Disclaimer: I do not own anything CATCF or anything CATCF related, all rights go to Dahl and Warner Bros. This is just for fun
A/N I hope you all enjoy, like I said on my other fanfic, Im not the best writer but hope to improve. I was inspired to write this after seeing a promotional pic of the film (The lil profile pic thingy thats in the lil box) and thinking "Why does this look like an apocalypse film?". And I was partially inspired by the Fallout game series, obviously this isn't going to be like that but the pic reminded me of the game. This is a Prologue and centred more on Wonka, however that will change in the next chapter. I might do a "What happened in between the prologue and the actual story" as a seperate story. But for now I will be doing this. I had actually written a bit of this story already in a notepad a couple of months ago. However, I won't upload THAT much because I have uni and the other story, but anyways I hope you all enjoy.
Prologue:
"And this is Hair Toffee…" Mr Wonka exclaimed to the tour group. They were in one the deepest parts of the factory, the inventing room. The inventing room, being one of the most important parts of the factory wad mostly closed off, but Wonka allowed the group to visit as he showed them the many wondrous new candies he was developing. He had lead the group to his wonderful new candy, the 'Hair Toffee', and was telling them what it was.
"You suck down one of these lil' boogers and and in exactly half an hour, a brand new crop of hair will start growing out of the top of your lil' noggin. And a moustache, and a beard!" He exclaimed. He held out the candy for everyone to see. Everyone but Charlie and his grandfather seemed confused and unimpressed.
"Who wants a beard!?" Mike asked in disgust. Wonka pouted, and thought for a minute, but just as he was about to respond alarms went off. Being the heart of the factory, doors, sealed themselves shut.
"Whats going on?" he called out to one of the Oompa Loompas
"We don't know, everything was going fine, but our systems detect that its an outside threat."
Suddenly the ground shook, bits of machinery flew everywhere. Everyone was told not to panic and that everything would be fine, but the shaking threw them off the floor. Everyone collapsed and the shaking stopped.
"Mr Wonka, what happened?" asked Charlie.
"I don't know, but I can assure you that this wasn't part of the tour." He responded nervously.
"Sir, you might want to take a look at this!" one of the Oompa Loompa's called out.
The rest of the tour group followed Wonka to where the Oompa Loompa was. Willy gasped at what he saw, trying to shield the others away. He reassured them not to be alarmed and that everything was under control, and that there was no need to panic.
"I want to go home!" Veruca groaned.
"Unfortunately little girl, thats not going to be possible…" He nervously said
"Why not!" Rupert Salt replied, "If my daughter wants to go home, she has the right to go home!"
"Well…. she has nowhere to go home to…in fact none of you do"
Outcries emerged from the parents, the children groaned, and Veruca began throwing a tantrum
"Mr Wonka, if I might ask, what do you mean?" Mike's father asked.
Mr Wonka told them that he wasn't sure what happened but the security cameras leading to outside showed a dystopia. A wasteland. As if a bomb dropped or something worse had happened. Mike pushed the Oompa Loompa out of the way to see that Mr Wonka was right. The world was empty. Everyone gone. Red dust clouded the skies, the ground broken, rubble everywhere. He wasn't sure if a bomb hit, but something definitely happened. Bodies littered the ground, the only place safe enough to be seemed was the factory. The streets empty, probably contaminated with radiation he wasn't sure. If a bomb did hit though, it must of been very far away as buildings were still partially intact.
"He's right…" he said, wide eyed.
The other children pushed past, gathering around the screen. Veruca began crying. Violet and Charlie stood there in shock.
"This has to be one of your games doesn't it!" Scarlett, Violet's mother, yelled.
"I can assure you it isn't… thats earthquake didn't come from my factory, and only a high enough threat could make my doors seal themselves off."
Charlie asked what they were going to do now, and for once Mr Wonka didn't know. Charlie then realised the horribleness of it all. His family were all gone, dead. He had just seen them before he came in for the tour, little did he know that that would be the last time he saw them.
"Well if we are to do anything Mr Wonka, I suggest we find some food, and warmth. This power isn't going to last forever. And I suggest we sit down with these children and let them rest. They are clearly in shock!" Grandpa Joe suggested.
Everyone else seemed to agree, Wonka especially since the power would probably shut off. He knew there was a manual generator for power but that was locked away, near the entrance, but there was no way they were going out now. There could be radiation, and if so, needed to let it die down before they could go out.
One of the Oompa Loompa's whispered to Mr Wonka that they needed to leave it a day or two before they could unlock the security override on the doors to visit other parts of the factory to get food. It was a good thing though, because who knows if any radiation got it, and if it did, they would have to be careful of the new dangers that they would have to face inside the other parts of the factories. Who knows what could of mutated.
Mr Wonka reassured everyone that everything would be fine and told them what the Oompa Loompa said, apart from the radiation or the mutated beings down there. Mr Wonka told the adults to comfort their children as he turned the security screen off.
Veruca, for the first time, was allowed to hug her father and cried in his arms. She wanted to go home and missed all her things. Violet's mother reassured her that she was strong and too independent to cry, and if the time comes to fight back. She soon secretly devised a survival plan. Mike and his father didn't say a word to each other, his father tried to pretend that nothing had happened. Charlie shed tears about his lost family, citing that Grandpa Joe was all he had left.
Mr Wonka sat back and watched, this wasn't his plan, but maybe it would teach these kids a lesson.