Book Five

Art by Sirensea14

## Summary

The Questers have obtained yet another part, but there's no time to relax. Strange things are happening around the city and they seem to be leading towards a dark force within the Questers own home. Meanwhile, tensions are high as some members of Dr. Oddswell's house question the Cupbros trustworthiness. Things only get worse when an argument with Mickey drives a wedge between the Questers and the Circus Crew. When everything finally boils over into the terrifying calamity know as the "Nightmare Night" can these toons pull together to save Toon Town? Or will all the cracks in their bonds cause them to fall to pieces?

### Warnings and Triggers

* Depictions/Discussions of Death and Grief
* Graphic Depictions of Violence
* Graphic Depiction of Serious Wounds
* Graphic Depiction of Illness
* Depiction of Killing (Non-Human)
* Attempted Murder
* Blood
* Depression
* Panic Attacks
* Forced Mutism
* Fire
* Altered Mental States
* Mentions of Cannibalism
* Verbal Harassment/Abuse

## Detailed Information

***Spoiler warning:** Full book plot summary in collapsable.*

This book picks up right where Book Four left off, with the Questers, Mickey and Ozzy heading out to dinner together at Pete's restaurant. The group talks about their past and work but it starts rubbing some of the Questers the wrong way when it appears that Mickey is purposefully ignoring Bendy. When they are almost finished dinner they get into a brief altercation with Pete, who has been mysteriously cursed to be unable to talk, and end up leaving early. Mickey tries to apologize on Pete's behalf but the Cupbros and Holly point out that Mickey has been treating Bendy almost as bad as Pete the whole night. Mickey struggles to explain himself for a little while before admitting that it's because Bendy has Ink Illness and he can't handle the idea of losing someone to that disease again. The group admonishes Mickey for the way he's handled the situation. Boris in particular takes the idea that Bendy could die very hard, especially when Mickey expresses doubt that the Ink Machine will actually offer any help to their situation. Mickey apologizes to the group and tells them that his door is still open before walking away. The Questers, while upset at this turn of events, walk back home more determined than ever to prove their doubters wrong. Meanwhile, an already guilty Mickey heads back home and talks with Oswald about what happened, eventually deciding to think up a way to make it up to the Questers in the morning.

However, when Mickey enters his room Holly suddenly appears on his bed now with strange, pure black eyes. She uses her magic to take revenge on Mickey for his behaviour. Holly makes Mickey mute and invisible as well as threatens to make one of his loved ones "disappear permanently" if he tells anyone what she did to him. With no better options, Mickey decides to head over to where the B-Bros are staying in the hopes there may be something helpful there. Mickey sneaks into Dr. Oddswell's house and begins silently observing the residents there. He overhears their discussions about the quest, the parts and each other. Noticing how important the B-Bros are to everyone in the house makes Mickey realize just how much his actions hurt each of them, especially Boris. Mickey is also there when Featherworth and Ringtail show up to question the Questers about what they know about his disappearance. The Questers are shocked to hear that Mickey is missing but since the group doesn't have much information on the situation the detectives soon take their leave, passing Holly on the way out. The detectives ask her a couple of questions and she admits to having put the silencing rune on Pete, though they take this as just a practical joke. The others also defend Holly's character and the detectives finally leave the house. Things then become a bit chaotic as both the Questers deal with Mickey's disappearance and one of the Ink Illness patients passing away from an Ink Attack. But, in between everything, some of them are starting to realize something is wrong with Holly. Alice expresses concern about her recent behaviour and Cuphead reveals that his own suspicions have been raised ever since Holly's pet dandehog Snowball began actively hiding from the girl inside of his coat. Mickey, relieved by the fact that others are starting to suspect Holly, follows the girl home to keep an eye on her. Holly recognizes Mickey is there and traps him in the closet before leaving. Mickey is trying to escape when Alice finds him and frees Mickey. Alice says she recognizes his presence from the house and the two of them begin to communicate through notes. Mickey explains the situation to Alice, who believes him, and she uses her magic to help conceal him from Holly before the two head out to find Holly.

