I walked directly toward Aldridge, not toward the device he was holding. His expression shifted from confidence to confusion as I moved past him and grabbed his wrist. I twisted his arm with the strength that came from eighteen months of using system abilities, eighteen months of understanding my body's true potential. Aldridge cried out and dropped the device.
I caught it as it fell, but I did not touch it. Instead, I threw it at the nearest piece of equipment. The device shattered against the machinery, and the device that Aldridge had created to reactivate the system broke into a thousand pieces.
"You do not understand," Aldridge said desperately. "The system cannot be stopped. It will find another way. It will return."
"Perhaps," I said. "But it will not return through me and it wil
