A Hat in Time: Unwind

Prologue: a permanent vacation

"Harriet?" Timmy called for his newlywed. They hadn't even really known each other, just had a mutual friend. And when he couldn't find her anywhere in the home, he called up that friend.

"Becca," he spoke into the hologram device as a woman materialized in it.

She had her arms crossed over her baby blue dress with a green cardigan draped across her shoulders. Her boisterous hair was held back by a blue bowed ribbon that matched her dress, "Timmy, I'm busy."

"Where's Harriet?" He asked, ignoring her statement.

Becca suddenly stiffened and turned her head away, "I have no idea, why'd you call me?"

Tim rolled his eyes, "because she tells you everything."

"She told you too," the bowed one retaliated, "you just never listen to her."

The man let out a puff, "where did she go?"

"She didn't tell me that. Just that she was leaving and never coming back," Becca retold, and Timmy let out a loud sigh.

"Well," he dragged a hand down his face, "you should help me look for her!"

"She doesn't want to be found, Timothy," Becca insisted, "you married her, you got the fame you wanted...did you even want to be friends with me?"

"What?"

"Harriet told me everything."

"Oh..."

"Goodbye, Timmy. Delete my number," and the hologram glitched before it disappeared.

Becca, in her father's tech shop, turned to look at her best friend, "he's onto you."

"Good," Harriet muttered, as she pulled her head out of the engine hatch and wiped some soot from her brow, "maybe he'll just leave us alone."

Becca rolled her eyes as she went and closed the hatch, and flipped the sign to closed. She locked the door and walked over to Harriet, placing a hand on her shoulder. Her friend turned to her, dark bags under her eyes and her iris dull. Becca felt bad and patted her shoulder.

"Come on, into the ship. You get us out of here and I'll keep us on trajectory. You desperately need a nap," she smiled, pushing her friend forward a bit.

Harriet groaned as she slowly stepped up the ramp into the ship, "I don't need sleep I need to get out of this horrible place...!"

"You married a man who didn't care about you. I thought that you didn't care about men either," Becca jabbed as she climbed in after. She went to shove off the ramp when a fat fuzz-ball of a cat hopped in after them. Becca petted her cat, allowing him to come with them, and pushed the ramp out before closing the glass door.

Harriet went over to the control panel and started to press a couple of buttons. The machine buzzed to life, lights flickering on while gears began clanking and pipes started hissing. Becca glanced around as Harriet continued to press buttons and flick switches. The two stood in silence before the ship hangar door began to slide open.

"You know...If you come with, Becca...you'll never be able to come back," Harriet glanced at her friend, "I don't want to drag you down with me."

The bowed one shook her head with a hum, "Come on Harry, when have I ever wanted to stop being your friend? It's either both of us or I'm dragging you back with me."

The girls were interrupted by the doors shuddered to a halt as they opened to full capacity. Both looked out the ship window.

Harriet smiled, "then let me drag us down together."

She pushed down on a lever, and the ship rushed forward. Harriet maneuvered the spaceship around skyscrapers before they came to a large clearing.

"Old onto your hats-or bows!" Harriet yelled, before pushing the lever all the way forward. The ship stopped for a minute, panicking both women, before it exploded to life again and raced towards a distant star system.

Very short I know, but it's the prologue soooo...I have no idea how long I'm going to do this for......

But I'm going to see how long it lasts :')

It's got some ideas so who knows what I'll do •v•

Anywhoooo-till next chapter, nerds!!