Lydia's spaceship was fast approaching Earth and where Hattie's ship was parked in the stratosphere.
"Okay… and… I'm here." She said as she parked the ship next door to Hattie's. "I should be getting an invite or a message from her anytime now…" as she said this, her screen had popped up with an invite for permission to be friends by… "TimeOverlord 54?" Lydia raised a brow at Hattie's choice of names and icon pics. It was her and several of her new friends… "Dabbing? That's… interesting…"
The picture itself was amusing, but the residents looked even more strange than she could've imagined. "Oh well." She clicked "Accept" and as soon as she did, she kept on getting message after message firing on her screen. "Ah geez… she's spamming me again."
She then sent a message to come aboard. And that immediately put a stop to the messages and was accepted. Lydia rolled her eyes and laughed.
She then hopped in the transporter and "zipped" onto Hattie's ship. When she came on board, she saw how Hattie refurbished the entire place that made it look like a space themed Alice's Wonderland playground. "Yep. Definitely Hattie's ship." She walked around till she finally managed to find the main hatch.
"Hattie!!! I'm here! Where are ya?!" She didn't receive an immediate answer, which had her worried. She then noticed Hattie's pet Rumba was bumping her ankle. "Hey Rumbi! Been a while huh?" Rumbi chirped and whirled with delight. "You know where the troublemaker is?" She laughed as the little bot showed her the way to the kitchen.
There she saw Hattie and a talking cat(?) organizing what appears to be an array of a gigantic platter of ham, cheese, and various vegetables with dip.
“Ok can you place that over on the table, I’ll take the veggie tray.” Cookie told Hattie while she grabbed said veggie tray. As they turned though, the last thing they were expecting was for there to be a certain red head in the doorway.
“LYDIA! You're Here!” Hattie made a move to give Lydia a hug, but…
“Could you put down the tray first so your friend doesn’t end up WEARING it?”
Hattie laughed. “Right..” She scurried over to the table to put down the tray before launching herself at Lydia.
"OOOOFFFF!!!!! Jeez kid. You might be small but you launch yourself like a torpedo. And hello to you too." Lydia smirked as she hugged the excited child.
“Hiiiiiii!!! I’m so freaking glad you’re here now, there’s so much to show you, you’ll love everyone! Oh, this is Cooking Cat by the way, but everyone calls her Cookie!”
Cookie gave a friendly wave after setting the plate down. “Nice to meet you.”
Lydia nodded her head. "It's good to meet you too. I'm going to be picking up after my old job of taking care of this Rugrat again until further notice. But I'm also her friend too. So if I take my eyes off her for a second, please let me know if she's getting into trouble. She's notorious for that."
“Oh everyone on the planet is well aware of that after the time piece incident.” Cookie replied with an amused smile.
“Awwwwww, it was only ONE TIME!!!” Hattie replied.
“And so was getting in trouble with the mafia?”
“Yep.”
“And getting your soul taken by Snatcher?”
“Snatcher and I are cool now, no more soul stealing.”
“And the Nyakuza-”
“I am cool with them too, I swear!”
Lydia pinched the bridge of her nose and shook her head. "I see that I have a lot of work ahead of me…" she sighed as she chuckled. She picked Hattie up and swung her around.
“Mmmmmm, maybe just a little, WHEEEEEE!!!!” Hattie replied as Cookie shook her head and went back to the kitchen.
Hattie showed her what was on the platters. They chatted, laughed, and debated over what's been going on at home while they ate the snacks. With Cookie adding in her two cents in an outsider's perspective.
"So…" Lydia said in a stern voice. "Who do I have to beat sense into in order for your friends NOT to try and attack a little girl on the spot?" Lydia was a little pissed on having heard about this from Hattie's father, but hearing from Hattie herself was more than enough to add gasoline to the flames of how ticked she was. Especially this "Snatcher" guy.
'I mean… what the heck?! Who even names themselves that in the first place?! Sounds like something a pedo or a pervert might call himself…' she ranted in her thoughts.
“Oh… heheh… nobody anymore. I mean, sure we had a rocky start but when Mu tried to take over the planet we all teamed up and showed her that she can be better than a tyrant! So now we are all friends!” Hattie assured Lydia.
That did nothing to quell her raging pissery. So she wordlessly stood up and looked down at Hattie. "Hattie?"
