Chapter 100: The Final Battle- Part 2
Author's Note: Hello, everyone! After a long absence, I'm finally back with the next chapter of Charlie's Chocolatey Adventure! I hope that you'll enjoy it! But first, I'll respond to your reviews.
Matt, thanks for the compliment! As a bit of trivia, when Mr. Wonka giggled as they were in the Up and Out sequence, that was a reference to the 2005 film, in which Wonka did the same. I apologize that it took so long for this chapter to release, but I hope that you'll enjoy it now.
Guest 1, you'll certainly see that. :)
delly wolly, that may or may not get released, but you seem to have predicted this chapter...somewhat. In order to find out what I mean, you'll need to read on. :D
marty munster, I'll consider those songs.
millie terry (nice username by the way), I'll for sure consider those.
Trashy, you'll find out later on in this story. ;)
FernandoCruz100, no problem! I do love including references! :D
Fernando Cruz, no problem, Fernando! :)
cloggy, I'll consider that story idea.
Guest 2, Happy belated Leap Day to you, too! :D
(Credits will be placed at the end of this chapter instead, to prevent spoilers. Thanks for your understanding, and I hope you'll enjoy this chapter.)
And now, enjoy! :D
"B-but-!" Mr. Wonka sputtered.
"I have to agree with Alexis, Mr. Wonka," Charlie Bucket said. "And we wouldn't even have to let them in the rooms. The corridors alone are wider than roads."
"But my recipes-!" Mr. Wonka sputtered again.
Grandpa Joe put a hand around the chocolatier's shoulders.
"Think about this, Mr. Wonka," Grandpa Joe began. "Without people, your recipes are useless."
Mr. Wonka sighed.
"Fine," he said. "As long as everyone stays in the main corridor, with strict instructions to enter no rooms unless instructed by either myself, Charlie, or Grandpa Joe."
"Hooray!" said Alexis enthusiastically, jumping on one foot. "Let's get started, and fast, before Miss Trunchbull could potentially injure any innocent citizens!"
"You've made the right choice," said a voice coming from behind them.
It was Batman and Robin! They were back! They were looking down on the group from atop the Great Glass Cargo Elevator.
"Aw, shucks!" Alexis Williams blushed. "I'm just doing what any good citizen would've done!"
"You certainly are," Robin smiled.
"As soon as we're done helping you contain these citizens," Batman smiled, "we'll also help you take care of the...threat at hand."
"Let's go!" Adam Terence Wood said happily, punching the air with his fists.
With that, the process began. The group, situated inside of the Great Glass Cargo Elevator, ushered every single citizen of Charlie's hometown into the factory's pink main corridor. However, that's not to say that everything went completely smooth and without a hitch.
"Hello," said one rather tall woman wearing a black bowler hat with a flower on it. Strangely enough, this woman was also wearing oval-framed spectacles. "I am...Mrs. Nesbit!"
"Haven't I seen you somewhere?" Charlie Bucket asked suspiciously.
"You kind of stink," Charlotte Grimm said, wrinkling her nose.
"No, you haven't!" the woman answered in a high-pitched, flutey voice. She looked at Charlotte. "And no I don't! You must be smelling things, little girl!"
"You know, if I didn't know better, I'd say that she reminds me of Elmer Slugworth," Percy Prodnose observed, walking up to the woman and looking at her closely.
"Percy?!" the woman whispered very quietly. "What are you doing here?!"
"How do you know my name?" Percy Prodnose asked.
"Don't be a fool, Prodnose," the woman answered, her voice beginning to gain a slight snarl. "It's me, Slugworth, and Fickelgruber is right behind me."
"Ah-ha!" Percy Prodnose said so that the rest of the group could hear him. "So you are Slugworth!"
"What?!" Slugworth screamed, now in his normal voice. "I'm not Slugworth!"
"Yeah, and I'm not Fickelgruber!" said Frederick Fickelgruber in the most obvious manner possible, standing directly behind Elmer Slugworth.
"You idiot!" Elmer Slugworth shouted angrily, elbowing Fickelgruber.
"Ow!" Frederick Fickelgruber shouted back. "What was that for?!"
The two of them suddenly looked at the gigantic crowd standing in front of them. They did not look the least bit pleased that Mr. Wonka's most famous adversaries were trying to ruin him once again.
