Chapters of Book Five

## 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

## Chapter Summaries

### Chapter 86 - A Decisive Dinner

Picking up directly where Book Four left off the Questers, Holly, Alice, Mickey and Ozzy head out for dinner. Unfortunately, the restaurant they go to happens to be the same one that Cuphead had chased the B-Bros out of during his rage and grief fueled attack from the previous book. Once Bendy reminds Cup that this is the same place he shot up the Dish tries to leave but Bendy insists he apologizes to the owners. Meanwhile, Mickey and Ozzy talk to Boris about his life and what goes into running a business. While Mickey is very nice towards Boris, Cuphead points out that he seems to be completely ignoring Bendy whenever he discusses possible future plans. The group arrives at the restaurant before that particular topic can be discussed and get taken back to a table where Donald and Goofy are waiting. Donald and one of the waiters recognizes Cuphead from the attack, forcing Cup to explain what happened and apologize. The B-bros also back Cup up, vouching that everything between them is fine now. With everything calmed down somewhat the group sits at the table as Cup and Bendy give a more in depth explanation of what happened and why, though they're careful to leave out some of the more sensitive details. The rest of the group is slightly confused on how the two pairs of brothers went from enemies to friends but when it becomes clear the Cupbros won't be shedding much more light on their motivations they accept the explanation as is. The group then moves on to chat about their various alcohol related shenanigan's and arranged marriages. As their about to finish up dinner their waiter, Max, tells them that the owner wants to meet them and offers them dessert to stay longer. The group accepts and after waiting awhile Pete of all people storms out of the back and up to their table. Pete can't actually talk to them since he was cursed earlier in the week by a witch but he does write down what he wants to say for his son, who is one of the other waiters, to read. Pete immediately starts picking a fight with the group, accusing them of bringing a witch into his restaurant and claiming Bendy should still be locked up. Bendy steps up to face off against Pete but Boris and Alice convince him that they should just leave.

The Questers as well as Holly and Alice head out of the restaurant. Mickey, followed by the rest of the circus crew, rushes after them to apologize for Pete. 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. At the mention of Ink Illness Ozzy gains a haunted look in his eyes so Mickey instructs the rest of the circus crew to take the rabbit back home before turning to continue his conversation with the Questers when Ozzy is out of sight. 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. While some of the group is angry and others are disappointed in Mickey Boris is sobbing thanks to this apparent betrayal by his idol. Thankfully, Bendy and Felix are able to calm Boris down. Now in slightly high spirits and with a new determination to prove their doubters wrong the group heads back home.

### Chapter 87 - A Mouse in the House

Mickey reunites with Ozzy back at their home, already berating himself for how he hurt the Questers with his behaviour. Ozzy tells Mickey that, while he understands why he acted that way, he doesn't approve of it and asks Mickey how he could do that to Bendy. Mickey asks Oswald what he should do but Ozzy points out how late it is and says they'll figure out a way to make it up to the Questers tomorrow. Mickey heads to bed but only seconds after he enters the room Holly suddenly appears on his bed. Before Mickey can get out a question she casts a silencing spell on him, claiming that he deserves it for how he acted. Mickey tries to make noise to wake up Ozzy but Holly's magic prevents his attempts. Mickey also notices that Holly's eyes are now pure black. Eventually, the pain from her magic overcomes Mickey and sends him tumbling into unconsciousness.

When Mickey awakens he finds that he is mute, invisible and outside. After remembering what happened Mickey follows some tire tracks nearby all the way back to a suburb. Mickey makes the difficult journey through the city back to his apartment and begins to clean up and eat. As he does so he considers what to do about the situation and how much the rest of the Questers had to do with Holly's actions. After cleaning up Mickey writes a note to the others and goes to have a nap.

Mickey is startled awake by the sounds of his friends frantically looking for him. When he gets up he finds that Holly had written him a note telling him that she's set a trap next to someone he cares for that will make them "disappear permanently" if he tells anyone she's the one who spelled him, which includes that note he wrote. Mickey quickly destroys the note and, after considering his options, decides to head over to where the B-Bros are staying in the hopes there may be something helpful there. Once again the journey through the city is very difficult given Mickey's current state but he eventually arrives at Dr. Oddswell's house after sunset. Mickey sneaks in through an open window in the kitchen and heads into the front room where the majority of the Questers and house members are sitting. The group is discussing what happened with Mickey the night before but soon turns to a discussion about the Parts. Mickey spends the rest of the night wandering around the house and observing the various house members' dynamics. Seeing all this makes Mickey realize just how much his behaviour would have hurt brothers so close to one another. The conversation of the group eventually turns to Holly as Alice reports that she's worried about the girl since Holly has been acting strange lately but much to Mickey's frustration the group simply says they'll keep an eye on the situation. A little while later the group winds down for the night and Mickey falls asleep in one of the empty rooms.

