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Charlie screamed at the top of his lungs as he felt himself sink underneath the speeding rapids. He reemerged the surface and gasped for air.
"MIKE! VIOLET!" he screamed, coughing blue chocolate.
He struggled to keep his head up, uncertain he would survive the ordeal. Suddenly, Charlie felt a sharp drop as he plummeted downward. He let out a scream and plunged into a huge vat of blue chocolate. A massive splash emerged and some of the chocolate landed onto the tile floor.
"Mr. Bucket? Thank goodness you're alright!" a familiar voice hollered below.
Charlie slowly climbed out of the chocolate vat to see Marvin, caked in head-to-toe blue chocolate.
"What are you waiting for, get out!" he ordered.
The blonde boy nodded and silently leapt out of the vat. He could already feel the blue chocolate already drying on his skin and clothes. He looked around to see several vats that contained chocolates of various bright colors. No oompa loompas besides Marvin were seen.
"Where are we?" Charlie asked in a raspy voice.
"We are in the Colored Chocolate Room. Just like I told you..." Marvin flatly responded, pointing at a vat that contained bright pink chocolate.
"But what about Mike and Violet?" Charlie questioned, not caring what room he was in at the moment.
"I am afraid that they were whisked away to the Stars in Their Pies Room."
"And where is that?"
"That is several doors down. The stars are made of either blue or yellow chocolate and they are engraved in Mr. Wonka's special pies..."
"Marvin, please! I don't wanna know about the chocolate stars or the pies! We got to save the others and get out of here!" Charlie hotly replied as he darted away, not waiting for Marvin.
"Mr. Bucket, please wait for me! You cannot go on without me. I know this hellhole backwards and forwards, whereas you and your fellow contestants have only been here 10 hours..." Marvin replied.
"I've been in here for 10 hours!? The other kids and I walked in at 10 AM sharp! It's 8 at night now! My family must be worried sick!" Charlie cried in horror.
"The time of day does not matter, rather time itself, as the man himself says 'time is a precious thing that should never be wasted'. The sooner we get the others, the sooner you will be reunited with your family." the oompa loompa explained as he joined Charlie's journey to the Stars in Their Pies Room.
Mike found himself tumble into a tiny vat of blue chocolate in the Stars in Their Pies Room. Tears started to emerged from his bright blue eyes. He looked around the small room to see another vat of yellow chocolate and a massive brick oven that filled the entire space of that particular side of the wall. Neat rows of cooled off pies with blue and yellow stars engraved on their crusts were placed near the oven.
"Charlie? Where are you?" Mike weakly cried as he climbed out of the vat.
The little cowboy grabbed his chocolate coated gun and scanned the area, waiting for Charlie to come. Loud barking echoed the dimly lit room's wall. Mike gasped in horror and hid behind the yellow chocolate vat, trembling and covering his ears. As the barking continued, more tears streamed down his face and he weakly whimpered in terror.
He hopefully glanced at the streaming blue chocolate to see if Charlie slid down into the vat. The blonde boy was no where to be seen. Mike was frozen in his spot until the barking faded away. He shuffled towards the exit and bumped his elbow into something hard.
"OW!" he yelped, grabbing his sore elbow.
Mike realized that he bumped into a large pot with its lid not fully shut. He could not help himself to peek inside. The pot contained evenly-cut square pieces that looked like cooked carrots and two loose strands of bright green hair floated about.
"Ew! Oompa loompa meat!" Mike yelped as he covered his mouth and quickly slammed the lid back onto the pot.
Next to the oompa loompa meat pot were two more pots. One read: Red Food Dye, while the other said Strawberry Rhubarb Flavoring.
Mike silently screamed and dashed out of the tiny room. He paused and looked for any oompa loompas and secretarial poodles. Footsteps sounded from a distance. Mike hoped that they belonged to Charlie or Violet until he saw the distinct shadow of an oompa loompa. He frantically looked for somewhere to hide. He eyed a door that read The Very Very Tiny Room.
Without thinking, Mike opened the door and hid inside it. He felt himself shake and pant furiously as the footsteps grew louder.
