Inked in Mystery
Chapter 13: Rescue and Revelations
Bendy finds himself unable to believe that all these people would help him: Jessica, Heckle and Jeckle, Casper the adorable ghost, Wile E. Coyote and Sam the Sheepdog, Pepé, Ortensia and the Gremlins who will serve as constant guards for the building and the souls of the Toons attacked by this creature. The skunk supposed that it was a Missed One* driven mad by a rejection, and that Joey may have surrounded it, but his memories were very fuzzy like those of the other Toons even though everyone remembers that it was vaguely the same head as Bendy. Henry and Eddie were going to investigate this strange creature and watch over Joey, who seemed really weird... especially because a man who doesn't cope well with his own Toons doesn't spend hours in ToonTown mounting the whole population against an innocent devil posing as the worst monster!
Meanwhile, in ToonTown, the situation is still tense especially since Heckle and Jeckle had disappeared with this devil girl and the accusations of their chick Aiden face to the Human Joey Drew. Many wondered, but the flames of Hate began to consume the hearts of Toons still alive.
Today, while Eddie and Henry are chatting, looking for ways to help Bendy... when they hear a car horn and squeal near them. Turning around, they see Benny, the cab Toon, and Roger Rabbit, Candice's father. The rabbit looks furious.
« Eddie Valiant! » he roared.
The detective sighs as he sees the rabbit get out of the cab and turns to Henry.
« Go back to the bar, Henry. I join you after. And... warn you know who. » he said before turning back to the rabbit, leaving the former animator to leave. « Hi Roger. »
« Don't play nice with me! » the Toon raged, joining the human. « Now, we're going to talk seriously, from Man to Man! ... uh ... or from Rabbit to Man ... Anyway! From human to Toon! Face to face ! »
Eddie looks seriously at Roger even though little Toon is more comical and ridiculous than terrifying.
« Okay! What do you want to talk about ? »
« About Candice! » Roger shouted. « Where is she !? »
« Your kid? I haven't seen it since Halloween. » Eddie said as he was about to leave... when the rabbit crashed in front of him, annoyed.
« I'm not kidding, Eddie! Tell me where is my daughter! »
« I don't know, Roger. And, tell me, why do you think she left? »
« She was surrounded by this demon of Bendy, of course! My poor little princess is so nice... » the star of the Maroons suddenly cries. « That monster had to turn her brain back... »
« Oh? I would say rather that your girl, she just needs to breathe! It even surprises me that she didn't escape before! » the annoyed Human answers as he returns to his wife's bar.
Roger is frozen for a few seconds before running after his friend Human.
« Hey ! No, but what does that mean? » the rabbit is indignant.
« What you want. » Eddie mumbles as he pulls out a notebook to make a point on his notes.
« Eddie! She's my daughter! »
« Oh, I know it! You can believe me ! » the Human gets annoyed as he turns to the rabbit who catches him. « From the moment she was in your arms, you never let her go, your little princess! If you could lock her under a glass globe, you'd do it! Your girl, you're choking on her, Roger! It's not by smoldering her all the time and playing Daddy Hen that you will help her! You know what ? I wonder how she did to hold on for so long without getting out of the running. »
Eddie blames himself for being so hard on the rabbit, but maybe that would make Roger think. The rabbit remains frozen on the spot, horrified. His heart sinks at the thought that his daughter has fled from her own will and that she is tired of seeing him, that she doesn't want his fatherly love anymore.
When Eddie returns to the bar, Candice runs to join him.
« Did you see Dad? » she asks, her eyes shining with tears.
« Yeah. He is really worried about you. »
The rabgirl sighs and goes to sit in a corner, nervously swinging her feet. Bendy joins her and puts his hand on the little girl's shoulder... and she pokes at his neck crying. Candice blamed herself for hurting her father, especially since he was very sensitive.
