Bendy was wearing his cat disguise while walking down the road to the Kettle Cottage with a whistle on his lips. As he got closer to the fence, he noticed a bush in the garden he'd never seen before.

"What is this?" Bendy said as he got closer to the bush.

Suddenly, four hands popped out of the bush, grabbed the kitten, and pulled him into the bush. The kitten fought but the hands kept pulling him.

"Bendy. It's us." Cuphead whispered.

Soon Bendy was stuck between the cup brothers.

"What are you guys doing?" Bendy asked.

"Shh! He'll hear you," Mugman whispered.

"Boys?" came Elder Kettle's voice. "Are you out here? Hmmm? Maybe they're upstairs,"

"Phew, that was close," Cuphead whispered.

"What's going on?" Bendy whispered.

"We saw Elder Kettle grab the camera this morning," Cuphead whispered.

"So?" Bendy whispered.

"Every year around this time he makes take a family portrait," Mugman whispered.

"And that's...?" Bendy whispered.

"Lame," Cuphead whispered. "It takes all day. We have to wear dorky clothes. And it's always the same setting sun background. It's boring. Besides, I wanna go to the amusement park instead."

"Well, I wanna go to the movies," Mugman whispered.

"Amusement park,"

"Movies,"

"Amusement park!"

"Movies!"

"Boys!" came Kettle's voice.

Elder Kettle lifted the bush and shook it. The three boys fell out of it.

"There you are," Kettle said. "Oh, hi Bendy,"

"Hello, Mr. Kettle," Bendy said after getting up and dusting himself.

"I'm sorry but the boys can't play today, today we're taking a family portrait."

"So I've heard,"

"Yes, it'll be a memento of the family. It's also a holiday tradition,"

"Amusement park!" Cuphead shouted at Mugman.

"Movies!" Mugman shouted at Cuphead.

"Just so we're clear, you're talking about this family, right?" Bendy asked as he gestured to the cups.

"Yes," Kettle said exhaustingly.

"Amusement park!" Cuphead shouted.

"Movies!" Mugman shouted.

"Amusement park!

"Movies!"

"Will you two STOP IT?!" Kettle yelled.

When the boys stared at him, the kettle realized he had lost his temper, calmed down, and chuckled.

"I mean, uh, we can't take a family portrait with you two arguing, now can we?" Kettle said.

"But I wanna go to the amusement park," Cuphead said.

"And I wanna go to the movies," Mugman said.

The cups snarled at each other before they broke into a fight cloud.

"As I was saying, the boys and I will be taking our family portrait today," Kettle said.

"Oh, please let me stay," Benday said. "I promise I won't get in the way,"

"Well..." Kettle said while stroking his chin.

"Awe, c'mon, please," Bendy said before using his big, cute eyes trick.

Kettle's lips quivered before he smiled. "Oh, okay, you can stay and help," he said.

"Yay!" Bendy exclaimed. "Thank you, Mr. Kettle."

"Don't mention it," Kettle said. Then he sighed. "One sec." He then reached into the fight cloud and grabbed the cup boys by their handles.

Cuphead and Mugman looked scruffy as they punched the air.

"Amuse-ment park..." Cuphead said.

"Mo-movies..." Mugman said.

The boys stopped when they realized that Kettle had grabbed them.

"Look boys," Kettle said. "if you can't stop fighting, I'll never get my family photo. A memento of the family I love. Holiday tradition." Then he placed the boys back on the floor. "Can't you try to get along for your Elder Kettle?" He batted his eyes.

Cuphead and Mugman looked at Bendy.

The kitten shrugged. "I mean, you guys could try," he said.

Cuphead and Mugman looked disappointed.

"Yes, Elder Kettle." The brothers said.

"That's the spirit!" Kettle said. "Now, let's get you two cleaned up."

The four go outside. Kettle took the water hose and sprayed Cuphead and Mugman. Then Bendy took an electric hair dryer and used it to blow dry the cups. Once the brothers were clean, dry, and uninjured they had to put on new clothes.

Cuphead was now wearing a white button shirt with a blue argyle vest, brown shorts, black socks, shiny brown shoes, and a pastel pink bowtie on his neck.

