Billy cursed. All this time...he'd allowed Kawalsky near him, near them, into sensitive areas. And now they were about to die or become enslaved.

Slavery, he knew, wasn't an option. They would never defeat the Ohm that way, and who was to say what would happen as the universe died? He was imagining a truly gruesome fate.

Then we stop you or die trying.

Morphing wasn't an option with a power dampener in effect, with the key part of that thought being the last bit. Devices can be assembled, but they can be dismantled too. Maybe...