Chapter 1: A Problem
Author's Note: Hello everyone, and welcome to my very first fanfic! I decided to rewrite this chapter to make it longer and more detailed. Enjoy, everyone! :D
Some of you have seen this already, but here is a summary of Charlie in the White House, the unpublished official third Charlie book.
"The story begins directly after the events of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. The helicopter lands on the White House lawn and the President invites them in for dinner serving his favourite meal, Hot Frogs. Miss Tibbs [the nanny of the US President, Lancelot Gilligrass] wants Wonka to tell her the secret behind the Great Glass Elevator, and plans to threaten him using the traps she has installed underneath the dining room chairs. These traps go down to a pit where Miss Tibbs keeps ministers who disagree with her for a few months and then releases them. It is a little unclear what is down there with several suggestions being made, including rats with sharp teeth, a staircase that is forever moving downwards and even a large bacon slicer! Upon sitting down for dinner with the President, we are introduced to a few characters including I.M. Ponky, Director of Sewage and Garbage Disposal, who always smells terrible, and Mr. Wilbur G. Hocus, the director of public relations and bamboozlement. After Miss Tibbs sends a few of the ministers down the holes, she threatens that the same will happen to Willy Wonka unless he tells her the secret behind his elevator. Wonka tricks her by distracting her with a complicated diagram of the machine, and then pushing the button to send her down the hole. The story ends with the President making Willy Wonka vice-president as her replacement."
It has been forty-five years since Charlie Bucket became the heir to Mr. Willy Wonka's factory. If you remember, Charlie Bucket was once a poor boy who lived in poverty with his family. This all changed one day, when the famous chocolatier, Mr. Willy Wonka, announced a Golden Ticket contest, in which he hid five Golden Tickets underneath the wrapping paper of five ordinary Wonka Bars. The winners of these Golden Tickets were to then be allowed into Mr. Wonka's factory for a special tour, as well as a lifetime supply of chocolate. The first four Golden Tickets were found by the following people, all of whom were coincidentally children (don't ask me how that happened, even I don't know the answer to that huge coincidence):
Augustus Gloop, a greedy boy.
Veruca Salt, a spoiled girl.
Violet Beauregarde, a girl who chewed gum all day long.
Mike Teavee, a boy who did nothing but watch television.
Just when Charlie lost all hope, because his father lost his job, he found some money in the streets and bought two of Wonka's Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delights with it. Although the first bar did not contain a Golden Ticket, the second one did, and so, Charlie raced back to his home. One of his grandfathers, named Grandpa Joe, got out of his bed for the first time in twenty years in order to go to the factory with Charlie. Once they arrived at the gates, each child got eliminated from the tour, until only Charlie was left. At the end, Mr. Wonka gave his entire factory to Charlie, and the once poor boy became Mr. Wonka's heir.
Unfortunately, there were some complications along the way. Grandma Josephine, one of Charlie's grandmothers, messed up Mr. Wonka while above planet Earth right before they were about to head back to the factory. They got stuck in orbit, and came across Space Hotel USA, a luxurious spacecraft, as well as the first hotel in space, and it was managed by none other than the President of the United States, Lancelot R. Gilligrass himself. Everyone thought that Charlie and his family were Men from Mars (and Venus) when they boarded the Space Hotel; however, there actually were real extraterrestrial life-forms in the Hotel at that very moment: Vermicious Knids, the most vile, cruel creatures in the entire universe. The President's Commuter Capsule (containing the famous astronauts Shuckworth, Shanks, and Showler, as well as the rest of Space Hotel USA's staff) boarded the hijacked Space Hotel, and people began getting eaten by the Vermicious Knids. Once the remaining people, along with the three astronauts, fled back into the Commuter Capsule, the Knids began attacking it. Mr. Wonka, Charlie Bucket, and Grandpa Joe saved the surviving people from almost certain death, then returned to the factory.
Mr. Wonka then showed Grandma Josephine, Grandpa George, and Grandma Georgina (the three grandparents who still remained in bed even after Grandpa Joe jumped out of it) Wonka-Vite, a vitamin that was able to reduce the user's age by twenty years. Grandma Georgina got greedy, and she got transported to a place called Minusland after she took more pills than her age actually was. After Mr. Wonka and Charlie Bucket solved this problem (and returned the other three grandparents back to normal, as they also took a slight overdose of Wonka-Vite), Mr. Wonka got a letter from the White House inviting the Bucket family over to a dinner as a way of thanking them for the Vermicious Knids rescue. After realizing that the bed wouldn't fit into the helicopter (which was their method of transportation to get to the White House), the three other grandparents got out of bed to go the White House with everyone else. However, this was not the end just yet.
The helicopter landed on the White House lawn and the President invited them in for dinner serving his favourite meal, Hot Frogs. Miss Tibbs, (the elderly nanny of Lancelot R. Gilligrass) wanted Wonka to tell her the secret behind the Great Glass Elevator, and planned to threaten him using the traps she had installed underneath the dining room chairs.
These traps went down to a pit where Miss Tibbs kept ministers who disagreed with her for a few months and then released them. It was a little unclear what is down there with several suggestions being made, including rats with sharp teeth, a staircase that is forever moving downwards and even a large bacon slicer!
