Bendy, in his kitten disguise, walks up the stone pathway to the kettle cottage. He's whistling and holding some letters in his hand. He walks up to the open front door and hears a buzzing sound by his ear. He turns his head to see a fly flying next to him.

"Hi fly," Bendy said.

The fly tips his hat. "Morning," he said. Just the fly turned his head and screamed. He flew away just before a rolled-up newspaper came toward him.

Bendy is then pulled in by Kettle before the door is slammed shut. Kettle turns around, still holding the newspaper in one hand and holding Bendy's arm in the other.

"What did I tell you two about leaving the front door open?" Kettle said.

"Mr. Kettle..." Bendy said.

"You know how I feel about varmints."

"Mr. Kettle..."

"How many times do I have to tell you boys—"

"Mr. Kettle!"

"Yes, Bendy?" Kettle asked.

"The boys aren't in the room,"

Kettle blinked and saw that the kitten was right. The boys weren't in the living room.

"Oh, well where are they?" Kettle wondered.

CRASH

"What in tarnation?" Kettle asked.

Cuphead and Mugman stick their heads out of the kitchen.

"Don't come in!" Cuphead said.

"We're making you a surprise!" Mugman said.

"A surprise?" Kettle wondered. "Hmm. Well, I do love surprises."

"Can I have my arm back?" Bendy asked.

"Oh, sorry," Kettle said before letting the kitten's arm go.

"I got your mail for you," Bendy said handing Kettle the letters.

"Ah, how thoughtful, thank you," Kettle said before taking the letters. "Is this all of it?"

"Yes sir."

"Bendy..." came a whisper.

The kitten turned his head and saw Cuphead beckoning him into the kitchen.

"Excuse me," Bendy said before walking to the kitchen.

Kettle giggles and goes to his chair.

"So, what are you weirdos really up to?" Bendy said.

"Nothin'," Cuphead said.

"What do you mean nothin'?" Mugman asked. "We really are making him a surprise."

Mugman was stirring some pink frosting in a bowl. There were baking supplies and a cake on the kitchen table.

"Oh right," Cuphead said.

"Oh, I see, is this a make-up cake or a bribe cake?" Bendy asked before walking to the table.

"Bribe," Cuphead answered, "And it's almost perfect,"

The cup uses a frosting bag to spread more frosting on the cake. Mugman was placing cherries on the cake.

"Hey Bendy, could you grab a can of frosting? It's in the cupboard over there," Cuphead said.

"Alright," Bendy said. He walks over to the cupboard.

First, the kitten spots the cans to the right but when he looks left, he sees a brown rat opening a can with a can opener. He's wearing greenish-brown overalls with yellow stripes on the sides, white gloves, and a metal Pickelhaube helmet on his head.

Bendy clears his throat.

The rat turns his head. "Guten tag." He said.

"Ah, guten tag ratte!" Bendy said, speaking in German. "Um... Ist das die Dose-... Ah, Zuckerguss?"

The rat shook his head and pointed at the brown can. Bendy picks up the can of chocolate frosting.

"Danke," Bendy said.

"Bitte," The rat replied.

Bendy closes the cupboard and walks back to the table.

"What was all that gibberish you were saying?" Cuphead asked.

"That wasn't gibberish, it was German," Bendy said.

"You speak German?" Mugman asked.

"Ja, anyway, I was just talking to that rat in the cupboard."

"Oh," the brothers said. The cups went wide-eyed.

"Rat in the cupboard?!" Cuphead and Mugman shouted. They pull Bendy along their way to the cupboard.

"Where?" Cuphead whispered.

Bendy points to the bottom door of the cupboard. The boys hear tools whirring, sizzling, and tapping.

Cuphead opens the door, and they all see the rat welding under a soup can.

"Hey! Who are you?" Cuphead asked opposingly.

The rat slips out from under the can. "The name Werner Werman." He said, speaking English with a German accent. "I hereby claim ownership of this cottage and all its contents. You will leave immediate!" he grabs a wrench and slips back under the can.

