Apologies for the late post! I had to go get a SP (Student's Permit) and it took years to get it. Anyways let's continue

Chapter 3:

(POV: Hat Kid)

"Oh c'mon not again!"

Hat Kid grabbed all what's left: a blue umbrella decked with stars, and her trusty top hat, dirty and slightly burnt from the crash

Her spaceship isn't so lucky. Her ship basically disintegrated into splinters since her ship is made of "Space-resistant" wood, which obviously don't work well as a heat shield

She had fought countless foes, from hunchbacked men to some little red riding hood rip-off with a moustache just to get back home.

Only to end up in another strange planet, still far from home and this time with absolutely no means of transportation to get there

Hat Kid then went on to salvage some more things from the rekt wrecked spaceship: a figure of Snatcher and The Conductor, her diary, a couple pillows, Rumbi, who is now just a large disk after being set into "Safe Mode" before the crash, and her safe, with more of those magical hourglasses inside.

"Man, without my spaceship these Time Pieces are useless, but I can't let this safe fall into the wrong hands" Hat Kid thought.

And as if fate had read her thoughts she heard a raspy, sickening voice

"SEARCH THE AREA! NO KANMUSU LEFT ALIVE" it said

"YES MADAM!" multiple voices answered it.

"PECK!" Hat Kid cursed. She quickly took her belongings and hid in a conveniently-placed cave, waiting for the owners of the voices to disappear.

*A few moments later*

"NO ENEMIES DETECTED MADAM!" a smaller less raspy voice said

"NOTED, DEATH FORCES! LET'S MOVE" a voice, presumably the leader, answered.

"WAIT MISTRESS! I SEE TRACKS TO A CAVE!" yet another voice exclaimed

"THEN GO INVESTIGATE!" the leader commanded

"PE-" Hat Kid silenced herself. She knew if she was caught, she would be in huge trouble especially her safe with the Time Pieces. Grabbing her trusty umbrella she moved into a position where she can strike the intruders without them expecting. Besides fighting the enemies she faced in the past planet gave her some combat experience after all.

The intruder had went inside the cave and noticed the safe and a few of Hat Kid's belongings

"What's thi-"

*Whack*

With one swift blow the intruder was knocked out cold. Hat Kid immediately then hid the body to take a closer look at the victim she had knocked out. What she saw shocked her: She had knocked out what resembles to be a one-eyed head with some kind of cannon inside its mouth. She nearly screamed in fright before she remembered that there were more of those creatures that will come in her position quite soon

And she was right. Another intruder is entering the cave as she sits. She prepares to strike again.

"IS ANYONE-"

*Whack*

Another one down! She was about to drag that one away when she heard that familiar raspy voice.

"THERE YOU ARE! IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO DIE"

Hat Kid then turned around to see the source of the voice only to see a big yet lithe humanoid creature with two lumps of metal that substitute her hands

And In those lumps of metal are full of what looks like naval cannons, all ready to shoot at poor little Hat Kid.

"ANY LAST WORDS KIDDO?" the creature asked?

Hat Kid frighteningly raises and points her umbrella into the creature "Stay away…" she whimpered

"THAT'S ALL? OKAY THEN GOOD- AHHHHHHHHHHH" the creature screeched in pain

The creature then looked down on herself, or what used to be herself, her metal lumps in her arms have been shattered and her torso pierced by what looks like a laser.

"This…can't…be" the creature cried out in pain

The creature then fell into the ground for the last time

"YOU…WILL…Pay…for this" the creature croaked. Before its eyes stopped glowing and lay still

Then there was silence…

Hat Kid froze for a bit then placed her umbrella down on the ground. She then took off her hat to see which badges are pinned to her hat. Now badges in a hat may seem like a show-off for others, but for Hat Kid, it is a difference between life and death. When pinned to her hat these badges grant Hat Kid special abilities, from saving her from hitting the ground too hard when falling from a great height, to deleting enemies with a "DeAdLy LaSeR"

And by coincidence, she has both abilities with her. There was supposed to be a third one but it ripped off during the crash. Only its pin remains on the hat. Apparently she had been blessed by RNG-sama, at the cost of a lot of stuff I'd prefer not to indulge.

