"DID YOU FUCKING SEE THAT?!"

Boris nodded his head slightly, though for a second you thought you saw a faint look of concern on his face. It was hard to tell, though, seeing as his facial expressions couldn't exactly change. Pressing your lips into a thin line you turned and went back to the lever, pulling it down to send electricity out to the door. Boris motioned to you and, still clutching the pipe, you hopped over the now deceased member of the butcher gang and followed him, rejoining Henry to go through the now opened door. Boris led the two of you into a hallway and down a set of stairs that led to the bathrooms, a few more work rooms, and lastly, the elevator. So, this was wear you were supposed to go? You glanced up at Henry, not wanting to admit out loud that you were scared. He reached out and gripped your shoulder with his popeye-escue toon hands and gave a gentle, reassuring squeeze before stepping into the elevator first. Taking a deep breath you followed, and last was Boris. Henry barely had the chance to close the elevator behind you when Alice's voice came from...somewhere. Maybe speakers installed in the walls? You couldn't be sure...

"You're so interesting. So...different."

Her voice got under your skin, but the more she spoke the more you thought you were right. This didn't sound like Susie, not in the least. This had to be Allison, or someone else..

"I have to say, I'm an instant fan. Look's like you've got a date with an angel!"

At the last minute her voice changed, from the somewhat seductive voice she normally spoke with to the high pitched voice of, well, Alice Angel.

"Come to me now. level nine. Just follow the screams."

Oh, that did not make you feel any better. Not in the damn least. You found yourself scooting closer to Henry and holding onto his pants leg as he hit the button to take the three of you down to level nine. By now your ink had dried, and could not further toonify him with a touch. The elevator creaked as it lurched downward and began its descent further into what you could only describe as hell on earth. The ride was silent except for the sound of your and Henry's breathing. When the elevator finally came to a stop and the chain doors opened Alice spoke once again. "Come on, step out of your cage. There's a whole twisted world out here." Still holding onto Henry you stepped out of the elevator. It looked like a sort of two area room with stairs leading both down below and back up to the higher floors. You took the stairs to your left and came to a stop when you found a recorder perched on a shelf. By now you were accustomed to these, and reached out to press play. You instantly recognized the gruff, almost growling voice of Thomas Conner, whom you had met only briefly before quitting.

"These blasted elevators...

Sometimes they open...sometimes they don't...

Sometimes they come...
Sometimes they keep on going to hell and back.

I keep telling these people, if Mister Joey Drew

keeps cutting corners like this,

someone's sure to end up falling to their death.

And it ain't gonna be me.

I'm taking the stairs."

You took a mental note to listen to Mr. Conner's advice. From now on, it was the stairs only, if you could help it.

Also, why the heck was everyone just..leaving these things around?

Glancing around you saw this giant door, and over it was a HUGE bust of Alice angel holding a scroll that read: She's quite a gal! You rolled your eyes and then blinked as Boris just...waltzed right up to it. You followed him silently and Henry trailed after you. The doors screeched open, and somehow it caused the ground to shake slightly. The minute the doors were open wide enough Boris literally ran through them. "H-Hey, wait!" You called out before running in after him. Somehow becoming smaller had made you just a little faster, and while you wanted to catch up with the cartoon wolf, you also didn't want to leave the older Henry behind. You ran through a decently sized hallway and then entered a large, very large, room where Boris stood in front of...

Boris.

It was another Boris.

Like the one you had seen on the very first floor, this Boris was strapped to a metal table, his chest torn open. You nearly screamed and staggered back, eyes darting about the room. Almost all of it was flooded with ink, only a sort of bridge made of blanks to let you cross, and more Boris' littered the room. They weren't alone though. The members of the butcher gang were there too, victims of some sort of crazy experimentation. You felt your knees buckle and you pitched forward, about to collapse on the floor. Henry caught you and kept a grip on you as he began to pull you to the makeshift bridge. You tried pulling away, shaking your head frantically. Henry sighed and spoke through gritted teeth. "I don't want to do this either, (Y/N), but e don't have much of a choice." The minute you set foot on the bridge Alice spoke in her 'angel' voice. "Look around. It took so many of them to make me so beautiful. Anything less than beautiful was left behind. I.." Her voice suddenly broke and sounded..gargled. Like Bendy's but different. It was as if two voices were speaking at once. "I had to do it. She made me."

There was a desk, and sitting atop it was an Alice Angel doll and another recorder. It was Henry who turned this one on, and you were greeted by the voice of Susie.

"Who would have thought?

Me having lunch with Joey Drew!

Apparently times are tougher than I thought.

For a moment there, I thought I'd be stuck with the check.

But I gotta say, he wasn't at all what I expected.

Quite the charmer.

He even called me Alice.

I liked it."

Your gut twisted in disgusted. Quite the charmer indeed. Joey Drew had tricked Susie, you, and everyone else around him. Your heart ached for Susie Campbell now, it truly did. Like you, she had just been another victim. You wished you could save you, but something deep down told you it was far too late. Either Alice killed her, or, she was Alice. Besides, what could you do when you couldn't even save yourself? You heaved a sigh and pressed onward, getting off the bridge as you reached the other side of the room and making our way through the doors, only to stop dead in your tracks.

The room was split in two, half of it behind glass, and there on the other side stood Alice Angel, using some sort of control booth to electrocute a butcher gang member strapped down. Your stomach lurched, you wanted to be sick. Henry stepped forward, putting something between you and this...this monster. She eyed him first, but when she saw you her expression filled with disdain. You suddenly felt as though you were in danger. More danger than you had been since you set foot in this god forsaken studio. She pulled a lever and the electrocution stopped. "Hm. Now comes the question...do I kill you? Do I tear you apart to my heart's delight. The choices of the beautiful are unbearable. How's a girl to choose?" She giggled, then pointed accusingly at the nearly dead toon. "Take this little freak for instance! He crawled in here... trailing his tainted ink to my door! It could have touched me. it could have pulled me back!" Something about this reminded you of what had happened only a short time earlier. The ink, burning your skin, melting your flesh. "Do you know what it's like?" Alice asked, though it sounded like a rhetoric question. "Living in the dark puddles? It's a buzzing, screaming well of voices! Bits of your mind, swimming...like..like fish in a bowl!" Her voice fluctuated between that of her toon persona and the horrific monster that stood before you. "The first time I was born in its' inky womb, I was a wiggling, pussing, shapeless slug. The second time, well...it made me an angel!" You stared at her wide eyed and the monster seemed to cower slightly. "I will not let the demon touch me again! I'm so close now, so...almost perfect." Shen then straightened and looked at you and Henry. "Yes, I will spar you. For now. Better yet..."

"I'll even let you ascend and leave this place. If you will do a few eensy weensy little favors for me first. Return to the lift my little errand runners. We have work to do!"

And now, the real fun begins~