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The old man was sitting working on his curse, ignoring most of the happenings in the world his children were currently exploring. Since their arrival he had changed his plans slightly so that his curse would affect his children as well as everyone else he had been planning on using it on. He had, however, gotten rather hungry for some reason and ordered out for the first time in millenia. Of course, the service he used guarenteed delivery in 30 hours or less, given the nature of the matrix, and he figured that his central placement just off of a couple of major pathways would have the delivery showing up

A loud BOOM is heard as another shockwave flys through the dimension. Luckily the old man had shielded everywhere but his world from the blasts.

right about now. The man started to head for the door when the second "knock" came, and reached the door just after a third.

"Pizza Delivery," said the man at the door. "That will be fifty thousand quantum ruples."

"Yes, of course," said the old man as he handed over a sack of ruples. "Here you go."

"Thank you sir, and here are your pizzas," the man responded, handing over a giant box. "Have a nice day."

The old man waved to the man, walking inside with his pizzas, the door closing behind him. "Nothing like a few thousand tons of pizza to fill you up," he thought as he ate the first hundred tons. He continued to work on the pizzas as he continued working on his curse, finishing all but the last 50 tons or so before another "knock" on the door interrupted him.

"Ooooh, goody," said the man as he opened the door. "Dessert!"

"How many people do you have over, anyway?" said a woman at the door. "There is over 5000 tons of cakes, ice cream, and pudding here!"

"Oh, it is all for me," replied the man. "I don't exactly eat light."

"I should say not," the woman said, staring at the man and then the delivery. "That will be sixty-eight thousand quantum ruples."

"Here you go," said the man, handing over another sack of ruples. "Have a nice day."

"You two," said the woman. "Oh, and you better pace yourself."

"I will," said the man, taking in the delivery.

Soon the man had polished off the last of the pizza and the first few hundred tons of dessert. He then slipped and dropped some pudding on the item he was trying to curse, when the curse suddenly stuck. "Wow, quantum pudding isn't bad for cursing, is it?" thought the man, as he was now done with his curse. He wasn't ready to deploy it yet, though. The time would come for that. First he would polish off the last of his dessert.

An hour later

The man was eating the last piece of cake, intrigued over the events that were transpiring in the world, and due to forgetting to turn off time dilation he hadn't realized he had set earlier Emily and Jeremy had just been brought into the cafe.

In the cafe

Emeral looked at the door, "Care to join us now?" she said. Both Jeremy and Emily where shocked and where starting to run away when they found themselves suddenly inside the shop in front of Joe.

"Please, come in," said Joe smiling.

"Yes," continued Emeral, half-forcing a smile. "Maybe we can talk on better terms now."

"I see," said Jeremy, raising his hand. "In that case, lets have some privacy." Suddenly two small blasts of energy flew out of his hand, putting Akane and Tommy to sleep.

"Wasting no time, I see," said Joe. "So, where should we start?"

"Well, you brought us here, and our father filled us in a bit on you," said Emily. "What do you want to ask us?"

"Ah yes," said Joe thoughtfully. "We have had dealings with your father, although I would like to have a more formal name to refer to him by. Care to help us?"

"Yes," continued Emeral. "The best we have come up with is MM."

"Ummmmm...." said Jeremy, looking over uneasil y at Emily.

"Yea..." said Emily, with the same expression.

"What is wrong, does he not like people to know his name?" asked Joe.

"Well, we don't know," said Jeremy.

"Yea, you see we don't know if he HAS a name," continued Emily.

"What?" said Joe and Emeral at the same time. Emeral continued, "How can you not know your father's name?"

"Well," Emily explained, "we have always called him dad, we never knew our mother, and he never had visitors."

"I guess it just never came up," finished Jeremy.

Joe and Emeral just stared for a minute, then regained their composure.

"Well then Jeremy," said Emeral. "Your father told us that you have a bit of a mean streak."

"Umm," Jeremy said, blushing. "Yes, I do. Sorry about earlier, I tend to lose some of my self control."

"You can say that again," said Emily, grinning. "I like it when you get nasty, although for some reason I don't like it when you blow up planets."

"I suppose the people on Risa should be glad," said Jeremy. "If you liked me blowing up planets then Risa probably wouldn't be a fun place to visit anymore."

