Chapter 42: River Rapids

Author's note: I hope that you all will enjoy this chapter! And wow, I managed it again- 2 chapters in one day again? :O I trust that you will love this one as well. :)

Matt, I just said 'the worst' as a 1966 Batman reference, however the water impact...might affect our party a bit. The Trunchbull was not defeated permanently, of course, so expect to see more from her. :) I'm also SO happy that you feel like I captured your characters well. The rest of your Ticket winners will appear soon, just not in this chapter, most likely, some of them will appear in the next one. :)

MysteriousMaker1185, I'm also glad that you think I captured them well. Regarding whether the rest of them will appear, check out the response to Matt's review. :D The explanation of how they got into the factory will not appear in this chapter, BUT it will appear in the next one. :)

Icedteacinnabons, I'll post the story solution here for other newcomers :)

You have a story ready and want to publish it? If that, then go to the 'Publish' tab, click it, then 'Document Manager.' Copy the text of your story, then click the 'Copy and Paste' bubble under the document manager. A box should come up, then paste it there. Then, click 'Create Document'.

Go to 'New Story'. Fill in the category and information. In the box where it says to select a document, click it, then select your saved document. Fill in the Captcha code, etc, then click 'Publish story'.

'New story' should be under 'Publish' as well, on the site version, right above 'Manage stories" and below "Doc Manager". Under the Publish tab are the following options in this exact order.

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Guest, see Matt's response for the answer to your question. :)

(Credits: The evil Mr. Wonka, Tyler Smith, Antonio Ricci, the Rock Candy Clarinets, and Popsicle Icebergs belong to Matt [mattTheWriter072]. Thanks for letting me use them! :) "Veruca's Nutcracker Sweet" belongs to Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman. The Wonkabot Room belongs to MysteriousMaker1185.)

"We're falling!" screamed Antonio. "Brace yourselves, everyone!"

Everyone closed their eyes to brace themselves for the incoming impact.

"Goodbye, everyone!" screamed Tyler Smith.

"Goodbye, Tyler!" screamed Antonio.

SPLASH!

"OWWWW!" screamed Matilda. "I think that I broke a leg from the impact!"

"Me, too!" screamed Adam. "Ow-ow-ow-ow!"

"I think that I broke an arm!" screamed Antonio in pain.

"I broke a shoulder!" cried Miss Honey.

"I broke a hip!" exclaimed Alexis.

"That's not the least of our worries!" exclaimed Mr. Wonka, filled with shock and terror.

He was pointing to some more steam. They were approaching another waterfall, with not a sign of the Trunchbull to be seen!

"Yahhhh!" screamed Alexis, covering her eyes.

They fell down the waterfall, but even then, the journey wasn't over! The current was going so fast, that no one had a chance to recover. Everyone was approaching an extremely dark tunnel. No one could see a thing inside of it.

"I can't see!" exclaimed Adam. "Help!"

"Where am I?!" cried Miss Honey.

Suddenly, they could see day, and light, and they shielded their eyes to give them time to adjust. They were going down- and fast!

"Wow!" exclaimed Adam. "Even though I broke a leg, this slide-like thing is extremely fun!"

They abruptly fell down an extremely steep drop, with everyone screaming- half of them were fun screams, and half of them were screams of fear.

"Weeee!" exclaimed Antonio Ricci. "Hooray!"

"Hey!" remarked Tyler Smith. "Hasn't someone noticed that we're now in chocolate, even though we were in water only a few seconds ago?"

"Yeah," remarked Miss Honey. "That is really weird."

As they were going down the slide, Mr. Wonka tried to grab on to a dock, but he missed by mere inches. Also while they were going down, they could see many, many doors.

"THE WONKABOT ROOM", was something that one door had written on it.

"The Wonkabots are special androids that help check for errors that any Oompa-Loompa may have accidentally made during the candy-packaging process. As an example, hey! It looks like we may go through it now!" The slide did a tight turn, carrying everyone else with it.

"Woah!" exclaimed Claire Wood.

They went through a large hole with black plastic strips laying over it.

The Wonkabot Room contained a bunch of grey androids. They were by a gigantic grey conveyor belt.

"Hey, look!" exclaimed Mr. Wonka. "That package over there! See it?"

The package in question was rectangular, and it said the words "WONKA'S AND BUCKET'S EVERLASTING GOBSTOPPERS" on it, but only the words, and not the design.

