Pinocchio and the Chocolate Factory.
This story brings Pinocchio and his family into the world of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as a result of a wish to the Blue Fairy on the part of Willy Wonka concerning his Golden Ticket contest. The Willy Wonka depicted here is a combination of the character as interpreted by both Gene Wilder and Johnny Depp. (basically the 2005 Depp Wonka but with the pro family attitude of the 1971 Wilder one). The Oompa Loompas here are the orange skinned, green haired individualized ones of the Gene Wilder movie but use the Roald Dahl originated songs and the show routines of the Johnny Depp movie as well as the single verses of the Oooma Loompa song from the Gene Wilder movie. The Whangdoodle as depicted here is a giant form of the predatory, non parasitic Assassin Bugs of the family Reduviidae. All dialog actuallu from a movie comes from the 2005 version.
This story came about when I saw the scene in the 2005 version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where Charlie finds the currency note that finally got him the Golden Ticket in the snow. This note looked for all intents and purposes like it was deliberately placed there and not simply lost. Therefore I built this story on the assumption that the note WAS deliberately placed there in order to insure that Charlie gets the Golden Ticket. For this purpose I used the Disney Pinocchio characters as the agents of placing the note where Charlie would find it as a result of a wish by Willy Wonka to the Blue Fairy and as Oompa Loompas throughout the tour to keep Charlie from breaking tour rules and thus losing the contest for the Special Prize. Thus this story is both a continuation of my Pinocchio series as well as my first Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fanfic story.
Chapter 1 - A Bad Discovery Leads to a Wish:
Television Room, Wonka Industries Inc. Factory, England, (Unnamed Town), 2005:
"Four of the five Golden Tickets have already been found and not a good prospect in the bunch." Willy Wonka thought as he received the latest news from the Oompa Loompa leader Okyla-Kay. "And now this!"
"Are you sure that is a whangdoodle that you saw in the Chocolate Room." Willy asked the little orange skinned, green haired man. "I was positive that we brought nothing back with us from Loompaland when I had your people re established here."
"There is no doubt that the monster I saw in the Chocolate Room was what your people's scientists would call a giant version of one of the Assassin Bugs of the family Reduviidae but what our people would call a whangdoodle." the Oompa Loompa leader returned.
Willy took a pistol crossbow he had made for such events in out of one of the drawers in his desk. In the United Kingdom such weapons were as illegal as conventional handguns but they were also easily dismanltleable and disposable if Willy would have to let any police into the factory so the crossbow pistol was the device he entrusted the final defense of the factory against things such as snozzwangers and whangdoodles that may have found their way to his factory from Loompaland.
The quickest way to the Chocolate Room from the Television Room where Willy was getting the bad news concerning the Golden Tickets was by way of the great glass elevator. The only other way there involved going down the corridor to the harbor for the Wonkatania and waiting for that boat to take them to the Chocolate Room by way of the Chocolate River. Willy and the Oompa Loompa leader entered the elevator and Willy pushed the button for the Chocolate Room. While in the Process of getting there Willy thought about the four Golden Ticket finders so far.
The first Golden Ticket finder was Augustus Gloop from Germany. In his favor was that he certainly liked Wonka candy of all kinds. Going against him was that Augustus Gloop liked it TOO MUCH. The boy was a poster child for childhood obesity prevention and was so piggish in his eating of not only candy but any other kind of food in sight as to be the most disgusting example of gluttony that Willy Wonka had ever seen. On top of that the Augustus seemed to habitually wear short pants and striped tee shirts that showed his obesity to its full gluttonous glory even in cold snowy weather. Perhaps this was because his layers of whale like blubber caused him to overheat in conventional winter clothing even in wintertime. It seemed inevitable that such a glutton would find the first ticket. This lard butt would not only NOT win the Special Prize but his part in the tour and the contest for it would not get past the Chocolate Room.
The Second Golden Ticket winner was if anything even more unfavorable for Willy's plans concerning the Golden Tickets. It was a little girl named Veruca Salt who was so spoiled and pampered by her over indulgent and permissive parents that her father who owned a company and factory of his own, Salt's Nuts Inc. of Buckinghamshire UK bought out Buckinghamshire's total supply of Wonka Bars and had his employees waste their time AND THE CHOCOLATE in order to get the Golden Ticket sent there for his spoiled brat daughter. Furthermore Salt's Nuts Inc. was a business ally of Slugworth's Chocolate Inc., the WORST offender in the spying and sabotage episodes that caused Willy to close down his factory temporarily. The waste of chocolate and the alliance with Slugworth's were two things that Willy Wonka absolutely could not tolerate and there would be a penalty especially suited to a SPOILED brat and her chocolate WASTING crime syndicate allied over indulgent and permissive father when they were removed from the tour and the contest for Willy's Special Prize.
