Chapter 7: Spike TV
As the tour carried on, the others rode the glass elevator around the factory.
All the buttons looked amazing but there was one button Mike was dying to push. It was for the TV room. "Why don't we try this one?" he asked.
"Go ahead." Wonka encouraged him.
As soon as he pressed the button, the glass elevator went full speed knocking everybody off balance. The elevator went up and then to the right.
"This elevator is really strange." said Charlie looking at Wonka.
"It is isn't it? Well this isn't your ordinary elevator. It can go up, down, sideways and any other way you can think of!" said Wonka with a smile.
"This is totally awesome!" said Mike really enjoying himself.
Once they reached their destination, they exited the elevator and Willy Wonka led the way. "Here! Put on these! This light will burn you little eyes out! We certainly don't want that now do we?" Everyone put on the special glasses. As the group walked around the room Willy Wonka said, "This is the testing room where I have my latest and greatest invention. One day I thought, hey, if television can break up a picture into millions of tiny pieces and send it through the air and have it reassembled on the other end, why not do the same with chocolate? Why can't I send a real bar of chocolate through the television ready to be eaten?"
"That sounds impossible." stated Charlie listening to what Willy Wonka just said.
"It is impossible! You don't understand anything about science. First off, there's a difference between waves and particles. Duh! Second, trying to invert energy and matter would be like 9 atomic bombs." explained Mike.
Finally Willy Wonka got so irritated that he interrupted Mike's science babble. "Mumbler! Seriously, I can't understand a single word you're saying." He looked Mike in the eye for about 3 seconds until he continued. "Alright! I shall now send the chocolate bar from one end of the room to the other by television. Bring in the chocolate!"
Four oompa loompas walked in carrying a giant, chocolate bar.
The group watched as they sat the bar on the platform ready to be transmitted. "It has to be really big because you know how on TV you can take a regular sized guy and he turns out looking this tall? Same principle here." Wonka then pressed his button. Everybody watched the giant bar float up in the air.
The cylinder, shaped glass came down to close the bar inside. The oompa loompas aimed the laser canons at the giant bar and then shot it making it disappear.
"It's gone!" exclaimed Charlie.
Willy Wonka looked at Charlie. "See! That bar is now whizzing through the air above our heads into a million, tiny, little pieces." He looked over at the other TV where the bar was supposed to reappear. "Come on over here!" He walked the boys over to the other TV. Everybody looked at the TV screen to watch for the chocolate bar. "Here it comes!" Wonka waited for it to arrive.
About 5 seconds later, the giant, chocolate bar that required 4 oompa loompas appeared on screen only requiring one hand.
Willy Wonka nudged Mike by the shoulder and said, "Take it!"
Mike looked at Willy Wonka and replied with, "I'm not touching it! It's just a picture on the screen."
Wonka was disappointed in him. "Scaredy cat!" He turned to Charlie and said, "You take it!"
Charlie looked at Willy Wonka like he was crazy.
"Go ahead! Just reach out and grab it!" he encouraged Charlie.
So Charlie slowly reached for and grabbed the chocolate bar.
"Eat it! It's delicious! It's the same bar it just got smaller on the journey that's all." said Wonka.
He took a bite. "It's great!"
Willy Wonka smiled with satisfaction. He was glad that somebody was willing to try his latest invention fresh off TV. He then walked to the center of the room to face everybody and say, "Imagine you're watching TV and then a commercial comes up talking about my famous chocolate bars. Try Willy Wonka's most famous chocolate bars! They're the best in the U.S! Don't believe us, just try it for yourself. Just reach out and grab it."
"Could you send people?" asked Charlie out of curiosity.
"Of course I could! But why would I send people? They don't taste very good do they?" said Willy Wonka.
"Don't you realize what you've invented? It's a teleporter! It's the most important invention in the world and all you think about is chocolate!" ranted Mike giving Willy Wonka a mean look.
Willy Wonka looked at Mike and said, "For your information little boy, I am a genius."
"No you're not! You think you're a genius but you're an idiot! But I'm not!" Mike then turned around and ran towards Willy Wonka's equipment.
"Hey little boy! Don't touch my button!" warned Willy Wonka.
Charlie watched Mike misbehave.
The oompa loompas also looked at Mike as he acted destructively.
Not listening to Willy Wonka, Mike pushed his button and leaped onto the platform.
There, the oompa loompas in charge of the laser canons aimed them at Mike and the cylinder, shaped glass came down again to close him up.
Being unaware of what the laser canons would do to him, Mike did an Elvis Presley dance. Mike figured that the process would be simple. But did he really know what was behind all of it? The laser canons lit up and then shot him. Instantly, Mike fried like a pig. It was very hard and gruesome to watch. It was worse than burning up, he was getting electrocuted.
The electrocution was so bad that it actually scared Willy Wonka. He gasped and said, "Oh my!"
Charlie couldn't handle seeing Mike get fried to death. He had to cover his face with his hands.
The death scene was so bad that Willy Wonka wanted to leave. "Come on! Let's go!" he whispered into Charlie's ear.
The two left Willy Wonka's testing room and into the hallway by the glass elevator.
Charlie looked at Willy Wonka and said, "Mr. Wonka that was terrible!" he was almost in tears.
"Oh don't let it bother you! That's what happens when children decide to disobey me!" said Wonka being completely nonchalant even though it bothered him earlier.
Charlie really started to hate Willy Wonka after that. The other deaths were bad but Mike's was the absolute worst. Charlie couldn't stand it any longer. This time he wanted to go home for real.
