Chapter 99: The Final Battle- Part 1

Author's Note: Hello, dear readers! Chapter 99 is finally here! I was planning for this story to be 100 chapters, but due to chapter 96 being shorter than I intended, this story will be extended to 102 chapters, plus the multi-part epilogue. I hope that you all understand. Now, with that out of the way, I'll respond to your reviews!

Guest 1, Ulala's still there. In this upcoming arc, I'll try to have every single person speak and have a line, including this chapter. :D

Matt, thank you so much for the compliment on the song mash-up. I actually had that as my original plan at the start for this to be Alexis victory song (I was inspired by Sonny April's A Second Chance to include a victory song for the winner. I'm sure you've read that story, but if anyone here hasn't, I would really recommend doing so once you get the time.). I hope that you'll enjoy this chapter as well! :D

Guest 2 and Guest 3, your story ideas sound absolutely amazing, and I'll definitely consider them! :D

Guest 4, Oooo, like Sonny April's Willy Wonka Eats a Kit Kat but with but with a Toblerone bar? I'll for sure consider that. :)

And now...without further ado...enjoy part 1 of the final battle! Hahahaha! :)

"Hahahaha!" laughed Miss Trunchbull maniacally. "You'll never stop me!"

"Oh gawd!" a woman in the crowd shouted as more and more Vermicious Knids began to swarm around the famous Chocolate Factory. "Who will save us now?!"

The crowd immediately scattered as more and more chaos began to spread throughout Charlie's previously peaceful town.

"What the heck do we do now?!" Mr. Willy Wonka sweated. "The vile things are back, and on our planet! The consequences will be disastrous!"

Suddenly, Grandpa Joe noticed something- a Vermicious Knid was staring right at them!

"RUN!" Grandpa Joe shouted loudly to the group. "KNID INCOMING!"

"To the Factory!" Alexis Williams suggested, panicking. "Maybe we can make it to the Great Glass Cargo Elevator!"

"I sense a great decision already, Charlie," Mr. Wonka smirked at his own heir.

Fortunately, the group managed to make it inside the factory just in time, and the Knid bounced off the the thick steel walls of the factory, rolling in the air like a flying baseball.

"Whew, we're safe..for now!" Grandpa Joe panted.

"What a marvellous idea, Alexis!" panted Grandpa George. "You saved our lives!"

Mr. Wonka hurriedly pressed a secret panel somewhere in the wall, then another panel opened up behind it. It featured two clear buttons. The top said, "GREAT GLASS ELEVATOR", while the bottom one said, "GREAT GLASS CARGO ELEVATOR." Mr. Wonka, of course, pressed the bottom one. A slight rumbling noise was heard, then the Great Glass Cargo Elevator was back!

Everyone hurried inside, then Charlie Bucket looked around.

"Where are we going?" Eva Pondicherry asked.

"We're about to do something that I did forty-five years ago," Charlie Bucket smirked, looking at the famous "UP AND OUT" button.

"What does that button do?" asked Kevin Prune.

"Well, why don't we find out, shall we?" smirked Charlie, pressing the "UP AND OUT" button.

The Great Glass Cargo Elevator rumbled once more, then shot straight up.

"Why aren't we going anywhere else?" Stephanie Perry asked.

"It's doing what the button says, of course," answered Mr. Wonka, smirking. "Up and out!"

"You don't really mean-?" Madison Pottle asked nervously.

"Yeah, I do!" Mr. Wonka giggled as the Elevator sped up faster and faster.

"But this thing's made of glass!" Ulala interjected. "Not even glass in my time would have enough strength to survive an impact at this speed!"

Mr. Wonka began laughing louder, more and more, as the Great Glass Cargo Elevator began travelling faster and faster.

"But what if this Elevator's made of a different type of glass than the Great Glass Elevator?!" Grandma Josephine shrieked. "We'll all be cracked like eggs!"

"We'll be turned into a pulp!" Grandma Georgina exclaimed.

