Reverse, Reverse! (In Which: We Almost Die Part 3)

Hunter: Adri Hatter

Log: 9122017                                                                                       (Refer to Part 1 and 2) 

Space leaked through the ship, flooding the control panel. The screams of the little creatures still in the ship filled what was left of the air. The sirens lit the place blue and red. 

My only option was to go after my friend. I had no time to get the rest of my space suit so I rolled up my sleeves and tapped my helmet to get extra oxygen before leaping up through the hole. The Slither that clung to the pipe slipped out and wrappled around my neck like a scarf.

Space looked different than normal. Swirls of pink and purple space-bubbles floated around me. Last I checked, space didn't have sparkles either. For a moment it felt as if I were floating in a kindergartner's glitter-glue school project. 

Just as I surmised something was very wrong I saw a rift tear through space. Peeking through the rift was me. She- or I- looked frazzled, my hat was crooked and my hair stood up on its ends, something smeared my/her face. Frosting?

"Oh no, wrong time." She said, "Hey I remember this, actually."

"Deja-vu?" I asked.

She laughed and I wondered if I always seemed that maddening what I laughed. "Oh! Hey, time machine, you'll fix things don't worry. Oh! And duck." Then the tear vanished. 

I barely had time to process what she said when I saw bright colors flash by my eyes then something squishy hit my face. 

"You shouldn't have come out here, I can breathe in space remember?"

I wiped the gunk off my face, it smelled sweet and finally the frosting thing made sense. "Ryder! You're alright." 

"Of course I am." she said, snatching her baseball cap out of the air. "It'll take much more than that to get rid of Killer." 

"Where in the galaxy did you get cake?" 

"Oh, I always keep a packet of instant-cake in my pocket in case I have the chance to throw it at someone. Or eat it, whichever comes first." 

I hugged her, happy to see her okay, but also to get revenge and smear some of the frosting on her face as well. We laughed, then we looked down at our beloved spaceship. The Because Reasons was barely functional at this point, and all our pets had been sent out to space in the escape hatches. 

"What are we going to do?" I asked. 

"I found a hole-repair kit while I was gone."

"You were barely gone a minute!" 

"Adri. I was gone for hours."

"Huh," I said. "I must've been caught in some kind of worm hole. That explains the glitter glue." 

"Uh, okay." She fit her ball cap back over her unicorn horn. "Either way, I got that from the neighboring planet of repair supplies."

"I know what we have to do." I said, holstering the bubblegum blaster. "We have to use the time travel gadget."

"Didn't we nearly destroy the fabric of the universe last time?"

"Yes, but I'm sure. It's our only chance, I want to make sure all our creatures are okay."

"Alright, good idea. Where is it?" She asked.

"In the ship. In the closet by the toaster."

From there we found our way back into the ship. Pipes were broken, hanging from the ceiling, one smashing half of the control panel. Mini Starfish Monsters clung to the glass shards on the ground. We walked over wires and scattered paper.

"The Handbook..." I said picking up one of the pictures. "I spent so many years recording these monsters."

My partner put a hand on my shoulder. "We're about to rewind time. It'll all be back to normal." 

We finally found the gadget, a little antique pocket watch that'd acquired after chasing a rabbit for three days straight. I looked to my friend who nodded in confirmation then I turned the hand back on the watch. 

Lights shot up from the ground of all colors and for a moment we were trapped in another worm hole. Sparkling stars shot by us, shining brighter than a well charged flashlight. The gadget was just showing off, I was sure. There was no way this was necessary to time travel. 

When all the lights stopped we were back in space. "Huh. Did it work?" I asked, looking around. Space usually looks mostly the same to me, so I couldn't even tell if we were in the same place as before.

"Yep. I think." said Ryder, who was a space expert. "See that planet? That's where I got the supplies."

"Oh cool," I said and before I had time to think about what we'd do next there was a loud roar. A giant Space Leviathan swooped down from out of seemingly nowhere. The thing was as big as a small planet, ten times the size of Because Reasons. 