With no creatures to sneak in and harm her, Hat Kid then cowered into her belongings and silently wept herself to sleep.

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When Hat Kid woke up, she went back to her wrecked spaceship in order to salvage more of her belongings, only to find two more badges which are actually detrimental to her survival, the first one makes here more vulnerable and die faster, the other one renders all speech unintelligible.

After the salvage it didn't take long before Hat Kid realized she was hungry and thirsty, but as if RNG-sama had blessed her again, she spots a banana tree and once she went nearby said tree heard flowing water. She would eventually find a river after feasting on the bananas

But as she was nearing the river to take a drink she felt time slow down a little. When she looked around everything was a little bit darker, like inside of a tinted window.

"A Time Piece is nearby!" Hat Kid said to herself. "Where could it be?"

After looking high and low, she found the Time Piece under the river, good thing it was shallow.

"Maybe there's some hope." Hat Kid said optimistically while grabbing the Time Piece. She then proceeded to take a drink from the river.

Energized, Hat Kid went back to the cave and as if on cue the two creatures she knocked out earlier had begun to regain consciousness

As a response Hat Kid finished them off with her "DeAdLy LaSeR"

"And stay down!" Hat kid then looked at her work: three dead creatures "There must be no evidence"

Hat Kid gathered wood, some from the wrecked spaceship, some found on the ground and made a huge pyre. She then placed the three dead creatures in the pyre and set it alight.

"Become one with the fire" Hat Kid said, placing her hat into her chest as if to pay respects

Meanwhile on the skies above, a recon plane is flying nearby. Inside are 2 miniature people. One flies the plane while the other one acts as a surveyor, who is holding a 35mm camera.

"Hmm I see a fleet, comprising of- wait up hold on a minute I see something"

"What catches your eye?"

"I see smoke coming out from an island, it's as if somebody's marooned in there"

"Okay then let's go take a closer look, it might be a kanmusu or something like that"

They managed to get there quick thanks to the plane's speed. The surveyor then took a photo on the source of the smoke using the 35mm camera. After the surveyor scanned the photo he took he immediately notified the pilot.

"Yep it's true! There is somebody marooned in there! Plus it appears to be a child beside some wreckage"

"Yikes! A child? Marooned in an island? We must notify the fleet now! The island she's in is under Abyssal territory"

"Yeah and hurry too! It won't take long for them to be notified of her presence!"

"What about the enemy fleet we spotted?"

"Oh that? For a little while" the pilot responded "Any other recon out there?"

"Yep I'm present go ahead." A voice responded

"You guys kindly take over our roles, we have something urgent to tell the fleet. Something vital to the Operation"

"Alright then. Good luck sending that info of yours" the voice responded

With the problem resolved, they quickly turned around and sped away into their fleet with the dire information

"Hang in there kid! Don't die, we'll keep you safe. Even if it meant sunken ships" the surveyor said.

Wow! So loved writing this chapter! To be honest I feel a little bit bad putting Hat Kid in that situation, but hey! She had done a lot of badass things, from literally playing "The Floor is Lava" to dealing with the "devil" (a.k.a. Snatcher) himself! And plus help is on the way!

Or is it? (*cue X-files song*)

Also another note: I will be travelling to Singapore this Saturday. Although it is still Thursday I expect a lot of stuff to do tomorrow before we travel (and it's also my father's birthday tomorrow so yeah add that too!) but rest assured! If God wills I might add some content whilst at Singapore, otherwise I'd go write it pen and paper before typing and posting it here– just like what happened today while waiting to get my SP (why is the service slowwwwwww).

Anyways have a ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Pecking Good Day!