Tom started to follow the guard’s orders, but before the door was fully open, he whipped out the strap through the widening crack. The guard reacted, bringing his weapon up to block the sudden threat, as Tom had hoped. While the weight wrapped its trailing strap around the guard’s weapon, Tom flung the door the rest of the way open and launched a kick into the man’s unprotected belly. The guard went down, doubled over and whooshing air. That kind of strike had inevitable consequences and Tom was on the guard before he finished vomiting. Tom waited till the man had blown what he was blowing before putting pressure on the right points. He didn’t want him to choke to death.