Kitten:To start off, sorry I've taken so long to update. I was in California for the past two weeks, and I had tons of fun with friends and family!
Kitten: Anyways, as for FNAF 4: I'm sorry, I will either have that updated on Friday, Saturday or Sunday, latest is Monday.
Kitten: Onto disclaimer!
Kitten: I don't own BATIM.
Kitten: Please enjoy!
P.S. If there are grammar mistakes, I deeply apologize. Bear with me.
~Chapter 4-Enter The Angel~
He let out a grunt as he swung his axe, breaking through wooden planks. The boy turned and motioned for his friend to follow, which he did.
It's been silent since they ended their last conversation. Both were just too lost in their thoughts to talk to each other right now.
Boris was thinking about how to get back up to Bendy, and Henry was thinking the exact same thing. He couldn't help but wonder how him and the wolf were going to get Bendy to return to his senses. He didn't know how they would to it, but, he supposed that they would figure out a way no matter what.
"...Boris, anything look familiar?" Henry asked.
Boris shook his head in response,"No. You?"
Henry sighed."Nope."
His blue eyes widened as he saw a certain room that looked familiar to him, but not in a good way.
"WHAT THE HELL!?" Henry exclaimed, infuriated. "We're right back to where we freaking began! How is that even possible!?"
"Don't feel bad, Henry," Boris said, patting his friend on the back as an effort to calm him down. "It's a maze in here. Anybody can get lost"
"Yeah. You ain't joking" Henry scoffed.
They continued to walk down the dark hallways, but abruptly Henry groaned and fell to the ground in pain.
"Henry! You okay?" Boris questioned in a panic, rushing over.
"Y-Yeah, I'm okay" Henry chuckled weakly as he was pushed up by the character. "Sorry. Just got a little dizzy there, that's all. No big deal. I'm fine."
"Are you sure? W-We can take a break, you know..."
"Boris. Really, I'm okay."
"If you say so..." The wolf said gingerly, watching as the man picked himself up with a grunt and walked ahead of him.
After a couple of minutes of awkward silence, Boris asked,"A-Aren't you tired, though?"
"Very," Henry huffed in response,"But I can take it. Let's just try to at least get up to the next floor, okay?"
He sounded worn out and weak, as if he were going to collapse any minute. Yet he still pressed forward. It sort of made Boris worry about his creator pushing himself too hard.
Back before Henry Left, after him and Joey brought Boris & Bendy into their world, he caught glimpses of Henry staying up late at night in his office, working on some drawings, or scripts for whatever.
Joey always went in and insisted that he should go home, but all Henry would do was laugh and say,"Nah, I'm fine! I'll be done in a while, okay? Just a little bit more"
Joey would roll his eyes with a smirk and say,"Weirdo" before he would literally attack Henry playfully, ruffling and messing up his mop of brown hair before grabbing him and putting him in a headlock as he continued to mess up his hair.
Henry would laugh and tell him to stop it, try to get him to let go, but he always failed miserably.
Boris missed Joey. The old Joey. The one who messed and played around with them, the one who actually cared. And now... he was... he was dead. And they could never get him back. They never would get him back.
The wolf looked back up, his eyes widened and his heart pounded.
Henry was gone.
"Henry!? Henry!" Boris called, running down the hallways.
"Henry! Henry, where are you!? Henry, answer me!"
No answer from the young animator.
/Damnit! Don't play games with me, Henry! Where the hell are you!?\\ Boris thought angrily, but his eyes were filled with worry. A thousand questions buzzed around in his head.
Where was Henry? Where did he go? Was he safe? Was he alright? Did he get lost somewhere? Did he even know where he was? Did... Did Bendy get him?
Boris shook his head savagely, banishing that disturbing thought.
"Henry! C'mon, answer me! Henry!" Boris yelled again, cupping his mouth with his hands.
"Your freaking me out, dude! Say where you are! Answer! HENRY!"
The wolf jumped with a small gasp when he saw a shadow around the corner. He immediately hid behind the wall, peeking.
"Henry...?" Boris whispered. He made a perplexed expression when he saw nobody. The wolf leaned over even more, trying to get a better look.
Someone went over next to him and whispered in his ear,"Hi, Boris."
Boris jumped with a loud yelp, spinning around.
His black eyes widened, seeing that the familiar person had a unconscious Henry in their arms.
"..I'm guessing that your looking for him, right?" She said with a smile, gesturing to the boy in her arms.
"A-ALICE!?"
...
"...I see. So that's how you guys ended up stuck down on this floor just like me, huh?" Alice said after a minute once Boris finished explaining everything.
Boris nodded,"Yeah. I don't even know how this place got so big in the first place!"
Henry was resting on top of a bed in another area of the room. He was even more out of it then he was before, and that worried Boris.
"Boris, quit freaking out. Henry's fine!" Alice said and giggled, causing Boris to look back at her.
"Right. Sorry..." Boris replied sheepishly.
"No need to be sorry. It's fine."
"Okay. ...Umm, Alice, just wondering, uh... how are you doing these days?"
Alice sighed,"I'm okay. I've been practicing on my singing and dancing skills and such. I really miss Susie, though..."
"Yeah, I get it..." Boris groaned.
The young angel returned her attention to Boris. "About Bendy... has he... has he really gone crazy?"
Boris nodded slowly, sad that the claim was indeed a fact.
"This is terrible," Alice uttered. "So, how do you and Henry plan on trying to save Bendy?" She asked.