Bendy pulls the rat out by the foot from under the can. "And if we say nein?" he asked with indifference.

"Then I will be forced to use force," Werner said. He hits Bendy's finger with the wrench.

Bendy just laughs. "Is that all you got squeaky?" he asked mockingly.

"Nein," the rat answered. He then pulls a lever, the can cocks in the direction of the boys. A brown boot hits the boys, and they crash into the oven. They pop out of the stovetops.

Werner sticks his nose up at them before closing the cupboard with his boot.

"What kind of rat has gadgets?" Cuphead asked.

"What was that?" Came Elder Kettle's voice.

Cuphead, Mugman, and Bendy went to the doorway to look at Kettle.

"Nothing's wrong!" Bendy called out.

"Don't come in!" Cuphead called out.

"It's a surprise!" Mugman called out.

"Oh, right!" Kettle said before giggling.

The boys go back to the kitchen.

"We should tell him the truth," Mugman said.

Cuphead pushes a chair against the cupboard door and sits on the chair.

"No way! Then we'll get the blame." Cuphead argued.

Just then the boot kicks the doors open and kicks Cuphead again. The cup crashes into the stove and the boot goes back into the cupboard.

Mugman puts the chair back against the cupboard and sits on the chair.

"But we deserve the blame," Mugman said. "We left the door open."

Cuphead sits on the chair with Mugman.

"We don't know that's how it got in," Bendy said.

"That is how I got in," Werner answered from on top of the cupboard. Just as he had finished, the boot kicked the boys.

Kette, who had just fallen asleep, woke up to a crashing sound coming from the kitchen. The boys stuck their heads out of the kitchen, they looked and sounded like they were in pain.

"Nothing's wrong!" Cuphead called out.

"Don't come in!" Mugman called out.

"It's a surprise!" Bendy called out.

"Hey, are those pain stars spinning around your heads?" Kettle asked.

The three boys wave the stars away.

"Huh? What?" Cuphead asked.

"No," Bendy said.

"What stars?" Mugman asked.

The boys smiled before slipping back into the kitchen. Kettle shrugged and read the newspaper.

"Great," Cuphead said. "Since we let that varmint in, now it's an apology cake, instead of a do-something-nice-for-Kettle- so-he'll-do-something-nice-for-us cake."

"We should tell Kettle what we did," Mugman said.

"Or, counter thought, we don't tell Kettle and just take care of it ourselves before he even notices," Bendy said.

"I like it. I vote for Bendy's plan," Cuphead said.

"But this rat—" Mugman said.

"He's only this big," Bendy interjected. "We can deal with this all on our own."

A little time passed, and the boys covered the kitchen floor with loaded rat traps.

"Huh! Let's see him get around the kitchen now." Cuphead said.

The boys were standing on one side of the room and at the other side was the kitchen table with the cake. Werner uses a metal spring to lower down from the ceiling and lands on the table next to the cake.

The boys gasp.

"Oh! Someone has left a perfectly good cake completely unattended," Werner said.

"Don't touch that cake!" Cuphead yelled.

The boys hesitate for a second before tiptoeing around the traps to reach the table.

"I think I will give it a lick," Werner said before sticking out his tongue.

The boys speed up their attempt to reach the table, setting off a few traps along the way. Just as the rat is about to lick the cake, the boys get desperate and jump. They fall inches from the table and land on several rat traps. The boys grunt as the traps pinched them.

"Oopsies," Werner said before running away... but not before giving the cake a quick lick.

"Yeah, you'd better run!" Cuphead yelled with a groan. He pulls off a rat trap from his face. "Ooh! I hate that rat!"

"Can we tell Kettle now?" Mugman asked.

"No!" Cuphead and Bendy yelled.

"Okay, Bendy you guard the cake. Me and Mugsy will get the rat," Cuphead said.

"Got it," Bendy said. He takes a metal pipe and guards the cake.

Meanwhile, Cuphead grabs the rolling pin and Mugman gets the pan. The brothers go to the cupboard ready to hit the rat once they see him.