The third Golden Ticket Winner another girl by the name of Violet Beureguarde on the surface seemed to be the type of competitive go getter that would do good with Willy's Special Prize. But she had a serious problem in Willy's book. She was an addicted gum chewer who would chew the same piece of gum day and night putting it away only to go to bed long after the flavor wore off it. In addition to her more conventional awards, medals and trophies for competitive sporting events she held one for chewing the same piece of gum for the longest time ever in world history, a record that even "graced" most of the novelty "world record" books in the literary marketplace. Even though his factory produced chewing gum it was the kind of confection that Willy Wonka least liked due to the disgusting sounds it produced when chewed by addicted and ill mannered gum chewers like Violet and messy and disgusting disposal methods associated with the gum chewing addiction. Boy did Willy have a piece of chewing gum for her when the time for her removal from the tour and the Special Prize contest would come.
The fourth Golden Ticket Winner was a boy who actually seemed to be named as a pun on his addictions and character flaws connected with the ultraviolent television programming, ultraviolent video games and ultraviolent web sites he watched, played and frequented, Mike Teavee. Everything about this boy suggested the ultraviolent fantasy worlds that he addictively immersed himself in through television, video games and the web, especially his clothing of all black and red, typical ultraviolent first person shooter video game colors. His black tee shirt that he wore over a red turtleneck long sleeve tee shirt bore a giant realistic depiction of human skull, probably the logo of some ultraviolent television show or video game that was one of his absolute favorites. If there was not a fifth Golden Ticket still outstanding there Mike Teavee could have been the winner of the Special Prize because of his high IQ and excellent marks in school despite his equally impressive collection of detentions for drawing ultraviolent television and video game characters in class when he should be studying. Willy however did not like the way that Mike found his Golden Ticket. It reminded him too much of computer hacking and the spying that caused him to have to fire his original employees, even his loyal ones and eventually replace them with the Oompa Loompas. No, Mike was not acceptable either. The lesser of four evils was still evil where the Special Prize was concerned. The contest for that prize therefore rested entirely on the child who would find the fifth Golden Ticket and time was running short for it to be found. If it was not found there would be no alternative but to eliminate the four current golden ticket finders from the Special Prize contest and run a new contest next year to award it. As for Mike Teavee however if all he wanted to do was live in a Rock 'n' Roll world of fantasy ultraviolence on the vidiot box then Willy would oblige him at his removal from the tour and Special Prize contest.
However there were more pressing matters to attend to as the glass doors to the elevator opened in the Chocolate room. Willy took his crossbow in a James bond type double handed handgun grip and proceeded into the candy fields and forests that developed around the Chocolate River. In no time he found the source of the trouble that the Oompa Loompa leader Okyla-Kay reported to him. It was indeed a bug of the Reduviidae or Assassin Bug family about the size of Willy Wonka himself, a WHANGDOODLE! There was only two places where a whangdoodle was vulnerable, the first was between the head and the thorax and the second was between the thorax and the abdomen. Willy went for the head to thorax connection shot with the crossbow and made it perfectly before the great Assassin Bug that he and the Oompa Loompas knew as a whangdoodle knew of his or Okyla-Kay's presence. The head was immediately severed by the special crossbow bolts designed for this purpose. One had to be very careful about the head of a whangdoodle however. With Assassin Bugs of all types the head was where the STINGER was. This stinger took the form of modified mouthparts designed to inject a combination neurotoxic and digestive venom on one side of it so that the other side of it could suck up a pre digested meal scorpion or spider style. This stinger was usually tucked under the head of the bug pocket knife blade style until it was to be used and then it was swung out ahead of the bug for an attack.
"I want you to report any more of these you see." Willy told Okyla-Kay. "If any more show up I'm arming the Oompa Loompas immediately in order to eliminate the infestation at once before they do to my factory what they did to Loompaland. It was then that Willy looked up at the stars in one of the many great glass greenhouse windows that he used to as a part of the heating system that kept the interior of the factory at tropic temperatures for the Oompa Loompas. One of them shined with a bright blue more intense than all the others, the Wishing Star.
