Chocolate Trap: Chapter 3

Chapter 3:  Tubes
Inside Wonka’s Factory

“This must be mistake,” she said in a low voice and again took out her screen. She looked down at the map that had been given to her before checking all the data.  It was strange; none of the information matched what she was seeing in front of her.

“That idiot Slugworth, all his information is useless...” she grumbled.  “Oh well, it doesn’t matter now; that only means the job will be more expensive for him.”

She was still astonished as it seemed like she had arrived into a new world.  Throughout this great room, all she could see was vast color, but soon, she found herself able to distinguish a bridge.  All the trees and pretty grass seemed to be very well cared for.

She ignited her radar to detect if someone was in the vicinity.  As soon as the radar began to work, she went even deeper into that great room.  In the distance, she could hear the sounds, which resembled a cascade.  Further in she reached the bridge that connected two species of artificial islands.  At that moment, she realized that the gushing sounds were chocolate that fell into a great river that ran between those two islands.

“This is impossible,” she said aloud.  She was astonished by that scene, but then felt a vibration in her arm. The radar indicated, to her, that someone was approaching.

“Damn it!”

Quickly she ran and hid herself between two shrubs, all the while trying to make the least amount of noise as possible.  Next to her, a little man walked by.  He was no taller than twenty inches. With a lamp in his hand, he walked without paying even the slightest attention to her.  It seemed he had no knowledge of an intruder who was in the factory.  He wordless passed by without realizing anything.  She calmed herself at this point and exhaled when she noticed that the small man was undetectable by her radar.

“That was close. I must be more careful.” Although that experience left her with a serious doubt, she proceeded all the while asking herself how it was even possible that this small man even existed.

She kept recording new information in her touch screen when she accidentally pressed a hidden button in the grass.

Without warning, she fell through a sliding door that opened beneath her feet.  Soon, she was falling at great speed down a bottomless tube.  All that she could feel was strange dizziness as blinding lights shone in her face.  This made her abruptly close her eyes.

A short time later, she found herself hitting the ground and wild ride on the slide had reached an end.  She literally fell into another room full of flasks which contained liquids of all the colors of the rainbow.  Also in the room were containers filled with cocoa beans as well as tubes and burners that warmed up solutions.  Strange steam seemed to erupt from them and this flooded most of the atmosphere.

Having painfully fallen and landed in this room, she quickly scrambled her way underneath one of the so many tables that were in the room.  She reviewed her radar to see if anyone was close by, as she had done in the previous room.

There was no one around.  She rose and began to examine her surroundings; trying all the while not to touch anything.

There were many things that she did not understand, but after all, that was not the reason for her being in there.