Before long, she slowly woke up groggily after what have seemed to be countless hours.
She got her head up slightly and shook the ringing out of her head, as it gradually disappeared.
As she was slowly looking up, she noticed the surrounding scenery changed after the sudden feeling.
As if she is facing the same apartment, that looked like the one in the game.
Confused, she got up from the ground of where she is, doing a slight push up as her forearms on the concrete.
Before Stephanie could get up, a migraine made her feel nauseous from the movement, so she stopped, placing a hand on her forehead, groaning softly to herself.
The doors opened after a while of staying at where she was, as footsteps walked down from the porch.
She heard a voice softly spoke, when the person noticed her in front of the apartment, "Oh my goodness."
Stephanie groggily glanced up from where she was, her hand still on the side of her head.
She is looking at someone in pink in front of her, her face looked worried and concerned.
"Are you all right, ma'am?" she asked, as she got closer to her, the tips of her toes over the edge of the porch.
"Y-Yeah," Stephanie responded, slightly stammering.
She gently shook her head side to side to get the ringing sensation out of her head, still feeling a little dizzy.
"I'm fine," she assured the worried lady. "Thank you for asking me."
Being polite, she placed her right hand against her chest, underneath her neck, and bowed slightly.
Although she is groggy, she manages to bow down, even on her knees.
As she somewhat got up to her knees, she glanced down at the figure again, and looked, surprised at first, before looking confused.
Stephanie sees someone shorter than her and different from what she expected.
She is short like a dwarf compared to the midgets she saw back at home.
But, she looked almost like the one in the game she was playing earlier, except she can clearly see her, and make every single detail of her.
She possesses steel-blue eyes, light fair skin color, light brown hair that is pulled into a low ponytail, and she looked plump.
The lady is wearing a pink outfit, with a small narrow skirt that is down to her ankles, with slippers, expect in a dark color.
She is also wearing a pair of pearl earrings on her ears.
When she noticed Stephanie, she noticed she does not look like the other video game characters, but looked more human.
"Y-You're…" she paused, could not find out who she is but was awed at how normal she looked, except with the wires, metal eye, and arm.
"Different?" Stephanie finished for her, standing up to her feet, trying to walk toward the apartment to see if there is any medicine inside.
Despite her headache, she manages to stay upright without falling over.
Before she could take a step forward, she collapsed in front of her, landing back down on her forearms and knees, hearing a worrying noise from the female.
She looked slightly pale as her hair dripped brown liquids, along with her wires dripping different colors.
Since there was not enough light in the place, the lady thinks she might have accidentally fallen into the pond that was near to the apartment.
"Oh, are you wet?" She asked, noticing her dripping.
Stephanie moved her left hand up, as drops of skin color droplets dripped to the ground, like how her hair is dripping along with her body.
"Stay right here, I'll go get something for you." the woman assured, before leaving her and entering the apartment building.
As she walked into the apartment, she heard this from the lady, mumbling to herself, "Maybe asking Gene to put up a sign up to watch out for the pond when visitors come over to see us."
Stephanie gently sighed as she moved her arm back down, completely feeling groggy.
Although she was dripping, it was not too much, but just enough for her to be covered in it.
'I'm doing the same thing like Bendy…' She thought to herself, as more drips dripped from her body, concealing her face as her glasses disappeared and only stopped at her nose, leaving her mouth uncovered. 'I hope the lady doesn't mind me accidentally wetting the ground with all of this liquid…'
She groggily glanced up to expect her to stand at the doorway, only to notice a different person than the lady she met.
Stephanie only saw a faint vision of him; he was shocked as his jaw was dropped, as she noticed her eyes are perhaps covered by her brown hair, that was turned to a liquid substance.
And since she only sees half of the vision, she felt annoyed, her glasses were missing too, but she can see clearly, except through the substance.
Sighing gently, she reached up with a dripping metal colored hand-like blob, moving some brown liquid and the multi-colored fluid from her face.
After moving the substance away from her face, she noticed a different person standing in front of the apartment.
