Veruca's Nutty Situation (On Hiatus)

Chapter 2: Mike on TV

"This is my great glass elevator." Mr Wonka started to explain. "It is definitely the fastest way to get around the factory that it doesn't just go up and down, but also can go as many ways as you can think of. You just simply push a button and zing! You're off. Why don't you give it a try Mike?" he suggested as Mike looked at him before he pushed a button that had the words Television Room next to it. Instantly, the elevator started travelling so fast that the speed of it knocked Veruca and Charlie down onto the ground with Charlie landing on top of Veruca, when the elevator stopped moving, they got up and were both blushing when they realised the position that they were in. It was then that they, along with Mr Wonka, Grandpa Joe, Veruca's father, Mike's father and Mike entered the room. "Put these goggles on and don't take them off whatever you do. The lights could burn your eyes right out of their sockets. We certainly would not want that, would we?" Mr Wonka instructed, Charlie and Veruca were standing close next to each other while Mr Wonka started to explain the contraption that was located in the middle of the room. "This here is my very latest invention. I thought that I'd invent a transporter that helps move objects from one side of the room to the other. No one has thought of doing it to chocolate, so I thought that I would be the first person to ever do so by it getting smaller by being transported by television." Mike shook his head." Do you realise what you invented? It's a teleporter! The most important invention in the history of the world. And all you can think about is chocolate." Mr Wonka was clearly not impressed by Mike's choice of words." "Speaking of chocolate, bring it in!" Mr Wonka instructed as some of the oompah loompahs brought in a bar. It was huge in size. Veruca gasped in shock and covered her mouth with her hand. She then had a vision of a squirrel-type monster eating the bar, it was almost like she recognised it before it looked at her with a snarl and heard someone calling her name. "Veruca. Veruca. Veruca!" the voice called out, it was her father . She snapped out of her vision. "Huh? Oh sorry, did you say something daddy?" "I said: are you okay?" "Oh yeah, I am fine." she gave a nervous chuckle and smiled at him. "Watch this." Mr Wonka said as he pushed a button and the chocolate bar began to float up into the air and in a bright flash of light, it disappeared. "It's gone!" Charlie exclaimed. "Let's go and watch the screen." so they all went over to the television where an oompah loompah was watching. Mr Wonka turned and faced it. "Change the channel." He instructed and the oompah loompah did so until he reached a channel with apes in it. "It should be coming through any minute now." Mr Wonka stated right before the chocolate bar appeared. 

"Take it." Mr Wonka said to Mike. "It's just a picture." he replied. "Scaredy cat." Mr Wonka stated as he turned to Charlie. "You take it." and so Charlie reached out to it and took it out of the television. "May I?" he asked Mr Wonka. "Absolutely, go ahead, the taste will be the same." he then unwrapped the bar and took a bite. "Wow!" he exclaimed before offering some to his Grandpa who said "No thank you Charlie." then to Mike's dad who said "No thanks.", then to Veruca's dad who said the same as Mike's dad, then to Mike who shook his head and lastly to Veruca: "I'll have a tiny bit please." she politely stated with a smile. "Here you go, Veruca." When she took the piece of chocolate out of his hand, their hands touched before Veruca looked away with a blush on her face but she was also smiling. She then looked at the chocolate piece and ate it and turned back to face Mr Wonka, Grandpa Joe, Veruca's father, Mike's father, Mike and Charlie. "That's delicious. Thank you for the piece Charlie." she smiled at him. "Anytime." replied Charlie. "Mr Wonka, can you send other things? Like people for example?" Mike asked. "I never tried it with people before, but I am pretty sure that it would have some nasty consequences." Mr Wonka explained. "I'm going to try it." "I don't think that you should little boy." Mike scoffed and ran over to the machine, pushing away two oompah loompahs that had tried to stop him, he also pushed the button with his foot, soon as he got onto the platform, he floated up, and just like the Wonka bar, he disappeared in a flash of light. "Let's see if he comes through." they all went back over to the tv. "Change the channel. We got to find him." Mr Wonka instructed to the oompah loompah watching the TV. And the oompah loompah did so. Mike indeed did come through, but he was tiny. "There he is." Charlie pointed out. "Mike!" Mike's father whispered as the oompah loompah's decided to sing a song before what appeared to be them squishing him. "Help me." Mike called out, his voice was high pitched. Mike's father then managed to take him out of the TV. "There's got to be another way." "There is no other way." Mr Wonka said. Everyone thought for a moment before Mr Wonka had an idea. "Why don't we put him in a a Taffy Puller?" "Taffy Puller?" Mike's father questioned. "Hey! That was my idea." he then summoned an oompah loompah, one of them came over. "Could you please take Mr Teevee and his "little boy" to the Taffy Puller? The oompah loompah nodded and bowed and led Mr Teevee, who was still holding Mike out of the television room as the others turned off the lights. It was then that Mr Wonka Grandpa Joe, Veruca's father, Charlie and Veruca all removed their goggles. "Right then, who's left?" "Um, me and Charlie are Mr Wonka." Veruca stated. "Oh, well in that case, it means you both won, I congratulate you both. Well done to the both of you." Mr Wonka shook both of their hands. "So um, what do we win?" Charlie asked. "Why, my entire factory of course." Grandpa Joe, Veruca's father, Charlie and Veruca were all shocked. "Are you serious?" Mr Salt asked. Mr Wonka nodded "Yes I am, it's the very reason why I sent out the golden tickets to find a worthy successor to me. I didn't expect there would be 2 children left, but I have to do what I must. What do you say Charlie and Veruca? Are you up for it?"