« Hush, hush... » Bendy whispers, cradling her. « I'm sorry, Candice... it's all my fault... »
« Bendy, stop! » Pandora gets upset by forcing her brother to look at her right in the eyes. « You are for nothing, capiche! It's Joey the culprit! That must stay well in your brain ! »
Despite the little one in tears in the arms of his eldest, the dancing devil glares at him. She was tired of Bendy putting himself down when he was the victim! Furious, she sit on a stool and shows a bubble in her hand to see what happens in the city of Toons. With magical powers, she discovered a spell that allowed her to find everything she wanted and make it appear in a bubble filled with smoke. As everyone starts to gather around the girl to see (even Candice), Bendy is suddenly pulled aside by Heckle, Jeckle and Aiden.
In ToonTown, everything is quiet for now. The patrols are in full circle while Tom the Cat and Baby Herman advance in the street, annoyed.
« It's been weeks that we're looking for that damn Demon and no track on where he could hide! Even worse, he continues to steal hearts and kill Toons! » the Cat chafers, thrusting his hands into the pockets of his hammerspace as his hands are thrust into his pockets.
« You can talk ! It's just because leaders don't take the right steps! » the baby growls, pulling a big puff from his cigar. « Me, if I found myself facing this damn demon, I would stick my baby's fist in the face... with maybe some stinky diapers! And after, a good blow diluents and we don't talk about it anymore. »
« If it was so simple. And it's so sad for the Toons to whom he stole their hearts. Penelope from Looneys for example, she is totally devastated by the loss of her companion, Pepé. »
« Well... If she loved him as much as Roger loves his Jessica, it doesn't surprise me. » the MaroonStudio baby mumbles, spitting smoke from his cigar.
« Besides, he found his little girl? »
« Candice? No, she stays hidden. But if Roger falls in front of Bendy and his princess is here, I can tell you: it will be a massacre! Keffan and Aiden are always hidden with the two magpies. Two great traitors if you want my opinion! »
During their conversation, the two Toons sank into a darker street... and a dark drop suddenly falls from the sky, falling right between them and cutting short the discussion. They look at the task... which happens to be black ink! Intrigued, they look at each other (an underlying fear in their eyes) and then raise their heads. A huge black dripping mass stands above them and, straightening its head, it reveals a white face with a huge sadistic smile and an evil head deformed by dripping ink. An ink monster they recognize as Bendy!
Tom and Baby Herman can't help but scream in terror (their eyes come out of their sockets) and they run away as fast as their legs allow. The mass of ink drops heavily on the ground and chases after them. Tom ends up giving up the two-legged position for the four-legged one that (as a cat) allows him to go faster while Herman tries to run as fast as he can.
« Damn kid's body with his fucking little short legs! » the baby rattles, suddenly taking a turn with Tom, hoping to sow the demon.
Inky Bendy skips, scaring some Toons who come out of their homes (intrigued by the noise) before going home full speed screaming to escape the monster. Baby Herman and Thomas's mad screams and cries come to Roger's ears as he returns sadly to ToonTown, leaving Benny to drive calmly.
« What is that ? » he fumbles.
Benny doesn't waste a second and rolls towards the hustle and bustle.
The other Toons are hiding in order to avoid attracting the demon and being the next to lose his heart ... but ''luckily'' he seems more interested by the baby and the cat. A tight turn allows them to get a little ahead (especially for Tom) but the blue-gray cat is so preoccupied by what is chasing him that he doesn't look ahead and gets stuck in a fence, right in front of his mate Jerry who jumps.
« Hey ! But what's happening to you, Tom? » he worries as he approaches.
« Hey ! You train for a gag? » Roger asks as he comes out of the taxi ahead of them, Tom struggling to get out of the snare trap ... when Baby Herman leaps over the obstacle, panicking.
« Run away, Roger! He's trying to eat us! » the baby Toon exclaims, moving away as fast as his little legs can.
« Huh? Who is 'he'? » the bunny asks, looking down the street.
The Inked Monster suddenly appears in the street sneering diabolically, maddening the little mouse, the cat who sees himself already caught and the rabbit in red overalls.