Mugman was now wearing a white button shirt with an orange argyle vest, deep bluish green shorts, black socks, shiny brown shoes, and a yellow-green bowtie on his neck.

Kettle rubbed his hands together and smiled with approval.

Bendy's lips quivered as he tried to hold back a laugh.

"I can see what you guys meant about the outfits," Bendy said with a snicker.

"Don't they look picture-ready?" Kettle asked happily.

"They certainly do," Bendy said.

"Amusement park!" Cuphead yelled.

"Movies!" Mugman yelled.

The brothers had broken into another fight cloud.

Elder Kettle grumbled before steam came out of his spout.

"Will you two stop fighting?!" Kettle yelled.

Hearing the yell, Cuphead and Mugman stop fighting, sit on the ground, and look up at Kettle.

"Okay, how about this?" Kettle said. "Stop fighting, we take the portrait, memento, family I love, and holiday tradition, then I'll take you to the amusement park and the movies."

Cuphead and Mugman get up and cheer. Bendy, meanwhile, pulled out a paper, a feather pen, and an inkwell from his pockets and started writing on the paper.

"Yay! Whoo-hoo! Yay!" The brothers cheered.

"Wait a minute..." Cuphead said after he stopped cheering. "you're always promising to take us places, then, when it's time to go, you say you can't remember." He and Mugman looked at Kettle angrily.

"I don't remember that," Kettle said.

"Then perhaps this will help," Bendy said before handing Kettle the paper.

Kettle took the paper.

"I, Elder Kettle, agree to take Cuphead and Mugman to the place of their choice so long as they agree to not fight before or while we take the perfect family portrait."

"What is this?" Kettle asked.

"Just a written agreement," Bendy said. "All you gotta do is sign it." he handed Kettle the pen.

Kettle hummed with disapproval for a second before taking the pen and signing the paper. He handed the paper back to Bendy before taking the camera and walking to the truck.

"Let's go boys," Kettle said.

Cuphead, Bendy, and Mugman entered the truck.

"Time to find that perfect setting," Kettle said.


An Hour Later...

The sky was dark, the truck was parked in front of a billboard of a sunset picture with the words: "SUNSET Tires" on it, and Cuphead and Mugman were grinning widely.

"Your faces hurt yet?" Bendy asked with a sly smile.

"Yes," Cuphead and Mugman answered.

Bendy wrapped his arms around the brothers and squeezed them close together.

"Just think about the fun places you'll be going to soon," Bendy whispered.

"Well, thanks to your shenanigans, we missed the actual sunset, but this'll do," Kettle said as he prepared the camera. "Now, Bendy you watch over the camera. And Cuphead and Mugman, don't move a muscle, starting... now!" he said before he pressed the timer button.

Bendy released the boys and ran to the camera. Kettle ran to stand behind Cuphead and Mugman.

"Eight seconds... six... five..." Kettle said.

Meanwhile, Cuphead and Mugman started to sweat and shook with impatience.

"four... Say "cheese!"." Kettle said.

Cuphead and Mugman had other ideas though. They screamed before they attacked each other and got into another fight cloud.

"Amusement park!" Cuphead yelled.

"Movies!" Mugman yelled.

"Hey! Will you two knock it off?!" Kettle yelled.

"Guys! You're going against the agreement plan!" Bendy yelled before he jumped into the fight cloud.

"Get back over here! I said stop that!" Kettle yelled.

The timer is still ticking on the camera.

The fight cloud bumped into the billboard, which caused the wallpaper to fall off the billboard, and revealed a new wallpaper saying "Lil Elder Kettle is... DIAPER BABY" with a picture of infant Elder Kettle.

"Get back over here!" Kettle yelled before he heard the camera timer go off. "Oh! Cheese!" he said as he faced the camera with a smile on his face.

The camera flashed, taking a picture of Elder Kettle standing in front of the wallpaper.

The fight cloud disappeared and Bendy was separating Cuphead and Mugman before he gasped after he noticed the advertisement on the billboard. Curious, Cuphead and Mugman stopped fighting, looked at the billboard, and gasped.

A second later, the boys pointed at the billboard and laughed.

Kettle's smile dropped before he turned around to see what the boys were laughing at. He saw the picture of his infant self and the diaper baby ad... and then he screamed in horror.

