Murphy's Law

Now would be a really bad time to lose control of your latent pyrokinetic abilities.

Oh no. You're not sure if you can actually grant yourself powers like that, but considering they'd have to actually make the situation worse, you'd be stuck with terrible powers for the rest of your life. Not worth it, even if things are this desperate.

On the other hand, it strikes you that this would be a really bad time for one of the EXPLODE agents to lose control of their latent pyrokinetic abilities. A moment later, the knife-wielding man's trenchcoat bursts into flames, followed by a few masks, followed by the chair you're in.

Well, that sure made things worse. Now if only you could make use of that fact. Maybe things aren't quite bad enough yet?

Sure would be bad if a fire fight suddenly broke out in the room.

Suddenly, a dozen federal agents burst in, firing their guns wildly. The EXPLODE agents pull out their own guns and start shooting back, at least the ones whose guns aren't spontaneously bursting into flames.

As a bullet just barely misses your nose and then gets set on fire, you start feeling the heat from your chair. You've made things worse, all right, but you're not sure you did it in a useful way at all. Maybe another approach is in order.

Well, at least there's not an earthquake...

Suddenly, the room starts shaking. The EXPLODE agents and the feds are all knocked to the floor, still shooting as flames randomly erupt all around. The earthquake is so strong that your chair breaks from the bolts on the floor, and you go flying right into the trenchcoated man, knocking him over and causing him to drop his knife.

Dang, that knife would probably be useful for getting out of these ropes. But your arms are tied too tight to actually reach it. And there's still the out-of-control pyrokinesis and the gunfire to deal with, not to mention the fact that both your chair and the trenchcoat of the man you just collided with are on fire.

How can this possibly get any worse?