Willy Wonka knew about the concept of a Wishing Star form a Disney animated movie, Pinocchio that was one of the few indulgences that his father, Dr. Wilber Wonka DDS allowed him as a child. However the last thing that Willy ever thought was that such a fantasy would ever be seen by him even though he in effect turned his candy factory into just the type of fantasy world appropriate to the appearance of such a star. "Would a wish on that star get the final outstanding Golden Ticket to the right child, one hundred and eighty degrees opposite the four who have found the previous Golden Tickets" he thought. The fact that Willy already had the Wonka bar with the last ticket in his possession and was going to have it placed in a candy store in the same town that the factory was located in would help matters some but with time being so short the wish was worth a try too. Willy Wonka made the recital that others had made when they saw this star over centuries of time.
"Star light, star bright, the first star see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the Wish I make tonight."
Willy then re entered the great glass elevator and pushed the button for his office and quarters in the administration section of the factory and once there got ready for bed. The fate of the fifth Golden Ticket was now in good hands as far as he was concerned.
Pleasure Island Collodi, Italy, 1882:
It had been over a month since the Blue Fairy contacted Pinocchio's family regarding special missions. However since Magica De Spell broke the Coachman and the Ringmaster out of their respective jails Geppetto knew that this time would come again.
"Is this about the Coachman and the Ringmaster again." Geppetto asked the Fairy.
"For once I think I can say that even though they are at large again this is not necessarily about the Coachman or the Ringmaster though that pair could conceivably gum up the works where this assignment is concerned. I am simply calling on you, Pinocchio, Peter and Lampwick to help in the granting of a wish to a candy maker named Willy Wonka in the year 2005."
"What exactly is the nature of this Wonka person's wish that you can't grant it with your magic alone."
"Basically he does not want to have a puppet turned into a boy like you did but he is looking for child apprentice and eventual heir for his candy factory through the use of a contest involving five Golden Tickets distributed to strategic towns in his Wonka chocolate bars. Four of the tickets have been found but all four of the children that found them are not acceptable as prospective leaders for the secret employees of the factory. A little people called Oompa Loompas. Wonka's wish is for the last Golden Ticket to come to the hands of the right kind of child."
"Do you have anybody in mind for this?" Geppetto asked.
"Yes," The Fairy returned. "There is a poor family from the same town as Willy Wonka's candy factory named the Buckets. They have a boy named Charlie that almost perfectly matches what Willy Wonka is looking for. Even though this Charlie Bucket did not make a wish to me he seems to be the most deserving of this position of the children I have looked at with the exception of your three adopted sons of course
but I would not call upon you to give any of them up permanently to Mr. Wonka. Therefore you and your sons' assignment will be to get the final Golden Ticket to Charlie Bucket and keep a secret watch over him during the factory tour to make sure he does not break any tour rules and lose the contest for the apprenticeship and inheritance of the factory. To do that successfully I will have to change your kids again, this time to reasonable facsimiles of Oompa Loompas. I will have to admit that there will be a dark side to this one, as song and dance Oompa Loompas your sons will be participating in some punishments that might remind them of this island of yours under the Coachman's and Ringmaster's rule involving the four unacceptable children. However be assured that everything that happens to them no matter how bizarre is only temporary in its effects and not intended to sell them into slavery."
"Besides this four bad kids business is there anything else we need to know about this particular mission?"
Geppetto asked.
"Yes, It also appears that one of the Giant Reduviid Assassin Bugs from Loompaland that the Oompa Loompas call whangdoodles was found at the factory before Willy Wonka made his wish." The fairy returned. "In case this may not be a natural whangdoodle but a magical one created from a normal sized assassin bug I think you should carry anti magic arms again. The United Kingdom where Willy Wonka's factory is located has virtually absolute "gun control" laws affecting even non firing replicas of genuine weapons so these weapons will take the form of harmless laser pointers this time."
"What makes you think that this whangdoodle may be a magical one rather than a natural one who's egg merely made the trip to the candy factory from this Loompaland place the Oompa Loompas came from and hatched there." Geppetto asked.
