Henry ran all the way from Heavenly toys and back to the elevator with Lily in his arms as Bendy pursued them the whole way there after they made a break for it from the miracle station whilst the Ink Demon was roaming around the room, examining the remains of his broken cut outs but he caught the pair just as they left their hiding place and was now going after them but he wasn't wanting to kill Henry, not just yet at least, he was first going to grab Lily and take her someplace where Henry would never find her, make him suffer for abandoning them all them years.
"Daddy" Lily cried in a scared voice as they finally reached the elevator where Boris was once again cowering in the corner but before Henry made it into the Elevator, Bendy caught up with them, grabbing Lily by the back of her cardigan and attempting to pull her out of Henry's arms but the man held onto the little girl as tight as he could.
"GET OFF HER" he yelled as the child screamed in fear "LEAVE HER ALONE,LET HER GO."
"I don't think so Henry boy" Bendy sneered as he continued attempting to snatch Lily from him "I will make you pay for what you did to us...by taking away the most precious thing in your life, you're little girl." The pair continued in their little tug of war battle with the little girl,causing Henry to drop her to the floor and Bendy was about to grab her but Henry managed to pick her up and jump into the elevator, closing the door behind him.
"You're not having my daughter" he stated as Bendy leered at them from the other side "I already lost one precious thing in my life, I won't lose another" and with that, he hit the button for level nine and the Elevator began to descend downwards as the Ink Demon vanished into a Inky puddle through the floor, vowing that he will return and that he will have Lily in his clutches. Meanwhile,as the Elevator reached level Nine and Henry and Lily were about to exit, Boris asked why Bendy was trying to take Lily.
"I think it has something to do with him wanting revenge but I ain't letting him take my little girl away" he replied before checking Lily over to make sure she was okay and the little girl seemed fine but was more shaken up than before, that was the second time she was almost taken by Bendy and she couldn't understand why he was so determined to do so and why he had such a grudge against Henry.
"I want to go home" she whimpered, gripping onto her daddy's arm "I don't want to be here anymore."
"I know honey I know but let's go and put this axe away, hopefully this was the last job Alice wanted us to do and then maybe she'll let us leave this damned place" he replied, crouching down to her level "and I'm so sorry for putting you through all this, I should never have brought you here in the first place."
"It wasn't your fault though" Lily replied, sounding almost grownup for a Ten year old "you didn't know all this was going to happen" Henry nodded in agreement but he still felt guilty about bringing Lily here in the first place and putting her in danger at least more than once, the child had been through so much from being kidnapped and almost sacrificed by a mad man who worshipped Bendy like some kind of god and now that very Ink Demon was now after her, wanting to take her away from Henry as part of his revenge plan. Suddenly, a shrill piercing scream echoed around the room followed by what sounded like clanging and a serious of snarls.
"THE DISGUSTING WRETCHES HAVE WONDERED MY HALLS, HAVE GONE UNCHECKED, THEY'RE TRYING TO DRAG ME BACK TO THE DARKNESS" Alice's voice screamed around the room as three mutated creatures bearing a striking resemblance to the butcher gang came limping down the hallway, towards Henry and Lily "DON'T LET THEM TAKE YOUR ANGEL, PURGE THEM ONE BY ONE, SMASH THEM INTO THE PUDDLES, KILL THEM!"
"Lily, get back" Henry stated,gesturing for her to stay as far behind as possible "stay behind me." The man gripped the axe as the three surrounded him, the first one to throw the first attack as a spider like creature, also known as striker but with a few whacks with the Axe, Henry managed to knock him down and was about to fight of the next one which was the same one that attacked Lily when they first came into this section of the studio but he heard a high pitched scream coming from behind him and he turned around to see Lily being pinned down by two searchers whilst what could only be described as Fisher began striking at her with his head that was dangling from a long piece of wood in the place where he neck should have been.
"DADDY!" the little girl screamed, struggling to get up but the two searchers holding her down had a firm grip on her "DADDY HELP ME." With a yell, Henry ran towards Fisher, raised his axe and began striking,yelling at the creature to leave his daughter alone but as he managed to defeat the mutated butcher gang creature with the dangling head, he was attacked from behind by Piper who had jumped onto his back and was now attempting to choke him but he managed to fight him off and smash the creature into an Inky puddle but it wasn't over yet, with Piper jumping him from behind, he didn't get the chance to fight off the two searchers that had grabbed Lily and how they were dragging her somewhere as she kicked and screamed.
"NO!" Henry yelled, chasing after them "LET GO OF MY BABY, LET HER GO" he could see that they were trying to drag her away faster but luckily Henry was quicker and he managed to smash them up and release Lily from their grip.
"Daddy" the little girl whimpered as he lifted her from the ground and wrapped his arms around her, relieved that she wasn't hurt.
"Ah" Alice's voice echoed in relieve "I like the silence, don't you, like a welcoming grave."
"Right but I think it's time you let me and my daughter leave now" Henry stated, comforting Lily who was now sobbing quietly into his chest "can't you see she's practically traumatised and we did all you asked us to do so can we leave now?"