He was short like the woman before, but with fair skin color, short black hair, and a thick mustache.
The man is also wearing a dark purple suit, with a white undershirt with a collar and black pants with matching shoes.
They stared eye to eye for a moment, before the substance fell into her face again, as she softly groaned, which sounded almost like a bubbly growl.
She got up from the pavement, dripping all over the ground with varieties color of blue, brown, multiple colors from the left-hand side of her head, and the metal color of her right hand, and skin color of her left hand, as well as dark blue ink like feet blotches from her feet.
Stephanie took a shaky step forward, starting to go toward the apartment, as he just stood there in front of the entrance, gawking.
A loud yelp escaped from him when she took a step forward, quickly turning on his heel and ran down the hallway as fast as he can.
When he ran, he produced a pixelated cloud of dust behind his feet, while screaming, "Mary!"
She glanced back up to the entrance of the apartment, moving some substance from her eyes with her right hand again, noticing the small man was gone.
Stephanie sighed again in irritation as she moved her hand away, letting the substance cover her eyes again.
This was getting a little too tiresome for her to get used to.
Trying to walk, she stumbled a couple of times as she walked, trying to get used to her blob like feet as she walked, dripping a few splatters of liquid all over the ground, following after where the man went to.
When she reached the porch, she got down on her knees to fit through the door since she is about 10 or 11 ft tall.
Using her hands, she crawled into the apartment without digging her fingers into the carpet, avoiding objects over her head and back.
After entering the apartment, she had her right hand out as she crawled inside, feeling around for when if she bumped into someone or something.
Now she knows how he could walk around like this, except more like crawling than walking.
If she could walk, she would have a difficult time since how small it was and how too tall she was.
So, she wisely decided to crawl, although it was a bit difficult, she manages to continue without stopping.
Every time she took another hand forward; the substance dripping from her left a puddle shaped like a handprint behind.
Luckily it does not soak into the carpet each time she did it.
She went deeper into the apartment, slipping a couple of times from her hand, and bumping gently into a couple of things, luckily without accidentally breaking any items.
There was no one else around as she crawled, feeling a little glad but annoyed that she could not see where she was going with all the liquid covering her eyes.
Her super-hearing heard the sounds of the man's shoes hitting the ground while running frantically.
Even his voice which anyone else can still hear too, since how loud he is yelling.
"Mary!" the young man's voice shrieked, as his shoes clicked the ground.
She moved her hand up to the side, feeling that she is close against a corner of the hallway that she is walking through.
After her hand touched the side of the wall, where it ends, noticing she reached another hallway.
Mentally to herself, she felt like the apartment was a giant maze for her after someone blinded her after attacking her.
But, she was not stopping there to get the liquid covering her eyes right now to see where she was.
She has to find that person that was scared of her and assure him that she is not a threat to him or anyone else.
She turned around the corner as she moved her hand away from the side, leaving a metal colored handprint.
After turning the corner, she noticed two familiar people in the hallway, one dressed in pink as the other dressed in blue.
Despite the substance covering her eyes, she could somewhat see them, expect half of their bodies.
"What Gene?" the lady's familiar voice asked, named Mary answered, sounding a tad annoyed. "I'm looking for the towels! Unless someone needed them since they kept going into the mud!"
"Besides that, we have a problem!" the man whined, who is named Gene, sounding like he was in a panic. "We need to get out of the apartment, now!"
"What are you talking about?" Mary asked, sounding confused, as Stephanie quietly crawled over to them, getting ready to ask questions.
She got closer to the two without them noticing, making quiet motions, without making any loud noises or splattering of the liquid that she is covered in.
Now that she is up close, she could see that Mary has her hands on her hips, looking annoyed as Gene was nervously biting the tips of his fingers with his teeth.
"Th-There's a monster out there, and-!" he stammered, before taking one glance of her, then, a second glance, his blood running cold when he saw it.
Stephanie mentally winced to herself when she heard the word "monster" but felt even more hurt when he is scared of her.