"Then that's a chance that we'll just have to take," Mr. Wonka said calmly. "I do hope, however, that the Oompa-Loompas aren't using the other Great Glass Cargo Elevator at the moment."

"What other Great Glass Cargo Elevator?!" exclaimed Chris Davidson.

"The one that goes on the same track as this one," Mr. Wonka answered without hesitation. "You never know, they might be travelling downwards straight to us right now."

"Save me!" Mrs. Bucket cried, gripping Mr. Bucket tightly.

"Here it comes!" Mr. Wonka laughed, a twinkle in his eyes, and giggling more than ever.

Everyone was travelling so fast that the glass was starting to glow a bright red on the outside, yet it was somehow cool on the inside.

A few more seconds, then…

BANG!

Everyone in the group except for Charlie, Mr. Wonka, and Grandpa Joe closed their eyes tightly, bracing themselves for the impact. They opened them, and they were alive!

The Great Glass Cargo Elevator was flying gracefully over Charlie's hometown, overlooking the chaos below them.

The group saw a Knid cornering a middle-aged man and his father, and they looked absolutely terrified.

"Hey, you Knid!" Mr. Wonka shouted loudly in the direction of the creature. "Come here, you foul beast!"

The Knid turned towards the Great Glass Cargo Elevator, and the man and his father used this opportunity to escape and run elsewhere into another building.

Just like the Knid encounter from forty-five years ago, the Knid darted towards the Great Glass Cargo Elevator at its enormous speed, its pointed bottom aimed at the glass.

WHAM!

The Knid spun in the air, then crashed into a nearby skyscraper, causing it to crumble to the ground.

The Knid made an unearthly screech, then went over by the skyscraper that Miss Trunchbull was standing on. Hundreds of Knids were seen swirling around Miss Trunchbull above the roof of the skyscraper.

"Hahahahahaha!" Miss Trunchbull laughed evilly. "How do you like that, fools?! I'll squash every child in no time! I'm invincible! I'm unstoppable!"

"Oh, yeah?!" Mr. Wonka yelled, with a hint of a smirk at the same time. "I can't hear you!"

"What?!" Miss Trunchbull shouted angrily. "How can you possibly not hear me?!"

"Wait, what was that?!" Mr. Wonka shouted back. "Can you please repeat it again?!"

Miss Trunchbull growled, like an angry dog about to go on the attack.

Mr. Wonka smirked one final time, then shouted back, "It seems you have a case of...Mumble-itis!"

Miss Trunchbull was screaming internally at this point.

"Here comes the Mumb-ulance!" Willy Wonka smirked. "Wee woo, wee woo, wee woo, wee woo! Be sure to ring up my ear doctor if you have any questions about this rare occurrence!"

"I'll destroy your ear doctor if you don't get out of my sight!" Miss Trunchbull barked.

They did as they were told, and turned the Great Glass Cargo Elevator down a corner, far away from the Trunchbull's prying eyes.

Danny's POV

"What on earth is going on?!" I thought to myself, walking through a rather quiet town.

"Where are we, Dad?" I asked my father.

My father, you might know him. He's the most marvellous father that a boy could ever have.

…

Well, I'm not a boy anymore, but I still go by my childhood nickname of Danny. Danny, the Champion of the World. Everyone calls me that, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

"We're going to visit an old friend," he answered to me.

"You mean, Matilda Williams?" I enquired.

"Correct," my father smiled at me.

Me and my father were walking, then we heard the racket of an enormous crowd by a pair of huge gates.

"What's going on over there?" I asked my father.

"Why, you haven't heard the news?" my father asked me, acting rather shocked.

"News?" I asked him. "Was there a new poaching method in Peasant's Monthly? Or perhaps a new peasant species was discovered?"

My father chuckled. "None of that, Danny!" His eyes twinkled. "Today's the day of Mr. Willy Wonka's new Golden Ticket contest! Alexis, Matilda's daughter, was one of the winners, so we're just going to have to wait until the crowd thins out in order to talk to them."

