I stalked through the studio, heading to Allison and Tom’s Safehouse. The closer I got, the more I started to question what I was about to do.

    No, this is the only way forward.

    Alice was quiet on my shoulder, watching for anyone else who could possibly get in our way. We encountered some Searchers and Lost Ones, which met a similar fate to those in Cycle four. I absorbed their ink and moved on.

    When we reached the Safehouse, Allison and Tom were peacefully talking about something, but I didn’t care enough to listen. The sooner I got this done, the better. It took them a moment to notice me, and when they did, they prepared for a fight. They didn’t last long.

    Once I had their ink, I moved on to the Lost One village. I went onto a boat and started going through the river. As soon as I got to the village, I was met with Sammy preparing to ambush Henry when he arrived. Then he saw me.

    I was still smiling, so he probably thought I was glad to see him.

    “I see my Lord has not taken you, Steven. Perhaps he wishes you as one of his disciples! Join me in my hunt for the heretic known as Henry!”

    “Steven is actually here on business, Sammy.” Little Alice said matter-of-factly.

    “And what would that be?”

    “He knows how to...uh...set you free.”

    Sammy’s posture changed, seeming more tense, excited.

    “What does he need?”

    “He needs you to gather everyone here so that he can free them all.”

TIMESKIP

    Sammy does not disappoint, does he?

    No he does not. Little Alice said in my head.

    As I looked out into the village, I saw (almost) every single inky creature in the studio. All waiting for me to free them. I scooped out some of my extra ink, and turned it into bombs. Then I threw them out into the crowd, letting my ink mix with each and every one of them. 

    “ATTENTION! STEVEN BECK WISHES FOR YOUR ATTENTION!” Sammy shouted at the crowd from next to me. I patted him on the back, mixing his ink with mine. Everything was in place. I stepped up onto a small piece of wood and everything looked at me. I raised my hand...and snapped.

    Everything exploded into ink, except Sammy, who was on the ground writhing in pain.

    “Steven! You said...you’d free...us. Not...kill us! You lied to us!”

    Alice hopped down and booped him on his face, since his mask had been taken off. “We did! Now you won’t be stuck in this never ending hell.”

    She stabbed him in the face, and he exploded into ink, like the others. There was so much ink, I had to make it follow me over the walls so that I didn’t become my beast form. Not exactly the best for sneaking around, now is it? As I walked off to the giant Ink Machine, Alice started singing a little tune I didn’t recognise. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glosjC-P7vM

“I love you all but sometimes

You boys are way too much

Been gone too long and this place

Could use a female touch

Oh you've been waiting for me

Oh gosh you make me blush

Let the show begin

1 2 3 and 4

I got the taste for stardom and a set of horns

And then a 5 6 7 8

Give me the beat a mic and then get off the stage

And I will take it from here

So don't you have any fear

Your glowing darling angel star has appeared

Yeah I'm the hand to your glove

Headlining act to your love

The little gift the devil sent from above

The show

Goes all night

Halo

Shines so bright

I'm your starlet

Brought to life

And summoned from the page

I crave

The limelight

Give me

The spotlight

'Cause you know

That they're all here to see

The angel of the stage

The angel of the stage

The angel of the stage

I sing and people line up

To hear my melody

I dance, my feet like thunder

Controlling your heartbeat

How can something so devilish, be this heavenly

Let the show begin

1 2 3 and 4

I'll knock your socks off honey leave your begging for more

And then a 5 6 7 8

I'm like a dancing demon so get out of my way

And I will take it from here

So don't you have any fear

Your glowing darling angel star has appeared

Yeah I'm the hand to your glove

Headlining act to your love

The little gift the devil sent from above

The show

Goes all night

Halo

Shines so bright

I'm your starlet

Brought to life

And summoned from the page

I crave

The limelight

Give me

The spotlight

'Cause you know

That they're all here to see

The angel of the stage

The angel of the stage

The angel of the stage

Baby I am going places

You will see

Just you wait

I was born to entertain them

Feels so good

On that stage

The show

Goes all night

Halo

Shines so bright

I'm your starlet

Brought to life

And summoned from the page

I crave

The limelight

Give me

The spotlight

'Cause you know

That they're all here to see

The angel of the stage

The angel of the stage

The angel of the stage”

    Where’d you hear that?

    “I dunno.”