She gulped. “Y-yes Lydia..?”
With a happy but silent fury look on her face, "Invite your friends up here…. It's time they knew… that a new predator has come to the jungle of heathens." She growled.
“... it’s an order… isn’t it..” She posed it as a statement rather than a question. “If it helps, Conductor didn’t try to murder me.”
You can visibly see the irk mark on Lydia's face.
"Honey. Just do it. And when they get here… leave the room." She made it clear that their B.S. shall NOT go unpunished.
“Can… I take Conductor and Cookie with me? Since he DIDN’T try and kill me? And he has grandkids that adore him? And he doesn’t deserve whatever you are going to do to everyone?”
She thought about it. "Fine. Just do it." Hattie nodded and did as told. While Cookie personally had a front row view of what was going to happen and was enjoying it. The mother-like cat personally saw this coming as soon as Hattie told her about Lydia and was immediately looking forward to it. She thought that she would make tea for such an occasion.
As soon as the invite was sent and everyone showed up, they immediately knew something was wrong when they saw an intense redheaded woman was "casually" sipping tea with an uncomfortable looking Hattie and an amused looking Cookie was standing beside her.
"Which one of you is the "Conductor"?" Lydia said cooly.
“Tha’d be me, lass. Wha can I do fer ye?” The Conductor tried to keep professional over the intimidating, and familiar, gaze of a “mama bear”.
"...."
She put her teacup back on the plate. "Take Hattie to her bedroom. And until I say otherwise, she is to be in there till this is over."
He nodded immediately and followed Hattie to her room. “Tha’ th’ lass ye were harpin on ‘bout these last few weeks?” He whispered. Hattie gave a quick nod.
‘Who is redhead lady? What is going on here?’ MB thought, staring uneasily at Lydia.
‘Who’s this darling, little Hattie’s mom or something?’ Gloves wondered.
‘Don’t tell me this is ANOTHER pest that will be running around causing trouble.’ Empress nearly hissed in annoyance, but held her tongue… for now.
“...” The Elder Goat wasn’t much for conversion, but was also confused and intimidated.
‘Is this the Lydia lady Hattie wouldn’t shut up about? I’d thought she would have been… friendlier with what Hattie was saying.’ Mu thought wearily.
Snatcher smiled. Wide. ‘Now THIS looks like someone I can have FUN with..’
"So. I heard that you all had an INTERESTING time with HARRIET." She hissed out the room immediately going chilly to the touch. She then turned her gaze to MB to which he flinched at. "You." She pointed and accusing finger at.
“What you want, scary lady?” He whined. “Me and kid good now..”
"Yes. But this ALL started with you and undisciplined buffoons. Harriet was trying to make it home on time to report on her latest findings and transports. The last thing she needed to do was PASS A STUPID AND UNIMPORTANT TAX TOLL THROUGH THE NONEXISTENT AIR PAST YOUR BACKWATER PLANET!!! Do you realize at what could've happened to not ONLY your planet but OURS as well?!" She all but boomed her voice. Making it VERY evident that they were in the presence of a BOSS.
MB didn’t understand and looked extremely confused… and scared.
"It wasn't until before Harriet was born, that our scientists had JUST finished making our PRECIOUS fuel source for our planet NON-RADIOACTIVE! If either one of you IDIOTS were holding one that WASN'T coated and quarantined you would've died in the most EXCRUCIATING way possible! AND! Since this fuel source can ONLY be accessed through our planet, it is highly valuable, so IF you would've survived, then it's highly likely that your planet would've died from radioactive poisoning OR an intergalactic WAR. SINCE ATTACKING A FEDERATIVE OFFICER IS COUNTED AS A SLAP IN THE FACE TO THE OTHER. And seeing as how your planet is fully unequipped to handle such a feat, I guarantee you that NONE of you would make it out unscathed!" She barked.
There was but utter silence in the room. Everyone's face had gone utterly white. Even Snatcher had actually looked like your cliche version of a ghost.
not withering in HELL in this moment is because Hattie actually likes you and sees you as, for the life of me I don't know why, a parental figure and a BEST FRIEND of sorts. If it wasn't for those factors I would've kicked your spectoral ass to next Good Friday! Oh no wait. Hattie already did that." She all but raged in her Erza fiery fury of pissery while her eyes flared gold rage.
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