The next day Mickey begins looking through the books in the study, one of which contains information on the Micco whose runes Mickey recognizes as being the same kind that Holly used when she attacked him. Mickey's reading is interrupted by Cuphead coming into the room to examine the two parts currently stashed in there, The Cog and The Doll. Cup's messing with The Doll summons Bendy to the room, who demands that Cup stop messing with it since Bendy can feel everything he does to the Doll. This begins a series of shenanigans that end with Bendy chasing a laughing Cuphead right out of the house, both of the boy's younger brothers and Felix in pursuit as they make their way down the street. Mickey takes the distraction to head downstairs and grab some food, eating as he listens to the breakfast conversation after the Questers return to the house. The light-hearted chatter is broken by a knock on the door. Detectives Featherworth And Ringtail come into the dining room and ask the group if they have seen Mickey since their dinner with him since the mouse has now been missing a full day.

### Chapter 88 - Things Go Wrong

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 detectives informed the group that since they last saw Pete he had been blinded and turned himself in for the crimes in Sillyvision. The group is adamant that Holly wouldn't have blinded Pete and after chatting a bit more the detectives leave the house. After hearing about the situation with Mickey from the rest of the group Holly plays innocent and asks if they should go look for him but Cup points out that'll just make them more suspicious to the cops if they do. This leads to a conversation about the police and the Cupbro's own shady history with the law. At some point during the conversation, Mickey realizes that Holly has left and begins looking for her once more.

Felix heads over to the circus to talk with Oswald about what's happened to Mickey. The two of them discuss the recent friction between Mickey and the Questers group, though he makes it clear that as far as he knows none of them were involved in the incident. Their conversation soon turns to Felix's nephews and the Ink Machine. Ozzy tells Felix that he hopes the Ink Machine really will bring a cure.

Back at the house, the entire place is thrown into chaos when the Blue Fairy suffers a severe Ink Attack. The Blue Fairy dies in the attack and the coroners come to remove her remains. After the coroners leave Bendy is able to raise everyone's spirits by saying they will continue to push forward with the quest and not stop until they had a cure. Mickey marvels at what a difference hope makes as the rest of the day is spent watching a series of visitors come through the home. That night, once it is only the house's original residents once more, Holly once again drops by. Holly fakes sadness at the news of the Blue Fairy's death and asks the group, particularly Cuphead, if they have seen Snowball anywhere. Cup says he hasn't seen the dandehog anywhere and Holly drops the topic, soon leaving the house altogether to continue looking for Snowball. Once she's gone Bendy turns to Cup, demanding he returns Snowball to Holly. Cup says no since Snowball seems to be terrified of Holly for some reason and is actively hiding inside of his coat from her. Mickey is relieved to hear that Snowball's fear has begun to raise the suspicions of Cup and the others.

Mickey then rushes out of the house after Holly, following her back to her room in her apartment. 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 eventually tells Alice that Holly threatened to hurt his loved ones if he told anyone she cursed him and, though she doesn't want to, Alice believes him. Alice casts a spell on Mickey so that Holly won't be able to sense him anymore and then the two of them 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 and begins looking around for Holly, which is when Mickey hears the sound of something heavy dropping into the water out of his line of sight.

### Chapter 89 - Sleeping Spells

Mickey runs towards the sound of the splash, Alice and Felix following right behind him. Once they reach the end of the dock they see ripples in the water and MIckey doesn't hesitate to dive in. The Cupbros had been thrown into the water by Holly, still unconscious and weighed down by rocks. Mickey pulls out Mugman while Felix grabs Cuphead. Once they arrive back on dry land Felix begins compressions on Cup while Mickey performs the heimlich on Mugs, meanwhile, Alice argues with Holly in the background. Thankfully, the first aid is successful and both of the Cupbros begin breathing again though they still will not wake up. Moments after they get the Cupbros back they are blinded by a light from Alice as she reveals her Angelic form in the middle of her argument with Holly, who insults Alice before disappearing once again. With Holly gone they decide to take the Cupbros back to the house as Alice explains to Felix that the invisible presence with them is actually Mickey.