"Get him!" a girl named Izzy shouted, pointing at Slugworth.
"Feed them to the Knids!" a man named Gio exclaimed.
"Let's beat them up…" Izzy smirked, "just as they did to Mr. Wonka forty-five years ago!"
"What a great idea," Gio smirked. "Let's do it."
"ATTACK!" Izzy shouted, pointing at Fickelgruber and Slugworth.
"CHARGE!" Gio shouted. "EVERYONE, GET THEM!"
The crowd quickly surrounded the two evil chocolatiers.
"C-can we talk this over?" Fickelgruber stuttered as the crowd was closing in on him.
"No," Izzy responded sternly. "Take...this!"
She slapped Fickelgruber on the face, and he groaned in pain.
"Ow!" Fickelgruber shouted, gripping his now red cheek as he, along with Elmer Slugworth, advanced through the crowd.
One father, putting his toddler son on his shoulders, turned to look at Fickelgruber and Slugworth, and the son did as well. The son took one look at Slugworth, then slapped him on the cheek just like Fickelgruber before him.
"Twake dat!" the little boy shouted angrily, his cheeks puffed up.
"OW!" Slugworth screamed.
The two chocolatiers were in immense pain at this point, both of them gripping their cheeks. They were almost at the end of the crowd, and approaching the open gates of the Bucket factory.
"NO!" Fickelgruber shouted.
Policemen were waiting for them, and immediately grabbed Frederick Fickelgruber and handcuffed his wrists.
"I'll get you, Wonka!" Fickelgruber shouted back to the crowd, which roared with happiness.
"What?" Elmer Slugworth asked, confused. "You mean, you're not taking me to prison?"
One of the policemen laughed.
"You've got something way worse than prison waiting for you, buddy," he chuckled as they carried Fickelgruber away.
"Hahaha!" Elmer Slugworth chuckled as he ran towards the Davidson's car. "What suckers!"
Elmer Slugworth ran to the driver's side and opened the door. He gasped.
It was his grandson, Anthony Slugworth!
Elmer chuckled. "Perfect! You can be my getaway driver!"
Before he could have a chance to get to the passenger's seat, Anthony tripped him with his foot and got out of the car.
"I'm not listening to you anymore."
"What?" Elmer giggled nervously, unable to believe what he was hearing. "But we're supposed to be partners in crime!"
"Not anymore," Anthony Slugworth said. "Not since I found...this."
He reached into the car and pulled out the same helmet that was used to change his personality when he was a little boy!
"W-what?!" Elmer Slugworth exclaimed. "How did you find that?!"
"Courtesy of...Mr. Wonka's trash bin," Anthony Slugworth smirked. "Thought you could hide the evidence, eh?"
Slugworth sweated. "W-what do you mean?"
"You know what I mean," Anthony smiled, with his triumphant grin growing larger and larger with each passing second. "'With this helmet, I can transfer my personality, my actions onto Anthony! That way, I can finally have the son that I desired years ago, not like that twit, Andrew!"'
"I-I can explain…!" Elmer Slugworth chuckled, backing up, only to remember the giant crowd standing behind him.
"EXPLAIN...THIS!" Anthony Slugworth shouted, his voice rising in intensity and slowly walking towards his grandfather. As soon as he screamed, "THIS!", he gave his grandfather the hardest slap in the face, even harder than anyone in the crowd did.
"MY FACE! Elmer Slugworth screamed. "IT HURTS SO MUCH!"
"Oh, don't worry," Anthony smirked. "I'm not going to hit you anymore."
Slugworth sighed in relief.
"But it really, really would be a shame if I were to open this car trunk which totally has no one in it," he smirked as he opened up the car trunk. He followed this action up by undoing everyone's gags. With that, everyone was finally free!
"Hey!" Jacob Murphy shouted, looking at Anthony Slugworth. "He's one of the idiots that locked us in that trunk!"
"Dad!" Emmurphy shouted happily, squeezing her way to her father.
"Emma!" Jacob Murphy smiled, picking up her daughter in his arms.
Everyone looked at Anthony Slugworth.
"Let's get him!" Anthony Marston (the Davidson's friend) shouted.
