Chapter 9 : the moving picture
Hey guys I'm back again with another chapter. So I'm going to let you guys know something I love watching horror games be played but I hate playing them myself so don't expect me to go full into the game this will only be chapter one for the time being, I may come back at a later date with the rest. As I, myself really do like this game.
Also, sorry for not being consistent with this story. I spent the last few weeks working, doing some of my other hobbies, and then getting some early Christmas shopping done. , so I could focus on this chapter and the next two as well.
This chapter was requested by Jss2141.
Disclaimer: I own nothing
The screen lit up once more signifying another universe is about to start playing. Slayer hit several more buttons before heading back to his seat.
"What did you just do?" Winter asked the man.
"I programmed the next few world, so I don't have to get up after this one is done" Slayer said with a relaxed sigh, leaning back in his seat with a drink in hand.
"Oh that seems convenient. Why didn't you do that before?" the specialist asked him curiously.
"Comfort for the most part and it gives me time to change my mind before it happens." Slayer said with tiredly as the room fell silent in response to man's answer.
"Oh… so what will this world be like?" Neo signed / asked him, only to pale when his face contorted into a malicious grin.
"A world where monsters even worse than Grimm reside and This Jaune helped create these said monsters. I do hope you enjoy the show~." slayer said his voice slipping into the emotionless echoing tone he had when he first appeared. Garnering gulps and worried glances from the hunters, teachers, and students. Along with an eye roll from raven.
The screen flashes turning black before lighting up and showing a run down hallway. The walls were covered in old posters, the ceiling was leaking something black, and the floor looked as if it would collapse any second.
"Well this is an interesting pick, just love the scenery so far." Qrow said snidely.
"You know sarcasm is quite unbecoming of a professional huntsman." Ozpin replied jokingly gaining a snort from the drunk and a snicker from his fellow huntsmen.
"Alright, Ozpin. I'm here." a voice said before the screen pulled back to reveal a middle-aged man with graying blond hair and cobalt blue eyes wearing a white polo, brown slacks, a pair of black work boots, and matching suspenders.
"So we got another old Jaune again. That just great~" yang says in a bored tone.
"For all of our sakes. Let's pray that this one doesn't go insane like the last one" Weiss replies to the blond.
"Let see if we can find what you wanted me to see." Jaune said snidely as he made his way forward into an empty room with the logo written on the wall: Ozpin studios. It looked as if no-one had been there in years.
Ozpin frowned at this as he thought back to some of his previous lives who tried to open businesses for whatever he pleased at the time, only for them to be replaced or forgotten by the time he ever came around to them again.
Scattered across the room was more posters and oddly enough cardboard cutouts of something. It had a large crescent moon shaped head, skinny tube like limbs, a thin rounded body, wearing a pair of white gloves, and a white bow tie. The entire body was covered in black except for the circle it had for its face, which held two large pie cut eyes and a big toothy grin.
"Ohhh. It like one of those old cartoons they had a long time ago" Nora said bouncing in glee.
"Yeah, and he looks so cute too" Ruby chirped out in a similar state.
"Bendy the dancing devil?" Blake asked curiously seeing the name written at the bottom of the cutout. But unable to see the comparison.
"An odd choice for a mascot. But hey it could've worked at the time." Roman said with a grin.
"It's been years and somehow Oz still kept this old place still standing. The guy must be a wizard or something." Jaune thought to himself as he explored the old studio a little more before coming across a room with 'dreams come true', sloppily written across a wall in black ink.
"Well that's new" Jaune said blankly, thinking it was some kind of joke setup by Ozpin. He continued his tour down another hall towards a large room with a big black pit in the middle of it.
"Why does anyone need a pit like that in their workshop?" Ruby asked confused about its purpose.
Looking around he spotted what seemed to be lift controls but the batteries were missing.
"This lift could use a few dry cells" Jaune said to himself before looking around he found them on the opposite end of the balcony. After installing them and pulling the lever, a loud screeching sound is heard as the gears turn and strain to pull the chain attached to whatever was in the darkness below.
"So they have a lift in an animation studio? Maybe this was a factory before it became a studio." Blake provided, but no one seemed to buy it.
"Let see what you're hiding down the old friend." Jaune said as he watched some large machine rise from the darkness. The Lift stopped and Jaune was able to recognize the blasted heap of metal.
"Oz's ink machine, huh? Well lets see if it still works." He mumbled to himself as walk away to see if he could find the power line. As,he wonders about he spotted an old barrel in the middle of a hallway. As, he walked he spotted an old recorder just lying around. He pressed play to see he could find out anything from it.
