Chapter 3

I soon got to the area where the mobster guy was that had the green goggles, him looking to be spooked as he looked around timidly.

"A-Aliens from outer space! A spaceship is in the sky and they sent these things down upon us! Mafia is doomed! All of us are doomed!" the guy said with fear, which made me smirk. I simply made my way to him from behind, making sure to make weird sounds to spook him.

"Grragghr... geeagh..." I moaned in my best monster impression as I approached the guy from behind. And when he saw me, he shrieked like a little girl and ran for the hills, dropping the key to the cannon in the process! I grabbed it and pocketed it before rushing after him and onto some elevated platforms that were hung in the air by propellers.

"Whew... I think I lost it..." he said, me simply shuffling my feet and groaning again.

"Rarggh..." I growled, him shrieking again and rushing further down the place until he was atop a banner, him sighing at that while I followed after him silently.

"Finally... let's see that monster get here of all places..." the guy said.

"Reeiggh?' I smirked, making him stutter and turn around, him then collapsing on the ground in defeat.

"Okay, okay! I give up! What do you want from me?!" the guy cried in tears, me looking at the hourglass and telling him.

"hooorr... glasss..." I growled in my monster voice, the guy gasping and shaking.

"Okay, okay, take it! Leave me alone please!" the guy begged for mercy as he dropped the hourglass on the ground and I picked it up with a smile.

"Heh, thanks loser," I smirked with my tongue sticking out as I then rushed back to the main area, the guy gobsmacked and in shock.

"YOU BITCH!" he exclaimed from afar, me giggling at how dumb the guy was!

I then got to the cannon and saw Mustache Girl right beside it, me presenting the key as the mud finally washed off from the rain getting more intense.

"Heh, I heard that guy get mad on your way back. You musta ticked him off real good when he saw ya weren't a monster," she smirked at me.

"Right on the money," I smiled as I unlocked the hatch for the cannon and Mustache Girl got in first, the cannon pointing upwards and shooting her to the top of the complex in one go! I then saw the cannon return to normal and I did the same, the rush of the blast making me smile at the g-force in my face! And when I touched down on the place, I saw that there was a double-button door ahead for us to use.

"Let's go and wreck this party," Mustache Girl smirked as we pushed the buttons and we headed inside, Mustache Girl looking at me with a smile.

"Okay, here's the plan. You try to find a key to the mess hall's side door and I'll go take out their chefs," Mustache Girl said.

"Okay," I smirked as I then saw a Mafia goon and smirked at how he was asleep at a slot machine. He didn't know it, but he had just one big! I didn't bother to wake him up, though, as I had a plan in mind upon seeing that the key was guarded by a button-styled gate. I picked up the Mafia guy and dragged him to the button while he snoozed. And when the gates rose, just to be cautious, I used my bandanna hat and slowed time so I could grab the key. And once I got it, I then placed a piece of paper on the back of the guy saying "Kick Me" on it. "Hehe," I smirked at my misdeed.

I then moved to the kitchen area of the Mafia base and smirked at how Mustache Girl had taken out the cooks with some frying pans to their heads.

Okay, you go on and take out their boss, I'll stay here and cover for you," Mustache Girl smiled.

"Stay safe," I smiled back at her as I went through the door and found myself in a hallway that led directly to the big boss in charge, him looking at me in confusion.

"What is this? Little girl in top hat made it to my chambers? What business does little girl have with Mafia?" the guy asked, him having a deeper voice than his goons. That and he was much shorter, only a bit taller than me if I wore the top hat.

"I want to break your spirit, your bones, and your pride. You think you and your Mafia are all high and mighty, treating others like crap and trashing my spaceship? Let's see how broken you get when word gets out you were beaten by a little girl in a top hat," I smiled at him as I held my umbrella out with a smile.

"So, you're that mysterious alien I've heard about? The one messing with my mafia? Prepare to be beaten to within an inch of your life!" the Mafia boss said angrily as he then snapped his fingers and I gasped when a secret door appeared behind his throne and he tried to book it, but I was on his tail the whole way to, get this, a theatre stage!