The group arrives back at Dr. Oddswell's 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. The boys are confused when they wake up but they push off the questions for later as they head upstairs to wake up Bendy.

Bendy is dreaming and turns his head when he hears his name being called only to wake up to find that his turning his head changed a kiss on the cheek from Alice to one on the lips. After they get past the embarrassment of the situation the group heads to the dining room to meet with the rest of the house residents where those who weren't placed under the sleeping spell explain what has happened to those who were. Upon hearing that Boris was taken Bendy immediately leaves to get dressed, saying he wants Holly found before he gets back as they'll be heading out the second she is. When Bendy gets back the group begins planning their next move and Cup explains that her goal must be finding the parts since she took the ones they had in the house before taking Boris, who not only holds the Map but is also one of the only people who can read it. With her goal discovered the group moves on to discussing The Cog's influence on her, reading the page from Wilson's journal concerning it. Alice states that The Cog has a magical connection with Holly and is binding itself to her soul as they speak so they have to act fast to save her. She then continues by saying they will need a Demon to properly sever the connection between The Cog and Holly but Bendy argues that he has no idea how to do that kind of thing. Xedo suggests that they go to Hat for help and the group decides to split into three groups- Alice, Bendy, Xedo and Mickey will go to the casino to talk with Hat, 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.

### Chapter 90 - Checking Out

The Cupbros and Felix drive down the street towards Yen Sid University with the tranquillizer in hand, watching the chaos in the area grow the closer they get to the school. The trio eventually finds Holly sitting in a large nest in the school library, using her magic to read through all the books. Cup shoots the next book in line to be read and draws her attention to the trio. Holly uses her rune magic to send a tree monster after the boys and the moment Mugs sets foot on the floor of the library a rune trap electrocutes him, knocking him unconscious. Amazonian Choker vines from inside the library begin to drag Mugman inside and Felix tries to save him from being dragged away while Cuphead takes out the tree monster with his roundabout shots. Felix has just enough time to tell Cup that they need to take out the choker's nerve center before he gets pulled off his feet by the vines, landing on the floor of the library and also getting electrocuted into unconsciousness. As his comrades get pulled into the library Cup uses one of his shots to set the room on fire as he jumps up on the shelves, saving himself from the electrical trap. Cup chases after Mugs and Felix by jumping across shelves and spots them being dragged towards the plant's nerve center located right under Holly's nest. He immediately uses more of his shots to set the nerve center on fire before switching to his roundabouts once more to cut through one of the supporting pillars of the nest as well as some lobber shots as a distraction so he can jump onto the nest to grab Mugs and Felix. Unfortunately, Holly catches him with her magic soon after he lands on the 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 towards the casino to speak with Black Hat. Once they arrive at the casino they head straight to Black Hat's office to find the Demon waiting for them. Hat tells them how Holly tried to poison him with White Egret Flower and warns them that they'll fail if they try to attack him like that again. Hat is confused and then angered to learn that these events are just Holly acting alone and not an attack by Bendy against him. The group then begins bargaining with Black Hat. 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. Felix soon wakes up and the group explains what's happening to him. The group starts trying to track Holly down but it's difficult with all the magic she's throwing around.

As Cala swims through the water she reflects on how she had needed to escape from Holly the last time they had met after destroying the evidence she had against the Cupbros. Now, armed with a way to walk on land, Cala makes her way to the city in the hopes of warning the others about Holly. Suddenly, the portal from her magic pearl appears before her and, after some deliberation, she swims through it. Unfortunately for Cala, the moment she comes through the portal she is immobilized in a rune trap set by Holly. Holly appears, takes all the objects on Cala's person away from her, puts them away in another room and then returns to start questioning her about herself and the Cupbros. Holly then brings an unconscious Cuphead into the room, his head filled with roses for some reason, before burning a mixture of herbs that make Cala's head fuzzy. In her skewed state of mind Cala begins to answer Holly's questions when the conversation is suddenly interrupted by a flash of purple and a cry of pain from Holly. Cuphead shakily pulls himself to his feet, his finger gun still smoking from the lobber shots he just fired at Holly. With Holly distracted Cala's head begins to clear and she begins to help Cup in his battle against Holly. Cup eventually uses his Super on her and Holly teleports away to escape the attack. With Holly gone Cala finally takes the chance to use her new magic to turn her tail into legs. Cup quickly gives her his jacket to cover up with, which she does, but it quickly becomes clear she has no idea how to walk. Cup comes up to her side so he can take some of her weight as he teaches her the basics of how to walk. The two manage to slowly make their way to the staircase so they can find Cala's things. After carrying Cala up the stairs the two of them wander around the upper levels, taking a quick stop in the bathroom for Cup to clear the flowers from his head, before finding Boris passed out in one of the bedrooms along with a lockbox on a side table. Cup uses one of his chaser bullets to wake up Boris, causing his fur to poof up like a poodle as a side effect. They explain what's going on to Boris, Cala grabs the lockbox and then the trio head downstairs where Cup uses his finger gun to blast open the door. They exit out into a wooded area and a moment later Black Hat appears out of the underbrush claiming that he is there to save them.

