+Mafia Town, Act 3:+
-She came from outer space-
"Seems like one of the goons broke the darn cannon. It'll take a while to fix so go around and do whatever in the meantime."
Hat Kid took this time to begin looking around Mafia Town some more. It was raining at the moment so Hat Kid didn't see much to do. It was night so a lot of the Mafia was asleep at the moment. The ones that weren't were doing stuff near boats, guarding that strange set of double red doors that Hat Kid could never get into, or some other third thing.
Hat Kid found a ball of red and white yarn inside a chest, which was located in some kind of old housing. She could see the view from out here and it was quite nice. She sat down on the ledge and set her umbrella beside her, leaving it open so she didn't get soaked by the rain.
She just sat there and began thinking. Thinking about Bow, the strange kid, Mu, the Mafia, everything seemed to be happening so fast it was honestly a bit hard to process. All of this happened within a day no less, so she'd be a bit jumbled in the brain about it.
It seemed so weird to have her adventure start in such a way, but you take what you can get. Besides, she'd be lying if she said this wasn't quite fun. The whole barrel battle she had with those goons hours earlier was quite a ride.
Her mind shifted back to Bow. Despite everything, she couldn't help but worry sometimes. Bow could have landed somewhere that could steal her soul, make her perform movies, join a gang or worse: Pilot a cruise ship!
Bow had her share of abilities, but she wasn't the acting type or the gang type. Or the piloting type. Hat Kid's mind drifted off to a memory where Bow nearly crashed the ship on some kind of forest-filled planet that didn't seem to have gotten past its dinosaur age.
Hat Kid began stitching together a new hat to take her mind off of things. Knitting was one of her favorite activities, even if it seemed like more of an old lady thing. It helped keep her head straight and think things through. Though, it didn't seem to be working because her thoughts were racing faster than the speed of light.
She nearly forgot she was stitching something together until she was already done with the hat. It was a red visor cap with little white wings on either side. She took off her top hat and laid it to the side and put the visor on.
Suddenly, she felt a burst of energy! Standing up, she grabbed her umbrella and began sprinting. She was going faster than she usually runs! Heading down onto the road, she began running as her energy didn't seem to end.
She went running around Mafia Town for a while when something blue and swirling caught her eye. It was in a metal pipe, but Hat Kid knew exactly what it was.
The boy entered the theater, yawning. He rubbed drowsiness from his eyes as he walked up to the stage, where the Mafia Boss stood. "So why did you want to meet me here again?" The boy asked.
"Simple. I have a little gift I would like to give you." The Mafia Boss chuckled when the boy raised an eyebrow.
"Uh-huh, I don't remember you being so generous before." The boy spoke.
"Even a boss of the mafia has to reward his members at some point, otherwise, what's the point of following said boss?" The boy shrugged, he didn't argue there. Then again, the boss could always try fear. But after being around the boss for an extended time, he learned that he's not the 'fearing overlord' and more of the 'respecting leader' type.
"So, what's this gift? A quick and painless way into the afterlife?" The boy joked, in which the boss also let out a chuckle.
"If it was that we'd have done it before you joined." The boss said, earning the boy to say "what?" right after.
"But that's not important. I want you to have this." The boss held out a strange mechanism that looked like a gun, with a hook at the end where a gun would normally fire bullets.
"A grappling gun? Really?" The boy didn't seem amused, crossing his arms.
"Grappling guns are more useful than they appear. Trust me, you'll be needing it eventually."
The boy remained silent, "So why are you giving this to me?"
"You may be a simple errand boy at the moment, but even errand boys have a place in the Mafia." The Mafia spoke with certainty.
"Jeez. If you weren't the head honcho of the Mafia I'd mistake you for having a heart of gold." The boy took the grappling gun.
"Don't push it." The boss said with a frown.
"What the…? HUH?!" A mafia goon with weird-looking glasses looked at a mud-covered Hat Kid.
"It's… IT'S SLIMY SPACE ALIEN! MAFIA SAW SPACESHIP! MAFIA KNEW ALL ALONG! MAFIA IS BEING INVADED BY ALIENS!" The goon stood there in fright for a couple of seconds, afraid to even move an inch. The time piece shivered in his quaking hands. "AHHHH!"