"Oh, right!" I exclaimed. "I do remember you telling me something about that!"

Then suddenly, the wind began to pick up, much to my surprise.

"Isn't it too early for offshore winds?" I screamed as the wind got stronger and me and my father gripped tightly onto one another.

"I don't recall anything about weather such as this!" my father screamed in response.

I looked up above me, and I saw a rather plump old woman wearing a bosom on top of the roof of a skyscraper. She was laughing evilly, and surrounded by- Vermicious Knids! I'd heard news about those creatures entering through a hole in the atmosphere, but it was my first- and hopefully last- time seeing them in person.

They looked despicable. Like a sort of solid, muscly modeling clay, but a sort of greenish-brown color. The Knids each had a varying size and plumpness, but each and every one of them were the same disgusting greenish-brown color, and had an evil red pupil with fire dancing in their centers.

Five Knids went in front of Miss Trunchbull and began to change shape. It was as if an invisible hand was twisting them and turning their bodies. One turned themselves into an "S." The other, a "C." The third, an "R." The fourth, an "A." Finally, the fifth one turned into an "M."

SCRAM

"Scram?" I asked out loud.

"Scram!" my father shouted, running in the shadows of another skyscraper and gripping my hand tightly.

Other Knids swarming around the skyscraper began to ram into nearby skyscrapers and houses, making debris fall into the streets below, and onlookers to run into chaos.

"What's going on, Dad?" I asked, my voice shaking with fear.

"That nasty woman is named Miss Trunchbull," my father explained. "Noah knew her, and despite her attitude, he was always kind to her. People think that she was the one that killed him, but no proof has ever surfaced to confirm that."

"Dad!" I shouted, trying to hold back tears and pointing in front of me.

"What is it, Danny?" he answered, then looking where I was pointing.

A Vermicious Knid was looming down on the both of us, and I could see that my father was trying not to scream. We both closed our eyes, and believed that all hope was lost. Right when we thought we were going to be eaten, we heard someone shouting, ""Hey, you Knid! Come here, you foul beast!"

"Huh?" I said quietly to myself and looked up. There was a floating white box, and Alexis and Matilda Williams were in it, along with the rest of the Golden Ticket winners and the famous Willy Wonka!

"Come on, Danny!" my father whispered as I saw the Knid look curiously at the box. "Let's hurry up and go!"

I looked at Alexis and Matilda one final time, as my father guided me into a gigantic grocer's store that said in big, shining lights, "BOGGIS, BUNCE, AND BEAN'S GROCER."

"We'll be safe here," my father panted, wiping his brow. "I'm just glad you're okay, Danny."

"I'm glad you're okay, too, father," I smiled at him as we began to give each other a warm hug.

End of POV

"We can't give up now," Charlie Bucket said encouragingly. "People's lives are at stake!"

"Lives?" Alexis said quietly.

"What is it, Alexis?" Grandpa Joe asked.

"We can't let these poor people stay out in the streets!" Alexis exclaimed. "They'll die! These are innocent citizens that we're talking about here!"

"What do you suggest that we do about it?" Mr. Wonka asked.

"I'm afraid that," Alexis said quietly, "we'll have to open up the factory."

Sweat began to fall down Mr. Wonka's face, as he could hardly believe what he was hearing.

Author's Note: Uh-oh! It seems that Willy Wonka has a tough decision to make! It's either keep the factory a secret and let people die, or open the factory and save thousands of innocent lives! What would you do in this situation if you were Willy Wonka?

Another fact: Danny having a POV in this chapter was a reference to Danny, the Champion of the World, in which the entire story was told in Danny's POV. I was actually debating before this whether or not to put this concept in past chapters, but I decided against it in order to keep CatCF's writing style. However, with Danny and his father here, I can actually put this idea into action! How did you like this first one? You can expect more in future chapters! :D

As always, reviews, favorites, follows, etc. are welcomed and appreciated, and I hope that you're excited for the next chapter! :D

Until then,

Gabe S. :)