Chapter 47: Judge, Jury, Executioner

A/N: Here we go! Time's End! I think ya'll will enjoy the little twist I add!

They landed on a long pathway, and were immediately blasted with intense heat. Hat Kid smiled at Bow Kid.

"I told you this lab was useful for something," She said, then tossed her a blue potion, and pulled one out for herself. They drank the potions, and it was as if the heat vanished. "This potion only grants heat resistance, don't go jumping into fire or lava," She explained, and they ran forward.

There was a golden statue of Moustache Girl holding a scale and resting her hand on a ticket dispenser with the words 'Take One' written on it, and they decided to take several. Just then, they saw the large line of people going up to the castle, and they saw Cooking Cat in front of them, and talked to her.

"I've been in hot kitchens before, but this is something else! I don't know how you're both not breaking a sweat, but I'm really cooking," She said tiredly, "Maybe you can skip the line and find out who's head chef here, kids?"

The girls then walked up to a larger, circular waiting area which looked like a clock with Moustache Girl's moustache on it, and talked to the Mafia Boss.

"It's so hot out here, my liquid is almost boiling!" He complained, then the girls walked up to Snatcher, who was also waiting there.

"Hey, kids. How are those souls of yours? Still rattling around in there?" He asked miserably, "I'd love to know who thinks they're a big enough deal to judge ME! So I've taken a few (hundred) souls, BIG DEAL! Do us all a favour, kids. Go check out who thinks they're better than us and hit them! I don't usually advocate that kind of thing, but, this is pretty authoritarian!"

"What about when you wanted us to murder the Fire Spirits?" Hat Kid asked.

"Territory thing, business, war, things you wouldn't really understand. Also, that was a one time thing! Besides, you were my slaves, I could've made you do anything!" He answered.

They moved on and went up some stairs, and saw DJ Grooves waiting there, and although he was a typically calm bird, he seemed mad. He noticed the girls immediately.

"Good to see you, darlings!" He greeted, adding happiness to his voice to drown out his anger, "Nice to know I'm not the only superstar waiting around this tawdry place. Slide on up past those doors and find out who's calling the shots, won't you?"

Hat Kid nodded, and they prepared to go inside, but saw the Conductor on the other side and walked up to him. He could be pretty short-fused but he seemed to be barely constraining his anger.

"Yer here too, lass?" He asked Hat Kid, "What is this place? I've never broken a law in me life!"

Hat Kid gave him a disappointed stare, knowing full well how wrong he was, but now was not the time to argue about law.

"Ohh, whoever they are, I'm nae gonna be judged by some mustached, hatless, hood-wearin, STATUE-POSIN', CASTLE DWELLIN', TICKET GIVIN' PECK NECK!" He shouted at the top of his lungs, so loudly both girls took steps back in surprise.

They stepped away slowly and opened the large double doors to the castle. They ran across the red carpet and entered the castle.

A very large and long corridor with lava covering the floor awaited them, and they avoided some flaming crows and swung off of a hookshot clamp onto a platform, then jumped onto a series of sinking pillars, and jumped onto a spring board, which bounced them up to a higher platform.

On this platform, there was a fire spinner with a fire spirit dancing on it, and they quickly jumped over it, then used their ice hats to bounce over to another platform, with a panicked Express Owl on it.

The owl noticed them and threw a clipboard at them, which they dodged easily.

"Give me your back of the line ticket!" The owl ordered, and Hat Kid whacked him, knocking him out, and sighed. Even the owls were becoming desperate enough to become hostile. Moustache Girl really needed to be stopped as soon as possible before anything worse could happen.

They jumped over to another platform, knocked out two more hostile owls, then wallclimbed up to a higher platform with some egg cannons on them. They used the egg projectiles to bounce themselves over to another platform. Between that platform and the next platform was a large gap with two moving, sinking pillars on them.

They carefully jumped onto the first pillar, waited, then jumped on the next one, then jumped onto the platform. In front of them, they saw a series of wooden platforms with a gigantic egg cannon shooting gigantic eggs down the platform.

They jumped onto the platform, jumped out of the way, continued, then swung off of two hookshot clamps to the next platform, then jumped down to another platform, then jumped down to the entrance to the next corridor.

