When the boat stopped everyone was very shaken, to say the least. They all got out and stood still, waiting for Wonka's instruction. They stood on a smooth, shiny black marble floor; the walls were smooth, shiny and solid black. It only added to the darkness. The only light came from a single chandelier hanging from right above them, and also from the turquoise boat, which sent a bluish tint over everything. Wonka walked gracefully from the boat, his heeled dress shoes clicking on the floor, to a huge, silver vault door. He unlocked it and waited before opening it, turning toward the children, "Now, you guys be careful in here, k? I ask you not only for your safety, but for the safety of my precious work." He slowly let the door fall open, "This, children, is the Inventing Room." He seemed quite proud.
The children peeked cautiously inside the room and once they saw everything in it they forgot about their previous fear and walked in, awestricken. The walls were gradient purple and blue, most of the metal machines were deep blue, and there were bright fluids in beakers and vials.
Wonka stepped in after them and watched them as they all looked around. Every time someone went to touch something the chocolatier cringed inside. He shut the door as he shook his head in disapproval. Why did he talk himself into letting people, immature people at that, into his factory? He sighed before he began to walk around with a playful gait, whistling as he observed. He gave every child he passed by a fake smile, but the one he gave Charlie was real. He then noticed that Charlie was particularly interested in the most secretive machine in there; if anyone else went to touch it he would have violently shooed them away, but since it was Charlie he just kept smiling and walked up to the boy. "That's my Eternal Candy machine," he said joyously, "What it does is it makes jawbreakers that never get smaller or go bad." He grinned, "You could have one and never need another one again!" Then he looked thoughtful, "Though... that might not be sanitary..." He snapped out of his blank stare and shrugged, "Oh well!" Grinning broadly he pulled at a purple cloth, uncovering already made jawbreakers.
Charlie looked at them and gasped in awe, they were shaped like different planets and they were so pretty. "They're amazing Mr. Wonka, truly amazing!" he said, breathless.
Wonka smiled and straightened his back with pride. Then he took one with his thumb and pointer finger and held it up to Charlie's face, it was one that looked like Jupiter. "Say ah!" he instructed. The boy's forehead creased with uncertainty but he cooperatively opened up his mouth. A corner of Wonka's mouth raised in admiration as he proceeded to pop the jawbreaker into the boy's mouth, making sure to brush his pointer finger along Charlie's bottom lip. The boy sucked on the candy with a pleasure filled expression, blushing slightly due to the touch of the chocolatier's finger; something twitched again in Wonka's lower region at the sight, it felt like a fiery ache. "You like it?" he asked cheerily.
Charlie nodded, "It's delicious! Incredible!"
Wonka grinned and nodded, "Good!" He patted him on the head and walked off.
The chocolatier went to stand by a large glass case, again he whispered to an Oompa Loompa, handing the little guy something. The orange man went into the big glass case and placed the item on a pedestal. Then Wonka called for everyone to gather around. So they did. Wonka smirked at the children and started to drum his fingers on the machine he was leaning on. "Violet, I have a feeling you might be interested in this one. Guess what it makes?"
Violet looked into the case and spotted a stick of gum. She gasped, "Gum!"
Wonka chuckled, "Yes, indeed. And you get to be the one to try it."
The girl's eyes lit up, "Really?!"
He nodded, "Uh-huh," he jerked his head in the case's direction, "go in and get it."
The girl hopped up and down before skipping off into the case and taking the piece of gum. She placed it in her mouth and her eyes widened. "Oh my god! It's amazing!" Her voice could barely be heard from inside the glass.
All of a sudden she began to change color and everyone's mouths fell open. They thought it was just a cool effect from the gum but then she also began to grow in size and it was quite terrifying. Violet looked at herself and began to scream as she continued to grow. Soon she was almost the size of the case and she eventually exploded. The other three children jumped back as purple goo splashed all over the glass walls. Verruca covered her mouth with her hand and screamed, Mike gasped and started to shake, and Charlie just stared, aghast.
Wonka stood up straight nonchalantly, "Oh dear, looks like she got a bad piece." He felt oh so clever. Grimacing, he walked across the room, in front of the last three, to the door, a different one than the one they came in through. He turned on his heels to face them, "Well! Are you guys coming or what?" The children took one last look at the case before following Wonka out of the room.