Chapter 12
Hat Kid POV:
Upon entering the central area of the ship, I was gobsmacked as was Mustard. Balloons, streamers, and party favors were all over the place! Three different tables lined with very delicious foods! And I even saw that they'd gotten a couple extra faces from the bird planet to join in and they were waiting outside to be let in. "Hey, darlin'! Heard you were having the big 170 party. Mind lettin' me and the Conductor on the ship, please?" DJ Grooves smiled.
"Sure," I smirked as I warped them to the ship and they looked enticed by the food on the table.
"Okay, we'll get to work on guarding the safe from intrusion," Sanatch smiled as he and Vanessa went there after getting a plate each of the foods on the table.
"I think I too will partake in the merriment. But first order of business, I would like to give you one free badge for the special occasion, Hat Kid," the Badge Seller smiled at me, me smirking as he gave me a badge that was really worth it. It was a badge that would allow me to shoot a laser beam out of my umbrella or my hands for a regular attack!
"Thanks, Badge Seller," I smiled at him... but just as I was about to hug him, I felt something happen. I felt a couple Time Pieces enter the vault! And I could sense the Stachio DNA inside of it! I was shocked. Paprika was able to use the Time Pieces to warp straight to the vault!
"Oh no you don't!" I exclaimed as I stopped time with my bandanna hat and manually put in the password for the vault, it opening in a snap and me rushing in to grab hold of Paprika just before she could smash a Time Piece in her grasp!
"Let me go right now, you bloody wanker!" Paprika exclaimed as she tried to grab hold of my Time Pieces, but I did something she didn't expect. I warped them all to the mail room of the ship, Paprika gasping and struggling out of my grasp and into the main area of the ship, where she found herself surrounded by everyone, including her parents. "Wha?! Mom, Dad? Bryce?! What are you doin' joining up with this no-good selfish bitch?!" she exclaimed, me now knowing something was seriously wrong. I could see a dark aura escape from her head. She was corrupted by the Time Pieces!
"Paprika, if you change the timeline in any way, you'll destroy our entire planet!" Mustard's mom said with a frown.
"SHUT UP! You have no idea how good I'm gonna make the world! I will destroy all the bad guys in existence! I will-" she was about to finish before DJ Grooves whacked her in the back of the head with a frying pan, knocking her out cold in the process.
"What the hell did you do to her?!" the father yelled at DJ Grooves angrily.
"Settle down, mister. Paprika isn't in her right frame of mind right now," I frowned at him.
"For your information, my name is Saul. Now what do you mean that my daughter isn't in the right frame of mind?!" he asked in a pissed off manner.
"She was using the same powers that I use whenever I have the Time Pieces... the only issue is that only I am able to use the Time Pieces with no negative effects as I am their master. She used their powers too much, so her mind has been slightly corrupted into a darker form of who she was," I frowned.
"Just... Just like how I was, huh?" Vanessa asked with a sigh.
"Sort of... but not quite. The only way for me to return her to her normal self is if I do battle with her and make her stop relying on the powers of the Time Pieces," I said.
"That still doesn't give this birdbrain any right to smash her head with a frying pan!" Saul angrily yelled at Grooves before his wife held him back.
"Easy, Saul... she would've hurt all of us if she didn't get knocked out. You know how Paprika can be violent when angry, right?" the mother asked with a sigh.
"Yeah... tss... you're right... Sorry, Rosemary," Saul said to his wife.
"So what do we do now?" Sanatch asked.
"Here's the deal. I warped the Time Pieces to the mail room for temporary, so from now on, that room is off limits. And I'm going to need some kind of special, secluded area to fight Paprika in so she doesn't warp the Time Pieces to her," I frowned.
"That we can help out with, kiddo," Sanatch smiled.
"He's right. We can have you enter a different plane of existence to battle Paprika in, made up of our energies," Vanessa explained.
"Okay. When I've finished fighting with Paprika, then we'll need to keep her under surveillance," I said with a stern gaze.
"Understood," Everyone said in their own way.
"Okay, you may feel a slight tingling sensation," Vanessa said as I felt her powers envelop me and I then saw the area around me change drastically.
