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The Mysterious Man sat there watching the slight confusion after the barrier was opened, and thought about a few things. It didn't take him long to get bored, so he finally picked up the remote next to him again. He studied the buttons, and finally picked one. Aiming at his mirror, he pushed the button......

Ranma, Akane, Joe, Emeral, Kalshion, Katarina, Tommy, the Cat, and Kuno were all trying to figure out exactly what had happened when suddenly the entire barrier started to glow. Every weather problem that had been plaguing the city seemed to vanish in the glow of the barrier, leaving the town sunny and calm, weather-wise at any rate. The barrier was still, however, glowing. There wasn't a single person in town that was not worried about the glowing barrier, with the possible exceptions of Genma and Ryoga who weren't exactly describable as people at this point.

Fifteen minutes later almost everyone was back to their normal routines, as the barrier just seemed to sit there glowing, unchanging. The only thing to do was enjoy the seemingly normal weather. However, that wasn't destined to last long, as the old man pressed another button, having waited for everyone to calm down about the barrier glowing before moving on. Within moments the barrier's color changed, going from a bright white to a pitch black, dropping the entire city into darkness. Power to the city was cut off, preventing lights from turning on, and very few people had been prepared for a sudden blackout.

The man laughed, using a night-vision filter on his mirror to watch the panic that set in, then hit another button, bringing the wacky weather back. The people had been freaked out enough when suddenly portions of the city were thrown back into blizzard, hail, rain, and windy conditions. As a final turn of events the man pushed yet another button, removing all friction from the streets.

Recap for those reading: The city is now pitch-black, with no power, wacky weather, not to mention streets and fences that have no friction whatsoever. Can the man get any nastier? Of course he can!

After 20 minutes of laughing the man finally got around to turning off the power and light filters on the barrier, returning the town to its original brightness. Of course, NOONE was prepared for this and therefore everyone had to shield their eyes from the light for a few minutes, causing the man to laugh harder. While laughing the man accidentally hit a button on the remote, and without realizing it had charged the entire town with an immense case of static electricity.

The result?

When the man finally looked back at his mirror he fell down laughing again, because EVERYONE'S loose hair was standing on end. The man, however, finally noticed something wrong. Something that didn't fit with the current picture, and he wasn't sure WHY it was happening. Most of the town was screaming, staring, in shock, etc. at the current conditions, a few people were just plain surprised, but every last one of them was having a bad hair day right now.

Every last one of them but Emeral, anyway.

The man just stood there, watching the mirror for several minutes, trying to figure out WHAT was causing the lack of effect on Emeral, when he finally noticed the glowing pendant. She was wearing it, and it had been given a spell that would fix her hair. The spell must have not been used up like it should have, and was therefore working overtime to keep her hair from going crazy.

Emeral, for her part, hadn't noticed the glow coming from her pendant, as she was too busy trying to keep from laughing at everyone else she could see. She didn't want to laugh, but the look on their faces as they stared at her hair combined with their hair's predicament was threatening to overcome her willpower.

The man decided enough was enough, and he turned off the static electricity, and the frictionless streets while he was at it. Too many people had picked up enough speed to seriously hurt themselves, and he wasn't finding that funny. He did, however, change the fences. Instead of having no friction they now had a push to them, so that someone running on top would no longer fall off but would instead be thrown into the air. It was about then that he noticed a button he had forgotten about, a button that would throw the lives of so many into a quandary complicated enough to close down most restaurants in town for the next 48 hours.

The man grinned evilly, glancing back and forth a couple of times through half-closed eyes, then stared a very evil stare at the remote and pushed the button. The remote sent a blazing pulse of energy into the mirror, and the barrier suddenly started to pulsate rapidly, causing many who hadn't already shit their pants to shit their pants. Suddenly a massive burst of energy pulsed through town, affecting everyone in it.

For the next 2 days cooking skills would be flip-flopped. The best cooks would become the worst cooks, and the worst cooks would be the best cooks. That meant that people like Cologne, Shampoo, Ukyo, and Kasumi wouldn't be able to make anything edible while Akane would be able to make the most delicious meals. Kodachi was a questionable case, however, as she technically made horrible, yet edible food. Would she now make great, yet indigestible, meals? Only time would tell.

The man then decided to, for an extra twist, push one last button, altering the effect of gravity so that one could actually walk on the barrier, at least until they got to the top where gravity would stop holding them up and instead pull them down.

The old man was about to go back to his simple watching, when an alarm sounded. Not expecting anyone, or anything, the man checked what was going on. It didn't take him long to find out that the hole in his world had partially sealed itself due to the energy of the shard penetrating the shield control module that it was currently sitting next to. Somehow the shield control module had repaired the rip from the complete aura's power by using a piece of the aura. The man just smiled to himself, for he now knew that the outer-worlders would have less time before he could lock them out. The man chuckled as he returned to his mirror, not wanting to miss the fun.