« BENDY ! » he screams as he starts to run away (just like Benny, who immediately run away with a screeching honk) ... when he turns to see Jerry trying to unblock his episode mate.
His kindness gets the upper hand so he goes back and catches the cat's arms while the little brown rodent jumps on the feline's back trying to make him thinner.
« You see what it's like to eat fish sticks at every meal! » the little animal groans by pulling on the skin of his friend's back to make him lose weight in vain.
Baby Herman comes back and catches the cat's arms while his long-eared friend leaps to the other side of the fence to push Tom to the right side... but that's the demon coming at them with a sneer. The four Toons scream, seeing himself already dead... when Penelope jumped on the fence and scratched the Demon in the face. He recoils at the stroke of his paw before standing up grunting, ink flowing scratches.
« Come ! Approach, Demon! » the black and white cat screams before jumping on the roof.
She starts running over the rooftops and returns to the ground behind the monster. This one seems to glare at her (even if his eyes are invisible) before turning completely to pursue her, sending ink in the face of his first victims in his sudden movement. Roger panics and begins to spit the ink to prevent it from entering his mouth and wiping his face before shouting:
« Hold on, Penelope! We'll help you right away! »
« Get me out of there first ! » Tom groans, struggling furiously.
Meanwhile, in the bar of Dolorès, the small group carefully observes the scene in the blue bubble of smoke created by Pandora. After Keffan, who had wanted to see his parents, Candice had wanted to see her dad (her mother knew where she was) and they had fallen on this strange scene: a huge Bendy dripping ink that attacked the Toons!
They watch, puzzled and intrigued, Penelope who dares to stand up to this demon who looks like Bendy and become at the same time his new prey.
« PENELOPE! MON AMOUR ! » Pepé panics before he rages, unable to believe that he was scorned in this way. « I swear if you ever touch her, Bendy, I'll ...! »
« If I ever touch who? » the darling demon's voice asked.
All turn, surprised... to see the little Toon out of the back shop with Aiden on the shoulders, followed by the pair of TerryToons magpies. Eddie frowns and turns to the image still visible in Pandora's bubble. Even the devil girl has the impression of seeing double!
« Quel est-ce? » the skunk is astonished. « If you're here, ... then ... who ...? »
The little devil frowns and walks forward to see... and freezes seeing a duplicate of him (even though he is taller than him) dripping ink and terrifying ToonTown, attacking the helpless Toons.
« What is this joke? » Heckle wonders. « Bendy is here, next to us! »
« I think I'm starting to understand. » the human detective mumbles, drawing the Toons' gaze. « This Joey Drew seems to want to destroy Bendy's reputation no matter what. As a former director and animator, he can create Toons as much as he wants or corrupt. This Bendy », he concludes by pointing to the demon pursuing Penelope, « is an impostor who reinforces the legend that our Bendy is a demon! »
« But it's a real scam! » Pandora is indignant, furious to the point of having her face turning red.
« It's monstrous! » Ortensia is horrified.
« Joey really doesn't have a heart. » Boris raged. « If I put my fangs on him, I grind his head! »
« Hey ! It won't help to kill Joey! » Jeckle indignantly closes the ears of his son now sitting on the bar.
« Jeckle is right. We have to show ToonTown that Bendy isn't that monster. » Mugman intervenes.
Suddenly, Bendy (who was watching the scene) suddenly freezes, alerting others who are watching him before watching the scene. The Inky Bendy then freezes and listens attentively (like his model) before smiling and leaving in another direction, ceasing to follow the black and white cat of the Looneys.
« Where is he going ? » Keffan wonders, trying to see where the demon is going.
« Oh no ... » Bendy suffocated, turning pale, drawing curious glances at him. « Not again… »
Without any explanation, the little black and white Toon runs out of the bar.
« BENDY! Where you go ? »
Aiden is worried by following him with the others.
Once outside, Bendy pours ink from his hand and jumps into the puddle before anyone can stop him.
« Bendy? Bendy, come back! » Boris calls, kneeling in front of the ink stain on the floor.
« Where is he ? » Heckle wonders.
