Gorgon’s Powers Stopping Attacker Mid-Swing / Origins

The third punk met my eyes and froze in midswing. I held his gaze, drained him until he dropped the baseball bat, then let my goggles snap shut. The little **** fell over, twitched once, and whined like a hurt dog.
When my eyes first started to change, a few days after I got the blood transfusion from that creepy old woman in Greece, I thought it was kind of useless as superpowers went. Then I realized people couldn’t fight me without looking at me.

Excerpt From Ex-Heroes, pg 66
Peter Clines
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