"Is that so," said Joe. "Emily, your father mentioned that you are quite the troublemaker yourself."

"Yes," said Emeral. "I found that odd, considering we never ran into the results of your troublemaking before."

Emily glared at Jeremy before speaking. "Yes, well my annoying brother here likes to ruin my fun."

Suddenly a voice outside yelled, "PRETTY LADY!"

"Oh no," said Emeral.

"Not that pervert," said Joe at the same time.

Emily got an annoyed look on her face, but was unable to say anything before Happosai came through the wall and latched onto her. A split second later Happosai had planted a kiss on her cheek, apparently not having noticed, or not caring about, the message on his shirt. Emily snapped, releasing a torment of dark energy that knocked Happosai off her as she summoned her mallet. The old man also snapped, his sugar high not helping matters, causing the room to go dark. Moments later Emily, Jeremy, Happosai, Joe, and Emeral were all in a void that was feeding Emily's Dark energy. Jeremy seemed to be standing there, looking only mildly angry, as Emily swung the mallet over her head to hit Happosai, who actually pulled off dodging the first attack. Jeremy's eyes suddenly burst into literal flame as a massive torrent of energy was released from his body, shadowing even his sister's energy output and causing the void to vanish.

"YOU PERVERT, HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO MY SISTER!" screamed Jeremy.

The old man saw this and had the sense to move those that had been in the void outside of town just before Jeremy unleashed a massive attack on Happosai. Noone quite caught what the attack was in the bright light that followed, but Emily pulled off scoring with her mallet sometime in the middle of it anyway. When the light, dust, and smoke had all cleared there was no sign of Happosai, but there was a gaping hole in the world quickly closing itself up. Jeremy was the only one who saw where it led to, but he wasn't in any condition to talk, as he collapsed then and there. Emily followed suit a couple of seconds later, both of them had strained their bodies to the point where they were all but in shock.

The old man, however, had caught the destination of the hole as Emily blasted Happosai in with her mallet. Happosai had been blown into a neighboring, vacant dimension that was nothing more then a barren wasteland. The old man, still angry and high on sugar, set the world to turn into a living hell for Happosai. Beautiful women he couldn't get within ten feet of, surrounded by fog that fully obstructed sight at 10.5 feet, the only clothing he could find being used male undergarments.

Fifteen minutes later

Happosai had been in his hell for fifteen minutes, and it had just clicked as to what was go ing on. That made him VERY angry, more so then he had ever truely been before. He was right next to where he had come in, and had enough energy to break through the barrier between the worlds at the new weak spot, barely making it through before it closed. The old man didn't notice this, however, which was good for Happosai.

Joe and Emeral had carried Jeremy and Emily off to their house, as they didn't know what else to do. to their surprise the house had been changed when they got there. There were two new bedrooms, and a small slot next to the door. The rooms were decorated very differently, one of them was bright and cheerful with an encyclopedia and other things like that in it. The other was dark and dreary with heavy metal band posters on the wall and black lights. Joe and Emeral didn't take long to figure out which room was for who, but Joe did take careful note of the slot next to the door afterwards. He was sure he had seen something almost identical at the barrier. It was then that both Joe and Emeral realized that those left back at Ukyo's had never been woken up.

A couple of minutes later everyone back at Ukyo's was awake, but Ranma was still acting very feminine. Akane was confused, she thought Emeral had taken care of that. She was, however, happy that Ranma was no longer looking to marry himself. She figured a good bop on the head later would fix things, so she went out to enjoy some "quality time" with Ranma.

Rose had returned from waking everyone up, without making her presence known, to find Sonic missing. It didn't take her long to find him, examining the barrier with interest.

"I was right after all. There is a slot here, just like the one that is now on the house," Sonic mumbled. "I am sure that Jeremy or Emily can explain it later."

"So we have another puzzle to solve?" asked Rose. "Perhaps one that will let us out later?"

"I don't think so," replied Sonic. "I want to check with Jeremy and Emily first."

Of course, noone noticed as the old man began to silently drop the pieces to his curse into the world. He wasn't ready to trigger it yet, but he when he was he would give everyone quite a shock.