"What?" Mary asked, noticing Gene's face turned pale, as he was backing away from her, as well as what he was staring at. "Gene, what-?"
She glanced over at what Gene was staring at in fear, noticing the creature that he was staring at, standing there in the hallway, looking confused as the two of them were standing there, shocked to see it there.
"What the-?" she exclaimed, but before she could finish her sentence, she stopped herself when she noticed something about the creature.
Without a word, Gene instantly thrust Mary into the bathroom she was standing in before she could say anything about her, closing the door behind his back, and ran down the hallway, panicking as Stephanie sighed, circling her head as is she is rolling her eyes in annoyance.
She took a couple of crawls forward, about to follow after Gene, before noticing the lock was accidentally locked, as the door rattled a bit.
"Gene!" Mary snapped from the other side of the door, as the doorknob rattled and banged against the door with her fists. "Let me out!"
Wisely, she decided not to respond to her because of her anger.
But, being polite, she reached over to the lock of the door he accidentally had locked, and with two of her fingers, she unlocked the door for Mary to come out.
As she unlocked the door, the banging and the rattling stopped, perhaps when she noticed that she did not hear that Gene was coming back, or if she realized that the "creature" out there was opening the door to attack her.
Stephanie mentally growls at herself for the ridiculous thought in her mind.
But, she gently shrugged to herself about the idea, maybe could be right.
After she had unlocked the door, she continued walking down the hallway, following after Gene to talk to.
As for him, he swiftly turned around the corner, stopping for a moment, as he panted.
He gently leaned his arm against a wooden cabinet, as bits of pixelated sweat dripped from him.
"I think…, I need the exercise from Felix in the mornings." he huffed, as he straightened out his back.
Suddenly, something dripped on his left chubby cheek.
Confused, he reached over with his left hand and gently wiped some of it off, noticing there was some blue substance, on his fingertips.
Bits more of the strange liquid dripped onto his plump cheek from the ceiling above him, as he glanced up at the ceiling with a confused look on his face.
When he glanced up at the ceiling, he froze at where he was, his pupils shrinking in fear.
There, on the ceiling, was the same creature that he saw back in the hallway, stuck to the roof as the bottom half was deep inside the puddle.
It was dripping some strange liquid onto the ground from its body as it was peering back at Gene, with a single steel-blue eye, as the white part was black.
Yelping again, he ran straight down in the hallway, until he went into the top of the building, going into the room as he closed the glass doors behind his back.
When he reached the ground, still backing up from the door, a dark shadow appeared from behind the glass door, in the shape of an unknown person.
His heart beat faster as it loomed over the door, as he continued backing up, hoping the figure might be someone else than that creature.
Or he might be hallucinating from something that he did not notice before.
As it got closer to the door, the form kept getting darker, he backed up from the stairs.
All of a sudden, the shadowy figure looming over the glass door vanished, disappearing into thin air.
Confused and alert, he carefully took a step forward, thinking that it had disappeared when it noticed that someone else is coming, or perhaps it was trying to find another way to get inside the room.
Without any warning, a dark shadow loomed over him, as the feeling of something is gazing at him from behind, as goosebumps formed everywhere on his body, his hair sticking up from the ends from the back of his neck.
Without budging an inch, he felt something getting closer to his back, hissing softly.
Expecting all of this to end, he waited for the right moment to run, as he clenched his right hand into a shaking fist.
He was ready to hit whatever or whoever is behind him, and run away from that being as fast as he can, alerting anyone that could help him.
Instead, he felt something breath against his ear, and that made him frozen on the spot, waiting for whoever is going to talk to him.
"You pushed someone in a room…" a bubbly feminine voice hissed in his ear, causing him to jump from the sudden noise.
He screamed at the top of his lungs, as he whipped around to see who it is, only to see the creature from earlier.
The figure was lanky but looked fit from another angle.
A small puddle was underneath its feet which were blobs, in the colors of blue and white, along with brown and tanned almond.
