Skepness Man Beauregarde's Lovers Throughout History
Chapter 2: Madeline Lovesick
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 AF
Just like on the end of the last fateful day Violet was standing by the entrance to Beauregarde Chewing Gum Industry knowing full well that some day she will find a perfect lover for Skepness Man. However unlike the last fateful day the mood was a lot tense it's almost as if a groundbreaking event had happened that shook the very foundation of every corporation in the region.
A lot of groundbreaking events, actually, but first and foremost, heirs and heiresses were unsafe because a certain someone at Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory couldn't deal with her emotions and committed sewiside.
That was the first and foremost groundbreaking event that Violet was thinking about. However, a bodyguard standing right by her side had other groundbreaking events in mind to strike a conversation about: "So, today is the day that everything stops changing, huh? The Chocolate Factory is going to have a new heir or heiress and the media circus is going to stop." and Violet only angrily looked at him.
"Hey. Look at me." she said. "I want you to carefully analyze my face and tell me how many fucks do I give. The answer is none. I'm not the one who organized the fucking media circus that is the new Golden Ticket tour, and if it were up to me and if I could rewrite time, I would delete both Golden Ticket tours from history, as well as all the suffering contained within." and the bodyguard "Including events that happened to you?" and Violet "Especially events that happened to me. And don't forget what I said last time: we do not talk about those events."
The bodyguard only nodded to himself but then Violet got a thought. "Actually there is one way in which it matters. Whoever is the new heir or heiress, henceforth, is officially banned from ever entering this building. Once again, look at me" and she pulled out a huge ring full of keys to all sorts of rooms and lockers and stuff. "This is official verification that I am Violet Beauregarde, CEO of Beauregarde Chewing Gum Industry, and within official capacity, I officially decree that the heir or heiress to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory established by the tour taking place on October 1, 2013 AF is henceforth banned from ever entering the Beauregarde Chewing Gum Industry headquarters. You got that? Get it in writing ASAP." and the bodyguard suddenly scurried away and Violet was once again left alone in thought as she put the ring inside her coat again.
She wasn't left alone in thought for long though since she spotted a plane in the sky and she "Ooh! I love spotting planes in the sky. I wonder if this one's mine? I'm pretty sure one of my planes is about to land, I'm pretty sure I gave the flight plans for it and such! Happy happy happy tour guide tour guide tour guide!" and she cleared her throat. "Alright, that's enough rehearsal." and then she sighed. "How does it come so effortlessly to Creative Emogal?" and she followed the plane with her eyes until it landed and two people stepped out chatting to themselves and one of them was the familiar face with a feather in his hair and the other was that maid doll from the Saikou Corp business owners meeting but not a maid doll no more.
She hurried to inside the building and at the end of the corridor that led to the Chewing Gum Room and faced the door towards the room. She then let the two teens approach her and suddenly she turned around and the real deal began. "Skepness Man, wonderful! Isn't that Madeline? Have you brought her on the factory tour? And also is Madeline your lover?"
Skepness Man smiled because he knew that he had brought exactly what Violet was looking for but Madeline only frowned as though she was personally insulted. It wasn't too long until she "No, I am not anyone's lover and I don't want to get any wrong impressions from the last name Lovesick. Thank you." and this was proving to be a bit of a hassle of a guest but Violet could deal with it for now she just needed to focus all of her happy energy and give a tour of Beauregarde Chewing Gum Industry. She had already done it once before, didn't she? She just needed to get into the routine.
And then she immediately forgot what she was going to talk about. She even forgot the funny name that she gave the factory workers. She forgot everything and she just couldn't keep her composure and she swore if this one was going to end with her phoning Charlie Bucket again she would just give up and maybe instruct Skepness Man to hold his own Golden Ticket tour instead of the silly thing that she is doing.
And with that memories of the Golden Ticket tour (the OG, miss me with the 2013 AF one) hit her and she suddenly remembered something to do to not appear all anxious and stuff. She grabbed a long spoon and she carefully walked to the guardrails by the chocolate river and she dipped the spoon in and she offered the spoon to Madeline. And Madeline took it it's not like people say no to free food. And then she knew at least one thing to say on the tour, it wasn't her original thought, but with full disclosure...
"By the way did you know that chocolate releases love hormones Wonka told me on the first factory tour" but then it all spectacularly backfired as Madeline "Will you can it about love? Just pretend I'm named Ayano Aishi and 'love' isn't in my name ugh." and it could have been one of the more horrible things but Violet could deal with a simple topic avoidance and name change no worries. So she "Alright, Ayano." and she let Skepness Man and Ayano enjoy each other's company and she wouldn't mention love again.
She just needed to let it happen naturally.
