Before I start, I'll explain a few things that different in this universe from the Cannon. I'm sure some of you know at the end of Chapter 5, it was stated that Allison and Tom were marry right? That's not the case here, Tom and Allison have no interest towards each other and are just friends. Also Linda, the women that Henry mention in on his own recorder, doesn't exit in this universe. Also instead of Henry traveling around the studio alone like the game, the Alice and Boris he with will travel with him. And yes, the Alice and Boris that he with is Allison and Tom, but like Henry they too have memory lost. So here chapter 2.
Joey sat down on his throne grinning wildly. Henry had return, his best friend came back. At last the show can run it course like it was supposed to. He was cut off from his thoughts when he notices his two top subjects walk up to him.
"You seem really happy, I take it something good has happened?" The women asked.
"Oh indeed my angel. A old friend of my has return to the studio after 30 years." Joey smile.
"Hmmm." Said the large beast.
"Why it Henry my loyal minion." Joey said as if he understood him.
"Henry?! But I thought he quitted after that..you know." The women said trying not to bring up that agreement.
"He did, but I invited him back so we can get the show running again. Through I think I was a little too hard on him." Joey said.
"Hmmm?" The Beast said.
"I got caught up in the moment and started to recall everything the two of us did in our childhood. No matter he will return. And I'll get him to see my reason this time." Joey smile.
"That's might be a problem." The Women spoke up making Joey turn to her.
"Those fakes found him first. So getting him on our side is going to be tricky." The women explain.
"I see, what about the others?" Joey asked.
"The traitors? I found them, but they seem to be on the upper levels. And you forbid us from moving past our original floors." The Women said.
"Yes, I did, but thank you Alice. For your hard work, you know what the reward is." Joey grin as the women step forward.
She truly did indeed look like Alice Angel, but half her face was deformed, and she was missing a eye. Her halo didn't float over her head, it was more like it was part of her skull.
"Do I get it now, or collect it later?" She purred.
"It will be some time before the rebels make their move. So you can have it now." Joey smile.
"Boris! Stand outside and make sure no one disturb us!" Alice order the beast.
"Hmmm." It said before walking outside the throne room as the door slam shut.
Henry groan as he open his eyes. He carefully look around and notices he was in a room and laying on a bed.
'What happen? Where are I?' He thought.
He heard the door open and saw someone that look like Alice Angel walk it. However she had her black hair is tied up in a ponytail, with a headband on her head, and sports a pair of broken horns. She also was wearing a black dress with straps, that also has a brown stain over it, giving the impression of a top, and tights, but also wearing boots each with a belt buckle. Her arms are entirely covered in ink, resembling black opera gloves. She also wears a belt with an attached messenger bag, from which a wrench, a Gent pipe, and a crowbar can be seen, a rope over her left shoulder, and a leather dagger holder with a wrench in it.
"So you're awake." She said.
"Where am I?" Henry asked.
"You're in our hideout. We found you laying on the ground and brought you here." She answer him.
"Laying in the ground? What was I doing there?" Henry asked and try to think, but his mind came up blank.
"Wait, who am I? Why am I here?" Henry asked.
"I see, you're just like us." The Women said.
"Huh?" Henry asked.
"Like you, we don't remember why we are here. Or who we were before. The only thing we do remember is Bendy the Dancing Demon." She explain.
"Bendy?" Henry asked thinking about the name.
For some reason the name sound right to him, like it was his name.
"Yes, I end up calling myself Alice after Alice Angel since it was the only thing I could remember. Same with Boris." The women said.
"Boris?" Henry asked.
"Yes, maybe we can explain everything. Can you walk?" Alice said.
Henry stood up and almost fell, but was able to keep his balance. After taking a few minutes to see if he can walk without falling, Henry follow Alice out of the room and into a different room. There stood Boris the Wolf. He had a ax on his back and Henry notices that one of his arms was replace with a metal one.
"Alice?! What are you doing?!" Boris yelled in anger.
"Calm down Boris. He just like us." Alice explain.
Boris rise an eyebrow and look at Henry. Boris knew the look, he was lost and confuse, just like him and Alice.
"What does he remember?" Boris asked.
"Just the name Bendy." Henry spoke.
"Yeah, he like us alright." Boris said.
"We better explain what we learn so far. He going to need it if he has a chance to survive here." Alice said.
Boris groan and sat the table. Alice and Henry soon join him and started to explain everything to him. Henry learn that there was another Bendy out there that was very powerful and rule over the studio. He was known as the Ink Demon and most of ink creatures stay away from him or follow him. Alice and Boris were the only two that fights back, but they mostly try to find away to escape the studio. They long to see the outside world.
"Ink Demon... I think I ran into him before." Henry said, thinking on the name.