« He travels like that to go faster without being seen. » the chick explains. « But I don't know what took him. »
Eddie thinks and then turns to the little sister of the SillyVision star.
« Pandora? Can you see where the Demon is going? »
« Um ... I think… »
She created another bubble in her hands and a blue smoke appears in it.
« Show me the Demon, please. »
The smoke is cloudy and the demon advancing in ToonTown appears. All look in the vision window of the little devil girl... and freeze recognizing where he is going.
« He goes to Felix the Cat! » Ortensia suffocates.
Everyone knows that Felix could defend himself and keep his heart, just like his wife Kitty... but there have been vulnerable beings in this house for a short time. And Boris immediately understands that Bendy had gone to protect them, without worrying for a moment about the danger that this represents.
In his house, Felix is on the lookout, especially considering the screams he heard earlier... when he hears a strange noise. Worried, he goes back to the room where Kitty and their three little ones are. The white cat calmly cleans her babies (having a little trouble with her little Alicia) when her husband enters.
« Are you all right, Felix? » she asks, straightening up, hugging her kittens against her.
« I don't know. But it's better to be careful. »
Without further explanation, the black cat slips close to his wife and gives a small lick to each of the little ones. While the little kitty girl meows trying to sit up on her tiny paws, her two brothers Deeho and Rubik curl up against their mom. Both parents watch their babies still blind. They would soon open their eyes now but, given what was happening in ToonTown, they hoped that everything would be done in time for their children to see the world as wonderful as it normally is.
Suddenly, a growl makes the parents startle and Felix starts to make the big back while standing over his little ones while Kitty growls, furious, hiding her babies with her paw. Both are staring at the door, ready to attack whoever will cross it... when someone destroys the wall. To the horror of the parents, an ink-covered monster resembling Bendy enters their room with a sneer.
« Give me the kittens! » he said in a deep, resonant voice in his throat.
« Our little ones!? » Kitty is horrified.
« NEVER ! Go back from where you come from, Demon! » Felix yells.
The cat has a big back while standing in front of his wife and his cubs, and when Inky Bendy goes towards them smiling like a maniac, he falls on him. Meowing furiously, he scratches and bites the creature who struggles to get rid of the troublemaker. Kitty takes advantage of the distraction to hide her kittens under the bed then she leaps into the battle, scratching the back of the monster. He screams in pain but his massive body is also much more powerful. With a simple hip movement, he sends the cat mom behind him, rolling her in the rubble of the wall.
« KITTY! » Felix is panicking.
Bendy-Demon takes advantage of the distraction to catch the black feline and chuckles by casting him carelessly into the rubble. The cat bangs violently against a fragment of wall and finds himself breathless.
« You're lucky I'm not here for you, flea-bags. » the creature sneers.
Since the parents' threat is now zero, he goes to the bed and throws it out the window. The kittens still blind mew by feeling the danger and not the protection of their mother. She returns to her but her head turns too much for her to get up.
« My babies ! » she cries, unable to go help them.
But Inky Bendy doesn't have time to raise his dripping hand to catch the little ones that a little black and white being enters the room by the broken window while burning and violently strikes the demon in the face of a big blow of foot. The shock is such that the creature falls to the ground and, when he stands up, he is surprised (like cat parents) to see the TRUE Bendy facing him, placing himself above the little ones, growling.
Penelope arrives in turn, panicked when she realized that the monster had stopped following her to go to Felix,... and is frozen in surprise at seeing two Bendy: an inky and a normal who protects the kittens. She remains dumbfounded a few moments... then runs to meet Felix and Kitty.
« But what is going on here ? » she asks ... when Bendy throws himself on the demon that looks like him.
Furious, he bites a horn, making the creature roar pain, and claws his face with his nails and tail (now sharp as a sword). He leaps away from the monster and lands near the parents.
« Everything is fine ? » he asks.