"Gotcha! Huh?" Cuphead said opening the cupboard doors. But Werner wasn't there. "Where'd he go?"

Mugman wonders too until he spots the rat in Cuphead's milk. He aims for the rat but just ends up hitting the cup.

"Ow! What gives?" Cuphead asked.

"The rat was right there," Mugman said. Werner pops out from Mugman's milk.

"Don't move!" Cuphead said as he raised his rolling pin. He strikes but it hits Mugman's head. "Ooh, sorry, Mugsy, I- Oh!" he said before getting hit by Mugman.

Soon the two are hitting each other aiming for the rat who keeps popping out of their heads. After several strikes, the boys knock each other out and fall on their backs.

"He's good," Bendy whispered.

Later...

Werner was eating some cheese in a mouse hole in the wall.

Cuphead now has a horn and is kneeling in front of the mouse hole. He winks at Bendy and Mugman who nods back at him.

The cup sticks the horn mouth into the hole and Werner sticks a stick of dynamite into the horn. He lights the fuse as he chews on his cheese.

Cuphead tries to blow the horn, but no sound comes out. He pulls out the horn just as the fuse runs out on the dynamite stick. One brief explosion later, Cuphead looks at his friends before leaks out of the cracks in his head.

Later...

Mugman tries to hit the rat with the broom but misses.

"Ah, yoo-hoo!" Werner said. He jumps into a jar and closes the lid.

Mugman opened the lid, but Werner wasn't there. He popped out of the next one before going back in. Mugman chases him, opening all the lids from the three jars until Werner gets him with the boot. The rat laughed.

Bendy growled, then he grabbed a fire poker and struck it into the mouse hole aiming to stab the rat. Werner manages to dodge the stabbing just before the spike of the poker hits the wood and it gets stuck. Bendy tries to pull the poker before it gives... and there are lit dynamite sticks tied to it. They blew up in Bendy's face and the little devil coughed up smoke.

After a few minutes, the boys come up with another plan. Mugman grabs a chunk of cheese and slips it over his hand. He walks his hand on two fingers into the hole, his hand posing in a raunchy fashion. But the rat simply hits the hand with a mallet.

"Yow!" Mugman yelled. He pulled his red swollen hand back.

Bendy hisses. "I'm gonna kill that rat!" he yelled.

"Shh! Elder Kettle's gonna hear you," Cuphead whispered.

"Hear us? He's gonna kill us. Look what we've done to his kitchen." Mugman said.

The kitchen was in bad shape. Random little fires everywhere, splat stains on the wall, rat traps all over the floor, and several things were broken.

"Nah. How can he be mad when he sees the delicious surprise cake we made him?" Cuphead asked confidently.

Suddenly, they hear Werner moaning. The boys turn their heads and see the rat, now plump, and his lips covered in frosting. He ate the surprise cake.

"Elder Kettle's surprise cake!" the boys yelled.

"You dirty rat!" Cuphead yelled.

Bendy growls as he pounces on the table and stares down at the rat.

"You're gonna die now," Bendy said ominously.

The rat belches and shrinks back to his normal size. "I am not scared of a kitten with a hissy fit," Werner said.

"Ah, but what hisses more than a kitten?" Bendy asked with a wicked grin.

Before the rat could respond, Bendy's body liquifies and changes until he looks more like a black rat snake with a yellow bowtie around its neck.

"Uh oh," Werner muttered. He jumps and runs away.

Bendy chases Werner into the mouse hole.

"Get 'em, Bendy! Get 'em!" Cuphead yelled encouragingly.

Cuphead and Mugman can hear the rat and the little devil within the walls. Scurrying, grunting, slithering, and hissing coming through the wood.

"Come on Bendy. You can get him," Cuphead whispered.

Suddenly, there was a—

POP

Then silence.

"Bendy!" Cuphead yelled softly. "Bendy!"

