Just as Oliver, the middle-aged Spider Syndicate captain, lunged forward towards Adam with his arms outstretched, intending to grapple, he suddenly thrust one hand forward, palm open. "Shatter!" Oliver yelled, his voice filled with a strange, resonant power.
The moment he uttered the word, Adam, still in Eric's body, felt an incredibly intense and bizarre sensation. The very air particles around him, particularly around his left side, began to vibrate violently, almost invisibly.
It was a deeply unsettling feeling, like the world itself was coming apart at a microscopic level. Adam's advanced senses picked up the shift instantly. He tried to move, to shift his body to the right, away from the focus of the strange vibration.
But he was a fraction of a second too late.
