A lot of things happen very quickly at that point.
The mook with the detonator realizes they're there (how could he not, with all the noise) and clicks the button.
Wash fires a shot, the stun bullet immediately dropping the detonator mook (not fast enough).
Something near the door beeps once.
The bomb-
Wash turns and lunges, catching Casey in a full tackle, putting himself between Casey and the bomb and an armored forearm over the back of his own neck. "Get down-"
The bomb explodes, hurling fragments of glass through the air. A very unlucky mook catches one in the throat and goes down, gurgling his last.
And Wash screams and lands on the floor in a heap, shards of glass sticking out of his back and shoulders like the world's bloodiest pincushion. One of them has gone straight through his bracer and lodged into his forearm; it would've gone through his neck had he not learned the hard way to protect it.
Wash's world is completely whited out in pain and shock right now. He has the presence of mind not to collapse on top of Casey, but that's it; until Wash can put himself back together, Casey's on his own.
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The mook with the detonator realizes they're there (how could he not, with all the noise) and clicks the button.
Wash fires a shot, the stun bullet immediately dropping the detonator mook (not fast enough).
Something near the door beeps once.
The bomb-
Wash turns and lunges, catching Casey in a full tackle, putting himself between Casey and the bomb and an armored forearm over the back of his own neck. "Get down-"
The bomb explodes, hurling fragments of glass through the air. A very unlucky mook catches one in the throat and goes down, gurgling his last.
And Wash screams and lands on the floor in a heap, shards of glass sticking out of his back and shoulders like the world's bloodiest pincushion. One of them has gone straight through his bracer and lodged into his forearm; it would've gone through his neck had he not learned the hard way to protect it.
Wash's world is completely whited out in pain and shock right now. He has the presence of mind not to collapse on top of Casey, but that's it; until Wash can put himself back together, Casey's on his own.