Upon sitting down for dinner with the President, we were introduced to a few characters including I.M. Ponky, Director of Sewage and Garbage Disposal, who always smells terrible, and Mr. Wilbur G. Hocus, the director of public relations and bamboozlement. After Miss Tibbs sent a few of the ministers down the holes, she threatened that the same will happen to Willy Wonka unless he tells her the secret behind his elevator. Mr. Wonka tricked her by distracting her with a complicated diagram of the machine, and then pushed the button to send her down the hole. Lancelot R. Gilligrass was extremely grateful for this, as Miss Tibbs was extremely strict with him, and refused to allow the President to do what he wanted. He was so grateful that he ended up making Willy Wonka vice-president as her replacement.
However, a few months later, Mr. Wonka resigned, and he and the rest of the Bucket family returned to the famous chocolate factory.
Charlie's family, just to remind you one final time, was as follows:
Mr. Bucket, Charlie's father, who once worked as a toothpaste cap-screwer until the factory he worked at went bust (in the middle of the biggest chocolate craze in the entire world? Don't look at me, I'm just as surprised as you are).
Mrs. Bucket, Charlie's mother, who did most of the cooking in their household.
Grandpa Joe, Charlie's most trusted grandfather. He was also Mr. Bucket's father.
Grandma Josephine, Grandpa Joe's wife, as well as Mr. Bucket's mother. She, along with Grandma Georgina, was prone to complaining and saying negative statements constantly. She once became three months old due to overdosing on Mr. Wonka's age pills, more commonly known as Wonka-Vite. After using the opposite of Wonka-Vite, a liquid form named Vita Wonk, she returned to her normal self.
Grandpa George, Mrs. Bucket's father. He once became one-year old after overdosing on the Wonka-Vite, but he was returned to normal along with Grandma Josephine. He was very cynical in nature.
Grandma Georgina, Mrs. Bucket's mother. After massively overdosing on Wonka-Vite, she went to Minusland, and Mr. Wonka and Charlie went on a dangerous journey to get her back. After receiving her Vita Wonk, she became three hundred and fifty-eight years old! She eventually returned to normal as well, after some quick mathematics, of course. She, along with Grandma Josephine, was prone to making negative statements constantly.
Surprisingly, even after forty-five years, everyone was alive and well- even Charlie's four grandparents. They were surprisingly fit for their age, and never once did they lounge around, complaining about sore backs, broken bones, and the like. Mr. and Mrs. Bucket were also alive, with Mrs. Bucket doing most of the cooking, and Mr. Bucket would usually be seen greeting people outside of the factory gates, engaging in conversations with strangers and other people. Everything was happy and well. One day, there came a problem. Mr. Wonka, Charlie Bucket, and Grandpa Joe, along with the rest of the Bucket family, were in the Chocolate Room, hanging out and talking to one another. Mr. Wonka and Charlie Bucket were on opposite sides of the room, and Charlie decided that he was going to get dressed, as well as comb his hair and get prepared for the long day of candy-making ahead of him.
"Mr. Wonka," Charlie Bucket called out to his mentor, "I'll be in the factory bathroom if you need anything!"
"Alright, Charlie!" Mr. Wonka called back to his heir. "I'll keep that in mind!"
Charlie Bucket went into the factory bathroom and took out a comb. Once he was done, he was about to put the comb away when he received the shock of his life. There was a single strand of grey hair on the comb. Charlie could only gape and gasp in astonishment.
"N-no…" he stammered, his mouth opening and shutting in shock. "I-is...this really happening? W-what should I do now?"
He ran quickly out of the factory's bathroom, and darted into the Chocolate Room.
"Y-you all won't believe this!" Charlie exclaimed, rushing in on his family like a raging tornado.
"What is it, my dear?" asked Grandma Josephine.
"Look at this, everybody!" exclaimed Charlie Bucket worriedly, holding up the silver hair.
"I-is it this time already?" stammered Mr. Willy Wonka.
"T-this is so hard to believe!" gasped Mrs. Bucket in surprise.
"I-I know, honey!" gasped Mr. Bucket. "I can't believe it, either!"
Charlie Bucket went up to Grandpa Joe, who kindly said to him, "Everyone gets old, Charlie. We all do. I'm extremely old, Josie is, so is George and Georgina. Your parents are, and even Mr. Willy Wonka."
"What should I do?" asked Charlie, concerned.
"It seems," responded Grandpa Joe, "that we must find another heir."
"What?!" cried Charlie, sweat falling down his face. "B-but, it hasn't felt like that long already!"
Suddenly, Mr. Wonka sang desperately, and in a rather sad tone:
"My time here's flown over the ocean!
My time here's flown over the sea!
My time here has gotten real shorter!
Oh, bring back the memories to me!
Bring back, bring back!
Oh bring back the memories to me, to me!
Bring back! Bring back!
Oh, bring back the memories to me!"
"I-is it…?" stammered Charlie Bucket, unable to finish his sentence.
"Yes, it is," responded Grandpa Joe. "We must find a new heir if we are to keep the Willy Wonka Candy Company alive, Charlie."
"I-it's just…" stammered Charlie once more, "I-I can't believe that it's that time already!"
"Well, it is," responded Grandpa Joe.
"Grandpa, do we have to-?" asked Charlie.
"Yes, Charlie," responded Grandpa Joe. "We must."
Charlie stared at Grandpa Joe. He was too flabbergasted to answer.
Author's Note: So, what do you all think of this new version? Which version do you like better? Be sure to stay tuned for more updates for my stories, everyone! :D
Until then,
Gabe S. :)