Shhhhhoooooooooommmmmm!
With a sound that should have belonged on an episode of some lost in space series, the amazing glass elevator landed on a platform outside the round door of the room she had chosen just moments before. With a hissing sound that one could imagine the Star Wars theme song playing to, the doors opened, and Misty was more than happy to get herself out of there in one large jump.
Turning to look at the elevator warily, she placed her hands up protectively, as if it was going to pounce on her if she took her eyes off it.
"Stay," she commanded as if she was talking to a dog.
And like all good glass elevators should, it said nothing and didn't move.
"Good glassy..." with that she slowly backed away from it, it barely computing in her mind that she was talking- and had named- an inanimate object.
After a few more wary back steps she let out a breath she wasn't aware she had been holding and turned on her heels to face the circular door with the bright words above it-
'Children Only'
Once again her brain tried to figure out why it had allowed her greedy little fingers to push that button in the first place, but it only came up with 'Your idiotic inner child took over.'
Wow, that was encouraging.
"Well, since I'm here, I might as well..." sighing, she walked up to the door, expecting it to open. But, like all things that had happened since she'd first stepped into this crazy factory, things didn't go according to plan- or logic for that matter.
Instead, a long silver mechanical devise that seemed to have purple feelers moving back and forth like starfish arms popped out from the side of the door and faced towards her.
Her eyes grew wide, but she didn't even have enough time to blink before the device extending out on a long silver bar and stopped a few inches away from her, reaching from her shoes to just past the top of her head. Then, purple beams of dotted light scanned across her body as if she was a huge piece of paper, causing her to laugh harder than she had in ages; arms wrapping around her stomach as it felt as though thousands of fingers were tickling just the right spot that made it impossible to stop laughing.
"S-Stop it! T-T-That t-t-t-ickles!" she cried in laughter, and with one last quick scan the lights shut off, the laughing stopped and the devise retreated back into the wall.
Letting out a huge breath, Misty wiped any tears of laughter that had formed in her eyes and quickly straightened out her disgruntled form.
"I wonder what that was all about..." she whispered, taking one more step closer.
BEEEP! BEEEEP! BEEEEEEP!
A loud, annoying alarm sounded as lights of white, purple and red flashed around her, causing her to put her hands over her ears.
"I didn't do it!" she cried, and as if was answering, another mechanical devise came out of the wall above the door. This one, however, was different from the first. For one thing, it was a lot bigger, and was shaped like some laser gun with a huge nozzle as it hissed. Oh, and if that wasn't bad enough, it decided to point itself at her.
For a moment she stared at it, dark orbs wide with fear as it took her body a moment before it reacted, allowing a pitiful scream to come out of her mouth as she fell on her rear end, arms flying to the sides to keep her from lying flat on her back like roadkill.
"Warning! Warning! You are too old to enter the children's only room! Please leave the premise in five..."
Her eyes grew wider.
"Four..."
She tried to move, but found she couldn't as it was like someone had stuck fly paper to the floor. Which would have been cool- if she hadn't been the fly.
"Three..."
She struggled some more, terror causing her heart to pump harder and harder in her chest.
"Two..."
She closed her eyes shut. "Oh my god. I'm going to die... I'm going to die in Willy Wonka's factory! They're going to find my corpse right here- if there is anything left! This sucks... I never even got to tell-"
"One."
GLOOOORRRRPH!
With that noise, the shot was complete. But it wasn't a laser beam shooting a hole in her heart that she felt; instead she felt something big, sticky, and slimy cover her body.
Silence filled the area as she opened her eyes, only to see dripping purple gunk slowly falling off her glasses and blocking her vision. "What the...?" Bringing up her index fingers and lightly pressing them against the front of her glasses lenses, she swished them back and forth like a windshield wiper until all the gunk was off her glasses. Still confused, she looked up, letting out a scream as the large laser-like gun was still pointed at her.
"Thank you and have a nice day! Be sure to visit us when you're younger!" With a warm mechanical voice the machine disappeared into the wall, never to come out again.
Misty blinked and suddenly found herself able to move as she slowly stood up, only to hear a loud squish as she did so, a few more plop, plop sounds following. For the first time she looked down, backing up slightly as she saw a clear, thick goo substance with a purple tint covering the ground where she stood.
"Holy-" she looked herself up and down, seeing that she was practically covered in the stuff, and in fact, she was. From head to toe the purple stuff that the strange machine had shot in a huge bubble covered her, the substance slowly dripping off of her to the floor like thick, melted candy.
"Oh my-" she placed a hand on her forehead, only to hear another satisfied 'smoosh'. Grimacing slightly she brought her hand down to look at it, the purple goo reminding her of slime or hair gel, but...- she slowly brought her hand up inches away from her nose and sniffed it. It smelled- she sniffed it again- good- like grape and strawberry mixed together.
"I wonder..." she whispered, glancing around as if she was afraid someone was going to pop out and see what she was about to do next. When she was certain no one was there, she slowly brought a purple coated finger to her mouth and sucked off the goo that was slowly trickling down her palms. Her eyes grew wide as she took it out of her mouth and looked back at her hands.
"Oh my... I- I taste... good!" with that she began walking back towards the elevator, sucking the wonderful tasting goop from her fingers.
"I wonder what it's-"
But before she could finish her sentence, with a loud THUMP! she was on the ground again, once more staring up at the laughing glass elevator. She blinked, computing the information, then glared.
"I thought I told you to stay put," she muttered, standing up as the elevator doors opened as if to apologize for it's behavior. Sighing, she walked inside, the doors closing behind her as once again it was just her and an infinite amount of possibilities. "Hmm... now where to go..."
After a moment of searching, her eyes lit up as a button she couldn't resist to push met her gaze. And once again, with a 'shoooooom!' the elevator affectionally called 'Glassy' shot up into the air with Misty inside, enjoying her light snack as her ride through the amazing chocolate factory continued.
