Ugh I just stayed up till three AM to write this... I really didn't want to lose this idea. Also I think I can safely call this an AU now from this chapter alone. Though I have no idea what kind of AU... Eh oh well baby steps.

Anyways hope you enjoy this new one!

Alice trudged through an ink flooded hallway, quietly cursing Joey once again for making that cursed machine. It was bad enough that some of the humans nearly drowned in the stuff often but the damn thing had to many problems… though that was the least of her worries with it.

The toon angel had found something in Joey's office once before… something that worried her more then anything else. When she had found it she wanted to find anyway to take her fellow toons and run away from here. But sadly… she knew that was impossible, they looked to different from the normal humans and… leaving just wasn't something any of them could physically do. Not only that… but for the past few week she barely saw the two boys and out of her own fear of what Joey might do to her… she took the coward's way and had help in trying to avoid Joey at all cost.

Wally was the biggest help in that department surprisingly, Susie was a close second when she could come in for voice work… but she also found a great help in Sammy for after hours. She just had to promise to only use his Sanctuary when the studio was closed down. When it was that time she would wait for about an hour to make sure Joey was gone before leaving it and would go about looking for her fellow toons.

Which was just what she was doing now, but to her growing fear it was getting harder and harder for her to find her fellow toons these days. Her fears that Joey's plan was advancing were starting to feel more and more real with each passing day…. And her inability to find her fellow cast with the expanding building and strange happenings going on when the human's left.

"Boris? Bendy?" the angel toon called out, pulling herself up from the flooded hallway. Some of the ink dripped off of her a little while the rest of it easily got absorbed into her form as if it never existed in the first place. A slight scowl crossed her face from that but she shook it off quickly and walked down the non flooded halls. She continued to call out for them as she moved around the halls.

"Boris? Bendy? If either of you guys can hear me… please… please just… just say something…" Alice trailed, the small amount of hope she felt starting to fade. Was… was she to late?

Of course I am… God I'm so stupid. I-I…. I should have just told them… But… but how would they have felt to… to know what I do? The angel thought to herself, her arms wrapping around her in self pity and loathing.

Suddenly a sound caused her to snap out of it. It sounded like a choked sobbing coming from one of the rooms in the hallway. Quickly deciding to follow it she hurried down the hall to the room and threw the door open. What she found within made her heart practically stop.

Inside was Bendy, sitting in the middle of a satanic circle with candles all around… and his form seemed to be melting a bit. The toon demon was clearly trying his best to keep himself together but was failing as parts of his head dropped down to his body, seeming to form threads that almost made a neck, his arms dropped and dripped, unable to keep a solid cylindrical form for long.

"Bendy!" Alice rushed in but stopped just outside the circle, an unknown force preventing her from entering it. Bendy turned to look up at her and she saw that half his face was covered in his own ink and the back of one of his gloves was stained black… almost as if he had been trying to whip the ink from his own face.

"A-Al… Alice…" Bendy whimpered, black ink dripped from his mouth as he spoke and his only visible pie cut eye seemed to show pain and the ink black tears that ran free, mixing with his own melting ink.

"H-Hold on, I'll… I'll get you out of there!" Alice sputtered, and began looking around the room for anything, anything at all that she could use to ruin enough of the circle for her to actually get closer to the toon demon.

She found nothing in the room and began to feel a little bit of her own ink sweat down her brow with worry as she turned back to Bendy who was curling himself into a ball from the pain.

"J-Just… Just one m-moment! I'll… I'll go find something from one of the other rooms t-to… to help!" Alice stammered and was almost torn about leaving the demon alone from the pleading, scared gaze from the mentioned toon. That look however just filled her up with more determination to get him out of there.

Alice hurried from the room and began practically tearing the others apart for a bit until she found something that might work. A few bottles of Acetone. To a living toon like her and the others it hurt a lot… but it could also erase the lines to the circle with ease if she was careful. She took them and hurried back to the room Bendy was in.

Once there she finally opened one of the bottles up and with a slightly shaking hand she poured it over one of the lines to the circle, or at least as close as she could get. It slowly started to work from the small amount she used but it wasn't enough with just one bottle. The second bottle however worked it's wonders and erased the rest that was needed… though with the second one a little of it got onto her hand and stung a lot.

With the circle ruined and now she felt like she could actually step into it, the female toon hurried in and grabbed Bendy. Her eyes widened with fear at the sight of his legs almost becoming formless masses as he stood, and even the little demon seemed scared as well.

"Damn it Joey… is this all we are to you?" Alice cursed quietly as she helped Bendy out of the room and to the ink flooded hallway… she had to get him back to the sanctuary so Joey wouldn't do… whatever it was he was doing to Bendy, ever again.

As they were about to step into the ink, Bendy froze at the edge.

"Bendy?"

"I-I… I… can't…"

"Can't? Bendy it's just ink… it… it might help-"

"N-no!" Bendy screeched, trying to run from the pool but couldn't properly with how deteriorated his own legs had started to become and fell to the ground with a splat instead of a thump. Some of his own ink almost forming a puddle around him and his own body shuddering in fear from his position.

Realization started to dawn on Alice then… and she stared down at the flooded hall for a moment before looking back towards Bendy, who was trying his best to reform himself with his own ink without the aid of the new ink.

Don't tell me… Oh God!

Just like in the plans she had seen that day… the very same one where she vowed to try and keep Bendy's delicate emotional state as quiet as possible from Joey had come to be. If Bendy came into contact with any of the new ink from the machine now… he would no longer be the Bendy she knew.

He would be a real demon….

Bendy didn't know that completely himself… but he could sense it and he feared it himself. Alice felt her own ink tears starting to form as she pulled Bendy in close to her, not caring about his melting form at all as she hugged him close.

"I-I… I'm… I'm sorry Bendy… I'm sorry," Alice apologized over and over, a few of her tears landing on Bendy, who held her close as well, needing the comfort just as much as she did.

I… I could have found a way to prevent this sooner… I'm so sorry Bendy… I'm the worst person ever.