They track her back to the house, where they see Holly sitting on top of the floating Cog with the unconscious forms of the Cupbros hovering in the air behind her only moments before she vanishes from the house. Alice races into the house to find that they've all been placed into an enchanted sleep by Holly. In a panic, Alice calls Felix and the Tiptail brothers who all agree to come to the house to help. Xedo tells Alice over the phone that Holly may be at the docks so she and Mickey hurry down there, meeting up with Felix along the way. The trio arrives at the docks just in time to catch Holly dropping the sleeping Cupbros into the water. Felix and Mickey pull the Dishes out and resuscitate them while Alice argues with Holly, eventually revealing her true Angelic form before Holly disappears again. The group, now hauling the sleeping Cupbros, arrive back at the house to find Xedo passed out and Wiston hiding in fear in one of the closets with Bendy. Wiston explains that Holly returned and threatened to kill him and Bendy so he hid while Holly escaped with The Doll, The Cog and Boris. The group begins to talk about their next move, with Felix and Alice identifying The Cog to be the cause of Holly's behaviour considering she doesn't have this much magical power on her own and it had also made Cala Maria violent in the past. While they are talking Prince Charming arrives to see Snow White at the house and, upon hearing she is once again in an enchanted sleep, uses true love's kiss to wake her up. After Snow White wakes up she explains that a kiss of true love, any form not just romantic, can wake up the rest of the house but though she's been in the house long enough to kiss most of them awake since the Questers were gone most of the time she can't wake them up as she doesn't know them well enough. As Snow White begins kissing the other house members Alice heads downstairs to kiss the Questers awake. Alice kisses the Cupbros with a word of thanks for saving her from Black Hat and Xedo for sharing the truth. Embarrassingly, when she goes to kiss Bendy he turns his head in his sleep which changes a kiss on the cheek from Alice to one on the lips. With everyone awake, the group meets in the dining room to decide their next move. It is eventually decided that they will break into three groups - Alice, Bendy, Xedo and Mickey will go to the casino to talk with Black Hat to try to get his help, the Cupbros and Felix will find Holly and keep her busy until the other group can bring Hat to her and the rest will stay at the house as well as create a tranquillizer to use on Holly. Mugs also brings up the fact that he believes he took Cala's magic pearl so they also have to worry about the mermaid. With a plan decided the groups head off to complete their individual missions.

The Cupbros and Felix track Holly through a trail of destructive magic all the way to the library where Holly is reading every book in the building. They begin attempting to take her on but first Mugman and then Felix fall victim to her rune traps and a magical Amazonian Choker plant she summoned to protect her. Cuphead fights valiantly, even managing to take out the choker plant, but Holly catches him when he lands too close to her nest. She uses her runes to start to make him pass out but he's able to use one of his chaser bullets to change the rune and stay awake for a little while longer. This doesn't last long as Holly conjures another rune and Cuphead finally falls completely into unconsciousness. Meanwhile, the second group is headed toward the casino to speak with Black Hat. Hat at first thinks they are there to attack him since Holly already tried to poison him and is surprised and angered when that turns out not to be the case. They eventually reach a deal in which Hat will help them in exchange for one more session with Alice's magic and a talk with Bendy, along with the added caveat that only those two will come to the meeting. With a deal set, the whole group takes one of Hat's cars to the library only to find the building on fire. The sound of a shattering window draws the group over to where Mugman has just jumped out the window with an unconscious Felix in his arms. Mugs says he doesn't know what happened but after Hat reports that there are no other living beings in the building they come to the conclusion that Holly must have taken Cuphead. Elsewhere, Cala is swimming in the water when she sees a portal from one of her portals and heads through believing it to be Mugman but instead finds Holly on the other end with an unconscious Cuphead by her side. Using her magic Holly traps Cala, clouds her mind and then begins questioning her about herself and the Cupbros. Suddenly, the conversation is interrupted by a flash of purple which turns out to be one of Cuphead's bullets hitting Holly in the shoulder. Cala's head clears so she begins to help Cup fight Holly, which culminates in Cup launching his Super against Holly and her teleporting away. With Holly gone Cala uses her own new magic to give herself a pair of human legs and the two of them shakily head to the upper level of the building Holly was holding them in to try to find Cala's things that Holly took. There they her things and Boris passed out in one of the rooms. Cup uses his bullets to safely wake Boris up and the three of them then head out of the building into a wooded area where, a moment later, Black Hat appears out of the underbrush to teleport them all back to the rest of the group.