The three Toons are surprised by his soft voice but they nod their heads... when Pepé's soul (which pops out of the window at the great shock of Penelope) screams:
« BENDY! LOOK OUT! »
The little devil takes a blow to the side that throws him against a wall... but before his opponent can give him the coup de grace, another soul (Boris) emerges and bites the Inky neck, making him roar away from Bendy who can then get up to approach the kittens meowing, panicked by the noise.
« Hush ... everything's fine, my darlings... Boris and I, we'll save you. All is well… » the little devil whispers, covering them with a light cloth so that they aren't cold.
Now sure that the little ones have nothing, he returns to the fight. Although surprised, Felix can't sit idly by while his cubs are in danger. Leaving Kitty (still weak from the birth of his kittens and the blow that the monster gave him) with Penelope, the black cat starts the battle, claws forward.
The screaming and the noises of battle prompted the patrol of the neighborhood that comes then with weapons full of solvents and diluents, followed by those who follow the order of the Great Council to avoid the massacre... but they are all surprised by see two Bendy (a small and a monstrous), Felix and a wolf soul fight. Not to mention that the member of the Great Council is fighting alongside little Bendy!
« What's going on here? » Elmer the Hunter mumbled as he watched the fighters incredulously.
Which one is the real Bendy? And who was the other? Cuphead is totally lost even though his eyes refuse to let go of the smaller Toons and his heart (broken by the loss of his brother) starts beating again by telling him that this little guy is the real Bendy while this vile creature was the killer of his brother.
Eddie, accompanied by souls and children (as well as Heckle and Jeckle), arrives at the scene. The twenty or so present Toons turn to him and Mickey Mouse asks him:
« Mr Valiant! What does it mean ? Which is the real Bendy? »
« I think it's the one who's helped by Boris. » the detective smiled.
« Who is Boris? » Bugs asks who (like Mickey) was against the kill.
« It's the transparent wolf. » Aiden answers.
« GO ON, BORIS! EAT HIS HEAD! SHOW HIM WHO IS THE BOSS! » Candice yells, surprising everyone by the volume that the little bunny could take.
« SIGH ON THE NECK, BENDY! THE NECK ! YOU'RE THE PARALYSIS WITHOUT PROBLEM IF YOU TOUCH THE VEIN OF THE NECK! » Keffan yells in his turn.
But when he sees the shocked looks of the 'heads' of Disney and Looneys, the kitten blushes, ashamed.
« Um ... It's Papa Cat who gave me this tip ... »
Roger arrives in his turn (to help but especially because he heard the voice of his beloved little daughter) and freezes, forbidden. He can't believe what his eyes see.
Bendy jumps on the demon and puts his tail in his neck like a dagger while Boris bites it grunting, spitting out the ink he tears out of this distorted body, and Felix claws it as deeply as possible while burning. But while they seem to have the advantage, the demon suddenly makes a sudden movement of his body, making Boris fall to the ground while Felix clings as much as he can with his claw ... but Bendy finds himself sent in the air ! Gravity then makes him fall right to the open mouth of the devil! In the emergency, the little Pandora jumps into the battle, catches the horns of the demon and pulls as hard as she can, making it miss her brother who falls heavily to the ground in a 'phew'. She goes on to keep the monster from attacking her family... when she feels herself go back, falling to the ground, the horns still in her hands. Except that, to her great disgust, she also holds the whole face of the demon.
All suffocate with horror at seeing that this face is only a mask and that being disguised is a Human! A human that everyone recognizes, especially the three Toons of SillyVision, to their horror: Joey Drew!
« You!? » Bendy suffocates. « So it's you! » he suddenly rages, starting to dribble.
« Get out of my way ! » Joey grumbles, violently striking the imp rolling on the floor.