At the beginning of the second corridor were some fire spinners and flaming crows, but dodged them and jumped onto a metal plate hanging from the ceiling. From there, they jumped onto a platform with a fire spinner on it and swung off of another hook toward the next platform.

The girls climbed a wall up to the next platform then jumped down to a long, thin wooden platform with two egg cannons shooting in a pattern, so they advanced carefully, jumping over an egg then ducking under the next, over and over until they made it to the next platform, then used their masks to jump on some dweller platforms up to the next platform.

On that platform, they dodged two flaming crows, and jumped onto a platform with a fire spinner and two more flaming crows on it, jumped down onto a similar platform, jumped onto a metal plate, then jumped down to yet another platform.

They used their masks again to jump onto a green platform, then jumped onto another plate. From there, both girls jumped onto another plate with a quadruple fire spinner next to it, jumped over to another similar plate, then swung off of two hooks to an unstable platform.

Simultaneously, they hopped off of unstable platform to unstable platform until they saw a green slope ahead of them, and used their masks to make it real so they could slide down onto the next platform.

When they got onto the next platform, they were attacked by LPG members, but they knocked them out and got their hats back, then Hat Kid used her mask to make a wall blocking their path disappear. They continued into the final corridor.

In the entrance to the last corridor, there was a large platform with owls on it, and a skeleton looking at them. They knocked out the hostile owls and the skeleton disappeared, making some bars disappear. Ahead was a series of pillars, the last two pillars with automated hammers striking down on them.

They advanced carefully and timed their jumps so they weren't hit by the hammers, and jumped up to another platform. On that platform they were attacked by yet another cat, who they defeated quickly, then they jumped onto a springboard, which bounced them up to a rectangular platform with a wall on it and a goat walking back and forth.

They climbed up the wall and jumped onto a metal plate, then jumped onto another plate with a fire spinner between that and the next plate, then jumped over said spinner, then jumped down onto yet another plate, then bounced off of balloons and swung off of a hook to another metal plate with hammers striking down on it in a wave pattern.

They slowly advanced across the plate, adapting to the pattern, and jumped onto the next platform without getting crushed by one of the hammers. On the platform were two quadruple fire spinners spinning simultaneously and a troubled Express Owl.

"I can't get through there! I'm no stunt owl!" The owl shouted desperately, then the girls jumped over the fire and jumped onto a plate. After that, they swung off of a hook onto a pillar, jumped onto another plate with a quadruple fire spinner, jumped down to a similar plate, jumped down onto a pillar, dove over to another pillar, then dove over to the last area.

Hat Kid had butterflies in her stomach. She just hoped Moustache Girl wasn't abusing the Time Pieces any more than just using them to alter the planet, as if she used them to give herself power, she'd basically have become a goddess and basically unstoppable.

The platform was divided into two pathways that were being battered by hammers, which they dodged easily, then they jumped over to the red carpeted corridor to Moustache Girl. They walked slowly through the hallway, looking at her paintings of herself, and Hat Kid sighed. No matter what happens, this will not be pleasant in the slightest.

They opened the giant double doors, and saw a Mafia Goon on his knees over a trapdoor and Moustache Girl sitting in a throne on top of a pile of Time Pieces.

"I didn't punch old man for, like, 2 days straight that one time!" The Mafia Goon begged, but Moustache Girl was unfazed.

"Oh, wow! What a touching story!" She said sarcastically, "Just kidding! Bad guy! Next!" The trapdoor opened and the Mafia Goon fell to his doom with a cry.

When Moustache Girl didn't see someone on the trapdoor, she became annoyed. "I said: NEXT!"

Seeing the sheer narcissism Moustache Girl had adopted enraged Hat Kid. She literally thought everyone else on the planet was inferior.

They stepped forward onto the trapdoor.

"Oh, it's you." Moustache Girl said condescendingly, "You've been kind of selfish little pests, but, eh, you haven't actually stood in my way, you get to go on, you're good guys, I guess."

The door opened behind them. "Go on! You get to live! NEXT!" Moustache Girl shouted, but they didn't budge.