Just then they heard whistling coming from within the walls... but it wasn't Bendy's tune. It was "Erika", the German soldier's song. The rat comes down from a hole in the ceiling with a spring device.

Cuphead slowly shook his head. "No," he muttered. And then he yelled. "Where's Bendy you rat!?"

"Don't worry, I got the Kleiner Teufel right where I want him," Werner said with a chuckle.

"Why you dirty, rotten, harry little—"

The two boys ran towards the table.

Werner grabs the blender and uses it to shoot forks and knives at the kids. The utensils come flying towards the boys, they hit the brothers, and they end up stuck to the wall thanks to the utensils. They try to wriggle their way out but to no avail.

"Oh, boys!" came Kettle's voice.

"Don't come in! Don't come in!" Cuphead and Mugman shouted.

Kettle steps into the kitchen. "Is it time for my—" he said before he screamed.

"Surprise!" Cuphead and Mugman wailed as they started sobbing.

"This is my surprise?" Kettle asked gesturing around the messy kitchen. "I was hoping for a cake." He said sounding disappointed.

"It was a cake, but..." Cuphead said.

"The rat ate it," Mugman concluded the sentence.

"Did you say... rat?" Kettle asked angrily.

"We left the door open," Mugman admitted.

Kettle grumbled after hearing this.

"No varmint eats my surprise cake." Kettle hissed.

"This is no ordinary varmint," Cuphead said.

"Well, this is no ordinary kettle," Kettle said.

There came the sound of cannon fire.

"Incoming!" Kettle yelled. He quickly grabs the frying pan and uses it to shield him from the utensils flying towards him. Kettle growls looking at the rat.

Werner growls back.

Kettle opens his lid, drops the utensils inside of himself, and uses his spout to fire the utensils back at Werner.

The rat narrowly dodges the utensils before grabbing a kitchen knife. Kettle gasped. The rat chases the kettle with the knife. Then the kettle chases the rat with the frying pan.

"Careful Kettle, don't kill him!" Cuphead yelled.

"Why not?" Kettle asked while being chased by Werner holding a meat cleaver.

"He's got Bendy hostage somewhere and he won't say where he is," Cuphead explained.

"Got it!" Kettle said while chasing Werner with the hand mixer.

Kettle chases the rat into the closet in the living room. Kettle shuts the door.

"A-ha! Now tell me where you hid Bendy and maybe I'll let you... go?" Kettle said before the ground started shaking.

Then a saw cut a hole in the closet door. Then Werner comes out riding a tank made of a soup can. He drives the tank over Kettle's right foot.

"Yow! My foot!" Kettle howled in pain.

Then Werner drives his tank over Kettle's left foot.

"Yow! My other foot!" Kettle howled.

Werner stops his tank at the other side of the living room.

"It is useless," Werner said. "You and your boys will never see Bendy again and your cottage will be mine."

"Over my dead body," Kettle said.

"My sentiments exactly." The rat said before slipping on a pair of blue goggles over his eyes. "Auf wiedersehen!" he drives the soup can tank towards the old kettle.

"What?" Kettle wondered.

Werner's tank deploys saws, cannons, and a spear.

Kettle screams and his nose whistles at the sight.

The rat laughs triumphantly.

"Ah!" Kettle said smiling.

Werner gasped.

Kettle stomps down on the floorboard and Werner is propelled up. His tank flies into the kitchen while he hits the ceiling. The spike on his helmet gets stuck to the wood leaving the rat hanging.

"Surrender, varmint?" Kettle asked smugly.

"I suppose you have left me no options," Werner said sadly.

Kettle chuckled.

"Except this one," Werner said smiling. He pushes a button on his helmet that detaches the spike from the rest of his helmet. The rat laughs as he drops into a hole in the floor.

Kettle seethes with rage. Then he hears the boys' muffled screams and runs into the kitchen. He gasped.

Cuphead and Mugman now have dynamite sticks in their cups and their mouths. Werner stands on a knife stuck to the wall and he's holding two matches.