"Hey it one of those recorders that Professor Oobleck has out sometime." Nora pointed out at the old machine.
"Its Doctor! Miss Valkyrie. And you are correct, but why would they need one?" Doctor Oobleck said with an irritated but inquisitive tone.
When the button was pushed they heard the voice of Scarlet David complain about Ozpin decisions, how the company was doing, and how loud the ink machine was. Jaune headed into the break room. As he made his way down a board fell from the ceiling only a few feet ahead of him causing to jump.
"I think he best hurry it looks as if that place collapse on before anything else happens" Glynda said tersely at the cheap jump scare.
"Yeah but what is it that Oz wanted him to find?" Qrow asked gaining a shrug from his fellow circle members.
"Probably something stupid or will get him killed." Raven said snarkily.
Jaune kept moving and found the break room. In it were several pedestals each having a different symbol behind it.
"Alright… How do I get this work?" Jaune asked with a sweat drop; He looked at the pictures on the wall and figured he needed to gather some similar object. So walked away back into the hall only to see the board that fell earlier is missing and in its place was a bendy cut out.
"Who put this here?" Jaune said flinching back at its sudden appearance.
"Good question. What about why am I still here?" Yang said not phased by the cutouts new home.
"True. But how did it get there if no one else is around?" Neo signed/asked roman who relayed to everyone else.
"Maybe Ozpin is around trying to scare him or something?" Tai offered not very confident in his answer.
He decided to just keep moving. Jaune searched the entire floor for anything he could use for the pedestals. He found a book called 'the illusion of living' written by Ozpin himself, inside a large room with round tables scattered about. He found a gear in the balcony in the lift room. He found a plushy of bendy in the theater room. He went back to where the hallway leading to the break room and found that the cutout was missing.
"Where did it go now?" Jaune muttered out loud, before his breath caught in his lung at the sight something down the opposite end of the hall.
In a room sat what looked like an anthropomorphic wolf man cut open on a lab table, He also had a wrench sticking out of his open torso. Jaune nearly vomited at the sight of it.
"Oz what have you been doing here?" he asked in horror.
"Hey is it me or does that wolf thing look like the one on the posters?" Port asked the group. All of them realizing that he was right, it was the same one from the posters, or at least looked like it.
"But why or how could that be possible?" Winter asked with a grimace at the gore being displayed in front of her. No one had an answer for her.
Jaune reached up and pulled the wrench out of the body. Before running out of the room before he couldn't take it anymore. He moved away from the area heading down the hall before he spotted a bit of light peeking from under a door.
"Ha so there is someone else there!" Weiss called with a smirk.
As Jaune drew close the light shut off. Curious he opened the door and no one was there no vents to crawl into and barely enough room for him to stand in.
"But there was light peeking out from that room just a second and then there's nothing? What is going on?" Weiss screamed her questions as everyone else began to get a bad feeling about that place.
He decided to just grab the record laying on the floor before leaving. Walking out towards another hall he spotted an old desk in the corner of the hall right across from a large room filled more desk that had drawings on them and inkwells next to them.
"Looks like they knocked out a wall or two after I left. Guess it took a few people to replace me" he said to himself with a hint of pride, before grabbing an inkwell and heading back towards the break room.
"My my. Someone is full of themselves" Ren said with a snicker.
"You can't blame him, our Jaune is a pretty good artist himself." Pyrrha replied with a calm smile.
"So he has some art skills in our world too?" Weiss asked brow raised, gaining a nod from the champion.
"So have you asked him the draw you like one of his mistral girls, P-money" Yang asked wiggling her eyebrows at the now bright red champion, before bursting out in laughter at Pyrrha's face
"Hey! My old desk, I wasted so much time in this chair." Jaune said stopping in front of it and remembering his time working here before moving on. He made his way back to the break room and set everything in its right place.
"Now I just need to get the ink flowing somehow. There must be a switch around here somewhere. Then I can start the main power." He said to himself before walking off. He remembered it being in the theater room. He looked over and saw one of the doors was slightly open. He went over to see if someone was there, but when he touched the door another cutout popped out.
"Oh I'm so scared. Can we cut the basic haunted house shtick already" Roman said grumbling to himself.
Jaune just snickered to himself before trying to push the door open but finding it impossible to move as if a safe was in front of it or something. He shrugged and move on towards the theater hallway. He stopped when he saw another cutout pop around the corner and stared at him before jumping back around again.
"Okay so whoever is doing this isn't very good at being subtle" James muttered to himself getting bored with these pranks.
