Ghosts (Dar)

The Grace who was still alive drew her sword. This villain was big, covered in armor, and a large laser gun. It was a huge mismatch, Grace thought. Still, she valued her honor, and would not back down from this fight.

"Stand down or I will use force."

The villain smiled and aimed his laser gun in her direction.

"Alright... I can use this sword as a jumping point." Sissel said as his soul jumped to the sword, then to another parking meter. He saw as the man rose his gun a scrap of paper flew by, and jumped to it. It landed next to a car which had ran into a wall as a result of the pandemonium. Fortunately the driver was still alive.

"I've seen something like this... I have an idea." He said as his mind flashed to that dangerous rube-goldberg machine.

He jumped to a hatch on the ground, used for accessing some sort of electrical wiring, and opened it, making a sort of ramp. He jumped up to the damaged rear view mirror and loosened it. He jumped back down to the hatch and to the tire whitch had fallen off in the crash.

The man clicked his lazer gun.

Time before death:3

"Gotta time this just right..."

Time before death:2

Sissel performed a trick on the tire causing it to roll forward at a fast speed.

Time before death:1

The tire rolled off the ramp, hitting the rearview mirror and launching it. At that, sissel would jump to the mirror.

Time before death:0

The man pulled the trigger... only to see it deflected by a rearview mirror.

"What the heck?"

"There we go... fate altered. You aren't out of the woods yet though. He still could kill you. I'll do what I can though." Sissel said, now possesing a part of the man's armor, having jumped from the mirror.

Fate changed.

Grace was shocked to see a seemingly random accident deflect the man's laser. Grace smiled. However that had happened, Grace had what she needed: a chance.

Running forward, Grace's feet were barely touching the ground. She was light on her feet, and that would be her main advantage in this fight. The armored villain moved his gun to deal with her advance, but found it battered to the side by the tip of Grace's blade.

The man kept a firm stance, prepared to withstand the attacks of her light blade. However, Grace dropped low, and kept her momentum going. She crashed into the man's knee. Armored though it might be, the kneecap couldn't hold under such pressure and broke.

The man fell to the ground in pain, but he wasn't defeated yet. He had kept a firm grasp on his laser gun, and now he rolled over to aim the gun at Grace. Grace's eyes opened wide. She had thought breaking a bone would have finished the fight, but she had been wrong. She needed some help here.

Sissel was in the mans armor, then jumped to the laser. As he rolled, Sissel fired the laser prematurely, grazing his leg.

"Argghhhh..." He yelped dropping to his knees.

Sissel jumped to Graces sword, to watch her finish.

Fate was on her side today, it seemed. Grace stabbed her sword into the laser gun at the villain's side, impaling it and ending the machine's life in a shower of sparks. She then jumped into the air and landed with both heavy boots on the man's face, knocking him out. That ought to keep him down for a while.

The police had already arrived, but seemed to be keeping their distance. That's right, Grace was no longer a Titan. The police no longer had a reason to trust her. Thankfully, they had no reason to fight her either.

"Isn't that Deep Freeze?" Someone in the crowd said.

"No way. Deep Freeze uses ice powers."

Grace's face was serious, but honestly the comments didn't hurt her today. She had won. She had fought a meta-human one on one and had come out victorious. All her memories of meeting Sissel were gone, but she felt for some strange reason that she owed someone thanks. Someone had deflected the laser, and caused the man to shoot his gun early.

"Whoever you are," Grace said under her breath. "Thank you."

Black Ice walked off the scene and into a dark alleyway.

(ooc:Grace will end up remembering the death and sissel, at the same time that sissel had saved her... in other words, at the time when she was going to be put on the stretcher.)

Back in the land of the dead, sissel watched as the girl walked down the alleyway. He turned back to the spirit of grace.

Fate Averted

"Well there you go... you're alive. Don't worry. You'll remember this. I have a feeling I'm going to speak with you in the future, after all... you seem to have knowledge of death."