The strange brown liquid was covering the eyes, so, he does not know if it was either closing its eyes or its eyes are open.
Weird black web-like webs were everywhere in the room, spreading everywhere, including the ground, but not all over himself.
It was towering over probably 10 or 11 ft tall, as he was only 3 ft and 2 inches tall!
The creature took a step forward, leaving a wet footprint behind, as it wobbles a bit as some substance dripped off the body.
He backed up, shaking from head to toe as pixelated sweat beads dripped off him.
Gene could not run, he can only back up slowly as it stepped closer to him, looking like a drunk person that just drank too much in the night and woke up on a bad day with a massive headache.
As it crept closer to him, it wobbled again from the last step, kneeling down slightly, before getting up, as a wet like a hand reaching up to its side of the forehead, looking sick, as the other hand was on the ground.
"I think I need to take a little nap…" it spoke again, as it stopped in its tracks.
The voice sounded feminine like the voice that spoke behind his back.
But when it talked, it made Gene confused, but still scared.
She does not sound like she wants to hurt anyone she meets.
It got down to its knees on the ground, making Gene flinch a bit from the sudden movement, making a *ping!* noise as it, or she moved, noticing she was… shaking slightly…
"I feel so bad…" she mumbled again, as a bigger puddle appeared underneath her body, as her body wave slowly side to side.
"A-Are you alright, ma'am?" he asked, sounding unsure about what she or it could be.
She looked up at him from gazing down at the ground.
"All right? I feel…," she paused, wobbling a bit as her head moved down slightly. "I feel… like…"
Then, the color of half of her face turned slightly green, as a soft groan like gurgle came from her throat.
"I'm gunna puke…," she groaned.
She quietly burped as she covered her mouth with her right hand, dripping with the strange liquid that she is covered in.
He snapped out of his daze when she spoke, noticing she looked sick by the way she is covering her mouth.
"D-Don't puke! I'll look for something to help you," he stammered as he glanced around.
"Thank you…," she thanked, her forehead touching the ground.
Just in time, Mary came into the room, annoyed as her chubby cheeks were red with slight anger, until noticing the creature in front of Gene, covering the area where the mouth is with a blob-like hand.
"Oh, is it sick?" Mary asked, startling Gene, as he flinched from the sudden noise.
"'It?'" the female asked, glancing up at her as it moved the hand away from the area of where the mouth is.
"Oh," she recognized the sound of her voice, before apologizing to her. "I am sorry."
Somehow it confused her as she noticed the voice after she apologized.
"Wait a moment." She hopped down the stairs, making a *ping* noise every time she jumps down, before landing on the ground, walking up to the substance like a person, as she looked confused.
Gene looked worried as she walked up, staring at her for a moment, then back at Mary.
Using the white towel in her hands, she stood up to her tippy toes, gently wiping the substance off her face, as she leaned down slightly for her to wipe the liquid off.
After wiping, she noticed a single black eye staring at her, with a steel-blue iris.
Putting the puzzle pieces together, she realized the single eye belongs to the female she met before in the front of the apartment.
"Oh, my goodness." Mary gasped as Gene looked confused about the reaction.
"I have a lot to explain?" she asked, moving her head up slightly.
The door of the room opened again, as there was the sound of running feet.
The doors closed behind the person and the two to turn to the person.
"I heard a loud scream and-" that's when the voice stopped, noticing her in front of the two smaller people.
She glanced up from the two characters in front of her, only to see a different person standing in front of the closed doors, gawking at her.
He is a small and slender man, but a bit taller than the two people in front of her.
The man has fair skin, short dirty blond hair, and steel-blue eyes.
He wears a blue plumbers outfit with three buttons and two pockets at each side of his chest.
On top of his head covering his hair is a blue hat, as a yellow symbol was stitched on his cap, with the two blue "Fs."
Above the pocket on his left side, is a name tag with the word "Felix" stitched in white as it was in cursive.
Underneath his shirt is a white undershirt, and a pair of blue jeans with pockets at the sides and the end of his pant legs were rolled up slightly.