"Prepare for a shock!" the mafia boss exclaimed as he slammed two dual pistols into the ground to send waves of electricity at me, which I jumped over until he got tired, allowing me to rush him and get a clean hit to his left arm with my punch, him gasping as I heard the bone break.

"Aw, did I break your arm? Somebody needs to go to the vet, doesn't he?" I smiled in the most mocking manner I could, the mafia boss growling as he snapped his fingers again and I saw he was one step ahead of me.

"Oi! Lemme go this instant!" Mustache Girl exclaimed as her body was tied up around the waist and hung in the background of the stage, me frowning at the mafia boss angrily.

"You better release her or I'm taking away your kid makers," I frowned as I tripped him with my umbrella and he gulped. You have five seconds to comply," I frowned at him.

"You're bluffing," he growled at me.

"Four. Three," I frowned, his face beginning to sweat as my hat switched to bandanna form. "Two..." I smirked, the mafia boss about to say something... but too little too late. "One!" I exclaimed as I stabbed the point of the umbrella right into his crotch and I heard him sing soprano before dropping to the ground.

"Boss!" I heard a Mafia grunt exclaim from nearby, me looking in that direction and seeing that Mustache Girl was free. And guess what? She found a Time Piece!

"I suggest you clear out of this town and never bother anyone again, or you'll end up like the short cripple over here," I frowned, the boss gulping at that.

"Huh?" he asked before I slowed time and rushed to his back, connecting a kick to it and the mafia leader falling to the ground, forever paralyzed from the waist down!

"That's what you get for terrorizin' me island you bloody wankers!" Mustache Girl exclaimed before she accidentally did the thing I feared most. She dropped the Time Piece on the ground and it cracked a bit. What was the result? Time rewound for her and only her for ten seconds. "That's what you get for... huh?" she gulped as I hurriedly grabbed the Time Piece from her and fixed it up with my powers, her gawking at that.

"T-Those things... they control time?!" Mustache Girl asked in shock.

"Ugh... yes, they do," I frowned at her.

"Do you know what that means?!" she asked, me knowing already what was happening to her. "We could go back in time and stop the Mafia from taking over! No, even better! We can stop all the crimes of every criminal in the entire world! What do you say?!" she asked, me sighing at her.

"My answer is no. A hell no, if you will," I frowned at her.

"Huh?! W-Why not?!" she asked in surprise.

"Because you have no idea the severity of messing with the temporal flow could be. Changing even one thing in the timeline, no matter how small, can cause a number of disasters to occur! Taking out the Mafia would mean that you and I would have never met. It would also mean that this planet... hmm..." I frowned as I looked at the past of this planet in particular. And I gawked at what I saw. "It would also mean this planet would be covered completely in lava! Because if not for the Mafia, the world wouldn't have its water supply!" I gawked at that, Mustache Girl frowning at me.

"Y-You're lying! You can't fool me!" she exclaimed at me.

"S-She tells truth..." the mafia boss groaned from his position. "Me form Mafia here... but to do so... needed to close volcano. Biggest in the world. This entire island... one big volcano. If we never came... this world would not be around..." the Mafia boss groaned, me frowning at Mustache Girl and her stammering a bit.

"You see? Even the big boss of the Mafia says it's true. And you should trust me, as I'm the one who knows how the timelines go. After all, my spaceship is fueled by these Time Pieces. I am saying nothing but the truth that time traveling and messing with the time flow is only going to lead to trouble," I frowned at her. Mustache Girl finally sighed and nodded at me.

"Fine... sorry for doing that... it's just... these brutes have had a hand in killing nearly everyone in my entire family. Me and my older sister are the only ones left," Mustache Girl frowned.

"Okay... I think it's time I called you by your real name now," I smiled at her.

"My real name?... Heh, fine. I'll give you a small name too," she smiled at me.