"Don't think we don't know what you did," Hat Kid said judgingly, "We know you stole our Time Pieces. You talk about crime, yet you think stealing is okay because you did it?"

"Watch your voice or I'll revoke my decision," Moustache Girl threatened, "You aren't in a position to talk back to me,"

"Regardless, you don't understand. We don't want to stay here, we just want to go home, and we need those Time Pieces to do so! They're our fuel! So, give them back to us and we'll be fine. Please." Hat Kid begged, "We know your story, we understand your hatred for the Mafia. What they did was and is wrong, but you shouldn't stoop down to their level."

"Don't you dare compare me to the Mafia. I'm considering executing you now," Moustache Girl hissed, "These Time Pieces are mine now. At least I'm actually using their full potential."

"That doesn't make sense. It's better for the Time Pieces to not be used at all than to be misused," Hat Kid argued. "Please, just give us what belongs to us. We weren't even meant to be here."

"No means no," Moustache Girl said stubbornly, and Hat Kid turned around.

"Very well. Come on, Bow," She said suspiciously, and they began slowly walking to the door, until Hat Kid suddenly turned around and bolted toward Moustache Girl with her umbrella out, running up the pile of Time Pieces to attack her, when she backhanded her away.

"Excuse me?! Don't you dare get anywhere near me! I don't think you quite understand who's in charge, little missy," She barked condescendingly.

"Come down here and I'll show you who's little!" Hat Kid taunted, and Moustache Girl clenched her fists.

"You know, I was willing to forgive you. I once thought we were going to be best buds!" She shouted.

"Yeah, no. You're far too insane, selfish, and rude for me to want to associate with you," Hat Kid muttered.

"But nope! You turned out to be rotten and selfish! Save the planet from bad guys? Pfft, who needs that am I right?" Moustache Girl stated.

"You are right. This planet doesn't need saving. It doesn't need a hero! I talked to literally everyone back at the queue, everybody hates you! Can't you see that?!" Hat Kid hissed.

"But look at all I've done without you. I'VE restored justice. I AM the justice! No more bad guys, ever!" Moustache Girl shouted.

"You can't have good without bad. You can't see that. Your extreme tendencies, combined with your narcissism and your ignorant, black and white view of the world is terrible. You are the bad guy!" Hat Kid yelled, "Your castle is literally a death trap full of lava! I've played video games! In most of them, a lava filled death trap castle is literally the bad guy's lair!"

"I don't care! This is not a video game! I don't need you, this planet doesn't need you! No one will miss you, and no one will care!" Moustache Girl barked.

"It doesn't matter whether people will miss us when we leave or care, but this planet is a mess because of YOU! It does need us!" Hat Kid shouted, and Moustache Girl jumped off of her throne and landed in front of them.

"YOU are the bad guy, and I'LL show you how this justice system deals with bad guys!" Moustache Girl shouted, then teleported around while looking at Hat Kid. She frowned. She was abusing the Time Pieces' power. She had a feeling what she was going to do, and when she teleported right in front of her, she was met with an umbrella whack.

She teleported into the air and threw some Time Pieces at the girls, who dodged, then floated down, and Bow Kid whacked her. She then flew back into the air and did a Superman pose while beginning to spin around rapidly, then she charged at Bow Kid, who jumped into the air and homing attacked her.

She then disappeared into the ground, but they could see her aura of power and dodged accordingly, and then Hat Kid whacked her.

She teleported around again, this time locked onto Bow Kid, who wasn't paying attention enough and recieved a fist to the face, knocking her down. Hat Kid whacked her with her umbrella again, but she was prepared and took a defensive stance.

Both girls were knocked back in different directions and were going to continue fighting when a yell pierced the room.

"SHE CAN GET LOST!" A familiar masculine, accented voice yelled, and the girls turned to see a Mafia Goon standing with them. "Moustached girl not welcome here, Mafia say, GET LOST!"

The Conductor walked into the room and stopped next to the goon, then shook his fist at Moustache Girl. "That's right, get lost! No one wants ye here! Ain't that right, big lad?" He yelled, and a Goat walked into the room and stopped behind them, then nodded his head in agreement.

