Chapter 2

When I got back onto the Mafia planet's main town, I immediately heard the sound of something I didn't expect. "HELP!" I heard Mustache Girl exclaim, me looking over to the direction of the sound and seeing that the Mafia goons had her in their meaty hands and they were atop a large pile of TNT barrels! I immediately rushed over there while collecting any Pons that I saw on the ground, managing to get a hundred more before getting over to the location, me looking at the mafia guys and growling.

"Let her go right now, punk!" I exclaimed as I then saw that the main one holding onto Mustache Girl also had a Time Piece on his other hand!

"Haha! What are you gonna do, little girl?" the mafia goon laughed, me smirking and doing something that I knew he wouldn't like. I only used it whenever I wanted to rescue people. What did I do? I slowed time with my special bandanna styled hat, which made my movements faster than all the jerks as I then rushed up the barrels and knocked each goon across the head with either my umbrella or my fists, managing to rush up to the head goon and bite him on the hand he held onto Mustache Girl with, the power running out just as I grabbed the Time Piece, all the Mafia goons either passing out from their blows or yelling in pain!

"Whoa!" Mustache Girl exclaimed as she fell onto her butt and I simply grabbed her hand and had us rush away from them, her smirking at me. "Mate, am I glad you came around when you did!" she smirked at me.

"You're welcome, friend," I smiled at her. "By the way, while I'm still here, you think you can tell me if you've seen any strange rifts around?" I asked her.

"Rifts? What kind are you talking about?" MG asked.

"They look either blue or purple-pink. They appear whenever these hourglasses collide into either an item or person and get broken... ah! Like that right there in that pipe!" I smiled when I saw one right in a pipe near the river, Hat Girl looking there and gawking.

"Oh, those things! Yeah, I've seen them before! I think I saw one in a small cave-in by the indoor Mafia market and then I saw a pink rift above the beach to the northeast!" Mustache Girl smirked.

"Thanks! Maybe I can get those ones before I get back to the ship," I smiled.

"Need help?"

I sighed and shook my head no. "Sorry, but though they look harmless, they are really dangerous in the wrong hands. I may be friends with you, but these things could spell doom for the entire universe if handled by anyone other than a Hattian like myself," I frowned at her.

"Well... didn't expect that junk like that could be that dangerous. How so?" Mustache Girl asked.

"I'd rather not say. But let's just say, the result of those rifts is from them shattering onto an object or a person. The blue ones are formed upon contact with an object and the pink ones are formed upon contact with a person and shattering. The result is an alternate universe being created for the blue ones and the person being trapped inside an eternal bad dream in the pink ones unless I grab the hourglass from the rifts," I said, Mustache Girl gawking at that.

"Damn... that's spooky," she gulped.

"Indeed. Now, I'd normally not do this, but here. I think I can trust you," I smiled as I handed her the Time Piece that I got from the Mafia goon taking her hostage. "I'll focus my powers into this hourglass and you'll warp directly to my ship above the planet. Put this hourglass inside of the big vault in there and lock it up tight immediately after. Okay?" I smiled at her.

"Deal. I'll be careful not to break it," she smiled at me as I then gave her the hourglass and I focused my powers into it, her then being warped to my ship. I then went off to the rift and entered the one in the pipe, me smirking as I then entered the alternate world.

"Okay, now to get to the end," I smiled as I then proceeded to jump from one part of the place to the other on the different platforms. It was really quite easy to do so. And by the time I got to the end, I smirked widely as I grabbed the Time Piece and then warped myself back to Mafia Town with it in hand. I then tried to find the Mafia's indoor market. And upon finding it, I did the same with the blue rift that was in the caved in cave... and then came the pink rift above the beach. By the time I got to this one, the sky began to get cloudy. It was going to rain soon. I got into the pink rift and saw that, of course, the one who got hit was a Mafia goon. I saw that it was full of mafia goons inside, but they didn't bother attacking. All of them looked scared, in fact.

"Okay, now time to find those Memory Pons to get closer to the rift ball. If my textbooks are correct, then the rift bubble should be at the end of this place," I said as I began to search for the Memory Pons of the poor guy that got hit by the Time Piece. I soon found two of them and got to the next place, where I saw more Memory Pons around the place, me doing some daring platforming to get to them before I found enough to move forward again. I then moved forward to a large ship with the captain being a mafia goon that looked a bit more buff and short than the other goons. Most likely their leader. I ignored him as he did to me and collected more Memory Pons until, eventually, I got to the end, where I saw the rift bubble at the end. "Okay, chap, time to save you," I frowned as I began to whack at the bubble with my umbrella until it eventually popped open to reveal the Mafia grunt within as well as the Time Piece and a bunch of Green Pons.