Jaune rushed down the hallway to see he catch anyone there but there was nobody. Shrugging he entered the room only for the projector to switch on right away, spooking him just a little as it played an old reel that he helped make. He shook his head and looked for the switch. When he found it he turned it on. But no sooner did he do it did a pipe burst ink dousing the stairs out of the room. Jaune made his way back to the break room.
"He sure is doing a lot of running back and forth in this world." Nora said not liking how repetitive it seemed to get. This gained some nods from her fellow students.
Jaune made it back to the switch without issue. He hesitated before deciding to flip it and see the machine in action. He reached up and flip the lever upward and the machine came to life. However, he also noticed everything seem to darken all of a sudden. He started walking toward the lift room to see the machine, making note that the entire studio had seemed to get darker after he turned on the machine.
"Why is it so dark? You can hardly see a thing." Ruby complained as if that was the only problem with what was happening on screen.
"Maybe the machine take more power than they thought so it dims the light just a bit" Winter offered to the crimsonette, who nodded in response.
Jaune rounded the corner leading to the lift room and was caught off guard by what he saw.
"How did this happen?" He asked staring at the now boarded up entrance.
Everyone else in the theater were wondering the same thing.
"This feels like something is telling the kid to get out." Qrow said out loud.
"Yes but who? It couldn't have been a human and there are no Grimm, so no geists could that either." Port replied now a little spooked by the odd event in front of him.
"He said there were no Grimm but there were still monsters. So maybe something that Oz left there is wanting Blondie out" Roman offered to the two trying to make sense of it himself.
Jaune moved closer to take a look at the boards to see if he could pry them away. As he drew close, ink started falling on the other side. When he got near the entrance, a half melted face upon an ink black body appeared and shot its hand out for him.
"Oh shit!" Yang yelped in surprise jumping like everyone else.
"What the fuck is that thing!" Raven shouted as equally startled as her daughter.
This caused Jaune to jump back and start running toward the exit. As he ran the hallway began to fill with the sound of something chasing him down the hall.
"Run! Jaune! Run!" Ruby and Nora screamed at the screen.
"Don't stop! Just keep moving" Pyrrha shouted towards her leader/crush.
He could see the exit just ahead of him, so he started trying to move faster as the ink reached up to his hips at that point. Just as he was about to reach the door the floor under him gave out sending him falling down a chute into the darkness below.
"Shit! Is he okay?" Tai asked worried he might have just watch an old man fall to his death.
"What the hell kind of building do I own that has that kind of drop?" Ozpin asked himself before shaking his head.
Jaune breach out of the ink he landed in, thankful he was still alive. He turned and saw a valve on the wall behind him, he decided to see if it did anything so after giving it a couple spins the surrounding ink started dropping.
"At Least he's okay" Ruby said in relief as her team and Jaune's relaxed a little.
He took a look around and decided it would be best if he kept moving turning more valves as he went until he found a door. He opened it to find a room with an ax in it. Picking up the ax he made his way over to the boarded up hallway.
"That'll come in handy if you that ugly bastard again." Qrow said with a bit of a snicker only to get smack by Glynda's riding crop.
Chopping through several boards, he made his way through towards another door. After chopping the boards on it out of the way he opened it to find a room with two coffins and a pentagram in the center.
"Oh that looks good" Ozpin muttered in snidely already seeing what might have caused that creature in the first place.
"Headmaster, did you think that it might have been a…" Glynda began only to receive a look from said man.
"Glynda; We have seen alternate world with aliens, magic, and rubber pirates. I don't think demons are out of the question at this point." the headmaster said to her.
As he entered it felt as if the whole building was shaking until he stepped into the center of the pentagram. Jaune stood there for a second before being assaulted with a vision of the creature he saw earlier and then collapsing the ground as the screen blacks out.
"Well at least it's over right?" James said in a calm voice, not sure how to take what he had just witnessed.
"Yes it's over" the deity began getting a rise of hope from the audience "for now"
"What do you mean 'for now'" Yang asked afraid of his answer.
"This is one of those world we have to come back to. However, not today." Slayer said with certainty.
None were happy with that answer but didn't know how to say it.
"Let's just move onto to the next world" Blake said rubbing her temples in irritation.
The screen began to switch and glow once more. everyone hoped that they wouldn't have to deal with anything too scary in the next world.
There you guys go hope you enjoyed chapter one of bendy and the ink machine. Sorry if wasn't to your liking but I'm trying to get this done as well as I can, as fast as possible. Like I said the next two chapters have been chosen already as I got a week off my job to work on them and whatever else I felt like. See you next time.
Next time: "you really have a lot of balls, don't you? I spent my precious time and energy trying to save those people and you brazenly declared your intent to massacre them."