A band of Moon Penguins entered the room with DJ Grooves and began snapping their fingers. "Get lost! Ain't that right, gang?" The lead Moon Penguin yelled, and the rest of the Moon Penguins began yelling as well.

"Get lost!"

"Go away!"

"You suck!"

Then, Cooking Cat jumped onto the Goat's head, who let it happened, and slashed the air in Moustache Girl's direction. "Yeah, get lost!"

DJ Grooves stepped forward. "Darling, this place is nothing but a flashy mess of your making! Get lost!" He yelled as well, then Snatcher appeared behind the Goat.

"This alternate reality stinks! GET LOST!" He yelled, then everyone in the room began screaming "GET LOST!" in Moustache Girl's direction, who seemed betrayed and hurt. The girls were surprised to see everyone defending them, especially the Mafia and Snatcher.

"W-wha? But I'm... fixing everything! No more bad guys! Why can't you see I'm doing this for all of us?!" She shouted sadly.

"They don't need a hero. Everything was just fine before this. Mafia Town was rough but it wasn't crumbling, Dead Bird Studio was just as normal, Subcon Forest was, well, Subcon Forest but doing just fine, and Alpine Skyline was doing great. We don't need you. Nobody here needs you!" Hat Kid hissed, and everyone cheered in agreement. Moustache Girl turned to Hat Kid and Bow Kid.

"How can you stand behind these people? They're crooks! Criminals! And y-you're helping THEM?" She yelled, and Hat Kid nodded.

"You can't judge someone because of one action. There are good Mafia out there, believe it or not. Conductor may have tried to kill us but that wasn't his doing. DJ Grooves is just fine. Snatcher is, uh, a special case, and all of the residents of Alpine Skyline are innocent people who mind their own business. You can't just judge everyone like this, you can't judge a book by it's cover," Hat Kid explained, but Moustache Girl wouldn't listen.

"This ends now!" She hissed, then threw a Time Piece down, which swallowed everything in darkness. Time Pieces began raining from the sky, and the girls had to dodge them, until, instantly, the area changed to an epileptic circular arena with everyone watching outside the arena, and the arena only contained three people.

Hat Kid, Bow Kid, and Moustache Girl, who had a visible dark aura of power. She began teleporting rapidly around the arena until she teleported in front of Hat Kid, who whacked her.

Moustache Girl flew up into the air and began throwing Time Pieces down, but instead of shattering on impact, they stayed on the ground and began emitting lines of darkness, and they dodged out of the way before they broke, releasing dark walls of energy.

She floated down and Bow Kid hit her. She then teleported to the back of the arena and harnessed her power in her hands, then shot a giant death ray at Bow Kid, who jumped out of the way, and Hat Kid snuck behind her and hit her.

Moustache Girl continued this pattern of attacks for around a minute, until she realized something. If they were going to dodge her attacks, why can't she dodge theirs? She shot a laser at Hat Kid, who jumped and dove toward her, but she teleported away. She tried getting near her again, but she kept teleporting away.

A Mafia Goon noticed this and turned to the Conductor.

"Little Hat Kid can't even hit evil moustached girl! We have to help!" He shouted anxiously, and the Conductor nodded.

"Ye got it, lad! Let's give 'em something they can jab at that lil' red nuisance so she'll get lost!" He yelled, and the Mafia Goon nodded and turned to his comrades.

"Boys! Mafia Ball!" He yelled to them, and they nodded and all jumped into the air on the same spot, forming the Mafia Ball, which Conductor jumped on top of, and it landed in the center of the arena.

"Let's roll!" Conductor shouted, then laughed. "Lil' girls! Give us a shove right into that red lass's ugly mug!"

Hat Kid nodded and kicked it toward Moustache Girl with all her might, so hard Conductor could barely keep on top of it as it careened into Moustache Girl. She gasped with surprise and teleported into the air, and threw more Time Pieces down.

The ball landed back in the center of the arena and Bow Kid kicked it toward Moustache Girl, and it hit her and bounced back up into the air. Moustache Girl tried using her death ray and Time Pieces to attack them, but they dodged and kicked the Mafia Ball toward her every time.

