Prompt: Mulan

Big Damn Heroines

Leonard was scrambling to staunch the blood streaming from Spock's shoulder with his tunic even as he tried to count Jim's respirations out of the corner of his eye. Rather difficult when the cut on his forehead was sending his own blood streaming into them to block his vision. Leonard rubbed his arm over his face, hissing at the pain from the cut as he irritated the torn skin. He likely look a sight when rescue finally arrived, covered in red and green blood as he was.

″Stay with me, Spock. Don't you dare lose consciousness, too, you green-blooded hobgoblin! I can't carry the both of you out of here on my own and I need you to put pressure on your wound while I go check on Jim.″

Spock raised a hand and did as he was told with argument. That alone was enough to raise Leonard's level of alarm further than even the Vulcan's dazed expression and his estimation of Spock's blood loss had already done. Shit.

Leonard scrambled over to Jim's prone form and pressed a finger to his pulse, relieved when it fluttered strongly against his fingers. His assessment was cut off, however, by the booming explosion coming from some distant part of the alien installation. What now?

As he checked Jim's skull and neck for injury, he could hear the sound of phaser-fire coming closer and closer to their position. ″Over here? We're down here!″ He called after he'd determined that the Captain wasn't bleeding from anywhere that he could access under the current conditions.

As the sound of the battle drew closer and he was able to hear the clang of boots on the metal grating on the corridor, Leonard stood up and stood between the door and his injured patients. He didn't have anything to fight with, but if the wrong side was about to burst in on him he'd do his damnedest to slow them down.

There was a horrific clang followed by a loud squelching sound from directly outside the cell before he heard something being dragged away and the door swung open. The bright light was blinding to his dark-accustomed eyes, but when he wasn't immediately shot where he stood, Leonard figured that was a good sign. ″What the hell took you so long? Jim and Spock are injured and we've got to get them to Sickbay as soon as possible.″

Leonard squinted into the corridor and his mouth dropped open when he was finally able to bring his rescuers into focus. Uhura and Chapel jogged into the room as Security Officer Roy stood guard in the hallway, her sharp eyes glancing around continuously for signs of enemy discovery.

″Don't look so surprised, Leonard.″ Chapel shined a light into his eyes to check his pupils, sending flares of pain into his brain. ″You don't expect us to leave all the rescuing to the boys, do you?″