Alice and Boris look at each other, wondering if it was the Ink Demon that turn him into a Bendy look alike.
"I recall seeing a machine. Then something about starting it up and seeing the Ink Demon, but I can't remember after that." Henry said holding his head.
"Easy, don't force it. Me and Boris are slowly remembering what we recall. You have a good start." Alice said place her hand on his shoulder.
Henry nodded and Boris thought about what he said.
"Wait, you said you saw a machine. Was it the Ink Machine?" Boris asked.
"Ink Machine?" Henry asked.
"Yes, it the source of everything that happen here." Alice explain.
Henry try to think on what he heard, but his head started to hurt once more.
"Maybe we should leave it for now." Alice said.
"Might as well. We still need to get back to base." Boris said.
"Base?" Henry asked.
"Yes, we stop here so you can recover. We didn't want to carry you all the way. Plus there are many dangers in the studio." Alice explain.
"Then I might as well come along." Henry said standing up.
"What?!" Boris said shock.
"I have no idea what's going on, but something tells me that it too dangerous for you two to go alone. And since I don't know my way around here I might as well stick with you two." Henry explain.
Boris look like he was about to disagree but Alice spoke before he did.
"Are you sure?" She asked getting a nod in return.
"Very well, here." She said and handed him his ax.
"You had this ax when we first met, you know how to us it right?" Alice told him.
Henry give the ax a few swings, remembering not to hit Alice and Boris.
"Yeah, just remember to stay clear of me." He said.
"Alright. Boris and...what should we call you?" Alice started to said before asking him.
"Since I can't remember my real name, just call me Bendy for now." Henry answer.
(AN:From this point on, Henry will be know as Bendy until his memories are recover.)
Alice nods and Boris roll his eyes. The three then stood up and left the room.
The three walk until the enter a hallway where they saw a writing on the wall.
"He we set us free."
"Great, we that close!" Boris groan.
"Close?" Bendy asked.
"Yes, this area is known to belong to Sammy Lawrence. He worship the Ink Demon, he doesn't work with him, but he's still dangerous." Alice explain.
"Sammy Lawrence, where have I hear that name before?" Bendy asked.
"We know that he use to make music before all this, but before that we don't know." Alice said.
"We did come to one possible idea. The Ink Machine must have erase our memories, replacing them with the ones we have now." Boris added.
Bendy thought about it and could see their point. He recalls seeing the machine himself but that was it. Maybe the Ink Machine did erase his memories and replace them with the name Bendy.
"He appears from the shadows to rain his sweet blessings on me. The figure of ink that shines in the darkness. I see you my savior. I pray you heard me. Those old songs, yes I still sing them. For I know you are coming to save me. And I will finally be swept into your final loving embrace. But love requires sacrifice. Can I get a amen?"
All three stop when the heard that voice.
"Damn it! He knows we are here!" Boris sworn.
"What do we do?" Bendy asked.
"We need to move quickly and quietly. Hopefully we can get out before he finds us." Alice answer.
"I say, Can I get amen?"
"We better move fast!" Boris said and the three quickly left the room.
It wasn't long until the reach another hallway, but fill with ink.
"Drats!" Boris growl.
"Bendy, you must stay away from the Ink. It powerful enough to drag anyone made of ink into it depths. Me and Boirs got drag in it once before." Alice explain before looking around for something to use to walk over with.
Bendy look down at the ink and could feel something about it. He knee down and look closer. The ink just move as if was just water, but Bendy could heard something from it.
"The Lair doesn't control the ink, the Creator does. Use the ink, it will heed your call when you need it."
Bendy stare at the ink before feeling someone touch his shoulder. He look up to see Alice over him looking worry.
"Bendy, are you alright?" She asked.
"Yes, I think so." He said standing up.
'Use the ink? What does that mean?' Bendy thought.
"Well found some planks. They should let us crossover the ink without stepping in it." Boris said
Alice nods and they set the first board on the ink. Once they cross the ink, they notices another door, but it was block by a metal gate. Next to it was the controls to open it, however, it didn't appear to be working.
"Hmm, it appear that we need to find three switches to open this." Boris said looking over the controls.
"I think I spotted one at the other end of the hall. I'll head there and find it." Bendy said and started to walk away.
"Bendy wait! You can't go by yourself." Alice said stopping him.
"Alice, it be quicker. I want to get out of here too, but we might have a better chance if we split up this time." Bendy said.
"...Okay, just be careful." Alice said after a while.
Bendy nodded and crossover the planks and turn around the corner. Once he was gone, Boris stood up and face Alice.
"I still don't trust him." He said.
"Boris, please not this again." Alice said shaking her head.
"Alice, you can't just go around and start trusting everyone just because they have no memories of their lives!" Boris said.