### Chapter 91 - Halloween Town

Black Hat reappears with Cuphead, Cala and Boris in tow to where the rest of the group is waiting for them. They all happily reunite with one another but the cheerful atmosphere is ruined when Holly uses The Doll to seriously injure and burn Bendy by putting it near a fire. 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.

During their flight Hat and Bendy notice, the presence of another Demon in the city and they land so they can talk with him while the non-Demon members of their group stay behind. Hat asks the Demon where Holly is and he tells them to follow the vines to her. Bendy finally loses his temper when Hat once more calls him a fledgling, leading to the other two Demons talking about him over his head. At the mention of the smell of fear Bendy asks what they mean and the two other Demons point out that the sweet fruity scent Bendy can smell all around him is the smell of fear from the other living beings in the area. Bendy is disturbed by this and says that the whole thing is a waste of time. After some more chatting with the other Demon, during which Hat asks where Oogie Boogie is since he needs to pay his tab at Hat's casino, Bendy and Black Hat return to the rest of the group.

The group continues their flight through the city, following the Amazonian Choker vines. There is a slight distraction when Hat asks some children where Oogie Boogie is again but they just laugh and run away from him without giving any real answers. The Cupbros pull Hat back on task and the group continues on, with Cup freeing some people as they go. The group eventually reaches a building hosting the nerve center of the choker vines, where several toons are being dragged into its waiting mouth. Alice and Hat use their magic to attack the plant while the others catch the various toons falling from the vine's grasp. Eventually, they manage to kill the plant entirely but many of the group members have gotten separated in the chaos, leaving Bendy with only Cup and Felix close by. The trio begins looking for the rest of their friends when suddenly Holly's magic activates to summon a herd of unicorns, who immediately begin attacking Bendy. Before Cup or Felix can help they are each dragged away by their own monsters, with Felix getting dragged into the shadows by something scaly and Cup being picked up off the ground by a griffin. Bendy continues to desperately fight against the unicorns but things are only made more difficult when an Ink Attack begins to hit in the middle of the fight. Bendy shakily pushes himself up and roars at the unicorns in front of him.

### Chapter 92 - Heroic Actions

Mickey desperately dodges around a giant snake monster that not only can see him while he's invisible but also chased him away from the rest of the group. It seemed that every member of the group had had a separate monster attack them and pull them away from the others. Mickey runs up a stairwell in an attempt to escape but when the snake ends up cornering him nonetheless he ends up getting saved by Xedo, who had been looking for him. Xedo tells Mickey that Holly is also on this floor of the building and asks if Mickey can get close to her without her noticing. Mickey agrees and Xedo gives him directions to where Holly is before heading off to finish dealing with the snake. Mickey finds Holly in a room fiddling with a pocket watch. She indeed doesn't notice him and it's not long before Mickey sees his chance to strike.

Back with Bendy, he is still struggling to fight off the herd of unicorns. During the fight, he had also transformed into his taller form, like the one he used while fighting Cala. Bendy eventually 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.

### Chapter 93 - Being Thoughtful

Alice sits listening to the uneasy silence that followed Bendy's fight with the basilisk until Cala goes to check on Bendy and suddenly starts screaming that he melted. Alice digs into the large mound of ink and pulls Bendy out, asleep and now returned to his normal form. Alice maneuvers Bendy and Cala, who has fallen into hysterics, over to a nearby wall to recover. As Alice talks to Cala and calms her down Mugman finally catches up with their group. They catch Mugs up on what happened and after talking for a little bit the group starts moving further into the building. They soon run into Felix's group and help them grab Holly and The Cog so they can escape the fire. The group makes their way back outside to meet up with Boris and Black Hat. While part of the group goes to try and wake Bendy Alice stops Black Hat from just killing Holly while she's knocked out. While they're arguing Felix uses smelling salts to wake Bendy up. Bendy is confused, especially when they tell him that Hat refuses to help Holly but he quickly agrees to help Holly in Hat's place despite not knowing what to do. Alice directs Bendy to lie down next to Holly and hold her hand before instructing the rest of the group not to unlink them unless there is absolutely no other option. Alice then uses her magic and a hand on Holly's temple to link their minds together, causing her to fall into darkness.

