Okay I'm doing another Bendy and the Ink Machine story. Not a crossover this time. This is a AU, Henry and Joey origins are different and I'm going to play on some of the theories people have on the first game. Also some of these theories were made before the games was finish, so don't worry about what was proven true and what was proven false. Now for a bit of backstory that covers Henry and Joey before the started of the first chapter.
"Henry, why are you here?"
That question has been repeating itself in my head since I been here. The question I have no answer too. Why am I here? Maybe I should start at the beginning...
My name is Henry Stein, the true creator of Bendy the Dancing Demon. A long time ago when a was a kid, I meet Joey Drew, a young boy who had a huge mischief personally. We became best friends on the day we met. Joey was know all over town as the Daring Devil, but I saw him as just a lonely boy with no friends. I soon started joining Joey in some of his pranks, lucky they where always harmless. Since I join him, I too was call the Daring Devil, but unlike Joey I really didn't have any mischief in my veins. Then one halloween we both dress up as demons, we both had a black devil costume and a white bow tie. As a little joke, we started to call ourselves Bendy. It was one of the funniest pranks we did. Everyone got confuse on the joke, thinking we both were name Bendy.
As the years past, we grown older and Joey started to mellow out a bit. I soon got into drawing and wanted to be a artist. Joey was working on become a director. When drawing, I remember our little prank on Halloween and drew the character that we call ourselves. I drew a little black devil with a white bow tie and a friendly grin. I even end up naming him Bendy, the Dancing Demon. When I shown Joey, he was shock and laugh as the drawing also remind him of our childhood. They we came up with the idea to turn my drawing into a cartoon.
A few years past and Joey and I was able to buy off a old workshop and turn it into a TV studio. We end up calling it Joey Drew Studio, but Joey stated that it was both of ours. Over time we hire animators to help me draw the characters, music directors to help make the music, and even actors to give the characters voices. I even end up making two new friends name Thomas Conner and Allison Pendle.
Thomas was a repairman that Joey hire to fix any problems that the studio had. At first Thomas didn't even talk to me and I got the feeling he was a lone wolf. Sometimes I would give him a hand in the repairs and try talking to him. It took him a while, but he open up and the two of us would sit down and talk. I even base a character off of him name Boris the Wolf. Thomas laugh at that, saying that he thinks he is a wolf sometimes.
Next was Allison Pendle. I didn't get a chance to know her until I learn that Joey replace our current actress and we haven't even gotten the show on the the air yet. While Allison had a pretty good voice, she felt bad replacing our actress Susie Campbell. I end up talking to Joey about and and we work out a way for the two actress to play the character, Allison would play the voice and Susie would sing the voice. After that, Allison would join me and Thomas, who she would call Tom, and the three of us were great friends. It was thanks to Allison that I came up with Alice Angel, a character both she and Susie come to love.
Sadly, good things came to a end. Just before getting the first episode up, Joey started talk about expanding Bendy to toy's, parks and all kind of things. I try to get Joey to see that we didn't have the time and resources because we haven't even started the show. We end up having a big argument that end up with me quitting. Thomas and Allison wanted to follow me, but I ask them to stay. Something change about Joey and I wanted them to keep an eye on him for me. They end up agreeing and I soon left. For the past 30 years, I would get letters from Thomas and Allison, explaining some things that happen since I left. I was shock and angry to heard Joey go through with his ideas that I take to talk him out of. Then they just stop, I haven't heard from then in two weeks and was growing worry about them. Then, to my shock, I got a letter from Joey himself! I still remember what it said.
"Dear Henry,
It seem like a lifetime since we work on cartoons together. 30 years really slips away doesn't it? If your back in town, come visit the old workshop. I have something I need to show you.
Your best pal, Joey Drew."
Something to show me? I have no idea why Joey would call me back after our disagreement. But if he has change, then maybe I can heard him out. Maybe I can see Thomas and Allison again. So I got ready and heading for the studio, with no idea how different my life would be and how I came to learn to Fear the Machine.
Henry walk inside the studio and saw how much 30 years had done to the place. There were cobwebs on the ceiling, the floor creak as he step on it and it look as if the place was repair numerous of times. There were even posters of Bendy on the wall.
"Okay Joey, I'm here. Let's see I can find what you want to show me." Henry said and walk down the hall.
Henry look around and found a old projector. He turn it on and saw it was still working.
"Surprise these are still working." He mutter to himself and turn it off.
He continue walking and soon came to his old office.
"I waste a lot time in that chair." Henry said.
He also would remember Thomas and Allison come by and chat with him for some time, usually during their breaks. Henry continue on and found more rooms that Joey must have added since he left. He was also wondering where everyone was. He walk through the studio and soon came to a huge room with chains traveling in a hole.
"What the?" Henry asked before looking around.
He found a switch and started to pull it, but it wasn't working. Lucky he found some batteries near by and put them in. He threw the switch and watch as huge machine rise out of the hole. Henry remember in one of the letters from Thomas and Allison stated that Joey got a machine that was call the Ink Machine to help make the ink that they needed.
"This is the Ink Machine? Joey, what's going on?" Henry asked himself.
Henry look at the machine before hearing something behind him. He turn around and saw no one there.
"Hello? Is someone there?" He asked before exiting the room.
Henry started to look around the studio again, trying to find the person he heard. It wasn't long before Henry enter a room with six petastools and six different pictures on the walls.
"What the?" Henry said in shock.
He walk around the room and saw a switch that was connected to the machine he saw earlier. He turn to use it but nothing happen. Henry rise an eyebrow wondering what to do now. He look back and the petastools and the pictures.
"Wait, those pictures. They look like..." Henry said looking at them.