"Don't be silly, you're not done just yet my little errand boy and girl" Alice replied with a chuckle "there is still one more task that I need you both to do but you'll have to go deeper, I need you to collect five ink hearts for me and once you have completed that task, I will let you and your child leave, heck I might even help you get out of here, now take this weapon" the weapons box opened and this time Henry was given a Tommy gun "this belonged to someone very special so take good care of it, now take the elevator down into the abyss, say hello to an old friend."
"Umm, Miss Alice?" Lily piped up, swallowing nervously "do you promise that this is the last task?"
"Of course my dear" Alice replied with a chuckle, her tone sounding almost mocking "you and your daddy go do this one last favour for me and then you can leave, then you'll be safe from that big bad Ink Demon, hehehe." After taking the Tommy gun, Henry grabbed Lily's hand and headed for the elevator, he still didn't seem to trust Alice and it made him feel a little uneasy that she was now talking to his daughter.
"Are you okay Daddy?" Lily asked, noticing that Henry seemed a little uneasy.
"I'm fine" he replied, rubbing her head "come on, let's do this one last task and then we can go home." The little girl nodded, a look of relief on her face as the pair stepped back into the elevator, Boris giving Henry a skeptical look.
"Do you trust her?" he asked, nudging his head towards the doorway to Alice's chambers "do you think she'll let you guys leave after you do this one last favour for her?"
"Well she said she would but I'm still not to certain" Henry replied before the elevator doors closed by themselves and they began to descend downwards without either of them pressing any of the buttons.
"Who's making the lift go down?" Lily asked "It wasn't any of us."
"I think it might be Alice, maybe she wants us to go to a specific floor to collect these Ink Hearts" Henry replied as the elevator came to a stop and both he and Lily stepped out into what appeared to be a large chamber and the whole place was flooded with Ink, it was almost everywhere.
"Oh my god" Henry muttered as he took in what was around "what the hell?"
"What is this place?" Lily asked before a look of fear was etched onto her face "do you think this could be Bendy's lair, what if Alice is going to hand us over to him, what if she sent us down here so that he can get us."
"It's okay, listen to me, keep calm alright" Henry stated, kneeling at eye level with her "if that is the case then I won't let him anywhere near you, okay?" the little girl nodded before looking over his shoulder to see what appeared to be a butcher gang corpse with what appeared to a large Ink covered heart in it's open chest.
"Daddy, behind you" she implied and Henry turned around to see the heart in the dead creatures chest.
"Oh" he replied before going over and picking it up "looks like this wasn't a trick after all." After gathering up the first heart, he gripped the Tommy gun and took Lily's hand before proceeding further into the chamber to find the remaining four hearts, just as a huge light began to shine through the halls and a tall, dark figure lurked within the shadows.
"Ssshhh, there he is" Alice's voice spoke in a whispering tone as the figure with a projector for a head lurked around the Ink filled halls and the pair recognized it from Level 11 when they were collecting the thick Ink from the swollen searchers "the projectionist, skulking in the darkness, be sure to stay out of his light, if you don't want any trouble." Lily looked up at Henry with a fearful look on her face, now they had to avoid this projectionist creature as well as Bendy and if both were to catch her and Henry around, it would mean big trouble.
"Don't worry" Henry whispered, noticing the nervous look on his daughter's face "we just need to stay out of his way and everything will be fine, let's just collect the rest of these Ink hearts and get out of here." Just as they were about to continue on with their search, they came across another tape recorder just like all the other ones they had been seeing around the studio.
"It's another tape player, what do you think is on this one?" Lily questioned.
"I don't know, let's have a listen" Henry replied before pressing play on the device and a southern accent began speaking from the audio recording that was inside.
"Now I'm not looking for trouble. It's just the nature of us projectionist to seek out the dark places. You see, I've learned the ins and outs of this here studio, I know how to avoid being bothered by the likes..of this company. That projectionist, they always say, creeping around, he's just looking for trouble. Well trouble or not, I sees everything, they don't know I'm watching...even when I'm right behind them.." all of a sudden there came a high piercing shriek and both Henry and Lily looked to see the projectionist rushing towards them.
"Oh damn" Henry mumbled before pushing Lily back "get behind me honey" the little girl did as she was told whilst He loaded up the Tommy gun and opened fire on the projectionist as it swung at Henry with it's arms whilst Lily watched in fear, biting her fingernails.
"Daddy" she said in a scared voice as the projectionist suddenly set it's sight on her and made a beeline for the small child "do something." The child screamed as the projectionist grabbed her and lifted her from the ground by her pinafore, ready to strike.
"NORMAN, PUT HER DOWN RIGHT NOW" Henry yelled before opening fire and shooting the projectionist, causing him to drop Lily and instead turn his attention to Henry who continued to open fire and just as the projectionist or Norman as Henry had named him could attack, he was sent falling to the floor by the last of the bullets and was now a none moving figure laying face down on the Inky ground.