The group is happy to be reunited but the cheerful atmosphere is ruined when Holly uses The Doll to seriously injure Bendy. She also uses massive amounts of magic to shift the earth under the whole city, which turns out to be the last straw for Hat as he uses his magic to turn the earth under their group into a flying platform. As they fly through the air they eventually see the now destroyed city stop shifting but before any type of calm can settle a great storm emerges in the sky as odd creatures begin to be summoned amongst the wreckage. Black Hat is now thoroughly enraged by Holly's actions and uses his power to help fix all of Bendy's wounds. The group then begins to fly further into town, witnessing the chaos unleashed by all of Holly's magic as they travel. As they are flying Hat and Bendy notice the presence of another Demon and they stop to ask them about where Holly is. The Demon tells them to follow the vines to her but, over the course of the conversation Bendy learns some unnerving things about Demons such as the fact that fear smells delicious to them. Hat and Bendy then return to the group and they all begin to fight their way through the city, helping people when they can along the way. At the centre of the vines, they find another choker plant which they kill but the fight ends up separating many of the group members which is only exacerbated by the fact that Holly has planted rune traps around the area that further splits them up.

Mickey is chased by a giant snake into the building Holly is in but is almost cornered when Xedo appears to save him. Xedo gives Mickey directions to Holly before going back to dealing with the snakes. Mickey eventually finds Holly in a room fiddling with a pocket watch and waits until he spots the perfect moment to strike. Meanwhile, Bendy is attacked by unicorns when separated from the group and has the bad luck to have an Ink Attack during the fight. However, he somehow transforms into the same taller form he utilized in the previous battle against Cala which helps. Eventually, Bendy makes a run for it, unicorns in pursuit, and runs into Felix who is still engrossed in his own battle with a hydra. Bendy begins helping Felix fight the monster and, once the unicorns catch up, they also assist the pair in the fight. Felix tells Bendy to take advantage of the fact that the unicorns are distracted fighting the hydra to escape and find Alice. Bendy does so, leaving Felix to his battle but it's only a few moments later that he runs into Black Hat, who is also dealing with a herd of unicorns. The unicorns begin attacking Bendy as well the moment they notice him but just before one of them can deal a fatal blow Snowball appears and seemingly talks the unicorns down. Now suddenly freed up Bendy runs over to Hat, where Snowball repeats the process of talking down the unicorns. With the immediate danger gone Black Hat teleports away to find Alice while Snowball leads Bendy to a nearby park where Boris and Mugman are. The trio talks for a bit before deciding to head to the building where Holly is. The trio arrives back at the building just in time to meet up with Alice, who is disturbed by Bendy's more demonic form. Alice explains that Holly managed to knock out Black Hat somehow before escaping herself. Bendy and Alice then head into the building after Mugs and Boris decide to stay outside to set up Black Hat somewhere relatively safe, with Mugs claiming he'll catch up with them later. It doesn't take long into their exploration of the building until they run into Cala in her gorgon form, who is fighting a basilisk. Alice and Bendy start helping Cala fight the monster, which is very difficult when they can't look at it. Bendy eventually ends up grappling with the basilisk until he finally snaps its neck.