"Remember, the Coachman and the Ringmaster are at large again and Magica De Spell is still working with them." The Fairy answered. "They may see Wonka's candy factory as the perfect version of Pleasure Island for the 2005 time period and may be trying to get it abandoned by capitalizing on the fears of the Oompa Loompas and Willy Wonka for giant assassin bugs under the name whangdoodles to get them to abandon it so that it can be turned into a boy to donkey factory."
"Then this just might involve the Coachman, the Ringmaster, Magica De Spell or all three again." Geppetto returned.
"In all probability they are involved with the whangdoodle / assassin bug business." the Fairy said. "However right now I would say they are working as hirelings for either Slugworth's Chocolate Inc. owned by Arthur Slugworth or Salt's Nuts inc owned by Henry Salt. both of which have issues with Wonka. Sometimes I really think that Henry Salt only went to the trouble of finding that Golden Ticket for his daughter Veruca to gain access to Wonka's factory and resolve those issues by more spying and sabotage through her."
"Then we in effect are inserting ourselves in some kind of a candy war between Slugworth, Salt and Wonka in which the Coachman, the Ringmaster and Magica De Spell might be involved for their own reasons." Geppetto returned.
"Not exactly," the Fairy returned. "Slugworth buys the nuts that he uses in his nutty chocolate confections from Salt so they would appear to be allies both also have the typical elite "progressive" attitude that everybody below them in the genetic social order are worthless "stupid" peasants who don't deserve the time of day from them and neither of them have ever willingly given a dime to any charity helping those they call the "inferior". I personally think this whole assignment will be worth it when Slugworth and Salt find out that the poorest of those "stupid peasants" Charlie Bucket is going to eventually inherit the Wonka factory and fortune and be right up there with them." This will be a short mission however, one day to get the last Golden Ticket into Charlie Bucket's hands and the day of the factory tour itself so you are not much likely to encounter the Coachman, the Ringmaster or Magica De Spell this time around."
"Geppetto told one of his uniformed administrators who functioned as police and paper pushers for his administration of Pleasure Island to have Pinocchio, Peter and Lampwick meet him at the ferry docks immediately.
Once there Pinocchio guessed the reason for the meeting. "Another Blue Fairy mission," he said. "I've heard in the grapevine that the Coachman and the Ringmaster are loose again by way of Magica De Spell."
"Yes, it is a mission," Geppetto returned. "but it does not have to do with the Coachman, the Ringmaster or Magica, at least not yet. We will be helping the Blue Fairy grant a wish for a candy maker in the year 2005 named Willy Wonka in England."
"What is the wish?" Peter asked.
"Wonka is looking for a child apprentice and eventual heir to his candy factory through a contest he set up." Geppetto answered. "The four children that have been found so far by means of Golden Tickets placed in the wrappings of his company's chocolate bars are unacceptable and we are to see that a child of the Blue Fairy's choice gets the last Golden Ticket, a boy named Charlie Bucket. And to see that he keeps to the rules Wonka sets up and wins the main contest for the apprenticeship and inheritance of the factory. There is one more thing that I must tell you about this mission. In the second part of it each of you will be changed into adult phase of a small people called Oompa Loompas that work at the factory and will be taking part in the punishments of the four unacceptable children that disqualify them from the main contest with real Oompa Loompas. And some of these will be very weird like the donkey changes that used to take place on this Island. Lampwick suffered the most from the donkey change so if he wants to bow out of this one let me know right now because the Blue Fairy will be here in a few minutes to take us to the candy factory in England."
"Of course I will NOT bow out," Lampwick said. "I owe the Blue Fairy my humanity and will do whatever she requires of me."
Suddenly the sky filled with the even brighter light of a transport bubble that formed around Geppetto and his family.
"I'm glad to hear you say that." a small voice came from under Pinocchio's Tyrolean cap.
"Jiminy!" Pinocchio shouted.
"Yes," Jiminy returned. "The Blue Fairy thinks I should be in on this too. She thinks you can make use of my experience as your official conscience when you were a puppet where Charlie is concerned."
"But why." Pinocchio asked. "This Charlie person is a real boy from start with a conscience of his own."
"Yes," Jiminy said "but part of your duties as a temporary Oompa Loompa is to keep Charlie from any temptations in the factory that might appeal to him and thus cause him to lose the main contest and Wonka to have to start all over again. This is where my experience with you should help you with Charlie."
