer-child-sized Henry out from the puddle, the two gasping and panting heavily. Raquel blinked slowly before starting to back up, conflicting thoughts and feelings starting to overwhelm the ram. He quickly turned on his heel and ran back to the last place he had saw Joey. Joey would know how to handle this situation.
Right?
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"Alice, please!" The slightly shorter dog-like toon whined as he tried shooing Alice's hands away from his ears. "I am still getting use to this blessing!" Alice pouted and a light blush emitted from the other toon before he mumbled. "Just please be gentle…" Alice squealed and continued to pet the dog's ears. Bendy rolled his eyes and Joey looked at him.
"Are you jealous of Sammy?" Bendy huffed.
"Pfft, please, as if I would be jealous of him! I just don't like Al being all touchy feely." Joey nodded slowly. "And you sure that Sammy remembering is going to be ok?"
"He only remembers bits and pieces of when the studio was running." Joey explained. "And admittedly I didn't have clue on fleshing out that character's backstory; budget cuts." Bendy nodded slowly. "And besides, you still have your scapegoat." Bendy mused on that for a moment as Joey looked at his machine; it was a shame that Henry couldn't see for himself what the machine could do, but then again, Henry had his own view of how things were in the world and often Joey had to remind Henry that the world was unfair and that it was essentially the world vs them. But Henry would always retort back with something positive that they were doing, be it the cartoons, the weather, heck he'd even use the excuse that his legs weren't hurting as much, just to be positive. If Henry wasn't so endearing as a friend, Joey might've been annoyed, but a part of Joey knew that wasn't true; Henry was and had been his only friend and Joey was terrified that Henry would one day betray him and leave him alone. Joey let out a shaky sigh, it was no longer time for those bitter memories; it was time to get the ritual ready and go into the machine and-
"Mr. Drew!" Everyone turned as Raquel rushed in, panting and his wings fluttering slightly. "T-There's a-Boris pulled out of-Tried telling him to not-"
"Whoa, slow down, Raq," Bendy said as Alice quickly walked over to the ram. "Deep breath, then tell us what's got your feathers in a ruff." Raquel shot a dirty look at Bendy before taking a deep breath and sighing.
"There's an older man that Boris had pulled from the ink that the child fell into….." Joey's face fell as Bendy growled deeply.
"Well, well, well….we better go introduce ourselves and get some answers from him."
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I have no idea how to end this, so suggestions would be greatly appreciated.