"Whew... t-thanks, kid... I don't know what happened..." the Mafia guy gulped.

"This Time Piece fell on your head and shattered, sending you to your own personal nightmare rift. But now that I have the Time Piece here, I can send us back to town in an instant," I said, him gulping and stopping me before I could do the deed.

"Wait!... I don't wish to go back to Mafia. I want to go to scenic beach resort on other side of planet... need vacation after this..." the guy said, me smiling at him as I then focused and found the resort simply by looking into his mind with my Time Pieces. I smiled and focused my powers and I warped us out of the place. I warped him to the resort and I warped myself back to my ship. And upon arrival, I saw that Mustache Girl was looking at her planet from the window and smiling at it. I simply put the collected Time Pieces into the vault and then locked it up tight, getting her attention.

"Oi, mate. You took your time, didn't ya?" she smirked at me.

"Sorry, the rifts took a bit longer than I'd like to solve. Anyways, what do you think of the view of the planet?" I smiled at her, Mustache Girl smiling at me.

"It looks beautiful, Hat Kid. I never expected our planet would be so blue... I had no idea there was so much water on our planet..." she gawked.

"I've seen multiple planets like yours, but yours so far has more water than any planet I've been to," I smiled at her.

"All the more reason to stop the Mafia. Okay, I have a plan of attack, so let's go over it," Mustache Girl smirked as she then got to my chalkboard and went over it. "Okay, here's the plan I have in place. We storm the highest point of the Mafia Town atop the large geyser in town. Once accomplished, we'll go inside and take out their leader. If the leader falls, all the Mafia will surely clear out after. But first thing's first, the only way to the top of that place is by a special cannon, which is currently locked up tight. The key is kept with the maintenance manager, who so happens to have an hourglass on him from this ship. You can't miss him. He's the guy who's terrified of aliens and he wears green goggles on his face," Mustache Kid smirked.

"Sounds okay," I smiled at her.

"Then, when we finally corner the mafia leader, we break all his bones, grind him to mush, and put his parts into a jar!" she said, me gasping at that.

"WHOA, WHOA, WHOA! Isn't that a bit too drastic?!" I asked in shock.

"What? You telling me he should be let off the hook?" Mustache Girl asked.

"No, we're going to punish him, but not to that level of destruction! Maybe send him to a place that he won't like at all? I can see his mind after all, so I can tell which place he hates above all else. But we will break some of his bones, I promise that much. But everything else? Nada!" I said to her.

"Okay, okay, sheesh... I thought you were a good guy," she frowned.

"Yes, I am a good person. Which is why I'm not going to kill anyone as gruesome as what you described!" I frowned, Mustache Girl sighing.

"Yeah, you're right... sorry... it's just, the Mafia did some terrible things to me and my family in the past. I want to make them pay," she sighed.

"And we will make them pay, but not to the point where they get killed. We have to hurt them where it hurts. Their pride. I'm sure that two little girls defeating their leader in battle will be enough to make their pride hurt so much, they'll be too depressed and hurt to do anything else," I smiled at her.

"Okay, that's good thinking, Hat Kid. Alright, I'll take position by the cannon in the town and you get to grabbing the hourglass and key from the maintenance guy. I recommend dressing as some kind of spooky thing to scare the pants off him, though. Make yourself look inhuman," Mustache Girl suggested.

"Alright, Mustache Girl. Follow me," I smiled as I led her to the kitchen and showed her the escape hatch under the stove, her being a bit concerned but me smirking and putting her in first. I sent her to the planet before I then went down after her. I descended faster and grabbed her before we could get hurled into the ground. I then let out my umbrella and opened it, slowing our descent as we touched down on the ground by the pier of the town.

"Whew, that was a wild ride!" Mustache Girl smirked.

"I'm naturally immune to feeling the force of gravitational impact, but I knew you wouldn't have the same luxury, so I used the umbrella to slow down our descent," I smiled at her. "Now you go to the cannon while I get dressed to scare. I think a bit of mud on my body should be enough," I smirked as I saw a mud puddle nearby and I jumped into it, my body getting coated in the stuff and my eyes glowing bright green afterwards, Mustache Girl smirking at my appearance.

"Whoa! How'd you get your eyes to glow green?" she asked in surprise.

"I'm currently wearing a mask on the top of my head. My eyes always glow green when I wear a mask. Helps me see invisible things," I smiled at her.

"Cool! I'll go to the cannon, you go scare the pants off the guy," she smirked.

"Indeed," I smiled back at her.