"Yeah!" Ethan Rivera shouted. "And now that I'm finally free, I can abuse, er, discipline my daughter!"
"What the actual heck?" Jacob Murphy said, disgusted. "I'll lock you back in that car trunk if you don't shut your mouth!" He slapped Ethan Rivera as hard as he could.
Finally, Andrew- full name, Andrew Slugworth- spoke up.
"I think I know a second person that needs punishing," she smirked, looking straight at his father.
"I-I can explain…!" Elmer chuckled again.
"So you think I'm a twit, eh?" Andrew Slugworth said in a stern voice, taking out a bar of chocolate that had "SLUGWORTH'S CHOCOLATES" written on it. "You're the twit, Father!" he shouted angrily, tossing the chocolate bar at his father with all his might. "You're just as nasty as your chocolates, if not worse!"
SPLAT!
The bar, wrapper and all, landed in Slugworth's mouth.
"Mmph!" Slugworth moaned.
"You ready to take out the trash, son?" Andrew Slugworth smiled.
"You bet, Dad!" Anthony Slugworth smiled back.
"This is for ruining my son!" Andrew Slugworth shouted, slapping Elmer Slugworth across the face, causing him to become off-balance, with him trying to keep himself stable on one foot, sweating desperately.
"And this...IS FOR RUINING MY LIFE!" Anthony Slgworth shouted, dealing one final blow to his grandfather. He slapped Elmer so hard that he flew through the air and landed face-first inside of a passing garbage truck.
"I'LL GET YOU!" Elmer Slugworth shouted as the garbage truck drove away and the crowd broke out into cheering.
"Hooray!" Izzy shouted happily.
"Hip-hip-hooray!" Gio cheered.
"The two of then looked at the gigantic crowd surrounding them, and Anthony couldn't take it anymore.
"I'm so sorry, Dad!" Anthony cried, hugging his father tightly.
Andrew hugged his son tightly.
"It's alright, son," Andrew Slugworth said soothingly, hugging his son back. "It was that disgusting machine of Father's. I forgive you."
"Y-you do?" Anthony Slugworth asked his father nervously.
"Of course," Andrew smiled as his son was filled with happy tears and crying.
Everyone saw a woman push her way to the front of the crowd and stand in front of Ethan Rivera.
"Hello, honey!" Ethan Rivera said nervously, starting to sweat.
"The heck did you say about my daughter?" the woman asked, her voice rising in tone.
"N-nothing," Ethan Rivera responded, stuttering.
"It's no wonder why my daughter is all quiet when I come home from work, you sick creature!" the woman shouted angrily. "We're done!"
"B-but, Morgan-!" Ethan Rivera sputtered once more.
"Goodbye!" Morgan Rivera shouted, going back into the crowd.
And so, the factory crowd continued, and pretty soon, everyone was safely inside the main corridor of Wonka's factory, and the group safely inside the Great Glass Cargo Elevator. Mr. Wonka pressed a button labelled, "UP", and up they went.
"You know what?" Anthony Marston announced to the crowd, catching everyone's attention. He was a young man, no doubt in his early 20s. He had neatly combed-back black hair and tan pants, along with a checkered shirt.
"Mr. Wonka, Charlie Bucket, and their friends saved our lives!" he said grandly. "Now, we shall pray and cheer for their safety! Here's to it!"
"Hooray!" the crowd cheered happily.
Danny's POV
"We should be safe here...for now," my father panted, gripping his knee to catch his breath.
"Where are we again?" I asked my father.
"I don't know," he answered.
I looked around. There were a couple of small freezers everywhere by the door, and in the middle of this, there was a desk-like structure with a cash register on it. Towards the back of this business, I noticed large, see-through freezers shelves with doors that contained milk, TV dinners, and other goods, which immediately made me realise that this was a sort of grocery store.
"We can't stay here forever," I remarked.
"I know that, Danny," my father responded, wiping his brow.
I noticed there were six portable freezers by the entrance of this business- three to the left of it, and three to the right.
The sign on the first said, "ICE CREAM." I went by it, and it had many flavors, including chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, neapolitan, and more.
The second one said, "BEAN'S FAMOUS TURKEYS."
Bean? Where had I heard that name before?