"Are you alright baby?" he asked, rushing over to Lily and picking her up, hugging her and he could feel her trembling "hey hey, it's okay, he's dead now" the little girl nodded, burying her face in Henry's shoulder "come on, let's find the rest of these hearts and then we can go home and I don't know about you but I could do with an early night after all this." After they took down the Projectionist and managed to locate the remaining Ink hearts that were scattered around the Ink filled maze on the level they were on, both Father and Daughter got back in the elevator and headed back up to level Nine to drop off the Ink hearts.
"You both have done well my little errand boy and girl" the Angel cooed as Henry put the hearts into the drop box "but I'm afraid we have reached the end of my little do to list, now, go the elevator my little errand boy and girl, it's time for you both to go home" Henry breathed and sigh of relief and Lily felt like that Christmas had come early, this was it, they were finally going home, they were finally going to get out of this hell hole.
"Well young lady, you heard the Angel, it's time to go home" Henry stated, crouching down so Lily could climb onto his back and once she was on his back, gripping tightly, he piggy-backed her all the way to the elevator and set her down once they were inside.
"So is this is then, you guys are finally getting out of this place?" Boris asked.
"That's right buddy, it's time for us to go home" Henry replied, putting a hand on the cartoon wolf's shoulder "it's been kind of eventful hasn't it?"
"You should come with us Boris, you should come and live at our house" Lily suggested as the elevator doors closed and it began to move upwards before turning to Henry "can he Daddy, can Boris come home with us, please?"
"I think it should be his decision" Henry replied before turning to Boris "so what do you say buddy, want to come home with me and Lily?" a small smile appeared on the wolf's face and he was about to answer but was suddenly interrupted by Alice's voice speaking over the tannoy.
"Have you ever wondered what heaven looks like?" she asked "I like to imagine that it's quite beautiful, soft green grass, blanketed by a warm son, it's a shame that I'll never get to see it, are you ready to ascend my little errand boy and girl, the heavens are waiting" the elevator had gone past level k by this point and they could hear what could be described as Alice seemingly weeping but it slowly began to turn into soft laughter before she erupted into a full maniac laughter and the elevator began to plummet downwards.
"DADDY!" Lily screamed as the force of the plummeting elevator sent her falling to the floor and hit her head against the metal flooring, knocking her unconscious.
"LILY NO" Henry yelled trying to reach her but the speed that the elevator was falling at prevented him from moving so all he could do was hold himself against the wall as his little girl lay unmoving on the floor, blood trickling down the side of her head.
"DID YOU THINK YOU COULD STEAL FROM ME, DID YOU THINK I WOULD JUST LET YOU GO" Alice shrieked as they fell faster and faster "NO HENRY, I KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND I KNOW WHY YOU'RE HERE, YOU AND THAT LITTLE BRAT OF YOURS, THE BOTH OF YOU WILL NOT STOP WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE NOW COME BACK DOWN HERE AND BRING ME BACK MY BORIS" Henry glanced over to Boris who was cowering in the corner, just like he did whenever Bendy was around and Henry clicked on, she had tricked them, Alice had tricked them and now she was after Boris "HE IS THE MOST PERFECT BORIS I HAVE EVER SEEN AND I WANT IT, I NEED IT, I NEED HIS INSIDES SO I CAN BE BEAUTIFUL AGAIN, DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND, GIVE HIM TO ME OR BETTER YET, I'LL TAKE HIM, ONCE YOU AND YOU'RE LITTLE BRAT ARE BOTH DEAD." The elevator began to fall a lot more faster than before and Henry was sent falling backwards which caused him to hit his head against the wall and his whole world to darken in an instant.
After the elevator had crashed down into a new area, Boris who was not hurt by the collision pulled both Henry and Lily from the wreckage and began trying to wake them up.
"Come on guys, wake up" he pleaded "Henry, you gotta wake up" the wolf glanced over at Lily who was still unconscious, blood at the side of her head and her right ankle appeared to be broken "Lily's hurt pretty bad Henry, you gotta wake up" as he drifted in and out, Henry could see a worried Boris hovering over him but he could also make out the figure of a woman slowly coming up behind him and despite his blurry vision, he could tell that it was Alice Angel and he tried desperate to warn Boris but he was far too weak to say anything so all he could do was watch helplessly as she grabbed the cartoon wolf by the back of his overalls and the last thing Henry saw before he completely lost consciousness was Boris being dragged away by the Angel through the darkened hallways just as Bendy came out of the wall through one of his Inky portals to find both Henry and Lily laying unconscious just a few feet away from the elevator wreckage.
"Well well well, what have we here?" he pondered, walking over to two unmoving figures and looking at the wreckage from the crash "looks like we've had quite a fall haven't we, still no matter" he turned his attention to Lily and grinned evilly "I can finally take this one" he crouched down and lifted the child from the ground, tossing her over his shoulder with no effort " and you Henry, I'll just leave you here and if you wake up, don't expect to find your precious little brat to still be here" he gripped the unconscious man's chin with his free hand whilst using the other to hold Lily over the shoulder "she's mine now." The Ink Demon then released his grip on Henry's chin and began making his way to the wall before vanishing into an Inky portal, taking a Injured and Unconscious Lily with him.