Handbook: Space Leviathan. -very scary -prehistoric space monster

It opened its many mouths to roar again and I hastily turned the hands of the watch forward. We were back where we started, in the broken ship. I caught my breath.

"Well that was fun," said Ryder, "But that wasn't the right time, I don't think."

"No no, I think I have the hang of this thing now." 

I wound it backwards again and the worm hole opened a rift. I looked through it and saw me again. But it was me from before. I had the Slither still clinging to my neck, and bubblegum blaster in my hand, determined to find my friend.

"Oh no, wrong time." I said to me, "Hey I remember this, actually."

"Deja-vu?" I/she asked. It was probably the third weirdest thing to happen to me, and the worst case of deja-vu I'd ever had.

I laughed, both because it was humorous and because the fear of tearing up the fabric of time was finally starting to sink in. "Oh!" I said, remembering I had to give myself a message. "Hey, time machine, you'll fix things don't worry. Oh! And duck." 

I turned the hand back further and went all the way to earlier that day. Ryder and I were stowed away in the closet, as our past versions talked about work and the missing mats. 

"What do we do now?" I whispered. 

"We give them the hole repair kit, I guess."

"I guess that'll work. Hopefully we don't explode or anything by meeting ourselves."

"Well you just talked to yourself, so probably not." she said and strolled out of the closet. 

"Hullo Humanoids," she said to us, we looked very confused. "Fix those holes so you don't die. Here." she handed herself the kit.

"What-who-?" Other me stumbled, trying to ask a question,

"We're your future selves," I answered. "And don't worry, as long as you fix those holes and stop the Marburgs you'll be fine."

Ryder nodded then smirked. "And never underestimate gummy worms, trust me."

I squinted at her then took her arm and turned the hand again, after waving to our old selves. 

"What was that about?" I asked while we were in the sparkle-tunnel of time.

"I just wanted to psych them out as the all knowing future self."

"You realized you just pranked yourself, right?"

"Yes." she said, grabbing Skittles from her jacket pocket and tossing them in her mouth. "And it was amazing." 

Then we were back in our spaceship. The holes sealed and everything okay.

"We did it!" I cheered

"We did!" my friend returned.

"Beep beep!" buzzed Buffer happily though he had no idea what we were talking about

Sinking Ship (In Which We Nearly Die: Part 2)

Log: #8312017
Hunter: Adri Hatter                                                                 *Refer to Part 1 before proceeding



I beamed, ready for our next great adventure, nearly bouncing on my heels as I prepared everything we needed. "We gotta catch em' all!" I almost sang.

"I'd sing that song but I don't know the lyrics." said Ryder, who wasn't as familiar with Earth's culture.

"Oh, in that case I won't sing. Singing alone is awkward."

"We could always sing a song neither of us know." She suggested, fixing her fabulous blue hair and pulling a backwards ball cap over her unicorn horn.

"Perfect!" I pushed a button and pulled up the map of the galaxy we were in.

"Uhh... Adri, we have three holes." said Ryder after a minute of looking through tracking methods.

"What?"

"Three. Holes... We have three holes. THE SHIP IS GOING DOWN!"

"Aaah!!" I flailed around then looked up at the ceiling. A third hole had appeared next to the other two, and slowly it start growing.

"It must be the Mat Thieves!" she shouted over the sound of the siren that started to sound for danger. "They stole Mat the hole-repair guy!"

"I thought you were going to fix those." I deadpanned.

"Too lazy. I hired a repair man." she returned. "Now, come on! The ship is going down!"

"I'll get a bucket and start bailing the water out of the ship!"

I went off to run and get a bucket. Then once I returned Ryder took me by the arm and whispered "Adri... we're in space."

"Oh. Ohhhh yeaaah, right."

She took the bucket and started to bail the space out of the ship, pouring the contents of space into the garbage disposal. I put on my space-helmet and oxygen tank. Hatters need air to breathe and can't survive simply in space without the proper gear.

"We have to save the Monsters! And the Friendlies!" I yelled.

"I'm going to keep bailing the space out of here! You get the pets to the escape pods!"