"Package incomplete," the robot said, scanning the box. "Package incomplete."

It lifted up one of its arms, and a red laser came out of it. Instantly, the Everlasting Gobstoppers package gained a design on it.

"Oh, my!" exclaimed Antonio Ricci. "That's wonderful!"

"That Wonkabot is mine!" exclaimed Matilda Williams suddenly, mocking Ryan Kline. Everyone laughed at her joke.

"I remember seeing Ryan's interview on the news," remarked Antonio. "I'm glad that he isn't here right now to cause any trouble. Where is he, anyways?"

"It's a long story," said Adam.

"We'll explain it later," said Alexis.

"Each Wonkabot," said Charlie Bucket, "once it's done being built, needs an Oompa-Loompa to activate it and fix any problems that might occur with them, like malfunctions."

The slide carried the group out of the Wonkabot Room, and into a room that everyone found absolutely freezing! The part of the chocolate slide in this room even contained a hint of white, like snow.

"Welcome to the Popsicle Icebergs room!" said Grandpa Joe proudly.

Everyone was absolutely awestruck.

"Every iceberg in this room is made of a certain popsicle flavor," explained Grandpa Joe. "We use these icebergs to make our world-famous Brrrrr-eeezie Pops!"

Other popsicle-styled products that we create, such as our Banana Peel-A-Pops and Grape Peel-A-Pops, are made in a room called the...well, the Peel-A-Pops Room," Charlie continued.

The slide carried everyone to the left, then through an iceberg!

"Ooo, it looks like we're going through a banana one!" said Mr. Wonka eagerly.

"Oooooh," said Adam Wood, completely spellbound.

The group went through the thick, gigantic iceberg, then they swerved around many others until they were carried out of the room by the rushing chocolate. Somehow, the slide carried everyone up, and they could hear the sounds of something banging.

"It looks like we may be going inside of the Nut Room after all!" said Charlie Bucket.

True to his word, they were, but they were high up in the air. The squirrels did not see them, and they continued doing their work. The most curious thing, though, was that while they were going through the room they could hear some Oompa-Loompas singing!

"Veruca Salt, the debutante,

She's always screaming "I want! I want!"

We hope she wants last month's chow mein,

As she jétes down the garbage drain.

Veruca Salt, the silly cow,

Her maddening mantra was, "Now Now Now!"

But now hang a bell on the little brute,

As she pas de bourrées down the bad nut chute.

Yes, now she'll join the trash below- so spoiled and so rotten,

A fish head from a week ago,

Some gouda long forgotten,

A bacon rind, some left out lard,

A loaf of bread gone stale and hard,

A rotten tooth, a reeky pear,

A thing the cat left on the stair.

Veruca Salt, the pampered miss,

Will now fouetté to a foul abyss.

So take a whiff, for it's awfully ripe,

Her new address- the sewer pipe!

Veruca Salt, the selfish tot,

Was never good with the things she got!

But it's not just vicious Veruca's fault.

This rancid recipe demands another dash of salt!

Blame her father and her mother that Veruca will reside

With the rubbish and the other wasteful things she tossed aside!

To the furnace we bequeath her! See the squirrels as they are swarming,

Though recycling was beneath her, she's the cause for global warming!

Veruca Salt, the wicked witch,

Will soon develop a nasty itch.

We'll soon hear the twit screaming,"Mine, all mine!"

From deep down below where the sun don't shine!

Bad Nut!"

"Hmmmm…" thought Adam. "Weren't some lyrics from that song previously used in Emma's and Ryan's songs? Speaking of Emma, I wonder how she's doing right now. I hope that she's okay...after all, we do have a wedding to do in the future, haven't we?"

Adam decided to ask Mr. Wonka the question about the song. When Mr. Wonka saw it, he took a ladle out of his velvet coat (somehow, everything was still in it), dipped it into the chocolate, then spit it out, when the chocolate landed right into the bad nut chute.

"This tour?!" exclaimed Mr. Wonka. Rigged?! Poppycock!"

"I still think that something's up," thought Adam.

"Improvisation is a parlor trick," said Mr. Wonka, sensing Adam's thoughts. "Matilda. Say something," he said, looking at her. "Anything."

"Miss Trunchbull," responded Matilda, smirking.

"Miss Trunchbull is really gross," said Mr. Wonka smirking as well.

