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Chapter four

After he walked out of the room, Cuphead stood still for a moment before decided to walk back to where the machine was hoping that he could find another item. Quickly jumping over the pipe, he walked in the room and started to look around. 'There got to be an item here' he thought to himself as he looked along the shelves until he looked back to the open chest and saw the large gear inside. "That must be it" he said as he reached down, grabbing the gear and inspecting it for a moment. "Its not rusty?" Cuphead commented it slightly surprised before shaking his head and placed the gear in his backpack before walking out.

'Four down'

As he was walking back to the main area, he slightly jumped in surprise when the door to his right, the lights that was showing suddenly disappeared with a click. "What the..." he reached towards the door knob and was shocked to find it unlocked. Blinking a bit, Cuphead turned the knob before swinging the door open, revealing a small closet-like room with a small desk, wooden chair and some shelves.

He stepped in and looked at the desk to see an old fashioned radio and smiles a bit, "Nice" he commented it as he turned it on and smiles a bit more as the tunes started to play. Though when he looked at the papers, he shivers a bit when he saw more writings on it.

'He will set us free'

"Who?" Cuphead breathed out, confused before shaking his head and quickly kneel down to see if there was something under the desk and to his luck, there was.

"This might be what I needed" he said as he saw a record disc before carefully grabbing it and placing it in his backpack. 'Just need to find one more' he thought with a smile as he walked out of the room and kept making his way to the main area, still hearing the tune playing.

'Where can you find an ink bottle?' Cuphead asked himself as he was searching throughout the area, looking for the small bottle. 'Maybe the artist room?' he guessed as he walked towards the other room and started searching there for nearly five minutes with no luck.

Just as he was about to give up, he suddenly saw something underneath a desk in the far corner and when he walked towards it, he nearly cheered when he saw that it was the last item and grabbed it. "Finally!" Cuphead cheered and with a happy grin, he started to make his way back to the break room.

Once in the break room, he looked at the pedestals and started to place each item to the right one and once he placed the ink bottle down, he heard a slight click.

"Maybe it did something" Cuphead said as he looked back to the lever, frowning a bit when he saw that it still said 'Low Pressure'

"Maybe...there's another switch to activate it" he said to himself as he picked up his backpack and walked out of the break room before pausing.

"Where should I look first?" he asked himself as he started to think for a moment. Then he remembered about the room with the projector and the pipes. 'Maybe there' deciding to take a chance, Cuphead started walking towards the area.

He was lucky enough to remember his way towards it as as he was walking down the hallway, he suddenly jumped with a startled yelp when he saw a Bendy cut out suddenly peaking around the corner for a few seconds before moving away.

"What!?" Cuphead quickly ran and when he turn the corner, he saw the same cut out leaning against the wall and slightly squinted his eyes, staring at the cut out suspiciously. "How did you..." he rhetorically asked as he kept staring for a few more seconds before looking away and walked inside the room.

"There must be a switch or lever somewhere" he told himself as he started to look around the room, but as he was looking through the shelves, he quickly jumped when he heard something click before finding out that the projector turned itself on and saw an animation playing on the screen. "Cute" Cuphead simply said as he stared at the animation repeating itself for a few moments before looking away and quickly finding a valve with the words 'Ink Pressure' above it.

"This must be is" he walked towards it, carefully grip the wheel and started turning it, feeling it barely move for a few seconds before he started to move more smoothly until he stopped when he heard something move within the walls. "That probably wor-Ugh!" Cuphead started to say when he quickly felt something cold and wet seep into his shoes and looked down to see ink quickly forming. Yelping a bit, Cuphead quickly got out of the room, barely avoiding the spill on the wall before quickly shaking the ink off of his shoes. "I hope that it isn't permanent" Cuphead said to himself as he shook off the ink as much as he could before making his way back to the break room, slightly grimacing a bit as the soggy feeling in his shoes from the leftover ink.

As he was making his way to the break room, Cuphead could see the flow of the ink within the walls and along the pipes when he walked passed them. Once there, he walked to the lever, gripped it and pulled it down. He then heard something click a few times as the lights in the room slowly dim down which he quickly noticed that the items were gone. 'Weird' Cuphead thought, but shook his head. "Maybe the machine is working now" he said to himself as he started to make his way back to the room, for once since he got there, used his flashlight since all the light seem to be turned off.

'Really weird'

After jumping over the pipe and turning the corner, Cuphead was shocked to find the open doorway boarded up. "Who could ha-AH!" Cuphead started to say as he walked up to the boarded entrance when he was suddenly launched back when he felt something hit his chest and when he hit the ground, Cuphead groan out in slight pain and looked back up before stiffening in shock when he saw a familiar face.

"Bendy?" Cuphead quickly got to his feet, still staring at his old friend as he was slightly clawing around the thick wood before pulling away. "Wait!" Cuphead ran towards the boarded up entrance, reaching inside. "Don't go!" he cried out until he noticed something seeping both into his shoes and slowly raising up.

