Olivia and Evan vs. The Female Shifter

Olivia's power, dismantle, was a very interesting case. It had similar properties of those with disintegration, but it only broke down the parts to their base forms. Her grandmother was the one who brought up the similarities. 

"Don't you wonder if you can get to the point where you can totally destroy whatever you wanted to destroy?" Grandmother Oh asked. "It's fascinating if you think about it. Your power may be short of that, but it breaks things down to its base if it has one. What if you pass that point with the bases and turn it into nothingness?"

Olivia had contemplated it a lot ever since that day. She practiced hard even though she didn't like her power too much. She grew to like it. She was curious about how such a complex thing could become so basic. What did it look like? Why did it create a complicated thing?