How did Little Pete start the FAYZ, exactly? (SPOILERS)

[Ryan]

I've almost finished the book (around 15 left), but there still is one question lingering in my head. How did Little Pete start the FAYZ?

On page 442, Sam plays a video featuring Little Pete inside a control room along with a few adults, and the alarm goes off, signalling a core meltdown. And then, all of a sudden, he gets up, and gets shoved back into his chair by his father. Finally, all of a sudden, the camera turns to static, and in the next clip the adults are gone.

And Sam just says, "Little Pete caused the FAYZ.", or something like that, and Astrid starts crying, moaning: "you can't blame him.".

Could someone please explain to me exactly how he caused everyone to disappear? It would be greatly appreciated.

[Atishay]

-SPOILERS-

You know how little Pete is severely autistic, well it turns out he hates loud noises. When the reactor was in meltdown, the adults were screaming theirs heads off which in turned pissed Pete off. Please keep in mind that Little Pete is around a 7 or 8 bar freak. When Pete does not like things he makes them disappear using his powers so when the adults made him mad he made then poof. And to stop the reactor, Little Pete created the FAYZ. A dome that spans out 20 miles across and has the reactor in the middle.

Hope I helped!!!

[Ryan]

Thanks! But I still don't understand where he teleported them, or how he created the Barrier. How did the Barrier stop the reactor? Is this revealed in the first book, at all? Please let me know if it is explained in another book in the series.

[Sic Transit Gloria]

It is explained in the other books, but since it's kind of a minor point, I'll say it here:
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All of the adults found themselves outside the dome, unharmed. The only adult casualty that happened with the creation of the dome was when someone on the Interstate crashed into it and died. (hide spoiler)]

[Dramapuppy]

(view spoiler)[ Yeah. And how it works has a lot to do with the secrets of the Darkness. (hide spoiler)]

[Gregory]

Its explained in more detail in the last two books so don't get ahead of yourself. If you want to know:

(view spoiler)[ Basically Atishay got it all right but to add on to that, The meltdown was caused by the Darkness taking over a plant worker's mind and forcing him to cause the reactor to explode. This triggered a commotion with everyone and I think the meltdown was refereed to as a "Code 14" or something. Anyways Little Pete decided that he had enough of everyone being loud so he sent everyone over the age of 14 away and created the Fayz in a combination of solving the issue with the reactor. (hide spoiler)]

[Addie]

SPOILERS

It was an accident but he had so much power and so little mind control that he just... did it.

Question: When Astrid fed him to the bugs shouldn't the barrier collapsed?