"I could have sworn I saw that little cowboy brat crawling around! Did you see him, Clarence?" a female oompa loompa's voice questioned.
"No I didn't Miranda, but I take your word. We need to get those repulsing beasts before it's too late! I heard from Bertie that the police are attempting to break down the factory entrance right now, it's all over the media! Thankfully, no one's made it inside, yet..." Clarence replied.
Mike began to feel relieved as Clarence and Miranda's footsteps faded away. He accidentally pulled the trigger and some blue chocolate squirted out of his loyal gun. He pulled the trigger a second time as more chocolate came out. Mike let out a huge grin.
"Boy, this is gonna be fun! Shooting all of those bad guys and dogs with blue stuff! Look out everyone, here comes the mighty blue bandit!" he happily exclaimed to himself as he freed himself from the uncomfortably small room.
Violet also wound up in the blue chocolate vat in the Stars in Their Pies Room. She quickly abandoned the tiny room before Mike even came close. She nervously walked through the eerie corridors, alone.
"Where the heck am I? This place is a death trap that's run by a total psychopath! I'll never find my dad at this rate!" she angrily muttered under her breath, with blue chocolate slowly drying and dripping on her.
"Ugh! Today's been nothing but a nightmare! My favorite outfit's destroyed and my record-winning gum is gone forever! Why did I even want this horrid golden ticket?!"
Moments later, loud barking echoed the dark hallway. The avid gum chewer nervously bit her lip and quietly ran. As the barking faded, Violet immediately recognized the entrance to the Fizzy Lemonade Swimming Pools
"Finally! Something I actually remember! Now the question is, how do I get back to the freezer?" she asked herself.
Violet continued to look for the freezer near the Spotty Powder Room with no luck. Suddenly, a pair of purple secretarial poodles approached her.
"Stay away from me you purple mutants!" Violet screamed, desperately running away from the growling dogs.
"How dare you call our secretarial poodles mutants miss gum smacker! Get her boys." an angry oompa loompa commanded from behind.
The purple poodles charged towards Violet and viciously barked at her. Their oompa loompa master clutched his purple rope, ready to restrain her. She frantically searched a way to escape until she eyed a small door that served as the entrance for Foggy Frogs.
Violet smirked and dashed into the crammed room with wallpaper that was decorated with multiple shades of green. On the forest green shelves were dozens of small green candy frogs, all with anxious looks etched on their faces.
She quickly grabbed at least ten frogs and dropped one of them onto the floor. No fog emerged and the poodles were nearly inside the room.
"Please don't be a fake!" Violet frantically muttered.
The purple poodles stormed into the room, prepared to attack her. She grabbed the fallen foggy frog and squeezed its sides. In a matter of seconds, a thick layer of white fog filled the air. Violet could hear the poodles howl and the oompa loompa screaming as she smiled at herself.
"This is not the end gum chewer! We shall find a way to get you and those boys too!" he gasped as he choked into the snowy white fog.
Violet pushed the fog away from her face and bolted as fast as she could once she was out of the cloud that she created. She kept the remaining foggy frogs in her blue chocolate drenched pockets.
"You can't run from us gummy! We know you're here!" several oompa loompa voices bellowed from behind.
Violet gasped and eyed an unlabeled door near her. Without thinking, she immediately snuck into the mysterious room, unaware that she landed herself into the Smoke and Mirrors Room.
Charlie and Marvin tiptoed into the empty Stars in Their Pies Room.
"I don't see them anywhere!" Charlie frantically cried, dipping his already chocolate-soaked arm into the vat of blue chocolate.
"The only conclusion I can conjure is that Mr. Teevee and Miss Beauregarde somehow escaped and since relocated to a different area of the factory. See the blue footprints below you?" Marvin told Charlie.
Charlie looked down to see two sets of blue footprints in sync of each other, one shaped like a cowboy boot and the other sneakers.
"You're absolutely right! I can see them out of the room! Let's follow them!" Charlie exclaimed as he and Marvin began to follow the chocolate footprints.
When they reached the hallway, they realized that each set of footprints headed off in opposite directions.
"Oh no. How are we gonna find them now?" Charlie yelled as he placed his blue hands on his cheeks.