So this story is coming to a close soon. The rest of the chapters will likely be very short though. I also plan on having a second one up tonight... maybe.

Once she ate and got cleaned up, the workers, Bendy, and Dani decided they couldn't stay there forever. Especially since they needed to get her out of the studio. So they headed out to try and find an exit.

Thomas, Grant, and Shawn split off together to make the search quicker. They decided to use their real names as codes for when they come across the other group again.

Meanwhile, Dani went with Toon!Bendy and Wally.

"So…where might Alice be at? Isn't it dangerous for the others to be on their own with her around?" Dani asked as they walked down the hall.

"Eh…sort of. They should be okay though. I mean, we've all been here for a long time!" Bendy replied.

"No kidding." Dani said.

"Alice is likely around here somewhere. Which is why we need to find an exit sooner rather than later." Bendy added.

"…What about the rest of you?" Dani asked after a moment.

"What about us?" Wally asked.

"I…I don't know if I can leave you guys here in this Hell hole." Dani turned to him. "It wouldn't be fair for me to live while you're still trapped."

"It also wouldn't be fair for you to die and end up like us, doll." Bendy said.

"He's right. Don't… worry about us. It's not like we have anyone to go home to… or a home for that matter." Wally added, sadly.

"But… you could come with me. My apartment is small and I don't make much in retail, on top of college, but we'll figure something out!" Dani said.

"You don't have to do that." Bendy said, making her look back to him.

"But I do… it's the least I can do for all you've done for me."

"Still… like you said, you don't have a lot of money and have a small home. You can't fit all of us in there." Wally said.

"I mean… I wasn't talking about all the employees because that'd be impossible. I just meant you guys and the other group."

"Hm… I suppose something like that could work." Bendy replied.

"What would happen to the others? If we were set free and back to being humans, I mean?" Wally asked, curiously.

"I would hope the state or country even would help them. I don't know how high the chances of that are but… that's their only option." Dani said.

"Oh…" Wally trailed off.

"Can't exactly leave you to be homeless though." She frowned.

"And you can't leave us here either, huh?" Bendy asked and she nodded.

"God… what if we don't change you back and I'm the only one that escapes? What am I suppose to say to the police? That I fell through the floor and decided to explore the old studio this whole time? They'll believe me about my phone not working but I can't exactly mention you because they'll come here looking around. Don't wanna send them to their deaths."

"Yeah. That's a problem." Bendy thought about it. "Just simply say you didn't find anything."

"What if they want to take down the building? I mean, me falling through would be enough to want to do it." Dani said.

"Tell them not to. Tell them to just block it off and make sure no one can get inside again." Bendy suggested.

"But…" She sighed. "Let's forget about that for a moment and focus on finding a way to free you. I'll…think of what to tell the police later on."

"We've tried. There is nothing that could help us." Bendy responded.

"Hm…" She hummed. "Have you tried everything? And searched everywhere?"

"Let's see…" Bendy tapped his chin. "I think… the only place we haven't looked is Joey's sanctuary. But I think you need a code to get into it. Plus, I don't know what it could be."

"Why don't we go there?" Dani suggested. "The code has to be pretty simple. Something we could possibly know."

"It's worth a shot… I guess." Bendy huffed.

"What do you think might be in it?" Wally asked.

"I'm hoping a way to reverse what Joey did." Dani replied, then looked at Bendy in front of them. "Or a way to change you back so that way Bendy can stay alive too."

"To be fair, darling, I'm not suppose to exist. You can't just walk out of here with me and expect people not to ask questions." Bendy said, hearing her.

"We'll figure something out." She shrugged. "Or just straight up tell them to mind their own business." Dani said, getting a chuckle out of Bendy.

"Yeah. We could just do that." Bendy said with a happy noise. "Come on, I know where his sanctuary is! Thankfully we're already on level S!"

"Lead the way." Dani said, clutching the axe she had.

Bendy nodded, and ran ahead but slow enough for her and Wally to keep up. After running down a few hallways, they ended up at a door like the one to Sammy's sanctuary.

"Yep. We need a code." Dani said, studying the device next to it.

"Any ideas?" Wally questioned.

"Know when his birthday is? Or what year he was born?" Dani asked, but the two shook their heads. "Hmm…"

After a few questions and getting nowhere, she realized that it likely was related to the studio, not Joey himself, so….

"How about when the studio opened?"

"That was 1932! I remember that perfectly!" Wally replied.

"Let's give it a shot." Dani said, and pressed the buttons.

Sure enough, the door opened.

"Nicely done, Wally." Dani smiled.

"Great job, buddy!" Bendy squealed.

"Thank you!" Wally grinned.

Dani shined the light from her phone into the dark room. Thankfully she had enough battery left for the flashlight.

"Let's make this quick. Of all places in this studio, this is probably the creepiest." Dani said, as they slowly walked inside.

"I agree." The boys said in unison.

Deciding to stick together, they searched throughout the room and ended up at the desk last.

"If I was a crazy murderer, I'll put something in a desk." Dani muttered.

"Let's hope there's something." Wally replied.

Bendy opened the first drawer as Dani put her phone above him for light…

So with this fic almost over, I decided to make a ask blog on Tumblr! I'm not going to make it active until I have the designs and stuff taken care of but I will explain what it's about! (Also I want to use it as an excuse to practice drawing humans)

It's going to continue after this fic (along with a possible bonus story for oneshots suggested by you guys). But I'm going to have a timeskip so that it takes place today in 2018 not 2017 and uses real world time so if a holiday happens for us, it's happening for the characters. That way whoever can be out of the hospital and stuff.

Before I continue, I wanted to say that the AU to this AU likely won't be updated but the ending was that everyone moved on to Heaven...except Joey. This one, 3-4 people survive and leave with Dani for some bs reason I probably won't make other than it's fictional so who cares about logic. LOL.

So you can pick who survives in the comments of THIS chapter. OR if you want the ask blog to be even better (and give me more work) just say you want everyone to survive because I could do that too. Here is a list of people to choose from. Remember, either everyone lives or only 3-4.

Susie, Norman, Shawn, Grant, Thomas, Wally, Sammy, and even Toon!Bendy could escape. That said, Sammy and Wally will likely survive no matter what because... reasons... The only OC in the crew will be Dani of course.

I won't give a link to the blog until after this story is over. Hopefully I'll have some designs started. In the meantime, I'm setting it up. Since it's a modern AU, they're gonna be adjusting to life in 2018 and suffering from any medical issues, trauma and stuff.

I'll have a background and rules on the page for you to know any more info about it.

Thanks for reading! 3