"Well, well, well, which will it be, huh?" Werner asked smugly. "Your precious cottage or your precious cups?"

Kettle bit his bottom lip. "All right, varmint, you win." He said defeatedly. "My cottage is yours. Here, take the deed." He holds up a rolled-up piece of paper.

Cuphead and Mugman spit out the dynamite sticks in their mouths. "Elder Kettle, no!" they cried out.

Werner hops off from the knife to the table where Kettle unfolded the deed.

"Very smart of you, mein Kettle." The rat said. "Now, to sign the deed."

"Oh, here, use my pen," Kettle said casually.

"Danke." Werner said. He noticed too late that Kettle handed him a lit dynamite stick.

BOOM

Kettle, Cuphead, Mugman, and the kitchen are now covered in gunpowder. A glass bottle falls from the ceiling and smashes against the floor. The black liquid from the bottle seeps into the floorboard.

Werner is now charred, and his tail falls off.

"Ow, that really hurt!" Werner yelled... in an American accent. "You know what? Forget this, I'm outta here. No amount of pay is worth this."

The rat grabs his tail, hops into his damaged soup can tank, and drives away.

"That's right, run away, and don't come back!" Kettle shouted.

Suddenly, some floorboards popped from the floor, and Bendy rose and roared. He has his nose drawn on his face and his fake tail on.

"Where's that rat!?" the kitten yelled. "I'll tear him to pieces!"

Werner flinches and drives away faster.

"Ah-ha!" Bendy shouted after spotting the rat. He pounced but was stopped by Kettle who grabbed his tail. "Hey!"

"Sorry Bendy but that won't be necessary," Kettle said. "Let him go."

"But he—"

"I understand that you want revenge but killing an enemy willing to surrender is not the honorable thing to do." Kettle said before letting Bendy's tail go.

Bendy looked back at the rat and then back at Kettle before he huffed and turned his back on the rat.

"The honorable thing stinks," Bendy said with a pout.

"I know," Kettle said. "But it's good for your soul,"

Bendy rolled his eyes.

Then Kettle sighed before picking up the flaming newspaper and sat down.

"Close the door, boys," Kettle said. "You know how your Elder Kettle feels about varmints."

But the explosion got rid of all the doors and windows leaving only a burnt remnant of the kettle cottage.

Later that night...

Bendy was in his bedroom in the Underworld with a letter in his hand. He lied to Kettle before about giving him all the letters but surely it was okay to take one with his name on it. He took it and kept it to himself. After he finds a private place, he reads the letter.

"Linda and I will be visiting family in Inkwell for Thanksgiving and will be staying till January. Hope to see you around. Signed Henry." Bendy reads from the letter. He smiles ear to ear.

Meanwhile, in the town by the docks, Wilson was talking to Werner.

"You were supposed to bring me either the little devil or the cottage and you come back empty-handed?" Wilson asked.

"It's not my fault. That stupid kettle tricked me." The rat said. "Just look what he did to my tail," he showed the tail barely held to his backside by a band-aid.

"Excuses," Wilson sighed. "Still, you have given me information I can use."

"Yeah, so I'm just gonna go now," Werner said, backing away. "Have a nice life! AH!"

Wilson catches him by the tail.

"You can't leave without your payment," the old man said.

"Oh no no, you don't have to give me anything," Werner said hurriedly. Worried about what the old man had in mind. "If you just let me go, it'll be enough,"

"No, I couldn't possibly," Wilson said. He grabs the jar with Bendy's tail and a blackened T-bone inside. He unscrews the lid and pulls out the bone.

Werner quickly pieced together what was about to happen before he pulled out a smoke bomb from his pocket.

"Es lebe Deutschland!" Werner cried out. He throws the bombs and-

BOOM

The smoke fills the room, Wilson coughs and tries to fan the smoke away. When it cleared, the old man realized the rat had escaped. He grumbled before closing the lid of the jar. Then he spoke while looking at the tail inside.

"Sleep well tonight, little devil, you'll need your strength to carry my plans very soon,"