It would be so easy to do it too. Thunderclap's powers could disrupt his own heart. Infinitely easy, with a word, to destroy him, as he meant to do to the child in the middle of all of this.

"You're just for ending the world," Thunderclap hissed. And when he spoke next it was with David's voice, tired and worn. "Sometimes the only choice you have is to stop them before they destroy everything. The ends justify the means."