I looked towards the third one with increasing curiosity. The sign said, "BUNCE'S GOOSE LIVERS."
I cringed at the thought, and I cringed even more when I noticed that this specific freezer was divided into two concise sections. The first section contained multiple jars of the disgusting stuff, and the second section contained chilled doughnuts stuffed with it. I retched when I saw it, and went to see the fourth freezer.
I felt its glass, and it was, in fact, warm. This wasn't a freezer at all, but likely an incubator to keep hot goods fresh. Looking inside it, I saw cooked chickens with jars of dumplings on the side. The sign said, "BOGGIS' CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS."
Boggis, Bunce, and Bean.
Now, where had I heard those names before? I tried enormously hard to remember.
I turned to my dad after a few seconds of thinking and noticed he was by the register.
"Excuse me?" my father asked. "Can you please tell me where we are?"
Two young men, along with one young woman, turned around. The first was rather plump. He was wearing blue, buttoned-up overalls, along with blue jeans. He had a piece of wheat in his mouth.
The second, the young woman, was really short. She was about half the height of the first man, only coming just above his waist. She was wearing overalls and blue jeans as well, and she had a welcoming smile on her face.
The third, another young man, was really tall and skinny. He was wearing clear glasses. His overalls were so big on him that they were sagging, and his blue jeans were as well. He also had a friendly smile on his face.
"Why, sonny, you're at the proud location of the one-and-only Boggis, Bunce, and Bean Grocers!" the first man announced proudly.
Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. One fat, one short, and one lean. The poem flashed in my mind.
"Boggis and Bunce and Bean
One fat, one short, one lean.
These horrible crooks
So different in looks
Were nonetheless equally mean."
Ah! So that's where I heard those names! The headlines were everywhere.
"FANTASTIC FOX!"
"BOGGIS, BUNCE, AND BEAN OUTSMARTED AT LAST!"
"STILL WAITING"
"TERRIBLE TRACTORS SHOVEL HILL!"
"CRAZY FARMERS ATTEMPT TO DIG OUT FOX"
"The name's Bryce!" the first man announced grandly.
"I'm Brittany!" the woman smiled.
"And I'm Bruce!" the second man smiled.
"We want to welcome you to our humble store!" Bryce smiled. "Is there anything you'd like?"
"Some milk, perhaps?" Bruce asked. "Or perhaps some of our famous turkeys? They're as juicy as can be!"
"We can't stay here forever," I whispered. "The Knids are bound to find us sooner or later!"
"I know that," my father whispered back. He looked at the three smiling owners, and his eyes twinkled. "I do apologise, but we must get going," he said.
"Well what about our famous doughnuts and goose livers?" Brittany called out as we were exiting the store. "We'll give you a special offer! 50% off a dozen-!"
End of POV
Inside the Great Glass Cargo Elevator, the group, including Batman and Robin, were talking.
"Holy chaos!" Robin exclaimed, pounding his fist into his hand. "What do we do now?!"
"YOU WILL DO NOTHING!" a voice boomed. It was Miss Trunchbull, and she had an angry look on her face. It was beginning to turn red, and spit could be seen flying out of her mouth as she was talking. "I've had enough of your beatings for a thousand lifetimes!"
She smirked. Not just any kind of smirk, however. It looked like the kind of evil smirk the fox gave the gingerbread man before he gobbled him all up.
"I've come to make an announcement!" Miss Trunchbull shouted loudly. "Willy Wonka, you're an ignorant glob of glue! He destroyed my life! That's right, his stupid hornswogglers pooped all over my marvellous face! Now I'm going to call you out on national television! Willy Wonka, you got a small factory! It's the size of this skyscraper but way smaller, and guess what, here's what destruction looks like!"
A Knid immediately levelled a house, and Miss Trunchbull made a "BOOM!" sound with her mouth as it was being destroyed.
"That's right, baby!" she continued. "All screaming, all shouting, no mercy! Look at that, that house is flatter than a pancake! You ruined my life, so guess what?! I'm gonna ruin the Earth! That's right, this is what you get- my super Ultra Knid army!"