"Umm... I really haven't figured that one out yet," Boris riposted, scratching his head in thought. The wolf took a couple of minutes to think, and Alice waited patiently.
Soon enough, Boris came up with a solution and uttered,"Look, me and Henry could get to where Bendy is and try to talk some sense into the guy and try to work things out. That way we won't have to fight."
"BORIS! ARE YOU INSANE!?" Alice yelled, startling him. She glowered,"That's a terrible plan! What if it doesn't work and Bendy ends up hurting you or Henry!? What if he kills either of you?!"
Boris glared as well. "You got any better ideas!?"
"Yeah! Tons of them! Ones that don't end up getting us killed!"
"Oh yeah? Tell me one of them, then!"
"No way! You might try and turn one of them into a suicide attempt trip!"
"Liar! I would not!"
"Would too!"
"Shut up! I said, I would never do something so stupid!"
"No! And I said, yeah you would! Idiot!"
"You little-"
"STOP IT!" A familiar voice literally screamed at them.
The two cartoons jumped before looking over and they saw Henry walking toward them with a glare.
"Henry!" Boris said, surprised. "Wh-When did you wake up?"
"A couple of minutes ago," The man replied lowly before pointing at the two.
"Your guy's arguing is getting us nowhere." He stated. "You two are making this ten times more difficult than it really should be."
Boris abruptly scowled in response,"Like you would know how hard it is, Henry! Here me and Alice are, trying to figure out how we're going to stop our friend from hurting everyone and himself, and you storm in, acting like it's the easiest thing in the world! Well guess what? It's not! So quit acting like it is! You have no clue how we feel about this whole situation! Ya know, if Joey had never started this whole thing in the first place-"
"JOEY'S DEAD!" Henry screamed angrily,"He's dead, alright!? So quit bringing him into this shitty mess because it doesn't matter! And you know why it doesn't? Because he's gone! Stop bringing him up already, damn it!"
"Cut it out, both of you!" Alice ordered sternly. "This is getting out of hand now. Knock it off and calm down!"
Henry grumbled with a roll of his blue eyes and looked away, folding his arms, annoyed.
The young man froze when he abruptly heard some weeping. Turning back, he noticed that the wolf was the one who had started crying for some reason.
"Dang it! Boris, why are you crying?" Henry questioned with a frown, his tone laced with anger still slightly.
"B-Because," Boris whimpered in response,"I'm scared, Henry! I mean, even if you do decide to help us rescue Bendy, once all of this is all over, you'll just leave us behind again exactly how you did the first time, except you'll never come back no matter how many letters we send to you!", he continued to bawl.
Henry froze, taken aback and a pure look of astonishment on his face. Slowly but surely, he felt his anger die down and it was replaced with sadness, beginning to feel bad.
The youth looked over at Alice who was looking away from him with a hurt expression on her face as well.
Thinking back on the day that he left the studio only made him feel even more guilty.
As he ran out the door that day without looking back, he could feel a presence behind him. He didn't even have to glance over his shoulder to know that it was Bendy. He could feel the sad gaze of the demon behind him. Bendy wasn't stupid. He knew that the man was leaving for good with no return. Yet he still didn't look behind him. He was already heartbroken enough with hot tears streaming down his cheeks like a river, and his body shaking like a leaf as he sprinted out. The last thing that he needed was to see his hurt face, or hear the demon sob, and he knew that Bendy did start crying after he left because just as the door shut he heard him fall to his knees with a loud 'thump', and droplets of water hit the floor. Once he was outside, he took one last look at the studio before he got in his car and drove off, promising himself that he would never come back to that hell hole.
But here he was again, thirty years later, standing in front of a weeping wolf and a fallen angel. He knew that he had hurt them badly, and knowing that made his heart ache. When he left, he never wanted to hurt anyone. Not Bendy. Not Alice. Not Boris. Not even Joey. But he did. He hurt every single one of them. And for that, he was ashamed.
Oh, how he's missed all of them the past few years. He couldn't help but admit that a couple of times he's truly thought about coming back to the studio even after he said that he wouldn't. He just... never got the chance.
When he received that letter, he felt a small seed of hope grow in his heart, happy that he would finally get to see Bendy and the others again after all this time.
However, all of this was nothing like he expected. Not at all. He didn't expect the workshop to look like everyone who once worked there just dropped everything and abandoned the place. Nor did he expect to see Bendy there, not acting anything like himself at all and attempt to kill him. And he certainly didn't expect to find all three cartoons there, alive, and Joey... dead.
He swallowed a choked sob as he thought about his best friend. He... He never expected to receive a false letter from Joey and come here only to find out that he had lost him forever. What hurt him the most was knowing that he didn't do anything to try and save him, he couldn't do anything, and that fact made him want to throw up.
Nope, this sick, twisted reality was nothing what Henry had expected when he first came here. It was no reality that he wanted, either. It wasn't a reality that he wanted to live in, and it certainly was not a reality that he wanted Bendy or his fellow toons to live in.
Thinking hard, Henry remembered the fun and good days back in the studio where him, Bendy and the others laughed so hard to the point where they nearly cried, and they played and joked around with each other, hung out and just had a good time working together. That was when Henry truly enjoyed his life back then.
/I... I really do wanna live those amazing days again...\\ He thought as a conclusion, beginning to grin.
The man abruptly walked over to Boris and placed his hand on top of Boris's gloved one, and Boris looked up at him, confused.
"Boris, you don't have to be scared, because..." Henry uttered before continuing with a grin,"I'm going to help you guys save Bendy!"