"And as I remember I was not very good at avoiding those temptations as a puppet." Pinocchio returned.
"Yes but you did avoid the temptation of cowardice when it counted and saved your father from Monstro at the end of your puppet / donkey life." Jiminy said. "I'm sure that with my help you will lead Charlie down the path of right to his destiny as well."
"All ready in there?" the Blue Fairy asked to those in the transport bubble finally putting in her full appearance.
"An affirmative shout, "Lets GO!" came from the children in the Transport bubble. With that the transport bubble lifted off toward the now familiar Wishing Star / Wormhole.
A secret room in the Slugworth's Chocolate Inc. factory, Buckinghamshire, England, 2005:
"So the Golden Ticket contest is still going." Arthur Slugworth said to those assembled in his secret meeting room. "The Black Triangle will not like this at all."
Amongst those assembled was a very posh proper Englishman named Henry Salt who owned the nut company that Slugworth bought the nuts for his nutty chocolate confections from and his daughter Veruca, a dark haired girl of an arrogant and spoiled nature that could be seen in her girl's sized mink coat and designer skirt outfit. The other three were a talking female anthropomorphic duck in a witch's outfit with a white Persian cat, a fat red man that looked like combination of the first Golden Ticket winner Agustus Gloop and a 19th century coachman. The third was African and looked like a 19th century circus ringmaster.
"Well," Slugwirth said to the Coachman, the Ringmaster and Magica De Spell. "Some dark magicians you turned out to be! That assassin bug you made whangdoodle size was knocked off by Wonka almost immediately after its discovery."
"How were we to know that Wonka had weapons in that factory in violation of this nation's gun laws." Magica De Spell returned sarcastically.
"Because we do, idiot." Henry Salt returned producing a World War II Smith and Wesson K/200 service revolver from under his coat and pointing it at De Spell.
"You point that thing at me again and I'll turn you into a toad with donkey ears." De Spell said pointing her hands at Salt.
"Let's quit fighting amongst ourselves." the Coachman said. "We still have plan B involving Mr. Salt's and his daughter's access to Wonka's factory through her Golden Ticket."
"You mean that rediculous plan of Salt's where his daughter throws a tantrum in the Wonka's nut sorting room in order to put it out of commission rather than to get something her little spoiled heart wants." Slugworth broke in. "Well, that helps Mr. Salt but I don't see how it helps the rest of us. Both I and the Black triangle's Number 1 want Willy Wonka OUT OF THE BUSINESS, not staying in business and buying his nuts from Mr. Salt. His superior chocolate and other candy lines are causing our sales to go down and when our sales go down our companies' OTHER business for the Black Triangle also suffers. And of course our three magicians want Wonka's factory for their own reasons that don't involve candy and therefore don't compete with ours or the Black triangle's."
"And of course it will only be a matter of time before that Fairy the magicians told me about sends a certain family consisting of a wood carver, a former puppet, a former donkey, a former Russian junior wolfer and an anthropomorphic cricket after them." Salt returned. "We should have never let these three in on our plans."
"My Alexandrian magic tells me that she will send them soon, but not after us." The Ringmaster broke in. "They seem to be a part of some Blue Fairy plot to get the last Wonka Golden Ticket to some goody two shoes boy named Charlie Bucket that comes from a very poor family in the same town in which the Wonka factory is located in order to grant a wish made by Mr. Wonka.
"Then that means that I will have to go in there with a half starved peasant as well as the German peasant poster boy for childhood obesity prevention and the American gum chewing and couch potato peasants. Veruca broke in. "This Golden Ticket business is beginning to not look so good after all."
"Save your tantrum for Wonka's Nut Room." Mr. Salt told his daughter. "Destroy it and I'll get you that other pony you want."
And in the meantime," Slugworth broke in. "We will have to find another plan for shutting down the Wonka factory permanently. And please Mr. Ringmaster and Ms. De Spell no more whangdoodle from ordinary assassin bug tricks?, the last one flew like a lead balloon. Maybe you can find something in there that will get the government to close the place sown when Mr Salt goes on the golden ticket tour with his dauthter. I will be giving Mr Salt a special communications device resembling an ordinary cell phone but with much longer movie/video recording features. He can use that to dig up any evidence that might be of use against Wonka and his factory and send it to me."
Next, The plan to bring the last Golden Ticket to Charlie Bucket.