The light in the ceiling seemed to fill the entire upper half of the room, and as many of the ghosts who were fighting off the freaks had the light shine upon them, the ghosts seemed to morph into beams of light and flow into the source, but as brilliant as the light of the heaven portal was, Charlie and Violet were too distracted by their running away from the fire that burst from crevasse that opened up where the book lay. The crevasse immediatly swallowed the book as well as one of the trapeze platforms. They ran a good distance but were stopped as they saw that the earthquake that occured when the crevasse formed had caused all the doors out of the main room to collapse. He turned around to see that the crevasse seemed to be completly between Charlie and Violet and the front door to the house. He saw that the walls of the Crevasse seemed to be made of human bodies screaming at the tops of their lungs and several huge firey hands constantly reached out of the crevasse, grab some of the freaks in mid air, and drag them into the crevasse.

Violet looked around at the scene and yelled out, "WHAT NOW!"

Charlie saw that the fire that seeped out of the crevasse was getting closer, and saw the only way out was climbing the ladder of the remaining trapeze platform. Charlie replied, "UP!"

Violet said as Charlie started climbing, "Do you have any idea what you're doing?"

Charlie replied as Violet started climbing, "Not in the least."

As they reached the top Violet yelled as the lower part of the tower started burning, "Now what?"

Charlie replied, "Even if we are to die here, I have no regrets. I have you my side, and that's what I need. But I'm even glad were not?"

Violet yelled, "How can you be so sure?"

Charlie pointed up, and the glass elevator crashed through the unopen part of the ceiling. Charlie said, "Because we've got some good friends backing us up."

As soon as Charlie and Violet lept into the glass elevator, Mike yelled "UP!"

Angela pushed a button and the elevator flew out of the top of the builing. The six kids looked down as the O'brian estate collapsed. It took a few seconds to register, when Augustus yelled out, "VE DID IT!"

After all six kids finished repeatedly hugging each other. Mike said, "Come on. We'll find a local fire department to have them put out that fi.." but was stopped when he noticed that Veruca was leering at him. He said, "Oh jeez. Look, Salt, the kiss meant nothing to me, Okay?"

Veruca smirked and said, "Then how come you seemed to calm down after it happened and miraculously came up with the idea of using my internet phone?"

Mike angrilly replied, "You just stunned me, that's all."

Veruca exclaimed in a sing-song voice. "You LII-HIKE MEEEE!"

Mike yelled, "NO, I DON'T!"

Veruca continued with, "YOU LUH-HUVE MEEEE!"

Mike turned to Charlie who had hugged Violet last and they were still fiercely clamped together. "Chuck, sorry I called your girlfriend crazy. Compared to Veruca she's a picture of sanity."

Veruca said smugly, "Hear that? Mike just called me his girlfriend!"

Mike yelled, "I DIDN'T SAY THAT!"

Augustus whispered to Angela, "What do you think? Those two?"

Angela whispered back, "Dunno. I do know that if they ever hooked up they would both be raving lunatics by the end of the week."

Veruca was singing, "YOU THINK I'M BEE-YOOU-TIFUL!" as the glass elevator dissapeared over the hillside. But if you looked at the wreakage of the O'brian estate, the twin portals were still present. Leonard O'brian came out of the heavenly portal, and moved to another section of the ruined building where Madame Rosa was digging through the wreakage.

Leonard O'brian said, "Uh, Rosa. Can't close the portals until your through!"

Rosa looked up with a heavy sadness in her eyes. "Leonard, I'm scared. Heaven wouldn't want me. After all, this mess was all my fault. I dug too deep."

Leonard O'brian took Madame Rosa's chin and pulled her head up so she looked at him. "They don't care. I've had a nice discussion with the authorities. They find no fault in you trying to learn more about the universe than what is generally accepted, and they recognize that the freaks are the ones to blame here. The big boss in the end only cares about one thing, and the boss recognizes that in you, as have I since the day we met. You are a good person. Otherwise you wouldn't feel so wracked with guilt over what happened. You are, and I don't want you to let anybody else tell you differently. Madame Rosa smiled and nodded. Leonard O'brian continued, "So let's get out of here. Okay?"

Madame Rosa said, "One sec, okay?" Madame Rosa then lifted her crystal ball out of the wreakage, then looked into it for a moment, then smirked.

O'brian said, "What?"

Madame Rosa said, "You remember when I said that this was a turning point in the kids lives? I've seen many futures for them, but since now that the kids futures are out of our hands, I wanted to see what future they are headed toward now?"

Leonard O'brian took Madame Rosa's hands and started leading her toward the heavenly portal. "So what did you see?"

Madame Rosa said, "Scene is roughly ten years from now. A party to celebrate your great-granddaughter winning an olympic gold medal. Your great granddaughter is approached by Mister Bucket. He congratulates her. She says, "Thanks. It's like I've allways said. You be fearless and you can make your dreams come true." Mister Bucket replied, "You don't need to tell me. I think I can make my dreams come true by being fearless." Violet then says, "And I bet your going to do it by giving me the engagement ring you've got hidden behind your back." Mister bucket asks how she knew, then Violet reponds with, "DUH! You shouldn't have asked my mom to help you pick out the ring. You know she's totally incabable of keeping a secret of that magnitude from me. So hurry up and offer it to me allready. I want to kiss you as my fiancee for the first time." Madame Rosa said, "End scene." just as she and Leonard O'brian entered the heavenly portal and the portals closed.

THE END