"And I'll go see if we have magic hole-fixer gadget!"

"Yes, that too!"

I wooshed away to save our beloved friends, looking for a gadget to help as well. We can't let the Because Reasons go down. I ushered all the Friendlies to the room with the escape pods, reminding everyone to stay calm. "We'll all be okay!" I assured them. "You all need to be brave for us, okay? We just need you to stay safe, don't worry."

Foo wiggled her nose worriedly, as JPK and TXH huddled together in the corner. Imi tried his best to be brave and show for his friends but vanished into invisableness due to the stress. Buffer bumped my leg, beeping in a worried tone. "It's okay, Buffer." I said, "Go make sure the other monsters are okay for me. I need to find a way to fix this."

He gave a salute and rolled off to do his job.

Frantically, I searched for something, anything, to help get us out of this predicament. My eyes shot to the Bubblegum gun. "Bubblegum is sticky," I thought aloud. "This has to work!" I grabbed it and ran back to the main deck.

"I found a Bubblegum blaster!" I shouted as Ryder held onto a part of the ship, trying to keep from getting sucked into space. "You think this'll work?"

"Not unless you chew it first and that'd take too long!" she shouted back, the bucket slipped from her hand. I held tight to the doorframe.

"It's all I have! I have to try." I spat a little bit of the gumballs into the blaster and chambered it. Papers flew all around the room, the Slither that was on the wall wrapped its snake-like body around a pipe. I raised the blast, aiming at the hole and shot the gumballs at it. One, two, three, shots.

A gust of the suction created by the hole blasted through the deck, roaring like the worst windstorm you could imagine. The hole only grew.

"No!" yelled Ryder. "Help! I'm getting sucked through!"

Her baseball cap was whipped off her head, flying into space.

"No! Killer! This can't happen!" I grappled to find something to pull her back in.

But her hands slipped, and before I could even think to do anything she was pulled into space.


... To Be Continued...

Marburgs and Stolen Mats (In Which We Nearly Die: Part 1)

Adventure Log #8302017
Hunter: Adri Hatter

         

       
   It was a normal Wednesday afternoon on the Because Reasons. The lights flickered their familiar blues and reds on the control panel as we soared through the stars. I sat leaning back on my chair with a cup of the greenest tea this side of the galaxy when Ryder beamed onto the ship.

"How was work?" I asked.

Since things have been quiet on this side of the galaxy, and Monster Hunting didn't always cut it for paying the bills, we'd both picked up side jobs. I worked in the Intergalactic Patrol Agency, where I kept watch over minor planets with my nifty tools and a siren hat. Ryder worked assembling laser beams, bombs, nuclear weapons, rubber duckies, and whatever else they had her assemble. She was very good at it, and since then, she'd figured how to repair most anything on the ship.
Other than those two holes in the ceiling.

"It was good." she replied, grabbing a cone of bright radioactive ice cream from the freezer. "Someone stole one of the mats though,"

"A place mat?"

"That too, but also Mat Squidlegs. He vanished."

I shot up from my chair, nearly spilling my tea. "Wait! Were there any other 'mats' stolen? Anything else with the word 'mat' in the name?"

"Well, Mat Laserchair wasn't there, but we thought he might have called out sick, he always does." She licked her ice cream. "Why? Is there an epidemic?"

I started rummaging through the drawers to find the Monster Hunter's Handbook. It'd been so long since we'd had a case, but I knew this had to be the work of... "Aha!" I shouted, finding the page. "It's the Marburgs." I pointed to the entry page. "They steal Mats, mats, and matts. Sometimes even Mattes"

"Huh," said Ryder eating her ice cream.

"Killerr!" I sighed and reminded her of all her favorite MeTube-ers who happen to also be Mats.

"Oh!" she shot up from her chair. "We need to stop them and save the mats!

I grabbed my handy Butterfly Net and Bubble Gun. Ryder threw the Icecream at a sulking Slither that liked to hang around the walls of the main deck and tapped the horn on her head, making it glow.

