This is a fanfic for A Hat in Time. All characters and the game itself all belong to Gears for Breakfast (by the way, amazing jobs you mad geniuses!)
If I include any OC characters, I will add them in at certain points with their names in bold... kinda like how this disclaimer is.
And so you know, the POV will be in Hat Kid's POV, who I am not giving a different name. It would ruin the experience, in my opinion XD
With all this out of the way, let us begin.

Chapter 1

"Little one..." I heard the voice say. It was my mother again. I smiled at how I heard her voice, wondering where she was right now. It seemed that the closer I got, the further I was. "Do not fret, my child... you are nearing home day by day... I am still waiting," her voice said, me smiling and cooing... but then I gasped as something interrupted our conversation.

"HELLO ONE AND ALL! It's time for the morning news of space and time!" the radio exclaimed, forcing me to wake up and fall on the ground, me groaning at that and sighing.

"Dammit... why does that thing always wake me up just as I'm talking to mommy... ugh..." I groaned as I simply turned off my radio, knowing it was my alarm that did so. It meant that I needed to get back to work at steering my ship. I simply washed my face with some antiseptic in my vanity, me smiling at my complexion. Even though I looked like I was a little girl, I was, believe it or not, 169 years old! And in only two more days of my own time calendar, I'd be 170 years old. But that was how it was for my species. What was my species?

It's kind of hard to explain, but I'm from the planet of Hattania. Everyone on that planet has an affinity for making hats. And every single hat that went to the top of our heads gave us a different ability for each type. If it was a mask, it'd allow us to see anything invisible and dispelled darkness. A hat relating to cold weather would turn us into heavy statues of ice for a temporary time, and my personal favorite, my big top hat, allowed me to see anything that may need tuning in the ship and anything of importance. But the thing is, our race was especially adept at using the power of time itself to traverse across the universe... that is why I always made sure all of my special time pieces were kept in my special safe. If they fell into the wrong hands, it'd be a horrible experience for anyone.

"Hmm..." I frowned as my hat alerted me something was going on in the main control room, me going to that area from my bedroom. And when I got to it, I was shocked. There was a person outside of the super-reinforced glass at the front of my ship... by the emergency door.

"Huh?" I frowned as I then changed my hat to my speaker one, which was made to look like one you'd find at a fast food joint. "Excuse me, who are you and why are you outside my ship?" I asked him, the man looking at me in confusion and then talking like a stereotypical mobster.

"Little girl in charge of spaceship as big as this? Well, no matter, Mafia requires payment for all passersby, even space ones," the goon said, me frowning at him.

"Why would I give money to any Mafia? Besides, I don't have your kind of currency, unless you take Pons as payment?" I smiled as I held out at least 200 Pons in a small case I had.

"Hmph, never heard of them things. Mafia has no need for small green balls. If you won't give the toll, I'm coming in to take it myself," the mafia guy said, me then gasping. He was going to try to open the door! I simply grabbed onto the door handle on my side and pulled it shut before he could open it too far.

"Don't be an idiot, guy! If you open this door, the place is gonna get trashed since we're in the vacuum of space! And this place has very important items that could spell doom for the universe if interrupted!" I exclaimed, the guy not even caring. He simply did something that made me gulp. He took his massive muscles and began to smash his way through the glass! I gasped at this as he then managed to break down the glass, forcing the air inside of my ship to escape like a vacuum, sucking him right back out and to the planet he came from! And I gasped as my vault was forced open from the suction of the hole, forcing me to push the 'Emergency Auto-Repair switch on my small control panel. But it was too late. Just as I pushed the button, I felt the force of the suction pull both me and all of my precious Time Pieces out of the ship! And I knew I had to get them back by any means! And when I looked in the sky, I saw them spread out to five other neighboring planets and some of them turning around and hitting my ship in a few areas, resulting in them turning into time rifts!

"Dammit, I need all 56 in order for the world to be safe! Not only that, but they power my ship! Without the source of the ship's power, there's no way I can get back home in time for my 200th birthday! And that's the day that was said would be the best possible option! UGH!" I groaned as I then looked down and saw that I was rapidly approaching the ground of a large seaside island area. And my body collided into the ground, forcing me to go through some floorboards before I finally was able to stop falling. "Oof... good thing I'm naturally immune to gravitational force like that... now where to go? I know some of those Time Pieces fell on this planet full of those jerk mafia losers, but where?" I asked as I then moved through the area I was currently in, that being an alleyway.

I then got to an area where I saw some mafia goons get put into a pile and I saw a girl that looked confusing. She wore a red hood and had a white dress underneath, but she looked like a total literal tomboy. Why? She had blonde hair, a couple scrapes on her face... oh yeah, and she also had a mustache... one that oddly looked like the mafia goons' mustaches. "U-Um... excuse me?" I asked, the girl gasping at me and running off, me immediately giving chase.