Meanwhile, Felix is also looking through the building for Holly after he triumphed over the hydra. As he is searching he is suddenly confronted by Mickey, now visible, running down the hall towards him as the mouse is chased by a wolf monster. Felix helps Mickey escape and in return, the mouse explains everything that happened as best he can without speech. Mickey tells Felix that he was able to save The Doll from Holly but then she caught him and sent the monster after him before disappearing again. Xedo soon walks up to join their discussion as well. The trio decides to set a trap for Holly using Mickey and The Doll as bait. Felix pulls out special electrified bubbles from his bag that they can put Mickey in for the trap and the trio also decide to have a net set up as a fallback plan. The trio then finds the place to set their trap, placing Mickey into one of the bubbles. Felix and Xedo then hide and, after waiting for a while, Holly finally appears. Holly tells Mickey that she made good on her threat against her loved ones, specifically that she sent Ozzy to a cave filled with man-eating spiders. She also mentions that Alice has a barrier up that is keeping her trapped in the city. Holly then sets off the bubble trap, setting the trio into action to try to take her down. Felix tries to talk to her, saying that the girl he met before would never have done this but Holly responds that that girl didn't know anything, including the fact that the Cupbros work for some kind of devil. While Felix keeps her attention Xedo comes up behind her and throws the net on her and Felix took advantage of the few moments the net kept her contained to shoot her with the tranquillizer. Holly falls unconscious and hits the floor.

Felix’s group begins heading outside, catching up with the other members as they go until they’re all outside together. Black Hat, furious, refuses to help Holly get back to normal so Bendy offers to do it instead even though he’s not quite sure how. Together with Alice the two of them enter Holly’s mind and see how it is changing to become more menacing by the second. Specifically, after meeting the manifestation of Holly’s fear, it is explained to them how a black liquid in Holly’s mind has been corrupting everything it touches. Fear also tells them that the Cog has embedded itself into the control panel in the headquarters of Holly’s mind. Bendy asks how they can get there and Fear explains that they could get there through one of the islands of personality, but most of them have been wrecked by a combination of the black liquid and the dark tower that sprung up on the Heart Home island. He also mentions that Connie aka Conscience could help them since she is both a person and an island. Fear explains that Connie had tried to do damage control throughout all of Holly's rampage but touching the control made her sick and she began to fade away. Fear mentions that their best bet would be going through the Knowledge Nook island but he's too afraid to go with them and help until Bendy talks him into it. The group makes their way through the island, avoiding monster attacks and running into Holly’s mental images of Wilson and Felix who also begin to help them. Upon entering the headquarters they immediately spot The Cog sticking out of the control panel but Happy and Anger block their path. Anger begins fighting Felix and Bendy but they quickly take her down. After getting past Anger they ask Sorrow and Distaste where Connie is and Distaste says she was taken to the large ominous tower aka the Hungry Tower. While Distaste does tell them what the tower is and how to get there her attitude makes Bendy angry and he snaps at her, reprimanding her and threatening her until eventually letting the scared emotion free. The group says their goodbyes to Fear and Wilson before heading forward to the tower.

Upon entering the tower they notice magic twisting the space, placing them at the bottom when they entered the top. As they move through the building its appearance continued to twist around them, eventually landing them in an odd forest where Bendy is separated from the group and encounters the god Chaos. Bendy has a confusing conversation with Chaos that consists mainly of talking about the Warners and a strange warning to "watch out for that little yellow chip" before Chaos pushes him back to where his group is. The group barely has a moment to absorb what just happened before the scenery shifts around them again, this time changing into a factory of some sort. Felix says that, even though they have been climbing up, this factory is probably the bottom of the tower where everything it "eats" is converted into that strange liquid they saw before. Bendy catches a distant whiff of fear and they follow it to where Connie is trapped behind some of the pipes. As Connie is explaining how the Cog has been causing her to fade away a monster attacks which imaginary Felix stays to fight while the others make their way out of the tower and back towards headquarters. Once at headquarters, Connie uses her keys to help Bendy get the Cog out of the control panel with his shadows while Alice uses her own magic to purify Holly's mind. Once the Cog is removed it disappears Bendy fixes up the control panel as best he can and once he and Alice are done the group see's the black liquid begin draining away back into the tower. Bendy and Alice then leave Holly's mind, cutting off the last message Connie had for them concerning the mural at the university as they do. Bendy and Alice wake up to find their friends gathered happily around them, the city back to normal, the monsters gone and Holly laying peacefully unconscious beside them.