Bendy feels an odd falling sensation before opening his eyes to find himself in a strange dreamscape filled with puzzle pieces, shelves filled with multicolour orbs, a black tower and a bridge to a central room. Bendy looks at the orbs and finds they are filled with Holly's memories. He then looks at the puzzle pieces and watches as various tools put the pieces together before realizing that this process is literally Holly's mind "puzzling things out". As Bendy watches one of the tools takes out a piece of a puzzle dealing with Alice that explains how she likes puns and replaces it with a much more menacing piece about how to corrupt Angel magic. This unnerves Bendy but, as he still doesn't quite know how this process works, he instead turns to start wandering down a random hallway. As he walks he sees the memory of Holly getting stuck in the tree by Cuphead. Suddenly, he heard a terrified shriek and quickly headed towards the sound, increasing his speed when he hears Alice's voice. Bendy finds Alice and a strange purple man sitting in the middle of a black and gold lake, discussing how to get through the lake. Bendy raises an eyebrow before just stepping into the black liquid, finding that nothing happens to him when he does so and easily making his way over to Alice. After talking to Alice and the man for a moment Bendy pushes the sinking platform the man is on over to Alice's so he can jump to safety there. The man then demonstrates, using one of the memory orbs, how the black liquid corrupts anything it touches before noting that a similar thing happens with aspects of her personality except they turn into tools. The man also introduces himself as Holly's Fear. Fear then tells them that The Cog is embedded in the panel in their headquarters, the central room Bendy had noticed earlier. 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. With their destination decided Fear leads them back to the puzzle piece area where they hide amongst the puzzle pieces being replaced to hitch a ride to Knowledge Nook. Bendy and Alice talk as they make their way through the hallways of Knowledge Nook. Their talk is interrupted by an attack of spider-books, causing Fear to collapse in terror. After closing the spider-books in a room Alice starts to comfort Fear while Bendy investigates the open doorway next to the one they had just slammed shut to trap the spider-books. A chill runs up Bendy's spine when inside the room he is confronted by none other than Wilson Wiseton, who is talking happily about Micco culture.

### Chapter 94 - The Hungry Tower

Bendy is understandably freaked out by the sight of Wilson but the owl easily explains that he is just a figment of Holly's imagination crafted of everything she knows about the real Wilson Wiseton. Wilson offers to help them heal Holly's mind and Bendy agrees, leading him back to where Alice and Fear are. The group continues walking through the library until they arrive at a glass elevator, where they run into the imagined version of Felix who also joins them. They take the elevator to headquarters and Fear warns them that the other emotions, particularly Happy and Anger, may cause them issues. 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.

The trio walks through the door of the tower into a room of total darkness. Odd symbols on the wall light up, showing that they are somehow at the bottom of the tower when they had entered at the top. When Bendy tries to climb a nearby staircase his gravity changes, shifting the floor his friends are standing on to suddenly seem like a wall from his point of view. The group nevertheless manages to make their way up the tower before one of the symbols changes colour under Bendy's foot and suddenly drops the group into an odd neon glowing forest. The group continues forward in their new strange environment but Bendy starts hearing a strange voice in the leaves. The moment he takes a step towards it he finds himself in a dark room whose floor reflects like a mirror back up at him, now separated from the rest of his group. After trying to find an escape for a while Bendy pauses to look at how much of a mess his reflection is only to be shocked when his reflection talks back to him. The reflection then liquefies and moves up to sit right before him now in the form of a strange cat who introduces himself as 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 out of the dark room 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. Connie gives Alice some keys and Bendy picks her up to carry her out of the tower, though he is unnerved by the fact she doesn't feel very solid. Connie admits that she has been deteriorating for weeks, ever since she touched The Cog. As they're making their way out a monster attacks them and Felix tells them to run away while he fights it since at the end of the day he's just an imaginary friend. The group runs away but it's not long before they hear the monster following after them so Bendy grabs both of the girls and jumps from the walkway railing. As they fall Bendy focuses all his thoughts on the exit door and the next thing he knows they're all standing safely in front of the door. The trio head out the door and back to headquarters. Once there they insert Connie's keys into the control panel it opens up enough space to remove The Cog. Bendy uses his shadows to remove The Cog, fighting against it the entire time, while Alice uses her magic to purify Holly's corrupted core memories. Once The Cog is fully removed it crumbles and disappears. After catching his breath Bendy works on repairing to damaged control panel machinery as best he can before using the key to close up the panel once more, returning the key to Connie once he finishes. With their work complete the group witnesses the black liquid already 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.

