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The Mysterious Man had been watching all the proceedings in between working on his next game when Happosai showed up and snatched the last disc back. As Happosai ran away the man came up with a dastardly idea, and re-configured the puzzle for the disc so that Happosai was the only one who could solve it, then to be fair to the others he made it so that when the puzzle was solved and the barrier went down Happosai would be blown to somewhere in the vicinity of a place referred to as Area 51. Since the puzzle had to be solved before the disc could be brought close enough to the statue they would need Happosai's cooperation in order to bring the barrier down.

Of course, the problem currently facing the group was that Happosai had vanished, and with the broken up nature of town finding him could be trouble. But not enough trouble as far as the man was concerned, so he added an additional piece to the disc, making whoever held it unaffected by the curse causing the town to be fractured. The side effect of this was that Happosai could literally vanish as he crossed fracture lines.

The group, in the meantime, had split up to find Happosai, and Tommy happened to run into him first, quite literally as Happosai appeared at a fracture line out of nowhere as Tommy was about to cross it.

"Give me the disc!" yelled Tommy.

"No way, it's mine!" Happosai yelled back, lunging at Tommy. Tommy reacted quickly, giving Happosai a good belt and knocking him back across the fracture, causing Happosai to vanish.

"Where did he go?" wondered Tommy, just before Happosai re-appeared again, blowing Tommy across another fracture. Happosai went after him, causing the two to end up across town from each other as Happosai wasn't affected by the fracture.

"There he is!" yelled Ranma as Happosai came around a corner on the other side of a fracture. Happosai didn't hear a thing, however, and kept on running, determined to find Tommy, and vanished just as Ranma reached the fracture. It was about then that everyone in town heard an ear-splitting scream and rushed to figure out where it had come from, causing more confusion then ever.

Akane, meanwhile, had been searching part of the school when she stepped into a classroom, crossing a fracture in the process and falling into a small room across town. She felt around and found a light switch, turned on the lights, spun around at a hissing sound, and found herself in a room containing a few hundred cats. Granted, they were all currently in cages, but that didn't stop her from freaking out. She stood there petrified for a few moments until the Ghost cat wandered in. That threw Akane over the edge and she started screaming loud enough for the whole town to hear.

It didn't take Akane long to blow through the wall she was backed up against, ending up coming out right into Happosai. Happosai was so shocked as a screaming Akane blew into him that he dropped the disc, which got stuck on Akane's shirt. Soon Akane crossed another fracture, but since she currently had the disc the fracture didn't affect her.

"YEOUCH" yelled the old man as he looked at his mirror, which Akane's scream had cracked. "This won't end well, which I suppose is good for me," thought the man. As he rubbed his ears he added "Or, at least I think it is good for me....."

Akane ended up running straight into a completed statue, or rather the barrier surrounding it as the disc stopped her. She looked up at the statue after she fell, the head being in the middle of the sun and therefore impossible to make out, and noticed that there was a large crack in it, not realizing that her approaching screaming had been at the right frequency to vibrate the statue till it cracked. She then noticed the disc that was now sitting in front of her, and reached over to pick it up.

Of course, Happosai had been chasing Akane as best he could, and had been good with the fractures anyway. While Akane was dazed from her collision Hopposa i had navigated the fractures and gotten to Akane. He jumped over, used the statue as a deflection point to shoot down and grab the disc again, right before Akane could get it. Noticing that as soon as he was holding the disc again the world seemed to put itself back in order, Happosai ran off again, just as his bouncing off the statue caused the crack to form into a complete break and fall on Akane. Soon another ear-splitting scream was let loose, as Akane started screaming as the statue pinned her down with the face right in her face. There wouldn't have been much of an issue, had the statue's head not been that of a cat. Ranma showed up second later and started to try and pull the statue off of Akane.

During Akane's screaming a pulse started going over the entire barrier, increasing in frequency with each passing moment. The broken statue glowed brightly, turned into energy, and fired into the barrier. Akane stopped screaming shortly after the statue vanished, which had taken Ranma by surprise, just before the town was hit by a blast of energy.

As the bright light from the energy cleared everyone in town was shocked, more or less, to discover that the town was, well, no longer the town. The barrier was still there, as were the fractures, statues, shards, and other miscellaneous effects, but the town appeared to be a giant theme park.

"Ooooh goody" thought the old man. "A theme park. Maybe I should open up a shop or two." Soon the man was in the park, running a photo booth specializing in pictures of couples. Of course, anyone who got their picture taken would, when the picture came out about five minutes later, find that they had swapped bodies with the person they had their picture taken with. The man had to have his fun, after all. The man hadn't noticed, but Happosai was currently stuck in a roller coaster, with the disc having become part of a wheel on the roller coaster. This served to make the roller coaster, the only one in the park, unaffected by the fractures, and therefore safe enough to ride. However, it would probably make retrieving it hard, even though Happosai would probably volunteer it now if only to get himself off the front of the coaster.