The boys were still laughing until a blast of fire erupted behind them and it burned the billboard.

"Dad?" Bendy wondered before he turned around.

Then Cuphead and Mugman also turned around.

The boys were surprised when they saw not The Devil with his pitchfork, but an angry Elder Kettle with a flamethrower.

"Oh," Bendy said.

"You saw nothing!" Kettle said as he shook with anger. He then grabbed the camera and walked towards the truck.

A while later, Kettle, looking mad, drove the truck through the woods with the boys sitting in the back.

All three of the boys looked nervous.

Mugman cleared his throat. "Uh... Elder Kettle..." he said. "Are you ready to talk about... uh... Diaper Baby?"

Kettle tightened his lips for a second before he answered.

"Okay, I'll tell you. Long ago, my mother entered me into a Cutest Baby Contest. I won... and it ruined my life!"

Kettle sped up the truck as he remembered the Diaper Baby ad.

"I became known as Diaper Baby." Kettle continued. "It haunted me my entire childhood. Well, you can imagine what school was like, for Diaper Baby. That's why I decided to... burn them all!"

The kettle remembers a time, many years ago, when he went around town burning all the billboards with the Diaper Baby ad on them. Kettle laughed as he sped the truck even faster.

Cuphead and Mugman held onto Bendy tightly as they shook and shrieked in terror.

An irritated Kettle hit the brakes as they arrived back at the cottage, grabbed the camera, and walked away towards the cottage.

"Hey, what about the amusement park?" Cuphead asked.

"And the movie?" Mugman asked.

Cuphead pushed Mugman, "Amusement park!" he yelled.

Mugman pushed Cuphead back, "Movie!" he yelled.

Bendy slipped away and followed Kettle.

"Amusement park!" Cuphead yelled.

"Movie!" Mugman yelled.

Elder Kettle grumbled and slammed the door closed. He placed the camera down and stared at it. His irritation quickly turned into sadness as he sulked as he walked upstairs.

Bendy slipped in through the window and ran to the bottom step. "Mr. Kettle," he said.

"What is it?" Kettle asked.

"I-... I know how— Um." Bendy tried to say but stopped himself.

"What?" Kettle asked.

Before Bendy could say anything, Cuphead and Mugman ran into the cottage and closed the door behind them.

"But Elder Kettle!" Mugman said.

"You promised!" Cuphead said. "Me and Mugsy came through on our end!" The cup held the written agreement in his hand.

Kettle turned around and walked down the stairs with his fists tightly closed.

"Oh did you?" Kettle said. He grabbed the paper from Cuphead. "According to this; the deal was I'd take you two to the amusement park and the movies if you don't fight before we take the picture. But you two couldn't resist fighting!" he yelled and ripped the paper into pieces. He handed the pieces back to Cuphead before he started sobbing. "And now the only thing I wanted is ruined! Portrait... Memento...!" he sobbed as he walked upstairs.

Cuphead, Mugman, and Bendy looked down sadly... but not because they upset the elderly caretaker.

"One minute we're going to the movies and the amusement park, and the next minute we're going nowhere."

Cuphead and Bendy sighed and the cup shoved the papers in his pocket. Suddenly Cuphead's attitude shifted from sadness to glee.

"Oh!" Cuphead said. "I know what'll cheer us up: the photo of Diaper Baby!" He grabbed the camera and walked to the center of the living room.

"As upsetting as the Diaper Baby is to Elder Kettle, it sure is funny!" Mugman said.

"It was, but where are we supposed to get a photo?" Bendy asked.

The kettle was at the top of the stairs, and he watched the boys.

"While we were fighting, I heard the camera timer go off," Cuphead said as he placed the camera down. "The camera was facing Elder Kettle and the billboard."

"So it took a picture of the Diaper Baby ad," Bendy said.

Kettle gasped in shock.

"So we could just get that photo printed up and laugh at Diaper Baby forever!" Mugman said.

"Yeah, forever," Cuphead said.

The word forever echoed in Elder Kettle's head and his pupils turned into Diaper Baby laughing.

The three boys were laughing when Kettle jumped from the top step towards them.

"No!" Kettle yelled.