"H-Hey! Wait! I want information!" I exclaimed as I rushed after her, seeing more mafia losers on the way... but then I came across something that threw me off track. There was a strange person of purple skin tone and wearing a fancy suit... but his body looked like it was decayed in a fashion that looked like a computer glitch... "Um... who are you? And why the static?" I asked him, the man looking at me in an off-putting manner.

"Oh, hello, fellow traveler. One of the Hattian populace, are you?" the guy asked, me gasping at that.

"H-How'd you know that?!" I gawked at him.

"I can tell just by looking at your ponytail and your hat on your head. Your ponytail moves independently and your hat has magic in it," the guy said, me smirking at him.

"Well then... I'd like to stay and chat, but I'm chasing after that girl in the red hood," I frowned at him.

"Do come back, then. I'll be around the place. I sell specialty medals for the currency of Green Pons. In fact, these medals are useful for you Hattians specifically," the man said.

"Okay... name?" I asked.

"I have only one name. Badge Seller. As for the twitchiness of my body? It is because of my travelling to many worlds beginning to take its toll on me," he said. I nodded and saw that the mustached girl had beat up some more mafia goons on the way and I finally caught up, only for her to cheat and use a rising rope to get to belfry of a pretty tall tower!

"Oi! What's shakin' with you, lass?" she asked from her standpoint, me smiling at her and shouting back.

"I need help trying to find my fuel! You know, those things that look like giant hourglasses!" I exclaimed at her.

"Oh, you mean that junk that fell from the sky? I think I can help ya, mate! First ya gotta get up here, though!" the mustached girl said, me sighing and looking for some way to get to her... and my smile widened when I happened to see a button on the big crane that was holding up a large platform filled with crates! I simply pushed it and saw the crane had accidentally dropped a box. And guess what? It happened to contain a bit of yarn in it! I rushed after the yarn and put it under my hat for safe keeping before scaling the crane and the wooden platform before finally joining up with the blonde mustached girl.

"So, what's your name, miss?" she asked, me gulping and frowning at that.

"I... I don't have one," I said, her looking at me in confusion.

"Huh? How can't ya have a name?" she asked.

"Well, I come from a far planet called Hattania, but I was kidnapped as a 60 year old by a space pirate. I beat him and stole his ship, which I converted to run on those magical hourglasses and-" I was saying before the girl in the hood stopped me with a finger to the lips.

"60 years old?! Well how old are ya now, then?" she asked in disbelief.

"169, and it's gonna be 170 in a few days of my planet's rotation," I said, the girl gawking at that.

"Whoa... you don't look a day older than me! And I'm only 12!" the mustached girl said.

"Yeah... but why the uh..." I frowned, her sighing at that.

"In this planet, everyone has a mustache that is this shape. It includes girls too. But the Mafia took over this island and I'm trying to take them down for good," the girl said.

"Well, how about we just stick to the basics of name calling? I'll call you Mustache Girl, you call me Hat Kid. Okay?" I smiled. The girl frowned a bit, but then smiled at me.

"Fine, don't bother me none. Now about that magical hourglass, or junk as everyone here is calling them, one of them fell by the fountain in the plaza up ahead. Come on, I'll show ya," Mustache Girl smirked at me as I then followed after her and we came upon the plaza itself... and one of the Mafia grunts had the hourglass on him. "You may have to take out those thugs in order to get that hourglass back. And I recommend stealing that umbrella from that guy. He stole it from my house just five days ago."

"Understood. Thanks for the tip," I smiled at her as I then went off to the area in question and I approached the mafia goon holding my hourglass, him looking at me with a smile as I then pointed at the important item. "Give that back! It's mine!" I said to him.

"Eh? Here," he said, me smirking and about to grab it, but then he pulled his arm back and held me at bay with the umbrella. "Hahaha! You such a wimp! Gahaha!" the goon laughed, which then turned into a gasp as I yanked the umbrella out of his hand and, in the process, I accidentally snapped his wrist! "Grgk... GAGH!" he gawked at my strength.

"Never mess with an angry Hattian. Now..." I frowned as I held out the umbrella by the pointed tip. "Are you going to hand my hourglass over kindly, or would you like your other hand busted?" I asked, the goon gulping and giving me the hourglass before running for the hills, me smiling triumphantly at the victory I'd just achieved. "Alright! Time to get back to my ship with you in tow... ha!" I smirked as I focused my power into the hourglass and I warped myself back to my ship, where I then placed it into my vault and smiled at how the auto-repair systems were operational long enough to patch up the hole with extremely sturdy bark from a planet I'd been to previously. It was basically a piece of wood that was harder than diamonds and could only be cut by a Hattian's punch or from a special laser... yeah, I had an unnatural strength despite my size. It was natural considering my age and species.

"Okay, now that you're safe, the power should be on for the basic support systems. So now I can use the escape hatch in the kitchen in order to go to the Mafia planet again. I still need to get those other Time Pieces after all," I smiled as I then proceeded to the kitchen and activated the secret escape hatch under the stove. It was just the beginning of an epic adventure.