"Boris, you didn't trust me when we first met! You thought I was one of those ink monsters and try to kill me." Alice remind him.
Boris flinch at that. True, he found himself face to face with Alice a few months ago and attack her. He was able to learn that she was in the same position as him. He didn't trust her fully at the time. But things change and he trust her now, but there was something about Bendy that didn't sit right with him.
"Don't remind me. Look Alice, he looks like the Ink Demon, he even taken up the name. How do you know is not the Ink Demon himself?" Boris asked.
"You didn't see him when he woke up Boris. He was lost, unsure and confused. Just like how you explain I was. Ink Demon or not, it might as well be a good thing he's on our side." Alice said.
"Your character is coming through." Boris stated.
"What?" Alice asked.
"You acted just like the real Alice Angel. Seeing the good side of someone all the time. I know you trying to make sure we have a way to keep ourselves sane here, but you stated that you never want to be the real Alice Angel." Boris said.
Alice look away, it was true, she never wanted to be the real Alice Angel. She knew she had a life before this even though she couldn't remember what it was.
"And there something else." Boris spoke up.
"Huh?" Alice asked confuse.
"You like him don't you?" Boris said.
"What?!" Alice said shock.
"It part of the character you are. I recalling reading some old transcripts about the characters we are. Bendy is a dancing Demon that loves playing pranks on others and Alice Angel is a fallen angel that fell in love with the demon." Boris explain.
"Boris please, I'm just trying to help him. Why would I fall for him?" Alice wave off.
Before Boris could say anything else, the lights on the controls glow and Bendy returns.
"Took a while, but I found it." He said before Alice started to look over him.
Boris groan and roll his eyes as Bendy just look at her confuse.
"I'm fine Alice." He said.
"Sorry, didn't know what came over me." Alice said backing off.
Boris open the metal door and the three step into a new room that had a sign that stated they were in the Music Room.
"We really close to Sammy now. We need to keep quiet so he can't find us." Boris said.
"Hey guys, I think I found the exited out of the studio." Bendy said pointing down the door way.
Confuse, Alice and Boris walk over to where Bendy was at and could see a door that had a exited sign above it. There was one problem though, the way was block with ink.
"Sammy's area as a exit?" Boris said.
"We mostly avoid this area so we didn't know." Alice remind him.
"Guess that means we got to drain this ink to get out." Bendy said.
"Yeah, but where are we going find the level for it? I don't see one here." Boris asked.
"I guess we might as well look around." Alice pointed out.
There was a switch next to them and Bendy pull it. The area light up, giving them better view to see, even though Boris growl at him for doing so. Alice stop him and the three walk back into the music room and was shock to see a creature made of ink appear.
"A Searcher!" Alice shouted and pull out her dragger.
"A what?" Bendy asked confuse.
"No time! take it down!" Alice said and rush at it.
Boris follow after her and Bendy short after. Alice was able to defeat it, but more Searchers appear. Boris waste not time in cut some down with his ax. Bendy stood ready, but was confuse as the Searchers didn't attack him. Alice look a was surprise herself to see Bendy not being attack. Even Boris raised an eyebrow at that.
The Searchers groan at him before started to move closer to him. Bendy stood ready for anything until one of them touch him. Bendy gasp as he felt something from it and the rest of the Searchers hiss and started to rush at him. Alice and Boris was just about rush over and help when Bendy snap out of the feeling he had and started to swing his ax. He took down the Searchers and soon there was nothing but a puddles of ink all over the place.
"Bendy are you okay?" Alice asked rushing up to him.
"I think so." Bendy said confuse.
'What happen? The minute that...Searcher touch me, I felt something absorb into me. What was that?' Bendy thought.
Boris step up also confuse on why the Searchers didn't attack Bendy at first. However he had to hold off on his questions.
"We need to get moving! If the lights didn't tell Sammy that we are here, then there no doubt that fight just did!" He said, getting the town to look at him.
"He's right. We need to find that switch and get out of the studio." Alice agree.
Bendy nodded and the three left the room, not noticing someone watching them from the exit.
Okay I'm going to spit the chapter here. Remember this is a AU story, meaning nothing the same as it is in Cannon. Like I the beginning. In Cannon, Twisted Alice, or as I like to call her Ink Alice, didn't like the Ink Demon and wanted to stay as far away from him as she could. But in this universe, she and Ink Bendy are lovers and working together. And yeah from what I say earlier, Tom and Allison are not together and Linda doesn't exist. So I'm playing on new pairing, Henry and Allison aka Bendy and Alice. Remember different universe different lives. Okay next chapter, I'm going to have the three explore of Sammy area and have Henry(Bendy) learn a ability that the voices told him about.