And with that Violet slowly but surely got in the mood of giving Skepness Man and Ayano the tour that they deserved. Of course she started with the interesting rooms but eventually she ran out of the interesting rooms and she had to go with the boring factory-like rooms and once she ran out of those she had to go with literal hallways with one or two artifacts like this one.
Oh. This one. The spiral sucker with green and red. How could she ever forget that this appeared in the factory. It was part of this whole fever dream trip to the island of Zillyhoo that she oh-so-vividly remembered.
Yeah. She really, really needed to be careful with this one.
"I really shouldn't open this thing it has magical properties" she said and she sincerely hoped that Skepness Man and Ayano would understand. But then she thought that she heard a click from inside the glass container and worry got the best of her. "Actually there is something I need to check" and she pulled out the ring with all the keys again and unlocked the container and that's when the pristine order of the world began falling apart as she dropped the ring with the keys and was compelled to pick up the sucker and lick it and once she did she transformed like some magical girl or something.
"Isn't it exciting, kids? You get to tour your very own chocolate factory made just for the two of you! Will you promise me that you'll get married and have a zillion babies?" Violet spoke and Skepness Man and Ayano were terrified for their lives so they ran away. And Violet followed them for as long as she could but then the very bodyguards ensuring her safety started becoming obstacles and one of the bodyguards "Where do you think you're going?" and she "Aww! I just wanna see romance blossom under the metaphorical cherry petal tree of life!"
But the bodyguards weren't even letting her out of the factory and weren't even letting her touch them as weird as that might sound. In fact they all pulled out this air blowing utility that they pulled out seemingly for this weirdly specific occasion and Violet was tripping all over the place but she managed to stay on her feet and even appear as though she was doing some dance moves.
She was caught in dance and song forgetting all about Skepness Man and Ayano and didn't even care who she was anymore. But then she overheard one of the bodyguards angrily "Identify yourself this instant!" and even in this moment of insanity she remembered that she was Violet Beauregarde, CEO of Beauregarde Chewing Gum Industry, and that all she needed to do to prove it was to show the huge ring with all the keys.
So Violet ran back to the corridor where the spiral sucker was but the air blowing from every direction just kept her dancing like a weirdo. And she finally saw the key ring and reached to pick it up but the strongest wind started blowing in the other direction and she somehow managed to stand up on the wall. She really needed to stand up on walls more in her life but that didn't matter to the guards who "Unfortunately, this belongs to our CEO, and since we found it unattended, we must regard her as missing for the time being." and Violet got all sad.
But she once again forgot and "Aww! I hope to get to meet her soon! And we will play forever and ever in this wonderful wonderland that I'm absolutely sure is original and not something from a misremembered childhood! Childhood is so wonderful and I'm sure that every adult treasures the moments they had as a child!" And she once again danced on the walls and sometimes even on the ceiling and somehow managed to get back to the Chewing Gum Room and it was just so wonderful and she wanted to meet the designer even more.
In this magical girl form she had an irresistible craving for sugar and chocolate and everything sweet and this chocolate river looked just so appealing she wondered how she could ever drink from it. So she stood on the wall along which the waterfall fell and tried to lick the waterfall but instead her face immediately got all messy and chocolatey. And it messed with her aerodynamics so bad that she couldn't get on walls anymore and fell face flat on the edible grass and right by one of the railings that guarded the chocolate river.
She turned around on the grass and started eating that but before she could get anything more than a good sample the guards suddenly raised her up in the air and started carrying her throughout the rooms of the factory. She screamed "No! You don't understand! I'm the model of life forever and ever! And I bet you've got plenty of problems but I have absolutely none because I'm in this chocolate factory made for the two of you! And where's the two of you, anyway?" but nobody cared and they escorted her to somewhere labeled "Salt Room: dedicated to Veruca Salt" and in the Salt Room there was a chair and she was finally plopped onto the chair and would never get to dance on walls or ceilings or literal air again.
And in this chair some sort of tingly brushes brushed all over her and made sure to wash away all the chocolate from her face which was good but everything else just felt so painful and why couldn't she go back to the funny candyland? Why couldn't she go back to the Chewing Gum Room?
Well, because Skepness Man and Ayano had already toured the Chewing Gum Room and it wasn't yet time to return to it to wrap up everything, duh. And where did they run off to, anyway? That was one question that Violet absolutely had both as the sugary magical girl self and as the normal, CEO of Beauregarde Chewing Gum Industry self.
After the whole cleaning process was over, Violet took a good look at herself. She was once again purple and blonde instead of rainbow and neon and she felt like she couldn't keep up with absolutely anything anymore. Even if Skepness Man and Ayano presented themselves at this moment she just couldn't continue the tour. The only thing she could do was spy out a glass of water at the Salt Room and drink it but even that tasted horrible so she smashed the glass of water against the wall and let out:
"Literally, being a giant blueberry was more enjoyable than that."