//------------------------------// // You don't know me! // Story: I Am Me // by APStories //------------------------------// Day 1 Fluttershy has no idea how she ended up in Joey Drew Studios. One minute, she was at her house reading a book titled Dreams Come To Life, which is the prequel to the horror video game Bendy and the Ink Machine, and the next thing she knew, she found herself here. She was in the Safehouse, where Daniel "Buddy" Lewek, now known as Buddy Boris, resided. Using her geode, she found Boris near a wall. "Hello?", Fluttershy said. Boris startled and whirled around. "What the...", Boris replied. He looked at the girl in front of him. He was holding a copy of Dreams Come To Life, though it was unfinished. "Who are you? Where did you come from? Why is your skin yellow?" "I'm Fluttershy, a super-heroine. I came from Canterlot. My skin is yellow because it's natural for humans to have multicolored skin", Fluttershy answered. "Not where I'm from", Boris replied. "I used to be a normal-colored human." "Until you got killed by Bendy", Fluttershy replied. "How'd you know that?", Boris asked. "That book in your hand", Fluttershy replied. "I must've somehow entered your world when I was finished reading it." "But it's unfinished", Boris responded in confusion. Suddenly, they heard a howl. "Borkis." "Who's Borkis?", Fluttershy asked. "Another Boris clone. He's on Level 414, so we should be fine", Boris answered. "However, this Boris clone is hostile. I need you to stay here. I'm gonna go find some items. I don't need someone else getting hurt. I'm also looking for Safehouse Scraps." Boris took the elevator. He left the book on the table. Fluttershy picked it up. It was halfway finished. Meanwhile, Boris was on a floor looking for items. He found four items and a Scrap when he heard an inhuman roar. "Bendy", Boris muttered to himself as he hid in a Little Miracle Station. Ink Bendy inched closer. Suddenly, someone shouted. "Stay away!", Fluttershy shouted as she whacked Ink Bendy with a pipe. The Ink Demon glared at the teenager and growled. He lunged at her but she whacked him again. "You ugly mess!" She readied another swing, but Bendy grabbed the pipe and snapped it in two. Boris snuck off as Fluttershy confronted Bendy. With no other choice, she ran. Boris found two more items and he and Fluttershy took the elevator back to the Safehouse. Boris put the Safehouse Scrap up on the wall. "I told you to stay here", Boris said. "Listen, Daniel", Fluttershy responded. Boris's eyes briefly watered as he heard his old name. He gazed at the Scrap with sadness. A flashback showed Daniel's death at the hands of the malicious Ink Demon. He screamed in agony as he hurled one of the spoons he found. It nearly missed Fluttershy. He grabbed her and stared into her eyes. "There's no escape from the Ink Demon! He'll find us both and we'll perish!", Boris said with fear in his eyes. He let go and howled in emotional pain. He eventually calmed down and passed out. Fluttershy picked him up and put him in the hammock. She gazed at the Scrap. It was torn from a poster. She remembered playing Bendy And The Ink Machine and seeing a completed version of the "mural" in Chapter 3. "The other pieces must be on the other floors", Fluttershy said to herself. She saw that Boris found a radio. She played the song. "I remember that song", Fluttershy said. "It was the first-ever Bendy song to be made." She looked at the wall again. "Daniel Lewek. A teenager who was ripped in half, drowned in ink, and turned into a wolf." She held the unfinished novel in her hand. She heard Bendy roar in the distance. "I have to escape somehow." She looked back at the sleeping wolf. "I guess I'll need to help him find the Safehouse Scraps first." The items that Boris found were two spoons, a radio, a plunger, a bone, and a book (Good Boy). She put the items in a box for safekeeping. She got ink on her hands as she touched the items. She was determined to not become another victim of the Cycle. She held her broken pipe and put the two pieces back together. The ink reattached the pieces. With a determined look in her eyes, she held the Gent Pipe above her head like a sword. Boris eventually woke up. "Fluttershy? What are you doing?", Boris asked. "I think I know how we can escape", Fluttershy answered. "We need to finish your mural. If I remember correctly, there are seven pieces to the mural. We already found one, so there's six left." Suddenly, the elevator door opened. "Borkis." The villain roared and unsheathed a sword. Fluttershy used the Gent Pipe to fight back. Borkis then extended claws and scratched Fluttershy, leaving three scratch marks on her face. The evil wolf acrobatically flipped backwards and kicked Fluttershy in the nether regions. The force of the kick sent the teenage superhero flying into the ceiling. Her head was comically stuck. "Look, uh, I don't wanna be too direct, but, uh, this calculator's going up your ass", Borkis said wielding a calculator. "This is not how I thought this day was gonna go", Fluttershy muffled. "Go back to the depths of Hell where you came from!", Boris yelled at his counterpart as he extended his claws and the two wolves went all out, scratching and biting at each other. Suddenly, something whacked Borkis and sent him flying, causing him to ricochet off of walls and the elevator's control pad and eventually landed to the elevator, sending him back to Level 414. Fluttershy, wielding the Gent Pipe, stood tall with her face marred with splinters and her eyes blood red. "Yippee-ki-yay, bitch", Fluttershy said. "That... was... AWESOME!", Boris said. "So, what do you say, Boris? Wanna get out of here?", Fluttershy asked. "Hell, yes", Boris answered. "Let's find those Safehouse Scraps and flee with our tails between our legs!"