She saw it coming the last time and punched the Conductor just as the Ball hit her, causing it to disperse, so Conductor and the Mafia retreated back into the viewing area. Moustache Girl took the Time Pieces and made them orbit her in a spherical pattern, and weaved their power into a shield.

She teleported toward Hat Kid and she tried whacking her with her umbrella, but her umbrella bounced off the shield with a depressing CLANG, and Moustache Girl punched her in the face, knocking her back with a yelp of surprise.

Snatcher saw this and became enraged. Only he is allowed to be invincible in a fight, but more importantly, (even though he'd never admit it) ONLY HE WAS ALLOWED TO HURT THEM! So, he turned to the goat next to him and grinned.

"Let's sign a contract and make this girl get lost, once and for all!" He muttered to the goat, who nodded in approval, then he summoned a contract, which the goat signed. He chuckled. "Alright, let's go! I'll create, you throw!" He instructed the goat, who nodded again, then created an activated cherry bomb, which he passed to the goat, who chucked it into the arena.

Hat Kid saw the cherry and knew what to do, she picked it up and threw it right in Moustache Girl's face, not only did it obliterate the shield, the explosion penetrated it and hit her. While she was stunned, she ran up to her and whacked her with the umbrella.

She snarled angrily and dove into the ground, but they could see her and dodged before she erupted from the ground, and Bow Kid whacked her when she came down. She then bounced high into the air and slammed into the ground, making a shockwave. She did this repeatedly until she tired, and Hat Kid whacked her with her umbrella.

She reactivated her shield, and another cherry was thrown into the arena, which Bow Kid picked up and chucked into Moustache Girl, which blew up her shield, and she was knocked down, and she ran toward her.

However, she had a plan.

Before Bow Kid could whack her, she reactivated her shield, however, not around who you'd think. The shield was around Bow Kid. She looked around in confusion and tilted her head.

"Uh, did you mean to do that?" She asked Moustache Girl, who grinned evilly, then flew into the air, and brought the shield with her, with Bow Kid inside. She began spinning the shield around extremely rapidly for around a minute, and Bow Kid began losing consciousness.

Before that could happen, Moustache Girl broke the shield, sending Bow Kid flying into a wall literally faster than a speeding bullet, releasing a very loud BOOM as that happened. She slid down the wall and dropped down to the floor without moving.

Hat Kid rushed to her side immediately, and she tried waking her up, but she was knocked out cold. Suddenly, pure rage began circling through her mind once again.

How dare she?

How dare she?

HOW DARE SHE ATTACK HER FIRST OFFICER?!

She turned to Moustache Girl and got up, giving her a look of intense hatred, which only made her raise an eyebrow.

"You're going to regret that," She told Moustache Girl calmly, who just snorted. They began fighting again, and Moustache Girl created a shield around herself again, but more cherries came in, and she was getting impatient.

"ENOUGH!" She yelled, then flew up into the center of the arena and shot a death ray down into the spectator area, killing multiple crows, Mafia, minions, Express Owls, and more.

"NO!" Hat Kid screamed, and she tried chucking a potion at Moustache Girl, but she dodged and shot a laser at Hat Kid, knocking her back into the wall as well. She groaned, and tried getting up, but her entire body was burned from the laser and she was exhausted from the battle, so she just fell onto her hands and knees.

Moustache Girl slowly walked over to her, ready to finish her off, but an idea came into a Mafia Goon's head, and he turned to his comrade.

"Oh, when Mafia die, Mafia drop health pons, this give Mafia an idea!" He began, and everyone turned to him in confusion. "Little hat girl need help to turn back time. If Mafia die, little hat girl get useful pons. Mafia has to die to save world!"

His fellow Mafia member was shocked. "What?! Plan is crazy!" He yelled.

"Fellow Mafia no worry. If little girl succeed, Mafia come back when Time rewinds! Now, punch me with all your might, fellow Mafia! No hesitation!" He shouted bravely, and the other Mafia nodded.

They both shouted the same thing as the one Mafia punched the other: "Red-hooded girl, GET LOST!" The Mafia picked up his friend's death pons with great sadness and turned to Hat Kid.