"Only you will call me that name, though. And only when we're in private," I frowned at her.

"Okay... my real name is Mustard Stachio. Dumb name, ain't it?" she smiled.

"Not at all. I love mustard," I smiled at her.

"Heh. Than I'll call you Ketchup," Mustard smiled at me, me smirking at her.

"Your word puns are painful, but I like that," I smiled at her as I then held her hand... but just before we would've left, we gasped as the alarm suddenly blared out of nowhere!

"All Mafia troops! Evacuate the main suite immediately! The faucets for the volcano have been turned on! We're doomed!" an announcer exclaimed, me gawking at that and looking at Mustard with a frown.

"Did you do that?" I asked her.

"No, I didn't... you don't think that... uh-oh..." she gulped as she looked above us and I gawked. It was another girl, this one being a bit taller than Mustard but having the same hair color and attire, only her hood was black, her dress blue, and her hair much longer and unkempt.

"Paprika! What are you doing?!" Mustard asked in shock.

"I heard that whole speech, sister! If those things can turn the tide of time, I can finally save our parents, yet you don't decide to do that?! For all you know, this mystery girl could be sided with the Mafia!" the girl named Paprika exclaimed in anger, my ponytail twitching and waving angrily along with my emotions.

"You seriously didn't see me smash this guy's spine?! Damn, you came a bit late to the party," I frowned at her.

"Liar! I will collect those Time Pieces myself and I'll use them to change the fate of this world!... No, not just this world. I will eliminate all evil from across the universe!" she exclaimed, me gasping at that.

"YOU CAN'T!" I exclaimed angrily as I jumped twice in the air and tried to grab onto Paprika, but I was shocked at how she did something I didn't expect. She countered my attack by smacking me into the ground with a large pipe to my torso!

"Have fun trying to turn off the faucets that control the lava flow, Hat Kid! They're nearly impossible to reach without getting burned to a golden crisp!" Paprika exclaimed as she then did something else shocking. She jumped through the roof of the place and ran off into the distance, me gawking at that.

"Dammit! She's going to ruin everything!" Mustard exclaimed in anger, me simply falling to the ground and pounding it multiple times until I got the floor underneath us to open up, me seeing we were in an area where the lava didn't reach.

"Not just that... if she eliminates evil from the entire universe... my mother... she may never exist!" I exclaimed in anger.

"You mean you've had a mother and she never named you?" Mustard asked.

"The Hattians always name their child at age 70, as that's the age where they stop being in baby form and turn into children like me. I was kidnapped when I was 60 by a Space Pirate who wanted to sell me for a brothel... little did he know that I had a very different aging process, so he was so fed up with keeping up with baby me that when I finally turned into a child, he jumped ship, allowing me to have his spaceship and for me to convert it into my own, including the fuel source being the Time Pieces. Those Time Pieces aren't just part of the Space-Time continuum, but they're part of me. So if they get shattered, I'd be fine, but everything else that isn't on my ship would change drastically! My parents would be erased forever, your planet will be covered in lava, and even other beautiful planets I've visited in my past would get completely destroyed!" I exclaimed in anger.

"Oh my god... WE NEED TO STOP HER!" Mustard exclaimed.

"First thing's first, we need to turn off those faucets around the town," I frowned.

"Why? This town's gonna get trashed and that's my dream!" Mustard smiled.

"Remember what the Mafia leader said? He said that this island had the largest volcano in the entire planet. If this volcano's very sealing would be enough to force water to appear all over the world, then leaving the volcano active will ruin the world once again! Anyone swimming in the water? Dead! Any fish? Dead! Any houses on beach fronts or boats out at sea? Utterly demolished!" I said, Mustard only then realizing the plight her world would be in.

"Okay, fine! Let's go close those faucets!" she said, me nodding at her as we fell down the hole in the floor and we landed safely on the ground thanks to me letting out my umbrella during our descent. And wouldn't you know it, we landed right where I wanted us to. Right by the Badge Seller.