Just as the whole ordeal starts to come to a close Cuphead comes storming up the street, furious after dealing with a griffin for the entirety of the time and missing everything. His bad mood soon leads him to get into an argument with Bendy but while they're fighting he suddenly shoots off a bullet, stopping Black Hat's attempt to steal the Cog just in time. Now caught the Cupbros get Black Hat to leave without causing any more trouble than an additional reminder to Bendy and Alice about holding up their end of the deal. With that matter taken care of the group heads to the hospital to get patched up. Fanny and Dovil take care of those who are injured at the hospital and soon the group begins heading their separate ways, some further into the hospital for treatment while others head back into the city to attend to their own business. As time goes on the various members of the group return from treatment one by one until all but Alice, Bendy, Felix and Holly are released. The group that was successfully released then headed back to the house. Over the next few days, the group works on recovering, explaining what they each experienced to each other, and keeping the parts safely locked away. Bendy in particular has a difficult time recovering from the events of the night but Cuphead takes him out for drinks to talk with him and afterwards he starts doing a bit better. The house also gets some visitors during this time- the circus crew stops by so Mickey can officially apologize and the detective drop by so they can ask questions about the incident now becoming known as Nightmare Night. Felix and Xedo try to question the Cupbros about the comments Holly made about them working for a devil but Cup only admits that they do work for a Demon without giving any other details before fully walking away from the conversation.

Later on, just a few days after Nightmare Night, Alice asks the group to come to the girl's apartment to talk with Holly. Holly has been dealing with memory issues and extreme exhaustion after the Nightmare Night events. Alice, Cala, Bendy, Boris, Felix, and Xedo agree to head to the girl's apartment to see Holly. The Cupbros are also brought along so Cuphead can return Snowball. When they arrive at the apartment Alice asks Holly if she will come out to see everyone but she says she can't handle it. Alice accepts the excuse and brings the group to the living room where she explains that Holly has been like that since she's been home most likely due to guilt. Cuphead, understanding the guilt she must be feeling, says he has a way to maybe help Holly. Cup clues Mugs into what his plan is, which he reluctantly agrees to help with, before heading back to Holly's door and knocking. He lures her into opening the door using Snowball and then, once the door is open, he forces his way into the room and hoists the girl into his arms. He tosses her to Mugman, who had been keeping the ever-increasing group of their friends who were trying to stop Cuphead back. Mugman quickly disappears with Holly and Cup makes it halfway out the window before the rest of the group processes what just happened and starts trying to stop him again. Cup loses the group in the back alleys and meets back up with Mugs and Holly further down the road. Cup immediately hefts Holly over his shoulder once he meets back with them, leading their group to the park which is still in tatters from Nightmare Night. There he talks with Holly about how Nightmare Night really wasn't as bad as it looked and that she certainly still has a place in the group if he does after actively trying to kill the B-Bros. He finishes by telling her she just has to start making it all up to them and continue living her life. Just as she finishes agreeing with his points the others show up, still mad at the Cupbros for basically kidnapping Holly, and she has to help defend him by explaining he really was just trying to help. The group then begins walking back to the apartment and once they arrive the girls invite Cala to live with them now that she will be living on land which she happily accepts.