As soon as she finished saying that sentence, an absolutely enormous amount of Vermicious Knids, too big to count with the naked eye, began flying all over the world…
"How do you like that, Lancelot?!" Miss Trunchbull shouted. "I sent out an unstoppable Knid army, you idiot! You have twenty-three hours before every child on Earth is destroyed! Now get out of my sight before I destroy you, too!"
In Paris France, a young couple was going on a date together at a restaurant, unaware of the impending chaos…
The teenage man chuckled.
"Thank you so much for taking me here, darling," he smiled.
His girlfriend smiled. "My pleasure, Greg. It's the least that I can do for someone as sweet as you."
He blushed.
"Oh, Beth!" he smiled sweetly. "What would you like to eat?"
They sat down and wrapped their arms around each other. Suddenly, a rumbling sound was heard, and a section of the restaurant's roof collapsed. It was a Vermicious Knid!
"Ahhh!" everyone in the restaurant screamed, fleeing everywhere, including Beth and Greg.
Meanwhile, in the small, mountain-surrounded town of Düsseldorf, Germany-!"
"Hey!" the reader interrupted. "Düsseldorf isn't small and surrounded by mountains! That's Gengenbach, Germany!"
"Fine," the author of this story sighed.
The author tried to forget his previous statement and wrote, "Meanwhile, in the small, mountain-surrounded town of Gengenbach, Germany…"
A scientist was looking through a microscope, and he suddenly saw a swarm of Vermicious Knids fly by a window in his Lab…
"My word!" the scientist shouted in German. "What's that?!"
The scientist continued looking outside the window, unaware that a Knid was right behind him...
In Queensland, Australia, a controlled burning was going on. Multiple people were burning down a large group of dead trees.
"'Ey, you 'ear that?" one worker asked.
"No, what you talkin' bout?" a worker answered.
The two workers looked up, and they saw a Vermicious Knid! To make matters worse, one of the workers' children were there too! The Knid eyed it and charged towards it at a blinding speed.
"Bloody duck, mate!" a worker shouted, pushing the child away as they all threw themselves on the ground.
The Knid completely missed the child, but instead, accidentally charged right into the fire, burning up into ashes in a matter of seconds. With an unholy screeching sound as it burned up, everyone watched with awe.
"What just happened?" another worker asked, wiping his brow.
"I have no clue, mate," another worker answered him.
"Hahahaha!" Miss Trunchbull laughed. "I won't even need to deal with you myself anymore, because my Knid army will! You know what else? These aren't just any Knids! I've fit them all with special chips, so now they can transform into whatever they want, no matter how big or small that thing is in real life! Get them, my army! Hahahahahaha!"
Immediately after she said this, many Knids perched next to her on the roof of the skyscraper. Everyone watched in awe as color began to arrive to their formerly brown and green bodies.
A couple of Knids transformed into small men with rubber suits on. They had twisted, pug-like faces (like the "Sphinx" in the Dark Desert), and their hair was tied into buns. The rubber suits were also differing in color, such as red, yellow, white, and even sparkling blue. Their teeth were long, yellow, and curled, and drool was coming out of their mouths.
A couple other Knids transformed into hornswogglers, snozzwangers, and whangdoodles! They snarled and growled and licked their lips.
Two other Knids transformed into humans as well. They were both women. One was extremely plump, and the other extremely skinny.
"Let's beat 'em, Sponge!" the skinny Knid shouted, looking down at the group.
"Let's abuse them until they're nearly dead, Spiker!" the plump one responded, smirking at the skinny one.
"Aunt Spiker and Sponge!" Charlie Bucket gasped.
Miss Trunchbull smirked again, and snarled.
"Get them."
Danny's POV
Me and my father exited the grocery store cautiously, then looked both ways to spot any Knids.
We didn't see a single person out on the streets.
Where had they gone? Had the Knids eaten them all? Could we possibly be next?
"Now don't you worry, Danny," my father told me, wrapping his arms around my shoulder as if he read my thoughts. "We'll be alright."
"Are you sure about this, Dad?" I asked my father.
"Of course," he responded, his eyes twinkling as if a marvellous plan had just popped into his head.
"Danny?" my father asked me.
"What is it, Father?" I responded.
"Do you remember that one talk we had about outer space?" he asked me. "The planets, the poozas, the asteroids?"
Indeed, I did remember this specific conversation. At the beginning, he had talked about the various planets.
