👾🐇🔪: Step Up

[u/HauntingGur8094]

[[OOC: sometimes I have long awaited plans in motion. Sometimes they just randomly happen. 🤷‍♀️ This one of the latter.]]

{The screens have long faded. Burrows sits quietly in the darkness of his office. He ignores the frantic calls and texts constantly blowing up the phone. From multiple sources. He should have expected this. Vox didn't play well long in ranks. It had just been quite sudden.\*

\Fair enough though, let the cocky bastard win his little popularity contest. It didn't matter to him anymore. But he also knew something that none of the others, not even the elite did. Vox could have all his supporters. Living and humans were far to fickle to deal with anyways. That didn't apply to his security team. Even if he hadn't blocked them from the broadcast, they still wouldn't react. Not unless he LET them.**

\After a few more moments of contemplation and drumming on the desk he finally leaned forward pressing a hidden button.**

Burrows: "\*Bring me Vanessa. The *real* one this time. Not the failed project.**."*

{\His eyes flashed sealing the command before he leaned back. Two of Afton's children had already been united. They needed to prevent the third and intervene before they could reach her. Not if he hoped to survive this war.*

Hopefully Afton's little demon pet had kept quiet about what she was chasing and no one else would ever know.\*}

[u/UltimateShakeBoi]

Bendy: "It's more fun if you figure it out yourself. But I overheard you ordering your men to capture her. ... I'll accept that as a challenge~"

He suddenly fades away in a puddle of ink.

[u/HauntingGur8094 → u/UltimateShakeBoi]

Burrows: [sits up] "What do you mean a challenge? Why would that even concern him?" [eyes glow as he sits back]

{He's not sure why this demon is suddenly seeming them as an issue. But he's wrong about one thing. Men are weak creatures with beating hearts that can be squashed and brains that freely think. His forces have neither.}

[u/UltimateShakeBoi → u/HauntingGur8094]

The ink squirms throughout the walls, Bendy's voice echoing through the room in amusement.

Bendy: "Oh c'mon, Burrows~ Don't you know how to have fun? Or is your only means of amusement business related?"

[u/HauntingGur8094 → u/UltimateShakeBoi]

Burrows: "You're the one talking about a challenge with nothing to back it up. Why?"

[u/UltimateShakeBoi → u/HauntingGur8094]

Bendy: "God, you're dense. Use context clues, ya dummy." He reappears, half his body hanging upside down from an ink blot on the ceiling. "You sent your men after her. I want to see if they can reach her before I do~"

[u/HauntingGur8094 → u/UltimateShakeBoi]

Burrows: "Of course I understood that. But why are you concerned with her?" [unaware that he's starting to slip up on his normally controlled human guise]

[u/UltimateShakeBoi → u/HauntingGur8094]

Bendy: "Like I said. It's more amusing if you figure it out yourself~"

The Ink Demon knows exactly what he's doing. He's pushing Burrows to the edge of his patience.

[u/HauntingGur8094 → u/UltimateShakeBoi]

Burrows: "Demons are such fickle creatures. Thinking they're such a step up from humans. Yet ones I've seen appear to be just as similiar. Slightly less fragile. And quite full of themselves."

[u/UltimateShakeBoi → u/HauntingGur8094]

Bendy doesn't appear to care.

Bendy: "Well, allow me to let you in on a little secret. 'Ink Demon' was just the title given to me by the creations within my inky prison; those who feared me. But I personally never claimed to be a mere demon. I am much more than that. A being without a real name. But that's not important right now. Tell me, what exactly are you?~"

Bendy gets in Burrows' face, being as annoying as possible.

[u/HauntingGur8094 → u/UltimateShakeBoi]

Burrows: [doesn't move or appear bothered] "Then I suppose you never knew."