The world blazed white as the lightning gathered in the hydra's jaws.
Wade felt the charge in the air, the hair on his arms rising, every instinct in his body screaming at him to move.
He couldn't. His legs were locked in ice. His hands were frozen in place. And his heartbeat echoed in his ears like thunder.
He didn't think. He simply acted.
Bone Wings.
With a sickening crack, something inside him tore open. A surge of agony shot down his spine as pale bone erupted from his back in jagged arcs.
For a heartbeat, he thought the pain would break him. Then the wings spread wide.
The sheer force of their eruption shattered the frost around him, blasting shards of ice in all directions.
Wade gasped as sensation flooded back into his limbs.
The lightning bolt tore through the air a second later, but Wade was no longer there.