Despite the concerns of their friends, especially the Cupbros, Alice and Bendy head to Black Hat's casino to fulfill their end of the deal with him. First, they head to Dr. Flug's lab to do another session of magic collection with Alice. Once that is complete they head to Hat's office so Bendy can talk with him. When they arrive at the office Black Hat refuses to allow Alice to listen to their conversation so he makes a special box for her to stand in so she’s not engaged in the conversation but Bendy can still see her. With Alice taken care of Black Hat bluntly states that Bendy is a problem due to the fact he is technically on the Surface illegally. From there Black Hat begins to explain a bit about Demon culture, specifically how they mature over the course of their lives in regards to their magic. He also explains how different types of Demon’s function in normal Demon society. Finally, Hat explains how he has to claim Bendy as his apprentice of sorts or else someone will just kill Bendy once they discover him. Bendy isn’t happy about this, especially since he still has to quest for the Ink Machine parts. This turns the conversation towards Ink Illness, which Black Hat has not heard anything about and is surprised to learn that Bendy has. The conversation soon circles back to what exactly Hat “claiming” Bendy will mean for him but is once again brought up short by Bendy saying that he can’t use his powers thanks to the illness. Hat says he can lend Bendy some of his power for the time being and continues explaining the details of the claim contract. Once Black Hat wraps up his explanation Bendy says he won’t sign anything until he reads it but takes the contract with him. Before he lets Bendy go Hat warns him away from Alice, saying that there is a reason Angels are their enemies and telling Bendy he can’t trust her. This upsets Bendy and he leaves in a huff once Alice is let out of her box. As Bendy and Alice walk out of the casino Bendy vaguely explains the offer that Hat made and is surprised when Alice says it sounds like a good idea. She also confirms that Bendy is there illegally and Bendy becomes worried about what will happen to Alice thanks to her not banishing him to Hell as she is meant to. The two end up discussing Demon and Angel business all the way home.

The next day, after talking with the others about what happened with Hat, Bendy is alone in his room working on some homework Black Hat gave him when he is surprised by a strange voice speaking up behind him. He whirls around only to be confronted with the image of a male Fallen Angel melting into ink, who calmly introduces himself as Angelo Wrath. Angelo explains that he is a ghost who has been in the house the whole time and that he is there to warn Bendy that The Cog is still messing with all of their heads. With his message given Angelo disappears before Bendy's eyes, leaving Bendy in shock. With Angelo's warning in mind, Bendy heads downstairs, only to walk right into Holly arguing with the various other house members about how they're acting strange. Bendy backs her up and they begin making plans to more thoroughly contain the Cog's magic by using magic and moving the parts out of the house. Since Bendy still seems worried about the Cog Holly offers to go out on that date she had previously promised him. The two of them head to a bacon-themed fair where Bendy wins an eating competition, they run into a toon who thanks them for all their heroic efforts and they chat on a ferris wheel. They try to ride some of the fair ponies but the animals are scared of Bendy and they end up bucking him off. When he also starts to have an Ink Attack, albeit a short one, Holly calls them a cab back to the house. Despite the rough ending, the two agree they had fun together. When they arrive back at the house most of the others have gone off to complete their own business.