He reached for the camera, but his handle got caught on the ceiling fan. The fan suddenly spun uncontrollably, and Kettle got thrown off and crashed into the wall. Kettle was now on the floor, looking mangled.

"Elder... Kettle?" Cuphead asked nervously.

Kettle slowly turned his head towards the boys, his eyes dilated to tiny dots. Then he arched his back, got on his hands and feet, and shouted as he crawled towards them.

Cuphead and Mugman screamed.

"Holy spit!" Bendy exclaimed.

The boys then took the camera and ran into the kitchen.

Kettle still chased after them, crawling against the walls and ceiling like a spider.

The boys shivered as they hid in the kitchen.

"What's happened to Kettle?" Cuphead wondered.

"That's not the kettle you know any more, that's a kettle possessed by anger," Bendy said.

Kettle shouted above them on the ceiling and pounced on them. He managed to catch Bendy and Cuphead and they crashed.

Cuphead and Bendy crashed into the refrigerator and Elder Kettle on a drawer. They gasped and searched for the camera.

"Looking for something?" Mugman asked smugly as he patted the camera. The camera almost fell but Mugman caught it and continued to pat it. He chuckled nervously.

"Good work, Mugsy!" Cuphead said as he walked towards Mugman. "Now, why don't you just let me take it from here?"

Mugman, however, pulled the camera away from the cup.

Bendy walked up behind Mugman. "Or you can let me hold the camera," he suggested.

"Ah, ah! Get back," Mugman said before he pulled out a spatula and pointed it at the kitten.

"Or what?" Bendy asked daringly. "You gonna flip me a pancake?"

Mugman smacked Bendy on the forehead.

Bendy rubbed his forehead. "Ow!" he yelled.

"I said get back both of you," Mugman said warningly.

Cuphead and Bendy backed away but Elder Kettle stepped forward.

"Smart boy, keeping that camera away from those two," Kettle said. He chuckled as he walked around the mug while keeping his distance.

Mugman eyed the kettle suspiciously while still holding the spatula and the camera.

"You know, Mugman, you were always my favorite."

"Hey," Cuphead said as he stepped next to Kettle. "You said the same exact thing when you wanted my free pie coupon!"

Kettle chuckled and pushed Cuphead into a drawer.

Cuphead groaned when Kettle shut the door with his foot.

Bendy went to open the door and just as he did Kettle pushed them both in the drawer and shut the door on them.

"You don't need those two troublemakers, my boy," Kettle said. He pulled out a chair for Mugman. "Now let's just you and I talk about your amusement park."

"Movies," Mugman said after he sat down on the chair.

Elder Kettle sat at the other side of the table.

"Right, right, movies," Kettle said. "Let's face it, Mugman. This whole you and Cuphead thing, it's getting old. Try this on for size: Kettle, Mugman. Mugman, Kettle. Kettle, Mugman. Mugman..."

Cuphead and Bendy pulled Mugman aside as Kettle went on.

"Don't listen to him," Cuphead said. "Think about it: That camera's are bargaining chip."

Mugman thought about it for a moment and realized what Cuphead was talking about.

"'Cause Elder Kettle wants the picture," Mugman said. "Hey, did you know your face is all red?"

Cuphead's face was red from blushing.

"Let's focus on the hot issue here," Bendy said. "The camera, not Cuphead's face."

"Yeah, but are you okay?" Mugman asked Cuphead and placed a hand on the cup's head.

"I'm fine," Cuphead said before he gently slapped his cheeks, and the blush went away. "Now focus,"

"Kettle, Mugman. Mug... man?" Kettle said before he realized the three boys were smiling at him.

"So boys, what's Kettle gotta do if he wants the picture back?" Bendy asked.

"He's gotta do what he promised!" Mugman said.

"That's right. Now hand over the camera." Cuphead said.

Mugman just pulled it away from his brother.

"Alright, the two of you hold it and I'll hold Kettle back with the spatula," Bendy suggested. "Sound good?"

"Hmmm, alright," Mugman said before he gave the spatula to Bendy.

The kitten gave the mug a quick smack to the forehead before stepping at the front.

"Ow!" Mugman yelled as he rubbed his forehead.

Cuphead and Mugman held the camera high and nodded at each other. The three boys got on the table and confronted Elder Kettle.