I flipped the Bubble Gun around and put it in my holster. "Man, it feels good to be back"

Hatters: What Are They? 2#

What Are Hatters Research Log 2
9/23/16

Hullo humanoids. Recently I discovered that Hatters have eyes. Two of them in fact. They reside on her face, one on either side of the nose. They look similar to the eyes of a human except much more brown in colour.

I'll report back next week with another update.

Hatters: What Are They? 1#

Hullo humanoids. So you all know my partner in the monster hunting business, Adrianna. Now she belongs to the species called Hatters and very little is known about them. As far as we know she is the last of  her kind. Due to this I believe we should study Adrianna and learn more about her kind before they go extinct so that history may have record of them. Therefore I shall watch and learn my partner's behaviors so we may know more about this brilliant species so they will not be forgotten. I will post my findings here for you all to read. The Hatter species will not be forgotten when Death claims Adrianna for his own. 

The first thing I discovered while studying the last Hatter was that she is humanoid in figure. She has the same limbs as humans in the same locations. At the moment this is all that I have learned. I hope to learn more soon. There shall be another update next week. 

Tree's First Log: Tree and the Brickson Goodwill.

Hello peasants. . . . good people. I am Tree, I’ve kinda been floating around for a while now. I’ve been trying my best to get in the group and become a true monster hunter. Ryder and Adri have been taking this a little too far and making me go get their coffee and snacks. When I finally told them to put me on a mission they sent me undercover to spy on Brickson. I was Brickson's baker. 

Becoming Brickson's Baker didn’t make Maxwell very happy. (Maxwell was Brickson's right hand man and main baker) Maxwell tried to hate me but ended up falling in love with me. What can I say I’m lovable. When Ryder and Adri decided it was time to take Maxwell out and lock him up I pleaded that they make him comfortable. So we built a nice prison without anyone else but him. 

Sadly Ryder and Adri didn’t want Maxwell baking anymore. So I snuck some baking stuff to Maxwell so he can be happy. Although they cursed him to look like a glob of slime. *shrugs*

After Maxwell Brickson was getting suspicious of me. So I captured him and sent him away to prison.

    . . . .

   

    But when I was telling the driver where to take Brickson (the driver's name is Will) I told Will he was good. And he thought I told him to take Brickson to Goodwill.. .  . . ..

    Now Brickson has taken over Goodwill and is planning his attack!!!

    But oh wells. Bye peasan- Good people. 

 

 (^^ Brickson, if seen please return to the Monster Hunter Offices.)

Snooze You Lose (When Your Partners Kill All the Penguins)

Log: 6132016

Hunter: Adrianna

NOTE: this log was written as log 6132016 but was not posted until now for the following reason: The CIA was hot on our trail for the "penguin incident" and we weren't allowed to say anything on the matter until some things blew over. Anyhow Here's the adventure:

So one morning I wake up and turn on the news. "Something strange happened just last night" the reporter says. "Almost every single Penguin in the world has gone missing."

I spit out my morning chocolate milk and sit up straight. Obviously something was very wrong, at first I thought that maybe a monster came and stole the penguins. Or even maybe it had something to do with Brickson.

So I jump up and go to HQ in the Because Reasons. And on the main spy screen I see Tree. Talking to, of all people- our arch nemesis: Brickson. Ryder, leaning back casually in her chair with a bag of goldfish seemed pretty confident in what was going on.

So I watch the screen, ready to jump into a mini ship and fly off to help if need be and I hear something that really confuses me.

"So it's a deal?"
"Yes. I'll join you."

I see my friend and partner shake hands with our arch enemy.

I stare in disbelief. "What..? But Tree is with us!"

Ryder leans back and looks up at me. "Uh, yeah, of course."

"B-but then why...?"

"Morning, Adri"

I turn around and see Tree, standing there with a cup of coffee.
                                                         . . . .


I was later informed that Tree had gone undercover to talk to Brickson, after pretending to kill off all the penguins in the world by first turning them invisible. Making the only visible penguins, the magical ones (like Brickson)


But what I really learned that day was: You Snooze, You Lose.

And my partners are crazy weridos whom I love