### Chapter 95 - Aftermath

Cuphead storms through the streets, angrily shooting any monster foolish enough to cross his path as he makes his way to the building Holly is in. He breaks into a run when he sees the storm around it dissipating only to find the rest of the Questers group chatting away nearby. Cup promptly bursts into an enraged rant at the fact that he missed everything due to being snatched by the griffin. Cup and Bendy soon get into an argument and Cup suddenly shoots off a bullet, causing everyone in the area to freeze. Luckily, the shot was just a warning to Black Hat, who was trying to steal the Cog while everyone was distracted. 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. They arrive to find the hospital in chaos but Fanny and Dovil quickly spot the Questers and usher them inside. Fanny leads the worst of their injured (Felix, Holly and Alice) away while the rest of them take seats to wait. When Fanny comes back to the group she quickly spots Bendy’s wounds and pulls him away for treatment, Boris following along after his brother. Xedo then announces that he will be leaving to check on the house and do his job as a reporter. Mickey also leaves to go check on Ozzy and the kids. Before both of them leave Cup warns them about not spreading the truth about what happened, to which they both agree they won’t. Now left alone with Cala she asks if he’s going to tell The Devil about her to which Cup says that he won’t. Cala’s happiness is interrupted by the return of Fanny, who begins fishing the griffin feathers out of Cup’s head despite his protests. Just as she finishes up Mugman bursts into the room to check if everyone is ok only for Fanny to immediately drag him out of the room for treatment as well. As time goes on the various members of the group returned from treatment one by one until all but Alice, Bendy, Felix and Holly were released. The group that was successfully released then headed back to the house.

Once at the house the questers get caught up on what happened there during the chaos, which thankfully hadn't been anything too horrible. They also lock The Cog and The Doll away in a safe as a temporary measure until they can find better safeguards. Eventually, they head to bed and Cuphead finds an exhausted and filthy Snowball laying on his pillow. Cup cleans her up before going to bed himself for the night. Over the next few days Alice, Bendy, Felix and Holly are all released from the hospital. Alice takes Holly back to the hospital but the girl is exhausted and barely lucid. With the group all together they begin sharing their stories- Bendy and Alice share basic detail about what happened in Holly's head while Cala explains the deal she made to get legs and the fact that she is a gorgon. During these same few days, Xedo also begins gathering news in the aftermath and the Cupbros report to The Devil. Unfortunately, during this time Bendy's flirting with every single female in the vicinity also increased exponentially and it was driving everyone crazy. Eventually, Cup takes Bendy out for a drink to talk with him. After a lot of prodding Cup finally gets Bendy to admit that his behaviour is due to the guilt he feels for being the one to bring The Cog into the city in the first place. Cup points out that all the Questers are responsible for bringing in The Cog and that the whole thing turned out a lot better than it could have thanks in part to Bendy's actions. The conversation then moves to Bendy's worries that he is like Black Hat just because he is a Demon, which Cup finds ridiculous considering the fact that he knows both of them and they are nothing alike. Bendy argues that he's starting to notice new strange Demon things, such as the fact that he likes the smell of fear. Cup reassures Bendy that all of his friends will be there to help him figure things out. The advice seems to help as the next day Bendy is more relaxed and his flirting had gone back down to tolerable levels. 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. The Cupbros also have to go out to some of the local criminal hangouts to spread the word that Nightmare Night was part of the Boss's business so the rest of them better just leave it alone.

### Chapter 96 - Tree Princess

Things begin to calm down among the house members but the drama is far from over. Felix and Xedo finally corner the Cupbros to question them about Holly's remarks about them working for "a devil". Xedo had followed them to their meeting with the other criminals in the city but the Cupbros explain that they were just trying to protect Holly and Bendy. Xedo questions their loyalty and, while Cuphead says that maybe they do work for a Demon, Cup refuses to give any details about their situation. Felix asks if the two of them are ok, which surprises the Cupbros, but Cup waves away the concern. With that, the Cupbros walk away, thus closing the matter.