    You know, if I didn’t know any better-

    “Don’t…”

    -I’d say you have-

    “I’m warning you!”

    -the voice of an angel!

    “Ugh...why do you say these things?”

    My smile somehow got bigger. Come on, you thought it was funny!

    Alice just sat there crossing her arms. “Well...just a little bit.”

    Satisfied, I kept going in silence, wondering where in the studio Bendy could be.

    When we reached the giant Ink Machine, I saw nothing. No Henry, no Bendy, nothing. This’ll be easier than I thought.

    When I got to the throne, Bendy was sitting in it, for once. He stared at me, as if he recognised me. The ink that was following me on the walls clashed with his. Mine was darker, more solid. His was more faint, almost ghostly.

    Then I heard whispers. Whispers that sounded almost like they were coming from Bendy, but he couldn’t speak, could he? 

Wait…

I took a step forward, and it sounded like the whispers weren’t there for as long as the sound of my footsteps could be heard. The whispers were so quiet, that if you made any sound above breathing noise, then you wouldn’t be able to hear them. I tried to hear what they were saying.

“-should not have come here. You do not understand our purpose (understand our purpose).”

There were two voices, mixed together. A male and a female’s. Whatever. Killing him was the only way forward.

“Bendy, we are here to kill you. We are well within the power to do so. Surrender peacefully, please.” Alice sounded so sure of us.

Bendy snarled. “We know why you are here (why you are here). We were in your position, once (in your position).”

“Lies.”

Bendy stood up, spreading out his arms. “Don’t believe us (believe us)? Then kill us (kill us). We dare you (we dare you).”

I stepped forward, then stopped. This was too easy.

“There’s a catch, isn’t there?” Alice said.

Bendy nodded, then started growing. He absorbed his ink, allowing my ink to dominate the walls and ceiling. He was turning into his beast form. “We aren’t going to make it easy (aren’t gonna make it easy).” When he finished his transformation, he roared, grabbed the film reel, and charged into the studio. I wouldn’t be able to follow him like this. 

I absorbed my own ink, and turned into my beast form, following him through the studio. When we got to the old Music Studio, he stopped and turned around, facing me. He was breathing too loud for me to be able to hear his whispers. He roared at me, and charged at me, the film reel sticking out of his back.

I dodged, and figured if I could land a solid blow with one of my spikes, I could destroy the film reel and kill Bendy at the same time. Talk about killing two birds with one stone. Alice was holding her sword, which had become bigger and corrupted by the ink. It now looked more like a large scythe rather than a sword. The ink solidified and elongated to form a handle, while the ink made the blade more curved.

Alice swung her blade, cutting off one of Bendy’s horns. It collapsed into ink, slid back to Bendy, and his horn was back. Kinda like what my ink did…

Bendy swung at me, which prompted me to swing onto the ceiling, out of his reach. Bendy started beating the ground with his fists, trying to dislodge me. All he succeeded in doing was dislodging a plank and hitting himself with it, stunning himself. 

I climbed over him, dropped down, and smacked the film reel with one of my arms. All it did was drive it deeper into him, making him roar in pain. He hit me, sending me flying backwards. He started running again, and I followed. He seemed a bit slower, but still faster than I would normally be able to run. 

We reached the ballroom, where I fought Wally. He turned back around, and I stood my ground, he started pacing around the room, and then he picked up a crate and threw it at me. I dodged, and he repeated this process until he hit me. When he hit me, the crate broke, revealing a vial of...something. It looked like it was filled with thick, black ink. I threw it at Bendy, hoping it would do something, and it did. It paralyzed him, and I ran up to him and hit the film reel.

He screamed again, and set off into the studio. I followed him, and he was definitely slowing down. His movements were also becoming more sluggish. He didn’t seem to stop. Instead, he just hit random walls and made the ceiling fall. 

At some point, the ceiling fell at an angle that made a ramp, so I went up it and was a floor above Bendy. Everytime he hit the walls, the floor beneath me fell. So I ran ahead of him, and crashed through the ceiling right in front of him. Alice swung her blade, and cut off one of his arms. While he was disabled, I hit the film reel for one final time. 

He screamed in pain, then fell to the floor, unmoving. He started to shift out of his beast form, then kept shifting past his normal form. The film reel was sticking out of his back, and as the layers of ink peeled off, he started to look more normal. More...human. When the ink was peeled away, I saw a man fused with something else made of ink. I flipped him over, and stepped back in horror. 