Covering his hands is a pair of brown gloves and a pair of flaxen boots with mustard color shoelaces.
He was staring at her with a shocked look on his face as Stephanie sighed, knowing what is going to happen next.
"Who-? Wha-?" he stammered while backing up towards the doors. "What is that?!"
Stephanie pinched her nose bridge with her right hand, groaning softly to herself.
Although her glasses are gone, she can still see even if with all the liquid covering her face.
"Felix!" Mary spoke, running over to him before he could even escape. "Calm down."
Stephanie glanced back up, noticing that Mary is in front of him, her hand on Felix's hand.
"She is not going to hurt anyone," she assured him, as he slightly turned his body to her.
"Are ya sure?" he asked, sounding concerned.
"Of course!" she perked. "She did not destroy the building, did she?"
"How can I if I am this sick, too?" she added, her voice still bubbly. "It would also be really wet too. Not forgetting rude."
Felix jumped when she spoke as Mary and Gene glanced at her, looking a little confused about what she meant.
She slowly started to get up to her feet again.
"Don't stand!" Gene spoke, placing his hands on her dripping left arm as she stopped. "You might get too dizzy and fall again."
She glanced at him for a moment, as he stiffens a bit, feeling worried about what she could do next.
But, she instead nodded her head once, understanding his worry about her condition.
"Alright," she sighed, giving in from her stubbornness. "I could sit for a while…"
Stephanie sat down on her bottom, crossing her legs as she has her elbows on her thighs, while Gene kept his hand on her forearm, just in case if she had fallen over if she was not careful.
When Gene removed his hands from her left arm, he got some blue substance all over his hands, so he took the towel up from the ground, wiping it off.
"Does this stuff come off easily?" he asked, turning to her.
"Yeah…," she replied, answering his question as she glanced at the puddle underneath her. "It also does not soak into the carpet since I had walked in here before."
"How on earth did fit through the door?" Felix pointed, as he walked down the stairs, although a little timid to get close to her willingly.
"I just did." she shrugged, before placing her hand on her forehead. "Does anyone have some ibuprofen to cure this headache?"
"Just a minute." Mary left and went into the hallway, hearing a confused "Hmm?" from her.
'Oh, shoot,' Stephanie cringed mentally to herself. 'I forgot I can absorb the stuff.'
Instead of calling of anyone else from her or any yelling, nothing happened, expect the noises of her walking down the hallway and disappearing.
After Mary went off to get medicine, Felix got up close to her, still cautious of what she could do to him and Gene.
Gene, on the other hand, was still unsure of what she could also do to him too but felt like he could trust her, but something familiar was keeping him back.
Too familiar.
She glanced up at the two, as they flinched when she looked at them, noticing their worried looks on their faces.
"What? You think I'm gunna eatcha or something?" she asked, sounding annoyed.
Felix noticed the tone of her voice and slightly panicked, worried if she could get angry quickly.
"N-No, I'm just a little…" He paused, unsure of how to describe.
Stephanie was quiet as he tried coming up with something, as she rose an eyebrow.
After a while, he nervously chuckled, as Gene cautiously took a step back.
Instead of snapping at them for thinking of something else about her, she shrugged her shoulders again, glancing away from them as she crossed her arms underneath her chin, sighing gently.
Since her legs are absorbed into the puddle underneath her, it made her look like a legless person, covered in different colors of paint.
"Alright, your choice," she sighed.
They both blinked in confusion at her shrug, expecting more out of her when Mary came back, holding a glass of water and a white bottle with a label on the front in her other hand.
She walked back up to Stephanie, as she slightly raised her head up from against her arms, looking taller, even though without the legs.
When she was up to her front, she held out the glass of water to her, as she had the white pill bottle in her other hand.
"Here, take this first," she spoke. "It could help you clear out your throat."
Stephanie shakily reached up to the glass with her right hand, taking it gently and sat up straight, as the crown of her head was slightly touching the top of the building.
Popping the lid off, Mary took out two pills and looked a little concerned, noticing the liquid around her, and covering her body too.