With a big kick of his imposing body of ink (which he strangely manages for a real Human), he sends Boris and Felix crashing against the present Toons and, with a monumental slap, pushes Pandora who lands on the two Toons pussies cats. Drew plants his hand in the ground, pulling out the bars of ink that keep the Toons out (to their shock because no humans could do that) and he reaches out to the kittens who meow, calling for help. These cries frighten Felix who is unable to reach them and break the heart of Bendy who stands up suddenly (as struck by lightning) before he runs to the little ones. He then jumped between them and Joey shouting:
« NOT THIS TIME ! »
Joey's hand hits Bendy and crushes him violently against the floor, right where the kittens were. Large splashes of ink are then projected into the room under the bestial grunts of the Human and the cries of horror of the cat mother. As if this scream had woken them up, all the Toons armed with solvent guns fire on the Demonic Man through the ink bars even though they aren't too sure of the effect it could have on him. To their surprise, Joey starts screaming as if he is injured and running away.
The majority of the Toons Patrol chase after him as the others scramble to clear the ink that prevents them from going to help their friends while Felix forces himself to pass to join his wife. Kitty bursts into tears in her husband's arms who restrains himself from crying to stay strong in front of her but his body trembles with silent sobs. Aiden throws himself on his parents' necks, starting to mourn the loss of his friend, while Boris rushes to the inkstand that seems to be all that remains of Bendy. Candice also seems to be about to cry... when she feels a familiar hand on her shoulder. She turns around and sees her father. Roger seems sad when a few days ago, he would have been the first to celebrate such an event.
« Honey ... I ... » he begins...
but Candice jumped to his neck, happy to finally be able to tighten her dad in her arms.
Pandora rushes to the ink spot where Boris stands, who seems to be about to cry ... when she freezes.
« QUICK ! Someone come to help me! » she screams, dipping her hands in the ink.
Boris is surprised but plunges his hands in the ink ... when he freezes.
« BENDY IS HERE ! He is alive ! » he shouts to alert others.
As the kids smile of joy, Heckle, Roger and Bugs rush past the two SillyVision and plunge their hand into the ink. Heckle feels Bendy's shoulders, Bugs his legs and Roger his head. In one and the same movement, the Toons and the soul take the necessary impetus to get the dancing demon out of the puddle. Bendy is alive but rolling in a fetal position. They put him on the ground but the little one doesn't move, surely frightened by this unexpected face-to-face with his former executioner.
« Bendy, everything's fine, Joey's gone... » Boris whispered, stroking his head before giving him a quick lick on the top of his head.
Bendy straightens his head, surprised to see himself intact, then he slowly stands up, holding something tenderly. Aiden, Keffan and Candice run to him and hug him.
« BENDY! You are alive ! » the chick squeals happily.
« You're too strong, Bendy! You survived this super strong shot! » the kitten smiles.
« You're a killer, Bendy! » Candice exclaims ... before rectifying herself. « Well... not a killer in the murderous sense! A killer in this sense that you are super super strong ! »
The dancing demon smiles, amused by the chatter of the little ones... when little meows come out of what he's holding. All are frozen, forbidden... and Bendy slowly spreads the sheet he holds, revealing three small black and white heads.
The kittens of Felix and Kitty, alive!
Little Alicia starts to meow trying to sit up... then, to the wonder of all, she opens her eyes. Her brothers start sniffing the air and then Rubik opens his eyes, quickly imitating by Deeho. The three kittens blink for the first time under Bendy's subjugated and tender eyes... and when their vision is clear, all three of them fix the demon. Deeho frowns and leans his head as Alicia raises her paw to his face, meowing. Bendy laughs but gently pushes the tiny paw.
« No no, my kittens. I am not your mom even though I would have loved it. I'll find her for you. » he said softly as he sat up.
He watches the room carefully... before seeing the couple of cats standing out. In their grief, they didn't pay attention to what had happened. Smiling, Bendy holds the babies firmly so that they don't fall and advance to the bereaved couple.
« Excuse me ... Mr. Felix? ... Mrs. Kitty?... » he said softly.
