The Ring of Time
"One guy's worth of cash? This bank could stand to lose that," you think. "After all, they've lost money to ME, and that was no skin off their nose." As you smugly muse to yourself, you hear the first of many barrages of bullets loosed in your direction... IN ONE QUARTER TIME!!
As the first five bullets rip through your torso, you think instinctively to stop time. Unfortunately, you can do little else as you crumple to the floor in the most extreme pain you've ever experienced. If only you were not too weakened by the shots to crawl to a hospital in stopped time... and if only the nearest hospital weren't more than a mile away... you might survive.
But you don't.
"Strangest thing I ever saw," the old man said in the interview for the five o' clock news. "One minute, this young man's dodgin' bullets, the next minute, one touches him and in the blink of an eye, he hits the floor with a puddle of blood surrounding him that would've taken at LEAST 15 minutes to gather. Too bad - that young hero was stone cold dead before anyone could even get to him."
As the first five bullets rip through your torso, you think instinctively to stop time. Unfortunately, you can do little else as you crumple to the floor in the most extreme pain you've ever experienced. If only you were not too weakened by the shots to crawl to a hospital in stopped time... and if only the nearest hospital weren't more than a mile away... you might survive.
But you don't.
"Strangest thing I ever saw," the old man said in the interview for the five o' clock news. "One minute, this young man's dodgin' bullets, the next minute, one touches him and in the blink of an eye, he hits the floor with a puddle of blood surrounding him that would've taken at LEAST 15 minutes to gather. Too bad - that young hero was stone cold dead before anyone could even get to him."
