How was I supposed to know you don't load explosives all the time?
[Besides the no-kill rule. Which they are both cheerfully ignoring because look at this mess.
Pete shifts over to comms when Wash does. His helmet's not as useful as Wash's, given that he got it when the Kree were justifiably paranoid about anything high tech being hijacked by your standard evil robot hivemind, but it gets the job done.]
I like the way you think.
[He makes a barely visible motion with his thumb, but any subtlety is ruined when the gun starts talking, in an obviously synthesized voice that isn't speaking English.
"You have selected: concussive rounds."
Pete takes a moment to sight more carefully this time--if your goal is to knock somebody into something specific, you want the center of the blast to hit where it will do the most good--and fires a concussive shot at the cluster of attackers, who predictably go flying.]
no subject
[Besides the no-kill rule. Which they are both cheerfully ignoring because look at this mess.
Pete shifts over to comms when Wash does. His helmet's not as useful as Wash's, given that he got it when the Kree were justifiably paranoid about anything high tech being hijacked by your standard evil robot hivemind, but it gets the job done.]
I like the way you think.
[He makes a barely visible motion with his thumb, but any subtlety is ruined when the gun starts talking, in an obviously synthesized voice that isn't speaking English.
"You have selected: concussive rounds."
Pete takes a moment to sight more carefully this time--if your goal is to knock somebody into something specific, you want the center of the blast to hit where it will do the most good--and fires a concussive shot at the cluster of attackers, who predictably go flying.]
This cannot be their A team.