A/N: I hope this chapter isn't as short as it looks on paper... :/
Disclaimer: I do not own anyone, anywhere, or anything. I am not Ronald Dahl.
The Great Glass Elevator
The group hurried after Willy through the strangely metallic doorway behind a particularly large machine.
They all crammed into the tiny hallway behind the door, then Willy tried to talk above the noise the group was making; "Now, we have so many rooms to see, and so little time, so we'll need a better form of transportation now that we don't have the boat."
Veruca started whining, "Daddy, I want to get out of this room! It's too crowded!"
Willy just sighed, and pressed the small glowing button next to the door on the other side of the narrow hallway.
A strange whizzing sound filled the enclosed space, then a small chime.
Willy smiled, and said, "Luckily, the Great Glass Elevator is by far the fastest way around the fact-" He started to walk forward towards the now open doorway next to the button, but he ran head-first into a clear pane of glass. He slammed into the elevator door, and crumpled to the floor.
Toffee started laughing, and offered a hand to help Willy up. She pulled him up, still chuckling.
Willy picked up his hat, and pressed the button again, this time opening the elevator door before he walked through.
The pane of glasss slid away, revealing the inside of an elevator that seemed to be made entirely of glass.
Toffee slowly recovered herself, then followed Charlie and the rest of the group into the elevator.
Willy waited until everyone was inside and said, "I don't know why I didn't think of this before."
Mike looked at the thousands of buttons that seemed to cover the elevator walls, and said rudely, "No way there's that many floors."
Willy said a little hautily, "Well, this is no ordinary elevator, it can go longways, shortways, slantways, anyways you can think of, you just press a button, and WHOOSH you're off!"
As he said 'WHOOSH' he pressed a random button, and the elevator shot off to the right of the hallway that had been in.
Veruca started screaming, Mike just stood there, the parents panicked, but Toffee, Charlie, and Willy were enjoying the ride..
They shot past a couple of rooms they couldn't see, then passed through a much larger one.
It seemed to be snowing inside, and, in the center, stood a large mountain.
Dozens of Oompa-Loompas were scattered across it, chipping large chunks off of it. Willy saw the mountain, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Fudge Mountain!"
Veruca gasped, Mr. Salt stared rudely, Mike and his father seemed to be uninterested.
However, Willy, Toffee, and Charlie waved to the Oompa-Loompas, who waved back, then continued on with their work.
The elevator finally passed through the room, then jolted to a stop, then continued in another direction.
They passed another stream of rooms, then passed through a sterile, white room.
Toffee looked down through the glass floor, and saw multiple Oompa-Loompas walking around in light teal uniforms, tending to the brunt puppets from the show at the beginning of the tour.
Willy piped up, "This is the Puppet Care and Burn Center." He added bashfully, "It's relatively new."
They passed through the other side of the room, then jolted to another stop.
The elevator dropped past what looked like desks.
They stopped in front of a female Oompa-Loompa typing on a typewriter.
She waved at Willy, and in return, Willy smiled and waved back, saying, "Oh, hello Doris!"
The elevator shot off backwards, sending them shooting into a much darker room.
Inside, there were multiple targets placed randomly, and dozens of large guns, cannons, catapults, anything, were shooting jawbreakers in every direction.
The elevator jolted to a stop in the middle of the room, then dropped rapidly downward.
Veruca was interested for a split second, then she decided she was bored, so she started to bother her father.
Mike was always bored, so he stared mind-numbingly at the buttons.
Charlie was standing close to Toffee, who was staring rapt on the beautiful explosions of color.
Willy waited until Mr. Salt and Mr. Teavee turned away to whisper in Toffee's ear, "Ms. Bucket, I should've shown you this room a long time ago. The light makes you look absolutely radiant."
Toffee smiled, then turned around when Mike said, "Why is everything in here completely pointless?"
Charlie looked at Mike, and said an answer that made Willy want to hug him; "Candy doesn't need a point. That's why it's candy."
Willy smiled, but Mike just scowled, "This is stupid! Candy is a waste of time!"
Toffee lunged forward, almost about to strange Mike, but Willy gently held her shoulders to stop her.
Veruca chimed from her corner of the elevator, "I want to pick a room."
Willy smiled a mischievious smile, and said, "Go ahead."
The mink-clad wart (ugh, Veruca, sorry) examined the buttons, then finally pressed one labeled, "Cotton Candy Sheep".
The elevator abruptly stopped falling, causing Toffee to lose her balance momentarily, then shot off to the left.
They passed a long series of smaller rooms that were passing too quickly to see, then they passed into another large room.
At first it was pitch black, but then a large spurt of glowing blue liquid shot up past the elevator as it went by.
Toffee gasped as the liquid formed a large bubble mid-air.
Another purple spurt of liquid shot up in front of them, and another yellow spurt shot to the side, both forming large, glowing bubbles.
Soon enough, they were gliding past nearly a hundred Technicolor glowing bubbles.
Veruca's eyes lit up, and she started pointing out the individual colors to her father.
Mike just rolled his eyes, and pretended to shoot them down with an invisible pistol.
Charlie and Toffee just stood next to Willy, staring at the beautiful display.
A few seconds later, though, they passed through the room's other side up to another elevator port.
Willy waited until the elevator had come to a complete stop before he opened the elevator door, revealing another marvelous room.
A/N: Soooooo... how did I do with the Great Glass Elevator? ... It wasn't too short, was it? Tell me in the reviews.