"Hat girl, here, take these!" He shouted as he tossed her the pons, and their life force began healing her immediately, and she got up and smiled sadly.

Conductor chuckled. "Oh, those Mafia lads, so foolishly brave. But, eh, what's the point of livin' if I ain't got me train anyway?"

The penguin and the girl both turned to him and gasped. "Alright, DJ Grooves, the two of us are gonna help this lil' hat lass. Get ready for a mean punch, and ye aim for me face, that's me weak spot!"

"I can't do that, darling!" The DJ shouted in shock.

"Like the Mafia lad said, we'll come back when Time rewinds. Trust me as your rival, and trust the lass' strength," He explained, and the DJ nodded. "This angry red lass needs to GET LOST!"

The two birds punched eachother and died, and they dropped heart pons, which levitated toward Hat Kid, who silently cried at their loss. She grabbed the pons instead of using them and brought them to Bow Kid, but to her dismay, they wouldn't go in, and that meant only one thing.

"No... no it can't be. Not again!" She screamed, "This can't be happening! Come on!" She tried multiple times, even forcing them in, but they wouldn't work. Bow Kid had died from that attack. Hat Kid fell to her knees and began crying, but remembered something. If she won, she'd get the Time Pieces back and rewind Time, then Bow Kid would be back.

She nodded, silently paid her respects to Bow Kid, and got up and stared Moustache Girl in the eye, and everybody began clashing to die to give Hat Kid heart pons. She got hundreds upon hundreds of heart pons, and gasped at the sheer power coursing through her veins.

She had the strength, the power, the life force, and the undying will of an entire army.

She became a one girl army, and became so powerful an aura of white and gold began emanating from her.

"W-what is this? If everyone disappears but me, then I'd be all alone! Bad guys, stop it!" She shouted desperately.

"No, YOU'RE the bad guy! Get lost!" The Mafia Boss shouted, then Hat Kid set her power to counteract Moustache Girl's, and the whole dimension rumbled.

"M-my powers are disappearing?" She muttered.

Then, the two most powerful being in the Universe stared eachother down, then began fighting.

Time Pieces began raining from the sky as adrenaline pumped through both girls' veins, and Moustache Girl teleported around the arena extremely rapidly, and punched Hat Kid in the face, who was knocked back, but felt no pain, as she was healed immediately. She whacked Moustache Girl in the face.

She retreated, then shot a death ray out, which Hat Kid jumped over and dove toward her, but she teleported away multiple times, but Hat Kid was fast and was able to attack her before she could teleport away.

She then hovered in the air and threw down a ton of Time Pieces, making Hat Kid's eyes widen, and she didn't have enough time to dodge before they exploded, and she was knocked back, but she got up and whacked Moustache Girl as she came down.

Moustache Girl then bounced up and down across the arena, making shockwaves, but Hat Kid caught her and hit her. She was absolutely furious, she had had enough.

She teleported into the center of the arena and shot her death ray out, and Hat Kid jumped over it, but she stopped and shot a new laser in her path, and kept the laser on her as she fell to the ground.

She held her arm up and a shield of light came out, and she stepped back and groaned, she wasn't strong enough to hold this laser back for long. The laser pierced the shield and Moustache Girl put every single bit of her power into it, a desperate final attack in a bid to destroy her hatted foe, and Hat Kid screamed out in agony as it felt like her entire body was disintegrating.

However, she kept getting healed, and she decided to give Moustache Girl a taste of her own medicine by using her power to teleport behind her, and before she could dodge out of the way, Hat Kid channeled all of her power into her umbrella and whacked Moustache Girl in the face as hard as she could, causing light to fill the arena, and Moustache Girl fell flat on her face on the ground, and they were back in the throne room.

All of the Time Pieces assembled into a giant ball, and Hat Kid stepped in front of Moustache Girl and stared down at her, who looked up weakly, and Hat Kid blew her a raspberry, and she fell back down to the ground, out cold.

Hat Kid grinned from ear to ear and grabbed the ball of Time Pieces, doing a little jig before holding it above her head and throwing it on the ground, rewinding Time.