Meanwhile, the Cupbros have left the house and begun walking so that they could have a serious talk with one another. Mugs doesn't want to talk but Cup says they can't just ignore it until it goes away. Finally, Cup's pushing makes Mugs burst out that he thinks Bendy and the other deserve to live, maybe even more than the two of them do. Cup argues that everything they've done up until now can't just be thrown away like that and they can't just send each other to their deaths like that. The argument continues to escalate until Mugman declares that if Cuphead tries to take the parts from all the others he'll do everything in his power to fight against Cup. Cup, shocked, asks if Mugs would really betray him like that and Mugs breaks down, saying that they have no clue how close they are to clearing their debt and he couldn't live with himself if he let the rest of their friends die. Cup begins crying at the thought of their potential death but covers it with anger at his brother. Mugs points out that neither of them would ever betray the other by ratting them out to either the rest of the group or The Devil so they're stuck at a standstill, though he does hope Cup will come around before he does something he regrets. Mugs then walks away, leaving Cup rooted to the spot as he thinks about what he was going to do now and how Mugs was going to end up getting them killed. As he makes his way back to the house Mugman thinks about how determined he is to stick with his choices and about what his brother might do. Once back at the house Granny and Red help comfort him when they hear he had a fight with Cup. Once he is feeling better Mugman joins the rest of the group in discussing the Cog issue. Later that night the whole house abruptly feels the removal of The Cog's magic. Suddenly, the false emotions it had been feeding them have ripped away, leaving them all feeling panicked and confused as they reflect on their actions. Mugs is especially panicked by the way he had turned the conversation with Cuphead into an "us or them" argument and becomes very worried about his brother. As the rest of the group talks, Mugman follows Bendy as he steps outside for a moment. Bendy asks if Mugs is worried about Cup and offers to get someone to retrieve him, but Mugman points out that he could be too many places. Mugs then asks Bendy what he would do if he had to choose between what mattered to him and what he thought was right. Bendy replies that if it was something big he would try his best to do the right thing. Mugman thanks Bendy and heads back inside.

The next day Mugs sits at the house, worrying about Cuphead and their situation until Cala come up to him so they can go for a walk together so they can talk about things. At the university Cala steps on the mural at feels incredibly happy. When Mugs runs onto the mural to catch Cala when she trips he discovers that instead of the terrible empty feeling he felt the first time he now instead feels somewhat warm and calm. Both in a good mood, the two of them head home but on the way back they see a news boy promoting the story of a "hero cupman" in the papers written by Xedo. Mugman is furious and storms back to the house. When he arrives he discovers Xedo will not be at the house until dinner so he trains with Boris in the backyard until then. At dinner Bendy questions where Cuphead is as he has now been gone the whole day. Mugman takes the opportunity to go after Xedo about the news story. Meanwhile, Cuphead has just come back to himself after blacking out and destroying part of a shooting range. He wanders into Mr. Winky's bar and talks with the man a bit while the informant fishes for information. While he is distracted the bar fills up with local thugs who saw the "hero cupman" story and want information from him about Nightmare Night. They all jump him and Cuphead begins to fight the thugs off. Cup ends up spending most of the day fighting off various mob members around the city. He finally makes his way into yet another bar, where he runs into none other than Fanny. She scolds him again for getting hurt and the two begin chatting. Over the course of the discussion, Fanny reveals she is married which breaks Cuphead's heart as he refuses to go after a married woman. The two continue to talk, with Fanny convincing Cuphead not to try running away from his problems before insisting he come back to her house to get patched up. As he gets patched up the two continue to talk and when he leaves Cuphead promises to treat Fanny to drinks to make it up to her one day. Cuphead arrives back at the house just in time to hear Mugman begin to yell at Xedo. He walks in, shocking everyone with his beaten appearance, and tells Xedo he hopes he is proud of himself before going upstairs to bed.

## Characters

* **Appeared:** Alice, Bendy, Black Hat, Boris, Cala Maria, Cuphead, Felix, Holly, Mickey, Mugman, Oswald, Xedo
* **Appeared Briefly:** Angelo, Anger, Aspen May, Barrel, Bunny Kids, Chaos, Connie Conscience, Demencia, Distaste, Dr. Flug, Droopy, Elliot the Elephant, Fanny, Fear, Featherworth, Felix (imaginary), Goofy, Granny, Happy, Lock, Max, Mic, Mr. Winky, Pete, Popeye, Prince Charming, Red, Ringtail, Shock, Snow White, Sorrow, Wilson Wiseton (imaginary), Wiston
* **Mentioned:** Blue Fairy, Elder Kettle, Jack Skellington, Oogie Boogie, Ursula, Yen Sid

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