Back up a bit, Hat Kid had gotten out of the blue time rift with the time piece secured. She decided to check up on Mu and the cannon, to which it still wasn't ready. After going around Mafia Town a little more and finding a strange purple and yellow piece of yarn, which she could probably forge into another hat later, she found a mafia with a strange set of goofy glasses.
Even more importantly, she saw the time piece in his hands. Normally she'd just beat him up and take it, but she had been feeling a bit down lately. So a mischevious thought popped up in her head instead.
Now, would beating the mafia be faster? Yes. But would it be fun? Not as much as the idea she just got, because mischief is her middle name. Well, not literally, but darn it when she gets off this planet she was going to get some legal documents and make that her middle name!
The plan? Douse herself in mud, then chase the mafia goon to wherever until he gives up and hands her the time piece. It is completely foolproof! Now, cut to when it happens. Hat Kid swears this entire thing could be in a horror movie.
The Mafia goon jumped from the wooden platform over to another wooden platform, the gap between that is quite big, which made Hat Kid wonder where the hell he managed to get such an ability.
Hat Kid followed him, the second platform had three large pipes that she could probably crawl through, followed by two elevated platforms away from each other, followed by various flower beds placed around the edges of the main platform. A wooden crate and two barrels were placed beside the elevated platform to Hat Kid's right.
The goon stopped for a second, thinking he was out of harm's way, before screaming, realizing the slimy space alien was right behind him! He took off to his right, heading up one of the elevated platforms via climbing.
Hat Kid, on the other hand, made her way up the opposite platform, then made a dash and a leap towards the platform the mafia had just climbed upon. The goon screamed again and dashed off, this time heading towards a large crate being held up by a turning propeller, and then past even that to a floating banner that somehow didn't collapse upon being stepped on.
Hat Kid followed his every footstep, then nearly let out a giggle upon hearing the goon scream once more and make way towards another set of platforms. One on top of the other, followed by a large wooden panel being held horizontally, two flowerbeds adorning either side of the bottom platform.
There was a piece of art of a face on the wooden panel, which Hat Kid assumed was probably their boss, simply going off of the artwork alone. It seemed like the 'fearing overlord' type.
Sprinting towards the wooden board, she leaped upon it and, without hesitation, slammed her foot onto the board and attempted running up the wall. She didn't get very far, but using her strength she pushed herself off of the wall and onto the upper wooden panel, pushing herself up immediately after.
It was the final stretch, the Mafia goon was reaching a dead end, and Hat Kid highly doubted he'd just jump off when they were so high up. She dashed across another wooden panel the goon had just gotten off of, and the final one was just ahead.
Jumping onto the final platform, which was fairly long and adorned a few boxes, barrels, and a very large piece of meat at the back which both gave Hat Kid the chills from back when she first got to the town, having almost been crushed by one. But it also intrigued her, wondering how a piece of meat could get so big.
But back to the task at hand, the goon was on his knees, begging for mercy, "Huff… Huff… Leave Mafia alone, you monster! Here, if Mafia gives you this, will you go away?" The goon said, holding out the time piece.
Well, he wasn't begging for mercy in a normal way, but Hat Kid grabbed the time piece. The rain was finally starting to wash away the mud she had plastered on her earlier, so with a "Bye-bye!" she began making her way back to the cannon, leaving a very confused Mafia goon alone on a floating platform.
The sound of a firing cannon filled Hat Kid's ears, albeit a bit far away. Mu must have finally gotten the cannon working. With a hop, skip, and jump Hat Kid made her way to the cannon and jumped inside.
Here's the fourth thing to a thing
This was going to come out a few days after barrel battle, but I got distracted.
Distractions are fun, I swear.
Yeah, I got a bit lost in this chapter. I had an outline but writer's block prevented me from actually progressing until I found a better way to write the chapter.
Also if it wasn't obvious, I'm not going to be focusing on blue time rifts very much. Purple rifts are another story, though.