Charlie was dissapointed in himself. Violet was trying to her darnest to get him to be brave in scary situations, and here he was simpering in a submarine broom closet. The reason was that after the Isle of Water's troops unloaded from the submarine, out of sheer curiosity he opened up the submarine hatch, and the first thing he saw as he looked outside was a person get shot to death. He had never before seen a dead body, or heard a gunshot, but he just seen a person die.

The situation wasn't helped by the fact that he heard a struggling right outside the closet door. He heard a someone fall to the floor and the sound of a gun cocking. He heard a voice say, "Where's your mushroom powder now weirdo?"

"Well, I'm sure I had a bottle around here somewhere." That torn it. Charlie realized that as soon as the guy killed Willy Wonka, then he would certainly hear the heavy breathing sound coming from behind the door, and would kill him too.

Charlie started whispering to himself. "Be fearless, Be fearless." And he tried to focus his mind on the idea that he didn't want to die here. He wanted to see his family again. He wanted to see Violet again. At that thought, Charlie lunged out of his seat, and the closet door swung open at blinding speed knocking the enemy soldier in the face. One carefully placed karate chop later, the enemy soldier fell down the hatch to the lower level.

As he helped Willy Wonka up he said, "Kiddo, I'm sorry. I'm your guardian and I ended up being guarded by you. We should not have come down here."

Charlie smiled and said, "No apologies are neccessary."

"Well, still I haven't had a chance to tell you, that I now officially approve of whatever goes on between you and Miss Beauregarde."

Charlie smiles and says, "Wait you hear that?"

"I don't hear anything!"

"Exactly the gunfire outside has stopped!"

As they stepped outside the desolation from the previous gunfight was surprisingly not the most disturbing sight. What was disturbing for Charlie and Willy Wonka was that the cave entrance the submarine passed through on the way in was now gone. Willy Wonka ran to the troops and asked what happened.

"The enemy is in retreat sir, but on their way out they set off an explosion which closed our exit."

"There must be a way out of here!"

Another troops voice came from a nearby cave. Inside they found what looked to be a stone statue chained to the wall with a gag on its mouth. What was also weird was that the statue tried desparatly to break its bonds.

All the troop frightened at what it was seeing aimed their guns at it. But Charlie in a moment of bravery stepped forth and removed the gag from its mouth.

The statue said in a very deep base voice "Ah thank you! Now can you remove my chains. I'd like to fix the pump. I can't imagine how the poison that is affecting the island above."

Charlie asked, "Who and what are you?"

The statue replied, "I'm a golem created by an ancient wizard to take care of this place."

Willy Wonka asked, "Well then Mr. Golem, do you know of another way out of here? The cave entrance has collapsed!"

Just a few moments later the people on the island above noticed that the poison stopped coming, and out from the main geyser poured crystal clear water. After all rest of the poison was washed away by the water, they also saw a dozen small figures suddenly pop out of the main geyser, and start flowing down the waterways created by the geyser.

Charlie tried to prepare himself for this. The burst up the geyser was bad enough, he suddenly had an inkling for what Augustus Gloop felt like in the pipe, but now he was swimming down a fast waterway. True he was wearing a life preserver which he grabbed from the submarines hold, but that didn't stop the ride from seeming so out of control. He was kinda used to it, it being similar to the riding the boat inside the chocolate factory, but it still was a wild ride flowing down steep hillsides, until his path narrowed into a shallow slide near the beach, he felt wet, he felt cold, but it was all worth it, as the monstrous applause from the citizens of the Isle of Water came, for at that moment he felt like a hero too.

The next couple of days Charlie took a break on the Isle of Water. He took time enjoying the natural more safer waterslides. He was catered to hand and foot by a curious staff. He was lying on the beach enjoying the sun on a brightly colored beach towel, when he remembered that deep underground there was something he really wanted to do."

"Mind if I join you?" said Violet, who was just laying down her own towel.

Charlie thought that was easy.

Violet said after a few moments of basking in the sun, "So, hows being a hero?"

Charlie said, "Has its moments? Hows having a father?" Violet opened her mouth to speak, but suddenly remembered something, but Charlie noticed her indecision, and said, "Violet, It's allright. Just because I don't have my family at the moment, doesn't mean I'm not happy that you have some. If you're happy then I'm happy for you."

At that, Violet burst out, "IT'S GREAT! I have the best Dad ever! He's cool. He's smart. He's kind. And being the daughter of an Island cheif has its perks. That's something I wanted to ask you about. The Cheif of the Isle of Lovers is holding some shindig, and my father got an invitation. He's busy, and besides the cheif of the Isle of Lovers like people going to his parties without dates. Want to come with me? Give you a chance to meet the cheif of the Isle of Lovers!"

"You mean like a date?"

"Yeah."

"when?"

"Tomorrow, dress formal."

"I'll be there."