'Did you know,' my father had told me, 'that your weight on planet Mercury would be 38% of your weight on Earth?'
Towards the middle of our conversation, he had talked about the various asteroids spread throughout outer space.
'The average asteroid,' my father explained to me, 'moves at the speed of approximately twenty-five kilometers per second.'
Finally, towards the end of it all, he talked about the various creatures living in outer space.
'Danny,' my father said, 'many, many forms of extraterrestrial life exist in space, despite what you may have been taught in school.'
'What do you mean, Father?' a younger me had asked, all googly-eyed.
'Remember when I told you about planet Mercury?' he remarked.
I nodded.
'Well, with it being the first and closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is full of some pretty interesting life-forms. For instance, we have the liquiforms.'
'What are liquiforms?' I asked.
'We don't know.'
'Don't know?'
'That's right.'
'What do you mean?'
'You see, Danny,' my father explained, 'the surface of planet Mercury is so hot that any liquids would instantly boil away. However, astronomers were surprised to find ice water on its two poles. Inside that ice, they found tiny organisms that resemble blobs of brown liquid, hence the name liquiform.'
'What about Venus?' I asked curiously.
'Venus?' my father said thoughtfully, stroking his chin. 'Oh, that's right. Just recently, astronomers discovered creatures living there that look like walking lava. They called them Pelemopodopes, after the Hawaiian goddess of lava.'
'I heard at school that there are aliens living on the moon,' I remarked. 'Is this true?'
'Poozas?' my father responded. 'It's true. They were a friendly lot, but now they're extinct.'
'What happened to them?' I asked curiously.
'Knids happened, Danny. The cruelest living things in the entire universe. Habitat, Planet Vermes- one hundred and eighty-four billion, two-hundred and seventy million miles away from Earth.'
'Is there any way to stop them?'
'Heat,' my father answered. 'They can't stand intense heat. It makes them burn to a crisp.'
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Danny?" my father asked me, a glimmer in his eyes.
"I sure am," I grinned broadly.
We did it. We thought of a way to stop the Vermicious Knids.
End of POV
The pug-like Knids snarled as drool came out of their mouths. The group looked up at them and saw that they also had curled claws on their hands, as well as slightly smaller ones on their feet.
"Hahahaha!" Miss Trunchbull laughed. "Destroy them!"
Just like that, with a growl, every single one of the transformed Knids jumped on top of the Great Glass Cargo Elevator!
"Roar!" growled the pug-like Knids, clawing at the glass.
The hornswoggler Knid rammed its horn into the glass, causing it to shake.
"Get those things away from us!" shrieked Grandma Josephine.
"Mr. Wonka, isn't there anything we can do?!" Bertie Wood shouted.
"I'll tell you what," Mr. Wonka answered, pressing a button. "Let's fling them off!"
As soon as he pressed the button, the Great Glass Cargo Elevator gained speed. One of the pug-like Knids flew off, causing it to snarl in anger.
"One down, many to go!" Mr. Wonka said positively.
"That's encouraging," Grandma Georgina said sarcastically.
"If we don't do something soon, we'll be dead as doornails," Grandpa George groaned.
"Never fear!" Charlie Bucket exclaimed. "We beat these things once, so we can beat them again, I'll tell you that!"
"Oh, is that so?" Miss Trunchbull smirked. "Look in front of you."
Everyone looked, and they saw a Knid that was transformed into a red brick wall!
"Ahhhhhhh!" everyone screamed as Mr. Wonka began frantically pressing a button labelled, "STOP."
The group covered their eyes and braced themselves for the worst.
(Credits: Aunt Spiker and Sponge belong to Roald Dahl. The pug Knids are a reference to Willy Wonka's Factory of Horrors [similar to the Dark Desert], which I also do not own. Boggis, Bunce, and Bean also belong to Roald Dahl.)
I hope that you enjoyed this chapter, everyone! Which part was your favorite? As usual, favorites, follows, and reviews are welcome and appreciated, and I hope that you'll all stay tuned for chapter 101! :D
On another note, with all the events going on, I'll just say this- please, stay safe. Stay inside, and please do not go hogging food, toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and other items that people need. Remember that other people need those items just as much as you do.
Until then,
Gabe S.