The man was me, but more disfigured. The thing he was fused with was Little Alice, frozen in a scream of pain.  I almost didn’t recognise myself. His clothes were stained black, and all of his limbs were made of ink, not just the two. But it was unmistakably me. 

Then the film reel started glowing from inside his back. Unlike the other times, it started glowing red. And everything went black.

I woke up inside some sort of machine. I looked at my surroundings. It was sorta box shaped, and had a weird tube poking out of it. There were hoses sticking into the machine that looked like they were supposed to fill the machine up with something. 

I was thinking about what my name was, or why I was in this machine...when I realised I don’t remember very much. I knew I had special abilities, but not where they came from, or what they were called. 

Suddenly, I had a feeling of being lifted upwards. The machine was being lifted up. Seemed like it was down a long way. When it stopped moving up, I heard a faint voice. When it started moving away, I sat down.

Where are we…?

I looked around, trying to figure out where that voice came from. It was kinda feminine, and sounded like they were right next to me. I went to rub my face, and felt another person’s face there. I looked into one of the shinier parts of the inside of this machine, and saw that my face was fused with that of someone else’s.

I didn’t have time to think about who that person was, because I felt a drop of something on my shoulder. I looked at that spot, and saw a shiny black liquid. Ink. I don’t know why, but I hate this stuff from the moment I see it. Another drop falls, and another, until a steady stream starts falling from it. 

Soon enough, all of the little hoses were blasting ink into the machine. It was too thick for me to be able to properly swim through, so I just tried to float above the surface. I moved to the end of the machine, where the tube leading out to the side was. I tried to climb out of the tube, but it was below the ink. If I wanted to get through, I’d have to go under the ink. I held my breath, and dived under. I felt around for the tube, since I couldn’t see through the ink (and my eyes were closed), and when I found it, I climbed through it into the outside. 

I found myself on a little platform, dangling on the edge of the machine. I breathed in the fresh air, and looked around. I seemed to be in a large room hanging over a deep, dark pit. The room was filled with barrels and notes covering the walls. I looked to my left and saw a platform with a lever, which was pulled down. There were some boards in front of the door, and a hammer. I something in the shadows boarding up the door, and went to shout at them to stop. 

But no sound came out. And all hell broke loose.

The machine started spraying ink out of the tube, all over me. It covered me from head to toe, and it burnt my skin. 

The ink started dripping off of me, and a picture fluttered down beside me from inside the machine.

Bendy. It was a picture of the cartoon character Bendy.

The ink dripping down my body began to take shape. My arms and legs elongated. My head became bigger, with two things growing out of it. One of my legs became slightly bigger than the other, along with one of my hands. My mouth twisted into a smile. My eyes became covered in ink, yet I could still see.

When I could move, I walked over to the door, and saw a man on the other side of it. I reached out to him, begging him to help me. But still no words came out of my throat.

He fell backwards, and screamed in a soft voice. "I gotta get outta here!"

When he left, ink started pouring out of the ceiling. It came down so hard and so fast that I fell into the pit below the machine.

When I came to, I was in front of a giant version of the machine I had been in. I waked inside and saw several things written on the wall in ink.

HE WILL SET US FREE

That sounded familiar...yes, I remember. I said that I was gonna free everyone. How did I do that...? I killed them, I think?

THE CREATOR LIED TO US

Another memory. A guy in a Bendy mask said I'd lied to him...

And then the throne. Yes, I remember this vividly. In the throne was a film reel. I remembered that bad things happened if that film reel was ever played. I had to protect it with my life.

As I sat down on the throne, a sense of foreboding, and a sense of belonging. This was my home.

No POV

As Steven and Little Alice sat down on their throne, another Steven woke up tied to a pole in unknown surroundings. A new Bendy had taken their rightful place in the studio. Bendy number 17. And the loop begins again, trapping Steven forever in this hellish studio.

Twist ending! Bet you didn't expect that! So, Steven is trapped in this studio, destined to become the next Bendy at the beginning of the next loop. The story you just followed was the story of the 17th Steven Beck in this loop. Now I'm gonna have to make a new Fanfic to work on at school XD. Hope you enjoyed, and that I didn't ruin my story by doing this.

Have a Legendary day!