"Time to make good on your promise, Elder Kettle," Mugman said.

Elder Kettle got up from the chair and turned his back on the boys.

"So let me just get this straight," Kettle said. "You're blackmailing me."

"Pretty much!" the three boys said.

Kettle chuckled. "Looks like I've got no other choice but to... GIMME THAT CAMERA!"

The kettle pounced on them and the four wrestled for the camera.

Bendy tried to smack Kettle but the old kettle grabbed the spatula and threw it aside.

The four pulled on the camera legs before the legs snapped off and the camera flew up.

The camera screamed in agony and groaned when it hit the floor. The camera was destroyed, and the roll of film burned down.

"NO!" the boys exclaimed.

Cuphead grabbed the destroyed photo roll.

"It's... it's..." Mugman said.

"Ruined!" Cuphead wailed.

The brothers started wailing.

"Now we'll never get to the movies!" Mugman wailed before he pushed Cuphead.

"Amusement park!" Cuphead wailed before he pushed Mugman.

"Movies!"

"Amusement park!"

"Fire poker!" came Elder Kettle's voice.

The two looked up and realized that the kettle was now armed with a fire poker.

Cuphead and Mugman screamed.

"Crowbar!" came Bendy's voice. The kitten blocked Kettle's fire poker with a crowbar. "Run you weirdos!" he ordered.

Cuphead and Mugman didn't think twice and ran out of the cottage.

"Stay out of this Bendy," Kettle said warningly.

"No," Bendy said.

Kettle tried to push Bendy back, but the kitten wouldn't budge.

"You're surprisingly strong for your age," Kettle said.

"Funny, I was going to say the same thing about you," Bendy said before he pushed the kettle back. The kitten ran for it.

The three boys ran for the road as Kettle chased after them with the fire poker.


Meanwhile, in an alleyway of Inkwell City, Police Chief Bea has her car parked in an alleyway. She was talking to a rookie cop, Officer Bee Humble.

"So I says "Honey, you must bee pollen my leg!"" Chief Bea said before she laughed. "Get it? Honey? Pollen? 'Cause we're bees?"

"I don't get it." Officer Humble said.

The chief was disappointed that her joke didn't land before Cuphead and Mugman crashed into the car's window.

"Wait... is that...?" Officer Humble asked. He pulled out a wanted poster showing Cuphead and Mugman's mugshots.

Chief Bea pulled out a radio. "Requesting backup. We got the two escaped cookie convicts from the cookie factory caper on sight."

"Back off!" came Bendy's voice.

The boys ran away before Bendy jumped on the car and blocked Kettle's swings.

Officer Humble pulled out two more wanted posters. One was older with a picture of a younger Elder Kettle and the other one had a drawing of Bendy's kitten persona.

"We also have the Diaper Baby billboard burner and the 'demon-cat-child' the warden has been looking for. Both are armed and presumably insane."

Chief Bea started the car and turned on the siren.

As Kettle, Bendy, Cuphead, and Mugman ran the police chased them down the street.


A while later...

Kettle, Cuphead, and Mugman were now dirty and scuffed but the kettle was smiling.

"Well, boys, your Elder Kettle couldn't be happier," Kettle said.

"But... we destroyed your camera," Cuphead said.

"And we're all dirty and scuffed," Mugman said.

"True, true, but at least I'm finally getting my family portrait," Kettle said.

"Face forward!" said the police photographer.

"Say "cheese!"" Kettle said.

Cuphead and Mugman smiled and said,

"Cheese!"

The Kettle family raised their mug books as the photographer flashed a picture of them.

Chief Bea was with the Rookie.

"We got them," Chief Bea said.

"Sorry I couldn't catch the cat kid," Officer Humble said. "I still don't get how he vanished like that."

"Don't worry rookie, we'll get him next time."

Little did they know that Bendy was right above them in the air vent. The little devil ventured around the station listening in on others' conversations and looking at bulletin boards.

"I don't know why I haven't snooped around this place sooner," Bendy whispered as he crawled around. He soon found a wall full of missing person posters. One in particular caught his attention...

"Missing Person: WILSON ARCH. Age, 89. Species, Human."

Bendy's eyes widened. "He's missing. Not dead." He said. "But where could he be...?"