The cat and his wife turn around... and freeze seeing the little balls of fur that wiggle in the arms of the Dancing Demon and meow when discovering the world for the first time. The cat mother seems to be about to cry recognizing them. Bendy smiles and tends the kittens saying:
« I think these babies are yours. »
Kitty smiles as she picks up the blanket that contains her three little ones. The kittens look at her, surprised, but they quickly recognize her scent and start to smile, meowing happily. Alicia is the first to get up and she puts her paw on the muzzle of her mom who laughs with pure happiness before giving her a little lick on the face. Felix smiles and caresses the little heads of his children before turning to Bendy. Now that he is facing the supposed demon and seeing what he has done, he knows that everything he was told about him was wrong.
« Thank you... » he smiled sincerely.
Bendy shrugs with a small smile.
But the moment of peace is stopped by a projectile that Bendy misses by little. Cuphead enters with his fists irradiated with blue on the demon who goes back to the walls, terrified and beginning to dribble. Bugs jump then and catch the kid.
« Cuphead! Stop ! » the rabbit is indignant.
« Have you lost your mind? » Felix rages, grabbing the cup-shaped head Toon's arm.
« I only get rid of the problem! » the little one gasps, pulling his arms away from the cat's grip, still furious.
His back-story already made him very suspicious of the Devil and his ''envoys'' but the loss of his brother Mugman made him even more eager to do justice. Charging his fists and ignoring his heart that is tightening by telling him he is wrong, he aims Bendy and fires his projectiles again. The great agility of the dancing demon allows him to escape in a few leaps and, under the cries of children and meowing kittens, he fled.
The Toons of the various patrols start to chase him away while those who attended the rescue of the babies try to stop them. But while Bendy is reluctant to use a well of ink to escape, a huge white mass with black contours blocks the way. Distraught, he raises his head to see Gertie wrapping her tail in a protective way around him. She seems to smile at him like a mom would do to her child.
The Toons who hunted the ''demon'' applaud the dinosaur before bowing to her.
« Bravo Gertie! » Sam the pirate of Looneys congratulates advancing. « Now it only remains to shoot him between the two eyes! »
« NO WAY ! » the mastodon declares with a loud voice that makes the air tremble.
All are frozen and many look at her as if she was crazy. Bendy looks at Gertie without understanding. Why was she helping him?
« Say so, my dear. We all have respect for you but here we have a demon to exterminate! » the little redhead is annoyed. « So you're nice and you're moving away! »
« I stay here, where I am! Did you look at yourself? It looks like Doom against the Tunmans! »
A deathly silence then spreads in the crowd. Even though Bendy doesn't understand the hint of this person, he seemed to be a horrible person that all the Toons feared ... like him with Joey.
The dinosaur looks down at him to see a little Toon with a broken child's soul who must have grown up too fast. In fact, he looks like every Toon who has lost a loved one because of this monster. Cuphead would like to believe her but he saw his brother being killed by Bendy.
« HE KILLED OUR FRIENDS, OUR FAMILIES ! WE ARE ONLY ASKING REVENGE! » he is angry when he feels a light hand like a breeze resting on his shoulder.
« Except that Hatred only breeds Hatred, Cupy ... » a voice he knows well mumbles.
He freezes at this voice and turns to face his brother. Certainly, he is transparent and the trace of his heart is still on his chest but he is alive ... or almost.
« Mugy ...? » he suffocates.
His brother smiled at him and the elder trembled, leaving tears of joy running down his cheeks. No longer waiting, he squeezes his brother's soul in his arms, crying with joy.
One by one, all souls appear before their fellows. Oswald runs to hug his beloved Ortensia with their children, the 6 remaining Dwarves find their brother, the Looneys are delighted to see theirs '' alive '' (especially Penelope who finds her dear Pepé). Bendy watches it behind Gertie's tail and smiles, feeling his heart start beating again. Finally, despite all the darkness of the situation, happiness seemed to come back to ToonTown!
« What happened to you? » Felix questions by seeing the souls Toons who haven't passed on the other side.
« It's Joey! » Happy is indignant.
« Yes, this human who claims to want to help us! » another soul says.
All the Toons are indignant, especially those who hunt Bendy. How was that possible? He was a human!
