Hat Kid's Spaceship
It has been sometime after she landed on the planet. She have learned most of the places' origins, saved its settlements from lava flood or toilet terrorism and made new friends and hats. After a week on the planet without finding any more timepieces, Hat Kid confirmed she had found all of them and returned to her spaceship. Before activating her spaceship's hyper jets to cover a few more lightyears, she waved her friends goodbye and even cried a little bit.
The hyper jets are now cooling down. The bedroom lights automatically switched on suddenly, causing Hat Kid's slumber to be rudely disrupted as she jumped high out of the bed in surprise before faceplanting onto the carpeted floor, her hat floating down back onto her head.
"Good morning, and welcome to yet another space adventure!" announced the automated voice in her spaceship. "You are only: 2 lightyears away from your destination!"
She then recovered from the fall and yawned as she tiredly trudged towards the doorway, ignoring the voice which was listing things for her to do from the 'To do' list.
She walked into the main hub of her spaceship and, now fully awake, ran up the stairs to the huge screen with an exclamation mark."Boop!" She playfully said as she tapped on the screen, switching the image to a diagram showing the amount of hourglass-shaped fuel in her spaceship, which was at full capacity before it faded to the progress on the space journey back home.
Hat Kid then remembered how she ended up getting stranded: it was due to a Mafia goon who somehow got into space and thought it was a good idea to punch through her windows, and that sucked her and her fuels out of the spaceship, via the vacuum of space, onto some planet. Out of experience and caution, she turned her head to the windows, looking out for any potential space invaders and, to her relief, there are none. She jumped down over the railing, almost landing onto a vacuum-cleaning roomba, and walked towards the windows.
Through the windows, she had a close-up view of a planet of similar surface finish to most other planets she has passed. It seems that according to the 'Dummy's Detailed Guide to Space Travel: Universal Version' book, this planet is also called 'Earth'. Hat Kid wondered why many planets are named or more so, look like Earth. Or perhaps the theory on multiple Earths existing in a galaxy could be true.
However, she was pulled out of her contemplation as she noticed a glowing comet of energy that was the size of a flea, well at a long distance since Hat Kid is squinting her eyes to get a clear view of the energy getting larger and larger- oh wait. It's zeroing in closer and closer to her spaceship at high speed! After realising that it is not just a ball of energy, her eyes widened as she quickly backed away from the windows and ran around in circles, panicking in despair as the energy missile smashed through her windows and into the main hub, critically damaging the part where it caused the vault door to open, exposing the timepieces to the vacuum of space as she got sucked out of the spaceship screaming.
As she was falling into the planet's atmosphere, she noticed that her once-retrieved timepieces were now scattering into the skies in random directions.
"Here we go again..." Hat Kid muttered, annoyed that everything in the galaxy is trying to stop her from getting back home.
Morning, on the streets of New Meridian
After a rough encounter with Peacock, thanks to Samson not giving her back the money he borrowed from, Filia wiped away the post-battle sweat beads on her face and brushed off the dust from her slightly tattered school uniform before she looked at Samson in a worrying manner, although Samson is located on the back of her head.
"Phew, that was a close call. Samson, you need to stop your shenanigans while I'm sleeping!" She reprimanded him in a way most mothers would to their children.
"I was hungry okay?!" Samson rasped back. "Eh, sorry about that incident. That advertisement I saw looked so tempting, I felt the need to gobble down on that secret recipe fried chicken! Anyways, we should resume looking for that Skullhea- What the hell is that...?"
Filia heard a sound of an airplane headed behind her. As the deafening sound got closer, she let out a yelp and ducked down. She got a quick glimpse at the large strangely-shaped aircraft that was leaving a smoke trail behind it as it crashed down towards the direction she was facing. She has never seen something like that before, but the smoke trail it left means it was shot down by something. The first thing that came to her mind was the Skullgirl. There was no one she knew other than the powerful Skullgirl that could bring down an aircraft like the one that flew over the place she was standing in.
"Could the Skullgirl possibly have caused this?" Filia thought.
"Look out, kid!" Samson warned her as he detected another flying object hurtling towards their position. He quickly responded by transforming Filia's black long hair into a whip and whacking it away behind her, causing it to clink on the sidewalk a few times before rolling to a stop. Filia turned around to see a perfectly unscathed hourglass and picked it up, examining it.
"An hourglass?" Filia described as she carefully handled the strange object that radiated unknown energy.
"From the sky..." Samson continued.
"I think it might have come from the falling aircraft we saw just now."
"Yeah, whatever this is, it's just some useless junk. We're looking for the wish-giving Skullheart, not some hourglass that fell from the sky!"
"What if someone needs it?"
"Drop it, they'll find this themselves."
Filia frowned and scratched her head in doubt.
"I am not sure Samson... it would be rude for me to not return it to its owner."
"It's... *sigh* one of these days you're gonna get yourself in trouble. Just hold on to it for as long as you want, kid. But remember: our focus is on the Skullheart."
In agreement to heed Samson's reminder, she nodded. She walked around the streets in search of any leads to the Skullheart.
In the sky above Canopolis
"Uuuugh..." Hat Kid groaned impatiently as she slowly parachuted using an umbrella she stole from the strong hands of a mafia goon. To be honest, the mafia of cooks back on that planet are three times her size and yet, one of them surrendered quickly when she used his umbrella against him! She have anticipated much more from those weird crooks who dominated the island she landed on.
From great heights, she could see a metropolis, a multitudinous land of tall buildings with long-stretching roads in between them and airships hovering in the skies, a grand city much bigger than all the settlements she has visited on the previous planet.
Her hand became sore from holding the umbrella for too long. And from that, she made a mental note for herself: to open the umbrella closer to the ground next time.
To speed up her obviously long descent, she closed her umbrella and, in an instant magical poof cloud, switched her standard hat to an ice hat. This gave her the ability to transform into an ice statue, letting her fall quickly from the increased weight. As she was falling down, she noticed that the roof of the building she was going to land on is made of carved glass, and it would cause too much noise if she smashes through it. Hat kid, now surprised, broke out of her ice statue and reopened her umbrella with her other hand. She struggled to slow her descent down by frantically waving her other arm like a chicken and closed her eyes to prepare herself for the worst, just to feel her brown boot lightly tap the glass to her relief. She slid down the curved slope of the roof and landed on the other section of it that is made of marble.
Hat Kid changed back to her normal hat and watched her damaged spaceship gliding over to another city in the distance along with the timepieces that looked like shooting stars. Looks like she'll have to find a way to quickly travel over to the place if she wants to get back home, but for now, she must explore a bit and look for anything that can help her get there.
Perhaps going inside the building she was standing on and asking people for directions could help. Hat Kid noticed a conveniently placed air vent nearby that she can access to enter the building. To do so, she opened the vent cover and crawled into it.
[Author's nootz]
This is, for real, my first fanfiction. And I know I can't make more chapters alone because there are certain general concepts and ideas that I have little knowledge of, such as the military or food or wotever. If you have any ideas on advancing this story, write em down in your reviews! Heck, I think I can create a thread on Drawception about this fanfic! Anyways, I'll see ya all on the next chapter, where Hat Kid meets Umbrella Renoir! Shite I spoiled it