Each picture was a item. Henry saw a few items like the pictures around the studio. With a nod, Henry decide to go get those items. However when he step out of the room, he jump at the site of a Bendy cut out that was in the middle of the hall way.
"Who put this here?" Henry asked a little shock.
Henry walk around the cut out and enter another room that cause him to jump and gasp on what he saw. There laying a table was cartoon character the Henry himself created, Boris the Wolf.
"My God, Joey what have you done?" Henry asked staring at the dead toon.
Henry then notices something inside the toon open chest and was surprise to see a wrench in there. He careful pull it out and step back, worry that the cartoon might move. He didn't understand it, how did Boris, a cartoon he made, be here in the real world? It didn't make any sense. Henry shook his head, he get his answer once he finds Joey. Placing the wrench in his pocket, Henry had one good look at the cartoon and walk out of the room.
Henry spend the next few minutes finding all of the things he needed. During that time he couldn't help but to wondering how the cartoon was here and what kill it. He also was worry where everyone was. He been in every room show far and he still haven't found any one. He soon found everything and return to the room with the petastools. He place each item on the stools and walk over and threw the switch. The power started to go out for a second, before coming back on. When Henry look around, the items on the stools disappear and Henry could sworn he was hearing voices.
Henry left the room and started to head back to the Ink Machine room. When he got there, he was shock to see that the door was boarded up and could spot someone inside, hutching over.
"Excuse me! Hey are you alright?" He call out.
"Henry? Is that you old friend?"
"Joey? What going here?" Henry asked, shock to heard his former friend voice.
"A lots has happen. Since you left. Things haven't been the same since then. The Daring Devils haven't been the same." Joey said.
"Daring Devils? We haven't been call that since we were kids." Henry said surprise.
"Yes, we were truly trouble makers. I never force you into any prank that you didn't want to do. It was one few things that made me happy. I finally made a friend that didn't mind my pranks." Joey said before his body started to shake.
"Joey, that was years ago. It was all good fun, but..." Henry said but was cut off when Joey started to stand up.
Henry was shock to see that person he was talking to wasn't Joey at all. It had some spikes stocking out of it back and look to really thin. And it didn't have human skin, but look to be cover in ink. Henry eyes widen as the figure rise it head showing two familiar horns. Henry started to take step back but stop when "Joey" spoke again.
"I miss you Henry. I wanted to bring the Daring Devils back together. Get the Bendy show running. What do you say...BENDY?" He said before turning to show his face to Henry.
Henry couldn't believe what he was seeing. The face wasn't the face of his former friend, but the face of Bendy. However it was different the cartoon he made. There were ink covering his eyes and the grin wasn't a welcome sight. Then "Joey" lunge forward and try to grab Henry but the boards stop him. Henry feel on his back, before looking up to see that the creature was gone. Henry didn't have time to ask questions as the whole studio started to shake. Henry got up and started to run towards the exit. As he ran, the ceilings broke and pipes fell into the room, filling it with ink. Henry ran as fast as he could, but the ink was started to slow him down. Luckly, he spotted the exit close by.
"Almost there! Almost..." Henry said pushing himself towards the door.
However, just as Henry was about to reach it, the floor under him suddenly cave in from the ink and his weight making him fall into the lower floors. Henry fell and landed in room full of ink. For a few seconds everything was quiet. Henry then bust out of the ink, gasping for air. He then started spitting out some of the ink that got in his mouth.
"Augh, I was not expecting that." Henry said as he look up to see where he fell.
"No way for me to get back up there. There must be another exit." He said before thinking about the creature he saw.
"Joey, what did you do?" Henry asked himself before spotting a handle close by.
He turn it and the room was drain of the ink. He notices he was cover in ink and knew he had to worry about it once he gets home. He started to follow down the hall way, drain more ink until he reach a room that look like a workroom. Henry notices the door was boarded up but spotted a ax on the table.
"This will do." Henry said picking it up.
He turn to door and use the ax to cut the boards off. He enter it and walk down another hallway until he reach other room that shock him. There were two coffins on the walls and a pentagram on the floor with candles around it.
"Joey...what is going on?" Henry asked completely confuse.
Henry step in the room and the studio started to shake one again, this time harder then before. Henry try to keep his balance, but step inside pentagram. A drop of the ink fell on it and black electricity climb up Henry, causing great pain to him. Henry scream as the black lightning started to change him. His shirt disappear and ink started to cover his chest. A white bow tie appear on it as the ink travel down his arms, making white gloves appear on his hands. The ink even travel up his head and his face started to chance. His hair turn into two black horns and his eyes turn into pie cut eyes. Once it was done, the black lightning stop and Henry groan as he try to stand up.
"Wha..." He try to say but drop his ax before falling over.
Henry lay on the ground, unconscious and unaware of what happen to him. Soon two figures appear over him and look at him. The first figure knee down and place it fingers on his neck. Once the first figure knew he was still alive, it look at the second figure, who sign. It walk over and pick Henry up before carrying him out of the room. The first figure pick up the ax that Henry drop and follow after the second figure, hoping to get back to their hideout, before the Ink Demon finds them.
And that it! Chapter one is done. Now as a reminder, this is a AU, meaning that not everything is the same as Cannon. I did also trying playing off some the theories that the fans made, like Joey Drew being Ink Bendy and I think some mention that Henry had become Bendy himself. Also when Henry wakes up his going to have memory lost. The reason for this is when people are turn into Cartoons in this world, they lose everything about their lives and can only remember the Bendy Cartoon. Now next chapter, Henry awakes as Bendy and meets Alice and Boris. I sure you can all guess which Alice and Boris that Henry is meeting. Also there are going to be changes from the other stories. But for now, just wait until the next chapter to see those changes. Please Review!