« But it's a human! He can not control the ink! » Penelope reminds. « ... unless he is Tunman! »
« Trivia! You have bladders for lanterns! » Sam the pirate is outraged. « Who says that it's not one of his clones* that this demon I am pointing sent for you, surrounded you so deeply? And, of course, that he holds a human prisoner in his viscous ink !? »
« You didn't see what we saw Sam! » Roger reasoned. « He defended Felix's kittens! »
« And at Halloween, at the SillyVision studio? It was Joey Drew, maybe? » the little redhead is raging.
Candice, Keffan and Aiden look at each other, embarrassed... before whistling innocently. All lower their eyes to them and, although shameful, the small Tunman prefers to confess.
« I may have sort of made it as if the studio was haunted by moving ink, boards and a few cutout... and turning on the machine... »
Gandy and SourPuss are staring at their kitten, slightly disappointed by the rascally he's done them... when Jessica approaches.
Seeing that the bimbo doesn't frighten her little protégé, Gertie concludes that she is on their side. Pulling away, she allows the redhead to take Bendy in her arms. All are surprised (especially Roger) but Jessica turns to them, holding the dancing demon as a child.
« You all know that we, the Toons, cannot lie. Our eyes speak for us. Dare to look at this little demon in the eyes and tell me if you see a monster! » she says.
She places Bendy in front of Cuphead (without knowing what the Toon feels for the demon) and waits for his judgment... but Cuphead closes his eyes, feeling himself blushing while facing the Toon he has fallen in love with. Even if Felix is intrigued by this reaction, he enjoys the calm to make an announcement.
« Your attention please ! » he cries, raising his arms, drawing all eyes towards him. « We now hold Bendy and, as stated in the decree, he will be entitled to a judgment like any of us! »
The hunters scream, outraged, fighting verbally with those who wish to follow the decree ... when a gunshot sounds, stopping all discussion. All turn to the culprit who happens to be Eddie.
« You, the Toons, you fought for justice after Autoonomy, and you would deny one of you because of a rumor? » the Human is indignant. « Where are your proofs? The Grand Council is planned for this kind of situation and you can see that it is harmless. If that reassures you, lock him up until the trial! »
Bendy freezes but Aiden runs to grab his hand to calm him down.
« It's better like that, Bendy! But don't worry ! We will stay close to you! »
Before Bendy can say anything, two Looneys Toons Bulldogs (Hector and Marc-Antoine) grab the Dancing Demon by the arms and drag him to the Toons Prison. Hunters boo the demon who is dragged along calmly... when Sam the pirate growls catching Pandora's arm :
« And the damsel, what do we do with her? »
The Devil Girl bites him furiously when a Toon Gorilla catches her. Eddie is about to intervene... when Henry arrives and gets the Toon girl back.
« Sorry... » he mumbles, hugging the little one. « She was separated from her brother for 30 years so seeing him in prison doesn't make her happy. »
The little girl sulks while hugging Henry ... when Felix steps in:
« I'm sorry, but ... if you could keep her away from Bendy until the trial... »
« NO BUT YOU ARE DREAMED! » Pandy is indignant, but Boris silences her with one hand on her mouth.
« No problem. » Eddie promises. « We stay away from ToonTown until the trial. »
Souls and Humans then move away, still separating the Toons and their loved ones, but the worst is Bendy. While he was taken under the supervision of the council members (especially Gertie), his heart tightened as Boris moved away. The two soul mates look at each other one last time, knowing that they will only see each other again on the day of judgment.
HERE IS! Chapter 13 is finally finished :D
Bendy has just saved Felix's babies, but unfortunately he is now a prisoner. How will his trial be? Will he be able to explain his situation to others or will fear judge him?
Ah! Notified notifications *
* The Missed One are my own invention. They are ''living'' Toons but whose birth has failed, making them extremely unstable. Their minds aren't clear so they wander in ToonTown and can be violent with other Toons, making them quite dangerous.
* in the original book « Who censored Roger Rabbit » (who inspired the movie) Toons can clone themself but the clone can't stay forever and disappears after some times.
That's it :) see you next time :D And don't forget to leave a comment!