Chapter 14: Escape
Blurry lights. Blurry ceiling. Slowly coming into focus. What happened? Where am I?
Wanker finally came to. He was bound at the ankles and wrists. He was laying on his back in a gigantic tub, filled with... What are these things? MINTS? "Hey! Who did this to me!?"
"Who do you think?"
Far above the room, on a catwalk near the ceiling stood many of the clones as well as Fili and Kili.
"What is this? Some kind of joke!? Let me go!"
465 laughed, "Then let us go."
"Is this some kind of revenge stunt!? If it's freedom you want, i'll give it to you! Just let me go first!"
"For an elf, you're a horrible liar." 344 commented.
"You tortured and mutilated us for your profit and then disposed of us when we were of no more use to you. We don't want JUST freedom alone."
"Then what do you want?"
"Justice!" screamed 297.
"I'll pay you! I'll give you all riches beyond your knowledge! If you just let me go and promise not to tell anything!"
Fili rolled his eyes, "This guy can't be serious."
Kili started giggling, "It's actually kind of funny how desperate he is."
465 crossed his arms and responded back "Pay us with WHAT? Chocolate? As if we haven't spent our lives around enough of that. We all know the factory's going broke. You'll be bankrupt and out of business within a couple months. This little 'contest' you came up with gave you some profit, but not enough to get you out of the red. It is over for you Wanker. Our own time has come."
"And where will you go!? You all have no idea what's out there!"
And explosion rocked in the distance and the lights flickered.
"I'm pretty sure whatever is out there is better than what's happening in here."
"You're all making a horrible mistake! Let me go! I'll show you how I can make this a better place!"
"Yeah, I think we're done here." 465 turned around and spoke into a walkie talkie. "Dump it."
Wanker looked up and saw the four massive pitchers slowly beginning to tilt inwards above him. "Oh dear sweet mother of Eru Iluvatar!"
"Go!" The clones and the dwarf brothers ran out of the room and closed the hatch door behind them as Wanker was crushed beneath the torrential downpour of Diet Cola. The reaction with the mints began instantly.
Fili, Kili and the clones ran to the higher floors as the factory began shaking.
"Hurry! We might be able to see the last of it in time on the top floor!" 465 urged.
The Diet Cola Room filled in seconds with beige-colored carbonated foam. The hatch doors held well as the three windows of the Diet Cola Room burst and shattered open to release the pressure.
They finally reached the top floor and could see below them three massive Falls of Rauros-like torrents of foam shooting out of the factory below them.
"You think he survived that?" Fili asked.
465 watched as the massive rivers of foam slowly began dissolving into smaller streams and creeks of diet minty cola. "Possibly. He won't get far if he did." He turned to face the two brothers. "You two should probably get out of here in the elevator."
"Why the elevator?"
"It's going to get ugly in here pretty soon, as if it's not already. All those news reporters out there will want to know what happened here and I honestly don't know what to tell them, but I think it's best if you two just stay out of it all, plus it's just easier than having to navigate through what's left of this place."
"I understand. Just tell them the truth, they'll believe you." Fili said
"Hopefully." Kili commented.
"I just want to know, where will you guys go when it's all over?" Fili asked
465 scratched his head, "Find this Bilbo guy you speak of in The Shire for one, beyond that, we don't know. We might just keep this place and turn it into something better."
465 lead them to the end of a hallway and they stood before a pair of elevator doors.
"This is it. The Glass Elevator."
There was a 4 digit security code panel. The two brothers looked at each other with suspicion.
"It can't be that easy, can it?" Fili said as he punched in the numbers. 1234.
The Elevator doors opened. The elevator appeared to be made completely out of glass and it was attached to the outside of the factory wall. It contained many clear buttons, hundreds maybe, all clear with white text saying where they go to and a steering wheel attached to one wall.
Before they could step inside, the doors to the room behind them suddenly burst open as well.
"HA! See! They knew the code!" Veruca screamed
"Everyone get in the elevator!" Lily shouted
"Moof out of za way!"