"Miss Trunchbull, I hate her the most!"

"See?" said Charlie Bucket, looking at Mr. Wonka. "It's exactly the same."

"No, it isn't," said Adam.

"Every day," said Mr. Wonka, "I get deafer and deafer. Remind me to call my ear doctor once this tour is over."

Bertie Wood looked down at the squirrels and jokingly asked, "Where's the Havermax 4000? Don't you use that to do your nut sorting?"

"No," responded Mr. Wonka, knowing that Bertie was making a joke. "You're really weird."

Bertie took out an extremely damp, yet readable, business card from his pant's pocket.

"You see, Mr. Wonka," said Bertie, handing the business card to Mr. Wonka, "I myself have an extremely profitable business as well. I sell used cars."

Mr. Wonka threw the card behind his back when Bertie wasn't looking, and it somehow managed to go straight down into the bad nut chute as well.

"Ew," said Matilda Williams, remembering her father.

"Huh?" said Bertie Wood, looking at Matilda.

"You see," responded Miss Honey. "Matilda's father was not an honest man. He sold used cars, stolen cars to be exact, and he cheated with every car that came through his shop. He put sawdust in the gearboxes, chewing gum on leaking radiators, drills to lower mileages...the list is endless."

"I see," said Bertie Wood. "I despise those kinds of people. I remember seeing him go past my business one day, and he had some stupid suit on, like green or something, with like polka dots or stripes on it."

"Yup, that's him," remembered Matilda.

"Well, I can assure you that my cars are not stolen," said Bertie Wood, handing Matilda another damp business card. Matilda politely held on to it, unlike Mr. Wonka. The slide carried them out of the room and through a giant circular hole, which just-so-happened to be surrounded by a picture of a giant saltine cracker. Looking below the slide, everyone could see chocolate fish jumping out of a lake made completely out of liquid chocolate, and an Oompa-Loompa band playing with what looked like clarinets.

"Those are rock-candy clarinets," said Grandpa Joe. "They're extremely difficult to make, and even harder to test out because of the dissolving power of human- and Oompa-Loompa- saliva."

They went through yet another hole, and it became pitch black.

"Ahhh!" exclaimed Tyler Smith. "I can't see a thing!"

As if on cue, small, strange shapes began filling the darkness.

"This is the room where we make our Glow in the Dark Gummies," said Charlie Bucket. "Their packaging is absolutely sun-proof when we sell them. They're very sensitive to sunlight."

They felt a whoosh of air travelling by them, as if they were exiting something, then suddenly, then room turned an evil red color. They saw a holographic projection of Mr. Wonka, whose face soon turned into a twisted grin, similar to Cheshire Cat. There was also clanking noises, like the kind that you hear as you go uphill on a wooden roller coaster, but they were not attached to anything. The noises, together with the creepy Wonka, only added to the creepiness. Eerie organ music also started to play.

"Welp!" said Matilda Williams. "Happy Halloween, everyone!"

"Happy Halloween to you, too!" said the evil Mr. Wonka, still sporting his Cheshire Cat grin, creeping Matilda out. "Your journey ends here! You're now helpless, and under my power! See you in Minusland, everyone!"

He then let out an evil laugh that shook the entire slide, and fireballs flew everywhere. One nearly hit Alexis' hair, but she managed to dodge it just in time.

"Oh, I don't like this one bit!" exclaimed Tyler Smith. "I hate roller coasters, just like my friend Daniel!"

"His last name wouldn't happen to be 'Sparkman', right?" smirked Alexis.

"Why, yes it is!" said Tyler, shocked.

"I know Daniel as well!" gasped Antonio. "You must be psychic or something!"

"Just a lucky guess," Alexis smiled.

Suddenly, a deafening alarm went off, and the evil laughing just got louder.

"Help!" screamed all four of the kids at once as they felt themselves going down an extremely steep drop.

Everyone closed their eyes tight, and when they opened them, there was light, and they were all clean!

"Oh, what a coincidence!" said Mr. Wonka cheerfully. "It looks like we're back where we started!"

Everyone exited the slide, and there was a shiny black door that said: "THE CHOCOLATE ROOM".

Author's note: I hope that you all enjoyed this chapter! What do you think will happen next? Hold onto your hats, everyone, because it won't be the easy way! Stay tuned for the next chapter! :D

Until then,

Gabe S. :)