When he looked down, he saw the ink appearing and quickly raising up, causing Cuphead to panic a bit. "Damn it!" Cuphead started to run, ignoring the ink raising up as he felt something shift in the air. "Got to get out" he said as he ran through the familiar hallways, jumping a bit as he saw each hallway close down by a metal door, 'What's going in!?'

Once in the main room, he turned towards the hallway that led to the exit, Cuphead ran towards it at full speed, but as he was close enough to open it, the floor underneath him suddenly collapsed causing him to fall down with a yell.

"AHHH!" Cuphead felt his heart drop to his stomach as he kept falling until he landed in something wet, causing him to quickly close his eyes shut before quickly rising up, breaking surface and started coughing.

"Ack!" Cuphead kept coughing and rubbing his eyes enough for him to finally open to find himself standing in ink that reached up to his chest. "Where am I?" he asked himself as he looked around as the adrenaline still pumping through his veins. Soon he saw a recorder on one of the shelves and slowly made his way through the ink. 'This should give me some answers' he thought as he quickly clicked play.

He heard the recorder play for a few moments before a male voice was heard, different from the one he heard before.

'It's dark and it's cold and it's stuck in behind every single wall now. In some places, I swear this godforsaken ink is clear up to my knees!'

'Back then must have been more controlled than now' Cuphead with with a frown as he tried to ignore the coldness from the ink.

'Who ever thought that these crummy pipes could hold up under this kind of strain either knows something about pressure I don't or he's some kind of idiot'

'Probably an idiot' Cuphead went with the second option since he had seen the condition of the pipes.

'But the real worst part about all this are them noises the system makes, like a dying dog on it's last legs.'

'That just sounds horrible' he thought with a slight shiver as he tried to imagine what it could sound like.

'Make no mistake, this place...this...machine...heck, this whole darn thing...it just isn't natural. You can bet I wouldn't be doing any more repairs jobs for Mister Joey Drew'

Soon the recorder stopped as Cuphead was thinking about the last few words. 'What could have happened here?' he thought to himself before frowning a bit. "No time for that, I need to find my way out of here...and drain this ink" Cuphead mutters out as he started looking around until he saw a valve connected to the pile and slowly walked towards it, gripping the wheel and slowly started to turn a few times until he heard a clicking sound and to his relief, Cuphead saw the ink slowly going down and suddenly saw an open doorway.

"Well...if I can't go up.." Cuphead started to say as he walked towards the doorway, "I got to keep going down"

Walking through it, Cuphead quickly noticed the stairs and walked down to see a sigh above it.

'Danger! Keep Out!'

"Well its too late now" he simply said as he walked passed it, ignoring it.

Once he reached towards the bottom of the staircase, Cuphead grimace a bit as he saw the small room filled with ink before taking a deep breath and stepped inside. "Still cold" he groan out with a shiver before slowly making his way to the valve and turned it enough to drain more of the ink in turn, revealing more of the staircase.

"How far down is this?" Cuphead couldn't help but said as he realized that the studio was much bigger on the inside which reminded him of the casino before pushing that thought down and kept walking down.

Quickly avoiding the dripping ink above him, Cuphead came across another room at the end of the staircase and with a deep breath, he walked in once again shivering at the coldness but kept walking. "Where is that valve" he mutters to himself as he looked around the room.

Luckily he managed to find it underneath the stairs and quickly turned it, draining the ink and let out a sigh of relief, "This better be the last floor" he said before walking to the door swinging it open to see another room but as he walked in, he saw more writings on the wall that was a bit scary.

'The Creator Lied To Us'

"Where are you Bendy..." Cuphead softly said as he looked away from the writings, feeling sad for his friend before he saw something on the desk that made him smile.

"This will definitely come in handy" he said as he picked up the axe, finally finding something useful and looked around the room again. Seeing a open doorway board up, Cuphead nearly smirks as he walked towards it and swiftly swung it down, slowly hacking away the thick wood until making it wide enough for him to slip through and using it to break some of the debris in his way.

Soon he made it to the end of the hallway to see another boarded up door, but Cuphead paid no mind as he swiftly cut down the wood before swinging up open.

"What...did the Devil come in here" Cuphead nearly groan out as he was a circular symbol on the floor with lit candles. Despite the eerie look of the room, Cuphead still walked in and looked around, see more bookshelves along with four wooden coffins, frowning a bit. He decided to ignore it as he quickly saw another door, but as he walked towards it, he unknowingly stepped into the circle and soon enough he got a head splitting headache causing him to instantly cry out in pain and gripped the side of his head, barely realizing that he dropped the axe as he tried to fight back the pain.

As his eyes were closed, he saw something flash before his eyes, imagines moving too quickly for him to see what it was until the pain became too much and Cuphead barely felt himself fall down as he blissfully passed out.

Dun dun duuun

So yeah when the second chapter starts is where the small changes will happen so just keep an look out for them

Also do you want me to make them a bit long this this chapter or keep them short?

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