"Don't let the dwarves or the clones in!"
"What in the world!?" 465 screamed
Lily, Veruca, Violet, Augustus, Montgomery, George, Debbie and Cheryl had been hiding in the room behind them. The clones blocked the entrance.
"Where on Earth did all you come from!?" 344 demanded
"Hiding of course!" Lily shouted. "We were expecting Wanker to come up alone and we were gonna jump him for the elevator once he opened it because none of us knew the security code! But since you guys knew it, I guess it doesn't make a difference does it?!"
"Well at least nobody's dead. That's a good thing I suppose." Kili said only to be slapped hard across the face by Violet, who was still very blue, but had shrunk back to her normal size... and also with a lot of awkwardly loose skin and a large cut on her stomach.
"So where's Mike?" Fili asked
"He found Wanker's satellite and used it to beam himself to the world's largest internet arcade somewhere I don't know." Cheryl explained. She seemed irritated.
"All eight of you were planning on sharing that one elevator?" Fili asked confused.
"Yes, something wrong with that?" Veruca shot back. She had some geese crap in her hair and her father had some on his suit.
"Well it may be a tight fit just for two of you, don't want to mention any names." Kili commented
"Yeah! How did you guys get Augustus out of the pipe?"
"Long story," Montgomery answered, "Now MOVE let us in!"
"Look! Ze geese! Ze geese are coming!" Augustus cried. Further down the hall, a group of geese had spotted them and began charging towards them.
"Oh no you don't!" 297 shouted. "This way out wasn't meant for the likes of you folk!"
"Oh yeah!? We'll fight for it!" George challenged
"Bring it!" 344 charged into them.
Then the room exploded into a battle between clones, the geese and those left wanting to escape the factory. Amidst the chaos 465 saw a small window of opportunity.
"Fili! Kili! Quickly! Go!"
The two brothers ran into the empty elevator.
"What about you guys!?" Fili asked, holding the elevator doors open with his arm.
465 shoved Fili's arm back into the elevator, "Don't worry about us! We got this!" And with that said, the elevator doors closed, leaving Fili and Kili inside alone.
They searched the clear buttons all over the wall and saw one large one saying LAUNCH.
"I think this is the one Fi!" Kili said.
"Press it!"
Kili pressed it and the elevator detached itself from the factory wall and started hovering upwards around aimlessly.
Fili took a breath of relief and sat on the floor, leaning against a wall. His brother plopped down next to him.
Then all was quiet.
The two remained quiet for several minutes... until Kili started giggling for no reason.
Fili looked at him confused, "What is it now brother?"
Kili didn't answer but kept giggling. His giggles deepened into chuckles. Maybe it was a sibling thing, maybe it was just the long day they just had, but Fili soon followed and started laughing himself.
They playfully punched each other in the shoulders and kept laughing.
"This may be a stupid question but..." Kili started, "Want chocolate?" And he pulled out a chocolate bar that had been in his pocket the whole time.
They both roared into an even louder wave of almost drunken laughter.
Fili rolled onto the floor and looked down at the sight of the massive factory. Parts of it still burning, firetrucks trying to put out the fires on the lower floors. Some of the smaller chimneys had toppled over. The surrounding areas of white snow were stained blue and brown. It was really an amazing and surreal sight to behold.
"What happens now Fi?"
"We land somewhere and go home... I could use a shower right now."
"Yeah, you smell like burnt chocolate, blueberries, ash and soap."
"You do too."
"Do you even know how to land this thing?"
"HAhA... no. Do you?"
"Pfft. You didn't even let me in the driver's seat of the Wankermobile."
"So i'm taking that as a no?"
"No. I don't."
THANKS FOR READING!
NO, it's NOT over yet! One last chapter next week! "One last time..." lol #Thorintrailerquote
This next chapter will be the epic conclusion to my first ever long/multi-chapter FanFiction story. There will be some short "cameos" from other Hobbit characters as well and it was the chapter I had the most fun with!