The Chocolate Factory Feud

A Sequel to the great "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

Based off the 2005 movie by Tim Burton

Story by: Christine Lennoire

Part Three: Gum is for More Than Chewing…

Charlie watched through a small vent from the top of the Inventing room. Now Violet thought she could take the Factory from him, too? What the heck was going on here? He decided that, from now on, he would have to be a little more careful. Looking all around him for any signs of the other two kids, he decided that she was the last one. "Those girls are rotten." One of the Oompa Loompas said, looking down. "But this shouldn't be too hard. I hope you don't mind doing a little inventing while we're at it, because I have an idea. Actually, Mr. Wonka came up with something similar nearly a month ago, but he never did start work on it. It was Mr. Wonka's idea to create a drink that could nearly lift you off the ground. That wouldn't quite work in this case: but what if we could do that with gum!"

"That's a great idea! But isn't it a little dangerous…?" Charlie asked, as he watched them leave the Inventing room for the chocolate river. "She could get stuck or hurt if we don't do it right." They all climbed down from the vent into the Inventing room now that Willy Wonka and Violet had gone to discuss new plans. It took a while to get all the Oompa Loompas down, since there were so many. The main Oompa Loompa shook his head, and motioned for Garish to come forward again. Garish was in charge of two things: cleaning, and planning.

"We have Mr. Wonka's plans. Nothing will go wrong. Besides, the cleaners that do the windows up there are only on every other Friday." The Oompa Loompa named Garish said, smiling. Charlie nodded. If they could scare her enough, she'd run off just like Veruca. "So what are we waiting for? Get to work you lazy bums!" He said, and all the Oompa Loompas scattered. Some of them collected the ingredients. The rest started up the machine and went over the basics of how to make the gum just right. Charlie watched in awe as they went to work. They really did pay attention. In a few minutes, the machine was whirring and fizzing, and out came a single piece of gum from the conveyer belt. Garish picked it up and took it over to Charlie. "This is it."

"Amazing." Charlie said, looking it over. "It's perfect. Besides… we have the advantage over her. She doesn't know that the fans won't get her." He smiled. "Let's give it a try… for the Factory!" All the Oompa Loompas cheered in harmony. Maybe it wouldn't be easy, but they would make sure that the Factory stayed in the right hands. "We should go find Violet now. Do you know how to get it to her?" Garish and the main Oompa Loompa, named Narth, discussed the problem silently. Narth then turned to Charlie and smiled, nodding his head up and down.

He turned to a few of the other Oompa Loompas and picked nine others to go with him. "You guys stay hidden. Garish, show them the upper rafters above the chocolate river and stay out of sight. Just leave Miss Violet Beauregarde to us!" Garish nodded and they climbed back up into the vents. Narth and his band went out the front door to confront the girl and Mr. Wonka head on, apparently. But Charlie didn't have much time to think. They were lead down a long path and up a ladder with way too many rungs. Finally, after a few minutes, they came out into open air. So they made it after all… and just in time to see the other Oompa Loompas, lead by Narth, approaching Violet and Mr. Wonka.

"Huh?" Charlie watched as Narth tore the piece of gum in half. "What is he doing?" Narth hid one of the pieces, but offered the other to Violet. Obviously, she had learned her lesson and wouldn't take it. "Well, what are we going to do now?" Charlie asked, ready to go back to the Inventing room until they could come up with something else. Garish, however, tugged on his pants leg and urged him to turn around. What Charlie saw then, he couldn't believe. Narth told her to hold the gum so he could show her it's 'magic' to try and convince her. He poured a drop of water on it, and it started fizzing and swirling at an alarming rate. Violet screamed and threw it in the air.

Garish smirked. The plan had worked, even if it wasn't the original plan. "EWW! My hair! My precious hair!" Charlie gaped. She had thrown it into the air and it had landed in the middle of her hair, immediately tangling itself there. "Get it out! Get it out NOW!" She shouted running around. Unfortunately, Mr. Wonka found this quite funny.

"Um, ew." He said, looking at the gum. "When did I make that?" He asked the Oompa Loompas slyly. "You know I hate gum. My teeth weren't made for that crap." He said. Meanwhile, Violet was still screaming. She made it very clear that she was unhappy and she hated the world very much now. "Maybe you'll learn your lesson, now. That stuff is just horrible." He said, smiling. "Now maybe we could use THAT to get it out of your hair but…"

"NO! No way! I don't trust you or ANY of your stupid concoctions! You know what… I'm leaving. My MOM will fix this." She said, storming off. On her way, she tripped over one of the candy rocks and landed face first into one of the marshmallow mushrooms. "Ouch." Willy Wonka said, barely containing his laugher. It was really funny to see her with gum, still fizzing in her hair and gobs of marshmallow all over her face and the front of her clothes. Violet made an odd sound that was muffled by the marshmallow, but it sounded like she was crying.

Charlie was laughing quietly to himself. It wasn't right, but still, she had deserved that to some extent. Now all that was left to do was…

Augustus Gloop walked in as she left. "My turn then, eh?" He said, through bites of chocolate. Charlie stared at him with his mouth wide open. Looks like none of them had learned their lessons from last time. Charlie sighed. It looked like it wasn't over yet. Mr. Wonka sighed and pursed his lips.

"If you must. Come along. Too much has happened today. We can't be wasting time." He said, walking right past the Oompa Loompas, remaining silent. After they left, the Narth gave them the clear to come down from the rafters. All the way down they climbed. And even though Charlie's day had been the worst ever, he still had the hope inside of him. He wasn't going to get down. He got rid of two of them, and he was sure Augustus would be the last. Mike Teavee didn't LIKE chocolate. Why would he want the factory? Charlie was pretty sure he wouldn't be coming back.

Narth smiled. "That went well. So, what are we going to do about this fellow? He was the first to go… the one that fell into our precious waterfall powered Chocolate River. How could we scare him away?"

"I'm not sure." Charlie said. "I mean… look at him! Chocolate is his life… this might be a lot harder than the last two." He thought and thought about it. Augustus's biggest weakness was the fact that he wouldn't work… he probably never worked a day in his life before, so why would he now?

"Let's see where they are going and check out our options." Garish said. "I'm sure something will come up. There are so many things in this factory. The possibilities are endless, I'm sure." Charlie nodded, and Narth and Garish went to spy on them to see where they were going. When they returned, they were both smiling. "The two of them are headed to the main office now. Let's leave this one up to Doris. We'll contact her first. Don't worry, Charlie… Doris can be very scary when it comes to working with her. She's one strict Oompa Loompa!" They all kinda shuddered a bit at the thought.

Charlie smiled. "Okay… you haven't steered me wrong yet. But how are we going to get there first?"

"Just you watch and learn!" Narth said, smiling.

Okay, there it is… part three! This story is proving to be a lot more fun than I thought. Thank you to my new reviewer, Flagger. Please… I want more reviews! Need to know what you people think! Thank you and I hope you enjoy it!

Christine Lennoire