You storm into the boiler room (Veronica in this situation)

“Step away from the bomb.” you say.

JD laughs crazily.

“This little thing? Hardly call this a bomb. This is to trigger the packs of thermals upstairs in the gym. Now those are bombs. People are going to look at the ashes of Westerburg and say there's a school that self destructed not because society didn't care, but because that school was society!” he shouts crazedly