"Err, how is she going to swallow the pills, since she is made out of blue water?" Gene pointed.
Stephanie only smirked and gently took the pills from Mary, oddly was not dissolving in her hand when she had them.
With one motion, she swallowed the pills quickly, before slowly drinking the water.
After a few swallows, she sighed after drinking, wiping some dripping substance from her face, revealing her eyes again, but her left eye was more of a lighter steel-blue than the other.
"So, how do you feel?" Gene slowly asked, mentally noticing the strange color of her other eye.
"A little better," she replied, as the dripping started to slow down, as the puddle underneath her slowly shrank. "I think I need some time to get better."
She slowly drank some more water, as the green color of her hair turned back into a brown color and Mary took the towel in her hands, noticing how much liquid is on it from her.
"I'll take this to wash," Mary spoke, as she wrapped the towel into a neat fold so that it would not drip all over the ground. "You two need to keep an eye on her if she tries getting up from the ground. The medicine needs to kick in for a while."
Gene and Felix nodded their heads, and Mary left, leaving all three in the room again.
Stephanie sighed as she repositioned herself, her legs coming back up from the puddle underneath her body, and sat down on her knees as she has the cup in her hands.
It was strange to see her body acting like this, seeing that she looked almost like a blob than herself.
"Well, since we're here, what's your names?" she asked, mentioning to them with her left hand, still covered in a metal color liquid.
Her hands were not dripping any of the substance she is covered in anymore.
"I'm Fix-It-Felix, Jr." Felix introduced taking his hat off from his head.
Stephanie nodded her head as if she greeted back and slowly drank some more water from the glass she was handed with.
"And I am Gene, the mayor of Niceland." Gene introduced after Felix introduced himself, putting his hat back on his head. "The lady in pink that you've met is my wife, Mary."
Stephanie nodded her head again in understandment, and rethinks to herself about the name that Felix spoke, before thinking about the name of the game she played before in the arcade.
When she compared the two together, she was shocked when she figured out what happened after completing the game.
She nearly sputtered her mouthful of water from her mouth but held in the rest as some sputters came out into the glass.
Felix and Gene moved back when she sputtered, trying not to get wet from the water in her mouth.
Not spitting it out of her mouth, she swallowed the remaining water in her mouth, politely covering her mouth with her right hand, as a napkin to collect the drops.
"'Fix-It-Felix, Jr?'" she repeated, placing the glass away from her. "As if from the game, 'Fix-It-Felix, Jr?'"
Felix nodded his head in confusion as Gene glanced at him with a confused look on his face.
Now that the dripping and the substance is gone, they can clearly see her body, as her glasses were back on her face after she moved some of the strands of her hair.
Mary walked back into the apartment floor and noticed Stephanie is back to normal.
Except for the fact that half of her hair was covering her left eye.
But something about her body made Mary notice that there was something familiar about her.
"Wait a moment," she spoke, walking in between the two and in front of Stephanie. "You look familiar."
Stephanie noticed the look of Mary's face and wisely decided to show them that she is from the other side of the arcade game.
"Err, does this help?" she spoke, as she stood up from the ground, now at 6 ft and 2 inches tall.
Now that she is perfectly fine, her voice does not sound bubbly anymore, but clear.
After she had stood up, she moved her wire hair from the left-hand side of her head, revealing that her eye was replaced with a metal optic.
Now they noticed that the strange lighter color was different.
Not only that, but her right arm was entirely metal too, without the silver liquid dripping anymore.
Then, she placed her hands on where the controls were as if she is playing the game again, as she pushed her glasses into place with the first finger of her left hand.
When she went into the position of how she plays the game and pushing her glasses into place, they instantly remembered the female gamer they have met from behind the screen.
"Oh, my land." Felix gasped, as she looked sheepish.
She reached up to the back of her neck, nervously rubbing it as she has a sheepish look on her face.
"I do have a lot to explain." she sheepishly spoke, glancing away from the three to the side.