Later that day Alice comes to the house asking for help with Holly since the girl was dealing with memory issues and extreme exhaustion after the Nightmare Night events. Alice, Cala, Bendy, Boris, Felix, and Xedo 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. Cup get's Holly to open the door by threatening to keep Snowball and shoves his way inside when she tries to close the door on him after retrieving the dandehog. He finds her hiding from him in the closet and scoops her up. 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. Cuphead forces Holly to confront what she did not only to the park but also to her friends, repeating all her negative thoughts back to her before bluntly telling her she messed up. Cup's speech begins to take a turn however as he points out all the ways Holly was a terrible "villain" during Nightmare Night, from failing to kill anyone to her own unicorns killing her other monsters. Holly eventually admits that she doesn't know what to do or if she even deserves to be there anymore, which makes the Cupbros laugh since they tried to kill the B-Bros before and they were still there. Cup reassures her that Bendy is fine before talking about his own experience trying to kill Bendy, including showing Mugman's scar from the incident. Cup then says if she's going to run from what she did she better be prepared to run forever cause they both know their friends will follow after her to the ends of the earth. He finishes by telling her she just has to start making it all up to them and continue living her life. Holly says he's right and it's only moments afterwards that the rest of the group finally catches up with them, Bendy immediately tackling and berating Cup the second they arrive. Eventually, Alice breaks up their building argument and Holly reassures the group that Cup really did just try to help. The group then starts heading back to the Cupbros, Cuphead's mind turning to what the hell he was going to do if any of his friends found out the truth about the Cupbro's situation. Alice notices something is wrong and asks Cup if he's ok, with Holly then turning his own words against him by reminding him that none of their friends will leave him alone if he needs help. The mention of trouble gets everyone questioning Cuphead about what's wrong and when he tries to brush off their concern Bendy starts teasing him about the girl he likes again. Cup eventually storms away from his friends in a flustered huff.

The group watches Cup walk off before continuing on their way, the conversation about romance also continuing as they walk. Boris thinks about the odd relationship between Bendy and Alice before his thoughts shift to The Cog. Eventually, the group arrives back at the apartment where they discuss what to do about Holly's memory issues and the girls invite Cala to stay with them now that she's living on land. After some time Cuphead reappears at the apartment and the discussion shifts to the deal with Black Hat. The Cupbros are still very untrusting of Hat but Bendy and Alice both stay stubborn in their belief that they have to hold up their end of the deal. Bendy and Alice decide they will go see Hat the next morning, despite Cuphead's protests, and the majority of the group takes their leave of the girl's apartment for the night. That night Bendy and Boris talk to one another about their individual worries regarding the upcoming meeting with Black Hat. Despite their reassurance to one another that everything will be fine Boris still resolves to talk with Mugman the next morning.

### Chapter 97 - The Talk

The next morning the rest of the members continue to express their unhappiness at Alice and Bendy heading to meet with Black Hat. Nonetheless, the two of them head off to the casino. Once they arrive Demencia leads them both to Black Hat’s office first, because they refuse to be split up, but Hat quickly sends them over to the lab once they arrive. Once in the lab, Dr. Flug hooks Alice up to a magic power converter while Bendy heads up to a loft to watch so he can avoid her Angelic magic. Dr. Flug brings out an orb and Alice spends the next hour pumping magic into it. With that taken care of Bendy and Alice head back to Hat’s office, talking about what happened in the lab as they walk.

When they arrive back 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. Alice tells Bendy that as far as she is concerned banishing him would be a greater evil than letting him stay and that she is willing to accept the consequences that come with that. Despite their best efforts the conversation soon takes a darker turn as Bendy questions whether Alice will still feel the same way if he turns into a monster or scares her. Alice admits that sometimes she does get scared by his demonic aura but he’s taught her so much about what Demons can be and she knows he is a good person at the end of the day as well as her friend. While they are talking about sensitive subjects Bendy asks Alice what it means when an Angel falls. She explains it and dispels any fears he might have that she could fall from helping him. Bendy then thanks her for everything and the two of them head back to the house.

### Chapter 98 - An Important Date

The next morning, Bendy and Boris discuss how Bendy is feeling after his talk with Black Hat and whether he should tell the others what he learned over the course of the discussion. Boris reassures Bendy that he isn't going to become some kind of monster and says that he will always be his brother. Eventually, Finley calls Boris to come to help them deliver pills and visit Mickey so he leaves with Bendy's permission.

