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Angelo would keep his indomitable grip upon Peppers as he continued with the bull rush, even though he already had the terrorist in hand. While before he had been too focused to think about what the beeping could have meant when Peppers had activated his bomb, now the boy recognized the sound and recalled it from earlier... he was sure by the pitch and timing of the beep that there would be more than enough time before the explosive detonated again.

As for the Tau... that was one thing he hadn't thought of in that way. The weapon was large, far too large to be able to aim at him in this close of proximity, but using it as an attempt at freeing himself, that just threw things a little off balance.

The whole time so far Angelo had been 'pushing', moving Peppers by pure force; when the Tau fired finally he was left to 'pulling', being carried along for the ride. Unfortunately for almost everyone involved, this left the terrorist between a rock and a hard place.

Angelo had been driving Peppers backwards, past where he had originally positioned his X at the start of the match, near where he had entered the arena. From there it was only a matter of a few dozen feet before they reached the outside of the pit, and when the Tau fired it simply added its force and speed to that which the two were already traveling at-

Peppers' back would slam into the outside wall, followed immediately after by 370 lbs of boy hitting him at the same speed; if CS players had bones, this one would have far fewer of them after that. However, regardless of the damage Peppers might suffer from such an impact the most important part of the impact was the area: specifically that they had not hit a stone wall, but rather the hard wood of an enormous gated doorway through which the fighters were to enter the arena.

The wood buckled, the frame bent, and the hinges themselves nearly snapped from the strain when Angelo White drove Brian Peppers straight through them and into the hallway beyond.

Before the wall? Surprising, considering that with the addition of the 'bunnyhop' due to his firing of the Tau Peppers should have hardly had time to think before hitting the wall; much less time to access his hack console.

However, he now held two grenades. They were held in front of him. If they were there, and did explode, if he were affected by the blast at all it would serve to throw him back further. However, as he'd demonstrated before, he was not effected by them; that left the effect centered upon Angelo who, due to the positioning of the grapple, was between them, rather than 'behind' them. The blasts from those would strike him sidelong, but not at enough of an angle to push him backwards (which would have pulled Peppers due to the grip... the only real way Peppers could have stopped himself at this point).

Were the HE grenades concussion based, they would have very little noticable effect upon the boy. Were they fragmentation grenades, the subsequent shrapnel would hurt like a b***h; digging in in several places.

Regardless... WHAM. Hardwood can hurt, can't it?

As for the C4? This has been covered. It'd be like a suckerpunch and he would let go... but much too late to change things.

Angelo would get up from where he'd been tossed, shake off the dust and dirt, brush the wood chips from his sleeves, and await that booming voice over the P.A. system.