The communicator on the LTD's dashboard beeped as Jay steered the car along, going as fast as he could without hitting the red button and taking the LTD into top speed. He was good, but he didn't feel confident enough to do that. With how bad Kay looked, he didn't need to be jolted around if Jay couldn't keep the car under control.
"Jay?" Zed said as his face appeared on the screen. What in the galaxy was Jay doing driving the LTD? After what he did the last time he got behind the wheel surely Kay wouldn't have voluntarily handed over the keys! "Where's Kay?! What are you doing driving?"
"Zed, Kay's hurt," Elle called as she looked up, glancing over the front seat to see the face of the head of the MiB. "I need you to contact the infirmary for me. Tell them to have at least six units of O negative blood waiting when we get there and to get the operating room ready!"
"What? How bad is it?" Zed demanded. Surely Kay couldn't be hurt that badly. Kay was never hurt!
"He's bleeding internally and his blood pressure's in freefall," Elle murmured as she started to check him again. "Just tell them to be there and ready for us! I need to get him into surgery as soon as possible!"
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Zed was waiting with the medical team when the LTD pulled into the garage of headquarters. "What happened?" he demanded as soon as Jay stopped the car and got out. The medical team immediately sawrmed the car, making it impossible to see how Kay was.
"We were checking out this dry riverbed," Jay started to explain as he stood on his toes trying to see over the medics' shoulders, to find out what was happening to his partner. "It must have been raining somewhere higher up or something because all of a sudden this wave of water came out of nowhere and Elle and Kay got washed away. The next thing I knew, Elle was calling and telling me to come and find her fast."
"Zed, Jay, move! You're in my light!" Elle demanded as she looked up at them as she looked up for a moment before returning her attention to Kay. She tilted his head back before inserting some sort of metal device into his mouth and then passing a tube down into his throat. As soon as she was sure that it was in the right place, she hooked the tubing to a bag mask device that one of the medics took over squeezing to send oxygen around his body. "Okay, let's get an IV line in and start running that blood with a pressure cuff! Someone bring a backboard so we can secure him! We have to get moving now!"
"How bad is it?" Zed called as the crowd parted, lifting Kay out of the car a moment later, securely fastened to a wooden board with an IV running into one arm as one of the medics attempted to fix a line in the other arm.
"I can't talk now," Elle said as she looked up at Zed for a moment before moving to the side of the stretcher that Kay had been loaded onto. "He has to get into surgery! Someone get a blood sample for a type and cross and let's get going!"