Bendy begins looking over the paperwork Hat gave him 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 explains that The Cog is still messing with their minds, now convinced of Angelo's warning. The group begins planning what they are going to do to contain The Cog's magic, determining that they will need Felix and Alice's help to do it. The group spends the rest of the morning warning all the house members about the issue with the magic until later when Felix and Alice return to the house. The group decides that Felix and Mugman will be the ones to handle The Cog since they've already touched it in the past and don't seem tempted to go after it again. Since the Runes of Peace at the school seemed to help Holly while she was under its influence they decide to use the mural as a starting place for how to counteract/contain the magic. Now that they know where to start Mugman and Felix move to begin moving The Cog to a new location while the others stay in the house.

Since Bendy still seems worried about The Cog Holly offers to take his mind off of it by finally going on that date with him that she agreed to in Ch 69. They decide to go to a fair outside of town and quickly take a cab out there after taking a few moments to change into slightly nicer clothing. Once they arrive Holly reveals the fair is bacon-themed and the duo rush to sign up for the bacon soup eating competition there. Despite being the smallest competitor and getting into a rather aggressive rivalry with the bull sitting next to him Bendy eventually emerges as the victor, winning a ten-pond ham roast. After the eating contest, they run into the elephant that Bendy had helped save during Nightmare Night, who introduces himself as Elliot. Elliot thanks Bendy for everything he and the Questers have been doing, especially since one of his family members has Ink Illness. After saying goodbye to Elliot they head to the ferris wheel, chatting with each other as they ride. The mood falls somewhat when Bendy is reminded during the conversation that Holly's memory is still damaged from Nightmare Night but they quickly go back to having fun. Holly suggests after they finish riding the ferris wheel they go to ride some of the fair ponies and, though Bendy is nervous, he agrees.

### Chapter 99 - The Arctic Wind Breaks

As they arrive at the track Holly realizes that it might be a bad idea but Bendy says they can try anyways. Despite repeated offers to back out Bendy mounts the clearly agitated horse and the two begin riding around the track, talking with each other more about their respective pasts. They eventually get the horses riding faster but when Bendy laughs he ends up startling the animal and getting bucked off of its back. Thankfully, he's fine and Holly says she'll just go once more around the track before they head to do something else. But while Holly is riding Bendy gets hit with an Ink Attack. While the attack doesn't last too long it's still more than enough to exhaust Bendy and Holly ends up calling them a cab so they can get back to the house. Despite the ending, they both agree they had a fun time. Once they arrive back at the house they find the Cupbros gone and Felix, Alice and Holly quickly disappear to work on the magical containment, leaving the house feeling oddly empty. Bendy thinks about all the people they need to help and whether or not Angelo is watching him.

Meanwhile, the Cupbros had 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. Mugs says that he just meant that they had to find another way but fails to come up with another possible path. Cup then states that, no matter how different the situation or how little choice any of the victims had in their fate he's still not taking the both of them to hell for them. This in turn cause Mugman to declare 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.

Mugs walks back to the house, upset about the fight but determined to stick with his choices. As he makes his way back he thinks about Cup and what his brother could possibly do. Mugman arrives back at the house and meets up with Cala, Red and Granny in the kitchen. When the women ask where Cup is he admits they had a fight and Granny tells him that he better make up with Cup soon because no matter what they will always be each other's brothers. Red pipes up to tell Mugs that Cup will come back to him soon since he is important to him and to not let Cup run away from it. After Red leaves, Granny goes on to remind Mugman that he can ask them anything since they're all a family now, a revelation which shocks Mugs. The B-Bros come in at this point at Granny reasserts how all of them are a family now and how much she loves all of them. With that happy moment, the conversation moves on to talk about the containment of The Cog's magic and a theory Felix had between his transformations and The Cog. Granny tells him to just relax and trust his friends to deal with the situation. With that, the conversation moves to the B-Bros also questioning where Cup is and Mugs asking Cala out on a date. Later that night, after Cala had gone home, 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. Moments after the magic disappears Felix calls to tell the house that they successfully contained both of the parts and that he's heading back to the house to spend the night while the girls head back to their apartment. Xedo is the next to call, as he also felt the effects of The Cog being sealed. 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 go retrieve him but Mugman points out that there are too many places he could be. 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 house.

### Chapter 100 - The Pain of Cracks

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. The two head to the university as they discuss the tough situation the Cupbros are in. 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.

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.

Mugman has just returned to the house angry and, upon learning that Xedo will not be back until dinner, he and Boris go out back to train. 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.

Back with Cuphead he is at yet another bar after spending the majority of the day dealing with and subsequently fighting many of the mob members in the city. As he's drinking, Fanny comes in and scolds him for once again getting injured. The two start talking and 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 get's 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 beginning 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.

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